For me sticking them with a sword or blasting them with a spell works. I have never gotten blighted/threatened by them by being aggressive. Everyone experiences enemies differently. 🖤🦎
@@Bubba4705 Some enemies are scripted to launch an attack when the player enters a specific spot. Most commonly, the imps in the catacombs activate their running attack when you near the corner they're hiding behind. This is also the case for some basilisks, which automatically launch a jumping spit when you get to a certain location for the first time. They then get pacified if you're carrying the Beast Repellent torch.
@@Rusty._ It's really good against Malenia too. I've been helping randoms fight her for the last little while and nerfing her max hp, staggering her, and melting her health over time is a great answer to her healing. Now if only I could find hosts who can dodge water fowl step...
Placidusax's Ruin comes out almost instantly with a burst of close range damage so it can be used to kill weakened enemies and enemy players pretty consistently, the actual breath part is kinda like it's recovery time but with the chance of damage
i saw a video in wich they tested how fast the lighning aoe comes in frames and it literally impossible to react for the human reaction time, i use it in pvp to finish enemies low on health
6:43, dragon bolt blessing doesn't give you lightning negation. It nerfs it into the floor. You throw it on and suddenly you have -7% lightning absorption. But yeah you use it to make weapons bounce off of you, best used with poise.
I was on a kick of using DB Blessing with Endure, Stamp-Cut, and/or very high poise and it was tons of fun. Stamp/Cut was my favorite because you get the momentary poise boost plus a great Ash, but Endure was straight up superior. You can basically stand there and fully charge an R2 with impunity in almost all cases lol
Elden starts has one use, my friend used it against malenia and she kept on trying to dodge every single shot which give him time to reapply buffs, definitely still one of the worst spells in the game but it does have a very niche (probably unintentional) use
funnily you can use marinate troops because their barrages of arrows causes enemies to spam evades like the godskin apostles do. just saying so you don't need to invest in elden stars.
I have found that its better used for PvP not as a damage dealer but to put preasure players that will just panic roll, then I just roll catch them with a running atack
16:35 unless it was removed since the last time I played, Placidusax' Ruin has an incredibly broken initial blast, of similar range and higher damage than Nobles Presence, that is INSTANT. It is basically a frame one explosion that has zero tells and can deal a massive chunk of someone's healthbar. PR is an incredible PVP tool to use on someone who has low health, and the effect can even stun and knock enemy players away to line them up to get hit by the rest of the breath attack.
@@KyokujiFGC with cast speed it's way faster. It's broken in pvp as a finisher. You can catch rolls and trade with it for free so once you're low health you can't even attack back because there is no attack fast enough to be unreactable with PR max cast speed.
See this, THIS is the kind of informational game video I’m looking for. No extensive and long intro, no catchphrase, no wasting 3-5 minutes talking about how cool or unique the subject is or explaining what it is and how to do it or get it. Just jumping right in with “y’all came here for specific information, you gone get it.” Thank you sir, gold star and a thumbs up.
Dragon maw is actually really awesome for breaking the initial hyper armor of crystalians. Good distance to them, first hit staggers and gives you enough time to cast it a second time and break their stance.
Word, maybe it's a little less useful in NG+ but for a first playthrough it can get some of the most relentless enemies off your back over and over again for an easy kill
Only human enemies, very niche uses if any. The soldiers in Leyndell might be the only human enemies worth using it on, and you can't even get it until the Subterranean Shunning Grounds. I'd love to hear where and how you found a use for it, though.
Catch Flame also has a pretty nice use. The beginning of your playthrough. It, out of all the classes starting spells, does a surprising amount of damage. So much in fact, that you can bring the two stonesword keys, and go into the dungeon in the starting area. Make your way to the boss area (there’s a statue in front of it), and you can deal like 300 damage bursts of fire. Eventually you can kill it for a decent summon, and 16000 runes
Tip for the darkness incantation: darkness reduces awareness to zero and unaware targets take extra damage so darkness would be great for a stealth build or a backstab build do note that the darkness actually has to hit the target and not just be in front of them
Every character I've rolled with I've gotten at least 12 faith and 10 arcane so they can use the Dragon Communion Seal (it weighs nothing) and Beastial Vitality (to top up health over time and conserve flasks). This with Godrick's Great Rune let's them also use the elemental fortification incantations as needed. It also grants access to Bloodflame Blade and Flame, Cleanse Me, which is the best status heal spell.
19:55 Bonus tip for unendurable frenzy, cerulean hidden and speckled hardtear in your flask for unlimited fp and extended madness endurance so you don't kick out from madness. Maybe not the best use for cerulean but very funny.
I hope this videos gets millions fam, I know how much work it had to be to make this man with the edits and gameplay and everything. This is my first video I’m seeing you but I appreciate your work fam. You’ve earned a sub
2:24 Chain casts are intentional, however some are glitched like magma breath. If you use catch flame while stationary (on the first cast), then magma breath, it will have a faster cast while also showing the dragon. Now otherwise, it's the glitch shown in video where it looks like a sorcery being cast (theres a sorcery, magma shot, that does the same thing so that's likely what the game is reading it as hence the faster animation.) Now the aspect of horns incantation glitch where you charge forward a second time while doing a different incantation is really stupid
Agree spell combos are cool and the few that incantations have is very great to have. Though kinda wish there was more coverage on what spell combos there are for incantations.
