Took me a while to realize most forms of dodging and how effective it is. And I still don't' do it nearly enough. Run into every fight flailing head first at least twice before calming back down lol
A secret most might not know about? The ability to use the shackles for Margit and Mogh on the pillars in dungeons. Can make them rise or fall. And you can do it from cover so you don't get blasted by them.
A couple things most people probably know about, but they make certain fights SO much easier to manage, so they're worth throwing out, just in case someone isn't aware of them: Heal incantatations deal massive damage and stagger Royal Revenants. That early one in the minidungeon in Liurnia can be stunlocked and 2-shot with Heal, even at minimum stats. Sacred Blade can go on a ton of weapons, uses fairly little FP, leaves a residual holy buff, and makes very short work of Deathright Birds. Just lock on to the head and bladebeam your way to some chicken wings.
For spiritspring jumps I use the horse marker to remember where they are. Dungeons that are complete you can teleport out of them/ if not the red line will be thru all sites of grace. That's one way to tell if you killed the boss..took a long time to figure that out. Thank you for this vid...I had missed the lobster mimic!
Fun fact, the hands in the giants snowfield will ALWAYS drop somber 7 stones, at the drop rate anyway, but you can farm your 7s there till you get to crumbling azula
Thanks for pointing out the bit about Leonard the horse. It's surprising how many don't know that Radahn learned how to control gravity, to the extent that he could anchor the stars, out of love for his horse!
I learnt that yesterday. I don't know how to use the "pouches" in the top right of the screen when you go into the menu or equipment. I don't recall which.
IMO, the best use of markers (which I have thought of at some point but then didn't do throughout three playthroughs) is marking every dungeon where you've totally cleaned it out and beaten any bosses. I still think it's odd that they signal that a dungeon's boss is cleared by letting you fast travel from inside it, as an additional feature on top of the spot in the boss arena that teleports you to the entrance, but they don't signal that a dungeon is cleared from the map. It's a UX design antipattern, where anyone can easily check the boss status by fast traveling there and then trying to fast travel away, so the only thing that would change if they indicated it on the map would be like 30 seconds of time that wouldn't be wasted when a player wants to check.
Same. Started doing this on my second character because I couldn't remember who had been through a certain dungeon between them. Now I do it on every single one just to make it easier on myself.
You think it's odd they don't automatically fill up your map with a much of completion marker crap ? That would be gamey af. FROM strive for as much immersion & user tailoring as possible. This isn't Ubisoft
@@dc1939 They already have a map icon when you can't fast travel away, instead of making you select a site of grace and then telling you that you can't. An alternate icon for a "one-way" site of grace in an uncompleted dungeon would obviously take up the same space on the map. If you think it clutters up the map when you can't fast travel and the grace icons change, then I don't know what to tell you, because that doesn't make sense.
I do the opposite and mark a dungeon with a diamond when I haven’t beaten it so that I know there’s treasure waiting. I mark all spirit springs with the goat, all over world bosses and evergoals not beaten with a skull, and any potential farming spots with the flowers or a sword.
Had a friend complain that Torrent was the slowest horse in the game. 30 hours in and he hadn’t realized sprinting works on horseback. But he did know about double jumping
For the Revenants, I use heal or urgent heal incantations and it just disintegrates their HP and stuns them. Real quick easy way to get rid of one of the most annoying enemies.
After 4 run throughs of the game with various builds and over 1000 hours in the game, I just recently learned how to power stance with duel weapons. Now, I am using power stance attacks all the time.
I knew about pretty much all these from playing Elden Ring a lot over the past 3 months. I use markers a lot. Mostly to mark Spiritspring/teleport locations, field boss/loot, and to mark dungeons that I haven’t finished. I definitely learned about the Roundtable Hold fast travel button sequence a while back. I noticed there’s a menu option that indicates you’re able to ‘mark’ Sites of Grace that would put them in a special listing, so you wouldn’t have to scroll through each Grace from the various zones, but I haven’t found a method that actually makes this work. I know there are Mimic Tears in the open world, like the Lobster/Scion in Liurnia, the Noble/Wormface on Mt. Gelmir, etc (I was just attacked for the first time by a Rune Bear south of the Waypoint Ruins yesterday; my reaction was an audible WTF?). There’s a noble outside of Lyndell that transforms into Morgott (not a Mimic Tear, but apparently an incantation cast by Morgott); defeating him gets you a Talisman. I’ve found many Ashes of War have certain hidden combos if you press/hold L2 and then hit R1/R2/or press L2 again/repeatedly. It’s worth experimenting, because you can figure out some very powerful abilities. Bloodhound Fang/Death’s Poker are some good examples. Another thing I picked up that can be useful is that you can cycle through your equipped weapons/staves/finger seals as you roll (this doesn’t work for jumps/backsteps, or during charged attacks. Similarly, you can hold a weapon guard or shield block using L1, and if you hit the D-pad to swap to a staff/finger seal, if you have the appropriate sorcery/incantation queued up in a memory slot, you’ll begin casting without having to press the L1 button again.
Mine would have to be not diving into the ash of war system and take advantage of its effects to make your weapons stronger. Or take more advantage of talismans & incantation buffs. By the end of my first playthrough, I was nowhere near as strong as I could have been.
