ATTIRE: crowdmade.com/collections/rusty EQUIPMENT: rusty-3-shop.fourthwall.com Shit I missed in the graphics: → Perfumer Shield: Immunity +40 → Rift Shield: Focus +40 → Inverted Hawk and Distinguished are swapped for some reason in the end card → If there were any other mistakes, they are very likely somewhere in the intros for each shield because those graphics took an outrageously dumb amount of time to make.
Sometimes it feels like Rusty rankings are either "Here are some very objective good things about this item that make it a good find for stength and dex builds." Or "If you're in ng+40 using law of causality at exactly x-3564 y8735 z-9021 then lightning damage attacks from the frostbite resetter 9000 aren't blocked, like a magic nerd messing up his trick at the high school talent show and falling into a vat of apples."
That comparison was like deciding between sprintjumping for exactly 10.4 seconds while powerstancing the Greatsword of Damnation and Ranni's Moonblade to stunlock oxygen wasting combospammers weighing below 1503kg for approximately oneshitagazillion motion values upon fatrolling, Or using a good ol' bonk stick.
It'd be nice if that was actually how the in-game inventory actually looked, instead of weirdly low-resolution images of the equipment that sometimes won't even fit the full model of larger items
I've always used the brass shield because it just looks cool. Nice with the holy parry ash. I only now learned it's one of the best shields in the game LOL
I mean you get the verdigris shield right before the final boss of the dlc, it is functionally the best shield in the game, cuz you dont get to use that one until ng+
You can tell Moore to be sad forever and get all his armor simply by breaking the seal at the shadow keep or just pas t Bobby village. That can be done right after meeting Moore outside of Belurat
I'd gone through the whole game hardly using a shield at all. Consort Radahn, however, was giving me major problems. Mainly because I was at level 200 with a Scadutree Blessing of 15 and I didn't really want to go fragment hunting to get to 18 or even 20. I spent hours on him trying all kinds of things. Phase 1 was fine, but phase 2 really had me seeing red. I decided to try one last attempt for the day and I wanted to see how shielding his attacks instead of trying to roll them would go. I won. I won by using the brass shield, which I hadn't even upgraded once.
It’s funny because as an invader, when building for max burst damage on builds, I’m always using my left hand to boost something. Whether that’s two handing for the str boost and to activate the Two-handed sword talisman, or an offhand catalyst or seal that boosts my main attack spell. I would totally use it for an extra talisman slot in a bunch of my builds.
I love how rusty already put the brass shield at #1 last time, and then it got a huge guard boost buff. I sure wonder what's gonna be at the top this time.. (Besides verdigris, potentially. I found that one better than fingerprint for me)
The red thorn shield description makes me wonder if the armor alternatives thing was supposed to be more fleshed out, and possibly this would've been an item that served to teach you the thorn crest, which you could then add to better shields for fire reduction boost. I mean the alternatives thing DOES modify stats, but it is also remarkably shallow. It would explain the numerous crest shields, and the frequent flavor text about magical stat-boosting rivets/paint/whatever
One (EXTREMELY niche) advantage the crest shields from the DLC have over brass is their strength requirement being in the 11-15 range instead of 16-20, comfortably putting them within *one* talisman slot of a level 1 character being able to use them, rather than needing to dedicate two. Singlehandedly let my level 1 character play around with a lot more toys than she used to be able to, especially alongside the curseblade mask's +5 dex. This is also a niche that the banished knight shield had, but serpent and wolf's specialized resistances ended up being far more useful to me in the dlc.
Curseblade mask opens up so many dex options in rl1 it’s goated. Let me use dragonscale blade with only one Talisman to boost dex and no dex physick, which was my favorite rl1 run by far.
As a Str/Fth Paladin main, my heart was redeemed by your frustration at the Crucible Horn Shield. And your take on the Dragonclaw Shield was unexpected but fair.
39:52 thank you for the visual here, I listened to this the first time and thought “huh that sounds like it would be a great visual” and now I’m watching thru my second time and that made my day
Absolutely insane that the dueling shield is as low as it is. It's not meant to be another generic offhand shield. The whole point of thrusting shields is that they're a weapon and a shield at the same time. It's meant to be two-handed to get the full use of its moveset and its static blocks simultaneously. Blocking frames during r1 recovery, during r2 windups, able to block and poke like a spear-and-shield build, deals pierce damage so you don't lose out on the counter damage buff, synergizes super well with THST insanely well because it's meant to be two-handed, guard counters do insane damage and also keep your guard up for part of the animation just like every other attack, Deflecting Hardtear is literally right there-this weapon is essentially a shield-and-spear build on crack with half to a third of the weight.
