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For my fellow arrow boys, try using rain of arrows instead of barrage. dosent work for bosses that move alot, but ones that stagger and have a lot of animations its great. you use 1 arrow and like 10 rain down on the enemy. If you use blood, poison ect, you can instantly proc a effect on them, try it out!
@@TheQcStriker Spoilers below if you haven't already gotten it In the town of Sellia you can find a painting which shows a broken structure with Redmane castle in the background. The location itself is near the Dragonbarrow Erdtree on a cliff facing Redahn's battle arena and requires quite a bit of tricky parkouring to get to but its completely accessible without fighting any enemies. If you need something more specific than this and the image in the painting, I recommend either wandering around and looking at it from different angles or finding a video guide.
Another thing of note: I found a talisman that raises the attack power of arrows called the "Arrows Sting Talisman" its in Caelid at the Impassable Greatbridge spot of grace.
Arrow reach talisman can be found on top of the gate front grace in a chest. Just go to the storm hill shack and follow the rig toward the gateway on left-hand side
To help with the beginning archer and getting arrows, be sure to pick up all herbs you see and sell them. They only sell for 10runes, but a stack of arrows only costs 20r and bolts 40r, thats 2 herbs and 4 herbs respectively. You can run around picking them all up and sell them to help get arrows alot faster, and these beginning herbs are hardly rare. The Rowa fruit, especially, is easy to come buy and a stack of 100 sells for 1000r! This helped me get those much needed arrows, not to mention a good way to get more runes for lvling.
Why would you spend time doing this when you could just go beat one mini boss in the same time and get way more souls? If you're doing a pure archer challenge then maybe that's different, but there's no reason you couldn't go get a quick bleed weapon and kill Greyoll for 50,000 runes.
I'll try to be constructive and help you make a better recommendation here. Go to Jarburg and farm all the rare flowers here instead. You don't have to beat a single boss or do a single thing other than skip stormveil castle and run to Jarburg. Sit at the site of grace, collect the 20-30 rare flowers, immediately press map then spam triangle, triangle, X, X, you're back at Jarburg site of grace, and you can rinse and repeat to your hearts content for an infinitely faster and more profitable flower/herb run. You're welcome!
@@Docsfortune You're constantly running right by rowa and flowers in most parts of the map. So the idea is simply to pay attention and collect them on the way rather than ignoring them. You don't go out of your way for 10 runes.
I've wanted, so bad, for "arrow capacity" to just be treated like pre-DS3 spells: give us a limited supply that regenerates whenever we rest at a Bonfire (or Site of Grace, whatever). Let us find Quivers throughout the world that permanently increase arrow capacity, and for Elden Ring specifically, keep the Crafting aspect by letting us alter standard arrows with different damage types/status effects/etc.
@@TheBlackWizaard That definitely works, too. My though process is: If you're in a position where you want hundreds of something (potentially), you may as well just have a replenishing amount. It's not like anything would change, functionally, so I see no harm.
I know this video is two weeks old, but in case people still want to watch this, I have some useful information. There is a bow in the capitol simply called Black Bow (Black Bow of Pharris easter egg). This weapon has a 50 range and is a longbow, however, it comes with the barrage skill, and you can fire it like a light bow. This means you can do the jump-shots, roll-shots, etc, all while having a great range.
the fact that you can even do a bow build its cool. fromsoft made the game to last for a while, i can see people discovering new weird builds and finding secrets. the game reminds me of dragon's dogma and dark souls.
@Turaglas every mainline 3D zelda is the same outside of some artistic stuff with wind waker similar to Bloodborne. Not a bad thing if what u have works.
OUTSTANDING and thank you so much for uploading this!!! You've definitely answered a lot of my questions on the archery aspect of this game. I didn't expect you to make one so quickly but I GREATLY APPRECIATE THIS! :-) And I love the tips you threw in. If you hadn't explained the reason why an archer needs a long and short bow I probably would have just stuck with a long bow. Now I"ll carry both of them. Picking up the artifact that helps stamina regenerate and where to get it are very helpful tips as well. As for explaining about dex/str stats I'll do like you said and get the arrows with my runes instead of pumping those two stats. In the end, you have helped me with so much useful information. This video is just jam-packed with critical information on playing as an archer. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
It would be really nice if they would allow you to pick up any arrows that you hit something with. All those arrows stuck in a target but when the target dies you cant pull them out and use them again.
This would make it actually enjoyable to play as an archer, right now it's just farming for the ability to be one it's trash. Also arrow targeting is atrocious
I did an archer build on my first playthrough, and what i found to be the best skill for shortbow = sky shot. You can sky shoot to trigger enemy and right after the weapon skill you jump and do the double attack. This are 3 full damage arrows instead of one, using only one bow. And that´s not all, you then can sprint onto the enemy to do shot 4, and if he is close enough to hit you, you simply roll and get hit 5 on him. Then make your distance, and finish him off. The sky shot ability is also very usefull in some specific situations, that would be very hard otherwise. For example. To unlock the halig tree you must solve a riddle with 3 flames. There are enemies on rooftops, and Assasins on the ground. You simply can climb the roofs, to neglect the Assasins by sneaking, then hide behind walls and other objects, use the skill and this riddle is no problem at all. Of course, in ng+ I found arrow rain ability. Despite it´s very cool, I don´t find it as usefull and strong as sky shot, because if you use it to apply status effect from distance, barrage would be better, cuz most of arrows shot by rain will miss the target. It´s usefull agains larger groups of enemies, standing close next to each other, yes, but they will spread out after 1 use of the skill, and they all will be aggroed. Sky shot also can outplay blockers, because arrows come from above.The tracking magic arrow skill is the worst of all this bow skills in my oppinion. It sureley has it´s uses, against some frequently doging and mobile foes, yes, but i barley used it tbh. I know, people do complain about the scaling of bows in Eldenring, but man, to me these playstyle is the coolest thing ever, and I finished the game with the shortbow, you know why? Because if you really into the weapon and get a lot of experiences you enjoy with it, any weapon becomes a killer, regardless it´s scaling. +to mention: there are talismans that incrase the damage of (for example) holy or fire. If you have an arrwow of that type equipped, your bow will do more damage with that arrow, and it also is shown in the stats of the bow.
