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Why was the only pro for the Troll's Golden Sword that it does LESS damage than most other colossal weapons? Also when you mention unique movesets, you only show off the 1 handed movesets.
He also forgets to mention you have to do an on foot jumping puzzle to get it. Might be the hardest weapon in the game to get to, that's not even considering the godskin you gotta fight for it
@Elijah no the dmg over time effect does way more dmg to enemies with more health in my experience I used the wa on placi twice and it did almost half his health on ng+10 im not saying black blade is the better weapon im saying that the wa has a better dmg over time than the black flame along with that flat 10% debuff it can also work in tandem with the incant for a instant 20% health debuff
@@kill3rbyysight would you rather do fast attacks and little damage or slow attacks and massive damage, more likely than not in most boss fights you wont be getting a lot of hits in per attack so slow attack big damage would be better
given the Troll Knight's sword, the Royal Greatsword, Ruins Greatsword and Starscourge Greatsword, I still think there should be a staff that scales with strength similar to the clawmark seal. the meteorite staff jumps to mind for this
It doesn't quite scale with Strength, but the Demi-Human Queen's Staff does very well up to like 40 Int, so it works well for Str-Int builds that aren't too big on Int. Besides, Cold affinity does still scale with Int. (It's much more important IMO to have a seal that scales with Dex so Lightning damage can finally make sense.)
Reminds me of when I saw a battlemage in DnD. By battlemage I mean, this player was an overbuffed spellcaster that only used melee weapons with a staff. Come to think of it, oddly terrfying
Damn I was literally just wondering yesterday if you'd ever make the colossal sword version of the series and here we are. Thanks for a whole year's worth of quality Elden Ring content!
I'd like to mention that Zweihander's chagre R2 is a thrust attack which can be boosted by the Spear talisman. You'll see a MASSIVE 1,5x damage increase if you hit your enemy just in time. Paired with RKR ash of war, charged attack tear and talisman it makes your charged R2s absolutely devastating! I'm not speaking about extremely low stat requirements so even dexterity build could use it. That's why Zweihander is definately the best colossal sword in ER.
I'd like to see a video on flails or hammers (or both); something that does primarily strike damage. They're an underused weapon type, and between both classes there are quite a few options. Dual-wielding hammers is pretty fun and has a cool standard L1 move set. Other than those, I'd also like to see a video on spears and/or great spears for block counter builds.
On my first playthrough I went with the night rider’s flail, focusing on a block counter strategy; it counters extremely quickly and does high poise damage for its size.
Grafted Blade Greatsword has two main uses: Game of Thrones cosplay, and getting the Age of Order ending if you're not a mage (since you can stack the INT buff with others like the Stargazer Heirloom to get the 37 INT needed to cast Law of Regression).
How about a video showcasing what makes a weapon good or bad for ng+ and beyond without talking about a specific weapon class? I havent really found anything on that topic specifically and it could be a great opportunity to make people watch your (excellent) build guides. I feel like most people have made their way through the game by this point and may be interested in trying out ng+.
it's basically if the weapon has more than one stat with decent scaling. so most weapons that are tri scaling will be good for NG+. Weapons that have good scaling for 2 attributes will also be good for NG+.
@@raho500 stat requirements shouldn’t even be a consideration in NG+. Weight becomes less and less important as you go through NG+ cycles due to having more points to put in Endurance. Range isn’t any more important in NG+ than it is in NG. It really comes down to “how much damage can I get out of scaling on this weapon” or “how fast can I proc status effects”.
Very simply, use a medium shield with carian retaliation or golden retaliation to parry. Small shields are worse in every way but weight.For staggering, use a short sword with face off or any heavy weapon to deal poise damage, switch to misericorde dagger for crit. Daggers can't stagger anything with it's ashes of war after flame of the redmanes was nerfed, unless you use ground slam, which is still worse than switching. Powerstance daggers are terrible with anything but bleed, and are the worst fast weapon for bleed. Without flinch and stagger damage, with low damage, low status build up, and bad ashes, daggers' only advantage is a short attack animation.
This is by far the best series on the channel. I don't really care about the order of the next weapon types, but I'd love to see the same style of videos for shield types, staves, and seals. Additionally, a video about armour could be made, not every piece of armor, but the standout ones (either with the best weight, poise ratio, highest poise, poise breakpoints, etc.)
Given the cool factor of Maliketh's Black Blade, I hope that in the DLC, which will hopefully come sometime in the future, enemies and bosses wont resist holy damage
Don’t let the holy damage scare you away from the weapon, destined death does insane hp% damage to late game bosses regardless. I absolutely shat on Malenia with it because the ash also stuns her as it hits and then knocks her down when it finishes. It’s also devastating against Elden Beasts massive health bar. The only downside to really consider is that your basic attacks won’t be as strong, but as long as you spam destined death (like you should) you’ll never even notice enemies with holy resistance.
Even elden beast stands no chance against Maliketh's black blade. You can absolutely melt healthbars of bosses with destined death, no matter how high the holy damage resistance may be.
