Sidenote on the torch... It illuminates dark areas about 50% more than a lantern, but what's even cooler is that if you equip both, it combines their light, making even the darkest area super bright for a good draw. I know in most cases the lantern will suffice, but there are ambush moments and lurking enemies that pretty much count on you having the limited light source of the lantern, but with the added light of the torch you can spot them much easier. It's pretty cool that the light "stacks", and I feel the lighting effects is were the his game shines graphically.
The beast repellant torch will stop agro on MOST wild animals. So far, I've tested on wolves, basilisks, trex wolf guys, "some" Ant type enemies, and a few others and is very useful in dungeons.
@@thesituation5315 There's loads of wildlife in Elden Ring with everything from small birds to massive bears that will ruin your day in a split second if you aren't careful. Elden Ring is undoubtedly the best open world experience I've had to date and is imo one of the best games I've played so far and one of if not the best game that has released in the past decade or so. The sense of exploration is unmatched and there's so much to do and see that even afrer 136 hours of playtime im still finding new things.
@@thesituation5315 There's lots of wild animals like bears,wolves, deer, ram, sheep,. Its when you get to the mutated versions of these things is the big suprise lol. You should see murder-bear forest.
In addition: A big advantage of the Serpent Hunter is that it doesn't need any special requirements to wield it. A lot of players who do RL1 runs are using it.
I'll defend the soldier's crossbow now. See, for many pure melee builds it's not really about sniping enemies but about luring out enemies so you're not dealing with a huge pack. And since the lock on distance in this game is pretty huge, having a crossbow in your off-hand is super handy. It's not a powerhouse by any means but it is the lightest crossbow and the requirements to use one are really low. 8 dex and 10 str means anyone can use this badboi in their offhand. It helped a lot during some places where I simply couldn't afford to take on a bunch of enemies so, I whip out old realiable, shoot one of the baddies and take them out one at a time. Don't sleep on the crossbows people!
as someone who used to carry around a light crossbow in ds2 for this reason i agree. but also in pvp you can use it to keep people dodging to make it so if you are good at timing it you can rush in an punish a low stamina bar. or it helps you get in a bit of damage or hit fleeing opponents trying to get some space to heal(got my friend in ds2 with that quite a lot)
So off the bat the flail is meant for heavily armored enemies like stone imps or clayman they're good at clearing low level mines with wild slashes. You build stagger like crazy spear is good for whats for pushing a line and being able to keep your shield up while advancing. The torch can light the stone people with the pouches on their back. Early level they save your life
The flail is also really good for the Crystaliens if you're going with a Dexterity build as there are very few good Strike weapons that use Dexterity. I'm not saying you should upgrade it to +25 or anything but you should probably keep a Strike weapon in your inventory just in case you run into one of those.
4:40 The serpent hunter is also good in PvP it has a good and fast doge/crouch attack and good running attack, both attacks can be used for role catching, only downside is you can‘t change the ash of war, but overall this weapon is pretty good
The thorn staff makes the intelligence spells scale of faith, so as long as you have enough for the intelligence requirement the thorn staff is good for faith builds if they want to cast certain lower level glintstone spells.
also arcane just got buffed so the blood thorn abilities are pretty powerful and they require faith to use especially briars of punishment it tracks very well and does substantial damage and causes bleed build up for a small sacrifice of hp instead of fp
Yeah, so basically useless, I mean who wants to use low level spells? I mean if you go faith you got plenty and I mean you have a huge arsenal of incantations that are way and way better.
@@tj3n321 you find flail first, hence ealry level, hence you havent aquired 100s of weapons. Now imagine if you arent a strength build and just need some strike damage and you have a flail, what do you do? Not use it because there are 100s of better....shut up
especially if you actually use the chain attacks associated with spinning chain and not just try to hit with the spin... plus... flails can't be parried which is an added plus in pvp if you come across golden parry spammers
For a starter - I advise to give the Staff of the Guilty a chance especially if you want to take advantage of Arcane Bleeding Build if you have both Briar of Sin as well as Briar of Punishment. You can later replace the Staff of the Guilty with something like the Albinauric Staff for better scaling with Arcane.
Even when you get the Albinauric Staff, its good to have the Staff of the Guilty in your offhand so that you still get the passive faith boost and the increased potency towards thorn sorceries.
Don’t hate on the torch lol, steel wire torch has a sick ash of war that acts like a flame thrower. I slept on the lantern long enough to really enjoy the torch. Then I got gud😂
Also the torch pole used to be good. It had decent faith scaling, making the fire damage pretty good. But they completely removed the scaling on patch 1.03
Don't remind me. I swear that one Night Cavalry was harder than the Tree Sentinel just because his double headed flail connects way easier than a halberd.
@@TheSkyheart5 the Night Cavalry at Weeping Peninsula who use flail is weak af. I always fight Tree Sentinel/Cavalry in a horse battle and I am pretty skilled on that js xD. but yeah the point is that Night Cavalry is weak af, compare it to the Night Cavalry on Lenne's Rise. dude is so strong and so tough like a well done steak.
I just realized that there’s no broken sword in the game… Also, the flail is is one of the best horseback weapons. Also great on a holy (or other elemental) build, as it doesn’t have the high requirements of other flails. Been using that thing the whole game
Soldiers Crossbow is the lightest 50 range weapon, tied with a certain bow you get pretty late. I actually preferred it over Arbalest or the Light Crossbow (which is, in fact, heavier) during the first hours of the game as i was scrambling for Equip Load and did not care at all for its damage. It‘s the lightest thing for good FP-free pulling of enemies.
