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Hey, you do not need to two hand to pull off unsheathed. You can do it with a shield in hand as long as its has no art, or the ash No Art on the shield, from the npc at the war masters shack, if it has parry or some other shield art..then you have your shield for defense and just L2 to sheathe to do unsheathed...try it, its nice having that shield with it....thx for the vid.
I’ve been playing with the samurai build for about 16 hours and the only thing I feel you didn’t cover is when your backing away from a enemy if you jump while holding the bow and fire a shot off mid air it staggers most opponents attacks other than that you covered everything I know, great video!
As a first time "souls-like" player I loved starting as this class. I feel like things are probably a little easier early game than another class. It gave me a lot of leeway in learning the game's mechanics of ranged combat, blocking, parrying, and understanding the special ability and how it works.
@@Dlicious360pro you’re gonna get your ass handed to you on a plate a lot, I’m a newbie into the “Souls-Borne” games to, only played Bloodborne for like 7 hours before I bought Elden Ring… But the feeling you get when you kill the boss that murdered you 57 timed in a row is worth it
@@beltair6956 I only played DS1 and Sekiro .. and Elden Ring has been much easier so far.. Sekiro tho had me feeling like having the biggest dick in the world after beating it... cause unlike DS1 and Elden Ring, it has no summon/co-op, no OP builds, no grinding etc.. just a good old Gid Gud..
Honestly the Samurai is the way to go so far as stated it is “the easiest build for beginners” can’t stress enough how well balanced it is…Thank you for the video and tips
what happens if im a complete newb and idiot and sell my samurai armor and use some dumb heavy armor which makes me heavy which i didnt realize cuz im new? any way i can get it back? or use something else?
I started with this class. All of my friends tried other classes and are now super jealous. There's nothing like standing there in the unsheathe stance as an enemy barrels toward you just to slice it down in one shot.
Have to say your Elden Ring series has had such a great balance between plenty of great info, but nothing close to spoilers. Very well done! I'm so bad at the Souls games (still absolutely love playing them though), but can't wait to get lost in the open world!
Ye they showed gameplay mostly and changes. Also story is mostly in item discription and other things, which is so special about dark souls. I cant wait for lore videos and theories.
@@jonconley9680 I think I'm getting better, played for about 8 hours now and haven't lost a single soul! I mean, I've lost thousands of runes, but that's just a technicality 😂
@@BigMoney398 thats how they do it tho. But there will be a lot of lore videos on youtube. It will take a while tho before people can figure it out. And honestly some of those youtubers made amazing content on ds3.
It’s true, unsheathe makes this build what it is. Incredibly strong, I’ve been wrecking later game enemies with it, bleed helps a ton too. Never kept my starter weapon in any souls game but this
That's because this game lacks weapons lol. The Uchi and longbow are basically best items you can get from the get go making the rest of the game not as rewarding in my opinion... I used to love searching for chunks and stuff to craft a certain type of weapon but with this game they made it very basic and much easier for the Masses as far as that aspect goes
@@JoeySkidz Basically every enemy can drop their weapon and armour. There are quite few weapons around the early area and that pretty much increases as you go on. I think the actual difference is with ashes of war etc every weapon is much better compared to DS. The main thing I've noticed is the starting gear is a bit more important in terms of not being able to easily find it for other classes. In DS3 for example you could pretty much buy most of the starting weapons at the start. I've only found a few classes starting gear so far from merchants or looted from enemies.
I remember finishing my first round of Dark Sould, and in the End I was just battling it out with Gwyn. No dodging, no rolling, no blocking. Just me in the Havels armor swinging a great club, bashing and drinking estus. It wasn't clean...but it was spectacular.
Really enjoying playing as the Samurai class, the Unsheathe ability really cuts through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter. One thing I just discovered - if you equip the Brass Shield you can use Unsheathed and block with a shield simultaneously. The Brass Shield has no Skill attached to it, so if you combine it with the Uchigatana, then L2 defaults to Unsheathed. I’ve found this a lot easier and smoother than having to fiddle around with the two hands button combo, especially during bosses as you can keep your shield up and get in those opportunistic Unsheathed attacks!
I am not far in and no souls expert. so where do you get the unsheath from? I have a wind stomp thing ATM am I going to be able to swap it to unsheath or have I messed it up?
@@oph1066 Unsheathed is the default skill that is applied to your Uchigatana - it's the skill that's mapped to L2. You shouldn't need to obtain it. If you equip the uchigatana without a shield / hold with two hands, then the onscreen skill prompt should change to Unsheathed. Unless you've somehow overwritten the skill with something else, it should definitely be there.
Just east of the storm hill shack where you get the jelly fish summon, there is a place called warmaster shack. He sells ashes of war. Buy his "no skill" ash. If you go to gatefront ruins and loot the chest at the bottom of a set of stairs you can apply ashes of war to gear at any grace point. After doing these 2 things you can apply no skill to any shield, staff, torch, bow, etc. This allows you to have something in each hand and let's you do the ashes of war of your primary hand.
I've been testing each starting class out for around 5-6 levels each just to get the feel for how they'll play (naturally each and every one can be changed down the line, but I like to stay close to their starting archtype to keep with a theme...), and I find the Samurai is indeed the best class for beginners, and looking down the line can be an incredible bleed machine at endgame. Early on, Unsheath is *almost* broken.
I'm an absolute die hard Souls devotee and I've always preferred STR/DEX builds and that's why I picked the Samurai. I love playing a more defensive way and also using pyro and STR/DEX builds are great for that if you use light armor and dodge a lot. It's all risk reward though because it definitely makes you a lot easier to kill quickly in boss fights.
As someone who started off with Samurai, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to this class. Some other things to mention is in regarding the parrying technique with the shield to stagger your opponent to get some critical hits in as well as equipping the green turtle talisman to increase your stamina recovery speed since you'll be relying a lot on getting hits in as well as dodge rolling to increase the distance between you and your foe. Other than that, this is a great explanation. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for blurring the names of bosses. I really want to learn more about the game before starting but I don’t want to get spoiled on what I’ll discover. This helps a ton
You can also find ANOTHER uchigatana in one of the dungeons in the first bit. Try using one on off-hand and using L1 for more bleed build up ( all my ds2 homies love the powerstance)
The "Fanged Imps Ashes" Starting gift gives you a summon of 2 little imps that attack very fast and also apply bleed, and yes their bleed stacks with your Katanas bleed, so they are very synergetic and useful. Not sure if you can get the Fanged Imps later in the game but so far I have not come across them during normal play.
@@TotinosOtherBoy Weird, Im right in front of my screen on the Isolated merchant on the weeping peninsula this is his Items List: -Lantern -Arteria Leaf -Stonsword Key -Lost Ashes of War -Zweihander -Arrow -Great Arrow -Bolt -Ballista Bolt -Sacrificial Twig -Note: Walking Mausoleum No "Fanged Imp Ashes" for me in there Although it could be a case of them no showing because I already pick them as My starting gift, perhaps someone else that has not pick that as his starting gift can confirm.
@@TheLapetra its probably because you chose them as your start gift, probably a code that checks if you already have it in your inventory when you speak to him, and removes it from his purchase list if you have it in your inv
The Moonveil Katana’s skill is basically a direct upgrade to Unsheathe, and yeah, +10 with 60 Int and 40 Dex is stupid high damage, I tend to have the Meteroite blade in my offhand to duel wield, and obviously I dropped the bow entirely and use spells as my ranged option.
Thanks for your help! Other than a few hours trying DS3 this is my first dive into these games and your character selection, beginner guides, and samurai guides have made what would have been a very frustrating orientation into a lot of fun where I'm able to start enjoying the game right away.
