You can't get all puppets in one run, you get one for free, one that costs 2, one that's 3 and then there's the puppet that costs 5. So while you indeed need like 10 at first, it pays to hang on to them in NG+ for the additional puppets (Loux, Dung Eater, Dolores)
I also would like to add Rot Pot and Rancor pot to this list, Rot Pop can one hit proc Scarlet Rot on people, and Rancor Pot Spirits are excellent for preventing players from healing.
It is also important to note that the starlight shards are also a currency, so you might want to take that into consideration before emptying out your supply
Crafting items is another part of the game I appreciate. The different ingredients give you an incentive to travel around to all the different locations.
I started using the different perfumes and they have been amazingly fun and effective, so glad you shared the Arteria leaf farm I didn't know about that.
Poison Darts have an neat Interaction with the Egg like Plant Enemies which spray Poison Fog or wiggle to Attack. They can be poisoned and explode after an while. 4 are enough for the small ones and 11 are needed for the very large ones
6:48 There is a side of grace much closer to the church. You haven't discovered it on this map. On the same plateau as the church, a little west and south from the side of grace that sits at the tip of the lake. The grace at the lake sits at the bottom of the plateau, the undiscovered one at the top.
fun fact, almost all of those crystalions in that area at the start of the video are actually crystal snail summons... if you find and kill the snail, the crystalions will despawn... not sure about all of them but can confirm several of them personally.
Consumables are crazy useful. I literally never go into a boss fight without consuming boiled prawn. It gives just a tiny little boost that could mean the difference between dying or winning. Every edge you can get comes in handy on the really challenging bosses. Elden Ring is one of the best games ever made. I can't stop playing it. I'm already planning my second build and I haven't even come close to finishing it yet. I'm enjoying every little morsel of the game. Taking my time.
@@ytyogalaxy4205 I'm starting to use them a whole lot. In a game like Elden Ring where every little advantage makes a difference, it definitely pays off to use everything you have at your disposal. I'm having a blast testing all the consumables out. This game rules!
@@electricmessiah3932 yeah I think it's 10. I've read though that after a certain point the vendor can glitch and not be available after a certain NPC is killed at the end of their quest line, so it's better to hold on to what you've collected until that point, just in case. I'm not close to that point on my current playthrough to verify though.
They're also not very common and since their finite there's almost no reason to use them. You only get 22 in a playthrough, and you need 10 to buy the summons, which leaves only 12 to play around with.
but if you give the blade to Ranni doesnt she kill The puppet dude? So cant use starlight shards to buy puppets. Im trying to get dung eater but i need to not do the Ranni quest to keep Seluvius alive
I would also recommend buying a ton of boiled crab meat from boggart. He sells an infinite amount and I believe they give 20% damage negation. Initially he only sells boiled prawn but if you progress his storyline a bit he will move to the moat next to leyndell and sell the crab meat. I use these all the time and they’re only 600 runes each.
Do NOT try to fight the Bell Bearing Hunter in Caelid if you're low level, he is the strongest of the Bell Bearing Hunter and by a huge margin, you will get absolutely wrecked
I got so frustrated that I just stood on the shack and rock slinged him to death, not my proudest moment but I was getting really sick of being two shotted lol.
Use Starlight Shards? They're exceedingly rare, unfarmable, you can only get something like 21 or so in your entire playthrough, AND they're a currency for one NPC who sells ash summons!
At 2:01, he says "I can't really fight these guys", but those crystallians are meant to be destroyed by killing the weak spirit snail that is hiding close by. For the other crystallians the gravity chunk does apply.
Wouldn't 2 handing one katana in his case solve the problem too as he can hit them without bouncing off till their poise breaks and then the dmg of even "his build" kicks in? Ik it works vs the regular crystal enemies im not 100% sure about the snail summoned ones
I upgraded a mace, circled them and back stabbed them. Then once they can be hit again while trying to get up, you charge attack them with a strike weapon (Mace). Repeat this once or twice to stagger then crit them, and they slowly become easier and easier to stagger and critical. I equipped the critical hits talismans to increase crit damage. Once you take out one, this process becomes exponentially easier.
A few things worth noting. 1) Both variants of Gravity Stone can be easily farmed from the stargazer enemies (creepy guys with giant warpicks) in the crater pocked glade on the eastern plateau of the Weeping Peninsula. There's a bunch of them there and I found quite a few stones while trying to find out if you can farm their weapons (you cannot) and it's a nice alternatative if you don't have access to/aren't yet strong enough to beat the Bell Bearing Hunter in Dragonbarrow. 2) As far as I can tell, Starlight Shards are a limited resource. Yes there's many avaiable, but they're finite. They're also used for a currency when purchasing puppets from Seluvis. I've bought all I needed from him so I use the shards whenever I'm in a pinch. I use them sparingly but it would be a waste not to use them at all. And 3) Similar to Arteria Leaves, Formic Rock gathering points do not renew upon rest, they can only be collected once. However I've read that they are indeed a rare drop (also like Arteria Leaves) from giant ant enemies. I haven't experienced this myself, I don't kill anymore of those than I need to, but I've read that is the case, so hopefully Acidspray Mists don't have to be limited. Great vid! Very informative as always!
