If you equip a second greatspear to powerstance with the serpent slayer in rykard's fight, both great spears will get the extended range effect from the serpent slayer
I can't believe the amount of hours that I'm putting into this game and still learning new things almost daily. Please keep these coming as long as you can.
I think that is my favorite thing about the game. I'm a veteran player of the series starting with Demons Souls and still Elden Ring continues to surprise me.
@@willythe4 elden ring was my introduction to the souls games I have almost 400 hours in game I'm only on my 2nd playthrough and don't feel like I have scratched the surface of exploration availability.
I was doing a Vigor-only run, and one of my main weapons was a Misericorde with Flame of Redmanes. Any boss with 80 poise or less goes down in 2 casts (on NG at least) and if you mix this with the Cerulean Assassin's Dagger Talisman, you can recover all the FP it cost to use it twice. Then, on top of all that, if the boss has a slow enough moveset, you can get 2 casts in before they even recover from the crit. What does this mean? It means you can stunlock Maliketh from full HP to 0 VERY easily. People constantly talk about how Rivers of Blood is OP but don't realise actual stunlock abilities exist
I have 2 things for share. 1:Clayman's Harpoon(its a lance) has raw and magic dmg but you can add more elements with ashes of war or grease to do 3 dmg types or even 4 a the same time (using the next discovery). 2:If you use the ash of war "sacred blade" with thunder afinity on your weapon, you will be able to add holy dmg while using the ash of war, in other words you will do 3 dmg types at the same time (Physical,thunder,holy).
The beast-repellent torch also works against Caelid's T-rex dogs, wolves and regular bears so it's a game changer for me (doesn't work when facing red-eyed enemies, rune bears or giant crows, though). Thanks for sharing this info
The skeleton breath attack took me by surprise the first time I saw it. And it HURTS, too. There wasn't much I didn't already know about this video. I'd heard of the rings/shield interaction, but I didn't know that it had been nerfed previously. I'm so slow getting through this game, man... Stuff is getting nerfed that I've never had an opportunity to even try. The Mimic Tear got nerfed before I'd even acquired it. I'm at nearly 250 hours and I'm still on my first playthrough. There's just so much to do in this game!
The easymode way to do Flame of the Redmanes is on a leveled up Misericord. When you get Royal Knight's Resolve, you can move that to the Misericord and put FotR on some other weapon.
I genuinely hate to be this guy. But, I've seen everyone making this mistake and you guys are one of the biggest channels, so hopefully if you guys incorporate it, it permeates the community. The spell is law of Causality, cause-ality. Everyone keeps saying casualty lol Same thing happened with perseverance in DS3.
@@jcase6199 I don't mean to make it sound that way. I don't necessarily mind if it happens. It's just that 95% of videos that feature that spell say casualty. I'm honestly not trying to come off as a dick with that comment. The only reason I posted it here is because they're one of the major channels for ER right now and I'm hoping that it reaches a large number of people through them lol It just became like nails on a chalk board in Dark souls when it happened with the weapon art, Perseverance. I can't do it again lol
I feel like an underutilized move is the backstep attack. Every weapon has an attack unique to the backstep. What makes them cool is that they are made to retaliate against whatever you dodged by covering a longer distance.
It's underutilized because the back step doesn't offer iFrames, nor does it cover much distance. Don't get me wrong, you're right, back step attacks are good and underrated. But I've only had success with it when using BHS (bloodhound step).
youre right, and it's such a classy ass dodge to. like, yeah this is the game that made rolling universal, sorry john wu, but even more dominant is to just slide back like nah son.
One thing my friend and I enjoy doing in PvP with his Erdtree Greatshield, is I stand right behind him and use Unendurable Frenzy, and he can actually retaliate with it and send those reflected projectiles at our foes! It's like a belt-fed machine gun or something! Really REALLY fun.
The only thing I can think of is that the Raven Talons heavy has some surprising range and a nice combo, and the Commander's Standard buff is way more useful than it appears.
You can stack the damage effect from the 'rune of death' weapons/incants. If you can land the blade of death/maliketh blade weapon art and follow with the incant it will immediately take 1/3 of their health. Good for tanky bosses like fire giant and elden beast.
did you know the effect of the bubble of Twiggy cracked tear means even if you haven't picked up your runes before dying again they won't disappear meaning you can use this tear to collect runes from otherwise unsavory locations you put yourself in without the stress of losing them
Thanks! I did not know this. On the other hand I don't know how to feel about this since it means there is no threat of losing your runes at all now. I thought you needed to use them before dying the first time. ✨
@@Kristalya it depends on your play style, this could help stop angry players from raging as you can avoid losing your runes stupidly and can help level you up faster and let's be honest even with this you're still very likely to lose it all
For the walking mausoleum using the gravitas skill is an easy way to clear out the debris on their legs. I wonder if either Margit or Mohgs shackle would work as well(they work on hidden walls and fire pillars as a hit box, maybe they can on the debris too). Also gravitas is a great way to deal with the stormhawks and bats. It pulls them out of the air and allows you to finish them on the ground.
Something I don't think people utalize enough is the Blasphemous Blade when it comes to struggling with Melania and or Radagon, pair this with a summon and you can easily beat her with little to no sweat, super effective and really good for new players struggling.
Roger has a bloodstain down at the bottom area in stormviel castle,looks like he's hit with a death attack like what the animation looks like when a basilisk kills you,it makes his death and his acceptance of undead more interesting lore wise
Another way you can deal with those invisible scarabs is to stand in its path, get on your horse, and then hold your Heavy Attack as it approaches. the entire animation is an active hitbox, not just the swing at the end of the charge so the scarab runs into it.
If you have the beast repent torch equipped in hand when you get on torrent the affect still works even if there shows no light or flame. But the calming affect still works. I'm glad you brought that torch up. I had found it right around you mentioned the other torch in a previous video, and thought the beast torch was way more useful to know about. Also good to use with rats and large rats. And bears. Not runebears though
Love your videos, i always learn new stuff from them.It's the law of causality(cause al ity), not casualty(ka zhoo uhl tee). Causality is cause and effect whereas casualty is dead person usually from war or conflict.
