Honor: 26 [ Give / Take ]
25 entries this month
23:51 Mar 29 2026
Times Read: 29
The moment this other Duchess fucked themselves, and our other teammate...
And in sheer annoyance I decided, fuck it, I'm not reviving either of you, I'll handle this myfuckingself because idiots do be idioting🙄
Zero claps for you.
If I've just revived you, and I'm still invisible so the boss is aggroed onto you, and I go to revive our other teammate, and you BOOK IT straight to them dragging the boss on your ass... only to immediately die, and also block me from reviving the other person, you can fucking stay the fuck down. I don't know why people do this. If one person is down, and you have aggro while the other is trying to pull off the revive, it is your sole job to stay alive, stay the fuck away, and keep the boss away, not bumrush straight into the revive for a full team wipeout. Stupid, so stupid, why do 90% of people have zero common sense? I had Rivers, I could've easily revived both of them, nah, just nah, you can both lay in timeout, and think about how to be less garbage.
This is what the depths does to me xD Too much time in the pit. I don't wanna be the asshole who refuses to revive their weaker teammates, but also almost every time I die it's because I was trying to save everyone else when I could've just won the whole thing for everyone. And most of the time you waste your resources getting people up just for them to immediately go down again anyway as seen here. What's more important, getting the win or helping the weak and stupid?
If only they weren't stupid...
23:29 Mar 28 2026
Times Read: 60
The definitive Faith Duchess fire incantations build~
It has it all. Improved Frenzied Flame, Improved Giants Flame, Night Invaders, FP restoration, fire attack up, affinity attack(aka more fire) up, improved incantations, dormant power to find seals, and increases my Fairh and FP at the cost of my Intelligence which is no loss because incantations scale with Faith. Night Invaders are important because for every Night Invader you kill you get a 7% damage buff ACROSS ALL DAMAGE. Physical and magical. Most Night Invader camps have 1-2 invaders in them, and there are usually at least two camps every depth round so you're looking at up to an easy nearly 30% damage increase for killing 4 enemies. Sure, they hit fucking hard, but killing them early can really set you up for the entire game. Who cares if we all wipe at level 2, it's one fucking level, get up, and keep going.
I just love my fire build. Which is good cause out of the last ten rounds I've had like 9 of them be Caligo, she is on my ass. Unfortunately for her...
I was doing 4-5000 damage a cast that round, it was fucking sickening xD
Aside from her, got a lot of Libra too.
Ironeye, bud, buddy, friendo.. If we both have Less Likely To Be Targeted on ED Libra STOP trying to fight the motherfucking summons. You died so many times, and then got me killed to save you xD
The reason to take Less Likely on ED Libra is because if you leave the summons alone, and stop fucking attacking them, they'll fuck off, and kill each other, and we can focus down Libra himself without all the bullshit. That's the tactic, that's why we take it specifically for this boss, it completely negates taking it if you attack, and aggro the fucking summons onto you, dumbass. The Recluse on our team had already ditched us after they died to a Deathrite Bird at like level 15, no loss honestly, they weren't anything special, and Libra's summoned Recluse clones tend to have moons to throw at you. But once again, not necessarily an issue when people know what they're doing. He had two Less Likely passives in his inventory so on some level he knew to take it, but clearly didn't understand why xD Cause he just kept going at 'em, and I'm over here like... Fiiiiinnnne, I'm on my way tp revive you AGAIN🙄
That, and while we're fighting castle basement Bell Bearing Hunter, kept dodging straight into me trying to get away which then gets me hit. Have some fucking spatial, and team awareness. I try not to dodge into other people when something is swinging on me. But if you're gonna stand directly behind me, which some people stupidly do especially ranged characters, that's on you. But I try to be aware of where my team is at all times so I don't get them stashed unlike every Ironeye player ever. Getting teamed with Ironeye, Recluse, Duchess or Scholar in the depths just immediately makes me wanna tap out, I just can't fucking babysit you people the whole round.