I died laughing when I used a flail for the first time in game. The spinning chain looks so ridiculous. Until you input light or heavy attack and then your guys goes pretty crazy with it. But I just have to laugh, imagine someone approaching you in battle doing that.
Mundane makes your weapon scale with whichever one of your stats is the lowest, but I think it scales better than most other scaling types. So if you have a lot of points put into all your stats, you end up getting better damage than a focused build. It's mostly for high level characters
i used the flail for the longest time at the beginning, the strike damage + bleed + non-parry + quick guard-counter, helped out alot until the nightrider
Yeah... the flail WRECKS Crystellians. If you knock 1 down with a flail, they're done for unless there's more than 1. I used the Twin Maidens Puppets for the Triple Rot Crystellians and took then down 1 by 1 with my flail. If you can knock one down, you can do a fully charged attack in their animation to get back up, followed by 2 uncharged heavy attacks, and then they're down for a crit, and then you can keep them on a loop where they can't fight back. I'm so glad I decided to main a Flail in my first play through. I upgraded to a Nightrider's early and set it to scale with INT as I was going for a mage knight, but flails are just awesome if you know how to use one.
Makes more sense I beat the crystellion trio with my small sword and was wondering why I was doing very little damage until I shattered the first layer of armor
You can cheese the rogier mage invader with the flail at a low level by using its ash of war behind his back. I killed him in like 5 seconds at level 20 doing this
The flail is actually very underrated imo. It’s a really good backup for slash resistant enemies. It has passive bleed and can do a decent job at poise/posture breaking for a critical. At the very least I’d recommend it for a new character early game if you’re putting some stats into dex.
The flail is brilliant!!! I used it on an NPC invadner I was struggling with over and over again killed him in a couple of seconds ha I have also seen people use it beat a high level boss almost out of the gate its bleed effect is amazing super powerful. I only used it a couple of times for stuff like that. ATM I am using The Banished Knight's Greatsword I am still very early in the game and exploring alot.
The forked hatchet really messed up margit for me starting as a wretch. Made that bastard bleed half his health away i actually loved that thing early on. Paired with a pretty fast attack speed easy to fight and dodge all at the same time for a noob
That rickety shield is actually good if you use the Holy Ground ash of war that puts down a regen/defense field then you can swap it/2 hand your main weapon because the shield only weighs 1.0 unit so you don’t have to worry about weight if you wanted to add holy ground into your build
In defense for the flail, it's meant to be a strike weapon for mages or builds with low strength, and some enemies are only weak to said strike damage. On top of that the Flails Ash of War was completely misrepresented in this video. It's a charge up that leads to a heavy or light attack from the L2, not used as a spinning weapon
As someone who almost never blocks in soulsborne games, rickety shield is the best for being the lightest small shield at 1.0 weight. Buckler has the best parry frames, but if you use the non standard shield parries like Carian Retaliation or Golden Parry, the buckler parry frames become the same as every other small shield that has that parry AOW. So in a purely practical sense, if you only want to use a small shield as a non standard parry aow, then the rickety shield is ideal since it has the lowest weight
the crucial part of the "weapons" is the upgrade level and the AoW. the moveset is secondary next to weight/length/speed, coz as long as it's got a poke animation that you can use to roll catch, then it's fine.. since R1 spam is mostly replaced with AoW spam, jump attacks, pokes, roll catch, and backstabs. dark souls combat was like a boxing match, but elden ring fights are more like gunslinger duels. people die at a drop of a hat.
Hey man one torch puts to sleep, one makes beast run away, an one shows the invisible black knight enemies. Try them out you'll see. Have to read its info to see the names I forgot
I use the Knight riders flail it's actually a good weapon to de stance your enemies and very effective against rock and other mineral type enemies, plus bleed effect btw you can do a smash attack following the weapons ash of war move
It's also great on horseback R2 as you continually spin the flail, quickly building bleed and stagger meter. Great for drive-by's knocking multiple enemies, and for those that struggle with horse combat
I gave mine to my friend and he's still dual wielding them in the late game. Upgraded with frost infusions, he just shatters poise and the damage when frost and blood pop is great.
Guys the spinning flail a AoW is supposed to be used to set up an attack. If you light or heavy attack while spinning it does stronger attacks. The spinning isn’t supposed to be good by itself lmao.
@@manuelcorvobelda1831 from should definitely patch this weapon making it a basic ass weapon once you're done dealing with Rykard. So we can customize it with ash and change affinity and all. Its cool looking and good weapon but missing weapon art is a big deal breaker.
I have been running the Troll Knights Greatsword. It's a collosal weapon that scales in strength and intelligence, right now at +8 I believe it does 280 Phys, 160 magic plus another 160 added on due to scaling. It's an absolute monster and the trolls roar weapon art Poise breaks almost anything except the biggest bosses. And as a backup I run the astel wing curved sword with the talisman that boosts charged spells and attacks. Battlemage for life baby!!!
There’s the St. Trina’s torch, I think it’s called, in the giants region in a treasure chest with the Amazon deliver giants lol. It’s special is where you blow the purple flame at the opponent to put them to sleep. Good stuff
_ALL HAIL THE _*_FLAIL!!!_* It was my main wep for ~45 lvls as a Confessor until I came across something better. *It's fast and has (50) bleed!* I took down many an enemy and a few bosses with it! I highly recommend it for _any_ class starting out.
I hear everyone saying short spear is bad... But its double-tap R2 is amazing for applying status. The low stat requirements make it really good as a frost weapon. It also is one of the best weapons to mix with rot grease with standard infusions. If paired with a crossbow, you can have a lot of fun with greases.
