Understanding Weapon Mechanics In Elden Ring: Scaling, Affinities, And Ashes Of War
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- An in-depth explanation of Elden Ring weapon mechanics, including affinities, ashes of war, weapon reinforcement, weapon scaling, and more.
Explaining attributes, stats, and scaling: • Crafting The Perfect B...
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Chapter 1: Weapon and Damage Types
01:03 Weapon Types
02:02 Damage Types
03:54 Chapter 2: Weapon Scaling
05:13 How is scaling calculated?
11:10 Key takeaways for weapon scaling
13:08 Chapter 3: Weapon Reinforcement
17:57 Chapter 4: Ashes of War and Affinities
19:36 Swapping/Duplicating Ashes of War
20:12 Whetblades & Affinities
20:22 Physical Affinities
21:19 Magic Affinities
21:33 Flame Affinities
21:44 Golden Affinities
21:55 Occult Affinities
22:06 Status Effects vs Damage Types
23:39 Affinity/Ash of War Scaling
25:55 Where to learn more
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I feel like I should have earned some college credits after watching this video.
Its almost like creatin a complex combat system is difficult
TH-cam is pretty much free college
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This is such a high quality video. The math, the mic quality, the footage in the background. Also a really detailed analysis. This should have a lot more views
I appreciate it
Amazing breakdown sir. After 2 years off and on with the game this is the first video that gave me an “aha!” moment of understanding.
Please keep these up for any game you’re passionate about. You have a gift of simplifying extremely complex systems and the overlayed lists and equations are sooo helpful! (I do be screenshotting)
😂 Same!!! This Is Fantastic!!! I Understand A Hellofva Lot More Now!
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Facts 🎯
This , hands down, is the absolute best break down on scaling I have EVER seen!! You definitely have a new sub here. Well done, excellent!!
It's worth mentioning that cold infused weapons have different scaling than magic infused, even if both deal magic damage. Magic infusions seem to completely mangle pre-existing attribute scaling, and give a big chunk of intelligence scaling instead. The physical and magic base damage will also be the same (unless the weapon already had split damage before.)
On the other hand Cold infusions will retain previous scaling to a degree and just add a sizeable chunk of int scaling. The physical base damage will also be a decent bit higher than the magical base damage. However, both base damages will likely be lower than that of a straight magic infusion, as a detriment due to the added status damage.
The rule of thumb for weapons that at base scale with STR and DEX is to allocate anywhere 50% to 70% of the levels you want to spend on damage in STR/DEX and the rest in INT. This is actually very practical because int scaling ashes of war (like Carian Grandeur for example) pretty much hard cap at 50 int. Any further investment might not even give you a single point of additional damage in some cases.
Example, all weapons at +25:
Broadsword has 286 base damage (82/33 scaling), magic is 224/224 (10/5/86), cold is 201/162 (93/36/60)
If you mainly want to level STR and INT for this build, a 60/40 split would work really well. I did some testing 60 STR 10 DEX and 40 INT yields 577 combined AR. It actually plateaus at that stat investment. Moving up to 10 points from INT to STR will increase the AR only to 578. Vice Versa will only lower it down to 573 AR. So, if you want to get a lot out of magic/cold scaling ashes of war, you might as well go 50/50.
Lordsworn's Straight Sword has 281 base damage(54/54), magic is 220/220 (6/6/79), cold is 198/158 (60/60/64)
So, LSS is like a 3 way Quality build. It could be a really strong option in higher new games if you have the levels to spend on STR, DEX, and INT, though I haven't tested it.
From someone who got the platinum for Elden ring but never really got into weapon affinities and scaling this video is perfect. Thanks for this perfect analysis bro 🙏🙏
Gee my boy! This is the most exhaustive, clear and clean video guide i've ever seen on youtube. Great work!
This is absolutely incredible! I’ve been looking for a breakdown like this for so long and I’ve learned so much from this video. This is my first souls game and I’ve been absolutely grinding my way through in the most basic way possible. This now has me so pumped to hop back in the game and try a ton of new builds!