Something I recently discovered while farming for a weapon that has saved me a ton of heart break after I figured it out. So we all know when you kill an enemy and they are going to drop an item you will see the pop or flash of the blueish white light and then will have the glowing dot of the item with a light trail rising up from it. Well just like when you find an item out in the world if it has a simple dull white glow rising up it will be a simpler item like rowa berries or glass shard, but if it has a brighter purple and white light then it is considered a special item, well it's the same for enemies, if you are farming for a weapon or armor pieces and see the tell tell flash of light wait to check what color is rising up from them before you get your hopes up, if it's dull white it'll be your 50th rowa berry but if it's bright purple to white then it should be your weapon or armor. hope it helps
Additionally, the beam's height also tells the difference between the common vs uncommon drops, which both appear as white drops. Ex: when killing a Warhawk in Stormveil, basic flight pinions will be a roughly elbow height beam while the Stormhawk feathers AND the Warhawk's Talon sword will appear as tall as the player
One of those mother squids actually hit and killed me with a surprise madness attack. Not sure how it happened but I haven’t been able to replicate it. Really took me off guard
You can beat those squids/Oktopus very easily with a 2h heavy attack. Just 2h whatever weapon you have and it should take 2 heavy hits to stunlock them. (It takes less if you hit the face) ✌️
Flame of the Redmanes’ poise damage reminds me that Malenia is a boss with somewhat low poise and a slight weakness to fire. so im thinking, how badly did Malenia get clobbered by Radahn in their fight? ‘undefeated’ my arse
Well, there is a reason she had to resort to her rot powers. It explicitly says she did it so she could equally face Radahn. Makes you wonder how incredible was he that he was overwhelming her until then and is still dominating the stars.
I wouldn’t say flame of the red manes is a “ranged” stagger. I’ve used it for half the game and any boss that moves is hard to get at range. You have to be pretty close to them to hit them but it does have crazy stagger.
Another one to add here that I don’t see people talking about but quite a bit of people is the one with Mohg’s or Morgit’s shackle. You can activate it anywhere and it will reveal secret paths. Not only close ones but it has great range so you won’t have to do it all the time. In fact so many areas are so small you would only have to do it once and you’ll probably never realize it was a breakable wall. It will also move up and down the pillars that shoot fire or to damage the enemies or yourself. You can easily do this instead of having to use a dagger or some of long range weapon. Makes it way easier to use those traps to fight enemies as well. I always keep one of those in my quick menu and you can get Margot’s with the first 30 mins of the game or new character
My current theory on the Kindred of Rot (The enemy, name from their ashes) is that they are former humans that were changed either by worshiping Malenia or through her scarlet rot in Caelid. They consider themselves her children or children of her rot at least. From Gowry after helping Millecent: "Would you disown us too? As your Mother did? We children of the scarlet rot?" Malenia herself seems to reject them possibly because they are born of the rot, which is implicated may be related to the domain of an outer god.
Not enough evidence. All we really know is they pop up where ever there is scarlet rot. It is weird they have humanoid hands but from I can see those hands are a natural part of the kindred. No sign they were grafted. The kindred are just really creepy
The Kindred of Rot being covered in human arms is a common element that they share with Astel Naturalborn of the Void. It's also interesting that Astel is a malformed Fallingstar Beast, and his body with the forehead-cracked skull, human arms, and wings looks much closer to the Death Rite Birds in design than the bull-like Fallingstar Beasts.
I seems to me that Astel is a bit like the final form of the evolutionary lifecycle of the fallingstar beast. The order being as follows; Fallingstar beast -> Fully grown Fallingstar beast -> Malformed star -> Astel
@@SonKunSama While the inside of his head is an eye, that's the same thing we see occurring with Sorcerers like Lusat, where their brains and heads are slowly overgrown and replaced by Glintstone. Astel's whole body is that same material as it makes up the stars.
There's a bit more to the Beast-Repellent Torch, actually. I'll copy & paste the entry from the wiki: _"While held in either hand (or on the back while two-handing something else), certain creatures will not attack the player. The affected creatures are: Lone Wolves, Dogs, Giant Dogs (only those that do not have glowing red eyes), Boars, Sheep, Bears (not Lesser Runebears), Rats, Giant Rats, Basilisks, and Crystal Snails. If spotted by a creature, the creature will stay focused on the player (as if they are readying to attack), but will keep their distance and not attack. If the player attacks the creature or approaches too closely for too long, the creature will attack the player as normal. Putting the torch away and pulling it back out again will cause the creature to cease attacking the player once more."_
I used the Beast Repellent Torch early for the Caelid puppers, but never did I realize it'd work on those damn halitosis lizards. That's really cool. Thanks for the tip!
With the special effect torch, you can have them in your off-hand and 2hand your other weapon and still get the effect. Notably useful to get access to the Haligtree (torch in off-hand + 2handed heavy shield to tank things)
I've been using Flame of the Redmanes ever since I found it, maybe half of my gametime ago. Great poise break, you can break dragons' poise in 2 hits, just aim it to their head. Do critical hit, do it all over again in a loop. Dead dragon in no time. Honestly I think I can't play without it, I've been spoiled.
Probably been mentioned but I wanna share a fun story. Got invaded in Liurnia by a player who was giving me a run for my money and spamming poison spells and the poison cloud ash of war. I ran to that spot near the east shore with a metric butt ton of Land Squirts where you find the summon for the bulbous plants. I threw out poison darts like crazy while we were surrounded by the LS. They started writhing and smoking out green noxious nasty. I managed to hit the invader with sleep (yay skeep bolts) and ran away. The squirts all exploded around him taking him out. It was glorious. Land Squirts react violently if poisoned.
Just tested out a really cool weapon often used in Madara builds (Chase the bro has a really cool fight against this): the Steel wired torch! Turns out, like the crossbow, this does also get extra firedamage and bleed properties! The fire on the ground also procs the bleed! This is amazing against groups of enemies and big targets if you have a close combat build that sometimes wants to do medium range attacks without bows. It also explodes firebarrels from a safe distance. Flame of the redmanes is better, but if you want a really easy lowcost alternative in any build that removes large groups, this is a really good option!
The lobster enemies have a disturbing fact. In real life lobsters shoot a stream of liquid from their mouth as a form of attack when fighting others but that stream is piss because lobsters also piss from their mouth as well. So when you get sniper from a lobster from far away you literally got hit by a piss missile.
With the torches and their effects, they can their effect can still be active when you two hand your weapon. So long as the torch is on your back, it still works.