The Nightrider Flail imo is sooo good, paired it with the wild strikes AoW and it pretty much carried me until the end of the game (eventually switched to the Sword of Melania). But the bleed on that flail was so OP for boss fights, literally one shot Radahn on my first playthrough lol.
Staff of the guilty is pretty good for hybrid caster builds that focus on faith, especially if youre using a lot of golden order incantations. Those require mainly faith, but also some intelligence. Thrown on staff of the guilty, and you suddenly have access to low-mid tier sorceries that will now be strengthened by your strength and faith
There are fire sorceries that have faith requirements. From a first glance perspective I see why they added it to the list, but people looking for build variety and capitalizing on lesser used faith sorceries will have a good use for it.
I think the intent of the rickety shield is have one of the lightest parry options you can. This simply means you might have the tightest build possible where you can still parry with a weapon switch and remain at a certain equip load
The torch is really good against those little piles of flesh and bone. Just like in the Cathedral of the Deep in DS3. Could even be considered as an essential weapon for fighting them.
Flail is actually a good (backup) weapon. It can break poise. It can strike those crystal and other hard skins. It can proc bleed. It can be imbued with element enchantment magic/item.
Going to give a bit of defense for the torch. Not as a weapon but as a tool. The lantern is a great tool and every should use it. But there are some areas that are so dark that you need that extra illumination from that torch just to see your surroundings. Late game I find that I'm using the torch more along with the lantern. And don't get me started about the multiple torches and their own benefits and utility that become very useful in those niche situations. Lantern is good but it's not an end all be all tool to abandon a torch.
The flail is primarily for the crystaline enemies in the mines, Serpent hunter seems to be used in PVP at times due to it's poke length and quick animation, but yes, it's primarily for the boss. The Thorn staff is for the blood/thorn magic that exists in the game, it's VERY useful for those two spells that does crazy damage. There's a few builds that use the thorn staff in the offhand and a glintstone staff in the main hand and you use the two for pretty substantial blood damage. It's niche, but definitely not useless.
Dual weld fork hatched is op on boss and bleed proc like crazy. Really good early game bleed weapon if you dont have the katana or other bleed weapon. Equip it with cold ash of war and you get cold and bleed proc so you stun lock most enemy or use any other ash of war because passive bleed carry over.
I just love how you can completely wreck Rykard with a mimic tear that brings an additional Serpent Hunter haha. That's such a huge burst of damage when used correctly. However, it sadly only works good on Rykard. Regardless of that it's still a cool weapon in terms of lore
Since the staff of the guilty was brought up, I think one of the issues I've noticed with the game regarding staffs and seals is that the game actively pushes you away from using staffs and seals made for specific categories of incantations and sorceries. I've kind of noticed that a lot of spellcasters in this game use a generalized build spell wise for the sake of viability during a playthrough as some enemies or bosses need certain types of damage unless you wanna smash your head into a wall. Hand monsters needing fire, malenia needing bleed or frost, etc. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it definitely puts build that go down a specific route of spells at an objective disadvantage, thus destroying the viability of certain staffs or seals long term. I've been using the gravel stone seal for instance and using any type of incantation that isn't dragon cult does way less damage and almost isn't worth it, which is a problem when you run into bosses like malenia who are already hard even when you abuse certain status effects.
A couple things you missed about the weapons you're talking about: B) Short spear can be used with a shield while blocking. Sure, no one plays this way, but it means the short spear can be amazing, possibly amazing enough to drop off this list. C) The flail bypasses shields, making it very rarely cool. I prefer whips, or heck, using a big spell. Also, doesn't the flail cause bleed? Anything that causes bleed right now is too good for this list. D) I found it amazing you were hitting guys with the torch that the torch can cause to explode, and failed to explode them. Also, there are some amazingly fun but still near useless torches in this game, like the torch on a stick (how did the torch pole get to have its own slot?) a torch you can breath fire with for piddly damage, and a torch that puts enemies to sleep - the torch that can rule the world!
"sure, no one plays this way" I kept dying and decided to give up on the med. load roll dodge lifestyle. Went full heavy tank with bull goat, finger print shield, and the short spear as my weapon. Game doesn't get any easier.
I used the wooden greatshield the whole game my first playthrough, stops heaps of heavy attacks and straight deflects most at a minor cost to health and best of all it only weighs 8 so i could still wear heaps of armor and midroll. Great shields super underrated Also the last shield isnt bad its basically just a easy parry option for no weight cost
Great Serpent Hunter is pretty good. It has very good str scaling and its moveset is really good. It can basically poke from normal attack like a spear, but can also poke from roll attack like Greatsword.
Immediately off the bat categorically wrong. Flail is a good dex weapon early on and causes bleed which one of the most broken status conditions in the game. The ash is pretty bad because of the range and slow movement but it can be used to proc the bleed so it has its uses as well. There's some inspired choices in the list tho. Like the staff that doesn't scale with INT.
Honestly I have yet to find a dagger that doesn’t suck although there’s the blood spear I get from the finger eater that I haven’t use cus I don’t have a arcane build, I’m more focused on faith and intelligence.
Then you clearly haven't found Reduvia, good for bleed and Arcane, or Black Knife which has a busted Ash, or the Blade of Calling which is the head for the Black Knifes tails, and you clearly don't dual wield knives
You know why daggers suck so much? The reduvia is ass compared to just putting a blood ash of war with arcane scaling on it. Its really dumb that reduvia is so awful, but actually putting the ash of war on regular dagger lets you scale with arcane, which even without leveling gives you better bleed
@@pearlysplayhouse7761 Or. Use the weapons Ash. Which is good for cheesing some bosses with low bleed resist and need to melee. Plus you don't lose health like you do with the normal Ash of War that does the same. Reduvia isn't bad, you're just using it like a dagger when it's more for casting the slash from afar
I’ve been running with a nightrider flail as my strike weapon. It can’t be parried, has an extremely fast guard counter, and does fantastic poise damage. On horseback the charged attack is a dragon killer; ride between their legs after baiting a breath, and do a full cycle on their legs; it’s awesome.
