After beating Malenia with 62 different builds to manifest DLC, this Elden Ring player can finally retire

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The long-awaited 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree has finally been announced, and on top of sending the game's hu💛ngry community into a frenzy, the news brought bittersweet 💫relief to a player who'd been fighting Malenia with a different build "every week til DLC news." 

Community legend JPNB on May 7, 2022. "Beating Malenia with a diffeꦐrent build everyday until DLC is announced" has evolved slightly over time, with a few mods and other bosses coming into play in some installments, not to mention episodes becoming weekly, but the core concept has remained the same: absolutely clowning on the hardest boss in Elden Ring in creative ways. 

There's a huge gap between JPNB's first video, which features a simple Rivers of Blood build, and their most recent episode, which describes a Quality and Faith build styled after an "Elden Gravelord." You've got to get creative when coming up with 62 different builds, and JPNB gets into almost D&D-sty𒊎le role-playing with several characters. One of my favorites is episode 32's Vampire Knight, "an Arc🌱ane/Faith/Quality build focused on... attacks that have a red colored effect." 

"To do this stuff, I keep a backup save at Rennala before I fight Malenia or other end bosses in order to easily respec," JPNB explains in their YouTube description. I'm sure 澳洲幸运𒐪5开🍷奖号码历史查询:Let Me Solo Her, a famous Elden Ring player kno💦wn for carrying others through Malenia's fight, is proud. 

As JPNB told , he has "a spreadsheet full of planned but never completed builds" that may never see the light of day – at lea𝓰st not in the same format, now that Elde🧔n Ring DLC news has indeed come. JPNB previously told that some of his builds were based on students from his fifth grade teaching career – a student who does nothing but call shots in group projects inspired a Summon-focused build, for instance.

"I had found out that I was gonna be a father and doing this series has actually been therapeutic," JPNB said to PC Gamer, "because I'd been going through some self doubt about whether or not I'd be a good dad⁠ – accomplishing a difficult feat every week was one of the things that helped block out those intrusive thoughts." 

I have a feeling we'll hear from JPNB again in some way, and plenty of other Elden Ring players are still doing absurd things even as we speak. Just weeks ago, somebody cas🔴hed in a billion Runes after eating 300 chicken feet, and wouldn't you know it, they're still farming.&⛎nbsp;

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Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, 𒀰IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.