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Can you beat Elden ring by just Bitch-slapping everyone? Rules: 1 You can only damage enemies using moves with resemble bitch-slap (Discus of light and triple rings of light are the star of the show, as they look the most like bitch-slap. Fists and fist-weapons are also ok. HL's earthshaker or other moves that bitchslap the ground are also ok) 2 have fun 3 (optional) dress as pimp-ish as possible fists and fistweapons are encoureged as counterattacks after parrying/stancebreak.
Couldn't you have used crystal tears and scorpion talismans to boost elemental and physical damage into something usable? Or would the increase actually be that negligible
@@DoomWolfOfficial I don't know what's funnier, Radahn havin an oh shit moment and trying to run/swim back to earth as he drifts away Or Scarlet Rot Radahn just roaring into the void with both swords raised as he gets smaller and smaller
Your damage against Godfrey on your first shot increased because he had just performed an attack, which made him enter an "open" state, increasing the damage he takes. Whenever you or an enemy performs an attack, most of the time from the beginning to the end of the animation ( recovery animation included) you'll be left "open", making you or the enemy take more damage which is shown by a white hit effect.
@@DoomWolfOfficial Nah, it's the same mechanic as the counter attack thing you mentioned later in the video, just used for both situations. It also happens for some casting animations iirc
The erdtree avatar was in the rain so it took reduced fire damage, not that it matters though. edit: just got to the morgot fight and you mentioned the rain affecting lightning damage, also why not use any of the scorpion charms instead of the reach talisman, they're % based but any increase is good.
The Spear Talisman applies to Piercing/Thrusting damage, ignoring weapon type in the majority of cases. I use it regularly with a Rapier/Greatshield/Bow setup for some bosses, to boost my base damage while I stack Poison, Rot, Bleed, and then Frostbite. It has a weird interaction with headshot counters though, where the damage boost seems to only partially apply most of the time.
@@DoomWolfOfficial I believe it's due to the Talisman being intended to boost thrusting weapons, but the programming for it specifying the damage type of thrusting weapons, that being Pierce/Thrust, which makes it also qualify for any other damage classed as Pierce/Thrust.
The true utility of the crossbows and ballistas comes with the mimic tear: even in you don't use them, just slap a explosive or status dart on your slot, unequip your melee before summunig and enjoy the artillery support.
I noticed that Malenia's arena had a fair amount of water in it, so lightning bolts would've probably made a noticeable difference (thanks to reduced absorption in water and the splash effect).
so, she does take increased lightning damage while standing in the water, but it apparently doesn't function the same as normal water when you shoot a lightning bolt into it. I don't remember who but another Challenge runner did a run and he tried that but it didn't' work. could have been a bug but I didn't even bother testing because I knew Malenia wouldn't be hard just time consuming lol
I've got a suggestion for a run if you're looking for fun ideas. Thorn Sorcery. Now, I know I know. "You just wanna see me literally perform masochism on myself." While that is a fun side effect, I genuinely think Thorn Sorcery is a fun combination of bad yet fascinatingly nuanced. Different builds and synergies it can be amplified by, combo casting, unusual resource management. List goes on. Seems like something you could explore a lot about and share a lot about from your own experience of trying to make the most of them
you did a Stellar job here Doom, and with my favorite weapon in games. hopefully one day i can sweep the land between with the full selection of weaponry im allowed from this game for this build, as well as the bolts.
They really are, I'm going to guess the exist to serve as a no barrier to entry ranged option for melee classes, but it sucks you can't really do anything with them because of the lack of scaling
lotta people asking for specific builds so I just wanna say I really enjoy all the videos you put out. your editing and humor are top notch! I don't even play ER and I try to watch your vids as soon as I see a new one out.
Thanks, i'm glad you enjoy the videos :) I wish I could do all the builds people are asking for, a lot of them sound fun! I just don't have the time haha
Honestly, I’d like to see you do this again, but since now you’ve got more knowledge about it, you would know more ways to do damage, and see how fast the run could have taken if you had made the build slightly different? Just idea rambling, don’t mind me 😅
I'm not sure how much more damage can be done though, I mean I could shorten the run and make collecting items early more optimal, but the damage from crossbows only scale with upgrade levels, so base damage would be the same. I could flip talismans around like using red feathered instead of ritual sword, but that extra 15% probably wouldn't make a huge difference haha
so the Pully Crossbow is actually GREAT for status effects and the Full Moon with the SPECIFIC BOLTS MADE FOR IT can do really good magic damage! other than that, you can use the Black Key crossbow to do headshots while sneaking around for some stealth kills though really your better off just using the Ballista or Jar Cannon for that.