10:43 Mar 27 2026
Times Read: 83
Because big fireballing dragons in the face is almost as fun as punching them~
An easy solo win after the Ironeye wandered off on his own to die, and left, and the Recluse, who I guess had no faith in us winning, quickly followed after. And this was base game, we were level 14, still daytime... and you're leaving over dying. Pathetic.
Depth 3 is my home xD Because I feel like it's a good balance of difficulty, and added variety from base game. But also because every time I get decent teammates, and claw my way out of the pit,, I get shoved back down by a string of the absolute worst players imaginable. I don't know how any of these fuckers have made it past depth 1, I can only imagine they were simply hard carried, and continue to be a burden on anyone they get qued with. I thought people in depth 3-4 had thicker skin, but many more leavers lately from dying at level 2 to the night invaders camp. That's why we do night invaders at level 2 because it's likely they'll kill us all, and losing that single level is pretty easy to recover from especially if you kill both invaders, and get several levels plus immediate access to good, possibly great equipment. Oh, but boohoo, my one little level... I've said it way too many times today, sweetheart, you shouldn't be here xD Whoever carried you here needs to come pack you up, and take you back to 1. I had one really good round against ED Sentient with a Wylder, and an Ironeye. It wasn't optimal, I had big fireball, and my starter dagger going into the final fight because I never found a better melee. Big fireball isn't a bad spell, it does decent damage, but it uses way too much mana. I have it set up in my build that dagger attacks restore my mana so I try to melee between fireballs. Poor Wylder kept dropping me starlight shards xD Because I was doing most of the damage. I still had shards in my pocket, but when I'm getting killed in one hit, and big fireball is a bit of a slow cast especially charging it up... I'm not just gonna spam it. That's how people end up three-barred, they get too aggressive. I'm working my build out to include more fireball, and less Flame of Frenzy. Much as I love Flame of Frenzy, I just don't seem to get it as often as I like whereas I get these Giantsflame Incantations constantly. So I'm trying to spread things out a bit more, and rely less on everything being in one basket. That's one thing I enjoy about the depths, you get six relic slots instead of just three so there's more room to build in any direction. But it's a lot when you need fire attack power, improved incantations, improved mind and faith, attack power increased for each night invader defeated, dormant power sacred seals, improved Frenzied Flame incantations, improved Giants Flame incantations. Getting all that in one build is a lot xD Possible, but sacrifices must be made. Aka, getting no improved HP. But... when things are doing like 2000 damage a hit, an extra 100 HP ain't gonna save you.
20:19 Mar 26 2026
Times Read: 124
I made it to depth 5... only to then be plunged back to fucking 3 by shitty teammate after shitty teammate after shitty fucking teammate. A round against basic fucking Gladius, I've got a golden Halo Scythe, all my team had to do was stay alive while I melted him, oh no, neither the Ironeye or the other fucking Duchess can dodge a single hit, they're three-barred. I'm also so fucking tired of Ironeye dashing INTO me while they have enemy aggro so then I get my shit smacked in. And once again, other Duchess players are just unfuckingbearable. Had a round with two of them, and triple Duchess can be an easy win when the other two aren't fucking idiots. One runs off to castle alone after day-time Libra pops up, and curses us all by taking half our health. I'm not fighting banished knights at half health so I head for Libra to lay him off the 35,000 to fix the curse on all of us. I realize I only have like 32,000 so I hunt around for some smaller things to kill to grind up a couple thousand. While this is happening, one Duchess is dying multiple times stupidly trying to do castle alone at half health, they then leave, and the other Duchess books it straight for Libra, offers him less than he asks for despite me being like one trash mob away from getting us enough, and when you try to offer Libra less than 35000 ot pisses him off, he attacks you, and now to break the curse you have to kill him. So that's the point I left xD Cause fuck all that, like, why are you so fucking stupid? If you don't have enough Runes to pay him off... don't fucking talk to him at all. I know yoi think you're gonna be the big hero who saves us all from dealing with that bullshit, no, you're just gonna make things 1000% harder to fucking deal with, you're not a hero, you're a stupid selfish asshole. Everyone thinks they're the guy, you're not the guy, stop trying to be the guy xD
