Don’t worry, the rot thing isn’t a glitch, there’s actually an ash of war that does the same thing (poison flower blooms twice, I think it’s called), does a lot of damage if they have rot or poison, but removes the status effect
The poison flower is a really nice ash to use l. The are some other ashes that do a similar effect but with this u can apply poison with a weapon and the ashes can apply rot damage.
if you were curious it does all the rot or poison damage you would've accumulated after the attack at once, that's why you wanna use it as soon as you poison or rot. considering a poison build with it after learning that.
i made the mistake of changing my build just before the fight and ended up fighting him with a poison infused dane´s footwork took me about 2 days to kill him like that with like 6 hours of attempts total (i regret every decision that led to that point)
The O'Mother hint is a dev message slab next to the statue with a cryptic message pointing to shamsns, which the only other place that mentions shamans is a Bonny Village white shade. It's also where you find the gesture. It's very obtuse hint if you don't explore and note things down.
@@DoomWolfOfficial the message literally says have mercy for the shamans or something close to the word mercy. but yeah overall its absolute cryptic bullshit
13:58 that was intentional! That flying, spinning dive attack was her version of "the poison flower blooms twice" ash, the ash remove poison/rot to deals a huge amount of damage on hit
Don't worry guys, Alexander does NOT have a meat monstrosity inside him. That is an entirely different cultural thing going on exclusively in the Shadow Lands. They have horrifying shaman meat blobs there, in the Lands Between they just store corpses and kind of let the warriors inside continue fighting (Alex can use Redmane stuff when he stores Redmanes inside him)
I KNEW IT! I've had this theory, that, the one Potentate, who Jar-Bairn talks about all the time, came from the Land of Shadows, he grew appalled from the methods that they were currently using, and left his birthplace, and arrived in the Lands Between, and created the honorable and kind Jar Culture that WE know so well, and, while searching for a far-away, safe place (hopefully), found that abandoned village, and named it Jar-Burg! OH, I forgot to put this, but, I think he had help leaving the Land of Shadows, because getting to it, and/or leave, is NOT easy, from Queen Marika, in exchange for something! Over the many millillena, this unknown Potentate's peaceful and Warrior's Honor Jar Culture became twisted by war, but, our little Jar-Bairn, talks about him to our Tarnished, and remember's him the best that he can, so what this ONE Potentate, who left his birthplace, and came to the Lands Between, to try to create something better, and his, as Jar-Bairn puts it, his "slick, slidey hands", and the "gentle way that he pats them!' MAN, I thought I was the only one who thought of that!
To anyone curious and to Doom Wolf himself, to dodge the laser thing from Metyr you need to go between the ... area of constant death around metyr and the lasers, there's a gap between where they hit and where the circle starts(it's small though)
This video was how I learned you can ride Torrent on the Rain of Fire bridge. I never thought to do that because you're still technically IN the Shadow Keep
I have a habit of holding triangle (torrent is in the pocket) anytime I find an outdoor space to see if he becomes available, otherwise I probably wouldn't have thought about it lol
14:00 Rominas sting attack has the same effect like Poison Moth flight where if it hits you while poisened, or in this case rotted, it will deal extra damage and remove the effect
Do people not like the area? I think it's great! I mean...it's a bit big for no torrent on subsequent playthroughs and okay there isn't a whole lot there, but the atmosphere is great!
5:45 In Moorth Ruins I believe is what it’s called, you can go past where you jumped down and there’s a different entrance that doesn’t require you to do any parkour.
Did my first dlc run on ng+ 1, radahn took me about 10 hours, played a day banging my head against the wall, the next day beat him in 3rd try, that was cathartic after getting my ass beaten for 6 hours straight the day before
listen, if this is dark souls 2 - 2, I wouldn't be surprised lmao but also I feel like if they tried to optimize they wouldn't use that, they would use something smaller like a short (assuming whatever language they programmed this in has those lol) (i'm also going off the numbers in fextra that are only 4 digits)
To dodge Metyrs laser attack, stop lock on and pay attention to where the laser is hitting in the ground. Theres a gap between the damage AOE around Metyr and the impact area of the laser, which you can just walk through.
me too, some of them probably wont because like...dagger only (although, that's meme enough maybe I will idk lol), but the harder ones I want to. not looking forward to no walking lol
In regards to Bayle being a wyvern: That's pretty much just a thing in British heraldry and D&D. If you look at medieval artwork, there are a lot of works that depict dragons with two legs and two wings (or four legs and two wings, or even six legs and no wings). It was all just dependent on what the artist thought looked best. In modern fantasy, it's setting-dependent. Some settings will go with the D&D definition, while some will have their own thing.
