Ranking All 36 Elden Ring NPC Quests From Worst To Best
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I’m not sure if I can consider this a “popular request” or not, but the NPC side quests are one of the few things in this game I haven’t spoken about at length, if at all. Some quests are pointless but have great rewards while other NPCs have you jogging across the entire map just to get some mushrooms and an axe no one uses.
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Pls rank the noble's slender sword It is the best weapon in Elden Ring
Can’t wait for the “ranking my own rankings” list.
Rank. All. Players. Too hard?
Rank all godskin fights.
Yo I loved the mods you used, your character looks so edgy in that distinctly Bloodborne way that I just love so much.
Fun fact: if you progress in a REALLY weird way, you can summon Sellen for Red Wolf of Radagon. That’s also a technical quest reward.
I didn't know you could do that. How does it happen, do you have to get her the new body first?
@tevenpowell8023 ye basicly you have to nearly complete the game and go back to one of the easiest legacy dungeons and you can kill somthing the base Kitana can kill with enough mind can do.
@@christianlangdon3766 And she doesn't even help with Rennala? Just the wolf? Even though at that point killing Rennala is her goal? Kinda Lame.
Kinda fun too though, might do it on my next playthrough just to see it. Cheers for the info.
red wolf has a ton of magic resist, so she's dreadful, even as an agro tank. was funny to watch her though.
It’s so weird, I have no idea why they had her summonable against the mini boss of a dungeon you can easily take out at that point, against something with high Magic resistance 😂
I’ll always remember Alexander literally landing the final blow on Radahn, and then still saying he “ran away and hid”
Two ways of interpreting that:
1: Developer oversight
2: King wants you to have the honor
Always saw it as Alexander being afraid to challenge him first and only following you instead
Alexander got the final blow on fire giant just as I died once, he’s a real one.
Alexander, my good friend
he is the one dude i consistently summon for radhan
Literally nothing is funnier that Vaati saying "rank all the rune bears".
😂😅😂😅😂 where this at i missed it
@@iianmitchelldubit's the very last comment he shows in the intro 😂
Thank you for this
#1: The bear in the cave in Calied near the dragon bridge. Fuck that rune bear, I gave up and stealthed around him. At level 132!
Fuck that bear yo hate that thing @@DemonaeTV
Fun fact: Depending on what demi-god bosses you kill before facing gideon he will use the spells of said demi-gods against you. Kinda like he was ravaging the corpses after you defeat them. A very creepy guy indeed.
No, he just listens to what you say, and is the “all knowing”. He just doesn’t use the attacks, because they want him to be a culmination of every boss you’ve fought.
I’m not mad at the suggestion Gideon is ravaging corpses and whatever else. We know he travels the Lands Between / has agents out there watching and listening to everything, so it’s not out the realms of possibility that he or one of his lackeys is there watching. The only thing I have to say against it, and it’s a big one, is that you get boss spells by trading the remembrances to the Finger Reader.
I think it’s one of two, maybe three things;
1) Gideon and the Finger Reader are in cahoots and he’s getting what you get with that in mind
2) Gideon is watching you kill these bosses / hearing how you did it and killing them in the same way in his own world (if you subscribe to summoning being in some way dimension hopping and each character has their own world)
3) Gideon has the knowledge of these spells from the books he reads combined with the “stories” you’ve told him
(It’s a game, he’s one of the last bosses, it just makes sense)
yeah he used malenia and mohg abilities on me. It was very cool to see
@@mzwethu3805 This is off the top of my head so I’m not sure if it’s all of them, but I know Malenia gives him scarlet aeonia, Rykard gives him the skull with the exploding trail, and Mohg gives him bloodboon.
I just beat the shit out of him super quickly before he could do much of anything. Dude was a punkass
From what i was taught in my self-defense class, our body is a weapon, and if we go by that logic, this counts as an "all weapons ranked" video
You can also equip the Briar Armor to do damage by rolling into enemies, so you literally CAN make your body a weapon in the game
@@LtCdrXanderthe number of benefits and quirks to briars really is kind of over the top.
Makes sneaking easier cause you don't break stuff jumping
Neutralizes shield tear and branch talisman builds
Helps chip stamina against shield hugger builds/mobs
I throw a pair of pants/gloves on for general exploration purposes in the same manner people use blessed dew/takers cameo combo.
Take it off for bosses where it causes general aggression increases/to recover fast roll for pvp duels and you have a genuine talisman level of change without the slot sacrifice
@@LtCdrXanderbriar armor with The lightning ram ash
our body is also a temple, so it could be a ranking all of marika's churches video
Self defense class lmao you victim 🤡
“I’d rather rot into nothing as I am, than bloom into something I’m not”
Rip Millicent, your questline was always my favorite with the lore implications it provided
I really like it, but I don't get the last part. Wasn't she supposed to tell something to Malenia? Why is she fighting some sisters of hers all of a sudden?
@@ArgumentumAdHominem what she had to do was give back the needle that belonged to malenia so that she could quell the rot inside her.
Her "sisters" are accidental offshoots of malenia, just like milicent herself, and they obey gowry to become scarlet valkyries. Milicent has the most potential, but for her to bloom, she has to be betrayed (by us). If we choose to help her, we basically ruin gowry's plans as millicent dies as herself, and her sisters are slain.
Her questline absolutely sucks; I felt absolutely 0 emotional attachment to her. Oh cool, I talk to her after she teleports across the map to a random rock formation, go grab something, give it to her, repeat, kill some invader NPCs. Boring and uncreative especially compared to ds1 questlines.