If you proc Frostbite on someone, you can use a fire attack to reset the enemies frostbite so you can keep proccing frostbite against the dragons that you can’t lock on to the legs, (Dragonlord Placidusax, Ancient Dragon Lansseax, and Lichdragon Fortissax) charging a heavy while their head is down and attacking their head will 9/10 break their posture for a max punish on a staggered enemy, throw a light attack BEFORE they are fully staggered or a heavy attack BEFORE they stagger, then light attack the corresponding area if you are unsure if a chest is trapped or not, you can actually dodge right after you open it to avoid a potential transporter trap!! when going up against a rivers of blood in PVP, open your menu, go to the bottom left, select it, all the way to the right, then hit quit game
The scarb that drops the redmane ash of war. In the event u don't hav an AoE to use to hit the hidden scarb u can use the flame thrower mob (that face shaped tank mob) attack him them lure him in the path of the scarb, he CAN hit it for u.
The rot bugs one reminds me of something. If you take a close look at Mr. Ofnir's grave in the opening cutscene it's full of human ears, infact the "beard" on his helmet seems to also be made up if many tiny ears. Makes me think he's really the "All Hearing Brute" Latenna talks about, aside from the fact that it seems quite odd even for Gideon to know Latenna's specific hiding spot. I doubt he read that from a book
I'm so glad you guys brought up Flame of the Redmanes! This thing is actually kinda broken, and it's my go to for fighting bosses. Have a dragon you wanna kill? Summon your tiche ash, get underneath, and hit him 3-4 times, staggered.
I love flame of the redmanes. Literally got me from ng+6 to 7 since I was able to stun Radagon and the Elden Beast. Also never noticed that thing about the pests, very freaky.
My nephew figured out the jump I frames when the game 1st came out. it's fun to think about because I knew about this because of him. I just assumed everyone knew that until now.
Quick note about the Tree Sentinel Shield Cannon. If you want an easy, almost guaranteed way to fire it off every time without having to wait on your ring to return and get the exact timing, what I do is use the spirit summoning bell. You just ring it (make sure you aren't looking down, but forward or slightly up), then you just step forward and L2 parry and you will blast it. If you target an enemy as you're blasting, it will go straight at that enemy (usually you don't want to have the enemy targeted beforehand because that can cause you to look down too much at times, missing the parry). You can do this in pretty rapid succession, not quite like the rapid fire back with the "fire's deadly sin" version, but still a pretty reliable cannon on demand (this is pretty much like how people were cheesing Carian Retaliation, but it works like a charm with the TS Shield too).
- beast repellent torch works against giant dogs and crows in Caelid - Giant land octopus will consume little ones around them before going for own limbs so if youre having trouble with them, just kill all the little oves around them first
Flame of redmane ash of war is soo good. Used it basically until last few bosses. Some bosses are incredibly hard to stagger but most all enemies are 2-3 hit stagger
It was fun cutting off the arms of the land octopi, but honestly I just use Flame of the Redmanes on my Misericord because it stuns them in one hit and sets them up for a crit.
Basilisks are annoying, but there happens to be one place in Deeproot depths where the Marrionette Soldiers will clear most of them out - and you technically can't summon them there. At the actual Deeproot Depths site of grace, head north until the summon sign just disappears. Take a step or two back south until it reappears and summon the Marionette Soldiers while facing north. Since they have a mind of their own, they will keep wandering north well past the summonable area and into the basilisk zone shooting all they come across. I just sat back and reaped the runes. Worth about 35K for literally no work. Useful trip to the fridge to top off my drink.
this game is so deep with all the little details. sure it has some minor issues, but this is what will make it goty. I honestly have never seen such attention to detail, thank you for pointing them out for us all.
if you really want to kill the land octopus just hit it from the side to get your first stagger, reposte. then during its recovery do a heavy against its beak, that does insane stagger damage, and a full chagered one should allow you to reposte it again, and loop it until its dead. idk if it works with straight swords, but with most great swords or spears it works
Never tried it by myself, but the bell to conjure the yellow ghosts should work as well with the shield! Be careful with the torch, if there's a red eyed dog better be ready to fight or to run...
I just finished a dagger (Melina) challenge run, I can tell you for a fact that the Flame of the Redmanes pairs extremely well with the Misericorde with the high crit damage. Single handidly turned bosses from a 15 min fight to a 3 min fight. Truly incredible AoW that does not need to be nerfed due to it only standing out in specific situations and not OP during the entire game.
Apply an enchantment to the weapon, and flame of the redmanes will also become buffed. The ash will stagger anything in 2 or 3 hits, and apply the bleed from bloodflame blade, the Blackflame DoT, deal double damage to undead and prevent resurrection with orders blade, etc. it's super balanced for sure.
People also underestimate the Warhawk talons. Very interesting move set that can roll catch easily and you can put these very interesting ashes of them like this one or glintstone pebble etc
I have Flame of the Redmanes on my dagger build. I use the black knife dagger to lower hp, flame to break poise, then use my other dagger to crit. You can get 6k damage off with no risk, and it’s amazing.
I've got one for you on the topic of enemies. Go hunt down a basalisk, those little lizards with green skin, spit death blight, large eyes right? Those are not eyes. To find the real eyes get enough light around you and take a close look just above it's mouth and you should see 2 very small yellow orbs with black pupils. Those are the actual eyes!
@@Metaknight180 they are still there. I don't know if the scales are slightly different in color but it helps the eyes blend in. Killed a pack of three and could only see the eyes properly on one of them due to the light.
Loads of enemies have specific weak spots. The troll heads are weak, and if you shoot them there they will clutch it. Tops of the fire chariots can be plunge attacked, or the riders on the back. Many more examples.
And like the Sentry Torch, the Beast-Repellent Torch is still active when on your back (when two-handing you main weapon). Tested it in Caelid with the Scrappy Doo lookin' dogs and it worked. The only thing it didn't work for was the Murder Birds, strangely.
Because the murderbirds are immune to anything that would otherwise make Cealid a nice place. Pretty sure they are the secret reason malenia rotted Caelid. They could probably fly earlier
Have been running flame of the red manes since I found it. One thing to point out is that it’s dealing fire damage AND physical damage, meaning it scales with your chosen stat and your weapons physical damage.