This deserves so many more views and I can’t wait to watch more of your videos. Fantastic work!!
I feel like this is the first video in 100s where I learned something new. Well done and thank you!
No other video explained this games leveling system better than you. And I’ve watched countless videos. Thank you!!
Absolutely fantastic guide, thank you. Honestly professional grade.
Dude this has helped me so much. Great video. It's hard to find explanations that are clear and helpful, and this is both. Thank you
this is super helpful! elden ring is my first fromsoft game and its really overwhelming but the video was super informative and answered alot of the questions ive been having. thank you so much 🙏🏾
I felt a tingle when you said "Math". Since Chrightt is covering AC6 I've been craving content with equations. Thank you and great content.
If you're going to do a hybrid magic build and planning to use one of the spells that create a magic enchantment over the right hand weapon - like Order's Blande and Scholar's Armament - know that your damage only comes from the scalling of your main stat: intelligence for sorceries and faith for incantantions.
Hope you get some more subs dude, these vids are excellent. Detailed and edited well. Been going hard on E-Ring recently w/ the DLC coming out soon (hopefully).
totally what I needed, explain some basic stuff and I just skip more complicated but maybe one day I will need it. Great video
I just wanted to take the time to say I appreciate the time it must have taken to prep & make this video. And you did so very well. You sir, are a Legend.
fantastic, everything I was looking for in one video and perfectly explained. As someone who prefers to study the game mechanics beforehand I felt I was blind and overwhelmed in my first playthrough, now I have a lot more info to play around with. Thank you.
Amazing video, man! Super helpful! I wish I had found it earlier!
Really appreciate the high quality, clear, and understandable video I’ve seen for Elden ring so far. I just started my first play through and am new to soulslikes and this was super easy for me to understand. ⚔️🏹🗡️🛡️
Excellent video and helpful guide! Thank you!!
Thank you my good sir!. Best of the best video explenation ever made!
Amazing quality video. well done Mr.
super underrated man well done
Yes very well put together. ✌✌
Awesome vid. Perfect for me just getting in to ER.
This deserves a million views, thank you finally making it make sense... as much as elden ring can ig
Superb video. Informative, succinct. I only wish I could have watched this two years ago 😅
I really don't get why doesn't ER just give me the scaling value directly, instead of the letter grade it's in. The UI has more than enough room to show the information.
Would it really still be a From Soft game if it wasn't impossibly confusing for new players?
@@TheGhostInitiative ER was my first Fromsoft game. It was very confusing at first. Actually it still is, even after 1200 hours in the game.
sick video thank you!
Great video. Keep doing this people will sub don’t quit
Holy crap this video is so useful!
masterclass !! thx !
Fantastic info
I just found your channel today and subbed bc of this great presentation. I look forward to lots of Elden Ring content from u
You probably won’t see this but thank you. I have never played any other Souls game so everything is so confusing. The game is so complex and you’ve helped a ton, thank you.
Tks! Videos like that makes me believe in humanity once more.
I just started playing Elden ring a month ago, my first fromsoftware game too, and this was incredibly helpful. Plus I work in analytics so this scratched a nerdy itch for me, I enjoyed the math more than I probably should have tbh
For real this is a piece of (guide) art
You're hardcore. These videos are great and excellent for reference. I hope you're able to complete your walkthrough series because no doubt they'll be the best of their kind for this game.
Dope content i am a fan
In the weapon type section maybe include a blurb about power stancing similar weapon types
holy underrated
Great video! Packs a lot of info in an easy to understand format, love it.
This may be a dumb question but how close do STR and DEX scaling values have to be to classify as a "quality" weapon? Like, why is Bloodhound's fang(+0) considered "quality" when it has 44/65 Str/Dex scaling values?
