Elden Ring's Dangerous Haligtree Dungeon Skipped With Elevator Trick
A crafty Elden Ring player managed to skip the entire Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree dungeon by dropping down an elevator shaft. FromSoftware's open-world fantasy epic lets players traverse environments ranging from wide-open fields to complex castles. Locations like the Altus Plateau and Deeproot Depths give even the most skilled FromSoftware veterans a challenge, but one of Elden Ring's endgame struggles can be easily overcome through subterfuge.
As FromSoftware's first open-world soulslike title, Elden Ring gives players the ability to explore The Lands Between at their leisure. The start of the game brings the Tarnished player character to the lush land of Limgrave and points them towards the massive Stormveil Castle as their first major objective. However, players are free to explore other areas of Limgrave before heading to Stormveil, and the area can even be entirely circumvented if players instead visit neighboring regions like Liurnia or Caelid. This freedom of exploration is also reflected in optional Elden Ring bosses, many of whom simply roam The Lands Between rather than waiting for the player in an arena.
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Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree is one of Elden Ring's deadliest endgame areas, but Reddit user windermere_peaks managed to completely skip a majority of the Legacy Dungeon. Like past FromSoftware titles, Elden Ring dungeons feature shortcuts that let players easily return to areas they have already conquered. However, windermere_peaks reveals that one elevator shortcut can instead let gamers skip most of the area. Throwing themselves down an elevator shaft kills the player, but their corpse is able to activate the switch that sends it to
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