@@christianlangdon3766 it's mainly a matter of testing, most people just dont share what they find out, that and it's a matter of what's comfortable. Sadly not all spells get faster casts after another spell too.
@@LeveledRogue yea I understand that, some general rules are any spell capable of being cast a second time, since chain cast is a bit different as dragon claw is two different animation but can be combod cast though it is a bit buggy if you make it the third of a combo. My thing is I have yet to see one for some of the spells that could be pretty cool like Ice lightning spear would be dope and offset the delay of its cone damage.
For Placiduax Breath, you should have talked about it’s almost instant startup explosion that is a very good finisher in PVP. It’s also really good at roll catching
Elden Stars is great when invaded as it acts as a sort of poison? (as a dot) and if you rush after using it the enemy will take constant damage and it acts as a delayed attack. which can be used to devastating effect. also it has range... like... absurd... so it can be used to cheese a lot of stuff.
@@shugo5130 you can cross 17 foot ball field in 2 seconds? Lmao, but yeah people use this way way way to close to their targets and it's fun to demolish the fuck outta people who do. But when they use it at the proper distance you'd need to bloodhound step many times to barely catch them after the spell has already gone off, at which point they have a decent chance to dodge. If ya gotta switch to blood hound then typically you can't catch them
Also, sorry for the weird echo. I moved into a new place and my office room is still almost completely empty. Edit: No comments on how I'm finally using the Bloody Helice? I thought there would be a couple, lol
You can sort of control Placidusax by unlocking and tilting the stick around. The beam sweeps from left to right to left so tilt the stick from right to left to right to try and target a single area. Against enemies that get staggered by the beam, it's a giant chunk of guaranteed damage if you time and control it properly.
I have something of an adoration of the Aspect of the Crucible: Horn. I simply refer to it as the shoulder bash, and it is incredibly fun to use against players. Almost guaranteed stagger.
Pro tip: All the AoE healing spells do a fixed amount of 2 HKO damage to Revenants. This means even when you enter the later areas of the game, like the Haligtree, you don't necessarily have to use the more expensive healing spells for those types of enemies and you can instead just use Heal which only uses 32 FP. This means less Faith investment and less FP consumption which you might want to minimize anyway depending on your build. The only downside is that I think the range is increased on the bigger healing spells but you'd be surprised by the range and amount of active frames Heal has despite being the least powerful healing AoE spell.
Shadow Bait is great for a Miséricorde build. You can backstab, cast, and the enemy you just stabbed will target the bait, making for yet another effortless backstab.
Something of note that I found with the Rejection Incantation was that it was really good at breaking the poise of Crystalians. It would always knock them down and I'd just funnel them all into a corner and hit them while they stood up, and then use Rejection again to keep them stunlocked.
Death Lightning is a pvp version of Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike. It does less damage but causes Deathblight. Deathblight only effects other players. So if you like using ADLS in pve you can switch it with DL in pvp and have the same crowd control with added status damage.
This is Vaati level quality but applied to mechanics dude, well done Rusty! First video I've ever seen of yours, I'm now going to search your channel for more like this!
This is the first "Elden Ring Tips" video i've seen in ages that actually showed tips that aren't blatantly obvious. I actually learned some stuff today. A lot of stuff.
20:10, Vykes dragon bolt is literally electrify armament with a better great jar arsenal. At the cost of a body buff slot and getting your lightning negation tanked. If it had a 5 minute duration or something maybe it would be useful, as that would make it viable for long fights to increase equip load.
I've been using the second tip all the time in invasions at the haligtree but with fortisax spears, makes for a very dangerous payload to drop on oblivious hosts and their summons
Poison Mist is a decent way to silently kill a group of mobs where a backstab would otherwise alert the rest. It can also let you kill field bosses without aggro-ing them if you have the FP (and especially the patience) to pull it off. Everything else is mostly right on the money though.
I never knew Shabriri’s howl buffed damage dealt at all, I just assumed that was the masochist’s way of not having to use a talisman slot! Definitely going to be adding it to my build now!
Fortification spells are really OP in pvp, especially the magic one, you go from being two shot by moonveil to needing 4 to 5 hits which is really strong. In pve I would say they are helpful when you struggle against a boss, such as the holy dmg negation one against the final boss.
One big PvE tip with darkness is that it's essentially a free backstab. The way it breaks agro is by having the enemy stop whatever they're doing, and slowly walk to the center of the spell. For ~5 seconds they won't react to you unless you attack them. Shadowbait works better, though it only works on humanoids. But you can't get shadowbait until you hit the capital, so it's great for early game.
Lightning Spear also has the distinction of being one of the few spells Malenia CANNOT dodge if *uncharged*. Use this combined with a Spirit Ash summon like Tiche or a good Mimic setup and pelt her with Lightning til she dies. It keeps Malenia's aggro on you, so you need to keep your distance and know the dodge-timings of her attacks, but it does preserve your Spirit for phase 2.