Great content! As someone who never uses consumables in games, I've kept the gravity fans and exalted flesh for my mimic to use, aswell as darts, glintstones, boiled crab (though I use more aromatics, pots bosses are weak to, omen bairn and ancestral infant's head lately, I often switch back to gravity fans when I need a little more physical/stagger damage)
I typically use those crystals when I'm being summoned into a friend's world for a co-op situation (after using buffs). Having fewer flasks forces you to improvise.
Great video and thanks for creating it. Concerning the starlight shards, you should mention that they are used to purchase puppets from the sorcerer Seluvis. To not use them until they have purchased all the puppets that one wants for summoning. Then, use them as needed.
Just FYI, if you use strong attacks (I used Katanas) on the crystalline enemies, you can stagger them, repost, and cause their shell to break. After this you do substantially more damage or just stick to strong charge attacks. Never had trouble with any of them even as bosses. This way you don't need to waste an item unnecessarily.
Not the kukri's but I've been using the Crystal darts the exact same. On a high lvl caster the hit like 250 cost literally 1fp break some enemies and so spamable.
I am currently doing a play through where instead of magic I use the crafted items and such to get buffs and other damage types so these vids are a god send for determining which cookbooks I should get first.
for ya'all the best pots are both rancor pot and sleep pot with 10 arcane the sleep pots have a lot of sleep build up and rancor pot is the one that does the most amount of damage and it's perfect for a hybrid build since it scales with both intelligence and faith as for sleep pots they scale with arcane but honestly I don't it's worth raising your arcane to get more sleep build up on them because it doesn't raise for that much
I better alternative to the rancor pot is the biarne (idk if I spelled that right) that you get from morgotts remembrance it's reusable and scale at a B rating with both faith and int
My go to use of iron jar is so I can get off a great heal when facing a revenant. The fact that heals hurt them is great and helps a lot, but they're so crazy and fast and aggressive and a lot of the head spells take so long that I sometimes struggle to get the heal out without them interrupting me, so I always bust out the iron jar aromatic and pop out a heal and crit them and bam they're down
When I was fighting Melania I was using Exalted Flesh AND Bloodboil Aromatic, and let me tell you, I ran out of Arteria Leaf VERY quickly. Yes, you can farm Arteria leaf from the shaggy giants on the Mountaintop, but it's really frustrating to do if you need a lot of them.
8:17 you forgot to mention people should hold onto 5 so they can buy the puppets from seluvis, at least as far as i know 5. idk if theres a way to make more puppets available from that shop other then the 2 it had for me, point though is that there is a reason to at least save some
Slightly off topic but I've found loosing fire arrows at stormhawk barrels ignites them and takes them out in one. Handy for the castle even the sneaky one on the left .
If you want a strong throwing consumables then use the pots that do hevy elemental damage, they can do bettwen 500-1000 damage. Sure you can only hold 5 but that's a small price to pay when you consider the burst damage and that one of the materials to craft them is infinitely reducible (they're also in general easy as hell to craft)
The moment I noticed on hand items had certain amounts, I knew some were rare to obtain. So I never used Starlight shards, until I met seluvis. And met him again when he died. So I save up mine for future puppets and play better to not need to use the shards in combat.
The biggest problem with buffs in that game that makes me not using them is the duration. Some effects on the flask of wondrous flask are nice since they last 3min like the dex raise of 5 but a lot buffs are just crap. Everything under 1min is nearly useless. Impossible to buff while certain bossfights like Malekith. Sadly tbh... Would like to use more items and stuff but most of the time it feels like I waste them by using. Tbh I waste them more by not using them but that's not the point lol
Did you not know you can buy ashes from Seluvis with the starlight shards? If you did i'd think you should mention to save back like 15 you can get some great summons- one of the best in the game.
7:54 This is the one time that farming these "Exceedingly rare" class of plants isn't the worst experience in the world. Trina's Lily, for example, is a whopping 8% drop from a very specific group of jellyfish in the concecrated snowfield. Thank god these leafs are 30%. Unfortunately for both cases, these are pretty late game.
Kukuri are great for any build but as a bleed build I stick to the incantations I tried the kukuri but really they are obsolete I'd rather cast swarm even after the nerf but I would recommend having some kind of weapon that naturally do bleed damage as any other build and keep some kukuri on you for those enemies that you don't wanna go toe to toe with
FYI, the poison spraymist is actually spreads a version known as Deadly Poison, which ticks down quickly like scarlet rot, but it lasts for a minute or so
@@StiffyLongJohn yup, and wastes time using them. I had warming stones on me once back when I used MT (before the nerf) and it kept using those over and over again, ignoring the weapons and other items I had equipped
I don't see how any of these lead to infinite fp. The starlight shards are a limited and non-renewable resource last I checked. What's more, they are used as a currency so if you want to get all the summons then you are better off saving them.