Theres another animation that i beleive has crazy s. It saved me a couple times in the open world. The animation im talking about is summoning your Spectral Steed, Torrent. Theres a short animation period where Torrent is being manifested at the same time your character begins to jump on. That is when the s kick in, so the moment your character stradles Torrent, you're susceptible to dmg. The animation of your character getting off of torrent does not have this same effect.
I feel like this may be well known, but incase it isn't, those horse jump springs you can also jump down them and receive zero damage. In-fact it seems as long as you get the "effect" around torrent as you are falling you wont receive any fall damage when trying to make your way down instead of up a path
Beast repellent torch should work on anything with four legs. Strange it works on basilisks. Also, torches work in your left hand, while two handing your main hand weapon.
Flame of the Redmane's + Misericorde dagger = Easy mode. Don't even need to level up the dagger until Altus Plateau. Add dagger talisman from Volcano Manor and upgrade the dagger and low and behold, you hit like a truck. Also add flame art and level up faith to really 'melt' bosses
Quick tip for those invisible scarabs. Get any Glintblade Phalanx sorcery or Ash of war and they will auto home in onto the scarab for easy kill. Best to place yourself with the scarab going towards you.
I found out about this ash of war when I began playing my first game from fromsoft and I kept using until after i fought Morgott and it wasn't working as effectively as before. But that ash of war carried me at least 60% of the game until I had to go to the fire giant, malenia, lord of blood, secret dragon boss, Malek blood death canine, first elden lord, miquella(sorry if I spelled it wrong), then finally the elden beast.
We need the skeleton breath attack as an incantation! And I really hope the Dark element is added since so many spells and effects are holy element even though they are dark! Also you mentioned grafting and that made me want a proper not insane threatening grafter that has all kind of dangerous monster parts and not mostly useless stuff like random hands! Also one really good way is to change the Holy element into the Soul element since your soul can be good or evil. ☠️🖤
I hadn't seen you talk about the curved sword dropped by the beast men of farum azula most know that curved swords have a double attack while jumping and heavy attack but this sword has one on the light attack and when duel wielding the roll attack is double with the second attack delayed I built a toon based on these swords and it's been amazing and fun
Yes, jumping is so useful in many fights to avoid damage. The biggest one is on the Elden Beast when the rings come down from the sky. They're almost impossible, if not impossible to roll through, but you can easily jump over them. The other big one is the Crucible Knight's ground stomp attack. You can just jump when they stomp and the rocks that come out of the ground completely miss you.
The skeletons probably have more necromatic power due to being above the deeproot depths, which has godwyns(?) corpse, which could be corrupting/empowering the area above with death
Instead of flame of the redmanes, you can use beast jaw's weapon art. Does about 1k dmg, long range, takes 2-3 hits to posture break and is just a fun weapon.
If you equip a second greatspear to powerstance with the serpent slayer in rykard's fight, both great spears will get the extended range effect from the serpent slayer
This deserves more love if true.
Whoa thank you!
it is true, I didn't feel like it did that much extra damage, but it sure did look cool
I wish i had seen this 5min before
Big facts this should be in a vid in the future
If you want to beat the Fire Giant lorewise way, use the Giant's Crusher Hammer, it does a "secret" +20% damage to him.
I love you for this.
@@Reverandfatdave I used this weapon when i had enough to get rolled by this Giant redhair b'tch. And i noticed this gain of damage.
Just noticed that after the charged heavy attack with the giant crusher, you can charge attack again
I can't believe the amount of hours that I'm putting into this game and still learning new things almost daily. Please keep these coming as long as you can.
I think that is my favorite thing about the game. I'm a veteran player of the series starting with Demons Souls and still Elden Ring continues to surprise me.
Man I feel this, I have over 250 hours in the game and I didn't know any of this
@@willythe4 elden ring was my introduction to the souls games I have almost 400 hours in game I'm only on my 2nd playthrough and don't feel like I have scratched the surface of exploration availability.
Same I’m at 320 hours and four playthroughs, still find something new everytime.
@@brandoncarroll6688love exploring its fun but sometimes difficult trying to get in high area s then you or even lower areas when you are high up
I was doing a Vigor-only run, and one of my main weapons was a Misericorde with Flame of Redmanes. Any boss with 80 poise or less goes down in 2 casts (on NG at least) and if you mix this with the Cerulean Assassin's Dagger Talisman, you can recover all the FP it cost to use it twice. Then, on top of all that, if the boss has a slow enough moveset, you can get 2 casts in before they even recover from the crit. What does this mean? It means you can stunlock Maliketh from full HP to 0 VERY easily. People constantly talk about how Rivers of Blood is OP but don't realise actual stunlock abilities exist
Flame of redmanes may also be really useful on Malenia, cause stunlocking her is the easiest way to win
Redmanes is very effective against birds and bats too. It will fan upward to the target and oftentimes hit more than one in a flying group.
@Madara Uchiha like you said, with a mimic. Flames of the Redmanes lets you do it by yourself
@Madara Uchiha its easier to get Flames of the Redmanes than beating Okina and going to Nokstella...
I have basically the same build, except I run the buckler too for those juicy parry critical hits. Stunlocking bosses is so satisfying.
I have 2 things for share.
1:Clayman's Harpoon(its a lance) has raw and magic dmg but you can add more elements with ashes of war or grease to do 3 dmg types or even 4 a the same time (using the next discovery).
2:If you use the ash of war "sacred blade" with thunder afinity on your weapon, you will be able to add holy dmg while using the ash of war, in other words you will do 3 dmg types at the same time (Physical,thunder,holy).
Great point, but they have actually covered they Claymans before In a build haha
The beast-repellent torch also works against Caelid's T-rex dogs, wolves and regular bears so it's a game changer for me (doesn't work when facing red-eyed enemies, rune bears or giant crows, though). Thanks for sharing this info
Seriously it works on those Trex assholes?! My life could have been so much easier…. 🤣
Also works on the Giant Crows
So I could have edge walked to a t Rex dog. And said fuck you?
@@TheAnaz41745 oh god thank fuck! I hate the giant birds. I thought it wouldn't work on them. Now I can go explore caelid and be at peace.
Does it work on normal dogs and the giant gorilla bears? THAT would be a game changer for me.
The skeleton breath attack took me by surprise the first time I saw it. And it HURTS, too.
