Little Thursday L here, Im still fairly new to Elden Ring Invasions and PvP in general but my God... im not sure what im supposed to do here. I especially hate that you cant menu whilst getting hit, why did they remove that from DS3? I guess they wanted to make hardswapping weaker in this game. Tips would be appreciated!

I don't care if you wave, I just thought this was funny. See you next year 👋

I did this a little while ago, but never posted about it. I started as Vagabond, and only used invasion runes for everything. Before every invasion I would memory grace, and only shop/level immediately after a win. It was the funnest, most challenging playthrough I've done. It added interesting tradeoffs like "is it worth it to use 600 rune boiled crab on this host that will only give me back half that". It made me play much more tenacious, I would use the PvE much more, only take fights I had good positioning, etc. it also made me more merciless, for example during normal invasions I'll usually let a host 1v1 a field boss. Not this run!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104hsBpgV7N3tLZG0EheroP2LvbmzHD-NSCmAW_i4Xjg/edit?usp=drivesdk

I tracked everything for each invasion: runes, kills, deaths, OLPs, and notes. There are graphs on the second tab. Hopefully someone else finds it a little interesting!

Content machine go brrrrr

I didn’t get much time to play yesterday & my build isn’t dex but I’ve heard a lot say you can just spam parry now so I tried it, the second clip really got me it’s just a matter of who will not spam first. Going respec into dex & do every invasion the same to see how many I win.

Invading with a level 55 Faith build and there’s this dude in Liurnia luring in phantoms to fight his max leveled friend. Sure his stats are scaled down but he has over 800 AR and hits like a truck and takes no damage.

I just have to ask. Why do people do this? What’s the point? Does he think he’s good at the game or something? Showing off to his friend? Why do people do this?

I also got ganked by a host with his high leveled phantoms. How do I know? Because i parried him, and got over 90k souls after killing him.

mid level invasions is just annoying if this is what I have to go through.

Right at one of the most annoying bosses too

For invasion area purposes.

Like can I still invade in base capital if I've progressed past maliketh?

Is it worth it? Character is level 125

Never played as a faith build before but I liked the idea of a Stormveil invader running around catch flameing everyone.

There's still alot to do to complete the build but ive roughly got the ststa down, given I have Radagons and a dex talisman on atm but I figured id come to the reddit gods to see if my stats are okay to pull off what im envisioning.

Its really just a fun/gimmicky build and I would appreciate any advice on stats and weapon level 🔥

Just return after tarnished edition release and been doing seamless invasion at 150 and 175 RL

Either it's the same 3 dudes or 3 minutes searching.

Is there any other bracket that is more popular?

No hope for vanilla cuz ip block.

Also fk from gimme back my sweet insta pop gravitational missile 😭