8:38 well, the message says something about asking for forgiveness. When you get Messmer to phase 2, he says "O' mother, forgive me" this is a statue of Marika, so you use "O' mother" and ask for forgiveness from Marika. tbh i just tried using the gesture cuz that's the only other new gesture i got and the statue looked sus to me
I can't remember what the message says, something about shamans haha, but a couple people have mentioned that the shaman village has the toothy whip which talks about shamans, and the o mother gesture. So, while still cryptic, I see the connection now lol
3:19 I have played through this dlc 3 times and I'm obsessed, also the final boss you referring to, had me go to fighting malenia to feel better, in all of my dlc playthroughs it took one 9 tries, and the other first try. my first (blind) playthrough was a duel thorn whip strength build named octoman named so because I killed a single octopus and got to octopus helms, I thought it was fate and became OCTOMAN PROTECTOR OF THE MEEK, it devolved pretty fast at the final boss causing me to go giant crusher with the Jolan and Anna summon, won in about a week, the dlc took me about 80 hours though most of that was the boss, after beating it I decided to give this character the age of fracture ending, out of spite. my second playthrough was a gargoyle black blade build, which side note fashion for it is so hard! I settlde pre dlc with the twinned helm bloodhound knight chestpiece and greaves and finally the blackflame gauntlets, though at the final boss my desire for light load and keeping 150 levels to set some boundaries for myself, I went with the high page hat, the divine beast armor, common soldier gauntlets to match with the divine beast armor, and the vagabond greaves, for the nice weight to poise ratio, then got the frenzied flame quest done beat malenia (11th try for this one) saved my maiden, cured myself and killed placidusax second try, and was then left with a nice 0 weight seal for me to use and maintain my light load like seriously even with 60 endurance this was close, took me two days to beat the final boss on this one, with this characters canonical wife black knife tiche, because on the winning run her 10% reduction of the bosses health mixed with her last bit of health allowing her to sacrifice herself and tank the meteor attack, saving my no healing flask left life, took me about 40 hours this time though still mostly the boss, mixed with me knowing what I'm doing proceeded to beat the game with the character beating all bosses left in my way first try and getting the age of the duskborn ending. 3rd playthrough, (don't do this one) was a dragon communion build and it took me 12 hours to beat it, getting the dragon body from the painting, allowing me to use the blue dancer charm mixed with the lightning buff, double communion seals, and the incantation buff talismans, I beat Malenia first try and the dlc final boss fourth try, don't use this build as it makes all the fun bosses a coin flip, less skill, summon was oleg ma boi, and I used no lords divine fortification this time, which might be improvement, or the fact that dragon communion is overpowered in the worst kind of way. Now I'm going to try a vergil build, cause this dlc is making me feel a little MOTIVATED 5:03 that is quite literally the best innuendo I've ever heard for asking someone to sit on your face, i didn't realize it until like 15 seconds later, take the like you madman 17:43 one last thing before I go, I love this boss, it's so good, and I will never dishonor it by using my sekiro skills to turn it into a joke, I just don't have the heart to
those are some awesome build ideas! I actually plan on doing dragon communion only because I did that in the base game, maybe not soon though haha glad you liked the joke, I thought it was clever :P I might do a sekiro in elden ring video one day, so I will have to spontaneous counter with a katana lol
I did, glad you saw it too, a couple people commented "did you know from actually made a horror game?" but didn't see that I slide it into frame (probably just listening to the audio, which is fair haha)
Omfg I feel so stupid for never figuring out how Scadutree Avatar’s HP worked. I never put it together that getting the Riposte started each phase with less HP so it felt inconsistent as to whether it not each it started with full HP or 75% HP.
I completed the DLC on bese NG, then went in with a NG+7. I quickly gave up, just collected the map and some early fragments and went another NG+ round to have a scadutree lvl8 headstart and it finally became playable then. I still had to use the Carian Thrusting Shield to beat Radahn because I'm not Peeve Peeverson to waste 70+hours of my life against him.
As someone who started the DLC on their max level character in NG+8, I feel your pain regarding your original character's run. They don't really care what level you are at that point, it just all hurts.
first of all, wake up babe, new doom wolf video now, the rot heal is pretty much works like poison moth flight/poison flower blooms twice, where you deal a lot of damage after using it but clears the status effect.
Glad you like them :) I haven't gotten to play with a lot of them, but big katanas are cool, just in general, and I like the beast claw moveset but idk how useful it will be haha
Alexander isn't the same as the ones in the Shadow Realm. It's because in the other realm they've used unique specimen that enables the weird things we see
@@DoomWolfOfficialyeah in base game it's sentient jars that get memories from dead bodies, in shadow lands they are tortured shamans with corpses attached
9:23 I actually know how to dodge this! You just need to find the sweet spot between Metyr herself and the lasers, its tight but its doable, probably would've been an incredible damage window for this run.
The Pierce thing acts like the ash of war called the poison flower blooms twice with when it hits take off the status effect of rot and poison and causes an explosion that would do the total damage of ether rot or poison
Alexander is a Lands Between Jar, which means he carries the remains of dead warriors. Shadowland Jars, however, carry the mutilated corpses of the shamans, Marika's people
For Metyr, Mother of Fingers dual beam attack, you just have to run the same direction it's moving, it's very slow so easily out ran. I've found that the only way it'll catch you with this method is if the beam starts *very* close to you, other than that, it worked for me everytime. Hope that helps.
Actually, i found out something that catches many people off guard about the dlc, in where they believe that it is ng+ scaling, but it actually scales with your level, which is a pretty cool mechanic (I know this for certain as I tested it with friends, I was lv510 & they were around 350 on same ng+ with wildly different healthbars & damage)
I..feel like if that were true it would mean RL1 base NG would be way easier? I mean noticeably so lol, I do know I was on NG+4 and my friends were on NG, we were getting 2, 3, 4 shot by the same thing, the only difference is my bosses had like 8 times as much health lol
For the record on finger mother you dodge the singulairty lazor attack by watching the spin and staying near the boss. Depending on the timing of the rotation there is space between the aoe around the boss and lazor forming a safe ring. So if you run around the boss in the Safe ring you can avoid the lazor because it only dips into the safe zone every so often.
Commander Gaius was your third remembrance? I feel your pain, I went to the Scadutree avatar at blessing level 4, and it was my second remembrance, I hadn't even fought Rellana.