I've found 2 very good uses for Elden Stars 1) In pvp it is VERY useful as a pressure spell, it moves slowly and makes people chain roll to avoid it giving you time to set up another spell Try using it the same way you would use something like ancient rancor or swarm of flies to set up one spell before you follow up with another 2) It has the longest range of any PvE incantation (including frenzied burst), it is great for farming, send one to the farthest mob you can see and then set up a dragon's breath to catch them all when they come to you
Another good use I found is in PVP, if you aren’t sure that someone might Gank you, send it down a hallway or into the air. If there is a player around it will force them out, letting you start the fight on your terms. It also absolutely makes your opponent waste time trying to outrun it.
Another tip for Frenzied Burst: It travels fast enough for bosses and enemies that dodge spells to still get hit by it. This includes Malenia - if you can find the spacing and have the FP, you can kill Malenia using nothing but frenzied burst
After almost 900 hours, using incantations in almost every build I've done, I thought I knew these pretty well, and yet I'm still learning new tricks, especially that one about dual casting Dragon Claw, that's amazing. Instantly saving this video to my favorites so I can come back to it whenever I'm thinking of building around a specific Incantation
9:48 this is incorrect, Flame grant me strength increases both physical and fire-affinity damage, says so in its description even. 9:58 Flame Protect Me only increases fire damage negation, so I dunno how it would save you from that grab.
Honestly Elden Stars is one of those abilities that gives people a false sense of belief like, "Oh, this does NO damage hah" and then the actual orb itself explodes on them and takes a good chunk of their health - to which...They're more careful and more likely to run away when it's cast. I use it all the time in PvP lol
I use Elden stars in PVP. I've found it useful for when your opponents won't leave the center arena and just post up for you to roll into a one-hit smash. Elden stars make everyone run around, making it easier to get closer.
Bonus tip for howl of Shabriri: it has the same charging animation as frenzied burst. A decently poised frenzy cleric can can make use of this in pvp. Open with Howl of Shabriri, either to hit or create space as you poke them with Vyke's Spear. If you want cast it a few more times. Switch to frenzied burst and charge it when the enemy is closing in. They'll back off thinking it's howl. Then they get blasted by a laser.
Frenzied Burst is especially unique among incantations, because you know how most powerful enemies are programmed to instantly dodge any projectile you fire? Frenzied Burst breaks that and makes them dodge only AFTER being hit, much like with the dark glintstone sorceries.
Honestly all your videos on the soulsborne games and eldenring are some of the best and most helpful I've seen, while still being funny and entertaining.
Something for Scarlet Aeonia; I've noted that if you cast it at the beginning of the Radagon fight, he will nearly 100% of the time get rotted and you'll be able to act before he finishes his starting animation.
I realize this video was pushing almost a year ago by this point, and the amount of work that goes into it is probably immense, but getting a patch 1.09 update to this video would be *phenomenal*
Man, I know this video really taxed you but I gotta say I’m really grateful you took the time to go thru all of these. I’m on NG+2 and level 320 and I learned ALOT. Thanks my guy!
Another tip for scouring black flame, you can actually throw it through pillars in the godskin duo fight to get free damage on the skinny idiot while he casts black flame or just stands there menacingly.
I actually have a tip for divine fortification. You can obtain it before fighting Margit. And since 60%of his attacks are holy damage, this incantation is really good for that.
Here's another tip for Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike: Cast it on horseback so you're not a total sitting duck. It's the only Ancient Dragon spell that doesn't get hyperarmor but it's also the only one you can cast on Torrent, so take advantage of that. Slowly sidle up between a dragon's legs as you're casting and watch that health bar plummet.
A quick note about placidusax ruin. There is an initial hit that occurs almost instantly after you cast the spell that has... actually solid damage, but most importantly can throw things back. Somebody runs at me in pvp for a jump attack, whip out ruin, catch them in the air, they go flying back only to be deleted by the lasers. Or just straight off a cliff. That was a really funny invasion.
Small tip, Bloodflame Blade can also dethaw any frostbitten enemies, that fire effect is not just for show. You can also take advantage of the current right hand buff bug that is still affecting shields and add frost infusion to the spiked palisade shield (which allows for a ton of frost buildup for some reason???) So now when you shield bash or shield crash, you'll freeze them, then bleed them
I've learnt to love the Flame Sling, doing my first DEX/FAITH build, bandit starting class with 14 arcane, and I managed to burn the Rune Bear boss to death. Such an underrated cast.
if your wondering elden stars use its for mimic tear, by using elden stars as mimic tear spam bosses like gurranq godfrey radagon or anything will go ham on you and tear mixing up thier combos in return giving you free hits!
another thing to add to black flame, and also drawstring greases, is that with a bit of practice, it can be a good tool in roll-catching, depending on how much of a delay the weapon your buffing gets between one R1 attack, the buff, and the next R1 attach, for obvious reasons your results may vary
Thanks for helping me bet Godfrey on ng+8 with this video. I thought Greyoll's roar was just another Rejection spell in disguise but the damage reduction it provides really saved my life.
I was watching the TH-cam app on my TV. I liked this guy’s video so much that I went all the way to my bedroom and grabbed my phone just to find it again to subscribe and like it. Great content. No stupid intro, no begging for a like or subscribe. 10 out of 10.