@@DoomWolfOfficial yea honestly ppl tend to not give crossbows a chance in Elden Ring because of how bad they are in Dark Souls (aside from DS2 in which you had a 3 shot crossbow and a shield crossbow that were both decent in pvp) but really the Pully, the Black Key, the Full Moon, and the 2 Ballista are all very much viable options BUT i will say, if your doing the Ballista, i recommend going heavy armor because you arent getting stat scaling ANYWAY and your GOING to get hit so being able to tank hits is really your saving grace with those. other than that, i mean, if your going with like a bleed build and you have say a dagger or something in the right hand then you can use Bloodflame on it and the effect actually applies to your crossbow too (its probably a glitch and idk if its been patched) so that makes a Pully Crossbow with the barbed bolts really good for bleed and otherwise any decently high arcane build can benefit from having the pully crossbow and some pots in their pocket for applying status as range. LAST NOTE: ppl think that poison bone darts are the best option for ranged poisoning but its actually like 3rd or 4th place depending on your skill because the pully crossbow can potentially apply poison faster, the throwable poison pots create a nice AoE which is great for poisoning groups, and the poison rock clumps that let you chuck a handfull of poison rocks at a guy apply poison to a target MUCH faster IF your close enough to hit with most/all of the rocks (especially effective on large bosses)
i think it could be cool to see a tierlist someday of all the challenge runs you've done so far, either what was more viable/harder or just more fun! ;D
perhaps one day! I've been asked what the hardest run I've ever done is, that by itself was difficult to answer so idk how i'd ever put them all in a list haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial ahh alright thats fair haha either way i found your content just a couple of days ago and have been binging it ever since, keep it up man! :D and i hope youre having a great weekend :)
Honestly i did this with my main character (xbox) and it was awesome. I did changed crossbows every once in a while due to the rate of fire but the pulley is king with the build you have. If you do arrows the black bow is king as well. Great video
Yeah I wanted to use the pulley but I didn't wanna be too overpowered ;P in my bow only video I did end up using the black bow and it's amazing haha, thanks!
Crossbows are a great off-hand weapon as you can use them for chip damage or to finish an enemy off at range if you aren't using magic, because unlike a regular bow you can fire Crossbows one-handed while keeping you main weapon able to be used. As your only means of offense they're not very good, but that's not where they shine, admittedly they have some use in poise-breaking because dealing damage resets the timer of when enemies start regenerating Poise, allowing you to keep up pressure, and they deal more damage than darts. Also status bolts pair nicely with melee weapons that also inflict the same status (think Bleed or Poison). Also while there are ranged Ashes of War like Thunderbolt, Spectral Lance, Storm Blade, Glintblade Phalax or Glintstone Pebble just fo name a few. A crossbow in your off-hand allows you to use Ashes of War like Piercing Fang, Lion's Claw, Unsheathe, Square-Off, Giant Huntor Warcry instead or even use unique weapons with Ashes of War that you can't change (Bloodhound's Fang for example).
I feel like you touched on the strongest point, which would be to maintain the poise break timer from resetting, because they don't do much else (I'm not sure if parrying them with status weapons would work well, I feel like in the event that you would want to help build it up there are other things better for that, but it might be situational)
17:50 you know, when you say that suddenly I Have an idea for a truly hard challenge. Die to regal ancestor spirit, without getting hit on purpose and attacking him when possible. I wonder what weapon I'd need to do that... Edit: Video finished, like left, already subbed
Does it effect everything that deals pierce damage? doesn't the rusted anchor deal pierce damage but I don't think it effects that (I guess they can have two classifications while coding, checking if pierce && weapon type lol)
I believe only one other person has mentioned it (maybe?), I didn't even realize it was raining while writing the script lmao (but also they underperform anyway, trust me)
I think you can increase the damage more on the horse with the mount and sting talisman. The lightning and explosive bolts actually do more indirect damage than direct so jump shot while they side walk would damage them more. But seeing you can already kill al of them anyway.😅
about 9 hours for crossbow, my two longest were the no walk, which was 46 hours, and the consumables only which was 48. consumables only would probably be a lot lower if I did it now, since I have more knowledge of the game lol
It means the hit boxes are accurate to their model, so an arrow has a collider the size of the actual arrow (and not bigger), this making the hit boxes tight
This was good old friend. Maybe try an actual archery run? Before beating a remembrance you have the crappy short bow then swapping to any bow that isn't complete dogwater, dealers choice! Maybe even dabbling in greatbows for the funsies
@@DoomWolfOfficial but now there's the dlc bow with the new talismans... which now that I think about it might not work. I know we got new archery talismans but I can't remember if they work atm
I LOVE that so many of the WAY stronger builds had to cave and use the fancy spear on the snake but the blind crossbow wielding chick said "hold my eyes, I got this"
Classic objection we've had since the falcon ring in ds1, but a wrong one: range IS damage. Ranged weapons' damage drop off progressively according to distance. With more range, the drop off is mitigated or straight up negated, based on your distance. So, having the range ring will allow you to have maximum damage at the usual distance one fights ranged.
@@DoomWolfOfficial it does both! It gives you 65% bonus: let's assume you have 10m of range and get maximum damage at 5m at most. With the ring now you have 10m+65%=16.5m total range, and get max damage at 5m+65%= ~8.5m. Of course I'm pulling these numbers out my butt, but the concept is the same: with the ring you'll be more often within an area with a minor damage drop off, meaning you'll deal more damage overall.
i always thought it was a shame crossbows don't scale with anything. On one hand it makes sense, you are not gonna reload them any harder with higher strength or dex, but on the other hand they don't exactly have many redeeming qualities, especially compared to magic. I wonder how they could be made more viable
I like to think with 99 strength i'll pull the trigger harder and it does more damage lol as far as how to make them more viable, if they keep the no scaling thing they might just have to add specialized crossbows. like one that has innate rot on it or something
I recently beat darksouls remastered and I just noticed how much elden ring took from it I wonder what inspired valiant gargoyles and godskin duo I wonder if that could have been taken from bell gargoyles and ornstein and smough
Wow. Crossbows do more damage than bows. That's what I learned from this video. Bows do have scaling, but even 99 str 99 dex on a maxed upgrade bow doesn't do the kind of damage that crossbow dealt. Granted, they all do basically no damage, but still. Crossbow also doesn't have the stamina issue that bows have. Bows eat stamina on the wind up and the shot, and fire way more slowly than crossbows+reload. I didn't really just how inferior bows are to crossbows in this game, until now. And I (almost) 100% cleared the game with a bow-only run. I could never kill Malenia, because I ran out of arrows on a literal perfect run and died to inventory management on phase 2 with her being 2 shots from death. Cleared out the rest of the game with it though. Once you've secured an easy stock of arrows, just don't get hit. Simple as that. Of course, late game dungeons you NEED to use crossbows, greatbows, bows, and ballistas in order to clear them out, because of how many shots it takes to get through. I even got into the habit of maxing out both fletched *and* non-fletched bone arrows just for more wiggle room in dungeons. Because ammo caps are the actual boss of the run.