Here's an idea for a new video... %100 Crucible Knight Massacre. I know most of the Crucible Knights are pretty easy to find, out in the open, etc. But I've got over 1k hours in-game and just recently found out there's a Crucible Knight accessible from the Four Belfrys through the waygate that uses an imbued sword key with the message "Night Sky Unceasing". There are many videos about them, but none of them are complete with best strats and exact locations.
I didn't know that paintings represented actual locations where loot could be found until my second character. I just thought "cool art." Likewise, I didn't know how to guard counter until Altus on my third character. And lastly, I didn't know about the transept entrance to godskin duo until after their defeat. I kept fighting three banished knights on each run back and thought, "This is the worst. I've burnt through four flasks before I'm back in the arena." Also, I'd rather fight scion-lobster or runebear before that traumatizing wormface on Mt Gelmir. My first ever encounter with a wormface, I killed the commoner, it picked me up from behind and killed me with deathblight. The second time it was incessantly trying to grab me again. Bears and scions are relatively tame compared to a literal face of death
I had no idea about how to use great runes and rune arcs on my entire 1st play through.... That and I levelled up everything at the same time. Still beat the bastard though
Having a very slow run through, just the first three areas. Combing every area carefully. Trying not to progress too much till the DLC. Found a few bosses that I hadn't done yet. This is an insanely good game!
to the skeletons, you can use target lock after a little time that he start to ressurrect. also you can use an ash of war, sacred blade, easy to get early game, and kill then. I use this ash of war, also on deathbirds.
My favorite way to use markers is to mark dungeons I've completed. The marker snaps directly to the dungeon icon too so it's pretty satisfying. One thing that took me far too long. After 2 or 3 playthroughs, I had no idea that you could rest at the table in roundtable hold. Saw it on someone's stream and it blew my mind lol
Im not sure if you already covered it but if you do Varre’s quest and you get the Pureblood Knights Medal which grants an audience with Mohg. You can use that medal in almost any boss fight to teleport you out if you are about to lose. Its come in clutch when ive had a bunch of runes on me.
I've have 6 different builds across 3 different platforms at the end of NG or NG+ ready for the DLC and you're damn right I'm going through the DLC with all 6 of them.
for my very first fromsoft game playthrough, i chose astrologer class and they gave me a stick that does 5 physical damage without FP. i thought those blue vials(cerulean flasks) were limited items and I could not bring myself to use them. not to mention there was a sword in my inventory that for some reason was not equipped by default. i rage quit after trying to beat tree sentinel.
I had no idea until my second playthrough that you can change your ash of war as many times as you want at the sight of grace. Made a big fun factor difference.
If you put parry ash of war on your off hand weapon it will override the ash of war on your main hand weapon. With some good timing you can surprise invaders with an unexpected parry.
was once stuck at roundtable hold and forgot how to travel, was looking for more than an hour on how to travel thought it would have been an option at the main grace. all i had to do was open map xd
I didn’t realize that the serpent hunter was an effective weapon to kill rykard. I picked it up, swung it once, was unimpressed, put it away and fried him with lightning. To this day whenever I fight him it’s without serpent hunter.
A HUGE TIP I have never seen anyone else mention this anywhere but whenever you go into the hero’s grave places that have those massive chariots that will run you over, instead of having to wait forever for them to go past you while you hide in those little holes just simply put raptors of the mist on something like a dagger and use raptors of the mist before the chariot will hit you and you will not be harmed. Saves you a lot of time and makes those chariots not even dangerous anymore. P.S. it’s also very useful for falling ceilings with spikes on them. Also I know that there’s another underground boss battle where you can ride your horse in the double pumpkin head fight in Caelid (I believe it’s called Sellia under-stair)
It took me sooooo long to realize that you had to kill those book tossers to get to Renalla. I just ran around killing everything and not realizing what the actual trigger was the first few times she fell.
Speaking of early access to end game smithing stones, there's also a Somber 9 in Dragonbarrow. Corpse in a chair outside of the Divine Tower of Caelid on a lower level (you do not need to jump across to the tower). There are 2 dragons nearby, and a Scarab with a Somber 8 in it (careful, the scarab explodes on death). If you can get an invader to lower the elevator at the Divine Bridge in Leyndell (Tower of Return trap chest teleports you there from the Weeping Penninsula) with the Tormentor's Tongue, you can make it to the Subteranian Shunning Grounds for a Somber 6 & 7 (at the very bottom of the earliest part, with the Giant Lobster snipers). Somber 1-5 are also available early without glitches or having to be clever at all (2-4 can be purchased from Iji if you don't want to explore for free ones). This gives you a +9 somber weapon BEFORE fighting Margit.
You can ride torrent down the stairs into those dungeon battles with bosses like Pumpkin head and others, if you can’t fight them with torrent it won’t let you down and you have to dismount. This is the easy way to check.
always double tap. something i didn’t realize until leyndell was that you can face stomp anyone climbing under you. also useful: enemies who are standing above you over the ladder can usually be baited to jump or fall down.