@@ArgumentumAdHominemwell, her sisters were sent by Gowry to kill her so that she would become a Scarlet Valkyrie, he even asks us as the player to help her sisters
So you’re given the choice to either help Millicent defy Gowry and carve her own destiny, or fight alongside Pollyanna and kill Millicent, so that she can fulfill the destiny Gowry set for her
Though, to be completely honest, I would’ve loved a third option
The option to return the needle to her, so that she can be convinced of something else
She is not a monster
She is not a tool
She is a beautiful scarlet flower, that blooms through any and all adversities
@@logeyperogi1805 Really? I totally missed that interaction with Gowry. But why then didn't he kill her at the very beginning of the quest? Why wait till she got to the haligtree?
I hate how you pretty much have to use a wiki to complete all of them. NPCs just moving to seemingly random locations, requiring backtracking and luck to find.
100%
Stuff like that would be amazing like 20 years back where people would be spending hundreds of hours exploring the game without any help from the internet, at best using game magazines and their friends to learn some stuff.
It's just different times now I think, people can still do it but it's now a mental effort.
There's so many ways to bug the quests out and lock progression and just have 0 in game pointers towards where to go next it just becomes annoying.
Completing Nepheli's quest allows her to show up as an NPC summon for the second to last boss of the game, and she's a pretty good aggro tank during it too, so that's a decent reward as well.
Shabriri can also show up and they can fight together. The epitome of “so how did you meet the tarnished..?”
Melina does the same for free, and even heals you and uses some badass incantations.
@@uroy8371 wrong fight mate
@som4859 Right, I forgot you fight different bosses in the same arena xD
Thanks!
@@bunglebenjoyerisn't it either Nepheli or Shabriri but not both at the same time?
Alexander's quest hit me hard at the end mainly because I didn't expect them to give him the usual Jars Death animation. When he exploded, I shook
Don't they all kind of explode?
@@JosephWalker-ip7pdBe didn’t expect him to explode, he thought he would just disappear into dust like the others.
Well, you are right, it is not expected from your side, but his last words do compliment it, at least for me
No lie, I actually shouted, not from fear, just moderate shock. Like finding a rat in your garage style, just wasn't what I expected.
I gave him a prayer at the end, damn near teared up.
Corrections:
-Kenneth is not required to complete Nepheli's quest.
-You do not have to do online invasions for Varre's quest.
Another correction
Not only do you get a larval tear from the painting rewards in eastern liurnia, you get the juvenile scholar set. Which is unobtainable otherwise.
Another: you don’t have to finish Diallo’s questline to get the second petal whip, you can just kill him right where you find lanya
you can also agro boggart to make dung eater not kill him, if the goal is to keep boggart alive long enough to give dung eater the seluvis potion. then celestial dew to clear the sucker punch debt.
@@setcetcyou don't even need to do that unless you're wanting his ending you can finish his quest line without ever speaking to boggart
@@zombieslayer2016 sometimes I wanna buy a boiled crab after a boss fight to wind down 😔
The funniest part of the fact that Gowry has you complete Millicent’s entire quest line is the fact that her quest line spans pretty much the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME. So depending on when you meet gowry the guy looks at your character and says “yeah go beat the rest of the game, fucker”
Same with fucking dungeater. It’s not a quest bundled within a quest like gowry but just not a huge fan of the absurd levels of progression these quests ask of you. Fortunately I assume that they’re mostly a one and done situation, so if I go back for new game + I will/ ignore the majority of quests. Not sure the quest have much to offer in new+ games
@@monhi64mainly gives you some alternative rewards for choosing a different path; for eg. in nepheli/seluvis quest u can either get her as a puppet or 2 ancient smithing stones (one from nepheli the other from gostoc) after defeating morgott, in the same way if u help millicent in the end u get rotten winged insignia, if you help her sisters u get the prosthesis talisman. Siding with jerren goves you another ancient smithing stone, siding with sellen instead gives u jerrens armor and glintstone kris. But yeah after ng+ there isnt much point in doing the quests apart from varre’s quest ofcourse that teleports you to mogh
@@Wakari_ I think I was especially, near unparalleled levels of salty because I spent like twelve hours doing the dungeater quest just so I could unlock his summon only to get to the point where you give him the potion and had no option. Spent another hour trying to figure that out only to go check on seluvis and he was dead, no warning no idea what happened. Legitimately sort of the longest quest I’ve ever done tangentially because of haligtree only to be uncompletable at the last task
The entire point of Kenneth's questline is to put you in the direction of the first half of the Dectus medallion. It also would've made more sense for the second half of the medallion to be located in Fort Gael, not in the fort that's in an area with endgame scaling
24:12 little known fun fact. If you die to the dragon after he warned you you can summon him to help you against it
Apparently you don’t even need to die to it, you just need to HIT it and run to Yura and he’ll call you a halfwit and still want to fight with you
@@LowTierVergil_Official "You attacked the dragon?! Damn, you're a fucking dumbass. Alright, let's roll."
@@LowTierVergil_OfficialChad calls us a dumbass and still refuses to let us kill ourselves. Fucking epic.
For some reason you can't ride torrent after summoning Yura, so he actually makes the fight harder.
@@illuminarchie6383ye exactly man idk why people give out this tip when it made the fight 10x harder for me way back when 💀
Kenneth Haight/Nepheli Loux's quest is my favorite, because it is pretty much the only one at the end of which I actually felt I did something good in this god-forsaken world.
Yeah I wish there were more that set up the world for success. Kinda like how new vegas did.
Yea I'm kinda upset that rusty didn't mention that nepheli loux literally becomes the queen of limgrave. Like, we literally usurp a corrupt ruler and establish our friend as the queen. That's sick as hell
I mean, the soldiers in stormveil still attack us on sight bc we killed their god and replaced him with a random woman they've never heard of but they'll come around
In the ending slides it says that Nepheli established a new Roundtable Hold with a Twin Maiden merchant that has a „Sell“ option.
Also, you can get Nepheli to help you fight Godfrey during the fight, so that's cool too
Rare FROM happy-ish ending.
*Rya at 35th place*
*chat picks up pitchforks*
*Rusty quickly explains himself*
Chat: 'You are forgiven... FOR NOW!'