I've seen people spamming Starlight Shards in coop before. I assume they were duping or something, because I'm not aware of an infinite source of them. In fact, they're quite limited, even if you complete Ranni's quest line. There aren't nearly enough to be spamming them.
you can trade dupe them by saving your data on the cloud on console but you can only trade 10 at a time, so the people spamming them probably have 2 consoles
instead of attacking the crystal enemies with your 1handed strike. Two hand and heavy attack to shatter them, way more effective than the stones in the long run.
Honestly, if you hit the GRavity Stone chunk in PvP, your enemy is asleep... You have to first hit the throw and then the enemy has to stand in the area long enough. The Fan however is pretty nice for PvP.
The crystal throwing knives only make golem type enemies go berserk (as suggested in their description) This includes the imps and dog bosses in catacombs
Arteria Leaf can be farmed from Fuzzy trolls. Get the spectral lance ash of war 3-4 tosses is enough to poise break them and then you can crit them with your high damage weapon.
the main reason i used kukri before this vid is because of the other souls games were it was even more op as it prock bleed most of the time after 2 uses and i think it was also abit faster (it's funny when you throw it like a bonk on a dragon's head and it prock bleed lol)
Yeah... if not using a strike weapon you can jump heavy attack them a few times to break their poise, crit them, and after that they have no defense and stagger on every hit of any weapon. Much easier.
A lot of people also missing out using the Pouches as a way to store your Flasks. As you all know, a lot of items are now viable and can be fun to use but the slots aren't that great. So I find that it is easier for me, to put the Flasks into Pouches, and the rest of the items, are now in the items slot. So I can have a lot of other stuff there without having quick access to restore HP or FP. Boom. Although I know one can argue about holding the switch item button, that'll put you at the top, but that'll delay everything else, and it only works if you put Flasks at the top and you still have to scroll carefully so that you don't mess up. I find it easier to just hold the Pouch Button and then press the other input for either HP or FP. Not needing to scroll or panic scroll. I use Keyboard and Mouse for this, and I use mouse scroll up and down for spells and items. So this helps me out a lot more than it should but that's probably because I am on KB&M.
@@atworldsend7322 Another tip is that, you only need to hold the Pouch Button for half a second for it. You do not need the prompt to show up. I suggest trying it out a few times before the real-time action. You'll figure it out. Good luck, Tarnished.
You can just run past the Crystalians on the the Haligtree rooftops and kill the Spiritcaller Snails that summon them, which are both located on ledges just off the rooftops. I don't think the Crystalians are worth fighting at all in that spot, though the gravity items make for a solid tip for other encounters with these enemies.
I'm a hoarder in games... So it's not that I didn't know. I didn't wanna waste em yet. Rather use em online. The items don't have range. So you can potentially drop some of them from places out of reach lol
_DON’T_ USE STARLIGHT SHARDS!! Wait until you know what they’re actually for and that you’ve spent them on that first (from multiple places with an inventory that expands a bit over time)
I have a Dex build in elden ring and for me Kukris are essential boss fight setup. They hit hard and makes it easy to kill large bosses like dragons and giants
I use only 5 crimson flasks and 9 FP. And I rarely need the all 5 crimson flasks. Just put a med heal in a slot. You can easily run away to heal in most circumstances, thank you for this
Fun fact, there actually isnt a ton of starlight shards throughout the world. Roughly about 20 per playthrough. Majoroty are found at end of Rannis quest line after killing the dragon
If you want any hope of unlocking the Dung Eater as a summon (which I highly recommend as he's incredibly OP) do NOT use any Starlight Shards. You like almost all of them in order to unlock it (until later on when you unlock a new area, but trust me you'll be pissed you had to wait so much). After that, sure, go nuts and spend them all.
7:49 I'm pretty sure the yetis only drop arteria leaf on the first kill. Everyone says arteria leaf is farm-able from them but how many people have actually tried? I killed 200 and only got 1 leaf on the first kill.
I wouldn't use Star shards after you run out of flasks I would use them periodically throughout the battle to maintain your FP pool in between using Fp flasks
This is what got me past Fire giant lol I kept running out of flasks and dying so I just started popping starlight shards during thos kinda fight that requires retreating and waiting for a opening
I never bother with buffing items since i die in like 1 or 2 hits due to my low vigor(16 vigor on Maliketh) I only use them if i can guarantee the kill on that run
If i can take 1 hit without dying then that's good enough for me and my build of trading charged heavy blows to delete either half or a third of the boss's health
Man ..I am watching this video in 2022...and bloodborne still gives me chills😅...everything was so brilliant about this experience..hopefully there will be a sequel soon!
Another super easy way to kill the Crystal guys is to back stab them and charge a power attack as soon as the animation from the back stab is done after your charged attack hits go for another back stab rinse and repeat till you poise break them generally it only takes 2-4 cycles depending on difficulty level and once they're poise broken you of course do the critical attack and they become "cracked" which lowers their defense till it's practically non existent and I promise you it's much easier than it sounds
Can I point out that you said you get 2 per second for 60 seconds and your FP was only 100 and after the 60 seconds your FP wasn't full...Shouldn't you get 120 out the shard?