Oh, one of my favorites, a Wylder drops out of the game about half-way through. Personally, I was fine with that, that Wylder was a stupid selfish asshole who nearly grabbed the Frenzied Flame out from underneath me while I'm running my FRENZIED FLAME BUILD. Three different seal drops I got to first, here he comes, right on my ass, grabbing every one that drops for the low level passives. By the third, I was blindly immediately grabbing every one, and he STILL got one of them, he obviously was not getting the hint or didn't care. But the one I managed to snatch did indeed have the Flame of Frenzy on it. So when he dropped out, good riddance, the other Wylder was much nicer, and kept dropping me damage negation passives. Sure, a duo is riskier in some ways, but can also make things much easier. But then as we're getting ready to go into the final boss the asshole Wylder pops BACK into our game. He's now level 8 to our level 15, and vastly underequipped. At thar point you should take the point loss, and fuck off, you're dead-weight. But again, stupid and selfish. We still won because I was doing crazy damage with the Flame of Frenzy, and it was Sentient, it was even ED Sentient, but I know that boss better than any other, and fire fucking completely melts them. The good Wylder also had Rivers, and double Balancers so it wasn't necessary difficult to carry an extremely weaker teammate. Still. STILL. If you've missed half the match, fuck the fuck off.
I need to get out of the depths xD
23:24 Mar 25 2026
Times Read: 154
Depth 4, Night Aspect, my team is three-barred, one even slightl tap will kill me, we lose, no invisibility, no revive, no help, nothing... but great dodging, Halo Scythe~
There are people who refer to this build as "Halo Slop," because it's a pretty brainless build to use... in base game. You just stand there, and skill spam, melts pretty much anything especially weak to holy. In the depths where things kill you in one hit it requires more skill because using the skill is like casting a spell, once you start the animation, you're stuck in it til it's finished, you can't dodge out. So timing is everything or you're just dead constantly. Plus, there are people who use this build, and ONLY this build across every boss regardless of enemy weaknesses or resistances. I only whip it out for holy weak final bosses. If I had to pick one build to use across the board it would be my magic build because no final boss is particularly resistant to magic, and Duchess scales higher with sorcery than any other damage type. Although my fire build is my favorite, it's the most fun to use, and I can get over 3000 damage vs the maybe 1-2000 with sorcery. Even with my double Balancers +10 holy scythe build, I'm still only getting 900-1500 per shot. Part of that is having to stand reasonably far enough away so I have time to pop a couple rings off before he comes at me, the further away you are the lower damage you do, but I'm not trying to slow dance with him when I'm last woman standing, and he'll definitely kill me in one hit, motherfucker can stay back xD
09:55 Mar 24 2026
Times Read: 187
I'm back up to depth 4 already. I lost 300 points for taking my little stand against Executor last night. I got within 50 of 4 again when my nephew decided to join me... And little did I know that the game doesn't account for depth level or experience like you'd think it would. You'd think if one person is depth 3, and one is taking their first step into depth 1 that the game would put you in the lower or meet in the middle between you. No xD No, we ended up in a depth 3 ED Caligo run. Which didn't even fucking matter since the night 2 boss was Dancer, and she three-barred my nephew almost immediately, then took out the Wylder we were with, then came for me. It didn't help that my nephew was also on Duchess, and he's not a good Duchess. He's not terrible at any of the characters, but he never uses their skills or ultimates. He was complaining to me about a game he was in recently as Ironeye with a Duchess, and an Executor. He said he dropped Rivers of Blood for the Executor, and the Duchess immediately grabbed it. Yeah, people fucking suck xD That's generally what happens when you try to do something nice for someone, and someone else fucks it up. Actually, Ironeye is better suited to wield Rivers than Duchess because he scales higher in Dexterity and Arcane. Sure, his preferred weapon is bows, but he's perfectly capable of doing melee, some people prefer him like that. So in that situation Duchess should've been the last person to take it. But dumb people. This is why it's good to play base Elden Ring before Nightreign, so you can get a grasp on what weapons scale with what or what scaling even is. It's a little more complicated than big guy take big weapon, fast guy take fast weapon, mage guy take magic. Imagine my shock though when I go to find Ancient Death Rancor in Elden Ring on my caster character only to see it scales not only in Intelligence, but also Faith. And there I was with 6 in Faith xD So... she might need a restat. Or maybe not.