51:25 If the entire point is using Fingerprint Stone Shield as a weapon, it's still the best for that purpose. You only lose out on 20-40 AR depending on your Strength since the Fingerprint has higher Strength scaling, which is extremely negligible. It also can have its Ash of War switched out for something actually useful like Shield Bash for a very good option for blocking while you attack (though it's still worse than just using your running R1), or Shield Crash for the absolutely broken damage it deals, and the stun against lighter targets. There's also the madness buildup which isn't much, but can help in PVP.
The Blood affinity on a Str/Arc Shield Crash Fingerprint used to straight-up delete people before Shield Crash's status buildup got nerfed, and with the new DLC gear it's still very useful for making other players very unhappy. Adam Barker has a great video on the former, Gigasthiccas for the latter.
Can we just take a sec appreciate how fucking cool the graphical layouts for the equipment Rusty has in these newer videos are? Cause they're really fucking cool
I never understood the people that cried about the weapon. Wish I got to use it when it was apparently an actual good late game weapon before complainers ruined everything like usual. It’s arguably a terrible weapon now given the time you can acquire it.
Weird choice to praise Verdigris for it's damage, despite the fact that the most viable method of deleting an enemy with a shield is Shield Crash, which the Fingerprint shield can get and Verdigris cannot. It's the precise reason I would rank Fingerprint above it.
I think one reason Fingerprint is lower is because the Madness buildup is basically useless and putting Shield Crash on it kinda just does the same level of damage as bonking with the shield, so it's a negligible upside? At least if I had to guess, I'm not a numbers genius tbh. At least Moore Charge has a shockwave and higher guard boost so it's got better utility, but that's kind of it. You can really just interchange the two
@@mistermaxie6487 It is definitely NOT comparable to bonking with the shield. Shield Crash is like 6 hits back to back, does extremely respectable poise damage, and in PVP it has the potential to oneshot a character with 60 Vigor. (depends on their defense values) That one room just before the last site of Grace before Maliketh. The one filled with water and a bunch of beastmen casting lightning...? Just the other day I needed to rush a host through there before an invader came up behind us an undoubtedly tried to use enemies to his advantage. One shield crash deleted every single one of those enemies in there in record time, allowing us to push through before the invader could play off the mobs.
Yeah the Fingerprint Shield being usurped is absolute cope, it's way more versatile defensively and offensively thanks to infusions and AoW selection while still being incredibly capable at the things that the Verd can do better (which is basically just guard boost, not like the Fingerprint is a slouch there). It's so much more flexible and so good at all of the things it can do that it will never not be best in slot, and by a wide margin at that
28:35 finally someone tested the shield of night! Every streamer I’ve seen try it just hits the ash, sees low damage, and gets rid of it. In reality it’s quite good when leveled to +10 and used correctly. I tore through the game in a challenge run with it in NG+1 and had no issues.
I recently used te perfumer shield for a perfumer theme build... i used it once, to parry the aging untouchable. But hey it looks kinda cool on my back
I dunno...fingerprint could also do goofy stuff like a bleed build (bleeding with shields lol) and still has affinity and arts options. You could even do stuff like barricade shield if you want on it. Sure its not the highest guard stability anymore, but its still one of the highest even to this day.
The timing of this couldn't be more funny and surreal. I was looking up your previous shield video to try and pick one for the build I was starting today and then this had been posted like 30 min before. Which is EXACTLY what happened with the last shield video! Maybe I do need a VPN because I feel like my mind is being read lol!
Icon shield is awesome. Get dinged while exploring and my hero can go stand in a corner with this equipped while I check my phone and viola I'm all healed up without using a potion.
Before the patch that knocked out shield skills picking up weapon buffs the Smithscript shield was probably the 0th shield in terms of just slapping things.
Brass at second place... Will always be MY number one and has a special place in my hearth.....droped it at my first run as a mage :D loved it since then....
Just giving my two cents no one asked about, but I really like the Icon Shield. I always put it on my back when fighting the Elden Beast (in my shield only character) or any boss I pretty much know the moveset almost entirely, Regen is really good when you only get hit once in a blue moon
I do not think he has ever made a video specifically ranking the seals for incantation casters, but has done the staves quite a lot. I would be pretty interested in that. Also, thanks for the videos in general.
