How To Start Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

The Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, has been publicly launched. For its $40 worth, gamers get to leap into an entire new house with extra guns, bosses and secrets and techniques to discover. However it is a little difficult to get into the DLC as soon as you are within the recreation, so here is the right way to get started Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

First, you’ll be able to wish to acquire Shadow of the Erdtree in your platform (PC, XBox Sequence X/S, PS5) and set up it, in fact. However you do not get admission to the DLC thru the primary menu — as an alternative, you’ll be able to wish to achieve a particular house and defeat two not obligatory bosses to earn the correct to get into the DLC. 

We’re going to provide an explanation for intimately underneath, however the TL;DR to get admission to the DLC is: defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then within the Mohgwyn Palace area the place you’ve got defeated the latter, contact the withered arm placing out of the egg. Growth, you’ve got made it to the DLC.

However earlier than you leap into Shadow of the Erdtree, be sure to’re ready. Early reviews of the DLC have famous its issue, even above the bottom recreation — which is superb for gamers longing for a problem, however it would be best to be ready. 

First, FromSoftware recommends gamers have their characters achieve stage 120-150 earlier than making an attempt the DLC. Throughout our preview, we got pre-made stage 150 characters with fully-upgraded guns, and we have been nonetheless challenged. 

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Talking of weapon upgrades, it would be best to spice up your best weapons as prime as they are able to pass earlier than delving into the Land of Shadow within the DLC. To do this, you’ll be able to want common and somber smithing stones — be sure to get or purchase sufficient via securing all the miner’s bell bearings that mean you can purchase smithing and somber stones round Elden Ring. It is a good suggestion to top off on smithing stones, since it would be best to improve one of the vital over 100 new guns you’ll be able to in finding within the DLC.

And if it is been awhile since you’ve got put down Elden Ring, it’s possible you’ll need to re-familiarize your self with the sport’s struggle, guns, pieces, talismans, armor and builds. Assuming you are utterly able, here is the right way to get to the DLC. 

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get admission to the Elden Ring DLC

As discussed above, you’ll’t simply get admission to the DLC from the menu — you’ll be able to wish to in finding it inside the recreation. Sooner than you do this, you’ll be able to wish to defeat two bosses: Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood.

Starscourge Radahn will also be discovered previous within the recreation within the house of Caelid, simply east of the beginning zone of Limgrave. You’ll be able to wish to go back and forth to the southeast fringe of Caelid and transfer thru Redmane Fortress. You’ll be able to wish to turn on any Altus Plateau web site of grace or progress Ranni’s questline a long way sufficient to talk with its related non-player characters, in line with Fextralife, to make certain that the fortress is throwing its Radahn Pageant inviting combatants to problem Radahn — together with you, Tarnished. Head previous the accrued NPCs and communicate to Jerren, then pass up the chapel and take the carry right down to the waygate teleporter.

Learn extra: Elden Ring: How to Defeat Starscourge Radahn

Mohg, Lord of Blood is trickier to seek out, and is situated a lot farther into the sport. One of the best ways to get to Mohgwyn Palace, the place Mohg is living, is to observe the NPC White Mask Varre‘s sidequest, which comes to both collaborating in player-versus-player struggle and invading a number of different gamers’ video games or defeating an NPC. Completing the hunt offers you an merchandise, the Pureblood Knight’s Medal, which you’ll use to be taken to Mohgwyn Palace.

If you are PvP-averse, the opposite direction to Mohgwyn Palace is a waygate teleporter within the Consecrated Snowfields house, which itself is situated a long way into the sport after you’ve got situated each halves of the Haligtree Secret Medallion and introduced it on the Grand Carry of Rold. The teleporter to Mohgwyn palace is situated at the western fringe of the Consecrated Snowfields house. Go searching for Lesser Runebears and, whenever you achieve where the place you are  invaded via a Sanguine Noble NPC, head west and down from there. 

When you achieve Mohgwyn’s palace, you’ll be able to wish to make your manner across the swamps, dodging some nasty summoned massive skeletons, and up the mausoleum. You will have to defeat or sprint thru a horde of gradual zombies that die with a blood explosion, then navigate a dismal tunnel with extra nasty Sanguine Noble enemies showing. After all, you’ll be able to achieve a boost that takes you to Mohg’s boss area. Defeat him and method the cocoon with the drooping arm, which belongs to the frame of Miquella, who left his flesh at the back of when touring to the Land of Shadow. Contact the arm and you are off to the DLC.