Keep in mind the mimic summon also uses items so there an item that heals you but also poisens you have equipped and don't use the mimic will heal itself and since it's a spirit it can't get poisened
Bit misleading. There are only like 20 or so shards in the map, so you cannot use them consistently to restore FP. And they are also used to buy puppets from Seluvis. The Exalted flesh are gifted by Alexander through his quest, but honestly, these are worthy for game+, more than new game due to the Arteria Leaf availability. After 5 times finishing the game, I still havent used the perfumer skills.
Exalted flesh isn't really an infinite resource. You only get so many Arteria leaves per play through (I think you can farm giants in the snow area, they have a chance to drop them). I don't get why From made this great crafting system but decided to make things limited. Things like Trinas lily, Aeonian Butterfly and others are rare drops and there's only so many in the world. You used be be able to farm the Aeonian Buteefly but I guess From thought, "Rot is too powerful with consumables, better limit the items." What about the rot dragon breath attacks with low stats requirements? Those are fine. It's those arrows and pots you gotta worry about. This is why I've seen a lot of people don't want to use the crafting system. The good stuff needs stuff that can't be bought or picked up in the world, some can be farmed but have low drop rates and are in pain in the ass areas like killing basilisks in the lake of rot vs using a simple spell. Which would you rather do? They should have put more bell hunters and have their bell bearings give you items after defeat. The Caelid one is harder than Radahn, add a few more tough ones and once you beat them you can buy crafting materials.
Yeah, that hunter in Caelid is actually in Dragonbarrow which is a MUCH high level area than the rest of Caelid. I'm still not sure what a good level for it is
just informing, Starlight Shards are also the currency to purcahse PUPPET ASHES , better to save at least 10 of them during your first play through.
Damn I've been using them in emergencies, but if it involves seluvis then fuck him, ng+ it is lol
i didnt know that until i used all of mine on my faith build 😅 ng+ here i come
@@TheMMObro kill him with his puppets lmao
You can't get all puppets in one run, you get one for free, one that costs 2, one that's 3 and then there's the puppet that costs 5. So while you indeed need like 10 at first, it pays to hang on to them in NG+ for the additional puppets (Loux, Dung Eater, Dolores)
By the time I learned this the guy that sells dung eater already died 🤣🤦♂️
I’ve fantasized about making a “batman” build. No magic no fancy ashes of war just a utility belt of extremely useful items for different situations
Big muscle and plot armor too
@@Pariahmary batman doesn't have plot armor neverrrrr.... it is kinda surprising that he survives against the strongest beings in the universe
Gotta go fist weapons, it would be great
I have been testing a roman centurion build
Dude same!!! I literally had that thought and then found this video😂
When dealing with Crystalline enemies it’s easier to just charged strong attack them until they crack and lose their OP defense.
Gravity spells like rock sling also get the job done effortlessly
Jump attacks too
@@TheNewKG rock sling is an absolute staple to my inventory as a mage 😭😭😭
Better to have a backup blunt weapon imo, flails work wonders
@@praveerhansra4185 randomly found it and it never leaves my slot
The "monuments" where you find the starlight shards are called astrolabes, it's an old device meant for charting the perceived motion of the stars
Lies
I also would like to add Rot Pot and Rancor pot to this list, Rot Pop can one hit proc Scarlet Rot on people, and Rancor Pot Spirits are excellent for preventing players from healing.
It is also important to note that the starlight shards are also a currency, so you might want to take that into consideration before emptying out your supply
and you cant get more of them
Crafting items is another part of the game I appreciate. The different ingredients give you an incentive to travel around to all the different locations.
I started using the different perfumes and they have been amazingly fun and effective, so glad you shared the Arteria leaf farm I didn't know about that.
Poison Darts have an neat Interaction with the Egg like Plant Enemies which spray Poison Fog or wiggle to Attack. They can be poisoned and explode after an while. 4 are enough for the small ones and 11 are needed for the very large ones
6:48 There is a side of grace much closer to the church. You haven't discovered it on this map. On the same plateau as the church, a little west and south from the side of grace that sits at the tip of the lake. The grace at the lake sits at the bottom of the plateau, the undiscovered one at the top.
fun fact, almost all of those crystalions in that area at the start of the video are actually crystal snail summons... if you find and kill the snail, the crystalions will despawn... not sure about all of them but can confirm several of them personally.
Every single one in the Halligtree for sure
Consumables are crazy useful. I literally never go into a boss fight without consuming boiled prawn. It gives just a tiny little boost that could mean the difference between dying or winning. Every edge you can get comes in handy on the really challenging bosses.
Elden Ring is one of the best games ever made. I can't stop playing it. I'm already planning my second build and I haven't even come close to finishing it yet. I'm enjoying every little morsel of the game. Taking my time.
Perfumes are insane . I always use a craftable in every situation lol.
@@ytyogalaxy4205 I'm starting to use them a whole lot. In a game like Elden Ring where every little advantage makes a difference, it definitely pays off to use everything you have at your disposal. I'm having a blast testing all the consumables out. This game rules!
why prawn, not crab?
Try boiled crab for better damage negation, or finish blackguard's quest for his bearing.
@@Darealpokgai Bcuz I have 100 prawn. And because why not?