I noticed that a good chunk of enemies, whenever you critical hit them fall on their A5S and the time it takes them to get up is almost exactly the time it takes between the casting and actual firing of O'Flame so long as you wait for them to start the getting up animation, perfect for a follow-up to critical hitting an enemy and the stagger gives you time to roll away.
Use elden stars to make people panic roll in pvp/ guaranteed finish. U can also kinda counterract the long cast by putting darkness/blame flame ritual around urself.
practical tip for law of causality:cast the night maiden mist and enter it to receive the 5hits needed to start the retaliation timer for sure after less than four seconds .it make sure you can make it blast when you desire,at the cost of a few hp,but it also means you can time it with the blast from the explosive cracked tears and another spell like radagon's halo or the golden version or reject,or anything else you want like the godskin one or anything
for homed bolt just wanna mention that the ash of war lightning is the same as this but better since its less fp, faster cast, extremely short interval between casts, and it scales with your weapon
Another for Blackflame Blade, you can activate it whilst sprinting, giving it a cool animation and the opportunity to follow up immediately after activation.
Thank you _so much_ for just cutting straight to the chase with this video, none of the minute and a half of bullshit explaining what an incantation is or telling me to comment, like and subscribe. Just for that, you have earned a subscriber!
Aspects of the Crucible: Breath is literally only for the rats in Castle Morne when you need to farm Rune Arcs. A single Lansseax's Glaive into the room also works. I do think the breath deserves to have damage. Less than the dragon breaths, but way more than what it currently is. 🔥⚡
![กี่หมื่นฟ้า | Your Sky Series EP.1 [1/4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vLGjxFL6U_I/mqdefault.jpg)
The basilisks are beasts, so the beast-repellent torch is much better for dealing with them than Immutable Shield.
For me sticking them with a sword or blasting them with a spell works. I have never gotten blighted/threatened by them by being aggressive. Everyone experiences enemies differently. 🖤🦎
@@Kristalya wierd flex
@@genesisacevedo1095 ah I did not mean to brag or flex I wanted to give advice. 💕
I use the BR torch and it doesn't work for me on the basilisks
@@Bubba4705 Some enemies are scripted to launch an attack when the player enters a specific spot. Most commonly, the imps in the catacombs activate their running attack when you near the corner they're hiding behind. This is also the case for some basilisks, which automatically launch a jumping spit when you get to a certain location for the first time. They then get pacified if you're carrying the Beast Repellent torch.
He's one of the few TH-camrs that let's you know making videos is more of an inconvenience than anything. That apathy is why I subscribe.
I promise I don't hate making videos lmao
@@Rusty._ i dont trust you lol
@@Rusty._ *Presses F* - **Doubts**
@@Rusty._ and yet doesnt even bother to make an intro or an outro
@@BenedekLevai don't need those tbh. I want the content and the jokes, not a damn essay
Some of these incantations are too badass. Ancient Dragon Lightning is awesome
I've been using black blade a lot lately, the follow-up attack is so fun
@@Rusty._ It’s fun to blast a Gargoyle with it and watch the hp melt lmao
@@Rusty._ It's really good against Malenia too. I've been helping randoms fight her for the last little while and nerfing her max hp, staggering her, and melting her health over time is a great answer to her healing. Now if only I could find hosts who can dodge water fowl step...
@@Steamboat2016 Throw a frost pot when she's in the air, it procs and knocks her out of the animation.
@@MammalianCreature yea a buddy told me about this the other day. I haven't tried it yet tho
Placidusax's Ruin comes out almost instantly with a burst of close range damage so it can be used to kill weakened enemies and enemy players pretty consistently, the actual breath part is kinda like it's recovery time but with the chance of damage
the burst aoe is also lighting damage while the breath beam is holy damage
@@aganaom1712 I think the beam is fire
i saw a video in wich they tested how fast the lighning aoe comes in frames and it literally impossible to react for the human reaction time, i use it in pvp to finish enemies low on health
So what you're saying is that this is the Elden Ring version of Hyper Beam. Yeah, that makes sense.
@@Strawhat_KalBoth of you are technically right. It’s unique for being a breath attack that uses both types of damage.
6:43, dragon bolt blessing doesn't give you lightning negation. It nerfs it into the floor. You throw it on and suddenly you have -7% lightning absorption. But yeah you use it to make weapons bounce off of you, best used with poise.
Dragon bolt blessing with the lightning ram and bull goat set, an addition to the ultra-tank gear
I was on a kick of using DB Blessing with Endure, Stamp-Cut, and/or very high poise and it was tons of fun. Stamp/Cut was my favorite because you get the momentary poise boost plus a great Ash, but Endure was straight up superior. You can basically stand there and fully charge an R2 with impunity in almost all cases lol
Elden starts has one use, my friend used it against malenia and she kept on trying to dodge every single shot which give him time to reapply buffs, definitely still one of the worst spells in the game but it does have a very niche (probably unintentional) use
Free-aim and face away from Malenia and the shots should hit.
funnily you can use marinate troops because their barrages of arrows causes enemies to spam evades like the godskin apostles do. just saying so you don't need to invest in elden stars.