Hes not
His order is weird. Thops , latenna diallos doesn't feel like good quests for me and are in top ten and the interesting quests rya, gowry dung eater are so behind
I found her quest really cool in the sense that if you pay attention to what she says you can find the illusionary wall in the volcano manor that then leads to rykards area, so 35th place is really harsh
Dudee ensha in #16💀💀💀
Fun fact, Irina and Hyetta are likely the same person. The latter doesn’t appear unless the former is dead, they look extremely similar, and her father having one of the grapes fits thematically.
Bud, they ARE the same person. Same face, same voice actress, same everything. Only thing we don't know is what kinda Frenzied Voodoo bullshit happened to make Irina become Hyetta.
@@atlasgraham154 I say “likely” because it’s never even addressed (let alone confirmed) anywhere in game. In theory it could just be reused assets, though I find that unlikely personally.
@@baconsir1159 this is the first time ive heard this but i 100% believe it. on my latest playthrough i just ran to get the claymore without speaking to any of them, after beating godrick she was not there dont understand any of the connections or how/irina has to die for her to exist
I think Irina got taken over and became Hyetta like the bloody finger hunter becomes shibriri? Maybe?
@@crownedguzz6190most likely. I mean, Vyke’s corpse gets possessed by Shabriri, why not Irina?
i loved alexander's questline . he went from an average jar to an absolute beast, dude got a goddamn shoryuken at the end and outlive other NPCs that canonically really strong. a lot of dragon in farum azula was beaten down by SOMETHING and i suspect that SOMETHING is a jar looking to throw hands.
There are a suspicious amount of non-skeletalized Beastmen corpses in Farum Azula that look like the results of recent demises. Now where could those have come from? 🤷🏻♂️
@@ryanpcollinsthey are there even if you alexander is already killed.
it wasnt even a simple shoryuken. he got Ken's Shinryu Reppa, which is his LEVEL 3 SUPER in SF6. and they look exactly alike. really cool.
@@ryanpcollinsprobably Bernahl. Since those corpses are near where he invade you. But I could see alexander beating some beast men to a pulp
the spot that Alexander shows up in is where an ancient dragon normally is too, I presume he kicked its ass and that's when we meet up with him
Selevus is the only NPC that I attacked on principles on my first playthrough. I still think it was justified.
You still are. Dude makes sex toys out of actual people.
I killed Boggart on my first play through, honestly, I didn't like his attitude.
This reminds me when I slap/hit patches after he sended through that chest trap, 😂. I felt it was also justified.
Dung eater has consistently been on my "kill on sight" list.
He's THAT bad.
@@FaustusSeven”I aSkEd YoU nOt To diStUrB mE oMg Ur So LuCkY tHe RoUnTaBlE iS kEePiNg Me FrOm DeFiLiNg Ur BoOtY 💩😡😡😡” that alone made me INSTANTLY target him the moment I saw him underground. Massive point down emote moment. :) 👇👇👇👇👇
Millicent's questline is so distinct and memorable that I, after missing her at the Altus point, picked up the Valkyrie's Prosthesis in the Shaded Castle and IMMEDIATELY thought "oh, I should give this to Millicent when I find her" despite not having seen or interacted with her quest for a solid 6-8 hours.
I love that if you show Seluvis’s potion to Gideon, he actually recognizes it and takes it from you to dispose of, calling Seluvis a “dolly botherer.”
One thing that wasn't mentioned in the video, but Fromsoft added an optional way to complete Varre's quest line if you play offline (or just don't want to invade some sweaty tryhards). If you make it to Altus Plateau and get to the Writheblood Ruins, you can invade an NPC that will complete the quest. It also allows you to get a second Great Stars if you want two for some reason (maybe you want to be a super chad wielding rusty morning stars for some reason). Upon killing him, you can return to Varre and continue the quest line as normal.
Dual-wielding them with a Prayerful Strike and Poisonous Mist ash to swap between was one of the most fun runs I had, honestly. Just... so much healing. I stopped stocking Crimson flasks because it genuinely just wasn't worth it.
Well, until Farum Azula, anyway. Goddamn GSD.
Use finger. Invade world but use the finger severer to go back to your own world, it will still count as a successful invasion.
@@Naptastic_voyage **IF** you connect to the internet (or are able to). Maybe you bought a console version and didn't want to spend for their online service, for example.
@@SilverFoxR right, but I'm just saying you don't actually have to fight the annoying tryhards, the invasion attempt is enough.
Yes. I am aware.
It's crazy how different everyone's experiences are with the game. On my first playthrough I naturally came across every one of Hyettas quest points and my player has been madness themed every since.
Same, the frenzied flame is my wallpaper
I found it on my second playthrough. I had started with the left side of liurnia resulting in me considering the shack cleared.
But my friend naturally backtracks repeatedly and had it basically set up in one game session.
So I kinda get the argument either way.i feel like if she gave a compass direction with a gesture to the 'light' id have had it no problem. But also probably would have over searched on the way to the capital. So... *Shrug*
It mad me mad on how he dissed the frenzy seal, madness incantations are alright in Pve but PVP is a whole different level
@xOrbxt frenzied bust is one of the best magic spells in the game I think especially for pve because the ai can't dodge it. Frenzied flame skill boosts in by 20%
For me, I kinda had a similar situation with Millicent, although I did need to do some research towards the end to kill that damn sack of putrid shit lizard in that puddle of aids juice, buuut it was worth it
Warrior Jar Alexander is my favorite NPC and favorite NPC quest. It's a friendly rivalry between you both with each trying to prove they are the best. Like Red & Gary.
10:04 Regarding Gurranq: You don't actually have to fight him, I just ported somewhere else, did some other stuff and when I came back he was relaxed, apologized and gave me an incantation as a peace offer.
Don't happen with me. I just checked and he still attacked me.