I’ve never really thought about it honestly. I think quality for me has always been a way to avoid min/maxing and open up the flexibility to use lots of different weapons. As a general rule I just check to see if the weapon seems to benefit from leveling both stats as I level up, and if it’s clear that neglecting either str or dex is going to make me miss out on a lot of damage, then it must be quality.
I will say that quality weapons definitely got a bad deal in Elden Ring and almost anything that can get a quality infusion is usually better with heavy or keen at relative levels, which I think is just due to the fact that you level so high and really push your saturation value so much in this game. But again, leveling both of those stats opens up so many possibilities and is great for experimenting with different weapons even if you aren’t breaking any records damage-wise on a true quality build.
Hey I just got my bachelors in mechanical engineering at UofT and I gotta say you are sooooo well spoken and great at conveying points. You are better than 90% of my professors! You earned a sub from both of my channels and I'll tell all my friends about ur vids. As a math nerd I really appreciated the backend calculation rundown. Thanks again!
Ayyyyy ME gang. You know how it is with those mechanical engineering professors, we have to teach ourselves everything half the time
@@TheGhostInitiative 😂don't get me started on those profs. And what a coincidence I had no idea u were ME too lol
I am, got my bachelors in 2022
Elden Ring should use this video as the official manual. Brilliant!
This got my insight past 60
You can see the truth (just level strength)
I'm gonna leave another comment here for the algorithm. More tarnished need to see this before the DLC drops.
Great video! You sounded frustrated as you talked about everything, but I imagine that’s just because of how much work you had to put into this video?
I don’t really talk a lot in real life and have a pretty quiet, monotone voice, so sometimes when I try to project it just sounds angry. I don’t mean to come across that way, just can’t help it sometimes.
all good! For all I know you were just a little weary from creating such a detailed video. I dunno. I wasn't trying to be critical, but clearly it came across that way. Sorry man. I love your content and have subscribed. Thanks for replying! @@TheGhostInitiative
You’re good, I appreciate it
Thank you! After spending 50 hours in Elden ring, now I think I understand more about it! Jajaja
So, it's always better to go with cold since it does the same as straight up magic, but adds frost build?
AN important thing to remember with strength scaling is whether or not you are two handing the weapon. For example, I prefer two handing the uchigatana, it fits the aesthetic. Even though it has better dex scaling, you get more damage when you use a heavy infusion and invest in strength, because every point in strength is worth 1.5 when two handing.
I’ve done some testing and it appears the damage of your AoW is actually stronger if the weapon affinity matches the AoW’s native scaling and not actually based on the weapon damage itself. Obviously this wouldn’t be true for AoW like lions claw where you physically strike the target with your weapon but beast roar does the exact same damage with an Estoc as it does with a dagger and is only decreased by changing from keen to a different affinity. I also tested the estoc with the lightning infusion giving it a higher ar and the beast roar still dealt less damage.
What's the weapon whip like blade at 0.14?
They should really use color saturation to show how good of a scale it really has. So a weak B could be light green and a strong B could be dark green. etc.
Any channel that uses Oblivion BG music gets an instant sub from me
When you say scaling has to be a decimal do you mean 1.xx? Or does all scaling decrease base damage instead of increasing it?
What I was saying is when the game calculates these numbers they might come out to be a decimal, but the game will round it down to a whole number. So if I’m getting 18.72 damage from scaling, it will just say +18 in game.
Scaling and base damage are separate things though. Base damage is only affected by your weapon’s upgrade level while scaling is based on your character’s stats. Changing the weapon’s affinity can reduce base damage, but that’s in exchange for more scaling so as long as you pick an affinity that complements your build, the extra scaling should offset the decrease in base damage.
This video would've saved me so much time a year ago 😅
I’m trying a Arcane Build playthrough and want to put the cold affinity on my bleed weapon for Frostbite, but I don’t want to level up Intelligence could I keep leveling Arcane or do I need some Intelligence. It seems Frostbite only scales off Int and my Arcane doesn’t matter.