To me the best use of markers is to mark caves and catacombs that I have discovered but haven't gone through yet as well as marking walking mausoleums that I haven't used yet. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go to a cave just to discover I've already beaten it. Putting a marker and then taking it away when you're done makes it so much simpler.
i love the markers tip here. i abused the skull marker super early to help me keep track of the dungeons/caves, i would put a skull on them when i cleared them and killed the boss.
The rune bear. Runebears are highly susceptible to sleep status. The one neat trick I learned so much later is that Royal Revenants can be downed with heal spells
Over 300 hours in Elden ring, finished the game 3 times and I did not know the lore about Leonard! You have been well and truly validated. Oh and have my subscription 😎
I didn't know Radhan was such a cutie to his horse and now I have to smile for the rest of the day. Thanks for this bit of information (that I could have gotten if I was just educated enough to read an item description but nvm) :D
You can fast travel while sitting at a grace, I’ve spent the last two years exiting the grace menu, waiting to stand back up and then fast traveling. Saves so much time through the play through.
To bypass Sellia you can also take the trap in the chest in Agheel's lake, run into Aeonia swamp and ride Torrent to the Aeonia swamp shore site of grace. From there you have all the Caelid highway to roam and other central sites of grace
That’s the main things I’ve learned after 40 hours in.. Levelling weapons early really really helps with bosses. And levelling mimic tear to level 10 is a life saver..
12:08 - "If you are a low intelligence build..." Aren't we all ;-). I've been away from ER for too long and definitely need to re-up my muscle memory and reaction times prior to DLC. Thanks for the shot in the arm - glad to see you back in the mix again and looking forward to your videos on DLC when it drops.
Elden ring being my first souls game it took me roughly 10hrs to figure out how to use incantations and spells. I found or bought the basic fireball incantation pretty early on and was so confused on how it worked until i eventually just looked it up on youtube lol
Obviously knew about Leonard already, but your statement on his love for him being stronger than the scarlet rot was rather profound, and i hadn't heard, or thought of that myself yet.
I know you love the lord Radahns lore so much I'd like to share this is the biggest flaw in his character As the demigods all represent the 7 deadly sins Redahn represents pride He is the opposite of Rykard Redahn does not tolerate any kind of change It's not his love of Leonard it's his inability to accept change Upholding the golden order a lot like morgott Rykard and mohgwyn❤
That's funny. I had the same one you. Did. I was on my 3rd playthrough and started messing around with pretty much every weapon and boom, started one shoting skeletons with the holy ash of war with the ugkitana
Something I just found out yesterday is that there is a rune arc hidden before you fight that big red wolf in Raya Lucaria. It’s the first or second panel on the right hit for illusionary wall.
In the one 30 second sellia clip which you used to lead people to a couple of smithing stones you missed the following: that there is a hidden boss door to the left which houses the best staff in the game, you missed that there is a staff of loss sitting on a ledge of a building which buffs one of the best spells in the game, double slash sitting in a scarab on a log, you missed the secret cave hidden behind an invisible wall not 30 feet from where you were riding where you'll find a bunch of key items including a legendary spell and armor set, you missed that just beyond that skull down below there is a scarab sitting on a log containing another high level smithing stone, and another high level smithing stone on a path underneath of the tower, and you missed that that is a quick way to one of the best early game rune farms (dragon barrow fork) to the right for about 15 to 30 seconds where you can access Fort faroth beyond it, and to the left for about a 30 second to a minute ride on torrent the access point to ANOTHER secret cave down a drop into the ravine containing the Golden scarab.
So I saw that the 2 places you showed that you could ride torrent and fight the boss at the same time were both ruins dungeons. So off the top of my head I bet you could also use torrent in the Caelum Ruins, next to where you get the Guts sword, with the double pumpkin head fight and also in the Lux ruins, north of the Altus plateau site of grace against the Demi-human Queen. Past that i'm not sure, but I never thought of doing that either. Good find!
I learned that bit about the horse just now! Also I love how great all the horses are in Elden ring. I need them to make a game with a wolf companion now 😂
Aaaahhh I can’t believe YT hasn’t been showing me your videos in my front page!! Excited to see your advice for the DLC! PS. I did know about Leonard (Lenard?) (sp?) but I will never ever tire of hearing about it 🥺
If youre struggling with a particular enemy or boss, ZERO SHAME in looking up a neat little tips and tricks tutorial. Nobody can beat the boss for you, and not everyone is a souls vet. My fiancee is finally playing through the game, and the knowledge I have accrued combined with videos, has made her an Absolute UNIT. Better than I was when I was where she's at. UA-cam is a wonderful place.
War dead catacombs the soldiers begin fight as soon as you make it to the bottom of the stairs where they are visible by the player's camera, Silver Tear enemies aren't mimic tears they are individuals who were one thing and wanted to change (rune bear that wanted to be human, revenant that wanted to be a lobster, etc) similar to Boc and his quest they need a silver tear to transform while the player character can reshape themselves stat wise.
The all-concept of "Stance" - not really a secret but definitely something i wasn't aware of when i started the game and that could have been really helpful in my first run. I don't think the game even explain it somewhere...
to make radhan even more badass while aflicted with scarlet rot and protecting his horese lenard, he is holding visible space still "holding the stars in place"
Great vid pal. Roll on the DLC. Looking forward to the "you died" screens again haha Oh longest thing I cudnt do "any build that wasnt strength" haha. Still struggle with it.
