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AnElden Ringfan has shared a fail clip they encountered while battling the boss Malenia in the base game, which served as a brutal lesson to time healing right.Elden Ringis a punishing game by nature, in keeping with FromSoftware’s Soulslike tradition, and the community continuously demonstrates its grueling combat through sharing hard-to-watch but often comical gameplay clips.
TheElden Ringbase game was awarded Game of the Year in 2022, serving as a testament to Hidetaka Miyazaki and Geroge R.R. Martin’s world-building, dark fantasy lore, and taxing boss fights. TheShadow of the ErdtreeDLC followed in June 2024 and gained another Game of the Year nomination despite being an expansion.Elden Ringfans were recently treated to some good news, despite Miyazaki confirming a direct sequel was not in the works, and the game’s popularity has even warranted a potential live-action adaptation rumored to be in the pipeline.
Posted on Reddit by jaycenprogress, a 25-second clip was shared in theElden Ringsubreddit, showcasing the player’s battle against Malenia, one of the hardest enemies to conquer. The clip shows the Tarnished repeatedly attempting to heal, but the enemy interrupts every time with a hard-hitting attack. “Guess I won’t heal from now on,” the defeated player stated in the caption, and the clip was a hard lesson to time healing better while facing the deadly foe. OneElden Ringplayer tried nearly 2000 times to defeat Malenia, and this healing fail provided a taste of the grueling encounter.
Elden Ring Player Shares a Brutal Healing Fail While Fighting Malenia
Luckily,Shadow of the Erdtreeprovided a handy feature to aid defeating Malenia, butElden Ringfans also offered some pointers in response to the player’s healing fail. One Redditor noted the player had a health debuff present, which lowered the Tarnished’s max health by 5%, and recommended using Baldachin’s Blessing to remove it. The same user then advised healing immediately after dodging Malenia’s string of attacks, which would allow the player to recover before the boss returned to inflict more damage. Additionally, several players admitted they skipped the Malenia boss battle, as the encounter is an optional one, clearly weary of the repeated attempts to slay the enemy.
Malenia is a two-phase boss in the base game, unleashing the might of her Blade of Miquella form before advancing to the Goddess of Rot stage.Elden Ring’s Miquella is a prominent character with a rich history, and Malenia is the twin sister of the fearsome Empyrean. Once players manage to defeat the enemy in the Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree location, they will gain Malenia’s Great Rune and the Remembrance of the Rot Goddess consumable item.
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ELDEN RING, developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set within a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin. Danger and discovery lurk around every corner in FromSoftware’s largest game to date. Hidetaka Miyazaki - President and Game Director of FromSoftware Inc. Known for directing critically-acclaimed games in beloved franchises including Armored Core and Dark Souls.George R.R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast For Crows, and A Dance with Dragons. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
