Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Merchants...
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There are a total of 19 "merchants" in Elden Ring, excluding any sidequest NPCs, summons, and other unique characters. They offer consumables, crafting ingredients, swords, shields, arrows, and even knowledge of the world around you. Precious knowledge such as... "Revenants will take damage from healing incantations" or... "Seluvis is a huge asswipe".
The spirit of giving and gifting is in the air, and that means putting soft christmas jazz music in the background actually makes sense now!
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1:37 - Merchant Kale
2:28 - Weeping Peninsula
3:15 - Coastal Cave
4:28 - Mistwood Ruins
5:24 - Castle Morne
6:09 - Saintsbridge
7:03 - Liurnia Lake Shore
8:10 - Bellum Church
9:11 - Raya Lucaria
10:31 - Forest-Spanning Greatbridge
11:48 - Mt. Gelmir
12:58 - Leyndell
14:13 - Caelid Highway North
15:32 - Caelid Highway South
16:53 - Dragonbarrow
17:59 - Mountaintops
19:04 - Siofra River
20:09 - Ainsel River
21:11 - Mohgwyn Palace
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Any outro is great in my book if you skipped making one so you had more time to play hades.
Would love some Hades content cover by you :D
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Lantern guy in Weeping is top tier
Absolutely essential + beachfront property
And he has an important feature he is not the only one with a lantern and he is the one who is better for he is better known.
Lol dude, that merchant only sells zweihander.....every other merchant sells explosive bolts or poison arrows and throwing knives...are you stupid?
He sells the Zweihander, best boy
Bro soon as I seen he had the bb handlantern I was like LETS GO THIS MF THE GOAT
Kale is GOATed:
Has a name
Is friendly, gives advice
Cares for his bros
Is friends with Blaidd
Sells a crafting kit
Looks like Santa
Also Merry Christmas everyone!
He also had a Quest that would have lead to the Frenzied flame ending, but sadly never made in to the final game.
@@outerheaven4384 Damn, his voicelines are so great. Fromsoft basically commited crime by cutting this quest from the game.
@@zekkekeipa6521 at the same time, it might be good they cut it out - we don't have to see Kale die a horrible death like Hyetta
It's true, we love him, we stan
Thankfully Vaati’s frenzied flame video restored it
Kalé gets S tier solely because he spreads Christmas Cheer all year 'round
I mean what can I say, he got that Santa Claus drip
Also cuz his cut dialog is phenomenal
S for Santa
That's the worst kind of person to be
@@alyxparker4410 Someone got a stocking full of coal last december...
I love that Kale says that if you kill one merchant, all of them will hate you forever, and that just doesn’t happen.
Then again, can’t blame him for trying to bluff. It’s like buying the “protected by ADT” sign instead of actually paying for ADT.
I think that text is prolly from back before all of Kale's Great Caravan questline got cut. Would have been cool if they did all blacklist you tho
I imagine they would hate you if they spoke to each other but they don't talk to each other.
@@xevinsjaegernaut1414
Apparently, there are no unlimited call/text plans in the Lands Between
Putting a sign that specifies what brand security one has is retarded. Lock picking lawyer shows how to defeat some of the security systems and all have weakness that can be found and exploited, detailed online
He glance at us and know his kin are in danger
"You can bring flying foes low with gravity" That sounds like a message a player would leave in stormveil castle when you encounter all those war hawks
"bird ahead, therefore try gravity."
😂
@@seferofe pretty sure I saw this exact message at stormveil lmao
@@fedweezy4976Thin sort needed ahead
Bro. Kale is S-tier for the crafting kit alone. Not to mention he has minor quest significance with Blaidd. He has the Torch, Telescope. And one of the cracked pots. That’s great stuff and then consider the fact he’s right at the start. Clutch merchant anyway you figure it.
3 pots
He even tells you to buy the kit i recall... s tier
Not to mention if you start as wretch he is the first access to armor that you find
Rusty has bad takes from time to time. Like his "top 10 worst spells in DS3" video. Fireball; fireball was his #1 worst spell
If only his quest line was still in the game
In my library every single merchant that sells a cookbook is S-tier simply because I just loved collecting all of those.
In your library? What lmao
Never used a single cookbook or crafted a single item in my main playthrough, and yet I strangely agree.
