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The truth is somewhere in between.

The game has turned into a button masher if you’re using one handed swords and clubs because you can microstagger all small to medium mobs to death without needing to respect their moveset. The bosses have also been toned down to the point where they have become insignificant save for the Echo Knight.

DS1 and 2 wouldn’t even let you respec. DS3, Lies of P, Elden Ring and literally every Soulslike game, which on the Store page, NRFTW is clearly advertised as, ALL of them require you to perform certain tasks and acquire certain items to respec. This game asks you clear 5 rooms. If you can’t do it, then figure out why you can’t do it and fix it. I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

Also let’s be clear, this person went through entire game with their build and only hit a wall with the Crucible, an optional content in an EA game.

The game could benefit from a tutorial, sure, but this specific “problem” won’t be solved with a tutorial. It requires a band aid solution for a specific strata of the player base. A solution which more than likely further dumb down the game for the sake of people who won’t be investing any real time into it.

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And it’s true, the game, when the character is solid, offers no real challenge beyond spamming the current rune or the attack button (with some dodging in between). That’s its current state. And you’re right, D1 and D2 don’t have respecs, but they do have something very simple that NRFTW doesn’t: character creation that shows the player possible archetypes before diving into the world.

Something as simple as that puts the player in the right mindset and gets them thinking about what combat style they’d like to play from the available options. And once they decide, it gives them the most basic gear aligned with their choice and a weapon that scales with the right stat. That’s how the Souls games guide new players from the very beginning, with that simplicity. Your first experience in a Souls game, when you didn’t yet understand their now-familiar attribute system, was like that. And without realizing it, it helped ensure your first character wasn’t a total mess in terms of stats.

That’s a simple and much smarter solution than lowering the difficulty just so the test characters we see here can beat the game. Another option, if that one doesn’t appeal, is to make respecs more accessible rather than hiding the mechanic without warning in a “secondary minigame”

Edit: @BlackWaterPirate I forgot to reply to you directly. Editing so you get the notification.

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I would advise beginners, based on their own experience in the game at the initial levels, to distribute characteristic points primarily in health and endurance in order to be able to gain more experience in a fight to the death, and then add points to control characteristics, concentration and carrying capacity. When you have already decided how you want to play.I would also advise the developers to add a potion to the game to reset the characteristics at the initial levels, say up to level 10 inclusive.This would help new players with adaptation to the game. Based on my own experience, at the beginning of the game you can very easily ruin a character by investing character points in the wrong place, and in order to reach Limus and open the opportunity to fix this, you need to spend a lot of time and effort, especially with such a character. Therefore, at the beginning of the game it is easier to create a new character.This can discourage players from further play, because they have already played this character for several hours and not everyone will want to go through everything all over again.

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After 200 hours of the current patch, I can ensure you that the game is not exactly hard - fun but not hard. You can kill pest 4 bosses with literally anything, if you have lifesteal in your weapon. Farm some embers to reroll your stats before attempting it though. The updates until gear level 12 should not pose a problem.

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i find only 2 lifesteal perk. 1. is when i use attack skills, and second is when i kill enemy. I found some gems “Chipped Blood Stone”, but i hawe it only 1, and don’t want to experiment. What this gem do?
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What gem i need for lifesteal in ordinary fight? front to front?

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my take. you’re level 30 but your build seems to be a jack of all trades build where you want a little bit of everything.

what this ends up doing is you ARE able to do a little bit of everything but you are NOT GOOD at any of them.

games like this usually reward players for focusing on one aspect rather than multiple.

currently you have “good” defence. but that is actually a bane. you have TOO MUCH defence.

NRFTW is mainly a skill based game where good gear helps you either clear encounters faster or allows you to make more mistakes.

i can confidently tell you that i struggled a huge lot with many bosses. its a huge pain. but i learned how to identify the best times to attack.

i think one way you can improve your experience is to decide which you like better. melee attacks or relying on skills that use focus.

personally i entirely ditched any idea of using focus and just use melee. this way i would dedicate my gear to get stamina efficiency/regeneration. during boss battles, i would never have to remember “oh my focus is full, i should use my skill or else it’s wasted”. instead i would focus on seeing what the boss is doing and simply slapping the boss with my weapon until he dies. focus/skills become a distraction/fomo when you’re in the heat of combat.