Part of being deeper in the depths though is accepting that no matter how good you are, you're gonna die at some point, everyone does. The difference between good players, and bad players is the amount you die. When I have a loss in the depths, 99% of the time it's because one member of the team just cannot stay alive, and the other two are dying trying to save them. This person has been hard carried to where they are by much better players, and they're a detriment to anyone who ends up with them the deeper they get. I can only dodge so long before an unlucky hit clips me, and one-shots me. Cause pretty much everything in depth 4 will kill you in one hit. I might derank back to 1 if my nephew wants to go there again. I don't think he will after his experience in 3 xD
09:37 Mar 23 2026
Times Read: 225
Well I briefly had the satisfaction of making it to depth 4 xD And almost immediately got plunged back down to 3... But that was my choice. My very first depths 4 round I ended up on a team with an Executor who, because they got Rivers of Blood, and were running both skill boosting relics, decided they were the main character, and the Recluse, and I were merely there to serve them. Standing in front of the final boss gate this idiot indicated to me that I should give them my starlight shards. Despite the fact that I was running my magic build, I was using a staff, I kinda need my shards to do my thing, and you want me to completely forgo all that, and basically tickle the final boss with my dagger so YOU can do better damage. I get it, I see your build, it's the same fucking build every fucking Executor runs then acts like they're lord god all of the game for pressing one button repeatedly. It's boring. And expecting me to fund this behavior with the items I saved up over the course of the game... It's unbelievably selfish. That's when I set my controller down, go do something else, and when I come back, oh look, you lost without me. Guess you weren't as good as you thought. I mean, there are people who can solo a three-person depth five boss, why couldn't you if you're so good? See, the depths are fun, and all, and climbing is part of that fun, but I do not give nearly enough fucks about a digital number to help shitty people who act shitty get a win. Send me back to 3, it was worth it xD I didn't see Recluse dropping them anything nor did they attempt to harass them for their shit despite them having infinite mana restoration. I don't get that as Duchess, when my mana is gone, it's gone without shards. So it's always incredibly ridiculous to me when people want me to drop my shards... and just not cast, I guess. I even specifically didn't take the shards from every tower we went to, I left them for my teammates, and loaded up at the merchant which they had equal opportunity to. I'm not your fucking mule carrying shit to the end FOR YOU to take your pick of. And who was three-barred on the night 2 boss? Wasn't Recluse, shockingly enough, damn sure wasn't me. Doesn't do you much good having big damage if you're fucking dead constantly. But you can sure push that one button real good🙄
23:04 Mar 22 2026
Times Read: 263
My, "No Seriously, give me the Flame of Frenzy," build xD
To be fair, Giants Flame incantations are far more common.
But...
You can throw a big fireball OR you can shoot fireball lasers outta your eyeballs. I think we know which one is more fun~
I've ventured back into the depths... And five outta ten of my runs have been Sentient. Those bugs are really after my ass... Which is great for me because my fire build is on point, and despite popular opinion, I find Sentient to be one of the easiest bosses. Everyone dreads seeing them pop up, and I'm just like fuck yeah, easy win xD Like people quit out on Gladius because they're afraid we'll get ED Gladius. The thing is, ED Gladius will easily one-shot you in base game so it's really not any more difficult, and it's another one of my favorite fights, I'll fight ED Gladius all day long.
