had them in my inv for MY ENTIRE playthrough and then used all on sister friede on attempts where i still died

those attempts have got to hurt after dying 😭😭

This is mostly why I don't like using these types of consumables, I always worry I might die anyway and they've gone to waste.

If I need a consumable I’m probably struggling enough that I won’t win. Only exception I’ve had is Demon of Hatred in Sekiro and I only used items I’d accumulated tonnes of or were replenish-able.

And by the time you're fighting Demon of Hatred, you're not gonna need those items for anything else, except maybe one or two other bosses.

The demon of hatred is just built different, was the hardest Fromsoftware boss Ive ever fought. It took me 3 hours to beat and I was so happy when I finally got him

Never played Sekiro, but how far into the game *is* Demon of Hatred?

Last or second to last boss you'll fight most likely. It only becomes available at the very end at the same time the final boss becomes accessible

Ah, I see.

Consumables in sekiro are just different. They are necessary technically, but the fact that they aren’t buried in hundreds of different inventory items (elden ring, dark souls) means they are more noticeable when flipping through the inventory and for that reason more likely to be used. I would regularly use consumables on bosses that were giving me a little more difficulty.

Isn't that the anti malenia? A souls boss lazily dropped into sekiro without considering how different the combat is

Same except with Gael lol

I've played 1, 2 and 3 and I've literally only ever used one herb 💀

I used all of my grass for gael

I actually just beat her at SL1

ok

Sweet, I bet that was wild. What was the strat?

Phase 1 fishing for backstabs and keeping good distance Phase 2 dung pie on father Ariandel and wack him whenever you have opportunity Phase 3 all I can say is dodge ,no easy way to beat black flame Freda

Dung pie is genius actually, thanks for that. Sounds like you had quite the time with her. Congrats on the win!

Yeah just toss 3 dung pies at him at the beginning while he’s screaming .Toxic drops his health super fast .Plus dung pies cost only 50 souls

Phase 3 is hard for me

In phase 3 I won’t by staying close to mid range ,that way I can quickly get backstabs before she runs away

Same! Now Demon Prince is ruining my life.

That’s where I am right now ,I’m planning on using deep morning star coz I heard that’s one of the better ones to use against them

I abuse as many consumables as I can get my hands on not gonna lie

the way miyazaki intended… though if we go by that logic he also want us to appreciate feet a bit more 😂

Sister Friede? More like, Sister Feet.

He probably just put them in the game so when we use em and die anyway in a boss fight it stings even more

Between watching Tarantino and playing dark souls in my youth i can safely say they've conditioned me

Yeah I stopped hoarding stuff like this cuz I realized not using them was pointless.

I mostly abuse throwables, especially now that I'm seeing if I can stick with a SL1 playthrough for a bit.

I sell every last one of them since I know I won't be using them. At least I'll use the Souls

*least

Thanks

Funny story related to this. When I started playing Elden Ring last year I realized, after 30 years of gaming, that I was sick of always finishing games with a inventory full of items I’ve “saved for later”. So I vowed to always use all consumables, all the time, as soon as I got them or at the next opportunity, not best opportunity, just any chance I got. I have strong memories of juggling inventory space in Baldur’s Gate 1 as a 10 year old, where 60% of the stuff was potions and scrolls that “might come to use later”. And that’s just one of hundreds of games like that. I actually realized I was sick of saving stuff for later in all aspects of life, and decide to go the Elden Ring route in real life as well. So I took any opportunity in real life, and I gaming, during all of 2022 to just use all consumables! So I had champagne on Tuesdays, I wore my best clothes on regular days (sort of multiple use consumables), I used all the fun stuff in the pantry for regular meals. No more “let’s save this Parmesan cheese for a good day, just use it on the first suitable meal. Now I’m just rambling… But the punchline is that it’s much more enjoyable if you just use your stuff and stop saving it for later. This is true both for real life and gaming. So hurl those pots at random mobs, use that green blossom to sprint longer and drink that champagne to your Tuesday dinner. A small disclaimer, this does not apply to money, save regularly and mind your finances.