are they? I did a bow only video some time ago and I don't particularly remember how well they performed compared to crossbows. A short bow can fire far faster than a crossbow can, so even if the actual numbers are lower I imagine that would help lol. if you're just using a standing long bow then I can imagine they are worse, but I don't know that for a fact. I don't remember my strat with Malenia, bleed and frost arrows i'm sure, but I do remember changing the arrows before phase 2 specifically because menuing in phase 2 sounds like a nightmare lol
To be fair with the percentage increase, the benefit really wouldn't be that different than if you did more damage, right? I guess every ten shots would effectively get you one for free. Not sure if that would've amounted to much, but I think that holds true even with stronger weapons unless it enables you to one or two shot. 10% is pretty meaningless on it's own, though. I know that the point of the bows aren't meant to be primary damage dealers, but it's even harder to imagine using such a talisman then.
you're not wrong, but a bigger base number would make it more worth it just because of numbers. That's also only counting one increase, if you used winged sword insignia, and milicenets prothesis for example you have more percent increase (after the activate) At any rate the only reason I used them here was because it was that, or literally worthless talismans lol
The "Effective" Range on bows (and some crossbows) is so low for its highest damage range that Arrows Reach is often better than Arrows sting. Back near launch when i was doing a "crossbow" build with the jar cannon and a secondary Radahn bow i would see on average a 20-30% damage diff by using arrows reach and that wasnt from far range it was mid-range. they might have buffed ranged weapons effective range since then but i dont think they did.
although iv never used soldiers crossbow and fromsoft games are wierd. so i have no clue. soldiers cross bow might have really good effective range so the arrows reach doesnt do anything.
@@DoomWolfOfficial noooope, dropped arrows reach for spear after goldrick and you can see in the status's under your health that you only have arrows sting, blue dancer, and spear on for almost the full run :p great run, probably could have saved yourself some pain tho 😅
Bro how about starting a game save and collecting everything u usually use and then back up that save to use whenever u do a run like this.This is just a suggestion cause i know how boring it is to collect stuff everytime we start a save.
@@DoomWolfOfficial i think it's doable because the Beastial Incarnation's cost is fairly low. You might want to grab as much startlight shard as possible on the run though
Doom with another stupid run to perfection lol. I was trying to think of an idea for a challenge but all I could think of was glintstone pebble only but honestly that's not even that tough so I posit beastial incantations only
Thanks glad you enjoyed it :) Glintstone pebble only doesn't sound that hard (maybe Rennala because of her 80% magic absorption I haven't actually tried any beastial incantations so I'm not sure how good or bad they are haha
Always hated the fact that souls series don't give a fuck about crossbows, so i learned modding just to give them scaling and increased bolt flight speed (In real life the thing goes up to 90m per second on old crossbows lmao). Now its fun to play with it, even tho i didn't made it half as strong as sorceries can get, now it does non-meme damage xD
I think the reason they don't do great is because they are meant to be used as a utility, not a primary damaging thing. But I do wish they would put one in the game that was actually good and could be used like a real ranged build haha
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :) I might do a randomizer one of these days, i'm basically doing everything I can with the base game before modding it haha
Do a run where you can’t use anything no tailsmen, no physic, no healing or getting mana back while fighting bosses, only using Your fist and can’t level up at all and no armour at all i call it The Nothing Run (must pick wretch as starting class or if you can make all your stat 1 must do that instead)
Did you know, that crossbows actually have scaling?! When you replacing ash war on crossbow, you actually can add occult affinity, giving crossbow arcane scaling... Also, if you adding great serpent hunt AoW, your crossbow starts launching serpent hunter spears. //Of course, it's dumb joke. You can't replace crossbow AoW
Maybe I misremember, but doesn't the Arrow's Reach talisman also boost damage to nearer foes? Also, on the matter of levels: You still could have made some use of endurance, with bigger stamina and the lightest of light rolls. Also I think every level increases resistance of some sort? Not that any of this is needed, but being nitpicky is a YT-commenters perogative.
you can, but I tend to not use them unless it fits with the rest (so howl of shabriri on a frenzied flame only run, for example) I try to make the weapon by itself as strong as possible, but it...doesn't work for this crossbow lol
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Can you beat Elden ring by just Bitch-slapping everyone?
Rules:
1 You can only damage enemies using moves with resemble bitch-slap
(Discus of light and triple rings of light are the star of the show, as they look the most like bitch-slap.
Fists and fist-weapons are also ok. HL's earthshaker or other moves that bitchslap the ground are also ok)
2 have fun
3 (optional) dress as pimp-ish as possible
fists and fistweapons are encoureged as counterattacks after parrying/stancebreak.
