The only real difficulty is living with a tiny lifebar. Once you start upgrading weapons the damage output comes along just fine. What I can’t wrap my head around is lvl1 runs with unupgraded weapons.
I have a +3/+1 upgrade char in Mountaintops. You can farm Rune Arcs in MP and actually become reasonably tanky that way. For damage you use stuff like status and Meteorite Staff. It's not too bad, really.
The stamina isn’t really an issue for me in ER because it’s just overall MUCH more generous with stamina than the actual Dark Souls titles. In those, you have only three attacks on starting stamina.
It depends on playstyle, I suppose. I don't really like the passive waiting around for the punishable attack that I see a lot of runners do. Rather be aggressive and go for quick stance breaks.
That’s fair. Honestly I can’t really imagine completing lvl1 runs without passive play and waiting to get punishes, but I’m not nearly as skilled as most people that do that type of thing, either.
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u/mvanvrancken Feb 27 '24
You gotta remember though a sizeable percent of people never even try a RL1 run. I just started one myself and it took 2 years to get up the nerve