Elden Ring Walkthrough Episode 3: Essential Upgrades and Early Game Tips
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Introduction
Welcome back to the Elden Ring walkthrough! In Episode 3, we’re diving into the northern regions and gearing up with essential upgrades that will ensure a stronger start to your adventure. Whether you’re playing as a mage or a melee character, this episode is packed with early-game items that will enhance your gameplay experience.
Heading North
Marking Our Destination
In this episode, we’ll start by marking a target on the map and then heading straight north. This route is crucial as it allows us to pick up significant upgrades early on.
Why Head North Early?
- Enhance your weaponry for better combat effectiveness.
- Access early mage items, crucial for magic users.
- Obtain strong weapons for Dexterity builds.
Upgrades for Stronger Combat
As we journey north, our main goal is to gather upgrades that will give our characters a substantial boost:
- Shields: We’ll acquire Stormwall, a shield that effectively parries arrows—an essential skill in early areas.
- Weapons: Gather different weapons tailored for various builds. For Dex users, we’ve got killer weapons lined up.
The Journey Begins
Dodging Danger
As we navigate through hostile territories, we will be primarily focused on avoiding combat rather than engaging with enemies. The aim is to reach our markers efficiently.
Grace Points
While exploring, make sure to discover trinkets like the Grace points. They are vital for fast travel and serve as checkpoints during your adventure. After reaching a point, rest at the Grace to keep back the aggressive foes.
Magical Enhancements for Mages
Accessing Sorcery Merchants
As we explore, be sure to converse with sorcery merchants. For mages, the spells obtained here can define your gameplay:
- Blindstone Arc: A crucial sorcery providing excellent area-of-effect damage.
- Flame of Frenzy: If you’re rolling with a faith build, this will be invaluable for boss fights.
Collecting Glintstone Books
Throughout your travels, there will be opportunities to grab valuable glintstone books that provide new spells. These will elevate your combat capacity significantly.
Navigating Through Calibrated Ruins
Figuring the Land
Once you’ve collected essential upgrades, maintain high vigilance as we cross through the Ruins. Enemies here can be treacherous, and it’s better to avoid them if possible.
An Important Teleporter
We’ll find a teleporter that jumps us to different sections of the map. However, be cautious; each teleportation can lead to unexpected challenges and enemies.
Gathering Essentials Near the Church of Vows
Overview of Key Locations
A place we need to visit is the Church of Vows, where we can undertake absolution if we inadvertently offend an NPC. This location will be our sanctuary when needing to mend broken relationships.
- Merchant Turtle: Here is a unique merchant who offers various spells and sounds. He is reliable throughout the game, making him a guide you can depend on for upgrades.
Encountering and Overcoming NPCs
Introduction of Characters
In this segment, anticipate meeting essential NPCs you will engage throughout your adventure. It is important to learn their stories, as they can significantly impact your journey.
Collecting Items from NPCs
Some NPCs will reward you with precious items crucial for gameplay, especially for enhancing your character's skills. Engage with every relevant character you come across.
Powerful Weapons for Every Build
Revisiting Strength and Dex
- Strength Builds: We’ll be using notable swords akin to classic weapons that ensure you are formidable. The Great Sword in Elden Ring is equivalent to the legendary sword from Berserk.
- Dexterity Builds: Those wielding the Twin Blade will find this an excellent addition to their arsenal.
Early Game Mage Strategies
For those with a preference for magic abilities:
- Meteorite Staff: This staff enhances gravity-based sorceries and should be your go-to for major damage throughout the initial segments of the game.
- Rock Sling: An exceptional spell for sorcery builds that inflicts massive damage on enemies.
Conclusion
Wrapping Up Episode 3
As we conclude this episode of the Elden Ring walkthrough, we’ve equipped ourselves with essential upgrades and strategies tailored for various gameplay styles. Remember, this is just the beginning: we’re preparing for more intense encounters ahead. Stay tuned for the next episode where we’ll explore Roundtable Hold and begin our earnest journey through Limgrave, unlocking exciting content!