The frostbite part of your weapon will be fine because frostbite doesn’t scale with any stats, only weapon upgrade level, so you won’t be hindered by not leveling int. However, cold affinity splits your damage into physical and magic, and the magic portion does scale with int, so it will be pretty low without investing into int, which means the base weapon damage will be pretty underwhelming aside from status effects.
The other thing to consider is that arcane is only going to affect the potency of bleed on weapons that scale with arcane and adding cold affinity would take away arcane scaling, so your arcane levels wouldn’t be benefiting your weapon anymore.
Best bet is probably to use a secondary or offhand weapon for cold and completely lean into bleed for your main weapon. For a second weapon, you could even opt for something that already does bleed damage and just give it a standard infusion so you can buff it with freezing grease. That way while you’re trying to proc frostbite, you still buildup some bleed before you switch back to your main weapon. Frostbite can only proc once every 30 seconds unless you reset it with fire damage which would require yet another weapon or other source of fire damage, so unless you wanted to complicate the build further by adding fire resets, you would essentially proc frostbite for a chunk of damage with your second weapon, and then just benefit from the extra damage the enemy takes while frostbitten while you go in with your main bleed weapon.
May seem like a very basic, even dumb, question but I'm asking anyway:
Does Dex affect power-stancing at all? (Two-handing a claymore for example)
Power stancing is actually dual wielding two weapons of the same type, not two handing a single weapon, but no, dexterity doesn’t factor into either one. You’ll still benefit from any dexterity scaling on the weapon itself of course, but nothing extra from two handing it or anything.
I watched the whole video, and I didn't hear if ashes of war could go on all weapons or not? Or do you have a video explaining how that works appreciate it
Ashes of war can go on any non-unique weapon aka weapons reinforced with standard smithing stones. On the individual ash of war in-game you can find the types of weapons they can be equipped to in the item description
Jesus Christ I’d have a few hundred less hours on this game and a bunch of larval tears if I found your page sooner. It’s not complicated but it’s pretty complicated. This is my first souls game and I’m definitely gonna play some old ones. Thanks again for your work and help my boy. Jah bless, jah feel?
can you make a video that goes into how sorcery scaling directly affects spell damage
Yeah I could probably do that at some point. The short answer though is it just multiplies the base damage of a spell. You can’t see what the base damage of any spell is in game, but you can figure out which ones are stronger by testing them on the same enemy, and then the higher the sorcery scaling on your staff, the more damage that spell will do.
@TheGhostInitiative is there anywhere that has the base damage of a spell broken down starting with basics like glintstone pebble as a base?
@ezcyberpup yeah if you check the description of my soft caps video there is a reddit link for datamined resources and you’ll want the motion values one. It’s a pretty intense spreadsheet because it contains EVERYTHING, but if you go to the spell attack tab that should have what you’re looking for. There are also more user friendly online spell calculators like the spell comparator from Jerp TV you could check out
My question is say for example you have a weapon that scales, D for strength D for dex and D for faith. How are you to know which stat that weapon prefers before you start leveling your stats in the wrong category just to find out it’s the stat that scales the least with that weapon, when it has D in 3 seperate stat categories???
There isn’t really a perfect answer for this in-game. The short answer is you experiment and/or google it.
The long answer: For somber weapons with locked affinities, you pretty much either look it up online to see how it scales at max level, or you just make an educated guess based on experience. For example, moonveil is a katana that scales with str/dex/int. Katanas are pretty dex biased across the board and moonveil has a pretty strong magic vibe so focusing on dex and int is just a safe bet if you had to guess….but just looking it up online or using a damage calculator is what most people do.
For standard weapons you can change the affinity to whatever you want, so there’s really no need to worry too much about what the weapon is intrinsically good at since you can just tailor it to whatever you need it to be good at.