There wasn't much I didn't already know about this video. I'd heard of the rings/shield interaction, but I didn't know that it had been nerfed previously. I'm so slow getting through this game, man... Stuff is getting nerfed that I've never had an opportunity to even try. The Mimic Tear got nerfed before I'd even acquired it. I'm at nearly 250 hours and I'm still on my first playthrough. There's just so much to do in this game!
Me too. I probly got 250-300 hours in and i havent even made it past the great plateau!😳🤣
Bro I'm at over 600 ng++ and I'm still finding shit.
The easymode way to do Flame of the Redmanes is on a leveled up Misericord. When you get Royal Knight's Resolve, you can move that to the Misericord and put FotR on some other weapon.
Does the resolve boost crit too? I gotta try that aow a lot more
My first thought was that savage little dagger as well lol highest crit raising I believe, or at least from what I’ve seen so far
I genuinely hate to be this guy. But, I've seen everyone making this mistake and you guys are one of the biggest channels, so hopefully if you guys incorporate it, it permeates the community. The spell is law of Causality, cause-ality. Everyone keeps saying casualty lol
Same thing happened with perseverance in DS3.
Dyslexia is a thing… But I totally get where you’re coming from! I’m a bit of a grammar nazi myself! 🤣
@@jcase6199 I don't mean to make it sound that way. I don't necessarily mind if it happens. It's just that 95% of videos that feature that spell say casualty. I'm honestly not trying to come off as a dick with that comment. The only reason I posted it here is because they're one of the major channels for ER right now and I'm hoping that it reaches a large number of people through them lol
It just became like nails on a chalk board in Dark souls when it happened with the weapon art, Perseverance. I can't do it again lol
I feel like an underutilized move is the backstep attack. Every weapon has an attack unique to the backstep. What makes them cool is that they are made to retaliate against whatever you dodged by covering a longer distance.
Yeah, sometimes it's on the heavy attack and sometimes on the light attack.
It's underutilized because the back step doesn't offer iFrames, nor does it cover much distance. Don't get me wrong, you're right, back step attacks are good and underrated. But I've only had success with it when using BHS (bloodhound step).
Sideways lockon quickstep is backstep attack animation, sneaky op for pvp
youre right, and it's such a classy ass dodge to. like, yeah this is the game that made rolling universal, sorry john wu, but even more dominant is to just slide back like nah son.
Really love curved and katana back step it will fff people using shields to much
One thing my friend and I enjoy doing in PvP with his Erdtree Greatshield, is I stand right behind him and use Unendurable Frenzy, and he can actually retaliate with it and send those reflected projectiles at our foes! It's like a belt-fed machine gun or something! Really REALLY fun.
That’s sick
The only thing I can think of is that the Raven Talons heavy has some surprising range and a nice combo, and the Commander's Standard buff is way more useful than it appears.
You can stack the damage effect from the 'rune of death' weapons/incants. If you can land the blade of death/maliketh blade weapon art and follow with the incant it will immediately take 1/3 of their health. Good for tanky bosses like fire giant and elden beast.
And Malenia
did you know the effect of the bubble of Twiggy cracked tear means even if you haven't picked up your runes before dying again they won't disappear meaning you can use this tear to collect runes from otherwise unsavory locations you put yourself in without the stress of losing them
Thanks! I did not know this. On the other hand I don't know how to feel about this since it means there is no threat of losing your runes at all now. I thought you needed to use them before dying the first time. ✨
@@Kristalya it depends on your play style, this could help stop angry players from raging as you can avoid losing your runes stupidly and can help level you up faster and let's be honest even with this you're still very likely to lose it all
@@Kristalya ...the effects of the physiks flask don't last forever. You can lose your runes if you die after the effects wear off.
For the walking mausoleum using the gravitas skill is an easy way to clear out the debris on their legs. I wonder if either Margit or Mohgs shackle would work as well(they work on hidden walls and fire pillars as a hit box, maybe they can on the debris too).
Also gravitas is a great way to deal with the stormhawks and bats. It pulls them out of the air and allows you to finish them on the ground.
Gravity spells also have the same effect on flying enemies
Something I don't think people utalize enough is the Blasphemous Blade when it comes to struggling with Melania and or Radagon, pair this with a summon and you can easily beat her with little to no sweat, super effective and really good for new players struggling.
Everyone uses the blasphemy is blade. It’s OG OP.
Roger has a bloodstain down at the bottom area in stormviel castle,looks like he's hit with a death attack like what the animation looks like when a basilisk kills you,it makes his death and his acceptance of undead more interesting lore wise
Yes, it appears he was hit with a build up of death status effect
It's part of his quest and links with Fia. I'm surprised FromSoft didn't have the Godwyn (?) face down there give you death build up.
Another way you can deal with those invisible scarabs is to stand in its path, get on your horse, and then hold your Heavy Attack as it approaches. the entire animation is an active hitbox, not just the swing at the end of the charge so the scarab runs into it.
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If you have the beast repent torch equipped in hand when you get on torrent the affect still works even if there shows no light or flame. But the calming affect still works. I'm glad you brought that torch up. I had found it right around you mentioned the other torch in a previous video, and thought the beast torch was way more useful to know about. Also good to use with rats and large rats. And bears. Not runebears though
Love your videos, i always learn new stuff from them.It's the law of causality(cause al ity), not casualty(ka zhoo uhl tee). Causality is cause and effect whereas casualty is dead person usually from war or conflict.
Flame of the Redmanes also deal really decent damage, so it's worth using on upgraded weapons. And it can hit many enemies at once.
And it breakes crystalians in 2 hits.
Something I recently discovered while farming for a weapon that has saved me a ton of heart break after I figured it out. So we all know when you kill an enemy and they are going to drop an item you will see the pop or flash of the blueish white light and then will have the glowing dot of the item with a light trail rising up from it. Well just like when you find an item out in the world if it has a simple dull white glow rising up it will be a simpler item like rowa berries or glass shard, but if it has a brighter purple and white light then it is considered a special item, well it's the same for enemies, if you are farming for a weapon or armor pieces and see the tell tell flash of light wait to check what color is rising up from them before you get your hopes up, if it's dull white it'll be your 50th rowa berry but if it's bright purple to white then it should be your weapon or armor. hope it helps
Pretty sure some weapons and armor and items still drop as just normal looking white items too just sayin
Additionally, the beam's height also tells the difference between the common vs uncommon drops, which both appear as white drops. Ex: when killing a Warhawk in Stormveil, basic flight pinions will be a roughly elbow height beam while the Stormhawk feathers AND the Warhawk's Talon sword will appear as tall as the player
Awesome tip thanks
One of those mother squids actually hit and killed me with a surprise madness attack. Not sure how it happened but I haven’t been able to replicate it. Really took me off guard
In the lakes? I’ve been hit with it too but don’t remember where
You can beat those squids/Oktopus very easily with a 2h heavy attack. Just 2h whatever weapon you have and it should take 2 heavy hits to stunlock them. (It takes less if you hit the face) ✌️
@@dondemonico I mean sure? That’s not what we’re talking about though
What weapon were you using?