Whether you’re focusing on a strength build, dexterity, or sorcery, there’s ample room for growth as you delve deeper into the world of Elden Ring. Keep your spirits high and your weapons ready—more exciting episodes are just around the corner!
what is happening y'all welcome i'm back to episode three of the walkthrough so this time around we are gonna be heading
marked and we are just gonna head straight on north and the reason we're going to these
regions early uh was there's a couple reasons there's a couple of upgrade things we're gonna pick up just to give
you a stronger more confident start by upgrading our weapon a bit for those of you that are playing as a
mage we're gonna get access to some early mage stuff this episode uh my strength boys we're gonna get
y'all a real sexy weapon dex people that your weapons coming up i promise though to be honest with dex you
i mean you start with a katana or with dual curved swords which are already really good so dex has probably one of
shields it allows you to parry arrows so super useful in some of the early areas put on our put on our lantern look at
that we have light i'm just gonna run through this we're not worried about killing anything
that's that uh that cookbook along with the little scarab we killed those were the only two
stormville and go straight up north now from the testing i've done uh this doesn't conflict with any of the side
quests unless you beat the boss up north that's in carry a manner we're obviously not going to be going that far
but going to this region shouldn't like auto advance any side quests at least in the testing i've done in you
now while you're here since we are running around in more dangerous areas you might as well
uh use some seeds use whatever seeds we've picked up along with any safe materials we've
i'm not worried about leveling up at all uh i'm going to put everything into health
for the time being since we don't need mana at all for what we're doing right so we have a
believe it or not this guy needs ten rooms whatever just give it to him uh if you are playing as the prisoner
you're not gonna have blindstone arc i would suggest picking it up this is probably one of the if not the
best early sorcery in the game it's cheap at only 10 fp it is a very wide arc and this is going to be your main
aoe clear if you're fighting a bunch of stuff you're absolutely going to want that ability so if you're playing a
caster at all and you don't have it you need that obviously this is for intellect base casters if you're playing
uh faith we already got you flame a frenzy so you should already be just ready to dunk on bosses
so there's a uh glenstone book in this encampment we can try and grab obviously don't don't hang around
like i said stuff down here will hurt no you don't the biggest thing right now is we are
focused on running so we're also going to be grabbing grace's graces are really good just to have you
know we can level us to fast travel back here later it gives us a checkpoint if something does happen to kill us while
another lantern you give me crystal dart uh shadow shot arrow is pretty good stocks good um
will summon up in this area and you're not going to want to fight it so just be be ready to move
stay light on your toes we're gonna rest here just to get out of combat so those guys aren't honest
that's why i wanted to get the grace just because since you need to lure those dudes away
we're not worried about that we're just gonna straight past and we're gonna hit this
uh this is going to be the legacy dungeon for this zone so we'll be we'll be able to come back here later we don't
need to do it right now you could i wouldn't recommend it um we'll grab this you need a key to get
in here this is a clue to where the key is at but we don't need that i'm going to be
telling you where the key is at so let's hop back on the horse and we are going to head down to this we're
going to unveil more of the map uh let's check my notes here so we got the map fragment let's go southeast
there's a seed and a grace and then we're gonna head north for a different teleporter
so there's a bunch of stuff here that we'll want to fight uh we're gonna avoid pretty much all of it so just kind of
that's here so we don't have a ton of health yet we don't have a ton of anything yet
uh but just keep following this path you can see we're heading towards our marker there we go
and then jump to another roof and then you're good to go down snag up another golden seed
keep on going through there's one thing to be aware of in this area it's those lobsters i know you're
like what lobster that's dangerous those things will snipe you apparently they are from pokemon and they have water jet
but it's been like hyper upgraded and man that water jet will knock your ass clean off your horse and kill you so
and you can see now we have most of this area showing up uh so next we want to head up north and
there's a teleporter by gazebo which i believe is this one let's check uh then we've got scene
i'm just gonna head towards that marker i think there's one more grace in these ruins we can get but i remember having
some trouble figuring out exactly where it was at in my notes but we're going to be coming up on a
grace oh so this is an npc from the hold uh his his hasn't died just go ahead and talk to him over here
people are like going crazy over because it's like a chained whip very similar to uh like something from
travel again these teleporters can send you all over the place so like if you don't know
where it sends you it's you know it's always going to be risky to use one but for the most part i mean even after you
seeing it i think it's south a little bit yeah there it is it's behind hiding behind
the bush and you just need to discover the grace to fast travel to it you don't need to
worry about warping or you know dying and respawning at the last grace or anything i mean you will respawn on your
last grace if there's no stake nearby that's a steak america and you see those you can choose those as a respawn point
but we're gonna just run through these ruins for now we're not doing anything else here but you can see this arc way
very obviously it looks like a hidden wall and as you can imagine it is a hit wall so run through that
hit the grace this one we are going to rest at just to diagram all that stuff that's attacking us
