Platinum in probably 6-8 hours. And same didn’t know they did anything either.. never bothered to look into it 😳 Edit: I was 6-8 days away from platinum. Total took about a month
Not sure if anyone has said it yet but I think its really cool that you try to use every item you get from the rewards rather than just sticking with the strongest items you have. It makes the runs alot more intresting and fun to watch. Awesome video!
Can't wait for the Ymfah version where he glitches a +0 harp bow to cast fire's deadly sin because he absolutely cannot use anything that isn't from a painting reward and has to use every painting reward.
it might be a good idea to show your map location when you get to certain missable locations like the painters spots, to also give your video a bit of a tutorial element. great vid always look forward to it.
Noticed during the video that you said that fire giant doesn’t have a weak spot on his second phase. If someone else hasn’t said it already you can shoot/ hit his wrists for extra damage. Good vid bro keep it up
For the redmane painting at 01:40, you can use the horse jump boost (before dropping down) and with an mid air jump, you can just fall down there with torrent without dying. I found this trick from the wiki and its really useful, so i thought i should share this, because dropping down there normally is just annoying.
Guy went and prevented some artists from becoming mini moustache men and delivered their art school acceptance letters based on their portfolios left in various spots in the Lands Between
As soon as I read the title, I thought, "So you mean you beat it using the Harp Bow!?!? EW!" and wow did you prove my thought wrong! You're great at dodging and timing. Great run!
@Bill Clinton Enjoyer I’ve 100% all but PlayStation exclusives. They tried patching waves of gold but you can still roll it and get hit afterwards. Don’t know why you’re so hostile, or why you’re assuming someone with likely triple your playtime is a new scrub. Sounds like you’re projecting.
Can I say it is nice to see someone who knows how to methodically dodge Waterfowl Dance? Half the challenge runners seem to have SO much trouble with it for some reason
Dude, this was so awesome. I've seen and watched many " to beat ER only with.." videos, but I absolutely forgot about the paintings and the rewards they give. Nice !! 👍
nice run dude!! really unique idea for a challenge. i didnt even know the paintings give anything even though ive gotten a few of them, i never knew you have to find the artist! one more thing to do in the game i guess also nice job on the commentary, you are getting more entertaining every video :3
🙏🏽 thank you! I saw an enemy use reign of arrows on me and thought the only thing that I was allowed to you use that was close was the Radahn bow, but as it turns out I’ve had this ability the whole time and didn’t know it 😂 cheers for showing me the way
I think vagabond is an exceptionally good character for challenges like these. He is very versatile, has a good starting gear and his stats are nice and could be changed to a faith or intelligence build since he only has an only 1 point in each missing. Only real problem is arcane but frankly, I rarely see someone going for arcane build in challenges
For fire giant, in the second phase, his weak point is his eye, and you can lock onto it from a distance since you used a bow. He is also weak to bleed, so using the bleed arrows would have been easier. otherwise, this was an amazing run my dude, love it. gained a new sub
@@demonhunterfanatic i almost ran out of arrows, i didnt want to wast my time on him, just wanted to get to Melania lol arrows wont help there. Unless i jump on the branch in her bossroom hahah
@@graxo3752 trying to get there now....stuck trying to light the torches being guarded by those assassins, on the snowfield. Bastards are tough as nails
Runs like this go to show, that any build really is viable in Elden Ring. It might take you a lot longer, but even if you completely borked your character it really does just come down to learning the bosses patterns first and foremost.
I appreciate that you don’t add a bunch of unnecessary cometary/overdramatizing of the gameplay. Still very entertaining and not the same as every other elden ring challenge video
Good content, nice ! May i ask if you could do a challenge where you can only finish the game using madness incantation or weapon with madness atribute ?
Another fellow mouse keyboard elden ring player!!!! I always think I'm alone in this. It's funny what ends up being easier/harder with m+kb in souls games. Great video, was waiting for someone to do a challenge run on this concept.
I find it to generally be easier to play souls-like games with a M&K. Remapping controls is extremely important though; their defaults are awful, and make poor use of the mouse in general. The only thing I find harder is getting the lock-on to behave when fighting a group, but I stuck it on a mouse button and spam click it until it actually targets the right thing (because spell free-aim sucks).
"O tarnished, thou will face the paintings three in search of great rune. Pick 1 and choose wisely, if thou choose poorly or attack all of them a great calamity will greet thou."
Interesting fact, if you fight Neil with bows or crossbows like in the video, he always do the same attack because your far and he constantly tries to get closer, i found that when i was doing my crossbow only run 🤣🤣
bro this is an amazing feat and all but i cant help but hear rahim from dying light 1 when you speak and i love it its so cool to me. anyway great job on this challenge!!!
