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Awesome list! I leveled up some of my rl150 characters to rl200 by just adding a third stat so I can use more weapons, e.g. strength faith is now strength faith arcane. That way I can use the Bloodfiend Arm on my str/fai character without *really* bumping up to the 200 meta. Str still 40, faith 60, arc 45, so I don’t feel too op but also don’t need to respec to enjoy the new DLC content. It’s great!
You actually get more dmg from the dance ash of war if you use the dancer armor set, for a total of 10% dmg boost. The poise can solved with the ironjar aromatic as the dance movement isnt hindered by the consumable.
Here we go, have been waiting for this one. Thanks man and many thanks for keeping it spoiler free. Can tell from your voice how excited you are 🤘 Can’t wait to play the dlc
for the backhand blade build i recommend using keen and increase the dex to 60 and arcane at 40. this will allow S Dex scaling, and u can use bloodflame incantation
Going from a certain other popular ER TH-camr who calls every DLC weapon trash to YOU, S tier TH-camr who realizes how powerful these new weapons can be, is truly refreshing. You are THE BEST ER TH-camr, straight up.
I’m pretty sure I know who Your talking about and yeah I get so annoyed listening to him bitch about every weapon just because it technically doesn’t do as much damage as double sepuku 😂 IMO most of the dlc stuff is amazing and so much fun!!
@@MattDean-o1t people don’t realize how fun the options we got are. Yea some need buffs, but they’re crazy to use. After this video I’m going to do some RL 200 builds as well as more fun less OP content.
Hey Mr Average Gamer, great video as always! Just discovered you with the DLC Release. Best Eldenring Content together with Youwy if you ask me! One Question tho: youre basically two handing the Fire Knights Greatsword. Couldnt you get away with 15 Str and 18 Dex then ? seems like 9 wasted points to me? Or am i missing something important?
You should try the Shadow Sunflower Blossom weapon if you haven’t already from the Scadutree Avatar! It seems really strong so far and fast for a colossal!
The anvil hammer gets deceptively good faith scaling, it says D but if you actually invest some points in it the returns are far greater than that - its competitive with your points in strength at least up to 60 str and 60 faith (the faith increases both phys and fire damage on the weapon, not just fire)
I saw the increases when testing it, it’s better but not an even split. It still is best to go strength first to 60 (at least 40 to two hand) then faith. But yes it’s more like “C” scaling.
I haven't commented in a while but I've watched every video you've released and it's insane how they are all so fun to watch! P. S. I wish we had a transmog system in the game cuz ain't no way I'll be using someone's arm to beat the bejesus out of another person!!
Good video I've been enjoying Fire knights great sword build a lot! I've been using sharbriris woe + flame grant me strength for my buffs, what makes golden vow better?
Thanks! And if you mean howl & FGMS they don’t stack (body buffs). Golden Vow incantation is an Aura buff, possibly the best in the game. Lasts about 2 minutes & gives you 15% more attack AND defense.
@@AverageGamerMatt yup meant howl* thanks! Also I've been using the one helmet mesmers knight drops that buffs fire damage not sure if it's significant though
What is your opinion on the Rakshasa set? It gives +2% damage output per piece but also increases damage taken, so wouldn’t it be good for almost every build? Great video btw, as always!!
I’ve been maining Anvil Hammer since the dlc dropped. You def wanna use Flame, Grant Me Strength since it will benefit from the physical and fire damage buff
The Albinauric staff was nerf'd for bleed build-up back in the day of the original thorns build. I'm not sure if it was a pvp only nerf. I just remembered because I was running the old thorns build. "Best" alternative seems like the Maternal Staff, which gets A in both int and arcane. Also, it seems like the damage of thorns is tied to int.. then bleed, of course, arcane. I may be way off base here. This is just what I have gathered. I hope it helps someone.
So i wasn't a big fan of the martial arts but dysleaf glove with his kick ash of war has been a real blast, actually got Mogh NG+7 to bleed so many times he didn't transition XD
I believe its not infusable and doesnt have an arcane scaling, switch means its not as good as Bandit/Scavenger curved swords unfortunately. But curved swords in general are really good
From my testing Briars of Punishment count as aberrant sorceries so wearing alberich's set and having the staff of the guilty in your offhand makes it do even more damage.