I'd suggest getting the eclipse crest shield from the storm dungeon. It has 100% physical block. Low enough strength requirement and no skill so you can still use unsheath.
Unsheathe + Heavy Attack is often amazing for me. It has been staggering on first hit or one shotting. Also I noticed that over 35 dex my samurai slashes are super fast
@@samirmansour5321 hold strong attack + right click then release the strong attack first next is the right click and then click the left click you have to do it fast If you want to use two hands on katana it's E+Left click . Your katana must be on the right side to do this
I absolutely love this build! It inspired me to finally start playing the game as a Samurai (after trying a few builds) and love the move set, unsheath is a game changer for this build and combining with the longbow it is brilliantly effective!
I’m a newb when it comes to Souls Games, and this is my first one. All I’ve been doing today is researching how to play and I plan on starting the grind tonight. Video was super helpful!
All I play is Samurai. Got a knight build but I am a Samurai nut. Own 16 Samurai Swords\Katanas. Picked up a second Uchi. Dual wield jump L1 into combo is crazy. Thanks Fex. All I watch are your guides.
I am absolutely enjoying the samurai class in Elden ring and I will be taking these tips with me onto the battlefield thank you for this excellent video!
I started the game using this class and I just found another uchigatana. When you duel wield them you don’t have to two hand it to do the special move. So you can keep the faster one handed attacks from both swords and press L2 and immediately go into the special sword draw.
@@arthurleboutdur9153 Tbf he said “knights cavalry” in the same bit so I just assume he didn’t bother to censor it since he already said it, I mean he still could have censored it but he did the same with the runebear.
I found that putting a couple of levels into arcane in the earlier part of the game was very useful as it greatly increased the amount of items I picked up. Even a single level made a noticeable amount of difference.
I never play any of these games or fantasy games (just have been more in the mood of sci-fi games) but I bought the game just because I like the idea of being a samurai in it. Not to mention the attacks look satisfying watching your gameplay.
I haven't finished the video yet, so forgive me if you already said this, but the huge advantage the Sam has to me over other classes is it's potential for flexibility for hybrid classes. It, along with Vagabond has the lowest stats combined in int/faith/arcane, all of which are viable secondary stats for hybrid classes. Meaning if you are stuck and unsure which secondary stat you want, when at comes to respeccing you should still be fairly optimized if you want to respec at a later point. In contrast, if you want to respec something like Prisoner, which starts with 14 in INT, you are pretty much locked in to INT even if you respec unless you are willing to waste 6-7 points. Same with Bandit for Arcane and Prophet for Faith. You are locked into their respective main stats. In other words, if you are still on the fence or just want the flexibility to respec at a later point (assuming you are good with DEX as your physical stat and not STR), Samurai is the class for you. You're pretty much always optimal if you respec to either a ARC or FTH hybrid build, and only slightly behind Prisoner if you decide to go INT with your secondary stat. No other class has this much flexibility really.
i'm gonna do a Dex/faith character, but i can't decide between Confessor or samurai as my starting class. confessor gets me right in there with an armor set i like and the miracle catsing catalyst. but if i pick samurai i get a better starting weapon, but i don't know how hard it will be to obtain a faith catalyst and miracles. also.... does the confessor have bad starting stats somehow? i don't really get that part, ppl keep saying samurai is good for dex/faith cause of stats, but i don't really see why.
@@lillewilleman It's because of their stats in arcane and int, which both are 9 and 9 respectively. Contrast that with Samurai which has 9 and 8 respectively, so one less. If you are going for a dex/faith build, you will not be pumping either int or arcane, so you want those to be as low as possible. All of the other stats (str, vigor, endurance, mind, etc) all will need at least a couple points in them so it's not a big deal to have some starting point in those stats. Most weapons will need at least a little bit of str to meet their minimum requirement. You will need some vigor to stay alive. You will need some Mind for the FP. Endurance for the Stamina. Etc. But as a Dex/Faith build, Int and Arcane or essentially useless to you, and any points you put in them would be wasted so you want them to be as low as possible. So Samurai comes out ahead since as I mentioned, 9+8 is lower than 9 + 9 in their useless stats (INT and ARC). 1 wasted stat point isn't a HUGE deal though so if you like the look of Confessor I'd still go with it. What's more of a problem is when you start wasting a bunch of points like what I was trying to explain in my original comment. If you go Prisoner and decide to respec to DEX/FTH or DEX/ARC, you are wasting a TON of points in INT because it's base stats will always have 14 in INT if you respec. If you pick prisoner you are essentially locked into DEX/INT. With Samurai you have a ton more options if you want to respec. You could go full DEX or you could go DEX/INT, DEX/FTH, or DEX/ARC at respec. The only one that wouldn't be completely optimized is DEX/INT as Prisoner would beat it, but it's only a couple points so it's not that bad.
I was going to go for a spell sword build, so this seems to be the way. Plus a solid starting weapon is always great. Now I just need to figure out if twin blades are fun or just look like they would be fun.
@@lillewilleman Im in the same boat as you, lmk what you decide I used the katana in ds3 and never used magic so leaning towards confessor but if all that stuff is acquired pretty quick im good with samurai just incase i want to respec into something else later
@@twknd9451 there is a ashes of war merchant in the game you can search the location I don't remember he's location and he sell a ash of war named no skill if you buy that you can put it on your shield then you can use one handed unsheath
@@twknd9451 what this does is allow your weapon ability to be used even if you have a shield. If shield is not equipped then you have the weapon ability already
Love this video and all of your ER content. You’ve almost convinced me to start as a agile Sam over a tanky vagabond. Can I suggest doing a video on the vagabond next since a lot of beginners like myself are looking to use that class since it has been dubbed as the beginner class?
After finding another unchigatana in the death touched catacombs ( I think that's what they're called) I've been loving the dual wield uchis. I have the poison blade ash of war on the left hand one and it's been super useful, that weapon art applies a LOT of poison damage and so far its poisoned most enemies in one swing. That plus the bleed damage is great.
this was a huge help. I rage quit when the game first came out and go too busy to pick it back up. Finally did with samurai this time. Still suprt early but already much better expierence. Also knew what to expect this time lol
Just some clarification, you can use a shield and use unsheathe you just need to make sure it's not a parry shield or has a skill. Like Brass Shield which is a 100% phys shield. That's what I use since the guard counters are very strong and useful often. Also that Ashes of War that does no skill. Unsheathe is so nutty, the burst damage you can do with a 3-4 hit into a heavy Unsheathe (vertical slash) is gross. I've been able to insta phase bosses or skip phase transitions from my testing. So good, I love how strong bleed is in this.
This is a versatile build to start with I am noticing. The stat spread makes it viable to make a lot of builds by midgame. Even if you are sacrificing a level or two outside of wretch this might be the best starter build to pick if you just don't know what you want to do quite yet.
It's crazy that already I can be nostalgic coming back and looking at these videos. I wish there was a way to know you are about to have one of the best gaming experiences of all time! :)
Great video - super helpful thank you. One thing - you CAN use Unsheathe when using the katana one hand + shield. What's important is there is no skill on the shield (either one you've put on yourself, or an innate one like "Parry"). I use medium shields with 100% physical block and if there is no skill on it ....BAM, you get to Unsheathe with the katana! If you want to keep weight low, I can recommend the "Eclipse Crest Heater Shield" or if you can spare a little more weight, even the bog standard "Brass Shield" is great.
