Elden Ring | Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows Update

[Mr EliteL]

What was the reason you couldn't get into it again? I can't remember.

To put simply I sucked, terribly.

To add a bit more, I really wanted to be a build that fights close and personal, and well yeah a newbie going into it like that isn't going to end well.  I lost patience levelling up and I don't usually get like that with a game, because in other games I'd be willing to grind for a long time to become just a little stronger. Got sick of dying to enemies I shouldn't be dying to too, at least what I thought were anyway. I never bothered to start over and try something else either, I don't want to be magic user that stands far away from the action to attack. There's probably better builds I could use but didn't look into what exactly they were or how to get them. Just gave up really.

[Moonface]

What was the reason you couldn't get into it again? I can't remember.  

To put simply I sucked, terribly.

To add a bit more, I really wanted to be a build that fights close and personal, and well yeah a newbie going into it like that isn't going to end well.  I lost patience levelling up and I don't usually get like that with a game, because in other games I'd be willing to grind for a long time to become just a little stronger. Got sick of dying to enemies I shouldn't be dying to too, at least what I thought were anyway. I never bothered to start over and try something else either, I don't want to be magic user that stands far away from the action to attack. There's probably better builds I could use but didn't look into what exactly they were or how to get them. Just gave up really.

Depending on where you went exploring, even I was having trouble in the beginning areas. If you had issue with any of this, I wouldn't say it's due to being shit because some of this stuff even wrecked very experienced Souls players when they first played this game:

• The boss fight in the intro area where you spawn inside a church. Whether you die to it or not, you will inevitably die in this area after that fight anyway because you're intended to, so I wouldn't even bother to judge your performance there.
  
• The bastard boss on a horse who people very likely run into after leaving the tomb you get spawned into after the inevitable death in the intro. I can't even remember if I tried to beat him before allowing myself to move on or if I said screw it and sneaked around him to come back later when I wasn't as weak.
  
• Behind that horse boss is a small abandoned church, and beyond that is a wooded area with trees and random dudes just walking about. In my first playthrough, I used stealth to deal with as many of them as I could because I didn't want to risk fighting them head on and getting overwhelmed by multiple enemies attacking me at the same time.
  
• Beyond them is Stormveil Castle, where you fight the first "main" boss of the game. I can tell you straight up you aren't beating him if you head there early like the game tries to indicate you do; I had to go explore elsewhere to level up enough and find better items to do the fight and so did a streamer I watch who has a lot of Souls experience. I'd say you can get to the level you need by simply exploring other areas of Limgrave; you shouldn't need to spend time actually grinding levels out.
  

@Dragon Lord: Ah, right. I've gotten used to high priced DLC's that my immediate thought at seeing $15 was "Oh this isn't gonna have much in it".