Also I do wanna say that it was great to work with ya, Jim! After helping me make my first ever Bloodborne build I was more than happy to do something in return 💗
The last ds3 dangitjm underrated/don’t use video before elden ring, very excited to see the content you’ll put out once you have your hands on elden ring
Same here, I really love the in-depth analysis dangitjm provides in these videos, hard to put the feeling in to words but it is very pleasant, ''satisfying'' comes to mind first.
This is exactly what it has going for it, people do not respect it in the slightest either which encourages some very punishable plays that you can 0-100 people with. The flashsword blender is scary and real
The Golden Ritual Spear was my first "non-standard" build because i absolutely loved spellcasting weapons in DkS2 and thought that Farron Flashsword would be awesome with this thing. You can probably guess how terrible of an idea that turned out to be.
@@nahrikkon I've actually tried out all the casting weapons in DkS3 and the one that ended up being the most consistent and strong was...the Cleric's Candlestick (baffled me). Though that's more due to straight sword moveset power rather than its own merits, though what i found really cool is that it has its own super R1+R1+R2 combo but rather than the R2 being a thrust, it can be a Soul Greatsword or Dark Edge, depending on how your opponent is rolling. Just wish that the Weapon Art wasn't a joke and the actual weapon had a less stupid aesthetic to it.
I love how all of these builds can trace back to Scott Jund. I didn't even watch Scott during his ds3 days, but he's coming back to the souls community for Elden Ring
He said one thing in his video that made me wonder if he was trolling. He said something like "im obsessed with dark souls pvp" but he stopped playing ds3 in like 2016 or 2017 because he didn't like it anymore and refused to go back to it during early days when he was getting pressure from his community. So saying he's obsessed with dark souls pvp when he hasn't played it (to my knowledge) since dlc2 (and only did a pve playthrough of Ringed City) sounded really odd. I'm probably reading into it too much, he sounded genuinely excited about the game, but Scott is one to troll. He also did a totally straight face, and really convincing review of patch notes for DBD, that he weren't real, that he wrote himself.
The free-aiming throughout the video was incredible! Especially the ways you used the tracking on Soul Greatsword to either to space an opponent's attack DURING the animation and still hit them with the wide arc and superior range, or to make your opponents roll early only to be caught by the last frame of the arc.
Long live the "self-indulgent montage" ! Nobody does 'em like DangitJM. Even if this was "spoiled" in that stream months ago, this vid was well worth the wait!
Unfortunately for the lore reader at the start of the video, they never knew the folly of using the phrase "Unfortunately for you" in a dark souls video
@@lepistanuda This is the only dark souls creator I follow, so when he brought up Scott's video I didn't realize he had someone else do a voiceover until later in the video after I commented
Wait, it scales with Faith? Ooooooh, that's why it's not that good. Here i saw a montage from a channel I randomly clicked on, so was confused why not to use it.
That would defeat the point, unless you mean if it scaled with both int & fth. It allows for a build that good with miracles & good with most low LV sorcery, saving you stats that you would otherwise have to put into int so that the spells hit good damage
I love to see flashsword getting love in this video, but I have to mention something. The extra hitstun on flash sword comes from a special hitbox on the hand that does medium instead of dagger hitstun. This allows you to combo into a variety of different attacks-- anything about the speed of a 1H great axe.
Does this explain the "double hits" that tends to happen when using the flashsword with this spear? I would routinely proc'd tears and kill a player at the same time. Is the model of the spear also hitting them as well as the flashsword? Crazy!
@@dangitjm I think so yeah, you can get the same effect with Staves/crystal chime too but generally i've found you can only hit for 1 damage when you get this style of stun if its not a weapon catalyst for whatever reason
I'm really spooked cause I literally looked at this weapon yesterday and was like "hey I wonder if the weapon has anything to it?.....nah if it did Jm would probably have a vid on it." Dark souls is aggressively trying to get me to branch out and I'm scared.
Before I even watch this, I already know I'm gonna hear Vylet Pony in this. You did it last time, and I'm hyped. Edit: Ah, and it's one of my favorite songs. And the kills were so fucking satisfying, nice job!