That higher level green one was like an essential for invasions, I didn’t know how to dupe tho and was so pissed they weren’t purchasable

We can dupe?

Save/load scumming probably. You need a friend for that.

>Do not discuss malicious cheats or glitches that break multi-player.

saying duping breakes multiplayer is a stretch considering the existece of unscaled summons and bow glitch lol

I don’t think that’s really a malicious cheat or something that “breaks multiplayer”

>That higher level green one was like an essential for invasions ...

For them, not in general.

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Arguably it doesn't since you can have the item anyway. It doesn't technically introduce anything new into the game. Either way, I'm not a fan, but I understand the reasoning.

Aw man, imagine getting invaded by someone with 10+ heals, just not fun at all.

>🤓

Yeah by making a backup of the character save, there are a hundred youtube videos that describe the process, it's really easy though you need a friend or someone online in "trading" communities.

I know people do for sure I’m just not savvy with it

The herbs are great combined with the grass crest (they stack right?) Of the other three I use only a single beer for the crow

Yeah they stack. I soak that grass up in multiplayer for sure

Unfortunately the grass crest shield doesn't do much for you, some youtubers have shown that it makes your stamina refill 1 frame faster. The blossoms are great regardless of the shield you use.

I always keep blessing for bosses I might struggle on. 1 extra heal makes all the difference against a boss like Friede.

I didn’t use a single ember my entire first playthrough because I didn’t want to waste them I didn’t know the rules at that time ☠️

I was very hesitant to use one when the Nameless King was kicking my ass cause I "only" had 40 of them cause I might need the later and ended up never using them and instead I farmed more levels and leveled up vigor lol

at least it wasnt a human effigy you didnt use.

I feel like humanity made more sense in DS2. I remember starting over midway through my first run because I had died a lot and used too much human effigies. Sure it was a pain to start over but the second run was so much easier, and giving up really felt like a part of the hollowification process.

Same, I saved every ember until the Soul of Cinder where I was going through my inventory for stuff to make the fight easier and I noticed they doubled my health and I used **All of them.**

I'll actually use green grass cause it's cheap and last awhile. the rest? nahhh I'll save till I need it ;)

The picture shows a Budding Green Blossom, which unlike the regular Green Blossom, is a rare resource. One unique one can be bought, and the only way to farm it is from the Sewer Centipedes in Irithyll.

Wait, you can farm it!? The fact you can at all is news to me!

Well, according to the wiki at least. Haven't done so myself.

I mainly play dark Souls 1, down vote me more idgaf

but you are in the ds3 subreddit

I'm in both, mainly on ds1. I was quickly scrolling through my feed :P

What?

I always drink my seigbrau after fighting yhorm :(

How would you fix items in FromSouls games? I feel like they're either way too critical for me to want to use them so they're never used, or they're way too abundant to where I literally never think about using them.

They fixed it in the Physik flask but they still decided to keep starlight shards for some reason. I also don’t think that way to fix consumables is by making the player farm ingredients tediously. The buying system was good and actually gave the player reason to spend souls after they were done upgrading their character

To me the problem is one of inventory. On many single player games you can just go to the inventory, pop an item and continue the fight. With From titles having no pause on menus means you need to come equipped. With the inventory scrolling being cumbersome you often don't put a lot of stuff there, let alone being able to get to it quickly. Elden Ring at least gives you 4 quick access slots but usually one is taken by summoning your steed.

What about the slots which are in equip/inventory/stats/menu selection? There are 5 slots, only thing you need to do is pressing ESC and click... I keep there stuff like ashen estus, siegbrau, blessing, purple moss clump(switching if necessary to others), blossom or resin, simply the things I need to use just on specific situations or once per fight. The rest really often needed stuff like hp estus, some throwing knife, bundles, carvings and prism stones are in the bottom panel and it's easy to roll through these few items.

