2:11:57 For those who didn't know Erdtree Seal is the strongest pure faith seal in the game but due to the different scaling curves the Godslayer Seal is better up until 70 faith.
Frontloaded vs. Backloaded scaling is weird. Same way Lusats' has the best Int scaling up until about 80 int, afterwards Lord of Death's staff overtakes it@@Izolus
@@Ch3dlanLord of Deaths isn’t a (pure) INT weapon. It’s a hybrid INT/FAI if you invest 80/80 you’d expect it to outperform a single stat investment. It’s a shame half the staffs are not worth bothering with. I guess most people go meteorite straight to Regal/Lusat’s. Personally I prefer Regal because I tend not to go for ‘one shot’ builds.
rykard is one of the most visually incredible bosses in a fromsoft game to date because its incredible how little visuals i have during his storm of red skulls
Next Stat Run: All stats in order AKA the ultimate quality build. Wretch starting class. First level to Vigor, second level to Mind, etc. until everything is 11. Then do it again for 12, 13, and so on.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see Gino do a run like that. Tulok & Mango did that exact run but with even better rules than the ones you suggested (video: "How Effective is Equal Stat Growth in Elden Ring?").
29:30 really showcasing just how strong Frozen Lightning Spear is. Super underrated spell. The damage it does is nuts because it does lightning damage AND frost buildup. Having access to both of those damage types makes it a fantastic spell for nuking bosses. It's riskier to use because you need to get in close for both hits to get the full damage but oh man is it worth it.
I think it's very fairly rated. It's fine. For what it is and what it does. It's very OK. Saying it does "nuts" damage really discredits spells like Frenzy Flame that take about as long to fully cast but simply deal 2-3 times the damage. The Dragon Breaths, Frenzy Burst, Pest Threats, Ancient Dragon Lightnings Strikes, Black Blade, Black Flame, Catch Flame, Greyols and Plasidusax all outperform it by a landslide.
14:00 The Erdsteel Dagger almost double the damage if you infuse it with Flame Art affinity, it still scales with Faith and the damage near 650 on a +25. I used on a Machete Cosplay Run and it was really good with charged attacks
48:42 quick thing just in case: No, you don’t have to do any of Castle Morne. Irina will die and Hyetta will spawn in Liurnia the instant you go to any Site of Grace after speaking to Irina and agreeing to give the letter to Edgar. Ayyy, Chat knew. I’m glad. I found that out last year when I decided to Platinum the game and stumbled across that little fact.
Just happened to me on my playthrough because I kinda never realized Irina ->Hyetta. So I saw Hyetta, gave her a grape, and went to grab the grace at the Revenger's shack. Guess who invaded right after?
@@eduardonavarro4172there is a surprisingly low amount of quests required for platinum, at least the Xbox version, from what I remember you just have to do rannis quest in one playthrough, get the Frenzied flame ending in one, and the normal ending.
You seem like you know stuff and I know asking a question with my own comment won't get an answer so I'll ask you lol Does holding a weapon with both hands have more benefits? I know doing it with a larger weapon that you can't weild right with one hand will allow you to be effective. But a small sword like he had in the beginning?
I wish I could be as Chill as Gino is with FromSoft games. "Surely I won't lose 70K runes" "surely i won't get blasted" "Surely this won't kill me" etc. etc. When I lose a lot of runes/souls i get HEATED. And even in large enemy groups I get super annoyed and also heated. I wanna be as chill as Gino is
@@MinerDiner it's not actualy because runes in this game is easy as hell especially if you kill greyoll multiple times (immediately after she dies you run to the grace and rest, you need to kill her on top of the horse hitting her tail)
When I found the FOURTH color of lightning on my first playthrough as a Prisoner I immediately booted up a Prophet. The variety is unbeatable and definitely better than an entire catalogue of different shades of blue
I'm surprised Gino didn't leave the Fire Giant Spells for the Haligtree. Burn, O Flame! and Flame of the Fell God go extremely hard against Malenia. He could've been done in like 1-3 attempts. At least the Crucible Knight spells were also really fun. P.S. Looking forward to the Bows Only run.
The best incantation against Malenia is Frenzied burst. Hits like a gauss-rifle, casts from a huge safe distance and which is important, Malenia never tries to dodge it.
I really like the little checklists marking stuff that needs to be done. It contextualises everything ur doing so u can maybe miss like 2 mins of the video and not have to mentally catch up lol
I did an entire run using nothing but the winged scythe, and I’ve gotta say, it’s effectiveness varies WILDLY. sometimes you do oodles of damage with multiple bleed procs, but other times you do 173 damage with a +10 weapon. Not to mention radagon feels like he’s built to laugh at that weapon specifically, since he resists holy and slash damages a lot, as well as being immune to bleed.