32:39 It was long before 1.14 when i did it, but i put Shield Crash on this shield and it almost always proced bleed on any enemy that could bleed in one connecting crash. An extremely fun combination, imo.
29:55 - that got me a big ole belly laugh cuz HELL YEAH i want an outer god to cook my fish sticks faster if I go to the trouble of spraypainting a baking sheet gold!
@ no lmao, it, banished knights greatsword, and the inseparable get a sexier, better light attack combo than other greatswords when two handed, one handed their moveset is the same as all the others
This is one of those cases where it really should be multiple lists. People generally pick a shield within certain objectives that invalidates most of the options outright. Ranked by: blocking, damage, utility Blocking category would be ranked by resists and guard boost vs weight, mostly. Special consideration for guard counter effects, barricade, etc Utility would include random things like RTSR and turtle shield or that weird one that can parry spells. That sort of idea.
bro, what the fuck is this!?! your editing is so fancy. like I've been noticing an p tick but damn those results screens are crazy. keep up the steller job! also you sent my brain into a loop by having what I will assume is a mod replacing dodges with quick or bloodhounds step.
Well, my main may not have cracked the top 10, but happy to see it at 12. I will say I appreciate all the status resistance it gives across the board, on top of being just a damn sturdy shield too, and not as heavy as other options. Plus I do love the simple design adorning it.
thing with the dueling shields is they're both fun for me for not using as a shield, but rather as a weapon where i can also block and counter when needed with extremely high efficiency. What I really wish though comes from the patch they received - the stamina got consumed wrong so they could block and poke, which was bad. but it was really cool as an addition to guard frames when attacking normally, where if you timed it right you could get counter damage AND block the incoming attack, especially against bosses since it sort of gave you an alternate attack window. but now it tends to get you staggered if you aren't good enough at managing your stamina.
Fun fact about the Fingerprint shield, in case you didn't know: Infusing it with Bleed also gives its madness buildup Arcane scaling - meaning it'll build up madness faster the higher your arcane stat is, which is what makes this shield absolutely gross in PvP.
I love ECGS because it's the perfect balance of form and function being completely broken in some way. It's got great stats and great resistances, it's large enough to feel like it actually protects you without being so large that it gets in the way of looking at the game, the design is simple enough to not distract you while being detailed enough to not be boring, and black goes well with everything.
I just beat an all bosses run with only shields and your vid couldn't come at a better time. The nornal dueling shield is my fav though even if not for blocking.
Love the video as always, but I couldn't help but notice that the final chart isn't actually correct with what the video had stated. The wolf and serpent chest shields on the chart are rated as 21st an 20th respectively, but in the video itself they were 10th and 9th. Is the final chart at the end an earlier draft of the video?
I think you’re right about it being an early draft, he called the brass shield slightly better then the blue-gold kite, but ranked it lower on the chart lol
Shields was something I didn't put much thought into initially. I simply had the brass shield because it has good physical negation and was found early from grinding at Gate Front, but then came the DLC where bosses went nuts with their combos. I dabbled in learning parry then said, fuck it, and got the Fingerprint Shield to adopt a guard counter build 😂
I hope one day in one of those shots where Rusty's Messmer cosplay is in front of Bayle, Bayle is busy fighting a random enemy in his arena while Rusty doesn't acknowledge it and acts like nothing is wrong and continues the video
Have I given a single shit about any shield other than the jellyfish, brass, golden great shield or fingerprint shield? No. Am I going to listen to this whole video and be absolutely delighted? Hell yes
I did an entire all boss solo run using only banished knight related stuff, dragon cult, and draconic themed weapons. The only stats I didn't touch was Int/Arc. Beat Melania with parry only. Then later beat pre nerf Consort with parry only(storm wall not golden parry on both) as well. Oh, and I straight up can tank waterfowl dance with quarter of me stamina left. Long story short the Banished Knight Shield is goated and demands respect. It doesn't deserve this kind of slander. Thank you for your time. 😊
Rank the Convergence Mod stuff. Rank the changes they made from the base game, rank the new starting classes, rank the new unique weapons, sorceries, and incantations, rank the new talismans, rank the outfits, rank the quest lines-everything. You can do it, Rusty!
