I hadn’t played a Souls/like/borne game before Elden Ring, but the moment I did I fell in love with the sub-genre.
That said, I’ve never played any of the DLC before, so I’m wondering how I need to approach it. For context: I finished Elden Ring but never started a NG+ run.
Can I jump back in with my guy, or am I going to have to work my way up to the part of the game that unlocks the DLC?
Thanks.
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The DLC will start where you fought Mohg, probably by interacting with Miquella’s egg. If you can access that, you can access the DLC. You don’t have to start over, do your thing.
As far as we know there will be some separate scaling from the rest of the game so if you’re leveled for the endgame you should be able to still enjoy a degree of difficulty. However, it’s hard to know if this is exactly what Miyazaki meant in that interview.
Personally I’m going to do at least 1 dlc run by starting over, and 1 by picking up an old character.
Keep in mind that you might have to jump through some hoops before you start the DLC regardless of starting over or not.
Every other FromSoft DLC takes place right before the end of the game, essentially. They all have end-game level enemies and weapons/spells. This one, however, will apparently be different, although having only played Sekiro for an hour or so I am uncertain what they mean. So it sounds like you could go either way. Personally, I’m going to start it with my current character and see how that goes.
It means it’ll still be end-game, but there will be a new system for rewarding the player aside from levelling. Sekiro’s system made you increase your damage after defeating bosses, the article is saying something similar will be in Elden Ring since people will likely be coming into the DLC with level 120+ and wouldn’t be too excited about just levelling up.
Create a new character. I don’t know if your level will be important, since I heard, that the DLC uses a Sekiro like leveling system.
I’d love to go again, but time is a factor. I maybe have an hour or two a day of free time so I’d rather not commit to a new run…plus the DLC if it can be avoided.
will you be able to play it, without entering newgame+?
Fwiw, been power leveling a new run for fresh character on fresh content. With a buddy you can mule some armor, uhh lil buff badges (talismans?), souls (those items you pop to consume) and weapons over to new character for head start.
RIP over to Caelid to kill big sleepy dragon. Bonus points with tali/gold foot for extra souls. Helps to use those group things for golden rain (extra souls)
That’ll get you beefy out the gate. Speed run PVP quest to get teleported to mohg blood domain. Run up to that starting bonfire on cliff for ez farm.
Bam, you’re basically able to grind that to become Uber with minimal time investment. Co-op gets a bit silly cause you’ll be over-leveled but eh
