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Extra note on the Clayman's Harpoon: Giving it a Faith-based infusion allows it to keep Intelligence as the second scaling factor, making it a good weapon for FTH/INT builds.
@@personeater2664 I played with the SoNaF for the entire game after I got to altus plateau, and the way they scaled it, it's able to perform just fine at base stats. As long as you keep steadily upgrading Int and Fth it'll rarely let you down. And if you really need more stat points for it to be good, slap on marika's scar/soreseal, best talismans for fth/int builds.
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There is one small cool thing about the basic Spear. If you go kill Patches in Murkwater Cave, which is in Limgrave, he drops a +7 Spear, meaning you can pick up a somewhat upgraded weapon really early which will save you some resources if the Spear isn't the infusible spear you actually want to invest in
@@From_A_Diverging_Timeline yup you're definitely right there, it's not too hard to speed run to get the smithing stone bell bearing for upgrades to +6, so killing patches for a +7 not so great weapon is not really worth it.
@@santumyar the helm , greaves and gloves arnt awful but yeah the chest peice is pretty ugly. I use lionels helm, gloves and greaves with the raptor black feathers chest peice and it looks pretty cool and gives I think 53 poise. So the first break point
Since he didn't mention it, I'd like to point out that the Bolt of Gransax is AMAZING against Malenia. She doesn't dodge it if you fully charge the weapon skill, and you can use it to attack her from WAY outside her range. You'll still need to learn her moves for phase 2 as she will manage to catch up to you sometimes and/or will reach you with Waterfowl Dance, but this weapon was by far the easiest way I found to fight her.
Ironically enough, Radahn's greatswords are one of her banes, too, as she takes big ass stagger every single time you press R1, and is knocked down everytime you press L2 two times.
Spears are really one of the most versatile weapons in Elden Ring. Having that extra reach on enemies can be a god send in certain situations and since a lot of baddies have to be really close to attack, it's easy to get hits in and be at a safe distance, plus it does good poise stagger to a good chunk of them. Also, enemies tend to "line up" or stack up when you back away so you can stab multiple baddies with one thrust. They are also the best weapon to use on Torrent. They are not the best or the flashiest, but they are very reliable in a lot of situations.
Naginata really deserves to be used by itself without powerstancing to let the elegant moveset shine. Remember that while one-handing it, the roll/crouch attack is a long fast poke rather than the borderline useless short swipe of the 2H moveset, and you barely lose any damage one-handing on a dex build. This also allows you to keep a buckler, seal, or sidearm etc in the left hand at all times, giving you more immediate on-demand options. I tend to carry a Wakizashi in the left hand to deal with close-range emergencies like dogs and imps where the Naginata has trouble. And of course Impaling Thrust is a disgustingly good move for this weapon.
I used Naginata powerstanced with Bolt of Greatsex lol. I was just blasting lightning spears at enemies for the most of time and wielded Naginata for badass fashion.
Occult infusion works really well on the spiked spear and cross naginata because it allows your arcane stat to scale both the base bleed and damage of these weapons. You loose out on around 10-30 AR over keen, but you gain up to 50 more bleed. The ash of war seppuku works well with these weapons as it buffs them with 30 attack power and 30 base bleed that scales with arcane.
I can't begin to thank you all for your hard work both here and on the wiki. I am sure you get comments all the time about 'why aren't you talking about my fav weapon category' but I was hoping you could do a video on shields. In all of the vids in this series so far you start off about talking about the different playstyles, and a majority of them have some sort of pairing with shields in a block counter style. I was hoping you could either go more in depth about which shield you would pair with which weapon and why when you start talking about your preferences with the individual weapons, or do a series of videos on the pros and cons of the different shields. It would certainly help a noob like me who kind of gets lost in the tables on the wiki.
2 things I noticed you missed: The partisan can be acquired way earlier by farming the godrick knight in front of gatefront ruins And the spiked spear dealing strike dmg with the heavy attack.
@@thedeadmeme7877 Use the wolves or jellyfish as your distraction. Later game, use hoarfrost stomp. Hoarfrost is my go to for farming. Acts as great crowdcontrol.
@@thedeadmeme7877 Run away towards the mountainside and jump up on the rocks. He's vulnerable in his jumping animation, so attack and then jump off again. Repeat until dead.
@@WizzlyBearW0rms you could always keep a cross naginata on you bc it deals both pierce and slash. you could also have a backup weapon for the instances where pierce isn’t viable. you could also just power through and deal with dealing less damage or try and use greases to build up status effects.
Pike is actually incredible weapon if you go with the strength based greatshield + spear build. It makes the game much easier and tou are roght to point out repeating thrust is a way to go with this weapon in the sense that it can also inflict status effects more quickly.
