Elden Ring - Night Cavalry in Caelid (9th Attempt)

This is a clip from my gameplay footage of 2022's popular video game "Elden Ring" on Playstation 4.

If you're unfamiliar with "Elden Ring", here's some quick info:

[GAMEPLAY]
In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting. (Wikipedia)

[STORY]
Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. (Wikipedia)

• I've seen way too many Youtube videos about this cool Ash of War called Bloodhound Step which allows you to sidestep so fast it looks like teleporting.

• I've seen Youtube comments complain about how it's been recently nerfed but the idea of moving in any way similar to the Bloodhound Eveergaol was too much temptation for me to fight off -- so I submitted myself to the dangerous unknown hellscape of Caelid.

• At night near bridges (or at least I think it's near bridges), a shadowy enemy on horseback called the Night Cavalry will sometimes appear.

• I've fought one in Limgrave that had a flail but the one in Caelid has some kind of giant axe halberd. This hefty weapon is capable of one-shotting me on occaison that my Blue Feathered Branchsword doesn't save me a sliver of health to keep me barely alive.

• Having met some of the dangerous monsters of Caelid and been plagued with their dreadful rot status effect, it was one of the first Dragon spells I tried to obtain -- Rot Breath. I wasn't able to use it very well due to my Mind stat needing a lot more beefing up but I'm able to use it twice before being completely empty of magic.

• Dragon Rot Breath is an incredible spell which requires a slightly raised Arcane stat in order to use. I'm not sure if it scales with Faith since it is techinically a dragon spell but it only required a few firings to take down Night Cavalry and watch his health decay away, doubling in passive damage. After that easy part, the hard part was trying to stay alive while waiting for him to die.

• It took almost ten tries before I resorted to experimenting with Dragon's Rot Breath but I have now met the dark side of the force and am not sure there's any going back from this knowledge of power haha

• Hope you enjoy this video!

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• See you all on the next post of my Elden Ring adventure!