@@saphironkindris the merchant nest rays lucaria I think sells a cookbook with sleep arrows, and those things are great for enemies like the Godskin duo
@@SupremeWaffle2021sleep pots are better
@@saphironkindris I'm on my first playthrough now and I still collect materials for stuff that I'm not going to craft
The merchant near fingerprint shield doesnt sell anything or attack you. He just plays his music despite his bros runnin around wit madness from their eyes. 😄
He attacked me when I attacked him with a Royal Night's Resolve Halberd jump attack . . .
@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 wonder why?
@@alsohenry 🙄 was just checking on his condition
S tier
@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172vigor check
I feel like the lantern sellers earn an A minimum. It's the one item that I can see every character on every build always being able to use.
Kale is SSS tier, homie was gonna have a questline that had something to do with the frenzied flame with some of the most powerful dialogue in the game. "If that's what they expect from us, then that is what they shall get from us!" That shit hurted my soul
Fromsoft having a VA deliver the single most emotional and heart wrenching line in their entire game just to cut the it and the associated quest to get it.
I have to rate Kalé an S+++ solely due to metagaming the knowledge of his cut questline. And he's the first person you meet who's nice to you after Varré calls you maidenless.
I can’t get over all the people who attacked varre the moment he called them maidenless and permanently aggro’d the guy. It was so funny that guy was pissed on top of taking the maidenless thing to heart
He isn’t gonna stop until he ranks quite literally everything in Elden ring is he
Oh, yeah, you betcha.
He'll stop when he makes a video ranking his Elden Ring ranking videos.
Gotta keep up that youtube grind. Doesn't matter if the videos aren't quality, so long as you get them out.
@@techpriestemily oh god 😅 I never thought about that
Next up: "Ranking the Elden Ring Dragons"
Finding merchants camped out in extremely remote places like ainsel river and mohgwyn palace was a highlight of my first playthrough
The one by the broken Altus bridge is underrated af, bro is one of the few merchants that is nice and apologizes for not having too much interesting stuff and most importantly plays music for you😎
Didn't even mention that the dragonbarrow merchant sells infinite serpent arrows. The only other source of these in the game is the snails in the walls of volcano manor, and since killing them gives an okay amount of runes you can run through that corridor two or three times then spend those runes on the arrows to get a full resupply. Also, serpent arrows with the serpent bow has massive poison buildup. Like, 3 shots to poison literally everything massive. Love it for later bosses as it's so easy to proc and gets a lot of damage over the course of a full fight. Dragonbarrow merchant could honestly be S+ tier.
Yeah and your own physical IRL body will have died of aging before the boss dies of poison
@@wildcardgambler deadly poison and rot melt boss health bars even late game.
There is a lesser version of poison that stuff like poison mist inflicts that would indeed take forever but the serpent arrows are deadly poison.
Use rain of arrows with serpent arrows and you can poison anything with a big ass almost instantly.
Bows are incredibly useful in this game. You can pull aggro from a mile away to break up enemy groups, you can cheese many bosses just by giving them poison or Scarlet Rot from outside their aggro range (even freaking Niall!), and of course you need bows to farm the blood crow at Mohg's palace. It makes your quality of life so much easier, and shortbows are so light, that there's really no reason to ever not have one.
i gotta hear the niall strat
@@kokotomenance344 There's a spot somewhere around Castle Sol where you can stand and shoot Niall through a hole in the wall without even entering the castle. I don't know where it is exactly, but you can find videos of it online.
(It may have been patched out at this point.)
my first playthru i mained bows as my ranged weapon and they were so good. I used crossbows too early game, and later used them mostly to inflict status effects (sleep bolts on the godskin duo). I struggled with Niall even using summons, so the arrow cheese spot was amazing
I got the pulley bow early by running around and once you get that baby up to +6 the first half of the game basically becomes a Skyrim Stealth Archer simulator.
I really need to try them out one of these days. As massive as Elden Ring is, there isn’t enough time in a single playthrough to adequately appreciate half of the the things that an average build has available to them (except if you’re running a pure Arcane build lmao)
Like your straight up start and no gimmicks and abrupt end. Your comedy without soundtrack of laughter is highly appreciated.