Couldn't you have used crystal tears and scorpion talismans to boost elemental and physical damage into something usable? Or would the increase actually be that negligible
You made a blindfolded character with a ranged weapon and didn't even make a 360 no scope joke...I don't know if I'm proud or disappointed.
Honestly it didn't even cross my mind, I'll have to remember if/when I do greatbows only lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial Now we need a greatbow only run
@@DoomWolfOfficialgreatbow only run when???
@@DoomWolfOfficial remember there’s golden cow arrows for great bows
Not wearing armor for this run was a great idea, allows you to bolt away from your enemies a lot faster
ayyy good pun haha
You get one...
Ha.
One...
i laughed way too hard at the thought of Radahn flying to the stratosphere to never be seen again
In my head I just pictured him jumping up and then like "uh-oh" and he just keeps flying into the void of space lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial I don't know what's funnier, Radahn havin an oh shit moment and trying to run/swim back to earth as he drifts away
Or Scarlet Rot Radahn just roaring into the void with both swords raised as he gets smaller and smaller
Your damage against Godfrey on your first shot increased because he had just performed an attack, which made him enter an "open" state, increasing the damage he takes. Whenever you or an enemy performs an attack, most of the time from the beginning to the end of the animation ( recovery animation included) you'll be left "open", making you or the enemy take more damage which is shown by a white hit effect.
I thought that only happened on dodges? (or perhaps that is a different mechanic all together)
@@DoomWolfOfficial Nah, it's the same mechanic as the counter attack thing you mentioned later in the video, just used for both situations. It also happens for some casting animations iirc
Does this mechanic only apply to "pierce" weapons or is it something true in general?
@@snipercomrade3059 It's true in general, everything can take advantage of counter attacks.
@@pancakemixwithblueberriesinit Thank you so much for the response, I'll keep an eye out for that extra damage :D
Honestly i love the crossbows in this game so i think they are actually kinda fun
conceptually I like them, but wish they did more lol
The erdtree avatar was in the rain so it took reduced fire damage, not that it matters though.
edit: just got to the morgot fight and you mentioned the rain affecting lightning damage, also why not use any of the scorpion charms instead of the reach talisman, they're % based but any increase is good.
was it raining? I didn't even notice lmao
@@DoomWolfOfficial never stops raining there
The Spear Talisman applies to Piercing/Thrusting damage, ignoring weapon type in the majority of cases. I use it regularly with a Rapier/Greatshield/Bow setup for some bosses, to boost my base damage while I stack Poison, Rot, Bleed, and then Frostbite. It has a weird interaction with headshot counters though, where the damage boost seems to only partially apply most of the time.
so why does it say of thrusting weapons? I guess it's not abnormal form item descriptions to be misleading lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial I believe it's due to the Talisman being intended to boost thrusting weapons, but the programming for it specifying the damage type of thrusting weapons, that being Pierce/Thrust, which makes it also qualify for any other damage classed as Pierce/Thrust.
The true utility of the crossbows and ballistas comes with the mimic tear: even in you don't use them, just slap a explosive or status dart on your slot, unequip your melee before summunig and enjoy the artillery support.
ya know, that is true, since the mimic would have infinite ammo, just have them firing status bolts none stop haha
I noticed that Malenia's arena had a fair amount of water in it, so lightning bolts would've probably made a noticeable difference (thanks to reduced absorption in water and the splash effect).
so, she does take increased lightning damage while standing in the water, but it apparently doesn't function the same as normal water when you shoot a lightning bolt into it.
I don't remember who but another Challenge runner did a run and he tried that but it didn't' work. could have been a bug but I didn't even bother testing because I knew Malenia wouldn't be hard just time consuming lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial That's for hitting the water, but guy was mostly talking about the reduced absorption. And that is a thing in Malenia's arena.
I've got a suggestion for a run if you're looking for fun ideas.
Thorn Sorcery.
Now, I know I know. "You just wanna see me literally perform masochism on myself." While that is a fun side effect, I genuinely think Thorn Sorcery is a fun combination of bad yet fascinatingly nuanced. Different builds and synergies it can be amplified by, combo casting, unusual resource management. List goes on. Seems like something you could explore a lot about and share a lot about from your own experience of trying to make the most of them
Could be fun, I did have different notes for the different classes of sorceries so who knows!
Your editing was really good on this one! Not that it isn't usually good, I just noticed it being good this time lol
Thanks! I don't feel like I did anything much different, but glad you enjoyed it :)
you did a Stellar job here Doom, and with my favorite weapon in games. hopefully one day i can sweep the land between with the full selection of weaponry im allowed from this game for this build, as well as the bolts.
Now, beat the game with only summons. You can only heal or buff your summons, if you can do it.
This is a good showcase of what a neglected weapon class crossbows are in ER.
They really are, I'm going to guess the exist to serve as a no barrier to entry ranged option for melee classes, but it sucks you can't really do anything with them because of the lack of scaling
lotta people asking for specific builds so I just wanna say I really enjoy all the videos you put out. your editing and humor are top notch! I don't even play ER and I try to watch your vids as soon as I see a new one out.
Thanks, i'm glad you enjoy the videos :) I wish I could do all the builds people are asking for, a lot of them sound fun! I just don't have the time haha
fortunately i found your channel like 2 days ago and i am already trough half of your videos. I love your content, keep up the grat work man!