I honestly think that greatshields really need a buff to their hardness and a slightly lower guard bossy for some of them. I also think that shields shouldn't lose guard boost on affinity changes. Just think it would help status shields actually do something while also making shield bash builds actually do "ok" dmg without having to use the fingerprint build everytime
45:20 There actually *is* one more area where the banished knight shield wins out: it's strength requirement. A niche advantage to be sure, but when you're a rl1 masochist and those 2 points are the difference between needing an extra talisman slot to equip the thing or not, it's a pretty big deal.
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ATTIRE: crowdmade.com/collections/rusty
EQUIPMENT: rusty-3-shop.fourthwall.com
Shit I missed in the graphics:
→ Perfumer Shield: Immunity +40
→ Rift Shield: Focus +40
→ Inverted Hawk and Distinguished are swapped for some reason in the end card
→ If there were any other mistakes, they are very likely somewhere in the intros for each shield because those graphics took an outrageously dumb amount of time to make.
hey man, i hope you get a great night's sleep today! (oddly specific ik)
9:20 golden parry is worse than buckler parry (golden has 4 startup frames and 3 active frames buckler has 4 startup and 5 active
There's a strange, high pitched click noise near the start of the scorpion kite shield section
You’re the best distraction from politics, thanks.
@@jootersblaccat the sound is also in the messmer shield afterwards so I'm assuming that's from the song in the background.
it's only a matter of time until every scadutree blessing gets ranked
Obviously he’d first have to rank the golden seeds and the sacred tears
Oh boy!
i need that video in my life
I ' M S T I L L W A I T I N G O N T H E G R A S S T I E R L I S T !
Don't give him ideas
Sometimes it feels like Rusty rankings are either
"Here are some very objective good things about this item that make it a good find for stength and dex builds."
Or
"If you're in ng+40 using law of causality at exactly x-3564 y8735 z-9021 then lightning damage attacks from the frostbite resetter 9000 aren't blocked, like a magic nerd messing up his trick at the high school talent show and falling into a vat of apples."
That comparison was like deciding between sprintjumping for exactly 10.4 seconds while powerstancing the Greatsword of Damnation and Ranni's Moonblade to stunlock oxygen wasting combospammers weighing below 1503kg for approximately oneshitagazillion motion values upon fatrolling,
Or
using a good ol' bonk stick.
Fuck, I read this in his voice. Though you did forget the phrase "ass cheeks."
@@dashfire3185 You can't powerstance with two weapons at a time (I think you can't at least).
@mh6276 isn't powerstancing dual wielding weapons of the same class?
A shield video? Blocked.
Goddamnit take ur like and leave
Get out
Ha Ha, parred!
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absolutely adore the rotating rpg-like screen with stats for each item, it's so fun and I love seeing each design in full
Agreed, adds a nice little bit of immersion lol
It'd be nice if that was actually how the in-game inventory actually looked, instead of weirdly low-resolution images of the equipment that sometimes won't even fit the full model of larger items
1:56
To be fair, that stone sword key is also used to get to the iron whetblade and the funny dagger
The "ha ha" funny dagger or the "𝒽𝒶 𝒽𝒶" funny dagger?
@@davidhong1934 The "whoops you tripped and now you're dead" funny dagger.
Rusty it's been 3 minutes, where is the all boss ranking
"It's been a year rusty, I really miss you" 😢
Thank you!!
Part of me feels like he’d rather save that for the very bottom of the barrel despite us all wanting that video
I've always used the brass shield because it just looks cool. Nice with the holy parry ash. I only now learned it's one of the best shields in the game LOL
Yeah you get it very early on, which in turns make all the other medium shields you pick up later on completely useless.
Still debatably the best if you just want your shield to be a shield, and haven't gone hard strength build.
I mean you get the verdigris shield right before the final boss of the dlc, it is functionally the best shield in the game, cuz you dont get to use that one until ng+
You can tell Moore to be sad forever and get all his armor simply by breaking the seal at the shadow keep or just pas
t Bobby village. That can be done right after meeting Moore outside of Belurat
I'd gone through the whole game hardly using a shield at all. Consort Radahn, however, was giving me major problems. Mainly because I was at level 200 with a Scadutree Blessing of 15 and I didn't really want to go fragment hunting to get to 18 or even 20. I spent hours on him trying all kinds of things. Phase 1 was fine, but phase 2 really had me seeing red. I decided to try one last attempt for the day and I wanted to see how shielding his attacks instead of trying to roll them would go. I won. I won by using the brass shield, which I hadn't even upgraded once.