Idk why some people say bows are under powered. You get so much of an advantage being able to have very long range and still do decent damage. It shouldn't be as powerful as it was in DS1 or 3 unless they made them more balanced by giving short bows less range and make long bows shoot slower, then you can up their damage.
Bro beat Elden Ring as an impoverished music major and it was *Fabulous!*
i might failed at music class, but i'm glad people enjoyed my music choices
@@nottherealspartan At least you got a successful Political Carreer as the Elden Lord, hope we don't get a Shattering II
Pshhh I’ve been doing that since the game came out(poor music major irl)
I'm pretty sure just "music major" implies the rest
@@1stCallipostle lmao
Man I have the platinum trophy for this game but was not aware the paintings actually did anything.
same
x2 I just got the platinum today and I have no idea this was a thing
Platinum in probably 6-8 hours. And same didn’t know they did anything either.. never bothered to look into it 😳
Edit: I was 6-8 days away from platinum. Total took about a month
Same, got the platinum yesterday
@@MrOscar5690nah it would take atleast 3 days with sleep
Rain of arrows is better on bigger enemies. They get hit by more of them, so it was great that you used it on elden beast
Not sure if anyone has said it yet but I think its really cool that you try to use every item you get from the rewards rather than just sticking with the strongest items you have. It makes the runs alot more intresting and fun to watch. Awesome video!
😭
"Took myself from a homeless person, to a homeless person with a degree."
Literally Murica.
Underrated comment lmao.
@Bill Clinton Enjoyer decree
@juscbhbhuvsdsdvbhjwsdv3843 dude made fun of americans and spelled degree wrong you cant make this up LMAO
Yea definitely not literally murica. Middle class people can barely afford a degree how tf a homeless person gonna 😂😭
@@supremecai5857 [Meme of guy in a nice suit presenting himself] Landlords:
You can beat the Game with a Buckler shield at this point
i'm exceptionally bad at parrying
Bet
The real question is would it be entertaining
Guy named skumnut beat the game with the rickety shield
@@Kotaraff love that guy
Can't wait for the Ymfah version where he glitches a +0 harp bow to cast fire's deadly sin because he absolutely cannot use anything that isn't from a painting reward and has to use every painting reward.
@Bill Clinton Enjoyer You say that like he didn't pay six billion USD on a glitch bounty to do his no talking DaS3 run.
it might be a good idea to show your map location when you get to certain missable locations like the painters spots, to also give your video a bit of a tutorial element. great vid always look forward to it.
Noticed during the video that you said that fire giant doesn’t have a weak spot on his second phase. If someone else hasn’t said it already you can shoot/ hit his wrists for extra damage. Good vid bro keep it up
His eye is a weak spot as well but really hard to hit.
@@excalibur2596 Not with a bow, lmao.
For the redmane painting at 01:40, you can use the horse jump boost (before dropping down) and with an mid air jump, you can just fall down there with torrent without dying.
I found this trick from the wiki and its really useful, so i thought i should share this, because dropping down there normally is just annoying.
You managed to turn the boss fights into 20 minute Monster Hunter battles
... ... I didn't know you could get painting rewards... Welp, back to Elden Ring it is!!
Great run man!! It was very entertaining
Ikr, I read painting rewards and was like huh?
Painting rewards?! I had no idea why randomly a ghost in a chair would appear and drop stuff. A few times I was like, I know I've been here before...
16:04 came to the comments just to find no one talking about it, great video btw lol
great joke, but thats it
REMEMBER! Fire Giant’s resistances reset between phases
Guy went and prevented some artists from becoming mini moustache men and delivered their art school acceptance letters based on their portfolios left in various spots in the Lands Between
As soon as I read the title, I thought, "So you mean you beat it using the Harp Bow!?!? EW!" and wow did you prove my thought wrong! You're great at dodging and timing. Great run!
wait... PAINTING HAVE REWARDS??????
@@nipinho lol, same reaction
@@mumututu2954 same
To dodge the waves of gold you need to roll into it, not away
i tried to but it can only be done on certain range it seems
@@nottherealspartanu can jump it iirc, very reliable
@@nottherealspartan laggy attack where animation and hit box aren’t always the same
@Bill Clinton Enjoyer I’ve 100% all but PlayStation exclusives. They tried patching waves of gold but you can still roll it and get hit afterwards. Don’t know why you’re so hostile, or why you’re assuming someone with likely triple your playtime is a new scrub. Sounds like you’re projecting.