It's funny watching all these super good ER players make incantation builds like it's a novel concept, considering that is 99% of what I normally play 😂
The amount of set up having to be done just at the start with little pay off compared to other builds like INT is just lovely. Also I miss hexes, black flame incantations could have been so much better if some were weapon types like the curved greatsword spell from ds3, hell even the holy incantations margit uses like the hammer/sword/lance
I think people like it because of how many directions you can go in and basically how many builds you can do within the same stats, sure you cant get super OP fast like other builds but sheer fun factor is worth imo
Pro tip for an incantation only run: Catch Flame is the best incantation in the game with insane DPS, and you can cheese the entire game with it. 🙃🙃🤷🏼♂️
When Gino said “birds are too easy” I just remember Jevs run where he died by those birds and he screamed “WHY DO THE BIRDS HAVE FUCKING BLADES ATTACHED TO THEIR TALONS” 😭🤣
Man you make this game seem so easy, every time i'm thinking "doesn't seem that bad, i can do that, just learn the moveset" then i get smashed by fire giant for rolling to early. Love you contentent keep it up !
Watching Gino Play makes me want to pay better attention to their attacks. It took me so long to kill crucible Duo but watching him inspired me to keep trying. Amazing gamer. I die so much but I know its my own fault most of the time. Watching him fight that crucible knight and I recognized his attacks made me happy.
I really enjoy the region lock runs. Forces you to go to different parts of the map you normally wouldn’t for extra runes or an armament you normally wouldn’t use because there’s a better version in the next region
The incantation you get from Malekith is pretty good against Rykard. It does percentage-based damage, it can hit his body multiple times, and the jump lets you clear the lava.
If I were leveling only faith I would start confessor over prophet just to have a little higher on the other stats since they’re never going up. Super cool run.
I'm loving these videos/runs I've been binge watching them lately and this new format with the editing showing the route/quest or next items to be obtained I do very much enjoy, I have been noticing the production quality go up recently with a lot of souls-bourne-ring creators and it's just awesome to see. Keep up the amazing work.
Some handy things that will hopefully help (No Spoilers), sorry if it's been repeated a bunch by other people: -On the map, there will be locations marked with dark spots with an orange/red aura (there is one in the Northwestern corner of Agheel Lake, the lake with the giganto crabs on the eastern end). These marks are mines which have upgrade materials which spawn as white and yellow crystals/rocks -The upgrade materials have numbered tiers. So a Smithing Stone [2] is higher than a Smithing Stone [1]. It can be easy to confuse tier of stonr with quantity. And Somber Smithing Stones are different from the regular variety -Weapons scale with a letter system like a tier list, with S being highest and A just under that etc. When you get weapons you want to scale the damage of, focus on the stat with the better scaling letter. They are shown in the same menu as the requirements to weild the weapon. Ashes of War can change the scaling of weapons to better suit your wants, but weapons tend to scale best with certain stats (fast weapons scale with Dexterity and big slow weapons with Strength) -Similar to the mines, there are obeliak marks in the gray areas of the map (once you've travelled the area enough to clear the fog). These are map piece locations -You may not encounter it for a while, but you can jump over shockwave attacks. They are more easily jumped than avoided by invulnerability frames from rolling -You have the right idea about those golden lines coming from Graces. They vaguely point towards graces closer to story progress, but exploration is key to success. -one of the tricks to dodging is wait for the attack to come forward. Many enemies delay their draw back animation to catch you after a roll. You have pretty good invulnerability window (rule of thumb is you're invincible while your feet aren't on the ground dueing the roll animation) -Endurance will give you more stamina and equip load, so you can wear hwavier armor qithout goong into Heavy Load, which will severely hinder your dodge ability. Medium Load is a great balance between speed and good protection from armor. 20-25 Endurance is generally high enough for most builds unless you want the heaviest armors -Stuns on bosses happen from posture damage. Light, fast attacks don't do a lot, the spinning slash/storm stomp does an okay amount. Heavy attacks (Right trigger/R2) can be charged to do more posture damage, but you may find smaller weapons still don't stun very often. There is a signature sound when larger bosses are staggered, mich like the back stab, you can get very close to the glowing spot, and press right bumper (R1) to do a critical attack -Some weapons have a status effect. It will be listed at the bottom such as Bleed (50) or Frost (45). That is yhe type and amount of buildup they apply. The statuses can be very handy, but any enemies that appear to be ghosts/phantoms/illusions (or made entirely of stone) will likely be immune to them -You will be disappointed if you expect a clear, laid out story. FromSoft doesn't really do that. An incredible story is there, but you want just happen across it in general play. You will be very unlikely to complete any NPC quests or unlock alternate endings without outside resources. That isn't a slight against you, but the nature of the cryptic storytelling Hopefully that wasn't overwhelming. There's just a lot I wish the game communicated more clearly
for the fire storm incantation, you can epuip caestus and endure and then cast the spell, the only thing to stagger me out of it is bleed/frost OR radahn's meteor landing, everything else you poise through and get off a huge spell
Malenia won't get stunned when she has hyperarmour. She can still take poise damage but if her poise gets to zero, her poise will just recover instead of stance breaking. She has hyperarmour when she jumps backwards. That's why she can't be stunned @3:08:45.