I think some of this npcs "quest" are there so you don't miss others... for example Gowry's quest is just there so you have clues to find Milicent
Honestly, i think treating gowry as a separate quest is a bit pedentic as he is pretty much just a part of Millicent quest.
I found millicent first time exploring caelid and ı couldnt know what to do ı remember every 2 or 3 hours checking by millicent if ı did anything related , but then when ı found grace in sellen magic village(whatever the name of that place is) ı saw a glowing text near Grace telling me visiting the shackle before of that point ı was running around dont know exactly what to do ı even tried leveling up my character s immunity stats a higher point thinking maybe i can resist scarlet rot to help millicent 😅
@@blackbloom8552 Agree with you, you NEED him to do Milli quest, he's the one to fix the needle and the one that tell you where to shove it.
Remember, Varre's questline got patched to include an npc in Altus that you can evade even if offline, which drops a second Great Stars if defeated. You don't even need to beat him too, you can invade the npc, die, and go back to Varre.
I'm sorry, but Boggart's death gives you his Bell Bearing and giving it to the husks actually makes it far more convenient to get infinite damage negation crabs. Sorry Boggart. Move closer to a Grace next time.
Bloody agreed.
23:14 the only one were you receive a modicum of affection back from a character, you interact with and it’s one of the few people that actually loved her companions so to speak. Additionally, it’s the only quest that relinquishes the control of outer gods completely unless the moon is a outer god
Personally my all time favorite quest is the jellyfish quest. Why?
Its because everything about the quest is so cute, the jellyfish and their interaction, and the length of the quest is nice too. I wish we got more quests of similar length to this one.
I also love that quest. It was nice that one of my first summons had its own happy ending after I carried it with me the whole game.
Oh, allow me to ruin that for you. The Jellyfish sisters are dead children. You can find a grave not far that has the summons name
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt I know they're dead, but the you can help them reunite, and their reunion is really sweet.
@ValbrandrLeonhardt yep, I know that too, which makes it better that the player reunites them since themselves can't do that because you know... they're dead. Now theirs souls are together thanks to the player.
My brother and I swear by the Jellyfish summon, that she's the best summon in the game. She's saved us countless times in boss battles by taking agro long enough for us to heal and get back in the fight. She truly felt like a companion by the time I reached the endgame, and getting to help her reunite with her sister was a beautiful end to our adventures.
I think the frenzied flame seals' lack of requirements is specifically to make anyone that tries to figure out why go mad
The only good thing about that seal is that you can offhand it and still get the 20% damage bonus to frenzy flame spells, so you can use a better seal like the Erdtree Seal, and still deal the bonus damage of the Frenzied Flame Seal.
@@PhazoGanonSeal is also good for INT build that want Law of Regression for PvP
It's pretty simple why it has no requirements. They only way you can get it is by having the frenzied flame inhabit your body. It's just a part of you, and any strength you gain makes it better as a result
@@jstar3382 very nicely thought out!
my own theory is that since frenzy wants to "melt it all to nothing", it has no requirements as it is chaos incarnate, nothing and everything in one
or something of the like, I'm sure that phrase has something to do with it
@@PhazoGanonIt also **scales with dex, strength, and int**. With 40/40 Str/Dex and 22 faith, you can pewpew for 223 incantation power, and actually pump out pretty good damage on frenzied burst.
I think the Spirit Jellyfish quest counts, if for no other reason than I really like it for its simplicity and how it needs a creative solution purely from the player's intuition and knowledge.
The only problem I have with it is that when you finish it, it should really upgrade your Spirit Jellyfish Spirit Ash into a 'Spirit Jellyfish Sisters' Ash that summons both. I know I know, that might destroy the game's balance, is it really able to handle TWO Spirit Jellyfishes? But you only get it in a late game area, it shouldn't be too big of a problem.
Also it could give us the sister's name. I'm thinking probably Argentia or something similar to keep up the theme.
I genuinely cried to the ending of Alexander's questline. By the end of it I cared for the character and they grew on me. They were with us the whole way. His questline isn't great because of the charm, it was great because he felt REAL.
Ya know,Thinking back on Thops quest chain deeply, Especially after finishing the game.
It kinda warms my heart but equally saddens me in a way too. It really is one of the best yet simplest side quest off of the game.
All you gotta do is to simply talk with him and give him the key he requested. After that he was genuinely excited that he got a chance to visit the academy and unlike Sellen, he doesn't seem to have any ill intentions or messed up motives but as someone who just want prove something and achieve his dream of making a spell no other sorcerers could come up with. So he immediately started studying and in the end, he finally created a brand new spell that could literally negates even the mightiest of all spells,Such as the Elden beast's Elden Stars which straight up jaw dropped me but alas he unfortunately passed away as a result.
What really gets me is the fact that Thops is considered as someone who had zero talent in sorcery, Hence his title being "bluntstone".
Yet the very man, conjured and created a spell that could protect you from gods is truly something else if you pay enough attention.
Hence why it warmed me knowing i helped him to achieve his dream by doing something as simple as giving him a key, a small act of kindness.
but i also feel sad knowing he wasn't alive anymore to see his creation but he will be remembered and i sure as hell wish i could thank him for protecting me from one of the most annoying spells in the entire game if he were alive.
Another thing about the spell Thops created. In the description it says it worthy of a new conspectus (the branches of magic they study i think) of the Academy. Thops literally created a new spell that was never thought of before and died without knowing it how much of a discovery it was.
Damn 😢
How exactly did he die though anyway? Was the act of creating the spell too much for him? Did he get headbutted by the Burger King mascot while testing it agains physical damage?
@random_something1852 Yeah, the NPC sudden death syndrome after quests doesn't make sense in Elden Ring like it did in the Souls series. Perhaps he fell victim to the eldritch horrors that surround glintstone study but was lucky enough not to become a graven mass.
