Le 11 migliori cose che dovresti fare prima in Elden Ring

You’ve died (of course), finished the tutorial, and finally taken your first steps out into the open world of Elden Ring. …Now what?

• Further reading
• Look for your primary Site of Grace
• Find your maiden and your horse
• Get your Spirit Calling Bell
• Buy crafting equipment
• Find a map fragment
• Find key merchants

Contenuti

• Look for your primary Site of Grace
• Find your maiden and your horse
• Get your Spirit Calling Bell
• Buy crafting equipment
• Find a map fragment
• Find key merchants
• Beat a mini-boss
• Reach Margit
• Unlock the Roundtable Hold
• Head south for a while
• Upgrade your armaments Show 6 more items

While Elden Ring does give you a little trail of light showing you what’s next in the story, it’s usually a good idea to do something else instead — the first bosses of the game will probably crush you unless you spend a bit of time getting ready, leveling up, and finding out how the world works. Here’s what to do once you’ve stepped out into the vast world for the first time!

Further reading

• The best settings for Elden Ring: PC performance guide
• Elden Ring beginner’s guide: 8 tips and tricks to get started
• Elden Ring’s launch is 2nd-most successful in past 12 months

Look for your primary Site of Grace

When in doubt at any point in Elden Ring, it’s a good idea to search around for a Site of Grace. These are the “bonfires” of the game, acting as checkpoints, a way to level up, and a way to restore your health and reusable items (in exchange for respawning most of the monsters in the world). Perhaps most importantly, they also act as waypoints that you can teleport to at any time when in the open-world map.

Sites of Grace are everywhere, so you can’t really go wrong looking for them. The first should be straight ahead of you past the Tree Sentinel (we’d don’t advise fighting this guy anytime soon), in a ruined church called the Church of Elleh. You’ll also find a blacksmithing anvil here for upgrading and your first merchant of the game, so it’s an excellent first stop.

Sites of Grace that you haven’t found yet will typically have trails of gold flowing through the air toward them, which makes them particularly easy to see at night. Once a Site of Grace has been activated, it will be a small flame of light that you can return to at any time.

Find your maiden and your horse

While the first NPC will joke about you being “maidenless” it’s actually a very important prompt for the game. You need to find your maiden — and that’s done by discovering more Sites of Grace in the open-world map. The easiest path to do that is to explore east, where you can find swampy ruins (and a number of unpleasant surprises). Skirt the ruins and look for more Points of Grace: There are several in the area to find. Once you find one, rest at it, and your maiden should appear.

You will gain the ability to level up, and a ring to summon your magic steed, Torrent. We suggest binding the ring to your shortcut menu, which you can customize on the right side of your main menu. Torrent is an excellent companion to explore the world with, and he can make many (not all) open-world fights much easier during your first hours.

Get your Spirit Calling Bell

When you receive Torrent, waste no time teleporting back to the Church of Elleh. The Church should now be filled with a strange mist, and you will be able to speak to a witch named Renna there. The witch will give you a Spirit Calling Bell and the Ashes of some wolves. You can use Ashes like these to summon familiars during boss battles (it costs some FP). They are excellent at distracting the boss, and a huge help for tougher boss battles. Look for more spirit Ashes around the world to learn more summons. Eventually, you will be able to level your favorite summons up.

Buy crafting equipment

Stay at the Church of Elleh a bit longer and take a look at the merchant’s inventory. He sells both a Cracked Pot and a Crafting Kit, for 300 runes each. Gathering 600 runes should not be difficult if you don’t already have them, and these items are vital for your playthrough. They give you the ability to craft a wide variety of items from materials you find throughout the game. These items can do everything from cure poison to hurt enemies, and you can craft them at any time now that you’re prepared.

Find a map fragment

Around this time, it’s also a good idea to follow the trail of Grace for a little bit. It should take you to a Site of Grace for the Gatefront Ruins and a camp of soldiers. The camp of soldiers will be tough but a good way to practice sneaking, learning movesets, and different types of combat. There’s also a cellar with a chest hidden in the camp, a common feature of camps throughout the game.

But most importantly, you should find in this area an obelisk with a soft glow, especially noticeable at night. Go to the base and you will be able to pick up a map fragment for West Limgrave. Every region in the game has these map fragments to find. They make navigation much easier and often point out important landmarks where you search for new goodies.

Find key merchants