It's genuinely one of the best weapons in the game for general PvE! Dogs will never bother you again, and it's incredibly fun to bully annoying tough enemies like cleanrot knights. It may not be great against bosses, and it may be bad for PvP, but few other weapons have given me more joy than Godfrey's axe for general exploration/dungeon crawling.
@@RabidCupcake2010I've had it do pretty well against bosses while i help people i have no issues with it at all i like how it looks it has a cool ash of war and who wouldnt want to use the first lords axe
@@RabidCupcake2010 I love Axe of Godfrey with Highland axe offhand, roar medallion, and axe talisman for running around the open world. I do find myself changing to Fallingstar Beast Jaw for bosses a lot though.
@@HERTZZBR I wouldn't say so, you got to try invading to realize how bad it usually is lol. Ganking in ER is inherently more toxic and way more stacked in the hosts favor than it was in any other souls game. Host gets access to godrick's great rune for 40 free levels, more flasks, and can endlessly summon phantoms that are guaranteed to be higher or equal level to the invader. And of course they are usually moonveil spamming mages like the one in the video, perfect for constantly forcing you to roll into their phantoms attacks by spamming stars of ruin and moonveil.
Bruh claws can be NASTY if you know what to do with them. You're right about the scythes though. Phantom slash or whirlwind stomp on the reapers scythe is just too good.
I made a bloodhound knight build that focused on switching between a hyper aggressive and hit and run play style mid combat, messing with my enemy by using the claw and fang
The Convergence makes the Dragon Greatclaw like it should be with red lightning infused heavy charge attacks, and the ash of war calls down red lightning strikes in an aoe.
I remember doing an initial playthrough and going through the Haligtree, and something weird happened in which I killed both of the Rotten Avatars and they both dropped the Rotten Staff, so I ended getting up two Rotten Staffs in one playthrough. It was the first time I had this happen and I was super confused lol.
Fun fact, Stamp sweep has a frame trap after a crouch r1. It’s best used on colossal swords, the GUGS in particular due to the crouch poke’s short recovery and long range. Only way to really avoid the frame trap is to be at the very tip of the sword’s range
almost any colossal sword has the same crouch attack but the zweihander could also work but as you said the gugs would make a great candidate for stamp sweep because of its hitbox
@@nutsnut it would be your next best option since it’s the second longest. When it comes to colossal swords, as a rule if you cant use the GUGS, Zweihander or nothing
love this channel, information on what is good in pvp without watching 2 hours of invasions is so hard to come by, also showcases of weapons in colosseums is nearly impossible to find
The fact u can cancel ghiza's wheel L2 attack with a heavy attack makes it my favorite. Nothing feels as satisfying as someone rushing at you thinking you made a mistake to just mash... grind? em into paste
As a PvE player, i must protect the Dragon GreatClaw. Yes, endure is Disappointing, but the Dex scaling increases the Lighting Damage and it deals 30% more dmg against Dragons and 15% more against "Ancient Dragons", so it is: -A great Quality Weapon -A great Dragon killer -A great Disappointment
NOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE BE TALKIN ABOUT Seriously though, I have always loved all the big weapons in souls-like games. There's something so satisfying about hitting the big bonk...
8:05 Im not sure if anyone noticed but when monk was fighting "The legend" , His avatar looks like the armored warrior from sekiro especially with the greatsword
My first playthrough I wanted to try a pure melee build to see what it was like and Bloodhound's Fang carried me most the game, but I had also found the Watchdogs Staff and those projectiles finally gave me a way to do ranged attacks. I was so thankful because I didn't realize what I was getting into trying to do only melee for my first-ever souls playthrough lol
7:24 blood flame blade's fire damage is the only thing that scales, and it only scales off the faith portion of the seal. So the clawmark seal is un-optimal.
Regarding what you said about always 2 handing colossals, I actually encountered someone playing powerstanced prelate’s at 125, and it was harder to deal with than I thought. Literally his only strategy was to run up and crouch L2, but it was frankly harder to get a hit on without taking the most miserable trade of your life compared to your bog standard halberd/offstoc nerd.
Weapons I'd change if I could.... -Dragon Greatclaw: L2 raise weapon in air for 2 seconds while Red Lightning charges up then slam down on the ground creating red lightning in a cone area in front of you like the Ice Lightning AOW. The weapon gets a buff from the Red Lightning for 30secs after. -Rotton Avatar Staff: Erdtree Slam does Rot damage and flings Rot out around you within the circle shown and stays on ground for 2-3 seconds.