Another thing to note for the Clayman's: The thing is lovely for the the Ice Spear AoW. The native Int scaling lets it scale very well when changed to cold affinity, which makes it feel like the perfect pairing for an already amazing AoW,
Probably not, but it gives you a ranged option to take advantage of and likely scales the weapon better with INT, letting you hybrid optimally @@MrWigpeeler
@@Paradox484 Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl. I do like the great shield and poke style now I’m starting last third of game (I think). Damage is not spectacular but survivability is crazy.
Went with a 20/20 pike and cross naga. For early game. But I felt this points cold be distributed differently for a early game colossal. I feel that quality builds are better but sometimes the duel wield and damage with spears can be UNDERWHELMING. Example: I win with colossal but ify with duel spears in invasions and normal mobs in pve. Thank you for the video sir. I appreciate your work. I I love your wiki page. Helps a lot
One of my favorite characters, a dex/faith hybrid focusing on lighting incantations, uses the Gransax Bolt and a seal offhand in hybrid fashion. Very fun and effective. The spear is the primary ranged attack with the ancient dragon cult incantations for hard hitting, close in work. The Gransax's charged R2 does tremendous poise damage too.
Interesting! I beat the game with a dex arcane build running rivers of blood (used dex/int moonveil mid game) but I recently started new game + and have been trying a faith strength build running the bastard sword, its a lot of fun but I might try your build out, I need something a bit faster then what I've got now
@@vheataylorsyorkies7215 I went with dex/faith for that particular character because of the many synergies between dex and lightning damage. I have characters for pretty much every ma8n type of build including a Str/fth build using a clawmark seal for bestial incantations and crucible knight armor for the crucible incantations. He dual wields a pair of Iron Greatswords. All my characters are hybrids, I find straight melee to be too boring and spells are too shiny and fun to ignore. I will be starting a fire based character at some point, there are some very good fire weapons in the game.
It just occured to me while watching this but spears are actully the only weapon type I never used on any of my builds so far. Maybe it's time to change that now.
I’ve always loved spears as they are great weapons that have seen incredible amounts of use throughout human history but have been mostly slept on in media. I’m glad there are some good spear options in elden ring.
one of the reasons i like fromsoftware games so much is that they don’t just jerk off swords endlessly like most fantasy media. Halberds, spears, axes, and tons of other historical weapons are pretty much all viable
Torch pole is actually pretty good early game Since its fire damage is a static number added on your base damage And it being a torch makes it pretty good for safely clearing out dark areas Its more of a utility than a weapon
Clayman's Harpoon its so good for int/hybrid builds, occult for arc/int and sacred for fai/int. Even heavy is good for str/int with an A en str scaling and D en int scaling
Wow, like 2-3 days ago I wrote a comment in on of your videos that I wish you make a video this type with spears and bam, there it is lol, can you please make one with great spears as well ? Love your work, so much needed information.
We need the Ringed Knight Spear in this game, after playing Nioh 2 soulsborne spears are more boring than before. Reason why I like using the guardian spear and Loretta sickle.
After Nioh 2, almost all fromsoft games are boring as hell, with the exception of level design. Team Ninja literally does everything From does, only less boring, less lovecraftian and less lore heavy. Don't get me wrong, I loved all the souls titles. I've platinumed them all without hesitation. Nioh's combat, build customization and character creation is just lightyears ahead. Souls combat is hollow in comparison and don't even get me started on how a dark souls "build" comes down to a couple stats and a few accessories. Lol
The banished knight halberd was pretty sick and I just like it's move set. I fully upgraded the halberd with holy rings ash of war(forgive me I forgot its name at the moment) and with my 70 faith it would just devastate.
Fantastic work as usual and it's always awesome to see combos for weapons I don't get to use, but I'm kinda surprised that the occult infusion isn't mentioned for weapons like the spiked spear and cross-naginatta? Also a question to anyone that knows, as I'm not certain if it would be viable or not, would the sacred/flame infusion be a plausible infusion on the clayman's spear for death/golden order builds that aim for high levels of intelligence and faith?
I regularly don't mind enemies having pierce resistance because we love fromtsoft for making us have different weapon slots. And I also use the Partisan by 2-handing it because it looks cool and I can go past 1k Attack Rating (including my buffs, mostly just 680 AR at base which is still very good)
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Ever since Drang Twin-spear in dark souls 3 I’ve been in love with the dual spear sets. As expected my favorite spear is disproportionately poor, but the Iron spear just looks so cool 😎
You mentioned Inquisitor's girandole being good for ng+, but didn't quite get the point across, it has one of the best dual wield dps (third best at max level), and significantly outranges the other high dps max level options, along with bleed build up. Optimal stat spread can be reached around ng+2. It also has similar scaling to the magma blades, which have the best dps in the entire game.
