Neither in real life nor in my video games, I can’t stand the chaos. The ones who keep all their potions and power-ups and don’t get them out even against the last boss of the video game? I can’t get in touch. If I get something in the game, I use it. If I’m not going to use it, I’ll sell it.This is what I’ve been doing Eldon Ringand everything was fine – until last week, when I realized I had made a serious tactical mistake.
[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Fia’s questline in Elden Ring.]
I want to stress that I have done Eldon Ring Before my penchant for selling items became a problem. As of this writing, I’ve played for 87 hours and I still keep my inventory as clean as a whistle. I don’t regret my choices – except for one specific moment in Fia’s questline, where I regretted my choices very strongly.
Fia is an NPC Eldon Ring Who will give you a hug every time you visit the Roundtable, a safe area where players can upgrade their weapons with Hewg the Blacksmith, as well as other in-game administrative matters. Once you’ve gotten far enough in the game, if you accept Fia’s hug, she’ll make an additional request of you: give her the dagger to someone.
I don’t regret my choices – except for one specific moment
She won’t tell you who the dagger belongs to, but if you happen to talk to someone named D, you can choose to give him the dagger. However, if you do give it to him, Fia will use it to murder him, after which you can take the armor from his corpse.
You can guess what I did next: I sold the whole set. I have been wearing Laden’s armor all the time. It is stronger than D’s armor and is worth thousands of runes. I often sell armor to a blacksmith when upgrading weapons, because many times I only need a few runes to pay for the job, and he has a “sell” option there (though importantly, no buy-post mechanic) .
After selling D’s armor, I continued Fia’s questline. The next big step is to fight Valiant Gargoyles in Nokron. Even though my Tears of Imitation summoned to help me, I found it to be an uphill battle. They spit out tons of poison, two of them; you have to distract one so you can get the other out. After trying a few times, I checked to see if any NPCs could be summoned to help me through this fight. It turned out that the NPC sitting outside the BOSS arena was D’s brother, he was cursed to sleep forever unless I gave him…D’s armor. I could have woken him up and got his help against these goddamn gargoyles had I persisted.
Image: FromSoftware via Polygon
Image: FromSoftware via Polygon
Image: FromSoftware via Polygon
Image: FromSoftware via Polygon
Guys, I haven’t beaten those gargoyles yet. I’ve packed a few levels; I’ve just beaten a couple of medium bosses on the Crest of Giants, and I’ve even rebuilt my character (with the help of Renalla) to transform into a more powerful powerhouse. I think I can get those gargoyles out whenever I go back.
However I have to admit: I screwed up. Furthermore, I was repeatedly warned about my behavior.whenever i will flow Eldon Ring With my friends on Discord, they would tell me that my empty inventory screen was making them “overstressed”.My colleague Mike McWhertor saw me bragging in Polygon’s Slack Eldon Ring He told me unceremoniously, “I can’t stand for this kind of behavior.” Readers, I’ll admit it: I think this mentality is ridiculous. Why am I holding a weak short sword I never use, or aggressive leggings I never wear? Even a few runes are worth it. Every rune counts!
I was repeatedly warned about my behavior
However, if I just searched online to see if D’s armor was plot-related, I could easily avoid that – usually, I would check, but I saw the high rune cost and cashed in.I regret my mistake, but I don’t plan to change my lifestyle choices, although I also regret selling my GameCube and all its games (including Super Smash Bros. Melee) because I was short on cash at the time, and I don’t think I’ll care that much in the future.
It’s hard to know what’s worth saving and what’s worth letting go – in general, I like getting rid of old stuff that I no longer use helps me a lot and brings a clean home that doesn’t stress me out.exist Eldon Ring, however, I have no good reason to make such a stupid mistake. I could have simply googled it. I can only hope next time, I will. But no promises.