@juscbhbhuvsdsdvbhjwsdv3843 スキルイッシュ
The trophies are objectively underwhelming. All the missed opportunities
Been playing for over 200 hours and had no fucking clue paintings gave stuff
Can I say it is nice to see someone who knows how to methodically dodge Waterfowl Dance? Half the challenge runners seem to have SO much trouble with it for some reason
Dude, this was so awesome. I've seen and watched many " to beat ER only with.." videos, but I absolutely forgot about the paintings and the rewards they give. Nice !! 👍
nice run dude!! really unique idea for a challenge. i didnt even know the paintings give anything even though ive gotten a few of them, i never knew you have to find the artist! one more thing to do in the game i guess
also nice job on the commentary, you are getting more entertaining every video :3
Hey thanks man!
I didn't know you can't get the rewards without finding the painting first lmao, I thought it was like merchant notes except free
@@dumpy8312 wait so if you find the painting before the artist you don't get the rewards?
I’ll admit, I felt a pang of sadness when you said no crafted arrows. Rain of Arrows with the crafted bleed arrows is genuinely kind of insane.
Hey man…. where did you get that horse? That’s not a painting reward lol
@@legendslaboratory6820 "Dont disturb peace"
@@legendslaboratory6820 I think it's only fair he gets to use essential items :)
🙏🏽 thank you! I saw an enemy use reign of arrows on me and thought the only thing that I was allowed to you use that was close was the Radahn bow, but as it turns out I’ve had this ability the whole time and didn’t know it 😂 cheers for showing me the way
I think vagabond is an exceptionally good character for challenges like these. He is very versatile, has a good starting gear and his stats are nice and could be changed to a faith or intelligence build since he only has an only 1 point in each missing. Only real problem is arcane but frankly, I rarely see someone going for arcane build in challenges
I didnt even know the paintings gave rewards for going to the places they show tbh
For fire giant, in the second phase, his weak point is his eye, and you can lock onto it from a distance since you used a bow. He is also weak to bleed, so using the bleed arrows would have been easier. otherwise, this was an amazing run my dude, love it. gained a new sub
Beat the entire game twice and had no idea they did anything
10:50 that’s not the fake round table hold, that’s the original round table hold the one you teleport to now is the fake one
The fireball of the draconic tree sentinel are good even for carian retalliation
one of the hardest challenge runs ive ever seen. amazing man, very humble and skilled.
The only bossfight I did with a bow was Commander Niall lmao 🤣
one way to get rid of his knights
We all know the trick you used too 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that wall piece to shoot thru the small gap in the wall worked reaaalll well huh? Lol
@@water8990 his knights werent bad. i just didnt want to spend hours to kill him when i knew what was waiting at the end of Miquellas Haligtree lol
@@demonhunterfanatic i almost ran out of arrows, i didnt want to wast my time on him, just wanted to get to Melania lol arrows wont help there. Unless i jump on the branch in her bossroom hahah
@@graxo3752 trying to get there now....stuck trying to light the torches being guarded by those assassins, on the snowfield. Bastards are tough as nails
Wow, this game has so many secrets, I did not know about the paintings at all, I remember picking up a few but didn't think nothing of them... 🤯🤯🤯
i have 300 hours and the plat trophy and i have never heard of painting rewards
Runs like this go to show, that any build really is viable in Elden Ring. It might take you a lot longer, but even if you completely borked your character it really does just come down to learning the bosses patterns first and foremost.
Just because some guy on youtube does something doesn't make it viable.
Literally what "viable" means.@@evanseifert8858
I appreciate that you don’t add a bunch of unnecessary cometary/overdramatizing of the gameplay. Still very entertaining and not the same as every other elden ring challenge video
This has quickly become one of my favourite Elden ring videos!! Just the idea alone is amazing, and so creative!
That draconic tree sentinel bow kill was truly Epic.
With some Good editing that fight can be turned into a Sexy cinematic gem.
I never even knew the paintings did anything, this video was enlightening
Rain of arrows would be perfect for Fire Giant because he is huge and every arrow would connect. You would also use less arrows
Respect the effort!
You definitely are a real Spartan :>
I feel like the scholars hood is actually decent if simple drip if you can play into the red undercloak
second phase fire giant's weak spot is his wrists
16:08 in an alternate universe.
awesome idea for a challenge! love your videos!
hey i appreciate it!
Doing this challenge with a keyboard and mouse too? A Wow is in order! 🤣
not only did you beat the game using only paintings but you did it on keyboard and mouse too, honestly more impressive
That lip quiver and smile at the beginning got me! Love this
Fire Giants hands and head and big eye are weak spots on second phase
Good content, nice !
