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✨ Complete Elden Ring Walkthrough ✨

An adventurer studying the Elden Ring map

Elden Ring is a vast action RPG from FromSoftware. This guide covers the fundamentals, exploration, and key secrets so you can progress with confidence.

📑 Guide contents

1. Choosing a starting class 2. Exploring Limgrave 3. Levels and runes 4. Field boss battles 5. Finding legendary weapons 6. Final secrets and endings

💡 General advice

Keep a few principles in mind while crossing the Lands Between. First, do not be afraid to explore: curious players are rewarded with unique items, prayerbooks, and Sites of Grace. Use Torrent to travel quickly or avoid enemies that are currently too strong. Upgrade your main weapon regularly, because character levels alone will not carry a weak armament. Spirit Ashes can also give you valuable room to recover during difficult boss encounters.

Look for Memory Stones and activate Great Runes at Divine Towers. Dodge rolls include a brief window of invulnerability, so learning the timing matters more than retreating blindly. Collect map fragments to reveal each region, and pay attention to NPC dialogue because optional quests can unlock new endings. Vagabond and Astrologer are approachable choices for new players. Raise Vigor toward 40 before late-game areas, and return later whenever a location feels far above your current strength.

This walkthrough explains how to defeat the major bosses, including the legendary challenge of Malenia, Goddess of Rot. The detailed strategy below covers a recommended build, both phases, and the attacks most likely to end a run.

⚔️ Malenia, Blade of Miquella — Step-by-Step Strategy ⚔️

Diagram showing how to evade Malenia's attack

Malenia is an optional Elden Ring boss widely regarded as one of FromSoftware's hardest encounters. Preparation, controlled distance, and careful dodge timing are essential.

🛡️ Recommended build (level 130+)

  • Vigor: 55–60 to survive her strongest sequence
  • Endurance: 25–30 for armor and stamina
  • Strength or Dexterity: match your chosen weapon
  • Talismans: Dragoncrest Greatshield and defensive options
  • Weapon: a reliable bleed or fire weapon
  • Spirit Ash: Black Knife Tiche or Mimic Tear

🌀 Phase One — Strategy and Evasion

Malenia opens with quick slashes. Keep enough distance to read her approach, then move to the side when she raises her blade. For Waterfowl Dance, run away from the first wave, evade through the later wave, and avoid panic rolls. Every hit she lands restores health, even against a shield, so clean movement is better than passive blocking. Ranged attacks and magic can create safe damage windows. Tiche is especially useful because the summon can reduce her maximum health.

🌸 Phase Two — Goddess of Rot

At the start of phase two, Malenia dives and creates a scarlet bloom. Run beneath and past her, then wait outside the flower before attacking from range. Her new moves include phantom clones and delayed aerial strikes. Retreat when the wings and blade rise together, avoid the scarlet field, and carry preserving items. Save stamina for Waterfowl Dance and use a high-stability shield only as a last resort. Keep healing charges available; victory awards Malenia's Great Rune and Remembrance.

🔥 Editorial tip: practice at a light equipment load for a faster roll and longer evasive movement.

🗺️ Hidden Location Walkthrough — Tomb of Eternal Fire

Puzzle overview: The Tomb of Eternal Fire lies deep in the Valley of Burning Trees and becomes available after the Soul Sailor quest. Inside are a legendary blade and three major puzzles.

🔍 Step One: Open the Entrance

Enter the Ruined Temple at the southeastern edge of the Burning Hills. Find the warrior statue with a missing blade and use the Water Element spell or Lake Droplet item. The rune wall will disappear and reveal the crypt.

🧩 Mirror Knights Puzzle

Rotate the three mirrored statues until their light reaches the central crystal: turn the left statue right twice, the middle statue left once, and the right statue right three times. A platform appears when the crystal lights up. Defeat the two spectral enemies immediately.

🧩 Scales of Light Puzzle

Balance the two giant scales. Place three rune stones on the left and one heavy axe on the right. The axe is inside a chest behind the false wall on the room's right side. A balanced scale opens the passage to the lava cavern.

🗺️ Route Summary

  • Entrance → Mirror Hall → Spectral Enemies → Scales Room → Hidden Axe → Lava Passage → Fire Guardian → Legendary Chest

At the end, defeat the Fire Guardian with frost damage and open the large sarcophagus. Collect the Night Blade +10 and Burning Heart talisman. Five secret chests are hidden throughout the area, including one behind a false wall beyond the boss. A lantern makes the hidden route easier to search.

This solution was checked in version 1.09+ and works in every New Game cycle.

🎲 Answers to Three Common Questions

❓ 1. Can I skip Malenia and still finish Elden Ring?

Yes. Malenia is optional and is not required for the main ending. She does award a unique Great Rune, weapon, and achievement. If you are stuck, leave, improve your equipment, and return later.

❓ 2. Where is the best place to earn runes quickly?

Palace Approach Ledge-Road in Mohgwyn Palace is a popular location. Use a bow or spell to lure the large bird across the ravine, then equip the Gold Scarab talisman to improve each reward.

❓ 3. How do I unlock the Age of Stars ending?

Complete Ranni's long quest, defeat Astel, and give Ranni the Dark Moon Ring. After the final boss, use the blue summon sign on the ground. Avoid attacking Ranni's allies while completing the quest.

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