Agreed, never cared for that elitism that people always try to push, especially when the people who push it hardest always use strong, cookie-cutter builds that they just copied off some forum or other.
The reason why the enemies in limgrave tunnels were so tough is because they were strong against physical damage, they are however weak to strike, like hammers.
Bro, you need to go into the Siofra River Well, the only reason people were dyeing there is because it's an elevator and their stupid asses forgot to pull the lever to bring it back up, so they just willingly walked into a hole.
This is around the time the game had just released - and I was on discord with my friends who were also playing it. Each of us were doing our own thing and sharing stuff with each other if we found something interesting / unique. So I randomly find this dome like structure in the middle of a forest with an underground elevator. Went down the elevator. It kept going. And going. And going. And then - my jaw just dropped. I didn't wanna spoil it so I just told my friends - 'hey guys just check this place out there's something very interesting'. I was being a little coy about it. So they went there too and they were all like WTFF These are the kind of moments that this game gave us that were truly special and memorable. Will forever cherish it.
@@aneeshmenon5885 the first two months where the community was discovering and experiencing stuff together was peak, can't wait for the dlc to experience this again. i still remember everyone being paranoid bc early game doesn't have invisible walls so raya lucaria was comedy bc of how many there were
The different affinities like Quality, keen or heavy give your weapons different stat scalings/damge types/status buildups Keen - Higher dex scaling Quality - Higher dex and strength scaling Heavy - Higher strength scaling magic - adds magic damage and intelligence scaling cold - adds frostbite buildup and so on
To add on to that: Fire: physical and Fire damage based on your dtrength stat. Lightning: physical and lightning damage based on your dex stat. Flame Art: physical and Fire damage based on your Faith stat, but increasing Faith only boosts your Fire damage. Holy: works the same way as Flame Art, just with holy damage. Blood: scales with your Arcane stat, gives your weapon bleed build up, but most weapons lose base damage as a tradeoff. Poison: scales with Arcane. It... poisons your enemies. Low base damage. Occult. Increases your weapon damage with your Arcane stat. Mostly used to have an Option against enemies that are immune to bleed/poison. If you are really interested in how this works, check out the TH-camr named Chriight, He has the most in-depth guides without Spoilers, no pressure though, just if you are interested.
@@davobandswhen you’re going through the selection screen for the different affinities, when you press on one you can see the changes that will be made to your weapon. For example if the weapon originally starts with both strength and dex requirements to use it and you select heavy affinity, it will get rid of dex scaling and increase your strength scaling to about an A, so any levels you have in dex won’t apply, which is good if you’re strength focused. But yeah you can view what each affinity does, collect more whetstone blades and you’ll unlock more affinities, there’s another one you can find in stormveil, it will require a stone sword key to unlock the fog wall.
If you want to I could explain what each of your stats do. Knowing this could help with deciding how you want to build your tarnished. It's complicated so Ill explain if you want to.@@davobands
she literally says that, and by the way it’s like 5% of your hp, there’s about less than one percent of scenarios in the entire game that will make you die from that difference between living
worth adding though, that the blessing item you get grants you a 15 second like super buff when used, great for finishing off a boss as you become nearly immune to staggers and take way less damage so you can just pump the boss. which is the POINT of the hug.
Don't worry about the comments about summoning. They were added to the game for a reason and should be used as much or as little as you like. Keep bringing the great energy, this has been really fun to watch.
I mostly agree, but I think we can both agree that it’s no fun seeing somebody one shot of boss without seeing any of what it can do, although most spirit ashes don’t do that it’s only the super broken ones like the mimic that basically fight the boss for you.
Buddy, that was the best first run at Agheel I've ever seen, bugged out or not, you did very respectable damage to him. You're doing well. Watched this with my wife, we've both finished the game multiple times, and I hope you will be able to finish too. We're rooting for you and good on you for listening to the comments. PS: Use your summons, they are not cheating, play the game the way YOU want to.
Ignore the gatekeep-y side of the community who have never summoned in their life and only play the game with a dance mat while blindfolded… play the game how you want to play it and enjoy the experience! I think you’re doing really well - definitely much more capable than I was when I played my first souls game! 😄 I also super love all the Nintendo music references!
So people have mentioned tips to you like how the turtle shell shield restores your stamina. Its quite hard for a new player to immediately know where to learn about these passive statuses, so here is how: In the menu, your must go to your inventory, look for the specific item, select it and press R (or whatever prompt key the game mentions at the bottom of the menu). This will not only tell you if there are passive effects on the item but also some nice lore about the items themselves. (Elden's lore is very complex and this is a nice way to learn more about the lore if you are interested)
Heyyyy fellow keyboard and mouse user. Heck yeah. Only way I play. I like having my head on a swivel with the mouse! And for aiming. I can't aim at all with a controller.
Nah man, don't abuse your summons! Ya gotta let them out every now and then-can't keep them locked up in the PC Box forever! We're not building a "living Pokédex" here!! 😜
the problem with summons is that if you rely on them too much, you kinda get bad, without summons you actually learn patterns and learn to time your rolls, later in the game with some tough boss you can get stuck, even with summons
@@bmaxime8771 I used the Mimic tear on every boss past Radhan.... I dont feel shame. I still had to get good (and GOT good) killing Malenia because you cantr use the Tear there.
Don't let the comments get to you man. :) The reason we are all here hyping you up is that you are doing what your doing and doing it your way. You are seriously refreshing to watch and feel like OG youtube from the golden years 10/10
YOOO Congrats on beating Margit!! He’s a very tough boss for beginning players, and even I struggled using multiple summons! Some additional tips for you: - Now that you have access to the Roundtable Hold, when you teleport outside of it back to anywhere on the map, you can return to it quickly by pulling out your map, pressing Y on your controller (to pull up lists of your Sites of Grace), THEN pressing X. It will quickly take you to the Hold! Additionally, you can hover to the bottom left of your map to a compass-like symbol to access the hold - When leveling up, if you need an explanation of what each stat does when you raise the level, you can access the “help” menu by pressing the “start” button on the Xbox controller, the pressing the help menu option. You can hover over each individual stat to read what it governs, such as that “Vigor” raises HP, fire/poison resistance, and immunity. Or that “Endurance” raises stamina, robustness and equipment load (allowing you to carry heavier equipable weapons and armor that doesn’t way you down and make your dodge rolls slower) The most important to know is that this is YOUR journey. You should not let people online dictate your play-style, and bar you from using summons! Do what you want in this game, and use whatever help you wanna use! The Soulsborne community is behind your back alongside your adventure, and we will help you when needed. Good luck Tarnished on your path to seek the Elden Ring!
The reason why people told you not to use summons is because as the game progresses, using summons makes boss fights too easy, insignificant and unmemorable, the wolves are well balanced, but there are summons that directly destroy the boss, robbing you of the challenge and fun of the fight. Of course, there are people who see this as gatekeeping and get angry, etc. Play as you wish.