Sidenote on the torch... It illuminates dark areas about 50% more than a lantern, but what's even cooler is that if you equip both, it combines their light, making even the darkest area super bright for a good draw. I know in most cases the lantern will suffice, but there are ambush moments and lurking enemies that pretty much count on you having the limited light source of the lantern, but with the added light of the torch you can spot them much easier. It's pretty cool that the light "stacks", and I feel the lighting effects is were the his game shines graphically.
or you could just drop a few glowstones
If you’re checking every corner and message then you don’t need puny photons
There is also a special torch that make black assassins that are invisible able to see
Starlight is all you need
@@moonlighterkelens8261 and a torch that repels beasts
The beast repellant torch will stop agro on MOST wild animals. So far, I've tested on wolves, basilisks, trex wolf guys, "some" Ant type enemies, and a few others and is very useful in dungeons.
Does this game have the equivalent of wild animals? Like some games might have deer or bears or wolves or whatever?
@@thesituation5315 it has all those
@@thesituation5315 There's loads of wildlife in Elden Ring with everything from small birds to massive bears that will ruin your day in a split second if you aren't careful. Elden Ring is undoubtedly the best open world experience I've had to date and is imo one of the best games I've played so far and one of if not the best game that has released in the past decade or so. The sense of exploration is unmatched and there's so much to do and see that even afrer 136 hours of playtime im still finding new things.
Also help a lot with rats it’s the way to go to avoid the ambush of those pesky animals
@@thesituation5315 There's lots of wild animals like bears,wolves, deer, ram, sheep,. Its when you get to the mutated versions of these things is the big suprise lol. You should see murder-bear forest.
The Serpent Hunter is honestly pretty good on a strength build. Yeah the ash is bad but you can always just use a shield with a good ash instead.
In addition: A big advantage of the Serpent Hunter is that it doesn't need any special requirements to wield it. A lot of players who do RL1 runs are using it.
@@KBanause rl1?
@@AE-or7xd Rune Level 1.
Not to mention the stance break...
a scaling in strength also
The briar greatshield could be amazing with one simple fix: any enemy you block takes bleed build up
Wait, bleed shields don't already do that? Fuuuuuck
That would make a lot of sense to since its covered in barbed wire
It's may a flawed defense tool. But in pvp you can wreck people with it.
Especially if you have stuff that works off of blood loss like the talisman or white mask
The Sentry's Torch is useful. It dispels illusions such as walls, and invisible enemies like the Black Knife Assassin in Sage's Cave
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It dispels walls!?
eYO WHAT???
Yeah but he doesn't talk about the Sentry Torch. He mentions the regular Torch and the Torchpole.
Sentry torch wasn't mentioned in this video.
I'll defend the soldier's crossbow now. See, for many pure melee builds it's not really about sniping enemies but about luring out enemies so you're not dealing with a huge pack. And since the lock on distance in this game is pretty huge, having a crossbow in your off-hand is super handy. It's not a powerhouse by any means but it is the lightest crossbow and the requirements to use one are really low. 8 dex and 10 str means anyone can use this badboi in their offhand.
It helped a lot during some places where I simply couldn't afford to take on a bunch of enemies so, I whip out old realiable, shoot one of the baddies and take them out one at a time.
Don't sleep on the crossbows people!
I do the same with a greatbow, great for pulling cause it chunks hp
I prefer using a bow for luring out enemies, you have more control on where you shoot
as someone who used to carry around a light crossbow in ds2 for this reason i agree. but also in pvp you can use it to keep people dodging to make it so if you are good at timing it you can rush in an punish a low stamina bar. or it helps you get in a bit of damage or hit fleeing opponents trying to get some space to heal(got my friend in ds2 with that quite a lot)
I use my throwing knives
luring them or using tipped arrows
So off the bat the flail is meant for heavily armored enemies like stone imps or clayman they're good at clearing low level mines with wild slashes. You build stagger like crazy spear is good for whats for pushing a line and being able to keep your shield up while advancing. The torch can light the stone people with the pouches on their back. Early level they save your life
The flail is also really good for the Crystaliens if you're going with a Dexterity build as there are very few good Strike weapons that use Dexterity. I'm not saying you should upgrade it to +25 or anything but you should probably keep a Strike weapon in your inventory just in case you run into one of those.
I used it for half my 1st playthrough - it's fast for a strike weapon, builds bleed and is great on horseback. Dunno what's not to like really.
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I’ve been using flail+12 for Crystal dungeons and it works good. 2 hits crystal miners and staggers the crystal bosses.
Also, Spinning Chain can build up status effects (bleed, freeze, poison, etc.) super quick, especially against an enemy that can be staggered by it
4:40
The serpent hunter is also good in PvP it has a good and fast doge/crouch attack and good running attack, both attacks can be used for role catching, only downside is you can‘t change the ash of war, but overall this weapon is pretty good
it also scales pretty good with str
The thorn staff makes the intelligence spells scale of faith, so as long as you have enough for the intelligence requirement the thorn staff is good for faith builds if they want to cast certain lower level glintstone spells.
yeah the funny thing is they show that when they are saying you can only use sorceries which need int
also arcane just got buffed so the blood thorn abilities are pretty powerful and they require faith to use especially briars of punishment it tracks very well and does substantial damage and causes bleed build up for a small sacrifice of hp instead of fp
Interesting ty
Yeah, so basically useless, I mean who wants to use low level spells? I mean if you go faith you got plenty and I mean you have a huge arsenal of incantations that are way and way better.
