In Dark Souls 3, you can use the hawk ring to boost the range of your attack spells ;) Also, boosting the range means more damage at close to mid range
@@m00nbutter7 you ever tried ? It's not a big increase, a few meters at best but it works for spells as well as arrows and throwing consumables from what I've observed ... Don't hope for a 10m increased range, just 2 to 3
Some miracle fun facts: -Lightning miracles, I think specifically the ranged spears and their incantation equivalents in ER, produce a second hit of damage when in melee range, for a bit extra damage (which is why they did more damage here). It’s visible as a damage proc usually right before you actually throw the spear, and as a small lightning strike separate from your cast. As far as I know, it’s not doubled damage, it’s more mild. -Both “gnawing” miracles are dark miracles and thus deal dark damage. The reason Gael takes less damage from them, especially in his second stage, is that he gains the “hollowed” enemy modifier, which usually comes with higher dark defenses. I believe he gains this on the phase transition, and it’s testable by using something like the Hollowslayer GS, which will have its effect function. The gnawing miracles were even stronger on launch and got nerfed if I’m not mistaken, I used one to cheese dancer on my first playthrough. -The lightning bow miracle is locked behind Ringed City because Fromsoft hates fun and whimsy, this is an established fact. It’s seriously weirdly placed, yeah it was introduced with the dlc but it’d be more useful if it was available earlier on. -Words cannot describe the integrity of JK to not use ToD, and Siegward isn’t cheating, as the man is a walking miracle Edit: Removed any mention of Gael being Abyssal as thanks to a reply on here I was informed he does not have this trait, doing a bit of research confirms this. However, as an added fact I suppose, Gael himself is the only enemy who changes or adds a type to himself mid-fight.
Of course Fromsoft doesn't hate fun, that's why they locked great lightning spear behind a garbage covenant grind in the last area of the game, and sunlight spear behind the literal fucking final boss. Isn't it fun to go through the entire game with the weakest miracles there are, while pyromancers get the best damage pyromancy halfway through the game and sorcerers can get great heavy soul arrow and pestilent mist as soon as they find Orbeck in the 3rd area of the game for a pittance? Thank you, Fromsoft
Lightning Spear, GLS and SS gain respectively 79%, 78% and 73% more damage with the close-quarters hit, which while not being literally double the damage, is very significative and not mild at all. Gael never gains the abyssal modifier, only the hollow one during his phase 2 transition. While the placement of Lightning Bow is inconvenient, it's not weird, it's in line with its lore and the Ringed City's.
@@trevordillon1921 while I hate Sage with all my heart and soul, he only gave me troubles on sl1 with broken straight sword. What surprised me the most, that he was a wall for JK not in magic journey, but in miracles journey. Sage is resistant only to magic.
I'm honestly not surprised. I'm thinking about doing an sl1 run and I'm genuinely more concerned about the deacons and the sage than someone like Gael or nameless.
@@friendlyreaper9012 do not worry, they have really low stats, you can basically "overlevel" those Bosses by level upgrade of your weapon, and Sage is very weak to fire, you can basically kill him before transition with enough of luck. I personally didn't struggle with Gael or Nameless, but they are not that easy. The hardest on my first sl1 was by far Sister Friede, followed by Dancer, Gundyr and Twin Princes.
@@Owainmclain it's super easy because in DS2 you use the binoculars like a weapon. Put your casting weapon in one hand, put the binoculars in the other, hold light attack to use the binoculars like you would raise a shield, and then cast with the other light attack button. You'll be able to cast zoomed in. While the binoculars don't have cross hairs in the middle of the screen like the bow, your spells usually cast from the middle of the screen while zoomed in so just imagine there's a crosshair there. Spell casting tools do have different animations. Chimes and talismans shoot slightly up and then straight, pyromancer flame tosses fireballs underhand with an arc making them hard to aim, and staves cast high with a downward trajectory before leveling out. I tried to cast soul arrow with the binoculars on an enemy in almost melee range and it went over its head. Also, some spells like dark orb don't have enough range for the binoculars.
@@Owainmclain sorry for the long comment so here's a summary. Left hand binoculars, right hand staff, hold L1, put target in the middle of your screen, cast spell with R1, don't use it at close range or you'll cast over the target, don't bother using dark orb because it has no range.
If I had a nickel for every time i watched a dark souls 3 playthrough where they go for a sorcery build and then proceed to Pestilent Mist the Dancer of the Boreal Valley early on a whim and it actually worked, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
Old Moonlight is a charged spell, it does insane damage if fully charged and both projectile and blade hit, it isn’t as bad as it initially seems and can rival soul spear
Pyromancy last is defo the smartest choice too, as it’s the best magic in this game imo. NG+7 as a pyromancer so it’s definitely got the damage output.
