Commander Niall is another annoying boss. He can be found in Castle Sol in Elden Ring’s Mountaintops of the Giants region. Commander Niall is optional, so players can avoid him and the Castle, but defeating him is essential for players who want the Haligtree Secret Medallion (Left) to access the Consecrated Snowfield locat

Found sneaking about in almost every catacomb, these unavoidable enemies are full of heinous tricks and usually hunt in packs, making them consistently annoying throughout the game. Their attacks even pack an extra punch by causing bleed dam

The intersections of Marika’s plans with those of the Nox and Ranni provide enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that Marika may be the lord the Nox tried to forge with the Silver Tears. If she truly is a Mimic, this also explains her ability to transform into Radagon. The plots these individuals set forth have been in play long before the events of **Elden Ring ** . When the player Tarnished arrives in The Lands Between, they will have a crucial role in the outcome of these plans. Assuming the player chooses Ranni’s Age of Stars ending, it's possible Marika and the Nox will be proven victori

Omenkiller Rollo Ashes is a key addition as he functions both as an effective Tank and a Stagger bot, allowing players much-needed breathing room in hectic fights. Depending on the situation, Rollo has the ability to perform a fire breath attack as well but usually prefers to swing his swords at targets. A large health pool ensures that he doesn’t tap out of a fight early, and the inherent bleed best ranged build Maris-up can work wonders against hard-to-defeat bosses .

Marika is an Empyrean, a vessel chosen by the Two Fingers to serve an outer god known as the Greater Will. As ruler of the land, she formed the Golden Order under the Greater Will that dictates many of the world’s inhabitants' actions, like why Trolls pull coffins across the Lands Between . For all the mystery and intrigue surrounding Marika, a few items reveal her backstory. The Numen’s Rune item description explains that Marika belongs to the race of Numen. This also ties her to the Black Knife Assassins, as their armor description reveals them also to be Numen. It’s possible to select Numen as the player’s race in the character creation menu, where it is stated that they are a race of long-lived individuals that descend from another wo

Previous versions of Elden Ring had already revolutionized co-op gameplay mechanics first introduced in FromSoftware's earlier Demon's Souls and Dark Souls RPGs . Easily accessed items such as the Furlcalling Finger Remedy and the Tarnished's Furled Finger let players quickly lay down and access summon signs right from the start of an Elden Ring playthrough, while the Small Golden Effigy item lets players send their summon signs to Stakes of Marika located outside nearby boss arenas. The 1.06 patch for Elden Ring expanded the utility of the Small Golden Effigy, adding a new menu where players can choose between sending their summon signs to Stakes in their current region or to distant regions entirely; this new quality-of-life feature will make it easier for players of Elden Ring to seamlessly summon co-op partners outside of peak playtimes while letting other players avoid spoilers by being summoned into places they haven't visited

Rennala has two phases to her fight, but the first phase is the most annoying. During the first phase, players must destroy her protective barrier by killing the correct student in the room. Running around and finding the right student sounds simple, but during this phase, her students are throwing items at the player and dropping chandeliers. Meanwhile, Rennala will use a powerful beam attack to devastate unwary players. If a player is not careful during this first phase, they can begin Rennala’s second phase with not enough health or flask of crimson te

Ever since the game's release back in late February 2022, Elden Ring 's convention-breaking developers at FromSoftware have been responding to player feedback and compiling regular updates to fix perceived gameplay issues and improve the accessibility of the RPG as a whole. One major example of this is an update applied to the game menu that appears when Elden Ring player characters rest at a Sight of Lost Grace checkpoint; if players possess the materials needs to upgrade the number of charges or the restorative powers of their healing/magical energy flasks, a golden dot will appear next to the "Flasks" menu option. Updates like these aren't quite as exciting as the buffing/nerfing of fantasy weapons/magic, but do massively improve Elden Ring 's gameplay and story by ensuring players won't lose track of when/if they can upgrade their primary restorative resour

This is a quest line that has frustrated players to no end because of how easy it can be to miss the smallest details of the quest. Many players in fact find this quest line impossible to complete without a guide. Players who don't wish to rely on guides however should try to scout out every area they enter to the b