As someone who mains Faith builds, this video is killing my soul. My brother in Christ, there are like 10 incants that are existential weapons of mass destruction and half are early game.
Looking through the list of incantations, there's not a single one I would define as "weapon of mass destruction" that doesn't come from late game areas.
It is crazy how good elden ring is. They really went above and beyond with increasing all kind of Spells etc, i do not know a game that has so many ways to be played. Aweseome vid ty.
very excited for this run. love the pure stat build challenges--i've been playing through seamless coop with a squad of one-stat goons. its been awful and amazing
One super important note about the golden order incants is how heavily they scale with intelligence. I made a build focused around SoNaF and golden order incants, and at 50 for each int and faith, Discus of Light (at 3 fp per cast), was doing about 800 damage a hit to astel, without any significant buffing procedures, other than physik and and goldmask headpiece.
A shame he chose Aincient Dragon Lightning for Rykard. He's very doable with spells that have better range. Ice Lightning Spear would've worked very well. Status, Multi hit, and Range.
2:46:37 Bloodflame Talons isn't actually that bad of an Incantation, having pretty nasty bleed build up and damage. The reason it sucks against Mohg is because Bloodflame Talons deals Fire Damage, which Mohg has an 80% resistance to, and since bosses gain resistance to Status Effects after each successful proc, and you were using Swarm of Flies to proc Hemorrhage explains Bloodflame Talon's seemingly weaker Hemorrhage build up. It's definitely not the best Incantation out there in itself, but against an enemy not near impervious to Fire Damage, it can put in some decent work. The Dragon Communion Seal should also boost it's Hemorrhage build up, since it scales with Arcane, but I might be talking out my ass on that one
This game is mind blowingly good and im glad this guy takes it to the next level and even still plays it. He shows what can be done and things like that and that it can be a lasting journey to have fun with.
I love your videos. There have been times where your mental health message has pulled me from the brink but also times like right now where I'm feeling great. But the contrast of the two situations really helps to put things in perspective and it genuinely helps every time I hear it.
1:33:50 i think any enemy that spawns without a boss health bar can have golden eyes, i had the gargoyle on the way up to the capital with golden eyes, and i think its because i doesnt have an on screen health bar like the others
Elden Ring: "oh no no no, you can't just jump from that cliff, even if you used your magic horse double jump to break the fall! That's too high >:(" Also, Elden Ring: 15:15
Does anyone know of good resources for people getting into challenge runs like this? Like pathing, where to find stones and runes early, and what buffs are available early? Ideally something that I could read during slow moments at work. These videos are great! Just found the channel and got me excited all over again for Elden Ring!
I think it's unfortunate that you didn't try Maliketh's blade spell more. The fully charged version instantly cuts off a large chunk of their HP, and the follow up does heavy black flame damage
Not a Stat run but should maybe be challenging still. Region lock, All Major bosses (so all the Great Rune bosses if confused), Somber Smithing Stone Halberds only. Part of the challenge for this run is the limited number of Somber Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds since there is much more plain Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds and there are a few regions (i think 3?) that have no Somber Halberds so it requires going to regions you may not have wanted to go + they are slow timing weapons for the most part
Haha super cool run and nice to see almost all the incantations used. I was waiting for you to try Elden Stars though! That homing & continuous attack helped me on my 1st playthrough a lot :) And I never knew Burn O Flame! was so busted o.O
Very. Even if you tried to not use the serpent hunter it would still be boring. BUT… You can’t deny how geeked out you were at the sheer hell and unnerving nature you felt from his cutscene when you walked into that boss room. Also, the way you have to fight the boss; while “straightforward”, the scale of everything happening is still cool as hell. And not just the fight, but the whole theme of the volcano manor being in a volcano, the wonder at what the demigod you will face soon ahead will bring, just to encounter Godrick the Grafted (which everyone thought was a cool fight at first okay) but like a million feet tall, also a giant snake, but with a GIANT HUMAN FACE on it, pulling a sword out of his throat, and then decides he doesn’t want to kill you, no, it’s the GODS he’s after. And he’s gonna turn you into him to achieve it. All this, as you’re standing in a sea of corpses holding a single weapon they made to fight this one snake, but were unsuccessful. I just ranted for way too long because I can’t fall asleep, but like INCREASE, you can’t tell me that those reasons don’t just automatically bump him way up on a tier list. He is literally that one part of the game that everyone loves at first sight, but just gets annoying to the hardcore community after maybe 2 playthroughs max. And honestly, I’m okay with at least one crazy awesome spectacle of a boss, if this is him. Made the first playthrough just that much better
I played the “Slayer Build” in Goblin Caves and had a lot of fun. You can use the lantern in offhand to proc the duel wield buffs, for a lower movement speed penalty.