Pyromancy is OP in DS3. It has carried me through numerous playthroughs & I have a pyromancy only character. I use Chaos Bed Vestiges, Great Chsos Fire Ball & Black Fire Ball.
@@malachyodonoghue3746 sorcery is at its weakest in DS3 tbh. Just over all really weak. Miracles and Pyromancy are easily stronger and it’s not even close. As for which is the better of those 2, it depends on your play style. I eventually hard focused on dark Pyromancy and found myself having more fun than I ever did with miracles, but idk if they’re stronger or just fit my play style better
@plz_not1482 I must be doing something wrong cause I've tried so many dark magic build but they just don't out put the damage Also my pyromancy build which is sitting at 35 Faith and 35 intelligence does mediocre damage and I'm using mainly chaos bed vestiges, great chaos fireball and black fireball My sorcery build is actually broken tho, I'd say sorcery is in no way weak is ds3, easily the most OP of the 3 magic types Sorcery > pyromancy > miracles
So here is an interesting fact about deacons. When you start the fight, the main deacon is actually stored inside Aldrich's coffin behind where his clothes drop. What that means is you can pestilent mist, toxic, or poison it through the wall to get some early damage while also fighting the red light deacons. Hopefully this helps!
yup thats fun, you can also use pestilent mist on the curse rotted greatwood boss, and he will never start his 2nd phase if you only use that, the floor will stay until you actually defeat him is when the floor breaks
2 things about the Pyromancy run, Boulder Heave is actually REALLY good vs the Abyss Watchers because you can with the correct timing chain it basically untill you run out of FP, hit them with Boulder Heave once then take 2 steps forward and use Boulder Heave again then repeat, you can do the same thing with Sacred Fame against the Crystal Sage
I'm getting the dark souls trilogy for ps4 from my mum for christmas, I've been watching challenge runs on the series to hype myself up and your videos are funny as hell! Giving me hope man! Bloodborne was my first souls game so I'm excited to see the difference in gameplay
@@paultapping9510 Hey! Returning a few days after Christmas, in undead berg at the moment, I'm not touching 2 or 3 until I beat 1 lol, I also got sekiro and Im having a blast
"The damage is shocking...that's not even a lightning joke, it's just bad..." 😂 Came for the challenge run, stayed for the puns! As always a really entertaining video!
JK delivers again. Your videos are always a joy to watch. You and Doom Wolf have to do a co-op run of Elden Ring or something, that would be epic. Thank you again for the entertainment.
My first run of Dark Souls 3 was a Strength/Faith build, and I fell in LOVE with the grandma that gnaws on you with teethless gums. It was such a useful spell for me and lowkey carried me through NG.
@@supremeclamitas5053 yeah I had thought so too but I looked it up, regardless they're both way more efficient than the soul spears, so running out of fp is a less likely outcome
Dunno about NG+ Midir but you can transpose father Ariandel soul to his favorite whip which gives a neat bonus to miracles for a minute or so. Last time when I went for pyro build to reach NG+2 for all achievements, that's what I did and sunlight spear inflicted like 1200+ damage to the head from afar!
This series has lead me to try every element in Elden Ring while changing the element every new game. Awesome job on this video. May Chaos take the world!
I played often as a sorceror or a "hexxer" in this series, including in this game. never used pestilent mist. i feel like an idiot now. nice work with this run, and nice touch with the endings.
I thought I’d give the all sorcery run a go and I found a solution to the Halflight issue. If you’re playing offline, the npc Halflight doesn’t know how to deal with Great Deep Soul and just face-tanks it while having most of his attacks interrupted. It’s fast enough and has a low enough FP cost that you can spam it at him.
Just finished this challenge 10 minutes prior to writing this. It was monumental! I loved it! Honestly, the hardest part was sorcery the first run. I didn't stock up on resources or buy any from the store just like you and was able to get everything I'd need to +10 in that run. Levelling was rough, but I had pre-emptively planned ahead for the faith build that was coming. Stunted the sorcery run what with devoting 20+ levels to faith. Didn't realize crystal chime scaled off both so didn't even need to do that lol. Miracles was so easy it was a joke. Nothing stopped sunlight spear spam, not even Yhorm. Yhorm Pyromancy however... Great challenge, teaches you so much about magic combat. Also really highlights pure faith Caster viability. You're a one trick pony, sure but you have so much damage capability.
Man, I'd forgotten which uploader you were when this showed up in my feed; I started watching and very quickly went "Fuuuuuuuuu... it's the PUN guy" XD keep it up
It's always a good day when we have a new upload from you. Don't tell Lemon, but I like your videos as much as his. The video was so fun to watch, that I didn't realise when an hour just passed by.. also now i want to play DS3 again.. thanks..
not sure if this was planned, but the order of runs definitely made them easier. Almost nothing is weak to sorceries (Dragonslayer Armor only?), then vs lightning most things are either weak or neutral - and then almost everything in the game is weak to either dark or fire.
