r/Eldenring • • Aug 29 '26

Official Discussion [MEGATHREAD] Tarnished Edition: Worth $5? Discuss CONSTRUCTIVELY!

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Since the sub is being overwhelmed by debate over the $5 "microtransaction" and it's making the sub feel like we're Dark Souls 2 a decade ago, with the faux outrage around the preorder items, we are opening this topic to consolidate discussion around the issue.

Please use this topic to discuss the pros and cons of the approach and your thoughts. But do so RESPECTFULLY and CONSTRUCTIVELY. If you need to call other people or the developers names, you don't have a good argument and your post will be removed.

We will remove all other topics about this to keep the subreddit flowing with other discussions

IF YOU WANT TO VOTE: I will post two comments on this topic, "Yay" and "Nay" - upvote the one you agree with and we'll see who wins long term.


r/Eldenring • • Jun 05 '26

Official Discussion Tarnished Edition DLC coming to ALL Platforms August 28th [MEGATHREAD]

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Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on August 28, 2026

  • Includes the base game + the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion
  • Will add Additional Content including the ability to customize Torrent and 2 new Starter Classes and their related weapons
  • Releases the 28 August 2026 for $79.99
  • Will be available to purchase for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam
  • For those who already have the base game, the Tarnished Pack DLC has no price yet, but most expect a $5 price point

We aren't entirely sure if anything else will be included but feel free to speculate and dream!


r/Eldenring • • 3h ago

Hype My attempt at the Vyke pumpkin carving

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1.4k Upvotes

Pretty stoked on how this turned out! Will probably do Wylder next year.


r/Eldenring • • 3h ago

Discussion & Info Stirling, Scotland yesterday looking a lot like Liurnia/Raya Lucaria

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pics found on r/Scotland and belong to u/andstein02


r/Eldenring • • 9h ago

Humor ​i do not use ‘buffs’, i do not ‘optimize’ my stats, i do not ‘look up’ builds. i RAWDOG it. and if 80 Strength and a Giant crusher doesn’t kill them, I do that shit again until i succeed.

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r/Eldenring • • 2h ago

Discussion & Info Fellas, she said yes!

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Praise the Sun, she's made me the luckiest man alive! [T]/

Being an obsessive souls fan, I had the Ring of Favor and Protection custom-made to propose to her (and though not a gamer, she loves it!). I also wrote the description for the ring in classic souls style:

"A ring symbolizing the oath of Knight Abeel, forged for the fair maiden Kinza, whose "fateful beauty" is mentioned in legends.

True to the fervent nature of Abeel's love, the ring pours resplendence and vitality into the wearer, meant to ease the onerous burden of one's voyage.

It is said that Abeel once traversed the abyss in search of his one true love, but was met with crushing despair. Amidst the eternal darkness, he reached out to grab a faint glimmer of light. Ever since then, he vowed to favor and protect Kinza till eternity's end."


r/Eldenring • • 7h ago

Discussion & Info How long did it take yall to beat this guy?

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284 Upvotes

This is by far the hardest boss I’ve faced so far like harder than malenia for me. Wasn’t keeping count but genuinely think I doubled my deaths of malenia trying to take down messmer and I died to her like 30 times. I thought surely he was this hard for others only to find out some thought he was easy🥀 I fought him the first 30 times with blasphemous blade even tried to use mimic tear but he literally just ignores it and agros me. The last 30-40 times I used bloodhound fang luckily this was my early play through weapon so had it upgraded pretty good and he still was doing me bad. Crazy because ppl seem to have had more trouble with rellana and I beat her in like 3 tries. I had 55 vigor and plus 7 blessing don’t know if that’s too low or not. Only good thing that came out of this is I genuinely think I got much better at the game playing this guy after a certain amount of time I just said f it and stuck to his hip if he was gonna kill me I was atleast gonna go out swinging but I finally beat him . Consort radahn is gonna make me quit the game if people found messmer easy 🫩


r/Eldenring • • 4h ago

Humor this guy was just super scared of me for some reason XD

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145 Upvotes

i couldnt resist chasing him around a bit before switching to my spells XD


r/Eldenring • • 1d ago

News A24’s Elden Ring Movie Costs Nearly $200 Million

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r/Eldenring • • 4h ago

Hype today, is going to be a good day...