Like the new presentation for the stats rusty :3
22:25 I guarantee you, if you could put a talisman on your equip bar in the left hand, many people would. Sounds like a potential mod imo.
It’s funny because as an invader, when building for max burst damage on builds, I’m always using my left hand to boost something. Whether that’s two handing for the str boost and to activate the Two-handed sword talisman, or an offhand catalyst or seal that boosts my main attack spell. I would totally use it for an extra talisman slot in a bunch of my builds.
I love how rusty already put the brass shield at #1 last time, and then it got a huge guard boost buff. I sure wonder what's gonna be at the top this time.. (Besides verdigris, potentially. I found that one better than fingerprint for me)
Lol. Lmao, even.
I'm a sheild nerd, and I loved the last one you made too. Working on a new shield bash build, and here comes Rusty in clutch
The red thorn shield description makes me wonder if the armor alternatives thing was supposed to be more fleshed out, and possibly this would've been an item that served to teach you the thorn crest, which you could then add to better shields for fire reduction boost. I mean the alternatives thing DOES modify stats, but it is also remarkably shallow. It would explain the numerous crest shields, and the frequent flavor text about magical stat-boosting rivets/paint/whatever
That is a solid theory. The armour tailoring was one of the very few things that disappoint me about this game.
It's just showing that thorns are associated with fire.
@leadfaun this guy gets it.
The description also even notes the effect on the shield isn't much. Which is why they still suck.
Given that Count's armor starts boosting Finger sorceries only after you alter it, you might be onto something
@@exploertm8738Theres a couple other armor pieces that only have special effects in one form or another too.
A middle finger shirt is the best shirt to wear at a Family gathering
I’m honestly tempted to buy it
Glad you like it.
Made it with love.
5:54 she number 69 on my man-serpent.
Tell i shield
You forgot that the smouldering shield resets frostbite
One (EXTREMELY niche) advantage the crest shields from the DLC have over brass is their strength requirement being in the 11-15 range instead of 16-20, comfortably putting them within *one* talisman slot of a level 1 character being able to use them, rather than needing to dedicate two. Singlehandedly let my level 1 character play around with a lot more toys than she used to be able to, especially alongside the curseblade mask's +5 dex. This is also a niche that the banished knight shield had, but serpent and wolf's specialized resistances ended up being far more useful to me in the dlc.
Curseblade mask opens up so many dex options in rl1 it’s goated. Let me use dragonscale blade with only one Talisman to boost dex and no dex physick, which was my favorite rl1 run by far.
As a Str/Fth Paladin main, my heart was redeemed by your frustration at the Crucible Horn Shield. And your take on the Dragonclaw Shield was unexpected but fair.
39:52 thank you for the visual here, I listened to this the first time and thought “huh that sounds like it would be a great visual” and now I’m watching thru my second time and that made my day
Absolutely insane that the dueling shield is as low as it is. It's not meant to be another generic offhand shield. The whole point of thrusting shields is that they're a weapon and a shield at the same time. It's meant to be two-handed to get the full use of its moveset and its static blocks simultaneously. Blocking frames during r1 recovery, during r2 windups, able to block and poke like a spear-and-shield build, deals pierce damage so you don't lose out on the counter damage buff, synergizes super well with THST insanely well because it's meant to be two-handed, guard counters do insane damage and also keep your guard up for part of the animation just like every other attack, Deflecting Hardtear is literally right there-this weapon is essentially a shield-and-spear build on crack with half to a third of the weight.
i misheard coffee mug for coloring book and nearly just accepted that a coloring book of Rusty giving you the massive middle finger existed now
51:25 If the entire point is using Fingerprint Stone Shield as a weapon, it's still the best for that purpose. You only lose out on 20-40 AR depending on your Strength since the Fingerprint has higher Strength scaling, which is extremely negligible. It also can have its Ash of War switched out for something actually useful like Shield Bash for a very good option for blocking while you attack (though it's still worse than just using your running R1), or Shield Crash for the absolutely broken damage it deals, and the stun against lighter targets. There's also the madness buildup which isn't much, but can help in PVP.
The Blood affinity on a Str/Arc Shield Crash Fingerprint used to straight-up delete people before Shield Crash's status buildup got nerfed, and with the new DLC gear it's still very useful for making other players very unhappy. Adam Barker has a great video on the former, Gigasthiccas for the latter.