The character I took into the dlc I beat the base game (all rememberances) in just over 32 hours. After all remembrances in the dlc I ended up at just over 80.
I believe the Romina thing might be intentional, as it pretty much is the effect of the ash of war "the poison flower blooms twice", which summons a dagger under your foot and then drives it into the opponent, doing big rot (or poison I can't really remember) buildup, if the opponent is hit again while under the effect of either rot or poison the ash of war will do big damage instead, so Romina could be programmed to have the AOW effect on at all times, but who knows I'm not a dev.
@@DoomWolfOfficial Look it up, at home we called it GoW's father because of similar play style and greek mytho theme. maybe it would be a nice video to relax and enjoy a little of action-rpg action haha
I wish deathblight did anything in PvE at all, it would have been cool if it was explored more, there is at least one boss in the dlc that uses it but it's not any kind of focus haha
For the Mother of Fingers laser beam attack, you just walk towards her until you get to the edge of the AOE under her. The lasers pass right over you and you can just put your controller down for 10 seconds at that point
Well, it has been 6 months and I've done everything I wanted to do in Shadow of the Erdtree. I can now watch DLC challenges without worrying about spoilers! 🎉
The DLC actually has a hidden scaling factor to accommodate people who play it for the first time on an NG+ cycle. Basically, if you've never entered the DLC on a lower NG cycle, the scaling of enemies and bosses will be much gentler, to account for the fact that you don't have any Scadutree blessings yet. NG+4 is probably still a bad call for your first time, though.
I thought the DLC scaling only applied _after_ beating the final DLC boss, then any subsequent playthroughs had it ramp up (in other words i had the 'normal' DLC scaling, just NG+4 scaling )
When I first try the dlc, I didn't realize I was in new game plus 3 when I saw how many Mimic helms had, I had 3, it was a challenge but damn it was fun. Would I fight the final boss of the dlc in new game plus 4? Hahahaha NO!
I can't believe how long it took me to beat the DLC on my first character, but that damn NPC fight at the end took 6 fucking hours of my time I want back
@DoomWolfOfficial it's worse for me. I was on a spellblade build, ng+2 against a 2v5 gank. That shit did not end well. Also hornsent has this really cool one shot attack l
The dlc took me around what? 60+ hours or so? (Well tbh i never really checked buuuut a few hours per day should bring it to that), anyway! Faced it on my main character..on ng+6! Fun, hard but still a lot of fun. Your vids are always nice to watch Doom, keep it up!
For the Metyr Laser attack, if you time it right you can follow the first laser’s path to avoid it and go between the center aoe and the second laser to dodge it!
Man, I did MINE with a NG+7, Level 505, Vergil w/no Mods, (PS5, lol!) Build! RIght now, I'm on my THIRD run of the DLC, just going around, and getting stuf! OH, I also beat my NG+6 AND 7 Main Game runs with this Character too! Malenia got DESTROYED, BOTH times by him, lol! You should have SEEN, how both those fights went down! F-ING AWESOME! I didn't know this shield even EXISTED, until last night, when I was on this other Elden Ring YT Channel, and saw him using THIS, so, I HAD to grab this myself!
I started the dlc with a similar new game cycle. The time i thought i would save by not doing all the early game prep was quickly overshadowed by the time i lost getting my ass handed to me.
@@DoomWolfOfficial And yet we persisted 😆 I remember fighting bed of chaos for the first time. That changed me, and ever since I've never backed down. I figured if I could deal with that BS, I could deal with all the other challenges of a (normal) playthrough.
To answer your question, the DLC took me 60 some odd hours to complete. I tend to shove as many characters through the DLC as possible to determine what strategies and builds were viable for me. First, I tried a build that uses Rellana's Twin Swords, but that got hard stuck on the funny sunflower boss. That was about 10 - 20 some odd hours? The rest were on my faith caster. Buffs and heals make for some insane survivability. 3 different damage types meant that I was never stuck on a boss, and knight's lightning spear became my primary damage source. Also, I have no idea why the bosses don't go full aggro on other people using ranged fighting styles. I quite literally needed to learn the dodge timings and find openings to throw an uncharged spell. Guess I'm unlucky, but I found my melee only builds went significantly better than either of my spell casters.
I too have had similar occurrences of bosses being weirdly aggressive on ranged characters, not all the time, like here but sometimes they really REALLY don't want me to get a spell off lol
14:05 hmmm... well, there is a new Poison Moth Flight-style Ash of War that applies Scarlet Rot called "The Piison Flower Blooms Twice," which has an innitial attack that deals medium damage and causes scarlet rot buildup, and a follow-up that 'pops' it. So, mayhaps, Romina has that same effect on her stinger slam? Just bumping up the damage considerably, but rewards the player for surviving by cleansing the rot?
I started the DLC on NG+5 and the only reason I got through it was because of my trusty bleed-infused Guts greatsword with Giant Hunt, the breaker of all stances, on it (yeah, you’re definitely right, at that point, the bosses just have way too much health for it to feel natural anymore) Also, the way I found to dodge Metyr’s laser…is to just not try at all. There’s a slight space in between the damaging pool of flame that she summons beneath her and the lasers, so if you stand in it, you won’t get clipped. I’m sure there must be a way to roll through it, but the timing is so strict that for a person like me, it’s impossible
8:39 there is a message on the ground (like one that looks not like a player one but instead like some stone tablet) there are multible like that in the game each giving you an important tipp. its vague but its a tipp.
