In the last post, I was griping about my dex run in Elden Ring. I have never done a pure dex run, nad there’s a reason for it. Here are the things I am bad at in these games: dodging, chaining attacks without getting hit; melee if I can’t take hits. All three of these skills are important in a dex build.
By the way, this is one of the reasons I did not like Sekiro. This is basically the build you needed to master in order to be good at that game. And, man, was I so not good at that game.
Back to a dex build. Ofd the builds, I think this is the one that relies on natural skills more than the others. For a pure dex run, I mean. With a strength run, you can get away with a lot of mistakes as long as you hit harder than the enemy does. And with a casting build, as long as you can stay out of melee range, you’re ok. But with a dex build, you have to be good erough to get in there, but agile enough to get out without getting hit too much. In the first area, I kept getting stunlocked by the bigger enemies. Bigger meaning beefier. So the first Erdtree Avatar and the Tree Sentinel, for example.
Fighting them on horseback was a nightmare. With the Erdtree Avatar, he does a three hit combo that if he got me with the first, I could not escape the other two hits. You would think the fact that I had more endurance than health would have helped me out, but no. It didn’t help at all.
Some would say it’s a crutch to use ranged options, but those people can shut the fuck up. If it’s in the game, it’s fair play. I don’t understand this needless gate-keeping. If you (general you) want to play that way, so be it! But why do you (again, general you) care how others play the game? How does it affect you in any way? That’s the part that I don’t get and never have. Somehow, just having the options in the game sullies the game itself? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Keep your eyes on your own paper, Chad!
I have added a few points in faith so I can use the basic Heal and the cure poison/rot incantation. I also added enough arcane so I can use the Reduvia (a blood dagger). People in the RKG Discord have been helpfully giving me tips as to how to do a dex run, but it’s just not clicknig with me. I don’t like the starting katana for the samurai, so I switched as soon as I could. I’m using the Great Epee, which is fine, but it’s outliving its usefulness. I did add Bloody Slash to it, but that takes off my own health when I use it.
I just feel like I have to do so much more with a dex build that I wouldn’t have to do on a different build. I gave it a good shot, but I am not enjoying it. I may do a bit more with the pot build, but I’m not sure it’s enough to keep me going.
Let me be blunt.