Starlight Shards are used as currency when you progress through a pretty easily missed side quest in exchange for ashes.
I think you only need like 10-12 to get everything though
@@electricmessiah3932 yeah I think it's 10. I've read though that after a certain point the vendor can glitch and not be available after a certain NPC is killed at the end of their quest line, so it's better to hold on to what you've collected until that point, just in case. I'm not close to that point on my current playthrough to verify though.
They're also not very common and since their finite there's almost no reason to use them. You only get 22 in a playthrough, and you need 10 to buy the summons, which leaves only 12 to play around with.
You can also get a load of starlight shards from the cathedral at the end of Rannis questline.
but if you give the blade to Ranni doesnt she kill The puppet dude? So cant use starlight shards to buy puppets. Im trying to get dung eater but i need to not do the Ranni quest to keep Seluvius alive
I would also recommend buying a ton of boiled crab meat from boggart. He sells an infinite amount and I believe they give 20% damage negation. Initially he only sells boiled prawn but if you progress his storyline a bit he will move to the moat next to leyndell and sell the crab meat. I use these all the time and they’re only 600 runes each.
Do NOT try to fight the Bell Bearing Hunter in Caelid if you're low level, he is the strongest of the Bell Bearing Hunter and by a huge margin, you will get absolutely wrecked
I was around level 120 and got my ass handed to me 20+ times before I finally beat him
@@danfleischer6737 I fought him yesterday and all while panicking, I got him first try. also 120, but come on, I just wanted my last pot!
I got so frustrated that I just stood on the shack and rock slinged him to death, not my proudest moment but I was getting really sick of being two shotted lol.
Do they only fight you at certain places at night or is it just random?
@@Whoknows21356 only three specific spots. Warmaster shack, one right next to a merchant in altus plateue, and caelid one.
Use Starlight Shards? They're exceedingly rare, unfarmable, you can only get something like 21 or so in your entire playthrough, AND they're a currency for one NPC who sells ash summons!
At 2:01, he says "I can't really fight these guys", but those crystallians are meant to be destroyed by killing the weak spirit snail that is hiding close by.
For the other crystallians the gravity chunk does apply.
Wouldn't 2 handing one katana in his case solve the problem too as he can hit them without bouncing off till their poise breaks and then the dmg of even "his build" kicks in?
Ik it works vs the regular crystal enemies im not 100% sure about the snail summoned ones
I upgraded a mace, circled them and back stabbed them. Then once they can be hit again while trying to get up, you charge attack them with a strike weapon (Mace). Repeat this once or twice to stagger then crit them, and they slowly become easier and easier to stagger and critical. I equipped the critical hits talismans to increase crit damage. Once you take out one, this process becomes exponentially easier.
A few things worth noting. 1) Both variants of Gravity Stone can be easily farmed from the stargazer enemies (creepy guys with giant warpicks) in the crater pocked glade on the eastern plateau of the Weeping Peninsula. There's a bunch of them there and I found quite a few stones while trying to find out if you can farm their weapons (you cannot) and it's a nice alternatative if you don't have access to/aren't yet strong enough to beat the Bell Bearing Hunter in Dragonbarrow. 2) As far as I can tell, Starlight Shards are a limited resource. Yes there's many avaiable, but they're finite. They're also used for a currency when purchasing puppets from Seluvis. I've bought all I needed from him so I use the shards whenever I'm in a pinch. I use them sparingly but it would be a waste not to use them at all. And 3) Similar to Arteria Leaves, Formic Rock gathering points do not renew upon rest, they can only be collected once. However I've read that they are indeed a rare drop (also like Arteria Leaves) from giant ant enemies. I haven't experienced this myself, I don't kill anymore of those than I need to, but I've read that is the case, so hopefully Acidspray Mists don't have to be limited. Great vid! Very informative as always!
This is what impresses me in From games, sometimes even pebbles are great in the correct circumstances.
Yeah, pebbles were a cheap alternative to throwing daggers/darts for drawing out single enemies away from their mobs.
@@ctographerm3285 specially if the mob includes two Axe Maniacs guarding Castle Cairnhurst summon post.
Great content!
As someone who never uses consumables in games, I've kept the gravity fans and exalted flesh for my mimic to use, aswell as darts, glintstones, boiled crab (though I use more aromatics, pots bosses are weak to, omen bairn and ancestral infant's head lately, I often switch back to gravity fans when I need a little more physical/stagger damage)
I typically use those crystals when I'm being summoned into a friend's world for a co-op situation (after using buffs). Having fewer flasks forces you to improvise.
Great video and thanks for creating it. Concerning the starlight shards, you should mention that they are used to purchase puppets from the sorcerer Seluvis. To not use them until they have purchased all the puppets that one wants for summoning. Then, use them as needed.
the other benefit to Kukri is that they keep the stagger buildup going between attacks as well. they work wonders on my quality build
Just FYI, if you use strong attacks (I used Katanas) on the crystalline enemies, you can stagger them, repost, and cause their shell to break. After this you do substantially more damage or just stick to strong charge attacks. Never had trouble with any of them even as bosses. This way you don't need to waste an item unnecessarily.
you dont even need to do the riposte. just breaking their posture is enough
@@mathieuxlaflamme2322 excellent. I wasn't sure when it happened, i just wanted to describe my steps
Been using kukri since day one. 😎 I used them for the pesky bats and other flying asshats aka the birds with the blades on their feet.
