Elden Ring players call out \u201cbusted\u201d Duelling Shields for breaking DLC FromSoftware\/Bandai NamcoThe latest weapon to trivialize Elden Ring\u2019s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is the unusual Duelling Shield. Players have officially declared them \u201cbusted\u201d. Originally revealed as one of the eight new weapon types coming to Shadow of the Erdtree, the Duelling Shield received quite the spotlight in its first gameplay trailer. Despite this, there are only two Duelling Shields in the game. Finding either one of them will \u201cinvalidate every fight in Elden Ring\u201d according to streamer Scott Jund. When paired with gear that increases your blocking ability like the Greatshield Talisman, the Duelling Shield turn fights into \u201cshield poking on crack\u201d. For the uninitiated, shield poking involves pairing a Spear with a Greatshield to deal chip damage safely. Incidentally, this is the same build that changed Asmongold\u2019s mind about the DLC. Players in the comments are reporting that it\u2019s not just Shadow of the Erdtree\u2019s enemies that the Duelling Shield trounces. \u201cDueling shield is nuts for PVP,\u201d one user revealed. \u201cCould not do a thing about it, trading wasn\u2019t worth, outranged, out damaged, etc. The thing was a monster.\u201d Even the DLC\u2019s grueling final boss is no match for the weapon as one content creator proved by using the Duelling Shield and a modified saxophone controller to make light work of it. At least if you\u2019re struggling, you\u2019re only a Larval Tear and a weapon swap away from sweeping Shadow of the Erdtree. Elden Ring\u2019s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC arrived to a chorus of accolades including our own five-star review. Though when the wider player base got their hands on it, the game\u2019s Steam rating was tarnished with complaints about extreme difficulty. Major streamers like Asmongold echoed the sentiment that Shadow of the Erdtree was \u201ctoo hard to be fun\u201d initially, but he changed his assessment after finishing it. Even FromSoftware took the early backlash under advisement and released a patch to soften the early hours of the expansion. Of course, in the intervening days, Elden Ring players have found numerous ways to make the DLC easier including broken Sorceries and weapons. The latest to join their ranks are the new Duelling Shield weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elden Ring players call out \u201cbusted\u201d Duelling Shields for breaking DLC FromSoftware\/Bandai NamcoThe latest weapon to trivialize Elden Ring\u2019s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is the unusual Duelling Shield. Players have officially declared them \u201cbusted\u201d. Originally revealed as one of the eight new weapon types coming to Shadow of the Erdtree, the Duelling Shield received […]<\/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-43026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43026","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=43026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}