Kinda late but, Dragonslayer Armour it's weak to magic, in the speedrun people actually use the magic resin with the scmitars to take him down That's also the reason why i killed him with the Crystal Sage's Rapier in NG+ and it wasn't that bad, it was pretty fun actually
I have the plats for ds1, 3, Elden Ring and got the platinum for DeS back,in the day. I've not got the DS2 plat, and it's not through want of trying. That game is exhausting!
@@paultapping9510DS3 achievements are more tedious than DS2, easily. Vertebrae shackle farming is the worst thing ever. DS2 is also just a way more fun game IMO, doing pretty much everything besides boss fights better than 3.
Somehow I'm not surprised that Lightning Spear is better in melee. They REALLY want you to use Faith with melee stats. I say this having suffered through several Faith primary builds.
Going to point out something very minor that could have helped this run: if you'd put the Simple infusion on a shield, you could've had some passive FP regen so long as you put the shield in your offhand. Not that it's fast regen, but it could've got you enough for some emergency soul arrows during the fights you ran out of estus during
Hey leeds, I know you watch the Backlogs, but surprised you were struggling with the Aldritch fights, cause Lemon actually had a full strategy for dealing with the arrow storm I can't recall which video it was but essentially he used the statues at the back of the room to block the arrow rain
You did well, sir! I did a Fire damage "only" run earlier this year and gotta say ... That 20some minutes Midir was not exactly fun after 20some deaths 😁
one of the funniest but seemingly not well known tricks I know in DS3 is that the deacons hitbox is actually inside the middle of the ?coffin?altar? thing at the center of the room in phase 1. this means that certain AoE effects with sufficient range, most notably including poison/toxic mist, can reach said hitbox and do damage/status build up. this combined with the new knowledge that pestilent mist doesn't cause phase transitions for certain bosses makes me wonder if due to its similarity to the other mist spells I know work on him, if it wouldn't reach as well...and if it does would he still go into phase 2?
I got stuck on the Sage on my sorcery only run on stream this week. Just came back to rewatch your fight against him, and I think you’ve just saved my run! Thanks JK!
This was a really good video and made me want to play a miracle build now, lol. Was bummed you skipped DS2 as that one is my fav, but I understand completely. Hope to see you come back to it sometime.
@@JKLeeds somehow didn't see this for 8 months, but thanks so much for helping me figure out where I had heard that song. Also, love your content and your streams are always so welcoming.
Cant blame you for not wanting to play that much ds2 in one sitting. However heres a few tips for when you do attempt it: Magic and miracle catalysts can be infused which does boost their relative damage. The best sorcery based hex staff can be acquired very quickly from the merchant in huntsman copse. The only requirement is 20 int and 20 faith for him to hand it over. If you try to aquire climax for its damage, its damage caps out at 5k souls but will take up to a few million. The crown you get at the end lf the brume tower dlc occasionally restores your magic casts for free. It also restores them based on how many copies you have equipped at the time. More copies = more casts and more restored casts. One of the best miracle catalysts can be gained by killing the miracle lady in heides tower. (Cumbling oceanic ruins area at the begining of the game.) Hope any of these tips help you when the time comes. Ps: id recommend doing miracle, magic, pyromancy, then hexes. Pyromancy and hexes both scale off of faith and intelligence but pyomamcy has little to no stat requirements for its spells. Oh and whisper of the dead or whatever its called only makes the enemy weaker to physical damage.
you should have gotten the Crystal Sage Staff in your offhand for the buff, it has the strongest version of the staff buff and would amp spells cast from another staff
In regards to DaS2: Hexes, despite being considered a separate type, still behave like regular miracles, sorceries or pyromancies, so my suggestion is just forego the idea of a 4th playthrough and incorporate them into the regular 3 runs.
I feel it is incredibly important that you know that i love your content, however my favorite part of your videos are your jokes and the way you are. You should know that you are in fact my favorite part of your videos.
5:15 „..through the obligatory poison swamp area, which luckily we can get out of the way early because it’s not that FARRON into the game." Absolutely brilliant
I started a sorcery only run in ds3 a couple months ago but couldn't for the life of me beat the twin princes and ultimately gave up but after seeing you beat them really gave me some motivation to go back and try to finish the run
@@ShitSmirk you could also look up the glitch u can perform where u stand in front of the throne for phase 2 so he doesn’t move at all….. if u get stuck!
Great video!! Can't wait to see what you do in ds2 and ER btw if you are curious as to why lighting spear does more damage at meele it's how hitboxes work you create the spear wich does damage and then you throw it wich does more damage it's why you see lighting stake do damage twice, same reason :D
You can chain cast sacred flame on the Crystal Sage to stop it from teleporting, pretty sure it does good damage to Abyss Watchers as well, it doesn't work on a lot of bosses, but the damage is usually good (:
Wow! The routing was excellent and everything seemed to be done exactly right! I guess I should have expected nothing less from a video featuring Sri Ian McKellen.
