Combat
ThereCombat are many things that havehas been updated in thea charactervariety creationof processways within Dark Moon. From new cosmetics to new classes to new ways to start your game, here's the full run down! There's a lot so feel free to use the navigation menu to pop around to what you're interested in.
NewBow Cosmetic OptionsOverhaul
Bloodborne introduced glasses and Dark moon adds them back in. In addition to the blindfolds and eyepatches, you can now select between the seven glasses seen above. A lot of these were ported from Bloodborne, but a few were grabbed from Sketchfab
There are also some new hairstyles available like Melina's or Ranni's for example. These are a work in progress as the ports by the community, especially for the ones that aren't from Elden Ring, aren't exactly perfect.
- Ikaros - Realistic Long Hair
- KRDCD - Godfrey, Malenia, Ranni, Melina
- ZLOHORT - DS3 Fire Keeper hairstyle
Omnipotent Statue
Once you drop into the Chapel of Anticipation after creating your character you'll be greeted by the Omnipotent Statue who will present you with a few options: Select Difficulty, Omnipotent Shop, and Skip to Journey 2.
New Difficulties
Dark Moon introduces two harder difficulties that are inherited from Shattered. You'll select between these and the Vanilla Elden Ring difficulty in order to leave the Chapel and enable the Rally mechanic.
Vanilla: The basic Elden Ring experience.Shattered: Reduced stats, rune gain, and higher enemy aggresion.Masochist: Further reduced stats, rune gain, and even higher enemy aggresion.
Omnipotent Shop
This is a shop that sells every single item in the base game (with a few exceptions) including cut content. The purpose of this shop is twofold: to allow for minor alterations of class loadouts and to allow for a build-your-own class system. Each new class begins the game with 50k Runes (with the exception of the Wretch who starts with 150k Runes).
You'll use these to purchase weapons, armor, and items, most of which cost 10k Runes each. You can do some really interesting things with this shop like, for instance, buying the Pureblood Knight's Medal and skipping straight to Mohgwyn Palace right away.
Skip to Journey 2
In Dark Moon, New Game+ has been overhauled. The Omnipotent Statue gives you the option to skip ahead to Journey 2. When you do this, you’ll receive a ton of runes as well as some items to help you get caught up. You’ll also be teleported to Roundtable Hold immediately where you’ll find that you already have all the maps unlocked, the ability to level up and summon Torrent, as well as access to a few key graces across The Lands Between.
The skip provides enough Smithing Stone Shards to upgrade 3 Standard and 3 Unique weapons to max. It also unlocks the Omnipotent Shop at the Ranni Puppet if you’d like to purchase anything else with the over four million Runes you now have. Don’t forget to use some of those Runes to level up though! It should be enough to get you to around Level 110.
NG+ Scaling has been altered as well. Enemies scale higher overall, but they should be more or less the same in terms of HP/Damage across Limgrave, Liurnia, Caelid, and Altus. This is to incentivize progressing through the first part of the game in an irregular, non-linear fashion. Things ramp up again after Leyndell, however.
These changes, aside from the boon you get from skipping straight to Journey 2, are also available in every cycle.
New Classes
And then of course we have some new classes as the cherry on top of these new systems. Each class is meant to be the representative for a certain stat or play style. Like the Great Knight being a STR Master or the Friend of Jars (returning from Shattered) being a pot-throwing king.
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