For whatever reason this series holds a special place in my heart, the editing, the music choice, the clips, just all of it fit together so perfectly, and you should totally continue it for elden ring weapons.
Aw I didn't expect to be in this!! You highlighted like all the things the spear does well, which obviously my take on the build ignores in favour of being weird and flashy! One thing worth mentioning too though is the little Gimmick tech where you can transfer the poise from unfaltering prayer lightning stake onto any spell if you queue it immediately after, which makes the lightning stake > dark edge/ old moonlight/ soul greatsword pretty deadly if they try to contest (you can also charge old moonlight with poise if you want to be extra about it). Also one thing I noticed you doing was lots of block buffered running attacks, which I think - especially with flashsword - are the bread and butter of getting use out of the low damage, low range nature of the GRS and gives it a boon that casters often lack in the form of efficient chasedowns. I also reckon its worth noting that a properly specced GRS build will do criminal amounts of dark damage which give you access to forms of burst that greatly help balance the lack of guaranteed burst damage on this build I.E. a strong offhand (I use offhand Thrall axe, which can be used to punish roll-ins and rush-ins that mage play encourages from your opponent) and chaos infused crit tools - a second slot or hardswap to chaos rapier can very much turn the tides, and set you up for very cruel wake-ups like lightning stake or in your case soul greatsword. Super super good, and appreciate your buildmaking expertise and thoughtful use of off-meta weapons and playstyles always!
Oh and something else to note that I discovered recently, this setup with offhand Dark Estoc and Flashsword is absolutely brutal, you have combos like running flashsword > l2, wait for roll l2 > r1 etc. etc. Like just really mean to fight
You've easily been my favorite souls-tuber in the twilight years of dark souls 3. Just wanted to say thanks for helping to keep me from going hollow during the dearth of Elden Ring info, and i hope to see you out there in the lands between
I am so grateful for you, Jm. Thank you for passionately keeping the spirit of the game alive all this time. You represent more than a souls fan, and more than an invader, with each swing of your weapons and each stroke of your pen, so to speak. You are a legend to me at this point, something I can always aspire to be in the games going forward, someone I turn to for a reminder of what the games mean to me, any time I need one. Your mastery over the GRS shouldn't even surprise me. And yet... ❤️ I don't think there could ever be a player quite like you in the series. I'll see you again soon, Jm. Look forward to it.
@@dangitjm I am just joking, its a reference to the othe rinvasion you had with Jeenine. You're a great player and we all love you. Qui aime bien chatie bien
Loved the video! I liked the idea of using it to tech some sorceries onto a faith build. I definitely WON'T consider looking into this when ds3 remastered comes out
Heya JM, I just finished watching and of course, you will always do great with your vids. No doubt you'll get plenty of comments on your quality video, but I wanna give you kudos for finishing this video and feeling creatively motivated to come back. I realize that it can be tough, but me and a lot of others are proud of you (as cheesy as it sounds haha). Awesome work on making a case for the GRS. Very much looking forward to what you do in Elden Ring. Ya got this B)
I wondered if that footage might ever make an appearance - mercifully the end got cut. I guess I should be grateful for remote code exploits? Great video - I love the mixups with this setup, and can confirm - Soul Greatsword does a lot of damage.
4:33 I actually have a character named Old Soldier Zach lmao. He's a gigatwink that passes out warmth to people in Cathedral, Farron, and Carthus and kinda just chills, and seeing a sudden "soldier zack" threw me off and now I wanna play that character again lmfao
With the buff, that damage gets pretty close to what the court sorcerer can do regularly, which is extremely impressive! Wonderful video, and great to see Lepista and Yeeto in there too!
Jm please somewhere link us a playlist of music you love. Every video I look forward to what new amazing music you use almost as much as your in-depth coverage of weapons/mechanics/some new cool game I didn’t know anything about.
Always love your vids. Frankly when I found out there was only so few spell-casting arms in these games, When coming from DS2, I had hoped they’d have kept Blue Flame, but this is as close as we can get until ER and start poking at those weapons!
Hot damn I wish my coming outs could be that cool. Was not expecting to see a link to Verilybitchie when I started this video, but am happy to see one. Love your content and happy to have you out here, look foward to seeing more of you in Elden ring!