I plan to be a pure archer. I started as a wretch cuz i wanna feel all natural in starting off with nothing but a club. So far im loving it. Now i just need to find a kong bow lol
My take on archer build. You will either waste vast amounts of runes (progression) when buying arrows, or you will waste a lot of time gathering crafting materials. This is something no other class will have to worry about. Consider this before going full archer. I would suggest a hybrid with some other dex melee, relying on melee with some archer work.
Yeah but you also get to take all that ammo with you to multiplayer summons. Magic is a lot harder working with only half the flasks. Plus if you run some arcane with that Dex you should get plenty of mats.
@@Nostradevus1 magic is not harder it does oodles more damage than arrows, has spells that bypass shields, and can increase ammunition permanently with the mind stat. started archer, swapped to magic. 80 int and beat the game, could not have done it with a bow.
@@ghnami1352 don't forget that flasks refill from certain enemy groups and on invader kills (also there is the FP regen consumable). Honestly with this being an open world we really should have been given 180ish as the stack for arrows/bolts and 60 for greatarrows/balista bolts. 99 is far too few but at least there are plenty of types, 20 is an incredibly low and punishing number considering there are not nearly as many readily available types.
Appreciate this! Going against your better judgement I'm gonna pick a Bandit so knowing some short bow tips and tricks will come in handy as I get the parry timing down
If you're having problem in farming runes, in the early game Spoiler just in case: In the third church of marika theres a Lake there in the lake theres a portal to send you in from of the beast clergy man sanctum from there you can farm the little guy, but be careful because they will one shot you but they easily stagger and drop 1098 runes per kill.
If you run just a little further past those little dudes to Lennes Rise grace, there is a farm route that is way easier and more efficient for early levels. Just look up Elden Ring Ball Farm. You run down a hill, watch a ball fall off a cliff for 2000 runes, then run back to the grace and repeat. Honestly there is barely any need to farm in this game. It’s nice to get like a 10k rune boost for the early levels, but after that I never had any issues with a lack of runes.
You can also go get the morningstar from the cart on the way to castle morne in the weeping peninsula, and the gold prickled foot from south limgrave. Then jump on the spirit jump vortex at Lennes rise and keep going past the eardtree around back there's another jump vortex that'll lead you to a fortress, get the site of grace up front and kill the dragon laying there by hitting the tail it takes a bit of time but with the blood loss from the morningstar it's easier, eat the prickled foot right before killing it, easiest 100k runes.
There is a great farming spot for animal bones in the south part of the map. Find the Church of Pilgrimage at the northen tip of the the Weeping Paninsula (i think its called). From the church go south west down the hill, there are 3 large groups of goats 🐐. Farm for an hour and you'll have your bone arrows full. I don't its worth the runes to buy so many arrows, you need to level.
For anyone who's wondering about the bleed arrows that, as far as I'm aware, he doesn't mention where to get. You get the recipe at Fort Haight (to the east side of the tutorial dungeon). Once you get to the first fork in the road, head right, you'll go across a bridge. When you find the second fork in the road, go left towards the north. Follow that road until you get to Fort Haight. You'll pass a grace point, a big tree, and some ruins. It's by the water near the edge of the map. You'll need blood roses plus the normal arrow supplies to craft the bleed arrows. You'll find the roses at Fort Haight as well. Hope that helps anyone who wants to try this build. Enjoy!!
@@derricklindsey140 craft plans for fire arrows are on a vendor down on the beach, basically right below where you start, hes under a rocky alcove with a fire going
I wish someone can tell me where to find missionary cookbook 4 holy arrow can make those skeleton stop moving A friend of mine got it but don't know where the location 😐
I play a mage, but i got to that rotting Dragon in Caelid. Ezki-Something… And i couldn’t do it with magic. Every time i wound up a bigger spell that actually would do damage, like Lorettas or the Rocks, he used some sort breath when i couldn’t dodge it. So i got the Horn Bow and farmed some bleeding Arrows and whittled it down from distance, which worked extremely well. Ever since i have done open world Bosses like that, and it’s hugely useful!
Wild. This looks awesome. Definitely one of my next play throughs. I never felt safe or strong enough in DS Remastered, but it looks like it might be really fun to be an archer in Elden Ring.
Something I noticed in this video is using the shortbow while mounted you seem to have a much greater arch of fire AND can move at full speed. That's not been the case with the longbow, to my chagrin. When mounted the longbow is only able to be fired in an arch of something like 70 degrees in front of Torrent, and he slows to a walk when firing. It's been a drag because I've been trying to do a proper samurai roleplay and they were primarily mounted archers. Guess I'm gonna have to pick up a shortbow, now.
I am brand new to this game, and I love it because it’s a hard game for me to play. I’ve never played a Dark Soul game before. The targeting, and the camera mess with me after dodges sometimes so it’s hard to see which way yo dodge next when the camera isn’t right behind my character. In closing I would like to tell you this is the best Archer type video I’ve seen.
Awesome build video on the archer type. I was curious how good would they actually be. In most Soul games arrows are never really used as a main build it seem. Melee and Magic always seem better.
My first time playing elden ring I tried using my bow on a boss and realized bows and crossbows are good as hell. Never looked back. Such a good build tbh so practical
Dude this is an awesome video.. I got this game hoping to build an archer and I have really struggled so I've just gone full melee.. but after this I'm totally going back to it.. thank you sir!
Edit 2: ive made a little guide on how to get BOTH talismans at level 1 its nothing as comprehensive as this video but I was heavily inspired to make my own guide after watching this. th-cam.com/video/aZDN6HszuJA/w-d-xo.html Og: I found a talisman near the stormgate that increases bow range! Edit: Found a Talisman that increases all ranged or arrow damage in Caelid Lakes I thinkk on the Ramparts firing at the Impassable bridge. Gonna retrace my steps and make videos for both
@@marcuslee9132 sorry I was trying to find it on the map as it was forever ago its somewhere above the stormgate where the giant jumps down. I saw another bridge like structure and it had a doorway to an ambush with a chest and the talisman
My archer build has high arcane, for crafting arrows and such---but also to proc effects with arrows. Not many folks know, but the serpent bow scales with arcane, adds poison to all arrows, and the arrows proc abilities scale to arcane. With 50 arcane, I bleed most enemies with 2 bloodbone arrows, and poison with one. I think it's more efficient thank what is recommended in the video. Serpent bow has a good WA too, that goes through shields, flies long range, and has the same range of the longbow. Arrow's reach talisman is great for these builds, and it also affects throwing knives (for when the enemy is medium range). I would recommend becoming an arcane archer :)
Seems like another important aspect of playing an archer is waiting for the enemy to attack and getting the timing right so your shots hit them instead of letting their shield mitigate that damage.