Fun fact: Way of white corona can actually do massive damage on Aldrich and other large bosses if you’re at the maximum distance it can reach and cast it, the hit box of the way of the white corona can kinda sit inside of enemy hit boxes, and hit multiple times in a single cast before returning back to you just gotta get the distancing down to where the ring sits in their hit box.
When you do this in DS2 I think you should just bite the bullet. Allow yourself to respec and get your gear/spells situated for NG+. Because leveling up another stat well one is useless. Can turn early game into a struggle.
Bravo sir, congrats on pulling this monster off. A little fun thing, although not allowed in this run because it uses a weapon, but the Demon's Scar can actually true combo an r1 into black flame against player-like enemies, or indeed other players in PVP.
What would your snack of choice be to eat while watching this video?
Salted chips and vodka e the combination tastes kinda magical
Flaming hot Cheetos because that NG++ run gonna be fire
McDonald’s
Dried Finger
Popcorn
In Dark Souls 3, you can use the hawk ring to boost the range of your attack spells ;)
Also, boosting the range means more damage at close to mid range
FUCK, now i gotta test a long range spellsniper build...again
thanks for the info tho
Bruh I would have been done this smh
I beat DS3 like 100 times and I didn't know that feature. Feels good when game still has something that will surprise you
This is completely false
@@m00nbutter7 you ever tried ? It's not a big increase, a few meters at best but it works for spells as well as arrows and throwing consumables from what I've observed ...
Don't hope for a 10m increased range, just 2 to 3
"floating down like a butterfly in the moonlight"
IT FLOATS DOWN?!?!
It floats down!😂
… when it dies. Duh.
…ooooor during the break it gives you to hit it.
Everybody in the office loves that one 😂
When you float another one down but it floats over their heads
Some miracle fun facts:
-Lightning miracles, I think specifically the ranged spears and their incantation equivalents in ER, produce a second hit of damage when in melee range, for a bit extra damage (which is why they did more damage here). It’s visible as a damage proc usually right before you actually throw the spear, and as a small lightning strike separate from your cast. As far as I know, it’s not doubled damage, it’s more mild.
-Both “gnawing” miracles are dark miracles and thus deal dark damage. The reason Gael takes less damage from them, especially in his second stage, is that he gains the “hollowed” enemy modifier, which usually comes with higher dark defenses. I believe he gains this on the phase transition, and it’s testable by using something like the Hollowslayer GS, which will have its effect function. The gnawing miracles were even stronger on launch and got nerfed if I’m not mistaken, I used one to cheese dancer on my first playthrough.
-The lightning bow miracle is locked behind Ringed City because Fromsoft hates fun and whimsy, this is an established fact. It’s seriously weirdly placed, yeah it was introduced with the dlc but it’d be more useful if it was available earlier on.
-Words cannot describe the integrity of JK to not use ToD, and Siegward isn’t cheating, as the man is a walking miracle
Edit: Removed any mention of Gael being Abyssal as thanks to a reply on here I was informed he does not have this trait, doing a bit of research confirms this. However, as an added fact I suppose, Gael himself is the only enemy who changes or adds a type to himself mid-fight.
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Of course Fromsoft doesn't hate fun, that's why they locked great lightning spear behind a garbage covenant grind in the last area of the game, and sunlight spear behind the literal fucking final boss. Isn't it fun to go through the entire game with the weakest miracles there are, while pyromancers get the best damage pyromancy halfway through the game and sorcerers can get great heavy soul arrow and pestilent mist as soon as they find Orbeck in the 3rd area of the game for a pittance? Thank you, Fromsoft
That's definitely a cool fun fact
The nameless king taught me about the second lightning hit. I dont like it:(
Lightning Spear, GLS and SS gain respectively 79%, 78% and 73% more damage with the close-quarters hit, which while not being literally double the damage, is very significative and not mild at all.
Gael never gains the abyssal modifier, only the hollow one during his phase 2 transition.
While the placement of Lightning Bow is inconvenient, it's not weird, it's in line with its lore and the Ringed City's.
Crystal Sage being harder than all DLCs Bosses combined is certainly something I would never expect to witness.
Somehow this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
@@trevordillon1921 while I hate Sage with all my heart and soul, he only gave me troubles on sl1 with broken straight sword. What surprised me the most, that he was a wall for JK not in magic journey, but in miracles journey. Sage is resistant only to magic.
I'm honestly not surprised. I'm thinking about doing an sl1 run and I'm genuinely more concerned about the deacons and the sage than someone like Gael or nameless.