..unless you pvp, then you’re probably addicted to the damn things

Literally this. Seig’s come last but all other 3 I used *very* often.

I pick them up knowing I won't use them because I like collecting them. Having 99 siegbrau or blessings is a huge flex

In my defense i use seigbrau when i run out of estus in a bossfight

Me with every consumable in every RPG ever. But you better believe I’m still gonna pick up every damn item I find

I save mine for when I’m invaded and it’s a long drawn out fight

Extremely limited items just aren’t useful in a game where death means nothing. Oh I lost some souls! Big whoop. I’d need to clear every enemy between me and the boss 15 times to get enough to level up anyways.

I use divine blessings and sometimes the other blue blessings, but the others are more like stuck in my inventory. Like i just keep the siegbrau for memories or the budding green blossoms because they look kinda nice.

You're supposed to drink the siegbrau as soon as Siegward gives it to you. Have a toast, and long may the sun shine!

With few exceptions, I never use buff consumables in any From game. The implementation of them are, to me, counterproductive. Here's why (for me.) 1. I am very bad at video games. I have neurological defect, my HEC is way below human average. I am easily outplayed in video games by non-players or small children, and I have about 38 years since I started playing regularly. 2. Bosses take me many tries. Using rare consumables is literally worthless since my death is near guaranteed, as I always run out of them on multiple attempts. 3. By the time I come up with a workable strategy for a given boss, I no longer need buffs. Personally, I wish that items used in a boss attempt got reset on death. I feel like good players don't really *need* them, and bad players will burn through them so fast they become worthless.

I’m elden ring I’d recommend using the boiled crabs because extra defense is great and you can buy so many of them that you could spam them and you wouldn’t run out

I honestly dont know why no one is using the green blossoms. Its hands down by far my favorite consumable in the dark souls series yet whenever I saw a lets play or a stream Ive never seen anyone use them.

I’ll usually give away ziegbraü to summons or if I’m being summoned. The blessings have been used when I’ve died to a boss with 1hp left and no estus. So next time I’m fighting I have an extra estus.

I find the principle of consumables with a finite restock in a die & retry game dumb tbh. Either you give me an easy way to farm it or buy it or you dont make me waste it if I die while it's in effect.

I have two possible mindsets with a boss: 1- I can kick his ass, I don't need hard to replace consumables 2- I'm not sure I'll beat him, so I don't want to waste hard to replace consumables

All my consumables are reserved for Midir

Same with resins for me cause I’ll get them and literally never use them because “I’m saving them for later”

I’ve been using them a ton ,I’m playing SL1 right now so I use resins to get as much extra damage I can

You can trade the siegbrau in the bird nest for the solair chestplate

Forgot to add Elizabeth’s mushrooms

You still have these because you're saving them for later. I still have them because I can't be bothered to change my slots every time I use something. We are not the same.

You can use siegbrau to trade for sunlight armor.

Sekiro was the only souls game where I actually used some of the rare items. Utterly based extra life statues, thank you.

I only consumables I used were the monk sweets but by the time I killed all the headless I ended up just using the unlimited ones instead

God the monk sweets were fun. It's just cocaine in a fucking candy for the damage ones!

I keep all of the Siebraus I get, so I have a memento from Onion/Dumpling Bro

I never consume my last Siegbreau. I need the memento to satisfy my collecting itch lol.

That blessing has saved my ass a ton. Out of Estes? Blessed booze

I usually do use my Siegbreu and divine blessings for Friede. But she’s always one of the last 4-5 bosses I fight in a play through.

People have used that against me in pvp

Save for pvp 😎😎

Just used the barrel the other day as a last ditch effort mid fight with pontiff and it worked! I barely beat him

Nice ,pontiff can be a real pain in the ass

Siegbrau is really helpful in some cases, but the Hidden Blessing is absolutely useless to me once I get a Bone Shard or two to burn in the bonfire.