Great sword is so much fun and can be buffed. It can be used immediately if you have a bleed weapon and a golden fowl foot. It's in a carriage that's on the way to the 99k rune dragon (with the foot). Good weapon to try for all players, since your swings are so slow you have to learn to be selective with attacks, no button mashing. This also forces you to dodge which is for some reason much easier using this style. 5th playthrough and it's the most fun so far, got to morgot without having to use any summons and I'm not very good at the game.
With so many of the videos breaking down weapons, I would like to request one video on armor. There would be plenty of topics to cover, such as poise thresholds, wether or not the bullgoats talisman would bump a set into a new threshold, the equipment weight categories (light, medium, and heavy), and comparing the relevant stats and unique effects of complete armor sets.
The only issue I have with current generation colossal swords. Is that there is no (apart from Godslayer, and Starscourge.) alternate move set. I think, what would’ve been cool is to have the vertical overhead swings return. Or, a way to “swap” the move sets in the round table. Other than that, Zweihander is absolutely THE best colossal. Hands down.
the incant black flame also goes insanely hard late ng+. Fire giant, funny enough, is super weak to it because of his giant hp pool. I was at 40 something faith and could do 5k damage off of three uncharged casts with duel wield godslayer seals
Beat every single boss with the Grafted Great sword first play through. The goal of my build was to make myself more a boss than the actual bosses - hits extremely hard, extremely tanky but doesn’t avoid a lot of attacks. What you need is a very heavy and strong armor. Against most bosses you will have to tank hits from time to time as the animation of each of your attacks is just that long. Also you are wasting a shit tone of endurance every hit and weight a lot. You will need to get a lot of endurance otherwise you are never getting more than 2 hits in a row because your endurance will just be spent. Used talismans for raw stats - Endurance, Vitality and Radagon’s soreseal. The last talisman I switched around depending on what I judged most useful at the time. Had 70 strength, 40 endurance, 50 vitality, 25 dexterity when I completed the game. The weapon also scales with dexterity a bit. Kept other stats at the minimum. You will never have any trouble with non Boss enemies excluding the knights with horned helmets. You are just staggering everything to death. Most enemies won’t get to move before they die. Weapon art is awesome and obviously easy to use - you just gain stats and you can truly stack a lot of raw stats with the weapon art + Godrick’s rune even early on. Levelling priority was Strenght -> Vigor -> Endurance -> I levelled dexterity only at the end of the game as I did not know what to put points in and it was giving my weapon more damage than strength was at this point. For my physick I used the one that increases stamina + the one that makes rolling smoother.
Oh man. I had no idea that Fire infusion gave better attack power for so many colossal swords. I've been sticking with Heavy on the assumption that it would be best for someone with 50 or 60 Str. That's great to know, thanks!
Heavy would be better at 50 strength or beyond for most cases. Just because you have a higher AR with fire doesn't necessarily mean that you will deal more damage, since it is split damage and will have to go through defense reduction twice.
Fire scales with strength, flame art scales with faith. Generally leaving your great sword on heavy and buffing with bloodflame blade will give you more power than fire infusion. It also looks super fucking cool
Some weeks ago I finished my pure strenght run with only the greatsword and I was surprised how easy I came through, since I usually prefer magic and a bit distance. This thing cleaves through enemys like butter. Only Malenia and the Eldenbeast were really difficult but I beat them in the end.
I dual wielded Ruins Greatsword and Black Blade in NG+2 and it’s absolutely insane. Use shard of Alexander, rotten wing sword insignia, with jump enhance talisman and dragoncrest great shield talisman. Clawmark seal for spells.. Literal walking death
I think it's a shame that the troll knight's sword is essentially the same as the troll's golden sword. Since it's a spell the troll knights actually use I think it would be cool if the troll knight sword came with greatblade phalanx built into it, it would make sense as an ash of war and it would really make the weapon really stand out since glintblade phalanx an ash of war that can't naturally be put on colossal swords
The great sword does extremely well on a blood infusion as well. High AR plus around 160 bleed damage. It'll bleed in 2 hits on most enemies. Use giants hunt ash and it's absolutely dumb how fast you take down everything.
I'm doing my first run of the game pretty blind, and i managed to find the guts sword immediately and powerstancing that with the zweihander has been awesome!
Hey Cas! I’m back to ER after a long break! I’ve been playing ESO, you can thank Yuria for that.🤣🤣 Seems I have some catching up to do on your ER videos. As always, thank you for the time that you put into making these videos. Also, the Godslayer GS is the best weapon in the game. The speed and weapon art combined with its stagger makes up for the lower AR.🤓
Just out of curiosity, were there any pros to the Troll’s Golden Sword or were they the same as the Troll’s Sword from earlier in the video? I saw that something was blurred out. Please keep these coming! I may not be playing the game anymore, but I love the deep dives on weapons.
What I’ve found works best for the Godslayer’s Greatsword is keeping a second weapon in another main hand slot with the Glintblade Phalanx skill on it. This allows you to quickly break the enemy’s poise in 2-3 casts and then switch to the greatsword skill with a longer window to use its ash of war. Using Phalanx to poise break instead of jump or heavy attacks also leaves you with plenty of stamina to pull off the initial and followup strikes of the black flame skill.