@@friendlyreaper9012 do not worry, they have really low stats, you can basically "overlevel" those Bosses by level upgrade of your weapon, and Sage is very weak to fire, you can basically kill him before transition with enough of luck.
I personally didn't struggle with Gael or Nameless, but they are not that easy. The hardest on my first sl1 was by far Sister Friede, followed by Dancer, Gundyr and Twin Princes.
We live in a confusing world. Pluss sage dude is pretty early dlc is late game where you have a solid build to finish the game.
for the Dark Souls 2, I strongly recommend using the binoculars in the other hand, as it allows you to aim spells like a bow, it's really usefull
You can also do that in ds3, a little slower though
HUH??? I have so many hours in ds2 and never once have tried this
@@Owainmclain it's super easy because in DS2 you use the binoculars like a weapon. Put your casting weapon in one hand, put the binoculars in the other, hold light attack to use the binoculars like you would raise a shield, and then cast with the other light attack button. You'll be able to cast zoomed in. While the binoculars don't have cross hairs in the middle of the screen like the bow, your spells usually cast from the middle of the screen while zoomed in so just imagine there's a crosshair there. Spell casting tools do have different animations. Chimes and talismans shoot slightly up and then straight, pyromancer flame tosses fireballs underhand with an arc making them hard to aim, and staves cast high with a downward trajectory before leveling out. I tried to cast soul arrow with the binoculars on an enemy in almost melee range and it went over its head. Also, some spells like dark orb don't have enough range for the binoculars.
@@Owainmclain sorry for the long comment so here's a summary. Left hand binoculars, right hand staff, hold L1, put target in the middle of your screen, cast spell with R1, don't use it at close range or you'll cast over the target, don't bother using dark orb because it has no range.
If I had a nickel for every time i watched a dark souls 3 playthrough where they go for a sorcery build and then proceed to Pestilent Mist the Dancer of the Boreal Valley early on a whim and it actually worked, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice
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@@rotationalshorts9104 FEEEEEBREEEEEEZE!
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Old Moonlight is a charged spell, it does insane damage if fully charged and both projectile and blade hit, it isn’t as bad as it initially seems and can rival soul spear
Pyromancy last is defo the smartest choice too, as it’s the best magic in this game imo. NG+7 as a pyromancer so it’s definitely got the damage output.
Pyromancy is OP in DS3. It has carried me through numerous playthroughs & I have a pyromancy only character. I use Chaos Bed Vestiges, Great Chsos Fire Ball & Black Fire Ball.
How good is Sorcery? I haven't been able to find any guides on which magics are good
Excpet Miracles, those are THE MOST OP SPELLS IN THE GAEMMEEE, it's def not useless
@@malachyodonoghue3746 sorcery is at its weakest in DS3 tbh. Just over all really weak. Miracles and Pyromancy are easily stronger and it’s not even close. As for which is the better of those 2, it depends on your play style. I eventually hard focused on dark Pyromancy and found myself having more fun than I ever did with miracles, but idk if they’re stronger or just fit my play style better
@plz_not1482 I must be doing something wrong cause I've tried so many dark magic build but they just don't out put the damage
Also my pyromancy build which is sitting at 35 Faith and 35 intelligence does mediocre damage and I'm using mainly chaos bed vestiges, great chaos fireball and black fireball
My sorcery build is actually broken tho, I'd say sorcery is in no way weak is ds3, easily the most OP of the 3 magic types
Sorcery > pyromancy > miracles
So here is an interesting fact about deacons. When you start the fight, the main deacon is actually stored inside Aldrich's coffin behind where his clothes drop. What that means is you can pestilent mist, toxic, or poison it through the wall to get some early damage while also fighting the red light deacons. Hopefully this helps!
Friday really is the best day of the week. Thanks, I've been really enjoying your content. Came for the challenge runs stayed for the puns.
Glad to hear! Hope you enjoy this one also
I echo this sentiment each time I thought the puns couldnt get any better, they stayed in the satisfactory to decent range of pun. Excellent
Fun fact, you can actually kill wolnir with pestilent mist without him even waking up, you just cast it repeatedly on his hand
yup thats fun, you can also use pestilent mist on the curse rotted greatwood boss, and he will never start his 2nd phase if you only use that, the floor will stay until you actually defeat him is when the floor breaks
2 things about the Pyromancy run, Boulder Heave is actually REALLY good vs the Abyss Watchers because you can with the correct timing chain it basically untill you run out of FP, hit them with Boulder Heave once then take 2 steps forward and use Boulder Heave again then repeat, you can do the same thing with Sacred Fame against the Crystal Sage
Sacred Flame is actually a really good Pyromancy against the Sage, as you can stunlock them so they can't teleport away
Oh, really looking forward to this. I've only stumbled upon your channel recently, but I enjoy your form of challenge runs.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the video 🙂
I'm getting the dark souls trilogy for ps4 from my mum for christmas, I've been watching challenge runs on the series to hype myself up and your videos are funny as hell! Giving me hope man! Bloodborne was my first souls game so I'm excited to see the difference in gameplay
holy moly! I'm so excited for you! Experiencing the whole thing for the first time is a trip. Good luck skeleton!
