If Elden Ring: The Shadow of ErdtreeThe first patch was intended for made DLC easier, this second one is for blood. effectively, patch 1.12.3 causes multiple balance changes that weaken a bunch The Shadow of Erdtreenew weapons and skills to Ash of War, including a popular build that players used to kill the difficult final boss of the expansion.
While there are plenty of nerfs in the latest update, the most impactful changes concern new perfume bottles and a specific Ash of War called Rolling Sparks. When used in tandem with the Lighting Perfume Bottle and/or Frenzyflame, the build manages to vaporize enemies quite quickly, and in some cases would even one-shot them.
Spoilers for The Shadow of Erdtreefollowed by the final boss.
This build became a particularly popular tool for players who were stuck fighting the DLC’s final boss Promised Consort Radanthat hits like a damn truck and kind of requires you to use a cheese strategy – which are often called cheap tricks because they rely on overpowered builds or exploiting something wrong with the game.
Now players must go back to defeating Radahn the good old fashioned way. The update also nerfed Ash of War’s Swift Slash (thank goodness) due to her over-effectiveness in PvP as well as the new shield piercing weapons that started to gain popularity. Guarding while attacking with them will not consume that lots of stamina, allowing players to spam attacks on shield pushers with little consequence.
While many new weapons were nerfed, the Karian Magic Sword was actually set to have higher intelligence scaling, though its overall attack damage was lowered a bit. This should make him more powerful for casting spells via the sword, while also reducing his raw damage appropriately, as this is rarely the move for anyone who prioritizes the intelligence stat.
While weapons are the focus of the balance changes in this patch, it also makes life a little easier when it comes to two of the DLC’s more demanding boss fights. Both Commander Guy and the Golden Hippo have a fixed spawn point. They now have to start at a fixed point far enough away from the fog door entrance so they don’t wipe out the player too quickly, which has become a common complaint among players most of the time The Shadow of Erdtreemeetings with the boss of.
And so FromSoftware it gives but also takes away. Given the pace of these updates, I’d expect a few more balance changes over the next few weeks before the developer decides everything is in place. So if you have a broken build and want to pop out, I would encourage you to hurry. The full patch notes follow below:
PvP-exclusive balance adjustments
- Reduced the damage and damage animation of the vacuum shear effect of the Swift Slash skill.
General balance adjustments
- Increases Carian Sorcery Sword’s Intelligence scaling and slightly reduces base damage.
- Extended range of throwing attacks for the following weapons:
- Smithscript Dagger / Smithscript Cirque
- Changed the placement of bosses in the re-fight against the Golden Hippopotamus and Commander Gaius bosses to be in the same position as in the first fight.
Clearing bugs
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks skill to deal more damage than expected.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks and Wall of Sparks skills to do no damage while some special effects were applied to the player.
- Fixed a bug where some right-handed weapon special effects would also apply to the following weapon skills when left-handed:
- Feeble Lord’s Frenzied FlameDiscus Hurl
- Fixed a bug where successfully guarding while attacking using the Thrusting Shield weapon type would consume less stamina than intended.
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from canceling attack recovery on strong two-handed attacks by rolling for certain weapons of the Backhand Blades weapon type.
- Fixed a bug that caused Lightning Perfume Bottle and Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle weapons to deal double damage under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug where the Bloodfiend’s Arm Arcane scaling was higher than intended when setting affinity. The heavy attack status build-up was also reduced.
- Fixed a bug where the Belief scaling of the Looking Finger weapon was not being applied correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the damage animation of some Fire Knight Greatsword attacks against players was different than expected.
- Fixed a bug where the attack affinity of some Fire Knight Greatsword attacks was different than expected.
- Fixed a bug that caused some affinities for the following weapons to be higher than intended:
- Smithscript DaggerSmithscript CirqueSmithscript AxeSmithscript GreathammerSmithscript SpearGolem FistSmithscript Shield
- Fixed a bug that caused enemies to heal when the max HP reduction phasing effect applied by Black Knife Tiche wore off.
- Fixed a bug that caused summoned NPCs to behave differently than expected under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug where the Golden Hippo boss’s unblockable bite attack would connect to players more easily than intended.
- Fixed a bug that caused text to display differently than expected.
- Several other performance improvements and bug fixes.
Possible fixes for choppy performance
- For the PS5 version of the game, the unstable frame rate can be improved by using the “Rebuild Database” option from the device’s safe mode.
- On some PC versions, Ray Tracing can be enabled unintentionally and cause unstable performance. Please check the raytracing setting in “System” > “Graphics Settings” > “Raytracing Quality” from the title screen or in-game menu.
- In the PC version, the message “Inappropriate activity detected” may appear without cheating.
To fix this problem, please check the integrity of the game files before restarting the game.
- In the PC version, the unstable frame rate may be caused by third-party applications that control mouse behavior. Disabling these third-party apps can improve performance.
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