To stagger enemies: To stagger an enemy you have to fill his "posture bar" which is a hidden bar similar to HP bar that is filling by hitting the boss, but there are two important considerations to do: 1. Different attacks deals different damage to enemy's posture 2. The boss posture restores by not getting hit by your attacks, so the most of time you don't hit the boss you'll take longer to stun him/her. An important consideration is to be made about the posture dealt by different attacks: Here there is a hierarchy from the most posture damaging attack to the lowest damaging: - charged R2 attack - counter- attack (the heavy attack you can make (R2) as soon as you perform a guard (L1) either with shield or sword - jump heavy attack (jump and R2) - crouched/roll attack (roll and R1 or crouch and R1) - backstep heavy attack (O and R2) - jump light attack (jump and R1) - heavy attack (not charged) - backstep light attack (O and R1) - simple light attack (R1)
I may have not been a subscriber for long, but I just wanted to say that watching your content is very enjoying and helps me cope and I cant wait for the next upload. all the love and hope for a fruitful future. ❤
The ash of war at the end that you put on your weapon took away your stance attack that you can do. You can uninfuse it to get it back, or get the ash of war from a scarab in the southern part of the lake agheel. And when you let fia hug you at the end, she gave you an item that actually lowers your hp by a lot while in your inventory. Go find the baldachins blessing in your inventory and use it to get rid of the debuff. The item itself can be useful, but the cost makes it very much not worth it. Last thing, the troll boss you fought felt harder because its more resistant to slash damage. -Strike damage is better against armored enemies. -Slash is good for less armored or clothes enemies like margit, who has a -10 to slash resistance. Meaning you'll do 10% more damage to him with a katana and that kind of stuff. -Bleed is a super strong status effect in the game. Your katana has it by default, but theres other ways to add it and more to other weapons. The way it works is your weapon will have in parenthesis (status buildup) which is how much you do per hit no matter the type. Lets say you have 50 bleed buildup and are fighting an enemy with 150 bleed resistance. It will take 3 hits for them to bleed. The way bleed works is it does a set percentage of damage when it happens. To normal enemies it is 15% of their total hp + 100 or 200 damage (depending on the weapon type) against bosses and enemies with boss health bars it does 10.5% + 100-200 damage. -Frostbite is another status effect that is very similar. What it does is it takes 10% + 30 damage of an enemies total health (bosses are 7% + 30), and reduces all their damage resistances by 20% for 30 seconds. It can be removed with fire damage, making fire and frost attacks have synergy, especially with bleed. There are more damage types and status effects, but those are the most noteworthy to what was in the video
Don’t go lying about the Baldachin’s Blessing. It reduces HP while in the inventory, but by no means is it “by a lot.” It’s -5%, which is almost never enough to change the outcome of a fight.
there is a specific catacombs in limgrave that has another uchigatana if you’re interested in dual wielding them, two of them can build up insane bleed damage
Something else to help your weapons damage: Scaling! Each weapon will have its scaling listed towards the bottom of its description, for example: strength D Dexterity C The better the scaling, the more your stats effect the total damage or will do! (High stats also effects scaling, but it is less noticeable at lower tiers) The scaling progression goes like so: D < C < B < A < S However, sometimes S scaling is not the best! Having a weapon with 2 stats that scale can do just as good, if not sometimes better! For example Strength D Dexterity C can be equal to or greater than Stength/Dexterity B
Finally, one last tidbit of information: Crafting! If you buy the crafting kit from Kalé, you can craft a multitude of items, but the most significant of these are the cracked pot items, as they are re-craftable-->they don't use up the collected cracked pots, but the items used in the crafting to make them have effects (for example, a poison pot uses up furgurbloom, a collectable crafting material, but doesn't use up your colleted cracked pots)
19:21 little tip, if you activate the button on the lift after you’ve ridden it down, it’ll be waiting for you at the top of you have to respawn. Rather than having to pull the lever and wait for it
If you wanna see if a fall will kill you or not; throw a rainbow stone. If it breaks you’ll die. If it doesn’t break you’ll live (but I think the amount of Hp/vigor you have is also a factor. But if the stone breaks you die no matter what)
Hey, loving the series. Don't worry about using summons. If using summons weren't the intended play style then they wouldn't have been added. I personally enjoyed the additional challenge of fighting without them. Elitist often forget that it's about having fun and not proving themselves Edit: Whoever baited him into the teleporter trap, well done 🤣🤣🤣
Don't beat yourself up over the summons, your fights with Margit were a joy to watch. Summons are no more a crutch than the Wonderous physic is and every soulsborne player has their own opinion. I've loved your videos so far and am eager to see you take on Agheel again.
If you like summoning Spirits and hype yourself, DO IT! There is no right or wrong in Elden Ring. Elitists, that say Spirits/Ranged Magic/Summons are "bad" can just shut up. It's a freakin game♥ Greetings from Germany!
btw fall damage on the horse isn't negated by using the jump mid air, it can actually increase it because game includes time spent falling into the damage
Man you nailed it when you said you're not happy with yourself after using summons. There isn't anything inherently wrong with using them, but they do definitely take away from the feeling of accomplishment, which is imo the reason why souls games are special in the first place. On my playthrough I used summons on a couple of bosses out of pure frustration and I regretted it every single time because my willingness of taking the easy way out robbed me of the feeling of overcoming difficult obstacles.
Chef's kiss on the editing as always. I love this series. Also we don't mind watching u react to the confusing ass dialogue. It's part of the fun! Also also, summons aren't just part of the gameplay they are part of the story! Read their detailed descriptions and use them when u like :3
Hey before I give you my tip, you're doing a great job and if you want to use summons use summons as long as you enjoy, don't let anyone control your game :D, take your time and enjoy this game, its just the beginning. don't mesh the roll button try to stay calm and get the correct timing with the rolls when the enemy attacks. And I know that there’s a lot of guides and suggestions to level up only vigour at first but I personally strongly disagree with that, I saw a friend of mine struggle in the early game because of that suggestion he saw on the internet. You need to invest in damage output and vigour. its pointless to over invest in vigour because you want to avoid damage not to tank it especially when your flask is low level and not recover a lot of HP. damage output will help you much better to isolate enemies from gangs and lower chance to get overwhelmed by enemies. Check the Scaling of your weapon and invest some levels to the stats that will give you more damage bonus, for example: your current weapon will benefit from Dexterity and Strength combined so invest a little bit in those stats. scaling rated as D,C,B,A,S. D the lowest and S the Highest and it will determine how much damage bonus you will get. the scaling of your weapons will improve when you upgrade them.
@@davobands yeah fr, i usually dont get invested in these series but your just fun to watch, as someone whos played alot of elden ring, i love how inquisitive you are, as alot of people i watch tend to barely look around and miss everything. Good luck with the series!
I really enjoy watching your vids, and yeah souls community hat a bit of a problem with summons, i personally don't think that they are bad, in fact they can be really helpfull at cleaning large enemies groups, i recomend that well, you play how you consider is better for you, and if you want to use summons ist fine, but maybe with some discretion? idk, i know that they can trivialize some bosses, but at the end of the day, its your playthrough and with or without summons your vids are super fun
The way I've had it explained to me is that because Elden Ring doesn't have an Easy/Medium/Hard/Very Hard difficulty option they gave us summons to give lower skilled/less familiar players a fighting chance. All of the bosses are designed to be defeated in your own way. You do you. Think of it as dropping the difficulty button from hard to easy. The people that mald over summons do the same over a youtuber/streamer not playing on the hardest difficulty available on other games. IMO, just remember you only get to experience all of this for the first time once - don't rob yourself of the experience by making it TOO easy. Either way, I'm really enjoying your playthrough! Heavily living through you vicariously. Keep it up!
People shouldn’t give you crap for using summons, use them if you want. However, it is does feel bad to use them sometimes when you know you could have won solo so give yourself a few more chances to do it alone. You can definitely do it! Also loving the P5 music so much. ❤
Enjoying the vids bro. Tip here: Weapons can have different status effects like Bleed, Frostbite, Poison, etc. They are what's building the bars on the bottom of your screen and your katana has the bleed effect on it. Once you filled the (invisible) bleed meter, it causes the enemy to take a chunk of damage based on their max HP. The number next to the bleed effect in the equipment menu also indicates how much of it is applied when you attack. Lastly, there are other status effects, but they are more niche like Scarlet Rot, which is basically a deadlier version of poison. Also when an enemy has blue sparks when they die, that means they are going to drop an item.
ngl the first video i saw of you was you reacting to the trailers, and i was shocked when i saw you had such a low subscriber count. keep up the videos, they are very high quality and i know you will blow up!
I honestly really enjoy this series, I wish I could go back in time and experience the game again the way you are, keep making these vids, they’re really entertaining
Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the stagger meter (poise) regenerates whenever the enemy doesn't get hit. That is why you staggered Margit so many times in the beginning, but then couldn't do it later on when you were less aggressive. (Regarding this btw: 37:39) It's all about finding the right balance between aggressive enough to break poise, and careful/patient enough to not get hit that often. I think you figured out that balance pretty well in the Margit fight, which is why you could beat him much quicker than most other new players. Well done!
Yes it's important to keep pressure up. Alot of people who do difficult bosses in races and stuff will use something like a throwing dagger to keep their poise buildup because ANY damage keeps it from starting to deplete.
