What's up Curtis, one of the devs here, we really appreciate all the videos you create on the mod. Putting you in as an NPC was truly a no -brainer for us as you have given our work a ton of support. I'm glad with the reception of Shabriri's Chosen, as he is the first boss i've ever made a moveset for as I typically do player animations. Have a good one and keep up the content!
ayo, you did amazing I cut it down a lot but I spent a long time just letting him chase me and seeing all the different animations I always enjoy the work you guys do! I'm very honored to be put into this amazing project you guys have :)
I really enjoyed the boss, the moves felt doable but still dangerous thanks to madness buildup. Only critique is that he’s pretty easy to cheese with pots, in a future update if that’s something youd wanna change maybe a quicker ranged poke move wouldn’t be amiss? Something a lil faster and less damaging than the frenzy nuke.
Hey man, sorry to bother you but since you're a dev you can probably answer. On twitter it was said that to update the mod you just had to run the setup again, yet i went into castle morne and nothing changed...
The new boss does have a nice moveset, but the only thing he lacks is gap closers, since he doesn't move forward a lot when doing his combos. Otherwise, you did a great job!! Edit: he only lacks gap closers in his second phase, in his first phase he does chase you down when attacking
The second part of the melee spell is that when you trigger madness on yourself, it gives you a secondary buff. So you have to let madness build up to use the full effect.
I'm currently doing a Convergence run with the Dreadnought class, using body buffs from the Beast Clergyman and Golden Order Fundamentalist, no attack spells allowed, pure melee, and I'm having the time of my life. My very first run with this mod was with Flame of Frenzy and now I'm kind of wishing I had waited for this update because they outdid themselves again. I'm planning on following their Patreon in the new year.
@@Lunaraia I know, drop rate is abysmal. I’m pretty much the same, only got it once randomly and had to farm it extensively for my other two characters
You should definitely do a run when the mod is closer to completion even though that seems far away, thanks for making awesome content as always Curtis
ty! and that's a great suggestion, I'll always keep tabs on this mod and showcase it's updates as in a way it's my roots here on yt. This series has done way more for my channel then I could have ever imagined and I am forever grateful. I will not forget convergence :)
I do hope you'll revisit the classes they've updated substantially like the Golden Order class. Looks like there's some fun new content there to enjoy.
Personally, I hope you keep doing these. They are very enjoyable to watch, and there is so much more to explore if you open yourself up to cross-class spell combinations, even beyond the massive updates the mod is still getting. Definitely do all your other ideas though; I don't mean to stifle creativity.
Madness actually being useful is such a fantastic improvement. Plus the Nomad's Kilij is absolutely ridiculous. I love it. I'd even go so far as to say it might be the most powerful weapon in the whole mod.
Glad to know the game gets such refreshing content. I played it once on xbox after launch, then changed my platform to PC and just got it again yesterday on steam. Gonna play the vanilla game at least one more time and go looking for mods.
I love the Kilij. It is so ridiculous when you can get off the ash so it kind of turned boss fights into puzzles where you were always looking for big enough windows to use it without getting gibbed right after. It's probably less of a challenge if you are good, but I am not. Madness was my first Convergence class and I always felt a little underpowered until I got the Kilij and figured out how absurd the eye spell's posture damage was. I'm tempted to do it again just for the Chosen fight, but it doesn't seem like much else was changed so it might feel pretty samey. Plus sewer Mohg is for some reason the hardest boss in the game for me. I don't know why, but he just wrecks me.
For everyone's knowledge, as long as you have an ash of war and a weapon to put it on you can set the affinity to godslaying for the soul burn. Works better than bleed for killing Greyoll. Probably the easiest thing to do is get the scarab by the 3rd Marika church and slap the aow on a dagger from the twin maiden husks.
I think eye of chaos's advantage, is that while you were using it in the boss room, the tree guardians were all getting hit outside the boss room. It's such a massive aoe AND goes through walls, so it's good for clearing massive areas. I'm thinking of how useful it would be for, say the halig tree.