You missed that the Leyndell merchant sells infinite Bloody Fingers (though by this point you can join either of the two invader factions making them a bit redundant, they’re still useful if you’re avoiding joining for roleplay reasons though)
Also Kale is named because he originally had a questline (and plays a role in Blaidd’s
Regarding the disappearing Cracked Pot from the Caelid Highway South merchant:
The game will still give you no more than 20 pots in a single run, even if you take the 3 pot starting gift. Taking the gift removes 3 other pots in the world - this one, and two of the four in the Auriza Side Tomb.
The starting gift gives you _three_ pots?!
The golden great arrows sold by the pseudo-cockmunch in leyndell are actually a lot more useful than you'd think, since their explosion grants you golden vow at no FP cost.
I feel like the coastal cave merchant could have gotten one rank higher just for the broadsword. It is the best non-somber straight sword in the game in terms of damage after all. Sure it doesn't have a thrust R2, or is as long as some of the others, but if it's damage you're after then this is the one you want.
It's actually nuts because there's literally no other weapon category where one weapon is the strongest with every infusion. Usually there's at least one Str and one Dex.
Wait, you mean the one you get from choosing confessor? Man, I used a scimitar instead because I liked the animations more. Never knew it was so good.
I really like the fact, that the merchants in Limgrave sell Smithing Stones. Sure, the're not unique Items, but hitting them all up allow you to upgrade a weapon to +5 I think, without going into any of the tunnels, which is nice on repeat playthroughs. Also the broadsword is the highest AR Straight Sword in the game, and even though it has the inferior straight sword moveset, it is absolut class in a dual wield build. Also the Saintsbridge one sells pickled turtle necks, and the recipe for that. Hey stamina is useful.
Plain smithing stones only allow for +3 weapons (I think they take 12 smithing stones to do that)
You need smithing stone 2 to get above that. I don’t think anyone in Limgrave sells that particular one.
They didn't at the game's launch, it's a very sweet change
Okay, so I would definitly reconsider the merchants in Caelid if you'r doing a bow build. All three of them sell a different arrow limitlessly: Regular, fire, and poison. Super, handy, and will be returning to them many times in the future!
keeping this in mind for if i ever pick up the game- Crossbow/bow centric is basically how i play this companies games where they have them.
the troll head weakness thing is more than just their riposte spot, if you shoot them there it stuns them really hard, it has a whole animation.
Kale deserves to be AT LEAST A Tier. He's near the beginning of the game and next to a Site of Grace so he's the most easily accessible merchant, very useful early game. Bows are severely underrated cause they're not weapons, they're TOOLS, you use them to peg annoying enemies from afar to weaken or outright kill them before they're at melee range, so him selling you arrows never goes obsolete. And most importantly, HE'S THE ONE WHO INTRODUCES YOU TO BLAIDD.
Most most importantly, the crafting kit is absurdly useful
Arrows are goated for turning off those flame spitter elevators so that you don’t have to fuck around with sprinting to the safe space. It’d be nice if magic worked too but hey somethings gotta make the arrows more useful
Merry Christmas to all and to all please don't kill our random campfire merchant's. The first one kinda looks like a thin Santa.
Merry Christmas dude. And please keep making videos like this! Your rankings are really fun to watch!
I mean, the last one sells an unlimited number of Ghostflame arrows, the better version of the bone frost arrows
No mention of the golden greatarrows sold by the isolated merchant inside the Leyndell outer wall?! Those are fantastic items for buffing your allies and self in co-op! They’re an infinite supply of mini golden vows that cost zero fp to use!
Merry Christmas, Rusty. Enjoying your content quite a lot, and having a timed video release for today was a great move.
Kale gets bonus points for getting the ball rolling on Blaidd's questline. Sure, there are ways to skip around a bit, but being able to meet him early (and completely trivialize getting the Bloodhound fang at the very start) is still nice.
The Braodsword at the Coastal Cave merchant is a top-tier weapon for the entire game for many builds. I 100% suggest picking it up for just in case you need something fast.
I usually stick with the Longsword because I can’t handle not having pokes
The poison darts and rocks are actually great, means you can poison stuff without losing weapon damage, even if youve pumped nothing but int. Course mages wont need poison since they can just one shot the boss.
The imprisoned merchant is also good since the pulley crossbow and burred bolts can pretty much solo the game for you(except the bosses immune to bleed)
Heh Comet azur goes *PEW*
Thank you Rusty. The holidays are always hard for me but this made my day a little better.