I would say on a first attempt on a boss you haven't seen before to hold back on using summons to scale how hard they really are, if you feel you can beat them without then you'll probably decide to avoid using them to increase your satisfaction and if they kick your ass you then know that summons are a good idea. If you use summons on a boss you would have been able to easily beat without, it becomes overkill and can drain the fun from the encounter.
You can overlevel pretty easily and I think that's the main problem in Elden Ring...the scaling isn't good for some bosses. The best example is probably Morgott
Someone may have already said this, but stone and crystal enemies (small golems, watchdogs, miners) take more damage from striking weapons like maces and hammers. You don't have to mess with them, but it can be handy to have a backup smasher sometimes.
tip for dragons use your horse to close the distance when they fly away horse is also good at running from fire or whatever element dragon you are fighting... also use summons all you want if fromsoft didnt want us to use it it wouldnt be in the game
There is a catacomb at the mouth of the river on the north side of Limgrave. It contains another Uchigatana, your starting weapon. No boss kill needed. Just run in and grab that shit. Powerstance (dual wield) katanas are dope, especially with increased bleeds procs. Enjoy
Also love your reactions to new areas and the beauty of the this game in general. It's how the voices in my head were sparking when I was sitting in isolation playing this game with nobody around to see my excitement
Loving the videos bro! Just wanted to leave a quick tip, not sure if anyone has mentioned this to you yet. If you hold down on the d-pad it pulls up the first item you have on your equipment (where your flasks are) that way if you keep your heals first it makes it easier to switch back to them mid-fight without pressing down repeatedly. It can especially be helpful when your equipment slots are full
Fia gave you a health debuff but you can immediately heal it with the Baldachins Blessing, she has one of the coolest quests in the game. And Put some respect on Margit’s name he the goat fr
Fia literally tells you this I don’t know why everyone is feeling the need to point it out, and it’s not like she’s tricking you or anything, you get a pretty good item compared to the 5% of HP it takes, 5% of any amount of HP is like nothing.
First off, your Elden Ring series has been very entertaining, great work! Also, I know most people that bring up summons lessening the achievements of the player are messing around, though there are some that adamantly believe that. There's ultimately no need to apply their self-imposed challenges to yourself, It doesn't lessen your victories and there's no shame in using what the game provides to forge your path to success. It is YOUR journey after all. I've loved the souls franchise since 2014 with the original Dark Souls, and the thought of trying to shame someone with some twisted elitism is silly, the more genuine, earnest experiences players get to have, the better, it will always make the memories of looking back that much better. I hope your first experience with this game is as special as it was for many of us.
Behind the church is a portal which takes you to an npc (which will be relevant later in the story) who gives you things in exchange for deathroots which you find in major dungeons
My opinion on when to and not to use summons is that if you should NOT use them... unless you're not having fun with a boss. If you think a boss is not fun to fight, just use summons to get past it quickly. But honestly, sometimes fighting with someone at your side IS simply fun, though when I do that I choose a specific summon that fits the theme of my build as a "companion" to bring along during the whole adventure.
im pretty sure that’s wrong, someone made a vid on how that works, basically 15m of fall distance is u take damage and 20m is death, I recommend checking that video out Edit: vid is made by “illusiory wall”
@@The_Devourer_Of_Gods nope, the guy up there is right, Im saing it as souls vet and a mature player of Elden Ring, it does not only depend on hight but how long you are in the air, if you fall from 15m you can still die if you do double jump and not have enough HP upgraded, so yeah.
I was a new soulsborne player when ER dropped. And now I'm fully sucked in. Started DS3, DemonsS, and BB now. In addition outside of FromS I messed with Lies of P, Salt and Santuary/Sacrifice. So glad you're having fun. This loop is addictive and FromS did such a awesome job with ER. The first time I was able to have the time and space to grasp the mechanics of their games. Now that it clicked I'm OBSESSED and so happy to see other people discovering it after me despite the fact that I felt so late to the party and community. Never thought I'd be an endgame player leaving messages and hints. that feels so goddamn good as somebody who previously quit every souls game prior to this before getting through the first main boss
dude not only are you hilarious but your editing is really good, and I can tell you have such a genuine interest in exploring this game and I love that. I’ve never subbed faster!
I will say, strong summons you'll get later absolutely trivialize the game like you wouldn't believe, there's nothing wrong with that as long as you understand it, but if you're at all interested in the "Fromsoft difficulty" I'd make a habit of not using them. At the end of the day, it's your playthrough, and you decide how it'll go, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a more casual playthrough, my first playthrough was like that too, I wanted to see what the summon system had to offer so I used them, but the one thing I can't stand in this game is people who gloat about or mock bosses when they get carried, use all the OP summons you want, as long as you understand how great of a handicap they are, stay humble king
Unless he enjoys masochism, he should probably keep some decent summons ready (not the crazy broken ones) just for the gank boss fights if nothing else. The strong duo fights are really unfair, most people enjoy those fights better with a summon.
@@yeahr1ghty I will say, the VG are an absolute nightmare, do whatever you have to and spit on their corpses afterwards, but the GSD isn't that bad, as long as you're familiar with their movesets, which you should be by that point, they're exactly like Ornstein and Smough in that the entire fight is just proper manuevering and waiting for an opening, except GSD is way more forgiving in that regard
36:22 “the big troll guy was harder” I actually made a note of how much better you were getting at the game when you were fighting the troll. You really started to understand the delay attacks more and that’s all Margit’s about. You’re getting good!
lad summons are an intended part of the game use them as you please unless you are willing to challenge your self by not using them my first play throw was with summons ,my second and third ware with out and my current one is in first person with out summons (so far)
You are doing great for your first souls bro. Little tip, as a general rule, the bigger the boss, the safest you are going to be if you keep yourself extremely close to it. In these cases, it is also better to not use the “lock in” freature and rather just direct your attacks with the joystick
I LOVE seeing people use summons. I also LOVE seeing people use shields, defensive buffs, and whatever other "easy mode" stuff the 'get good' tryhards cry about. It's YOUR playthrough, do whatever you want. If people don't like it, they won't watch. Maybe you lose a handful of viewers, but they're not the kind of people you want in your community anyway. Loving the gameplay and the editing both brother, keep doing you and good luck out there in the Lands Between 🤜🏼 Also protip, the dragon(s) are weak in their face parts. If you manage to hit their head you do much more damage than hitting their legs, and also you CAN ride your horse while you're fighting the dragon.
This community can be particularly ravenous. Dont let anybody be backseat gamers! Tips and tricks are great and all, but play the way you would play on your own... this game was designed for people to experiment and make their own fun lmao
just found your channel last night an i otta say these videos are great man you earned a sub from me and for your first souls type of game you're doing amazing bro! cant wait to watch the other vids
You're doing crap damage to the miners cause you're using a blade weapon and they are resistant to that. If you want big damage you should use a weapon that deals blunt damage against them.
Really enjoying the series so far! -A few small tips to add to the list: - with huge bosses like the dragon, it can sometimes be better to lock onto the head and stay in front instead of aiming for the feet. You'll be able to see their moves coming, and hitting the head deals bonus damage and is better at staggering them for critical hits. - With big bosses (especially the dragons) quickly getting on and off your horse can be key to dodging certain attacks. I wouldnt recommend staying mounted, but as a quick reposition to dodge fire its incredibly useful - a lot of bosses have attacks where they slam the ground and create a huge area of effect (like the troll in the mine), these can be dodged, but you can also jump over the AOE if you wont get hit by the main attack, which can be easier to time and lets you use jumping attacks while evading. - staggering big enemies like bosses works off an invisible meter that will start refilling if the boss goes too long without taking damage, so if you want to get crits more then being highly agressive or using ranged attacks/items to keep the pressure on will help with that. All tips aside youre doing really damn good for a new player, your learning is impressive!
