Elden Ring - 10 Early Game Discoveries You May Have Missed!

Tips and tricks (early-game areas only), and interesting things that are useful to know👀

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[tarnished]

You can throw rainbow stones down if they will break if you will die from fall damage. They will land and activate you will survive the fall. I use this sooo much

[invisibleking]

I like to believe the goats rolling away from the player is a cheeky reference to how souls players will often roll-spam away from tough enemies that they have no chance against.

[ThisWasATragedy]

You can buy a lantern from a merchant in the weeping peninsula. It works like a torch but it doesn’t take up a weapon slot. Definitely helps if you want to use a sword and shield or two-hand a weapon and still want to be able to see.

[paulie]

Really important tip, if you look on your map you can spot little ‘posts’ on the brown areas of the map. These are guide obelisks that always have a map fragment for the area, so if you’re a little lost try speed running to pick one up :)

[novagaming]

If you pay attention to Fias dialogue before the hug she actually tells you that she wants you to share your Vigor with her giving the explanation for the health decrease

[blackknightz]

Glow stone is an overlooked item, it's dirt cheap to make and with one stone you can light up the entire room before going in and allow you to spot whether there's an ambush ahead.

[kikiable]

When you enter mistwood, you will sometimes hear howling. If you talk to kale about it he will give you a finger snap gesture and told you to use it when you hear the howling again. If you do that a very neat Npc will spawn near the ruins, and you can talk to him.

[TheDexecutioner]

It's possible to fight the tutorial Grafted Scion and get those items after dying to it originally - it's through one of the portals at the Four Belfries. So you don't NEED to kill it first time to get that equipment.

[TheGodOfCruelty]

Two more things worth mentioning: you can roll around like the rams shown in the beginning and also there is a torch that can show hidden and invisible things, one could buy it in the capital from a hermit vendor.

[el_tekio]

The thing with the messages always amazes me. As a non English speaker most times when I read them in Spanish and try to figure out what's the joke behind lol. The first time, and probably one of the most hilarious "translations", was playing Dark Souls. Just before Queelag fight were some messages saying "chest ahead" and all that king of variants. If you know what that means... haha! But in Spanish the "chest" for women's anatomy is a totally different word and DS's messaging system refers to the treasure chest, of course, and there I was looking for a treasure after defeating her... like, where's that "cofre más adelante" all those messages were pointing to??

[itsdolph]

QOL tip: when you open the map & open sites of Grace tab, if you press Square (or X for Xbox) it will take you to the Roundtable hold, so no need to drag all the way to the bottom corner to get there! Saved me in a pinch when trying to fast travel out of caves in a rush

[Caramelhorse]

Using the erudition gesture while wearing any of the glintstone crown helmets, the crystals on top will glow.

[janbisplinghoff]

You actually dont have to defeat the Grafted Scion in the beginning of the game to get the ornamented sword and his shield, there is a place in western Liurnia that allows you to port back there and defeat him if you werent sucessfull on your first try, but you need some key items for it that you can find in the Academy of Raya Lucaria. There are also a couple of items that are worth going back for, espially for a Quest which no one has finished yet.

[PigeonCrash]

To anyone struggling with the Crucible knight; Go and buy quickstep from the merchant mentioned in this video.
For his two and three hit combos you always roll first, then quickstep the second attack. Though be ware that he will sometimes wait for you with the tailswipe, so don't use it prematurely.

[andyknightwarden]

Hey sunlightblade, crucible knight gets a lot easier once you realize he's trying to teach you not to turtle and to use the jump button in combat not just the Dodge button.

[Warlance]

for anyone who like me struggled with crucible knight, learn to parry him, parry about when his hand is in line with you, he is serious parry bait and I can parry him with 90% success

[elzar]

I'm 90 hours in and I've had that debuff the whole time.
I'm going to cry

[Dradeeus]

In Ordina Liturgical Town's 'challenge' segment where you need to light 4 candles, there's these completely invisible enemies that will repeatedly backstab you. You can buy a Sentry Torch to reveal them and give you a fighting chance, even though they're still pretty hard. You can buy the Sentry Torch from a merchant on the grounds outside of the capital city.

[mmii]

Sunlight is back, can't wait for you to tackle the seemingly infinite content mountain that is ER

[LotharinCW]

The problem with the multiplayer overlay on the map, is that it shows the hotspots in general, not for your soul level, so even if an area is super active, you might be too high or too low to participate.