Impenetrable thorns is a different class of spells, it isn’t boosted by the same stuff for the thorn class (based off class). It’s a scadutree sorcery.
@@AverageGamerMatt It's a unique spell where it is also counted as a thorn sorcery for the staff of the guilty and alberich's robes. You can test it yourself and see both increase the damage.
Impenetrable Thorns makes the last nasty DLC boss a cakewalk. Use the maternal staff and for damage enhancement have another staff ("Staff of the guily" I believe) in the other hand.
@@rodrigovidalperez5397 White mask or tearmask (increases arcane), talisman the one with increased attack power after crits and for higher attack power with blood loss nearby. I could not use NPC summons, but I used the Dungeater (+10, supertanky) as summon, for distraction . The TH-camr Syrobe was my inspiration for this superpowerful build.
You missed two of the best: Deathknights great axe and Milady. Same reason for both. Fast-activating gap-closers make A LOT of bosses A LOT easier. They create opportunities to strike when there otherwise wouldn’t be and can also allow you to initiate from outside a bosses’ programmed attack range so you can land a hit then roll their first attack (very few weapons can do this). Milady might not be flashy but the wing stance R2 is secretly OP as fuck
Nice! That’s a little too much extra buffing for me lol but it’ll add damage for sure 👍 I just used golden vow with the thorns. It does plenty of bleed damage on its own.
Best right here- backhand blades frost and blindside. Milady with savage claw blood arcane 117 bleed and fire greatwword with gravity thrust blees 170. All arcane 90-99 dex 80iah if u can afford.. done thorns on all
Hi Matt I was wondering if you have a rakshasa build like that look and thought it would be great for a 430 build I have tried the 2 handed talisman and shard of Alexander with the axe talisman and ritual sword talisman but not sure of physics any ideas for this ? And once again many thanks for all your hard work and help 👍💯 awesome
@justhair17 Yeah I was playing dex arc before,but I think dex is more important than arc.There aren't that many arc weapon,but there are so many dex weapons in the game.And the dex damage is more than arc damage.I know people would say the bleed damage,but I like the pure physical damage to the enemy,that's so good.
@@justhair17 nah it got boring man it’s just poking tbh man. Used to be fun but it kinda stopped being like that I’m not trying to step on anyone’s shoes but I kinda been bored with it after the patch…
It’s better with its hyperarmor back. I’m trying to cover the new weapons as much as I can. But Godslayer’s is easily in the TOP 20 (maybe even 15) all time builds DLC included.
@@AverageGamerMatt thanks! It was always my favorite and I’m just getting into the DLC 😁 the fire knights greatsword obviously has my attention now lol
Bloodfiends arm is the dumbest meta weapon ever…meanwhile the COOLEST new weapon has awful quad scaling so it’s not even good in any one area until at least 200
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I’ve been subscribed for over a year and just have to say the quality of each video is getting better every day, thanks for all the builds and keep up the good work!
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Dude... i just found your channel and you're easily a friggin S youtuber. Your elden ring videos are fuggin awesome.
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Awesome list! I leveled up some of my rl150 characters to rl200 by just adding a third stat so I can use more weapons, e.g. strength faith is now strength faith arcane. That way I can use the Bloodfiend Arm on my str/fai character without *really* bumping up to the 200 meta. Str still 40, faith 60, arc 45, so I don’t feel too op but also don’t need to respec to enjoy the new DLC content. It’s great!
Thank you! 🙏 and that’s great. I’m doing level 200 builds soon. 🤘
I was just looking at your old ones yesterday, so glad you made an update and ty!
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You actually get more dmg from the dance ash of war if you use the dancer armor set, for a total of 10% dmg boost. The poise can solved with the ironjar aromatic as the dance movement isnt hindered by the consumable.
Haha I know I’m just not a fan lol
Here we go, have been waiting for this one. Thanks man and many thanks for keeping it spoiler free.