Interesting I just found great sword in Calied in the busted carriage. Never used it until now on a new character. This thing hits like a Mack truck even after DLC update recently. Can’t believe I ignored this sword! Great vid
Greatsword was my first and only weapon for most of the game. And my friend dropped me another one so I just went pure physical. Got 40 STR and lots of endurance to even carry those two before putting any points in vigor xDD it was so much fun!
Godslayers great sword is amazing. Used it on my first play through and with the dex and faith scaling it got to 909 AR and 1001 if I buffed with an incantation. Dual wielded them all through ng+
I'm a fan of Colossal weapons. It makes things easier when enemies are unanable to hit you because they are constantly stun locked and they work pretty well as a shield. Very nice those of us who are pretty shitty at parrying!
Dex build with 23 strength and 60 dex will see better performance going lightning on zweihander and most especially the Greatsword in PvP when two handed in PvP, and will better than strength builds who go heavy and 2 hand at 53+ strength at 150 meta levels, due to lightning defence and lightning negation is low. When you two hand a colossal all their motion values for say r1 become 114, and 105 for godslayer. Same applies for colossal weapons where it becomes 114. Godslayer because of its swings has the faster acting hyper armour of all weapons. Oath of vengeance on grafted blade greatsword grants 5 seconds of the buffed endure effect, while endure ash of war is 3 seconds.
So I know this is old but I still would like to mention that the faith fire scaling seems to have the highest reachable ARs in the game for basically anything I have tried it on. In spite of the fact that it seems to neuter the scalings. Which i find to be just confounding.
The Ruins Greatsword is what I used for my first playthrough into the second half of the game(Greatsword prior). By far my favorite weapon in the game even today.
You should definitely not build strength with the godslayers greatsword, it is a dex faith weapon, which is ideal for spell casting, because you do about the same damage 1 handed vs 2 handed and dex also boosts your cast speed
Hard agree! I actually swap between shield and seal in the off hand and it's a ton of fun! (Aka. how I learned to stop worrying and love the fat roll 😂)
Love content like yours no here are the meta options and ignore everything else. Just the stats, pros and cons, tips, and personal recommendations leaving the viewers to decide for themselves
royal greatsword in combination with a cold infused claymans harpoon that has the icespear weaponart on it is a nice combo to trigger frost from range and have amazing melee dmg
This is a great idea, definitely going to try it. I was also thinking it might be fun to make a build that leans into the black blade lore and uses the black knife in the offhand for a faster weapon skill when you don't want to go all out with Destined Death. The requirements for the dagger will already be met in order to wield the Black Blade, and the faith scaling for the L2 should benefit some from the higher requirements for the Black Blade.
Been waiting for this vid. Colossal swords have become my favorite weapon class simply because they're, well, colossal swords. It is just satisfying to fight with one of these swords. Duel wielding these swords if you have the stats to spare is a fun sight to see.
Guts Greatsword is probably the best weapon on this list. Highest guard boost, longest reach, can change the ash of war and combat affinity too, allowing for more versatility and customisation depending on your situation. Can do both PVE and PVP with it too. The only downside is the weight makes it one of the slower weapons to attack with, but if you get good enough using it abd work on your own timing for rolls and guard counters, you can easily mitigate those shortcomings. The fact is that 80 str with 40 dex vigor and endurance plus Lions Claw AOW with Guts can tear through not just the base game but NG+ and half way into NG2 before needing to alter your build.
I've always appreciated the Royal greatsword. Finished my run with that bad boy. But that ruins greatsword had been looking quite fun lately. Hold on a minute, to me it looks like the godslayer greatsword has a unique r1 animation. Usually you get the side swings from ugs, but this is a bit more flowing, not quite the sexy moveset from banished/knights greatsword. But it still isn't the normal ones. I wanna see either spears, or great spears next please mr Fex
I’m trying to roleolay a black flame monk build with the black flame great sword. The faith requirement for some of the black flame incantation is very annoying. And it’s hard to hit some of the mobile bosses like Melania with them.
Hey I just want to thank you since my main character uses malikeths black blade along with some of the incantations you mentioned and as a first time souls player hearing it be viable and seen as a good weapon brings me joy
Ok the infusion damage thing was by far the most helpful for me knowing which ones deal the most and that you can buff ur blade with the heavy infusion is really nice to know
One thing I wish the Starsocurge greatsword did is when you input the second part of its ash of war it would gravitate rocks to the sword just like Radahn when rocks are attached to his swords. When you do that the rocks give the greatswords and increase in damage and will stay on for maybe 3-5 minutes but it would also make your weapon swings a little bit slower. I hope you all like this idea.
Speeding directly to the Greatsword, rushing up the stats with Radagon‘s Soreseal has made for the most enjoyably easy time in the early to mid game since I dropped a Black Knight weapon for the first time.
Godslayer greatsword and seal are top tier together. I used them on my first play through and it was so fun. I used the black flame wave incantation (I forgot the name lol) and the fireball one along with the black flame buff. I’d use the wave for aoe and general mobs while using the fireball to start the flame proc before going in with the sword whiled buffed since in most cases yeah you will trade some damage if you don’t time it right. But this build carried me so far. The only reason I switched it up was bc of the dlc and I wanted to try the new weapons. Specifically wing stance lol
I liked most. The famous berserker/arngrim greatsword.(finishing strike) then followed by the royal. Not putting anyone down. But that two seemed the best of all.