I just added some arrows that cause bleed to my existing Blood Build with a Black Bow +10. Great alternative to resort to in dangerous close range encounters.
Didn't expect bandit to be the second hardest class to start with when I picked it but I'm sticking with it. I guess I gotta spend the next 5 hours getting 999 arrows lol
Easy recipe is fletched arrows or farming souls to buy fletched arrows. (Ones without any feathers for fletching are quite terrible unless you combat lock an enemy)
I’ve been playing Elden Ring for about 2 weeks. Always been a fan of Legolas (Lord of the Rings) so I decided to be an archer in the game. Glad I found your YT channel cause this game is HARD for someone who has never played a Souls game. It’s hard to beat bosses with this build. But I REFUSE to give up.
ive played thru the game about 15 times now and i gotta say even i am just now considering an archer build to play around and be a challenge, i cant imagine doing it as a beginner.
@@AudiuX yeah I ended up doing a nagakiba abuser bleed build as my first playthrough haha. Still yet to play the DLC tho. I wanna do a reduvia build next playthrough though cuz that weapon looks fun asf
Your Elden Ring character vids have all been absolutely excellent! Please explain how you’d do a hybrid melee/magic build with the prisoner class next please! So curious as to how you’d build that one
@@matteocd9609 Right? I want to play with both melee and magic, but with the prisoner being more of a jack of all trade and master of none, I fear he might be kinda mediocre or below average in both if you don’t optimize building his stats up almost perfectly
Just put the minimun into str and dex to equip the equipment you want and the rest into the other stats as yoy see fit. By the end you should have 40 int, 40 vit, and endurance and mind as you see fit. You dont need extra str and dex for dmg because you can change the scaling of your weapon to int
@@igortrindade9644 Sweet! One question- does dexterity not boost damage output of lighter weapons, if I want my prisoner’s melee to get stronger with his magic? Or does it depend on the specific light weapon?
@@miki49 Not sure if you are new or a vet to souls likes, but every weapon has base damage. That base damage is increased when you upgrade the weapon. The weapon also has scaling. The scaling can be from str, dex, int or faith (also rarely from the last stat like arcane, that was luck in past games). When you check weapon stats, the scaling has a score that goes from D to S. So if a weapon has an s scaling in dex for exemple, and you have a lot of points invested in dex, you will do a lot more damage. In other souls games, to change a weapons scaling you would need to upgrade the weapon in a particular way, but in elden ring, you just need to slot an int scaling ash of war into your weapon. That will lower the weapons base physical damage but add magical damage and int scaling, so as you put points into int, you will do more magical damage with your melee weapon. Hope this helps!
Hahaha, when I saw the video of PC riding on Torrent and shooting arrows, it was a "Yes, I should try to make a Mongol Archer build". Thank you for this guide!
I'm doing this run currently and for those farming arrows at the very beginning. Bones: If you go from the shack right past gatefront (where you meet rodericka) back toward the golden seed location there is a herd of animals on the other side of the valley. If you farm these you can easily get enough bones for 60 arrows with one trip, more if you have a silver foot. Flight pinions: If you leave the coastal cave grace ( the one with a demi human pair boss) you can go out of the tunnel and go right until you see a big ruin piece. That ruin gives you about 7 birds in one location, if you use a bow they won't run as you shoot them. Three trips is enough to get over 100 arrows worth. Optional: If you go toward the coliseum from the warmasters shack you can easily find a farm for flaming butterflies. These can up your arrow game by increasing your damage very early with little extra investment. The cook book for flaming arrows is by the coastal cave grace under the ruins on the left if youre leaving the entrance.
This was alot of help thank you. I'm doing a dagger and bow run and was having conflict between long and short bow. Was not prepared at first for how much the short bow can destroy.
Thank you so much for this archer guide I love playing archers in games. Can you please do a follow up guide a more advance archer build items talisman and stuff please thank you
Archer looks right up my alley- on your prophet build you mentioned a magic archer build- I’d love to see that video!! That would be my ideal way to play this game. Good video!
I love builds videos. Personally I love playing as a Mage in games but in games where I can spec my points into anything and become anything; more often than not, I will always find myself with a sword in my right-hand and a shield on my left.
@@Nostradevus1 man, I guess we are predisposed to certain builds. Most of my Skyrim playthroughs started with "Magic only! No melee" Or "Ranger! Bows only" but my characters will always ended up with either sword and shield with light armour or straight up wearing heavy armour with two-handed sword.
Alternatively if you don't want to be a weirdo that hauls around multiple bows to swap out in combat, you can just use the Black Bow and get the best of both a longbow and a shortbow. It has the range and damage of a longbow, with the jumping/rolling quickshots of a shortbow. Also a couple tips not found in the video; If you manually aim with L1 and shoot someone in the head, you'll deal double damage and stagger them. Jumpshots at relatively close range can sometimes manage this through lock on as well. Or if you have the higher ground and they're running at you, their movement alone will often lead the arrow into their head. The other tip is that you can get a bell bearing for buying unlimited thin bones by visiting the Warmaster's Shack in Limgrave at night and beating a boss that appears. If you stock up on thin bones, you can freely craft new arrows from anywhere when you run out, without needing to restock at a Site of Grace.
Better advice is to get some poison arrows and get the bone collectors bell from a certain field boss, keep distance, poison, outrange and then you can buy bones for 150 and big bones for 250. Helps keep stock up.
@@samuraipose5438 both good and fun. You could rely on it through the whole game I think. I do carry a sword/shield for emergency, but haven't needed it.
You can also TWO HAND the bow; LB-button to focus long range (d-pad to zoom in); and you can do Mighty_Shot while zoomed in on the enemy's head and get a little more damage.
Something to note when you are sniping a moving target, aim where they are going to be, not where they are cause then they'll run right into your arrows. It's going to take a bit of practice to get it right but god it helps
Another tip for those struggling to gather animal bone, in the same area where smithing stone giants are if you go west to the other cliff past the lone giant and wolves you can find a giant herd of goats in the vacinity.
