Limgrave, the first area of The Lands Between that Elden Ring players are meant to explore, is rife with troubling enemies, and chief among them are the massive runebears. Found prowling through the Mistwood forest, they're best left alone, though that's sometimes easier said than d

The Avatar variants don’t have a terribly deep move set at their disposal, and each move is well-telegraphed, which helps quite a bit. Taking a direct hit can do quite a bit of damage, so you’ll want to pay extra attention to this boss’ tells and when an attack is coming down. This guide will not cover every attack in this boss’ move set, but it will instead cover the ones that tend to cause the most grief to play

The humble NPC Thops, a self-described "Bluntstone" sorcerer players can encounter near Liurnia of the Lakes, may actually be the Glintstone Sorcerer closest in spirit to the non-militant astrologers or yore. He can sell players the Starlight spell, which conjures up a long-lasting ball of blue light, and at the end of his questline creates the Thop's Barrier spell, a temporary shield capable of deflecting attacks from Elden Ring 's final b

For weapon types , both field boss variants have slight resistances to Standard, Slash, and Pierce attacks, but they have no resistance to Strike damage . It’s always handy to keep a Strike weapon (hammer, mace) at the ready since there are several enemy types in Elden Ring who are only vulnerable to Strike damage. A Strike weapon can come in handy here, but it only offers a slight advantage , so not a make-or-break situat

Once you have reached the Erdtree, this ugly behemoth will await you, surrounded by large broken pots. Once you have done battle with the enemy, you will be rewarded with Opaline Bubbletear as well as the Crimsonburst Crystal Te

While his name may not invoke as much fear as it should, the knowledge of him being a prolific serial murderer with powers that desecrate corpses and ruin any chance of an afterlife for them might do the trick. He is one of several characters mentioned in the intro, meaning he was a banished tarnished who returned after the shattering of the Elden Ring weapons Ring, on a similar power level as the pla

The school Night Sorceries, associated with the abandoned town of Selia, contains a niche defensive spell called Eternal Darkness (no relation to the Nintendo's Eternal Darkness , a GameCube survival horror game), which summons a black hole that sucks in magic projectiles. Two other non-damaging Night Sorceries, Unseen Blade and Unseen Form, respectively let Tarnished player characters turn their weapons and bodies invisi

The damage-free Sorcery spells listed above prove FromSoftware can add non-combat Glintstone Sorcery spells to Elden Ring 's DLC without infringing on the healing and protection niche of Incantations. New Selian Night Sorceries (similar to the spells hidden behind Elden Ring 's Mirage Rise Puzzle ) could let players befuddle in both PvE and PvP (a group invisibility spell, a spell like the Shadow Bait Incantation that summons decoys, etc.) Alternately, Elden Ring developers could homage the astrological themes of Glintstone Sorcery by introducing spells that let players gather information (for instance, a spell that causes concealed enemies to light up in silhouet

In the Lands Between setting of Elden Ring , the discipline of Glintstone Sorcery, iconic to the scholars of Raya Lucaria and the enchanted knights of Caria, is flavorful and fascinating. Glintstone, the mineral affixed to most sorcerer staves, is an extraterrestrial substance that fell from the heavens and grows in a life-like fashion in locations like Liurnia of the Lakes and Selia, Town of Sorcery. Most Glintstone Sorcery spells in Elden Ring thematically conjure up outer space phenomena such as shooting stars, distortions of light, storms of ice, crystal ores, and even surges of gravity, while sorcery-wielding creatures like the Crystalians, the Onyx/Alabaster Lords, and Fallingstar Beasts have an alien look. The lore of Elden Ring even talks about how the earliest Glintstone Sorcerers were star-gazing astrologers simply seeking to understand the mysteries of the cosmos, making it all the more tragic that most of the Glintstone Sorcery spells available to players of Elden Ring are focused exclusively around killing enemies. Future DLC, foreshadowed by the most recent 1.07 Patch, could change this state of affa

Abstractly, one could call them a league of traitorous snakes who make it their goal to kill their kind. As you could expect, Patches is a member of this organization, even offering a quest of his own as you begin completing quests h

Later patches reduced damage for these two special attacks, causing the Sword of Night and Flame to become the niche weapon most frequently used by Faith/Intelligence hybrid spell-casting character builds. Patch 1.07 increased the attack power of the Night-and-Flame stance once more while also adding damage detection to the sword part of the weapon and letting players aim the blasts of Glintstone Sorcery (pioneered by Raya Lucaria's founders) and Giantsflame both up and d