Thank you for the holiday wishes and happy holidays to you too! I didn’t… really get any gifts? I got mainly 3, my best friend go tickets to a concert on the 16th for the band that’s been with me throughout this year, and it meant so much to me. But yeah, happy holidays and excited for the videos to come in 2024 :]
I think problem with many sorceries and incantations in this mode is same as elden star. Flat damage resistance to them. For example if incant. deals 1000 damage in 1 projectile and flat resist is 50 then it deals 950 damage to enemy. But if same damage was distributed by 10 projectiles with 100 damage each than each of them will have their damage reduced by 50. So in total spell will deal 50*10=500 damage. So the flare and tendrils are more impressive, because they are less affected by flat resistance. Like those final incantation might have really big damage, but they are stretched so thin, because projectiles are so numerous that it becomes underwhelming.
Wow that disclaimer at 52 minute mark is kind of a glimpse into what will be happening on screen: MADNESS. Especially the "FROM NOW ON" part. That's where the run really starts to spiral out of control :D Getting hold of endgame spells in Convergence is always a massive power trip, and I LOVE it! For example - now I'm playing Nox oracle, and "attunement to black moon" is so good. It's so good in fact, that it manages to make it's drawback - 0.25x all outcoming damage(yes, you deal 4 times less direct damage with this on, both spells and weapons) - and it's still well freakin worth it. 6X THE MANA REGEN, 20HP/S REGEN, DAMAGE RESISTANCE, STAGGER RESISTANCE, 0.5X SPELL MANA COSTS, you are just unstoppable under this. It also looks like you have Hogyoku in your chest, which can't NOT be sick as hell. You basically never run out of hp and fp, and your spells are always ready, and always go off because stagger protection. 4 times less damage ends up not being that much of a problem, because with 6x mana regen and 0.5x mana costs, you can spam things that you didn't even consider spammable, like big, massive, expensive comet spells. And they deal well enough damage to deal with enemies. And against bosses you have quicksilver. Dots don't get quartered by the debuff. So yeah, in Convergence, there is A LOT to experience
it really sucks that they decided to lean harder into the parkour. parkour is the most unfun part of souls games, and they decided to make more of it...
So hyped to see your npc! Can’t imagine how u feel. U deserve it dude. E: just from seeing the outside of Castle Morne I’m going to update right now. Congrats on the 20k bud Also I noticed that enemies DO take Frenzy build up but it’s like bleed where it does a chunk of damage.
I just downloaded the update today and also started a frenzy class! Got halfway through your video and decided I didn't want to spoil it for myself. I'll finish this vid when I finish my run
Honestly, I really love your content as it is now, feels a lot more genuine and personal than any of the big '$1000 challenge' things, so I really wouldn't recommend going into that style of video making, unless they're few and far between. I'd love to see, if anything, some sort of challenge runs, like limiting yourself to a certain generally underwhelming weapon type or something of the sort.
The plan would be to do the bigger videos far and inbetween to try to hit a mainstream audience per say and still have my challenge runs, duo runs and just playthroughs alongside it. I just wanna make entertaining stuff that people will enjoy!
I was gonna wait to watch someone play the frenzy class until I had played it, but I don't think I'll be getting a PC anytime soon. Happy holidays, everyone.
5:05, i got a pa5 slim with ps+ult for a year and i immediately bought elden ring. I beat it over 20 times on my xbox one but when i booted it up on my ps5 the graphics were beautiful
I feel like the Convergence devs have played a good deal of Magic the Gathering the way they've thought about the conditional effects of armor and stuff. It feels very MTG mechanics.
When using apocalyptic flames if you hold the ability it will burn longer and also the dark souls shrine u found could have been a starter place for the melee class
I’m so happy this came out I was excited for the frenzy one mainly cus I’m on psn and we don’t have such access to mods and I love frenzy spells hopefully the dlc comes out with more frenzys spells
Hey just recently started to watch your content and I think it would be cool to have a video on what more you would want to see from convergence or just a full feedback video on all the builds :)
There is a skip for the Frenzy Flame parkour Before you drop into it there is a guy playing the violin that if you charge heavy he's poise broken and if you do it right you can do a crit attack in front of him and the game would drop you while doing the animation and drop all the way down
Heyo, new comer to the channel and ive definitely enjoyed every video so far, ive just been going through every video and ive really enjoyed your content
So here's the whole process, I tried making thumbnails in photoshop then realized I have no artistic skills. Drew a rough draft in my journal of how I wanted the thumbnail to look then paid a couple people from fiverr or twitter to make the thumbnail. Choose which one I liked best, did that a couple of times until I found the person that was consistent enough for me. Now I just pay him to make the thumbnails, communication is key and now we got a good thing going.