At least he died with his eyes closed. So its safe to assume he passed peacefully
Genuinely love Millicent, I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to invade her even when doing the frenzied flame ending.
Betraying her at the end is the only way to save her life.
@@lharsay That may be so, but she doesn't want to be anything but herself. She says so herself that she'd rather rot than to flower.
@@lharsay You’re not saving her she takes the needle out herself because she doesn’t want to “become something I’m not” and be a puppet of the rot
I killed her at Dominula on my 2nd playthrough for the talisman, but I felt so bad.
5:30 to explain, the Frenzied Flame Seal scales slightly with Strength, Dexterity, Intellegence, and Faith, meaning you only have to invest the stats needed for the incantations while leveling your preferred stat and still have it scale up, no matter your build, so that's what makes it better than the Finger Seal for builds that don't use high Faith or Arcane
5:34 for reference, at 30 faith and 40 dex the frenzied flame seal does equal damage as the godslayer seal itself when casting godslayer incants, even with the latter's boost. on dex/faith hybrid builds it *well* outshines the finger and godslayer seals at anything that isn't only affected by the faith portion of your spellbuff (order's blade, bfb, healing incants etc). can't say it doesn't have its niche
totally screenshotting 33:10, you explained the exact feelings i had when trying to introduce my friend to elden ring, and they killed boc on first sight. Literally every npc we met, their first quesiton was "do they drop anything good?". thank you rusty, very cool
What’s crazy about all of these quests is that at launch most of them were unfinished. Literally like almost a year later patches quest was finally finished in a patch. So was Alexander’s with the little pot village. No telling what other quests were unfinished and they patched in later those are the only two I remember
I still think Blaidd got done dirty and I feel like there should be some way to help him or turn him into a puppet summon. I'd love that in a DLC. Anything is better than now.
All of Nepheli’s quest after giving her the stormhawk king was patched in after release too I’m pretty sure
Jarburg was added about a month after the game came out.
Not to mention there's still apparently something to do with Patches and Tanith that needs an ending
After you beat Rykard and meet Patches in a different location, he gives you an item than you can then give to Tanith that doesn't do anything as of yet
Maybe it'll get expanded on in the dlc but I have no idea
I love how you have Marble Gallery from Symphony of the Night playing in the background. Really adds atmosphere to you riffing off every NPC quest. 😂
On the first Playthrough of Elden Ring I did I managed to progress Alexander all the way through and he is totally number one, after fighting him it gave me a genuine smile like it was the last bout of honor for him.
Other than Ranni's quest, Millicent's is one of my favourites in the game. Helping her get back up from the rot and figthing side by side through the lands between, eventually leading to one of my favourite areas in the game- Elphael.
I adore how I can hear the laughter in "rank all of the runebears"😂
The worst part of Corhyn’s questline is that unless if you’re an int build you basically have to use 2 larval tears to have enough int for law of regression and then to swap your stats back to what they were before
If you equip the correct combination of equipment talisman's flask and great Rune you don't need to respect at all you can get just enough int🎉
@@MichaelRigoni if you’re a faith build with no int at all, like even less than 10, there is no way to get up to 37 int with just great runes and talismans. If you had that amount of intelligence you wouldn’t even be bothering with this quest line, you’d be going down quests for characters like sellen, thops, and ranni for items that actually reward your build and playstyle as a sorcery user. 37 intelligence requirement on an incantation is just ridiculous and this particular incantation will only be used once by a faith build and it’s for the purpose of progressing corhyn’s questline if you want his ending
@@t.b.cont.Yes you can?
Grafted sword (5), Godrick rune (5), flask (10), twin glinthead (6), soreseal + int talisman (10). That is plus 36 int from all available equips/buffs.
@@GreyException How do you get +5 from the Grafted Sword? And just for clarification - it's the Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear in the Wondrous flask and Marikas's Soreseal Talisman.
@@EndertheWeek use the weapon art?
I love hearing Symphony of the Night background music in your videos, great choice
I can’t wait to watch Rusty redo all of his ranking videos once the DLC comes out!
I'm waiting for Rusty to rank all of Rusty's ranking videos
My current run is a Kenneth Haight playthrough. I’ve got his face data and all kinds of restrictions- I have to at least have all his weapons/spells, I have to dress like a noble, and goofy little things like “don’t hurt demi-humans because we’re reestablishing communication with them”
This is legendary, the great Kenneth Haight would approve
Kenneth is a really decent and sometimes loveable character. He is the only noble NPC in the game that took the noble codes to his heart (compared to the cut noble NPC that treats omens like shxt).
Silly funny comments at the start aside, I genuinely really enjoy your ranking videos as does my fiance, going into topics with pretty good detail which is something I don't see a lot of people do with this sort of content, we enjoy hearing hints and thoughtful comments on what to use things for and adding bits of realism to them for a creative mix of insightful humour.
That intro and transition was great. Rusty, never change.
Varres questline has another way to finish it, without having to go online. You have to kill Magnus the Beast Claw in one of the Ruins in Altus Plateau, if I'm not mistaken.
This
You don't even have to kill him, you can just invade then use the Finger Severer item
This was added after a patch or two. I still remember when you had to invade online three times to do this (not win, just invade).
When they added the alternate method, I suddenly cared again
I'm currently running through patch 1.0, and I ran through Varre's quest by "invading" to help Yuna. All totally offline, so that's an option too
There are two elements of the Seluvis quest I love: first his animation where he bends over to talk in your ear. It's so unnerving in the perfect way for the pattern of static NPC poses during dialogue to be broken in such an uncomfortable way. Second is the Dung Eater's voice line as you turn him into a puppet. It captures the theft of agency that puppetry entails, and it's sad that I've seen nobody else praise this vocal performance because it's so hidden and locked behind being a piece of shit, but hey that's From Software for you. Also, doesn't Shabriri show up as a summon for Godfrey if you complete his quest? Likewise for Nepheli Loux. Also, I hope Gideon gets an alternate questline path in the DLC, and I really hope Kalé gets a questline implemented there too.
