Elon Musk, who’s 50 years previous, is rather like some other 13-year-old. Between lengthy days spent fanboy-tweeting at Steel Gear Stable video game designer Hideo Kojima, drinking chocolate milk, and figuring out the definition and reach of “free speech”, Musk performs Elden Ring.
It’s recognized he performs different video video games, too, together with civilization simulator The Battle of Polytopia and the open world role-playing recreation Cyberpunk 2077. Usually, Musk doesn’t say a lot in regards to the video games he performs aside from the truth that he enjoys them. However when a Twitter person asked Musk for Elden Ring advice on Might 9, the billionaire delivered by sharing a couple of particulars of his character’s construct.
Now, I do know what you’re pondering. This construct…it doesn’t make a lot sense. Simply as I’ve suspected, having round a $250 billion internet value turns the grey matter in your mind’s frontal cortex into particular person packets of mustard. However let’s get nearer to the mess and determine why Musk’s “transfer quick, break issues” mindset doesn’t apply to Elden Ring.
It’s unfocused
I’ll begin by saying that in the event you’re having enjoyable whereas taking part in Elden Ring, then your construct is an efficient construct. It appears Musk is reveling in his disgraceful construct, and I’m completely satisfied for him, although I wouldn’t essentially suggest it.
Musk says he makes use of an “Int/Dex construct, so principally mage with some weapon expertise,” and he retains his “defend in left hand, employees in proper with rapier & claws quick swap.”
Piling most of your factors into leveling intelligence and dexterity, or pursuing an Int/Dex construct, is a typical and helpful method to creating formidable magic characters. Dexterity offers casting velocity a small enhance in Elden Ring, dexterity-scaling weapons are usually on the lighter facet (ideally suited, since mages are in all probability placing factors into intelligence over equip-load-increasing endurance), and there are many weapons that scale with each dexterity and intelligence to select from.
However simply select one. Musk has 4 weapons geared up always, which might make it troublesome to carry something as much as its most energy. Carrying all that round additionally provides pointless weight—mage characters usually don’t want shields as a result of they torpedo spells from a secure distance, and quick switching between weapons of unequal energy wastes time and places you at a drawback in battle.
Carrying not less than one weapon is right for when your FP-replenishing Flask of Cerulean Tears drains, but when your major stat is intelligence, it is advisable use magic as your major weapon. It’s the strongest device in your arsenal and can deal probably the most injury.
Then, while you choose a secondary weapon for when magic is inaccessible, it is best to ideally choose one one which scales along with your excessive intelligence, however you should utilize something that you simply’ll decide to bringing to its most energy by way of smithing stones.
Variation is likely to be profitable in relation to making Teslas crash into police automobiles, having Falcon 9 rockets zoom wealthy individuals into area, and attractive former president and present Twitter exile Donald Trump back to the social media platform you simply purchased. However in Elden Ring, an absence of focus makes an enormous sit on you, killing you immediately.
It’s overcomplicated
“Change armor from heavy to medium for quick roll or tank. Transfer talismans round quite a bit.”
I’ve been sitting right here making an attempt to think about a time when somebody would want to vary armor mid-battle for the categorical objective of rolling, however I can’t. Very similar to how The Boring Firm’s Las Vegas Conference Middle Loop tunnel is simply asphyxiation underground with extra steps (or a freeway tunnel with extra steps, a worse subway with extra steps, and so on.), Musk’s method to armor is unnecessarily advanced.
In case you’re taking part in a mage character like Musk as we established earlier, you have to be hurling your magic at Elden Ring’s armor-clad undead from afar. In case you’re spending a lot of the recreation outdoors of everybody’s direct warpath, you’ll be able to in all probability put on nothing however your auto-equipped physique sort B bralette and nonetheless efficiently homicide individuals, like if Euphoria had a bloodthirsty, Eleventh-century wench character.
However you may as well alter your armor to finest defend you in sure terrains or throughout particular fights, like by equipping a poison-resistant hat for when diabolic vegetation fart on you. Exceeding your gear load and making your character “heavy,” although, results in ineffective, drowsy rolling or dodging, one thing you need to keep away from in fights the place each motion issues (most of them). Altering your armor simply to roll is one other time sink. Don’t do it.
Switching talismans round is a much less overt challenge, and doing so may even lead you to an sudden favourite. That mentioned, it’s completely not a requirement if in case you have a set that already works for you. Finally, your injury output, stats, and ease of motion will assure your success—talismans are simply sprinkles.
Um…
“Many small hits in a row to wreck stack is vital.”
I’m not fully positive what Musk means by this. All injury stacks in Elden Ring, however the extent of the injury performed will probably be affected by a particular enemy’s injury resistance. So far as I’m conscious, there isn’t a state of affairs that necessitates “many small hits in a row” over, for instance, HP-dissolving essential assaults like backstabs or simply well-timed common assaults.
He may very well be referring to the Twinblade Talisman, which makes the ultimate assault in a sequence of hits stronger, however I don’t know. Are you aware? Is that this about what number of cease indicators a “self-driving” Tesla can roll previous till the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration decides to enact a perma-ban on cease indicators?
Musk will get one factor proper
“Summon!”
No emperor can run an empire alone. He wants staff to degrade and daddy’s cash.
You, lowly Tarnished, aren’t so totally different from the lonely billionaire, and in the event you get caught in Elden Ring, simply ask the buddies you retain in your again pocket for assist. Calling on a jellyfish works, too. Apart from that, I do know that many individuals discover Musk inspirational, however in relation to growing your Elden Ring construct, you may need to keep away from the affiliation.
A billionaire’s grind and goal-obsessed thoughts is useful for tricking your self into believing that wealthy individuals deserve their wealth as a result of they need everybody to sleep below their desks like human snails, however in Elden Ring, social mobility is definitely attainable. Your character comes from nothing—no well being, no household, no maiden, nothing—and single-handedly demolishes an empire. It’s unimaginable, and if Musk’s shitty mage construct is any indication, a billionaire couldn’t survive it.