Thanks, glad you enjoy the videos my friend :)
I think Convergence buffs crossbows alot. I know they buffed bows because I made a buff greatbow-wielding archer
Nice! I haven't tried any mods haha
Honestly, I’d like to see you do this again, but since now you’ve got more knowledge about it, you would know more ways to do damage, and see how fast the run could have taken if you had made the build slightly different? Just idea rambling, don’t mind me 😅
I'm not sure how much more damage can be done though, I mean I could shorten the run and make collecting items early more optimal, but the damage from crossbows only scale with upgrade levels, so base damage would be the same. I could flip talismans around like using red feathered instead of ritual sword, but that extra 15% probably wouldn't make a huge difference haha
Always entertaining love the blindfolded sharpshooter
she was a remarkably good shot for not being able to see anything lol, thanks :)
Awesome, intestinal fortitude dude.
9/10
Opened my eyes to a stupid weapon and its advantages in this game. Ty.😊
glad you see the power of the crossbow!
19:23 imagine this but with the repeater crossbow
knowing my luck they would just spam roll and avoid all three shockwaves lol
so the Pully Crossbow is actually GREAT for status effects and the Full Moon with the SPECIFIC BOLTS MADE FOR IT can do really good magic damage! other than that, you can use the Black Key crossbow to do headshots while sneaking around for some stealth kills though really your better off just using the Ballista or Jar Cannon for that.
yeah I assumed the pulley crossbow would be great for status, damage...maybe lol, still haven't tried the full moon crossbow
@@DoomWolfOfficial yea honestly ppl tend to not give crossbows a chance in Elden Ring because of how bad they are in Dark Souls (aside from DS2 in which you had a 3 shot crossbow and a shield crossbow that were both decent in pvp)
but really the Pully, the Black Key, the Full Moon, and the 2 Ballista are all very much viable options BUT i will say, if your doing the Ballista, i recommend going heavy armor because you arent getting stat scaling ANYWAY and your GOING to get hit so being able to tank hits is really your saving grace with those.
other than that, i mean, if your going with like a bleed build and you have say a dagger or something in the right hand then you can use Bloodflame on it and the effect actually applies to your crossbow too (its probably a glitch and idk if its been patched) so that makes a Pully Crossbow with the barbed bolts really good for bleed and otherwise any decently high arcane build can benefit from having the pully crossbow and some pots in their pocket for applying status as range.
LAST NOTE: ppl think that poison bone darts are the best option for ranged poisoning but its actually like 3rd or 4th place depending on your skill because the pully crossbow can potentially apply poison faster, the throwable poison pots create a nice AoE which is great for poisoning groups, and the poison rock clumps that let you chuck a handfull of poison rocks at a guy apply poison to a target MUCH faster IF your close enough to hit with most/all of the rocks (especially effective on large bosses)
You made a vid about beating dark souls as wolverine......
And you already know what challenge im thinking about😎
that's right, Elden Ring as professor X lol
this is the best sponsor bit i ever seen period lmao
Thanks, i'm trying to up my ad segue game haha
Nice video, keep up the great work. Side note you can duel wield the soldiers crossbows.
Thanks! yes but that would be too powerful ;) lol
i think it could be cool to see a tierlist someday of all the challenge runs you've done so far, either what was more viable/harder or just more fun! ;D
perhaps one day! I've been asked what the hardest run I've ever done is, that by itself was difficult to answer so idk how i'd ever put them all in a list haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial ahh alright thats fair haha either way i found your content just a couple of days ago and have been binging it ever since, keep it up man! :D and i hope youre having a great weekend :)
I do hope that my executioner axe run is ever going to make it. Even if not, youre vids keep on getting better each time :D
Thanks, glad you enjoy them :)
maybe one day, I like doing themed builds but sometimes they just end up being "I got the thing. I am now a god" lmao
Aye fair enough ✌️👍
you could of used the burred bolts for alot more bosses due to the bleed
I could but that takes away some of the fun lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial true
he could've used other runes to level up endurence so he could've wear heavy armor and still light roll
but where's the fun in that? lol
"...and i knew, my computer was listening to me" u really make me laugh
I'm glad I could make you laugh my friend :)
Bruh the Godfrey jokes got me both times 😂
i'm glad lol
Funny run idea, If you wanna know true pain do a Noble's only weapon run [Noble's slender sword and Noble's Estoc]
I feel like the pain would be actually getting the weapon haha
that being said a couple people have asked me to so who knows!
@@DoomWolfOfficial u can always just cheat a weapon in. not like anyone would actually be upset at that no?
@@FreddeLibre oh trust me, someone would lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial that's the point 😈
Congrats on the sponsorship. You deserve it
Thanks :)
Honestly i did this with my main character (xbox) and it was awesome. I did changed crossbows every once in a while due to the rate of fire but the pulley is king with the build you have. If you do arrows the black bow is king as well. Great video
Yeah I wanted to use the pulley but I didn't wanna be too overpowered ;P in my bow only video I did end up using the black bow and it's amazing haha, thanks!
You rocked it like a trooper ngl keep it up
Crossbows are a great off-hand weapon as you can use them for chip damage or to finish an enemy off at range if you aren't using magic, because unlike a regular bow you can fire Crossbows one-handed while keeping you main weapon able to be used. As your only means of offense they're not very good, but that's not where they shine, admittedly they have some use in poise-breaking because dealing damage resets the timer of when enemies start regenerating Poise, allowing you to keep up pressure, and they deal more damage than darts. Also status bolts pair nicely with melee weapons that also inflict the same status (think Bleed or Poison).