When you are dex small weapons built but you realize you need a spear to kill dragons because they are hard to reach and they are weak to thrust, bolt of gransax is perfect, because it also has 20% bonus damage to dragons
just please don't use it agaisnt Lansseax or Fortissax. It only deals +10% against ancient dragons and those two have 80% lightning resist. Also it does no extra damage against Placidusax, cause that one isn't a dragon or ancient dragon EDIT: better use a pure piercing damage spear with dragonwound grease (+20% against ancient dragons) against those 2
I fell in love with spears and staffs when I played dark souls and got Ornstein’s spear. I don’t know why but using a spear or staffs with such precision using the length as leverage for more powerful and precise attacks just tickles me right
I have a feeling that the Bolt of Cransax WA does more damage on targets standing in water, but that would need to be confirmed. UPD: just remembered that water and rain reduces the overall resistance to lightning, goes for both player and mobs.
Question: When the top few affinities are shown along with their attack power values, wouldn't the character's stats affect those values? Don't we need to know the character's stats for those attack power values to have any meaning? For example if the character has 80 intelligence but every other stat is low, then the attack power of the Magic affinity would be much higher than the rest but it wouldn't be a meaningful comparison. I think I am probably missing something obvious - please help me understand how the attack power values of each affinity can be compared without additional context like character stats. Thanks 🤔
You are right. I'd recommend checking out Chrightt's weapon guides instead. They are much more detailed and show all the stats when talking about infusions and are also at a specified level of stat investment.
Death Ritual Spear and staff for spiral shards, ambush, and thops barrier. I only really swing with it for criticals or charged heavy 2h attacks of opportunity. Also i have Bolt of gransax and glinstone kris, same story, though but with godfrey icon. The ash of war is basically another spell. Mimic tear spamming death ritual spear with you is a sight against larger targets. The summon doesnt use bolt of gransax correctly, but the knockdown effect I use to kite. If you time it right the target rolling becomes a rather insignificant issue
Golden great shield with barricade shield and bolt of gransax is such a good combo. Took me 2 try’s to beat malenia in my first ever souls run. (People may consider it cheese but it was fun for me)
One thing I've always disliked with basically every spear in Souls games is that they're all pokes. Spears can slash and bonk with the other end. Swords get plenty of varied movesets, but it seems like they just couldn't be asked to make spears cool. Santier's Spear in (once again, the best out of the bunch) Dark Souls 2 had what I was looking for.
Been waiting for this 😊 Edit: I was a little too excited and didn't realize they would not cover the big ol' spears (which is my favourite next to greatswords and katanas)
Great content as always, quick check on info, the partisan says "can be acquired early on in the game from the knight in Fort Gael in weeping peninsula." Fort Gael is in Caelid, not weeping peninsula right ?
I recommend checking the occult scaling for the partisan if I remember correctly it's around 50 scaling better then heavy and keen which also opens the option for status greases
1) no. Occult infusion is always weaker scaling for arcane than either heavy for strength or keen for dex (depending on the weapon) 2) you cannot use greases on an occult weapon
ahh the short spear, the king of spears for myself as a Prophet, I will admit I'm a touch biased since the Short Spear (and morningstar too) carried me through my first playthrough as a pure faith build and it complimented EVERY SINGLE STARTING INCANTATION/ASHES OF WAR WE FAITH USERS GET, and I'm including everything found in Limbgrave, Weeping Peninsula, and Stormveil Castle; Catch Flame is the Prophets main form of up close and personal high damage, nothing beats its fp-damage efficiency for us, even late game it's a MONSTER. but spear allows you to either attack people trying to stay out of CF range or bait people to roll into your CF casts since it can also chain cast off of...pretty much any animations, CF is the faith builds Carian Slicer. Heal gets some help from it as you can *technically* space out someone to get a cheeky heal in, i've done it a number of times and the level of aggressive action a player takes seeing you take that knee and let off a heal never gets old (and even better when you punish them with a stab or CF) Flame Sling.. ah flame sling, how I love you, you've baited plenty of people into CF or my spear arts in the early levels and helped me with my crowd clearing issues Flame of Frenzy, while being an obviously great early crowd/giant killer, again you can bait to bring someone closer for stabs with the spear. Lighting Storm is...well it's flame of frenzy but lightning basically but chain casts and random cone of attack zones, great in water and I mean G R E A T, tips with FoF applies here really, it's just lightning instead of fire. however the chain cast is cheeky if an enemy tries to back off because you can quickly send out a wall of sparks at them. Black Flame and Black Flame Blade... yeah if you were worried about damage, these save your spear, great damage, AMAZING MAX HP BLEED, and in reference to BFB, it's amazing on the spear. fast attacks, fast cast, theoretically you only need to hit a clown with it 20 times atmost, and they'll die to that cheeky burn you applied. Ashes of War? it can use a wide array of them tbh, more than i can recall but it's clever to either get a multi hit AoW and apply bleed/BFB, or get something for crowds. although as a Pure Faith build I reccomend one keeps it standard, lets you buff it until you get the good stuff yknow? speaking of good stuff... Black Flame Tornado... yeah that's gunna slap on a Flame Art Short Spear. in short, short spear is king and prophets should be fears, specially if they have a better shield by the time you meet one.