Thanks for sharing radahn lore. I’m new to E ring and souls games alike. About to finish my first play through just in time for the DLC. Everything is new to me lol
Didn’t know how to summon until about the maliketh fight. Somehow missed the bell at the beginning and had to buy it off twin maidens but also overlooked it because I didn’t think it was needed always thought my faith or something was too low
Fire giant, two things. When he casts the fire storm thing, it took me forever to realize the smaller flames had no hitbox. And his volcano attack, didn't know you could just dodge it going underneath, took me easily 80 retries until i saw it on youtube. Though those helped, i still consider him a BS boss to this day, bad camera, rolling away, etc. His fire breath attacks also make no sound and with the bad camera it can get ya. But his kneeling fire breath is the most bs move, where you NEED torrent to dodge it, if hes dead, its game over. It also took me a couple tries to find that out, by dying, every attempt until i got that. Garanteed death on one move you haven't figured out yet has always sit wrong with me.
If you proceed right when you grab Cinqueadea dagger you can grab Dragoncrest Shield Talisman on a corpse that boost physical damage negation (Great videos btw)
Took me a long time to learn about dual stance/wielding weapons. I didn’t know it had to be the same type of weapon to be able to power stance them. Took me until NG+
Leonard?! I didn't even know the horse had a name. What an amazing bit of lore! And so endearing (Animals > People). ❤ As for the Lobster VS Runebear dilemma.. I choose death. 😅😂
in the very beginning I couldn’t figure out how to use Torrent, I think I probably skipped all of Melinas dialogue.. and I also forgot that you’re able to upgrade weapons and whatnot, so that was fun. Last one.. I didn’t know all the golden runes you’d find throughout the map were just free runes, I don’t think I even knew what they were called for almost the entirety of my first playthru lol
I sold runes when I first started and didn't realise what they were for (I also started off as a Wretch). When I realised what runes were for and restarted as a Vagabond, it was like night and day!
It took me a long time to “get” the jump springs. I just didn’t want to die of fall damage. Even now. 360 hrs of playtime later, I am still wary of them!
Took me too long to learn, but holding down the triangle button brings up your secondary item menu. That lets me place the torrent whistle, the tears flask, my ashes bell on a different item set, leaving me having to scroll only between my healing flasks
I did learn some new stuff even after 500+ hours from this The most helpful is the horse combat vs revenant. I hate those and always use the heal spell trick And for your question. I prefer fighting rune bears over lobsters sins runbear rewards you for fighting it agressive so if you stay close to them like under them. I did not know the shape shifter's where mimic tears. There are a lot of those like the noble that turns into troll in caelid or the corpse on mt gelmir that turns into wormface. And altus has a lion
I also figured out that if you use holy damage on weapon when you strike down the skeletons. They don’t get back up. You don’t have to do that extra hit to finish them completely.😁
Took me a while to learn because it was my first souls game, but rolling forward into attacks to dodge them instead of away.
Took me 120 hours to realise that
Ive known that for a while now but I still roll away instead of into enemys😅
Took me a while to realize most forms of dodging and how effective it is. And I still don't' do it nearly enough. Run into every fight flailing head first at least twice before calming back down lol
😂 Same Bro Dodging Backwards Is Imminent Death
I'm 80 hrs into my first souls, and I'm still fighting myself more than the enemy.
A secret most might not know about? The ability to use the shackles for Margit and Mogh on the pillars in dungeons. Can make them rise or fall. And you can do it from cover so you don't get blasted by them.
That also disappears all false walls!
I always buy 1 for this reason alone. Revealing all illusionary walls and activating pillar traps easily. It's funny to use them while being invaded
@@eminenthero3185 they never see it coming lol
A couple things most people probably know about, but they make certain fights SO much easier to manage, so they're worth throwing out, just in case someone isn't aware of them:
Heal incantatations deal massive damage and stagger Royal Revenants. That early one in the minidungeon in Liurnia can be stunlocked and 2-shot with Heal, even at minimum stats.
Sacred Blade can go on a ton of weapons, uses fairly little FP, leaves a residual holy buff, and makes very short work of Deathright Birds. Just lock on to the head and bladebeam your way to some chicken wings.
Every revenant can be stun locked with heal if you have enough dex and FP, also heal spells cover quite a lot of vertical space
Yes I do this
For spiritspring jumps I use the horse marker to remember where they are. Dungeons that are complete you can teleport out of them/ if not the red line will be thru all sites of grace. That's one way to tell if you killed the boss..took a long time to figure that out. Thank you for this vid...I had missed the lobster mimic!
Fun fact, the hands in the giants snowfield will ALWAYS drop somber 7 stones, at the drop rate anyway, but you can farm your 7s there till you get to crumbling azula
Thanks for pointing out the bit about Leonard the horse. It's surprising how many don't know that Radahn learned how to control gravity, to the extent that he could anchor the stars, out of love for his horse!
I didn’t know you could switch the map from underground to above ground so I rode the elevator up and down and up and down for the longest time 😭
I learnt that yesterday. I don't know how to use the "pouches" in the top right of the screen when you go into the menu or equipment. I don't recall which.
