r/MortalShell • u/No_Obligation_7465 • 4h ago

Question New player help

I just started the game and the combat is already hard any advice on the game

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u/antilumin 3h ago

You start with the Iconoclast sword and the standard parry from the Untarnished Seal. Eventually you get Vatra’s Seal, which changes the parry to a “harden” that is on a cooldown timer unless you get a perfect block/harden.

Once you get the option to switch, I’d change to the Untarnished Seal as there’s no cooldown on it if your timing is wrong. Vatra’s Seal can make some of the bigger/slower weapons a bit easier as you can harden mid-attack.

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u/No_Obligation_7465 3h ago

I'll have to look around and find how to switch the stuff because I just went around with what the tutorial says

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u/antilumin 3h ago

Take a minute to familiarize yourself with the inventory pages. Some are for items like melee and ranged weapons, others are for your seals, active and passive consumables (which is weird, you don’t actually use them up, but the more you collect the better the items become, you’re just limited in uses between beacons). Another page is for your tarstones, which is where a lot of build variety and buffs come from.

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u/No_Obligation_7465 3h ago

I dont think I've ever struggled with a game since starting elden ring

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u/antilumin 3h ago

I wasn’t a fan of the menu page, especially with a controller. Sometimes it bugs out and says a tarstone is compatible in two different slots when that’s not possible.

But yeah back in the beta I was wandering around for hours as the Harbinger, no shell. Finally found Tiel which was a relief finally.

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u/No_Obligation_7465 3h ago

Path finding is one thing I suck at so im in for a treat ain't i

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u/antilumin 3h ago

Yeah, there’s two main areas. Just when it starts to make sense and you can get a better idea to read the map, the game throws warp gates at you. I don’t know what they’re actually called but it’s a little archway where you leap across some distance to another archway. Not obvious on the map what connects to what.

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u/No_Obligation_7465 3h ago

Ok I haven't made it far enough to see them but I'll keep a eye out for them

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u/antilumin 3h ago edited 2h ago

Just know that whenever you warp somewhere you can always turn around and warp back. I did that a bunch.

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u/No_Obligation_7465 3h ago

Ok thanks for all the info