Can tell from your voice how excited you are 🤘
Can’t wait to play the dlc
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Peak content. Bloodfiend's Arm Nerf feels closer to balancing rather than taking the weapon's usability to oblivion like with Rivers of Blood.
Thank you! 🙏 and agreed. They destroyed ROB in PvE too lol it’s just mid now.
for the backhand blade build i recommend using keen and increase the dex to 60 and arcane at 40. this will allow S Dex scaling, and u can use bloodflame incantation
What stats would you increase for a level 180 bloodfiend arm? Good vid btw
Thank you! 🙏 60 STR & 60 ARC for sure 👍
Going from a certain other popular ER TH-camr who calls every DLC weapon trash to YOU, S tier TH-camr who realizes how powerful these new weapons can be, is truly refreshing. You are THE BEST ER TH-camr, straight up.
Thank you! 🙏 🤘
I’m pretty sure I know who
Your talking about and yeah I get so annoyed listening to him bitch about every weapon just because it technically doesn’t do as much damage as double sepuku 😂 IMO most of the dlc stuff is amazing and so much fun!!
@@MattDean-o1t people don’t realize how fun the options we got are. Yea some need buffs, but they’re crazy to use. After this video I’m going to do some RL 200 builds as well as more fun less OP content.
@@MattDean-o1t Tbh, Double Seppuku curved swords are still goated. It ended up killing some DLC bosses in like 30 secs
I hope you’re not talking about my goat Youwy
Hey Mr Average Gamer,
great video as always! Just discovered you with the DLC Release. Best Eldenring Content together with Youwy if you ask me!
One Question tho: youre basically two handing the Fire Knights Greatsword. Couldnt you get away with 15 Str and 18 Dex then ? seems like 9 wasted points to me? Or am i missing something important?
Thank you! 🙏 and it was just for a little more physical damage. You can deff go all faith besides minimum requirements.
Unending dance can also be boosted by dancer's set, I'm using this build with the blue dancers charm and it melts bosses.
Yep I just don’t like the set..lol
You should try the Shadow Sunflower Blossom weapon if you haven’t already from the Scadutree Avatar! It seems really strong so far and fast for a colossal!
I’ll check it out soon for a build video! 🤘
Double equip the thorn staff to boost it thorns and the thorn armor lot more damage output with the thorns
please next some high level builds / combinations for the dlc💪🏻
Getting to them soon! 🤘
The anvil hammer gets deceptively good faith scaling, it says D but if you actually invest some points in it the returns are far greater than that - its competitive with your points in strength at least up to 60 str and 60 faith (the faith increases both phys and fire damage on the weapon, not just fire)
I saw the increases when testing it, it’s better but not an even split. It still is best to go strength first to 60 (at least 40 to two hand) then faith. But yes it’s more like “C” scaling.
Awesome video bro! Great builds and love the review! Thank you! ❤
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Great video mate thank you so much as always
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I haven't commented in a while but I've watched every video you've released and it's insane how they are all so fun to watch!
P. S. I wish we had a transmog system in the game cuz ain't no way I'll be using someone's arm to beat the bejesus out of another person!!
Haha true & thank you! 🤘 🙏
Good video I've been enjoying Fire knights great sword build a lot! I've been using sharbriris woe + flame grant me strength for my buffs, what makes golden vow better?
Thanks! And if you mean howl & FGMS they don’t stack (body buffs). Golden Vow incantation is an Aura buff, possibly the best in the game. Lasts about 2 minutes & gives you 15% more attack AND defense.
@@AverageGamerMatt yup meant howl* thanks! Also I've been using the one helmet mesmers knight drops that buffs fire damage not sure if it's significant though
What is your opinion on the Rakshasa set? It gives +2% damage output per piece but also increases damage taken, so wouldn’t it be good for almost every build? Great video btw, as always!!
Thank you! 🙏 and yeah I’m going to add it to some builds. It’s good for sure 👍
I’ve been maining Anvil Hammer since the dlc dropped. You def wanna use Flame, Grant Me Strength since it will benefit from the physical and fire damage buff
Yep! Just does more physical than fire. Howl is 10 seconds longer, but FGMS should net you a little more damage.