@@SaturninePlaces That's not the point.
I have found that its better used for PvP not as a damage dealer but to put preasure players that will just panic roll, then I just roll catch them with a running atack
Elden stars has some of the hardest reach
16:35 unless it was removed since the last time I played, Placidusax' Ruin has an incredibly broken initial blast, of similar range and higher damage than Nobles Presence, that is INSTANT. It is basically a frame one explosion that has zero tells and can deal a massive chunk of someone's healthbar. PR is an incredible PVP tool to use on someone who has low health, and the effect can even stun and knock enemy players away to line them up to get hit by the rest of the breath attack.
Pretty sure it still has that. I like to free aim it to keep the beam in about the same spot against big guys.
I would also note that its great to use dragon claw to bait people then use placidusax right after when they think they can punish you.
I think its start up has the same amount of frames as bloodhound step's recovery (4 frames on 60fps)
It's not frame 1. It's a 10f startup, but that's still incredibly fast for a game like Elden Ring.
@@KyokujiFGC with cast speed it's way faster. It's broken in pvp as a finisher. You can catch rolls and trade with it for free so once you're low health you can't even attack back because there is no attack fast enough to be unreactable with PR max cast speed.
See this, THIS is the kind of informational game video I’m looking for. No extensive and long intro, no catchphrase, no wasting 3-5 minutes talking about how cool or unique the subject is or explaining what it is and how to do it or get it.
Just jumping right in with “y’all came here for specific information, you gone get it.” Thank you sir, gold star and a thumbs up.
Dragon maw is actually really awesome for breaking the initial hyper armor of crystalians. Good distance to them, first hit staggers and gives you enough time to cast it a second time and break their stance.
12:39 Immutable Shield gives you 99% resistance against all elemental damage and status effect buildup but for whatever reason "bloodflame" pierces it
Litany of Proper Death also works against Death Bird and Death Rite Bird. It absolutely nukes them. 🙂
Aggressively t-pose towards the big birb of death
So does sacred slash. Probably better if you can't invest in litany.
18:25 shadow bait is actually pretty useful, use it near an enemy and it will completely ignore you, targeting the shadow you just created instead
Word, maybe it's a little less useful in NG+ but for a first playthrough it can get some of the most relentless enemies off your back over and over again for an easy kill
Only human enemies, very niche uses if any. The soldiers in Leyndell might be the only human enemies worth using it on, and you can't even get it until the Subterranean Shunning Grounds.
I'd love to hear where and how you found a use for it, though.
@@SaturninePlaces work really well on the omen in the shunning grounds.
@@SaturninePlaces Doesn't work on bosses (obviously)
Jail bait works better especially against genshin impact players
Catch Flame also has a pretty nice use. The beginning of your playthrough. It, out of all the classes starting spells, does a surprising amount of damage. So much in fact, that you can bring the two stonesword keys, and go into the dungeon in the starting area. Make your way to the boss area (there’s a statue in front of it), and you can deal like 300 damage bursts of fire. Eventually you can kill it for a decent summon, and 16000 runes
Tip for the darkness incantation: darkness reduces awareness to zero and unaware targets take extra damage so darkness would be great for a stealth build or a backstab build
do note that the darkness actually has to hit the target and not just be in front of them
Wait fr
You can also just two hand your left-hand seal to use the full cast of the mid-air dragon seals instead of switching it to your right hand
Correct
Every character I've rolled with I've gotten at least 12 faith and 10 arcane so they can use the Dragon Communion Seal (it weighs nothing) and Beastial Vitality (to top up health over time and conserve flasks). This with Godrick's Great Rune let's them also use the elemental fortification incantations as needed.
It also grants access to Bloodflame Blade and Flame, Cleanse Me, which is the best status heal spell.
Yeah getting all melee builds up to 15 faith for fgms and other buffs is necessary
19:05 Yes. Yes, people just react like that any time they see a nerf, regardless of whether something is still perfectly viable or effective.
19:55 Bonus tip for unendurable frenzy, cerulean hidden and speckled hardtear in your flask for unlimited fp and extended madness endurance so you don't kick out from madness.
Maybe not the best use for cerulean but very funny.
There’s a helm that boost damage if you have madness on you too. Then use iron flesh so when you go mad you won’t take much damage
TIL that you can "charge" unedurable Frenzy to extend it.
My Frenzy build just got a lot stronger
Naturally, this IS the best way to kill Gideon though.
I hope this videos gets millions fam, I know how much work it had to be to make this man with the edits and gameplay and everything. This is my first video I’m seeing you but I appreciate your work fam. You’ve earned a sub
I love how straightforward this video is
2:24 Chain casts are intentional, however some are glitched like magma breath. If you use catch flame while stationary (on the first cast), then magma breath, it will have a faster cast while also showing the dragon. Now otherwise, it's the glitch shown in video where it looks like a sorcery being cast (theres a sorcery, magma shot, that does the same thing so that's likely what the game is reading it as hence the faster animation.)
Now the aspect of horns incantation glitch where you charge forward a second time while doing a different incantation is really stupid
Agree spell combos are cool and the few that incantations have is very great to have. Though kinda wish there was more coverage on what spell combos there are for incantations.