I love how if you pay enough attention, and run in the right circles you can get a sense for what weapon Jm's been playing around with and get months early foreshadowing of videos like this. Dont even know what video it was but I think Saint Riot pointed out Jm using this thing a while back? Same thing happened with the greatlance popping up in a few miscellaneous vids Jm posted
Been waiting for this. At last, this is the one weapon I could never work with. You've gone above and beyond my resourcefulness. Excellent work, as usual.
Meanwhile one of my early invasion builds was a golden ritual spear one. It was really similar to your 125 build. I didn't realize the spear was "bad" at the time, my main line of thinking was I could be a mage with lightning urns. Str/dex/hollow builds have decent-good stats for firebombs, a normal faith build has that but better with lightning urns, while Int builds don't have access to that option at all. I wasn't good at the time but the build functioned with the same gameplan as your did. Golden Ritual Spear was a lot of fun!
One of my favorite hex-build tactics during invasions is using either the Izalith staff or murky longstaff, moving very little, and bonking opponents who get too close. No sword/scythe spells, just low damage and high disrespect. Then when they're good and tilted, throw up an affinity, swap to a deep Millwood axe and charge them down.
Your series has all but completely changed the way I play these games. Rather than using the most optimal weapons, I now like to take the role of a weapon pioneer, finding the most optimised ways to use obscure weapons haha
Great video JM! I was wondering when this would be the case! A great way to say goodbye to DS3 and welcome Elden Ring into the stage light. Hope to see more of your videos soon! 😁
Fromsoft really should have made it so when using these weird catalysts that use a different stat, that it used the alternative stat for the spell requirements too. Also, if you could make a decent build outta this thing, wonder if you might be able to salvage the cleric candlestick too. Doubtful, but you never know. Too bad servers are down.
The cleric's candlestick being bad stopped when its spellbuff was buffed to 200 at 60 int, its actually just good at this point. A little damage buff would have been nice
I learnt this from somewhere, but if you cause Lightning Stake with Unfaltering Prayer through a Talisman offhand, then immediately hold cast Old Moon Light, the poise transfers to the Old Moon Light! It’s really cool to use that spell to trade against bosses!
I've always been a fan of dark magic in the Souls Series. Hexes in DSII specifically. I loved using the Pilgrim's Spontoon in DSII, and the GRS is very much like a little brother to it in my eyes.
This reminds me of a build I used to run that I loved, with another one of those weird catalysts that lets you cast sorceries with an entirely different staff. Specifically, the Man-Grub Staff. It's worse than the Golden Ritual Spear as a catalyst (comparing equal faith to luck) and doesn't serve as a weapon, but I was able to have a lot of fun with it on a SL 65/+7 build, just for the flexibility. Wouldn't call it good, but it was fun.
Here's an optimancy I thought of. Instead of using scholar's candlestick in the offhand use the saint-tree bellvine to increase cast speed and then wear the young dragon ring. That'll give you an extra 2% sorcery damage and also it means you don't need to crowd your hands with an extra chime/talisman to cast tears.
A fair hypothesis! It's still odd that there are two copies of the same weapon though, one right next to Sulyvahn and the other held by Gwyndolin. If you're curious to read a detailed perspective of why that could be, look up "lokeysouls.com" and search for "Golden Ritual Spear" in their blog.
@@dangitjm i will read that, i always assumed that the duplicates are not actually there though since they come fitted in your size. There are duplicates of everything you just find in chests, like i doubt theres another prayer set when its description says it was worn by Lothric his whole life
Man. I love this Weapon so much... one of my favourite Staffs for sure and my playthrough around it was so much fun. I also did a lot of Testing on it. It's very confusing and weird. It has the lowest Endurance usage per spell among all staffs and it's faith scaling is convoluted. Despite it having a higher/same spellbuff as the Archdeacons Great Staff, it still does less dmg. This low Endurance usage btw is extremely helpful in Pvp, when using Spells like farron Flashsword and Farron dart, as it allows you spam better than with other staffs.