What a SOLID VIDEO DUDE
Thank you! 🙏 🤘 💯
The Albinauric staff was nerf'd for bleed build-up back in the day of the original thorns build. I'm not sure if it was a pvp only nerf. I just remembered because I was running the old thorns build.
"Best" alternative seems like the Maternal Staff, which gets A in both int and arcane. Also, it seems like the damage of thorns is tied to int.. then bleed, of course, arcane. I may be way off base here. This is just what I have gathered. I hope it helps someone.
Thanks! I believe that was a PvP nerf. But the other staff may be better.
Maternal staff in the left hand combined with staff of guilty in the right hand will boost the thorns dmg by another 300-500 dmg
I've gone with dex bleed int and faith build done well sofar
Nice! That’s a lot of stats lol it can work though for sure 👍
Bleed builds are still the best for the DLC IMO. That and Bonk. Though you might need a greatshield for the final boss
So i wasn't a big fan of the martial arts but dysleaf glove with his kick ash of war has been a real blast, actually got Mogh NG+7 to bleed so many times he didn't transition XD
Haha yeah I love the kicking one lol
I have heard The Falx swords from hornsent are good. Can you do a build video with those?
I plan to! 🤘
I believe its not infusable and doesnt have an arcane scaling, switch means its not as good as Bandit/Scavenger curved swords unfortunately. But curved swords in general are really good
@@justhair17 I think from what I heard the weapon skill on them are very good with the follow up heavy attack
@@eduardopatino3441 weapon skill looks good, yeah. But since bleed is op, other curved swords outdamage it
Messmers helmet gives bonus damage to his spear, so that’s a must have if using his spear 👍
I personally think guts greatsword with spinning gravity thrust is one of the most op builds out here
For sure. I was trying to use mostly DLC weapons though.
You can boost by 10% the ash of war of your fire greatsword build with winged serpent helm
I forgot & thought that was only messmer’s ash of war. Thanks! 🙏
Are the beast claws a good option? In the other overpowered builds video that you made you put it in second place and now its not even in the list lol
So they are. But I’m realizing their damage falls off a bit on NG+ & beyond. But I still think they’re very good.
@@AverageGamerMatt Thanks man Love your vids :D
From my testing Briars of Punishment count as aberrant sorceries so wearing alberich's set and having the staff of the guilty in your offhand makes it do even more damage.
Impenetrable thorns is a different class of spells, it isn’t boosted by the same stuff for the thorn class (based off class). It’s a scadutree sorcery.
@@AverageGamerMatt It's a unique spell where it is also counted as a thorn sorcery for the staff of the guilty and alberich's robes. You can test it yourself and see both increase the damage.
Impenetrable Thorns makes the last nasty DLC boss a cakewalk. Use the maternal staff and for damage enhancement have another staff ("Staff of the guily" I believe) in the other hand.
Nice! I used the albaunaric for the S in arcane. It’s basically just bleed damage either way lol but still crazy good.
Try the Maternal Staff A scaling Int/ arcane. The Albinauric staff got a nerf back in the day to its bleed build mechanic and kept it's scaling.
What was your build for it?
@@rodrigovidalperez5397 White mask or tearmask (increases arcane), talisman the one with increased attack power after crits and for higher attack power with blood loss nearby.
I could not use NPC summons, but I used the Dungeater (+10, supertanky) as summon, for distraction . The TH-camr Syrobe was my inspiration for this superpowerful build.
keep up the great work man huge fan
Thank you! 🙏 🤘
You missed two of the best: Deathknights great axe and Milady. Same reason for both. Fast-activating gap-closers make A LOT of bosses A LOT easier. They create opportunities to strike when there otherwise wouldn’t be and can also allow you to initiate from outside a bosses’ programmed attack range so you can land a hit then roll their first attack (very few weapons can do this). Milady might not be flashy but the wing stance R2 is secretly OP as fuck
Milady I’ve covered but for me it’s just outside the top 10. Death’s knights is fun as hell but not OP imo.
Is Great Katana still good? Not quite top 10?
@@no_Body2121 probably just outside it imo. It’s quite good.
