Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC Podcast ft. FightinCowboy & Gene Park [SPOILERS!] [Khan's Kast]

Igon was fantastic. After hearing him shout about Bayle all the way from that first area, I'd have felt bad NOT summoning him.

Who the hell would ever play a game like this that doesn't like exploration that's literally insane exploration is probably the best time I have with the game it's awesome

It’s crazy to me that I think the Peak of the DLC was the Leda fight with all the allies. Easily the most emotional part of all of Elden ring

that boar charge hitbox is messed up I agree with cowboy

I wasn't trying to speedrun it and thought I was taking my time but ended up beating the DLC in 20 hours. I beat all the remembrances and found all the areas myself without guides or help. Had a blast. My build was double colossal sword jump attack the enemy to death and my trusty Mimic Tear, gotta summon the homie. on the topic of Igon, its cool that Igon and Bayle the Dread is a GRRM reference to his character Aegon the Conqueror and Balerion the Black Dread.

FightinCowboy is literally that dude. Thanks for all your walkthroughs.

Congrats to Gene for one shotting cancer! Always nice to hear someone beating it and good luck keeping it gone for good!

Gene with Cowboy and Ruri?!?! Praise the sun

In a world full of magics and zombies. Thou fight with shield and sorceries. Ignore those dare say its cheese. Feel happy feel no worries.

Gaius does have wonkey hit boxes. There were times I swear his charge would double clip me both his charge.

Regarding the discourse on summons, it doesn't bother me if people want to use them. They wouldn't have been put in the game if they weren't intended for use. That being said, a lot of the time it almost doesn't feel like the AI of the bosses was intended for fighting multiple opponents. I sometimes hop in to my friends' games to help them out with certain bosses and often the fights devolve into the boss switching aggro between players. One player will grab the attention of the boss whilst the other heals and in turn does damage to the boss whilst it is preoccupied with another player. My own personal self-imposed rule is that I don't use summons unless there's more than one boss beyond the fog wall. If there's two bosses, I have no problem dropping a mimic tear because I usually hate duo bosses but having something to divert the attention of one of the bosses makes those fights more bearable. That being said, I think everyone should play the way they wish to and not care about judgement from elitists on the internet. I only impose the aforementioned rule on myself because I want to know that I am capable of killing hard bosses on my own with no aid, but others should just play the way that is the most fun to them personally. That can be doing a level one run with a base level weapon to having a full summon build with buffs and magic.

you can kill Gaius on horse, you have to attack on opposite side of his sword

"When our Shadows are suppressed or repressed in the unconscious long enough, they can even overtake our entire lives and cause psychosis or extreme forms of behavior, like cheating on one's partner or physically harming others." Carl Jung

So for the Bayle and Ancient Dragons lore, 1. Placidusax did not lose his heads in the battle. He defeated Bayle, after which Bayle tried to fuck off. Placi bit him with 2 of his heads, but Bayle ran with such force, that he tore of the two heads that bit him trying to stop him. So, basically Bayle challenged Placidusax, probably to death, lost tried to run away, and injured Placidusax doing it. 2. Regarding the Ancient Dragon before Bayle, I think the ancient dragon reached the highest point before the flame lightning started falling randomly. That sort of scared Senessax. We are small, so the Flame Lightning doesn't really matter to us, but if you are the size of Senessax, you are getting bombarded. So, he may have been looking for reinforcements from the Ancient Dragons or just biding his time, not wanting to go up due to the flame lightning, and down due to the other drakes in the way. What would have been fun, would be to drop him in the abyssal woods. He tried to escape from Bayle, was injured, crash landed in the abyssal woods to the north west of the Jagged peak, and now, is infected by Madness, due to the despair of losing his battle. Then his lightning would become another form of frenzied flame lightning, which we could get as an incantation that does Lightning damage and Madness buildup. Would be really cool. Great podcast man!

I agree about the furnace golems, although almost all of them can be trivialized by finding a route to get above them and throw hefty fire pots (doesn't even have to be the furnace pots) into their basket. It takes around 5 pots to do it. I believe all but two golems can be killed in this manner. Also, doing Farum Azula is VERY helpful, because those last few bell-bearings make weapon upgrades (which you WILL need) much more feasible.

Yooooo. Furnace Golem slander! Those things are so satisfying to no-hit. Also throwing pots into them and blowing them up is dope. They look amazing, too. They dont take long if you use the Lance Talisman and a bonk weapon

I have no problem with people using summons, but it's absolutely valid for people to feel like they make the game too easy, and thus not want to use them. It's not necessarily an elitism thing, it's just how they find their fun in the game. They're playing how they want to. The problem with some (only some) of the dlc fights is that they're in a strange place where they're too hard solo, and too easy with spirit summons. There's no middle ground. And while Fromsoft may want you to use summons, most bosses don't actually feel designed for them. I've been helping people fight dlc bosses and they change targets on a whim in a very unnatural way. They don't feel like they're designed for multiple targets, regardless of developer intention.

Entering hinterlands was so emotional for me for some reason. Goosebumps. Same for when I killed Leda and crew. It felt so somber and I just beat the sh*t out of them in quiet despair…like damn, I didn’t plan on betraying you guys but it’s what must be done. Also fighting BAYLE I had a huge swelling of emotions but locked tf in with Igon’s blood curling yells and first-try finished him. Fu*k. What a game man

Everyone smash the like button, awesome we have this type of content with amazing people

Awesome combo and convo!