Same bro smh 🤦🏾♂️
IMO, the best use of markers (which I have thought of at some point but then didn't do throughout three playthroughs) is marking every dungeon where you've totally cleaned it out and beaten any bosses. I still think it's odd that they signal that a dungeon's boss is cleared by letting you fast travel from inside it, as an additional feature on top of the spot in the boss arena that teleports you to the entrance, but they don't signal that a dungeon is cleared from the map. It's a UX design antipattern, where anyone can easily check the boss status by fast traveling there and then trying to fast travel away, so the only thing that would change if they indicated it on the map would be like 30 seconds of time that wouldn't be wasted when a player wants to check.
Same. Started doing this on my second character because I couldn't remember who had been through a certain dungeon between them. Now I do it on every single one just to make it easier on myself.
I do the opposite lol, i mark the ones i dont clear that way i have less markers as i complete them
You think it's odd they don't automatically fill up your map with a much of completion marker crap ? That would be gamey af. FROM strive for as much immersion & user tailoring as possible. This isn't Ubisoft
@@dc1939 They already have a map icon when you can't fast travel away, instead of making you select a site of grace and then telling you that you can't. An alternate icon for a "one-way" site of grace in an uncompleted dungeon would obviously take up the same space on the map. If you think it clutters up the map when you can't fast travel and the grace icons change, then I don't know what to tell you, because that doesn't make sense.
I do the opposite and mark a dungeon with a diamond when I haven’t beaten it so that I know there’s treasure waiting. I mark all spirit springs with the goat, all over world bosses and evergoals not beaten with a skull, and any potential farming spots with the flowers or a sword.
I undressed before entering the mimic tear.....entered naked then when he spawns, put my gear on for an easy kill!
Same! But on all my other playthroughs, I like fighting myself. So now I go in full power 😂
Statistics say that 1-2 of us 3 are bots.
Had a friend complain that Torrent was the slowest horse in the game. 30 hours in and he hadn’t realized sprinting works on horseback. But he did know about double jumping
had a friend do something similar but with pokemon. he didnt realize u can register the bike so he was tripping when he saw me using it quickly lol
For the Revenants, I use heal or urgent heal incantations and it just disintegrates their HP and stuns them. Real quick easy way to get rid of one of the most annoying enemies.
After 4 run throughs of the game with various builds and over 1000 hours in the game, I just recently learned how to power stance with duel weapons. Now, I am using power stance attacks all the time.
I knew about pretty much all these from playing Elden Ring a lot over the past 3 months.
I use markers a lot. Mostly to mark Spiritspring/teleport locations, field boss/loot, and to mark dungeons that I haven’t finished.
I definitely learned about the Roundtable Hold fast travel button sequence a while back. I noticed there’s a menu option that indicates you’re able to ‘mark’ Sites of Grace that would put them in a special listing, so you wouldn’t have to scroll through each Grace from the various zones, but I haven’t found a method that actually makes this work.
I know there are Mimic Tears in the open world, like the Lobster/Scion in Liurnia, the Noble/Wormface on Mt. Gelmir, etc (I was just attacked for the first time by a Rune Bear south of the Waypoint Ruins yesterday; my reaction was an audible WTF?).
There’s a noble outside of Lyndell that transforms into Morgott (not a Mimic Tear, but apparently an incantation cast by Morgott); defeating him gets you a Talisman.
I’ve found many Ashes of War have certain hidden combos if you press/hold L2 and then hit R1/R2/or press L2 again/repeatedly. It’s worth experimenting, because you can figure out some very powerful abilities. Bloodhound Fang/Death’s Poker are some good examples.
Another thing I picked up that can be useful is that you can cycle through your equipped weapons/staves/finger seals as you roll (this doesn’t work for jumps/backsteps, or during charged attacks.
Similarly, you can hold a weapon guard or shield block using L1, and if you hit the D-pad to swap to a staff/finger seal, if you have the appropriate sorcery/incantation queued up in a memory slot, you’ll begin casting without having to press the L1 button again.
Mine would have to be not diving into the ash of war system and take advantage of its effects to make your weapons stronger. Or take more advantage of talismans & incantation buffs. By the end of my first playthrough, I was nowhere near as strong as I could have been.
Crystal dart reprograming imps and cat statues to attack each other. Also works on golems
Here's an idea for a new video... %100 Crucible Knight Massacre. I know most of the Crucible Knights are pretty easy to find, out in the open, etc. But I've got over 1k hours in-game and just recently found out there's a Crucible Knight accessible from the Four Belfrys through the waygate that uses an imbued sword key with the message "Night Sky Unceasing". There are many videos about them, but none of them are complete with best strats and exact locations.
I didn't know that paintings represented actual locations where loot could be found until my second character. I just thought "cool art." Likewise, I didn't know how to guard counter until Altus on my third character. And lastly, I didn't know about the transept entrance to godskin duo until after their defeat. I kept fighting three banished knights on each run back and thought, "This is the worst. I've burnt through four flasks before I'm back in the arena."
