And as my favourite of all time is the dragon borne build. Elden Ring managed to capture being a dragon born better than Skyrim. Skyrim is one of my favourite games but Elden Ring is one game that I can't replace. Once I stopped playing Elden Ring all other games seemed dull. I can't hardly wait for the DLC to drop
Yeah, that's whats I don't like much about Elden Ring. The game is so big and there is a lot of things to explore and test, but it just end either picking up a Op Spell or a Op AoW and keep spamming it. Every weapon tier list is pretty similar to every skill tier list just because of this: the meta is busted AoWs. Of course you can still use the movesets from the weapons, and you will have some that will be overpowered especially when powerstancing things, but I feel it being 8/80: Or you will use a entire build focuse on a single AoW or you will be powerstancing twinblades/curved swords or greatspears or katanas or..etc; you picked up the idea right? Why you will make a build to utilizes the most of the melee attacks your fast stright sword have if you can just make a build about Sword of Night and flame 3 shota boss doing 5k dmg per use, or make a build about eochaid dancing blade doind 8k dmg with consecutive hits talismans, or powerstancing bleed things that everyone knows it is busted... It's a shame a game great and big as Elden Ring falls into something like that. I feel like they picked the Weapon Art idea from DS3, that was already an improvement of DS1 and DS2 that the L2 button was most focused on parry and block, and thinked "oh, we should improve this mechanic to be more incredible, unique and give more versatibily to weapons" and they just make this so much incredible and unique that you just forget whats the point of a souls game and now you only use your weapon in melee to kill trash mobs, the rest of the time you will use 2560544 buffs and press the win-button to win the game. I swear to you, in every weapon tier list I see people only talk about the Unique Skills and nothing more. The only place I could find a little bit of diversity was in PvP builds video, that players try to actually use the weapon in melee, thinks about the moveset, the range, the dmg, the scalling, the combos potential, the affinits and for last of course about AoW compatibilty, but without focusing the entire dialogue on it. I feel like this mechanic should never return in future for the sake of the good and golden moments we had in perviour souls games or the next game will be just an Elden Ring re-skin. If u disagree with me, just go to nexus and download some mods, there are a lot of crazy movesets and anime explosions everywhere, and I can't lie to you, they are incredible and pretty fun to use... as unnoficial mods. Yup that's it. Now you lost 5 minutes of your time reading this stupid shit I've wrote. Don't mind me, I just wanted to express this that was killing me from inside, now I'm good. And yes Elden Ring is a fun game, just the play the hell way u wanna play.
@@ElMorao I've just started a claw build, and suddenly my enjoyment has skyrocketed. I'm committing myself to all shardbearers and all mending runes, and it's so much fun!
@stanleylee3329 I mean, that's not really true. In some cases it could be but not for your average playthrough not everyone is spamming L2 now you could but if your ranking the best weapons you should be ranking them as weapons not ash of war spamming
Both of those are my 2nd places for each category - Just simply due to the damage outputs of the magma blades and deaths poker, that's why they weren't number 1 :)
@@tkcjazzadarkmoon greatsword hits harder especially when you factor it's pois damage. Your are ignoring the int scaling also scales with the charged AOW. If you use it in melee when charged it will deal far more as you're going to stance break almost every time with one charged heavy. If you time it right it can actually stop Malenia's water foul because you'll stance break her. This also carries over to pvp especially since you can pois through attacks while power stancing. Few builds can take getting hit by an r1 with darkmoon greatsword. Dps is not everything especially when most AOW are overrated and terrible in pvp. Adula's moon blade pairs perfectly over spamming an AOW as an example not including other spells. Not trying to be rude or argumentive just pointing this out. A weapon is more than it's ash of war or base damage you need to look at every aspect.
@@gezimnexhipi4905 Night comet is a better offensive spell. It tracks slightly hits harder than any other spell per FP and in PVE can snipe at range since it's undetectable. Sure comet Azure can melt bosses and large targets but it's very situational to stationary target. Especially factor that you can also cast night comet while moving and can deal more damage overall for the same FP cost. Note comet Azure is best suited for pure mage builds as a way to kill bosses with large HP pools and high pois. Example fire giant and placidusax, Mohg is easy to catch and melt but it is situational to that.
My personal take for these: Strength - The Greatsword. It's early in the game, can be infused/buffed for more damage and has fhanagld ashes of war for versatility. (Though I've never done a pure strength build in ER.) Dex - Hand of Melainia. It has the second longest reach of all katanas, inate bleed build up and a stupid powerful ash of war that triggers all the multi hit talisman very easily. Intelligence - Moonveil. The unsheathe ash of war already hits like a truck while being stupid fast so slapping a magical wave beam that just does a lot more damage break it. What's more, it's early on and has a low stat requirement and weight making it super versatile and it also builds bleed cause why not. Faith - Coded Sword. 100% holy damage and pure faith scaling and stat requirements making this super good on a pure faith build. Arcane - Morgott's Cursed Sword. Innate bleed buildup, a higher crit modifier and the ash of war it stupid good while all being on a curved Greatsword so the raw damage and stance damage is quite nice. Small tangent: putting Marais Executioner's Sword as the strength choice is kinda nuts. The thing relys on it's ash of war to be really useful. Let alone requiring 23 arcane for a kinda ok greatsword that basically only exists to get funny twitter clips of one shotting bosses while being buffed to hell and back is a bad choice.
Blasphemous is a guaranteed stagger, that heals you, and has huge range and goes in straight line. I had to stop using it because it made the game far too easy.
It’s not guaranteed stagger against bosses though unfortunately and takes a while to get the ash of war off - I get you can stand back and hit at range but realistically the dps on the magma blades is far more damage - that’s really the only reason why I just put them above the blasphemous blade :)
Also unenjoyably powerful. I want to be able to do well without making it too easy. Hoarah Loux NG+2 was an enjoyable striuggle with 'normal' weapons, but trivialised with Blasphemous@@gezimnexhipi4905
Blasphemous blade quite literally breaks the game with high poise it’s just lock on and click , the magma blade is great but lacks range or a heap factor , fire is amazing elemental damage but the blasphemous blade is also fire damage plus heat with amazing faith scaling
Got the magma blades like a year ago took hours to get 2 thought the were underwhelming n never touched them since but gave them another shot the other day on ng7 easily my new fav weapon melts bosses and great for add clear and running around dungeons
For me Strength - piece of iron colossal sword Dex - Nagakiba/Rot lady katana Intelligence - Moonveil Arcane - Rives of blood Faith - Inseparable sword of D
Been having a ton of fun in NG+ with the double Staff of Loss build. The spell is quick, and undetectable by enemies so it’s great for a stealth playthrough. It also hits like a truck (5-6k damage in NG+ 3) when you charge it but can also be spammed very quickly as well. So it’s great for bosses or just traveling around. Not to mention the build itself doesn’t take too much to turn into any different INT build if you really wanted to change things up. On NG+3 now at level 230ish and I’ve already hit the hard cap for 80 int, 60 vig/ mind. And even 33 faith for more buffs to hit things harder. (I even have 54 poise too, but you don’t need to invest into END really).