There was a questline for Kalé initially, but they cut it. One quest involved you collecting "mist" from sleeping enemies that he would use to sleep himself and ease his frenzy. And another sends you down the underground prison to discover the fate of the other nomads. Hyetta more or less replaced that role.
@@Svoorhout85 I know all too well how they cut the best vocal performance in the game 😭
Maybe we'll see Kalé in the trailer tonight (if there is one at all)
lol huge respect for leaving the Millicent “fanart” in the description 🤣
Btw, the difference between Alexander's talismans is 5%. Youre better off using the lesser version through NG and going for the upgrade in NG+ since you can get it in 5 minutes versus the HOURS it will take you to complete the upgrade
Millicent was my favorite despite how long it was! She is true waifu! A sword maiden who wants to be by your side and fight alongside you? Yes please! Hell even at the end she didn’t want the rot to cause you harm as well.
She's armed and dangerous
Doesn't she also invade, you. Than she dies soo idk about the title of greatest waifu if you know you can be with her and she has at least one attempted murder of you.
@@christianlangdon3766The scarlet rot drove her insane (same as Radahn) but she regains her consciousness after losing her right arm. The way she fixes her hair as soon as she can stand up after you give her the needle shows that she almost certrainly wasn't conscious whe she invaded you in the swamp.
@lharsay I mean cool idea, but like many things In elden ring there is nothing to support this aside from looks. It's just as possible that she is a mass murderer who killed 90 percent of all caelids intelligent lifeforms, and upon losing to you, she happens to gain amnesia and becomes a good person.
Obviously, yours is more plausible, but mine isn't like impossible within the context and info that elden Rang provides because it's 0.
@@christianlangdon3766 I take her changing hairstyle as a strong evidence because it's the only time we see an NPC change hair in any Souls game. If she was evil with amnesia we would find that out later but there is nothing that would suggest that.
So slight correction about the Patches quest: You can't teleport back until you find another site of grace.
We get a full look at Margit ripping off his own arm, it's gotta make you wonder, where does Millicent insert that needle that the screen has to turn black?
No we didn’t??
I'll always get a little teary-eyed when remembering Alexander's quest line. What a champion.
You forgot Roderika's Jellyfish. She is a good sponge against every enemy and the diallogue of the stars... Hits different
My favorite quest chains :
1) ranni, iji, blaidd
2) Millicent, Gowry
3) Alexander
4) Corbyn, Goldmask
5) Fia, DnD, Rogier
6) any npc quest linked to frenzy
7) Diallos, jarbairn
8) Volcano manor quests (zorayas, bernahl, patches, tanith...)
9) Nepheli, Gideon, Kenneth
10) sellen and jerren
Bonus : maidenless guy, hewg and roderika and Guranq. Guranq does give some of my favorite rewards tho.
I'd probably put Diallos and Jarbairn at number 4 and Nehpeli/Kenneth at 5 (moving Coryn/Goldmask and Fia and co. down), but otherwise I basically agree with you here. Definitely think Ranni and co. have the best storyline as a group, Millicent is really solid and only falls short since there isn't much else related to Rot/Miquella (which might change with the DLC), and Alexander is similarly great and is improved by Jarbairn as well, only just falling short of Millicent.
Good list!
I think, Rusty got a little over his head putting Ranni quest at 11th place. Extravaganza is ok but only to some extent.
All my friends love Milicent, and I don't understand why.
They're all like, "Milicent is best girl, must protecc."
And I'm like, "You mean that bitch who tries to kill you in Cancer Swamp?"
Ryas questline is well liked because it’s one of the only ones where the npc can survive at the end. Pretty neat
This video brings a type of "was done with everything in life but rediscovered the joys of liveing" vibe that i just really like, idk anything about your personal life but you sound really happy making this video and i think thats really cool
I've always felt like the side quests here have some of the best and the worst of what the game has to offer, at least in terms of writing. There are some excellent characters and great writing, and then there are some moments that just scream 'this area felt a bit empty but we wrote ourselves into a thematic corner, so we're just going to drop a random quest here.' It really feels like in a game like Elden Ring, side quests almost never feel like they're as important or interesting than the main story. Which... okay, I realize that was a 'no shit Sherlock' sort of statement, but it feels particularly accentuated here that the game could use about half the side quests being dropped because they don't feel like a part of the world, they feel like a part of the game.
"They don't feel like a part of the world, they fee like a part of the game."
Dayum, that is a really strong and affecting statement. Thinking about side quests in games like that could help a game dev take their game from good to great. Legitimately excellent advice, man
I didn't care about a single character except maybe Bob. was very disappointed that you can't kill the ghost upgrade girl. I guess from is trying to go mainstream. what happened to killing Andre and fuking yourself over for the whole playthrough?
Alexander is worthy of number 1. The single most emotional quest in the game. He deserved nothing but my best at the end, and I held nothing back knowing he was worthy, of nothing less.
So happy they kept the convoluted, nonsense questlines in a huge open world, making vital build gear completely missible. Love it.
13:34
OH MY GOD FINALLY A FELLOW FORTISSAX ENJOYER??? I DIDNT KNOW THE DAY WOULD COME WHERE I WATCH A VIDEO INCLUDING FORTISSAX WHERE SOMEONE DOESN'T TEAR HIM APART
You have earned my utmost respect for this.
Didn't know people hated that fight, it's one of the few fun dragon fights in the game. Even the death blight which I thought was gonna be a huge annoyance wasn't that big of a deal.
@@The_Novu Exactly, people say the lightning under him is annoying since you cant lock onto his feet and the fact that half of his attacks are the same as the other ancient dragons.