I don't really like heavy and slow weapons, but they are really interesting type of weapons and a direct homage to the Berserk manga. PS. I'm glad that Fromsoft found a word to describe this weapon type, and NOT just "Ultra Greatsword".
I have to disagree, great hammers carried me through the entire game and with their recent swing speed buff, it really did wonders for my build. I specifically was doing a faith build with Great mace with sacred infusion, Great Stars with holy infusion from ash of war, and coded sword as a back-up. Did pretty well for the most part, had little trouble on most enemies because I'd crush poise and do good damage. A couple bosses I had trouble with because they had holy resistance, but otherwise really fun build.
The Troll's Knight Sword and the Troll's Golden Sword can carry you for the majority of the game if you're going STR/INT, or pure STR, purely because of the weapon art. Troll Roar is an incredibly powerful ash of war, not only for its damage, but for its posture/guardbreak AND hyper armor on the initial shockwave. It can deal with multiple enemies at once, by spamming the shockwave, or it can focus larger threats with the follow up attacks. Not only that, but like it was mentioned in the video, there are a lot of damage boosting items to increase the deadliness of this AoW. Besides, you can only the ash of war near the end of the game, so these two weapons, and the Troll Hammer, are your only choices.
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Why was the only pro for the Troll's Golden Sword that it does LESS damage than most other colossal weapons? Also when you mention unique movesets, you only show off the 1 handed movesets.
@@sirsmoothie8502 ultra greatsword unique moveset, is a trust r2.
Does the godslayer greatsword have a unique r1?
@@sirsmoothie8502 This was obviously a mistake...
Daggers next!
I’ll do the honors “It was far too heavy, too thick, and too rough to be called a sword. In fact, it was more like a large hunk of raw iron”
i cried when guts said "its berserkin time"
@@ongek428 “ it’s Zerkin time” tears every time
@@ongek428 nuts*
If you know what I mean.
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I found a mistake - you said the Godslayer’s Greatsword has the standard moveset, but its actually a unique r1 chain!
Yep, it's much faster to offset the weaker AR!
And the stagger on that sword is bonkers just the r1s will do it
@Elijah what abt malikeths black blade it had the 10% debuff and percentage based dmg
He also forgets to mention you have to do an on foot jumping puzzle to get it. Might be the hardest weapon in the game to get to, that's not even considering the godskin you gotta fight for it
@Elijah no the dmg over time effect does way more dmg to enemies with more health in my experience I used the wa on placi twice and it did almost half his health on ng+10 im not saying black blade is the better weapon im saying that the wa has a better dmg over time than the black flame along with that flat 10% debuff it can also work in tandem with the incant for a instant 20% health debuff
The amount of best weapons that Elden Ring has is astonishing, don't know who to trust anymore
how can colossal swords be best weapon as it takes longest times for animations and recovery... also require careful welding
@@kill3rbyysightbig bonk
@@kill3rbyysight would you rather do fast attacks and little damage or slow attacks and massive damage, more likely than not in most boss fights you wont be getting a lot of hits in per attack so slow attack big damage would be better
@@jihnfpsnot necessarily when taking into account status effect buildup. Plus, objectively, staffs are the best weapons
@@kill3rbyysight Just git gud
given the Troll Knight's sword, the Royal Greatsword, Ruins Greatsword and Starscourge Greatsword, I still think there should be a staff that scales with strength similar to the clawmark seal. the meteorite staff jumps to mind for this
Yeah, I thought it was strange how much the game pushes str/int without having an ungabunga staff
It doesn't quite scale with Strength, but the Demi-Human Queen's Staff does very well up to like 40 Int, so it works well for Str-Int builds that aren't too big on Int. Besides, Cold affinity does still scale with Int. (It's much more important IMO to have a seal that scales with Dex so Lightning damage can finally make sense.)
**cries in Manus language**
@@simonbourdin2952 oh yeah, the fact that the Gravel Stone Seal doesnt scale with dex has always bugged me
Reminds me of when I saw a battlemage in DnD. By battlemage I mean, this player was an overbuffed spellcaster that only used melee weapons with a staff. Come to think of it, oddly terrfying
Damn I was literally just wondering yesterday if you'd ever make the colossal sword version of the series and here we are. Thanks for a whole year's worth of quality Elden Ring content!
how can colossal swords be best weapon as it takes longest times for animations and recovery... also require careful welding
I'd like to mention that Zweihander's chagre R2 is a thrust attack which can be boosted by the Spear talisman. You'll see a MASSIVE 1,5x damage increase if you hit your enemy just in time. Paired with RKR ash of war, charged attack tear and talisman it makes your charged R2s absolutely devastating! I'm not speaking about extremely low stat requirements so even dexterity build could use it. That's why Zweihander is definately the best colossal sword in ER.