Out of curiosity was the music played during the Shabriri fight the music from in game or was it something that you inserted? I'm genuinely curious because it sounded rather nice.
Here’s what I noticed: Shabriri’s Chosen consists of: The Soul of Cinder’s running animation, some of his curved sword attacks, some of the Pontiff Knight’s curved sword running attacks, the kick combo (maybe from Sekiro, or the Hero of Zamor?) the Soul of Cinders fireball attack (when he launches the frenzy-spiral projectile) and some standard, player-like moves, and possibly the frenzied yellow NPC frenzy attacks. Also, he looks kinda like a frenzy-burnt Onyx Lord-Sekiro monk kinda thing.
What's up Curtis, one of the devs here, we really appreciate all the videos you create on the mod. Putting you in as an NPC was truly a no -brainer for us as you have given our work a ton of support. I'm glad with the reception of Shabriri's Chosen, as he is the first boss i've ever made a moveset for as I typically do player animations. Have a good one and keep up the content!
ayo, you did amazing I cut it down a lot but I spent a long time just letting him chase me and seeing all the different animations I always enjoy the work you guys do! I'm very honored to be put into this amazing project you guys have :)
Ain’t no WAY!
I really enjoyed the boss, the moves felt doable but still dangerous thanks to madness buildup. Only critique is that he’s pretty easy to cheese with pots, in a future update if that’s something youd wanna change maybe a quicker ranged poke move wouldn’t be amiss? Something a lil faster and less damaging than the frenzy nuke.
Hey man, sorry to bother you but since you're a dev you can probably answer. On twitter it was said that to update the mod you just had to run the setup again, yet i went into castle morne and nothing changed...
The new boss does have a nice moveset, but the only thing he lacks is gap closers, since he doesn't move forward a lot when doing his combos. Otherwise, you did a great job!!
Edit: he only lacks gap closers in his second phase, in his first phase he does chase you down when attacking
Dude, that's legitimately an honor by the modmaker/makers for them to add you as an NPC. Bravo for that.
The second part of the melee spell is that when you trigger madness on yourself, it gives you a secondary buff. So you have to let madness build up to use the full effect.
I'm currently doing a Convergence run with the Dreadnought class, using body buffs from the Beast Clergyman and Golden Order Fundamentalist, no attack spells allowed, pure melee, and I'm having the time of my life. My very first run with this mod was with Flame of Frenzy and now I'm kind of wishing I had waited for this update because they outdid themselves again. I'm planning on following their Patreon in the new year.
And this is still in alpha, thats absolutely insane
Massive thank you to the devs, and to curtis for being such an amazing content creator
The Octopus Head is an item from the base game, having an abysmally low drop rate from the big octopus enemies.
Even baby octopi can drop them, that's how bad the drop rate is.
It’s just the baby octopi that drop it I think
@@Dan.L.Oliveira either way, I have gotten the head once out of maybe 20 playthroughs of elden ring.
@@Lunaraia I know, drop rate is abysmal. I’m pretty much the same, only got it once randomly and had to farm it extensively for my other two characters
Haha thats interesting to know!
Curtis the Stormcaller needs his own boss room and soundtrack imo. Great vid as always!
You should definitely do a run when the mod is closer to completion even though that seems far away, thanks for making awesome content as always Curtis
ty! and that's a great suggestion, I'll always keep tabs on this mod and showcase it's updates as in a way it's my roots here on yt. This series has done way more for my channel then I could have ever imagined and I am forever grateful. I will not forget convergence :)
I do hope you'll revisit the classes they've updated substantially like the Golden Order class. Looks like there's some fun new content there to enjoy.
Personally, I hope you keep doing these. They are very enjoyable to watch, and there is so much more to explore if you open yourself up to cross-class spell combinations, even beyond the massive updates the mod is still getting. Definitely do all your other ideas though; I don't mean to stifle creativity.