@IdToaster Even without status, its still a beast in terms of raw damage on the Heavy affinity.
Is there a shield that resets frostbite with fire damage?
yes
Visage shield can throw fire with ash while you apply frost with a spear.
Smoldering shield does
RE! SET! FROSTBITE!
RE - RESET! FROST! BITE!
@@bb2fiddler MY POINT EXACTLY 🗣️💥🔥
_Rusty now has drip:_
And coffee mugs too...
Heh... Drip. Coffee.
I hear the sweaters reset frostbite when you wear them
Rusty, i blame you for every time i get the urge to play elden ring again
Love all the ranking videos you make. I like to fall asleep watching these in bed - in a good way.
Wildest thing about this video is learning that your pfp has a variant that smiles
Can we just take a sec appreciate how fucking cool the graphical layouts for the equipment Rusty has in these newer videos are?
Cause they're really fucking cool
6:48
It's not an Elden Ring mantra, it's the mantra for pretty much 98% of video games
the strongest shield against everybody is still the smell of a rivers of blood user
Man the stench of a person who *still* complains about RoB is miles worse
I never understood the people that cried about the weapon. Wish I got to use it when it was apparently an actual good late game weapon before complainers ruined everything like usual. It’s arguably a terrible weapon now given the time you can acquire it.
@@Yesterdayswednesdayidk man i just like complaining
@ hahahahha you beauty 🥹🥹
Weird choice to praise Verdigris for it's damage, despite the fact that the most viable method of deleting an enemy with a shield is Shield Crash, which the Fingerprint shield can get and Verdigris cannot. It's the precise reason I would rank Fingerprint above it.
I think one reason Fingerprint is lower is because the Madness buildup is basically useless and putting Shield Crash on it kinda just does the same level of damage as bonking with the shield, so it's a negligible upside? At least if I had to guess, I'm not a numbers genius tbh. At least Moore Charge has a shockwave and higher guard boost so it's got better utility, but that's kind of it. You can really just interchange the two
@@mistermaxie6487 It is definitely NOT comparable to bonking with the shield. Shield Crash is like 6 hits back to back, does extremely respectable poise damage, and in PVP it has the potential to oneshot a character with 60 Vigor. (depends on their defense values)
That one room just before the last site of Grace before Maliketh. The one filled with water and a bunch of beastmen casting lightning...? Just the other day I needed to rush a host through there before an invader came up behind us an undoubtedly tried to use enemies to his advantage. One shield crash deleted every single one of those enemies in there in record time, allowing us to push through before the invader could play off the mobs.
Yeah the Fingerprint Shield being usurped is absolute cope, it's way more versatile defensively and offensively thanks to infusions and AoW selection while still being incredibly capable at the things that the Verd can do better (which is basically just guard boost, not like the Fingerprint is a slouch there).
It's so much more flexible and so good at all of the things it can do that it will never not be best in slot, and by a wide margin at that
Did you know, you could strike an enemy with the Smoldering Shield to reset Frostbite🤔
let's goo more random tierlists I can listen as background noise
I love how you can draw witty lines and funny jokes feom objectively unremarkable items like drawing blood from a stone
There are a lot of crests for shields, it ranges from a Hawk, to a horse, to a flame... thats pretty cool
We need a shield **aesthetics** video from you now, Rusty.
Your vids are so enjoyable, delivery, voice and analysis...and quite objective..I love maths..
28:35 finally someone tested the shield of night! Every streamer I’ve seen try it just hits the ash, sees low damage, and gets rid of it. In reality it’s quite good when leveled to +10 and used correctly. I tore through the game in a challenge run with it in NG+1 and had no issues.
I recently used te perfumer shield for a perfumer theme build... i used it once, to parry the aging untouchable. But hey it looks kinda cool on my back
I dunno...fingerprint could also do goofy stuff like a bleed build (bleeding with shields lol) and still has affinity and arts options. You could even do stuff like barricade shield if you want on it.
Sure its not the highest guard stability anymore, but its still one of the highest even to this day.
Shield Crash bleed Fingerprint Shield is nasty, I love using it in PVP to screw over braindead bleed users
getting the like counter to 100 is my greatest life achievement
You kinda... You kinda should want a little more in life than that
I can not communicate adequately just how much i love the random inserts of Rusty having a schizophrenic, existential crisis 😂
The timing of this couldn't be more funny and surreal. I was looking up your previous shield video to try and pick one for the build I was starting today and then this had been posted like 30 min before. Which is EXACTLY what happened with the last shield video! Maybe I do need a VPN because I feel like my mind is being read lol!