next i would highlight the importance of running and dodging. parrying tho cool and can be rewarding is a HUGE RISK. the boss sometimes attacks you relentlessly so blocking can become a bad option. timing your dashes/dodges is much more lenient compared to parrying. as for running. movespeed is king. sometimes its better to just run out of the attack range rather than dashing. also if you dashed away from an attack, having high movespeed allows you to get back into the boss’s face ASAP.

do not ever be too greedy with your attacks. sometimes chipping at an enemy’s heath can be better than doing a lot of damage but having to heal up after the boss slapped you back. and at worse, if he killed you, all the hard work you put before that is lost.

1000 dps is 0 dps when you’re dead.

next is your level of commitment. your gear is a little on the safe side. all “blues”. purple items can have detriments but there are ways to negate the detriments.

i think by level 30 you NEED to learn to craft your gear. and you need to start farming for resources.

for starters always look for purple gear. NOT blue. purple gear can roll higher numbers. keep ANY purple gear with 5 enchantments. then use embers to reroll each enchantment to something that you actually want.

take detriments that dont affect you. for example in my case i dont use focus, so i can take stuff that penalizes my focus. but if you dont mind losing an enchantment, you can roll “cannot be repaired”, and roll an enchantment where the item becomes indestructable.

the last thing i would say is something you wouldnt like to hear.

you need to restart a new character. your current one has stats all over the place. your damage output will suffer as a result. lower damage means longer fights. longer fights means the boss will have more chances at damaging you. if you have more DPS, you still CAN take damage, but when the fight is shorter, the amount of mistakes you will do can be reduced. theres no use being able to last a boss fight for 10 minutes if all you’re doing is just healing up.

i saw you ranted about how respecs are gated behind some end game content. i agree with you entirely. it punishes players for trying their own thing/going in blind. but until the devs decide to change this system. the only choice you have now are either respeccing (difficult for you) or simply rerolling.

if i were you, i would reroll.

also with the knowledge i have, one thing i do in this game is OVERLEVEL and farm gear. how i do that is i will keep replaying the first portion of the game over and over again. where i have one “main realm” and i create many new realms to farm xp and materials. i usually will buy whatever weapon/gear i want from the blacksmith. kill the “first boss” then restart. if my inventory is full i will then go back to my main realm to enchant all the gear that i bought (all normal with no enchants).

i do hope the devs just give us an easy way to respec tho

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I think sometimes we all forget that we are playing a public beta we got conned into paying for.

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Sounds like a build problem. Have you tried making sure you have points in the ability that your weapon needs?

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For vampirism you need it. But it will not restore much at the beginning of the game, especially if the weapon is enchanted by a small percentage. If you play with a one-handed weapon, I recommend inserting a second one into a shield or bow in your second hand, and also sanctifying them in the future so that there is a maximum percentage of vampirism, otherwise the health recovery will be almost negligible on the health scale.

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This game is absolutely fair challenging where it needs to be. And if you can’t handle it… just play something else. Go try Space Marine 2 or maybe mobile Tetris you might have more fun there.

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I have beat each boss so often that I can’t even take your post seriously. Unless there are serious bugs, in which case you need to talk directly to the Devs about a fix.

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@BlackWaterPirate. Yes. A very addictive public beta we all got connect into playing for. Like Cigarettes and Coffee!

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All enemy and boses is normal, exept last one in crucible. He has too many HP and combo skills. It’s just booring to scrap him.

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anyone who bought into EA are literally paying to be a game tester lol.

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This is a SCAM! SCAMEROO!

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i hate to be that guy but nowadays we have tons of YT game play vids.

also for any EA titles, the devs actually tell you its EA and what to expect. steam itself goes out of its way to tell prospective “victims” (lol) what EA is and what to expect.

tbh if NRFTW flopped and all production ceased, its still a solid game for what it is so far.

as for the game being difficult. i would say its VERY DIFFICULT for newer players. and even myself, i had to go thru great deals to get stronger and git gud.

in anycase, please do yourself a favour and dont buy EA games. it will save you from heart ache.

for any fully released games, steam has a 2 hour refund window. as long as you dont exceed 2 hours you can get a full refund. believe me. i ve refunded so many games.

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