I'm curious to know how you're gonna handle the upcoming DLC with this series. The most comfortable option, imo, would be to make a DLC weapons are the best weapon in Elden ring, but maybe you have other ideas in mind (I guess it'll all depend on how many weapons the DLC introduces).
@@common_undead I think it's because, unlike with other spears, the double power attack is a faster extending forward strike, makes attacking, and instantly rolling away so much easier. But tbh, with the amount of sheer magic spammers in pvp, i honestly don't feel guilty about it. I bow before and after fights, rather than being a toxic dick when winning, plus i wear near 0 armor, the rotten duelist set, Elden Bling ect,
Just curious when you're going to do Heavy spears because my first playthrough I use the tree spear the whole playthrough before even understanding the bosses could be resist to holy
I have a lovely pvp build using two clayman harpoons! One infused with magic in the offhand, and one uninfused so you can buff it in the main hand. It really chews through people
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We all know the strongest spear here is torch pole.
Great hammers next plz. love the vids
One handed axes! I want to see what can be done with the Sacrificial Axe with the assassin's trinkets. So much FP regen
Minor note about spiked spear vs. partizan: spiked spear R2 does strike damage, partizan R2 does slash
What is r2?
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Extra note on the Clayman's Harpoon: Giving it a Faith-based infusion allows it to keep Intelligence as the second scaling factor, making it a good weapon for FTH/INT builds.
One of the _three_ only weapons that can be int/fth actually. The other two being Erdsteel Dagger (with magic infusion) and Sword of Night and Flame.
No it splits scaling 3 ways and makes it terrible, there are no good fth/int weapons before 60/60
@@UraBless Are we not counting staves as weapons or
Facts Iv been shredding with an int faith claymans harpoon in pve and pvp
@@personeater2664 I played with the SoNaF for the entire game after I got to altus plateau, and the way they scaled it, it's able to perform just fine at base stats. As long as you keep steadily upgrading Int and Fth it'll rarely let you down. And if you really need more stat points for it to be good, slap on marika's scar/soreseal, best talismans for fth/int builds.
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There is one small cool thing about the basic Spear.
If you go kill Patches in Murkwater Cave, which is in Limgrave, he drops a +7 Spear, meaning you can pick up a somewhat upgraded weapon really early which will save you some resources if the Spear isn't the infusible spear you actually want to invest in
+7 spear or bullgoat armor. Hard choice
@@From_A_Diverging_Timeline yup you're definitely right there, it's not too hard to speed run to get the smithing stone bell bearing for upgrades to +6, so killing patches for a +7 not so great weapon is not really worth it.
@@From_A_Diverging_Timeline It is a shame that the best armour in the game (in terms of protection and poise) has such a poor fashion.
@@santumyar the helm , greaves and gloves arnt awful but yeah the chest peice is pretty ugly. I use lionels helm, gloves and greaves with the raptor black feathers chest peice and it looks pretty cool and gives I think 53 poise. So the first break point
@@santumyar It would be nice if you could alter it and remove the horns.
Since he didn't mention it, I'd like to point out that the Bolt of Gransax is AMAZING against Malenia. She doesn't dodge it if you fully charge the weapon skill, and you can use it to attack her from WAY outside her range. You'll still need to learn her moves for phase 2 as she will manage to catch up to you sometimes and/or will reach you with Waterfowl Dance, but this weapon was by far the easiest way I found to fight her.
That and Rykards sword. It knocks her over every time with the AOW and you regain a lot of health per hit
@@JohnPyne-wk1ug That's cool. Haven't fought her with that one yet
Ironically enough, Radahn's greatswords are one of her banes, too, as she takes big ass stagger every single time you press R1, and is knocked down everytime you press L2 two times.
I beat her with the guts greatsword
@@Gnome-kc7pr no guts, no glory
Spears are really one of the most versatile weapons in Elden Ring. Having that extra reach on enemies can be a god send in certain situations and since a lot of baddies have to be really close to attack, it's easy to get hits in and be at a safe distance, plus it does good poise stagger to a good chunk of them. Also, enemies tend to "line up" or stack up when you back away so you can stab multiple baddies with one thrust. They are also the best weapon to use on Torrent.
They are not the best or the flashiest, but they are very reliable in a lot of situations.
I can't wait for his video on Torches.