Zwei and bloodhound step it a good time. It’s a dragon killing sob the back dash followed with a L1 is glorious. Give it a try
Use a fire Zweihander and just level endurance paired with high poise THE LEGEND NEVER DIES
I'd like to see a video on flails or hammers (or both); something that does primarily strike damage. They're an underused weapon type, and between both classes there are quite a few options. Dual-wielding hammers is pretty fun and has a cool standard L1 move set.
Other than those, I'd also like to see a video on spears and/or great spears for block counter builds.
Love me some brickhammer + great stars when tired of using prelate's + giant crusher
On my first playthrough I went with the night rider’s flail, focusing on a block counter strategy; it counters extremely quickly and does high poise damage for its size.
Grafted Blade Greatsword has two main uses: Game of Thrones cosplay, and getting the Age of Order ending if you're not a mage (since you can stack the INT buff with others like the Stargazer Heirloom to get the 37 INT needed to cast Law of Regression).
How about a video showcasing what makes a weapon good or bad for ng+ and beyond without talking about a specific weapon class? I havent really found anything on that topic specifically and it could be a great opportunity to make people watch your (excellent) build guides. I feel like most people have made their way through the game by this point and may be interested in trying out ng+.
this! i know he's been saying which ones are good for ng+ and more on each weapons video, but a dedicated video seems to be needed. hope he makes one
it's basically if the weapon has more than one stat with decent scaling. so most weapons that are tri scaling will be good for NG+. Weapons that have good scaling for 2 attributes will also be good for NG+.
It’s basically as simple as, the more attributes that have decent scaling on the weapon, the better it is for NG+ cycles.
@@TheGayling2 damage outtake, stat requirement, weihgt and range
@@raho500 stat requirements shouldn’t even be a consideration in NG+. Weight becomes less and less important as you go through NG+ cycles due to having more points to put in Endurance. Range isn’t any more important in NG+ than it is in NG. It really comes down to “how much damage can I get out of scaling on this weapon” or “how fast can I proc status effects”.
I hope a dagger video will be coming!
I always wanted to try a back stab/parry build
Very simply, use a medium shield with carian retaliation or golden retaliation to parry. Small shields are worse in every way but weight.For staggering, use a short sword with face off or any heavy weapon to deal poise damage, switch to misericorde dagger for crit. Daggers can't stagger anything with it's ashes of war after flame of the redmanes was nerfed, unless you use ground slam, which is still worse than switching. Powerstance daggers are terrible with anything but bleed, and are the worst fast weapon for bleed. Without flinch and stagger damage, with low damage, low status build up, and bad ashes, daggers' only advantage is a short attack animation.
This is by far the best series on the channel.
I don't really care about the order of the next weapon types, but I'd love to see the same style of videos for shield types, staves, and seals.
Additionally, a video about armour could be made, not every piece of armor, but the standout ones (either with the best weight, poise ratio, highest poise, poise breakpoints, etc.)
Given the cool factor of Maliketh's Black Blade, I hope that in the DLC, which will hopefully come sometime in the future, enemies and bosses wont resist holy damage
Don’t let the holy damage scare you away from the weapon, destined death does insane hp% damage to late game bosses regardless. I absolutely shat on Malenia with it because the ash also stuns her as it hits and then knocks her down when it finishes. It’s also devastating against Elden Beasts massive health bar. The only downside to really consider is that your basic attacks won’t be as strong, but as long as you spam destined death (like you should) you’ll never even notice enemies with holy resistance.
I should certainly hope they won't, considering all the endgame bosses do lol
It's Fromsoft.
Holy damage is always crap against end game enemies.
Even elden beast stands no chance against Maliketh's black blade. You can absolutely melt healthbars of bosses with destined death, no matter how high the holy damage resistance may be.
*Against any enemies except undeads.* Fixed )
Great sword is so much fun and can be buffed. It can be used immediately if you have a bleed weapon and a golden fowl foot. It's in a carriage that's on the way to the 99k rune dragon (with the foot).
Good weapon to try for all players, since your swings are so slow you have to learn to be selective with attacks, no button mashing. This also forces you to dodge which is for some reason much easier using this style. 5th playthrough and it's the most fun so far, got to morgot without having to use any summons and I'm not very good at the game.
With so many of the videos breaking down weapons, I would like to request one video on armor. There would be plenty of topics to cover, such as poise thresholds, wether or not the bullgoats talisman would bump a set into a new threshold, the equipment weight categories (light, medium, and heavy), and comparing the relevant stats and unique effects of complete armor sets.
The only issue I have with current generation colossal swords. Is that there is no (apart from Godslayer, and Starscourge.) alternate move set. I think, what would’ve been cool is to have the vertical overhead swings return. Or, a way to “swap” the move sets in the round table. Other than that, Zweihander is absolutely THE best colossal. Hands down.
That simple stab heavy attack really is a handy tool. More colossal swords need a simple poke aside from the crouch poke.
Lion's claw might be the solution for that.