@@christianlangdon3766 it's mainly a matter of testing, most people just dont share what they find out, that and it's a matter of what's comfortable. Sadly not all spells get faster casts after another spell too.
@@LeveledRogue yea I understand that, some general rules are any spell capable of being cast a second time, since chain cast is a bit different as dragon claw is two different animation but can be combod cast though it is a bit buggy if you make it the third of a combo.
My thing is I have yet to see one for some of the spells that could be pretty cool like Ice lightning spear would be dope and offset the delay of its cone damage.
Chain casts are not intentional.
Fromsoft has decreed chaincasting is unintentional.
For Placiduax Breath, you should have talked about it’s almost instant startup explosion that is a very good finisher in PVP. It’s also really good at roll catching
Elden Stars is great when invaded as it acts as a sort of poison? (as a dot) and if you rush after using it the enemy will take constant damage and it acts as a delayed attack. which can be used to devastating effect. also it has range... like... absurd... so it can be used to cheese a lot of stuff.
It's basically, "Can you dodge Elden Stars? Can you dodge triple light discus? Can you dodge both at once, asshole?"
Yea law of causality is the useless one
I love when invaders use elden stars. They think just like this, but little do they know. I will not hesitate to rush them, and end them.
@@shugo5130 you can cross 17 foot ball field in 2 seconds? Lmao, but yeah people use this way way way to close to their targets and it's fun to demolish the fuck outta people who do.
But when they use it at the proper distance you'd need to bloodhound step many times to barely catch them after the spell has already gone off, at which point they have a decent chance to dodge. If ya gotta switch to blood hound then typically you can't catch them
@@acrab6527 the answer is facetank Elden Stars and dodge the rest.
Also, sorry for the weird echo. I moved into a new place and my office room is still almost completely empty.
Edit: No comments on how I'm finally using the Bloody Helice? I thought there would be a couple, lol
Hey you, nerd. Yeah, you rusty.
Keep making good stuff. You’re on a roll.
Now do this with Ash of Wars
didn’t really notice one it’s ok (:
Not gonna lie I just legit thought you naturally sounded like a higher force like in the movies.
Nah I wanna know if your character is based off of Elric the White Wolf. Aka Womanslayer.
You can sort of control Placidusax by unlocking and tilting the stick around. The beam sweeps from left to right to left so tilt the stick from right to left to right to try and target a single area. Against enemies that get staggered by the beam, it's a giant chunk of guaranteed damage if you time and control it properly.
Csgo recoil control
I have something of an adoration of the Aspect of the Crucible: Horn. I simply refer to it as the shoulder bash, and it is incredibly fun to use against players. Almost guaranteed stagger.
Pro tip: All the AoE healing spells do a fixed amount of 2 HKO damage to Revenants. This means even when you enter the later areas of the game, like the Haligtree, you don't necessarily have to use the more expensive healing spells for those types of enemies and you can instead just use Heal which only uses 32 FP. This means less Faith investment and less FP consumption which you might want to minimize anyway depending on your build. The only downside is that I think the range is increased on the bigger healing spells but you'd be surprised by the range and amount of active frames Heal has despite being the least powerful healing AoE spell.
Shadow Bait is great for a Miséricorde build. You can backstab, cast, and the enemy you just stabbed will target the bait, making for yet another effortless backstab.
Something of note that I found with the Rejection Incantation was that it was really good at breaking the poise of Crystalians. It would always knock them down and I'd just funnel them all into a corner and hit them while they stood up, and then use Rejection again to keep them stunlocked.
Death Lightning is a pvp version of Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike. It does less damage but causes Deathblight. Deathblight only effects other players. So if you like using ADLS in pve you can switch it with DL in pvp and have the same crowd control with added status damage.
This is Vaati level quality but applied to mechanics dude, well done Rusty!
First video I've ever seen of yours, I'm now going to search your channel for more like this!
Rusty perfectly captures the balance between not giving a fuck and also putting a ton of love into his videos
8:09 the only good use for elden stars for me is to stagger giants because the little stars hit the face constantly
This is the first "Elden Ring Tips" video i've seen in ages that actually showed tips that aren't blatantly obvious. I actually learned some stuff today. A lot of stuff.
20:10, Vykes dragon bolt is literally electrify armament with a better great jar arsenal. At the cost of a body buff slot and getting your lightning negation tanked. If it had a 5 minute duration or something maybe it would be useful, as that would make it viable for long fights to increase equip load.
It's worse than great jar arsenal.
I .. somehow someway respectfully loved how you started this .. think I’ll sub 😭
12:50 they fixed inescapable frenzy in 1.04 to no longer scale off of right hand weapon crit damage
What does it scale with now
@@ong445 as of the most recent patch, it seems to scale entirely off of the upgrade level of the seal used to cast it
Bloodflame Blade is hilarious when you slap it on the Troll's Hammer
I've been using the second tip all the time in invasions at the haligtree but with fortisax spears, makes for a very dangerous payload to drop on oblivious hosts and their summons
Incredible idea for a series, and I love your sense of humour!