Also, I'd rather fight scion-lobster or runebear before that traumatizing wormface on Mt Gelmir. My first ever encounter with a wormface, I killed the commoner, it picked me up from behind and killed me with deathblight. The second time it was incessantly trying to grab me again. Bears and scions are relatively tame compared to a literal face of death
I had no idea about how to use great runes and rune arcs on my entire 1st play through.... That and I levelled up everything at the same time.
Still beat the bastard though
Having a very slow run through, just the first three areas. Combing every area carefully. Trying not to progress too much till the DLC. Found a few bosses that I hadn't done yet. This is an insanely good game!
to the skeletons, you can use target lock after a little time that he start to ressurrect. also you can use an ash of war, sacred blade, easy to get early game, and kill then. I use this ash of war, also on deathbirds.
pressing and holding your quick item changing buttons instantly reverts teh selection to the first item, by default estus
Took me 40 hours to realise I could sprint
My favorite way to use markers is to mark dungeons I've completed. The marker snaps directly to the dungeon icon too so it's pretty satisfying.
One thing that took me far too long. After 2 or 3 playthroughs, I had no idea that you could rest at the table in roundtable hold. Saw it on someone's stream and it blew my mind lol
Im not sure if you already covered it but if you do Varre’s quest and you get the Pureblood Knights Medal which grants an audience with Mohg. You can use that medal in almost any boss fight to teleport you out if you are about to lose. Its come in clutch when ive had a bunch of runes on me.
I've have 6 different builds across 3 different platforms at the end of NG or NG+ ready for the DLC and you're damn right I'm going through the DLC with all 6 of them.
for my very first fromsoft game playthrough, i chose astrologer class and they gave me a stick that does 5 physical damage without FP. i thought those blue vials(cerulean flasks) were limited items and I could not bring myself to use them. not to mention there was a sword in my inventory that for some reason was not equipped by default. i rage quit after trying to beat tree sentinel.
I had no idea until my second playthrough that you can change your ash of war as many times as you want at the sight of grace. Made a big fun factor difference.
That was a game changer for me.
If you put parry ash of war on your off hand weapon it will override the ash of war on your main hand weapon. With some good timing you can surprise invaders with an unexpected parry.
was once stuck at roundtable hold and forgot how to travel, was looking for more than an hour on how to travel thought it would have been an option at the main grace. all i had to do was open map xd
I didn’t realize that the serpent hunter was an effective weapon to kill rykard. I picked it up, swung it once, was unimpressed, put it away and fried him with lightning. To this day whenever I fight him it’s without serpent hunter.
Meh, ancient dragon lightning kills him faster than the spear anyways lol
A HUGE TIP I have never seen anyone else mention this anywhere but whenever you go into the hero’s grave places that have those massive chariots that will run you over, instead of having to wait forever for them to go past you while you hide in those little holes just simply put raptors of the mist on something like a dagger and use raptors of the mist before the chariot will hit you and you will not be harmed. Saves you a lot of time and makes those chariots not even dangerous anymore. P.S. it’s also very useful for falling ceilings with spikes on them.
Also I know that there’s another underground boss battle where you can ride your horse in the double pumpkin head fight in Caelid (I believe it’s called Sellia under-stair)
took me long to learn that leveling up shields, will not only make them guard against more damage but also to lower stamina consumption for doing so.
It took me sooooo long to realize that you had to kill those book tossers to get to Renalla. I just ran around killing everything and not realizing what the actual trigger was the first few times she fell.
Me too. Hadn't a clue why she would come down and other times not.
Same
Speaking of early access to end game smithing stones, there's also a Somber 9 in Dragonbarrow. Corpse in a chair outside of the Divine Tower of Caelid on a lower level (you do not need to jump across to the tower). There are 2 dragons nearby, and a Scarab with a Somber 8 in it (careful, the scarab explodes on death). If you can get an invader to lower the elevator at the Divine Bridge in Leyndell (Tower of Return trap chest teleports you there from the Weeping Penninsula) with the Tormentor's Tongue, you can make it to the Subteranian Shunning Grounds for a Somber 6 & 7 (at the very bottom of the earliest part, with the Giant Lobster snipers). Somber 1-5 are also available early without glitches or having to be clever at all (2-4 can be purchased from Iji if you don't want to explore for free ones). This gives you a +9 somber weapon BEFORE fighting Margit.
I haven't tested this myself but apparently using the Heal incantation twice near a revenant will take it out
I didn’t know how to activate great runes, and had no idea what rune arcs did until MY SECOND PLAY THROUGH!!!! 😂
The whole of caelid is accessible without sellia anyway....
You can ride torrent down the stairs into those dungeon battles with bosses like Pumpkin head and others, if you can’t fight them with torrent it won’t let you down and you have to dismount. This is the easy way to check.
You educated me on that brilliant piece of lore well done, I always felt so terrible for that poor steed but now my heart is melted!
always double tap.
something i didn’t realize until leyndell was that you can face stomp anyone climbing under you. also useful: enemies who are standing above you over the ladder can usually be baited to jump or fall down.
To me the best use of markers is to mark caves and catacombs that I have discovered but haven't gone through yet as well as marking walking mausoleums that I haven't used yet. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go to a cave just to discover I've already beaten it. Putting a marker and then taking it away when you're done makes it so much simpler.
i love the markers tip here. i abused the skull marker super early to help me keep track of the dungeons/caves, i would put a skull on them when i cleared them and killed the boss.