@@wardgoovaerts3922 Yeah I got you. I’m going to use my current level for reference, then let you know where you can adjust if you aren’t around my level, since most builds are tailored around level 150/200. Level 231 - starting class - Samurai *STATS* VIG - 60 (you can lower this to 50, or 40 if you don’t get hit often) MIN - 60 ( 60 is a ton of mana, you can lower it to 50 or so, maybe 40 at the least) END- 40 (25 or 30 is needed realistically, maybe even less since it seems that poise doesn’t matter too much when casting spells but the spells DO use stamina; so more Stam = more casts in a row) STR - 12 (can be increased if you have extra points to swap to Dark Moon Greatsword if you get bored) DEX - 17 (possibly could be increased to speed up casting time? Haven’t tested) INT - 80 (hard cap for damage 80 is the goal but could get away with 60 or 70 at first if you’re lower level) FAI - 33 (pretty much only for casting golden vow and howl of shabriri. Howl will increase damage taken, so on NG+ enemies can two or three shot you if you have talismans on that make you take even more damage or have less than 50/60 vigor. If you don’t want to use howl, you can stay low faith and just use the golden vow ash of war) ARC - 8 (pretty much useless when mixed with INT for this build) *ARMOR* Note: I haven’t tested poise out completely with this but it seems like I’m interrupted during casts no matter my poise, so feel free to change your armor to something aesthetic if you don’t mind poise. Right now I’m going for looks so I’m using Black Knife Hood/ Armor with Scaled gauntlets / Greaves. This looks decent and gives me 52 Poise, and decent defense. You can swap the chest for Blaidd’s Armor for 61 poise. *TALISMANS* Dragoncrest greatsheild - (pretty much always keep it on any build since I enjoy taking less damage and I need the damage reduction if I use scorpion charm or Howl. If you don’t get hit, you can replace it with Godfrey icon. Only good if you charge up your spells though) Magic Scorpion Charm - (more damage is good) Ritual sword talisman - only good at max hp, if you want to take a healing spell for you (needs some faith) to top off, you can. If you get hit often then it isn’t the best. Ancestral spirits horn can be decent for mana recovery instead. Graven mass talisman - ( flat 8% damage is nice) *FLASK* Magic-shrouding tear for damage, and cerulean hidden tear for no FP consumption *WEAPONS* Mainhand - Staff of Loss + 25 Offhand - Staff of Loss (no upgrades needed its there for the bonus) and Golden order seal + 10 so we can cast our faith spells mentioned earlier. Though whatever seal you have leveled should work. *SPELLS* Golden Vow Howl of Shabriri Terra Magica Carian Retaliation - (optional, just something extra to cast before running into a boss) Night Shard - (optional, but way faster than Night Comet. Less damage and you can’t charge it, but I use it for simple enemies I can one shot when I want to save mana. However Night comet DOES pierce so sometimes you can use Comet instead and kill multiple enemies which would save you more mana. It’s usually not THAT important but I thought I’d mention it) Night comet - (our main spell, slow to start but can be cast rapidly after, or each cast can be charged for more damage. With all of the buffs I’ve mentioned before I can hit around 5-6k with this when charged.) *OPTIONAL SPELLS* Unseen Form - (optional, I just like sneaking around, but with night comet being unreadable by enemies sometimes you don’t even use this. I just think it’s fun.) Urgent heal/heal - (optional. only if you need to maintain max hp because of your talisman and don’t want to use a flask) Black flames protection - (think this provides like a 20-30% armor buff so it’s good if you find yourself in trouble. Does not stack with Howl.) Ranni’s Dark moon - (I could be wrong, but I think this reduces magic resistance AND builds frost. It’s one of the moon spells. Good for doing even more damage with Comet.) Pretty much any other magic spell you want, that scales with INT, though DEX may help with casting time (I think cap is around 40/50 DEX idr.) *OTHER NOTES* You can also use Frost Pots to make people take more damage. Commanders Standard (not sure if that’s how it’s spelled) is better than golden vow, but lasts 30 seconds instead of 80. Your greater rune is pretty much going to be Godricks or the HP one for late game. For Aromatic you can use Ironjar for more defense or possibly Bloodboil if you choose to add talisman swapping to your buff routine. With sepekku ash of war and the Lord of bloods exultation talisman, you could use this aromatic after and then swap the talisman out for the buffs. This could possibly not work for spells, or even patched but I don’t think so. Though I may be wrong I haven’t tested. In really late game (levels 350+) I’d just increase STR and DEX to broaden your weapon choices if you get bored with casting and increase casting speed. In earlier game I would just use the minimum END you need, followed by the lower stats I mentioned (40 VIG and MIN) until you can copy my build. If you have anything else feel free to ask or contribute.
@@spektral8666 there’s a alternative staff you can use if you haven’t obtained a second staff of loss from NG+ though I don’t remember the name; I don’t want to give false info if I can help it but you should test out damage numbers with alternate staffs if you don’t have a second SOL. If you do have two of them, they’re the best option as the main hand makes night comet do +30% more damage and the second staff is a multiplicative increase iirc.
The main issue with the Executioner Sword is that any enemy that has the ability to... move, especially if they do not have lots of particularly slow cooldowns between attacks, completely demolish the damage potential of the Ash.
omg! i didn't know there were best weapons for each stat. I only used my crystal sword(well, literally since I got it) and almost at the end game. My sword, skills, and my trusted buckler. Good video! I think I will switch to one of those on my second run.
my first playthrough was dexterity build using bloodhound fang. made the game so easy i did not even comprehend how broken the weapon is until my second playthrough when i tried using different weapons.
You can snipe the Caelid deathrite bird with Rock Sling from the giant skull next to it. I did it with a non-mage character by using the Meteorite Staff and Intelligence knot tear, which I believe will let any class use the staff and spell. if not, you could run down to Ainsel River and get Marika's Soreseal.
I really liked deaths poker, so i was glad to see it on this list. Since it procs frostbite, you can do an insane amount of damage to bosses that like staying still or walking slowly towards you (crucible knights, rykard, etc) For faith, since i usually go pure caster, just use erdtrees seal plus a couple other seals in my offhand for the damage bonus
I’ve made a dex build using deaths poker and blasphemous blade. Use ash of war with poker, freeze enemy, blasphemous fire damage resets ice build up. Rinse repeat.
Hey man great video video really liked it, but A doctor one shot said that the occult giant crusher is stronger than Mariah’s executioner sword and he seems to be a pretty knowledgeable fellow but other than that, nice video
A lot of weapons are great or can be made great but I just love the Naginita. A pole arm that works great with a shield. Has great reach and move set. Can be changed to whatever build you want with ash of war. Has innate bleed which can stack on whatever build you want. I love doing a int/dex build and having it cold so It builds up bleed and frost at the same time with its reach. It takes down bosses so easily.
I am running FTH/INT build and having a blast with Sword of Night and Flame + Lordsworn Straight sword with Sacred Blade. The moveset is dope and the Flame version hits like a track (it has very long casting animation though). I'm not min-maxing thou.
I agree, I've been playing for 2 weeks with the dual magma blade, it's great and fun but I don't feel like it's broken or anything. I killed the big snake yesterday and got the blasphemy, it's TOTALLY BROKEN, I've been rolling the game ever since. Even without the heal it would still be broken, but with the heal it's not even debatable.
I love my duel wielding magma swords. They are not as difficult to get as you would think. I farmed them for an hour and received 2 of them. I got my first 1 running through Valcano Manor. I was able to get 3 in total with ease. The whip is more difficult to farm.
There is a way to cheese the death's poker. After you aggro him. Go to a small ledge next to the large root coming out of the ground. Use the sitting gesture. The bird will not be able to hit you and will eventually fall off the ledge. Easy way to get the poker. Enjoy!
Executioner sword is only good when you use all the various buffs and talismans. Sword is not at all the best strength weapon, as it also requires a whole other stat to even use. Terrible pick
Not really, even if you just pump all stats in strength you’ll do the same numbers I showed in the video - as for using the right talismans, again I had MORE buffs for the giant crusher and it did less damage. The Marais executioner holds up so much more as you go through the NG+’s and is so much more easier/versatile :)
@@tkcjazza I disagree, the only time the executioner sword does more dps than the giant crusher or greatsword is with successive attack talismans, godfreys icon, etc. The Greatsword and Giant Crusher require a lot less building around the get to good dps numbers, yes, if the executioner sword is specifically build around it will do much better at running through the game, but for a new game especially greatsword and giant crusher are much better. Especially since Miliciants prosethsis and rotten sword talisman can't be obtained til haligree and you can only get 1 of the 2 per playthrough.