@@kraittttnice, contributing to the (patently declining) toxicity by commenting just to piss on someone's positive comment. The only people who think the community is super toxic are the ones making it that way
@@shikitohno47I’m in r/ Elden ring official discord and they only talk bad about two groups of people and everyone else is good, the bleed builds and int builds get no respect there but regardless we help them through everything there are 221 active helpers on right now at 5:40 am helping people with issues and struggles you just might not know what you are talkin about 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Its ok man! I used summons for a good amount of my first playthrough. Nobody should be telling you not to. Do what you want and what works. You can always run the game again summon free. Im on 5th playthough and still absolutely love the game. Never gets old.
The fall damage in this game is calculated by how long you are falling. So dont double jump with youre horse when you try to get down somewhere cause it doesn´t reset the timer. Also put the red flask in the first slot of your consumables if you hold down the butten to change them then it will switch to whatever you equipped in the first slot (counts for spells as well)
Your videos are very good, I've been thinking about starting to make these videos for a while now and seeing your videos so well done inspired me to start my channel ,and don't pay attention to the comments telling you not to abuse summons or builds, just play and have fun in the end, that's what matters
Hey man, love these videos! In Some boss fights you’re able to summon an npc to help you fight such as the boss Sorcerer Rogier and I recommend doing it because they’re usually people you can find in the game that are your friends just helping you in your journey to become Elden lord. Can’t wait for more videos to come and enjoy this masterpiece of a game!
It's good to pay atention for what kind of damage your weapon deal. FOr example, Katanas do Slash/Pierce damage, some weapons do Standard damage or strike damage. These are all different kinds of physical damage. The Miners you fought have stone skin, so they're resistant against your katana, but it makes them weak against hammers or any strike damage weapon. In Elden Ring, physics sometimes is the answer to explore enemies' weakness. PS: Some heavy armored enemies won't feel your light attacks even if you're two handed, so just a simple heavy attack, no need to charge it, will make them feel it.
Hey mom, meet my new favorite TH-camr! (Little tip: ALWAYS try to lure one enemy at a time. It might be surprising, but it's too easy to get overwhelmed. And I'm pretty sure that the AI in the enemies try to line up with each others attacks to make it harder to dodge. And a lot of the Stake of Marika's won't do you dirty like that. Keep it up big guy!)
Been binge watching all of these as I’m about to finish the game, stuck on fire giant but reminiscing the first play is awesome. Crazy Elden exposed you more but you’re very entertaining
Elden Ring was my first souls game, and I used summons. I don't regret it in the slightest. Enjoy your first playthrough and feel accomplished for the wins you take. It's honestly a good way to ease yourself into the genre, and you can always come back in the future to do a run without summons.
The damage on that starter weapon is insane! You still did super well of course, the way you dodged Margits moves is proof of that. I'm not downplaying your skill, but I was very surprised when I saw that weapon just take away chunks of Margits health like nothing. Great video as always, and well fought!
If you are frustrated about staggers, lemme tell you about em! Basically every single enemy has an invisible healthbar, and every single attack does a flat amount of damage to that health bar. Heavy attack does the most, then jumping heavy, jumping normal, then regular attack (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). But essentially the reason enemies may not be staggering is because that health will automatically reset after not taking any damage for longer than idk a good few seconds. So for any reason you aren't getting any staggers in is simply because you aren't outputting enough damage consistently, (not rapidly, there's a difference), consistently enough. And yeah, this invisible healthbar varies from enemy to enemy, it isn't liekly you get a lot of staggers on a lot of bosses, unless the stand still quite a lot. Also why staggering is a lot easier with summons, because you basically have a constant output of damage (assuming they aren't being dumb) that prevents the invisible health bar from resetting.
Thanks for this amazing content, elden ring is also my first soulsgame and watching this while by now having 200+ hours on my account is sooo fun and reminds me of my first interaction with these things. And as a side note, my greatest respect for clapping these bosses I got completely obliterated at first xD
"put these foolish ambitions to rest" 1500+ hours later this is still burned into my memory from the first time thus dude taught me the way of the delayed attack . 😂
Really like your let's play. Love the music and edits and reactions are very funny. No worries on summons dude. As long as you give the boss a good try I doubt people would mind too much. They can be really fun to use and its cool to see the npc summon in action. They can be really cool characters and they add health to the boss to adjust the benefits. Sometimes it even makes it harder if the summon is terrible lol. Spirit bell is fun too. For the record, I think you had Margit without it. I summoned the rotten stray to beat him my first playthrough. Do what you like with the talking. Personally I like the characters enough to listen and your talk with fia was hilarious. Theres a couple big guys in storm hill to meet. You'll like them and bern is a great skills shop. On the margit fight, stance pressure goes away overtime. Its hard to stagger an enemy if you are less aggressive. You were playing more careful that go took too long to build stagger damage. Good luck!
Have over 550 hours clocked into ER and I think you should use summons if you want to bro. There’s always gonna be people who disapprove no matter what you do, don’t bother catering to them. The best content you can make is doing whatever you enjoy most. Keep up the good work
Bosses have a hidden stagger reset timer. To consistently get staggers, you need to keep up pressure constantly. If you don't touch the boss for a couple seconds, their stagger bar resets and you have to start over with building stance damage. Means you need to be good enough to know the moveset and weave attacks inbetween everything. The timer also varies from boss to boss, some take like 15-20 seconds to recover, others just 4 or 5. You'll often see speedrunners or challenge runners use throwing knives, kukri or spells to keep up the stagger from a distance when a boss goes wild.
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Aw hell yeah babe!
As a souls vet myself, let me just tell you: play the game how YOU want. Don't let anyone else regulate how you choose to engage with the game.
So true
best advice on god
9k hours in the series and I will ALWAYS say this.
Anyone who is an elitist about builds or playstyles is a fucking geek.
Let him decide if he wants to listen to ppl tell him how to play the game, don’t tell him how to play!
Agreed, never cared for that elitism that people always try to push, especially when the people who push it hardest always use strong, cookie-cutter builds that they just copied off some forum or other.
The reason why the enemies in limgrave tunnels were so tough is because they were strong against physical damage, they are however weak to strike, like hammers.
Bro, you need to go into the Siofra River Well, the only reason people were dyeing there is because it's an elevator and their stupid asses forgot to pull the lever to bring it back up, so they just willingly walked into a hole.
i got so happy seeing him come across it so early and then died inside when he didn't go in, it is THE moment in this game
The siofra river elevator, exiting into liurnia from stormveil castle, and the radahn post-battle scene were so beautiful.
If he does Ranni quest he'll end up there anyway so no worries.
This is around the time the game had just released - and I was on discord with my friends who were also playing it. Each of us were doing our own thing and sharing stuff with each other if we found something interesting / unique.
So I randomly find this dome like structure in the middle of a forest with an underground elevator. Went down the elevator. It kept going. And going. And going. And then - my jaw just dropped. I didn't wanna spoil it so I just told my friends - 'hey guys just check this place out there's something very interesting'. I was being a little coy about it. So they went there too and they were all like WTFF
These are the kind of moments that this game gave us that were truly special and memorable. Will forever cherish it.
@@aneeshmenon5885 the first two months where the community was discovering and experiencing stuff together was peak, can't wait for the dlc to experience this again. i still remember everyone being paranoid bc early game doesn't have invisible walls so raya lucaria was comedy bc of how many there were
The different affinities like Quality, keen or heavy give your weapons different stat scalings/damge types/status buildups
Keen - Higher dex scaling
Quality - Higher dex and strength scaling
Heavy - Higher strength scaling
magic - adds magic damage and intelligence scaling
cold - adds frostbite buildup
and so on
I appreciate this imma screen shot it 😭
To add on to that:
Fire: physical and Fire damage based on your dtrength stat.
Lightning: physical and lightning damage based on your dex stat.
Flame Art: physical and Fire damage based on your Faith stat, but increasing Faith only boosts your Fire damage.
Holy: works the same way as Flame Art, just with holy damage.
Blood: scales with your Arcane stat, gives your weapon bleed build up, but most weapons lose base damage as a tradeoff.
Poison: scales with Arcane. It... poisons your enemies. Low base damage.
Occult. Increases your weapon damage with your Arcane stat. Mostly used to have an Option against enemies that are immune to bleed/poison.