this guy has a infinite supply of one and two sombers and then we can buy three and four sombers from him so we're
we don't really have the runes right now but you can just do that farming route to get it right now in our upgrades we
already have a one to two and we're about to go grab a three so if you if you want to get the four it's gonna help
but i wouldn't worry too much about it it's like it's not like you know yeah you need a plus four weapon like you
don't need a plus for weapon at this point but you know obviously upgrades are upgrades
it never hurts to have more so from this point we're gonna head out east i'm just trying to get to a
spot where i feel comfortable with the drop down there we go all right um let me get rid of some
like i said if you want to get that that fourth upgrade go do the ball trick let the ball roll off the cliff three times
go back and buy level four sombrain from him there's a grace literally next to him and there's a grace next to the ball
so it will take you you know a whopping two minutes to do the farm to get the fourth i'll likely
do it uh before the next episode just because free upgrades is free damage now i was trying to remember where the
closest sombring five was i know there's one that's like somewhere we can use a teleporter to get to but
i'd have to like really scour through notes that being said you'll you're gonna be more than fine with the the
upgrades we're getting right now you know this is so sombring let's put it in perspective a a sombering weapon only
has 10 tiers of upgrades whereas a regular weapon has 25 tiers of upgrades so after we get that don't go up instead
i'm gonna talk about map marking in a second as well uh but yeah so unique weapons and boss
weapons are only going to upgrade to plus 10 they're gonna use the sombring stones but a plus 10
sombered upgraded weapon is the equivalent of a plus 25 regular upgraded weapon so just getting our sombering up
to you know like level three level four it's like having a past a level 10 weapon that would be normally upgraded
so that's going to be very very strong now the the normal weapons we're still going to have a
fair chunk of upgrades for those uh you're not going to really be able to get it super high this early in the game
but trust me when i say you'll be just fine i think i got my greatsword up to i think it was like plus nine
at the start of the game like this and you know the rate sort of plus nine is already more than strong enough to just
what to do to really do strong damage um which i think like a big thing is a lot of people just don't realize a lot of
the mechanical changes like for example because you can now force a stagger with strong attacks
uh doing charged heavies with strength weapons you can basically force the target to fall down
over and over and then do big critical follow-ups to its face so what we're doing next is
we're going to run along this road and we're making our way up to here i was actually a teleporter that can
legacy dungeon and i thought there was a spirit spring that would allow us to jump off but i was looking and i didn't
end up seeing one so we're just gonna run so where we're going in particular is known as the
church of vows there's a couple different uses for this place the first being that it's where you receive
need to go to be able to have your sins forgiven and continue that quest line to do that you do need a consumable known
but it's important to have this on the map just because i've already had people that are like oh i tried smacking wolf
the big reason i like coming out here so early is the best boys out here if you're wondering what i'm saying when
i mean best boy i'm talking about our big old turtle right here you i welcome you to the church of vows
what's nice about this turtle is this turtle is a multi-use merchant uh he's gonna have a couple of basic
sorceries a couple of basic incantations but more importantly you can give this guy any spell books
this guy is still here whereas other merchants they i've seen them go off on quests they've you know died in some
cases so any books you get bring it to the turtle can't go wrong with the turtle he's great
which i forgot we do get the starter decks episode this weapon or this episode as well oh you made it
so go ahead and talk him he's gonna have some dialogue because we've been to the round table tell him we're gonna fly
there's a couple different things here the first that we're going to want to do is just go this way and you can see this
broken wall hop on over it there's actually quite a lot of places like that where there's
something that you can get but it's not immediately visible and you're gonna need to jump with your horse to get it
never discount platforming in elder ring and there we have the twin blade so a really solid dexterity weapon here
um i mean it's a twin blade bro what's not to love and if you don't like that well you
some people out here like strength build struggling to find a big sword i'm kidding we're gonna go find a big
sword right now uh so we do have a couple other things that we're gonna snatch and grab from
i wrote that there's a rune somewhere around here we're gonna come back by later i'm not
worried about a single consumable rune item oh there it is and one of the big things is that my
notes are largely bullet points this time around just because there's so much in this world the sheer scope of it will
take a while so i'd ignore the rats if you can get this door open you can get the teleport
transported before the rats kill you now if you want to be extra safe you can kill the rats but you know as you saw
right there i haven't leveled up my health at all um well actually just just for the sake of
a clean metric let me see what my vigor is at so you'll have a comparison because sorcerer classes
don't try to attack anything don't try to fight just run as fast as you can don't worry about
grabbing the delicious upgrade max this place is filled with as you can see that's what's going to happen here these
uh we're gonna get outside we're gonna pick up a rune ark we can get poison coat we get a couple things here
you don't really want to mess with rod um thankfully it doesn't afflict you while you're sitting on your horse so