Not really I do agree that it does require talisman but definitely not a great choice especially since most talisman require new game plus or late game but it’s definitely up there though
@Necrowarp_ u do realize the title of this vid is best weapons for each category and not "best weapons in each category but for people who dont have talismans and arent on new game plus and require less building around even tho the entire point of the game is to build around ur weapon🙂" also the giant crusher and greatsword are heavily built around yet still less then a non fully optimized marais build lmfao
I think the best dex weapon is the godskin peeler. Dual wielding that does insane dammage and it also has some good range. Dont get me wrong, the bolt of gransax is insane but i think the peelers are the best weapons in the game just bc of the dammage you can do if you have the perfect build
In my second play through I decided to cheese melania just because I wanted to see how op of a build I could make. I respecced to 80 arcane and equipped the moghwynn spear. I swear to god I finished both phases in less than a minute with that ash of war. That weapon is hands down the best arcane weapon and it’s not close
strength marais, dex bolt of gransax, int dark moon hits as much in 1 hit as the full ash of war from deaths poker , faith blasphemous blade does about the same damage as magma blade + healing, arcane is scavengers curved sword dual wield
Finally someone states some fact bout the pole blade will by far my favorite weapon to use I tend to summon a mimic and we just bleed the bosses to death weapon to good
Anyone else love the basic TWINBLADE as much as i do ? Stuns enemies like crazy for me if you start with charged RT and then spam RB Youllget free crit hit
Only one i semi agree with is the deaths poker but even that one is interchangeable with dark moon, but imo STR: Greatsword/giantscrusher(you can change AOW which is SO valuable DEX: Gaurduan tree spear and hot take but godslayers greatsword(treespear can change AOW) INT: Deaths Poker/Dark Moon Greatsword FAI: Blasphemous Blade/Magma blade ARC: Reduvia/Elanoras poleblade
Even more confusing there are also quality weapons Strength plus Dexterity and the magic version Intelligence plus Faith. And some, like the Sword of Night and Flame use 4 of the 5.
For arcane I know nothing better then bloody helice. Out of all my playthroughs the one in which I was using this sword was one of the easiest because the weapon skill is just stupid. Fast bleed build up, twice more s then regular dodge, enormous damage by itself and if this game had a rating system like DMC I would get SSS in every fight. And I think that most fun weapons are multi-stat ones. Hammer of Marika, Ordovis' greatsword or Maliketh's blade are very good for str-faith, dragon halberd is one of the best str-dex weapons in the game, most of str-int weapons are great.
I know everyone thinks the Dark Moon Greatsword is the best for intelligence but it’s really not. I did a death mage build and I have 3 weapons I use. Dark Moon Greatsword, Death’s Poker, and Death Ritual Spear all at +10 and the DMGS does the least damage with its ash of war. DMGS Ash of war hits 2386, Death’s Poker ash of war hits 2896, and Death Ritual Spear’s ash of war can hit upwards of 3552 if enough spears hit.
Tbh we have learned are 2 year of the game being out is that almost everything is usable , but every weapon look crazy with rightset ups . I have seen 1 shot builds with very weapon on the list
I got platinum a few days ago. I cried. I missed one easy 🏆 in Sekiro, missed a few in every DS game... Got Plat on ER and cried real tears of joy. Also sadness that my journey was over.
I’m a little confused and relatively new to Elden Ring, but I noticed the three weapons you mentioned for Faith max out at B, C and C for Faith. Am I missing something?
No you’re fine, the scalings obviously help the AR but different weapons under “faith” have different effects. Such as fire, holy, destined death etc. just because the scaling may be good on a weapon doesn’t mean the actual attack is - fire is one of the best damage outputs in the game and mix that with a curve sword that can do like 10 attacks in 2/3 seconds plus have an ash of war with lava left everywhere, you’re doing a ridiculous amount of DPS - it just simply outweighs everything else for damage output :)
@@tkcjazza awesome, thank you for all the info! Its much appreciated. I’m doing my first Faith run right now and have the Uchigatana with Holy affinity so its a B scaling with my faith, but interesting to know thats not the key indicator of damage output
I guess if your main strategy is facetanking, some of this weapons might be the best. Otherwise the only weapon I Might agree with is poker. I would assume that you simply wanted to make this video unique (unexpected weapons) instead of repeating same weapons as in other videos. 1. Str - Try starfists and see how you melt bosses without facetanking. If you don't care about damage taken - lions claw with any big bonk 2. Dex - I haven't played that much with dex but claws/nagakiba with blood flame blade or even fang are better and don't require taking hits from faster bosses. Ash of war is the only good thing about bolt and it's one of the slowest ashes in the game 3. Faith - magma blades are strength weapons. Ash is pretty slow. You are probably better with flame art bandit swords. Also fire is pretty bad in pvp. Best faith weapons are either blasphemous or long horn 4. Int - Poker and DMGS are kind interchangeable. So this one is fine 5. Arcane - there is no other answer than mohg spear. Though occult scavengers might be better
Yeah, you're right, I do typically run and gun into most fights lol but I did want to objectively look at what I have used in my experience (basically I have used 90% of weapons in the game, but not all of course) and talk about the weapons that just did the most pure damage. I also took into consideration the ease of use of each weapon so that's why weapons like mogh's spear didn't make it in because unless you're behind a wall or have your enemy staggered, most larger enemies (mainly bosses) will still tank the ash of war and interrupt you, as they don't get the knock back effect. Again, that's the whole point of the video - Do the best I can to objectively look at the best weapons for me, but also get the discussion going with yourself about why other weapons are just as good if not better if used correctly :)
@@tkcjazza first of all Mohg has hyperarmor. So very few bosses have a guaranteed stagger on all attacks. And I think Lions class is the only ash with infinite hyperarmor. So poleblade, marais and especially bolt suffer as well in such fights. Poleblade also suffers against mobile enemies. Mohg has relatively fast first cast and damage keeps going even if you were knocked down. Very Big damage. So even in theory this doesn't make sense. Flame art bandit swords have around 120 more ar than magma blade with 80 faith. Plus it has more fire which is easier to buff. Then you have scalesword ash if you are fine getting hit. And if you didn't try to facetank damage (which you don't do with bolt of gransax) both bubble stick and Blasphemous are easier to use (range) and deal a lot of damage.
I just made a new character dex faith build with god slayer great sword, shit is op as hell, and yes skinny god skin is a pain in the ass to beat, I use sleeping pot and rotten breath to cheese him
@Jaza97 Likely the answer is "yes" but I am curious. Are these weapons still top dog in your view for a player that does not make use of Flask of wonderous physick or other buffs? Asking because you mention the numbers a couple times and I see your character lit up like an xmas tree. In general would you gear your character differently (armor/weapon/talismans) if gear swapping, potions, and flask were not accessible? Lastly when we talk about "best" is it by a large margin (more than 10%) over other weapon options?
I mean you’re missing out on a LOT of damage by not using the wonder physick or any other buffs! But, essentially they will still be the best as those buffs will apply to all weapons. As for the gear or talismans, you just need to be adding the ones that buff your attacks the most with whatever weapon you’re using. I.e, if it does magic damage, use magic scorpion charm etc. I think I mentioned it in the video, but these are somewhat opinionated as well as considering the damage outputs but I wouldn’t say the margin is 10%. The beauty of Elden ring is with the right build any weapon can do similar numbers but these weapons are easier to use/obtain and deal the most damage in my experience :) I hope that answers your questions but let me know if there’s anything I missed!
@@tkcjazza Thanks and great information! I know I lose a lot of damage not doing these buff rotations but sadly I cannot stand doing them. They take away from the fun for me. Maybe if they had 10-30 minute durations I would find them more palettable. Agree completely and glad the "best" setups are not so much better that they become necessary. Lot of builds/weapons in this game are just plain fun to use.
Man idk how deaths poker got best int. Ritual spear can do more damage spamming the ash of war. A frost infused scythe with spinning weapon can easily double the damage output of both with all the boosting talismans(shard of alex, prosthesis, rotten winged, ritual sword or lord of bloods). Bloodflame on a heavy grave scythe with spinning weapon will outdamage marias executioners aswell.
With the right build you can do 8k+ damage each time you use the ash of war - I didn’t have the most optimal build for the footage but the deaths poker is literally the most broken weapon the game. I know these weapons you mentioned are also good but they don’t compare to the potential damage output with the deaths poker :)
@@tkcjazza dood spinning weapon has about 6 items alone you can wear that boost damage. Then you can boost with golden vow & tears. Malekith on ng+7 with bloodflame dies in less than 2 casts. Exactly what is the right build that boosts ghostflame? The damage per second is nowhere near even if it was doubled from what your showcase was lol.
