Elden Ring players are laughing at \u201ceasy\u201d Malenia fight after beating DLC DexertoElden Ring\u2019s toughest boss is being scoffed at after the DLC has honed players with its own challenges. Elden Ring, like any FromSoftware game, is defined by the level of hardship that it puts its players through. In the base game, the embodiment of that struggle was Malenia, Blade of Miquella, thanks to her Waterfowl Dance and insane health-on-hit mechanics. Of course, with the release of Elden Ring\u2019s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, a host of new obstacles have come to the game in the form of new bosses. The initial shock of its difficulty spike saw the expansion\u2019s Steam rating drop to \u2018mixed\u2019 after frustrated players left their feedback. Those who stuck it out have been tempered in the fires of Shadow of the Erdtree and come out hardened. To the point that players like Reddit user Oath_Br3aker are laughing at how \u201ceasy\u201d bosses like Malenia feel after trudging through the DLC. Shadow of the Erdtree\u2019s bosses are notably more aggressive than their base game counterparts. DLC roadblocks like Golden Hippopotamus, Messmer the Impaler, and even Divine Beast Dancing Lion all begin their encounters by quickly closing the gap and unleashing powerful combos. Malenia by comparison is far less aggro thanks to her slow walk toward the player allowing time for buffs, summons, or even charged spells. Her comparative lack of poise to bosses like Commander Gaius and Promised Consort Radahn is also a refreshing change of pace. Players have gotten confident since facing Shadow of the Erdtree\u2019s bosses and are deriding Malenia in droves. \u201cMalenia is slow-mo now. Her second phase is a bit more of a challenge but I still think a few bosses from the DLC clear her easy in the difficulty department,\u201d one claimed. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Waterfowl she wouldn\u2019t be hard at all,\u201d another replied. Malenia is still an incredibly difficult boss to take down in our own experience but perhaps we\u2019ll find her easier after our own Shadow of the Erdtree playthrough. If you\u2019re still struggling with the Blade of Miquella, we do have a guide on how to beat her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elden Ring players are laughing at \u201ceasy\u201d Malenia fight after beating DLC DexertoElden Ring\u2019s toughest boss is being scoffed at after the DLC has honed players with its own challenges. Elden Ring, like any FromSoftware game, is defined by the level of hardship that it puts its players through. In the base game, the embodiment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}