100% agree with the overhead swings. Honestly the only reason I still prefer DS3 colossals more
Ps: Gugs better
Also just too let yall know, the godslayers great sword is amazing in late ng+ because black flame is percentage based damage
the incant black flame also goes insanely hard late ng+. Fire giant, funny enough, is super weak to it because of his giant hp pool. I was at 40 something faith and could do 5k damage off of three uncharged casts with duel wield godslayer seals
@@WankMk2 absolutely
Same with mal’s blade
Beat every single boss with the Grafted Great sword first play through. The goal of my build was to make myself more a boss than the actual bosses - hits extremely hard, extremely tanky but doesn’t avoid a lot of attacks. What you need is a very heavy and strong armor. Against most bosses you will have to tank hits from time to time as the animation of each of your attacks is just that long. Also you are wasting a shit tone of endurance every hit and weight a lot. You will need to get a lot of endurance otherwise you are never getting more than 2 hits in a row because your endurance will just be spent. Used talismans for raw stats - Endurance, Vitality and Radagon’s soreseal. The last talisman I switched around depending on what I judged most useful at the time. Had 70 strength, 40 endurance, 50 vitality, 25 dexterity when I completed the game. The weapon also scales with dexterity a bit. Kept other stats at the minimum. You will never have any trouble with non Boss enemies excluding the knights with horned helmets. You are just staggering everything to death. Most enemies won’t get to move before they die. Weapon art is awesome and obviously easy to use - you just gain stats and you can truly stack a lot of raw stats with the weapon art + Godrick’s rune even early on. Levelling priority was Strenght -> Vigor -> Endurance -> I levelled dexterity only at the end of the game as I did not know what to put points in and it was giving my weapon more damage than strength was at this point. For my physick I used the one that increases stamina + the one that makes rolling smoother.
Just the kind of info i was hoping to find. Thank you
I'd love to see a daggers video! There are so many and a good breakdown of them all would be really helpful :D
You are welcome.
Agreed! Theyre so fun dual wielding w/ Parry Dagger in offhand
Would love to see a spears guide! Love the work you do, super informative and really well produced
I'd love to see a build that uses the pot throwing talisman.
The Backlogs is prob gonna make a firebomb only run of Elden Ring pretty soon
FrownyGaming made a jar barbarian build.
Barron's Castle "beat" the game as a vegetarian craftsman and used the pot talisman
A Jarbarian you might say?
@@UnluckyLux🥁
Literally consumed the majority of your ER content in the last week and a half. LOVE IT!!!
Oh man. I had no idea that Fire infusion gave better attack power for so many colossal swords. I've been sticking with Heavy on the assumption that it would be best for someone with 50 or 60 Str. That's great to know, thanks!
As you get more strength, heavy infusion will be better because of the better strength scaling. But fire is best for the early game
@@benjaminphipps8325 and with split damage you need to pass defense twice, for physical and elemental
Fire below 50-60 STR, then Heavy
Heavy would be better at 50 strength or beyond for most cases. Just because you have a higher AR with fire doesn't necessarily mean that you will deal more damage, since it is split damage and will have to go through defense reduction twice.
@@common_undeadTechnically four times, both flats- then the percentage reductions.
Fire scales with strength, flame art scales with faith. Generally leaving your great sword on heavy and buffing with bloodflame blade will give you more power than fire infusion. It also looks super fucking cool
Some weeks ago I finished my pure strenght run with only the greatsword and I was surprised how easy I came through, since I usually prefer magic and a bit distance. This thing cleaves through enemys like butter. Only Malenia and the Eldenbeast were really difficult but I beat them in the end.
I like how the Greatsword weapon, enemies, characters, and areas are references to Berserk. It’s a really cool tribute to Kentaro Miura
I dual wielded Ruins Greatsword and Black Blade in NG+2 and it’s absolutely insane. Use shard of Alexander, rotten wing sword insignia, with jump enhance talisman and dragoncrest great shield talisman. Clawmark seal for spells.. Literal walking death
I think it's a shame that the troll knight's sword is essentially the same as the troll's golden sword. Since it's a spell the troll knights actually use I think it would be cool if the troll knight sword came with greatblade phalanx built into it, it would make sense as an ash of war and it would really make the weapon really stand out since glintblade phalanx an ash of war that can't naturally be put on colossal swords
Wish granted
The great sword does extremely well on a blood infusion as well. High AR plus around 160 bleed damage. It'll bleed in 2 hits on most enemies. Use giants hunt ash and it's absolutely dumb how fast you take down everything.
appreciate the video. never stop brother. s+ tier guides
I'm doing my first run of the game pretty blind, and i managed to find the guts sword immediately and powerstancing that with the zweihander has been awesome!
“Two handing” the Starscourge greatsword does actually let you use it below 30 strength despite saying it doesn’t for those who don’t know.
Elden Ring, the endless builds!
So much replay ability 🤘🏼
Hey Cas! I’m back to ER after a long break! I’ve been playing ESO, you can thank Yuria for that.🤣🤣 Seems I have some catching up to do on your ER videos. As always, thank you for the time that you put into making these videos.
Also, the Godslayer GS is the best weapon in the game. The speed and weapon art combined with its stagger makes up for the lower AR.🤓
Just out of curiosity, were there any pros to the Troll’s Golden Sword or were they the same as the Troll’s Sword from earlier in the video? I saw that something was blurred out. Please keep these coming! I may not be playing the game anymore, but I love the deep dives on weapons.