@@jacobfreeman5444 Some generic sword I think. Doubt it was buffed with any element at the time as I was just starting the game.
The Flame of The Redmanes Ash of War definitely changed my life for the better in regards to this game. It’s a great find and thanks for sharing .
Flame of the Redmanes’ poise damage reminds me that Malenia is a boss with somewhat low poise and a slight weakness to fire.
so im thinking, how badly did Malenia get clobbered by Radahn in their fight?
‘undefeated’ my arse
Well, there is a reason she had to resort to her rot powers. It explicitly says she did it so she could equally face Radahn. Makes you wonder how incredible was he that he was overwhelming her until then and is still dominating the stars.
I wouldn’t say flame of the red manes is a “ranged” stagger. I’ve used it for half the game and any boss that moves is hard to get at range. You have to be pretty close to them to hit them but it does have crazy stagger.
Another one to add here that I don’t see people talking about but quite a bit of people is the one with Mohg’s or Morgit’s shackle. You can activate it anywhere and it will reveal secret paths. Not only close ones but it has great range so you won’t have to do it all the time. In fact so many areas are so small you would only have to do it once and you’ll probably never realize it was a breakable wall. It will also move up and down the pillars that shoot fire or to damage the enemies or yourself. You can easily do this instead of having to use a dagger or some of long range weapon. Makes it way easier to use those traps to fight enemies as well. I always keep one of those in my quick menu and you can get Margot’s with the first 30 mins of the game or new character
I always keep one or the other equipped as well. It was the only reason I was able to find the talisman in the Lindell catacombs
My current theory on the Kindred of Rot (The enemy, name from their ashes) is that they are former humans that were changed either by worshiping Malenia or through her scarlet rot in Caelid. They consider themselves her children or children of her rot at least.
From Gowry after helping Millecent: "Would you disown us too? As your Mother did? We children of the scarlet rot?"
Malenia herself seems to reject them possibly because they are born of the rot, which is implicated may be related to the domain of an outer god.
Love it. Also possibly grafted by Malenia and her camp as engineered soldiers against Radahn?
Not enough evidence. All we really know is they pop up where ever there is scarlet rot. It is weird they have humanoid hands but from I can see those hands are a natural part of the kindred. No sign they were grafted. The kindred are just really creepy
The skeleton breath attack just makes me think of the necromancers in Raised by Wolves
There's alotta things I don't like about you... but can't stop watching. Good job!
The big shrimps have human hands for feet... truly weird! I love it
The Kindred of Rot being covered in human arms is a common element that they share with Astel Naturalborn of the Void. It's also interesting that Astel is a malformed Fallingstar Beast, and his body with the forehead-cracked skull, human arms, and wings looks much closer to the Death Rite Birds in design than the bull-like Fallingstar Beasts.
The forehead crack is actually Astel's eye, the skull doesn't seem to be its real face.
@@SonKunSama Perhaps a parasite that is born from the falling star beast.
I seems to me that Astel is a bit like the final form of the evolutionary lifecycle of the fallingstar beast. The order being as follows; Fallingstar beast -> Fully grown Fallingstar beast -> Malformed star -> Astel
@@gusdolan6046 It's more that Astel is referred to as being malformed, whereas the Fallingstar Beasts are referred to as being younger or fully grown.
@@SonKunSama While the inside of his head is an eye, that's the same thing we see occurring with Sorcerers like Lusat, where their brains and heads are slowly overgrown and replaced by Glintstone. Astel's whole body is that same material as it makes up the stars.
There's a bit more to the Beast-Repellent Torch, actually. I'll copy & paste the entry from the wiki:
_"While held in either hand (or on the back while two-handing something else), certain creatures will not attack the player. The affected creatures are: Lone Wolves, Dogs, Giant Dogs (only those that do not have glowing red eyes), Boars, Sheep, Bears (not Lesser Runebears), Rats, Giant Rats, Basilisks, and Crystal Snails. If spotted by a creature, the creature will stay focused on the player (as if they are readying to attack), but will keep their distance and not attack. If the player attacks the creature or approaches too closely for too long, the creature will attack the player as normal. Putting the torch away and pulling it back out again will cause the creature to cease attacking the player once more."_
I used the Beast Repellent Torch early for the Caelid puppers, but never did I realize it'd work on those damn halitosis lizards. That's really cool. Thanks for the tip!
With the special effect torch, you can have them in your off-hand and 2hand your other weapon and still get the effect. Notably useful to get access to the Haligtree (torch in off-hand + 2handed heavy shield to tank things)
I've been using Flame of the Redmanes ever since I found it, maybe half of my gametime ago. Great poise break, you can break dragons' poise in 2 hits, just aim it to their head. Do critical hit, do it all over again in a loop. Dead dragon in no time. Honestly I think I can't play without it, I've been spoiled.
Winged Crystal Tear also allows you to get max damage out of the blue dancer charm
You can put Raw Meat Dumpling in your item bar so when you use the mimic it come with it too so he can restore his HP
Probably been mentioned but I wanna share a fun story.
Got invaded in Liurnia by a player who was giving me a run for my money and spamming poison spells and the poison cloud ash of war. I ran to that spot near the east shore with a metric butt ton of Land Squirts where you find the summon for the bulbous plants. I threw out poison darts like crazy while we were surrounded by the LS. They started writhing and smoking out green noxious nasty. I managed to hit the invader with sleep (yay skeep bolts) and ran away.
The squirts all exploded around him taking him out. It was glorious.
Land Squirts react violently if poisoned.
Just tested out a really cool weapon often used in Madara builds (Chase the bro has a really cool fight against this): the Steel wired torch!