May i ask if you could do a challenge where you can only finish the game using madness incantation or weapon with madness atribute ?
Morgott did die to Fire's Deadly Sin - he closes the distance and you can see a flame proc on his shoulder as he enters his death animation.
didn't even know you could get rewards from the paintings
Another fellow mouse keyboard elden ring player!!!! I always think I'm alone in this. It's funny what ends up being easier/harder with m+kb in souls games. Great video, was waiting for someone to do a challenge run on this concept.
I find it to generally be easier to play souls-like games with a M&K. Remapping controls is extremely important though; their defaults are awful, and make poor use of the mouse in general. The only thing I find harder is getting the lock-on to behave when fighting a group, but I stuck it on a mouse button and spam click it until it actually targets the right thing (because spell free-aim sucks).
@@Rafael_Fuchs I agree the base controls suck but the main thing I did was switch what would be l2 and r2 to mouse 3 and mouse 4
The amount of skill this person has is incredible. Great vid!
Damn a Milania Bow only fight actually looks pretty fun.
Godskin Duo looks like a fun fight while ranged tbh. I will do it that way from now on!
Bows are so terrible it’s criminal.
great run! your videos are really entertaining:)
I have played Elden Ring for a good while, but I have never known that the paintings would lead you to rewards!
Homeless person with a degree. That made me laugh. 😊
"O tarnished, thou will face the paintings three in search of great rune. Pick 1 and choose wisely, if thou choose poorly or attack all of them a great calamity will greet thou."
Fun fact you can actually use rain of arrows with a greatbow, that probably would have helped a ton tbh.
I think with the giant you can also use the Rotbone Arrows you can buy this Warrior Cookbook on a Caelid Nomad.
He stated at the beginning that he wasn't going to craft any arrows, just buy them from merchants.
Finally someone did it. I was waiting for it from the very release
you dodge into the wave for golden wave, right when you’re about to get hit, dodge towards it.
happy to see a fellow mouse and keyboard enthusiast
There’s rewards for the paintings and people you turn them into?
I’m about 400hours in and I’m just now learning this lol
I love the rain of arrows aow, combine it with poison and rot arrows and boy everything melts before you.
I defeated Radahn with only npc help 😂 i just keep respawning npcs 😆
Same but I used rock sling to stagger him so I could spawn more
based
I never even knew you could get rewards from the paintings, I’ve been playing the game for like a year, I thought they were just there for no reason
The paintings actually do something? Huh....
The fact that you play the game on mouse and keyboard is already more challenging than any run
Interesting fact, if you fight Neil with bows or crossbows like in the video, he always do the same attack because your far and he constantly tries to get closer, i found that when i was doing my crossbow only run 🤣🤣
I love fighting with ranged weapons like crossbows....
Only problem.... I always run out
bro this is an amazing feat and all but i cant help but hear rahim from dying light 1 when you speak and i love it its so cool to me. anyway great job on this challenge!!!
"...which is a bit difficult when using mouse and keyboard."
SPITS OUT SCOTCH
“My fav place is the haligtree” Literally the first time I’ve heard that said 😂
The fact that I thought your clothes looked like THAT certain group and you immediately acknowledged it afterwards 💀
Back in the day I watched someone beat dark souls with a soup ladle. Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to souls games.
Best part about this is that you get to see all their moves
Idk why some people say bows are under powered. You get so much of an advantage being able to have very long range and still do decent damage. It shouldn't be as powerful as it was in DS1 or 3 unless they made them more balanced by giving short bows less range and make long bows shoot slower, then you can up their damage.
Damn. That was a lucky Niall. I have a file stuck in his fight. When I kill the ghosts, he instantly revives them
The hood is so funny! It makes you look like a denim pyramid head! Jorts Head!!😂
I didn’t even know that the paintings offered rewards I thought they were just glorified pieces of lore
Nice, almost 400 hours in and I learn the paintings actually do something. Earned my subscription! 😁
16:10
Oh, it's blue instead of white?
Guess you're part of the HHC!
“I’d rather wear something than nothing”
*Defenses become worse than if you were wearing nothing*
Genuinely thought those paintings were just lore items. Cool
Rain of Arrows is a super easy way to cheese every dragon enemy, ESPECIALLY Placidusax
HARP BOW POWER!
Those cuts were killing me. Right when there was something important you skipped over it 😂.
Nice interesting challenge run. Never seen anyone else do painting rewards run. Cool vid
9:23 bro showing why mongol horse riders were so OP
The Horse wasn't adquired by a painting 💀
Im joking good video man
most patient guy ever
This was a very good run, and very unique too. Good job Blue music man
the laughs maks this so much better