I was initially really excited about how they expanded the item system at the launch of Elden Ring. But as time goes on, I find the system more and more tedious as, more often than not, you have to go out of your way to collect all of the cracked pots, materials, and recipes in order to benefit from them. Sure, some of the simple ones like fire pots and volcano pots can be very useful, but all of the rare ones just get absolutely glossed over because farming for materials in Elden Ring just isn't a task that most wanna bother with. I just wish we got more bell bearings to buy more materials with. Or hell, give us an incentive to go to higher NG+ cycles by expanding the Twin Maiden husks to sell more rare crafting materials. A way of mitigating the grind as higher NG+ cycles also otherwise means grinding tougher enemies that may just outright kill you in the process. In theory, it's an okay system that works for single playthroughs. In practice, it's impractical to engage with long-term and just ends with you duping all the relevant materials either with a friend or with cheat engine if you're on PC.
Thank you for clearing all this up, I'm new here and was one of those people that worried about using the only 20 cracked pots lol. Also, which cape is that at 1:07?
I know this isn’t the right place but I got a question about affinities So if i use an affinity for example lightning it will add lightning damage to my sword but it decreases physical damage of my sword in this case when i do light or heavy attack with my sword but dont use my ash of war does it decrease my swords damage And when i chose standart affinity with an lightning ash of war when i use it will it still does lightning damage? Or does it just look like lightning but it will be a physical damage i really confused about this mostly with the first question i hope you will see this and answer me
About a month late, and you probably already got your answers, but better late than never. So, infusions are all dependent on your stats and how they are distributed. In the case of lightning infusion, it would only do less damage if you had stats in the wrong places. IE, lightning infusion when most of your damage stats are invested into strength. But if you're on a dex build, then you're all good. In fact, lightning infusion will actually perform better at lower levels of dex. This is because elemental infusions follow a different scaling curve to physical, which means they cap their damage earlier but lose to physical at the higher levels. The respective caps for lightning infusion are 20, 50, and 80. Whereas keen infusion caps at 20, 56, and 80. So, while there are similar caps, the elemental infusion will generally be better unless the enemy or boss is particularly resistant to that damage type. Though, in the case of lightning, that only really applies to Ancient Dragons and Undead enemies. And as for your question regarding standard infusing with a lightning ash. The answer is no. A weapon standard infused will only do its relevant physical damage. If the ash of war, however, is offensive, such as Thunderbolt, that ash of war will still deal lightning type damage, but the weapon itself will be dealing pure physical damage.
I thought about including something like that but there are just way too many to include and keep the video relatively concise. You can go to fextralife’s page about throwing pots and find links to the cookbook locations there though.
Dude awesome video love the zoom in and arrow makes it super easy to understand
Thanks so much! Very informative and helpful
Exactly the type of video I was hoping for about these silly pots I got to try thank you
Great and detailed explanation, thanks! Also, I appreciate the Skyrim soundtrack.
Thanks mate!!!!
I was initially really excited about how they expanded the item system at the launch of Elden Ring. But as time goes on, I find the system more and more tedious as, more often than not, you have to go out of your way to collect all of the cracked pots, materials, and recipes in order to benefit from them. Sure, some of the simple ones like fire pots and volcano pots can be very useful, but all of the rare ones just get absolutely glossed over because farming for materials in Elden Ring just isn't a task that most wanna bother with. I just wish we got more bell bearings to buy more materials with. Or hell, give us an incentive to go to higher NG+ cycles by expanding the Twin Maiden husks to sell more rare crafting materials. A way of mitigating the grind as higher NG+ cycles also otherwise means grinding tougher enemies that may just outright kill you in the process. In theory, it's an okay system that works for single playthroughs. In practice, it's impractical to engage with long-term and just ends with you duping all the relevant materials either with a friend or with cheat engine if you're on PC.
Thank you for clearing all this up, I'm new here and was one of those people that worried about using the only 20 cracked pots lol. Also, which cape is that at 1:07?
Glad it helped! That’s the Nomadic Merchant’s Finery.
I know this isn’t the right place but I got a question about affinities
So if i use an affinity for example lightning it will add lightning damage to my sword but it decreases physical damage of my sword in this case when i do light or heavy attack with my sword but dont use my ash of war does it decrease my swords damage
And when i chose standart affinity with an lightning ash of war when i use it will it still does lightning damage? Or does it just look like lightning but it will be a physical damage i really confused about this mostly with the first question i hope you will see this and answer me
About a month late, and you probably already got your answers, but better late than never. So, infusions are all dependent on your stats and how they are distributed. In the case of lightning infusion, it would only do less damage if you had stats in the wrong places. IE, lightning infusion when most of your damage stats are invested into strength. But if you're on a dex build, then you're all good. In fact, lightning infusion will actually perform better at lower levels of dex. This is because elemental infusions follow a different scaling curve to physical, which means they cap their damage earlier but lose to physical at the higher levels. The respective caps for lightning infusion are 20, 50, and 80. Whereas keen infusion caps at 20, 56, and 80. So, while there are similar caps, the elemental infusion will generally be better unless the enemy or boss is particularly resistant to that damage type. Though, in the case of lightning, that only really applies to Ancient Dragons and Undead enemies. And as for your question regarding standard infusing with a lightning ash. The answer is no. A weapon standard infused will only do its relevant physical damage. If the ash of war, however, is offensive, such as Thunderbolt, that ash of war will still deal lightning type damage, but the weapon itself will be dealing pure physical damage.
:( was expecting craft recip locations
I thought about including something like that but there are just way too many to include and keep the video relatively concise. You can go to fextralife’s page about throwing pots and find links to the cookbook locations there though.