With thorns build you can eat a sacred bloody flesh and then use seppuku for an insane dps boost
Nice! That’s a little too much extra buffing for me lol but it’ll add damage for sure 👍 I just used golden vow with the thorns. It does plenty of bleed damage on its own.
@@AverageGamerMatt i agree 100%, i needed it for the final boss lol. Im gunna go back to your bloodfiends arm because its just too much buffing
@@OhhJoshHD haha yeah plus unfortunately you lose HP with that spell too. Bloodfiend’s arm is just stupid good lol
Best right here- backhand blades frost and blindside. Milady with savage claw blood arcane 117 bleed and fire greatwword with gravity thrust blees 170. All arcane 90-99 dex 80iah if u can afford.. done thorns on all
That’s way higher than 150 or even 200 lol Bloodfiend’s is still best imo around meta levels.
Looking forward to your NG+7 content
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Fire Knight's Greatsword is like GSGS on steroids.
Hi Matt I was wondering if you have a rakshasa build like that look and thought it would be great for a 430 build I have tried the 2 handed talisman and shard of Alexander with the axe talisman and ritual sword talisman but not sure of physics any ideas for this ? And once again many thanks for all your hard work and help 👍💯 awesome
@@CPTpugwash thanks! 🙏 should be in this one:
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Is comet azur build still works that you talk about 2 years ago
@@walterwhite1416 for sure, it’s just better against slower targets.
Would leveling arcane help with claws of night build ?
Nah because it doesn’t scale with arcane unfortunately. Wish it did lol
What about your thoughts for Falx build
It’s okay, I’m covering it in a fun build video soon. 🤘
How does these rank with the base game builds, I have been crushing dlc with my ice sphere and moon light great sword build
Nice! Bloodfiend’s & thorns are OP as hell lol but aside from those 2 you’ve got 2 solid options you’re using now. Both are great 👍
What’s a good Plan B if I wasn’t able to get the Shard of Alexander? I screwed that up and haven’t had time to take a second pass through the game
Very difficult to replace tbh. It’s the single best talisman. You can use the warrior shard if you have that instead.
Impenetrable Thorns should be used with Alberich Set, since it boosts all thorns damage 😜
Thanks! I assumed it didn’t because it’s not the same class. But I guess based on comments it does lol
@@AverageGamerMatt it does work. You can also set up with both of the talismans for sorcery power and REALLY break everything on your path 🤣
Chicken leg is defo op. One of the best weapons in the game. And the fact that its just a drop from a basic enemy makes it even more insane
Haha yeah it’s stupid good lol I think the drop though has been corrected/patched. I believe it’s now near or dropped by the big/tougher Bloodfiend.
@@AverageGamerMatt Didnt know that. I got mine from the basic bloodfiends who use that weapon
@@justhair17 yeah it was moved/patched. Now it’s 1 per playthrough lol
@@AverageGamerMatt tbh, thats not too bad, as I feel like its better dual handed anyways, as you just spam heavies
Dragon hunter great katana is op too.
Fun but really only OP for dragons. Anything else it’s just decent/good.
Amazin vid!
Thank you! 🙏 🤘
Excited to try some of these out. Looking forward to the higher level builds as I got 1 character level 375 NG6 😬
Nice! I’ll be doing some of those for this upcoming weekend. 🤘
Anvil hammer SO UNDERRATED
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Have you looked into the bloodfiend fork?
Yep but I didn’t do a build for it yet lol
That shit is ass, I’d stick with mogh spear
Dex is the lord of AOW.
Dexterity is very good yes 👍 esp after DLC gave us a lot more.
Dex + Arc even better. Bleed is just op and some of the best bleed weapons scale with dex
@justhair17 Yeah I was playing dex arc before,but I think dex is more important than arc.There aren't that many arc weapon,but there are so many dex weapons in the game.And the dex damage is more than arc damage.I know people would say the bleed damage,but I like the pure physical damage to the enemy,that's so good.
Ps blood. Successive hits. Dragon damage negate or twin turtle. And Alexander. There's your icons
I was having fun using the sunflower icl 😂😂😂
It’s good lol I’m doing a build for it soon. 🤘
milady build is pretty strong too
For sure! I have a few builds in other videos for Milady, moveset is excellent.