The golden sword is better just for being able to change its aow
What I’ve found works best for the Godslayer’s Greatsword is keeping a second weapon in another main hand slot with the Glintblade Phalanx skill on it.
This allows you to quickly break the enemy’s poise in 2-3 casts and then switch to the greatsword skill with a longer window to use its ash of war. Using Phalanx to poise break instead of jump or heavy attacks also leaves you with plenty of stamina to pull off the initial and followup strikes of the black flame skill.
My favorite weapon class. I was waiting for this video!
10:02 Lol, the weapon art made you duck and dodge the incoming spear attack from the Godrick Knight :D
Staves and Seals would be a cool guide
Don't forget that The grafted blade greatsword skill also increases poise A LOT for a moment and also increases defence.
My top three are : #3 the greatsword, #2 royal greatsword, #1 Zweibae 😍😍😍
A video on staffs & seals would be awesome!
Godslayer Greatsword actually has a unique r1 moveset, it might need to be addressed
Interesting I just found great sword in Calied in the busted carriage. Never used it until now on a new character. This thing hits like a Mack truck even after DLC update recently. Can’t believe I ignored this sword! Great vid
We all know you are here to cosplay as Guts
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Greatsword was my first and only weapon for most of the game. And my friend dropped me another one so I just went pure physical. Got 40 STR and lots of endurance to even carry those two before putting any points in vigor xDD it was so much fun!
The watchdog great sword has better scaling on elemental infusions then the regular great sword. Thats the niche.
Godslayers great sword is amazing. Used it on my first play through and with the dex and faith scaling it got to 909 AR and 1001 if I buffed with an incantation. Dual wielded them all through ng+
Thanks for the Video. Every time you drop a video about an Elden Ring build, I want to do another play through trying out what I have learned.
I'm a fan of Colossal weapons. It makes things easier when enemies are unanable to hit you because they are constantly stun locked and they work pretty well as a shield. Very nice those of us who are pretty shitty at parrying!
Dex build with 23 strength and 60 dex will see better performance going lightning on zweihander and most especially the Greatsword in PvP when two handed in PvP, and will better than strength builds who go heavy and 2 hand at 53+ strength at 150 meta levels, due to lightning defence and lightning negation is low.
When you two hand a colossal all their motion values for say r1 become 114, and 105 for godslayer. Same applies for colossal weapons where it becomes 114.
Godslayer because of its swings has the faster acting hyper armour of all weapons.
Oath of vengeance on grafted blade greatsword grants 5 seconds of the buffed endure effect, while endure ash of war is 3 seconds.
So I know this is old but I still would like to mention that the faith fire scaling seems to have the highest reachable ARs in the game for basically anything I have tried it on. In spite of the fact that it seems to neuter the scalings. Which i find to be just confounding.
The Ruins Greatsword is what I used for my first playthrough into the second half of the game(Greatsword prior).
By far my favorite weapon in the game even today.
I've been waiting on this one for a long time! I'm happy to see it!
You should definitely not build strength with the godslayers greatsword, it is a dex faith weapon, which is ideal for spell casting, because you do about the same damage 1 handed vs 2 handed and dex also boosts your cast speed
Hard agree! I actually swap between shield and seal in the off hand and it's a ton of fun! (Aka. how I learned to stop worrying and love the fat roll 😂)
Nice video as always!
Next, maybe: fists/claws, daggers, spears.
yup, can confirm.
It’s simple - Fextralife posts an Elden Ring video, I click.
wow thanks dude that's amazing
I cant wait to see you try to make flails sound good lol
Great Hammers would be my vote for next.
Love content like yours no here are the meta options and ignore everything else. Just the stats, pros and cons, tips, and personal recommendations leaving the viewers to decide for themselves
royal greatsword in combination with a cold infused claymans harpoon that has the icespear weaponart on it is a nice combo to trigger frost from range and have amazing melee dmg
This is a great idea, definitely going to try it.
I was also thinking it might be fun to make a build that leans into the black blade lore and uses the black knife in the offhand for a faster weapon skill when you don't want to go all out with Destined Death. The requirements for the dagger will already be met in order to wield the Black Blade, and the faith scaling for the L2 should benefit some from the higher requirements for the Black Blade.
If you look at the elden ring build video on this channel, you will see the exact build you are describing
Been waiting for this vid. Colossal swords have become my favorite weapon class simply because they're, well, colossal swords. It is just satisfying to fight with one of these swords. Duel wielding these swords if you have the stats to spare is a fun sight to see.
dual colossal swords with jump attack talisman and the jump attack chest piece annihilates everything in the game. and makes you feel like a boss
zweihander is a great choice for dual wield with its low weight for the category
@@chanceparker4945 little man cant swing two dragonslayers?
Love the vid :). Thanks for taking your time doing these videos. Was looking for this!
Will we get one of these videos for staves and seals
I like how Fextra shows fights against regular enemies so not to spoil boss fights
Royal Greatsword is without question the most beautiful looking weapon in the game
Guts Greatsword is probably the best weapon on this list. Highest guard boost, longest reach, can change the ash of war and combat affinity too, allowing for more versatility and customisation depending on your situation. Can do both PVE and PVP with it too.