The content I was waiting for, spears builds! Well done Fextra!
Naginata really deserves to be used by itself without powerstancing to let the elegant moveset shine. Remember that while one-handing it, the roll/crouch attack is a long fast poke rather than the borderline useless short swipe of the 2H moveset, and you barely lose any damage one-handing on a dex build. This also allows you to keep a buckler, seal, or sidearm etc in the left hand at all times, giving you more immediate on-demand options. I tend to carry a Wakizashi in the left hand to deal with close-range emergencies like dogs and imps where the Naginata has trouble. And of course Impaling Thrust is a disgustingly good move for this weapon.
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I used Naginata powerstanced with Bolt of Greatsex lol. I was just blasting lightning spears at enemies for the most of time and wielded Naginata for badass fashion.
@@Вейн-э5бdang that’s exactly what I’m doing
Occult infusion works really well on the spiked spear and cross naginata because it allows your arcane stat to scale both the base bleed and damage of these weapons. You loose out on around 10-30 AR over keen, but you gain up to 50 more bleed.
The ash of war seppuku works well with these weapons as it buffs them with 30 attack power and 30 base bleed that scales with arcane.
I can't begin to thank you all for your hard work both here and on the wiki. I am sure you get comments all the time about 'why aren't you talking about my fav weapon category' but I was hoping you could do a video on shields. In all of the vids in this series so far you start off about talking about the different playstyles, and a majority of them have some sort of pairing with shields in a block counter style. I was hoping you could either go more in depth about which shield you would pair with which weapon and why when you start talking about your preferences with the individual weapons, or do a series of videos on the pros and cons of the different shields. It would certainly help a noob like me who kind of gets lost in the tables on the wiki.
2 things I noticed you missed:
The partisan can be acquired way earlier by farming the godrick knight in front of gatefront ruins
And the spiked spear dealing strike dmg with the heavy attack.
I had to do early farming for the partisan when I was starting out, so yeah.
That fuckin godrick knight is hard af to farm man
@@thedeadmeme7877 Use the wolves or jellyfish as your distraction. Later game, use hoarfrost stomp. Hoarfrost is my go to for farming. Acts as great crowdcontrol.
@@thedeadmeme7877 Run away towards the mountainside and jump up on the rocks. He's vulnerable in his jumping animation, so attack and then jump off again. Repeat until dead.
@@thedeadmeme7877theyre weak to backstab fishing
I was thinking of spears yesterday and it's strange to discover you just got around to these. This game is massive.
LETS GOOOO!! i’ve been waiting for the spear vid for my next build! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos!!
I want to do a spear build but how is it viable if there are enemies resistant to pierce.. would need a back up dagger or somethinf
@@WizzlyBearW0rms you could always keep a cross naginata on you bc it deals both pierce and slash. you could also have a backup weapon for the instances where pierce isn’t viable. you could also just power through and deal with dealing less damage or try and use greases to build up status effects.
You should try one of the shield types, I think it'd be interesting to see them rated
Yes! I was waiting for this video a good long time. Thank you.
Pike is actually incredible weapon if you go with the strength based greatshield + spear build. It makes the game much easier and tou are roght to point out repeating thrust is a way to go with this weapon in the sense that it can also inflict status effects more quickly.
Another thing to note for the Clayman's: The thing is lovely for the the Ice Spear AoW. The native Int scaling lets it scale very well when changed to cold affinity, which makes it feel like the perfect pairing for an already amazing AoW,
Is that likely better overall damage (leaving aside advantage of frostbite) than staying standard and using Scholars Armament?
Probably not, but it gives you a ranged option to take advantage of and likely scales the weapon better with INT, letting you hybrid optimally @@MrWigpeeler
@@Paradox484 Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl. I do like the great shield and poke style now I’m starting last third of game (I think). Damage is not spectacular but survivability is crazy.
Went with a 20/20 pike and cross naga. For early game. But I felt this points cold be distributed differently for a early game colossal. I feel that quality builds are better but sometimes the duel wield and damage with spears can be UNDERWHELMING. Example: I win with colossal but ify with duel spears in invasions and normal mobs in pve. Thank you for the video sir. I appreciate your work. I I love your wiki page. Helps a lot
I'm glad that you still make these videos
You had the opportunity to call this video "Spear Tips" and you lost it.
Thank you for continuing to make these videos, could you make a video on fist weapons next?
About the partizan: Fort Gael is not in Weeping Peninsula, it's in Caelid. Also you can drop this spear in Gatefront Ruins in Limgrave.
I'd love to see a Great Spear video soon -- I need to know how my most beloved weapon, the Treespear, measures up!
One of my favorite characters, a dex/faith hybrid focusing on lighting incantations, uses the Gransax Bolt and a seal offhand in hybrid fashion. Very fun and effective. The spear is the primary ranged attack with the ancient dragon cult incantations for hard hitting, close in work. The Gransax's charged R2 does tremendous poise damage too.