10:15 even better! he sells you the Fanged Imp Ashes which you need to get the GRAVEN-MASS TALISMAN(8% to ALL sorceries that do damage) on Albinauric Rise located on Consecrated Snowfield, one of the few things I got on my own without looking it out and felt so cool about it. if anything that guy is a S tier to me
12:39 he obviously has the guilty hood beacuse he is guilty of warcrimes at the hood duh
ps: merry xmas( I literally hate the english translation of cristo, is hard to write)
Christ mass
You don’t need those for Albinauric Rise, you can just throw a few crystal darts at one of the Imps already there and it will attack the other one
Love how you couldn’t be bothered enough to make a Christmas video so you just put on Christmas music in the background of this vid sometimes
The Broadsword is pretty much the best, and strongest, straight sword that isn't unique, with the best damage of all of them. Even for just that I'd want that merchant to be in C at least.
Happy holidays! Love watching your content man :D
Is there anything rusty can't rank, like, wow
Everything Kale sells is incredibly useful if you don't avoid consumable, bows, and are playing blind. As the notes he has have pretty ok hints.
Also he gifts us the ability to craft for the low price of 500 runes.
He also introduces us to a wolf lad and gives us an emote.
Easy S tier, he has done more for me than any real person.
Cue Metallica's sad but true
Kalè visited my house and gave me presents, can confirm he is santa
So I'm getting back into Elden Ring after no lifing it for the first like 2 months of it's existence and I found your videos on accident thanks to a single thumbnail. As a result I've seen all of your big tierlists and are now hitting the meme ones and it actively taught me many things I never considered nor didn't really care about but was somewhat aware of [Fire is good] and it's been a great experience. Thanks for also handling this topic, which is the most important in the whole game, obviously.
Saintsbridge is A tier. He plays music... and that's it, but its still better than all other merchants that don't play music. Also kalé is S tier because his voice actor voiced Cypher, my favourite agent in Valorant
Fun fact: all music merchants will attack with frenzy if provoked, while normal merchants won't
@@ballisticm0use72 that's actually good to know
There are some gravel stone directly under the first of the two golems in the way for the great jar in Caelid
Picking a couple of stone keys you can go there from the beginning
What an amazing Christmas gift
Agreed
I'll have you know, celestial dew is vital on your first seamless co-op run. For when you realize ypu have to separate for Alexander's quest or you'll piss him off...
Merry Christmas rusty thanks for another banger
My favorite is the one playing gehrman’s theme, I think he’s on a bridge in altus
22:02 there are 3 or 4 that respawn at fort Haight, its a fairly recent change. they did not respawn before iirc!
I love your videos! You are not only funny and creative, but your multiple skills make your videos very distinct from other content creators. It always makes my day to see that you've uploaded a new banger.
Another great ranking video. Have a nice Christmas :).
I feel the sentries torch would have fit in more as an Additional reward that you would get from the tree sentinel duo at the gates since that is the only sentinel that actually carries the torch
The merchants outfits are so great though. They should get a break just for those. I wish we had access to the ones that had the full face covering. Looks so good
The Merchant across the bridge in Limgrave was one I completely missed and had to look up the location of after beating the game when collecting armors and what not, same with the one on the ramp after you get into the academy.
Just realized the sentry’s torch looks just like the giant torch things stuck into the battlefield around Leyndell
And I thought Christmas Couldn't get better
The spinning crossbow broke me.
wow what a great christmas present
merry chrysler rusty
I have to say, though, the merchants playing music on their instrument or bow or whatever that thing is have to be the most aesthetically pleasing.
Merry Christmas, Rusty! Your dedication to quality over quantity is something I can only aspire to. Each video from you is entertaining and fun. Have a happy holidays and a great new year!
Ah, Kale...the only memorable Nomadic merchant because
1. He's the first merchant you find
2. He's named
3. HE'S DRESSED AS SANTA!
Seriously -- I actually yelled out "HOLY SHIT! Kids look its SANTA!" The first time I ever played Elden Ring and me and my kids have never lost our wonder for Kale.
I love the naming conventions of your videos
A merchant run might be an interesting sort of roleplay. You use the items they sell and the equipment and spells they use.