My favorite NPC, Shabribri!
Your longer videos are actually really good. I will put then on whenever I'm doing a task and it keeps me entertained
I like longer videos too since I can put them on while I'm working on art, or just veg out.
I got a pc and downloaded the convergence mod because of you. I’m enjoying it so far, thanks for showcasing it
Man You have PC?
Really?
Madness actually being useful is such a fantastic improvement. Plus the Nomad's Kilij is absolutely ridiculous. I love it. I'd even go so far as to say it might be the most powerful weapon in the whole mod.
Glad to know the game gets such refreshing content. I played it once on xbox after launch, then changed my platform to PC and just got it again yesterday on steam. Gonna play the vanilla game at least one more time and go looking for mods.
I love the Kilij. It is so ridiculous when you can get off the ash so it kind of turned boss fights into puzzles where you were always looking for big enough windows to use it without getting gibbed right after. It's probably less of a challenge if you are good, but I am not. Madness was my first Convergence class and I always felt a little underpowered until I got the Kilij and figured out how absurd the eye spell's posture damage was. I'm tempted to do it again just for the Chosen fight, but it doesn't seem like much else was changed so it might feel pretty samey. Plus sewer Mohg is for some reason the hardest boss in the game for me. I don't know why, but he just wrecks me.
Someone has to say it: you saying "Shabribri" is freaking adorable.
Completly agreed XDDDD
Is like the if it was a Cheems version of spelling Shabriri XDDD
Curtis, you absolute madman, congrarualtions on 20k!!! Good things to come for you bro, it is inevitable
Im with you on the parkour in the academy, i die so many times trying to jump on those skonny logs
When i see Curtis the stormcaller, i was really happy for you
:)
Hyetta must be insanely strong if she has that powerful of a version of Burst. What a badass
Wish you went through with the 100 player seamless thing, even if there is no reward it would be fun to participate
it is still something i wanna do eventually
I dont have epilepsy but you are a true gigachad every time you put a warning.
For everyone's knowledge, as long as you have an ash of war and a weapon to put it on you can set the affinity to godslaying for the soul burn. Works better than bleed for killing Greyoll. Probably the easiest thing to do is get the scarab by the 3rd Marika church and slap the aow on a dagger from the twin maiden husks.
I think eye of chaos's advantage, is that while you were using it in the boss room, the tree guardians were all getting hit outside the boss room. It's such a massive aoe AND goes through walls, so it's good for clearing massive areas. I'm thinking of how useful it would be for, say the halig tree.
Thank you for the holiday wishes and happy holidays to you too! I didn’t… really get any gifts? I got mainly 3, my best friend go tickets to a concert on the 16th for the band that’s been with me throughout this year, and it meant so much to me. But yeah, happy holidays and excited for the videos to come in 2024 :]
that's super hype, nothing better then seeing a band that's been there for you!
I think problem with many sorceries and incantations in this mode is same as elden star. Flat damage resistance to them. For example if incant. deals 1000 damage in 1 projectile and flat resist is 50 then it deals 950 damage to enemy. But if same damage was distributed by 10 projectiles with 100 damage each than each of them will have their damage reduced by 50. So in total spell will deal 50*10=500 damage.
So the flare and tendrils are more impressive, because they are less affected by flat resistance. Like those final incantation might have really big damage, but they are stretched so thin, because projectiles are so numerous that it becomes underwhelming.
I thought you had millions of subs and views because of the amazing quality of the videos you make please keep this amazing work up man
You haven't lived until you've used eye of chaos in the middle of one of the castles and watch every enemy in the entire castle get fried.
