It also helps that it is completely balanced on all stats, so if a player still doesn't know what build to make it may be a good choice. It also gives the strongest "hobo phase" vibe, very satisfiying to go from going naked to wearing shit gear to finally decent one, specially in ER with its open world and freedom to explore. At least those two were the reasons I choose the class first time.
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. Jesus Christ xD. I ran an undead champ/ fight club pyro hybrid attunement build is ds3 with Lightning arrow, Black Flame, fire surge, deep soul, great soul dregs, great farron darts, old moonlight. Topped of with Carthus curved greatsword one handed (one of the few weapon classes that gains poise on a r1 attack) Witch's Lock. But people running only faith and Lightning arrow atleast had a good success rate in match ups. Not to mention the meme heal projected heal and ofcourse Warmth if you want to be more fair.
Despite being a very strong spell it is non viable in the discussion we're having. We're not talking about twinked out PvP builds here. We're discussing how viable it is for an average player to play a faith character. Beating the last boss or a very difficult DLC boss to get your spells means it's not a viable option. Faith builds have strong options in the end game but a lot of their early options suck. Unless a player values healing spells there's not a lot going on for early Faith builds. While magic has at least soul arrow which does insane damage for it's range and mana usage. It will carry you to better spells while a basic heal isn't cutting it.Imagine calling Lightning Arrow a non viable spell in DS3
thats my favorite part. elden ring SL1 feels just like dark souls up until the end of Lindell. then it turns into absolute dog shit
That poll is representative of hyped and invested Souls and Playstation fans. For someone who has written thousands of words about what the average player is and isn't, you sure don't seem to understand how this poll is cannot be representative of them. And 12% wretch says it all. Joe Shmoe is not picking wretch 12% of the time, 1.2% more like. I may have overestimated the number weebs, but I do think it would be higher than the general playerbase. Vagabond makes the most sense.
The poll is not exclusively average players though is it? Many of them are souls vets or want a clean slate. The important number isn't the wretch. It's the popularity of samurai is way higher than every other class which is what I stated. 1/4 people playing samurai is a big fucking number when there's 10 million people playing.
That is exactly my point. The general playerbase is not picking samurai 25% of the time.
But it is. It's incredibly popular because it has a fucking katana and decent armour/stats. It's the stand out option.
For some people (me included) that is a negative. Regardless, you are still talking about vets and meta slaves, not the general playerbase. The same playerbase who 28% of PC players did not kill Margit.
Imagine calling Lightning Arrow a non viable spell in DS3
I never mentioned meta slaves or vets picking Samurai. I mentioned that Katanas are cool and he's wearing the obvious heavy armour people liked in previous games. Why are you so resistant to accepting people like poorly made japanese swords and obvious armoured dudes?
Self selected is not a randomized sample, it's quite the opposite. Playstation is also 41%, so excludes up to 59% of players.
i literally picked hobo because he doesn't have extra points in dress wearing from the start and i can fully ignore magic. and it's my first fs game since first dark souls.
You are also an RPG autist with 30k posts on the dex. Not exactly an everyday gamer.
fs games are not rpgs tho so your point is retarded
The point is that who your are informs your choices in games. Choices that are not representative of the general playerbase. Ironically, most of those players would consider Elden Ring to be an RPG despite what you think it is.
By the time I got to him, my patience for learning another fight had ran out, so I unashamedly went over to Renalla and speced for great shield poke. Mimic tear and Ansbach, and I killed him on the second attempt. GG ez game.
how is elden ring not an rpg? it's absolutely a jrpg and not just because it's made in oppailand. check the video that somebody linked above where the guy one shots the bosses. if it wasn't an rpg, that wouldn't be possible
Doesn't it play similar to Nier? I think ER is an action JRPG. there is more emphasis on player skill but that's the only major difference. seems like you can still grind / cheese to become OP like in other JRPGs. You can't do that in zelda for example which is more action than rpg.