The great club also has a unique heavy attack overhead slam where you put your whole body into it, very caveman like which is perfect for the ultimate bonk stick. It actually comes out pretty fast uncharged, nice for catching people with in pvp.
Fallingstar Beast Jaw is absolutely my favourite. One important thing you forgot to mention is that it does pierce damage, so due to the counterattack mechanic, you will never be losing trades with that thing. It also has either the highest or second highest range of all the colossals. 10/10 weapon. This is my go to for heal spammers in the arena
Dragon Greatclaw needs something like Ancient Lightning Strike or something along those lines and the Dragonclaw Shield needs to be able to do those multi lightning strikes, maybe have its skill be a guarding stance where a light calls down the direct strikes and a heavy calls does the aoe strikes
Actually there is a way to increase the rot build up on the rotten great axe and you did it bleed affinity adds arcane scaling and investing In arcane will get more rot and bleed build up Also every colossal weapon has access to the warcry and braggarts roar R2 to R1 true combo
Sadly isn't true, arcane doesn't increase rot build BUT the heavy attack from the combo you're talking about gets a status mv of 300 when you fully charge it. So you can proc rot in one hit sometimes but only from the fully charged heavy, works on pve not pvp :/
interestingly, the golem's halberd comes with CHARGE FORTH when uninfused, but can't be GIVEN charge forth, forcing you to not infuse it if you want to utilize this extremely fun and strong idea
The occult giant crusher actually has higher AR than heavy, rocking one as an optional weapon on my strength/arcane build. Was almost able to oneshot offnir with VERY little setup. I think i literally just used the physick, meat and RKR... may have used banner, but i dont remember.
my first playthrough i powerstanced golem halberds and couldn't wear armor until about lvl 100 because the weight of both halberds together was around 44 or something lmao
Man, you weren't even using Ghiza's Wheel the right way -- the 1h R2-1 is *_FAR_* better than the 2h one -- so that just shows how nasty the R2s can be in the right hands.
duelist greataxe is the only colossal weapon that scales better with dex than str, meaning it prefers keen, quality, or lightning infusions. quality is really only for high level builds, so keen or lightning would have fared better here.
Axe of godfrey the best by far by using alone two handed. Omega just upload a video of giant crusher + dagger that is seriously competitive vs meta set ups
Should've had a colossal foster weapon and colossal flail. Missed opportunity. Also, I recommend one handing the pizza cutter for its more linear heavy attacks.
Occult is actually the best affinity for the Giant Crusher, it has the highest alpha in game, NG+1 with powerstance cragblade giant crushers eats everything in the game alive, the slow attack speed doesn't even matter with the base poise damage they do.
The colossal weapons don't have light attacks. They have Heavy Attacks and Heavier Attacks
Nah they have heavy attacks and the fuck you attacks
The crouch attacks are the light attacks
I mean, he's right though
Sums it up well
Heavy attacks and colossal attacks
Axe of Godfrey is seriously one of the coolest weapons honestly even if it’s not amazing
It's genuinely one of the best weapons in the game for general PvE! Dogs will never bother you again, and it's incredibly fun to bully annoying tough enemies like cleanrot knights. It may not be great against bosses, and it may be bad for PvP, but few other weapons have given me more joy than Godfrey's axe for general exploration/dungeon crawling.
Great in PVE yea, the stomp just gets rid of gank mobs like rats and dogs.
@@RabidCupcake2010I've had it do pretty well against bosses while i help people i have no issues with it at all i like how it looks it has a cool ash of war and who wouldnt want to use the first lords axe
@@RabidCupcake2010 I love Axe of Godfrey with Highland axe offhand, roar medallion, and axe talisman for running around the open world. I do find myself changing to Fallingstar Beast Jaw for bosses a lot though.
I agree but damn... C scaling in strenght? A giant axe wielded by the strongest tarnished aka ex elden lord aka he touched marika's titties???
23:20 that invasion was insane. 1v3ing gankers with the Axe of Chadfrey
Completely agree
Bro showed them their place
)
Ah, thy strength befits a crown.