It’s really funny, because I just made a 2000 word post on the Elden ring Reddit explaining how spell scaling and stuff works and why big numbers aren’t good and how different things have different states that they except, so basically all sorceries besides dark sorceries are just getting the base value of the golden ritual spear, ect. It is very interesting topic to deep dive like I did
Oh my god! After so many years, dangitjm found my favorite/most-hated weapon! I'm just at the start of the video, but thank you for making video dedicated to this piece of beautiful garbage
Under normal circumstances this would get me back in to make another build, but… I don’t want to get doxxed or my OS replaced with beans or whatever is going on now.
Fun fact: you can actually parry the Farron flash sword. You need to parry the catalyst behind it tho requiring you to be very close to your opponent. Would only recommend against mages who use longer catalysts like the izalith staff or murky long staff for the range bonus for the flash sword. Soul great sword however acts as a two handed ultra, it’s unparryable
Cool video but what happened to your voice at the beginning? So weird!
That was some good narration!! I always respect good voice work
@Holly Magala thank you! I figure if fate decided I'm gonna sound like an edgy 15 year old boy I should at least do something fun with it
you didn't finish the video did you.... (:
Also I do wanna say that it was great to work with ya, Jim! After helping me make my first ever Bloodborne build I was more than happy to do something in return 💗
@@professorrachel96 you really got me with the "unfortunately for you"
The last ds3 dangitjm underrated/don’t use video before elden ring, very excited to see the content you’ll put out once you have your hands on elden ring
Same here, I really love the in-depth analysis dangitjm provides in these videos, hard to put the feeling in to words but it is very pleasant, ''satisfying'' comes to mind first.
Lol I bet it’s gonna be something like “don’t use Godrick’s axe” lol
I love the concept of these types of weapons because they have the most potential for variety in attacks compared to regular weapons
This is exactly what it has going for it, people do not respect it in the slightest either which encourages some very punishable plays that you can 0-100 people with. The flashsword blender is scary and real
Have a feel that ER gonna be a paradise for all diff kinds of movesets
The Golden Ritual Spear was my first "non-standard" build because i absolutely loved spellcasting weapons in DkS2 and thought that Farron Flashsword would be awesome with this thing. You can probably guess how terrible of an idea that turned out to be.
You should’ve tried out the immolation tinder then
Edit: or Heysel’s pick
Still, it has fashion and versatility (giving that R2 is basically whatever you want it to be.) Not the best weapon damage-wise, but still very cool.
@@nahrikkon
I've actually tried out all the casting weapons in DkS3 and the one that ended up being the most consistent and strong was...the Cleric's Candlestick (baffled me).
Though that's more due to straight sword moveset power rather than its own merits, though what i found really cool is that it has its own super R1+R1+R2 combo but rather than the R2 being a thrust, it can be a Soul Greatsword or Dark Edge, depending on how your opponent is rolling. Just wish that the Weapon Art wasn't a joke and the actual weapon had a less stupid aesthetic to it.
@@joshuakim5240 it was a crime that we didn't get the blue flame in ds3
@@nahrikkon heysel pick is really good at low so never tried it on high sl I mostly do so 25 invasions with trash builds to challenge myself
I love how all of these builds can trace back to Scott Jund.
I didn't even watch Scott during his ds3 days, but he's coming back to the souls community for Elden Ring
Feels great
He said one thing in his video that made me wonder if he was trolling. He said something like "im obsessed with dark souls pvp" but he stopped playing ds3 in like 2016 or 2017 because he didn't like it anymore and refused to go back to it during early days when he was getting pressure from his community. So saying he's obsessed with dark souls pvp when he hasn't played it (to my knowledge) since dlc2 (and only did a pve playthrough of Ringed City) sounded really odd.
I'm probably reading into it too much, he sounded genuinely excited about the game, but Scott is one to troll. He also did a totally straight face, and really convincing review of patch notes for DBD, that he weren't real, that he wrote himself.
The free-aiming throughout the video was incredible! Especially the ways you used the tracking on Soul Greatsword to either to space an opponent's attack DURING the animation and still hit them with the wide arc and superior range, or to make your opponents roll early only to be caught by the last frame of the arc.
Freelock casting is the way sad not many people use it effectively freelock sorcerer or pyro is fun
I misheard "this is what you get for giving ten ears to Yorshka" as "ten years," and it honestly works lmao
Finally, a viable miracle build.
