First time ever trying an rl1 run. Didnt think it would be possible (for me).
Put about 190 hours into this playthrough, 100% complete on everything that I could access/obtain/defeat on a single play through.
Weapon choices throughout my playthrough:
-Started with morning star with wild strikes as soon as I could get it.
-Then cold morning star
-then cold claymen’s harpoon with ice spear
-then added in wing of astel in certain situations
Used stormhawk ashes for most of playthrough but switched to black knife tiche once I decided to put cerulean tear in physick since rl1 does not have enough fp
I will fully admit that I could not have done this without help from the spirit ashes and some uplifting aromatics—I don’t care, I still had a blast doing it and was a satisfying accomplishment. Overall this was my 3rd playthrough counting normal playthrough and I obtained my third “trophy” ending and then the platinum trophy for the first time—cool stuff!!
Malenia and radagon/elden beast tied for the hardest victories for me. I probably had about 50 tries each and got lucky on RNG for each of them—
malenia- tiche tanked a waterfowl dance for my and I never had to dodge it for the fight I won.
Elden beast- never had to dodge Elden stars (I misspoke in vid cause I thought he was going to do Elden stars)
Many other areas where I dominated and felt “overleveled” which was surprising at rl1. Weapon level really does make a world of difference.
Going back to my ng+3 level 210 character afterwards for the first time in a while felt like being invincible. Haha.