The rune bear. Runebears are highly susceptible to sleep status.
The one neat trick I learned so much later is that Royal Revenants can be downed with heal spells
Here's to a sleep incantation that's int and faith.
@@fredv7349 sleep pots and arrows work just as well too and you can get them early game
Over 300 hours in Elden ring, finished the game 3 times and I did not know the lore about Leonard! You have been well and truly validated. Oh and have my subscription 😎
I didn't know Radhan was such a cutie to his horse and now I have to smile for the rest of the day. Thanks for this bit of information (that I could have gotten if I was just educated enough to read an item description but nvm) :D
Mine would be that even after you start the game, other games still exist. Mindblown
You can fast travel while sitting at a grace, I’ve spent the last two years exiting the grace menu, waiting to stand back up and then fast traveling. Saves so much time through the play through.
To bypass Sellia you can also take the trap in the chest in Agheel's lake, run into Aeonia swamp and ride Torrent to the Aeonia swamp shore site of grace. From there you have all the Caelid highway to roam and other central sites of grace
That’s the main things I’ve learned after 40 hours in.. Levelling weapons early really really helps with bosses. And levelling mimic tear to level 10 is a life saver..
Reminder of silver scarab, healing on ladders and the map options were actual news to me. Thank you.
12:08 - "If you are a low intelligence build..." Aren't we all ;-). I've been away from ER for too long and definitely need to re-up my muscle memory and reaction times prior to DLC. Thanks for the shot in the arm - glad to see you back in the mix again and looking forward to your videos on DLC when it drops.
Elden ring being my first souls game it took me roughly 10hrs to figure out how to use incantations and spells. I found or bought the basic fireball incantation pretty early on and was so confused on how it worked until i eventually just looked it up on youtube lol
Obviously knew about Leonard already, but your statement on his love for him being stronger than the scarlet rot was rather profound, and i hadn't heard, or thought of that myself yet.
I know you love the lord Radahns lore so much
I'd like to share this is the biggest flaw in his character
As the demigods all represent the 7 deadly sins
Redahn represents pride
He is the opposite of Rykard
Redahn does not tolerate any kind of change
It's not his love of Leonard it's his inability to accept change
Upholding the golden order a lot like morgott
Rykard and mohgwyn❤
i did not know about radahn learning magic to save his horse. your video positively affected me
You can do a secret attack animation with thrusting weapons if you hold roll while you heavy attack 💪🏼💪🏼
Never saw Torrent in a dungeon!! Very cool! TY
That's funny. I had the same one you. Did. I was on my 3rd playthrough and started messing around with pretty much every weapon and boom, started one shoting skeletons with the holy ash of war with the ugkitana
Something I just found out yesterday is that there is a rune arc hidden before you fight that big red wolf in Raya Lucaria. It’s the first or second panel on the right hit for illusionary wall.
If you favorite a Grace near the middle of each zone, you can have a shortcut to move to a zone of the map instead of moving it manually.
In the one 30 second sellia clip which you used to lead people to a couple of smithing stones you missed the following: that there is a hidden boss door to the left which houses the best staff in the game, you missed that there is a staff of loss sitting on a ledge of a building which buffs one of the best spells in the game, double slash sitting in a scarab on a log, you missed the secret cave hidden behind an invisible wall not 30 feet from where you were riding where you'll find a bunch of key items including a legendary spell and armor set, you missed that just beyond that skull down below there is a scarab sitting on a log containing another high level smithing stone, and another high level smithing stone on a path underneath of the tower, and you missed that that is a quick way to one of the best early game rune farms (dragon barrow fork) to the right for about 15 to 30 seconds where you can access Fort faroth beyond it, and to the left for about a 30 second to a minute ride on torrent the access point to ANOTHER secret cave down a drop into the ravine containing the Golden scarab.
Also....you did a lot of work for the mimic tear. Just unequip your weapon go into the fight and put it back on....done.
Anyone wanna talk about the Caelid Waypoint Ruins? Are those kindred babies? I hate that place.
Nice vid
So I saw that the 2 places you showed that you could ride torrent and fight the boss at the same time were both ruins dungeons. So off the top of my head I bet you could also use torrent in the Caelum Ruins, next to where you get the Guts sword, with the double pumpkin head fight and also in the Lux ruins, north of the Altus plateau site of grace against the Demi-human Queen. Past that i'm not sure, but I never thought of doing that either. Good find!
There's also the Sanguine Noble in Writheblood Ruins. I think that's all of them.
I learned that bit about the horse just now! Also I love how great all the horses are in Elden ring. I need them to make a game with a wolf companion now 😂
I knew in dark souls one to double tap the skeletons it works too
Aaaahhh I can’t believe YT hasn’t been showing me your videos in my front page!! Excited to see your advice for the DLC!