Wait...
Long live the "self-indulgent montage" ! Nobody does 'em like DangitJM. Even if this was "spoiled" in that stream months ago, this vid was well worth the wait!
Unfortunately for the lore reader at the start of the video, they never knew the folly of using the phrase "Unfortunately for you" in a dark souls video
I think the person at the start uses She/Her pronouns
@@lepistanuda This is the only dark souls creator I follow, so when he brought up Scott's video I didn't realize he had someone else do a voiceover until later in the video after I commented
@@MikeDep Oh yeah yeah i was confused too at first
Oh she knew full well what she was doing. That U4U was the on-ramp to excitement!
If this weapon actually scaled with int it would actually be the "perfect" weapon-staff for sorceries.
Wait, it scales with Faith? Ooooooh, that's why it's not that good. Here i saw a montage from a channel I randomly clicked on, so was confused why not to use it.
That would defeat the point, unless you mean if it scaled with both int & fth.
It allows for a build that good with miracles & good with most low LV sorcery, saving you stats that you would otherwise have to put into int so that the spells hit good damage
jim, so proud of you for coming out after all these years. being a dark souls fan it was a long time coming for sure, but better late than never :)
came out as what?
@@planetmoises2405 a souls fan 🤮
I love to see flashsword getting love in this video, but I have to mention something.
The extra hitstun on flash sword comes from a special hitbox on the hand that does medium instead of dagger hitstun. This allows you to combo into a variety of different attacks-- anything about the speed of a 1H great axe.
you're referring to the running attack/ rolling attack hitbox right?
Does this explain the "double hits" that tends to happen when using the flashsword with this spear? I would routinely proc'd tears and kill a player at the same time. Is the model of the spear also hitting them as well as the flashsword? Crazy!
@@dangitjm I think so yeah, you can get the same effect with Staves/crystal chime too but generally i've found you can only hit for 1 damage when you get this style of stun if its not a weapon catalyst for whatever reason
@@dangitjm Indeed it does, as some staves are short enough for the hand hitbox to overlap.
If DS3 had DS2 items that lowered the stats requirements of spells, this weapon would be efficient.
Yeah, it's efficient at MAX level as well. Since y'know, you have all stats maxed out so the split scaling doesn't fugg you up.
Can we talk about the heinous crime that sorceries got four catalyst weapons to choose from and pyromancies and miracles only got one each
You chose a banger of a track for that montage, that was a real Magic Show!
I'm really spooked cause I literally looked at this weapon yesterday and was like "hey I wonder if the weapon has anything to it?.....nah if it did Jm would probably have a vid on it." Dark souls is aggressively trying to get me to branch out and I'm scared.
Good, you should branch out!
Even five years later, Dark Souls 3 still has secrets worth pursuing.
I think you got summoned as a Blade of the Darkmoon when i was invading, you gave me hell with this build, it was great
Before I even watch this, I already know I'm gonna hear Vylet Pony in this. You did it last time, and I'm hyped.
Edit: Ah, and it's one of my favorite songs. And the kills were so fucking satisfying, nice job!
Your comedic flow really never goes stale. Love that I have an idea for an end-ish game build for any Return to Lothric events >:)
For whatever reason this series holds a special place in my heart, the editing, the music choice, the clips, just all of it fit together so perfectly, and you should totally continue it for elden ring weapons.
I swear that "unfortunately for You" should be just as popular as "time for crab" in the Souls fandom xD
Aw I didn't expect to be in this!!
You highlighted like all the things the spear does well, which obviously my take on the build ignores in favour of being weird and flashy! One thing worth mentioning too though is the little Gimmick tech where you can transfer the poise from unfaltering prayer lightning stake onto any spell if you queue it immediately after, which makes the lightning stake > dark edge/ old moonlight/ soul greatsword pretty deadly if they try to contest (you can also charge old moonlight with poise if you want to be extra about it). Also one thing I noticed you doing was lots of block buffered running attacks, which I think - especially with flashsword - are the bread and butter of getting use out of the low damage, low range nature of the GRS and gives it a boon that casters often lack in the form of efficient chasedowns. I also reckon its worth noting that a properly specced GRS build will do criminal amounts of dark damage which give you access to forms of burst that greatly help balance the lack of guaranteed burst damage on this build I.E. a strong offhand (I use offhand Thrall axe, which can be used to punish roll-ins and rush-ins that mage play encourages from your opponent) and chaos infused crit tools - a second slot or hardswap to chaos rapier can very much turn the tides, and set you up for very cruel wake-ups like lightning stake or in your case soul greatsword.