Icon shield is awesome. Get dinged while exploring and my hero can go stand in a corner with this equipped while I check my phone and viola I'm all healed up without using a potion.
It’s dark times rn but it always puts a smile on my face to see a new Rusty vid
I always look forward to these videos. Also that animation at the end showing the final ranking was sick!
The icon shield is way higher, you can stack that with blessed due and healing incantations
I really like this page with stats on it format. Very aesthetically pleasing and helpful! Also yay shields!
the little floating shield display at the start of each entry is super great please keep something like that in
Before the patch that knocked out shield skills picking up weapon buffs the Smithscript shield was probably the 0th shield in terms of just slapping things.
The best shield will always be pressing the dodge button at the right time
Deflect Hardtear absolutely demolishes most DLC bosses though.
Brass at second place...
Will always be MY number one and has a special place in my hearth.....droped it at my first run as a mage :D loved it since then....
Just giving my two cents no one asked about, but I really like the Icon Shield. I always put it on my back when fighting the Elden Beast (in my shield only character) or any boss I pretty much know the moveset almost entirely, Regen is really good when you only get hit once in a blue moon
I do not think he has ever made a video specifically ranking the seals for incantation casters, but has done the staves quite a lot. I would be pretty interested in that. Also, thanks for the videos in general.
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It was long before 1.14 when i did it, but i put Shield Crash on this shield and it almost always proced bleed on any enemy that could bleed in one connecting crash. An extremely fun combination, imo.
29:55 - that got me a big ole belly laugh cuz HELL YEAH i want an outer god to cook my fish sticks faster if I go to the trouble of spraypainting a baking sheet gold!
With all the thoughts in this video about 1.14, now I want to see Rusty rank all the Elden Ring patches
0:55 one handing a kgs💀
But… that’s… what it’s for…
@ no lmao, it, banished knights greatsword, and the inseparable get a sexier, better light attack combo than other greatswords when two handed, one handed their moveset is the same as all the others
This is one of those cases where it really should be multiple lists. People generally pick a shield within certain objectives that invalidates most of the options outright.
Ranked by: blocking, damage, utility
Blocking category would be ranked by resists and guard boost vs weight, mostly. Special consideration for guard counter effects, barricade, etc
Utility would include random things like RTSR and turtle shield or that weird one that can parry spells. That sort of idea.
In a world without good ranking videos one man will rise above
Awesome video, loved the new stat page for the subject of the list!~
bro, what the fuck is this!?! your editing is so fancy. like I've been noticing an p tick but damn those results screens are crazy. keep up the steller job!
also you sent my brain into a loop by having what I will assume is a mod replacing dodges with quick or bloodhounds step.
Criminally underrated channel. Rusty is a fantastic wordsmith.
Blacksteel GS better be NO.1 that thing is insane, I'll come back once I've finished the video
Damn data crazy
Jesus Rusty I am sitting here bored senseless. ..
Thanks!!!!
Bro.... thanks
I love the video, but can I just say how much I love the display with all the stats
Well, my main may not have cracked the top 10, but happy to see it at 12. I will say I appreciate all the status resistance it gives across the board, on top of being just a damn sturdy shield too, and not as heavy as other options. Plus I do love the simple design adorning it.
Love from a Tulock&Mango and Vaush fan!
holy shit fellow vowshite what are you doing here
@prohikikomo Doing my best to support great creators like Rusty in the algorythm : )
Ha! The fandom overlap is real
Next rank everything in Elden ring. Spirit ashes, ashes of war, enemies, quests, bosses, endings, npcs, weapons, shields, armor sets, areas, items, consumables, sites of grace, great runes, talismans, osts, color pallets, trees, spells, incantations, skyboxes, map fragments, field bosses, rune farms.
thing with the dueling shields is they're both fun for me for not using as a shield, but rather as a weapon where i can also block and counter when needed with extremely high efficiency. What I really wish though comes from the patch they received - the stamina got consumed wrong so they could block and poke, which was bad. but it was really cool as an addition to guard frames when attacking normally, where if you timed it right you could get counter damage AND block the incoming attack, especially against bosses since it sort of gave you an alternate attack window. but now it tends to get you staggered if you aren't good enough at managing your stamina.