If you are really interested in how this works, check out the TH-camr named Chriight, He has the most in-depth guides without Spoilers, no pressure though, just if you are interested.
@@davobandswhen you’re going through the selection screen for the different affinities, when you press on one you can see the changes that will be made to your weapon. For example if the weapon originally starts with both strength and dex requirements to use it and you select heavy affinity, it will get rid of dex scaling and increase your strength scaling to about an A, so any levels you have in dex won’t apply, which is good if you’re strength focused. But yeah you can view what each affinity does, collect more whetstone blades and you’ll unlock more affinities, there’s another one you can find in stormveil, it will require a stone sword key to unlock the fog wall.
If you want to I could explain what each of your stats do. Knowing this could help with deciding how you want to build your tarnished. It's complicated so Ill explain if you want to.@@davobands
This only works to weapons that aren’t legendary. Those can’t really be changed
Please don't skip the dialogue. It's well written and I love seeing you reacting to it.
TIP- Fia is nice and all but every time you hug her you lose health permanently until you use the blessing that she gave you
she literally says that, and by the way it’s like 5% of your hp, there’s about less than one percent of scenarios in the entire game that will make you die from that difference between living
worth adding though, that the blessing item you get grants you a 15 second like super buff when used, great for finishing off a boss as you become nearly immune to staggers and take way less damage so you can just pump the boss. which is the POINT of the hug.
Don't worry about the comments about summoning. They were added to the game for a reason and should be used as much or as little as you like. Keep bringing the great energy, this has been really fun to watch.
I mostly agree, but I think we can both agree that it’s no fun seeing somebody one shot of boss without seeing any of what it can do, although most spirit ashes don’t do that it’s only the super broken ones like the mimic that basically fight the boss for you.
@@MoreLoreThenThereSeems 🤡
Buddy, that was the best first run at Agheel I've ever seen, bugged out or not, you did very respectable damage to him. You're doing well. Watched this with my wife, we've both finished the game multiple times, and I hope you will be able to finish too. We're rooting for you and good on you for listening to the comments.
PS: Use your summons, they are not cheating, play the game the way YOU want to.
Ignore the gatekeep-y side of the community who have never summoned in their life and only play the game with a dance mat while blindfolded… play the game how you want to play it and enjoy the experience!
I think you’re doing really well - definitely much more capable than I was when I played my first souls game! 😄
I also super love all the Nintendo music references!
Thanks man! I'm a nintendo kid at heart so I love the music
ok but summons are baby mode. I wont say don't use them but its like lowering the difficulty
@@snowman9631call it what you want, its a staple mechanic of the game
@@snowman9631 you're a clown
@@snowman9631womp womp
hes knew and doesnt know how to roll perfectly
So people have mentioned tips to you like how the turtle shell shield restores your stamina. Its quite hard for a new player to immediately know where to learn about these passive statuses, so here is how:
In the menu, your must go to your inventory, look for the specific item, select it and press R (or whatever prompt key the game mentions at the bottom of the menu).
This will not only tell you if there are passive effects on the item but also some nice lore about the items themselves. (Elden's lore is very complex and this is a nice way to learn more about the lore if you are interested)
Should be "X" on his Controller
Heyyyy fellow keyboard and mouse user. Heck yeah. Only way I play. I like having my head on a swivel with the mouse! And for aiming. I can't aim at all with a controller.
Dont abuse summons
Or abuse summons
Just be you and have fun
Nah man, don't abuse your summons! Ya gotta let them out every now and then-can't keep them locked up in the PC Box forever! We're not building a "living Pokédex" here!!
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the problem with summons is that if you rely on them too much, you kinda get bad, without summons you actually learn patterns and learn to time your rolls, later in the game with some tough boss you can get stuck, even with summons
@bmaxime8771 I don't think using summons has made me bad. Sure, they make the game easier, but I've never had to deal with complacency because of it.
@@bmaxime8771 I used the Mimic tear on every boss past Radhan.... I dont feel shame.
I still had to get good (and GOT good) killing Malenia because you cantr use the Tear there.
Its fun looking at new players who either haven't played souls games or are new and seeing them learn to play and get good
Don't let the comments get to you man. :) The reason we are all here hyping you up is that you are doing what your doing and doing it your way. You are seriously refreshing to watch and feel like OG youtube from the golden years 10/10
Legit, not said enough but my man Davo here straight up has the nostalgia for the good old days of happy childhood flowing through me when I watch
fr
YOOO Congrats on beating Margit!! He’s a very tough boss for beginning players, and even I struggled using multiple summons! Some additional tips for you:
- Now that you have access to the Roundtable Hold, when you teleport outside of it back to anywhere on the map, you can return to it quickly by pulling out your map, pressing Y on your controller (to pull up lists of your Sites of Grace), THEN pressing X. It will quickly take you to the Hold!
Additionally, you can hover to the bottom left of your map to a compass-like symbol to access the hold
- When leveling up, if you need an explanation of what each stat does when you raise the level, you can access the “help” menu by pressing the “start” button on the Xbox controller, the pressing the help menu option. You can hover over each individual stat to read what it governs, such as that “Vigor” raises HP, fire/poison resistance, and immunity. Or that “Endurance” raises stamina, robustness and equipment load (allowing you to carry heavier equipable weapons and armor that doesn’t way you down and make your dodge rolls slower)
The most important to know is that this is YOUR journey. You should not let people online dictate your play-style, and bar you from using summons! Do what you want in this game, and use whatever help you wanna use! The Soulsborne community is behind your back alongside your adventure, and we will help you when needed. Good luck Tarnished on your path to seek the Elden Ring!
The reason why people told you not to use summons is because as the game progresses, using summons makes boss fights too easy, insignificant and unmemorable, the wolves are well balanced, but there are summons that directly destroy the boss, robbing you of the challenge and fun of the fight.
Of course, there are people who see this as gatekeeping and get angry, etc. Play as you wish.
To stagger enemies:
To stagger an enemy you have to fill his "posture bar" which is a hidden bar similar to HP bar that is filling by hitting the boss, but there are two important considerations to do:
1. Different attacks deals different damage to enemy's posture
2. The boss posture restores by not getting hit by your attacks, so the most of time you don't hit the boss you'll take longer to stun him/her.
An important consideration is to be made about the posture dealt by different attacks:
Here there is a hierarchy from the most posture damaging attack to the lowest damaging:
- charged R2 attack
- counter- attack (the heavy attack you can make (R2) as soon as you perform a guard (L1) either with shield or sword
- jump heavy attack (jump and R2)
- crouched/roll attack (roll and R1 or crouch and R1)
- backstep heavy attack (O and R2)
- jump light attack (jump and R1)
- heavy attack (not charged)
- backstep light attack (O and R1)
- simple light attack (R1)
One of the best things lords of the fallen did is have posture not being a hidden stat.
I may have not been a subscriber for long, but I just wanted to say that watching your content is very enjoying and helps me cope and I cant wait for the next upload. all the love and hope for a fruitful future. ❤
Honestly, it’s an honour that my content is able to help so much. Thanks for subscribing!
The ash of war at the end that you put on your weapon took away your stance attack that you can do. You can uninfuse it to get it back, or get the ash of war from a scarab in the southern part of the lake agheel.
And when you let fia hug you at the end, she gave you an item that actually lowers your hp by a lot while in your inventory. Go find the baldachins blessing in your inventory and use it to get rid of the debuff. The item itself can be useful, but the cost makes it very much not worth it.
Last thing, the troll boss you fought felt harder because its more resistant to slash damage.
-Strike damage is better against armored enemies.
-Slash is good for less armored or clothes enemies like margit, who has a -10 to slash resistance. Meaning you'll do 10% more damage to him with a katana and that kind of stuff.
-Bleed is a super strong status effect in the game. Your katana has it by default, but theres other ways to add it and more to other weapons. The way it works is your weapon will have in parenthesis (status buildup) which is how much you do per hit no matter the type. Lets say you have 50 bleed buildup and are fighting an enemy with 150 bleed resistance. It will take 3 hits for them to bleed. The way bleed works is it does a set percentage of damage when it happens. To normal enemies it is 15% of their total hp + 100 or 200 damage (depending on the weapon type) against bosses and enemies with boss health bars it does 10.5% + 100-200 damage.