@@cocojambo2895nah it was a respectul fight where both parties had fun, nothing toxic about it
@@HERTZZBR also right
@@HERTZZBR I wouldn't say so, you got to try invading to realize how bad it usually is lol. Ganking in ER is inherently more toxic and way more stacked in the hosts favor than it was in any other souls game. Host gets access to godrick's great rune for 40 free levels, more flasks, and can endlessly summon phantoms that are guaranteed to be higher or equal level to the invader. And of course they are usually moonveil spamming mages like the one in the video, perfect for constantly forcing you to roll into their phantoms attacks by spamming stars of ruin and moonveil.
Godfrey would be proud of you after winning that with his Axe
Claws and Scythes don't get much love, being that there are only 4 in their respective classes, would love for them to get some attention.
Bruh claws can be NASTY if you know what to do with them. You're right about the scythes though. Phantom slash or whirlwind stomp on the reapers scythe is just too good.
I made a bloodhound knight build that focused on switching between a hyper aggressive and hit and run play style mid combat, messing with my enemy by using the claw and fang
Well they don't get love in this video because colossal claws would be made of tungsten
Storm Caller on a Scythe after casting Bloodflame Blade on it is hilarious. @@grimreaper8575
Use a collossal weapon with the assassins crimson/cerulean daggers gets you double the amount from them! Not as useful in pvp but great in pve
The Convergence makes the Dragon Greatclaw like it should be with red lightning infused heavy charge attacks, and the ash of war calls down red lightning strikes in an aoe.
I remember doing an initial playthrough and going through the Haligtree, and something weird happened in which I killed both of the Rotten Avatars and they both dropped the Rotten Staff, so I ended getting up two Rotten Staffs in one playthrough. It was the first time I had this happen and I was super confused lol.
I got three,two from the Avatar guarding the Ancient smithing Stone, and one from the Avatar in Front of the Grace before the crystalian trio.
Just gonna say it now. The Great Club is way to damn fun and I love using its ash on my str faith build for trades
Based weapon
Fun fact, Stamp sweep has a frame trap after a crouch r1. It’s best used on colossal swords, the GUGS in particular due to the crouch poke’s short recovery and long range. Only way to really avoid the frame trap is to be at the very tip of the sword’s range
almost any colossal sword has the same crouch attack but the zweihander could also work but as you said the gugs would make a great candidate for stamp sweep because of its hitbox
@@nutsnut it would be your next best option since it’s the second longest. When it comes to colossal swords, as a rule if you cant use the GUGS, Zweihander or nothing
love this channel, information on what is good in pvp without watching 2 hours of invasions is so hard to come by, also showcases of weapons in colosseums is nearly impossible to find
"Don't sleep on the Watchdog's Staff" as if the thing isn't bed sized
The fact u can cancel ghiza's wheel L2 attack with a heavy attack makes it my favorite. Nothing feels as satisfying as someone rushing at you thinking you made a mistake to just mash... grind? em into paste
Best Elden Ring UA-camr at the moment. I just love this series and such a great way to discover new weapons for myself
First duel of the video you get a Rob user spamming L1 without even having the stats for the weapon
I didn't even realize, that's hilarious
the first guy was using rivers of blood but was underleveled💀
probably just didn't have the right stars
Hell yes another weapon class upload 🙌 I will watch as many as you put out
As a PvE player, i must protect the Dragon GreatClaw. Yes, endure is Disappointing, but the Dex scaling increases the Lighting Damage and it deals 30% more dmg against Dragons and 15% more against "Ancient Dragons", so it is:
-A great Quality Weapon
-A great Dragon killer
-A great Disappointment
Him killing 3 people with the pure strength of chadfrey was the coolest moment on the channel ever
NOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE BE TALKIN ABOUT
Seriously though, I have always loved all the big weapons in souls-like games. There's something so satisfying about hitting the big bonk...
8:05 Im not sure if anyone noticed but when monk was fighting "The legend" , His avatar looks like the armored warrior from sekiro especially with the greatsword
My first playthrough I wanted to try a pure melee build to see what it was like and Bloodhound's Fang carried me most the game, but I had also found the Watchdogs Staff and those projectiles finally gave me a way to do ranged attacks. I was so thankful because I didn't realize what I was getting into trying to do only melee for my first-ever souls playthrough lol
7:24 blood flame blade's fire damage is the only thing that scales, and it only scales off the faith portion of the seal. So the clawmark seal is un-optimal.
i just pulled off the second hit of the fully charged R2 for the giant crusher colossal
1832 damage, one hit kill
Vigor check
Bigger is always better. I don't want your filthy optimization, I just want to live for the glorious bonk.
