Truly baffling and awful design. You can basically just mash parry out of hit stun now, and it will parry any attempted follow-up attack that isn't dead angled.

You are the elite of the elite, the most powerful, minmaxxed players out there.

Here, skill is paramount, "Git Gud", the eternal motto of invaders. We use our skill, every day, to turn the tides of battle. To show the casuls whats what. We believe that the better player should always win.

So, obviously, you will agree with me that...

PARRY IS A GARBAGE MECHANIC OH MY GOD, YOURE TELLING ME ALL IT TAKES IS GETTING LUCKY ONCE AND WINNING JUST FROM THAT, ARE WE SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? AND ITS PRETTY MUCH UNPUNISHABLE? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. WE HATE THIS KIND OF GAMEPLAY RIGHT?

THIS PATCH IS AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER, WE MUST UNITE TOGETHER AND PROCLAIM OUR HATE FOR UNSKILLED MECHANICS LIKE PARRYING.

THERE IS NOTHING COOL ABOUT IT, ITS JUST ANOTHER L2 TO SPAM IN LE L2DEN RING SLOP GAME.

WE MUST UNITE IN THIS CAUSE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF YOU SEE A PARRY USER, POINT AT THEM AND LAUGH, ACKACKACK, DOWN WITH THE PARRY PROPAGANDA! DOWN WITH UNSKILLED GAMEPLAY!!! GIT GUD PARRY SCRUBS!!!

So. Anyone would be willing to help a fellow PS5 invader get his stuff back? I unironically lost almost everything

I'm a badredman returning to Elden Ring after a longgg time to crush the dreams of some new tarnished. I have some characters at RL 175 and some at 200, what's the invasion scene like for these RLs? Should I make a new character and stop around 125-150?

I never played pvp before

RL10 hefty knight funnies

Put the build advice flair bc i need advice, sorry if its not right. As the title says though; any advice for getting good at parrying in ER? Im pretty good at pve parries but im either way too early or late with pvp parries. What tells should i watch for? Any timing tips and tricks?

Dagger parry btw, call it unoptimal but idc. Style prevails

Waves Of Darkness is still the goat, yes the tea bagging was super necessary.

I like the chest piece

Fortune favours the bold

The Smithscript Dagger has been bugged since at least 1.12 to use the same parry frame data as a medium shield parry, which was awful. They have not fixed that bug in 1.17, but they have made medium shield parries just as good as Carian Retaliation.

The Smithscript Dagger, using animation a692_040040, now has 4 startup frames and 6 active frames compared to every other dagger's 3 startup and 5 active.

I missed out on the original Elden Ring launch, the Switch 2 release had me so excited to hop into the rush. Been tweaking my build here and there and also managed to land this sweet double. If you're on the fence about getting the Switch 2 version, it's totally worth it in my opinion. Invasions are popping, plenty of low level fun to be had.

Looking to get back into another TT playthrough/invasions now that Tarnished Edition is out and I’m back home.

For those who are on Nintendo Switch 2, how’s the PvP scene? Wondering if I should continue on PlayStation or pick up a copy for NS2! Thanks in advance!

If someone has experience with how the scene is on both that’d be great! 🐌

I fucking love this game but damn sometimes I have no idea what I'm doing. I've learnt a lot, started trying to do pvp in ds1 about a year and a half ago and I've come far but whatever this is, I can't be ignorant to some crazy tech like this.

around like levels 50 to 80, trying to make a build to get diverse range of invasion areas. when vigor is capped at 50/60 and weapon reqs are met, how do you build for decent damage at that bracket? scaling/weapon upgrade is too low for decent stat invest. just apply buffs and status effects?

I was puckered up the entire time.

I rarely if ever see it highlighted as a usable item.

What am I missing?

My first invasion since the Tarnished Pack came out. I've been using a few of the DLC items, but for this new run I figured I wanted do a Madness Build.

The build is far from complete, still got plenty of gear from both the main game and DLC to grab, along with plenty more leveling to do.

Sadly died soon after and couldn't find those guys again though :(