I went with Samurai though I usually go strength builds.. I got myself a twin blade to +4 with 6 flasks +2 within 5 hrs of game still early game.. pretty decent start so far
I'm not sure about other people's opinion on this ability, but the bloody slash weapon art is also super good. It's pretty quick, and is about double the range of a normal weapon swing, and does really good damage. I put it on my katana and I have no regrets. only drawback is that it costs a small amount of health, but I found it to be worth it.
just got this game and I've never played any souls games and man I am getting my butt kicked. Thank you so much for your video. I didn't even know about two handing the katana. I have been playing for about 3 hours and I'm dying a lot but the game is very fun. I can't wait to try all these things that you said in the video. Now I just have to figure out how to get out of work for the day. Thanks
Same... the thing about fromsoftware games is that they don't explain everything to u. They only tell u the game basics. I didn't even know u can use a skill.
I personally actually use the ability spinning slash. It works super well. As a samurai, you'll get surrounded by enemies quite often. Spinning slash not only hits multiple targets, but staggers easily. Gives you leeway to make your next move. I highly recommend it.
@@mohammadusman5883Probably too late to help, but on the way from the stormgate to the dragon bridge, there will be a knight in a shack on the right hand side next to the road.
There is a really early ashes of war ability that gives extra bleed. It also allows for arcane scaling which will increase bleed build up. It's very similar to the starting ability on the uchikatana. Those are both essential things for bleed builds. You can also get the dark whetstone that allows you to put bleed on any weapon, but that's end of mid game.
What a killer video dude!!! Absolutely helpful to me since I went blind and chose the samurai out of the love for using Katanas in games 😂. This is a major help with my build since I am still very new and haven’t don’t too much with the leveling up or game clearing.
I started playing as a vagabond class to get in to the whole elden ring system. No I'm on my samurai and the samurai soo mutch love. This guide will help me alot. Peace from Sweden
Adding a strike type weapon like a flail to this build will allow you to take on the majority of enemies in this game without losing damage output due to resistance to slash damage a lot seem to have. You can obtain one early in the Gatefront Ruins in Limgrave from one of the coaches you can loot. It requires 10 str and 18 dex with a D and C scaling respectively until you are able to change it to Keen, where is becomes E and B. This and the Nightrider Flail (obtained from a Night's Fury) are excellent damage dealers and both have the bleed effect. The Nightrider has a slightly slower swing but puts out more damage than the flail.
@@Severin69 In one of the two large black stagecoaches in Gatefront. That was over 70 hours ago for me so don't remember. They are easy to get to however.
This is my first experience with this type of game and although it's owning me, this build is keeping me playing the game. I want to beat the game with just the base build.
Samurai feels natural to me. I have a fath build around lvl 60. Trading damage and slamming incants bored me. Tried this. Like I said feels natural to me. I'll be looking through your channel for build tips. Thanks my brother
I went as a Samurai and it reminded me to the build I had in Dark Souls 3 the same Uchigatana and a Longbow, so I really felt at home, but I've been so into the Katana that I forgot about the bow completely altogether, but started leveling up Faith and Arcane to start mixing some incantations like fire and dragon breath and adding lots of blood attacks to the mix, I miss my unsheathe but I ended up placing Blood Slash on my main Uchigatana since it is a very strong long range attack, that its slower than Unsheathe but it does better posture damage and keeps me at a distance plus it looks very cool, but I also have a second Uchigatana to dual Wield them and that one still has the Unsheathe so I can switch to two hand that one if I feel like I needed or I'm missing it. I also got the Reduvia knife which has the Blood Blade weapon art that allows me to send blood slashing projectiles that also builds up bleed.
Dex/Faith samurai is straight cracked as well. Vigor/Dex/Faith with 20 str (for shield). Replace bow with sigil for lightning spear and electrify armament, grab jellyfish shield for defense and you're a god. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Thank you very much for this guide bud! I really appreciate it as this is my first from game and I chose this build as I love the look of this class and it's katana/bow!
I am so glad I found your channel before I get ready to venture out in this game. This video convinced me to start with the Samurai build because that unsheath ability looks so satisfying. I have also queued up your video on things to do at the beginning of the game, as well as your mid-level 50 build video on the Moonveil Samurai for when I get there. Your content is amazing.
The one boss you were fighting(bloodhound) or whatever it was has an amazing weapon that I still use. It scales high when you level it up with somber smiting stones and its weapon art is way better but similar as unsheathe plus if you heavy attack after you use your weapon skill it will insta teleport you to your staggered enemy causing another heavy attack. Has good bleed build up too.
For those who really want to see their enemies turn into a pool of blood I suggest putting some points into arcane and grab the bloody slash skill in fort Haight. It is a trade off with the unsheath skill, but what you can do is equip it onto another katana (uchigatana#2, or nagakiba) and switch them around when you want to. I also picked up bloodflame blade because it adds a cool buff and makes the katana look amazing.
I’m a samurai with a medium shield, maxing out health, stam, strength and dex. Parrying and shield heavy counter hits working a treat. Not using the bow much
SAME lol I’m glad we all had the same idea like. Samurai knight builds LOL. i think pumping mind a lil bit for spells is a good idea but I’m a melee guy not range user when it comes to these things. I think dex and vitality and endurance are some of my most important attributes rn. I think I’ll use the mighty shot shit just for the free damage and it doesn’t take much to pump ur mind to about 12 but I think we got good builds going lol.
I completely agree. The Uchigatana is amazing. I picked the Samurai more or less by accident. I didn't really know what to play, and then later I found out you can get all the other weapons and armors from stores. Or the kind of weapons from enemies. The Uchigatana, not. Even when not having mastered the special attack, its attacks are a little bit faster than the great swords, But still have some really good damage. One of the big drawbacks of the Dex play is that you miss out the str weapons you get early on at the first play through. But you don't need them. As the common looking Katana is such a sweet weapon. And you want to use the bow. The only thing I want to add is that having a shield can also very good. The problem is balancing the weight to stay in medium weight class. For some of the knights it's better to hide behind a shield than to jump around like a mad rabbit.
Played Astrologer my first time. This is my first Souls game. Got the Plat 2wice with Astrologer and now I’m trying out Samurai just for fun. It’s definitely an adjustment.
You can use a shield and still get Unsheathe. Just go buy the no-skill ashes (from Warmaster, almost due north from the start) and remove parry from the shield so that Unsheathe is always available.
Glad to see my build is pretty much inline with what you propose. I pumped DEX to 30 and STR to 25, working on Vigor and Endurance at the moment (both at 18). The bleed is just too good to pass on especially when I get to play with 2 friends, one of whom is using a cleric tank build and the other dual-wielding claws and using poison arrows. The charge heavy is usually good enough to land twice on squatting giants, sending them to the ground to be hacked to pieces easily. And the high DEX build makes sure your ranged attacks always stay useful even as your melee destroys the rest. I'm enjoying the dodge gameplay of the Samurai more than turtling behind a shield but I'll definitively be trying another character later and try either a mage or tank build.
I'm surprised you can't just use an ash of war that has a parry on it to change it so it has a parry instead of unsheathe. Either that or have it like how DS3 had it, where u had to time the unsheathe/hold to parry with literally the same Uchigatana.
Honestly, I had switched out the original Ash of War to Impaling Thrust, after buying it from merchant. I tried using the original, and yeah it's cool and quick, handy for some encounters, but when used it against Tree Sentinel I felt it too slow and didn't give enough damage. The thrust, I think, works better since it's piercing, maybe a little faster or slower I'm not sure, but the damage output is much more, especially when it's put on Keen. And I think it's able to repeat the attack in a quicker succession than the original.
I'm 12 hours in the game, got the Royal Remains armor set right away as soon as I could for the looks and the stats, raided the Limgrave tunnels and the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnels for enough smithing stones to get the Uchigatana to like +7, did Kenneth Haight's quest line to get Bloody Slash for more Bleed, and honestly I'm MELTING everything. Samurai's with Strength and Bleed are INSANE. Oh, and I also went through Castle Horne and did that. Only 12 hours in and I JUST beat The Fell Omen. There's so much to do in this game.
