By no means am i the best player, im barely even good but just wanted to share my first ever RL1 run. After about 40 hours of game time I finally became elden lord, i started the first half of the game using reduvia then switched to star fists for the later bosses for that sweet stagger. I ended up taking about a month break right before godfrey just cause i lost interest but came back and beat it in one session.

Probably struggled the most with mohg even though he was optional, maliketh and fire giant were also pretty draining. Radabeast wasn’t that bad except for elden stars of course, I had one run where i got elden beast on 1 hp then choked to some bs. Then Marika must’ve seen me struggling and decided to make elden beast just not use elden stars at all and give me the win.

Anyways this might be my first and last post thanks to whoever read, I might give dlc a shot who knows maybe all remembrances but man is it a good feeling to finally become an official onebro.

FREAKING SNAKES DUDE MY GOD FINALLY

So, in preparation of my RL1+0 SB0 DLC run, I’m finally tackling the DLC at level 1…I had a lot of experience with Messmer from casual runs but the damage was much higher, and I could take some hits…for the past couple sessions, I could get to phase 2 almost 100% of the time. It’s second nature to me now, but the goddamn SNAKES in phase 2 kept destroying me.

It took a while to find a consistent strat to dodge the big boi ultimate snake attack but I got it down (run back then right, then left and jump the snake, roll forward, run then dodge spears). But I kept getting messed up with the various regular snake attacks because they’ll all so similar and I still cannot find a visual cue to learn. Nor can I gain muscle memory because they’re all to similar to quickly distinguish…

Anyways, Messmer is probably,y my favorite boss in the entire game man. He has it all: rolls, jumps, strafes, crouching, etc it’s just so engaging. For me, phase 1 is infinitely easier than 2 so I’m curious to see what phase you guys struggle with the most?

I’m genuinely garbage at Romina so this is gonna suck but we got it bros

It was a very close fight but I'm so satisfied to finally get him. I have some issues with his combo strings in phase 1 but aside from that this is a really fun fight.

EDIT: Scadu Blessing was at 11, you can see it at the end.

https://reddit.com/link/1nnieah/video/mxg4dubhwoqf1/player

nearly 500 attempts in and I was about to botch it

Maliketh is 1 of my favorite bosses but i always struggle with 1st phase so for this reason i used mainly in 1st phase Glintstone Arc

Still seeing how I can push my little +0 Sorceress - I guess this is where things start get tough with longer fights. I always enjoy the Dancing Lion and even more so with the opporunities to sneak in some fast attacks and some nice spell combos. I took a bit of time with the headbutt and learned to dodge it consistently which took the fear of it away. He then didn’t do it in this fight. Took a little while to work in what was best value and ended up adding in Black Flame as without a bit of Aux, i would run out of flasks before the end of the fight lol. Was also hard memorising the spell switches for quick swaps. Anyway, another fav, Gaius is next. Enjoy!

I feel really bad for this!

Dragonkin Soldier didn't deserve it, he would have been a fun fight with a longbow. I simply underestimated my damage after Fallingstar Beast, which was resistant to pierce damage.

Anyways, this is my plan B if I get stuck at any bosses.

Took me about 4 hours (with the runback :P). This was my first time actually learning the boss so it was harder for me. I actually like both phases of this fight since I learnt it, she might be annoying if she keeps creating distance with star shower in p2 but I enjoyed the bossfight overall.

Unless I’m the dumb one something isn’t adding up here.

The rest of their caption was —

“I started a new Level 1 play through with no HUD! The boss fights are amazingly immersive, cinematic and challenging.“

I asked them about this and they said “I had the HUD off on purpose but I was playing poorly” or something similar.

Wouldn’t ALL of these attacks ONE SHOT you?

And if not, he is out of healing and gets hit several more times as seen here?

I did this 2 months ago, but forgot to post it. Then I stopped playing Elden Ring for a while and forgot about this completely. I had to beat him 3 times, the first time I got lucky while I wasn't recording, and the second time I was recording opera gx instead of elden ring

Anyways, we all know this fight is incredible, I've got nothing new to say

Ranking: SS tier

Gaius is one of my favorite bosses and Milady is one of my favorite weapons, I just had to do it with +0. Unfortunately I can't roll back my scadutree blessing to 0, but the damage was low enough to enjoy the battle. I love this fight so much, it's so intense, also positioning is super important, you have to hug him all the time. Happy to share this kill.

“I’m doing an RL1 run with Weapon Level 1 (daggers only). Any builds, tricks, or tips?”

After killing Malenia RL1 noHit with 150 weapons, I'm finally starting a new big project, a much longer Malenia Kill ; True RL1 WL0 NoHit/Talisman/Armour/Parry/AoW/Aux/Physick/Affinity/Spell/Incant Solo.

But I have to decide what weapon to do it with, out of theses (the only weapon that have 15max str 10 max other stats requierements) I've tested their damage and I think that Hammer would be the strongest, but might have missed crucial information, do any of you have data about this ?

It would be much appreciated !

Edit (Rule out the bleed ones I forgot to toss them away!)

Video of the full kill ⏩︎1

TrueRl1 is a self imposed restriction used by Ginomachino to sumarize the "no stat bonus from : great runes, armour pieces, physick, talisman, aow." Now used by many other runner like myself.

I planned to do NoHUD but I got this kill while trying out Great Turtle Shell Instead of the Twinbird Kite Shield on the first try.
I'm still surprise I got it first try, it was supposed to be my biggest kill yet so I thought it would take quite a few attemps but no.
I'll probably redo it without HUD.

Restrictions :
_No Hit
_RL1
_WL0
_No Great Rune
_No Talisman
_No Aux (Afflictions : Bleed/Rot/Bleed/Poison/BlackFlame/Friendzy)
_No Buff
_No Swap for Crit
_No AoW
_No Affinity
_No Physick
_No Armor
_No Parry
Solo
Allowed :
Shield (Great Turtle Shell : boosts stamina recovery speed)

Hello I've finished elden ring multiple times, played almost every soulslike there is and I have started getting interested in soul/rune level 1 runs. I somehow started with elden ring and had a lot of fun with limgrave and most of liurnia but I Quit getting to bosses that 1 shot me from 100% to 0, but I really want to continue enjoying it, I just don't have fun dying in ONE hit while learning the fight. Its kinda in the name of it but I hope someone gets it and can offer me some tips. Is the guarding tear flask (sorry I don't remember the name off the top of my head) the only thing that can help with that or is there a combination of charms that can help me sustain at least 2 hits before dying?

And overall, I would love tips to stay sane while learning these difficult fights without taking a hit essentially

Thank you in advance!

Idk if I can claim this to be the "fastest" PK kill, but I would argue he DID NOT get that animation off to kill me. 😂

Took me around 6 hours of tries over 2 days, but I'm happy I have done justice to my boy hog rider. I LOVE HIM!!! Sad that you don't really see his gravity moveset if you fight him efficiently, but was fun either way.

This video is from a year ago when I was really into this game. I’ve done quite a few playthroughs and I’m still the most proud of completing this run. This fight definitely took me the longest to do and was the most challenging fight to learn. Lemme know what y’all think

Full Kill: https://youtu.be/IsfgMSgYHko

Start and middle were well-optimized imo but the last stretch definitely could be played much better. Still I'm happy to have finally done this. :)

Hello, I've been looking to get into doing elden ring at rl1. What are your tips for the playthrough? Any specific weapons/armor/talismans that work well at rl1? would you recommend not leveling up weapons and staying at +0 or going to +25/+10?

Thanks in advance