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04:20 Mar 09 2026
Times Read: 43
Doing 3,000+ damage a charged hit...
Now that's double Balancers meta used effectively~
The only fight I really find that particular build necessary since you can only hurt ED Augur with the weapon skill the game gives you. Our third member, another Duchess, had ran off ahead of us, died alone to Astel, and of course immediately left when no one was there to revive them despite us being right outside the room. Because you totally can't just respawn, and quickly pick your shit up, that's definitely not allowed🙄 I feel like... I've never played with another Duchess, and truly enjoyed the round. Almost every time there's one on the team, they end up leaving either because they stupidly died, often times from running off alone, or they didn't get what they wanted so they just ditch everything. Most Duchess mains desperately want magic, and if I'm using my magic build, sure, I definitely have getting a decent staff as my main priority. But I only specifically use my magic build for Gaping or the Valkyries. Holy for Gladius or Night Aspect, fire for Sentient or Caligo, lightning for Darkdrift or Augur, double Balancer for ED Augur, and for Libra usually fire, but occasionally holy or magic. Often times I am the only one on my team going for the boss's weakness while everyone else does the most random bullshit possible. But you get people who act like their ability to play at all completely hinges on getting exactly what they built their character for. I can't tell you the number of times I've had my magic pants on, and didn't get a single staff or fire, and not any fire weapon to be seen the entire round. I loaded into a Darkdrift match recently with my holy build on. Because I was texting, and not paying attention to the random que, and suddenly I realize I'm flying into Darkdrift, who is super resistant to holy, with my holy build. And sure, I could just leave... or suck it up, and make it work. Just because you're built to utilize something better doesn't mean you can't use anything else. I can be built for Carian Slicer, but still prefer to use Stars of Ruin if I have both. But you get these teammates who just refuse to adapt at all, and that's kinda a big thing in Souls games, adapting to the shitty situations the games force you into. That's the nice thing about magic build, only the moth part of Sentient is really resistant to magic, every other boss isn't necessarily weak to it, but also not resistant so it works decently across the board cause even if you take magic into Sentient, you can focus on the scorpion while someone with fire can easily keep the moth occupied. Or you adapt, and grab a fire bow, magic or not.
Worst round of the day was with a Raider, and a Recluse. The Recluse opens an evergaol... in the rain. Raider, and I run to castle. Recluse dies and leaves. We keep going. We've got Crater. Raider stupidly decides to fight the Gargoyle up top before hitting Crater. The Gargoyle, and Fallingstar Beast are, in my opinion, only to be fucked with AFTER Crater if you have time. You'll be higher level with much better equipment after you fly out. But this idiot goes straight for the Gargoyle, easily three-barred, I get knocked inti lava, and die trying to revive him. We respawn, he immediately tries to fight this thing again, gets three-barred again, and I once again die trying to revive him by being thrown into the lava. So he leaves. Very cool. I keep going. Too late to do Crater now so I don't get to upgrade my lighting dagger to gold which would have been extremely helpful given I was fighting Augur. I get through the night 2 boss, a Fallingstar Beast, on my own at level 11, and as I get Augur to about half health my wifi cuts out so I don't even get the satisfaction of victory after all the fucking struggle xD Weak-ass teammates. It's not just Duchess mains I have a bad time with, seems like it's most people in general. They either suck, and are bad teammates or they're really good, but with massive ego that makes them bad teammates. Very rarely it seems I just enjoy playing with chill people who are decent at the game, and good teammates. It's like, oh, this guy is really good, but... he takes off on his own, and refuses to help or revive anyone when you are forced together because he needs to prove, to whoeverthefuck that he a big strong who signed up to play on a team, but doesn't want or need or care about his team. Yeah, make it make sense. That kinda person just wants an audience, and it just makes me lock in super hard because no fucking way am I giving an asshole like that the satisfaction of soloing most of a three-person scaled boss because their bad, idiot teammates couldn't stay alive. Nah, I ain't dying. Then the opposite side of the spectrum, people who suck, who run off to die alone, who hoard weapons better suited for their teammates, who try to fight things they can't handle. Had another round with a Raider, and a Recluse. I was dropping staffs for the Recluse because I was looking for fire, and through the round the Recluse dropped three good fire weapons, but the dumbass Raider immediately grabbed everything she dropped. Take one, absolutely, take two, fine, but all fucking three, you can't wield three weapons at once jackass. That's one round I was so tilted I completely refused to help that Raider at all by the end, and of course he went down multiple times to basic Sentient. I also pointed him down after, I was very annoyed xD Part of being a good teammate is taking the other members into consideration. Checking their relics, checking their equipment. Not to demand what they have, but to see if you have anything that can help them. If your Duchess has +6 fire attack power, and no fire weapon... maybe let her have the fucking fire whip your other teammate dropped, probably FOR HER. Idiots. Completely useless.