Don’t worry, I have *faith* in you. Just remain calm, breathe and remain *faithful* to your duty Anyways, enjoy the run Yours *faithfully* The pun master
Without a doubt one of the most underrated incants is pest threads. I think I'm the only person I've actually seen use it in game. Thing especially melts big bosses. Took out elden beast so fast my jaw dropped
@@HunterYangBird I wouldn't take it that far. While it was super effective against elden beast and astel most stuff isn't really that big and u gotta be pretty close for it to hit. It's still not anywhere near as good as giants flame take thee and a lot of other spells. It's just underrated and is good in the right situations
I have never watched any Elden ring videos before and I started watching yours when I start to play game and you make it look so easy while I struggle on the “easy” bosses but man I am hooked on your videos and have gone back and watched mostly all of them I really enjoy the game just now and my viewers all like it as a die a lot and rage and they laugh 😂 keep up the cool videos idea my friend they are very unique and cool 😊
“What were they thinking?” They were thinking youd try out the spear made specifically for the encounter that is found right when you enter arena not a faith only challenge run 😅
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2:11:57 For those who didn't know Erdtree Seal is the strongest pure faith seal in the game but due to the different scaling curves the Godslayer Seal is better up until 70 faith.
Fromsoft scaling is silly
Frontloaded vs. Backloaded scaling is weird. Same way Lusats' has the best Int scaling up until about 80 int, afterwards Lord of Death's staff overtakes it@@Izolus
@@Izolusyeah
@@Ch3dlanLord of Deaths isn’t a (pure) INT weapon. It’s a hybrid INT/FAI if you invest 80/80 you’d expect it to outperform a single stat investment. It’s a shame half the staffs are not worth bothering with. I guess most people go meteorite straight to Regal/Lusat’s. Personally I prefer Regal because I tend not to go for ‘one shot’ builds.
Erdtree Seal also fall off really fast towards 99 FTH. It literally has that small sliver around 80 of being good and doesn't even buff any incants.
rykard is one of the most visually incredible bosses in a fromsoft game to date because its incredible how little visuals i have during his storm of red skulls
Fr first time I felt like Guts in the middle of eclipse! 😂 Like what the hell is happeninnng
yeah me too, had Eclipse vibes all over that place.@@kuprukuula
@@kuprukuulaplease🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
hes also the most easy boss of all for me
@Juusokakku also he gives you blasphemous blade which looks like skull knights sword
Next Stat Run: All stats in order AKA the ultimate quality build.
Wretch starting class. First level to Vigor, second level to Mind, etc. until everything is 11. Then do it again for 12, 13, and so on.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see Gino do a run like that. Tulok & Mango did that exact run but with even better rules than the ones you suggested (video: "How Effective is Equal Stat Growth in Elden Ring?").
Back in my day we called that a "mundane" build
@StanleyG23 thank you for posting the title of the video you referenced, gonna check it out 😁
@@gigan3838 *PTSD flashbacks to axe throwing dwarves*
@@gigan3838just gimme that laddle back in ER so I can break it again
Shout out to Hunter, his editing is S tier for those who don't always have time to watch the streams
Yeah, editors really deserve a lot more love, especially the editors that manage streams
Thanks
@@kaido2469so true
i never have time to watch the streams. wish these uploads were more regular :D
@@salad106 Anyone who consistently watches streams has no life.
Shoutout Hunter, the checklists were an amazing idea and were really cool to see how Gino was putting all the builds together
29:30 really showcasing just how strong Frozen Lightning Spear is. Super underrated spell. The damage it does is nuts because it does lightning damage AND frost buildup. Having access to both of those damage types makes it a fantastic spell for nuking bosses. It's riskier to use because you need to get in close for both hits to get the full damage but oh man is it worth it.
I think it's very fairly rated.
It's fine. For what it is and what it does. It's very OK.
Saying it does "nuts" damage really discredits spells like Frenzy Flame that take about as long to fully cast but simply deal 2-3 times the damage. The Dragon Breaths, Frenzy Burst, Pest Threats, Ancient Dragon Lightnings Strikes, Black Blade, Black Flame, Catch Flame, Greyols and Plasidusax all outperform it by a landslide.
@@JinFreeksnah
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14:00 The Erdsteel Dagger almost double the damage if you infuse it with Flame Art affinity, it still scales with Faith and the damage near 650 on a +25.
I used on a Machete Cosplay Run and it was really good with charged attacks
you should try dual wield with a frost one in the off hand very strong
Machete as in Danny Trejo?
@@Ake-TL yes
@@andyalquimistaoficial based
fun fact, flame art and sacred have the exact same scaling! you're getting the same damage out of it either way, just one is holy and one is fire
48:42 quick thing just in case: No, you don’t have to do any of Castle Morne. Irina will die and Hyetta will spawn in Liurnia the instant you go to any Site of Grace after speaking to Irina and agreeing to give the letter to Edgar.
Ayyy, Chat knew. I’m glad. I found that out last year when I decided to Platinum the game and stumbled across that little fact.
