The messaging surrounding Elden Ring and FromSoftware games conveys that players task themselves with taking on incredible challenges, but players know victory sometimes demands a finer touch. Cutting a path to a boss or objective could leave players short on flask charges or FP when they need them most. That's why shortcuts and, sometimes, unintended skips can make the different in progression. One Elden Ring player has just such a skip for a notoriously frustrating area named the Brace of the Haligtree.
The path through the Brace of the Haligtree, starting from the opening Prayer Room grace and working toward the Elphael Inner Wall, Haligtree Town Plaza, and all the way down to the Haligtree Roots, is rife with danger. Haligtree Knights, the easiest of enemies on this path, wield explosive and poisonous sorceries. There are multiple encounters with two Cleanrot Knights and they often have back-up. That's not to mention the scarlet rot Erdtree Avatars, teleporting Revenants, Giant Miranda Flower, Crystallians, and a whole church full of the Kindred of Rot. It's also a multi-layered labyrinth.
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Suffice to say, rather than butting their heads against a genuine army, it'd be kinder for players to unlock the Haligtree Roots grace and then hunt for items at their own leisure. That's what this skip intends to allow. It's also a humorous skip, the latest of many funny Elden Ring skips, and offers a fun trick that players may otherwise not realize.
The skip involves leaving the Prayer Room grace like normal, running past the first group of Haligtree Knights, and reaching the second arch stretching out from the current level of the castle. Run out on this arch and do a
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