Objectively wrong of you to rate Kalé as C tier. He's S tier, because he sells you the crafting kit, a super essential item and also a standard torch for caves, telescope and a decent shield and chain armor if your current armor (or lack thereof) isn't suffice. This is your "fireball is the worst spell in DS3" all over again
Bad take on the note; finding out game knowledge ingame in an immersive way will always be superior to alt tabbing to internet resources. Edit: cut content implies that the notes are taken on crows to pass information between merchants, so yeah it is absolutely an underground cabal
Love the background music. Very chill.
8:40 okay but spinning weapon on that crossbow looked really cool
I usually listen to rusty's vids in the bg while playing elden ring, so ffs my face wanted to implode from laughing when I saw the high speed helicoptering
Subscribed just for the outro. Classy sir 😎
Saintsbridge and Forest-Spanning Greatbridge are S-Teir simply for the tunes.
Also, you can totally farm that gravel in the gorge on the way to the colosseum with the giant Jar warrior in Caelid.
Super slowed down Christmas music in the background is a nice add
"Otherwise hope you like hunting dragonflies"
That's why i have a bow, for those pesky buggers.
The slow pan of the merchants having you in the background going Absolutly bonkers with that flail got me dying bro
22:03 bloodbone bolts are amongst my favorites, on the pulley bow they can output suprising dmg with almost no investment alongside being infinitly craftable because this guy and the merchant who sells meat and bones.
What’s the set you’re wearing at 16:07? I recognise the leather chest piece but naught else.
Also, some of the Lyendell merchant's clothing items can be found elsewhere in the game. I remember getting the ruler's robe for fashion, and then finding it somewhere else, realizing I wasted the runes.
0:15 how is he spinning like that?! I can’t stop laughing!
The enchanted shot ash of war is what the followers use with the dwelling arrow so yes you can do that back to them
WarOwl already did the “I have no closer” outro thing
Top tier is the one who you find playing the instrument (saints bridge)
I love sitting there just listening
2:07 “i don’t think i need to point that out to you”
oh i think you do, says me who never even knew about crafting until farum azula bc i never bought the kit
if u just wanna get the golden scarab in the rot cave these additional preserving boluses do come in handy early on besides the ones in that one shack, don't think id would go out of my way to craft them though.
Rank paintings next!!
And merry Christmas everyone!
I’ve been giggling at “a parking lot of sentient, carnivorous woodchippers” for like 10 minutes now.
I actually laughed seeing the guy rotating his blade in the background XD
Nice video man
so, what about ur armor with the red scarf, is a mod? can u post the link?
thx
I love the merchants XD I think it's fun to collect all cooking books and armor sets. And I just love how some of them open shop in the most isolated and intransitable places 🤣🤣 Kalé hands down takes the crown without him I wouldn't have acquired the Blodhound sword.
8:42 Seeing a crossbow be treated like a hovering fidget spinner is so bizarre for so many reasons.
4:11 from my understanding, this is the game trying to tell you to aim projectile attacks at troll's heads, since doing that forces them into a long stagger animation that you can easily exploit
The sped up spinning halberd just kills me everytime I see it
I love the weeping one next to the knights cavalry I did a 'challenge' run (no it's not really a challenge) but I could only use stuff i got from one merchant. So if I randomized to get a crap merchant then I would have a problem, but I got this guy and omfg. He sets you up so well. Elden bling and a viable weapon? Plus a talisman that buffs your HP??? AND INFINITE KUKRI!?
Yeah this guy's my goat.
I appreciate the smooth jazz Christmas music
before watching the video i just wanna say that both merchants in the weeping peninsula are awesome
Have a very merry Rusty Crisrust
Ever consider doing a video on your pervious videos but just the parts that have gotten outdated due to updates? Some of the older tailsman, incantation, weapon and spell videos have hugely outdated parts
The one on the way to Mohgwyn's Palace is playing the violin in the pitch black. With sanguine nobles just randomly around. He's a chad.
the golden seed you get as a keepsake is also pulled from Caelid
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite creators. Your level of smart assery is inspiring lol. Please never stop roasting the gamer world
16:49 remember we have warning labels about keeping your hand away from business end of a chainsaw while it on for a reason. People will find this shocking to find out I'm sure. Hell I didn't even know about it because I just didn't even tough magic. It's took me until I got the fallenstar beast jaw which immediately because my main weapons on my Dex character.