As someone who went for bow in my first run yes you do snipe more XD and serpents fang bow and arrows were a big help with all the boss and other monsters poison build up is good shizzz now I am mainly black bow user and I love barrage... blood arrows are so damn good.
Can you make another update video about this beginner series builds, i really like to take down enemy from afar, so i guess you guys should update beginner builds to help people first time playing Elden Ring, alot of patches has changed the game, plus the DLc released.
it would be nice to be able to equip more than 198 arrows if you’re biased to using a crossbow and bolts. FromSoftware should put an update to equip two more types of arrows in place of the two bolt slots. Plus you have to reserve how many enemies you want to take on between sights of graces. It’s somewhat easier to supplement the arrow/bow setup with other throwable weapons (bone/regular darts, cracked pots, etc.) that usually scale well with dex. Having a dagger and small shield can serve as backup weapons when you run out of arrows. It takes a lot of material and rune farming for arrows. I kinda regretted upgrading the shortbow to +3 and long bow to +1 before traveling to get the composite and horn bows. I haven’t even fought Margit yet, just been traveling and stealthing my way throughout the map. My ideal setup that I’m working on is the composite bow, horn bow or erdtree great bow with pulley crossbow and hand ballista. My backup weapons would be dual daggers (reduvia and crimson daggers) or small shield with dagger.
Watching this I really want to try an archer build in the future, but I'll probably keep a melee weapon as a backup just in case. Maybe a spear or glaive, then I can do an Aloy cosplay.
Bro, THANK YOU FOR THIS GUIDE. I have seriously been wondering how to use my bandit properly and I been getting clapped a lot in game and I didn’t know what I been doing wrong with archery lol, also where do you get those clothes from? Can’t seem to find any good gear for my bandit.
The scarlet rot (Aeonian) butterflies DO NOT RESPAWN! 😣 Do not waste them carelessly since you have a limited amount for making scarlet rot arrows! Also, another tip I can think of is that its best to 'save' some of your bones for making arrows so that you can craft arrows while on the go instead of replenishing at a site of grace. Say if have 500 bones, I always make 200 stacks and leave the 300 bones in my inventory so that I can craft without having to rest and respawn enemies. Helps in areas which have a long grace to grace distances/ high number of enemies.
Given how OP so many other things in this game are, I can't help but wonder why they're still restricting archery so hard. You can spam higher damage from longer range with magic spells, so why not buff the damage on the bows and give non-magic characters a decent ranged option?
I play your 100+ paladin build. If you have the stre and dex to use it, radahn/greatbow is a great tool to have once upgraded. it chunks enemies and with summons, trivializes boss fights. even tho my build isnt optimized for it.
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When you rest all your arrows get replenish ?
Will you be doing a arcane/miracle build soon? Do you think it will be good at all.
i think this build can be a faith bow build, so when your fighting something not deadly serious, souls can be saved using some incantations
For my fellow arrow boys, try using rain of arrows instead of barrage. dosent work for bosses that move alot, but ones that stagger and have a lot of animations its great. you use 1 arrow and like 10 rain down on the enemy. If you use blood, poison ect, you can instantly proc a effect on them, try it out!
Where did you get it
@@TheQcStriker Spoilers below if you haven't already gotten it
In the town of Sellia you can find a painting which shows a broken structure with Redmane castle in the background. The location itself is near the Dragonbarrow Erdtree on a cliff facing Redahn's battle arena and requires quite a bit of tricky parkouring to get to but its completely accessible without fighting any enemies. If you need something more specific than this and the image in the painting, I recommend either wandering around and looking at it from different angles or finding a video guide.
Thank you
@@faceless1434 nice
what about arrow girls?
I love the archer build community. They know it's not optimal but they try and they win
Another thing of note: I found a talisman that raises the attack power of arrows called the "Arrows Sting Talisman" its in Caelid at the Impassable Greatbridge spot of grace.
Arrow reach talisman can be found on top of the gate front grace in a chest. Just go to the storm hill shack and follow the rig toward the gateway on left-hand side
"it's in Caelid" aw hell nah
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To help with the beginning archer and getting arrows, be sure to pick up all herbs you see and sell them. They only sell for 10runes, but a stack of arrows only costs 20r and bolts 40r, thats 2 herbs and 4 herbs respectively. You can run around picking them all up and sell them to help get arrows alot faster, and these beginning herbs are hardly rare. The Rowa fruit, especially, is easy to come buy and a stack of 100 sells for 1000r! This helped me get those much needed arrows, not to mention a good way to get more runes for lvling.
Why would you spend time doing this when you could just go beat one mini boss in the same time and get way more souls? If you're doing a pure archer challenge then maybe that's different, but there's no reason you couldn't go get a quick bleed weapon and kill Greyoll for 50,000 runes.
I'll try to be constructive and help you make a better recommendation here. Go to Jarburg and farm all the rare flowers here instead. You don't have to beat a single boss or do a single thing other than skip stormveil castle and run to Jarburg. Sit at the site of grace, collect the 20-30 rare flowers, immediately press map then spam triangle, triangle, X, X, you're back at Jarburg site of grace, and you can rinse and repeat to your hearts content for an infinitely faster and more profitable flower/herb run. You're welcome!
@@Docsfortune You're constantly running right by rowa and flowers in most parts of the map. So the idea is simply to pay attention and collect them on the way rather than ignoring them. You don't go out of your way for 10 runes.
I've wanted, so bad, for "arrow capacity" to just be treated like pre-DS3 spells: give us a limited supply that regenerates whenever we rest at a Bonfire (or Site of Grace, whatever). Let us find Quivers throughout the world that permanently increase arrow capacity, and for Elden Ring specifically, keep the Crafting aspect by letting us alter standard arrows with different damage types/status effects/etc.
sounds good
Or just have it be like DS1 at the least where you can equip 999 arrows at a time instead of 99
@@TheBlackWizaard That definitely works, too. My though process is: If you're in a position where you want hundreds of something (potentially), you may as well just have a replenishing amount. It's not like anything would change, functionally, so I see no harm.
sadly souls is just no archer game..