Given the fact that the dlc also added the ash of war "The poison flower blooms twice" which is basiclly just poison moth flight 2.0, my guess would be that that mechanic with Romina was intentional.
@@DoomWolfOfficial Ngl I hadn't even considered they might have added it because of Romina, but seeing as you find it in a area infested with her pink pests, I guess it makes sense :P
9:20 this attack can not be i-framed however it consists of the aoe below the boss and the beam which reflects outward. there is a circle around the inner aoe which the beam goes around meaning you can just stand between the two parts without taking damage and eve hit the boss with ranged attacks.
I'm sure there'll be a lot of Discus-ion about this run...
lmao, they will have to craft their words carefully, as if they are smithing their sentences! ...i'll leave the wordplay to you :P
Best convo I've seen in while lmfao.
Frankly, doing an entire run like this sounds Discus-ting.
This pun-gimmick just isn't funny to anyone over 80 IQ.
It’s as if you smith your script… I’ll shield you from my humor
Don’t worry, the rot thing isn’t a glitch, there’s actually an ash of war that does the same thing (poison flower blooms twice, I think it’s called), does a lot of damage if they have rot or poison, but removes the status effect
interesting! I was discussing this with other runners, and they agreed that is probably the case haha
The poison flower is a really nice ash to use l. The are some other ashes that do a similar effect but with this u can apply poison with a weapon and the ashes can apply rot damage.
You know what they say! Sometimes feeling the pain can be pleasura- wait wait... No no no.
Glad someone said it
if you were curious it does all the rot or poison damage you would've accumulated after the attack at once, that's why you wanna use it as soon as you poison or rot. considering a poison build with it after learning that.
Surprised to see how effective this little shield could be. Still... the thought of taking on the final boss with it instantly made me hurl 🤮
I tried taking the final boss on with smithscript Cirque for memes and I regretted it. However I did do it after a few million tries 😂
haha yeah, the idea of doing _any_ run that ends in that final boss..it scares me lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial I usually just ignore him now and don't even bother.
i made the mistake of changing my build just before the fight and ended up fighting him with a poison infused dane´s footwork took me about 2 days to kill him like that with like 6 hours of attempts total (i regret every decision that led to that point)
@@darki3372 I just switched my build to shield poking him with the blood infused cancer rapier.
The O'Mother hint is a dev message slab next to the statue with a cryptic message pointing to shamsns, which the only other place that mentions shamans is a Bonny Village white shade. It's also where you find the gesture.
It's very obtuse hint if you don't explore and note things down.
I got it because the whole thing kinda sounds like some kind of prayer
"Oh Mother, have mercy for the spirited-away shamans"
I saw that message, but had no idea the village was related to shamans lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial the message literally says have mercy for the shamans or something close to the word mercy. but yeah overall its absolute cryptic bullshit
13:58 that was intentional! That flying, spinning dive attack was her version of "the poison flower blooms twice" ash, the ash remove poison/rot to deals a huge amount of damage on hit
cool! thanks for telling me :)
The DLC took me 45 hours. But I explored everything without a wiki.
All I knew was that there were 10 remembrance bosses.
...and CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!
Lol that's some good time though! Especially if you found 100% of the stuff! Got your money's worth!
Don't worry guys, Alexander does NOT have a meat monstrosity inside him. That is an entirely different cultural thing going on exclusively in the Shadow Lands. They have horrifying shaman meat blobs there, in the Lands Between they just store corpses and kind of let the warriors inside continue fighting (Alex can use Redmane stuff when he stores Redmanes inside him)
well, at least I gave him a warriors death? lol
I KNEW IT! I've had this theory, that, the one Potentate, who Jar-Bairn talks about all the time, came from the Land of Shadows, he grew appalled from the methods that they were currently using, and left his birthplace, and arrived in the Lands Between, and created the honorable and kind Jar Culture that WE know so well, and, while searching for a far-away, safe place (hopefully), found that abandoned village, and named it Jar-Burg! OH, I forgot to put this, but, I think he had help leaving the Land of Shadows, because getting to it, and/or leave, is NOT easy, from Queen Marika, in exchange for something! Over the many millillena, this unknown Potentate's peaceful and Warrior's Honor Jar Culture became twisted by war, but, our little Jar-Bairn, talks about him to our Tarnished, and remember's him the best that he can, so what this ONE Potentate, who left his birthplace, and came to the Lands Between, to try to create something better, and his, as Jar-Bairn puts it, his "slick, slidey hands", and the "gentle way that he pats them!' MAN, I thought I was the only one who thought of that!
*Captain Marika*
This is the pun, i love it haha
To anyone curious and to Doom Wolf himself, to dodge the laser thing from Metyr you need to go between the ... area of constant death around metyr and the lasers, there's a gap between where they hit and where the circle starts(it's small though)
nice! I thought I tried that but maybe I'm just bad idk lol
Captain America builds are so fun. Put the shield in the right hand and a dryleaf art in the left hand and spread freedom
"and spread freedom" that got me lmao
This video was how I learned you can ride Torrent on the Rain of Fire bridge. I never thought to do that because you're still technically IN the Shadow Keep
I have a habit of holding triangle (torrent is in the pocket) anytime I find an outdoor space to see if he becomes available, otherwise I probably wouldn't have thought about it lol
14:00 Rominas sting attack has the same effect like Poison Moth flight where if it hits you while poisened, or in this case rotted, it will deal extra damage and remove the effect
Cool!
7:23 but your word soup is the reason why we love ya Doom
thanks I appreciate that haha
LESGOOO. Happy to see ya back.