u Will enjoy
@@paultapping9510 Hey! Returning a few days after Christmas, in undead berg at the moment, I'm not touching 2 or 3 until I beat 1 lol, I also got sekiro and Im having a blast
@@robertdimelow5070Pro tip for dark souls 1: try finger but hole
@@robertdimelow5070 how is dark souls for ya still?
"The damage is shocking...that's not even a lightning joke, it's just bad..." 😂
Came for the challenge run, stayed for the puns! As always a really entertaining video!
Damn these challenge videos are actually better than most of the series from Netflix
That's really not that high of a bar
JK delivers again. Your videos are always a joy to watch. You and Doom Wolf have to do a co-op run of Elden Ring or something, that would be epic. Thank you again for the entertainment.
No joke, we did actually discuss this but he's PC master race and I'm a dirty console scrub 😂
@@JKLeeds oh bummer, can't have it all I guess heh.
My first run of Dark Souls 3 was a Strength/Faith build, and I fell in LOVE with the grandma that gnaws on you with teethless gums. It was such a useful spell for me and lowkey carried me through NG.
I've loudly said "oh fuck off" in response to at least 3 puns in the first 7 minutes of this video alone. It's looking like a masterpiece
Soul spear and it's upgrade are good, but HSA is the most efficient sorcery projectile when it comes to fp/damage I believe
IIRC it was GHSA, but HSA's really good too
@@supremeclamitas5053 yeah I had thought so too but I looked it up, regardless they're both way more efficient than the soul spears, so running out of fp is a less likely outcome
@@JWalker444 Huh, the more you know!
I love how optimistic you are about the DS2 4 full runs, 4 playthrough of Frigid Outskrits I start to think that you are a masochist.
Dunno about NG+ Midir but you can transpose father Ariandel soul to his favorite whip which gives a neat bonus to miracles for a minute or so. Last time when I went for pyro build to reach NG+2 for all achievements, that's what I did and sunlight spear inflicted like 1200+ damage to the head from afar!
Pestilent Mid seems like a great band name. 19:32
This series has lead me to try every element in Elden Ring while changing the element every new game. Awesome job on this video. May Chaos take the world!
4:18. It floats down - funniest line of my life!
You have no idea how many times I've rewatched these challenge runs during work
Thanks for making these, JK
Even 8 minutes in I can tell this video is going to be awesome. My mom laughed so damn hard when she overheard the Abyssterectomy bit
Wholesome comments are wholesome 🙂
nothing like dad jokes and plays on words
gael shooting a volley of bolts and slow walking through the toxic cloud at 53:03 is kinda raw as fuck ngl
Likes disabled?
UA-cam be gettin real wild over here
It's called handicapped
Annoyingly so
I played often as a sorceror or a "hexxer" in this series, including in this game.
never used pestilent mist. i feel like an idiot now. nice work with this run, and nice touch with the endings.
Tip for if you ever do sorcery against Friede again; she runs straight into Homing Soulmass spells when invisible and staggers herself.
"Thank god for door-opening i-frames." Relish them while you can, JK. You won't be finding them in Drangleic.
I thought I’d give the all sorcery run a go and I found a solution to the Halflight issue. If you’re playing offline, the npc Halflight doesn’t know how to deal with Great Deep Soul and just face-tanks it while having most of his attacks interrupted. It’s fast enough and has a low enough FP cost that you can spam it at him.
Just finished this challenge 10 minutes prior to writing this.
It was monumental! I loved it!
Honestly, the hardest part was sorcery the first run. I didn't stock up on resources or buy any from the store just like you and was able to get everything I'd need to +10 in that run.
Levelling was rough, but I had pre-emptively planned ahead for the faith build that was coming. Stunted the sorcery run what with devoting 20+ levels to faith. Didn't realize crystal chime scaled off both so didn't even need to do that lol.
Miracles was so easy it was a joke. Nothing stopped sunlight spear spam, not even Yhorm.
Yhorm Pyromancy however...
Great challenge, teaches you so much about magic combat. Also really highlights pure faith Caster viability. You're a one trick pony, sure but you have so much damage capability.
Looking forward to the dark souls 2 run. Best of luck on NG+++
best souls channel out there right now bro.
much respect 🙏
I don’t want sir Ian to be sad
Always fun to come back and rewatch these. I do it frequently either when I bust doing something else or to use to sleep.