I hadn't been to the depths in awhile, it's just a toss-up on whether you'll get the best or the worst of teammates. My most recent round we got basic-ass Darkdrift Knight, should have been an absolutely 100% easy win, but the motherfucking Ironeye was three-barred within 30 seconds of the fight, he could not dodge, and the Raider went down repeatedly trying to revive him. There's a point where you gotta leave people down... Sure, maybe we get him up at the cost of our healing, but he's just gonna immediately go down again, leave him. And I'm always the first to jump on reviving, but things hit you so hard in the depths, you just can't risk it, that's how we all get wiped. Like, sweetie, you shouldn't be here, go back to base game, and learn some fucking attack patterns.
02:10 Mar 20 2026
Times Read: 310
I grabbed the Flame of Frenzy Wylder dropped, and ran like a dirty squirrel xD
I knew if the Undertaker saw it, they'd want it. Trust me... I will do so much more with it than you ever could.
Trust💛
Went into another Caligo round with a Raider and an Executor. We won, easily. But afterwards the Raider messaged me to tell me how garbage I am because I didn't drop him my weapon. It was the Grafted Dragon.
Now the Grafted Dragon is a fist weapon so it scales best with Strength which Raider has the most of. But... it's skill, Bear Witness, is basically a huge firey eruption punch that does massive fire damage. I was the only one on the team built for fire, and had one of the skill boosting relics on top so... I was perfectly in the right to keep it. The only other fire weapon I had was a dagger. So I could chip away maybe 100 HP a hit with that or I could be punching the damn thing, and I was, for over 1500 HP a punch. Plus, it's just fun to punch a dragon xD I explained this to my nephew, it's ok to use weapons that aren't necessarily ideal for your character if you like them or they're just fun to use. People forget games are supposed to be fun, not sweatlord contests, who can do the most damage, who can kill things the fastest, who can carry their worthless teammates or at least make themselves feel like they are. I hate teammates like that. Sure, winning is awesome, but it's ok not to win. The people who get super butthurt like this enough to message you AFTER a win just to whine... makes me think playing/carrying/winning in a game is all they have in life. And that's just fucking miserable.
20:31 Mar 19 2026
Times Read: 342
Ah, there he is~
Everyone beat the holy living fuck outta him xD
20:41 Mar 18 2026
Times Read: 385
Three magical bitches vs Dreggy~
My first time beating Dreglord, second time trying. When he was initially released for the DLC I attempted him once... and decided other people needed to get better at fighting him before I tried again xD Which seems to have worked out well. I'll admit when I saw the Recluse I was worried, but she actually didn't die.
So the only boss I haven't seen or fought yet is Artorias. Because of course... the fucking Wolf Knight WOULD be the one to dodge me🙄
He scared, he runnin'. I have that effect on weak men~
05:03 Mar 18 2026
Times Read: 420
Supposedly it's a Nightreignesque "spiritual successor" to Bloodborne coming sometime this year... but only for Switch 2. I'm not into Nintendo titles, like, at all except maybe Kirby. Am I willing to buy an entire console just for one game? I'm at an age where... if I fucking want something, I get it. A new game, a new car, a new motherfucking man, I'll get him xD It's just annoying, and makes me think slightly less of FromSoftware for limiting their extremely loyal player base, some of us here sonce original Demon's Souls. But if it's anything like Nightreign, it'll be a worthy investment. The only difference is that in this game you can either work together with the several other players or kill each other. There have been plenty of times where I've wanted to fight everyone on my team xD And in this I think you can choose to team up or not, and either path has possible rewards. I'm not much for PVP, it doesn't do it for me to kill other players. But... it would really hard to pass up a FromSoft title with the beloved Bloodborne aesthetic.
19:45 Mar 17 2026
Times Read: 460
Found the rarest item in Nightreign, the Cord End. It has a 0.035% spawn chance to be anywhere in the world, I found it in a random box in a Cathedral. It opens a door...
