The highly anticipated Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is finally here, and it's somehow managed to shatter everyone's sky-high expectations. Though this follow-up to 2022's Game of the Year-winning fantasy ARPG is technically an expansion, it's the size of an entirely new game — and as I wrote in my review, it's an amazing refinement of the base game's concepts, complete with a denser, more organic open world and some of FromSoftware's all-time best boss battles. However, given its colossal size and brutal difficulty, it's natural that many fans have questions about how to best approach it, what they can expect to find in its new map, and other topics.
We took to social media on launch day to see if you had any inquiries like these you wanted answers for, and having put well over 60 hours into the Elden Ring DLC at this point, I'd be happy to give some. Without further ado, here are (spoiler-free!) answers for your biggest Shadow of the Erdtree questions.