Hope you like it :) thanks!
"Scadush" sounds like something TheRussianBadger would shout in the heat of action.
I was going for Jack Blacks Po lol
@@DoomWolfOfficialI was making that joke in my own playthrough, that's what I thought😂
Romina's dive bomb looks a lot like "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice" which removes Poison and Rot and does a chunk of a damage to you.
yes that appears to be the case! haha now I know!
1:01 Lol skadoosh
I'm not sure if that's the right timestamp lol
It was so suprising to find a boss with my straight up name, so I then had to use the golden barb spear for the rest of my playthrough, it's the law
It is indeed the law lol
Bro's playing as the "Earth with that one manhole cover" the build, hell yeah
they never saw it coming, literally, it was too fast, it just obliterated them lol
Glad to see some appreciation for the abyssal woods
Do people not like the area? I think it's great! I mean...it's a bit big for no torrent on subsequent playthroughs and okay there isn't a whole lot there, but the atmosphere is great!
YES!!! i was one of the people who recommended this on your post a week back, so excited to watch!
Also, took me 30 hours to do everything in the dlc, tho plus about 5 for the final boss
Hope you liked it :)
Absolutely peak content 🔥 you have earned a sub! Keep it up this content is fantastic! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I can't be the only one who saw CMDR Gaius and practically heard MY NAME IS GYOUBU MASATAKA ONIWAAA
lol, too bad he doesn't scream like that, would have made the fight more enjoyable on my first time
5:45 In Moorth Ruins I believe is what it’s called, you can go past where you jumped down and there’s a different entrance that doesn’t require you to do any parkour.
thanks for the tip! Idk how I missed that haha
Did my first dlc run on ng+ 1, radahn took me about 10 hours, played a day banging my head against the wall, the next day beat him in 3rd try, that was cathartic after getting my ass beaten for 6 hours straight the day before
sounds about right, GG on the kill! :)
Legit subbed cause the editor's comments are funny
Thanks, I'm the editor, I'm glad you like the jokes lol
Doom. I think Elden Ring uses a 32-bit Integer. There is no way, that Romina hit you with 2,147,483,647 Rot build up
listen, if this is dark souls 2 - 2, I wouldn't be surprised lmao
but also I feel like if they tried to optimize they wouldn't use that, they would use something smaller like a short (assuming whatever language they programmed this in has those lol) (i'm also going off the numbers in fextra that are only 4 digits)
To dodge Metyrs laser attack, stop lock on and pay attention to where the laser is hitting in the ground. Theres a gap between the damage AOE around Metyr and the impact area of the laser, which you can just walk through.
neat, thanks!
I'm glad that I was playing online with that statue puzzle, because there was a message there that literally showed me the gesture I had to do.
That's fair, I always play offline so I don't see extra hints like that haha
I can't watch this yet because the playthrough im watching isn't done yet but yay!! I'm so excited to watch this when I'm able to!
Fair, hope you enjoy your playthrough, and this video will be here when you get done :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial you don't understand how bummed I am that I can't watch this right now though, I gotta get my doom fix and yet I cannot??????
Oh this is gonna be fun, I love seeing your videos Doom
I hope you liked it :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial I loved it and can't wait to see other challenge runs, I can't wait for you to continue with your dragon only run
i like the idea of taking your previous challenge runs to the dlc a lot, idk why but it feels like a neat concept
me too, some of them probably wont because like...dagger only (although, that's meme enough maybe I will idk lol), but the harder ones I want to. not looking forward to no walking lol
video has an amazing comment section, always has me coming back to it 😂
Glad you like the comments section haha
Great video really like the idea you are working with the throwing weapons are so kewl
Haha yeah, it was a lot of fun to just throw a shield at things, there are a few others I might try too..
Rellana wants to make her papa pontiff proud, i think shes one of the coolest bosses
I agree she's a pretty cool boss
In regards to Bayle being a wyvern: That's pretty much just a thing in British heraldry and D&D. If you look at medieval artwork, there are a lot of works that depict dragons with two legs and two wings (or four legs and two wings, or even six legs and no wings). It was all just dependent on what the artist thought looked best. In modern fantasy, it's setting-dependent. Some settings will go with the D&D definition, while some will have their own thing.
This is the best response to that debate, thanks :)
dude your so underrated your video's are awesome ❤
I'm glad you enjoy the videos my friend, that's all I hope for :)
What a good way to start off the weekend!
Hope you enjoyed it :)
Let’s goo you come back and drop a banger 🔥
Glad you liked it :)
8:38 well, the message says something about asking for forgiveness.
When you get Messmer to phase 2, he says "O' mother, forgive me"
this is a statue of Marika, so you use "O' mother" and ask for forgiveness from Marika.
tbh i just tried using the gesture cuz that's the only other new gesture i got and the statue looked sus to me
I can't remember what the message says, something about shamans haha, but a couple people have mentioned that the shaman village has the toothy whip which talks about shamans, and the o mother gesture. So, while still cryptic, I see the connection now lol
3:19 I have played through this dlc 3 times and I'm obsessed, also the final boss you referring to, had me go to fighting malenia to feel better, in all of my dlc playthroughs it took one 9 tries, and the other first try.
my first (blind) playthrough was a duel thorn whip strength build named octoman named so because I killed a single octopus and got to octopus helms, I thought it was fate and became OCTOMAN PROTECTOR OF THE MEEK, it devolved pretty fast at the final boss causing me to go giant crusher with the Jolan and Anna summon, won in about a week, the dlc took me about 80 hours though most of that was the boss, after beating it I decided to give this character the age of fracture ending, out of spite.