The important thing to understand is most of your weapon’s damage is coming from just upgrading it until you get pretty far in the game. Scaling damage doesn’t really take off until you have both a weapon that is fairly high level (because that’s when you get into the A and S tier scaling), and your character has high stats to take advantage of those scaling values. That means in the early stages of the game you don’t need to stress about those stats beyond meeting the minimum requirements to wield the weapon, and instead you can spend your levels increasing other things like health, stamina, FP, hitting minimum reqs for spells, etc. and in the meantime you just keep reinforcing your weapon to get more damage. As you reinforce it, the scaling grades should slowly start to change from all D to maybe B/C/D and you get a sense of which stats it’s going to scale better with, by which point you can start to level those stats. Even if you, for instance, had a fantastic strength weapon on a fresh character, power leveling strength early game isn’t going to add a huge amount of damage. It really takes time for weapons to benefit greatly from scaling.
Definitely tough to navigate on a first playthrough, but after you beat the game once you’ll have access to enough runes and smithing stones that you can easily test every weapon out and take the guess work out of subsequent playthroughs.
@@TheGhostInitiative thanks so much for the detailed reply mate. Really appreciate it🙂 and the video was very well made
Put the playback speed to 1.25x
Love the video, I was afraid I wasn’t able to find/purchase more stones infinitely (except the last stone)
Fantastic breakdown but I feel like there's something I don't understand.
So, brand new to the game. Just started playing. About 3 hours in. Only completed two small dungeons and that small ruined town before you get your steed. Samurai with the Uchigatana +1. About to watch your starting guide. Already watched the first video where you go through the cave of knowledge. it was really helpful. Want to play it before the expansion comes out in June.
So my sword has a skill, Unsheath. If I use Storm Stomp, my only ash of war, it's replaced. But I don't understand the stat changes.
As a standard affinity it changes my weapon to "Quality."
But the FP Costs goes to: - ( 10 15 ) -> 6 ( - - )
I know unsheath has a FP cost. But it says -. and what does the 10 to 15 mean? I assume the 6 is the new cost of storm stomp?
Then my physical power: 121 + 28 -> 104 + 35
I learned from your guide that it's weapon damage + stat modifier
Based on the weapon guide, you're telling me by adding the storm stomp, the damage of the weapon goes down? Even thought it's now called a "Quality Uchigatana +1?"
But notice that the dex damage modifier went up from 28 to 35. That's because my scaling modifier now says: STR D -> C Dex D -> C
So the ash of war improves my attribute scaling. Is that from the "Quality" modifier?
Am I understanding all this right? That this ash of war actually makes my weapon worse, but the scaling better. So once I have a high Dex I will do more damage. But I have to wait to apply it until after I find the break even point? But by then I'll probably have better weapons and better ashes. But for now, better not to use it because I do 10 less damage?
Ok I'm glad you asked the first question because I actually never knew for sure exactly what each of those FP values represented, but I just tested it. The first number, outside of the parenthesis, is the activation cost for the ash of war, so the cost of hitting LT or L2 depending on what controller you're using. Some ashes of war allow you to chain follow up attacks, and the first and second values inside the parenthesis translate to the FP cost of those follow up attacks if you follow up with a light or heavy attack respectively.
So for storm stomp, if you hit the skill button, it performs storm stomp, and it costs 6 FP. However, there are no follow up attacks available with storm stomp, it's just a one off skill, so the values inside the parenthesis are empty. On the other hand, hitting the skill button with unsheathe is free because it just makes your character go into a readied stance, it doesn't actually make you attack, hence the "-" outside the parenthesis, but while you're holding the skill button, ready to perform unsheathe, you can choose to follow that up with a light or heavy attack for either the horizontal or vertical slash, and those will cost either 10 or 15 FP.