Unfortunately Messmer’s spear is best for PvE not for PvP sadly. So is the Flame Knights Greatsword. Use what you will guys.
This is a list for PvE.
Flame Knight GS is amazing for PvP
@@justhair17 nah it got boring man it’s just poking tbh man. Used to be fun but it kinda stopped being like that I’m not trying to step on anyone’s shoes but I kinda been bored with it after the patch…
@@AverageGamerMatt yeah that makes sense just was wondering bc you never said anything about this being PvE or pvp
@@jamesvarela233 boring doesnt mean its not good.
Can you make a milady build?
I already have several, also one including how to make a cool build for it (best build video).
@@AverageGamerMattcool thanks
Backhand blades or darkmoon greatsword?
@@Anz2k those are tough to compare lol but backhand blades are the only DLC weapon I can say carried me through DLC. Free dodging is great 👍
@@AverageGamerMatt okay thanks I’m gonna try out the backhand blade build then.
Great video Matt! I believe the new smithing talisam also affects weapon art and heavy attacks for the claws of the night.
Awesome & thank you! 🙏 🤘
Level 200 builds would be intressting 😅
Is the godslayer greatsword still bad?
It’s better with its hyperarmor back. I’m trying to cover the new weapons as much as I can. But Godslayer’s is easily in the TOP 20 (maybe even 15) all time builds DLC included.
@@AverageGamerMatt thanks! It was always my favorite and I’m just getting into the DLC 😁 the fire knights greatsword obviously has my attention now lol
you should not use albanauric staff for thorns, they nerfed the status effect buildup on that staff.
Yep other people mentioned it. I’ll have it corrected if I do another video for thorns, but tbh I still prefer other builds to it.
Milady and thorns new fsst amulet and blood amulet use twin turtle too
Are perfumes still viable
No lol not really. The patch didn’t buff their regular hits & the ash is now bad.
Ps throwback run blasphemous with alot of faith and use magma icon amuley
I tried the spear of the impaler today. It's super strong but also super boring.
I'm switching back to my backhand blades tomorrow.
I like the ash, but backhand blades are for sure better 👍
I think messmers spear needs a buff tried it was easily getting hit out the ash of war
Where does Dane’s footwork bleed build stand here ?
Probably just outside my top 10.
I prefer the lazyish tired tone of voice ngl ❤
lol thanks I guess 😂
I am pretty disappointed with the boss remembrance weapons most of them are ass, I hope they buff them
A lot of the DLC weapons need buffs imo.
💯 I want to use them but every time I do I'm reminded how disappointing they are. They're cool in theory but not in practice.
Bloomfield got nerved so f it I'm good
the maternal staff is better for thorns build
Yeah I forgot about the nerf lol it still has a lot of RNG. Bonk stick ftw 🙌
@@AverageGamerMatt it procs bleed every cast that all three hit.
@@JosephBlackmore-c3z nice! 🤘
Blasphemous blade when built correctly is stronger than bloodfiends arm imo
@@henryfarris9641 yes it is. It’s number 1 in my easiest/best build video lol this is ranking only DLC weapons.
Ah I see
ALL HAIL THE CHICKEN LEG
Haha it’s amazing lol
No mention of most people's go to? Let's be honest.... Double RoB, Mimic Tear and way Overleveling...
This is DLC weapons. Also the ROB is not great anymore lol
@@AverageGamerMatt carried me a long way...
Bloodfiends arm is the dumbest meta weapon ever…meanwhile the COOLEST new weapon has awful quad scaling so it’s not even good in any one area until at least 200
It’s a giant bonk stick. It’s kinda hilarious imo that it does the damage it does lol but yeah some other ones need buffs and/or scaling adjustments.
@@AverageGamerMatt but we have a giant bonk stick that’s already pretty perfect…now if it was Bloodfiends schlong we’d be talkin xD
Int users got robbed 🤣
They didn’t add much but..Magic is still OP lol
so overall - BB or chicken leg ? @TheKingofRedLightning
BB still for me. It’s by far the easiest weapon to use in Elden Ring.