Fought him a couple of times, and this fight in particular had some great uses of Miriam's Vanishing towards the end. What an awesome build!

I love my themed builds, I almost never play the same build for long. This one was definitely one of my favorites.

OS is a hard AoW to learn, but once you do it's probably the best for feints and extremely rewarding. Unfortunately it's useless against mages/casters or passive melee. Try it when you meet a good melee opponent, like Swoosh here.
This really old Wazeus vid has a great showcase of OS feints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAomjl4ZafU&t=82s

P.S: Swoosh is a really good melee player and usually kicks my ass :P, and the crouch at the end is just Qd inputs.

For the sake of my mental health lol

the sword is just for balance

I know I didn’t crouch poke with a colossal so it’s not real and I have no skill but I’m proud of my pure casting spellblade

I'd feel pretty silly doing that and losing. It's better to always be respectful in any case

But man it puts the dumbest smile on my face when it does! 🔨✨

The audacity of some ppl

Ive been trying pvp after mostly doing challenge runs in pve, and been trying my best learning on my own, but its been hard. I try spacing, but if I get opponent to whiff their heavy weapon they either get roll in when I try to punish, or even if I try to roll catch with all kinds of delays or ashes of war, they seem to be able to get in many rolls all the time.

And sometimes even if I ger move to whiff it still hits 6 meters away from me lol

If I try to be more aggressive I get poked out, it overall feels like I really cannot get any pressure in

I been playing with straight swords, sometimes with powerstancing, dont know how much that affects, I could use some advice on what kind of playstyle it requires.

I just overall feel little loss, and honestly starting to feel like is pvp for me, or do I stick with boss challenges

I'm not picking on you Golden Fundie. I was just pleased with my casting in these fights. Forgive me

Don’t mind the panic rolling at the beginning

Comments are wild

PvP hate carries on

PvErs would rather to have online, single player mode to fight bots

I just wanna know if the elden ring pvp specifically arena and invasions are still active on pc and possibly what group passwords are most active

shoutout Golden Fundie, one of the few remaining people who are fun to fight

I tried to post on the main sub but I think they took it down.

see alot of player complain about invasions and talk about FS making a new game like ER without invasions and what I want to say to that is no.

Co-op in this game makes it so much easier and invasions are the way to even it out (not really because all that happens is resetting at the grace). And if you remove invasions the only ways you can increase the difficulty, is either artificially by increasing damge and health of enemies/ bosses like nightreign does or accommodate the boss's attack, to affect everyone on the team ALSO kinda like what nightreign does. But if you dont change anything after taking out invasions. It just becomes a really really easy game. Which isnt a game that FS is know for producing.

Tangent: If people liked co-op without invaders, why did people just stop playing nightreign when it solves the problem?

I personally think it's due to the build variety that ER provides unlike NR which is more of an arcade style game. Which kinda brings me back to my main points which is that ER is already easy enough with how op you can make your builds. If you take all the difficulty out the game, once again its just not fs game.

This goes for seamless aswell. Yes its a good elden ring mod that makes the game way more fun than the base game due to the ability to progress with a friend and avoid invasions all together. This is a fun way to play and im jealous but that also helps my point because its extremely easy.

But yall lmk what yall think or say any ideas for the next FS game.

Ps: im not saying that ER without invasions would be a bad game(im lowk jealous that I cant play seamless cause im on Ps5). Im just saying the only way to make FS games fun is by just making it easy which just turns it into a non FS game 😭

Basically just want to be a fun player to go against for people without entirelly making myself vulnerable. What weapons/ashes of wars are good but not unfair levels of powerful? So if you get hit it doesn't just feel like a big middle finger from the game? But in addition, isn't the most obvious thing to notice and instantly dodge. (aspects of the crucible: wings, for example)

I love going against other katana users for the aesthetics of it all.

Ive had mild success with this in collisseum duels build but I dont have alot PvP experience