Interesting! I beat the game with a dex arcane build running rivers of blood (used dex/int moonveil mid game) but I recently started new game + and have been trying a faith strength build running the bastard sword, its a lot of fun but I might try your build out, I need something a bit faster then what I've got now
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I went with dex/faith for that particular character because of the many synergies between dex and lightning damage.
I have characters for pretty much every ma8n type of build including a Str/fth build using a clawmark seal for bestial incantations and crucible knight armor for the crucible incantations. He dual wields a pair of Iron Greatswords.
All my characters are hybrids, I find straight melee to be too boring and spells are too shiny and fun to ignore.
I will be starting a fire based character at some point, there are some very good fire weapons in the game.
Same its so fun to use, i feel like a fkn god when i have that setup
It just occured to me while watching this but spears are actully the only weapon type I never used on any of my builds so far. Maybe it's time to change that now.
Spears are definitely pretty fun. I've used the bolt of gransax and cross naginata and both are awesome.
This honestly couldnt be better timed. I just started playing with grandsaxas bolt. Very powerful ash of war
I've been waiting for this for so long! Thank you!
Can you do daggers next?
I have been dual wielding Vykes Warspear, it’s been an absolute winner despite its heavy weight, I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
Is it a great spear or spear. 2 different categories. Might be why
I’ve always loved spears as they are great weapons that have seen incredible amounts of use throughout human history but have been mostly slept on in media. I’m glad there are some good spear options in elden ring.
one of the reasons i like fromsoftware games so much is that they don’t just jerk off swords endlessly like most fantasy media. Halberds, spears, axes, and tons of other historical weapons are pretty much all viable
It's amazing seeing such great videos more than one year after the release of the game.
These videos are really great guides. I would love if there were written summaries on the wiki for reference.
A video like this on hammers would be fantastic! I know they aren’t the best but they’re still really fun to use!
hammers are p bad but i think axes are actually okay
Dude I had been looking forward to watching this video for a long time!
Been waiting for this one for awhile lol, ty~♡
Torch pole is actually pretty good early game
Since its fire damage is a static number added on your base damage
And it being a torch makes it pretty good for safely clearing out dark areas
Its more of a utility than a weapon
Thanks Fextra, looking forward to great spears!
Clayman's Harpoon its so good for int/hybrid builds, occult for arc/int and sacred for fai/int. Even heavy is good for str/int with an A en str scaling and D en int scaling
Celebrant Rib-Rake is something that I never want to have to say aloud. I'm afraid it'd come out "Celebant wib-wake"
would be nice to follow up with the Great Spears.
Great Video! The Tree spear is my go to for my build
Wow, like 2-3 days ago I wrote a comment in on of your videos that I wish you make a video this type with spears and bam, there it is lol, can you please make one with great spears as well ? Love your work, so much needed information.
Only thing I hate about spears is that they are thrusting weapons. Thrusting weapons are OP but in my opinion they’re boring.
This is why I love the Partisan. Got that heavy sweep when needed
Same! There are some like guardian tree spear that have unique move sets that’s not just a pokie poke only. Haha
Banished light halberd solves that and hits heavy. It can do a sweeping slash as well as a jumping downward slash.
We need the Ringed Knight Spear in this game, after playing Nioh 2 soulsborne spears are more boring than before.
Reason why I like using the guardian spear and Loretta sickle.
After Nioh 2, almost all fromsoft games are boring as hell, with the exception of level design. Team Ninja literally does everything From does, only less boring, less lovecraftian and less lore heavy.
Don't get me wrong, I loved all the souls titles. I've platinumed them all without hesitation. Nioh's combat, build customization and character creation is just lightyears ahead. Souls combat is hollow in comparison and don't even get me started on how a dark souls "build" comes down to a couple stats and a few accessories. Lol
Been waitin a long time for this!
Great video, I honestly always pass over spears and never really appreciated how they can be used. Would love to see Axes next!
Hoplite build would be sick thanks for the idea
Can’t wait for the great spear video!
The banished knight halberd was pretty sick and I just like it's move set. I fully upgraded the halberd with holy rings ash of war(forgive me I forgot its name at the moment) and with my 70 faith it would just devastate.
Fantastic work as usual and it's always awesome to see combos for weapons I don't get to use, but I'm kinda surprised that the occult infusion isn't mentioned for weapons like the spiked spear and cross-naginatta?
Also a question to anyone that knows, as I'm not certain if it would be viable or not, would the sacred/flame infusion be a plausible infusion on the clayman's spear for death/golden order builds that aim for high levels of intelligence and faith?