@@johnfrankster3244 Ghostflame get's all its damage through magic/Int - so can wear various armours to boost damage and boost damage with all 4 talismans as well as wonderphysick, terra magicka, howl of shabiri and GV - You'll have it doing 4/5k damage with the initial explosion and then doing like 7/800 damage per tick, as well as proc'ing frost during all that (taking 10% of health) to then do 20% more damage with any damage you deal whilst their frozen - Coz it's frost, it works on every boss (bar EB) :)
@@tkcjazza yep, and scythe gets all of the above barring the terra magicka, cept seppuku you already start with 30% more damage so its basically no different. White mask is 10%, rannis is 8%, magic has scorpion charm, scythe has lord of bloods, millicents & rotten all boosting damage, multihit damage is superior. It has more boosting items in general. Every other item youve mentioned can be used to boost both or has a counterpart for the other.
Anyone who says that hand of malenia is not the best dex weapon in the game is simply put a fool they didn't lock it behind the hardest bosses remembrance for no reason not to mention that the ash of war at +10; 2 shots godrick and ignores any ground slam AOE attacks as your in the air the only negative that is fare is that the attack is as clearly telegrahed as the tree avatar's
Yeah, I was a HUGE fan of morgotts cursed sword and it was really between that or eleonoras poleblade - I just though the DPS of the poleblade made it that little bit better :)
Reduvia is just a worse version of a great knife with blood blade on it, you can get it early and can cheese the game with it with little effort, but it's really not that great compared to all the other arcane weapons. And Morgotts cursed sword is good, the main issue is the ash of war costs a shit ton of mp for the full combo, Eleanora's poleblade costs 4 times less mp than the morgotts cursed sword full combo and does way more dps.
@@Necrowarp_ I completely disagree with Reduvia being worse. Pretty sure it was tested and Reduvia fires faster. But you're supposed to hit them with the blade as well as the projectile for max bleed damage. I'm pretty sure it was already proven to have a higher dps. Don't get me wrong, I love the poleblade. th-cam.com/video/YBNBH37SsGE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tkmooDkYnk1EhEZD I think it's one of the most fun weapons to use. But unless you're spamming the ash of war, I've never encountered an MP issue with the cursed sword. Plus the cursed sword does knock back on the dash before even striking with the blade. Idk, I feel like the cursed sword trivializes more of the enemies that are kind of a pain normally. Such as the black knife assassins. I'll use all 3 of these weapons in a build anyway. But I've found Reduvia and the cursed sword to be amazing in some clutch situations where they out perform the poleblade but I haven't found a moment where the poleblade feels more necessary.
@@dorklord1804 reduvia only does more dps at high levels, and blood blade has a hitbox for the weapon as well, it isnt specific to reduvia. Also blood blade costs less fp but the first casting costs a bit of hp which is nothing at high levels. I like it as a backup weapon but it's a terrible primary weapon compared to the other arcane weapons. It's the first weapon I grab in any arcane playthroughs I do but I usually have it as a backup weapon if I need a ranged option and then use something like the bloody helice early on. Reduvia also does trash dps to any enemy immune to bleed since it's normal damage isnt very high without hemorrhage, other arcane weapons still decent base damage allowing them to hold their own way better as a primary weapon.
@@Necrowarp_ admittedly I played through the game around 12 times but only under two characters. So I don't have a ton of low-level experience. Also I would find it too boring to stick with just one weapon for a full playthrough so I've never used one specific weapon for every single boss. But yes we do this sucks on most bosses that are not susceptible to bleed. But if I had to pick one dagger to take though the entire game it would be Reduvia which I love to dual wield. But I admit it's not the best arcane weapon. I still think that title belongs to margot's cursed sword with the poleblade coming in at a close 2nd. But I'm also used to dual wielding the cursed sword with the bloodhound sword because it's fun. Also comboing wrath of gold with the cursed swords ash or war tends to work out fairly well. My MP is high enough that it doesn't bother me. But end of the day I like the magma blades more than anything (I realize they are not arcane.)
It is relatively easy if you run higher arcane - I know it’s still down to chance but you should realistically have it drop after 20/25 runs of the farm :)
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@Cobalt4 They were a VERY close second for the arcane spot :)
1st Dex and strength and 2nd. int and faith 😊
The bolt of gransax and deaths poker are not weapons they are glorified, casting sticks
@@tkcjazza my favourite build... Str and arcane. At the moment I'm electrician and as a backup the blasphemous blade
And as my favourite of all time is the dragon borne build. Elden Ring managed to capture being a dragon born better than Skyrim. Skyrim is one of my favourite games but Elden Ring is one game that I can't replace. Once I stopped playing Elden Ring all other games seemed dull. I can't hardly wait for the DLC to drop
Best weapon❌️
Best ashes of war✅️
Yeah, that's whats I don't like much about Elden Ring. The game is so big and there is a lot of things to explore and test, but it just end either picking up a Op Spell or a Op AoW and keep spamming it. Every weapon tier list is pretty similar to every skill tier list just because of this: the meta is busted AoWs. Of course you can still use the movesets from the weapons, and you will have some that will be overpowered especially when powerstancing things, but I feel it being 8/80: Or you will use a entire build focuse on a single AoW or you will be powerstancing twinblades/curved swords or greatspears or katanas or..etc; you picked up the idea right? Why you will make a build to utilizes the most of the melee attacks your fast stright sword have if you can just make a build about Sword of Night and flame 3 shota boss doing 5k dmg per use, or make a build about eochaid dancing blade doind 8k dmg with consecutive hits talismans, or powerstancing bleed things that everyone knows it is busted... It's a shame a game great and big as Elden Ring falls into something like that. I feel like they picked the Weapon Art idea from DS3, that was already an improvement of DS1 and DS2 that the L2 button was most focused on parry and block, and thinked "oh, we should improve this mechanic to be more incredible, unique and give more versatibily to weapons" and they just make this so much incredible and unique that you just forget whats the point of a souls game and now you only use your weapon in melee to kill trash mobs, the rest of the time you will use 2560544 buffs and press the win-button to win the game. I swear to you, in every weapon tier list I see people only talk about the Unique Skills and nothing more. The only place I could find a little bit of diversity was in PvP builds video, that players try to actually use the weapon in melee, thinks about the moveset, the range, the dmg, the scalling, the combos potential, the affinits and for last of course about AoW compatibilty, but without focusing the entire dialogue on it. I feel like this mechanic should never return in future for the sake of the good and golden moments we had in perviour souls games or the next game will be just an Elden Ring re-skin. If u disagree with me, just go to nexus and download some mods, there are a lot of crazy movesets and anime explosions everywhere, and I can't lie to you, they are incredible and pretty fun to use... as unnoficial mods. Yup that's it. Now you lost 5 minutes of your time reading this stupid shit I've wrote. Don't mind me, I just wanted to express this that was killing me from inside, now I'm good. And yes Elden Ring is a fun game, just the play the hell way u wanna play.
@@ElMorao I've just started a claw build, and suddenly my enjoyment has skyrocketed. I'm committing myself to all shardbearers and all mending runes, and it's so much fun!
@@ElMorao thing is though, you can choose not to use the ash of war. Having both options just makes it way more fun then other souls games.
I mean that’s what Elden ring combat is lmao. It completely revolves around Ashes of War
@stanleylee3329 I mean, that's not really true. In some cases it could be but not for your average playthrough not everyone is spamming L2 now you could but if your ranking the best weapons you should be ranking them as weapons not ash of war spamming
I absolutely love that you went the distance to choose several off meta picks. Great video my dude.
the best INT is the Moonlight Greatsword and the best faith is the Blasphemoue Blade imo
Both of those are my 2nd places for each category - Just simply due to the damage outputs of the magma blades and deaths poker, that's why they weren't number 1 :)
@@tkcjazzadarkmoon greatsword hits harder especially when you factor it's pois damage. Your are ignoring the int scaling also scales with the charged AOW. If you use it in melee when charged it will deal far more as you're going to stance break almost every time with one charged heavy. If you time it right it can actually stop Malenia's water foul because you'll stance break her.