I was dying with Unsheathe but when I swapped it for quickstep I feel like I’m playing ghost of tshima now and combat is much more effective for me. Thanks for the video though everyone else was super helpful and I’ll revise unsheathe again later
So true for me too. Unsheathe was inconsistent and it frequently misses the L2 ... so I get caught trying to do a standalone R2 heavy, which is so infuriating! I'll try quickstep - good idea!
At first I chose the prisoner class which I didn’t really like and I was thinking about what class is best for me in my new file. This video has thoroughly convinced me that I should pick samurai, thank you very much.
I know this may be sacrilegious, but could a magic/ samurai build be possible or is the intelligence index just to low for it to be viable? Because what I've seen from gameplay is magic is kind of OP so having the Uchigatana with some powerful spells would be a pretty nice combo.
Follow your heart homie. I’m gonna do a magic/strength build and hope there’s somethin similar to the moonlight gs. Honestly the worst case scenario is just extra grinding to get powerful but I think it’s most fun to cast and swing equally
Great video! I'm a first time dark souls player and this video helped me a lot. One tip though watch out for cracks in the ground. You will not survive lol.
Man, I really have a hard time deciding what to class to roll... I don't want pure caster, I imagined something like paladin... but it feels like it would require me to spread attributes too thin... and deal quite low damage... but the upside would be that... I would be able to experiment with lots of faith spells and try different armor and weapons... Samurai on the other hand feels like it would be really straightforward... maybe more enjoyable to play because it has more damage and can even deal with ranged enemies... but it feels like he is almost done right out of the box... with very little experimentation and variety... Am I wrong?
You’re assessment is very accurate I’m about 25 hours into a confessor and wish I’d picked something else. None of his abilities are really high enough to be good at anything without extensive leveling. You re going to have to upgrade strength, and decent to use anything decent on the melee side. Intelligence and arcane will have to be upgraded a lot as well to do anything decent. Samurai is pretty much as if you leveled a confessor primarily toward melee and ignored magic. Confessor is definitely jack of all trades master of none with and emphasis on master of none. I have had to spend probably a combined 12 hours just on farming runes to get him even remotely effective on both sides.
@@justicedaniel3487 I started also confessor... and I'm currently pumping all into Vigor/Endurance/Strength to deal damage and be durable... and keep Faith/Mind on backburner but maybe put some points there from time to time.... so they won't fall too behind... and once I get either weapon to scale of faith or some nice incantation I'll put more points into Faith and keep mind at decent level... btw Intelligence and arcane is more of a spellcasters stats and confessors incantations won't benefit from them ... right? Maybe you are building your class a bit wrong? But I may be wrong... I'm no souls veteran and I've played only Sekiro all the way through...
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Could you at least give players a couple days with the game before you post things like this? Yall lame.
Hey, you do not need to two hand to pull off unsheathed. You can do it with a shield in hand as long as its has no art, or the ash No Art on the shield, from the npc at the war masters shack, if it has parry or some other shield art..then you have your shield for defense and just L2 to sheathe to do unsheathed...try it, its nice having that shield with it....thx for the vid.
@@inscrutablewut you could simply not watch the video, rather than being a whiny scold
Would love to see a vagabond build guide
I want to do a spellblade with the samurai
I’ve been playing with the samurai build for about 16 hours and the only thing I feel you didn’t cover is when your backing away from a enemy if you jump while holding the bow and fire a shot off mid air it staggers most opponents attacks other than that you covered everything I know, great video!
And you just changed my whole game with that tidbit of knowledge. Thank you
Awesome video for a beginner thanks so much!!
Been running Samurai for about 13 hours and that info coulda saved me plenty times
30 hrs in and I just learnt this. Cheers :D
Woah hold the fuck up
As a first time "souls-like" player I loved starting as this class. I feel like things are probably a little easier early game than another class. It gave me a lot of leeway in learning the game's mechanics of ranged combat, blocking, parrying, and understanding the special ability and how it works.
Easy? Lmao, i think i suck in this game 😂
@@Dlicious360pro you’re gonna get your ass handed to you on a plate a lot, I’m a newbie into the “Souls-Borne” games to, only played Bloodborne for like 7 hours before I bought Elden Ring…
But the feeling you get when you kill the boss that murdered you 57 timed in a row is worth it
@@beltair6956 bro I fought the beastman in the cage last night about 13 times and beating his bum ass was the best feeling
@@beltair6956 I only played DS1 and Sekiro .. and Elden Ring has been much easier so far..
Sekiro tho had me feeling like having the biggest dick in the world after beating it... cause unlike DS1 and Elden Ring, it has no summon/co-op, no OP builds, no grinding etc.. just a good old Gid Gud..
@@Mc4est You can play DS1 and Elden Ring offline too though
Honestly the Samurai is the way to go so far as stated it is “the easiest build for beginners” can’t stress enough how well balanced it is…Thank you for the video and tips
I’m a noob So I should play samurai?
@@nolifezay4636 yes
How do you do the attack charging from the swords shaft? I tried every button combo i just cant do it
@@lovelaugh7299 2 hand it/R1 + Y and then L2 followed by R1
what happens if im a complete newb and idiot and sell my samurai armor and use some dumb heavy armor which makes me heavy which i didnt realize cuz im new? any way i can get it back? or use something else?
I started with this class. All of my friends tried other classes and are now super jealous. There's nothing like standing there in the unsheathe stance as an enemy barrels toward you just to slice it down in one shot.
Good thing they can respec their character later on lol
I mean magic tho
Weeaboo wearin ass
Have to say your Elden Ring series has had such a great balance between plenty of great info, but nothing close to spoilers. Very well done! I'm so bad at the Souls games (still absolutely love playing them though), but can't wait to get lost in the open world!
Ye they showed gameplay mostly and changes. Also story is mostly in item discription and other things, which is so special about dark souls. I cant wait for lore videos and theories.
Def me lol. I ran around for 5 hours dying constantly before figuring out that I can't level until following PART of the main story lol
@@jonconley9680 I think I'm getting better, played for about 8 hours now and haven't lost a single soul! I mean, I've lost thousands of runes, but that's just a technicality 😂
@@runek100 i hate that i have to read the story tbh
@@BigMoney398 thats how they do it tho. But there will be a lot of lore videos on youtube. It will take a while tho before people can figure it out. And honestly some of those youtubers made amazing content on ds3.
It’s true, unsheathe makes this build what it is. Incredibly strong, I’ve been wrecking later game enemies with it, bleed helps a ton too. Never kept my starter weapon in any souls game but this
Yeah but... Cmon. It's an uchi lol we were never able to start with one of historically best souls weapon
@@curupa66 DS3 was pretty close there though.
Are you using an ash of war on it?
That's because this game lacks weapons lol. The Uchi and longbow are basically best items you can get from the get go making the rest of the game not as rewarding in my opinion... I used to love searching for chunks and stuff to craft a certain type of weapon but with this game they made it very basic and much easier for the Masses as far as that aspect goes
@@JoeySkidz Basically every enemy can drop their weapon and armour. There are quite few weapons around the early area and that pretty much increases as you go on.
I think the actual difference is with ashes of war etc every weapon is much better compared to DS. The main thing I've noticed is the starting gear is a bit more important in terms of not being able to easily find it for other classes. In DS3 for example you could pretty much buy most of the starting weapons at the start. I've only found a few classes starting gear so far from merchants or looted from enemies.