Not the kukri's but I've been using the Crystal darts the exact same. On a high lvl caster the hit like 250 cost literally 1fp break some enemies and so spamable.
I am currently doing a play through where instead of magic I use the crafted items and such to get buffs and other damage types so these vids are a god send for determining which cookbooks I should get first.
for ya'all the best pots are both rancor pot and sleep pot with 10 arcane the sleep pots have a lot of sleep build up and rancor pot is the one that does the most amount of damage and it's perfect for a hybrid build since it scales with both intelligence and faith as for sleep pots they scale with arcane but honestly I don't it's worth raising your arcane to get more sleep build up on them because it doesn't raise for that much
Ya'all?
@@starbucks101597 yo'all miss typed
I better alternative to the rancor pot is the biarne (idk if I spelled that right) that you get from morgotts remembrance it's reusable and scale at a B rating with both faith and int
@@EdSaLoCin don't you mean yall?
@@starbucks101597 yes I missed typed it again my english sucks it's not my first language
My go to use of iron jar is so I can get off a great heal when facing a revenant. The fact that heals hurt them is great and helps a lot, but they're so crazy and fast and aggressive and a lot of the head spells take so long that I sometimes struggle to get the heal out without them interrupting me, so I always bust out the iron jar aromatic and pop out a heal and crit them and bam they're down
*Really good tips. The jarburg is my garden for poison mist*
Nice tips. The kukri are the only items you discussed that I've actually been using. I'll have to give the others a look. Thanks!
When I was fighting Melania I was using Exalted Flesh AND Bloodboil Aromatic, and let me tell you, I ran out of Arteria Leaf VERY quickly. Yes, you can farm Arteria leaf from the shaggy giants on the Mountaintop, but it's really frustrating to do if you need a lot of them.
I can give u 999 of the Arteria leaves
I duped them. Since I can't be bothered to do that with my daily life.
8:17
you forgot to mention people should hold onto 5 so they can buy the puppets from seluvis, at least as far as i know 5. idk if theres a way to make more puppets available from that shop other then the 2 it had for me, point though is that there is a reason to at least save some
Slightly off topic but I've found loosing fire arrows at stormhawk barrels ignites them and takes them out in one. Handy for the castle even the sneaky one on the left .
If you want a strong throwing consumables then use the pots that do hevy elemental damage, they can do bettwen 500-1000 damage. Sure you can only hold 5 but that's a small price to pay when you consider the burst damage and that one of the materials to craft them is infinitely reducible (they're also in general easy as hell to craft)
You can only hold 5? You need to find more ritual pots
Big thanks for the tip with Gravity stones
I finished off the ulcerated tree spirit under StormVeil castle with the Kukris. Very handy.
The moment I noticed on hand items had certain amounts, I knew some were rare to obtain.
So I never used Starlight shards, until I met seluvis. And met him again when he died. So I save up mine for future puppets and play better to not need to use the shards in combat.
The biggest problem with buffs in that game that makes me not using them is the duration. Some effects on the flask of wondrous flask are nice since they last 3min like the dex raise of 5 but a lot buffs are just crap. Everything under 1min is nearly useless. Impossible to buff while certain bossfights like Malekith. Sadly tbh... Would like to use more items and stuff but most of the time it feels like I waste them by using. Tbh I waste them more by not using them but that's not the point lol
Let’s go, another video to fill my brain with knowledge
Did you not know you can buy ashes from Seluvis with the starlight shards? If you did i'd think you should mention to save back like 15 you can get some great summons- one of the best in the game.
Your the best you help so much in my master of all build
7:54 This is the one time that farming these "Exceedingly rare" class of plants isn't the worst experience in the world. Trina's Lily, for example, is a whopping 8% drop from a very specific group of jellyfish in the concecrated snowfield. Thank god these leafs are 30%. Unfortunately for both cases, these are pretty late game.
Kukuri are great for any build but as a bleed build I stick to the incantations I tried the kukuri but really they are obsolete I'd rather cast swarm even after the nerf but I would recommend having some kind of weapon that naturally do bleed damage as any other build and keep some kukuri on you for those enemies that you don't wanna go toe to toe with
FYI, the poison spraymist is actually spreads a version known as Deadly Poison, which ticks down quickly like scarlet rot, but it lasts for a minute or so
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If you have starlight shards on you and you summon the mimic it uses them and restores its mana
Along with warming stones
Why would you want MT to restore fp? It's pool is unlimited
@@The_Joestar just a neat observation I've noticed
Mimic tear has infinite FP already
Mimic will use basically anything like that if you have it on when you summon him
@@StiffyLongJohn yup, and wastes time using them. I had warming stones on me once back when I used MT (before the nerf) and it kept using those over and over again, ignoring the weapons and other items I had equipped
Your weapon doesn't bounce off the crystallians when you two hand it. Once they've been poisebroken, their defense becomes much lower.
