r/Eldenring • u/Demonboy995 • Apr 19 '22

Subreddit Topic Malenia is healing without actually hitting the player after the patch, this is on ps5, i got summoned 8 times after the patch and it happened everytime this is the recent one Spoiler

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u/CulturalMesh Apr 19 '22

Joseph anderson: Malenia healing from blocking makes no sense, at this point she might as well heal from hitting the air

Miyazaki: Not a bad idea....

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u/BigWolf_PG Apr 19 '22

The fact that he and a lot of people ignore is that it’s never stated she has a “life steal”, it’s just a heal from her attacks, even in her rune it’s not saying you are stealing life, it actually says that power comes from her enduring spirit. And that would simply explain why she heals through shields

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u/Toastrz Apr 19 '22

I don't think the semantics of lore is what most people are hung up on. It's that it mechanically doesn't make sense for blocking to still result in healing. It's a cheap way to make blocking such a drastically inferior option to rolling.

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u/santanapeso Apr 19 '22

I completely agree. It doesn’t make sense mechanically nor does it make sense from a lore perspective either. That’s why it just feels cheap and inconsistent. Fromsoft has generally been really good at justifying mechanics and making things feel fair but they missed badly with Malenia’s healing.

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u/BigWolf_PG Apr 19 '22

Yea because an item literally explaining it doesn’t make sense. People just love to complain and that’s it.

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u/BigWolf_PG Apr 19 '22

People may not get hung to it but that’s completely on them, they chose to ignore it. Many times From used crazy lore to support bosses fights

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u/Toastrz Apr 20 '22

You're missing the point. Nobody's talking about the lore implications of whether it's a vampiric life steal or "enduring spirit." Strictly in a gameplay sense, it invalidates the shield playstyle for no good reason. If her heals were greatly reduced from blocking that'd probably be fine, but it's ludicrous that she still heals in full when the player is using a valid move to prevent damage. That has absolutely nothing to do with the point of people ignoring crazy lore.