-Frostbite is another status effect that is very similar. What it does is it takes 10% + 30 damage of an enemies total health (bosses are 7% + 30), and reduces all their damage resistances by 20% for 30 seconds. It can be removed with fire damage, making fire and frost attacks have synergy, especially with bleed.
There are more damage types and status effects, but those are the most noteworthy to what was in the video
Don’t go lying about the Baldachin’s Blessing. It reduces HP while in the inventory, but by no means is it “by a lot.” It’s -5%, which is almost never enough to change the outcome of a fight.
Its your playthrough, not one person in the world will have the same experience as someone else. Play however you want im here for it
there is a specific catacombs in limgrave that has another uchigatana if you’re interested in dual wielding them, two of them can build up insane bleed damage
Something else to help your weapons damage: Scaling!
Each weapon will have its scaling listed towards the bottom of its description, for example: strength D Dexterity C
The better the scaling, the more your stats effect the total damage or will do! (High stats also effects scaling, but it is less noticeable at lower tiers)
The scaling progression goes like so: D < C < B < A < S
However, sometimes S scaling is not the best! Having a weapon with 2 stats that scale can do just as good, if not sometimes better!
For example Strength D Dexterity C can be equal to or greater than Stength/Dexterity B
Also, since it seems my message about the tree was missed, I shall enlighten thee:
Go to the divine bridge and look left, and behold.
Finally, one last tidbit of information:
Crafting! If you buy the crafting kit from Kalé, you can craft a multitude of items, but the most significant of these are the cracked pot items, as they are re-craftable-->they don't use up the collected cracked pots, but the items used in the crafting to make them have effects (for example, a poison pot uses up furgurbloom, a collectable crafting material, but doesn't use up your colleted cracked pots)
19:21 little tip, if you activate the button on the lift after you’ve ridden it down, it’ll be waiting for you at the top of you have to respawn. Rather than having to pull the lever and wait for it
If you wanna see if a fall will kill you or not; throw a rainbow stone. If it breaks you’ll die. If it doesn’t break you’ll live (but I think the amount of Hp/vigor you have is also a factor. But if the stone breaks you die no matter what)
Hey, loving the series. Don't worry about using summons. If using summons weren't the intended play style then they wouldn't have been added. I personally enjoyed the additional challenge of fighting without them. Elitist often forget that it's about having fun and not proving themselves
Edit: Whoever baited him into the teleporter trap, well done 🤣🤣🤣
Don't beat yourself up over the summons, your fights with Margit were a joy to watch. Summons are no more a crutch than the Wonderous physic is and every soulsborne player has their own opinion. I've loved your videos so far and am eager to see you take on Agheel again.
If you like summoning Spirits and hype yourself, DO IT!
There is no right or wrong in Elden Ring. Elitists, that say Spirits/Ranged Magic/Summons are "bad" can just shut up.
It's a freakin game♥
Greetings from Germany!
ach ja schön schön ein weiterer landsman
@@mexi987 lol xd
You didn't need a comma after "Elitists"
@@_hollowsky probably a german habbit ^^
Its so much less fun with summons. Idc if he uses but if you rely to much on them you wont get good and the game will be way harder
btw fall damage on the horse isn't negated by using the jump mid air, it can actually increase it because game includes time spent falling into the damage
Man you nailed it when you said you're not happy with yourself after using summons. There isn't anything inherently wrong with using them, but they do definitely take away from the feeling of accomplishment, which is imo the reason why souls games are special in the first place. On my playthrough I used summons on a couple of bosses out of pure frustration and I regretted it every single time because my willingness of taking the easy way out robbed me of the feeling of overcoming difficult obstacles.
Bro i literally just finished watching part 2 and I'm blessed with the next part immediately. Thanks champ
Chef's kiss on the editing as always. I love this series. Also we don't mind watching u react to the confusing ass dialogue. It's part of the fun! Also also, summons aren't just part of the gameplay they are part of the story! Read their detailed descriptions and use them when u like :3
To this day guardians still haunt me... good job would recommend the gloom hands theme
For more trauma
You just made this easier for me… thank you man
Hey before I give you my tip, you're doing a great job and if you want to use summons use summons as long as you enjoy, don't let anyone control your game :D, take your time and enjoy this game, its just the beginning.
don't mesh the roll button try to stay calm and get the correct timing with the rolls when the enemy attacks.
And I know that there’s a lot of guides and suggestions to level up only vigour at first but I personally strongly disagree with that, I saw a friend of mine struggle in the early game because of that suggestion he saw on the internet. You need to invest in damage output and vigour.
its pointless to over invest in vigour because you want to avoid damage not to tank it especially when your flask is low level and not recover a lot of HP.
damage output will help you much better to isolate enemies from gangs and lower chance to get overwhelmed by enemies.
Check the Scaling of your weapon and invest some levels to the stats that will give you more damage bonus, for example: your current weapon will benefit from Dexterity and Strength combined so invest a little bit in those stats.
scaling rated as D,C,B,A,S. D the lowest and S the Highest and it will determine how much damage bonus you will get. the scaling of your weapons will improve when you upgrade them.
only videos i wait to come out every day, keep it up!
I appreciate that man!
@@davobands yeah fr, i usually dont get invested in these series but your just fun to watch, as someone whos played alot of elden ring, i love how inquisitive you are, as alot of people i watch tend to barely look around and miss everything. Good luck with the series!
I really enjoy watching your vids, and yeah souls community hat a bit of a problem with summons, i personally don't think that they are bad, in fact they can be really helpfull at cleaning large enemies groups, i recomend that well, you play how you consider is better for you, and if you want to use summons ist fine, but maybe with some discretion? idk, i know that they can trivialize some bosses, but at the end of the day, its your playthrough and with or without summons your vids are super fun
The way I've had it explained to me is that because Elden Ring doesn't have an Easy/Medium/Hard/Very Hard difficulty option they gave us summons to give lower skilled/less familiar players a fighting chance. All of the bosses are designed to be defeated in your own way. You do you. Think of it as dropping the difficulty button from hard to easy. The people that mald over summons do the same over a youtuber/streamer not playing on the hardest difficulty available on other games.
IMO, just remember you only get to experience all of this for the first time once - don't rob yourself of the experience by making it TOO easy.
Either way, I'm really enjoying your playthrough! Heavily living through you vicariously. Keep it up!
People shouldn’t give you crap for using summons, use them if you want. However, it is does feel bad to use them sometimes when you know you could have won solo so give yourself a few more chances to do it alone. You can definitely do it!
Also loving the P5 music so much. ❤
Enjoying the vids bro. Tip here: Weapons can have different status effects like Bleed, Frostbite, Poison, etc. They are what's building the bars on the bottom of your screen and your katana has the bleed effect on it. Once you filled the (invisible) bleed meter, it causes the enemy to take a chunk of damage based on their max HP. The number next to the bleed effect in the equipment menu also indicates how much of it is applied when you attack. Lastly, there are other status effects, but they are more niche like Scarlet Rot, which is basically a deadlier version of poison.
Also when an enemy has blue sparks when they die, that means they are going to drop an item.
ngl the first video i saw of you was you reacting to the trailers, and i was shocked when i saw you had such a low subscriber count. keep up the videos, they are very high quality and i know you will blow up!
I honestly really enjoy this series, I wish I could go back in time and experience the game again the way you are, keep making these vids, they’re really entertaining
Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the stagger meter (poise) regenerates whenever the enemy doesn't get hit.
That is why you staggered Margit so many times in the beginning, but then couldn't do it later on when you were less aggressive. (Regarding this btw: 37:39)
It's all about finding the right balance between aggressive enough to break poise, and careful/patient enough to not get hit that often.
I think you figured out that balance pretty well in the Margit fight, which is why you could beat him much quicker than most other new players.
Well done!
Yes it's important to keep pressure up.
Alot of people who do difficult bosses in races and stuff will use something like a throwing dagger to keep their poise buildup because ANY damage keeps it from starting to deplete.