I'd like to see how far you can push this. Start ng4+ with sorcery. Keep the rotation going
First video I have seen of yours. Clever fun and simple thank you for the video.
You definitely offered Ian McKellen Varré's bouquet for him to appear in your video.
Man, I'd forgotten which uploader you were when this showed up in my feed; I started watching and very quickly went "Fuuuuuuuuu... it's the PUN guy" XD keep it up
Playing the game 40% editing 10% coming up with bad jokes 50%
It's always a good day when we have a new upload from you. Don't tell Lemon, but I like your videos as much as his. The video was so fun to watch, that I didn't realise when an hour just passed by.. also now i want to play DS3 again.. thanks..
not sure if this was planned, but the order of runs definitely made them easier. Almost nothing is weak to sorceries (Dragonslayer Armor only?), then vs lightning most things are either weak or neutral - and then almost everything in the game is weak to either dark or fire.
Kinda late but, Dragonslayer Armour it's weak to magic, in the speedrun people actually use the magic resin with the scmitars to take him down
That's also the reason why i killed him with the Crystal Sage's Rapier in NG+ and it wasn't that bad, it was pretty fun actually
Lorian is weak to magic but lothric is resistant.
Nice one! I’m going to try this for myself. I’ve already done pyro only, so I’ll take that character into NG+ as sorcerer and NG++ for miracles
The clarification on why you're not doing Dark Souls 2 right now is so real. I'm playing through it now and it requires some perseverance.
I have the plats for ds1, 3, Elden Ring and got the platinum for DeS back,in the day. I've not got the DS2 plat, and it's not through want of trying. That game is exhausting!
@@paultapping9510DS3 achievements are more tedious than DS2, easily. Vertebrae shackle farming is the worst thing ever. DS2 is also just a way more fun game IMO, doing pretty much everything besides boss fights better than 3.
DS2 is my favorite of the series and I still shudder to think of four back to back playthroughs.
I personally take chaos orb over vestiges for that extra lava pool damage afterwards with only a little less inital damage.
Love these challenge runs
These videos get me through my long shiny hunts! Tysm for the bangin content
Somehow I'm not surprised that Lightning Spear is better in melee. They REALLY want you to use Faith with melee stats. I say this having suffered through several Faith primary builds.
Going to point out something very minor that could have helped this run: if you'd put the Simple infusion on a shield, you could've had some passive FP regen so long as you put the shield in your offhand. Not that it's fast regen, but it could've got you enough for some emergency soul arrows during the fights you ran out of estus during
Hey leeds, I know you watch the Backlogs, but surprised you were struggling with the Aldritch fights, cause Lemon actually had a full strategy for dealing with the arrow storm
I can't recall which video it was but essentially he used the statues at the back of the room to block the arrow rain
You should've used boulder heave on abyss watchers. It's such a god tier spell. I'd also recommend black flame through the run. It's fast and strong.
You did well, sir! I did a Fire damage "only" run earlier this year and gotta say ... That 20some minutes Midir was not exactly fun after 20some deaths 😁
one of the funniest but seemingly not well known tricks I know in DS3 is that the deacons hitbox is actually inside the middle of the ?coffin?altar? thing at the center of the room in phase 1. this means that certain AoE effects with sufficient range, most notably including poison/toxic mist, can reach said hitbox and do damage/status build up.
this combined with the new knowledge that pestilent mist doesn't cause phase transitions for certain bosses makes me wonder if due to its similarity to the other mist spells I know work on him, if it wouldn't reach as well...and if it does would he still go into phase 2?
So excited to see how this plays out in DS3.
I got stuck on the Sage on my sorcery only run on stream this week. Just came back to rewatch your fight against him, and I think you’ve just saved my run! Thanks JK!
This was a really good video and made me want to play a miracle build now, lol. Was bummed you skipped DS2 as that one is my fav, but I understand completely. Hope to see you come back to it sometime.
"With a grab I slabbed earlier" was my favorite quote of the week
11:38 what's the song here? It's driving me nuts. I cant figure out where it's from
Xenoblade Chronicles - Valak Mountain
@@JKLeeds somehow didn't see this for 8 months, but thanks so much for helping me figure out where I had heard that song. Also, love your content and your streams are always so welcoming.
Cant blame you for not wanting to play that much ds2 in one sitting. However heres a few tips for when you do attempt it:
Magic and miracle catalysts can be infused which does boost their relative damage. The best sorcery based hex staff can be acquired very quickly from the merchant in huntsman copse. The only requirement is 20 int and 20 faith for him to hand it over.
If you try to aquire climax for its damage, its damage caps out at 5k souls but will take up to a few million.
The crown you get at the end lf the brume tower dlc occasionally restores your magic casts for free.
It also restores them based on how many copies you have equipped at the time. More copies = more casts and more restored casts.