I remember finishing my first round of Dark Sould, and in the End I was just battling it out with Gwyn. No dodging, no rolling, no blocking. Just me in the Havels armor swinging a great club, bashing and drinking estus. It wasn't clean...but it was spectacular.
goat
Lmao and they say you need good reflexes for these games...nah bro..just be a chunky boi
This is the way, my child.
"Tank" you!
Was this playing in the background while you were doing it?
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Really enjoying playing as the Samurai class, the Unsheathe ability really cuts through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter. One thing I just discovered - if you equip the Brass Shield you can use Unsheathed and block with a shield simultaneously. The Brass Shield has no Skill attached to it, so if you combine it with the Uchigatana, then L2 defaults to Unsheathed. I’ve found this a lot easier and smoother than having to fiddle around with the two hands button combo, especially during bosses as you can keep your shield up and get in those opportunistic Unsheathed attacks!
I am not far in and no souls expert. so where do you get the unsheath from? I have a wind stomp thing ATM am I going to be able to swap it to unsheath or have I messed it up?
@@oph1066 Unsheathed is the default skill that is applied to your Uchigatana - it's the skill that's mapped to L2. You shouldn't need to obtain it. If you equip the uchigatana without a shield / hold with two hands, then the onscreen skill prompt should change to Unsheathed. Unless you've somehow overwritten the skill with something else, it should definitely be there.
You can get the ashes for unsheathed from that white rolling bag southern of agheel lake, the one filled with giant crabs.
Would this work with a staff in offhand? I was in process of beefing up my spellsword to wield a katana.
Just east of the storm hill shack where you get the jelly fish summon, there is a place called warmaster shack. He sells ashes of war. Buy his "no skill" ash. If you go to gatefront ruins and loot the chest at the bottom of a set of stairs you can apply ashes of war to gear at any grace point. After doing these 2 things you can apply no skill to any shield, staff, torch, bow, etc. This allows you to have something in each hand and let's you do the ashes of war of your primary hand.
I've been testing each starting class out for around 5-6 levels each just to get the feel for how they'll play (naturally each and every one can be changed down the line, but I like to stay close to their starting archtype to keep with a theme...), and I find the Samurai is indeed the best class for beginners, and looking down the line can be an incredible bleed machine at endgame. Early on, Unsheath is *almost* broken.
I'm an absolute die hard Souls devotee and I've always preferred STR/DEX builds and that's why I picked the Samurai. I love playing a more defensive way and also using pyro and STR/DEX builds are great for that if you use light armor and dodge a lot. It's all risk reward though because it definitely makes you a lot easier to kill quickly in boss fights.
Samurai will be my first class in my first souls like game. Super excited to see how good they actually are in combat. A few more hours I can’t wait.
I'm in the same boat as you.
Me toooooo
Same! Samurai let's go
Samurai warriors unite!
SAMURAI ASSEMBLE
As someone who started off with Samurai, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to this class. Some other things to mention is in regarding the parrying technique with the shield to stagger your opponent to get some critical hits in as well as equipping the green turtle talisman to increase your stamina recovery speed since you'll be relying a lot on getting hits in as well as dodge rolling to increase the distance between you and your foe. Other than that, this is a great explanation. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for blurring the names of bosses. I really want to learn more about the game before starting but I don’t want to get spoiled on what I’ll discover. This helps a ton
You can also find ANOTHER uchigatana in one of the dungeons in the first bit. Try using one on off-hand and using L1 for more bleed build up ( all my ds2 homies love the powerstance)
Which dungeon, please?
@@dogs-game-too I second that. Which one please?
which one?
@@paulmackenan6043 i want to say murkwater catacombs
The Uchigatana is in the "Deathtouched catacombs"! It's north east from the warmaster schack!
The "Fanged Imps Ashes" Starting gift gives you a summon of 2 little imps that attack very fast and also apply bleed, and yes their bleed stacks with your Katanas bleed, so they are very synergetic and useful. Not sure if you can get the Fanged Imps later in the game but so far I have not come across them during normal play.
How do you do the attack charging from the swords shaft? I tried every button combo i just cant do it
@@lovelaugh7299 Hold L2, then press R1. Has to be in your right hand and no parry in left, or 2 handing it.
Isolated Merchant in Weeping Peninsula sells em for 2000 rune
@@TotinosOtherBoy Weird, Im right in front of my screen on the Isolated merchant on the weeping peninsula this is his Items List:
-Lantern
-Arteria Leaf
-Stonsword Key
-Lost Ashes of War
-Zweihander
-Arrow
-Great Arrow
-Bolt
-Ballista Bolt
-Sacrificial Twig
-Note: Walking Mausoleum
No "Fanged Imp Ashes" for me in there Although it could be a case of them no showing because I already pick them as My starting gift, perhaps someone else that has not pick that as his starting gift can confirm.
@@TheLapetra its probably because you chose them as your start gift, probably a code that checks if you already have it in your inventory when you speak to him, and removes it from his purchase list if you have it in your inv
The Unsheathe ability also works with the heavy attack and tends to wreck enemies poise, plus it deal a lot of damage
yeah i almost use only the heavy one lmfao
The Moonveil Katana’s skill is basically a direct upgrade to Unsheathe, and yeah, +10 with 60 Int and 40 Dex is stupid high damage, I tend to have the Meteroite blade in my offhand to duel wield, and obviously I dropped the bow entirely and use spells as my ranged option.
This helped me like crazy. Beat Margit by spamming arrows and unsheate, went down much easier than my last attempts
Thanks for your help! Other than a few hours trying DS3 this is my first dive into these games and your character selection, beginner guides, and samurai guides have made what would have been a very frustrating orientation into a lot of fun where I'm able to start enjoying the game right away.
Im about 5 hours INTO the game with samurai build .. loving it! Thanks for the top quality videos!
Same place as you
Looks like a class for me. Distance combat fusion with close combat is perfect!
@@K0xm4N I'm trying out the samurai but gonna put a few points for arcane/magic. Use magic for buffs and whatnots.
@@stephenhowes6509 arcane boosts bleed damage too
@@Kameraspie how do you know that? Genuinely curious.
I'd suggest getting the eclipse crest shield from the storm dungeon. It has 100% physical block. Low enough strength requirement and no skill so you can still use unsheath.
Warmaster also sells the nothing ash skill, for removing parry and other shields skills.
Silly question: how can I use "unsheath"...I have it but in all honesty I don't know how to use it. I play the game on PC.
@@Nitu_S.C. use it woth two hands, hold r2
@@JL-jj1oj He said he plays on the PC. r2 is a controller button.
@@Nitu_S.C. Hold Shift and then left click
I'd love to see an Assassin build of some sort that makes use of mimics, dark spells, quick attacks that also rewards stagger kills etc
Unsheathe + Heavy Attack is often amazing for me. It has been staggering on first hit or one shotting. Also I noticed that over 35 dex my samurai slashes are super fast
ill do that for my spell samurai , thanks man
@@SGVB22 no problem! That sounds like a fun build. I'm gonna make an advanced samurai guide. I've been addicted lol
@@BltzZ lol I'm planning to make a samurai with fire powers.
How do you do the attack at 3:14 on pc
@@samirmansour5321 hold strong attack + right click then release the strong attack first next is the right click and then click the left click you have to do it fast
If you want to use two hands on katana it's E+Left click . Your katana must be on the right side to do this
I absolutely love this build! It inspired me to finally start playing the game as a Samurai (after trying a few builds) and love the move set, unsheath is a game changer for this build and combining with the longbow it is brilliantly effective!
I’m a newb when it comes to Souls Games, and this is my first one. All I’ve been doing today is researching how to play and I plan on starting the grind tonight. Video was super helpful!
Good luck, be patient and don’t give up!