@@Casketkrusher_ i mean glintstone pebble is p good my guy.
Flail is great for early level dex users exploring crypts and mines. The strike damage is really good against skeletons, miners, and the imp statues.
There are like 100 better strike dmg other weapons... hammer or great weapon sth sth
@@tj3n321 you find flail first, hence ealry level, hence you havent aquired 100s of weapons. Now imagine if you arent a strength build and just need some strike damage and you have a flail, what do you do? Not use it because there are 100s of better....shut up
especially if you actually use the chain attacks associated with spinning chain and not just try to hit with the spin... plus... flails can't be parried which is an added plus in pvp if you come across golden parry spammers
@@Requeium chain attacks? What do you do for this?
Main thing for the flail is that it’s a strike weapon for dex builds early game. It requires very little str.
It's awesome on horseback
Amazing horseback for stacking bleeds
the flail is good, the night cavalry flail is even better.
I started as a bandit so I totally get what you're talking about...
Yup. I keep that one on standby for when I need it. Solid scaling with dex
For a starter - I advise to give the Staff of the Guilty a chance especially if you want to take advantage of Arcane Bleeding Build if you have both Briar of Sin as well as Briar of Punishment. You can later replace the Staff of the Guilty with something like the Albinauric Staff for better scaling with Arcane.
Even when you get the Albinauric Staff, its good to have the Staff of the Guilty in your offhand so that you still get the passive faith boost and the increased potency towards thorn sorceries.
Don’t hate on the torch lol, steel wire torch has a sick ash of war that acts like a flame thrower. I slept on the lantern long enough to really enjoy the torch. Then I got gud😂
There's also a torch that lets you see invisible enemies, which can turn an incredibly deadly encounter into something much more manageable.
Yo, the torch is lit.
@@xBestfriend bruh
Also the Sentry Torch allows you to see invisible enemies so you don't end up like Godwyn.
Sometimes the lantern don't ilumine well enough, torch + L1 ilumine a lot!
Also the torch pole used to be good. It had decent faith scaling, making the fire damage pretty good. But they completely removed the scaling on patch 1.03
the flail slaps early on whenever you have no extra stats and it's really good when mounted.
The fact that potatoes are actually humanoid orange slices is beyond me
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Exactly. Absolutely messed Margit up with the flail and glintstone staff.
Don't remind me. I swear that one Night Cavalry was harder than the Tree Sentinel just because his double headed flail connects way easier than a halberd.
@@TheSkyheart5 the Night Cavalry at Weeping Peninsula who use flail is weak af. I always fight Tree Sentinel/Cavalry in a horse battle and I am pretty skilled on that js xD. but yeah the point is that Night Cavalry is weak af, compare it to the Night Cavalry on Lenne's Rise. dude is so strong and so tough like a well done steak.
I just realized that there’s no broken sword in the game…
Also, the flail is is one of the best horseback weapons. Also great on a holy (or other elemental) build, as it doesn’t have the high requirements of other flails. Been using that thing the whole game
If all the weapons are broken, is anything really broke 😂
@@jonperez12344 he meant literally broke lol
Also the flails unparriable.
@@kingcaesar3693 How do you know? If so that is awesome lol.
@@megabumbusta2746 ruins greatsword
but... but... I love the flail :(
I actually don't think its that bad. It has a spinning multi strike that can keep enemies in a stunned state.
FREIDE! BRING MY FLAIL!!
I like it when I ride torrent
HELICOPTER HELICOPTER
Cuz..cuz it flails..😢
Soldiers Crossbow is the lightest 50 range weapon, tied with a certain bow you get pretty late. I actually preferred it over Arbalest or the Light Crossbow (which is, in fact, heavier) during the first hours of the game as i was scrambling for Equip Load and did not care at all for its damage. It‘s the lightest thing for good FP-free pulling of enemies.
The fact that potatoes are actually humanoid orange slices is beyond me
You can also use it as a level 1 wretched to cheese that one bird.
@@hurricanepursuit7350 Why do you keep saying this? Jesus man. Go outside
@@tomcampbell8934 the real question is why not?
The fail weapon art is meant to be followed up with a light or heavy attack, you don't just spin it 😂
The fact that potatoes are actually humanoid orange slices is beyond me
It pained me to watch that for so long
I haven't even played this game but that clip just didn't look right
I died laughing when I used a flail for the first time in game. The spinning chain looks so ridiculous. Until you input light or heavy attack and then your guys goes pretty crazy with it. But I just have to laugh, imagine someone approaching you in battle doing that.
The only truly useless weapon from souls that I can think of is probably the ladle from Dark Souls 2.
Until you put mundane quality on it, then it becomes a god weapon
@@JohnDoe-xf9bn Aye
@@JohnDoe-xf9bn what does mundane do? It just seemed to lower every stat and scaling
Mundane makes your weapon scale with whichever one of your stats is the lowest, but I think it scales better than most other scaling types. So if you have a lot of points put into all your stats, you end up getting better damage than a focused build. It's mostly for high level characters
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Lol...first few hours of play and I snapped the right thumstick off my controller! Play with aggression??
i used the flail for the longest time at the beginning, the strike damage + bleed + non-parry + quick guard-counter, helped out alot until the nightrider
The flails are 1h hammers. It’s really good against crystalline enemies. I see so many people struggle with swords on those guys… equip a flail!