PS. I did know about Leonard (Lenard?) (sp?) but I will never ever tire of hearing about it 🥺
Last thing I discovered is that you can parry Gravitas, the sword slam part before the shockwave
If youre struggling with a particular enemy or boss, ZERO SHAME in looking up a neat little tips and tricks tutorial. Nobody can beat the boss for you, and not everyone is a souls vet. My fiancee is finally playing through the game, and the knowledge I have accrued combined with videos, has made her an Absolute UNIT. Better than I was when I was where she's at. UA-cam is a wonderful place.
War dead catacombs the soldiers begin fight as soon as you make it to the bottom of the stairs where they are visible by the player's camera, Silver Tear enemies aren't mimic tears they are individuals who were one thing and wanted to change (rune bear that wanted to be human, revenant that wanted to be a lobster, etc) similar to Boc and his quest they need a silver tear to transform while the player character can reshape themselves stat wise.
I did not know about the horse… LMAO heartwarming
That SSS 7 location is a life saver i kept having to beat the godskin at the temple of eiglay to get one
The all-concept of "Stance" - not really a secret but definitely something i wasn't aware of when i started the game and that could have been really helpful in my first run. I don't think the game even explain it somewhere...
to make radhan even more badass while aflicted with scarlet rot and protecting his horese lenard, he is holding visible space still "holding the stars in place"
Great vid pal. Roll on the DLC. Looking forward to the "you died" screens again haha
Oh longest thing I cudnt do "any build that wasnt strength" haha. Still struggle with it.
I genuinely did not know the bit about him learning gravity magic for the sake of his tiny horse.
Thanks for sharing radahn lore. I’m new to E ring and souls games alike. About to finish my first play through just in time for the DLC. Everything is new to me lol
i didn't know about radahn and his horse. So u educated me, thx man. In fact, now i like him more because he cares about animals!
For me it was learning how buffs stack the 4 category’s body,weapon,special,and talismans buffs
Not only did I not know any of these after 160 hours, I never realized you could crit the black knights when they fall off the horse
Didn’t know how to summon until about the maliketh fight. Somehow missed the bell at the beginning and had to buy it off twin maidens but also overlooked it because I didn’t think it was needed always thought my faith or something was too low
Torrent helped me in the double pumpkin head one. I was desperate so I whistled. He saved me.
Fire giant, two things. When he casts the fire storm thing, it took me forever to realize the smaller flames had no hitbox. And his volcano attack, didn't know you could just dodge it going underneath, took me easily 80 retries until i saw it on youtube. Though those helped, i still consider him a BS boss to this day, bad camera, rolling away, etc. His fire breath attacks also make no sound and with the bad camera it can get ya. But his kneeling fire breath is the most bs move, where you NEED torrent to dodge it, if hes dead, its game over. It also took me a couple tries to find that out, by dying, every attempt until i got that. Garanteed death on one move you haven't figured out yet has always sit wrong with me.
The lesson that took the longest for me was how to double hand a katana because I was usually dual wielding or had a shield
If you proceed right when you grab Cinqueadea dagger you can grab Dragoncrest Shield Talisman on a corpse that boost physical damage negation (Great videos btw)
When you use markers, they actually stay through NP plus that is really helpful for hidden things
Took me a long time to learn about dual stance/wielding weapons. I didn’t know it had to be the same type of weapon to be able to power stance them. Took me until NG+
I didn't know about the horsey..so you got me and made my day..liked and subbed
Farum azula skip glitch still works yall. So get what u need there before the dlc 😊
Those Torrentable indoor Bosses lends credence to his summon mechanics.
Leonard?! I didn't even know the horse had a name. What an amazing bit of lore! And so endearing (Animals > People). ❤
As for the Lobster VS Runebear dilemma.. I choose death. 😅😂
in the very beginning I couldn’t figure out how to use Torrent, I think I probably skipped all of Melinas dialogue.. and I also forgot that you’re able to upgrade weapons and whatnot, so that was fun. Last one.. I didn’t know all the golden runes you’d find throughout the map were just free runes, I don’t think I even knew what they were called for almost the entirety of my first playthru lol
Hold down the arrow button to return to your hp potion without scrolling.
I sold runes when I first started and didn't realise what they were for (I also started off as a Wretch). When I realised what runes were for and restarted as a Vagabond, it was like night and day!
It took me a long time to “get” the jump springs. I just didn’t want to die of fall damage. Even now. 360 hrs of playtime later, I am still wary of them!
I didn't know about Leonard, that's pretty cool. Thank you!
Yeah I knew that and it's so heartwarming. Can't wait untill the DLC 😎
Took me too long to learn, but holding down the triangle button brings up your secondary item menu. That lets me place the torrent whistle, the tears flask, my ashes bell on a different item set, leaving me having to scroll only between my healing flasks
I had no idea about the Radahn/Leonard lore. Thanks!
I did learn some new stuff even after 500+ hours from this
The most helpful is the horse combat vs revenant. I hate those and always use the heal spell trick
And for your question. I prefer fighting rune bears over lobsters sins runbear rewards you for fighting it agressive so if you stay close to them like under them.
I did not know the shape shifter's where mimic tears. There are a lot of those like the noble that turns into troll in caelid or the corpse on mt gelmir that turns into wormface. And altus has a lion
I also figured out that if you use holy damage on weapon when you strike down the skeletons. They don’t get back up. You don’t have to do that extra hit to finish them completely.😁