This is exactly the guide I wanted. Thank you!
All I play is Samurai. Got a knight build but I am a Samurai nut. Own 16 Samurai Swords\Katanas. Picked up a second Uchi. Dual wield jump L1 into combo is crazy. Thanks Fex. All I watch are your guides.
I am absolutely enjoying the samurai class in Elden ring and I will be taking these tips with me onto the battlefield thank you for this excellent video!
How do you do the attack charging from the swords shaft? I tried every button combo i just cant do it
@@lovelaugh7299 first you need to switch the katana to dual handed mode by pressing triangle + R1, and then press L2 to sheath blade
I started the game using this class and I just found another uchigatana. When you duel wield them you don’t have to two hand it to do the special move. So you can keep the faster one handed attacks from both swords and press L2 and immediately go into the special sword draw.
Where did you find the 2nd uchigatana?
@@gp381 yea bro where tf u get it reply pls
@@gp381 It's near Warmaster Shack, in the Deathtouched Catacombs! :)
@@jcbsalexyahoo It's near Warmaster Shack, in the Deathtouched Catacombs! :)
@@NotaUA-camr69 I know where Warmaster shack is but not deathtouched catacombs. But I'll search near that area for it. Thanks
You know you are watching the right person when you see that they actually censored the boss names to avoid even the tiniest spoiler.
4:05
@@arthurleboutdur9153 Yeah kinda spoiled a boss and quite a few NPC's along the way lol...
I was just about to site 4:05 but someone beat me too it. There are NPCs that are also revealed. But hey too many likes to turn back now am I right 😎
@@arthurleboutdur9153 Tbf he said “knights cavalry” in the same bit so I just assume he didn’t bother to censor it since he already said it, I mean he still could have censored it but he did the same with the runebear.
I found that putting a couple of levels into arcane in the earlier part of the game was very useful as it greatly increased the amount of items I picked up. Even a single level made a noticeable amount of difference.
I never play any of these games or fantasy games (just have been more in the mood of sci-fi games) but I bought the game just because I like the idea of being a samurai in it. Not to mention the attacks look satisfying watching your gameplay.
I started out with samurai and 10 hours in I found this video... WISH I FOUND IT EARLIER MAN THIS IS HELPFUL!!
I haven't finished the video yet, so forgive me if you already said this, but the huge advantage the Sam has to me over other classes is it's potential for flexibility for hybrid classes. It, along with Vagabond has the lowest stats combined in int/faith/arcane, all of which are viable secondary stats for hybrid classes. Meaning if you are stuck and unsure which secondary stat you want, when at comes to respeccing you should still be fairly optimized if you want to respec at a later point. In contrast, if you want to respec something like Prisoner, which starts with 14 in INT, you are pretty much locked in to INT even if you respec unless you are willing to waste 6-7 points. Same with Bandit for Arcane and Prophet for Faith. You are locked into their respective main stats. In other words, if you are still on the fence or just want the flexibility to respec at a later point (assuming you are good with DEX as your physical stat and not STR), Samurai is the class for you. You're pretty much always optimal if you respec to either a ARC or FTH hybrid build, and only slightly behind Prisoner if you decide to go INT with your secondary stat. No other class has this much flexibility really.
i'm gonna do a Dex/faith character, but i can't decide between Confessor or samurai as my starting class.
confessor gets me right in there with an armor set i like and the miracle catsing catalyst.
but if i pick samurai i get a better starting weapon, but i don't know how hard it will be to obtain a faith catalyst and miracles.
also.... does the confessor have bad starting stats somehow? i don't really get that part, ppl keep saying samurai is good for dex/faith cause of stats, but i don't really see why.
@@lillewilleman It's because of their stats in arcane and int, which both are 9 and 9 respectively. Contrast that with Samurai which has 9 and 8 respectively, so one less. If you are going for a dex/faith build, you will not be pumping either int or arcane, so you want those to be as low as possible. All of the other stats (str, vigor, endurance, mind, etc) all will need at least a couple points in them so it's not a big deal to have some starting point in those stats. Most weapons will need at least a little bit of str to meet their minimum requirement. You will need some vigor to stay alive. You will need some Mind for the FP. Endurance for the Stamina. Etc. But as a Dex/Faith build, Int and Arcane or essentially useless to you, and any points you put in them would be wasted so you want them to be as low as possible. So Samurai comes out ahead since as I mentioned, 9+8 is lower than 9 + 9 in their useless stats (INT and ARC). 1 wasted stat point isn't a HUGE deal though so if you like the look of Confessor I'd still go with it. What's more of a problem is when you start wasting a bunch of points like what I was trying to explain in my original comment. If you go Prisoner and decide to respec to DEX/FTH or DEX/ARC, you are wasting a TON of points in INT because it's base stats will always have 14 in INT if you respec. If you pick prisoner you are essentially locked into DEX/INT. With Samurai you have a ton more options if you want to respec. You could go full DEX or you could go DEX/INT, DEX/FTH, or DEX/ARC at respec. The only one that wouldn't be completely optimized is DEX/INT as Prisoner would beat it, but it's only a couple points so it's not that bad.
Some people (like myself) are going for the full Physical damage on their first run. I used similar technique in all Souls and Bloodborne.
I was going to go for a spell sword build, so this seems to be the way. Plus a solid starting weapon is always great. Now I just need to figure out if twin blades are fun or just look like they would be fun.
@@lillewilleman Im in the same boat as you, lmk what you decide I used the katana in ds3 and never used magic so leaning towards confessor but if all that stuff is acquired pretty quick im good with samurai just incase i want to respec into something else later
This was super helpful, this is my first souls game so I felt a bit lost but I feel better about my choice to roll with the samurai now
You can use unsheathe 1 handed you just have to put the ability "no skill" on your shield, then unsheathed will replace parry
please can you explain that in more detail
@@twknd9451 there is a ashes of war merchant in the game you can search the location I don't remember he's location and he sell a ash of war named no skill if you buy that you can put it on your shield then you can use one handed unsheath
@@DemonicP666 and do i need to equip my shield even tho i don’t use it or i can just not equip it?
@@twknd9451 I think you need to equip your shield I never tested out myself
@@twknd9451 what this does is allow your weapon ability to be used even if you have a shield. If shield is not equipped then you have the weapon ability already
Elden Ring being the first Souls game I'm devoting time to, I really appreciate this guide. Really well-done.
Love this video and all of your ER content. You’ve almost convinced me to start as a agile Sam over a tanky vagabond. Can I suggest doing a video on the vagabond next since a lot of beginners like myself are looking to use that class since it has been dubbed as the beginner class?
Agree
Some great tips here, watching you handle that horseman was a revelation, I been playing this class all wrong.
Haha same... I started the game over bc of this video
After finding another unchigatana in the death touched catacombs ( I think that's what they're called) I've been loving the dual wield uchis. I have the poison blade ash of war on the left hand one and it's been super useful, that weapon art applies a LOT of poison damage and so far its poisoned most enemies in one swing. That plus the bleed damage is great.
this was a huge help. I rage quit when the game first came out and go too busy to pick it back up. Finally did with samurai this time. Still suprt early but already much better expierence. Also knew what to expect this time lol
Just some clarification, you can use a shield and use unsheathe you just need to make sure it's not a parry shield or has a skill. Like Brass Shield which is a 100% phys shield. That's what I use since the guard counters are very strong and useful often. Also that Ashes of War that does no skill. Unsheathe is so nutty, the burst damage you can do with a 3-4 hit into a heavy Unsheathe (vertical slash) is gross. I've been able to insta phase bosses or skip phase transitions from my testing. So good, I love how strong bleed is in this.