Yeah... the flail WRECKS Crystellians. If you knock 1 down with a flail, they're done for unless there's more than 1. I used the Twin Maidens Puppets for the Triple Rot Crystellians and took then down 1 by 1 with my flail. If you can knock one down, you can do a fully charged attack in their animation to get back up, followed by 2 uncharged heavy attacks, and then they're down for a crit, and then you can keep them on a loop where they can't fight back.
I'm so glad I decided to main a Flail in my first play through. I upgraded to a Nightrider's early and set it to scale with INT as I was going for a mage knight, but flails are just awesome if you know how to use one.
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Makes more sense I beat the crystellion trio with my small sword and was wondering why I was doing very little damage until I shattered the first layer of armor
Damm bro this is like the 10th Elden Ring video you've made, don't think I've ever seen you make videos this consistently on 1 game before
You can cheese the rogier mage invader with the flail at a low level by using its ash of war behind his back. I killed him in like 5 seconds at level 20 doing this
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The flail is actually very underrated imo.
It’s a really good backup for slash resistant enemies. It has passive bleed and can do a decent job at poise/posture breaking for a critical. At the very least I’d recommend it for a new character early game if you’re putting some stats into dex.
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The flail is brilliant!!! I used it on an NPC invadner I was struggling with over and over again killed him in a couple of seconds ha I have also seen people use it beat a high level boss almost out of the gate its bleed effect is amazing super powerful. I only used it a couple of times for stuff like that. ATM I am using The Banished Knight's Greatsword I am still very early in the game and exploring alot.
Yeah I had to close the vid after seeing it on this list.
@@mathieuxlaflamme2322 lmfao
@@Boobiebumpp Laughing because he knows the flail is good? You must be maidenless.
@@TheSpiritsLease flails are amazing
The forked hatchet really messed up margit for me starting as a wretch. Made that bastard bleed half his health away i actually loved that thing early on. Paired with a pretty fast attack speed easy to fight and dodge all at the same time for a noob
That rickety shield is actually good if you use the Holy Ground ash of war that puts down a regen/defense field then you can swap it/2 hand your main weapon because the shield only weighs 1.0 unit so you don’t have to worry about weight if you wanted to add holy ground into your build
It occupies the tiny niche of enabling powerful ashes in heavily equipped builds. Another example of misleading item text in FromSoft games :)
In defense for the flail, it's meant to be a strike weapon for mages or builds with low strength, and some enemies are only weak to said strike damage. On top of that the Flails Ash of War was completely misrepresented in this video. It's a charge up that leads to a heavy or light attack from the L2, not used as a spinning weapon
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As someone who almost never blocks in soulsborne games, rickety shield is the best for being the lightest small shield at 1.0 weight. Buckler has the best parry frames, but if you use the non standard shield parries like Carian Retaliation or Golden Parry, the buckler parry frames become the same as every other small shield that has that parry AOW.
So in a purely practical sense, if you only want to use a small shield as a non standard parry aow, then the rickety shield is ideal since it has the lowest weight
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the crucial part of the "weapons" is the upgrade level and the AoW.
the moveset is secondary next to weight/length/speed, coz as long as it's got a poke animation that you can use to roll catch, then it's fine..
since R1 spam is mostly replaced with AoW spam, jump attacks, pokes, roll catch, and backstabs.
dark souls combat was like a boxing match, but elden ring fights are more like gunslinger duels. people die at a drop of a hat.
Torch only run, do it.
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Check out Zero Lenny! He's done a video about that.
The Beast Repellant Torch repels Basilisks, Dogs, T-Rex Dogs, Rats, and normal Bears.
Hey man one torch puts to sleep, one makes beast run away, an one shows the invisible black knight enemies. Try them out you'll see. Have to read its info to see the names I forgot
I don't know how many more Elden Ring videos I can handle before I'm out.
I use the Knight riders flail it's actually a good weapon to de stance your enemies and very effective against rock and other mineral type enemies, plus bleed effect btw you can do a smash attack following the weapons ash of war move
It's also great on horseback R2 as you continually spin the flail, quickly building bleed and stagger meter. Great for drive-by's knocking multiple enemies, and for those that struggle with horse combat
I use that one for caves. It's been a good weapon
I gave mine to my friend and he's still dual wielding them in the late game. Upgraded with frost infusions, he just shatters poise and the damage when frost and blood pop is great.
Guys the spinning flail a AoW is supposed to be used to set up an attack. If you light or heavy attack while spinning it does stronger attacks. The spinning isn’t supposed to be good by itself lmao.
I can't wait for a gameranx top ten elden ring videos by gameranx
Every time he said "No one is really using this as a weapon" i hear "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" in the distance.
You know this game is hype when Gameranx is making videos about it almost a month after its release
So much game. I been playing since launch when I can. I'm 98 hours in now and just left the lakes region
We souls people don’t see a weapon as trash, we just see a hard to use weapon
Thanks for not hating on daggers! It feels like every video about weapons just throws them to the side because of short range. Great vid!
I started as a samurai, I used the flail to beat the raya lucaria crystal boss because the uchigatana wasn't cutting it.
Actually, the serpent hunter isn't that bad, it's strength scaling is really good.
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And very good in roll catching like all other great spears
I finished my first play-through with it. It’s a greatsword on a stick.
@@heyimurchin6575 I find it even better because of that sweet fast crouch attack. And it is a swordspear, what else do you want.
