Elden Ring Diary Entry #6: Stormveil Castle (Part 2)
I returned to the castle to clear the second half and topple Goddrick.
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Spent a lot of time exploring for secret areas. I found the Crucible Knight that Madrun Badrun was talking about and easily defeated him.
Totally Legit Strategy Inside(Not Cheese!)
After dying 7 or 8 times, I lured him back to the elevator room to see if I could use the elevator shaft to keep some distance from him to engage him better, but instead he just runs directly into the shaft and dies.
Made it to Goddrick, and and my man was looking pretty eff'd up. That cutscene in the middle of the fight, holy crap bro, you good??
With the help of my Barbarian Queen waifu and my Jelly friend, I was able to dispatch him without too much trouble. With Goddrick dispatched, I could now officially enter Liurnia of the Lakes through the front gates. Before moving on, I gave grapes to a new waifu, and headed north.
I spent a while just checking out the area, clearing out some enemy encampments, finding sites of grace, nothing major. I traveled as far north as I could go, up to the Great Lift, but there was nothing I could do there at the moment without "precious item". I talked to an old crone, however, that implied that there was another way to the top of the lift, a "coward's path, into the water and through the dark caverns". Hmmmm.....I do love a good coward's path.
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At this point, I decided to make upgrading my Uchigatana my current priority. I'd been stuck on +5 for a long time, and to get to +6 I needed a bunch of Smithing Stones(2), but if I could just get over that hump, I had a bunch of Smithing Stones(3) already to get several more levels. I consulted a wiki and it seems liked the Raya Lucaria Crytal Tunnels were my best option, having a bunch of SS(2) drops, plus a boss that dropped a Bell Bearing that gets the Twins to sell me more stones. I found the cave and explored the entrance, but my Uchigatana wasn't going to cut it here (pun intended) against these rock bois. I decided to go Flail and started smashing my way through them with the greatest of ease, however the mages were still giving me grief because there were so many of them, and I was taking so much damage while rushing into to melee them. Arrows were worthless too, but then I though, what about pots? I'd never really crafted any of the pot-based weapons, but I checked my crafting tab and I had enough mats to craft like 60 Fire Pots plus I had 6 cracked pots to hold them in, so I was like what the heck, let's try this. Well, the pots turned out to be super useful against the mage enemies. One pot took down the easier ones and two could take down the tougher ones, and I could hit them from far enough away that they weren't aggroed yet. I used about 20 pots, but I easily crushed the rest of the mines. The boss at the end was strong against fire damage, but very weak to strikes, and put up little resistance to my flail.
With that, it was back to the Roundtable Hold to cash in my Bell Bearing and immediately upgrade my Uchigatana all the way to +10. Making those gains, soon I'm gonna be drowning in maidens. Picture of my stat screen if anyone wants to see my probably very suboptimal build cuz I don't really know what I'm doing.
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Not really sure where to go next from here. I guess I'll just keep looking around Liurnia and seeing what else there is to see, or maybe I'll go see what's up over in Caelid, where everything looks terrible and bad.
Total Time Played: ~24 hours
Current Character: Lv. 38 Samurai