Personally he is in my top 3 favorite bosses in elden ring and it makes me sad seeing how much hate he gets
The sheer piss-taking arcane obscurity of Millicent's quest is honestly part of the appeal for me. I completed it no-guide on my first playthrough and it was ridiculous, I was lucky I didn't break the quest 8 times. But the large times/distances/hassles between meetings eventually produce an epic sense of scale and meaningful camaraderie that really sells it. I'll never forget buffing her with Golden Vow against her sisters like LFGGGGGG, then getting absolutely gutted by the conclusion.
I dont believe you did it without reading some sort of guide. You can break that quest about a million ways lol
"If you've already been inside Murkwater Cave, you can just teleport back."
Doesn't that chest trap prevent fast-traveling? Pretty sure all the teleport traps do. I mean, yeah, all you have to do is reach a bonfire, but needing to sneak around a runebear is still more dangerous than, say, the one the transports you to the Divine Bridge.
You're like 15 seconds away from the nearest grace, and you probably already found it cuz it's right along the road
On my last run i met blaidd, talked to ijii and beat radahn to open up nokron and get the finger slaying blade before meeting ranni and theres a bit of unique dialogue- she is a lot less cold and far more welcoming of you when you appear with the blade. She talks about how blaidd couldnt manage to get it but a virtual stranger did and she finds it interesting, when she asks you to go talk to the war council she is a lot less dismissive.. doesnt change much but it was an interesting thing i noticed last run
Yeah you talking out your ass. You can’t pick up the fingerslayer blade before talking to Ranni since you’re not „destined to open it“ - try again but this time, make it believable.
"Hello? Is anybody there? Someone who might be Interested in ranking the great Kenneth Haight!"
Jerren is actually not an issue with Sellen's quest cause he won't appear to kill her until after you extract her primal glintstone. Most of the time I find myself doing it at the very end of the game for the smithing stone and it works without issue.
19:00 Never used white mask questline for anything other than early game grinding, but im pretty sure all you need to do to get him to give you the fingers is beat Godrick and hear what the two fingers in round table hold have to say. Works for me every time.
You barely stopping yourself from laughing at "Rank all the runebears" is so funny
The FrenzyFlame seal is the only item that let's you punch someone until they go insane.
One thing to note is that killing Radahn before progressing Sellens quest does not end it. I have done Radahns fight almost every single time before the Sellen questline and Jerren always waits to kill her until after I've gotten the primal glintstone. Maybe there's a small caveat that I've managed to miss that makes him kill her but I've never had it happen.
I think you're fine as long as you don't return to talk to Jerren after killing Radahn. Because I've also killed Radahn before getting Sellen's Primal Glintstone.
@@charles-edouardmorel3173 maybe, I’d have to test it but I think I’ve done that as well.
I think it's that, because I didn't know you could talk to Jerren again until I realized that I didn't have some item you get from him.
I think my favorite part of your videos is when you read the script, comment on the script, then leave both parts of the recording in and just move on like neither of them happened. 10/10
Here’s something you probably missed about Shabiri, if you get to the three fingers before going to mountain tops then shabiri wont be there, and you can just loot his armor.
you're my number 1 NPC quest rusty
Alexander carried me in that fire giant fight. His uppercut special attack can insta stance break that giant
(I think, it all happened so fast and I was behind the giant while Alexander was in front, I only saw flashes of flame coming from him, not the giant and saw the giant topple down seconds after I stance broke him earlier)
Gostoc’s “quest” is cool once you discover everything that’s happening… which is bad quest design.
Finding out the guy was stealing our souls was interesting, but nobody knew it was happening at the time. At most a small few people noticed a small discrepancy.
If you don’t have him open the main gate, he follows you the side way, and that he actually follows is pretty surprising (especially given how NPCs ‘move’ from place to place in these games)
If you move forward a certain amount, then go back, there are 3 places he’ll be, with unique & interesting dialogue at each spot.
See him the first time and he’ll open a shop back at the gate (he’ll also do this after you get the rusty key if you hadn’t seen him the 1st time)
Catch him all three times and he _stops stealing_ your souls! That’s cool. Granted by then you’re practically finished Stormveil…
Trouble is if, you don’t die between every grace that first time thru the game and also aren’t paying very close attention, you won’t see him in the three places he can be.
I get that From likes to be obscure, but _too_ much is left to discover months later from the wiki.
I’m still sad it made me skip the emotional early steps of Roderika’s quest because, for no good reason, she just gets skipped forward if you go near a site of grace in the next region north… oh and for no reason the site where you see Boc, that’s *very clearly* still in Stormveil and Limgrave, counts as being in the next region 🤦
Maybe it’s not “her quest”… but she and the smith develop a bond that goes all the way to the end of the game and breaks your damn heart at the end. It’s amazing. Why would they have the early part autocomplete goddamit
One thing I like about Rya’s quest is the multiple ways it can end. When she asks you to kill her you can
1. Kill her
2. Give her the tonic of forgetfulness
3. Not kill her and kill Rykard instead to which is the best outcome
Rya's quest is weird, especially considering Boc's quest where you can call him beautiful yet not the same for her.
Well in Rya's case it's not a matter of "ohhhh I'm ugly :(".
It's "the woman I thought was my mother lied to me my entire life and I'm actually the spawn of a horrid ritual involving one of history's greatest villains"
@@ByzanQueen yes but why can't I be nice to her anyway
@@smergthedargon8974 Based
@@ByzanQueen My point was meant to be "Why can we help Boc accept himself but not Rya?"
before the Barrier of Gold nerf, the Frenzy Seal was the best choice for a mage to cast Law of Regression, other than that this seal scales with every stats except arc, so it's pretty good for like dex/faith builds that lean more into dex
...except that's also incorrect, because you can cast Law of Regression with any seal, whether you meet the requirements or not. All that matters is whether you meet the requirements of the spell. I'm not sure why it works that way, but it works, even in PvP. It's been my go-to opener ever since I figured that out.