@@manuelcorvobelda1831 from should definitely patch this weapon making it a basic ass weapon once you're done dealing with Rykard. So we can customize it with ash and change affinity and all. Its cool looking and good weapon but missing weapon art is a big deal breaker.
As soon as I saw the flail as the first weapon on the list, I knew this video was going to be poorly researched >_>
I can tell this guy truly loves Elden. Never seen him drop so many videos on a game 😭😭😭♥️
I love Gameranx, but it’s clear they are making serious money on these vids. Or they wouldn’t do them. They have bills to pay too
I have been running the Troll Knights Greatsword.
It's a collosal weapon that scales in strength and intelligence, right now at +8 I believe it does 280 Phys, 160 magic plus another 160 added on due to scaling. It's an absolute monster and the trolls roar weapon art Poise breaks almost anything except the biggest bosses.
And as a backup I run the astel wing curved sword with the talisman that boosts charged spells and attacks.
Battlemage for life baby!!!
Pretty sure the logic is that the Briar Shield would block all damage... but it has barbwire all around it including facing you. Get hit get poked
Serpent hunter has very good strength scaling for a spear and its various pokes make it a rollcatch monster.
Serpent Hunter is my primary. Not because it's awesome, but because I upgraded it to lvl 9 then realized it sucks after the boss
It's not bad. Pretty good with a STR build tbh
Flail default ash attack isn't just spinning. You gotta slap them other buttons to get more out of it bud.
Serpent hunter can craaazy roll catch in pvp. It's not total junk. A shame about the ash of war tho.
The early blood loss weapons make taking that sleeping dragon down extremely easy and they take chunks out of its health bar.
Funnily enough, the Flail is my favorite weapon that I've found so far, but I'm only like 40 or 50 hours in.
There's one with three flails in on inthe early game that beats this by a lot
There’s the St. Trina’s torch, I think it’s called, in the giants region in a treasure chest with the Amazon deliver giants lol. It’s special is where you blow the purple flame at the opponent to put them to sleep. Good stuff
_ALL HAIL THE _*_FLAIL!!!_*
It was my main wep for ~45 lvls as a Confessor until I came across something better. *It's fast and has (50) bleed!* I took down many an enemy and a few bosses with it! I highly recommend it for _any_ class starting out.
I hear everyone saying short spear is bad...
But its double-tap R2 is amazing for applying status.
The low stat requirements make it really good as a frost weapon. It also is one of the best weapons to mix with rot grease with standard infusions.
If paired with a crossbow, you can have a lot of fun with greases.
The flail has one purpose: It has blood loss and can be got right before going to dragonbarrow to kill that dragon for cheap runes.
Can be got right
Nah the morning star is only a few minutes away without a high dex requirement.
The Nightrider Flail imo is sooo good, paired it with the wild strikes AoW and it pretty much carried me until the end of the game (eventually switched to the Sword of Melania). But the bleed on that flail was so OP for boss fights, literally one shot Radahn on my first playthrough lol.
Staff of the guilty is pretty good for hybrid caster builds that focus on faith, especially if youre using a lot of golden order incantations. Those require mainly faith, but also some intelligence. Thrown on staff of the guilty, and you suddenly have access to low-mid tier sorceries that will now be strengthened by your strength and faith
Also great for blood sorceries, albeit there are only 2, but they are pretty powerful
There are fire sorceries that have faith requirements. From a first glance perspective I see why they added it to the list, but people looking for build variety and capitalizing on lesser used faith sorceries will have a good use for it.
Staff of the guilty is great for blood sorceries. It also allows faith builds to reliably use low int sorceries
Thanks for content guys, just beat Margit first try! Used the wolves and was level 42 haha.
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I used the jellyfish.
Did you just mention summons? Careful fellow elkling, you will anger those above us
Doesn’t count ur bad
Yep used summons and he destroyed them and almost beat my ass too but I got him. That's all I care about haha.
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This game looks insane!
Thanks you have given me 10 new video ideas, can't wait to get started on the torch only run lol
In defense of the torch, it's a torch!
There's a torch that makes animals back up
@@fjparasite1172 yes, indeed and later in the game it can make invisible enemies appear, but with a special torch I think
I think the intent of the rickety shield is have one of the lightest parry options you can. This simply means you might have the tightest build possible where you can still parry with a weapon switch and remain at a certain equip load
The torch is really good against those little piles of flesh and bone. Just like in the Cathedral of the Deep in DS3. Could even be considered as an essential weapon for fighting them.
the torch is also good with cold buildup.
Why would you want to fight them
This can also be called "Top 10 Weapons for Trolls in Elden Ring"
Wow. Early-game weapons dropped by introductory enemies tend to be weaker. What a revelation.
Flail is actually a good (backup) weapon. It can break poise. It can strike those crystal and other hard skins. It can proc bleed. It can be imbued with element enchantment magic/item.
A list I didn't know I needed. Thank you, Jake and gameranx.
You do know the spin on the flail isn't the part you're supposed to be using, right? It's the followup attack?
Why are you using the flail with 2 hands? It's a one handed weapon lol
That staff would be perfect for a faith build, who want to use sorceries. Didn't know one existed actually. Will be useful for me
Going to give a bit of defense for the torch. Not as a weapon but as a tool. The lantern is a great tool and every should use it. But there are some areas that are so dark that you need that extra illumination from that torch just to see your surroundings. Late game I find that I'm using the torch more along with the lantern. And don't get me started about the multiple torches and their own benefits and utility that become very useful in those niche situations.
Lantern is good but it's not an end all be all tool to abandon a torch.
the sentry torch that exists in the capital will help against those invisible assassins that stab you in the gut.
Funny, pretty much made it through the whole game with the lantern. Didn't need torch at all in any areas.
