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basically only good changes imo

It's kinda the opposite of old school D&D; instead of magic-users being shit at low levels and being able to delete everything at high levels, they're deleters at low levels and magic often feels more supplementary in the late game

they buffed colossal weapons/swords, both needed it

and they buffed many bad/underappreciated aow's and spells

nah magic is strong all game

magic in DS just doesn't work as much as I want it too

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I want a soulslike that's built around magic

magic is better in er than in any of the ds games imo, but it's just still not my thing

it's my #1 or #2 most desired game concept

the Convergence mod or whatever in DS3 is a small taste of it

too bad the people who make that are so far up their own asses that they refuse any criticism

I think I don't really have a problem with it in Souls games because from my first time playing DkS1, I felt magic was supplementary to melee, that it would be just way too frustrating to play the game without having knowledge of a lot of it to play with just magic.

I think the way Rusp played honestly

like, maybe include a version of the mod that doesn't permanently run at shit fps because they fucked up the graphics too much

is the way to go

I like melee too much to enjoy spells that much anyways

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that also

I think hybrid is fun, but I basically only use melee for actual combat

I just like scaling off of magic stats so I can run buffs and qol spells

That having been said, I started with a pyromancy build the first time through DkS1, which has significantly less casts than sorcery, and offensive faith I would've never figured out without reading a ton before playing.

just focus on melee and have some fireballs on the side

that's what I did in DS1

That's what I ended up doing first time I played DkS1

melee just feels better

since you aren't just outranging everything and winning the same exact way

I have felt that pure melee in elden ring seems more like a limitation than how it's meant to be played kinda

Just saying I can understand the criticism of magic in the series, I just think my first experience, and how I've played mostly the entire series, makes me not really care about being a "pure caster."

I also feel like I wish they did summoning different

you get so many SLs so you might as well invest in a casting stat

there's a lot of downtime between attack windows if you're ONLY playing melee in er and that shit is frustrating as hell

because you're so locked into the spirits you upgrade

I guess it's kind of the same for weapons

I've been trying to integrate more other shit into my play and it's made it a lot nicer

this kinda really made it click for me I guess

pots and knives and shit actually do good damage

For racking up bleed, yeah

and there's so many different kinds of consumables to use that I honestly feel kinda stupid for not using any of them initially

they keep the posture bar going too when you can't keep uptime on a boss

I wish er had a visible posture bar, that is a genuine criticism I have

can't wait for mods to hopefully add that

just knowing when a boss will actually stagger from a heavy attack would be huge

instead of just having to do it by trial and error

That’s how staggering’s always been

example, I knew from trial and error that I could stagger him quickly twice at the start by doing that I do in that clip

I could imagine there are tons of times in ER where if you're playing only melee, it'd feel like you're fighting Moonlight Butterfly. ._.

but after that I play safe because I have no idea where his posture is at