Turns out, like the crossbow, this does also get extra firedamage and bleed properties! The fire on the ground also procs the bleed!
This is amazing against groups of enemies and big targets if you have a close combat build that sometimes wants to do medium range attacks without bows. It also explodes firebarrels from a safe distance.
Flame of the redmanes is better, but if you want a really easy lowcost alternative in any build that removes large groups, this is a really good option!
The lobster enemies have a disturbing fact. In real life lobsters shoot a stream of liquid from their mouth as a form of attack when fighting others but that stream is piss because lobsters also piss from their mouth as well. So when you get sniper from a lobster from far away you literally got hit by a piss missile.
With the torches and their effects, they can their effect can still be active when you two hand your weapon. So long as the torch is on your back, it still works.
Confirmed with this
I'm having a hard time finishing the game .... I just keep exploring and looking for stuff....so awesome
I don't want it to end.
@@chrisstopher2277 same boat⛵
If you use lightning ram with the spiked palisade shield on your back it causes blood build up
If you proc Frostbite on someone, you can use a fire attack to reset the enemies frostbite so you can keep proccing frostbite
against the dragons that you can’t lock on to the legs, (Dragonlord Placidusax, Ancient Dragon Lansseax, and Lichdragon Fortissax) charging a heavy while their head is down and attacking their head will 9/10 break their posture
for a max punish on a staggered enemy, throw a light attack BEFORE they are fully staggered or a heavy attack BEFORE they stagger, then light attack the corresponding area
if you are unsure if a chest is trapped or not, you can actually dodge right after you open it to avoid a potential transporter trap!!
when going up against a rivers of blood in PVP, open your menu, go to the bottom left, select it, all the way to the right, then hit quit game
There are some skeletons who make t-pose attack with golden particles, it causes destined death
That skeleton that flies in the air, you can farm for a super cool looking shield. I don’t think it does anything special but it looks great .
The scarb that drops the redmane ash of war. In the event u don't hav an AoE to use to hit the hidden scarb u can use the flame thrower mob (that face shaped tank mob) attack him them lure him in the path of the scarb, he CAN hit it for u.
APPRECIATE THE TIPS M8. not for nothing but beast sanctum trained me to jump fight from day one. SHOUT OUT TO THE BUSHIDORUH MONKEY FARM!
The rot bugs one reminds me of something. If you take a close look at Mr. Ofnir's grave in the opening cutscene it's full of human ears, infact the "beard" on his helmet seems to also be made up if many tiny ears.
Makes me think he's really the "All Hearing Brute" Latenna talks about, aside from the fact that it seems quite odd even for Gideon to know Latenna's specific hiding spot. I doubt he read that from a book
I'm so glad you guys brought up Flame of the Redmanes! This thing is actually kinda broken, and it's my go to for fighting bosses. Have a dragon you wanna kill? Summon your tiche ash, get underneath, and hit him 3-4 times, staggered.
That limitless load the flask is kinda amazing actually I run a light weight build with lower armor but this could be a game changer in some cases
I love flame of the redmanes. Literally got me from ng+6 to 7 since I was able to stun Radagon and the Elden Beast. Also never noticed that thing about the pests, very freaky.
My nephew figured out the jump I frames when the game 1st came out. it's fun to think about because I knew about this because of him. I just assumed everyone knew that until now.
Quick note about the Tree Sentinel Shield Cannon. If you want an easy, almost guaranteed way to fire it off every time without having to wait on your ring to return and get the exact timing, what I do is use the spirit summoning bell. You just ring it (make sure you aren't looking down, but forward or slightly up), then you just step forward and L2 parry and you will blast it. If you target an enemy as you're blasting, it will go straight at that enemy (usually you don't want to have the enemy targeted beforehand because that can cause you to look down too much at times, missing the parry). You can do this in pretty rapid succession, not quite like the rapid fire back with the "fire's deadly sin" version, but still a pretty reliable cannon on demand (this is pretty much like how people were cheesing Carian Retaliation, but it works like a charm with the TS Shield too).
- beast repellent torch works against giant dogs and crows in Caelid
- Giant land octopus will consume little ones around them before going for own limbs so if youre having trouble with them, just kill all the little oves around them first
Flame of redmane ash of war is soo good. Used it basically until last few bosses. Some bosses are incredibly hard to stagger but most all enemies are 2-3 hit stagger
If you use the blood flame weapon buff with Fire's Deadly Sin it acts as a bleed aura same way it did for the death Sickle death blight aura.
It was fun cutting off the arms of the land octopi, but honestly I just use Flame of the Redmanes on my Misericord because it stuns them in one hit and sets them up for a crit.
Basilisks are annoying, but there happens to be one place in Deeproot depths where the Marrionette Soldiers will clear most of them out - and you technically can't summon them there. At the actual Deeproot Depths site of grace, head north until the summon sign just disappears. Take a step or two back south until it reappears and summon the Marionette Soldiers while facing north. Since they have a mind of their own, they will keep wandering north well past the summonable area and into the basilisk zone shooting all they come across. I just sat back and reaped the runes. Worth about 35K for literally no work. Useful trip to the fridge to top off my drink.
this game is so deep with all the little details. sure it has some minor issues, but this is what will make it goty. I honestly have never seen such attention to detail, thank you for pointing them out for us all.
if you really want to kill the land octopus just hit it from the side to get your first stagger, reposte. then during its recovery do a heavy against its beak, that does insane stagger damage, and a full chagered one should allow you to reposte it again, and loop it until its dead. idk if it works with straight swords, but with most great swords or spears it works
Never tried it by myself, but the bell to conjure the yellow ghosts should work as well with the shield! Be careful with the torch, if there's a red eyed dog better be ready to fight or to run...
I just finished a dagger (Melina) challenge run, I can tell you for a fact that the Flame of the Redmanes pairs extremely well with the Misericorde with the high crit damage. Single handidly turned bosses from a 15 min fight to a 3 min fight. Truly incredible AoW that does not need to be nerfed due to it only standing out in specific situations and not OP during the entire game.
DANG, Didn't know the winged crystal lasted that long! Would have come in SOO handy, especially for Melania!
Apply an enchantment to the weapon, and flame of the redmanes will also become buffed. The ash will stagger anything in 2 or 3 hits, and apply the bleed from bloodflame blade, the Blackflame DoT, deal double damage to undead and prevent resurrection with orders blade, etc.
it's super balanced for sure.