@@Umezete Oh nice that I actually didn't know!
Thank you for adding that!
It’s crazy how fast your channel is growing man. 1k subs since I checked the other day. Cool to see.
I would say on a first attempt on a boss you haven't seen before to hold back on using summons to scale how hard they really are, if you feel you can beat them without then you'll probably decide to avoid using them to increase your satisfaction and if they kick your ass you then know that summons are a good idea. If you use summons on a boss you would have been able to easily beat without, it becomes overkill and can drain the fun from the encounter.
I liked the dialogue fast forward for when its nothing crazy!
Also theres no issue with summoning. Some bosses are designed to be a 2v2 fight
Yo I got a tip for you:
Don’t rush out on the story stuff try to do it last in a major area so ur well levelled for it
Seconded, I am enjoying when you explore.
Bro he was legit exploring for 2 parts straight
@@idkl0l3 I know
You can overlevel pretty easily and I think that's the main problem in Elden Ring...the scaling isn't good for some bosses. The best example is probably Morgott
Someone may have already said this, but stone and crystal enemies (small golems, watchdogs, miners) take more damage from striking weapons like maces and hammers. You don't have to mess with them, but it can be handy to have a backup smasher sometimes.
im sure this series alone will get you to 10k subs at least! great content love the editing
always nice to see someone enjoy a playthrough like this, keep it up gang!
yo bro i love your elden ring videos so much man. i just know you will become a great youtuber
tip for dragons use your horse to close the distance when they fly away horse is also good at running from fire or whatever element dragon you are fighting... also use summons all you want if fromsoft didnt want us to use it it wouldnt be in the game
There is a catacomb at the mouth of the river on the north side of Limgrave. It contains another Uchigatana, your starting weapon. No boss kill needed. Just run in and grab that shit.
Powerstance (dual wield) katanas are dope, especially with increased bleeds procs. Enjoy
Also, I'd recommend packing a backup blunt weapon of any kind for miners, imps, golem, etc. Anything that your katanas can't cut through well
WOOOOW the back seating is real.
Also love your reactions to new areas and the beauty of the this game in general. It's how the voices in my head were sparking when I was sitting in isolation playing this game with nobody around to see my excitement
Make sure to pay attention to the map, it might look like useless info but most of the things you see there are actually useful.
Loving the videos bro! Just wanted to leave a quick tip, not sure if anyone has mentioned this to you yet. If you hold down on the d-pad it pulls up the first item you have on your equipment (where your flasks are) that way if you keep your heals first it makes it easier to switch back to them mid-fight without pressing down repeatedly. It can especially be helpful when your equipment slots are full
Fia gave you a health debuff but you can immediately heal it with the Baldachins Blessing, she has one of the coolest quests in the game. And Put some respect on Margit’s name he the goat fr
You should remove the aka part, its a spoiler
Y’all just be dropping spoilers like it’s nothing huh
Fia literally tells you this I don’t know why everyone is feeling the need to point it out, and it’s not like she’s tricking you or anything, you get a pretty good item compared to the 5% of HP it takes, 5% of any amount of HP is like nothing.
@@MoreLoreThenThereSeems you missed it because it was edited but that’s not the spoiler I was talking about.
@@ChrisPyre I know, my statement was separate from whatever the spoiler was, which I’m assuming has to do with cap things
First off, your Elden Ring series has been very entertaining, great work! Also, I know most people that bring up summons lessening the achievements of the player are messing around, though there are some that adamantly believe that. There's ultimately no need to apply their self-imposed challenges to yourself, It doesn't lessen your victories and there's no shame in using what the game provides to forge your path to success. It is YOUR journey after all.
I've loved the souls franchise since 2014 with the original Dark Souls, and the thought of trying to shame someone with some twisted elitism is silly, the more genuine, earnest experiences players get to have, the better, it will always make the memories of looking back that much better.
I hope your first experience with this game is as special as it was for many of us.
Behind the church is a portal which takes you to an npc (which will be relevant later in the story) who gives you things in exchange for deathroots which you find in major dungeons
bros playthrough is funny af much love
My opinion on when to and not to use summons is that if you should NOT use them... unless you're not having fun with a boss. If you think a boss is not fun to fight, just use summons to get past it quickly.
But honestly, sometimes fighting with someone at your side IS simply fun, though when I do that I choose a specific summon that fits the theme of my build as a "companion" to bring along during the whole adventure.
I love just seeing you slowly and carefully enjoy the game as it is
ayee W upload hopefully u keep playing!
what a time to be alive. Just got back from the job and Davo uploaded. Such a great thing to experience.
By the way quick tip, elden ring calculates fall damage by how long you are in the air. Double jumping in the air hurts you more
Holy shit this would’ve saved me so much
im pretty sure that’s wrong, someone made a vid on how that works, basically 15m of fall distance is u take damage and 20m is death, I recommend checking that video out
Edit: vid is made by “illusiory wall”
it was proven false
@@davobands this is wrong 15m you dont take damage 16 to 19m you take damage and 20m+ you die
@@The_Devourer_Of_Gods nope, the guy up there is right, Im saing it as souls vet and a mature player of Elden Ring, it does not only depend on hight but how long you are in the air, if you fall from 15m you can still die if you do double jump and not have enough HP upgraded, so yeah.
I was a new soulsborne player when ER dropped. And now I'm fully sucked in. Started DS3, DemonsS, and BB now. In addition outside of FromS I messed with Lies of P, Salt and Santuary/Sacrifice.
So glad you're having fun. This loop is addictive and FromS did such a awesome job with ER. The first time I was able to have the time and space to grasp the mechanics of their games. Now that it clicked I'm OBSESSED and so happy to see other people discovering it after me despite the fact that I felt so late to the party and community.
Never thought I'd be an endgame player leaving messages and hints. that feels so goddamn good as somebody who previously quit every souls game prior to this before getting through the first main boss
Bro cheated on melina first chance he got 💀
dude not only are you hilarious but your editing is really good, and I can tell you have such a genuine interest in exploring this game and I love that. I’ve never subbed faster!
I will say, strong summons you'll get later absolutely trivialize the game like you wouldn't believe, there's nothing wrong with that as long as you understand it, but if you're at all interested in the "Fromsoft difficulty" I'd make a habit of not using them.
At the end of the day, it's your playthrough, and you decide how it'll go, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a more casual playthrough, my first playthrough was like that too, I wanted to see what the summon system had to offer so I used them, but the one thing I can't stand in this game is people who gloat about or mock bosses when they get carried, use all the OP summons you want, as long as you understand how great of a handicap they are, stay humble king
Unless he enjoys masochism, he should probably keep some decent summons ready (not the crazy broken ones) just for the gank boss fights if nothing else. The strong duo fights are really unfair, most people enjoy those fights better with a summon.
@@yeahr1ghty I will say, the VG are an absolute nightmare, do whatever you have to and spit on their corpses afterwards, but the GSD isn't that bad, as long as you're familiar with their movesets, which you should be by that point, they're exactly like Ornstein and Smough in that the entire fight is just proper manuevering and waiting for an opening, except GSD is way more forgiving in that regard
36:22 “the big troll guy was harder” I actually made a note of how much better you were getting at the game when you were fighting the troll. You really started to understand the delay attacks more and that’s all Margit’s about. You’re getting good!
lad summons are an intended part of the game use them as you please
unless you are willing to challenge your self by not using them
my first play throw was with summons ,my second and third ware with out and my current one is in first person with out summons (so far)
Exactly I would say use them on first playthrough do you don't quit
You are doing great for your first souls bro. Little tip, as a general rule, the bigger the boss, the safest you are going to be if you keep yourself extremely close to it. In these cases, it is also better to not use the “lock in” freature and rather just direct your attacks with the joystick
I LOVE seeing people use summons. I also LOVE seeing people use shields, defensive buffs, and whatever other "easy mode" stuff the 'get good' tryhards cry about. It's YOUR playthrough, do whatever you want. If people don't like it, they won't watch. Maybe you lose a handful of viewers, but they're not the kind of people you want in your community anyway. Loving the gameplay and the editing both brother, keep doing you and good luck out there in the Lands Between 🤜🏼
Also protip, the dragon(s) are weak in their face parts. If you manage to hit their head you do much more damage than hitting their legs, and also you CAN ride your horse while you're fighting the dragon.