Poison Mist is a decent way to silently kill a group of mobs where a backstab would otherwise alert the rest. It can also let you kill field bosses without aggro-ing them if you have the FP (and especially the patience) to pull it off.
Everything else is mostly right on the money though.
“Howl of M. Night shyamalan” 😂
12:22 the haligtree solider having a seizure from you shouting him to death is hilarious
I never knew Shabriri’s howl buffed damage dealt at all, I just assumed that was the masochist’s way of not having to use a talisman slot!
Definitely going to be adding it to my build now!
I was expecting a single generalized tip you'd explain for the duration of the video but this is much better
Fortification spells are really OP in pvp, especially the magic one, you go from being two shot by moonveil to needing 4 to 5 hits which is really strong. In pve I would say they are helpful when you struggle against a boss, such as the holy dmg negation one against the final boss.
The aspect of the crucible horns is really good for farming the albinuraics in mohgywyn palace.
For the aerial dragon incantations, you can use your left hand talisman if you also have a talisman in your right hand
One big PvE tip with darkness is that it's essentially a free backstab. The way it breaks agro is by having the enemy stop whatever they're doing, and slowly walk to the center of the spell. For ~5 seconds they won't react to you unless you attack them.
Shadowbait works better, though it only works on humanoids. But you can't get shadowbait until you hit the capital, so it's great for early game.
Please do all ash of wars. Would be nice to learn them all. Great video 🥰
Going back to this video a year later , jeez the amounts of buffs , nerfs and fixes incantations got is nuts
Damn, this really shows how many incantations I missed, and I'm on my 7th Ng cycle.
Lightning Spear also has the distinction of being one of the few spells Malenia CANNOT dodge if *uncharged*. Use this combined with a Spirit Ash summon like Tiche or a good Mimic setup and pelt her with Lightning til she dies. It keeps Malenia's aggro on you, so you need to keep your distance and know the dodge-timings of her attacks, but it does preserve your Spirit for phase 2.
Crucible tail is amazing against crystalians.
2 charged casts will break their armor
Honed bolt is also really useful for baiting out malenias water fowl attack, if anyone is struggling with her.
I've found 2 very good uses for Elden Stars
1) In pvp it is VERY useful as a pressure spell, it moves slowly and makes people chain roll to avoid it giving you time to set up another spell
Try using it the same way you would use something like ancient rancor or swarm of flies to set up one spell before you follow up with another
2) It has the longest range of any PvE incantation (including frenzied burst), it is great for farming, send one to the farthest mob you can see and then set up a dragon's breath to catch them all when they come to you
Another good use I found is in PVP, if you aren’t sure that someone might Gank you, send it down a hallway or into the air. If there is a player around it will force them out, letting you start the fight on your terms.
It also absolutely makes your opponent waste time trying to outrun it.
I love messing around with incantations so thanks for putting this together.
Another tip for Frenzied Burst: It travels fast enough for bosses and enemies that dodge spells to still get hit by it. This includes Malenia - if you can find the spacing and have the FP, you can kill Malenia using nothing but frenzied burst
After almost 900 hours, using incantations in almost every build I've done, I thought I knew these pretty well, and yet I'm still learning new tricks, especially that one about dual casting Dragon Claw, that's amazing. Instantly saving this video to my favorites so I can come back to it whenever I'm thinking of building around a specific Incantation
we have rivers of blood at home - saint riot 2022
concise, no frills tips while still being engaging. subscribed
9:48 this is incorrect, Flame grant me strength increases both physical and fire-affinity damage, says so in its description even.
9:58 Flame Protect Me only increases fire damage negation, so I dunno how it would save you from that grab.
Cure poison is very handy for when you're low on flasks in a long dungeon and you realize you have like 8 meat dumplings in your inventory.
Am i the only one who wants a darkness buff? :(
Honestly Elden Stars is one of those abilities that gives people a false sense of belief like, "Oh, this does NO damage hah" and then the actual orb itself explodes on them and takes a good chunk of their health - to which...They're more careful and more likely to run away when it's cast. I use it all the time in PvP lol
How does he get his character model to be so thin? I like the way some of that armor looks but when I was trying to do it myself, I couldn't get it.
The hexinton cheat table has body proportion settings www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/48
@@Rusty._ Ah damn, so only a PC thing huh? Ah well, thanks for the quick reply.
I use Elden stars in PVP. I've found it useful for when your opponents won't leave the center arena and just post up for you to roll into a one-hit smash. Elden stars make everyone run around, making it easier to get closer.
11:19 it can also mark invisible assasins
Useful well put together and funny as hell video. I thank you very much. I subscribed once I stopped laughing so hard I was crying.
Bonus tip for howl of Shabriri: it has the same charging animation as frenzied burst. A decently poised frenzy cleric can can make use of this in pvp. Open with Howl of Shabriri, either to hit or create space as you poke them with Vyke's Spear. If you want cast it a few more times. Switch to frenzied burst and charge it when the enemy is closing in. They'll back off thinking it's howl. Then they get blasted by a laser.
Thank you for making this, I am planning to make a int-faith hybrid build so this is extremely helpful!