I regularly don't mind enemies having pierce resistance because we love fromtsoft for making us have different weapon slots. And I also use the Partisan by 2-handing it because it looks cool and I can go past 1k Attack Rating (including my buffs, mostly just 680 AR at base which is still very good)
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Ever since Drang Twin-spear in dark souls 3 I’ve been in love with the dual spear sets.
As expected my favorite spear is disproportionately poor, but the Iron spear just looks so cool 😎
This was a very helpful vid. I learned something as usual from the info. Thank you very much.
Finally, an adequate person in this comment section
I named my character Kuroki Gensai AKA The Devil Lance and was maining a spear for a very long time. Twas very useful and helpful
You mentioned Inquisitor's girandole being good for ng+, but didn't quite get the point across, it has one of the best dual wield dps (third best at max level), and significantly outranges the other high dps max level options, along with bleed build up. Optimal stat spread can be reached around ng+2. It also has similar scaling to the magma blades, which have the best dps in the entire game.
When you are dex small weapons built but you realize you need a spear to kill dragons because they are hard to reach and they are weak to thrust, bolt of gransax is perfect, because it also has 20% bonus damage to dragons
I did not know this about Bolt of Gransax, thank you
just please don't use it agaisnt Lansseax or Fortissax.
It only deals +10% against ancient dragons and those two have 80% lightning resist.
Also it does no extra damage against Placidusax, cause that one isn't a dragon or ancient dragon
EDIT: better use a pure piercing damage spear with dragonwound grease (+20% against ancient dragons) against those 2
@@Gorbag100 thank you very much, my friend. Love/hate how complex certain enemies are when it comes to weaknesses in these games lol.
⭐️Outstanding spear presentation! ⭐️
Thanks for sharing.🙏🏼
I fell in love with spears and staffs when I played dark souls and got Ornstein’s spear. I don’t know why but using a spear or staffs with such precision using the length as leverage for more powerful and precise attacks just tickles me right
Another awesome breakdown video. I see both a Zulu warrior and Spartan build in my future. "ZULU! ZULU!" "SPARTANS! What is your profession!?!?"
I never imagined when I picked up an ugly harpoon from the goons in Siofra that it'd become one of the most important weapons in my playthrough.
I've been waiting for this!
Fantastic video. 10/10
Babe wake up new Fextralife lore just dropped
Thanks for the information
I love this content so much!
I have a feeling that the Bolt of Cransax WA does more damage on targets standing in water, but that would need to be confirmed.
UPD: just remembered that water and rain reduces the overall resistance to lightning, goes for both player and mobs.
Hell yeah, another Fextra Elden video 😊 always makes me want to log back on and play around with my build each time. Also gets me pumped for the DLC 👌
I would love to see a hammers showcase next!
Another great vid! Thank you!
Dude love this build guides man. Any chance for some PvP builds?
Question: When the top few affinities are shown along with their attack power values, wouldn't the character's stats affect those values? Don't we need to know the character's stats for those attack power values to have any meaning? For example if the character has 80 intelligence but every other stat is low, then the attack power of the Magic affinity would be much higher than the rest but it wouldn't be a meaningful comparison.
I think I am probably missing something obvious - please help me understand how the attack power values of each affinity can be compared without additional context like character stats. Thanks 🤔
You are right. I'd recommend checking out Chrightt's weapon guides instead. They are much more detailed and show all the stats when talking about infusions and are also at a specified level of stat investment.
Do y'all have the casting tools video out yet? I think that would be interesting
Finally!!! Thank You
hey Cas, big fan of your guides! I really want to play as a 2-handed spearman, is there any setup where you would recommend that?
Can you make a build with the dragon king's cragblade (ng+)
Good video!
Death Ritual Spear and staff for spiral shards, ambush, and thops barrier. I only really swing with it for criticals or charged heavy 2h attacks of opportunity. Also i have Bolt of gransax and glinstone kris, same story, though but with godfrey icon. The ash of war is basically another spell. Mimic tear spamming death ritual spear with you is a sight against larger targets. The summon doesnt use bolt of gransax correctly, but the knockdown effect I use to kite. If you time it right the target rolling becomes a rather insignificant issue
Great spears and flairs would be nice. I wanna make a build around these but I can’t decide on what to do.
bro you guys still on elden ring....respect man...no joke
Naginata and Patches' spear are the only spears I've used. And another call out for Daggers or Claws/Fists
Golden great shield with barricade shield and bolt of gransax is such a good combo. Took me 2 try’s to beat malenia in my first ever souls run. (People may consider it cheese but it was fun for me)
One thing I've always disliked with basically every spear in Souls games is that they're all pokes. Spears can slash and bonk with the other end. Swords get plenty of varied movesets, but it seems like they just couldn't be asked to make spears cool. Santier's Spear in (once again, the best out of the bunch) Dark Souls 2 had what I was looking for.