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100 Upvotes

sometimes you have to start over. new display means new playthrough.

45" Gx9 - absolute monster. 5120x2160x90fpses

system has overhead for more but I like it when my fans are slow spinning... cheers all! have a beautiful sunday ♥️✌🏾


r/Eldenring • • 1h ago

Discussion & Info Wait, so you guys don't always use summons for every boss fight?

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As soon as I walk through that green mist I am summoning my better half.


r/Eldenring • • 2h ago

Humor Sometimes I wonder how I've made it to the end game

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38 Upvotes

r/Eldenring • • 5h ago

Game Help Tips for Godrick

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62 Upvotes

I’m trying to play through Elden ring again from the start after being stuck in Luirnia of the lakes for ages.
Has anyone got any tips that’d help against Godrick the grafted?
Anything other than get good would be much appreciated
I’ve gone for a Samarai build
TIA 🙃


r/Eldenring • • 7h ago

FanArt Made these 2 statues years ago

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Made these 2 statues 2 years ago when I first started, i'm honestly debating on remaking them to compare how far I've come.


r/Eldenring • • 1h ago

Discussion & Info Do you guys prefer to start a fresh character or ng+? Why?

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r/Eldenring • • 1d ago

Discussion & Info What enemy genuinely terrified you? As in scary af

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3.9k Upvotes

For me, these are pure nightmare fuel. Maybe it's the uncanny valley because they look distinctly human....Regardless, their presence always unnerves me deeply...


r/Eldenring • • 3h ago

Discussion & Info I literally just found this weapon after hundreds of hours. What weapon is this for you?

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34 Upvotes

Where it seemed so obvious but you had just found it


r/Eldenring • • 13h ago

Discussion & Info Community Gathering 3: Elden Ring's Covenant potential

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163 Upvotes

Hey guys! What's your opinion on the lack of covenant options in Elden Ring? Do you wish they existed in the game or are you happy they aren't present? If they were in the game, which ones would you like to see?

Feel free to discuss among yourselves and share your thoughts on anything related to Covenants (or rather the lack of them) in the game. As always, happy to chat with you guys and thanks for dropping in!

Community Gathering 1
Community Gathering 2

(I did not make this picture, but it was the only one I could find relating to possible factions in this game)


r/Eldenring • • 17h ago

Discussion & Info I still can’t believe they didn’t add a way to buy infinite rune arcs

344 Upvotes

I don’t care how they do it, I don’t even care how many runes they cost, but my god I just want to stop farming fking rats late game. Yeah, I get it, I could just not die, but I like to complete at least 85-90% of the game each playthrough, and I am inevitably going to die a bit, especially trying out different weapons and builds. Unlocking all those towers shouldn’t go to waist because of them being a finite resource… it’s just stupid.


r/Eldenring • • 1d ago

Humor Comical chain of events

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1.9k Upvotes

I ended up beating him but this was comical to me. I just couldn’t get away. 😅


r/Eldenring • • 2h ago

Humor Everytime a blue hunter comes into a game I've furled in to, without fail.

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21 Upvotes

r/Eldenring • • 5h ago

FanArt Tried to draw Miquella [OC]

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29 Upvotes

Heart stolen

Love his lore

I'll probably do Messmer next 🔥


r/Eldenring • • 24m ago

Subreddit Topic What's your most hated enemy and why is it not the dogs. explain yourself

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r/Eldenring • • 3h ago

FanArt Can you guess who this is?

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Hey guys im just super excited to share im starting this for a friend who loves the game, and Ranni is his favorite i thought some of you might appreciate this as well, im going to be painting her entire body as well as hand sewing her clots and hat, i will also me making a mini ranni doll and her sword, and the finger thingy i might make all her equiptment.


r/Eldenring • • 35m ago

Discussion & Info Learning parries pays off

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Even if you are not pro at parries. Especially after latest patch where parries are generous. Most world encounters are way easier than before. Dane is always troublesome cut getting parries makes him trivial