One of the best miracle catalysts can be gained by killing the miracle lady in heides tower. (Cumbling oceanic ruins area at the begining of the game.)
Hope any of these tips help you when the time comes.
Ps: id recommend doing miracle, magic, pyromancy, then hexes. Pyromancy and hexes both scale off of faith and intelligence but pyomamcy has little to no stat requirements for its spells. Oh and whisper of the dead or whatever its called only makes the enemy weaker to physical damage.
Elden ring with each school of magic when?
This man deserves so many more subs, one of my personal favorites and I've watched all your vids
For Aldrich, I just sprinted in a circle and that seem to be extremely effective for some reason
you should have gotten the Crystal Sage Staff in your offhand for the buff, it has the strongest version of the staff buff and would amp spells cast from another staff
In regards to DaS2: Hexes, despite being considered a separate type, still behave like regular miracles, sorceries or pyromancies, so my suggestion is just forego the idea of a 4th playthrough and incorporate them into the regular 3 runs.
I feel it is incredibly important that you know that i love your content, however my favorite part of your videos are your jokes and the way you are. You should know that you are in fact my favorite part of your videos.
Wait people think the worm is solaire?
Yes! It's actually a really interesting theory, I suggest looking more into it!
learning about pestilent mist has given me the push i need to commit to a sorcery playthrough of this game, i had no idea it was percentage based
5:15
„..through the obligatory poison swamp area, which luckily we can get out of the way early because it’s not that FARRON into the game."
Absolutely brilliant
Video was great but your jokes were shocking lad. Felt my soul darkening at each one
Missed opportunity to use an “Abyssmal” joke
Nice choice of music, I think most people wouldn't recognize these.
I sadly have go work when this video goes live but watching this is the first thing i'll do when i come home.
You have excellent tastes in your choices for the background musics :P
Nice run!
Dohry’s gnawing is best miracle
"with a grab i slabbed earlier" was not the line i expected to make me laugh lmao
your routing was awesome and you did everything right, actually.
Thanks 😁
23:01 you get lightning stuff from the area behind the gate in the strsy demon arena.
I started a sorcery only run in ds3 a couple months ago but couldn't for the life of me beat the twin princes and ultimately gave up but after seeing you beat them really gave me some motivation to go back and try to finish the run
For me it worked with the soulstream spell since that boss doesn’t move around sideways a lot. Maybe you can try it out!
@@HeyAddieImTojo I'll give it a try
@@ShitSmirk you could also look up the glitch u can perform where u stand in front of the throne for phase 2 so he doesn’t move at all….. if u get stuck!
Did you do it ???
41:57 Absolutely loved this bit xD Great video
You could’ve gone to Rosaria and respec’d the skills to faith before starting NG+, because you didn’t need the 60 INT in NG+ anyway
One of his rules for the run was that he could not re-spec
I just wanted to say that demon prince pun at 18:10 was absolutely golden i thought you'd enjoy hearing that
Great video!! Can't wait to see what you do in ds2 and ER
btw if you are curious as to why lighting spear does more damage at meele
it's how hitboxes work
you create the spear wich does damage and then you throw it wich does more damage
it's why you see lighting stake do damage twice, same reason :D
You can chain cast sacred flame on the Crystal Sage to stop it from teleporting, pretty sure it does good damage to Abyss Watchers as well, it doesn't work on a lot of bosses, but the damage is usually good (:
Punny bugger ain'cha, Mr JK (light?) Rollings. Great content, fun times. Thanks for putting this out there.
Wow! The routing was excellent and everything seemed to be done exactly right! I guess I should have expected nothing less from a video featuring Sri Ian McKellen.
Fun fact: Way of white corona can actually do massive damage on Aldrich and other large bosses if you’re at the maximum distance it can reach and cast it, the hit box of the way of the white corona can kinda sit inside of enemy hit boxes, and hit multiple times in a single cast before returning back to you just gotta get the distancing down to where the ring sits in their hit box.
When you do this in DS2 I think you should just bite the bullet. Allow yourself to respec and get your gear/spells situated for NG+. Because leveling up another stat well one is useless.
Can turn early game into a struggle.
You obviously offered him a Darksouls themed birthday party. It's probably the only reason he agreed to coming back. 😁
Awesome Vid!
Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany
27:26 "I upgraded the Canvas Talisman for even MORE DAMAGE"
*proceeds to use Cleric's Chime*
We keep coming back to JK Leeds videos because we're all gluttons for pun-ishment
The script writing in this video is fucking amazing, loved it this entire time
Bravo sir, congrats on pulling this monster off.
A little fun thing, although not allowed in this run because it uses a weapon, but the Demon's Scar can actually true combo an r1 into black flame against player-like enemies, or indeed other players in PVP.
I am extremely thankful for the puns. Great video!
Nice video as always, cheers from Germany