I don't see how any of these lead to infinite fp. The starlight shards are a limited and non-renewable resource last I checked. What's more, they are used as a currency so if you want to get all the summons then you are better off saving them.
until idiots start duping them
I've seen people spamming Starlight Shards in coop before. I assume they were duping or something, because I'm not aware of an infinite source of them. In fact, they're quite limited, even if you complete Ranni's quest line. There aren't nearly enough to be spamming them.
you can trade dupe them by saving your data on the cloud on console but you can only trade 10 at a time, so the people spamming them probably have 2 consoles
I use the Iron Flesh perfume. It basically turns you into Metal Mario and it increases your Poise allowing you to power through heavy enemy attacks.
instead of attacking the crystal enemies with your 1handed strike. Two hand and heavy attack to shatter them, way more effective than the stones in the long run.
Unless you have an heavy weapon, it may not be that effective because it would take very long to break their stance
i think jumping attacks count as strike damage as well even if using a slice weapon
Great video thanks
I actually use the up-lifting perfume a lot in boss fight Co-Op. super nice to have a protection barrier to team
The most game-changing video of Elden Ring I've seen
Honestly, if you hit the GRavity Stone chunk in PvP, your enemy is asleep... You have to first hit the throw and then the enemy has to stand in the area long enough.
The Fan however is pretty nice for PvP.
The crystal throwing knives only make golem type enemies go berserk (as suggested in their description)
This includes the imps and dog bosses in catacombs
Arteria Leaf can be farmed from Fuzzy trolls. Get the spectral lance ash of war 3-4 tosses is enough to poise break them and then you can crit them with your high damage weapon.
the main reason i used kukri before this vid is because of the other souls games were it was even more op as it prock bleed most of the time after 2 uses and i think it was also abit faster (it's funny when you throw it like a bonk on a dragon's head and it prock bleed lol)
1:51 just strike them a couple of times, and their guard completely breaks, and they take massive dmg...
Yeah... if not using a strike weapon you can jump heavy attack them a few times to break their poise, crit them, and after that they have no defense and stagger on every hit of any weapon. Much easier.
There aren't a ton of starlight shards. Just 22 per playthrough. Just use it in tough bosses, and just when you start to get the grip on that boss
A lot of people also missing out using the Pouches as a way to store your Flasks. As you all know, a lot of items are now viable and can be fun to use but the slots aren't that great. So I find that it is easier for me, to put the Flasks into Pouches, and the rest of the items, are now in the items slot. So I can have a lot of other stuff there without having quick access to restore HP or FP. Boom. Although I know one can argue about holding the switch item button, that'll put you at the top, but that'll delay everything else, and it only works if you put Flasks at the top and you still have to scroll carefully so that you don't mess up. I find it easier to just hold the Pouch Button and then press the other input for either HP or FP. Not needing to scroll or panic scroll.
I use Keyboard and Mouse for this, and I use mouse scroll up and down for spells and items. So this helps me out a lot more than it should but that's probably because I am on KB&M.
Thanks, that's a good tip, never thought of it, I need to try this.
@@atworldsend7322
Another tip is that, you only need to hold the Pouch Button for half a second for it. You do not need the prompt to show up. I suggest trying it out a few times before the real-time action. You'll figure it out. Good luck, Tarnished.
You can just run past the Crystalians on the the Haligtree rooftops and kill the Spiritcaller Snails that summon them, which are both located on ledges just off the rooftops. I don't think the Crystalians are worth fighting at all in that spot, though the gravity items make for a solid tip for other encounters with these enemies.
I want to use more consumables, but my inner hoarder says no more often than not unless they are easily obtainable xD
7:30 you mean a yeti? 🤨
Awesome vid never knew alot of these things
I'm a hoarder in games... So it's not that I didn't know. I didn't wanna waste em yet. Rather use em online. The items don't have range. So you can potentially drop some of them from places out of reach lol
_DON’T_ USE STARLIGHT SHARDS!!
Wait until you know what they’re actually for and that you’ve spent them on that first (from multiple places with an inventory that expands a bit over time)
I have a Dex build in elden ring and for me Kukris are essential boss fight setup. They hit hard and makes it easy to kill large bosses like dragons and giants
The immunizing cured meats are super useful in the Lake of Rot and some similar areas/caves
I’m out of Starlight Shards because I used them so much. Used them up weeks ago. Wish I could get more.
are u on Xbox? I can give u some
I use only 5 crimson flasks and 9 FP. And I rarely need the all 5 crimson flasks. Just put a med heal in a slot. You can easily run away to heal in most circumstances, thank you for this
I've been using exalted flesh since day one! One of my favorite buffs!
Fun fact, there actually isnt a ton of starlight shards throughout the world. Roughly about 20 per playthrough. Majoroty are found at end of Rannis quest line after killing the dragon
If you want any hope of unlocking the Dung Eater as a summon (which I highly recommend as he's incredibly OP) do NOT use any Starlight Shards. You like almost all of them in order to unlock it (until later on when you unlock a new area, but trust me you'll be pissed you had to wait so much). After that, sure, go nuts and spend them all.