How you're supposed to know this, and know where that door is... The only reason I knew was because many, many rounds ago someone had gotten it, and knew where the door was. I guess it's just passed knowledge. My nephew was with me, along with a random Guardian. Told my nephew to stay with the bird, keep each other alive while I ran off to find said door. Inside are three talismans which, when equipped, will keep you from losing anything if you die. Useful, especially since we were headed up Mountaintop to fight the frost dragon. My nephew has decided Executor is his main. Patheticly, he's better than about 99% of Executors I've played with. Not because he's particularly good, but because he doesn't die as much. But he also doesn't do much damage. I swear, every time I look up I see him running away from the boss. I took him in against Night Aspect, and I don't think he hit him once because the boss was constantly on my ass, and I was just dodging backwards, hit, dodging backwards, hit, dodging backwards, hit, and my nephew is just chasing the both of us around the arena xD I took him through all the bosses then set him loose to play with randoms because he told me the game was super easy. He calls me a couple days later, "Can you get on with me, I haven't won a single match with other players." Yeahhhh... Now he understands why I never like my team, and I'm constantly calling everyone an idiot xD It's easy if you have at least one really good person on your team. If no one is particularly good, and if most of you suck... See,y nephew THOUGHT he was good because we were rolling bosses. He was being carried. And like I said, he's not bad. But he's not really good either. He plays a character half-ass. Half of a good Executor is status ailments, half is being a parrying God. And this most Executors aren't good, they refuse to parry or don't know how. They rely entirely on RNG gifting them Rivers of Blood, and are completely useless without it. I keep encouraging him to play other characters like Ironeye. He doesn't want to play Ironeye because, "I don't want to shoot from a mile away, I want to be right up in the action." Then you gotta stop running away, bud xD
It's funny though. I get the rarest drop on Nightreign without trying, but 3+ years, and 3000 hours on Fallout STILL no Red Asylum🙄
13:07 Mar 13 2026
Times Read: 522
My oldest nephew decided to get Nightreign. I hopped on Elden Ring to try, and help him with the duo Valiant Gargoyle fight, and he kept getting killed in like two hits. So even on my level 263 character, he was just instantly dying xD To Be fair, that's one of the harder boss fights which is why I was on my highest level character, but he's also only level 58 which is pretty underleveled for that fight. It's not insanely hard, but they do hit very hard. I've fought that fucking gargoyle many times in Nightreign, but even still, he just hits so hard, and when there are two of them... So my nephew decided to go ahead, and get Nightreign because he thinks it'll make him better at Elden Ring. Like I said, yes and no. There are benefits in each game that don't necessarily cross over into the other. The point of Elden Ring is not to plow through bosses as fast as you can, it's to take your time, explore the world, grind out your levels at your own pace, and if you hit a wall there are multiple other paths to take. He doesn't have to fight the gargoyles, in fact, I think that fight might be entirely optional, I'm trying to remember where it even takes you after you beat them. I suggested he head for the capital which means fighting the Draconic Tree Sentinel, but he's not that bad, and much more manageable than the gargoyles at his level. The problem is he's not running any of the npc sidequests so he's not getting the summons. It's fine if I'm there to help him, but even I can't keep him alive if he can't dodge. So hopefully Nightreign helps with that. He wants to play Executor, and I'm just like... no xD Executor is fine... but his main thing is to parry. If you can't parry well, don't play him even though the big dog thing is cool. There are easier characters to play like Wylder or Raider or Ironeye, and he wants to jump straight to Executor. Ah well, he'll learn. And I'm confident I can carry his ass til he gets better. Duos are fairly easy, and at least in NR I can revive him when necessary. Being a summon kinda sucks in Elden Ring cause you lose most of your flasks, and once you or the host dies, that's it, fight's over for you. I don't think he'll stick with Executor, I see him being an Ironeye main which is fine, Ironeye is very easy to play. I figure we'll run him through some basic rounds, try to teach him my good habits, and etiquette before we bring a third person in.
20:34 Mar 12 2026
Times Read: 555
Can I get one round without a motherfucking Recluse...
