If you’re excited for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC but can’t wait to experience more open-world gameplay, the Eldenlands mod is for you. Completely revamping Elden Ring with its own set of DLCs on the way, Eldenlands wants FromSoftware’s masterpiece to feel a bit more like traditional MMOs and RPGs, with plenty of colossal changes and swathes of new content.
The revamp comes in the form of tailpower2’s “Eldenlands Remastered” Elden Ring mod, a revamp of their previous Eldenlands mod that wants to turn FromSoftware’s Elden Ring into “an ever-new game” inspired by both MMORPGs and gaming. traditional role arcade. With the Elden Ring DLC release date likely a long way off, this should fill that gap.
While we’re all waiting for the Elden Ring DLC, this mod already has DLC, as the most recent expansion, “The Master Within”, aims to tell a story of how you rose to power in a future release of yourself and activated it You use to help “four grandmasters”, and there are even new subclasses to choose from, just like specializations in World of Warcraft.
The Eldenlands Elden Ring DLC is also just the tip of the iceberg, as there are plenty of system changes in the mod to go through that drastically change how you build your character and engage with The Lands Between. .
New features in Elden Ring mod Eldenlands
Here are all the new features in Elden Ring Eldenlands:
- Character builds benefit from adapting to a role (like a snow witch theme or hemorrhage)
- Starter classes modified like MMOs: each has an object and a specialization
- Reworked Unique Drops – Items can be found in similarly themed areas (Lightning Ashes in Altus Plateus, for example) to encourage re-exploration
- Reworked Merchants – Sell different items and open goods when doing their quests.
- Torrent Changes – Can be summoned in more areas, but has lower health and must be fed raisins
- New ‘Unstoppable’ Attacks: Inspired by Sekiro’s dangerous attack system, Unstoppable moves through your iframes, parries, and blocks, but can be countered with a headbutt.
- Attack Reactions – When hit by certain attacks, enemies can freeze, burn, etc.
- Raids – Will be added to the Elden Ring mod like in MMOs and will promote co-op. Each will have a raid boss, and defeating them will net you a weapon with randomly generated modifiers.
- World Map Tier System – You now have access to the entire map from the start, but each area is scaled with a tier system, breaking down the challenge instead of having each of the “ladders radically different”
There are many more quality of life and balance changes in Eldenlands, with more content and changes to come as mentioned, so if you want to revamp the game from FromSoftware before the Elden Ring DLC is released, the Eldenlands mod is definitely a great option. There’s even an Eldenlands Elden Ring DLC roadmap, with a Bestiary and The Secrets of War expansion planned.
If you’ve returned to The Lands Between and just want some more general help, we’ve got you covered with a look at the best Elden Ring weapons as well as the best Elden Ring builds. You might want to try something completely different instead, and that’s where our look at the best PC games comes in (don’t worry, Elden Ring has made the list).