As for the rest, you have most of it right. Scaling is much less helpful at low levels, so it's not uncommon at all for a weapon to actually do less damage if you grant it an affinity that lowers the base damage. Despite the name, "quality" doesn't actually make the weapon better per se, quality is just the term for more or less equal STR/DEX scaling, hence why they both have C scaling after choosing the quality affinity, but unless you're running a quality build where you level your character's STR/DEX equally, quality affinity is probably not your best option. But to answer your question, yes, it is the "quality" modifier that is improving your attribute scaling, but it's pretty much just a coincidence that the scaling values increased since the word quality is only referring to which stats the weapon scales with, the game does mean "quality" as in higher quality.
You should be able to choose which affinity you want as soon as you equip an ash of war. They are mostly independent of each other (not every ash of war can be paired with every affinity, but it's pretty lenient), so you should be able to equip storm stomp and just choose the standard affinity to maintain the original stats and scaling on the uchigatana if you want to. If you do want to lean into DEX (which is recommended on the uchigatana), you'll actually want the "keen" affinity. Keen will basically all but remove STR scaling, but boost dexterity scaling significantly. This early in the game, there's a good chance it could still be worse than standard affinity, but long term it will be much stronger.
In summary, the ash of war isn't actually affecting your weapon damage or scaling at all, the affinity is. It's just that you have to pick an ash of war and affinity at the same time, so it's easy to assume they're the same thing, but the ash of war is strictly the ability you put on the weapon and the affinity determines the stats.
Thanks so much for clarifying this. It's a huge help! I also really appreciate your guides!@@TheGhostInitiative
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 cant really say more. One question tho: Is flame art just basically worse than just the flame infusion cuz fire damage scales with strength and not faith?
The fire damage on flame art will actually scale with faith, so which one is better depends on the weapon and your build; whether you’re leveling str or faith.
@@TheGhostInitiative But in general it would be better to have a strength build with a fire weapon right? Because you have the fire affinity which scales with strength and the fire damage that scales with strength
It honestly still just depends on your build and what you're trying to accomplish. Typically you'll get more fire damage per faith level with flame art than you would get from strength with fire affinity. Since strength benefits both your physical and fire damage with fire affinity, it's kind of a win/win every time you level up strength, so to compensate for the fact that faith doesn't increase your physical damage, flame art gives a lot more fire damage when you level faith. Fire weapons tend to be pretty evenly split between physical and fire damage, but flame art weapons tend to be mostly fire damage assuming you're putting a lot of levels into faith.
Is fire still better in general? Probably. If the enemy you're fighting is weak to fire, then flame art would actually be better because you're specializing in fire damage. If the enemy is not explicitly weak to fire damage, then the fire affinity would be better because you have more physical damage to compensate for that. You won't really find anything that is super resistant to physical damage though, so having more physical damage with the fire affinity will usually be better overall.
You can kind of think of fire affinity as the halfway point between pure physical damage and pure fire damage. You sacrifice some physical damage in exchange for being stronger against things that are weak to fire. With flame art, you sacrifice a ton of physical damage in exchange for being really strong against things that are weak to fire.
@@TheGhostInitiative ah ok thanks so much again 🙏
Dude I started my first playthrough just a month ago and this’ll come in clutch. Finally I know what the red or blue damage number means!!!
Edit: holy shit your channel is such a find. Gonna peep the stats and soft cap video after this
Does anyone know why I can't add magic affinity to spinning weapon ash. Like everyone else? Even though I have the magic wet blade
Are you trying to put it on your staff and not your weapon by chance?
@@TheGhostInitiative yes I'm trying to put it on my staff. Which is in my left hand(spinning weapon ash) mine is just standard and I don't have the option to change any of the staffs into magic enchant. But I've seen other people have it
@fabianmoye7919 to my knowledge you can’t change the affinity on staves, but the carian regal scepter has it’s own unique version of spinning weapon built in automatically which does do magic damage. Maybe that’s what you saw?
@@TheGhostInitiative probably so..m thanks
Damage penalty when not meeting requirements is -40% or -0.4.