19:23 Mar 07 2026
Times Read: 97
The game either gives you everything or nothing...
This is everything if you're fighting anything weak to holy. Triple Rings with the talisman that boosts incantations, AND the Halo Scythe💛
I was teamed with another Duchess, and an Undertaker. The other Duchess was using a regular scythe, and kept waving it at me like she wanted me to drop her MY Halo Scythe. Thing is, I peaked her relics, and she was 100% built for magic while I was built for holy so... Fuck no? Why the fuck would I do that? Balancer meta has given every fucking person in this game main character syndrome. Balancer meta is basically you get these two relics from beating the Valkyries, aka the Balancers, and their main effect is that they boost the power of weapon skills. Powerful stuff especially if you stack your passives to also buff skill attack power, and the only two relics in the game with this particular effect. So everyone fucking uses them. All three of us were using them. I was only using one of them because I wanted the extra holy power, and I think using both makes you boring, and basic as fuck. Even before Balancer meta was a thing, I loved the Halo Scythe, it was my go-to weapon for beating the Putrescent Knight, and ya know, scythes in general have long been MY weapon through Dark Souls. So no... you don't just get to take it from me because you think you'd do better with it. I'm tired of the entitlement over weapons like how dare you use something someone else wants. I get the frustration when someone has something they're specifically not using, and it's perfect for you, but again, this other Duchess was built for magic, I let her have every staff in the fucking round, I even specifically went to a Cathedral after we dropped while they ran to a fortress, that's where I found my Triple Rings. I didn't fight her at all for sorceries, and she despite having numerous staffs in her inventory, and being magic inclined she didn't cast a single spell against the final boss. Then she specifically went, and emoted to the Undertaker after we won, like I didn't help at all. Sorry you're butthurt, but you're not entitled to shit. I watched a few days ago, teamed up with a Scholar, and an Undertaker, we were about to go into the final boss fight, and the Undertaker starts harassing the Scholar, basically repeatedly trying to get him to drop his weapon he was using. It was Marika's Hammer. And sure, Undertaker's preferred weapon is hammers, and Marika's is the top-tier, gold, legendary variant. But he was using it. And that Undertaker was being a bully. I got in-between them as she was swinging on him even though she couldn't actually hit him, her attempts, and behavior were pissing me off. You don't get to go through a person's inventory, and pick what you want from what they picked from THEIR reward pools for themselves. Not if they're fucking using it. I actually had someone point down at me today. No idea why. I helped this idiot fight Bell Bearing Hunter at level 6 while the other Duchess fucked off to do fuck all. I then dropped this asshole a Golden Order Greatsword which the OTHER Duchess picked up, and later dropped for them. And the other Duchess died during the last fight, in fact they were the only one to die the entire fucking round. But dude points me down after we win. I dunno if he was just fucking confused or what, but I didn't play poorly at all, and I wasn't a bad teammate. While me, and other Duchess were fighting Astel, he was across the fucking map doing evergaol bullshit. Maybe he was salty because I was using a staff with Less Likely on it, but I was using magic, it's fair for your caster to take less aggro, and if you can't handle it that's a skill issue on your part. I regularly take all the aggro from bum-ass teammates, I'm allowed to just sit back, and cast occasionally. And when the other Duchess went down, I immediately got her back up. Maybe he was mad I was using magic instead of holy again ED Gladius. So hey, the only holy weapon I got in the entire round was that greatsword which I dropped FOR YOU, but again, the other Duchess picked it up, and redropped it later. I was also the one who turned us all invisible so we could chunk out the last 25% of the bosses health. But no, please continue to point down the only fucking person on your team who helped anyone else do anything on the fucking team.