Fun fact about the Fingerprint shield, in case you didn't know: Infusing it with Bleed also gives its madness buildup Arcane scaling - meaning it'll build up madness faster the higher your arcane stat is, which is what makes this shield absolutely gross in PvP.
As a DMC fan hearing the voice lines at the ends of your recent videos really helps stimulate my copium receptors. Thank you.
yo so glad you're going through everything after what i think is the final patches from the dlc, you absolute legend 😎
I love ECGS because it's the perfect balance of form and function being completely broken in some way. It's got great stats and great resistances, it's large enough to feel like it actually protects you without being so large that it gets in the way of looking at the game, the design is simple enough to not distract you while being detailed enough to not be boring, and black goes well with everything.
I just beat an all bosses run with only shields and your vid couldn't come at a better time. The nornal dueling shield is my fav though even if not for blocking.
Love the video as always, but I couldn't help but notice that the final chart isn't actually correct with what the video had stated. The wolf and serpent chest shields on the chart are rated as 21st an 20th respectively, but in the video itself they were 10th and 9th. Is the final chart at the end an earlier draft of the video?
I think you’re right about it being an early draft, he called the brass shield slightly better then the blue-gold kite, but ranked it lower on the chart lol
the switch up on the black leather shield is crazy
Worth going through the whole video for the final animation!
I didn't even know some of these existed until today. Thanks, Rusty.
Shields was something I didn't put much thought into initially. I simply had the brass shield because it has good physical negation and was found early from grinding at Gate Front, but then came the DLC where bosses went nuts with their combos. I dabbled in learning parry then said, fuck it, and got the Fingerprint Shield to adopt a guard counter build 😂
I'm eagerly awaiting an "Ranking Every Joker In Balatro" video
im so glad that verdigris is getting the recognition it deserves at this rate its practically the giants shield from dark souls 1 when fully upgraded
I hope one day in one of those shots where Rusty's Messmer cosplay is in front of Bayle, Bayle is busy fighting a random enemy in his arena while Rusty doesn't acknowledge it and acts like nothing is wrong and continues the video
First time I played through the DLC I got to the Abyssal Woods & the Perfumer's Shield was the only thing I had that could parry lmao
45:45 The best spot to farm it in actually has two Banished Knights that you farm over and over again.
We’re back and you know its a ranking as always
Thanks for giving us our dose of rusty ranking.
wow, great video, extremely informative AND comically entertaining.. i love it... great job.. keep up the great work Rusty.....
The black leather shield is probably modelled after a scottish targe. It's one of the most beautiful shield designs out there.
Have I given a single shit about any shield other than the jellyfish, brass, golden great shield or fingerprint shield? No. Am I going to listen to this whole video and be absolutely delighted? Hell yes
I did an entire all boss solo run using only banished knight related stuff, dragon cult, and draconic themed weapons. The only stats I didn't touch was Int/Arc. Beat Melania with parry only. Then later beat pre nerf Consort with parry only(storm wall not golden parry on both) as well. Oh, and I straight up can tank waterfowl dance with quarter of me stamina left. Long story short the Banished Knight Shield is goated and demands respect. It doesn't deserve this kind of slander. Thank you for your time. 😊
the smoldering shield bit absolutely killed me.
Rank the Convergence Mod stuff.
Rank the changes they made from the base game, rank the new starting classes, rank the new unique weapons, sorceries, and incantations, rank the new talismans, rank the outfits, rank the quest lines-everything.
You can do it, Rusty!
I honestly think that greatshields really need a buff to their hardness and a slightly lower guard bossy for some of them.
I also think that shields shouldn't lose guard boost on affinity changes. Just think it would help status shields actually do something while also making shield bash builds actually do "ok" dmg without having to use the fingerprint build everytime
45:20 There actually *is* one more area where the banished knight shield wins out: it's strength requirement. A niche advantage to be sure, but when you're a rl1 masochist and those 2 points are the difference between needing an extra talisman slot to equip the thing or not, it's a pretty big deal.
25:00 that backflip was sick!
The perfumer's shield have only one job : being part of my perfumer's run as cosplay.
Do I actually give a single shit about shields? No. But I never get tired of Rusty’s creativity for banger insults and analogies.
At 31:14 I noticed you using the Tekken 4 airport arena theme song I love that beat