Need a little bit of guidance here
Hi! New player here, I've been since long a fan of Souls like lore, but I've never actually tried to play one, so Elden ring is my first game in the genere.
I find myself a little bit lost with the difficulty, I do not consider myself a great player but except for a couple of enemies or bosses, I've been playing the game feeling is a little bit easy to my expectations and I'm concerned because I think Im over leveled for a lot of zones in the game. My way of playing is trying to fully explore a zone before visiting another one, so I find myself farming a lot of runes. As of rn im level 90 and I've done Limgrave, Caelid, Liurna, Altus Plateau, Nokron, half of Mt. Gelmir and rn I'm doing Noxstella.
I'm concerned because I think I've made the game easier by exploring all that I can encounter and now I feel kinda like I'm missing the difficulty. Because I have 0 context of the natural progress of this game, I've come here to ask if more experienced players think I overdone the exploring.
I love exploring big open world games, and it would break my heart to know that I've made the game easier just because my goblin brain can comprehend leaving an area without exploring.
If anyone asks for the build, I'm well aware of how the bleed in this game is kind of broken, so I don't use it that much, my weapons are two wielding bandit cimitar, a scythe and two wielding urumi (a friend dropped me the urumis from his game) the three of them are +15
Ty for reading this and I would be grateful if some more experienced players can tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
Posted Sep 13, 2025, 10:54 PM UTC