Some kind of magic quiver would do the trick
I know this video is two weeks old, but in case people still want to watch this, I have some useful information. There is a bow in the capitol simply called Black Bow (Black Bow of Pharris easter egg). This weapon has a 50 range and is a longbow, however, it comes with the barrage skill, and you can fire it like a light bow. This means you can do the jump-shots, roll-shots, etc, all while having a great range.
the fact that you can even do a bow build its cool. fromsoft made the game to last for a while, i can see people discovering new weird builds and finding secrets. the game reminds me of dragon's dogma and dark souls.
Funny you metioned, it does remind me of dark souls, I don't know why
@Turaglas Very similar? Yes. Virtually identical? No. Besides, this is the first Souls game where pure bow build is viable.
@Turaglas every mainline 3D zelda is the same outside of some artistic stuff with wind waker similar to Bloodborne. Not a bad thing if what u have works.
@@stillaliveplus1forme This
I’m so happy are really excited to play this game, it’s so good to also hear people talk about other great game titles!!!❤️❤️❤️
I'm planning a "miracle archer" faith/dex build, so this helps a lot!
Dragonsss dooogmaaaa vibes
Me too bro
There were some screenshots of bows with faith scaling, so... ;)
I also am going for a Magic Archer inspired by Dragon’s Dogma!
That sounds interesting. I think I'll try that one at some point.
OUTSTANDING and thank you so much for uploading this!!! You've definitely answered a lot of my questions on the archery aspect of this game. I didn't expect you to make one so quickly but I GREATLY APPRECIATE THIS! :-) And I love the tips you threw in. If you hadn't explained the reason why an archer needs a long and short bow I probably would have just stuck with a long bow. Now I"ll carry both of them. Picking up the artifact that helps stamina regenerate and where to get it are very helpful tips as well. As for explaining about dex/str stats I'll do like you said and get the arrows with my runes instead of pumping those two stats.
In the end, you have helped me with so much useful information. This video is just jam-packed with critical information on playing as an archer. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
It would be really nice if they would allow you to pick up any arrows that you hit something with. All those arrows stuck in a target but when the target dies you cant pull them out and use them again.
This. You do a test shot and the arrow is gone for good.
Makes sense.
Even with real arrows against armored opponents you wouldnt pull arrows out. Most are damaged or broken.
@@liquidsleepgames3661 You could do a portion of the arrows like skyrim does. Realistic or not, it would offset the grinding for bonescto make arrows.
This would make it actually enjoyable to play as an archer, right now it's just farming for the ability to be one it's trash. Also arrow targeting is atrocious
@@MH-ut1rc Kill the bell bearing hunter for unlimited bones
I did an archer build on my first playthrough, and what i found to be the best skill for shortbow = sky shot. You can sky shoot to trigger enemy and right after the weapon skill you jump and do the double attack. This are 3 full damage arrows instead of one, using only one bow. And that´s not all, you then can sprint onto the enemy to do shot 4, and if he is close enough to hit you, you simply roll and get hit 5 on him. Then make your distance, and finish him off. The sky shot ability is also very usefull in some specific situations, that would be very hard otherwise. For example. To unlock the halig tree you must solve a riddle with 3 flames. There are enemies on rooftops, and Assasins on the ground. You simply can climb the roofs, to neglect the Assasins by sneaking, then hide behind walls and other objects, use the skill and this riddle is no problem at all. Of course, in ng+ I found arrow rain ability. Despite it´s very cool, I don´t find it as usefull and strong as sky shot, because if you use it to apply status effect from distance, barrage would be better, cuz most of arrows shot by rain will miss the target. It´s usefull agains larger groups of enemies, standing close next to each other, yes, but they will spread out after 1 use of the skill, and they all will be aggroed. Sky shot also can outplay blockers, because arrows come from above.The tracking magic arrow skill is the worst of all this bow skills in my oppinion. It sureley has it´s uses, against some frequently doging and mobile foes, yes, but i barley used it tbh. I know, people do complain about the scaling of bows in Eldenring, but man, to me these playstyle is the coolest thing ever, and I finished the game with the shortbow, you know why? Because if you really into the weapon and get a lot of experiences you enjoy with it, any weapon becomes a killer, regardless it´s scaling. +to mention: there are talismans that incrase the damage of (for example) holy or fire. If you have an arrwow of that type equipped, your bow will do more damage with that arrow, and it also is shown in the stats of the bow.
Where?
I plan to be a pure archer. I started as a wretch cuz i wanna feel all natural in starting off with nothing but a club. So far im loving it. Now i just need to find a kong bow lol
My take on archer build. You will either waste vast amounts of runes (progression) when buying arrows, or you will waste a lot of time gathering crafting materials. This is something no other class will have to worry about. Consider this before going full archer. I would suggest a hybrid with some other dex melee, relying on melee with some archer work.
Yeah but you also get to take all that ammo with you to multiplayer summons. Magic is a lot harder working with only half the flasks. Plus if you run some arcane with that Dex you should get plenty of mats.
@@Nostradevus1 magic is not harder it does oodles more damage than arrows, has spells that bypass shields, and can increase ammunition permanently with the mind stat. started archer, swapped to magic. 80 int and beat the game, could not have done it with a bow.
@@ghnami1352 don't forget that flasks refill from certain enemy groups and on invader kills (also there is the FP regen consumable).
Honestly with this being an open world we really should have been given 180ish as the stack for arrows/bolts and 60 for greatarrows/balista bolts. 99 is far too few but at least there are plenty of types, 20 is an incredibly low and punishing number considering there are not nearly as many readily available types.
@@ShiningDarknes This, right here ☝️. Excelent proposition.
Appreciate this! Going against your better judgement I'm gonna pick a Bandit so knowing some short bow tips and tricks will come in handy as I get the parry timing down
If you're having problem in farming runes, in the early game
Spoiler just in case:
In the third church of marika theres a
Lake there in the lake theres a portal to send you in from of the beast clergy man sanctum from there you can farm the little guy, but be careful because they will one shot you but they easily stagger and drop 1098 runes per kill.
If you run just a little further past those little dudes to Lennes Rise grace, there is a farm route that is way easier and more efficient for early levels. Just look up Elden Ring Ball Farm. You run down a hill, watch a ball fall off a cliff for 2000 runes, then run back to the grace and repeat. Honestly there is barely any need to farm in this game. It’s nice to get like a 10k rune boost for the early levels, but after that I never had any issues with a lack of runes.