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01:06 Mar 06 2026
Times Read: 152
Imagine both Wylders on your team taking Less Likely to be Targeted...
And then both being three-barred MULTIPLE times vs ED Gladius despite him being persistently on my ass.
Pathetic🙄
I kinda don't mind someone taking Less Likely because that officially makes you the team reviver, it is now your entire job to revive anyone who goes down because you decided you wanted less aggro. I'll take the aggro because when the boss is aggroed on me, I know what it's gonna do. It's the sudden aggro shift that gets you killed, when you go all in cause you think the boss is safely attacking someone else, and suddenly it smashes into you. Still. It's fucking weak as shit for the fucking WARRIOR CLASS to take it, just my opinion. It was basically a round of me executing perfect dodging, and doijg most of the damage while they revived each other constantly cause somehow, despite taking almost NO aggro, they just kept dying. Then one of these fuckers runs over to me after I kill the damn thing. I resisted the urge to point down at him xD I just walked away, kiss my ass, assclowns, you fucking suck.
06:18 Mar 05 2026
Times Read: 186
When we're flying in, and the Recluse is built like this...
And we're going against the Valkyries so I'm inclined to think this person isn't new. Maybe new to playing Recluse, but like... That's not the fight I'd pick with a character I don't know. And they didn't grab the staffs from our first POI which is where the other Duchess died once at level 2, and quit. I wasn't in the immediate area when she died to revive her, she pinged the fortress, but I saw a tower right next to it so I thought I'd quickly open that up so everyone can get a staff since two Duchess, and a Recluse is a very sorcery heavy team. Surely, I incorrectly thought, those two could handle the very basic fortress boss. Nah. And honestly, dying to that extremely weak boss is pathetic so probably better the trash took itself out. And standing there, looking at this poorly built Recluse, I considered leaving too. But they kept going so I wasn't going to abandon them. Plus, I already had a staff with Carian Slicer, the staff I got from the tower, and I can kill a Valkyrie in three hits with Carian Slicer so I knew I could carry. They did die three times to the Valkyries, but I kept smacking her back up, I had it under control xD I knew if I died we'd lose. Recluse is probably the worst for revives. Scholar is also pretty bad too. Had a crushing loss with a Scholar, another duo round after our fucking Guardian abandoned us. I got smashed by like five of them, and then he also went down. But later that evening when I got back on I ended up in another round with that same Scholar, same boss, but we had an Undertaker with us that time, and I had Stars of Ruin so... much easier win. Well again they were both three-barred by the end, but I got us there. Had two rounds also with teammates who just fucked off to do their own thing the entire time. I don't understand why you don't just play solo if you don't want to cooperate with a team. One was a Raider who while Ironeye, and I were doing Crater, he died about ten times fighting Castletop boss. There's a point where you should really determine that something is not worth fighting, and you could be actually accomplishing something elsewhere. And then surprisingly Ironeye was the one constantly dead against ED Gladius, which Raider did help continually revive him. Then I had to block someone who I've regularly played with in randoms who was always a solid teammate, but... they died running past a Black Blade Kindred, and then died again trying to get their Runes back, and quit even though I was on my way to help them. I just don't understand quitting over dying at a low level, it's so easy to get back, and people act like their entire run is ruined because oh no they died at level 2 or 3 or 4, like... that's baby behavior, I block over that. Which sucks because I'd played many rounds with them, and they were always great, but if you're gonna be a rage-quitting baby... Nah.