This also carries over to pvp especially since you can pois through attacks while power stancing. Few builds can take getting hit by an r1 with darkmoon greatsword.
Dps is not everything especially when most AOW are overrated and terrible in pvp. Adula's moon blade pairs perfectly over spamming an AOW as an example not including other spells.
Not trying to be rude or argumentive just pointing this out. A weapon is more than it's ash of war or base damage you need to look at every aspect.
comet azur is stronger for int
@@gezimnexhipi4905 Night comet is a better offensive spell. It tracks slightly hits harder than any other spell per FP and in PVE can snipe at range since it's undetectable. Sure comet Azure can melt bosses and large targets but it's very situational to stationary target. Especially factor that you can also cast night comet while moving and can deal more damage overall for the same FP cost.
Note comet Azure is best suited for pure mage builds as a way to kill bosses with large HP pools and high pois. Example fire giant and placidusax, Mohg is easy to catch and melt but it is situational to that.
@tylerrobbins8311 I used it night comet on melenia in first playthrough melted her and everyone else. strong spell
My personal take for these:
Strength - The Greatsword. It's early in the game, can be infused/buffed for more damage and has fhanagld ashes of war for versatility. (Though I've never done a pure strength build in ER.)
Dex - Hand of Melainia. It has the second longest reach of all katanas, inate bleed build up and a stupid powerful ash of war that triggers all the multi hit talisman very easily.
Intelligence - Moonveil. The unsheathe ash of war already hits like a truck while being stupid fast so slapping a magical wave beam that just does a lot more damage break it. What's more, it's early on and has a low stat requirement and weight making it super versatile and it also builds bleed cause why not.
Faith - Coded Sword. 100% holy damage and pure faith scaling and stat requirements making this super good on a pure faith build.
Arcane - Morgott's Cursed Sword. Innate bleed buildup, a higher crit modifier and the ash of war it stupid good while all being on a curved Greatsword so the raw damage and stance damage is quite nice.
Small tangent: putting Marais Executioner's Sword as the strength choice is kinda nuts. The thing relys on it's ash of war to be really useful. Let alone requiring 23 arcane for a kinda ok greatsword that basically only exists to get funny twitter clips of one shotting bosses while being buffed to hell and back is a bad choice.
Finally SOMEONE puts Coded sword there
Cipher Patas and Coded sword helped me so much when invaded and dual weiding either really helps too
Blasphemous is a guaranteed stagger, that heals you, and has huge range and goes in straight line. I had to stop using it because it made the game far too easy.
It’s not guaranteed stagger against bosses though unfortunately and takes a while to get the ash of war off - I get you can stand back and hit at range but realistically the dps on the magma blades is far more damage - that’s really the only reason why I just put them above the blasphemous blade :)
@@tkcjazzanice I’ll give them a try
what about comet azur
Also unenjoyably powerful. I want to be able to do well without making it too easy. Hoarah Loux NG+2 was an enjoyable striuggle with 'normal' weapons, but trivialised with Blasphemous@@gezimnexhipi4905
Blasphemous = easy mode
Blasphemous blade quite literally breaks the game with high poise it’s just lock on and click , the magma blade is great but lacks range or a heap factor , fire is amazing elemental damage but the blasphemous blade is also fire damage plus heat with amazing faith scaling
Not everybody wants to play with braindead blasphemous blade anybody can use that weapon with a single brain cell and destroy everything.
@@deontookflight317ok, but that’s not what the list is about
@@SageEndsbraindead
@@Destrudo5359 ok, but that's not what this list is about
@@Destrudo5359you indeed
Love how every weapon is LITERALLY the best weapon in the ENTIRE game
Got the magma blades like a year ago took hours to get 2 thought the were underwhelming n never touched them since but gave them another shot the other day on ng7 easily my new fav weapon melts bosses and great for add clear and running around dungeons
For me
Strength - piece of iron colossal sword
Dex - Nagakiba/Rot lady katana
Intelligence - Moonveil
Arcane - Rives of blood
Faith - Inseparable sword of D
At last someone giving proper respect to Eleonoras pole blade. My pride 🩸
Been having a ton of fun in NG+ with the double Staff of Loss build. The spell is quick, and undetectable by enemies so it’s great for a stealth playthrough. It also hits like a truck (5-6k damage in NG+ 3) when you charge it but can also be spammed very quickly as well. So it’s great for bosses or just traveling around. Not to mention the build itself doesn’t take too much to turn into any different INT build if you really wanted to change things up.
On NG+3 now at level 230ish and I’ve already hit the hard cap for 80 int, 60 vig/ mind. And even 33 faith for more buffs to hit things harder. (I even have 54 poise too, but you don’t need to invest into END really).
Yo! Can you post your full build? I've been working on one, too, but i'm not sure if I have the optimal one.
@@wardgoovaerts3922 Yeah I got you.
I’m going to use my current level for reference, then let you know where you can adjust if you aren’t around my level, since most builds are tailored around level 150/200.
Level 231 - starting class - Samurai
*STATS*
VIG - 60 (you can lower this to 50, or 40 if you don’t get hit often)
MIN - 60 ( 60 is a ton of mana, you can lower it to 50 or so, maybe 40 at the least)
END- 40 (25 or 30 is needed realistically, maybe even less since it seems that poise doesn’t matter too much when casting spells but the spells DO use stamina; so more Stam = more casts in a row)
STR - 12 (can be increased if you have extra points to swap to Dark Moon Greatsword if you get bored)
DEX - 17 (possibly could be increased to speed up casting time? Haven’t tested)
INT - 80 (hard cap for damage 80 is the goal but could get away with 60 or 70 at first if you’re lower level)
FAI - 33 (pretty much only for casting golden vow and howl of shabriri. Howl will increase damage taken, so on NG+ enemies can two or three shot you if you have talismans on that make you take even more damage or have less than 50/60 vigor. If you don’t want to use howl, you can stay low faith and just use the golden vow ash of war)
ARC - 8 (pretty much useless when mixed with INT for this build)
*ARMOR*
Note: I haven’t tested poise out completely with this but it seems like I’m interrupted during casts no matter my poise, so feel free to change your armor to something aesthetic if you don’t mind poise.
Right now I’m going for looks so I’m using
Black Knife Hood/ Armor with Scaled gauntlets / Greaves. This looks decent and gives me 52 Poise, and decent defense. You can swap the chest for Blaidd’s Armor for 61 poise.
*TALISMANS*
Dragoncrest greatsheild - (pretty much always keep it on any build since I enjoy taking less damage and I need the damage reduction if I use scorpion charm or Howl. If you don’t get hit, you can replace it with Godfrey icon. Only good if you charge up your spells though)
Magic Scorpion Charm - (more damage is good)
Ritual sword talisman - only good at max hp, if you want to take a healing spell for you (needs some faith) to top off, you can. If you get hit often then it isn’t the best. Ancestral spirits horn can be decent for mana recovery instead.
Graven mass talisman - ( flat 8% damage is nice)
*FLASK*
Magic-shrouding tear for damage, and cerulean hidden tear for no FP consumption
*WEAPONS*
Mainhand - Staff of Loss + 25
Offhand - Staff of Loss (no upgrades needed its there for the bonus) and Golden order seal + 10 so we can cast our faith spells mentioned earlier. Though whatever seal you have leveled should work.
*SPELLS*
Golden Vow
Howl of Shabriri
Terra Magica
Carian Retaliation - (optional, just something extra to cast before running into a boss)
Night Shard - (optional, but way faster than Night Comet. Less damage and you can’t charge it, but I use it for simple enemies I can one shot when I want to save mana. However Night comet DOES pierce so sometimes you can use Comet instead and kill multiple enemies which would save you more mana. It’s usually not THAT important but I thought I’d mention it)
Night comet - (our main spell, slow to start but can be cast rapidly after, or each cast can be charged for more damage. With all of the buffs I’ve mentioned before I can hit around 5-6k with this when charged.)
*OPTIONAL SPELLS*
Unseen Form - (optional, I just like sneaking around, but with night comet being unreadable by enemies sometimes you don’t even use this. I just think it’s fun.)
