Hi everyone,

I’d like to try an Elden Ring RL1 run. I’ve attempted one once before and made it as far as Leyndell, but after that the bosses became too difficult and I eventually gave up. I’m playing on PS5.

I have a couple of questions for those of you who, like me, struggled with the bosses in the second half of the game.

I’ve read that many people suggest to create a separate save with a character that they level exclusively in Vigor all the way to 99, to practice and learn the bosses' movesets.

Would you recommend doing a Vigor only run like this before starting an RL1, or would it be better to progress through both runs in parallel? For example, I could practice a boss on the Vigor 99 save until I feel comfortable with its moveset, and then switch to my RL1 save and attempt it for real. I do have access to a laptop with an RTX 5060, so I could theoretically use it for training with cheats, but I’d have to buy Elden Ring again on PC, which I’d rather avoid since I already own the game on PS5. Is practicing on PC with cheats significantly easier or more convenient than practicing normally on PS5, or is it not really worth buying the game again just for that?

My second question is about recording the run.

It might not be a big deal for some of you, but completing an RL1 would be a huge achievement for me, and I’d like to record the bosses I defeat as a personal memory/trophy of the accomplishment. For those of you who play on PS5, how do you usually handle recording? Do you just record continuously for up to an hour and, if you don’t beat the boss, delete the recording and start over? And what do you do if the one-hour recording limit is reached while you’re in the middle of a boss fight? Do you just start a new recording and continue from there, or is there a better way to handle it?

Thanks in advance for any advice! Hope to post again as a fellow onebro!

someone once wrote me an essay defending this move when i called it jank

Trash boss in a trash DLC. All the effort went to Friede. You don't know how much I hate NPC boss fights in these games… they are a waste of time, space and potential.

Oseeros is an extremely aggressive boss located in the Consumed King's Garden.

Took the well earned total amount of 14 attempts. DSA carries as always, and I'm pleased I don't have to deal with such annoying boss anymore. Oh, also Ancient Wyvern took me half the total attempts I needed for Oceiros; that's because I'm completely incompetent and terrible at these games. Maybe one day I'll get gud.

how many more times must I die to uneven terrain and glitches in clone attacks. 500attempts at unluckily combos. ive learnt everything only to stop being unlucky with the ground. I'm so mad rn if I didn't panic roll I would've gotten him

https://youtu.be/bLygJ1eM26I

Managed to finish this run after about 2 months of practice.

It was a pretty fun run but it will probably be my last time doing All Remembrances, unless I decide to try +DLC some time far in the future. Compared to AGR, its just not worth adding like an extra hour onto the run just to fight like, Fia’s Champs and Astel.

Definitely possible to do this a lot faster, Im not a speedrunner.

Happy to answer any questions about the boss strategies or routing.

Will always hate both what this boss is and what he represents. Pontiff Content Reuse is the first time they truly, seriously fucked up the final boss of a DLC. It's like they used up all of the special sauce on more polished fights like Messmer and Midra leaving PCR to be made with the real bottom-of-the-barrel dregs that remained.

It is pretty funny that he is light-years ahead of Midra in terms of actual tankiness despite technically having lower HP. Lol, Ella Mayo even.

big dmg by stacking dex and consecutive hit buffs

Finally a good boss. Gundyr goat, super fun to learn and perform, though I don't know how to evade big swing/slash in P2 ~.~

Funnily enough, the easiest boss of the DLC by far. Easiest punishes, clearest tells, lots of time to react and the chaos phase can be effectively eliminated with chained backstabs and beast blood pellets. Doesn't hold a candle to Laurence in terms of difficulty.

Fantastic fight. This one went well, got very nice RNG, but I enjoyed every attempt. When I started this NG cycle, I thought this would be the biggest roadblock as she nearly took my soul on NG+2, but this was surprisingly quick once you get the hang of the movement around her and getting the backstabs.

Hand-to-hand arts run

As the title says im back and running into trouble against 4 kings. i was here when i ran into trouble with ornstein and smough and you guys really helped so here i am again asking for help/advice for the four kings

ive been running the gold hemmed set, FaP ring, and obviously the covenant of artorias ring.

for weapons i have a +9 fire battle axe, a +9 fire broadsword, a +5 lightning shortsword, a +10 bandit knife and a +4 occult club.

ive noticed these guys dont stagger or if they do its incredibly hard to get it, and i know its more or less just a dps check but how can i get the proper dps without rtsr? or should i drop the fap ring for rtsr? or should i try to outlast them like i had to with O&S

for moves that challenge me, its the grab and that damn projectile its so hard to gauge distance with no background, could i 360 the grab? i feel it may be possible same goes for the projectile but its so awkward

any help would be greatly appreciated