Just happened to me on my playthrough because I kinda never realized Irina ->Hyetta. So I saw Hyetta, gave her a grape, and went to grab the grace at the Revenger's shack. Guess who invaded right after?
Her quest is not nessesary for platinum tho.
@@eduardonavarro4172there is a surprisingly low amount of quests required for platinum, at least the Xbox version, from what I remember you just have to do rannis quest in one playthrough, get the Frenzied flame ending in one, and the normal ending.
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You seem like you know stuff and I know asking a question with my own comment won't get an answer so I'll ask you lol Does holding a weapon with both hands have more benefits? I know doing it with a larger weapon that you can't weild right with one hand will allow you to be effective. But a small sword like he had in the beginning?
I wish I could be as Chill as Gino is with FromSoft games. "Surely I won't lose 70K runes" "surely i won't get blasted" "Surely this won't kill me" etc. etc. When I lose a lot of runes/souls i get HEATED. And even in large enemy groups I get super annoyed and also heated. I wanna be as chill as Gino is
Simply don't get upset
@@Kai1665 Shirley it can't be that hard
Bro has like, thousands of hours into these games. We'll get there in time, and we'll laugh at our frustrations once we do.
@@MinerDiner it's not actualy because runes in this game is easy as hell especially if you kill greyoll multiple times (immediately after she dies you run to the grace and rest, you need to kill her on top of the horse hitting her tail)
@@wgnd1614 I don't care that it's easy as hell to farm runes I still get heated when I lose a shit ton of them over some bullshit death
When I found the FOURTH color of lightning on my first playthrough as a Prisoner I immediately booted up a Prophet. The variety is unbeatable and definitely better than an entire catalogue of different shades of blue
your right but int gets better somber weapons and ashes of war.
@@shevankaseneviratne1724Wouldn't say better uniques, but magic really gets much better weapon skills. And more, too.
Red, yellow, blue. What’s the fourth?
@@shulker7442 Death Lightning is black.
@@euclidYT oh right the one spell that’s shit anyway I forgot lol
Rickety Shield my beloved
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Highlight of the run @ 2:23:40
He can write a book about what's wrong with rickard... and dead after killing it finally, while resting.
The boss laughing before it all was the cherry on top lol
Region locking plus trying a wide variety of tactics made this probably the most entertaining run I've seen. Great work! 👍
Awww, this brings back memories. My first run was a faith-based glass cannon build with a focus on godslayer incantations 😌
The Rancor killing you at the grace was the perfect end to that Rykard saga. Another really fun run to watch.
I'm surprised Gino didn't leave the Fire Giant Spells for the Haligtree. Burn, O Flame! and Flame of the Fell God go extremely hard against Malenia. He could've been done in like 1-3 attempts.
At least the Crucible Knight spells were also really fun.
P.S. Looking forward to the Bows Only run.
The best incantation against Malenia is Frenzied burst. Hits like a gauss-rifle, casts from a huge safe distance and which is important, Malenia never tries to dodge it.
@@Вейн-э5бshe cant if you dont charge it, Lightning spear is the same she cant input read it
I really like the little checklists marking stuff that needs to be done. It contextualises everything ur doing so u can maybe miss like 2 mins of the video and not have to mentally catch up lol
I did an entire run using nothing but the winged scythe, and I’ve gotta say, it’s effectiveness varies WILDLY. sometimes you do oodles of damage with multiple bleed procs, but other times you do 173 damage with a +10 weapon. Not to mention radagon feels like he’s built to laugh at that weapon specifically, since he resists holy and slash damages a lot, as well as being immune to bleed.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the shabriri spell just south of Limgrave. It's pretty great for the early game bosses
What spell is that?
@@timmchone7666 The Flame of Frenzy it's in Weeping Peniinsula .... it's really good at the start of the game and it's a chargeable spell too!
It's a mandatory spell imho. Chargeable, fire based, great aoe, and incredible poise damage 🔥
He was using The Flame of Frenzy though...?
@@flagmuffin1221Was he though?
The little checklists are actually so perfect cause i’m lowk tryna do some of these challenges as this helps a lot oml
It's funny watching all these super good ER players make incantation builds like it's a novel concept, considering that is 99% of what I normally play 😂
Ah a fellow man of faith i see.
I love these types of runs ❤!!
Me to
The amount of set up having to be done just at the start with little pay off compared to other builds like INT is just lovely. Also I miss hexes, black flame incantations could have been so much better if some were weapon types like the curved greatsword spell from ds3, hell even the holy incantations margit uses like the hammer/sword/lance
I think people like it because of how many directions you can go in and basically how many builds you can do within the same stats, sure you cant get super OP fast like other builds but sheer fun factor is worth imo
also yeah your changes would be sweet
Pro tip for an incantation only run: Catch Flame is the best incantation in the game with insane DPS, and you can cheese the entire game with it. 🙃🙃🤷🏼♂️
Always a good day when Gino uploads a Elden Ring video longer than 1h. Keep it up. They are fantastic!
I love these region locked runs, such a great showcase for all the variety in the game.