Also while there are ranged Ashes of War like Thunderbolt, Spectral Lance, Storm Blade, Glintblade Phalax or Glintstone Pebble just fo name a few. A crossbow in your off-hand allows you to use Ashes of War like Piercing Fang, Lion's Claw, Unsheathe, Square-Off, Giant Huntor Warcry instead or even use unique weapons with Ashes of War that you can't change (Bloodhound's Fang for example).
I feel like you touched on the strongest point, which would be to maintain the poise break timer from resetting, because they don't do much else (I'm not sure if parrying them with status weapons would work well, I feel like in the event that you would want to help build it up there are other things better for that, but it might be situational)
Its a crime that your channel doesnt have above 200,000 subcribers. Every video gave me the joy I need for a month.
haha thanks, i'm just glad you enjoy the videos :)
15:10 this is pure art, it's soooooo fucking wonderful, there should be an oilpainting of this existing
you mean radagon's dodge? yeah it was nice lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial Yep, exactly, that was just a pixel perfect hit box going on the third date with a pixel perfect hurt box *g*
17:50 you know, when you say that suddenly I Have an idea for a truly hard challenge. Die to regal ancestor spirit, without getting hit on purpose and attacking him when possible. I wonder what weapon I'd need to do that...
Edit: Video finished, like left, already subbed
I feel like it would have to be fist only, just because of how long it would take lol
thanks my friend :)
11:10 My guess is damage type - it affects everything, that deals Pierce Damage. And bolts deals Pierce, so....
Does it effect everything that deals pierce damage? doesn't the rusted anchor deal pierce damage but I don't think it effects that (I guess they can have two classifications while coding, checking if pierce && weapon type lol)
@@DoomWolfOfficial Counterattack is for Pierce Damage, so why It would not affect Rusted Anchor, if it deals Pierce?
5:36 Single moms in your region are looking for a handsome crossbow wielder
They couldn't resist my talismans, tell you what lol
So like a normal person once an ad sponsor thing comes out I skip it
But because of the way you introduced it I actually watched it
haha thanks my friend, I'm really trying to up my ad segue game
7:42 I am sure many people have already mentioned it but the Fire Arrows were underperforming because it was raining.
I believe only one other person has mentioned it (maybe?), I didn't even realize it was raining while writing the script lmao (but also they underperform anyway, trust me)
I love how so many challenge runs fail at rykard yet the soldier's crossbow of all things is able to best him
Crossbow is KING! lol
I think you can increase the damage more on the horse with the mount and sting talisman. The lightning and explosive bolts actually do more indirect damage than direct so jump shot while they side walk would damage them more. But seeing you can already kill al of them anyway.😅
Would have been helpful at the time but I powered through either way :)
How long did it take for you to beat elden ring with just the crossbow? And how long did your longest challenge run take?
about 9 hours for crossbow, my two longest were the no walk, which was 46 hours, and the consumables only which was 48.
consumables only would probably be a lot lower if I did it now, since I have more knowledge of the game lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial do no walking plus consumables only or you will be demoted from gigachad tier ;)
But jokes aside, the shit you do is insane, I have 50+ hours in elden ring and i have only beaten the main bosses till fire giant and commander nial.
I guess the spear talisman works because you could say after being fired from the crossbow the bolt is being thrust through the air to hit the target
Fair enough, that seems to be the theory (that the bolts/arrows having trusting weapon properties)
Ur content is amazing, keep it up m8
Thanks, glad you enjoy it :)
Could someone define hit boxes being “tight” to me?
It means the hit boxes are accurate to their model, so an arrow has a collider the size of the actual arrow (and not bigger), this making the hit boxes tight
this just seems painful, props to you, also ornamental straight sword only plese
thanks, it definitely took a while haha
I've used that weapon once, could be fun!
This was good old friend. Maybe try an actual archery run? Before beating a remembrance you have the crappy short bow then swapping to any bow that isn't complete dogwater, dealers choice! Maybe even dabbling in greatbows for the funsies
I did an archery run near the begging of the games life cycle! It was my edgy legolas run haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial but now there's the dlc bow with the new talismans... which now that I think about it might not work. I know we got new archery talismans but I can't remember if they work atm
I LOVE that so many of the WAY stronger builds had to cave and use the fancy spear on the snake but the blind crossbow wielding chick said "hold my eyes, I got this"
haha, guess the world just isn't ready to fire the serpent hunter bolt out of the cross bow yet :P
That was the best transition into a sponsor I’ve ever see
Thanks, i'm trying to up my ad segue game
Classic objection we've had since the falcon ring in ds1, but a wrong one: range IS damage. Ranged weapons' damage drop off progressively according to distance. With more range, the drop off is mitigated or straight up negated, based on your distance. So, having the range ring will allow you to have maximum damage at the usual distance one fights ranged.
but does it give more range or more effective range?
@@DoomWolfOfficial it does both! It gives you 65% bonus: let's assume you have 10m of range and get maximum damage at 5m at most. With the ring now you have 10m+65%=16.5m total range, and get max damage at 5m+65%= ~8.5m. Of course I'm pulling these numbers out my butt, but the concept is the same: with the ring you'll be more often within an area with a minor damage drop off, meaning you'll deal more damage overall.
i always thought it was a shame crossbows don't scale with anything. On one hand it makes sense, you are not gonna reload them any harder with higher strength or dex, but on the other hand they don't exactly have many redeeming qualities, especially compared to magic.
