I have only ever modded Dark Souls 3 and that mod was just the Blue Sentinel anti-cheat mod. Which worked way better than EAC does for Elden Ring. I can’t recall ever encountering a cheater once I installed BS, where as I am seriously considering installing Seamless Co-op just because tons of users report not only better netplay, but also a higher FPS just by virtue of disabling EAC.

I dont even know what EAC could be stopping with ER. It’s an off-the-shelf commercial anti-cheat that is mostly gojna stop standard cheats in FPS games; none of which would be super useful in Elden Ring except maybe wallhacks. I’m not confident Fromsoft even configured the thing correctly vs just slapping it in the game as-is. The number of times I encounter players I literally can not deal damage to even while they stand in place taunting with gestures is way too fucking high.

That said: If there is a mod that adds chain weapons like the dragon dudes in DS3 have or give the chain attack on the Duelist’s axes the way the NPC enemy has, I’d totally install that. The only soulslike I have seen with such awesome weapons the player can use is Nioh, and that is the best thing I thought about Nioh (it also has a kick ass action set/spell system but the Ki system is brutal and awkward).