Elden Ring Fans Debate What Old Soulsborne Gear Should Return In DLC
Elden Ring might be its own thing, but there's no denying the connections to Dark Souls. We awaken in a ruined civilisation where laughing nihilists indifferent to the outcome lead us on paths of destruction where we slaughter gods and get tricked by bald men in caves. And since there are so many obvious nods and references to old Soulsborne games, fans are discussing what they want to see directly return in the DLC.
"In the DLC, there will be a room with a chest, containing a weapon from previous titles, what would you bring back to The Lands Between?" Uharc123 posted to the Elden Ring subreddit, positing a hypothetical where anything from previous FromSoft games can return.
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One suggested the Vanquisher's Seal, AKA the ring from Dark Souls 2 that makes you punch really hard. The trade-off is that you have to join the Company of Champions and earn 50 Awestones. But boxing your way through Drangleic? Worth it. Others suggested the Dragon Tooth, Havel's big fuck-off stick. Plenty of good memories of clumsily whacking footsoldiers with that thing. Outside of Dark Souls, another commenter put forward the Threaded Cane, one of Bloodborne's starter weapons. It doubles as another stick to whack people with, but it's also a deadly whip.
Of course, Bloodborne offers up another opportunity--guns. If the denizens of Elden Ring weren't frightened by the unstoppable god-slaying legend who (probably) took down Dragonlord Placidusax and Malenia, imagine how they'd react to that same legend whipping out a pair of pistols. Now imagine how they'd react to seeing you with the Black Knight Halberd. Not the nerfed ones from the
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