I wonder how they could be made more viable
I like to think with 99 strength i'll pull the trigger harder and it does more damage lol
as far as how to make them more viable, if they keep the no scaling thing they might just have to add specialized crossbows. like one that has innate rot on it or something
I wonder how much damage you can get out of the Full Moon Crossbow with Meteorite Bolts, Terra Magica & all the buffs
me too, optimistically a fair amount, realistically like 12 lmao
I recently beat darksouls remastered and I just noticed how much elden ring took from it I wonder what inspired valiant gargoyles and godskin duo I wonder if that could have been taken from bell gargoyles and ornstein and smough
Based in design alone, probably lol
Doom Wolf: "Elden Rings hitboxes being so tight"
Also Doom Wolf: "Questionable hitbox, game"
Hey they can't all be winners lmao
I had an idea for a challenge run. Left-handed attacks only.
I actually have this written down in my notes :)
since you like pain you should do a wraith calling bell only run no retaliation
I have a feeling that will be...less than fun because of enemies having crazy resistances lol
6:42 no, it is clearly duck season, Mr. Bird.
wabbit season fire! lol
Wow. Crossbows do more damage than bows. That's what I learned from this video. Bows do have scaling, but even 99 str 99 dex on a maxed upgrade bow doesn't do the kind of damage that crossbow dealt. Granted, they all do basically no damage, but still. Crossbow also doesn't have the stamina issue that bows have. Bows eat stamina on the wind up and the shot, and fire way more slowly than crossbows+reload.
I didn't really just how inferior bows are to crossbows in this game, until now. And I (almost) 100% cleared the game with a bow-only run. I could never kill Malenia, because I ran out of arrows on a literal perfect run and died to inventory management on phase 2 with her being 2 shots from death. Cleared out the rest of the game with it though. Once you've secured an easy stock of arrows, just don't get hit. Simple as that. Of course, late game dungeons you NEED to use crossbows, greatbows, bows, and ballistas in order to clear them out, because of how many shots it takes to get through. I even got into the habit of maxing out both fletched *and* non-fletched bone arrows just for more wiggle room in dungeons. Because ammo caps are the actual boss of the run.
are they? I did a bow only video some time ago and I don't particularly remember how well they performed compared to crossbows. A short bow can fire far faster than a crossbow can, so even if the actual numbers are lower I imagine that would help lol.
if you're just using a standing long bow then I can imagine they are worse, but I don't know that for a fact.
I don't remember my strat with Malenia, bleed and frost arrows i'm sure, but I do remember changing the arrows before phase 2 specifically because menuing in phase 2 sounds like a nightmare lol
I wouldn't mind seeing a full moon crossbow build. I've never seen anyone use it, at all.
I think press continue did it, but who knows maybe I will haha
7:30 well you're also using fire attacks in the rain 💀
At the time of making this I may or may not have been unaware water effects fire/lightening resistances lol
Radhan is a master of gravity magic.
If he launches himself into the stratosphere,
He will come back.
I suppose my statement about the game having "real life physics" and "gravity magic" are not mutually exclusive in game worlds, so yeah, i guess
To be fair with the percentage increase, the benefit really wouldn't be that different than if you did more damage, right? I guess every ten shots would effectively get you one for free. Not sure if that would've amounted to much, but I think that holds true even with stronger weapons unless it enables you to one or two shot. 10% is pretty meaningless on it's own, though. I know that the point of the bows aren't meant to be primary damage dealers, but it's even harder to imagine using such a talisman then.
you're not wrong, but a bigger base number would make it more worth it just because of numbers. That's also only counting one increase, if you used winged sword insignia, and milicenets prothesis for example you have more percent increase (after the activate)
At any rate the only reason I used them here was because it was that, or literally worthless talismans lol
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Haha thanks, I feel like this is one of my better segues
Yoo DoomWolf posted, putting everything else on hold.
Hope you enjoyed the video my friend :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial heck yea I did lol
The "Effective" Range on bows (and some crossbows) is so low for its highest damage range that Arrows Reach is often better than Arrows sting. Back near launch when i was doing a "crossbow" build with the jar cannon and a secondary Radahn bow i would see on average a 20-30% damage diff by using arrows reach and that wasnt from far range it was mid-range. they might have buffed ranged weapons effective range since then but i dont think they did.
although iv never used soldiers crossbow and fromsoft games are wierd. so i have no clue. soldiers cross bow might have really good effective range so the arrows reach doesnt do anything.
I feel like I kept both on because they are the bow specific talismans, but I might be misremembering haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial noooope, dropped arrows reach for spear after goldrick and you can see in the status's under your health that you only have arrows sting, blue dancer, and spear on for almost the full run :p
great run, probably could have saved yourself some pain tho 😅
Bro how about starting a game save and collecting everything u usually use and then back up that save to use whenever u do a run like this.This is just a suggestion cause i know how boring it is to collect stuff everytime we start a save.