Urgent heal/heal - (optional. only if you need to maintain max hp because of your talisman and don’t want to use a flask)
Black flames protection - (think this provides like a 20-30% armor buff so it’s good if you find yourself in trouble. Does not stack with Howl.)
Ranni’s Dark moon - (I could be wrong, but I think this reduces magic resistance AND builds frost. It’s one of the moon spells. Good for doing even more damage with Comet.)
Pretty much any other magic spell you want, that scales with INT, though DEX may help with casting time (I think cap is around 40/50 DEX idr.)
*OTHER NOTES*
You can also use Frost Pots to make people take more damage.
Commanders Standard (not sure if that’s how it’s spelled) is better than golden vow, but lasts 30 seconds instead of 80.
Your greater rune is pretty much going to be Godricks or the HP one for late game.
For Aromatic you can use Ironjar for more defense or possibly Bloodboil if you choose to add talisman swapping to your buff routine. With sepekku ash of war and the Lord of bloods exultation talisman, you could use this aromatic after and then swap the talisman out for the buffs. This could possibly not work for spells, or even patched but I don’t think so. Though I may be wrong I haven’t tested.
In really late game (levels 350+) I’d just increase STR and DEX to broaden your weapon choices if you get bored with casting and increase casting speed.
In earlier game I would just use the minimum END you need, followed by the lower stats I mentioned (40 VIG and MIN) until you can copy my build.
If you have anything else feel free to ask or contribute.
@@nosleepforme2242 Can i go with a better staff like azurs glintstone staff?
@@nosleepforme2242 or a carian regal scepter
@@spektral8666 there’s a alternative staff you can use if you haven’t obtained a second staff of loss from NG+ though I don’t remember the name; I don’t want to give false info if I can help it but you should test out damage numbers with alternate staffs if you don’t have a second SOL.
If you do have two of them, they’re the best option as the main hand makes night comet do +30% more damage and the second staff is a multiplicative increase iirc.
Nagakiba is also an amazing dexterity weapon as well, for Katana users.
It is i use them both but eleonoras 2 handing it gotta be the most broken shit. I usually dodge aswell when i use its ashe of war
@@GiorgosArsiotis Nagakiba with Unsheathe is really strong.
The main issue with the Executioner Sword is that any enemy that has the ability to... move, especially if they do not have lots of particularly slow cooldowns between attacks, completely demolish the damage potential of the Ash.
omg! i didn't know there were best weapons for each stat. I only used my crystal sword(well, literally since I got it) and almost at the end game. My sword, skills, and my trusted buckler. Good video! I think I will switch to one of those on my second run.
my first playthrough was dexterity build using bloodhound fang.
made the game so easy i did not even comprehend how broken the weapon is until my second playthrough when i tried using different weapons.
You can snipe the Caelid deathrite bird with Rock Sling from the giant skull next to it. I did it with a non-mage character by using the Meteorite Staff and Intelligence knot tear, which I believe will let any class use the staff and spell. if not, you could run down to Ainsel River and get Marika's Soreseal.
Dropping holy pots too works
Marika's scar seal you mean the sore seal is ath the haligtree
5:00 I had no idea this was the intended way to get it, I always jumped from the gazebo up.
I mean, as long as you can get, that's all that really counts! :)
I really liked deaths poker, so i was glad to see it on this list. Since it procs frostbite, you can do an insane amount of damage to bosses that like staying still or walking slowly towards you (crucible knights, rykard, etc) For faith, since i usually go pure caster, just use erdtrees seal plus a couple other seals in my offhand for the damage bonus
I’ve made a dex build using deaths poker and blasphemous blade. Use ash of war with poker, freeze enemy, blasphemous fire damage resets ice build up. Rinse repeat.
you bastard iv now spent an entire evening farming magma blades .... haha good video mate
I love this video! A beautiful mix of Elden Ring info with The Elder Scrolls Skyrim music. Awesome!
Hey man great video video really liked it, but A doctor one shot said that the occult giant crusher is stronger than Mariah’s executioner sword and he seems to be a pretty knowledgeable fellow but other than that, nice video
A lot of weapons are great or can be made great but I just love the Naginita. A pole arm that works great with a shield. Has great reach and move set. Can be changed to whatever build you want with ash of war. Has innate bleed which can stack on whatever build you want. I love doing a int/dex build and having it cold so It builds up bleed and frost at the same time with its reach. It takes down bosses so easily.
That Skyrim music inevitably keeps dragging me out of the realm of Lands Between.
Is this Skyrim music in the video ?
I am running FTH/INT build and having a blast with Sword of Night and Flame + Lordsworn Straight sword with Sacred Blade.
The moveset is dope and the Flame version hits like a track (it has very long casting animation though).
I'm not min-maxing thou.
thank you for this. i'll try these weapons for NG+3 since I just finished +2 yesterday.
Loved the video and the skyrim background music is a nice touch .
As a faith build crutch I heavily disagree with the magma blades. Great vid tho!
I knew it would be the one to cause a lot of debate - I just couldn't look past the damage potential with them but what are you running?
I agree, I've been playing for 2 weeks with the dual magma blade, it's great and fun but I don't feel like it's broken or anything.
I killed the big snake yesterday and got the blasphemy, it's TOTALLY BROKEN, I've been rolling the game ever since.
Even without the heal it would still be broken, but with the heal it's not even debatable.
Blasphemous blade bc of it potential damage with a single takers flames
A lot of awesome weapons in Elden Ring, but I just love my claymore! Been using it for so many NG+7+++++
Yeah, claymore is nice! Personally I prefer the Zweihander ;)
exactly, I always end up with claymore myself, ds1, ds2, ds3 :D
I'm starting a str build and loved the claymore as the ashes of war practically let me cheese almost every single boss
No endurance weapon :/
I love my duel wielding magma swords. They are not as difficult to get as you would think. I farmed them for an hour and received 2 of them. I got my first 1 running through Valcano Manor. I was able to get 3 in total with ease. The whip is more difficult to farm.
Int/Dex Moonveil for me, why? I'd do anything to make me become more Vergil as much as possible
There is a way to cheese the death's poker. After you aggro him. Go to a small ledge next to the large root coming out of the ground. Use the sitting gesture. The bird will not be able to hit you and will eventually fall off the ledge. Easy way to get the poker. Enjoy!
Doesn't it make perfect sense that if you're intelligent and have faith in life you are the strongest.
I knew immediately that faith would be a strong suit in a world full of gods
Executioner sword is only good when you use all the various buffs and talismans. Sword is not at all the best strength weapon, as it also requires a whole other stat to even use. Terrible pick
Not really, even if you just pump all stats in strength you’ll do the same numbers I showed in the video - as for using the right talismans, again I had MORE buffs for the giant crusher and it did less damage. The Marais executioner holds up so much more as you go through the NG+’s and is so much more easier/versatile :)
@@tkcjazza I disagree, the only time the executioner sword does more dps than the giant crusher or greatsword is with successive attack talismans, godfreys icon, etc. The Greatsword and Giant Crusher require a lot less building around the get to good dps numbers, yes, if the executioner sword is specifically build around it will do much better at running through the game, but for a new game especially greatsword and giant crusher are much better. Especially since Miliciants prosethsis and rotten sword talisman can't be obtained til haligree and you can only get 1 of the 2 per playthrough.
You could buff Giant Crusher with every single thing and it won't hit Maria's numbers.
Not really I do agree that it does require talisman but definitely not a great choice especially since most talisman require new game plus or late game but it’s definitely up there though
@Necrowarp_ u do realize the title of this vid is best weapons for each category and not "best weapons in each category but for people who dont have talismans and arent on new game plus and require less building around even tho the entire point of the game is to build around ur weapon🙂" also the giant crusher and greatsword are heavily built around yet still less then a non fully optimized marais build lmfao
I think the best dex weapon is the godskin peeler. Dual wielding that does insane dammage and it also has some good range. Dont get me wrong, the bolt of gransax is insane but i think the peelers are the best weapons in the game just bc of the dammage you can do if you have the perfect build
Using Skyrim background music on an Elden ring video is cursed
In my second play through I decided to cheese melania just because I wanted to see how op of a build I could make. I respecced to 80 arcane and equipped the moghwynn spear. I swear to god I finished both phases in less than a minute with that ash of war. That weapon is hands down the best arcane weapon and it’s not close
strength marais, dex bolt of gransax, int dark moon hits as much in 1 hit as the full ash of war from deaths poker , faith blasphemous blade does about the same damage as magma blade + healing, arcane is scavengers curved sword dual wield
Dual magma blades looks fun af
Bro your at 30 k subs crushed that goal
"Give me the best weapons for each stat in dark souls 3"
"Lothric knight sword ?"
