re: Elden Ring looks phenomenal.

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Which weapon did you grab from Elden Beast? If you grabbed the sword, then I suggest doing the Moghwyn rune farm with Wave of Gold to get a shite ton of runes and load up on regular and somber stones for playthrough 2.

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I made that mistake. I did not realize I would lose all my bell bearings. So, I am having to hunt stones again to upgrade weapons. I have the Elden Beast sword. At level 1, the wave will not kill those rolly polly guys. At level 8, that wave will put them out hitting about 2330 hit points per cast. With scarab, there is about 80,000 runes for the taking per cast. The Chicken is now worth about 24,000. Get all the stones you might need for your second run, you keep the items; lose the bells.

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I see a lot of people shooting for 99% on certain stats, and other saying you don’t see any return past 80. Is that true? I’m at 216 so it’s a damn chore to level up (360,000 or so)

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I am at 266, seems to be a softcap at 60 for most attributes. Its costing me 820,000 per level now. You do not see much of a jump in stats at all past 60. But what you do get is the ability to have all things open to you. For example, my intelligence is at 30 right now, I cannot cast all the spells and incantations because they have a combo. So I have dumped so much into intelligence the last few nights with little or no reward. But, if I can get my character back to 70 intelligence (Lunar Magic) with both 50 faith and 45 arcane, then I can have the most options for fighting more powerful bosses. There is very little impact of points at my level, the benefit is I can tailer my approach to a boss without going use a larval tear every fight.