Super super good, and appreciate your buildmaking expertise and thoughtful use of off-meta weapons and playstyles always!
Oh and something else to note that I discovered recently, this setup with offhand Dark Estoc and Flashsword is absolutely brutal, you have combos like running flashsword > l2, wait for roll l2 > r1 etc. etc. Like just really mean to fight
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@@lepistanuda 👁👁
@@Yeetomato 👁 👁
You've easily been my favorite souls-tuber in the twilight years of dark souls 3. Just wanted to say thanks for helping to keep me from going hollow during the dearth of Elden Ring info, and i hope to see you out there in the lands between
This is the miracle build we've all been waiting for...
one where you don't have to use miracles at all
I am so grateful for you, Jm. Thank you for passionately keeping the spirit of the game alive all this time.
You represent more than a souls fan, and more than an invader, with each swing of your weapons and each stroke of your pen, so to speak. You are a legend to me at this point, something I can always aspire to be in the games going forward, someone I turn to for a reminder of what the games mean to me, any time I need one.
Your mastery over the GRS shouldn't even surprise me. And yet... ❤️
I don't think there could ever be a player quite like you in the series.
I'll see you again soon, Jm. Look forward to it.
I love these videos so much man.. please keep making them in Elden Ring!
Leave it to JM to give us all one beautiful last hurrah for Ds3 with a unique almost optimal sorcerer build!
11:44 Jim is hitting his teammates again ^^
Awesome video, it's always great to see you invest so much into finding hidden gems
In all fairness, I was putting my face in the wall. The angle of the Soul Greatsword is just that wide. You gotta believe me 🙏
@@dangitjm I am just joking, its a reference to the othe rinvasion you had with Jeenine. You're a great player and we all love you. Qui aime bien chatie bien
Dude, your content never disappoints.
I hoped they learned from weapons like this and Elden Ring has better balanced unique weapons.
more vylet? hell yeah
i love that album
fantastic video as always, man
Oh its that time of the year again when JM posts a video
Oh Ye bby, new dangitjm video on a Sunday 🙏
That Faron dart burrito was dirty af, I am impressed.
The voice at the beginning was a super cool choice!
A friend just sent me this comment so I wanted to reply and say thank you for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed the monologue
im glad my initial belief that you had warped into a cartoon character at the start turned out to be false
He just asked a cartoon character to make an appearance
Loved the video! I liked the idea of using it to tech some sorceries onto a faith build. I definitely WON'T consider looking into this when ds3 remastered comes out
This is the sickest INT build I've ever seen
viable faith build..?
@@pizza-for-mountains faith builds were always viable
Heya JM, I just finished watching and of course, you will always do great with your vids. No doubt you'll get plenty of comments on your quality video, but I wanna give you kudos for finishing this video and feeling creatively motivated to come back. I realize that it can be tough, but me and a lot of others are proud of you (as cheesy as it sounds haha). Awesome work on making a case for the GRS.
Very much looking forward to what you do in Elden Ring. Ya got this B)
I wondered if that footage might ever make an appearance - mercifully the end got cut. I guess I should be grateful for remote code exploits?
Great video - I love the mixups with this setup, and can confirm - Soul Greatsword does a lot of damage.
4:33 I actually have a character named Old Soldier Zach lmao. He's a gigatwink that passes out warmth to people in Cathedral, Farron, and Carthus and kinda just chills, and seeing a sudden "soldier zack" threw me off and now I wanna play that character again lmfao
man i thought proof of concord kept were little knight helmets, not severed ears...... thanks for that
Fancy moves, the farron dart burrito was beautiful. Looking forward to spilling spaghetti on you in elden ring.
