10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Elden Ring - A Beginner's Thoughts for a Beginners 

ER was also my first souls-like game and I also wish I had known how important runes are. They are basically XP because 99% of them you use to level up. I would be holding off on leveling because I thought there might be some item I would want to buy from a merchant later on. I also wish I had known not to sell ANY weapons or armor because you may want them later on for a different build.

I’m only 5hrs into the game too. Every Wednesday TC Motorfest puts out a new weekly challenge which encourages the player to take on. And then you get stuck into racing 🏎️ once again!! 😅 ER however is a super RPG, always go back to it. Started as Vagabond. Experienced RPG gamer of 21 years, AC & Fallout. 😊

Keyboard and mouse is fine if you replace all the bindings with "cntrl" or "shift" taken out, you can remap everything to a single button press which makes things a lot easier. Also invert all the settings on that first screen from on, on, off to off,off,on ( or w.e the inverse is on the enemy locking stuff)

Elden Ring is such a deep game that really sneakily teaches you to get better as you go along, at the end of your first playthrough you will be impressed by how much you've improved. Hope you have a good time!

my tip as a beginner; Don’t worry about picking up runes too much, the only runes that really matter are the great ones stored in your inventory. If you can pick up the normal ones thats very good but don’t worry about rushing in and grabbing your runes cuz ur just gonna die again

First souls like i've played. It took me like 20 hours to get... minimally good. At least to not get killed by every enemy I found. It was very frustrating but also got to my pride, like no nerd was going to outnerd me. So I kept trying and understanding the mechanics and i think i've gotten pretty decent. The main problem for me was to get used to the speed of weapons and rolling. Once you get that down you're good to go.

i would LOVE to watch someone whose never even touched a controller try and play this game. "ive never played video games, lets start with the hardest one" is so bold and insane i love it

Really enjoy your perspective, takes me back to when I first started. Also remember style for armor > defense (just make sure you have 51 poise)

1. MOST IMPORTANT NEWB SUGGESTION: At first grace is White Mask Varre. EXHAUST ALL HIS DIALOGUE. You will find him again in Lunaria & he'll give you a few tasks. DO THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. He'll give you a medallion that teleports you to a later game area: Mohgwyn Palace. Here you can just ride horse to pick up spell Swarm Of Flies (really good spell) and get to other grace that gets you BEST RUNE FARMING IN THE BASE GAME. Also, you don't have to win in Varre's quest. Even if you die it counts AND you can access DLC really early. by killing Mohg. 2. Maps are the only thing visible in brown areas. When you get to a new area, it will be brown with a small cut off finger shape that lets you know where the map fragment is.

Some more tips for you: you can switch to different weapons by pressing left and right on the d-pad (but you need to equip them first!). To use a bow you need to first equip it (duh) then switch to two-handing it- you do it by pressing Y+L1/R1 (depending in which hand the bow is). Bows are very useful! Also something to consider in the future- stealth. You can crouch by pressing L3. There are spells, incantations, and ashes of war that increase your stealth. Very useful when you're running somewhere and don't want to fight.

Hi! The only tip or advice I give you, like I made before I played Elden Ring is watch tutorials and guides to learn the mechanics and how to play. I learned a lot watching others playing it!

Just a few things to add: 1) The runes that go into your inventory are called "gold runes" - it's important to distinguish them from runes that you have on you because the ones you have on you are ready to be used as currency or to upgrade your character, but they're also the ones that will "drop" if you die, however the GOLD runes in your inventory that have not been used yet will remain there even if you die, so that's why you only want to use them if you're about to upgrade or if you're about to buy something and are short a few runes. 2) The tutorial tells you where the maps are - you simply missed it, but the map locations are very obvious, they're basically marked for you on your "incomplete" map. 3) Your character choice, while important, does not pigeonhole you into a single playstyle. Even if you choose an Astrologer (which is a magic user), if you wanted to, you could then dump all your attributes into strength and dexterity and become a sword and shield using warrior. Your class only determines your starting playstyle, but as you move through the game, you can adjust your playstyle (and class) to something new. Maybe you find a weapon that requires lots of faith, you can then start dumping all your runes into faith to be able to wield it. When the game first launched, it was even MORE vague than it is now. They've since done a lot of updates to balance the game better but also added a lot of quality of life things, like more clear tooltips on items. For example, there's a talisman that claims to make you "immune" to fall damage, so people misunderstood it, put it on, jumped off a cliff and died. But fall damage in the game is gradual - there's a threshold of height that you will take no damage, then there's a threshold past it where you will take damage as a percentage of your health but NOT die (unless your health was low to begin with), then there's a threshold past it where once you reach a certain height, no matter your level of health or talismans, you WILL die if you fall that far. The talisman in question protects you from taking damage in that 2nd threshold, but does NOT prevent death if you fall anywhere in the 3rd threshold of height. They have since updated the tooltip to say just that, that this talisman makes you immune to fall damage, but does NOT prevent death. I.e. it makes you immune to damage, not death. They also added the "recent" tab in the inventory and gave you the ability to display an exclamation point on items that are new/that you have not viewed yet, which makes it MUCH easier to examine them when you pick them up in the heat of the battle and missed what it is that you picked up, because some items in the game require you to read what it does in order to get a clue on how to progress.

Elden Ring is just one of those experiences that only comes around once every few years, truly a masterpiece

1. Focus on getting your vigor to 60 2. Choose a weapon and only meet the minimum requirements for said weapon (most of the damage comes from upgrading your weapon). After that you can focus on other stats 3. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP: You’re playing a game. Play how you want and do what you want don’t let others determine your play style.

Thanks just starting and i needed sum like this

I have a whole lot of tips but to keep it simple, like you said, do the tutorial and read everything. And I suggest go back and do it again. I watched a lot of playthroughs where people never learned how to backstab or guard counter or do jump attacks or crouch. Second. This happened to me and to everyone that I've watched play. If you are holding a shield you cannot do your special weapon art unless the shield says no skill. If your Shield says Parry that will be your weapon art. Or as this game calls it the ash of War. Last but not least, get vigor to 20 before you do anything else.

Elden ring was my first souls game and one of my first games in a long time at all. I had a ps2 when I was a teen, then stopped gaming until getting a ps5 at age 31-32. I remember having no idea what I was doing when I first turned elden ring on, and just idiotically figuring things out. What a good feeling 😂

You are late to the Elden Ring party will come anyway it better to be late than never to be good you just have to put in the work and never give up

im on the same boat as u rn

Im not a pro at this game but I have about 700 hours into it. If you ever wanna chat strategies or lore, feel free. I won’t tell ya “git gud” 😂

Parry or dodge roll?

A little late to the party . Wave is gone surf another current wave imo

You are trying to spoonfeed info to complete beginners, which they should figure out exactly like you did in the two weeks prior. Elden Ring is not the cheapest game out there. If someone has bought it, there must be a reason they are open to investing a lot of hours into it.