Not till 2024 or late 2023 the earliest. FS will likely primarily be focused on armoured core for 2023

If you’re having trouble with the game watch a few parts of fightincowboy’s walk through on YouTube. He sets you up nicely for the beginning of the game.

Honestly this game is quite fair until you reach the mountain top of the giants compared to other FS games.

What happens at the mountain top?

The game just becomes harder imo once you reach the mountain top and do everything after that. Bosses that you’ll eventually have to face such as Fire Giant, Niall, malikeith, godskin duo, placidusax, and of course Malenia can be pretty challenging.

Alright I’m doing s*** right then she’s +8 rn

It's the most fun weapon in the game. You do it twice and get instant poise break and bleed. My bleed build was so fun, I'm on ng++ with it rn

Yeaaa I noticed that! Crystallines we’re giving me a rough time and their s*** broke quickly.

One question bout it tho. Should I try to powerstance it with another one or just have one on me?

real

i just use one tbh the ash of war on it is the main attack anyway, you get through most fights only needing it twice.

alright cool. So I’m this case. It would be a good candidate for the somber ancient smithing stone?

very

you can also pair it with the godskin twinblade (forget the name) and give it a blood ash of war for some fun

if u want ill send u over what my bleed build looks like

Ok thank u fam that helps a lot. I got both of em.

Reduvia was clutch af for a while but it just doesn’t have the range these do

yeah that was my early game weapon before the poleblade

ng+ i used morgotts cursed sword on ng++ im gonna use dual rivers of blood and some of the albinauric staff

So I'm at level 201 and i dont wanna load my game up but this is what im currently using

Helm - white mask (necessary for any bleed build)
chest - any armor, i like using Mohgs robe cuz might as well stay in character. Hoslow's armor is nice as well tbh
greaves and gauntlets - i just use malikeths cuz they look cool

Talismans - Shard of Alexander, Lord of Bloods exulatation, Dragoncrest greatshield, and fourth i change but rotten winged sword is good i think

Weapons - obvs just get the poleblade, rivers of blood, and morgotts cursed sworrd to +10. I love the ashes on all of them and the cursed sword is fun to use. Also get the ripple crescent halberd to +25, it scales S with arcane. It works well for physical damange if you can get two (not difficult), for enemies who just resist everything

then dragon communion seal +10 (my faith level lets me use all dragon communion incantations), and i mostly use bloodboon and swarm of flies incantations (i also have eckzykes decay, dragonmaw, and theodrixs magma equipped just for fun) because the dragon seal scales with arcane, so the blood build up on bloodboon and swarm of flies gets boosted

i also have albinauric staff + 25 because it scales with arcane. briars of sin and briars of punishment aren't the best but im just sticking to the whole arcane/bleed thing so its fine

I'm at level 201

Vigor - 60 (I upped vigor first)

Mind - I think im at 19 now but i didn't up it much during the first playthrough because poleblade's ash will auto stagger 99% of enemies after two uses (you want to spam it) and then you crit them and theyre bleeding so you just finish them off

Endurance - 27, just need to have enough equip load and stamin ofc

Strength - i'm at minimum necessary to use whatever weapon

Int - I don't think ive really put anything into this, you don't need it for anything afaik

Dexterity - I'm at 45-48 rn. the weapons youre using scale with dex so it should be your priority after vigor and arcane

faith - 24. my first play i just got enough to use swarm of flies and bloodboon. So 14 is enough

arcane - 80 now lol. i would have this at least 45-50 end of first run through

Did u guys beat mohg the lord of blood with or without spirit ashes

Without, was crazy hard, I did use the purifying crystal tear though

Synop running meta bleed build why is that not surprising

"meta" whatever in a pve situation is irrelevant lmao you should do whatevers fun for you, i dont do pvp

At that point I’d rather just wait for Elden Ring 2

Love playing with the twinblade, the spinnin attacks and speedier attack animations really suit my playstyle.

So I researched best builds for this playstyle, turns out bleed is the way to go.
Been listening to everybodys advices itt so i mostly put all my points into vigor, some in dexterity, so im on the right path.

Farmed the skeleton warrior for the dual bandit swords, couldnt get one in like 50 mins then i got two in the span of 3 mins, figures.

Think Im overleveled for Limgrave already, havent died to a boss (dungeon or field) in days lmao, Im level 29. Gonna head to Stormveil castle soon finally, just wanna explore a bit more.
I did almost get f***ed by the Night cavalry dude in Weeping peninsula, but managed to escape him somehow.

All in all, 12 hours into the game, Im f***in lovin it

Cant see them dropping DLC almost 2 years after release plus they've been working on Armored Core since like 2017

Killed a dragon