When Gino said “birds are too easy”
I just remember Jevs run where he died by those birds and he screamed “WHY DO THE BIRDS HAVE FUCKING BLADES ATTACHED TO THEIR TALONS” 😭🤣
love being part of the 6.6%, keep up the sick vids. these longer vids are so nice to have on in the background when working or playing a game.
Man you make this game seem so easy, every time i'm thinking "doesn't seem that bad, i can do that, just learn the moveset" then i get smashed by fire giant for rolling to early. Love you contentent keep it up !
3 hours of amazing entertainment to fulfil my mindless brains needs. I'm gonna watch this all the way.
Glad to see my boy Frozen Lightning Spear getting some love. Used it a lot on my first casting playthrough.
The level of ease he parried the attacks are insane
im literally in awe
Watching Gino Play makes me want to pay better attention to their attacks. It took me so long to kill crucible Duo but watching him inspired me to keep trying. Amazing gamer. I die so much but I know its my own fault most of the time.
Watching him fight that crucible knight and I recognized his attacks made me happy.
Shout out to the editor, done good work. Always enjoy when Gino drops a video.
1:20:16 "Now this fight might be a little tough." (dies instantly) beautiful edit. No notes
I really enjoy the region lock runs. Forces you to go to different parts of the map you normally wouldn’t for extra runes or an armament you normally wouldn’t use because there’s a better version in the next region
0:12 is that a tail?! sweet
The incantation you get from Malekith is pretty good against Rykard. It does percentage-based damage, it can hit his body multiple times, and the jump lets you clear the lava.
If I were leveling only faith I would start confessor over prophet just to have a little higher on the other stats since they’re never going up. Super cool run.
So would l
I'm loving these videos/runs I've been binge watching them lately and this new format with the editing showing the route/quest or next items to be obtained I do very much enjoy, I have been noticing the production quality go up recently with a lot of souls-bourne-ring creators and it's just awesome to see. Keep up the amazing work.
Melania's hyper armor is so stupid. Half the time she's made of glass, and half the time she is immortal.
Some handy things that will hopefully help (No Spoilers), sorry if it's been repeated a bunch by other people:
-On the map, there will be locations marked with dark spots with an orange/red aura (there is one in the Northwestern corner of Agheel Lake, the lake with the giganto crabs on the eastern end). These marks are mines which have upgrade materials which spawn as white and yellow crystals/rocks
-The upgrade materials have numbered tiers. So a Smithing Stone [2] is higher than a Smithing Stone [1]. It can be easy to confuse tier of stonr with quantity. And Somber Smithing Stones are different from the regular variety
-Weapons scale with a letter system like a tier list, with S being highest and A just under that etc. When you get weapons you want to scale the damage of, focus on the stat with the better scaling letter. They are shown in the same menu as the requirements to weild the weapon. Ashes of War can change the scaling of weapons to better suit your wants, but weapons tend to scale best with certain stats (fast weapons scale with Dexterity and big slow weapons with Strength)
-Similar to the mines, there are obeliak marks in the gray areas of the map (once you've travelled the area enough to clear the fog). These are map piece locations
-You may not encounter it for a while, but you can jump over shockwave attacks. They are more easily jumped than avoided by invulnerability frames from rolling
-You have the right idea about those golden lines coming from Graces. They vaguely point towards graces closer to story progress, but exploration is key to success.
-one of the tricks to dodging is wait for the attack to come forward. Many enemies delay their draw back animation to catch you after a roll. You have pretty good invulnerability window (rule of thumb is you're invincible while your feet aren't on the ground dueing the roll animation)
-Endurance will give you more stamina and equip load, so you can wear hwavier armor qithout goong into Heavy Load, which will severely hinder your dodge ability. Medium Load is a great balance between speed and good protection from armor. 20-25 Endurance is generally high enough for most builds unless you want the heaviest armors
-Stuns on bosses happen from posture damage. Light, fast attacks don't do a lot, the spinning slash/storm stomp does an okay amount. Heavy attacks (Right trigger/R2) can be charged to do more posture damage, but you may find smaller weapons still don't stun very often. There is a signature sound when larger bosses are staggered, mich like the back stab, you can get very close to the glowing spot, and press right bumper (R1) to do a critical attack
-Some weapons have a status effect. It will be listed at the bottom such as Bleed (50) or Frost (45). That is yhe type and amount of buildup they apply. The statuses can be very handy, but any enemies that appear to be ghosts/phantoms/illusions (or made entirely of stone) will likely be immune to them
-You will be disappointed if you expect a clear, laid out story. FromSoft doesn't really do that. An incredible story is there, but you want just happen across it in general play. You will be very unlikely to complete any NPC quests or unlock alternate endings without outside resources. That isn't a slight against you, but the nature of the cryptic storytelling
Hopefully that wasn't overwhelming. There's just a lot I wish the game communicated more clearly
Hey man! Would love to see the rest of Convergence archetypes explored in the future! 🎉🎉🎉
for the fire storm incantation, you can epuip caestus and endure
and then cast the spell, the only thing to stagger me out of it is bleed/frost OR radahn's meteor landing, everything else you poise through and get off a huge spell
I love your videos Gino keep up the good work!