With the buff, that damage gets pretty close to what the court sorcerer can do regularly, which is extremely impressive! Wonderful video, and great to see Lepista and Yeeto in there too!
I love the Vylet music every time it shows up
Jm please somewhere link us a playlist of music you love. Every video I look forward to what new amazing music you use almost as much as your in-depth coverage of weapons/mechanics/some new cool game I didn’t know anything about.
Always love your vids. Frankly when I found out there was only so few spell-casting arms in these games, When coming from DS2, I had hoped they’d have kept Blue Flame, but this is as close as we can get until ER and start poking at those weapons!
Hot damn I wish my coming outs could be that cool. Was not expecting to see a link to Verilybitchie when I started this video, but am happy to see one. Love your content and happy to have you out here, look foward to seeing more of you in Elden ring!
Not enough vitality to wear the onion helmet. Me no like, me angy.
I love how if you pay enough attention, and run in the right circles you can get a sense for what weapon Jm's been playing around with and get months early foreshadowing of videos like this. Dont even know what video it was but I think Saint Riot pointed out Jm using this thing a while back?
Same thing happened with the greatlance popping up in a few miscellaneous vids Jm posted
6:18 Is no one going to talk about that SMOOTH transition?
Great work as always, JM!
Been waiting for this. At last, this is the one weapon I could never work with. You've gone above and beyond my resourcefulness. Excellent work, as usual.
Meanwhile one of my early invasion builds was a golden ritual spear one. It was really similar to your 125 build. I didn't realize the spear was "bad" at the time, my main line of thinking was I could be a mage with lightning urns. Str/dex/hollow builds have decent-good stats for firebombs, a normal faith build has that but better with lightning urns, while Int builds don't have access to that option at all. I wasn't good at the time but the build functioned with the same gameplan as your did. Golden Ritual Spear was a lot of fun!
One of my favorite hex-build tactics during invasions is using either the Izalith staff or murky longstaff, moving very little, and bonking opponents who get too close. No sword/scythe spells, just low damage and high disrespect. Then when they're good and tilted, throw up an affinity, swap to a deep Millwood axe and charge them down.
Your series has all but completely changed the way I play these games. Rather than using the most optimal weapons, I now like to take the role of a weapon pioneer, finding the most optimised ways to use obscure weapons haha
I waited SO FUCKING LONG for this… thank you jim.
Great video JM! I was wondering when this would be the case! A great way to say goodbye to DS3 and welcome Elden Ring into the stage light. Hope to see more of your videos soon! 😁
OH YO THE PROFESSOR'S IN THIS, HELL YEAH
I'm everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
16:30 thats uhhh 44 levels lower. even crazier!
I used the Golden Ritual Spear a lot earlier on and had a ton of fun with it, nice to see you give it some love.
Love to see your still making great content JM ❤
So JM when's 'Don't Use Starlight Glimmers Staff of Sameness' coming out?
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well now I am going to use it
One last Hurrah for DS3!
16:54 I misheard you say “ears” as “years” and it still made sense. So many silver knights, so much time. ب_ب
Fromsoft really should have made it so when using these weird catalysts that use a different stat, that it used the alternative stat for the spell requirements too. Also, if you could make a decent build outta this thing, wonder if you might be able to salvage the cleric candlestick too. Doubtful, but you never know. Too bad servers are down.
The cleric's candlestick being bad stopped when its spellbuff was buffed to 200 at 60 int, its actually just good at this point. A little damage buff would have been nice
@@jorgeoquendo7514 Also if its WA was replaced with literally anything else
@@TheValiantBob No way! Have you tried lighting the flames before a fight?
It looks cool
@@jorgeoquendo7514 Fair counterpoint lol
Since the Spear would mainly work along the lines of a Hex/Pyromancy build Pursuers would likely be a great choice with it.
I learnt this from somewhere, but if you cause Lightning Stake with Unfaltering Prayer through a Talisman offhand, then immediately hold cast Old Moon Light, the poise transfers to the Old Moon Light! It’s really cool to use that spell to trade against bosses!
Love your videos! Thank you so much for this latest one!
I've always been a fan of dark magic in the Souls Series. Hexes in DSII specifically. I loved using the Pilgrim's Spontoon in DSII, and the GRS is very much like a little brother to it in my eyes.