I've been absolutely loving your playthrough! Thoroughly enjoying the series!
This community can be particularly ravenous. Dont let anybody be backseat gamers! Tips and tricks are great and all, but play the way you would play on your own... this game was designed for people to experiment and make their own fun lmao
just found your channel last night an i otta say these videos are great man you earned a sub from me and for your first souls type of game you're doing amazing bro! cant wait to watch the other vids
You're doing crap damage to the miners cause you're using a blade weapon and they are resistant to that. If you want big damage you should use a weapon that deals blunt damage against them.
Really enjoying the series so far!
-A few small tips to add to the list:
- with huge bosses like the dragon, it can sometimes be better to lock onto the head and stay in front instead of aiming for the feet. You'll be able to see their moves coming, and hitting the head deals bonus damage and is better at staggering them for critical hits.
- With big bosses (especially the dragons) quickly getting on and off your horse can be key to dodging certain attacks. I wouldnt recommend staying mounted, but as a quick reposition to dodge fire its incredibly useful
- a lot of bosses have attacks where they slam the ground and create a huge area of effect (like the troll in the mine), these can be dodged, but you can also jump over the AOE if you wont get hit by the main attack, which can be easier to time and lets you use jumping attacks while evading.
- staggering big enemies like bosses works off an invisible meter that will start refilling if the boss goes too long without taking damage, so if you want to get crits more then being highly agressive or using ranged attacks/items to keep the pressure on will help with that.
All tips aside youre doing really damn good for a new player, your learning is impressive!
The community in Elden Ring is easily the kindest which says a lot
no its not sadly its one of the most toxic
@@kraittttnice, contributing to the (patently declining) toxicity by commenting just to piss on someone's positive comment. The only people who think the community is super toxic are the ones making it that way
In what universe lmfaoo
@@shikitohno47I’m in r/ Elden ring official discord and they only talk bad about two groups of people and everyone else is good, the bleed builds and int builds get no respect there but regardless we help them through everything there are 221 active helpers on right now at 5:40 am helping people with issues and struggles you just might not know what you are talkin about 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
"Kindest community", oh boy, surely i wont be criticized by the way i play my own game after making a post about it on the internet
Its ok man! I used summons for a good amount of my first playthrough. Nobody should be telling you not to. Do what you want and what works. You can always run the game again summon free. Im on 5th playthough and still absolutely love the game. Never gets old.
Sorry but you're going to have to start uploading these daily.
Why you rushin him, bro gotta play the game then edit it and then upload it, chill
And he also got a personal life
Really enjoy your editing man. Makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch. Keep it up
The fall damage in this game is calculated by how long you are falling. So dont double jump with youre horse when you try to get down somewhere cause it doesn´t reset the timer. Also put the red flask in the first slot of your consumables if you hold down the butten to change them then it will switch to whatever you equipped in the first slot (counts for spells as well)
Your videos are very good, I've been thinking about starting to make these videos for a while now and seeing your videos so well done inspired me to start my channel ,and don't pay attention to the comments telling you not to abuse summons or builds, just play and have fun in the end, that's what matters
the bg music during limgrave tunnels fit so perfectly
Hey man, love these videos! In Some boss fights you’re able to summon an npc to help you fight such as the boss Sorcerer Rogier and I recommend doing it because they’re usually people you can find in the game that are your friends just helping you in your journey to become Elden lord. Can’t wait for more videos to come and enjoy this masterpiece of a game!
It's good to pay atention for what kind of damage your weapon deal. FOr example, Katanas do Slash/Pierce damage, some weapons do Standard damage or strike damage. These are all different kinds of physical damage. The Miners you fought have stone skin, so they're resistant against your katana, but it makes them weak against hammers or any strike damage weapon. In Elden Ring, physics sometimes is the answer to explore enemies' weakness.
PS: Some heavy armored enemies won't feel your light attacks even if you're two handed, so just a simple heavy attack, no need to charge it, will make them feel it.
Loving these videos, keep it up legend
Hey mom, meet my new favorite TH-camr! (Little tip: ALWAYS try to lure one enemy at a time. It might be surprising, but it's too easy to get overwhelmed. And I'm pretty sure that the AI in the enemies try to line up with each others attacks to make it harder to dodge. And a lot of the Stake of Marika's won't do you dirty like that. Keep it up big guy!)
Been binge watching all of these as I’m about to finish the game, stuck on fire giant but reminiscing the first play is awesome. Crazy Elden exposed you more but you’re very entertaining
Elden Ring was my first souls game, and I used summons. I don't regret it in the slightest. Enjoy your first playthrough and feel accomplished for the wins you take.
It's honestly a good way to ease yourself into the genre, and you can always come back in the future to do a run without summons.
These videos are way to enjoyable. Also do whatever you want, it’s your play through
The damage on that starter weapon is insane! You still did super well of course, the way you dodged Margits moves is proof of that.
I'm not downplaying your skill, but I was very surprised when I saw that weapon just take away chunks of Margits health like nothing.
Great video as always, and well fought!
It's a Bleed weapon, after all
Ye bleed is super broken lol
If you are frustrated about staggers, lemme tell you about em! Basically every single enemy has an invisible healthbar, and every single attack does a flat amount of damage to that health bar. Heavy attack does the most, then jumping heavy, jumping normal, then regular attack (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). But essentially the reason enemies may not be staggering is because that health will automatically reset after not taking any damage for longer than idk a good few seconds. So for any reason you aren't getting any staggers in is simply because you aren't outputting enough damage consistently, (not rapidly, there's a difference), consistently enough. And yeah, this invisible healthbar varies from enemy to enemy, it isn't liekly you get a lot of staggers on a lot of bosses, unless the stand still quite a lot. Also why staggering is a lot easier with summons, because you basically have a constant output of damage (assuming they aren't being dumb) that prevents the invisible health bar from resetting.
Thanks for this amazing content, elden ring is also my first soulsgame and watching this while by now having 200+ hours on my account is sooo fun and reminds me of my first interaction with these things. And as a side note, my greatest respect for clapping these bosses I got completely obliterated at first xD
Let's go I was waiting for you to find Margit fr.
"put these foolish ambitions to rest"
1500+ hours later this is still burned into my memory from the first time thus dude taught me the way of the delayed attack . 😂
Really like your let's play. Love the music and edits and reactions are very funny.
No worries on summons dude. As long as you give the boss a good try I doubt people would mind too much. They can be really fun to use and its cool to see the npc summon in action. They can be really cool characters and they add health to the boss to adjust the benefits. Sometimes it even makes it harder if the summon is terrible lol. Spirit bell is fun too. For the record, I think you had Margit without it. I summoned the rotten stray to beat him my first playthrough.
Do what you like with the talking. Personally I like the characters enough to listen and your talk with fia was hilarious. Theres a couple big guys in storm hill to meet. You'll like them and bern is a great skills shop.
On the margit fight, stance pressure goes away overtime. Its hard to stagger an enemy if you are less aggressive. You were playing more careful that go took too long to build stagger damage.
Good luck!
36:03 this is the moment everyone falls in love with these games bro. “I can beat this for SURE” that feeling is incredible
Love the turtle shield on the back, Leonardo is back with a vengeance
Have over 550 hours clocked into ER and I think you should use summons if you want to bro. There’s always gonna be people who disapprove no matter what you do, don’t bother catering to them. The best content you can make is doing whatever you enjoy most. Keep up the good work
Bosses have a hidden stagger reset timer. To consistently get staggers, you need to keep up pressure constantly. If you don't touch the boss for a couple seconds, their stagger bar resets and you have to start over with building stance damage. Means you need to be good enough to know the moveset and weave attacks inbetween everything. The timer also varies from boss to boss, some take like 15-20 seconds to recover, others just 4 or 5. You'll often see speedrunners or challenge runners use throwing knives, kukri or spells to keep up the stagger from a distance when a boss goes wild.