Malenia won't get stunned when she has hyperarmour. She can still take poise damage but if her poise gets to zero, her poise will just recover instead of stance breaking. She has hyperarmour when she jumps backwards. That's why she can't be stunned @3:08:45.
As someone who mains Faith builds, this video is killing my soul. My brother in Christ, there are like 10 incants that are existential weapons of mass destruction and half are early game.
what would you say are your top 10 ? i just rebirth myself to make a faith build and havent really experienced many of the incantations
Your mom
Looking through the list of incantations, there's not a single one I would define as "weapon of mass destruction" that doesn't come from late game areas.
Black flame
@@flagmuffin1221To be fair, he said existential wmd's..
It is crazy how good elden ring is. They really went above and beyond with increasing all kind of Spells etc, i do not know a game that has so many ways to be played. Aweseome vid ty.
It's finally here!
watched many shorts already
Frozen lighting spear had always been one of my favorite incantations, I like using that with the dragon halberd to build frost even more
very excited for this run. love the pure stat build challenges--i've been playing through seamless coop with a squad of one-stat goons. its been awful and amazing
One super important note about the golden order incants is how heavily they scale with intelligence. I made a build focused around SoNaF and golden order incants, and at 50 for each int and faith, Discus of Light (at 3 fp per cast), was doing about 800 damage a hit to astel, without any significant buffing procedures, other than physik and and goldmask headpiece.
A shame he chose Aincient Dragon Lightning for Rykard. He's very doable with spells that have better range. Ice Lightning Spear would've worked very well. Status, Multi hit, and Range.
2:46:37 Bloodflame Talons isn't actually that bad of an Incantation, having pretty nasty bleed build up and damage. The reason it sucks against Mohg is because Bloodflame Talons deals Fire Damage, which Mohg has an 80% resistance to, and since bosses gain resistance to Status Effects after each successful proc, and you were using Swarm of Flies to proc Hemorrhage explains Bloodflame Talon's seemingly weaker Hemorrhage build up. It's definitely not the best Incantation out there in itself, but against an enemy not near impervious to Fire Damage, it can put in some decent work. The Dragon Communion Seal should also boost it's Hemorrhage build up, since it scales with Arcane, but I might be talking out my ass on that one
I'm Brazilian 🇧🇷 , I don't understand English very well, but I've already marathoned several of your videos, your content is incredible
I've recently just been binge watching all your other runs, so happy that a new one came out! ❤
This game is mind blowingly good and im glad this guy takes it to the next level and even still plays it. He shows what can be done and things like that and that it can be a lasting journey to have fun with.
Man you make dodging waterfowl look sooooo easy. I had to just tank that with the shield. Hunter's editing is amazing too. GG
Gino has SO much patience. Idk how he does it. All I play is FromSoftware games so I understand the frustration and difficulty. This man is a saint.
Sounds like a cringe way to play
I love your videos. There have been times where your mental health message has pulled me from the brink but also times like right now where I'm feeling great. But the contrast of the two situations really helps to put things in perspective and it genuinely helps every time I hear it.
1:33:50 i think any enemy that spawns without a boss health bar can have golden eyes, i had the gargoyle on the way up to the capital with golden eyes, and i think its because i doesnt have an on screen health bar like the others
Elden Ring: "oh no no no, you can't just jump from that cliff, even if you used your magic horse double jump to break the fall! That's too high >:("
Also, Elden Ring: 15:15
Lets gooo, another 3h of finest entertainment! Keep it up :)
Great runs indeed, you always try a lot of different things. Big fan of the editing in your videos, very clean and 'simple' , and pleasant to watch.
Does anyone know of good resources for people getting into challenge runs like this? Like pathing, where to find stones and runes early, and what buffs are available early? Ideally something that I could read during slow moments at work.
These videos are great! Just found the channel and got me excited all over again for Elden Ring!
I have the same problem. It's just too damn big of a game and i feel like i can only do cool builds by spending hours pouring over the wiki
My favorite part of these runs is hearing Gino's thought process for when to use what attack in a boss's moveset.