You can also go get the morningstar from the cart on the way to castle morne in the weeping peninsula, and the gold prickled foot from south limgrave. Then jump on the spirit jump vortex at Lennes rise and keep going past the eardtree around back there's another jump vortex that'll lead you to a fortress, get the site of grace up front and kill the dragon laying there by hitting the tail it takes a bit of time but with the blood loss from the morningstar it's easier, eat the prickled foot right before killing it, easiest 100k runes.
Thanks for all these build vids. Really, really looking forward to a spellblade prisoner guide, mainly for stat and weapon guidance.
same. I think I'm going to go dex/int build because prisoner looks so cool lol
MajorSlackVideos is doing a guide series on prisoner spellsword
There is a great farming spot for animal bones in the south part of the map. Find the Church of Pilgrimage at the northen tip of the the Weeping Paninsula (i think its called). From the church go south west down the hill, there are 3 large groups of goats 🐐. Farm for an hour and you'll have your bone arrows full. I don't its worth the runes to buy so many arrows, you need to level.
the beach have those birds to farm the feathers to make fletched arrows
The arrows reach talisman increases bow range, it's in the tower above stormgate
For anyone who's wondering about the bleed arrows that, as far as I'm aware, he doesn't mention where to get. You get the recipe at Fort Haight (to the east side of the tutorial dungeon). Once you get to the first fork in the road, head right, you'll go across a bridge. When you find the second fork in the road, go left towards the north. Follow that road until you get to Fort Haight. You'll pass a grace point, a big tree, and some ruins. It's by the water near the edge of the map.
You'll need blood roses plus the normal arrow supplies to craft the bleed arrows. You'll find the roses at Fort Haight as well.
Hope that helps anyone who wants to try this build. Enjoy!!
What about sleep arrows or fire arrows
@@derricklindsey140 i haven't found any reliable ways to get those yet, sorry! Will be keeping an eye out though.
@@vinine1204 found a seller of the sleep arrows south east of most wood ruins a little below the tree where u get a seed from
@@derricklindsey140 craft plans for fire arrows are on a vendor down on the beach, basically right below where you start, hes under a rocky alcove with a fire going
I wish someone can tell me where to find missionary cookbook 4 holy arrow can make those skeleton stop moving
A friend of mine got it but don't know where the location 😐
nice video. Having a little rough start with my bandit. This helped a lot :)
Thank you fextra for all of these reviews! It’s helping a lot!
I was thinking about a archer build as I'm not very good at close combat so this guide def helped. It's my first souls type game
Mee too and im thinkinh about mage/archer...
I found it funny that at 5:30 when you were fighting the troll that Ram got in on the action
Great vid, please make an arcane archer guide that would be really useful
It sounds like the archer build can be a dps nightmare, I like it.
I think I'll start as a Samurai since the shortbow is easier to get right away.
It also looks better than bandit
@@MsKeylas I ended up with one of each. So I can either for the purpose.
I play a mage, but i got to that rotting Dragon in Caelid. Ezki-Something…
And i couldn’t do it with magic. Every time i wound up a bigger spell that actually would do damage, like Lorettas or the Rocks, he used some sort breath when i couldn’t dodge it.
So i got the Horn Bow and farmed some bleeding Arrows and whittled it down from distance, which worked extremely well. Ever since i have done open world Bosses like that, and it’s hugely useful!
Wild. This looks awesome. Definitely one of my next play throughs. I never felt safe or strong enough in DS Remastered, but it looks like it might be really fun to be an archer in Elden Ring.
Something I noticed in this video is using the shortbow while mounted you seem to have a much greater arch of fire AND can move at full speed. That's not been the case with the longbow, to my chagrin. When mounted the longbow is only able to be fired in an arch of something like 70 degrees in front of Torrent, and he slows to a walk when firing. It's been a drag because I've been trying to do a proper samurai roleplay and they were primarily mounted archers. Guess I'm gonna have to pick up a shortbow, now.
I am brand new to this game, and I love it because it’s a hard game for me to play. I’ve never played a Dark Soul game before. The targeting, and the camera mess with me after dodges sometimes so it’s hard to see which way yo dodge next when the camera isn’t right behind my character. In closing I would like to tell you this is the best Archer type video I’ve seen.
Awesome build video on the archer type. I was curious how good would they actually be. In most Soul games arrows are never really used as a main build it seem. Melee and Magic always seem better.
Yes, dragons dogma and dragon age Inquisition arrows is a better thing to play.
Melee and magic will always be better for dmg. Archery is more for the fun of the build.
My first time playing elden ring I tried using my bow on a boss and realized bows and crossbows are good as hell. Never looked back. Such a good build tbh so practical
Dude this is an awesome video.. I got this game hoping to build an archer and I have really struggled so I've just gone full melee.. but after this I'm totally going back to it.. thank you sir!
Edit 2: ive made a little guide on how to get BOTH talismans at level 1 its nothing as comprehensive as this video but I was heavily inspired to make my own guide after watching this.
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Og: I found a talisman near the stormgate that increases bow range!
Edit: Found a Talisman that increases all ranged or arrow damage in Caelid Lakes I thinkk on the Ramparts firing at the Impassable bridge. Gonna retrace my steps and make videos for both
Let’s go!!!!
Any clues or directions?
Where did you find it?
After you cross stormgate, turn left to the top of the gate, the tasliman is in a chest
@@marcuslee9132 sorry I was trying to find it on the map as it was forever ago its somewhere above the stormgate where the giant jumps down. I saw another bridge like structure and it had a doorway to an ambush with a chest and the talisman
My archer build has high arcane, for crafting arrows and such---but also to proc effects with arrows. Not many folks know, but the serpent bow scales with arcane, adds poison to all arrows, and the arrows proc abilities scale to arcane. With 50 arcane, I bleed most enemies with 2 bloodbone arrows, and poison with one. I think it's more efficient thank what is recommended in the video. Serpent bow has a good WA too, that goes through shields, flies long range, and has the same range of the longbow. Arrow's reach talisman is great for these builds, and it also affects throwing knives (for when the enemy is medium range). I would recommend becoming an arcane archer :)
Seems like another important aspect of playing an archer is waiting for the enemy to attack and getting the timing right so your shots hit them instead of letting their shield mitigate that damage.
Or use sky shot and ignore the shield entirely…
I just added some arrows that cause bleed to my existing Blood Build with a Black Bow +10. Great alternative to resort to in dangerous close range encounters.
