Top 5 Worst Decisions in Shadow of the Erdtree

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has a number of choices you'll want to think twice about before making. These are in my opinion, the top 5 worst...

Comment below any more decisions you regret making in this DLC! #eldenring #shadowoftheerdtree #soulslike

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:26 Defeating Messmer before Hornsent Grandam
05:54 Attacking the Forager Brood
11:03 Consuming the Heart of Bayle
13:41 Siding with Leda against Ansbach
20:59 Fighting Radahn Wrong
25:35 Fighting Better...
26:04 Conclusion

[BuboStabbins]

Ansbach is real af. 100% bro's for life.

"YOU"RE MY BOY BLUE!"

[adawg]

Needle Knight Leda for better or worse is absolutely correct about everything. She was right that ansbach would want to turn on Miquella in the name of his lord, and she was correct that hornsent would never ever truly accept an age under marika’s kin. I always side with my man and the absolute gigachad ansbach but I give it to Leda she was able to read everyone’s hand the moment the charm ended.

[adawg]

The hornsent grandma lore goes DEEP. She may have been around during the time when marika arrived and she could have a part in Marikas ascension, possibly being a part of Marika going to the gate of divinity. It’s possible the hornsent grandma was given marika after she came out of a jar processing that succeeded

[ixiahj]

Big rule in souls games. If you can't lock on to it, do not attack it.

[ghostdreamer]

Another secret is Moore has a path to survive to the end and finding happiness. Tell him you don’t know, and after you kill Leda he has learned to think for himself and be happy.

[FaeQueenCory]

Leda was charmed the same as everyone.

Ansbach was charmed because he tried to kill Miquella.
Hornsent was charmed as a foothold to redeeming the hornsent.
Freya was charmed as a foothold to Radahn's army.
Moore was charmed as a show of civilizing the Kindred for coexistence.
Thollier was charmed because he was a simp for Saint Trina, to save him from eternal slumber.

*Leda was charmed because she wouldn't stop killing people for insufficient faith to Miquella.*

EDIT: I forgot Dryleaf!! He may be the only one who was never charmed. He doesn't talk... And his order is a group of monks who have endorsed the Heiligtree as successor to the Erdtree by choice... Dryleaf may be the only actually legit follower of Miquella.

[lharsay]

12:26 Parttaking in dragon communion was known eventually turn one into a monster from the base game.

[hellspawn]

In the Golden braid description the g in grandmother is capitalized like it’s a title. I wonder if “Grandmother” is more like “Grand Mother” maybe the head of the Hornsent society and that is who was betrayed and used as sacrifice for Marika to become a god. The Grand mother could have been the high priestess of the crucible because it became the Erdtree.

[PhillipRubio]

For anyone that made the mistake of hitting the forager brood but didn't kill them you can give celestial dew to the turtle in the church of vows to get them to be friendly again

[Ankaris]

Fuck Hornsent Grandmam, even ENTERING Messmer's arena before finding the obscure red summon signs for Leda vs Hornsent locks you out of both the encounters between Leda and Hornsent AND Leda and Ansbach. I was so fucking pissed off when I learned that. I don't understand why it needs to be based on entering the arena rather than actually defeating Messmer. Or why they have to throw those summon signs off in a corner where they're easy to miss rather than in the middle of the path.

Then there's also the fact that talking to Moore the wrong way upon first encounter can lock out his questline, which locks out part of Thiollier's questline, which locks off a potential ending for the Dragon Priestess' questline.

Also if you give Ansbach the item when he's in the Storeroom BEFORE you talk to Freyja at the top then you're locked out of her questline because he disappears.

Really, the NPC questlines in this DLC are a complicated web of obscure bullshit and some of the worst put together questlines FromSoft has ever done. I know it's like a cardinal sin to criticize these games for anything, but NPC quests are really some of the worst parts of these games and they seem to be getting worse with each iteration, not better.

[shiroamakusa]

Summon Ansbach and Thiollier and then use to chip away at Radahn since those all do percentage based damage and are unaffected by his health boost.

[riotguards]

I killed the foriger not knowing it'd make him hostile so i got that locked out pretty

[oldschoolgamer]

I got the cookbook from moore after breaking the great rune. Not sure if they fixed it in patch. But after I told him stay sad for ever I talked to him again and he gave it to me, then I traveled to where he dies and got his armor.

[daveh]

Goin into a boss fight with 2 buddies makes it infinitely harder but damn when you all work together and beat them down it's F-in beautiful dude!

[MrPuddle]

Fighting Bayle to early can be bad because the dragon lady won't give you the ancient dragon blessing anymore

[TheGerudan]

Summoning allies BEFORE you enter a boss arena always increases the bosses health. Summoning them INSIDE the boss arena (like Igon for Bayle, the Hornsent for Messmer and Thiollier for the Putri Knight) doesn't. Those really make the fights easier the "outside" NPCs arguably make them more difficult a lot of the time.

The best tip I can give for the Radahn fight is to use a big shield and use a bleed weapons like Garius' sword lance. Killed him first try with that one.

Also you can just tell Moore to be sad forever after you've got all the cookbooks and he will apparently kill himself, also giving you his equipment without having to fight him during the Leda fight later.

[mertgurcan]

I used to watch you obsessively when I played cyberpunk 2077 and I’m so glad you’re making shadow of the erdtree content now, and quite a unique spin on that!😊

[CustomerStatesPNW]

When your only crime was venturing to near a certain keep...

[samwizgamgierd]

Can we agree that Sir Ansbach has the best quest maybe next to Thollier? A loyal servant to Lord Mohg, who we all thought was into his younger brother but another victim to Miquella's charms, seeking to once again honor his Lord.

[KvapuJanjalia]

I went into DLC blindly (to avoid any spoilers) and, as a result, locked myself out of ALL new quests. All of them.