According to the achievements Ranni's ending is the most chosen ending, surpassing the default ending by 5%

>according to the achievements Ranni's ending is the most chosen ending, surpassing the default ending by 5%
>there are more people who married Ranni than people who became Elden Lords
How does she do it?!?!?

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I love my wife Ranni!!

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summon signs are a core mechanic

simple, she is the only female you can marry in game. how many players wish they could experience that kind of love? Now if this game let you marry say several girls in game the outcomes would be very different.

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Dogshit quest design. Ranni's NPC quest is the most straightforward to complete so she's the most popular NPC

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absolutely shit art

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Pretty much this. The quest design in Elden Ring is shockingly terrible, very few even give you a tiny hint as to where the character will appear next, most just fuck off to somewhere on very easy to miss triggers, and it's a roll of the dice whether you'll happen to find them in whatever semi-random spot they chose to stand next. Others have dozens of hours inbetween stages, making it extremely easy to just forget that they had an active quest.
Ranni's quest has enough information at each stage to figure out where to go next. I'd argue the only other ending-related quest that's similarly straightforward is Dung Eater, and his ending is kind of naturally unappealing for several reasons.

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She is just that good.

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They did it for wolfbro is my headcanon.

No clue. Her ending is gay and she's a cryptic power whore. Probably beat out Fia only because Fia ending is basically being a cuck.

Also Ranni is literally a gross ropey rag doll with a ceramic face. Honestly all the endings suck mega asshole.

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DLC should give us a Rya ending
>abandon quest
>ignore the plight of the gods and demigods
>just cute adventures helping Rya

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I love how weebs have to reimagine her to make her even remotely sexually appealing too.

Even if the other quests were more straightforward, why would most people ever pick them over Ranni's ending?

Dung Eater sucks because he literally eats shit, kills a friendly NPC, and his vision is "make the whole world poo"
Fia sucks because she kills TWO friendly NPCs, cucks you with everyone including a giant undead corpse, and her vision is "make the whole world dead"
Goldmask doesn't do much but he also has no dialogue and, other than being based, is kind of boring.
Ranni is a literal waifu who practically holds your hand through her whole quest, gives you cool shit, unlocks cool areas, and does nothing wrong.
And nobody is going to do the "plain" ending if they already did the work to unlock a special ending.

Frenzy Flame is kind of a different beast since you can get locked into it, so you'd expect it to have a higher rate, but it has the mitigating factors of Hyetta being one of the absolute hardest quests in the game to properly follow, including a glitch that locks you out of the Vyke invasion, which effectively locks you out of the ending unless you're very dedicated at trying random shit to open the door.

If Fromsoft made an actual Melina ending you'd see more of a split between her and Ranni, but instead you basically get her ending no matter what as long as you don't do Frenzy Flame. Or, in another sense, Frenzy Flame IS her ending.

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So why did the Black Knives go after Blaidd, Seluvis, and Iji? I don’t *think* Ranni made that call.

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Simple OP, they are all maidenless tarnished, craving for some pussy.

Kinda sad if you ask me.

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>How does she do it?!?!?
By being cute!

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>A cuck.

So she only hug you and now youre commited in a relationship with her.

Sad man.

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based fanartchad

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Fia and Goldmask are also relatively easy to miss. Fia hinges on players engaging with her mechanic, which is pretty easy to just not bother with, especially given the HP debuff which might scare off players. And Goldmask is kind of easy, but then he moves to the Stargazer ruins, where he's honestly kind of easy to miss, especially since the area as a whole fucking sucks and doesn't really invite exploration.

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Ranni is the normalfaggot town bicycle.

30+ Ranni pictures and not a single one of her butt. What a shame.

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I love the Ranniposter!

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I wonder if we'll ever get to see what Ranni originally looked like

there are many new players with Ranni ring as their first Fromsoft game - they all went Ranni's ending when they saw her trailer/questline, the one's that went the default ending are all veterans.
new players like me wouldn't play this game otherwise since it's just another generic medieval fantasy without Ranni

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Because Melina was nowhere to be fucking found. They really dropped the ball on her.
While at the same time the Ranni questline was amazing and engaging. So its only natural that the majority of players felt the most connection to her. She felt like the real side-character, instead of Melina.

Because every melee int build wanted her sword and got a bonus free waifu with it.

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It's kind of amazing how Melina has absolutely no presence in the game until you get to Leyndell. Her dialogue prompts are so poorly designed that they're easy to miss. I sure as fuck did on my first playthrough, because a bunch of graces I never had a reason to rest at, or just didn't see the option in the cluttered grace menu because I had nothing to do there except rest briefly to refresh flasks. Very, very bad UI/UX design.

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It doesn't matter anyway, her presence is just giving Marika loredumps.

Its the hat

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Its stupid how they made her dialogue optional throughout the game. In the first few hours of the game, the player gets taught that Melina's dialogue auto-triggers, so they expect that for the rest of the game. So they go 60 hours without talking to her, not realizing that there were sometimes "Talk to Melina" options at the Grace.
I was really annoying my first playthrough how she basically just doesnt exist. Worst companion in all of souls games desu. At least things happened to the Fire keepers throughout those games.

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WE LIKE FREEDOM WITH BLUE DOLLFUCK

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i wonder why

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>make female characters who are attractive (to men) both inside and outside
>get record sales
>continue to get endless praise nearly 2 months later
Hm, I wonder what the West could learn from this.

Since her quest opens a lot of the game, you technically have to do it.

It's the best ending AND you get to marry a cute doll, don't know what else to tell you

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Ranniposter where do you get good Ranni pics

>WITH BLUE DOLLFUCK
so do the multiple dogs she fucks

pixiv

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Pixiv and twitter

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No it doesn't, beating Radahn is what opens up a lot in the game. Ranni only unlocks her personal area in Liurnia.

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my first char was str/fai and i still vent out of my way to get the sword somehow because its just a tradition to find mlgs in fromsoft games

>One hand on dick
>One hand on each testicle
>One hand for prostate massage
Imagine the possibilities

>Ranni only unlocks her personal area in Liurnia.
False. You cannot go to Nokstella/Lake of Rot/etc. without doing Ranni quest.

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Ranni just seemed more significant than Melina.

>Wanted the Ranni ending
>Listened to random summon signs at the bottom of a sewer that told me to take off my clothes
I should try jumping

Can't you just walk there? I remember I found a part of Nokstella before doing her quest.

Your miquellas needle bro?