Wow that disclaimer at 52 minute mark is kind of a glimpse into what will be happening on screen: MADNESS. Especially the "FROM NOW ON" part. That's where the run really starts to spiral out of control :D
Getting hold of endgame spells in Convergence is always a massive power trip, and I LOVE it! For example - now I'm playing Nox oracle, and "attunement to black moon" is so good. It's so good in fact, that it manages to make it's drawback - 0.25x all outcoming damage(yes, you deal 4 times less direct damage with this on, both spells and weapons) - and it's still well freakin worth it. 6X THE MANA REGEN, 20HP/S REGEN, DAMAGE RESISTANCE, STAGGER RESISTANCE, 0.5X SPELL MANA COSTS, you are just unstoppable under this. It also looks like you have Hogyoku in your chest, which can't NOT be sick as hell. You basically never run out of hp and fp, and your spells are always ready, and always go off because stagger protection. 4 times less damage ends up not being that much of a problem, because with 6x mana regen and 0.5x mana costs, you can spam things that you didn't even consider spammable, like big, massive, expensive comet spells. And they deal well enough damage to deal with enemies. And against bosses you have quicksilver. Dots don't get quartered by the debuff.
So yeah, in Convergence, there is A LOT to experience
it really sucks that they decided to lean harder into the parkour. parkour is the most unfun part of souls games, and they decided to make more of it...
Curtis best youtuber actually, saying Shabribri instantly makes you like. 10000% cooler
The octopus head is a real helmet btw. It has fantastic defenses
Only one B in Shabriri :)
Sha-breer-ee instead of Sha-bree-bree
I thought that was hilarious. Something about the “bribri” makes him sound far less threatening than “Shabriri.” 😂
They did that area with shabriris chosen and all the others right with new expansions added onto them.
So hyped to see your npc! Can’t imagine how u feel. U deserve it dude.
E: just from seeing the outside of Castle Morne I’m going to update right now. Congrats on the 20k bud
Also I noticed that enemies DO take Frenzy build up but it’s like bleed where it does a chunk of damage.
I just downloaded the update today and also started a frenzy class! Got halfway through your video and decided I didn't want to spoil it for myself. I'll finish this vid when I finish my run
can you update or du you need to download a new copy
@@nightrider671 I've done both in the past. Doing a clean install was easier than replacing individual files and it kept my save states.
@@Andres.Guzman thanks, did it yesterday.
@@nightrider671 best of luck in the Lands Between. Stormveil kicked my ass
Huge grats on 20k+ subs man! Great video Curtis! Frenzied zealot is looking like a very fun startin class :)
Honestly, I really love your content as it is now, feels a lot more genuine and personal than any of the big '$1000 challenge' things, so I really wouldn't recommend going into that style of video making, unless they're few and far between. I'd love to see, if anything, some sort of challenge runs, like limiting yourself to a certain generally underwhelming weapon type or something of the sort.
The plan would be to do the bigger videos far and inbetween to try to hit a mainstream audience per say and still have my challenge runs, duo runs and just playthroughs alongside it. I just wanna make entertaining stuff that people will enjoy!
fun fact touch of frenzy will allow you to absolutely cheese melania. you can just walk up to her and hold it and she cant do anything
I was gonna wait to watch someone play the frenzy class until I had played it, but I don't think I'll be getting a PC anytime soon. Happy holidays, everyone.
5:05, i got a pa5 slim with ps+ult for a year and i immediately bought elden ring. I beat it over 20 times on my xbox one but when i booted it up on my ps5 the graphics were beautiful
As one of the helpers for the mod, thanks for playing the new update! (P.S, this is Canada)
Holy shit what they have done to castle Mourne is absolutely incredible.
Happy new year everyone 🎉, and amazing video as always curtis
you 100% deserve the 20k subscribers
I feel like the Convergence devs have played a good deal of Magic the Gathering the way they've thought about the conditional effects of armor and stuff. It feels very MTG mechanics.
When using apocalyptic flames if you hold the ability it will burn longer and also the dark souls shrine u found could have been a starter place for the melee class
I’m so happy this came out I was excited for the frenzy one mainly cus I’m on psn and we don’t have such access to mods and I love frenzy spells hopefully the dlc comes out with more frenzys spells
Welp in the theme of this video MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!!!
Love your videos, glad to be i think among the first 6k subs or sth like that. Thanks for the uploads💯
100k subscribers next years goal
“Shabribri” is gonna make me mad XD
I got something really sick, my brother gave me his stomach bug and now I can’t get off the toilet lol, at least I’ve got something good to watch 😂
Ahh may chaos take the world! MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
ALL HAIL GETTING THE LEGENDARY OCTOPUS HEAD
this update is insane i hope with this update you can make an insane katana build
That’s shabriri boss fight arena n boss we’re really cool. I saw some ds3 lord of cinder in there. Really cool mod
Thank you Curtis, I love this series😊
These spells look really good. Another great vid Curtis!
