Elden Ring Weapons That Prove You re Still Playing Dark Souls

This underrated Elden Ring weapon seems to be a direct shout-out to Pinwheel, an eerie (but easy to defeat) boss found in the skeleton-infested Catacombs area of Dark Souls . Like the Family Heads flail, Pinwheel has three masked heads modeled after a family unit and fights by summoning projectiles of f


The first Erdtree Avatar you'll want to go after is located in the Weeping Peninsula. The easiest way to get there is to travel to the South of the Lookout Tower Site of Grace and on the road that leads west, you will see the large Erdtree in the dista


**Elden Ring ** and its sheer diversity of Sorcery and Incantation spells available in Elden Ring has somewhat inevitably led to players classifying some spells as underpowered or suboptimal. That said, the recent 1.07 patch has "buffed" many of game's infrequently used spells, __ giving once-ignored Incantations like Scarlet Aeonia or Sorceries like Briars of Sin or Explosivie Ghostflame a new chance to sh

In the Sage's Cave dungeon, found by exploring the Altus Plateau area of Elden Ring , players can encounter a mini-boss named Necromancer Garris, who fights players with a flail weapon that can summon skull-faced projectiles of Ghostflame. Defeating this boss earns players the aforementioned Family Heads flail weapon, described as having " three bludgeoning copper heads " that were made to resemble the Necromancer's wife and two child


But, searching out every corner of the catacombs is worth it in order to acquire some great upgrade materials, the Imp Head (Wolf) helm and the Mad Pumpkin Head Ashes . Follow this guide to ensure you get everything you can out of this dangerous de


Once you have reached the Erdtree, this ugly behemoth will await you, surrounded by large broken pots. Once you have done battle with the enemy, you will be rewarded with Opaline Bubbletear as well as the Crimsonburst Crystal Te


Some Elden Rings 's enemies that are large and in charge are the Erdtree Avatars. Several Erdtree Avatars are scattered across the map, and it seems that each one is harder than the last, but they will all reward you with materials for new mixtures in your Flask of Wondrous Phys


During their playthrough of Elden Ring , players will come across many NPC and enemies who demonstrate a fanatical devotion to Miquella, an Empyrean with the potential to become a god like Marika. Malenia's Cleanrot Knights, who wield spears and scythes imbued with Miquella's Golden Order Magic, fight fiercely for the Empyrean's cause despite knowing proximity to Malenia will cause their flesh to rot away. After Miquella's kidnapping by Mohg, the foot soldiers who guard the Elden Ring 's parasitic, slowly-rotting Haligtree settlement turn their bodies into magical bombs in the hopes that the " ...the flash of our deaths [will] guide Miquella's retur

It's not a stretch to declare that __ Elden Ring brings "Soulslike" games to a culminating point, the Souls games pioneered by game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki in his genre-defining 2009 game Demon's Souls . Indeed, many of Elden Ring 's signature gameplay mechanics are refined versions of idea introduced in previous Souls games; the twin magic systems of Elden Ring - Glintstone Sorceries and Incantations - are directly inspired by the Sorceries and Miracles of Demon's Souls . The Armor Poise system of Elden Ring is a tweaked version of Poise from the first Dark Souls game, while Twinblade weapons and the "Power Stance" dual-wielding combat mechanic was taken directly from Dark Souls 2 . The mundane and magical skills attached to the many coolest weapons in Elden Ring are direct adaptations of the Weapon Arts introduced in Dark Souls 3 , while the Ash of War items Elden Ring builds Ring players can collect allow them to customize the attack moves of their weapons in ways the original Dark Souls 3 didn't al


After reaching Anor Londo, city of the gods, Dark Souls players will encounter the deadly double boss fight of Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough. In contrast to Ornstein, a sword-spear wielding knight with lightning powers and leonine armor, Executioner Smough is a frustrating Dark Souls boss that wields a brutally large hammer and wears armor designed to mimic the contours of a portly


In truth, Volcano Manor exists as a bit of a pseudo-covenant, in lieu of the regular ones we miss, as there are no real consequences for allying yourself with them. The "recusants" worship Rykard and as their name suggests, are spurned on by an innate sense of heretical vengeance against the erdt


If you ever found yourself interested in any of the sorcery and sorcerers in The Lands Between, then following Sellen's questline will be able to shine at least some light on the intriguing casters. She was labeled an outcast by her peers for researching the primeval current, a sort of forbidden force the Glintstone Academy frowns


The Artorias of the Abyss DLC for the first Dark Souls brings players face-to-face with Artorias the Abysswalker, a noble knight of Gwyn who fought the dark horrors of the Abyss with his faithful wolf companion Sif. By the time the Dark Souls player character encounters Artorias, he has been corrupted by the Abyss and reduced to a mindless beast, lashing out at his enemies with feral leaps and howls; the various versions of the Artorias Greatsword players can acquire in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3 let players mimic this once-noble knight's iconic somersault sword att