my second playthrough was a gargoyle black blade build, which side note fashion for it is so hard! I settlde pre dlc with the twinned helm bloodhound knight chestpiece and greaves and finally the blackflame gauntlets, though at the final boss my desire for light load and keeping 150 levels to set some boundaries for myself, I went with the high page hat, the divine beast armor, common soldier gauntlets to match with the divine beast armor, and the vagabond greaves, for the nice weight to poise ratio, then got the frenzied flame quest done beat malenia (11th try for this one) saved my maiden, cured myself and killed placidusax second try, and was then left with a nice 0 weight seal for me to use and maintain my light load like seriously even with 60 endurance this was close, took me two days to beat the final boss on this one, with this characters canonical wife black knife tiche, because on the winning run her 10% reduction of the bosses health mixed with her last bit of health allowing her to sacrifice herself and tank the meteor attack, saving my no healing flask left life, took me about 40 hours this time though still mostly the boss, mixed with me knowing what I'm doing proceeded to beat the game with the character beating all bosses left in my way first try and getting the age of the duskborn ending.
3rd playthrough, (don't do this one) was a dragon communion build and it took me 12 hours to beat it, getting the dragon body from the painting, allowing me to use the blue dancer charm mixed with the lightning buff, double communion seals, and the incantation buff talismans, I beat Malenia first try and the dlc final boss fourth try, don't use this build as it makes all the fun bosses a coin flip, less skill, summon was oleg ma boi, and I used no lords divine fortification this time, which might be improvement, or the fact that dragon communion is overpowered in the worst kind of way.
Now I'm going to try a vergil build, cause this dlc is making me feel a little MOTIVATED
5:03 that is quite literally the best innuendo I've ever heard for asking someone to sit on your face, i didn't realize it until like 15 seconds later, take the like you madman
17:43 one last thing before I go, I love this boss, it's so good, and I will never dishonor it by using my sekiro skills to turn it into a joke, I just don't have the heart to
those are some awesome build ideas! I actually plan on doing dragon communion only because I did that in the base game, maybe not soon though haha
glad you liked the joke, I thought it was clever :P
I might do a sekiro in elden ring video one day, so I will have to spontaneous counter with a katana lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial that sounds beautiful, do show the sekiro face you'll make though as I might steal that for my own fun
You could have named it Captain America run as we have a new movie trailer of him.
I mean, yeah, and the original run was Captain America, this is the sequel, the shadowlands soldier
did YOU just insert a KUON refences at 10:45?! I'm Subbing now. You are a Legend to know that game!
I did, glad you saw it too, a couple people commented "did you know from actually made a horror game?" but didn't see that I slide it into frame (probably just listening to the audio, which is fair haha)
That borderline undodgeable attack is doable if you stay on his right or left side at all times. One of the first two attacks will guaranteed miss
hmm maybe I should try dodging in the direction I already am instead of crossing him up, pun intended lol
great run!
also lands between jars and shadow realm jars are totally different in lore
Well now I can't justify my fight with Alexander lol
Omfg I feel so stupid for never figuring out how Scadutree Avatar’s HP worked. I never put it together that getting the Riposte started each phase with less HP so it felt inconsistent as to whether it not each it started with full HP or 75% HP.
Haha yeah, idk why they bothered to do that, like why not just start it at the same hp regardless
7:00 is that the orphan of Kos!?
haha does have a similar look and weapon huh!
The mental illness, so I did a NG+7 to start off with😊
Mood lol
I don’t know why people think higher new games means more challenge if you learned the enemies patterns once you can beat them on any new game
I completed the DLC on bese NG, then went in with a NG+7. I quickly gave up, just collected the map and some early fragments and went another NG+ round to have a scadutree lvl8 headstart and it finally became playable then. I still had to use the Carian Thrusting Shield to beat Radahn because I'm not Peeve Peeverson to waste 70+hours of my life against him.
As someone who started the DLC on their max level character in NG+8, I feel your pain regarding your original character's run. They don't really care what level you are at that point, it just all hurts.
OOF, yeah that sounds painful, but you loved every second didn't you lol
first of all, wake up babe, new doom wolf video
now, the rot heal is pretty much works like poison moth flight/poison flower blooms twice, where you deal a lot of damage after using it but clears the status effect.
Gotta get that beauty sleep! and neat!
Thanks for the awesome videos! What is your favorite weapon in the new DLC?
Glad you like them :) I haven't gotten to play with a lot of them, but big katanas are cool, just in general, and I like the beast claw moveset but idk how useful it will be haha
Alexander isn't the same as the ones in the Shadow Realm. It's because in the other realm they've used unique specimen that enables the weird things we see
Welp...at least I gave him a warriors death haha
@@DoomWolfOfficialyeah in base game it's sentient jars that get memories from dead bodies, in shadow lands they are tortured shamans with corpses attached
9:23 I actually know how to dodge this! You just need to find the sweet spot between Metyr herself and the lasers, its tight but its doable, probably would've been an incredible damage window for this run.
Oh thanks for the tip!!
13:59
Romina used a skill that you can use in Ash of War (The Poison Flower Blooms Twice).
It consumes the Rot/Poison Deals it in full +75%
Yeah, these seems to be it! Pretty cool we actually got the boss variant and not a watered down version hah
The Pierce thing acts like the ash of war called the poison flower blooms twice with when it hits take off the status effect of rot and poison and causes an explosion that would do the total damage of ether rot or poison
Neat, thanks for explaining!