I love bows in this game. When I first picked Elden Ring up, it took my like 15 minutes to figure out how to use it, but they’re so underrated.
This helped me so much. I was struggling and you really put me ahead, thank you!
Didn't expect bandit to be the second hardest class to start with when I picked it but I'm sticking with it. I guess I gotta spend the next 5 hours getting 999 arrows lol
Easy recipe is fletched arrows or farming souls to buy fletched arrows. (Ones without any feathers for fletching are quite terrible unless you combat lock an enemy)
First and only actual video I've seen on this game oh how Archery actually works in this game
Just picked up the game and decided to go with bandit, then found this video. Thanks for the tips, excited to get started, it looks really fun
I’ve been playing Elden Ring for about 2 weeks. Always been a fan of Legolas (Lord of the Rings) so I decided to be an archer in the game. Glad I found your YT channel cause this game is HARD for someone who has never played a Souls game. It’s hard to beat bosses with this build. But I REFUSE to give up.
did you get any luck in the end? I start the game today and want to do archer but people say its 10x harder this way
ive played thru the game about 15 times now and i gotta say even i am just now considering an archer build to play around and be a challenge, i cant imagine doing it as a beginner.
@@AudiuX yeah I ended up doing a nagakiba abuser bleed build as my first playthrough haha. Still yet to play the DLC tho. I wanna do a reduvia build next playthrough though cuz that weapon looks fun asf
Your Elden Ring character vids have all been absolutely excellent! Please explain how you’d do a hybrid melee/magic build with the prisoner class next please! So curious as to how you’d build that one
I’m curious as well
@@matteocd9609 Right? I want to play with both melee and magic, but with the prisoner being more of a jack of all trade and master of none, I fear he might be kinda mediocre or below average in both if you don’t optimize building his stats up almost perfectly
Just put the minimun into str and dex to equip the equipment you want and the rest into the other stats as yoy see fit. By the end you should have 40 int, 40 vit, and endurance and mind as you see fit. You dont need extra str and dex for dmg because you can change the scaling of your weapon to int
@@igortrindade9644 Sweet! One question- does dexterity not boost damage output of lighter weapons, if I want my prisoner’s melee to get stronger with his magic? Or does it depend on the specific light weapon?
@@miki49 Not sure if you are new or a vet to souls likes, but every weapon has base damage. That base damage is increased when you upgrade the weapon. The weapon also has scaling. The scaling can be from str, dex, int or faith (also rarely from the last stat like arcane, that was luck in past games). When you check weapon stats, the scaling has a score that goes from D to S. So if a weapon has an s scaling in dex for exemple, and you have a lot of points invested in dex, you will do a lot more damage.
In other souls games, to change a weapons scaling you would need to upgrade the weapon in a particular way, but in elden ring, you just need to slot an int scaling ash of war into your weapon. That will lower the weapons base physical damage but add magical damage and int scaling, so as you put points into int, you will do more magical damage with your melee weapon. Hope this helps!
Hahaha, when I saw the video of PC riding on Torrent and shooting arrows, it was a "Yes, I should try to make a Mongol Archer build". Thank you for this guide!
I'm doing this run currently and for those farming arrows at the very beginning.
Bones: If you go from the shack right past gatefront (where you meet rodericka) back toward the golden seed location there is a herd of animals on the other side of the valley. If you farm these you can easily get enough bones for 60 arrows with one trip, more if you have a silver foot.
Flight pinions: If you leave the coastal cave grace ( the one with a demi human pair boss) you can go out of the tunnel and go right until you see a big ruin piece. That ruin gives you about 7 birds in one location, if you use a bow they won't run as you shoot them. Three trips is enough to get over 100 arrows worth.
Optional: If you go toward the coliseum from the warmasters shack you can easily find a farm for flaming butterflies. These can up your arrow game by increasing your damage very early with little extra investment. The cook book for flaming arrows is by the coastal cave grace under the ruins on the left if youre leaving the entrance.
One of my favorite best parts of new RPG releases is the ensuing torrent of fextralife content
The Archer build seems is a build I'm looking forward to trying
This was alot of help thank you. I'm doing a dagger and bow run and was having conflict between long and short bow. Was not prepared at first for how much the short bow can destroy.
You're a beast bro, take some rest too, thanks for all the guides!
The struggle is losing tons of arrows on every boss attempt. Pretty soon it’s back to charging at sheep for an hour…
Orrrrr, you can farm runes shooting a bird boss making roughly 13k in 8 seconds, then buying a big fat stack of arrows lol.
I need prisoner guide asap. Thanks for the videos!
I went in fulling intending to pick Astronomer and ended up picking prisoner just because I want to stab things as well as throw spells. 😂
@@ducky36F same here man. Spellblade all the way
Im playing prisoner as my first char today! Cant wait to leave work haha.
@@UncleSamsDevil same
Ive been loving the bandit, running bow, and Double daggers...Pretty awesome DPS!
I'll have to give this a try on my next playthrough. Playing Forbidden West has me burnt out on bows and ranged combat for the time being lol.
These videos are great and the whole series is a fantastic primer for the game
Thank you so much for this archer guide I love playing archers in games. Can you please do a follow up guide a more advance archer build items talisman and stuff please thank you
they should raise the arrow limit and make it easier to gain arrows if u play as an archer. then this could be nice
this looks fun, I hope we get more updates on this one 😊
Archer looks right up my alley- on your prophet build you mentioned a magic archer build- I’d love to see that video!! That would be my ideal way to play this game. Good video!
Amazing work as always. Actually makes me want to try this build. Maybe in the future.
I love builds videos.
Personally I love playing as a Mage in games but in games where I can spec my points into anything and become anything; more often than not, I will always find myself with a sword in my right-hand and a shield on my left.
I’m the opposite. I try fighting, but I always end up back slinging spells.
@@Nostradevus1 man, I guess we are predisposed to certain builds. Most of my Skyrim playthroughs started with "Magic only! No melee" Or "Ranger! Bows only" but my characters will always ended up with either sword and shield with light armour or straight up wearing heavy armour with two-handed sword.
That goat did more ass kicking than the giant LOL
0:29 Pressing A to interact, good to know it happens with the best too haha
I keep hitting X to loot stuff - I have no idea what game ingrained that into me but it's making me angry lol
Alternatively if you don't want to be a weirdo that hauls around multiple bows to swap out in combat, you can just use the Black Bow and get the best of both a longbow and a shortbow. It has the range and damage of a longbow, with the jumping/rolling quickshots of a shortbow.