10:23 Mar 03 2026
Times Read: 238
I have my 3,000+ damage Flame of Frenzy build on, and the absolute IDIOT Wylder...
Runs up on my ass, and grabs it out from underneath me on the first fucking drop.
Nope. Not doing it. Rounds like that I don't mind leaving immediately, you do not deserve the damage I would do with that.
So then I end up in a round with a Wylder, and a Raider. Ended up finishing ED Sentient by myself.
Just complete, and utter decimation via Gelmir's Fury❤️
Why was I by myself? The round was going great, that staff was my first drop, I had a decent bleed weapon, I thought we were working well together. Then start of day 2 the Wylder pings Mountaintop, the Raider pings a field boss. Raider heads for the field boss, and Wylder starts having a pinging baby tantrum, pinged Mountaintop like 20 times then left. Then Raider left. I dunno why when one person leaves the other usually also leaves. Two people are more than capable of continuing on, it's easier as a duo, even easier solo. But I guess that Wylder just has a massive ego, and couldn't handle people not doing exactly what he wanted. I get it, the world events are good to do, but... Mountaintop is probably the least useful, it's really only truly helpful if you're going against Caligo. Sure, it's a guaranteed legendary weapon drop from the frost dragon, but that dragon is a run-killer if you can't kill it quickly, and there's no guarantee the weapon you get will even be useful. So getting the power on Mountaintop when you're fighting anyone, but Caligo, is less priority unless you're sure you're a strong team. So having a little fit over someone not wanting to go there, just stupid. My nephew says Elden Ring might be his favorite game, and he's getting Nightreign after he finishes it. We do have some wacky adventures in Elden Ring... Like I told him when Rennala's second phase starts if you see the moon coming at you... avoid it at all costs, do NOT let it hit you. So of course, first thing Rennala does is launch a moon straight at him, and he's just shrieking, and running, from the moon, in the background xD A similar thing happened when we fought Radahn. Radahn went up into the sky, and my nephew is on Torrent, "Where did he go, I don't- OH MY GOD HE'S COMING STRAIGHT FOR ME." Followed by a massive explosion, and Blaidd instantly dying because apparently he was going after Blaidd xD A lot of shrieking, and running around while I kill things. Playing Elden Ring again is so chill compared to Nightreign.
01:24 Mar 02 2026
Times Read: 275
I knew true fear as I saw that moon flying at me xD Suddenly I know how every enemy in Nightreign feels when I have the Carian Regal Scepter. Lucky it didn't hit me straight on, almost killed me just glancing me.
Speaking of...
I'm gonna need both . I'm about 20 points too low in Intelligence to use either currently, but... I could restat, take all the points I've put into dexterity into intelligence, and then have enough, but... Then I'd be at the complete mercy of my magic, and I'm just not willing to be a pure caster. Plus, Moonveil is too good not to use.
10:36 Mar 01 2026
Times Read: 303
Just when I thought Fasnacht was going to be a total bust...
Two glowings I didn't have. Plus another glowing pig and minotaur. So that makes 8 glowings with two days left. I'd consider that pretty lucky overall~
02:02 Mar 01 2026
Times Read: 269
Level 37, already have Moonveil, and Carian Slicer🖤
So Dex/Int build is going well. So well that now my nephew wants to switch from Dex/Arcane to what I'm doing xD It's not that easy to be a caster... I've grown into it through Duchess, but never used magic my first character. And forgetting I don't have the Dichess dodge really screws me sometimes. Like fighting the Magma Wyrm to get Moonveil. I have fought the Magma Wyrm in Crater so many fucking times, but... with Duchess. It wasn't especially difficult, but my dodging was off because I'm used to having faster dodges with more i-frames. Duchess has a Bloodborne dodge, something I sorely miss in Elden Ring. Being a good caster takes timing more than anything because otherwise you just get slammed. But magic is generally considered OP. I told him after we beat Rennala he can restat if he wants. I'm still incorporating some Arcane into my build for the bleed especially since I'm maining a katana.
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