THANK YOU.
this is technically my first souls-like game so this is beyond helpful
This is a versatile build to start with I am noticing. The stat spread makes it viable to make a lot of builds by midgame. Even if you are sacrificing a level or two outside of wretch this might be the best starter build to pick if you just don't know what you want to do quite yet.
Probably the first video that has made me confident this game isn't too much for me , thank you!
NGL, it's actually insane that you start off with the uchigatana. That alone already makes this class strong
For low level PvP it's outrageous. Everything else is garbage compared to the unsheathe bleed combos you can pull off.
It's crazy that already I can be nostalgic coming back and looking at these videos. I wish there was a way to know you are about to have one of the best gaming experiences of all time! :)
The video I needed. Samurai all the way for me.
Great video - super helpful thank you. One thing - you CAN use Unsheathe when using the katana one hand + shield. What's important is there is no skill on the shield (either one you've put on yourself, or an innate one like "Parry"). I use medium shields with 100% physical block and if there is no skill on it ....BAM, you get to Unsheathe with the katana! If you want to keep weight low, I can recommend the "Eclipse Crest Heater Shield" or if you can spare a little more weight, even the bog standard "Brass Shield" is great.
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This is my first souls game, so these build guides are really helping me understand how to play a lot better. Thank you for such a good guide
Having just got the Moonveil, it's ability is basically unsheathe but make it fabulous
thank you bro you have no idea how much these videos help fromsoft noobs like myself with the game and how to learn the system
I went with Samurai though I usually go strength builds.. I got myself a twin blade to +4 with 6 flasks +2 within 5 hrs of game still early game.. pretty decent start so far
I see you followed that video, lmao
I'm not sure about other people's opinion on this ability, but the bloody slash weapon art is also super good. It's pretty quick, and is about double the range of a normal weapon swing, and does really good damage. I put it on my katana and I have no regrets. only drawback is that it costs a small amount of health, but I found it to be worth it.
just got this game and I've never played any souls games and man I am getting my butt kicked. Thank you so much for your video. I didn't even know about two handing the katana. I have been playing for about 3 hours and I'm dying a lot but the game is very fun. I can't wait to try all these things that you said in the video. Now I just have to figure out how to get out of work for the day. Thanks
Same... the thing about fromsoftware games is that they don't explain everything to u. They only tell u the game basics. I didn't even know u can use a skill.
Spoiler: YOU WILL DIE....
A LOT!!!
Just gotta say you have been an absolute Legend man. Thank you for your work.
I personally actually use the ability spinning slash. It works super well. As a samurai, you'll get surrounded by enemies quite often. Spinning slash not only hits multiple targets, but staggers easily. Gives you leeway to make your next move. I highly recommend it.
how to get it
@@mohammadusman5883Probably too late to help, but on the way from the stormgate to the dragon bridge, there will be a knight in a shack on the right hand side next to the road.
I’ve been playing as the Samurai for the last few days. Just came across your vid and it’s a HUGE help for my gameplay 👏🏽
Very helpful. I've been playing with the Samurai and this helped a lot. Can't wait to dive back into the game now.
Just got this game started as samurai this helped a lot keep doing your thing
There is a really early ashes of war ability that gives extra bleed. It also allows for arcane scaling which will increase bleed build up. It's very similar to the starting ability on the uchikatana. Those are both essential things for bleed builds. You can also get the dark whetstone that allows you to put bleed on any weapon, but that's end of mid game.
Where is the early ashes of war ability for extra bleed? 😊
@@BigBaz1921 in the southern fort of east limgrave. Just follow the road to south east.
@@MsSpirit31 cheers buddy 👍🏻
This is my first time playing a game like this, so confused on what to do but can't stop playing
What a killer video dude!!! Absolutely helpful to me since I went blind and chose the samurai out of the love for using Katanas in games 😂. This is a major help with my build since I am still very new and haven’t don’t too much with the leveling up or game clearing.
I started playing as a vagabond class to get in to the whole elden ring system. No I'm on my samurai and the samurai soo mutch love. This guide will help me alot. Peace from Sweden
Adding a strike type weapon like a flail to this build will allow you to take on the majority of enemies in this game without losing damage output due to resistance to slash damage a lot seem to have. You can obtain one early in the Gatefront Ruins in Limgrave from one of the coaches you can loot. It requires 10 str and 18 dex with a D and C scaling respectively until you are able to change it to Keen, where is becomes E and B. This and the Nightrider Flail (obtained from a Night's Fury) are excellent damage dealers and both have the bleed effect. The Nightrider has a slightly slower swing but puts out more damage than the flail.
Good tip that.
Can you remember where exactly it was?
@@Severin69 In one of the two large black stagecoaches in Gatefront. That was over 70 hours ago for me so don't remember. They are easy to get to however.
100% agree. I found this out when going into one of the crystal caves. Having a strike weapon vs a slash makes a big difference
This is my first experience with this type of game and although it's owning me, this build is keeping me playing the game. I want to beat the game with just the base build.
I'm super excited to play this class!
Thank you
Samurai feels natural to me. I have a fath build around lvl 60. Trading damage and slamming incants bored me. Tried this. Like I said feels natural to me. I'll be looking through your channel for build tips. Thanks my brother
Loving this class so far. As Father Owl told us: "Hesitation is Defeat"
pretty sure that was Isshin
It was Isshin mate
Lol I thought Owl said it when you fight him where Genichiro was
Uchigatana + Bloody Slash Ash of War and the Wakizashi in my left hand is what I’ve been using lately. Pretty fun set up!
I went as a Samurai and it reminded me to the build I had in Dark Souls 3 the same Uchigatana and a Longbow, so I really felt at home, but I've been so into the Katana that I forgot about the bow completely altogether, but started leveling up Faith and Arcane to start mixing some incantations like fire and dragon breath and adding lots of blood attacks to the mix, I miss my unsheathe but I ended up placing Blood Slash on my main Uchigatana since it is a very strong long range attack, that its slower than Unsheathe but it does better posture damage and keeps me at a distance plus it looks very cool, but I also have a second Uchigatana to dual Wield them and that one still has the Unsheathe so I can switch to two hand that one if I feel like I needed or I'm missing it. I also got the Reduvia knife which has the Blood Blade weapon art that allows me to send blood slashing projectiles that also builds up bleed.
Dex/Faith samurai is straight cracked as well. Vigor/Dex/Faith with 20 str (for shield). Replace bow with sigil for lightning spear and electrify armament, grab jellyfish shield for defense and you're a god. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
This game is quite overwhelming having not played any souls games, loving the challenge though
I love my Samurai build so far. And after watching your video it's going to get a whole lot better. ⛩
If you build it right and have a certain ash. Then you can one shot some bosses. I’m 40 hours in and have a beast class setup.
Thank you very much for this guide bud! I really appreciate it as this is my first from game and I chose this build as I love the look of this class and it's katana/bow!
I am so glad I found your channel before I get ready to venture out in this game. This video convinced me to start with the Samurai build because that unsheath ability looks so satisfying. I have also queued up your video on things to do at the beginning of the game, as well as your mid-level 50 build video on the Moonveil Samurai for when I get there. Your content is amazing.
For those of you who wish to duel wield as samurai, there is a wakasashi in gaol cave
Is it a short sword or dagger? I was hoping for one to make a theif build!
@@voidabstraction dagger technically
Incredible! This short video has given me so many ideas! Thank you
The one boss you were fighting(bloodhound) or whatever it was has an amazing weapon that I still use. It scales high when you level it up with somber smiting stones and its weapon art is way better but similar as unsheathe plus if you heavy attack after you use your weapon skill it will insta teleport you to your staggered enemy causing another heavy attack. Has good bleed build up too.
what's the name of the weapon?