I think it's unfortunate that you didn't try Maliketh's blade spell more. The fully charged version instantly cuts off a large chunk of their HP, and the follow up does heavy black flame damage
Not a Stat run but should maybe be challenging still. Region lock, All Major bosses (so all the Great Rune bosses if confused), Somber Smithing Stone Halberds only. Part of the challenge for this run is the limited number of Somber Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds since there is much more plain Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds and there are a few regions (i think 3?) that have no Somber Halberds so it requires going to regions you may not have wanted to go + they are slow timing weapons for the most part
Faith users after investing points into the best stat in the game:🗿
Joshua graham run
Haha super cool run and nice to see almost all the incantations used. I was waiting for you to try Elden Stars though! That homing & continuous attack helped me on my 1st playthrough a lot :) And I never knew Burn O Flame! was so busted o.O
i dont know why anyone at all likes the rykard fight. the spectacle is cool but everything mechanically about the fight is boring at best
Very. Even if you tried to not use the serpent hunter it would still be boring. BUT…
You can’t deny how geeked out you were at the sheer hell and unnerving nature you felt from his cutscene when you walked into that boss room. Also, the way you have to fight the boss; while “straightforward”, the scale of everything happening is still cool as hell. And not just the fight, but the whole theme of the volcano manor being in a volcano, the wonder at what the demigod you will face soon ahead will bring, just to encounter Godrick the Grafted (which everyone thought was a cool fight at first okay) but like a million feet tall, also a giant snake, but with a GIANT HUMAN FACE on it, pulling a sword out of his throat, and then decides he doesn’t want to kill you, no, it’s the GODS he’s after. And he’s gonna turn you into him to achieve it. All this, as you’re standing in a sea of corpses holding a single weapon they made to fight this one snake, but were unsuccessful. I just ranted for way too long because I can’t fall asleep, but like INCREASE, you can’t tell me that those reasons don’t just automatically bump him way up on a tier list. He is literally that one part of the game that everyone loves at first sight, but just gets annoying to the hardcore community after maybe 2 playthroughs max. And honestly, I’m okay with at least one crazy awesome spectacle of a boss, if this is him. Made the first playthrough just that much better
the spectacle.
@@jordankaltenbach5295long rant but I wholeheartedly agree 👍🏻
@@jordankaltenbach5295 no doubt, the first experience was memorable, but its just never a fight I look forward to on further play-throughs
Boring if you use the serpent hunter yeah, pretty cool if you use literally anything else
I played the “Slayer Build” in Goblin Caves and had a lot of fun. You can use the lantern in offhand to proc the duel wield buffs, for a lower movement speed penalty.
Don’t worry, I have *faith* in you.
Just remain calm, breathe and remain *faithful* to your duty
Anyways, enjoy the run
Yours *faithfully*
The pun master
You have a way with words sir
there are ants under your skin rip it off rip it off rip it off
Watching this run was a blast. Had a good laugh at many parts of the video :D shout out to the editor
Pest threads has always been such an underrated incantation. Even on PvP is amazing to distract enemies and if it hits it deals good damage
Without a doubt one of the most underrated incants is pest threads. I think I'm the only person I've actually seen use it in game. Thing especially melts big bosses. Took out elden beast so fast my jaw dropped
Would be too strong for a challenge run i guess. He didn’t stack buffs and 1 hit every boss when he could.
@@HunterYangBird I wouldn't take it that far. While it was super effective against elden beast and astel most stuff isn't really that big and u gotta be pretty close for it to hit. It's still not anywhere near as good as giants flame take thee and a lot of other spells. It's just underrated and is good in the right situations
Ds3 anri straight sword is special in the fact it primarily scales with luck and is intrinsically blessed
I have never watched any Elden ring videos before and I started watching yours when I start to play game and you make it look so easy while I struggle on the “easy” bosses but man I am hooked on your videos and have gone back and watched mostly all of them I really enjoy the game just now and my viewers all like it as a die a lot and rage and they laugh 😂 keep up the cool videos idea my friend they are very unique and cool 😊
The editing as well as your commentary makes me engaged the entire video!
As always absolutely stellar work on all fronts, props to Hunter too.
As per usual this will require at least a second viewing 🤘 ❤
I’m new to these kinds of games.
Your movement at 6:29 is INSANE 🤯
The editing was peak this video! Keep up the great work!
i like how in the chapters on this video the whole second half the video is just godskin duo
35:30 killing dragons and the wildlife tries to take you out😂
Secrect facts: - Gino is a true believer and thats why his dmg good
Screaming everytime you don’t charge Lightning Spear oh my God
Frenized Burst is so slept on man. You get Blasphemous blade and Burst and just become elden lord
gino you are awsome.
It has become part of my daily routine to watch your videos before going to sleep. It is very enjoyable and fun for me
Great run! Awesome to see all the incantations and their effectiveness.
“Who puts a sword in the ground on a stone area” …. Merlin: 😊
i love it. i realy struglt with the Hero of Zamor and you just burned him :D
Is the little on-screen checklist a new addition to the Post-Editing?
I really like it!
I am impressed by how much trivial things Gino has never seen ingame
The content just keep getting better, and i dont even know how it can be posible
“What were they thinking?”
They were thinking youd try out the spear made specifically for the encounter that is found right when you enter arena not a faith only challenge run 😅
Ah, Frozen Lightning Spear - the perfect gift for a boss that has 80% lightning resist.
The goat hitting Gino during the lansseax fight was soooo funny 😂😂😂
rykard killing from beyond the grave for talking shit is incredible
Took me a couple days to watch the whole thing but awesome vid. Loved how you kept changing up spells for different areas and what not.