Hi everyone. I haven't played Elden Ring in a while - I thought I would revisit the game because I never completed any achievements for it on Xbox and I did buy the game in the early stages when it came out, so I feel like it's a bit of a waste of money if I don't revisit it and complete some achievements.
Since I've already tried playing a warrior and hero, I thought I'd try a spell caster class this time to experience something different. I can see my previous characters are still there but I chose to start brand new as I have pretty much forgotten how to play anyway.
This time I used a lot of guides to help me play rather than just figuring things out myself. I got my Meteorite Staff and the Rock Sling spell, which allows me to do an insane amount of damage and pretty much one or two shot kill most monsters. I have some trouble with bosses but standing far away with the rock sling spell means that I still kill them in relatively few tries.
Now back to the main point of the video - I was following a guide which wanted me to get the Lazuli Glintstone Sword. I was very excited about the sword from what I read and spent about 3 hours getting it. However, the sword that I got eventually wasn't that great, but what I did notice was that I was 20 levels higher by the time I got it.
The reason is because in order to get this sword, I had to kill the same thing over and over again until they dropped it. The monsters I had to kill were quite easy to kill and they gave insanely high amounts of runes. So by the time I got the sword, my level was in my thirties, when I started on about level 10. This experience reminded me a lot about my real life - a lot of the things I aim to accomplish, I don't end up accomplishing them but got something else out of trying.
Enjoy the video! The video was recorded using the Xbox Series X on the highest possible setting (4K HDR 60FPS)