Hey just recently started to watch your content and I think it would be cool to have a video on what more you would want to see from convergence or just a full feedback video on all the builds :)
Please play through all of the melee classes and showcase every weapon. i love your videos and cant see the convergence vids leave!
Love the videos I saw the little box of the XXX song Rip btw its a great song :D
:D
Let’s gooo I’ve been waiting on you to try the new boss 👏🏾👏🏾 juuuump hit
I'll have to play this masterpiece again. This is simply incredible work!
thanks for making videos i always watch your vids when i workout
"Dad, why is the the sky on fire?"
"Son, I ran out of fuel for the grill."
LMFAO
An hour long vid LETS GOOOOOO
Babe wake up, new curtis video Just dropped (you do not know how much i love your videos brother, such a calming voice)
The frenzied flame class is insane.
Happy new year and this video was cool continue like this !
There is a skip for the Frenzy Flame parkour
Before you drop into it there is a guy playing the violin that if you charge heavy he's poise broken and if you do it right you can do a crit attack in front of him and the game would drop you while doing the animation and drop all the way down
Ooo okay I’ll have to try it out next time I’m over there
Omg i am literally crying he posted and keep on posting man you got this.
got some videos in the works don't worry! just one of them has been taking forever to get finished.
Yipeeee
It would be funny if you did a whole build on the HOMELANDER BEAM!
This is a nice class I should really try it thanks for showing me it
the most underated elden ring youtuber
Heyo, new comer to the channel and ive definitely enjoyed every video so far, ive just been going through every video and ive really enjoyed your content
Glad you like them! :)
Love your content dude keep it up
Really enjoyed this. Well done mate.
got so hyped to see this i’ve been waiting!
Looks like you’ll have to do all the classes again ;)
Another great video keep it up! Anyone else notice he says "shabribri" instead of shabriri?
oops
I'm surprised you didn't go fight Shabriri's Chosen since it was also a new boss addition of the update. Either way great video
Best Elden Ring videos, thanks again Curtis!
At 12:14 we get a peep of him listening to Ex bitch by xxxtenacion at 100% volume 🤣 game face music
Finnaly❤
Edit: How do you make Thumbnails?
So here's the whole process, I tried making thumbnails in photoshop then realized I have no artistic skills. Drew a rough draft in my journal of how I wanted the thumbnail to look then paid a couple people from fiverr or twitter to make the thumbnail. Choose which one I liked best, did that a couple of times until I found the person that was consistent enough for me. Now I just pay him to make the thumbnails, communication is key and now we got a good thing going.
stormcaller curtis needs a unique weapon like a storm jump (hit)
If the mod can have pvp thats is going to be a nightmere
Out of curiosity was the music played during the Shabriri fight the music from in game or was it something that you inserted? I'm genuinely curious because it sounded rather nice.
When I tried a frenzy build some bosses just wouldn’t take any damage lol
Shabribri is hilarious
I actually got the Dlc for christmas
Thanks for the video:)
Frenzied flare needs to be in the og game
31:14
(DS1 damage moan) May chaos take the world! MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
PC players are so lucky holy shit this looks dope
Could you do a vid on the ice class cause you’ve only done it in the duo run
yes, I do plan on doing a video on that!
You can tell the Watchdog is new because its name is deviated.
Insane cactus man
Why is the damage always so abysmal ?
Here’s what I noticed:
Shabriri’s Chosen consists of:
The Soul of Cinder’s running animation, some of his curved sword attacks, some of the Pontiff Knight’s curved sword running attacks, the kick combo (maybe from Sekiro, or the Hero of Zamor?) the Soul of Cinders fireball attack (when he launches the frenzy-spiral projectile) and some standard, player-like moves, and possibly the frenzied yellow NPC frenzy attacks. Also, he looks kinda like a frenzy-burnt Onyx Lord-Sekiro monk kinda thing.