I really wish the rotten staff had the rot slam that he putrid avatars have
Bro ur so fun to watch that am actually watching u rn on my school laptop instead of doing my work keep it up bro
Really well played on the invasion. I was dying laughing the whole time
the Rotten Greataxe set to Blood, now that they’ve fixed that, with Barbaric Roar and high arcane will *melt* bosses
Regarding what you said about always 2 handing colossals, I actually encountered someone playing powerstanced prelate’s at 125, and it was harder to deal with than I thought. Literally his only strategy was to run up and crouch L2, but it was frankly harder to get a hit on without taking the most miserable trade of your life compared to your bog standard halberd/offstoc nerd.
Its Ghiza, youre welcome
Watchdog Staff is so good against ganks, especially with buffs increasing magic attack
The duelist greataxe actually has a better keen scaling oddly
8:30 i love see that meta slave getting obliterated for a big bonk. So bad that bad luck in the end.
since when is 1 handed GUGS with a curved sword offhand meta??
@@thediabolicalraisin8953 it's a crouch poker, who also plays super passive, the worst kind of colossal weapon user.
@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 Ah. Yeah they deserved everything they got
24:25 the fact this man just won a 1v3 against two mages and a blood build makes him such a chad😭
The way lightning was handled in elden ring makes me feel personally attacked
What do you mean, 3 ashes and confused scaling is totally acceptable😂
dragonclaw actually has scarlet rot, i got inflicted with it after i found out it's a somber weapon.
throw the spear talisman on the beast jaw js trust me
what a clutch with the Godrey's axe bro! now i really need to have that weapon
Weapons I'd change if I could....
-Dragon Greatclaw: L2 raise weapon in air for 2 seconds while Red Lightning charges up then slam down on the ground creating red lightning in a cone area in front of you like the Ice Lightning AOW. The weapon gets a buff from the Red Lightning for 30secs after.
-Rotton Avatar Staff: Erdtree Slam does Rot damage and flings Rot out around you within the circle shown and stays on ground for 2-3 seconds.
The great club also has a unique heavy attack overhead slam where you put your whole body into it, very caveman like which is perfect for the ultimate bonk stick. It actually comes out pretty fast uncharged, nice for catching people with in pvp.
Fallingstar Beast Jaw is absolutely my favourite. One important thing you forgot to mention is that it does pierce damage, so due to the counterattack mechanic, you will never be losing trades with that thing. It also has either the highest or second highest range of all the colossals. 10/10 weapon. This is my
go to for heal spammers in the arena
Great club my beloved
"I'll go to bed"
monk upload
"After this."
The giant crusher had me absolutely stunned with that damage.
You should see it with Royal Knight’s Resolve. I frequently one shot people in the arena with it.
Highlands Axe in your offhand slot while you 2 hand Godfrey axe will beef up your Regal Roar and buffed heavies even further
When Curved Greatswords? Love the series btw, Keep up the good work
I’ve been playing Ghiza’s Wheel pretty much since Volcano Manor, full upgraded and just shreds everything.
Chillest Elden Ring player
2:30 Caria's strongest soldier
Dragon Greatclaw needs something like Ancient Lightning Strike or something along those lines and the Dragonclaw Shield needs to be able to do those multi lightning strikes, maybe have its skill be a guarding stance where a light calls down the direct strikes and a heavy calls does the aoe strikes
Actually there is a way to increase the rot build up on the rotten great axe and you did it bleed affinity adds arcane scaling and investing In arcane will get more rot and bleed build up
Also every colossal weapon has access to the warcry and braggarts roar R2 to R1 true combo
Sadly isn't true, arcane doesn't increase rot build BUT the heavy attack from the combo you're talking about gets a status mv of 300 when you fully charge it. So you can proc rot in one hit sometimes but only from the fully charged heavy, works on pve not pvp :/
24:20 thy strength befits a crown
It’s great watching you test drive the weapon I want to try. Love that you laugh when fighting. So entertaining!!
interestingly, the golem's halberd comes with CHARGE FORTH when uninfused, but can't be GIVEN charge forth, forcing you to not infuse it if you want to utilize this extremely fun and strong idea
that godfrey axe 1v3 went crazy
You should test the greatshields next
My personal favorite combo is the giant crusher with rkr, a charged heavy has only failed to one shot 3 times cause they had some crazy defense builds
23:20 was awesome
Respect for this battle!