I thought about it, but there are times when I want/need to start a character from scratch, things like appearance or starting class/items
Now I kind of want to see a Beastial Incarnation only run but without Flask of Cerulean Tears lol
those two things are written separately in my notes, i'm not sure about together though lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial i think it's doable because the Beastial Incarnation's cost is fairly low. You might want to grab as much startlight shard as possible on the run though
He did it…he actually killed rykard with the build…the mad man
lol surprisingly it wasn't as difficult as I thought, just tedious and looong
@@DoomWolfOfficial next you’ll tell me you can beat rykard power-stancing with some scythes😯
Doom with another stupid run to perfection lol. I was trying to think of an idea for a challenge but all I could think of was glintstone pebble only but honestly that's not even that tough so I posit beastial incantations only
Thanks glad you enjoyed it :)
Glintstone pebble only doesn't sound that hard (maybe Rennala because of her 80% magic absorption
I haven't actually tried any beastial incantations so I'm not sure how good or bad they are haha
Challenge run for doom: play elden ring while having fun. *IMPOSSIBLE*
yep, it's too hard, playing the game to have fun? I'd die of boredom :P lol
He’s starting to get way too good at this game, everything looks way too easy
lol I need to contain my power!
I live for these videos man
haha i'm glad you like them, i'll do my best to improve with each video :)
Always hated the fact that souls series don't give a fuck about crossbows, so i learned modding just to give them scaling and increased bolt flight speed (In real life the thing goes up to 90m per second on old crossbows lmao). Now its fun to play with it, even tho i didn't made it half as strong as sorceries can get, now it does non-meme damage xD
I think the reason they don't do great is because they are meant to be used as a utility, not a primary damaging thing. But I do wish they would put one in the game that was actually good and could be used like a real ranged build haha
"Loretta, second verse same as the first"
Now put me on a plane so I can put em in a hurst?
Loretta now fears all planes lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial especially the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Hey I’m a big fan of your videos, I’d really appreciate an og casul build ( medium shield + any ol straight sword)
I feel like I would appreciate it too because it would be a break lol
Glad you enjoy the videos :)
Even if you're using a melee build, Fortissax is kinda weak. Power stancing the Nagakiba and Rivers of Blood wrecks that guy.
yeah but tbf power stancing duel bleed weapons wrecks mosts things (nothing wrong with that , just saying lol)
NordVPN is good but they give zero fucks if it will be blocked in your country. No refund or trying to make new servers (like Red Shield, Lantern and other VPNs do).
if Nord is blocked wouldn't other VPNs also be blocked thought (refunds would be different i'm just asking)
@@DoomWolfOfficial some yes, some no. Most of blocked ones just start using new servers.
Damn that ad placement was too good 😭
Thanks, i'm trying to up my ad segue game lol
revenants are the creepiest enemy in eldin ring
They really are!
Nice video! You could try a Reborn or Reforged mod run.
I always love that Gideon is either a worthless pleb or an absolute monster, no in between.
it's true, can confirm there is no setting between those two haha
love your content man
Thanks, glad you enjoy the videos :)
great video! But, don't the bolts themselves benefit from stats? like fire bolts from STR, holy from FTH, lightning from DEX, bleed from ARC?
I don't believe they do, other things like fire pots do but not the bolts
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haha thanks my friend, glad you enjoy the videos :)
Idk if u still do ds1 challenges but if u do u should do a run where u use broken sword
I plan on doing more DS1 challenges, eventually! Thanks for the suggestion!
Babe wake up dong wolf posted a NEW CHALLENGE
dong wolf, that's a first lol hoped you liked it my friend :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial loved every minute of it. Seriously love the effort you put into these videos.
It may be the worst crossbow in the game, but it is also the best pincushion maker since you need so many extra bolts to get the kill
that's true lol
11:09 Arrows and bolts are just smaller, tool assisted javelin, which is a little brother to Spears right?
does that mean the ballista is just a normal tool assisted javelin?
Can u do a sleep only run. With Sleeping arrows and Sleeping pots(with or without st. Trina’s Sword)
perhaps! not a lot are fully effected by sleep, but there are plenty of things that would fit!
You actually got me interested in Elden Ring lore. I had no real interest in playing or learning it. Booba for the booba goddess.
Well, glad I could make you interested my friend haha
Could do a level 1 weapon video, pick any weapon but can never upgrade it
Perhaps, it would drag out the fight I like, but otherwise it's just...more hits but not change haha
Hello, very nice video but i would love you to see you playing the randomaizer mod i think it will be a lot of fun
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
I might do a randomizer one of these days, i'm basically doing everything I can with the base game before modding it haha
Do a run where you can’t use anything no tailsmen, no physic, no healing or getting mana back while fighting bosses, only using Your fist and can’t level up at all and no armour at all i call it The Nothing Run (must pick wretch as starting class or if you can make all your stat 1 must do that instead)
well, I plan on doing two different parts of this run, but not at the same time lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial why not, don’t you like a challenge, plus this would make a very interesting video
Did you know, that crossbows actually have scaling?! When you replacing ash war on crossbow, you actually can add occult affinity, giving crossbow arcane scaling...
Also, if you adding great serpent hunt AoW, your crossbow starts launching serpent hunter spears.
//Of course, it's dumb joke. You can't replace crossbow AoW
lol I didn't even try to put a different ash of war on it, figured even if I could it wouldn't help
Maybe I misremember, but doesn't the Arrow's Reach talisman also boost damage to nearer foes?
Also, on the matter of levels: You still could have made some use of endurance, with bigger stamina and the lightest of light rolls. Also I think every level increases resistance of some sort? Not that any of this is needed, but being nitpicky is a YT-commenters perogative.
That...i'm not sure about, I think it just ups the effective range, so anything that is already close wont be modified
Could you not use buffing spells as well? Golden vow, flame grant me strength, howl of shabriri?
you can, but I tend to not use them unless it fits with the rest (so howl of shabriri on a frenzied flame only run, for example)
I try to make the weapon by itself as strong as possible, but it...doesn't work for this crossbow lol