Holy shit, they are awful. The Recluse, and Scholar who decided to fight a Deathrite Bird at level 2, died, and left. The Recluse who ran up behind me, and stole the HP Talisman I was about to grab from underneath me. Doubt that extra 12% HP kept them alive better than a whole ass teammate against ED Darkdrift. The Recluse who got hit by literally every fucking attack from ED Darkdrift, who I'm forced duoed with after our Wylder left, who I bring back from multiple three-bars, but it doesn't fucking matter cause they can't fucking dodge. I swear, fucking casters, it's like they just expect to stand back, and never get hit, but bosses tend to aggro onto whoever is doing the most DPS so... You're gonna get fucking slammed if you think you're just gonna stand there, and cast away. Even with Less Likely. I had Less Likely going against the Valkyries recently. The only reason I had it was because it was on the Carian Regal Scepter, I'm not, not taking that. But even still, even with the highest level of Less Likely on me, the lead Valkyrie was still on my ass half the fight. She is always specifically on my ass. She knows who the threat is, she comes for me every time xD
My oldest nephew asked me if he should get Nightreign now, if I think it would make him better at Elden Ring. I think it's two entirely different games. Elden Ring is very chill, your own pace, and very exploration/lore focused. Nightreign is grab, and go, and run, and everything as fast as possible because there's never enough time. Yes, the repetitive fighting of certain bosses in Nightreign will make them easier to handle in Elden Ring like the Magma Wyrm or Astel. But these bosses also usually have more attacks in their proper Elden Ring versions. Like the Red Wolf having a sword in Elden Ring. Some bosses are made more basic. So you might learn them in Nightreign, but then they pull some real bullshit in Elden Ring. And you might play a character who can't be replicated. Like there is no Duchess dodge in Elden Ring. So if you play her a lot, and then think you're gonna dodge like that in any other Souls game... There's also the skills, and ults. I can't tell you how often I attempt to go invisible in Elden Ring. Or Fallout xD Just from muscle memory, big danger, go invisible, doesn't work in other games. Well technically you can go invisible in Fallout, but the Chinese Stealth Armor in 76 just isn't the same without the voice reminding me that I'm not very sneaky with my pipboy light on xD
19:25 Mar 11 2026
Times Read: 583
That might be the best dodging I've ever executed, to ever have occurred in Elden Ring xD You don't get to die, and leave me alone to fight this guy. Nah, get back up. I revived this fucker 6 times, 4 from a full three bar.
Somehow, despite this Executor going down constantly, I got us the win. That's right, I, me. Because every time I looked up from dodging for my life, this fucking asshole was so far away from the boss, running away. If you're gonna die anyway could you at least get a couple hits in first? It drives me crazy that 99% of Executors seemingly can't function unless they get Rivers of Blood. When they get Rivers, it makes the game easy mode for them. Without it, they're just constantly dead, they don't know how to swing a regular katana. And this douchebag's inventory...
I don't understand. You have six slots to fill. You can find weapons that maybe you'd never use, but with passives like damage negation or continuous HP recovery or improved skill attack power. You're telling me the whole fucking round you couldn't find anything useful at all? Especially since it was just the two of us. Our Revenant quit right before the Night 1 boss. Dunno why they left, maybe they didn't have any confidence in us. Me, and the Executor hit a church in the rain on our way to the circle. I took a stray hit from an enemy which killed me, Executor stopped to revive me, got killed by that same enemy after reviving me so I stop to revive him, and by the time we get to the circle I only have one flask to go against Bell Bearing Hunter xD But he's really not that difficult outside of castle basement, we handled him pretty easily so that Revenant left for nothing. It's always the assholes named "IAMDeath" or "DestroyerofWorlds" who are the first to bail like complete pussies when a round doesn't go perfectly. I expected the Executor to be better against Night Aspect, and he was not... And we didn't have the Astel revive because I was running Crater instead of city. So it was pretty much if I died, we'd lose. But would I have it any other way? Would I want anyone else to be the one persistently saving everyone's ass? Nah~
06:42 Mar 11 2026
Times Read: 618
Leon...
You'll never be Chris Redfield.
But I kinda like you more this game xD
It just goes to show, if you can make a girl laugh, you're in~
04:20 Mar 09 2026
Times Read: 664
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: 718
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: 773
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: 807
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: 859
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: 896
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: 924
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: 742
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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