I'm a bit late to the game since Elden Ring came out in February or March of this year 2022 but I felt like throwing some hours into another virtual adventure.
There's a bunch of different starting classes Elden Ring lets you choose from in the beginning.
It's a bit more complicated than just melee, mage, or rogue since different combinations of the three can be made.
Melee has swords, shields, spears, axes, maces, whips, great swords, great axes, halberds, scythes, daggers, katanas, clubs.
Mages have staffs and hand seals.
Rogues have daggers, throwing knives, bombs, bows, arrows, explosive arrows.
I've just started playin gos there might be even more than that but I haven't seen them yet.
The starting classes are Hero, Bandit, Astrologer, Warrior, Prisoner, Confessor, Wretch, Vagabond, Prophet, Samurai.
Hero looked like a single melee weapon class.
Bandit was classic rogue -- dagger, throwing knives, bombs.
Astrologer is a staff-mage that focuses on sorcery.
Warrior is dual-wielding melee class.
Prisoner is melee/mage but a mage that focuses on sorcery or staff-based magic.
Confessor is melee/mage but a mage that focuses on incantations or seal-based magic.
Wretch is a more blank slate build with even stats all across the board.
Vagabond is knight-like melee class so sword and shield.
Prophet is a seal-based mage that focuses on incantations.
Samura is like the melee Hero class except with samura weapons and armor, plus you get a bow.
I chose Confessor because I liked the idea of a melee/magic or paladin build, plus I've seen some great videos online of fire, holy, and lightning-focused faith builds.
If I were to make another class, I'd probably go with Bandit or Samurai.
I'd choose Bandit because I'd love to go for a bow-class that throws bombs and assassinates enemies with sneaky dagger-attacks. If I went Bandit I'd try to go with a Legolas, Assassins Creed, or Prince of Persia type. Maybe name my character, Bomber Man.
I'd choose Samurai because it's a freaking samurai and it doesn't get more cooler than that -- probably create a character modeled after Samurai Jack, Sephiroth, or some other samurai-esque type.
Anyway for this video, I stumbled upon a very tall stone-giant ... well to be honest that was my fourth time facing it.
I peppered it with small fire-balls from the Flame Sling incantation and tried to dodge-roll my way in to attack its feet with my sword which did more damage but put me in harm's way. Using my horse-thing, Torrent, I was able to put some distance between the stone giant and me but it still got me pretty good with some long-range sweeps.
Hopefully I'm able to find some better incantation spells and level up my vigor, mind, faith, and dexterity stats a lot further. Vigor represents health in Elden Ring, Mind represents magic, Faith strengthens and allows me to use more powerful incantation spells, and Dexterity strengthens and allows me to use more powerful singe-handed weapons.
Hope you enjoy this video. Feel free to ask questions or offer advice, I am very open to it -- especially my need to just learn and "get good" lol.
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