This place fucking sucks

Equip TWO shields

>kill that bloke with the horns and steal his talisman
Felt bad

>Torrent would trivialize it
>As opposed to just spamming Flame, Cleanse Me! and bhound stepping through everything
At least I'd get through it faster with Torrent.

Just chug and sprint. I didn't even bother with the platforms, you can make it to the cloister grace within 2 minutes of the area title popping up.

Yea Forums isn't all that bad

Why is the doll calling me dear I only listened to her backstory a couple of times

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Her group of very exclusive companions include magic cosby questing for the Ranni onahole, a glowie sleeper agent masquerading as a furry and some geriatric old fuck so aged he probably couldn't even leave if he desired.

She had a crush on you for a while. If you talked with the other 3 goobers in her party you'd know that.

Well Iji mentioned her warming up to me and how I should take care of her but I thought that was like as a friend and because 2/3 of the current group are either fucking useless or a timebomb

Why did Yea Forums hype up lake of rot as this super annoying blighttown on steroids area? You literally just run through it in 5 minutes to get to the somber smithing stone 9 and then move on.

Most people seems to not upgrade vigour a lot. Lake of rot was just a mild annoyance to me, just used sneedsus flasks a few times.

>You literally just run through it in 5 minutes to get to the somber smithing stone 9 and then move on.
Those people would know that if they actually played the game. My bet is on morons parroting what some literal who e-celeb spouts.

Wear cleanrot set to sprint in rot

She's a horny incel who's had nothing but a dog, troll and Seluvis to hang out with all this time

>bloodhounds
you didnt cross the lake.

Suck my dick, Astel, I'm gonna fucking curbstomp you little shits

Who owns that place? A guy named Chuck?

I lorewalked all the way to Astel, crushing those stupid bug-men along the way until they started worshipping a statue of me.

but that's not what happens, the platforms are a very small part of the level and you have to get rot if you want to explore

>A swamp level...................again
Fromsoft are so creatively bankrupt.

Same with Castle Sol. Sure, it's a mediocre and barren area, but it's not hard at all if you don't go there underleveled

There's nothing outside of the platformed area other than a couple of gold runes.

it's shruck

people who defend this shit have severe stockholm syndrome

how many fucking poison swamps is Miyazaki gonna dump on us

You might be misremembering the area.

Raising platforms is exactly what you do in the Lake of Rot.
>have to get rot
You're forced to?

You might be thinking of mountaintop of the giants. Its not the same area even though they do look similar.

I'm more interested seeing how far the concept can be taken at this point. Give me an Armored Core 6 poison swamp, set Bloodborne 2 in victorian gothic antebellum Lousiana, whatever I just wanna see how stupid things can get.

To be fair, the swamp meme doesn't really apply to ER. Most of the swamps can be easily crossed on Torrent and even if you go on foot, they don't slow down your movement. I think the poison caves were the most annoying, not the open world swamps.

>lake = swamp
retarded bait

Because you ran past one of the worst bosses in the game

bro this zone was fucking easy, use the fire cleanse me incantation and those anti-rot consumable shits and easy

This zone is ambient kino of the highest degree

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What? The Nokstellan drake? Hardly the worst boss.

Just accept it and move on, that's what I did. Yes it's shit but you only have to be there for 20 minutes tops.

I THINK LEYNDELL, ROYAL CAPITAL SUCKS!

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There's a pretty good sword in there if you can bare to kill a miniboss in the middle of the lake of rot, outside that and a talisman there's nothing noteworthy to find there.

Pissed how short the actual temple section was. I went in there convinced it was going to be an entire legacy dungeon and then it just ends after a few drops, a hallway and a dozen rot shrimp you don't actually have to fight before reaching astel.

Are the rot people worshipping astel or something? what's the purpose of that temple.

I agree on that one
even a castle sol tier length would've been great

Don't forget when you get down to go behind you away from the temple and follow the rot river into the waterfall for a secret.

No, they're worshipping the Outer God of Rot that was sealed underground by the blind swordsman (Malenia's mentor).

The best part is if you are somehow down there not on ranni's quest or are giga retarded you won't even notice the coffin so the whole area will feel weirdly small.

>dude if I'm going to have to use a single consumable item or cast a single healing spell I should JUST BE ALLOWED TO SKIP EVERYTHING REEEEEE REEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEE

I'm glad you're upset.

How did you find that out?

>mad that there are multiple strategies for tackling the poison swamp that make traversing it more interesting

>Malenia's mentor
is this headcanon or is it in an item description somewhere

>ER haters are also DS2 hating casuals
I don't get it, ER isn't even as hard as DS2. Either it's a brand new generation of casuals or the old ones are getting worse.

think they're worshipping the outer god of rot rather than astel

It's less a zone so much as the last part of sofria/nokstella before the showdown with Astel.

A variety of in-game items:
Blue Dancer Charm
>The dancer in blue represents a fairy, who in legend bestowed a flowing sword upon a blind swordsman. Blade in hand, the swordsman sealed away an ancient god — a god that was Rot itself.
Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom
>Though born into the accursed rot, when the young girl encountered her mentor and his flowing blade, she gained wings of unparalleled strength.
>Map (Lake of Rot)
>A great lake of standing water downstream of the Ainsel River. It is said that the divine essence of an outer god is sealed away in this land.

blue dancer charm, curved sword charm, flowing curved sword, prosthesis wearer heirloom, every item in blue cloth item set

Kino.

>people still not realising Fromsoft are just another Jap studio who WILL rehash all the classic elements of their series again and again - just like all the other Jap studios - just so some otaku doesn't torch their offices

Also, the skill on Malenia's katana(?) is called Waterfowl dance. I wonder if that's a typo and it should be Waterflow.

>wearer heirloom
I knew about the swordsman from all the other items but I didn't realize he and malenia were connected. seems like she might have been cursed from birth by the GoR with the mega-AIDS as a result to her connection to the swordsman as revenge. thanks user

so do people just not use items? You get a good amount of the curatives for that area from just a few parts back. You just run to each platform, take curative, heal, and keep going.

what does that have to do with the place being shit?

I mean, waterfowl works. A bird that gracefully moves through the water, not unlike the blue fairy

Do you know what a waterfowl is and how they hunt fish? If you do you wouldn't be confused like you are.
They wildly slash with their feet until they hit a fish. Idiots think its random retardation by the bird but smarties know the bird is doing every stroke deliberately to trap the fish.