Quinn Angstrom
[elden ring] here's my actual number one piece of nonspoiler advice for playing this game
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pump vigor
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pump it early
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get it to 40 eventually
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at least
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the game will very quickly start to assume you have a lot of health
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and things will start to oneshot you
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get that HP when it's cheap
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don't bother with str or dex earrly beyond what you need to use weapons
Quinn Angstrom
damage in early game comes from weapon upgrades, not stats
Quinn Angstrom
get a bunch of vigor, then head to the area south of the start at some point to pick up a bunch of easy sacred tears so your flasks keep up
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as someone who pumped vigor late, yeah this makes sense
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like the 1 thing people say they regret on their playthroughs is not pumping vigor enough
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this game expects you to hit the power ceiling
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you WILL enter endgame with soft-capped vigor and a +25 weapon
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I think I'm maybe halfway through the main story and I'm level 107
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it's not excessive
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enemies in the next main story area are still numerically terrifying
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I'm around 116 and I THINK I'm knocking on endgame
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but I've not been exploring all that much
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yeah I've heard endgame level estimates range from 120 to 150
Doctor Ansem
I hope I'm not too late, I only increased vigor once
Doctor Ansem
Or a couple of times, I mostly tried to get str/dex up to that first 20 cap
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...cautiously checks
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oh yeah I have killed exactly half of the required bosses
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although I think my focus is gonna narrow towards the end and I'll do a lot of them kind of back to back
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as I eliminate areas to explore
EsperBot
Respeccing is really cheap so it's never too late
EsperBot
I'm still at 20 vigor and haven't hiot a real wall yet, but I'm only midway throught he Altus plateau
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continuing to pump int until I hit it
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WHen I do I'll reassess, respec if needed
Quinn Angstrom
wow you must have a much higher tolerance for fragility than me
lily!
maybe I'll get my vigor to a full 40 before I try taking on Radahn again
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on the subject of respec
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I have done it three times
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and I have another 7 of the items for it lying around
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certain zones just hand them out like candy
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so like, early on
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level what you need RIGHT NOW
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things become much less of a commitment later on
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relevant to quinn's tip