I really hate somber weapons :( i really wish I had the freedom to make my perfect weapon by changing the ash of war and affinity on ANY weapon, or have the option to change an affinity on a weapon without changing it's ash of war
BUG...CAT!
Okay.
I thought I'd never understand this
Somebody good at math, can you toss me a Claymore build?
Claymore is a quality weapon just like in all the other from soft games, but quality kind of sucks in elden ring unfortunately, so I’d recommend just giving it a heavy infusion and pump strength to 60 or even 80 depending on how high you want to go. Since heavy is a physical infusion you can add weapon grease or some other buff to increase damage further.
@@TheGhostInitiative I was also recommended going Keen and using Lightning Armaments
Very solid choice also. Wasn’t sure if you just wanted a pure physical claymore experience or not, and heavy + strength will do slightly more damage for physical, but if you’re cool with leveling faith a bit and throwing in an incantation or two, then keen + lightning is very strong as well.
@TheGhostInitiative what Incantations, AoW and faith levels do you suggest? If you dont mind. Currently lvl 100 rn
@BadKarma.- honestly the default AoW Lion’s claw on the claymore is really good and it’s the only weapon in the game that comes with Lion’s Claw which is cool. As for incantations/faith level it just depends on how much of that you want to center your playstyle around. If you mostly want to be melee and just use incantations as utility then you can just level faith to like 17-20 and still be able to use lightning armaments, lightning spear, great heal, and flame grant me strength which are all really useful.
Or you could level faith all the way to 50 and use pretty much anything and just be a hybrid dex/faith build. Lightning affinity also scales with dex so you could even make a lightning claymore and mix it with lightning incantations to just dump out lightning damage at any range. Up to you at the end of the day.
Remember that the damage of some ashes of war is tied to the upgrade level of the weapon, Rusty has some tops about all the base game normal/unique weapons and ashes of war and
I like math
Watching all this complexity of this game makes me wanna drop the game
Honestly understanding it all at once isn’t necessary. This is more for learning how to optimize your character. Go find a big sword, start leveling strength, and you’ll be just fine.
I been playing this game for about 3 months and this whole time I thought that E was for excellent 😭😭😭
Got so dissapointed when the background music began playing, I thought I had found an Elden Ring channel that was tolerable to listen to but I guess not...
Womp womp
I dont get why Asmongold is famous and you’re not. There is more content in this video than in his whole ‘’career’’
Honestly, my life is way too busy outside of TH-cam to be able to make content as consistently as him. Being able to stream all day and have other people employed to clip and edit the streams into videos, shorts, tiktoks, etc. allows him and other big creators to pump out an insane amount of content. If I do it myself: play a game for an hour, edit it for AT LEAST that long, render it for an hour or two (during which time my 6 year old computer that wasn't very nice to begin with is incapable of doing anything else without exploding), make a thumbnail, figure out a title, upload it....there just aren't enough hours in the day.
You have to create some kind of value and appeal with a video if you want it to do well. For me and any small creator, that usually comes in the form of working hard to make a really good video, but for Asmongold, the appeal is really just that he is Asmongold and people are going to watch based on that fact alone. I also think his personality is much more entertaining than mine to the average viewer. Mix in all the controversies for extra clicks and views and....yeah. Apologies for the rant, I love making videos and hope that didn't sound like I was complaining, but there is definitely a reason he's famous and I'm not haha.
Can you quiet down please? I'm trying to fall asleep.
My bad boss. Sweet dreams
You earned a sub, each soulsborne game always brings with it new blood that loves to dive deep into the math
I appreciate it, but in all fairness I just took all the work that was already done and tried to put it into a more digestible format. All the information was already out there, it was just buried in dozens of massive reddit posts, wiki articles, and spreadsheets haha
It requires someone to make it easier for the new players to get into the hardcore scene. People like you as well as all the people that go in depth on PvP specifics (looking at you ds3 and the SS meta that lasted forever) keep these games alive for years
Amazing video, man! Super helpful! I wish I had found it earlier!