Elden Ring beginner’s guide, tips, and tricks

polygon.com:

Elden Ring has the advantage. Our beginner’s guide will even the odds.

In any FromSoftware game, the challenge is a huge part of the fun, and we won’t take that away from you. We’re just here to teach you the language of Elden Ring — and the faster you become fluent in the way that this game whispers its secrets to you, the better you’ll be. We’ll help you understand classes, leveling up and tie-breaking between stats, exploring the open world, stealth, and more.

Elden Ring divides its characters into classes, with points pre-poured into various attributes. Even the gear you begin with is matched to those stats.

Here’s how that works out, practically speaking, which can also see in the gallery above:

There are two basic ways to play a game like Elden Ring. Well, actually, three:

We’re big fans of the third option, and that’s why we chose the weirdo hybrid Prisoner class, which holds a sword in its right hand and a catalyst in its left. It seemed like the best of both worlds. Sometimes we could attack from a distance. Sometimes we could get stabby. We don’t regret a thing.

We know. Super helpful, right? But it’ll make sense. We promise.

In Elden Ring, pretty much like in any open-world game, there’s a balance between your desire to explore the vast world and follow the critical path and do the required things. If you’re anything like us, there’s also an attendant anxiety as you wonder at every possible moment if you’re in the right place doing the right thing.

Our solution: Follow grace’s lighted path, until that doesn’t make sense — until, say, you run into a particularly difficult section and you’re frustrated. Assume that Elden Ring is telling you that you’re not quite ready. Or say you see something in the