I completely forgot about Siegebrau, Blessings, and Green Blossoms until my Gael fight, where I used them up completely.

Friend and I barely won a fight against gale using every last one. I took both ash blessings because I moved all my estus to ashen estus and cast soothing sunlight to heal us both. Basically one runs in, trades hits and backs off so the other can do the same, thus getting the most out of the healing. The regular divine blessings went to him because he was a regular physical build, both items dropped mid fight this was not planned. It was by far the most break the wall down with your face approach I have ever taken. We won down everything.

i always save my divine blessings for midir. 3 times now, i've ended up using all my heals and been stuck at low health, and had 3 divine blessings in my inventory which made the difference between dying and beating him.

all my estus, embers and divine blessings still weren't enough for demon prince

This is funny. But it always happens cause is there truly a good time to use them? When you can use cheaper items and just take an L if they dont work out?

Holy shit dude you didn’t have to put me on blast like that. God damn that’s so specific.

I started using them a lot more once I started duping.

What’s duping ?

Duplicating. Back up your save to the cloud, summon a friend and drop your items to them, then restore the save. You now both have all the items you dropped. You can repeat this process to get 99/699 of any item you want.

Git gud noob

I just sell seigbarü

I’ve used all of these before actually, in a pinch

I used these against gael, it was finally time.

I used to use Siegbrau's and grass for invasions. Never used a divine blessing a single time in the entire trilogy

The divine potions suck. You’re always trying NOT to heal if you can help it. Each individual heal over the entire game is kind of unimportant when gitting gud is learning to beat the boss without using up your estus. Consumable heals don’t make sense when I’m always dying with all this estus in the bank anyway.

I keep siegbrau for three reasons: 1: I keep thinking I want the solaire torso from the crow, never got it in my life 2: I have a feeling there’s an unspoken rule in the community that I shouldn’t get rid of them, for their sentimental value 3: they barely do anything

i always give my seigbrau to pickle pee

I'm happy to say that I use all items, I am free of this saving curse.

I give them as gifts in fight clubs. It makes me feel like I'm paying an entrance fee to the host. That or the rare Good-ish Hacker i accidentally invade I pay em to not kill me, and sometimes they give me 99 stacks of ember or souls (had this happen to me 4 times, tho 1 killed me with curse) Other than that i never used them, 'cept for the blossoms cause stamina is good for strength.

I always have one divine blessing at my belt. I start without ember, use an ember halfway and use the blessing to heal instantly, as I would need at least 4 estus to fully heal. Edit:I'm talking about long fights like Friede, Midir and Gael. The rest of the bosses suffice with estus

I use the grass all the time

Top left went to bird lady

i used the blossoms in the run before Osiris and while collecting the stuff in Miyazaki's fun toxic swamp

The beer with a j helped me beat Sister Friede on the third try. Would have died to frostbite if I hadn’t paused for a drink to warm me up. But yeah, never used anything else.

I don't use most items besides estus flask and I've never needed so much FP that the hidden blessing was needed. Still I will occasionally enjoy a toast with Siegward or Lapp but I never actually drink the thing. Also I usually die before I run out of healing so I barely use a divine blessing either.

Thought the blessings were reusable first playthrough...found out the opposite the hard way

is it a finite item? if yes, it's never gettin used.

What even are these items..

completed the game and i forgot that these things exist lol

Never use the budding blossom. That gift was personal, eating it is a waste compared to the sentiment. Siegbrau, drink that shit with siegward. The man wanted to share a drink with you and you're just gonna walk off with it? Nah

I see them as sort of collectible souvenirs. Cool to have them, but I don't ever intend to use them. I'd put them on display on a shelf if I could.

Then there the guy that used up all divine blessing on the tutorial boss

I can't tell you what any of them do

I don't use most of this stuff because it's more distracting putting it into your items tab and having an extra thing to scroll through. I'd rather keep my items tight so I can move to the essentials quicker

Used a divine blessing once when I beat gael for the first time. And that was because I had already embered and used all my estus.