I’m sorry but that trio axe of Godfrey invasion was one of the best things I’ve ever seen
The occult giant crusher actually has higher AR than heavy, rocking one as an optional weapon on my strength/arcane build. Was almost able to oneshot offnir with VERY little setup. I think i literally just used the physick, meat and RKR... may have used banner, but i dont remember.
I love huge weapons, I usually use MBB!
As a lord once said, "Thy stength befits a crown"
Are you thinking to do the same with every axe and dagger? I would absolutely love to see it
Had no idea Greatclub was so good, I'm gonna have to try this thing.
tip for ghiza wheel, one handed moveset are better since u strike forward twice and prok bleed more often
I have 2 Envoy Greathorns. I got both of them on the same run, within a few minutes of each other. Took an hour to farm, beforehand.
Trolls roar can be nice when invading for knocking a bunch of gankers away, or especially off of high places.
Man, i wish collosals werent outclassed by literally everything except daggers
my first playthrough i powerstanced golem halberds and couldn't wear armor until about lvl 100 because the weight of both halberds together was around 44 or something lmao
Literally when i decided i want a faith strength build. thank yoooou
Man, you weren't even using Ghiza's Wheel the right way -- the 1h R2-1 is *_FAR_* better than the 2h one -- so that just shows how nasty the R2s can be in the right hands.
The big oracle envoy at the start of leyndell drops the horn too
24:26 that was insane
Now we need to know which torch is the best
I used the watchdogs staff when I needed strike magic damage and let me tell you, I used it against the stupid black flame kindred and it destroys
Heavy weapons are so satisfying. When you hit something, you really feel it
ghiza's wheel works better 1 handing, the heavy attacks are always out in front of you
Godfrey axe is the winner of 1.10. However, if you think spamming is a thing w colossals, you'all should stick to your usual spinkiba.
what is your armour combo??
Those 3 friends waiting to gank someone and getting completely owned was pretty satisfying.
Hearing people pronounce prelate as “pree-late” is like hearing people pronounce Porsche as “Porsh”
It makes me upset
Aww people speak in different accents womp womp
26:59 So that's why astel was so easy on my first playthrough. I was getting that bonus damage in. XD
That desperate “oh no!” when you heard the bleating lmao
Doesn't the sharp Duelist Great Axe have an A scaling in dex on a keen infusion?
Axe of godfrey should have been a great axe imo
duelist greataxe is the only colossal weapon that scales better with dex than str, meaning it prefers keen, quality, or lightning infusions. quality is really only for high level builds, so keen or lightning would have fared better here.
dragon greatclaw should have had an ancient version of lightning slash
Godfrey's weapon literally buthered all those guys.... they thought they had you in an enclosed space. it was the other way around....
Axe of godfrey the best by far by using alone two handed.
Omega just upload a video of giant crusher + dagger that is seriously competitive vs meta set ups
Okay okay hear me out...axe of godfrey and ghiza wheel power stance.
Dude u absolutely smoked that dude at 24 min mark. lmao good stuff
They did the Dragon Greatclaw justice in the Convergence mod.
I made a whole strength build with godfrey's axe and I have so much poise and hp I can tank so much while I use the Regal Roar
3:35 what about the talisman that raises attack power when near rot n poison.
I think it's of that nature.
The dualist axes scale better with dex then str
That's weird as my Rotten Great Axe hits that Rot Damage pretty much on the first hit, if not on first then always the second shot.
I found if you power stance the rotten great hammer thingy you can usually get a proc in pve but idk it PvP
Should've had a colossal foster weapon and colossal flail. Missed opportunity.
Also, I recommend one handing the pizza cutter for its more linear heavy attacks.
Good video but does Duelist Greataxe not scale better with dex?
Occult is actually the best affinity for the Giant Crusher, it has the highest alpha in game, NG+1 with powerstance cragblade giant crushers eats everything in the game alive, the slow attack speed doesn't even matter with the base poise damage they do.