Frenzied Burst is especially unique among incantations, because you know how most powerful enemies are programmed to instantly dodge any projectile you fire? Frenzied Burst breaks that and makes them dodge only AFTER being hit, much like with the dark glintstone sorceries.
Honestly all your videos on the soulsborne games and eldenring are some of the best and most helpful I've seen, while still being funny and entertaining.
Something for Scarlet Aeonia; I've noted that if you cast it at the beginning of the Radagon fight, he will nearly 100% of the time get rotted and you'll be able to act before he finishes his starting animation.
I realize this video was pushing almost a year ago by this point, and the amount of work that goes into it is probably immense, but getting a patch 1.09 update to this video would be *phenomenal*
Man, I know this video really taxed you but I gotta say I’m really grateful you took the time to go thru all of these. I’m on NG+2 and level 320 and I learned ALOT. Thanks my guy!
Thank you for being quick and not dragging it out, much appreciated
Another tip for scouring black flame, you can actually throw it through pillars in the godskin duo fight to get free damage on the skinny idiot while he casts black flame or just stands there menacingly.
God just finished my first faith playthrough and saw how many incantations I missed... love to see it
I actually have a tip for divine fortification. You can obtain it before fighting Margit. And since 60%of his attacks are holy damage, this incantation is really good for that.
Here's another tip for Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike: Cast it on horseback so you're not a total sitting duck. It's the only Ancient Dragon spell that doesn't get hyperarmor but it's also the only one you can cast on Torrent, so take advantage of that. Slowly sidle up between a dragon's legs as you're casting and watch that health bar plummet.
A quick note about placidusax ruin. There is an initial hit that occurs almost instantly after you cast the spell that has... actually solid damage, but most importantly can throw things back. Somebody runs at me in pvp for a jump attack, whip out ruin, catch them in the air, they go flying back only to be deleted by the lasers. Or just straight off a cliff. That was a really funny invasion.
Frostbite Flail with Fire's Deadly Sin, the fastest way to bump Greyoll off of their mortal coil.
Small tip, Bloodflame Blade can also dethaw any frostbitten enemies, that fire effect is not just for show.
You can also take advantage of the current right hand buff bug that is still affecting shields and add frost infusion to the spiked palisade shield (which allows for a ton of frost buildup for some reason???) So now when you shield bash or shield crash, you'll freeze them, then bleed them
Fuck this is a treat compared to all the other ten minute videos that explain one spell.
This was great to watch, but I’d also like to say, your character looks badass and there’s a lot of nice outfit-weapon combos here.
I've learnt to love the Flame Sling, doing my first DEX/FAITH build, bandit starting class with 14 arcane, and I managed to burn the Rune Bear boss to death. Such an underrated cast.
if your wondering elden stars use its for mimic tear, by using elden stars as mimic tear spam bosses like gurranq godfrey radagon or anything will go ham on you and tear mixing up thier combos in return giving you free hits!
another thing to add to black flame, and also drawstring greases, is that with a bit of practice, it can be a good tool in roll-catching, depending on how much of a delay the weapon your buffing gets between one R1 attack, the buff, and the next R1 attach, for obvious reasons your results may vary
Thanks for helping me bet Godfrey on ng+8 with this video. I thought Greyoll's roar was just another Rejection spell in disguise but the damage reduction it provides really saved my life.
I was watching the TH-cam app on my TV. I liked this guy’s video so much that I went all the way to my bedroom and grabbed my phone just to find it again to subscribe and like it. Great content. No stupid intro, no begging for a like or subscribe. 10 out of 10.
I noticed that a good chunk of enemies, whenever you critical hit them fall on their A5S and the time it takes them to get up is almost exactly the time it takes between the casting and actual firing of O'Flame so long as you wait for them to start the getting up animation, perfect for a follow-up to critical hitting an enemy and the stagger gives you time to roll away.
Dope ghostmane build dude
I love these videos not only do they help to learn the spells but they also give a little demo of them so I don’t need to try them out myself.
Use elden stars to make people panic roll in pvp/ guaranteed finish. U can also kinda counterract the long cast by putting darkness/blame flame ritual around urself.
practical tip for law of causality:cast the night maiden mist and enter it to receive the 5hits needed to start the retaliation timer for sure after less than four seconds .it make sure you can make it blast when you desire,at the cost of a few hp,but it also means you can time it with the blast from the explosive cracked tears and another spell like radagon's halo or the golden version or reject,or anything else you want like the godskin one or anything
for homed bolt just wanna mention that the ash of war lightning is the same as this but better since its less fp, faster cast, extremely short interval between casts, and it scales with your weapon
Another for Blackflame Blade, you can activate it whilst sprinting, giving it a cool animation and the opportunity to follow up immediately after activation.
Thank you _so much_ for just cutting straight to the chase with this video, none of the minute and a half of bullshit explaining what an incantation is or telling me to comment, like and subscribe.
Just for that, you have earned a subscriber!
Aspects of the Crucible: Breath is literally only for the rats in Castle Morne when you need to farm Rune Arcs. A single Lansseax's Glaive into the room also works. I do think the breath deserves to have damage. Less than the dragon breaths, but way more than what it currently is. 🔥⚡
For vykes dragon bolt you forgot about the “looks fucking awesome” status buff