"Sorry it's my fault, I set the bar too low"
Eleonora's pole blade is so fun and satisfying to use it's crazy
Greatsword for Strength
Nagakiba for Dex
Moonlight greatsword for int
Blasphemus blade for Faith
Eleonora's poleblade for Arcane
Finally someone states some fact bout the pole blade will by far my favorite weapon to use I tend to summon a mimic and we just bleed the bosses to death weapon to good
Love the music choices
What’s the name of the song you used in this video?
@makusa its music from Skyrim, dont remember the exact name
At least you didn’t say
“Vykes War Spear”
😂
I mainly go for a moonveil samurai build
i am using dragon communication seal with river of blood. haha. I mixed it up, but it's quite fun than I only using dragon spells or reduvia.
A lot of the weapons showcased are some of my favorites lol. The wing of Astel has been fun to use recently.
Just a heads up if you leave shabriri alive in mountain tops you can summon him to help fight hoara loux and man does he take a beating 😂😂
Anyone else love the basic
TWINBLADE as much as i do ?
Stuns enemies like crazy for me if you start with charged RT and then spam RB
Youllget free crit hit
envoy's longhorn mad underrated.
Lost 2 hours of my life trying to farm it and it still didn't drop
Only one i semi agree with is the deaths poker but even that one is interchangeable with dark moon, but imo
STR: Greatsword/giantscrusher(you can change AOW which is SO valuable
DEX: Gaurduan tree spear and hot take but godslayers greatsword(treespear can change AOW)
INT: Deaths Poker/Dark Moon Greatsword
FAI: Blasphemous Blade/Magma blade
ARC: Reduvia/Elanoras poleblade
Love dual wielding my sword spears with the sword dance ash of war having fun with them in NG+1 I like Dex builds myself
Would be cool to see this with dual spec builds, too
MAGMA WYRM SCALESWORD is so underrated
I argue Iron Greatsword is the best strength weapon. I can get 8 or 9000 damage with the same amount of wind up.
I personally like dex and magic thingummy cuz they're fun! Also when is your next stream?
I don't know about the stream man, just coz I don't really have time to stream so often - I was thinking of trying to do more when I can though :)
@@tkcjazza lol cannot wait for the next stream - so excited
The Skyrim music is throwing me off lol
I just use a grave scythe and a bloodhound fang since I’m new to the game, but I’m gonna probably be changing that all around
Currently using dual magma blades. Insane.
Even more confusing there are also quality weapons Strength plus Dexterity and the magic version Intelligence plus Faith. And some, like the Sword of Night and Flame use 4 of the 5.
Love the Skyrim music in the background
Reduvia blood blade is pretty hard to beat on arc
The only one I agree with is the Bolt. But they are all great if you know how to use them.
Which weapons would you have in the other slots? Just generally curious :)
That’s the only one I disagree with.
really? i'm taking nagikiba over the bolt, but it's definitely close
For arcane I know nothing better then bloody helice. Out of all my playthroughs the one in which I was using this sword was one of the easiest because the weapon skill is just stupid. Fast bleed build up, twice more s then regular dodge, enormous damage by itself and if this game had a rating system like DMC I would get SSS in every fight.
And I think that most fun weapons are multi-stat ones. Hammer of Marika, Ordovis' greatsword or Maliketh's blade are very good for str-faith, dragon halberd is one of the best str-dex weapons in the game, most of str-int weapons are great.
I know everyone thinks the Dark Moon Greatsword is the best for intelligence but it’s really not. I did a death mage build and I have 3 weapons I use. Dark Moon Greatsword, Death’s Poker, and Death Ritual Spear all at +10 and the DMGS does the least damage with its ash of war. DMGS Ash of war hits 2386, Death’s Poker ash of war hits 2896, and Death Ritual Spear’s ash of war can hit upwards of 3552 if enough spears hit.
Skyrim music behind an Elden ring is wild 😂
I personally think the beat weapon in the game is mohgwyns spear
OK, how to kill the fire giant with this weapon?
@@ЯрославКалашников-е9ф bleed it out
What spells to use for these weapons?
best arcane weapon is dragon communion seal
I don't know about that one chief...
If you put 80 faith 80 arcane the seal is the most powerful thing in the game
yep and for lower levels it still fucks hard at 45/45@@tylerbrown565
Tbh we have learned are 2 year of the game being out is that almost everything is usable , but every weapon look crazy with rightset ups . I have seen 1 shot builds with very weapon on the list
I got platinum a few days ago. I cried. I missed one easy 🏆 in Sekiro, missed a few in every DS game... Got Plat on ER and cried real tears of joy. Also sadness that my journey was over.
The journey isn’t over yet bro - I platinum’d it a month or so after release. Been playing it since 😂😂
@@tkcjazza ya other games are too clunky now. Plus I'm trying to farm these really rare weapons to have ready for DLC
I’m a little confused and relatively new to Elden Ring, but I noticed the three weapons you mentioned for Faith max out at B, C and C for Faith. Am I missing something?
No you’re fine, the scalings obviously help the AR but different weapons under “faith” have different effects. Such as fire, holy, destined death etc. just because the scaling may be good on a weapon doesn’t mean the actual attack is - fire is one of the best damage outputs in the game and mix that with a curve sword that can do like 10 attacks in 2/3 seconds plus have an ash of war with lava left everywhere, you’re doing a ridiculous amount of DPS - it just simply outweighs everything else for damage output :)
@@tkcjazza awesome, thank you for all the info! Its much appreciated. I’m doing my first Faith run right now and have the Uchigatana with Holy affinity so its a B scaling with my faith, but interesting to know thats not the key indicator of damage output
You should try the flame art nagakiba katana with the unsheathe ash of war as faith build
i use it and i melt pretty much anything and everything
Eden Ring in my opinion is the game that any weapon in the right hand will be powerful.
Faith is easily Maliketh black blade
I guess if your main strategy is facetanking, some of this weapons might be the best. Otherwise the only weapon I Might agree with is poker. I would assume that you simply wanted to make this video unique (unexpected weapons) instead of repeating same weapons as in other videos.
1. Str - Try starfists and see how you melt bosses without facetanking. If you don't care about damage taken - lions claw with any big bonk
2. Dex - I haven't played that much with dex but claws/nagakiba with blood flame blade or even fang are better and don't require taking hits from faster bosses. Ash of war is the only good thing about bolt and it's one of the slowest ashes in the game
3. Faith - magma blades are strength weapons. Ash is pretty slow. You are probably better with flame art bandit swords. Also fire is pretty bad in pvp. Best faith weapons are either blasphemous or long horn
4. Int - Poker and DMGS are kind interchangeable. So this one is fine
5. Arcane - there is no other answer than mohg spear. Though occult scavengers might be better
Yeah, you're right, I do typically run and gun into most fights lol but I did want to objectively look at what I have used in my experience (basically I have used 90% of weapons in the game, but not all of course) and talk about the weapons that just did the most pure damage.
I also took into consideration the ease of use of each weapon so that's why weapons like mogh's spear didn't make it in because unless you're behind a wall or have your enemy staggered, most larger enemies (mainly bosses) will still tank the ash of war and interrupt you, as they don't get the knock back effect.
Again, that's the whole point of the video - Do the best I can to objectively look at the best weapons for me, but also get the discussion going with yourself about why other weapons are just as good if not better if used correctly :)
@@tkcjazza first of all Mohg has hyperarmor. So very few bosses have a guaranteed stagger on all attacks. And I think Lions class is the only ash with infinite hyperarmor. So poleblade, marais and especially bolt suffer as well in such fights. Poleblade also suffers against mobile enemies. Mohg has relatively fast first cast and damage keeps going even if you were knocked down. Very Big damage. So even in theory this doesn't make sense.