you're good there now this guy is gonna come back around i like treasure goblins he's gotta wait
ah i'm on path but i missed them yeah they can be pretty pretty hard to hit you just gotta be patient about it
if you're playing as a sorcerer you can just toss out glintstone and that'll smack it as it's coming by
you're playing as a melee build all you can really do is just kind of predict when it's going to be in
just barely too soon or too late god i hate these things should have picked up like a stomp ash
faster than you do so oh my god all right we're just gonna wait right here for it and i'm just
gonna swing this is honestly the hardest part of these early episodes is killing this thing
there's a couple of these in the game and late game you know you'll just drop a crazy weapon art out that'll summon
know what we're just gonna move on um you don't need to kill this thing you don't it has it has poison armament
which will allow you to enchant your blade with poison i swear to god i'm hitting it well so
the trick is you just got you gotta hit it that's what you gotta do um we are gonna head out this way though
on the southwest and there's a grace right here in the middle of the route swamp we want like i said you're safe as
poison's not that good anyway uh so from here from a couple things we're gonna mark this
there's the extra of an extra marker up somewhere put other ones on the map to get rid of
you're not going to be afflicted by rot if you're just sprinting through this is what we wanted the street of
sage ruins there are a couple different things here that we're gonna grab uh similar to the last area i wouldn't
so that's the traveler's hat and the perfume bottle for those of you that want to play with perfume stuff
uh it's like consumables like spitting fire out it's got poison out stuff like that
um we can go around the side and grab this it's the meteorite staff that's going to
be our mage staff and then a early spell for the mage she's also here if i can remember which
the meteorite staff this thing has s scaling and intellect it's gonna also boost gravity-based sorceries which
rocksling is a gravity-based sorcery um i do think it's worth mentioning that snap can't be upgraded raw so i mean
it's gonna be really good at this point i i would not recommend using it for the entire game but that staff will easily
easily carry you until you have like a really nice staff that has crazy scaling and that spell we just got rock sling
that will be your primary boss nuke so if you're playing as a mage just how the incantation builds we already got them
if you're playing as a mage the ark spell and rock sling that's all you're gonna need those two spells are gonna
carry you for through the entirety of the first area no questions asked you could maybe put the
pebble on there if you really want it but you know you don't need it see now we're going to head this way to
grab another grace just so we have a grace down here that we can come back to when we want to
through this area but it's going to be a little bit risky and where we need to get to is like over here so instead
we're going to start from summon water and we're going to work our way over to get the last thing that we need
some water we're just gonna haul ass out east we're gonna kill this guy real soon but not quite yet
it's crazy i mean we're still we're what we're like an hour and a half into the game and we still
we haven't really killed anything we haven't even done anything yet that's that's how big this game is we are
we are still literally like we're just getting dressed baby this is the morning we're
still just getting ready you're putting on your socks and shoes we are almost ready to go out into this
we're sending you to school with all of the color-coded textbooks you know you got the green on the
science and you've got the red on the map and then all that stuff uh we got to go in this church do not go around the
front of the church nah go around the front of the church come around from the side if you go
around the front you're gonna get invaded and something's gonna kill you you're gonna have a bad time
so if you're ever running around in the world and suddenly you get kicked off your horse and you're like what's
happening that's how you know that an invasion is about to happen and not like a player
invasion well i guess i don't i play your invasions you can't be on your horse anyway
it ended up being a region i really like but the thing is this region is very it's very deceptive because there's
these giant birds and the giant dogs and they are super super strong and they will absolutely obliterate you
but you know what real fast just because there's a good chance we might die grabbing this we're going to go ahead
i'm just going to stay along the road and run past the undead army not concerned with them at all
well they either either sneak or go really fast those are two options which actually let me try going fast because i
nope nope nope nope nope oh like i said there was a good chance you were probably going to die grabbing
that those dogs are mean man they're really mean which is also why i'm not worried about
and right now we can't handle those dogs so we're going to head back to roundtable hold as a tip when you're up
at the map if you just hit triangle square x it'll always take you there for my xbox fam that's going to be
we're officially ready to get started so quick overview um if you're playing a in can't build and you need a good
one-hander morningstar baby has bleed built in it's great dex build if you don't like what you're already starting
with twin blade will put in work my quality gang we're gonna be working with bloodhounds fang strength boys i mean
it's the great sword it's literally the sword from berserk is there anything else that could be
comparable i think not uh so yeah that's gonna be good we got strength covered we got quality cover we
got decks covered we got one hander for casters covered we got my other caster boys cover with the meteorite and we got
and my sorcery boys and girls this game includes everybody but anyway we're wrapping things up here
next episode we are going to do a quick run through roundtable hold talk about all the npcs uh and then we're actually
going to get started for real and lim grave and knock out some content so stay tuned more walkthrough will be coming