The only downside is the weight makes it one of the slower weapons to attack with, but if you get good enough using it abd work on your own timing for rolls and guard counters, you can easily mitigate those shortcomings.
The fact is that 80 str with 40 dex vigor and endurance plus Lions Claw AOW with Guts can tear through not just the base game but NG+ and half way into NG2 before needing to alter your build.
I've always appreciated the Royal greatsword. Finished my run with that bad boy.
But that ruins greatsword had been looking quite fun lately.
Hold on a minute, to me it looks like the godslayer greatsword has a unique r1 animation. Usually you get the side swings from ugs, but this is a bit more flowing, not quite the sexy moveset from banished/knights greatsword. But it still isn't the normal ones.
I wanna see either spears, or great spears next please mr Fex
Ruins Greatsword was a huge help for me getting through the Godskin Duo.
Great video!!! Please do one about staffs next!
A dagger or fist weapon video would be really cool since there’s a lot of variety there.
I’m trying to roleolay a black flame monk build with the black flame great sword. The faith requirement for some of the black flame incantation is very annoying. And it’s hard to hit some of the mobile bosses like Melania with them.
I hope you do one of these "Best Weapon" videos for Curved Greatswords!
I second that notion - please do a curved greatswords are OP vid!
Hey I just want to thank you since my main character uses malikeths black blade along with some of the incantations you mentioned and as a first time souls player hearing it be viable and seen as a good weapon brings me joy
Ok the infusion damage thing was by far the most helpful for me knowing which ones deal the most and that you can buff ur blade with the heavy infusion is really nice to know
Could you do spears next please? I found out they are extremely useful and versatile
Slashed through the game with the Greatsword, absolutely love it
One thing I wish the Starsocurge greatsword did is when you input the second part of its ash of war it would gravitate rocks to the sword just like Radahn when rocks are attached to his swords. When you do that the rocks give the greatswords and increase in damage and will stay on for maybe 3-5 minutes but it would also make your weapon swings a little bit slower. I hope you all like this idea.
Any colossal sword that comes with a build in thrust attack automatically gets used. Thrust / poke catches so many enemies off guard
Godslayer's sword was the only weapon that I used for a while that was not one of the katana's (which are my fav)
17:17 BLESPHEMY!! GUTS DRAGON SLAYER FTW!!
I enjoyed the play-through videos with the GUTS, and did one myself. It's too bad Flame of the Redmanes was nerfed. Spears next?
I'd love a video about spears or daggers
Request for a video on shields!!
Speeding directly to the Greatsword, rushing up the stats with Radagon‘s Soreseal has made for the most enjoyably easy time in the early to mid game since I dropped a Black Knight weapon for the first time.
Working on a Str/Faith Lightning build and this was very helpful!
Godslayer greatsword and seal are top tier together. I used them on my first play through and it was so fun. I used the black flame wave incantation (I forgot the name lol) and the fireball one along with the black flame buff. I’d use the wave for aoe and general mobs while using the fireball to start the flame proc before going in with the sword whiled buffed since in most cases yeah you will trade some damage if you don’t time it right. But this build carried me so far. The only reason I switched it up was bc of the dlc and I wanted to try the new weapons. Specifically wing stance lol
I just started my first Colossal build and really enjoyed the video. Thanks for all the info!
What an absolute perfect breakdown. All questions answered.
It’s awesome you’re still making these videos I love them
Thank you for such an informative video! Could you breakdown Greathammers next?
Please do spears next
it would be great to see some spears since i find the quite fun to snipe with the bolt of gransax
I liked most. The famous berserker/arngrim greatsword.(finishing strike) then followed by the royal. Not putting anyone down. But that two seemed the best of all.
I don't really like heavy and slow weapons, but they are really interesting type of weapons and a direct homage to the Berserk manga.
PS. I'm glad that Fromsoft found a word to describe this weapon type, and NOT just "Ultra Greatsword".
Been waiting on this one
Love this series of videos, thanks for still putting them out through all the content you make.
I have to disagree, great hammers carried me through the entire game and with their recent swing speed buff, it really did wonders for my build. I specifically was doing a faith build with Great mace with sacred infusion, Great Stars with holy infusion from ash of war, and coded sword as a back-up. Did pretty well for the most part, had little trouble on most enemies because I'd crush poise and do good damage. A couple bosses I had trouble with because they had holy resistance, but otherwise really fun build.
The Troll's Knight Sword and the Troll's Golden Sword can carry you for the majority of the game if you're going STR/INT, or pure STR, purely because of the weapon art.
Troll Roar is an incredibly powerful ash of war, not only for its damage, but for its posture/guardbreak AND hyper armor on the initial shockwave. It can deal with multiple enemies at once, by spamming the shockwave, or it can focus larger threats with the follow up attacks.
Not only that, but like it was mentioned in the video, there are a lot of damage boosting items to increase the deadliness of this AoW.
Besides, you can only the ash of war near the end of the game, so these two weapons, and the Troll Hammer, are your only choices.