Elden Ring: The Easy Way To Make It Through Fringefolk Hero’s Grave
Getting killed repeatedly by the giant wheel of arrrgh!? Then follow this quick and easy guide to make your life a little simpler.
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Getting killed repeatedly by the giant wheel of arrrgh!? Then follow this quick and easy guide to make your life a little simpler.
If you’re anything like me, you love to find difficult challenges early on in Soulsborne games, in the hope of earning powerful rewards that will help you in your journey.
To that end, in my current first playthrough of Elden Ring, I chose the Stonesword Key as my starting keepsake, lured by it’s promise of opening secret areas.
I didn’t have to wait long. Only a few minutes into my game I arrived at the Stranded Graveyard site of grace, to the right of which was a large foggy wall that I was unable to traverse. That is until I interacted with a small imp statue nearby, breaking it’s seal with my Stonesword Key, which was lost in the process.
This opened up to me the entrance to Fringefolk Hero’s Grave, perhaps the earliest accessible poison swamp-esque area in any previous From Software outing.
What followed was a joyful and excruciating half an hour of try and failing to make it through the ensuing labyrinth, being crushed to death by a horrifying wheel of spikes, sliced to death by phantom warriors and a couple of times just dying of good old poison.
The end result when I did make it through Fringefolk Hero’s Grave, and traversed the fog at it’s end, was the realisation that unless you’re some godlike master of gaming (not me unfortunately), there’s pretty much no way you’re going to be able to defeat the boss at the end of the dungeon as a level 1 wretch with a wooden club and no shield. RIP my loin-cloth clad butt.
Because I was filming these attempts though, I thought it may be useful to share the video of my final successful run, and an explanation of how best to make it, for those of you further on in your journey who may be attempting this challenge with a better developed character than me.
Time needed: 5 minutes.
Here’s how to make it past the giant wheel of death, through Fringefolk Hero’s Grave to the boss at the bottom of the area.
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