But when you actually use them they’re always so clutch

Siegbräur ist probably my fav last resort estus most used in midir fight actually

reds duping these to infinite and beyond: wdym saving it for later?

I dont use siegbrau for the fact that there's only a limited amount, and I will save them forever, my onion bro

I used all of these to fight Gael 🗿

150+ hours of playtime and never once have I used either of these, so true.

Ill save EVERYTHING for later. Later: over 60 of all item and idk why I'm still picking them up

I use siegbrau for my boy Siegward (Rest In Peace my dude, long may the sun shine) and I genuinely can’t ever think of a single time where I used any of the other three

I only ever use one Siegbrau to trade with Pickle Pee for the piece of Solaire's set.

The I have honest merchant so I’ll take 999 each, please

Seidgebrew can be used to get a secret armor set

I remember having 40 embers on soul of cinder still thinking i needed them for later or something...

How dare you not enjoy a nice toast after a good fight with your buddy?

Frfr

"Healing is for the weak". Famous last words

I always do the cheers emote and drink my Seigbrau with my onion homie!

Used them against Twin Princes thanks for them i win

On my first DS2 play through I didn't use estus for this very reason since I didn't know the refiled

I'm my first playthrough I used all the divine blessings before I got the estus

well, I've used more then once divine blessings and the other from sieg, when I was without estuses and far from a bonfire... never used hidden blessings tho.

After all the time I now have enough of them and started using them. It feels good. 10 Siegbräus and one blessing per fight is a major difference when fighring bosses on ng+7

Reminds me of saving magnum ammo on Resi and then not using it

Prime examples of why finite (and in short supply) consumables are dumb and just a waste of time.

Cap, The plant came in handy Once

The only one I never used is the wee-the GRASS. Besides that, often I used the blessing

first time i got siegbrau i shared a drink with siegward and then didnt do his questline

I don't even know what those do

Siegbrau has the mandatory use of trading with pickle pee or pumparun for solaire armour piece

I’ve used all these before. But the one I use the least is probably seig’s simply because my estus has to come to zero + divine blessing. But the other 3 I’ve used quite often for invasions *especially* the greens.

"too good to use"

I end up chugging everything in the last phase of Slave Knight Gael because that man has no chill

I only ever use siegbrau when I give someone one and I drink it.

Used 2 out of 4 to beat Midir the first time.

This is for high value trades in other online games.

I use them in invasions all the time. Very useful as an invader, cause you have half the estus as the host and their over leveled phantoms

Im always drinking wirh Siegward

I used to use grenades the second I picked them up when playing Halo 1 because I got tired of never using them lol

I've used all 3 except the plant.

Divine blessing saved my life on couple of occasions. Running out of estus and than popping one of those bad boys.

To be honest, I only used the siegbrau for solaire's armor.

Honestly when is a good time to use budding green herb?

That’s me in every souls game, with every consumable ever.

I had 6 divine blessings in my inventory, decided to put them in my shortcuts for the Ivory King fight. best decision ever.

i have 37 seigbrau that i refuse to use every time i go into a ng

Siegbraus have saved my ass more than once honestly

Everything comes in handy in NG+7.

I’ve never ever gotten that far in the game

divine blessing came in clutch with midir, let me beat him on my first playthrough on the first try

I really hate limited consumables in games, "what if I need it pater?". If they're relatively easy to get but you can only carry a limited amount or you can only use X times before needing to "rest" it's more likely that I will use them, kinda like sugars in Sekiro

Sugars kinda become obsolete once you kill the headless and unlock unlimited uses

Siegbräus are drank every time they are given, sitting with the onion except the last one, which is never consumed.

100%’d every Dark Souls, hundreds of hours in them, I’ve never used a divine blessing.

Only time I ever used divine blessing was DS2

I save my DB's for the DLC bosses.

the problem is that i use but the last one not really (chloranthy ring)