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Anon plays an RPG (europe.pub)
submitted 6 days ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 41 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Don't spend on bosses because I dont want to have wasted a consumable in case I die and have to retry the boss.

I wish crafting an item made it a refillable instead of a consumable. I feel like the cracked pots in Elden Ring were going in the right direction as "refillable containers" at least

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago

    By the time you get to the bosses, the shitty potions don't heal enough anyway.

    I appreciate the RPG's that let you craft better potions from the shit ones, but I still never use them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    The funny thing about this in Elden Ring (since you mentioned it), I never learned to use consumables besides the flasks. I’ve seen speedrunners make great use of some of the greases for example, but every time I use something I end up dying anyway. Really hurts because some of the consumables have limited crafting materials (St. Trina lily for sleep pots iirc?).

    I ended up beating the base game without them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    I call these things 'speedrunner tools' for exactly that reason. If you or I, as a normal player just playing the game, can beat the encounter without the tool but with some practice learning, then using it and wasting it feels bad, so we stop; and by the time we can beat the boss, we don't need it. We're also unlikely to revisit that boss.

    A speedrunner who has spent hours on a boss and knows the move set and when to punish, though. They can apply fire paper and rip the boss apart in seconds and be at the next boss before the buff wears off.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    That’s a very fair take. I played a few play throughs of Elden Ring however and just never learned anyway, even though the items would’ve helped a lot on further NG+. I guess I also learned how to use fowl foots but that’s once a boss has died.

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