People also underestimate the Warhawk talons. Very interesting move set that can roll catch easily and you can put these very interesting ashes of them like this one or glintstone pebble etc
Invader who like to use jumping attacks, I countered it with crouching greatsword poke him out of the sky. So satisfying.
I have Flame of the Redmanes on my dagger build. I use the black knife dagger to lower hp, flame to break poise, then use my other dagger to crit. You can get 6k damage off with no risk, and it’s amazing.
I've got one for you on the topic of enemies. Go hunt down a basalisk, those little lizards with green skin, spit death blight, large eyes right? Those are not eyes. To find the real eyes get enough light around you and take a close look just above it's mouth and you should see 2 very small yellow orbs with black pupils. Those are the actual eyes!
I know that used to be the case in past Souls games with them, but I just can't see those tiny eyes on the Elden Ring versions.
@@Metaknight180 they are still there. I don't know if the scales are slightly different in color but it helps the eyes blend in. Killed a pack of three and could only see the eyes properly on one of them due to the light.
Love your videos guys. Keep all the Elden Ring videos coming!
spilled the beans about Flame of the Redmanes. that was my thing on launch day. it was good while it lasted.
You can also use the greatblade phalanx for the invisible scarabs.. it automatically shoots them when you walk close to them while phalanx is active.
If you're talking about often unused moves, theres a giant where the solution to the redmane painting is that has unique magic attacks
Makes sense that the most hidden enemy have a unique attack
Golem, not giant. One of the strongest in the game
I have literally been playing this game for months, and I did not know that the silver spectral trail was a scarab... GG
Loads of enemies have specific weak spots. The troll heads are weak, and if you shoot them there they will clutch it. Tops of the fire chariots can be plunge attacked, or the riders on the back. Many more examples.
And like the Sentry Torch, the Beast-Repellent Torch is still active when on your back (when two-handing you main weapon). Tested it in Caelid with the Scrappy Doo lookin' dogs and it worked. The only thing it didn't work for was the Murder Birds, strangely.
Because the murderbirds are immune to anything that would otherwise make Cealid a nice place.
Pretty sure they are the secret reason malenia rotted Caelid. They could probably fly earlier
Have been running flame of the red manes since I found it. One thing to point out is that it’s dealing fire damage AND physical damage, meaning it scales with your chosen stat and your weapons physical damage.
Peeve did exactly that with his Wonderous physique in pvp. Was very funny during one duel where he forgot and suddenly ran out :P
Theres another animation that i beleive has crazy s. It saved me a couple times in the open world. The animation im talking about is summoning your Spectral Steed, Torrent. Theres a short animation period where Torrent is being manifested at the same time your character begins to jump on. That is when the s kick in, so the moment your character stradles Torrent, you're susceptible to dmg. The animation of your character getting off of torrent does not have this same effect.
I feel like this may be well known, but incase it isn't, those horse jump springs you can also jump down them and receive zero damage. In-fact it seems as long as you get the "effect" around torrent as you are falling you wont receive any fall damage when trying to make your way down instead of up a path
I think the skeletons do that flying breath attack due to them being close to the death bird boss and maybe followers too
Beast repellent torch should work on anything with four legs. Strange it works on basilisks. Also, torches work in your left hand, while two handing your main hand weapon.
Flame of Redmanes is unbelievably powerful. As soon as I started using it, I forgor jump attacks were good for breaking the stance of enemies.
Where is it found? This is the first time I have heard of Flames of Redmane
If you want to pick up that winged tear in Leyndell go there during the day, because at night a Deathbird is guiding it.
I noticed that the large statues in the Uhl ruins seem to be holding and standing on tablets very similar to those embedded in the trolls stomachs.
It's actually quite easy to jump through enemy arrows which make jump attacking them effective.
Flame of the Redmane's + Misericorde dagger = Easy mode. Don't even need to level up the dagger until Altus Plateau. Add dagger talisman from Volcano Manor and upgrade the dagger and low and behold, you hit like a truck. Also add flame art and level up faith to really 'melt' bosses
The torch also works on the scarlet rot dogs.... amazingly
Quick tip for those invisible scarabs. Get any Glintblade Phalanx sorcery or Ash of war and they will auto home in onto the scarab for easy kill. Best to place yourself with the scarab going towards you.
Beast torch also works on spiritcaller summons too. Like the spirit direwolves
I found out about this ash of war when I began playing my first game from fromsoft and I kept using until after i fought Morgott and it wasn't working as effectively as before. But that ash of war carried me at least 60% of the game until I had to go to the fire giant, malenia, lord of blood, secret dragon boss, Malek blood death canine, first elden lord, miquella(sorry if I spelled it wrong), then finally the elden beast.
We need the skeleton breath attack as an incantation! And I really hope the Dark element is added since so many spells and effects are holy element even though they are dark! Also you mentioned grafting and that made me want a proper not insane threatening grafter that has all kind of dangerous monster parts and not mostly useless stuff like random hands! Also one really good way is to change the Holy element into the Soul element since your soul can be good or evil. ☠️🖤
I hadn't seen you talk about the curved sword dropped by the beast men of farum azula most know that curved swords have a double attack while jumping and heavy attack but this sword has one on the light attack and when duel wielding the roll attack is double with the second attack delayed I built a toon based on these swords and it's been amazing and fun
Yes, jumping is so useful in many fights to avoid damage. The biggest one is on the Elden Beast when the rings come down from the sky. They're almost impossible, if not impossible to roll through, but you can easily jump over them. The other big one is the Crucible Knight's ground stomp attack. You can just jump when they stomp and the rocks that come out of the ground completely miss you.
Tank then parry
Put the redmanes flame on misercorde dagger to take advantage of the stagger from ash and high crit damage from dagger.
Flame of the Redmanes is best, IMO, on Misericorde, since it's got the nastiest crit modifier and relatively negligible weight.
The skeletons probably have more necromatic power due to being above the deeproot depths, which has godwyns(?) corpse, which could be corrupting/empowering the area above with death
regarding those land octopuses, they are very weak to charged attacks. it only takes 2-3 charged attacks to stagger them for a crit.
Instead of flame of the redmanes, you can use beast jaw's weapon art. Does about 1k dmg, long range, takes 2-3 hits to posture break and is just a fun weapon.