Alexander is a Lands Between Jar, which means he carries the remains of dead warriors.
Shadowland Jars, however, carry the mutilated corpses of the shamans, Marika's people
man, the lore of this game is...something else lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial Technically they aren't corpses, but then their fate is even worse than death
For Metyr, Mother of Fingers dual beam attack, you just have to run the same direction it's moving, it's very slow so easily out ran. I've found that the only way it'll catch you with this method is if the beam starts *very* close to you, other than that, it worked for me everytime.
Hope that helps.
thanks i'll have to try it!
You can also stand really close and the laser will miss you 😁
"Closest we're gonna get to a FromSoft horror game"
REMAKE ECHO NIGHT BEYOND!
I actually haven't heard of this one lol
Actually, i found out something that catches many people off guard about the dlc, in where they believe that it is ng+ scaling, but it actually scales with your level, which is a pretty cool mechanic (I know this for certain as I tested it with friends, I was lv510 & they were around 350 on same ng+ with wildly different healthbars & damage)
I..feel like if that were true it would mean RL1 base NG would be way easier? I mean noticeably so lol, I do know I was on NG+4 and my friends were on NG, we were getting 2, 3, 4 shot by the same thing, the only difference is my bosses had like 8 times as much health lol
Don't worry, Alexander is proud to have fallen to you, there's no shame in giving him the glorious battle he seeks
this is true and makes me feel better about it lol
For the record on finger mother you dodge the singulairty lazor attack by watching the spin and staying near the boss. Depending on the timing of the rotation there is space between the aoe around the boss and lazor forming a safe ring. So if you run around the boss in the Safe ring you can avoid the lazor because it only dips into the safe zone every so often.
Cool! Thanks for the tip :)
My first playthrough of the dlc was ng+7
That's rough buddy haha
This weapon is quite the throw of a bone for puns
true haha
Alright brother listen, i need you to stop uploading right after i get to the gym. I'll have to wait again until im back home
lmao, hope you got some good gains today at least!
Greatest thumbnail of all time???
lmao, glad you like it :)
Commander Gaius was your third remembrance? I feel your pain, I went to the Scadutree avatar at blessing level 4, and it was my second remembrance, I hadn't even fought Rellana.
we both decided to explore, we both paid for it lmao
The character I took into the dlc I beat the base game (all rememberances) in just over 32 hours. After all remembrances in the dlc I ended up at just over 80.
Nice! Good times!
I believe the Romina thing might be intentional, as it pretty much is the effect of the ash of war "the poison flower blooms twice", which summons a dagger under your foot and then drives it into the opponent, doing big rot (or poison I can't really remember) buildup, if the opponent is hit again while under the effect of either rot or poison the ash of war will do big damage instead, so Romina could be programmed to have the AOW effect on at all times, but who knows I'm not a dev.
I think it is too, because of that AoW mostly haha
This run remind me of a game in Ps2 Rygar, it's basically a "hack-n-slash" RPG with launching Shields on chain as weapons based in Greek Mythology
that sounds like fun! Never heard of it though lol
@@DoomWolfOfficial Look it up, at home we called it GoW's father because of similar play style and greek mytho theme. maybe it would be a nice video to relax and enjoy a little of action-rpg action haha
Ngl i am a bit disappointed that death blight is never brought up in this dlc.
Heres hoping for the next one
I wish deathblight did anything in PvE at all, it would have been cool if it was explored more, there is at least one boss in the dlc that uses it but it's not any kind of focus haha
Now THIS is a man who disc golfs!
good one!
Hello, been hoping for this, captain America shall go on!!!
indeed, the true cap run can exist now haha
I can only Imagine what pain the new radahn will inflict in future challenge runs
I just keep thinking about needing to do it without walking and it hurts. Lol
For the Mother of Fingers laser beam attack, you just walk towards her until you get to the edge of the AOE under her. The lasers pass right over you and you can just put your controller down for 10 seconds at that point
lol, break time, interesting
Well, it has been 6 months and I've done everything I wanted to do in Shadow of the Erdtree. I can now watch DLC challenges without worrying about spoilers! 🎉
ayyy nice to have had your fill of the DLC :)
I would have missed the cerulean coast but I'm like it's there. Idk what it is but its there.
That's fair, just open the map like "there is something there, I must discover it!"
That attack that Romina does is meant to cure you if it hits but it instantly does all the poison damage.
neat, I like it lol
I also started my DLC on NG+4. It started out really bat but got a lot better as I increased my blessing levels
nice, I ended with 15 blessings so I missed a few but struggled for most of it haha
very quickly became my favorite youtuber
Thanks my friend, I'm glad you like the videos :)
The DLC actually has a hidden scaling factor to accommodate people who play it for the first time on an NG+ cycle. Basically, if you've never entered the DLC on a lower NG cycle, the scaling of enemies and bosses will be much gentler, to account for the fact that you don't have any Scadutree blessings yet. NG+4 is probably still a bad call for your first time, though.
I thought the DLC scaling only applied _after_ beating the final DLC boss, then any subsequent playthroughs had it ramp up (in other words i had the 'normal' DLC scaling, just NG+4 scaling )
The fingers and Marika bit got me.😂
I'm glad lol
bro, u should be more famous, this is quality video right here
Thanks my friend, I'm glad you enjoy the videos :)
When I first try the dlc, I didn't realize I was in new game plus 3 when I saw how many Mimic helms had, I had 3, it was a challenge but damn it was fun. Would I fight the final boss of the dlc in new game plus 4? Hahahaha NO!
