• popcar2@piefed.caEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      Patricians use the Crystalien.

      Weird way to say Black Knife Tiche. Can I get an amen?

      • ceenote@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 days ago

        The whole point of spirit ashes is that you still get to do the fun part (doing damage) while something else takes the lame part (taking damage). Black Knife Tiche has too much fun that I could be having.

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          4·
          18 days ago

          While I don’t personally use summons outside of specific NPCs that I like (just because I don’t want to, I don’t think it’s bad to do so), on the occasions that I do summon an NPC I definitely prefer the aggro to be on me. The fun for me is in learning the enemy moveset, like a puzzle. Having someone else do damage while the aggro is on me just lowers the amount of openings I have to survive for

          I suppose since I usually do the quests for Latenna and the jellyfish, those are technically the spirit ashes I summon most. Latenna would be perfect for what I want in a summon! I do summon Igon for Bayle because he’s just fun, and that’s kind of a similar experience

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          18 days ago

          Nah their whole point is that they have infinite mana so of you gear correctly they spam spells nonstop. You can make the mimic into a healbot, or let them spam dragon shouts for trivial malenia fights.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    19 days ago

    Give Mimic Chad the Scarlet Aeonia miracle and watch it do a full stack of scarlet rot 5 seconds into the fight

    That’s the only way I could beat the DLC before they nerfed you know who

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    4·
    19 days ago

    Elden Ring II is Asimi successfully restoring her own questline and overthrowing you

  • M.int@lemmy.zip
    3·
    18 days ago

    As powerful as Mimic Tear can be, it has to be able to use your build.
    These are my personal favorite spirit ashes. If I’m going to use spirit ashes, I’m probably using one of these:

    • Greatshield Soldier Ashes: The Guys! My nigh immortal troops. These guys just stay behind their shields, throw granades (that can proc frost bite) and bash with their shields. Bosses don’t know how to deal them. Nothing is funnier than watching Gaius’ little mind melt when trying to deal with them or watching Ancient Dragon Man get bullied in a corner. They are also decently cheap to summon at 74 FP.
    • Jolán and Anna: A true endgame summon. It’s worth doing Metyr’s entire questline just for this summon. These two are mobile NPCs that do a lot of bleed build up. While they aren’t tanks, they are decently tanky (They survive Miquella’s orbital laser no problem). Some enemies you can simply gank with these two. Anna is also really good at drawing aggro with her ranged attacks. They are quite expensive to summon at 144 FP; drink your blue juice.
    • Stormhawk Deenh: My personal favorite summon. This gives you immediately after summoning an insane aura buff: 20% more physical damage and 20% more stance damage which is, again, insane. Otherwise this summon is rather squishy and it’s pecks don’t do a lot of damage - it has a dive which it rarely uses that does a bit of damage and stance damage. Some bosses really struggle to hit him since he’s flying and is immune to ground moves. He’s super cheap at 47 FP. That’s cheaper than the starting wolves. At RL1 you can summon him and use Cragblade two times.

    Why did I write an analysis of my favorite spirit ashes under a funny meme?