@@amigocaffe bloodhounds fang
@@EnergiaMartialArts Thank you! I got it, upgraded it and use it with great success. Cheers
For those who really want to see their enemies turn into a pool of blood I suggest putting some points into arcane and grab the bloody slash skill in fort Haight. It is a trade off with the unsheath skill, but what you can do is equip it onto another katana (uchigatana#2, or nagakiba) and switch them around when you want to. I also picked up bloodflame blade because it adds a cool buff and makes the katana look amazing.
I’m a samurai with a medium shield, maxing out health, stam, strength and dex. Parrying and shield heavy counter hits working a treat. Not using the bow much
Same
SAME lol I’m glad we all had the same idea like. Samurai knight builds LOL. i think pumping mind a lil bit for spells is a good idea but I’m a melee guy not range user when it comes to these things. I think dex and vitality and endurance are some of my most important attributes rn. I think I’ll use the mighty shot shit just for the free damage and it doesn’t take much to pump ur mind to about 12 but I think we got good builds going lol.
I use bronze shield currently with no skill. Going to get a tower shield with nothing as it’s ash specialization when I can, to keep unsheathe.
Why didnt this guy say strength, i feel like strength is important too?
I completely agree. The Uchigatana is amazing.
I picked the Samurai more or less by accident. I didn't really know what to play, and then later I found out you can get all the other weapons and armors from stores. Or the kind of weapons from enemies. The Uchigatana, not.
Even when not having mastered the special attack, its attacks are a little bit faster than the great swords, But still have some really good damage.
One of the big drawbacks of the Dex play is that you miss out the str weapons you get early on at the first play through. But you don't need them. As the common looking Katana is such a sweet weapon. And you want to use the bow.
The only thing I want to add is that having a shield can also very good. The problem is balancing the weight to stay in medium weight class. For some of the knights it's better to hide behind a shield than to jump around like a mad rabbit.
I’m thinking about starting with this but would like to also use magic. Will you be making any hybrid build videos like that? I hope so
You want to look at the prisoner class. Which is what I'm gonna rock
just go for the prisoner class dude, it's literally the combination of the samurai and astrologer(the pure magic class)
I'm work the samurai and just level up faith for da pyros lol
I’m thinking of doing the same.
That was my idea as well; I want the armour and the ability to use magic
Played Astrologer my first time. This is my first Souls game. Got the Plat 2wice with Astrologer and now I’m trying out Samurai just for fun. It’s definitely an adjustment.
Something to note, to use " Unsheathe" you can also do it one handed if your off hand has nothing in it.
ive been playing my samurai like a samurai and a mage and its working pretty well since i can do great melee damage and great range damage
You can use a shield and still get Unsheathe. Just go buy the no-skill ashes (from Warmaster, almost due north from the start) and remove parry from the shield so that Unsheathe is always available.
Thanks for the tip
Glad to see my build is pretty much inline with what you propose. I pumped DEX to 30 and STR to 25, working on Vigor and Endurance at the moment (both at 18). The bleed is just too good to pass on especially when I get to play with 2 friends, one of whom is using a cleric tank build and the other dual-wielding claws and using poison arrows.
The charge heavy is usually good enough to land twice on squatting giants, sending them to the ground to be hacked to pieces easily. And the high DEX build makes sure your ranged attacks always stay useful even as your melee destroys the rest. I'm enjoying the dodge gameplay of the Samurai more than turtling behind a shield but I'll definitively be trying another character later and try either a mage or tank build.
I'd like to see what the parry's look like with the Uchigatana/Samurai sword.
Can only parry wit a shield. Lame game
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You can counter with samurai sword. Timed the block then straight after hard strike.
I'm surprised you can't just use an ash of war that has a parry on it to change it so it has a parry instead of unsheathe. Either that or have it like how DS3 had it, where u had to time the unsheathe/hold to parry with literally the same Uchigatana.
I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima... in Dark Souls!!!! That's awesome!
Honestly, I had switched out the original Ash of War to Impaling Thrust, after buying it from merchant. I tried using the original, and yeah it's cool and quick, handy for some encounters, but when used it against Tree Sentinel I felt it too slow and didn't give enough damage. The thrust, I think, works better since it's piercing, maybe a little faster or slower I'm not sure, but the damage output is much more, especially when it's put on Keen. And I think it's able to repeat the attack in a quicker succession than the original.
I'm 12 hours in the game, got the Royal Remains armor set right away as soon as I could for the looks and the stats, raided the Limgrave tunnels and the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnels for enough smithing stones to get the Uchigatana to like +7, did Kenneth Haight's quest line to get Bloody Slash for more Bleed, and honestly I'm MELTING everything.
Samurai's with Strength and Bleed are INSANE.
Oh, and I also went through Castle Horne and did that. Only 12 hours in and I JUST beat The Fell Omen. There's so much to do in this game.
Can you make a Battle Mage build video?
I was dying with Unsheathe but when I swapped it for quickstep I feel like I’m playing ghost of tshima now and combat is much more effective for me. Thanks for the video though everyone else was super helpful and I’ll revise unsheathe again later
So true for me too. Unsheathe was inconsistent and it frequently misses the L2 ... so I get caught trying to do a standalone R2 heavy, which is so infuriating! I'll try quickstep - good idea!
@@plasmodesma7569 yhhh same
Thanks for the amazing review and useful tips. It helped me out a lot 💯🔥
At first I chose the prisoner class which I didn’t really like and I was thinking about what class is best for me in my new file. This video has thoroughly convinced me that I should pick samurai, thank you very much.
I know this may be sacrilegious, but could a magic/ samurai build be possible or is the intelligence index just to low for it to be viable? Because what I've seen from gameplay is magic is kind of OP so having the Uchigatana with some powerful spells would be a pretty nice combo.
Follow your heart homie. I’m gonna do a magic/strength build and hope there’s somethin similar to the moonlight gs. Honestly the worst case scenario is just extra grinding to get powerful but I think it’s most fun to cast and swing equally
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Great video! I'm a first time dark souls player and this video helped me a lot. One tip though watch out for cracks in the ground. You will not survive lol.
Man, I really have a hard time deciding what to class to roll... I don't want pure caster, I imagined something like paladin... but it feels like it would require me to spread attributes too thin... and deal quite low damage... but the upside would be that... I would be able to experiment with lots of faith spells and try different armor and weapons... Samurai on the other hand feels like it would be really straightforward... maybe more enjoyable to play because it has more damage and can even deal with ranged enemies... but it feels like he is almost done right out of the box... with very little experimentation and variety... Am I wrong?
You’re assessment is very accurate I’m about 25 hours into a confessor and wish I’d picked something else. None of his abilities are really high enough to be good at anything without extensive leveling. You re going to have to upgrade strength, and decent to use anything decent on the melee side. Intelligence and arcane will have to be upgraded a lot as well to do anything decent. Samurai is pretty much as if you leveled a confessor primarily toward melee and ignored magic. Confessor is definitely jack of all trades master of none with and emphasis on master of none. I have had to spend probably a combined 12 hours just on farming runes to get him even remotely effective on both sides.
@@justicedaniel3487 I started also confessor... and I'm currently pumping all into Vigor/Endurance/Strength to deal damage and be durable... and keep Faith/Mind on backburner but maybe put some points there from time to time.... so they won't fall too behind... and once I get either weapon to scale of faith or some nice incantation I'll put more points into Faith and keep mind at decent level... btw Intelligence and arcane is more of a spellcasters stats and confessors incantations won't benefit from them ... right? Maybe you are building your class a bit wrong? But I may be wrong... I'm no souls veteran and I've played only Sekiro all the way through...