Haha yeah it's rough
Ngl I expected a “I know only one god and he doesn’t dress like that” at the final boss
That would have been good lol
3:00 it took me 82 hours. 30 of which were on the final boss
I feel that second sentence, in my heart lol
I can't believe how long it took me to beat the DLC on my first character, but that damn NPC fight at the end took 6 fucking hours of my time I want back
Lol yeah, I usually suck at pvp fights, I lucked out on this as they had no idea how to dodge the actual projectile haha
@DoomWolfOfficial it's worse for me. I was on a spellblade build, ng+2 against a 2v5 gank. That shit did not end well. Also hornsent has this really cool one shot attack l
The dlc took me around what? 60+ hours or so? (Well tbh i never really checked buuuut a few hours per day should bring it to that), anyway! Faced it on my main character..on ng+6! Fun, hard but still a lot of fun.
Your vids are always nice to watch Doom, keep it up!
ooooh wow NG+6, my friend I feel your pain haha
thanks glad you liked it :)
For the Metyr Laser attack, if you time it right you can follow the first laser’s path to avoid it and go between the center aoe and the second laser to dodge it!
neat, thanks for the tip!
Man, I did MINE with a NG+7, Level 505, Vergil w/no Mods, (PS5, lol!) Build! RIght now, I'm on my THIRD run of the DLC, just going around, and getting stuf! OH, I also beat my NG+6 AND 7 Main Game runs with this Character too! Malenia got DESTROYED, BOTH times by him, lol! You should have SEEN, how both those fights went down! F-ING AWESOME! I didn't know this shield even EXISTED, until last night, when I was on this other Elden Ring YT Channel, and saw him using THIS, so, I HAD to grab this myself!
Ng+7 oof that's rough haha nice Job though!
I started the dlc with a similar new game cycle. The time i thought i would save by not doing all the early game prep was quickly overshadowed by the time i lost getting my ass handed to me.
lmao same, like half way through I debated just starting a new character
@@DoomWolfOfficial And yet we persisted 😆 I remember fighting bed of chaos for the first time. That changed me, and ever since I've never backed down. I figured if I could deal with that BS, I could deal with all the other challenges of a (normal) playthrough.
To answer your question, the DLC took me 60 some odd hours to complete. I tend to shove as many characters through the DLC as possible to determine what strategies and builds were viable for me. First, I tried a build that uses Rellana's Twin Swords, but that got hard stuck on the funny sunflower boss. That was about 10 - 20 some odd hours? The rest were on my faith caster. Buffs and heals make for some insane survivability. 3 different damage types meant that I was never stuck on a boss, and knight's lightning spear became my primary damage source.
Also, I have no idea why the bosses don't go full aggro on other people using ranged fighting styles. I quite literally needed to learn the dodge timings and find openings to throw an uncharged spell. Guess I'm unlucky, but I found my melee only builds went significantly better than either of my spell casters.
I too have had similar occurrences of bosses being weirdly aggressive on ranged characters, not all the time, like here but sometimes they really REALLY don't want me to get a spell off lol
5:44
I think that is how you're meant to get down there. I've looked around and cant find another way down
A couple other people commented there is another hole a little bit away, that can be used to get down there. I haven't checked yet though haha
For the drop question, there are two pits in the Moorth ruins, and the other is shallower and connected to the same tunnel system.
Thanks for the tip!
14:05 hmmm... well, there is a new Poison Moth Flight-style Ash of War that applies Scarlet Rot called "The Piison Flower Blooms Twice," which has an innitial attack that deals medium damage and causes scarlet rot buildup, and a follow-up that 'pops' it. So, mayhaps, Romina has that same effect on her stinger slam? Just bumping up the damage considerably, but rewards the player for surviving by cleansing the rot?
I believe this the case!
I started the DLC on NG+5 and the only reason I got through it was because of my trusty bleed-infused Guts greatsword with Giant Hunt, the breaker of all stances, on it (yeah, you’re definitely right, at that point, the bosses just have way too much health for it to feel natural anymore)
Also, the way I found to dodge Metyr’s laser…is to just not try at all. There’s a slight space in between the damaging pool of flame that she summons beneath her and the lasers, so if you stand in it, you won’t get clipped. I’m sure there must be a way to roll through it, but the timing is so strict that for a person like me, it’s impossible
basically same, I ran with my duel katana build because man, they had way too much health lol. and neat! thanks for the tip!
8:39 there is a message on the ground (like one that looks not like a player one but instead like some stone tablet) there are multible like that in the game each giving you an important tipp. its vague but its a tipp.
I saw it, but I had no idea that message was linked to a village miles away lol
Given the fact that the dlc also added the ash of war "The poison flower blooms twice" which is basiclly just poison moth flight 2.0, my guess would be that that mechanic with Romina was intentional.
neat, I like that they let us have the actual attack and not a different version of it haha
@@DoomWolfOfficial Ngl I hadn't even considered they might have added it because of Romina, but seeing as you find it in a area infested with her pink pests, I guess it makes sense :P
to quote the souls community at the moment: "CURSE YOU BAYLE!"
Best summon lol
9:20 this attack can not be i-framed however it consists of the aoe below the boss and the beam which reflects outward. there is a circle around the inner aoe which the beam goes around meaning you can just stand between the two parts without taking damage and eve hit the boss with ranged attacks.
neat, thanks!
My first time in the DLC was on NG+5 all i can say is big swird go brrrrrrrr !
oof, big bleed sword would have helped haha