r/Eldenring • u/lizzied23 • Jan 12 '24

My Boyfriend bet me $500 that I couldn’t beat Elden ring in 6 months with little to no video game experience. Humor

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The rules of the bet:

  1. No magic
  2. Only Melee
  3. No farming for runes
  4. Have to beat the entire game by June, 6th, 2024

I am currently on the last boss of the game with 89 hours played. I hope the last boss doesn’t take me 5 months. 😂

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u/ResponseExternal Jan 12 '24

Lmao I don’t understand these rules at all.

GGs on the free $500 and (I hope!) having enjoyed the game

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u/Cartman55125 Jan 12 '24

lol me neither. Magic builds make a lot of bosses more difficult. It’s not like it’s an easy mode build like it is in Demon’s Souls

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u/cappsy04 Jan 12 '24

Suppose so she can't comet azure bosses and end them really quickly. Although that spell requires 60 int, which isn't easy to get on your first playthrough and no farming. Assuming you're leveling up other stats fairly.

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u/Smart-Potential-7520 Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

There are a lot of other very strong spells that get exponentially stronger if you can cast them freely because your summon is taking the aggro.

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u/atimholt Apr 07 '24

Comet of Astel is better than comet of Azure in more situations.

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u/MaidenlessRube WhatWouldGriffithDo Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

night comet is more fun, only 38int and you can get the Staff of Loss in the same area where you get the spell

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u/Sicuho Jan 12 '24

Azure work well on Mohg but other engame bosses punish it hard.

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u/ArnoldVonNuehm Jan 12 '24

I ended placidusax within 7 seconds. Dude didn’t even unfold his wings completely.

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u/Aurorious Jan 12 '24

It is worth noting that these strats have been nerfed repeatedly

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u/_T_H_O_R_N_ Jan 12 '24

Right? lol All of these strategies may have worked in the first month that the game came out, it's a different beast now lol

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u/Aurorious Jan 12 '24

They still WORK, but i wouldn't call them good lol

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u/joeuvula Jan 12 '24

I one shot malenia with azure

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u/Sicuho Jan 12 '24

Her second phase or her first ? Because while it's possible to take advantage of the aeonia, she's a bit too mobile to use comet azure effectively outside of that.

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u/joeuvula Jan 12 '24

I used a summon so both phases it took a few tries to line it up tho

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u/Tanasiii Jan 12 '24

Not comet azure but I recently had a bug on Malenia where we got her to stage 2 but she only started with like 100hp. Basically 1 tapped her

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u/runnyyyy Jan 12 '24

I did that on my second playthrough and it got her to about 30% hp while she was down lmao. then she did 1 more ability and went back into aonia and it was an easy few comets

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u/thrownawayzsss Jan 12 '24

Which one? Because Honestly with Azure and good entrance RNG you can basically firehose a bunch of the bosses down HAARD and just 1 shot them.

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u/Sicuho Jan 12 '24

Malenia dodges it, Radagon parry it, Godfrey stomps you, Maliketh moves a lot, Gideon rolls it. Mogh, EB and Placidusax are weak to it. Loretta, godskin duo and misbegotten crusader will stab or shoot you in the 2 seconds you need to cast it. I think the wyrm will too, but maybe there is some openings there.

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u/thrownawayzsss Jan 12 '24

As I said, all you need is good entrance RNG and you melt all of those fights.

It's just a numbers game of walking in with buffs and coin flipping until you get the RNG where they do the "walk at target" approach.

This is largely why magic gets memed, you don't need any skill with comet azure, it's just down to luck.

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u/Sicuho Jan 12 '24

Of those, that only work for Maliketh and Loretta tho. The others actually react to spell casting even if they where in neutral before.

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u/thrownawayzsss Jan 12 '24

I mean, I've done it for literally all of them except for I think Gideon and Radagon.

Those two I could just rock throw them down easily enough.

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u/Merry_Dankmas Jan 12 '24

Id be very surprised if she had any really OP builds - magic or not. Once she's done,, it'll most likely be because she got gud, not because she had an OP build. If this is one of her first gaming experiences, I dont know how effectively she could navigate build guides online to find busted spells to use.

We gotta remember that for most of us on this sub, we've all been playing these kinds of games since we were kids. Reading up on the meta and certain builds is second nature to us. We understand almost immediately what every stat does and whats more important than other stats just based off past experience.

If this is one of her first few real game experience, I highly doubt she'd end up with anything super OP even if magic was allowed. Elden Ring doesn't hold your hand at all is and is quite daunting for a new comer. I dont mean this in a condescending way at all. Its like if you had a car that 2 people have never worked on before. One is a mechanic whose already worked on hundreds of other cars and one has never touched a car in their life. The speed and efficiency in which both could fix it would be light-years apart even though neither had ever worked on that particular car before. You could give the inexperienced mechanic all the highest end tools on the world and the experienced one would still finish quicker.

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u/innybellybutton Jan 12 '24

It's my favorite game and my least favorite game

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u/InfernoJesus Jan 12 '24

Comet azure is not even good. Carion slicer and night comet are all you really need. Maybe lorettas greatbow for sniping.

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u/TheAccursedHamster Jan 12 '24

Tbh I'm getting kinda tired of the "lol comet azur" meme, it acts as if it doesn't need a ton of setup and knowledge ahead of time, and only works on bosses who stay still enough.

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u/Rucks_74 Jan 12 '24

Comet azur doesn't even work on half of the bosses. Yeah, it'll deal damage but it won't make the boss just disappear easily

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u/BrotherZael Jan 12 '24

I got to level 210 on my first play through, but tbf I was farming just to get my int up so I could use comet azure

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u/JillSandwich117 Jan 12 '24

Kind of depends on what constitutes farming. I didn't do any cheese farms, bleed the giant dragon, or even really rerun through areas much, and I had a pretty solid Comet Azure set up for late game in my first playthrough. INT was my only damage stat, other than that I had I think 35 Vigor and a bit of Endurance.

I don't think it is that hard to do first playthrough if you are exploring thoroughly. You basically need to do Sellen's quest, and stumble across a specific Crystal Tear.

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u/Victor_Wembanyama1 Jan 13 '24

No farming is weird tho.

Like if she’s really a beginner the levels wouldnt matter that much and would eat time out of her playthru