7:49 I'm pretty sure the yetis only drop arteria leaf on the first kill. Everyone says arteria leaf is farm-able from them but how many people have actually tried? I killed 200 and only got 1 leaf on the first kill.
I wouldn't use Star shards after you run out of flasks I would use them periodically throughout the battle to maintain your FP pool in between using Fp flasks
This is what got me past Fire giant lol I kept running out of flasks and dying so I just started popping starlight shards during thos kinda fight that requires retreating and waiting for a opening
I never bother with buffing items since i die in like 1 or 2 hits due to my low vigor(16 vigor on Maliketh)
I only use them if i can guarantee the kill on that run
Any reason you don't put points into vigor?
@@StiffyLongJohn i like hitting hard
If i can take 1 hit without dying then that's good enough for me and my build of trading charged heavy blows to delete either half or a third of the boss's health
@@Rose-85 understable
If you don't mind telling, I am interested in your main stats and weapons of choice for this. Thanks.
Man ..I am watching this video in 2022...and bloodborne still gives me chills😅...everything was so brilliant about this experience..hopefully there will be a sequel soon!
Those specific crystal enemies, kill the summoning snails instead.
Man this is a great video. I have so much of all this stuff and I never use it.
Another super easy way to kill the Crystal guys is to back stab them and charge a power attack as soon as the animation from the back stab is done after your charged attack hits go for another back stab rinse and repeat till you poise break them generally it only takes 2-4 cycles depending on difficulty level and once they're poise broken you of course do the critical attack and they become "cracked" which lowers their defense till it's practically non existent and I promise you it's much easier than it sounds
I been using the exalted flesh this was the 1st thing I started using.
Fyi, there's a Grace just North of the Crazy Village in the Weeping Peninsula. Not sure it's of much use, but hey, it's just there
What's there?
Can I point out that you said you get 2 per second for 60 seconds and your FP was only 100 and after the 60 seconds your FP wasn't full...Shouldn't you get 120 out the shard?
To fight crystalline you just need to stager them ones and after that you deal normal dmg to them. Or just get a hammer
Poison Mist is the easiest way to kill them. No stagger or armor break necessary.
Should do a vid on the brick hammer. its Really underrated and good
Arteria leaf you can farm right behind the starting area in limgrave
You gonna explain where or provide a source?
Does Arcane effect swords like Nagakiba and Bloodhound fang at all to help improve bleed?
Yes
Does exalted flesh stack with golden bow or dragon scale buff?
Keep in mind the mimic summon also uses items so there an item that heals you but also poisens you have equipped and don't use the mimic will heal itself and since it's a spirit it can't get poisened
I do that do that's really smart though
IF YOU STANCE-BREAK THE CRYSTALLINE ENEMIES THEY WILL REMOVE THEIR "ARMOR" AND BE SUCCEPLTABLE TO ALL DAMAGE
Succepltable
@@claclaz95 SUKKLEMPTABLE
I usually perform comet azure with ironjar aromatic
Bit misleading. There are only like 20 or so shards in the map, so you cannot use them consistently to restore FP. And they are also used to buy puppets from Seluvis.
The Exalted flesh are gifted by Alexander through his quest, but honestly, these are worthy for game+, more than new game due to the Arteria Leaf availability.
After 5 times finishing the game, I still havent used the perfumer skills.
I run a magic only build ( only sorcery and incantations no weapons ) and the gravity item saved me at the crystal guys.
Honestly the rock sling Sorcery is so good against the Crystalians. Such early pick up spell but still good late game for the stagger
the wing of astel absolutely destroys them in literally seconds
Is there a list for where to find all these bell bearing hunters and other bosses with unique bell bearings?
If you keep these in your inventory will the mimic tear use them all?
How long does the ironjar perfume last?🤩
I think it's a minute if I'm not mistaken
Exalted flesh isn't really an infinite resource. You only get so many Arteria leaves per play through (I think you can farm giants in the snow area, they have a chance to drop them). I don't get why From made this great crafting system but decided to make things limited. Things like Trinas lily, Aeonian Butterfly and others are rare drops and there's only so many in the world. You used be be able to farm the Aeonian Buteefly but I guess From thought,
"Rot is too powerful with consumables, better limit the items."
What about the rot dragon breath attacks with low stats requirements?
Those are fine. It's those arrows and pots you gotta worry about.
This is why I've seen a lot of people don't want to use the crafting system. The good stuff needs stuff that can't be bought or picked up in the world, some can be farmed but have low drop rates and are in pain in the ass areas like killing basilisks in the lake of rot vs using a simple spell. Which would you rather do? They should have put more bell hunters and have their bell bearings give you items after defeat. The Caelid one is harder than Radahn, add a few more tough ones and once you beat them you can buy crafting materials.
Yeah, that hunter in Caelid is actually in Dragonbarrow which is a MUCH high level area than the rest of Caelid. I'm still not sure what a good level for it is
Hello - where is the gravity stone guy? I turned up at night time , but he’s not there ?? Any help, gratefully received.