Maybe you need a better TV.
You can attack after using spinning chain to unleash a strong attack. It does more than just spin.
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The flail is primarily for the crystaline enemies in the mines, Serpent hunter seems to be used in PVP at times due to it's poke length and quick animation, but yes, it's primarily for the boss.
The Thorn staff is for the blood/thorn magic that exists in the game, it's VERY useful for those two spells that does crazy damage. There's a few builds that use the thorn staff in the offhand and a glintstone staff in the main hand and you use the two for pretty substantial blood damage. It's niche, but definitely not useless.
Wow is that flail thing true? Ive been using the sledge hammer its one of the few things that worked for me
Dual weld fork hatched is op on boss and bleed proc like crazy. Really good early game bleed weapon if you dont have the katana or other bleed weapon. Equip it with cold ash of war and you get cold and bleed proc so you stun lock most enemy or use any other ash of war because passive bleed carry over.
Yeah, I used it early games and destroyed.
I just love how you can completely wreck Rykard with a mimic tear that brings an additional Serpent Hunter haha. That's such a huge burst of damage when used correctly. However, it sadly only works good on Rykard. Regardless of that it's still a cool weapon in terms of lore
*you know someone will try to speedrun this game again, with the worst weapons and worst spells.*
I say GG
Since the staff of the guilty was brought up, I think one of the issues I've noticed with the game regarding staffs and seals is that the game actively pushes you away from using staffs and seals made for specific categories of incantations and sorceries. I've kind of noticed that a lot of spellcasters in this game use a generalized build spell wise for the sake of viability during a playthrough as some enemies or bosses need certain types of damage unless you wanna smash your head into a wall. Hand monsters needing fire, malenia needing bleed or frost, etc. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it definitely puts build that go down a specific route of spells at an objective disadvantage, thus destroying the viability of certain staffs or seals long term. I've been using the gravel stone seal for instance and using any type of incantation that isn't dragon cult does way less damage and almost isn't worth it, which is a problem when you run into bosses like malenia who are already hard even when you abuse certain status effects.
A couple things you missed about the weapons you're talking about:
B) Short spear can be used with a shield while blocking. Sure, no one plays this way, but it means the short spear can be amazing, possibly amazing enough to drop off this list.
C) The flail bypasses shields, making it very rarely cool. I prefer whips, or heck, using a big spell. Also, doesn't the flail cause bleed? Anything that causes bleed right now is too good for this list.
D) I found it amazing you were hitting guys with the torch that the torch can cause to explode, and failed to explode them. Also, there are some amazingly fun but still near useless torches in this game, like the torch on a stick (how did the torch pole get to have its own slot?) a torch you can breath fire with for piddly damage, and a torch that puts enemies to sleep - the torch that can rule the world!
"sure, no one plays this way"
I kept dying and decided to give up on the med. load roll dodge lifestyle. Went full heavy tank with bull goat, finger print shield, and the short spear as my weapon. Game doesn't get any easier.
I used the wooden greatshield the whole game my first playthrough, stops heaps of heavy attacks and straight deflects most at a minor cost to health and best of all it only weighs 8 so i could still wear heaps of armor and midroll. Great shields super underrated
Also the last shield isnt bad its basically just a easy parry option for no weight cost
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Great Serpent Hunter is pretty good. It has very good str scaling and its moveset is really good. It can basically poke from normal attack like a spear, but can also poke from roll attack like Greatsword.
Immediately off the bat categorically wrong. Flail is a good dex weapon early on and causes bleed which one of the most broken status conditions in the game. The ash is pretty bad because of the range and slow movement but it can be used to proc the bleed so it has its uses as well.
There's some inspired choices in the list tho. Like the staff that doesn't scale with INT.
There is a centry torch that lets you see invisible enemies and a ghost torch that causes freezing damage.
Honestly I have yet to find a dagger that doesn’t suck although there’s the blood spear I get from the finger eater that I haven’t use cus I don’t have a arcane build, I’m more focused on faith and intelligence.
Then you clearly haven't found Reduvia, good for bleed and Arcane, or Black Knife which has a busted Ash, or the Blade of Calling which is the head for the Black Knifes tails, and you clearly don't dual wield knives
You know why daggers suck so much? The reduvia is ass compared to just putting a blood ash of war with arcane scaling on it. Its really dumb that reduvia is so awful, but actually putting the ash of war on regular dagger lets you scale with arcane, which even without leveling gives you better bleed
@@pearlysplayhouse7761 Or. Use the weapons Ash. Which is good for cheesing some bosses with low bleed resist and need to melee. Plus you don't lose health like you do with the normal Ash of War that does the same. Reduvia isn't bad, you're just using it like a dagger when it's more for casting the slash from afar
I’ve been running with a nightrider flail as my strike weapon. It can’t be parried, has an extremely fast guard counter, and does fantastic poise damage. On horseback the charged attack is a dragon killer; ride between their legs after baiting a breath, and do a full cycle on their legs; it’s awesome.
Beat the game with that exact weapon only its awesome with frost added
@@blakefenslerjr4858 me too! I mean, I’m not done yet but I’m using it with frost +25, currently in Crumbling Farum Azula.
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All of the Dark Souls games had a broken sword hilt as a weapon but Elden Ring doesn't. Maybe that's why they gave us these crappy weapons
"Who the heck uses a shield as a weapon?"
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0:54 you can continue the flails special attack with heavy attack and light attack,ther are other 2 attacks for it
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For the flail, while holding the L2 button, you can press R1 or R2 for the actual ash of war to happen, and it's pretty good in my opinion