Fuck NPC invaders. Fuck them all the way to hell and back. I hate invaders with a passion and the NPC invaders in this game are souped up to a hundred. And you can’t use Torrent or your spirit summons in fighting them. For one, there was an NPC who came to help me, but that hasn’t happen with the others. The current one I’m fighting is basically a reskin of a boss and NPC from Dark Souls III, but much harder. It is set in a similar area as well (FromSoft loves themselves some archives/research halls). This guy constantly spams magic and summons spectral sorcerers who also shoot magic at me. I got him down to about a quarter once, but could not finish it off. Oh, and he has fast melee attacks as well.
I want his hat, though. It’s a big hat and that’s my favorite hat in all of DS III–the Sage’s Big Hat. Note from the future: if it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s a woman, and she suuuuuuucks. So much sucks.
You can run by the NPC invaders, of course, but my pride! Also, in the case of this one, he continues to zip magic at you as you run around the area, which is annoying as fuck. That’s also the same as in DS III–along with moving to different parts of the area, moving with you as it were.
I’m also annoyed at my self for giving the Assassin’s Playbook to the prophet rather than to my bae, the actual assassin. Ugh. This is Irina/Karla all over again. But I do want one of the incantations. It’s called Darkness and it shrouds the caster (per the description). That sounds an awful lot like Hidden Body to me. I could actually have my Hidden/Body Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring combo again if you can stack incantations. But I only have three memory slots because you can’t get more by leveling up Mind, this game’s version of Attunement. You have to buy the Memory Slots and I’ve only found one thus far. So I have three Memory Slots and using two of them for my beloved combo is a bit uncomfortable.
It’s still early days, I know, but I want all my end-game shit now. I always forget how fragile you are at the beginning of a From game. I recently started yet another Dark Souls III NG because there are no cloud saves for the game, which means I can’t play my current character on my desktop. I started a new character, a Pyromancer, of course, and blew through the tutorial boss no prob. But my health bar and stamina bar were both so tiny! There are certain things I have to do in the beginning of the game that take a lot of resources so I run with very little health for basically the whole NG cycle.
I feel like I’m still in that stage in this game. Yes, I’ve played 30+ hours of Elden Ring, but I still haven’t made it much further past the first boss in the first legacy dungeon. One thing I was worried about before the game came out was that I would spend infinite time on the edges, not bothering to make progress in the main storyline. It’s how I play open world games and then I get tired of them at some point. I rarely finish them, either. I played Skyrim and loved it for the first 50 hours, then hated it for the next 25. I rushed to cram in everything so that by the time I was done (after those last 25 hours), I was D-O-N-E.