Also a couple tips not found in the video;
If you manually aim with L1 and shoot someone in the head, you'll deal double damage and stagger them. Jumpshots at relatively close range can sometimes manage this through lock on as well. Or if you have the higher ground and they're running at you, their movement alone will often lead the arrow into their head.
The other tip is that you can get a bell bearing for buying unlimited thin bones by visiting the Warmaster's Shack in Limgrave at night and beating a boss that appears. If you stock up on thin bones, you can freely craft new arrows from anywhere when you run out, without needing to restock at a Site of Grace.
Better advice is to get some poison arrows and get the bone collectors bell from a certain field boss, keep distance, poison, outrange and then you can buy bones for 150 and big bones for 250. Helps keep stock up.
Tried this tonight. Heaps of fun. Owned the Tree Sentinel.
is it good or just for fun build
@@samuraipose5438 both good and fun. You could rely on it through the whole game I think. I do carry a sword/shield for emergency, but haven't needed it.
@@samuraipose5438 also depends if you cast spirits to help for bosses. I use wolf pack to partly distract boss and then shred with my bow
@@85yugs thanks
Man thanks SOOOO much. Changed the game for me.
You can also TWO HAND the bow; LB-button to focus long range (d-pad to zoom in); and you can do Mighty_Shot while zoomed in on the enemy's head and get a little more damage.
You can rush get Serpent Bow right at the beginning.
Great bow!
Something to note when you are sniping a moving target, aim where they are going to be, not where they are cause then they'll run right into your arrows. It's going to take a bit of practice to get it right but god it helps
Another tip for those struggling to gather animal bone, in the same area where smithing stone giants are if you go west to the other cliff past the lone giant and wolves you can find a giant herd of goats in the vacinity.
Alrighty good build video, I'm convinced! Gonna roll a new character just for this!
I like to pair this build with the Reduvia Dagger
Have you looked at doing an occult/blood assassin build with bandit? Both those magic classes and infusions scale with arcane.
As someone who went for bow in my first run yes you do snipe more XD and serpents fang bow and arrows were a big help with all the boss and other monsters poison build up is good shizzz now I am mainly black bow user and I love barrage... blood arrows are so damn good.
I would love to see Bows upgraded a little.
Thanks for this build! Hope you will make a warrior dual wield/fists build
Wow never thought they would make bows this good
Can you make another update video about this beginner series builds, i really like to take down enemy from afar, so i guess you guys should update beginner builds to help people first time playing Elden Ring, alot of patches has changed the game, plus the DLc released.
please do a warrior class guide! I cant decide between that and the Samurai!
it would be nice to be able to equip more than 198 arrows if you’re biased to using a crossbow and bolts. FromSoftware should put an update to equip two more types of arrows in place of the two bolt slots. Plus you have to reserve how many enemies you want to take on between sights of graces. It’s somewhat easier to supplement the arrow/bow setup with other throwable weapons (bone/regular darts, cracked pots, etc.) that usually scale well with dex. Having a dagger and small shield can serve as backup weapons when you run out of arrows. It takes a lot of material and rune farming for arrows. I kinda regretted upgrading the shortbow to +3 and long bow to +1 before traveling to get the composite and horn bows. I haven’t even fought Margit yet, just been traveling and stealthing my way throughout the map. My ideal setup that I’m working on is the composite bow, horn bow or erdtree great bow with pulley crossbow and hand ballista. My backup weapons would be dual daggers (reduvia and crimson daggers) or small shield with dagger.
I don't know what I would have done on the second phase of Godrick without my upgraded bow. It is a very situational weapon, but a life savior.
Nice video, waiting for the vagabond build
I love legalos from Lird of the Rongs!
Soo definitely follow this and it's been a ton of fun
Arrow farming is so tough early game. 20 runes for an arrow early game is ridiculous. It's either level up or get 100 arrows. It's crazy.
When you meet that merchant at the church buy a crafting kit.
Hunt the deer/boars and they drop bones
3 bones = 10 arrows
@Under Construction yeah I just started farming bones today. Still takes a lot of work.
@@AlexanderWebster_ 💯
I tend to use bone arrows to kill the animals cause more often than not ill use maybe 3 arrows to get 10 back
I highly recommend using the black bow for this build I'm murdering every boss with blood arrows
Watching this I really want to try an archer build in the future, but I'll probably keep a melee weapon as a backup just in case.
Maybe a spear or glaive, then I can do an Aloy cosplay.
Bro, THANK YOU FOR THIS GUIDE. I have seriously been wondering how to use my bandit properly and I been getting clapped a lot in game and I didn’t know what I been doing wrong with archery lol, also where do you get those clothes from? Can’t seem to find any good gear for my bandit.
The scarlet rot (Aeonian) butterflies DO NOT RESPAWN! 😣
Do not waste them carelessly since you have a limited amount for making scarlet rot arrows!
Also, another tip I can think of is that its best to 'save' some of your bones for making arrows so that you can craft arrows while on the go instead of replenishing at a site of grace. Say if have 500 bones, I always make 200 stacks and leave the 300 bones in my inventory so that I can craft without having to rest and respawn enemies. Helps in areas which have a long grace to grace distances/ high number of enemies.
Thanks heaps for the tips. I have been struggling with my bandit
So I am trying out my archer build and I am really liking it, the only problem is shield guys, any tips on dealing with them?
for general damage i suggest making flaming bone arrows early game because they are easy to make and get 95 fire damage added
Given how OP so many other things in this game are, I can't help but wonder why they're still restricting archery so hard. You can spam higher damage from longer range with magic spells, so why not buff the damage on the bows and give non-magic characters a decent ranged option?
Would be nice of theres an item in the game that thsg lets you loot back some of the arrows you fire at enemy's
The goat/troll battle in the middle was jokes
Amazing video! Enjoying this build and the game a lot
Great video I have been experimenting with my bow build and these are great tips
I play your 100+ paladin build. If you have the stre and dex to use it, radahn/greatbow is a great tool to have once upgraded. it chunks enemies and with summons, trivializes boss fights. even tho my build isnt optimized for it.
It’s official this will be my next character