Elden Ring - Wish I Knew Sooner | Tips, Tricks, & Game Knowledge for New Players

Part 2 Out Now! Wish I Knew EVEN Sooner | MORE Tips & Tricks For New Players: https://youtu.be/rfVS1vnF0qI **NOTE** The Two-Handing Stat Boost ONLY applies to Strength items. - Join us on Discord and become part of our Elden Ring community! - discord.gg/legacygaming - Interested in more Elden Ring videos? Be sure to subscribe - bit.ly/2HMw6zc

I love how sprinting and jumping only consume stamina while you're in combat.

for the glowing skulls you can also roll over them to break them, alot easier than trying to hit them , you can also run over them with torrent

I bought this game today, first souls game ever for me. Played it for a couple of hours and I just love how alluring it feels. I know I'll be bad for a while but I want to get good lol

A lot of new players don't know this but tons of enemies can be farmed repeatedly to get a rare item to drop. And if you're keen to do this, any extra points you have in arcane increase your drop chances of those rares!

I want to add some of my tips for playing 130hrs and first time playing. - Learn to auto lock single enemies. Worst part is missing a hit. Useful for those Ball scarabs while on Horseback and trying to hit them while moving. - try to have and use different weapons for different situations. Daggers & Mace weapons are very quick to swing. Useful for weak enemies. Samurai swords, swords, scythes or great for Horseback. My favorites is BloodHound Fang or Halo Scythe. Slow but has good reach and strong. - try to use a shield or incantation on Left hand for different situations. Sometimes having shields on you can parry but can’t use Right special abilities. It’s good to switch to incantation hand. -Early strategy to get Runes, weapons and armor is just killing Soldiers. Practice sneaking and stab them in the back(RB button) does more damage. Also jumping does more damage than light attack. If you’re low level just run away and come back. Always check of how much runes to level up. Want to put points in HP first. Endurance later on for stamina and to carry more weight. The other stats Dex, Faith, Arcane, Intelligence I would slowly move up, base on what weapons you want to use. Keep them at 20 at first, till you get an idea of what build you want to be. You can re-spec your stats later. Or just keep all under level 60. The highest level is 713. That is every stat at level 99. Which is overboard. There is a Hard Cap, I think is 60, where you barely get anything for putting any points in. - try to Explore Map. Look for Merchants, Tree Seeds, Maps and have Fun.

One other tip with the spirit springs... when you jump, you will go in the direction you are facing. I did not know this and assumed it worked like a wind current that guided you to a fixed spot no matter what. WRONG. I lept 100ft into the air and dove straight into the depths of the ocean lmao

The flasks refill a certain amount depending on how many/how strong the enemies you killed were, so it’s not always 3 charges

The only stat that is affected by two handing is strength and nothing else. So if you’re short on strength then you can try it. If you’re short on any other stat it literally does nothing. Two handing a weapon will give you half of your strength amount added on to what you already have. Example if you have 30 strength and you two hand a weapon it will be like you have 45 strength. Thus when players do a pure str build they generally stop at 66 strength as two handing a weapon will be like you have 99.

I needed this 😅 I lasted 1 hour in the game before I rage quit. Elden Ring is different to other games.

You can also hold the sprinting button when crouching to move faster behind enemies.

A point about the silver scarabs: as soon as you hit them, they'll try rolling away and eventually will disappear. But as long as you keep landing hits on them periodically, they reset their escape animation. So it's better to land a hit every few seconds, than a bunch of hits all at once and then have no stamina left to finish it off.

if you get on a mount while two handing a weapon those stats stick even though you are one handing it on Torrent, super useful

When you come upon land squirts (the things that stand in shallow water and look like a weird cross between a turtle, slug and some creepy mollusk, that spray poison or rot mist into the air,) you can overload them with the same affinity via bow. So if you see land squirts that spray poison mist, you can shoot them with a poison arrow and it'll overload them and cause them to explode. There are a couple places where this trick comes in super handy.

Adding to the armored enemy bit: if you don’t have a blunt weapon two-hand or just use heavy attacks. They won’t bounce off either. Great vid!!

I find fighting some bosses on horseback quite exciting actually, I took down Agheel last night on horseback and I had a blast weaving around and through his legs, him retreating and me charging after him like dualists, my favourite experience with a boss thus far in the game.

Utilizing the pouches was definitely something I wish I explored sooner. Game changer not having to cycle through so many items to get to my flask.

Just a little tip for people having trouble with stealth stabs like I was: you have to be completely still when you hold light attack, dont move the left stick in any direction or it will just light attack. Which makes it kind of a pain for moving enemies you try to stealth kill

Not sure if comment section brought it up yet but another way to find out if a fall will kill you or not with a little bit of chaos, spam light attack and if you fall off while attacking you will not die. If you get locked into an invisible wall then try to turn away from the edge so you don't die. =D

When you do normal attacks near a ledge and the drop from it would kill you, the game keeps you from goinfg over the edge. If you fall down, it's safe.