@@notquitenil wtf, well, at least it's still the only one that scales with dex, which is nice 'cause vyke spear scales better with dex than with faith
You bite your un-forked tongue! We love Zorya in this household!
I found something out about Shabriri, if you get the frenzied ending before you get to the mountaintops and don't kill him, then you get to summon him for Godfrey, it's so wierd
As someone who recently got into Elden ring and am constantly browsing the internet for progression and advice, I found your previous videos to be boons for me, so thank you for sharing your thoughts and advice to the public.
Have you beat it yet? If not, where are you in your playthrough? Just curious.
@@Zx2Solomon I think I’m pretty far along the game- I’m in the area with the fire giant, I’ve bested Radahn and Rennala, going for a mostly strength build with a sword and shield.
I'm only at the intro but it's nice knowing that by the time the DLC is out Rusty still won't be out of things to rank and by then he'll have to redo half of his rankings again.
“It’s not like Rya is all that memorable either.”
Me, whose favorite Elden Ring character is Rya: “Oh.”
The interesting thing on the conclusion of the millicent quest... the harder option gives you the lesser reward... if you don't count the needle. But the needle does count for a lot on the first playthrough as it allows you to get all three endings on one playthrough... if you have a usb drive and make backup saves.
Something I also like about Bernahl regarding his armor is how he was painted up to be a candidate for Elden Lord. He wasn’t like most other Tarnished, he was up there with Vyke in power and fame until his maiden sacrificed herself to get Bernahl to Farum Azula.
Edit: I also think you missed Jerren’s quest line. Which gives you the earliest Dragon smithing stone in the game progression wise.
I think Bernahl's maiden died before he got to Farum Azula. If I'm remembering correctly, she tried to act the part of the kindling Maiden but ended up just burning with nothing to show, which lead to him joining the Recusants for revenge on the Erdtree and Greater Will for the death of his Maiden.
The only one who can light the flame is Melina, as she's quite literally born to do it. Well, her or the Frenzied Flame.
@@atlasgraham154 Even if the Erdtree didn’t burn when his maiden threw herself into the fire, he was still sent to Farum Azula one way or another.
@@Godseeker-Yharim I mean, so was Alexander. And Bernahl invaded Farum Azula, and from npcs like Vyke, Dungeater, and Alberich, we know that you don't have to be in an area to invade it.
@@atlasgraham154 Alexanders different. He most likely jumped into the Giant’s Forge which sent him to Farum Azula. Given how we know Alexander was attempting to temper his body in Mt Gelmirs flames, how he said he was going East, and the fact that the Forge of the Giants is directly East from where we talk to Alexander at Mt Gelmir, it can be inferred that he physically jumped into the forge after the Fire Giant was killed and was sent to Farum Azula.
Another difference is that Vyke, Bernahl, Dung Eater, and Alberich are all Tarnished. Which meant they can invade others. But Alexander is a Living Jar. And so far we don’t see or know of any living jars that invade us.
The best quality of the Frenzied Flame Seal is not its requirements but its weight. It weighs nothing so when you want to really min-max on a melee build but want to have access to some basic Incantations it saves you 2 points in Endurance.
Part of the problem though is that if you are using it as a weightless seal for buffs, then you could be using one of the other weightless seals that you get way earlier, since buffs don't care about incant scaling and that's the only punishment for not meeting the requirements for a seal. If you also want it to deal damage, then you should just put the points into endurance so you can use a seal that will actually do damage, because it gets outclassed in scaling by basically every other seal in the game, and the on or two points won't kill the build - especially since, again, you can't get it until you've killed two Shardbearers, the Draconic Tree Sentinel, Morgott, gone through the sewers, killed shade Mohg, and successfully completed a dropping puzzle, after having done Hyetta's quest. Whereas the finger seal is 800 runes, the godslayer's seal is in Stormveil, the Eritrea seal can be picked up off the ground pretty early in Volcano Manor (which, if you start Rya's quest, you can warp to as soon as you reach Altus), the golden order seal is just sitting on the ground in a church, and the dragon communion seal is dropped by an enemy in literally the second location of the game.
Can't wait for Rusty to rank all of the ranking videos.
Ah yes, my boy Alexander at number one, just where it should be-DID HE JUST SHORYUKEN!?
They need to give us Alexander's sick upper cut as an ash of war for fist weapons
It ought to be a remembrance, because he’s a goddamn Legend.
Usually I do Dung eater's questline first so I can have him as a summon for Mohg in the sewers. Gank the guy, get his set, than get Boggart to Altus.
It's a bit surprising how beefy Patches questline is. So not only does it give you more insight into more of Volcano Manor but you have his feelings for Tanith and then returning back to his cave. Guy also gives three gestures.
Saying Rya, one of the most beloved NPCs in the game, is trash was a bold move
Like he said, its not rya whos bad, her questline is shit and pretty useless lol
The Frenzied Flame seal for me isn't about the no requirement thing.
It's about the fact that it boosts Frenzied Flame incantations. And I use them regardless of whether or not the enemy in question can be inflicted with madness (especially Unendurable Frenzy, which is a straight upgrade to regular Frenzied Flame).
Inescapable, not so much since I've only been able to make use of it against Gideon.
Frenzied Bolt, on the other hand, I've found fairly useful as well.
Course, I also didn't know until later that Howl of Shabriri is a buff.
The absolute last straw from seluvis is gating the magic scorpion charm behind his quest. Do you know how many times i started a character, ignored that asshole for a while and accidentally locked myself out of the charm by progressing the much more pleasant npc that is ranni? like, 3 times, man.
Same, I think I'm missing it on all of my int based PvP characters at the moment because I messed up his quest. (It's not that great in PvP at least)
Foon fact, Seluvis himself might be a puppet under Pidia’s control. You’ve been FOOLED!
Can't wait for ranking of all Rusty.'s Ranking videos