Bolt of Gransax almost made me change from a strength faith to a dex build
Been waiting for this 😊
Edit: I was a little too excited and didn't realize they would not cover the big ol' spears (which is my favourite next to greatswords and katanas)
It's too bad the Cleanrot Spear doesn't give more guard boost with that little shield and the defensive posture the Knights use. Thanks for the video!
Great content as always, quick check on info,
the partisan says "can be acquired early on in the game from the knight in Fort Gael in weeping peninsula."
Fort Gael is in Caelid, not weeping peninsula right ?
I recommend checking the occult scaling for the partisan if I remember correctly it's around 50 scaling better then heavy and keen which also opens the option for status greases
1) no. Occult infusion is always weaker scaling for arcane than either heavy for strength or keen for dex (depending on the weapon)
2) you cannot use greases on an occult weapon
ahh the short spear, the king of spears for myself as a Prophet, I will admit I'm a touch biased since the Short Spear (and morningstar too) carried me through my first playthrough as a pure faith build and it complimented EVERY SINGLE STARTING INCANTATION/ASHES OF WAR WE FAITH USERS GET, and I'm including everything found in Limbgrave, Weeping Peninsula, and Stormveil Castle;
Catch Flame is the Prophets main form of up close and personal high damage, nothing beats its fp-damage efficiency for us, even late game it's a MONSTER. but spear allows you to either attack people trying to stay out of CF range or bait people to roll into your CF casts since it can also chain cast off of...pretty much any animations, CF is the faith builds Carian Slicer.
Heal gets some help from it as you can *technically* space out someone to get a cheeky heal in, i've done it a number of times and the level of aggressive action a player takes seeing you take that knee and let off a heal never gets old (and even better when you punish them with a stab or CF)
Flame Sling.. ah flame sling, how I love you, you've baited plenty of people into CF or my spear arts in the early levels and helped me with my crowd clearing issues
Flame of Frenzy, while being an obviously great early crowd/giant killer, again you can bait to bring someone closer for stabs with the spear.
Lighting Storm is...well it's flame of frenzy but lightning basically but chain casts and random cone of attack zones, great in water and I mean G R E A T, tips with FoF applies here really, it's just lightning instead of fire. however the chain cast is cheeky if an enemy tries to back off because you can quickly send out a wall of sparks at them.
Black Flame and Black Flame Blade... yeah if you were worried about damage, these save your spear, great damage, AMAZING MAX HP BLEED, and in reference to BFB, it's amazing on the spear. fast attacks, fast cast, theoretically you only need to hit a clown with it 20 times atmost, and they'll die to that cheeky burn you applied.
Ashes of War? it can use a wide array of them tbh, more than i can recall but it's clever to either get a multi hit AoW and apply bleed/BFB, or get something for crowds. although as a Pure Faith build I reccomend one keeps it standard, lets you buff it until you get the good stuff yknow?
speaking of good stuff... Black Flame Tornado... yeah that's gunna slap on a Flame Art Short Spear.
in short, short spear is king and prophets should be fears, specially if they have a better shield by the time you meet one.
Ah, my fellow spear enjoyer, I’m happy to see someone else who like playing with these delightful poking sticks
Vykes War Spear FTW. GREAT Spears! Where are youuuuuuuu?
I like the sowed spear dropped by the dudes who chill by the trees
I'm curious to know how you're gonna handle the upcoming DLC with this series. The most comfortable option, imo, would be to make a DLC weapons are the best weapon in Elden ring, but maybe you have other ideas in mind (I guess it'll all depend on how many weapons the DLC introduces).
Needed this!
Love this, but still waiting on my Great Spears vid 😅
In pvp, weapon range decides SO much!
I've taken out so many people duel wielding the cross naginata, and i SUCK!
Duel cross naginata is one of the most cancerous setups so it's understandable.
@@common_undead I think it's because, unlike with other spears, the double power attack is a faster extending forward strike, makes attacking, and instantly rolling away so much easier. But tbh, with the amount of sheer magic spammers in pvp, i honestly don't feel guilty about it. I bow before and after fights, rather than being a toxic dick when winning, plus i wear near 0 armor, the rotten duelist set, Elden Bling ect,
Nice! Great Spears next please!
Just curious when you're going to do Heavy spears because my first playthrough I use the tree spear the whole playthrough before even understanding the bosses could be resist to holy
I love how all his weapon videos are (*name of thing* are OP) no hate I am loving these videos
Can't wait for the great spears
Seeing as it can only be used on select weapons and actually works quite well, I’m disappointed the ice spear ash of war wasn’t at least mentioned.
I have a lovely pvp build using two clayman harpoons! One infused with magic in the offhand, and one uninfused so you can buff it in the main hand. It really chews through people