Another Vylet Pony track in your vids? You love to see it
"You _don't_ want to use the Golden Ritual Spear."
After that montage, I sure do
It straight up out cancered the cancer knight twin swords
I love non-standard builds. This is awesome. Reminds me of the heysel pick one you did a while back. Great work.
Beautiful pvp skills and true melee sorcery without heavy defense armor.
1:56 “but unfortunately for you..”
I’m still playing this game
Nice use of the furi soundtrack. Love that game
Congrats on coming out
This reminds me of a build I used to run that I loved, with another one of those weird catalysts that lets you cast sorceries with an entirely different staff. Specifically, the Man-Grub Staff.
It's worse than the Golden Ritual Spear as a catalyst (comparing equal faith to luck) and doesn't serve as a weapon, but I was able to have a lot of fun with it on a SL 65/+7 build, just for the flexibility.
Wouldn't call it good, but it was fun.
Here's an optimancy I thought of. Instead of using scholar's candlestick in the offhand use the saint-tree bellvine to increase cast speed and then wear the young dragon ring. That'll give you an extra 2% sorcery damage and also it means you don't need to crowd your hands with an extra chime/talisman to cast tears.
That’s so cool. I didn’t know soul greatsword combos into the golden spear r1
Missed your videos so much, love you man!
The staff is probably worn down from Aldrich eating Gwyndolin, same with the longbow
A fair hypothesis! It's still odd that there are two copies of the same weapon though, one right next to Sulyvahn and the other held by Gwyndolin. If you're curious to read a detailed perspective of why that could be, look up "lokeysouls.com" and search for "Golden Ritual Spear" in their blog.
@@dangitjm i will read that, i always assumed that the duplicates are not actually there though since they come fitted in your size. There are duplicates of everything you just find in chests, like i doubt theres another prayer set when its description says it was worn by Lothric his whole life
Since there you're leveling your faith with your intelligence, you could stick some miracles in your offhand
Man. I love this Weapon so much... one of my favourite Staffs for sure and my playthrough around it was so much fun.
I also did a lot of Testing on it. It's very confusing and weird. It has the lowest Endurance usage per spell among all staffs and it's faith scaling is convoluted. Despite it having a higher/same spellbuff as the Archdeacons Great Staff, it still does less dmg.
This low Endurance usage btw is extremely helpful in Pvp, when using Spells like farron Flashsword and Farron dart, as it allows you spam better than with other staffs.
during the montage I was like this is a Vylet Pony song isn't it? Then I check the description and I was right lol
The title was so interesting I had to watch lol. Glad to be subbed
Anything is viable against bad players, there’s people who actually think strength is good in pvp
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Jim makes a ds3 video
Not even surprised anymore
It’s really funny, because I just made a 2000 word post on the Elden ring Reddit explaining how spell scaling and stuff works and why big numbers aren’t good and how different things have different states that they except, so basically all sorceries besides dark sorceries are just getting the base value of the golden ritual spear, ect. It is very interesting topic to deep dive like I did
Oh my god! After so many years, dangitjm found my favorite/most-hated weapon! I'm just at the start of the video, but thank you for making video dedicated to this piece of beautiful garbage
I need a video call "unfortunately for you, you don't gonna use toxic"
8:24 hidden Jim lore?
Saint riot preserve us, the man the myth the legend is STILL bringing those sweet sweet DS3 weapons videos. Dang it, Jim!
So, just......have a catalyst in one hand, and a magic spear in the other.
Can’t wait to see the hybrid weapons in Elden Ring that JM can make videos on telling me why not to use them
Holy shit, I never expected to hear Vylet in a Dark Souls video, cool!
Under normal circumstances this would get me back in to make another build, but… I don’t want to get doxxed or my OS replaced with beans or whatever is going on now.
You know, it had never even occurred to me to try to use this thing. I now wish to.
Fun fact: you can actually parry the Farron flash sword. You need to parry the catalyst behind it tho requiring you to be very close to your opponent. Would only recommend against mages who use longer catalysts like the izalith staff or murky long staff for the range bonus for the flash sword. Soul great sword however acts as a two handed ultra, it’s unparryable