Flame art bandit swords have around 120 more ar than magma blade with 80 faith. Plus it has more fire which is easier to buff. Then you have scalesword ash if you are fine getting hit. And if you didn't try to facetank damage (which you don't do with bolt of gransax) both bubble stick and Blasphemous are easier to use (range) and deal a lot of damage.
I just made a new character dex faith build with god slayer great sword, shit is op as hell, and yes skinny god skin is a pain in the ass to beat, I use sleeping pot and rotten breath to cheese him
@Jaza97
Likely the answer is "yes" but I am curious. Are these weapons still top dog in your view for a player that does not make use of Flask of wonderous physick or other buffs? Asking because you mention the numbers a couple times and I see your character lit up like an xmas tree.
In general would you gear your character differently (armor/weapon/talismans) if gear swapping, potions, and flask were not accessible?
Lastly when we talk about "best" is it by a large margin (more than 10%) over other weapon options?
I mean you’re missing out on a LOT of damage by not using the wonder physick or any other buffs! But, essentially they will still be the best as those buffs will apply to all weapons.
As for the gear or talismans, you just need to be adding the ones that buff your attacks the most with whatever weapon you’re using. I.e, if it does magic damage, use magic scorpion charm etc.
I think I mentioned it in the video, but these are somewhat opinionated as well as considering the damage outputs but I wouldn’t say the margin is 10%. The beauty of Elden ring is with the right build any weapon can do similar numbers but these weapons are easier to use/obtain and deal the most damage in my experience :)
I hope that answers your questions but let me know if there’s anything I missed!
@@tkcjazza
Thanks and great information!
I know I lose a lot of damage not doing these buff rotations but sadly I cannot stand doing them. They take away from the fun for me. Maybe if they had 10-30 minute durations I would find them more palettable.
Agree completely and glad the "best" setups are not so much better that they become necessary. Lot of builds/weapons in this game are just plain fun to use.
Is the Sword of Night and Flame still best for 80/80 int and faith?
The best weapon is the one you have the most fun with
So the best weapon for Vigor is the great stars
And the best weapon for endurance is the pizza cutter
With 70 Arcane I got 2 magma curved swords after 3 hours of farming
Man idk how deaths poker got best int.
Ritual spear can do more damage spamming the ash of war.
A frost infused scythe with spinning weapon can easily double the damage output of both with all the boosting talismans(shard of alex, prosthesis, rotten winged, ritual sword or lord of bloods).
Bloodflame on a heavy grave scythe with spinning weapon will outdamage marias executioners aswell.
With the right build you can do 8k+ damage each time you use the ash of war - I didn’t have the most optimal build for the footage but the deaths poker is literally the most broken weapon the game.
I know these weapons you mentioned are also good but they don’t compare to the potential damage output with the deaths poker :)
@@tkcjazza dood spinning weapon has about 6 items alone you can wear that boost damage. Then you can boost with golden vow & tears. Malekith on ng+7 with bloodflame dies in less than 2 casts. Exactly what is the right build that boosts ghostflame? The damage per second is nowhere near even if it was doubled from what your showcase was lol.
@@johnfrankster3244 Ghostflame get's all its damage through magic/Int - so can wear various armours to boost damage and boost damage with all 4 talismans as well as wonderphysick, terra magicka, howl of shabiri and GV - You'll have it doing 4/5k damage with the initial explosion and then doing like 7/800 damage per tick, as well as proc'ing frost during all that (taking 10% of health) to then do 20% more damage with any damage you deal whilst their frozen - Coz it's frost, it works on every boss (bar EB) :)
@@johnfrankster3244 And bare in mind, all of that above happens in like 5 seconds lol
@@tkcjazza yep, and scythe gets all of the above barring the terra magicka, cept seppuku you already start with 30% more damage so its basically no different. White mask is 10%, rannis is 8%, magic has scorpion charm, scythe has lord of bloods, millicents & rotten all boosting damage, multihit damage is superior. It has more boosting items in general. Every other item youve mentioned can be used to boost both or has a counterpart for the other.
Great video - thanks!
No worries - Hope you enjoy using the weapons :)
Anyone who says that hand of malenia is not the best dex weapon in the game is simply put a fool they didn't lock it behind the hardest bosses remembrance for no reason not to mention that the ash of war at +10; 2 shots godrick and ignores any ground slam AOE attacks as your in the air the only negative that is fare is that the attack is as clearly telegrahed as the tree avatar's
Malenia is easy what are you on
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I know it might be a pain but could you make a top weapon for each category?😅😅😅
This is more of an ashes of war video with the best stat affinity.
So yeah, the best weapon for each stat 😅
Havent watched yet but cleanrot scythe made my game easy mode with its ash of war...
Bloodfang is on my favourite list too but is dex and strengh
Your backing music choice makes me think you're the type of guy to drink coke out of a Pepsi glass
I think people heavily overlook Margotts cursed sword and also Reduvia.
Yeah, I was a HUGE fan of morgotts cursed sword and it was really between that or eleonoras poleblade - I just though the DPS of the poleblade made it that little bit better :)
Reduvia is just a worse version of a great knife with blood blade on it, you can get it early and can cheese the game with it with little effort, but it's really not that great compared to all the other arcane weapons. And Morgotts cursed sword is good, the main issue is the ash of war costs a shit ton of mp for the full combo, Eleanora's poleblade costs 4 times less mp than the morgotts cursed sword full combo and does way more dps.
@@Necrowarp_ I completely disagree with Reduvia being worse. Pretty sure it was tested and Reduvia fires faster. But you're supposed to hit them with the blade as well as the projectile for max bleed damage. I'm pretty sure it was already proven to have a higher dps. Don't get me wrong, I love the poleblade. th-cam.com/video/YBNBH37SsGE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tkmooDkYnk1EhEZD I think it's one of the most fun weapons to use. But unless you're spamming the ash of war, I've never encountered an MP issue with the cursed sword. Plus the cursed sword does knock back on the dash before even striking with the blade. Idk, I feel like the cursed sword trivializes more of the enemies that are kind of a pain normally. Such as the black knife assassins. I'll use all 3 of these weapons in a build anyway. But I've found Reduvia and the cursed sword to be amazing in some clutch situations where they out perform the poleblade but I haven't found a moment where the poleblade feels more necessary.
@@dorklord1804 reduvia only does more dps at high levels, and blood blade has a hitbox for the weapon as well, it isnt specific to reduvia. Also blood blade costs less fp but the first casting costs a bit of hp which is nothing at high levels. I like it as a backup weapon but it's a terrible primary weapon compared to the other arcane weapons. It's the first weapon I grab in any arcane playthroughs I do but I usually have it as a backup weapon if I need a ranged option and then use something like the bloody helice early on. Reduvia also does trash dps to any enemy immune to bleed since it's normal damage isnt very high without hemorrhage, other arcane weapons still decent base damage allowing them to hold their own way better as a primary weapon.
@@Necrowarp_ admittedly I played through the game around 12 times but only under two characters. So I don't have a ton of low-level experience. Also I would find it too boring to stick with just one weapon for a full playthrough so I've never used one specific weapon for every single boss. But yes we do this sucks on most bosses that are not susceptible to bleed. But if I had to pick one dagger to take though the entire game it would be Reduvia which I love to dual wield. But I admit it's not the best arcane weapon. I still think that title belongs to margot's cursed sword with the poleblade coming in at a close 2nd. But I'm also used to dual wielding the cursed sword with the bloodhound sword because it's fun. Also comboing wrath of gold with the cursed swords ash or war tends to work out fairly well. My MP is high enough that it doesn't bother me. But end of the day I like the magma blades more than anything (I realize they are not arcane.)
Best faith weapon is the sacred blade
I tried to like the death poker but to me it relies on its weapon art a little too much.
Do you not understand just how fucking hard it is to get the magma blade????? You are wild for even putting it on there
It is relatively easy if you run higher arcane - I know it’s still down to chance but you should realistically have it drop after 20/25 runs of the farm :)