Pure Marlenia

Marlenia's challenge module greatly increases the difficulty while maintaining the original quality, including a large number of new animations, stages and other content

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🎯Mod Target

My main goal was to make fighting Malenia more difficult so that even players who knew the original Malenia well would find it an interesting challenge (this would require the experience of successfully defeating Malenia more than once).

⚔️ Design Concept

Unlike the original, the boss difficulty in this mod is more consistent, and I'm not trying to make a mod "better than the original" - making Malenia better than the developers designed it is an impossible task.

Instead, this mod aims to present a more canon-like image of Malenia: **A warrior who has never tasted defeat, the Faded One has little chance of victory, even considering her injured state**.

🎮 Combat Balance

• The entire battle is balanced and designed around the melee area
• **All attacks and ultimate skills can be stably dealt with in melee and mid-roll situations**

*Light roll and Wing Talisman still offer huge advantages, but I'm not trying to balance the fight around these tools

• Using magic to attack her from a distance will not work (you can try it, you will be surprised by the results)
• The mid-range "area control" gameplay is more difficult

💡 Usage suggestions

• To be able to fight against this version of Marlenia, you need to master the original combat perfectly
• If you have only successfully defeated the original Marlenia a few times, or don't know how to dodge Mizutori in melee without using tools, **STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED** using this mod

✨ Convenient functions

**Version 1.01** | Restores 3 Holy Grail Bottles at the beginning of the Valkyrie phase

**Version 1.02** | No longer requires materials to craft Preservation Pills

**Version 1.03** | This statue resumes the battle with Marlenia (also sets Millicent's quest back one step, and returns the needle to you if you have completed the battle, reaching a new ending)

**Version 1.03** | Added option to train only the Valkyrie phase. If you've defeated Mikaela's Blade phase at least once, you'll be able to interact with the Twin Statues (next to the Blessing of the Roots of the Sacred Tree).

*If you do this, the battle with Malenia will immediately start from the Valkyrie stage, but you will not be able to fully complete the battle*

*To exit training mode, interact with the statue again*

In **Version 1.06** this feature has been disabled due to technical issues, the combat resume feature still works.

📥 Installation instructions

Run **launchmod_eldenring.bat** in the folder (requires Steam version), or manually install the contents of the **mod** folder as needed

This mod uses English and Russian localization files, so some new descriptions will appear blank when using other languages