Elden Ring - 30 More Tricks and Hidden Mechanics
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Here's another quick Elden Ring guide showing off a bunch of easy to miss/hidden tricks and mechanics.
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Weather Damage
0:34 Lightning Splash Damage
0:47 Charge Attack Dodge Cancel
1:11 Thrust Weapon Horse Combo
1:23 Thrust Weapon w/ Shield
1:35 Jumping Dodges
1:51 Crouch Attacks
2:12 Charge Attack for Stealth
2:29 Item Pouch
2:51 Ladder Drop
3:03 Roll & Jump Staggers
3:18 Horse Strong Jump Attacks
3:34 Gold Leaves at Night
3:42 Jumping and Rolling Bow Attacks
3:52 Exploding Stone Guys
4:04 Quickstep
4:21 Attacking Through Walls
4:37 Stamina Recovery
4:48 Two-Handing Shields
5:13 Imp Statues
5:27 Poison Tip 1
5:49 Poison Tip 2
6:04 Switching Hands on Horseback
6:23 Attacking Near Ledges
6:39 Backstep Blocking
6:55 Barricade Shield
7:11 Crouching While Running
7:31 Double Drinking
7:52 Backstab During Stance-Breaks
8:06 Mines on the Map
8:25 Outro - Hry
1:11
I’ve gotten a lot of comments thinking this is wrong, so let me clarify. Other weapon types allow you to hold down strong attacks and sometimes this results in two hits. For example, the halberd functions like this wherein holding strong attack fully does a little hit then a big hit. The difference with thrusting swords and why I said they have a combo is that it’s two separate inputs, not just holding down strong attack. So R2 + R2, not just holding R2. I know that’s a little confusing, but hopefully that clears it up.
Bonus points for using "wherein" in a sentence
Looking forward to some fine pvp shenanigans, you ejamakated sonuvagun
Try using the twin blades on horseback. It does multiple hits and can clear hordes of enemies with ease
Pretty sure my longsword and claymore have a combo for heavy, but I'd have to try it again to verify. The light obviously does, but I could have sworn the heavy does as well. One sweeps forward, the second goes back, the opposite of the light attack combo.
thought some people might misunderstand. Cool tips thanks man!
Colossal Swords seem to have one as well. It's just pretty slow. For "Greatsword" it's a horizontal slash and then second input is a vertical overhead swing.
Another tip: killing the boss in dungeons allows you to fast travel again, so if you don't remember completing a dungeon, you can enter it and see the map.
THAT is useful.
Holy shit. This is insanely useful
Thank you, this is great
I never knew this. Thank you so much
Great tip, I use the sword marker for every cleared dungeon/prison and a skull marker, whenever I encounter a boss, I didn’t managed to beat in a few tries to come back later. Basically means calid is full of skulls, because the explorer in me didn’t care about dying 😄
Please note: attacking near ledges and not falling off does not apply to elevators 🙃
i always think of the upside smiley face as hanging upside down, but this time I thought of falling down
... 🙃
@@charleyweinhardt WeEeeEeeEe
I learned this one the hard way yesterday
Or skills
@@poopuswoopus35 same learnt it like a day ago the hard way took me like 3 deaths to realize 😵
Fun fact about double drinking - if you're able to access both flasks at once, such as having them assigned to your pouch, you can alternate between crimson and cerulean when doing a double drink, which can be helpful if, for example, you get hit by an attack that both does damage and also drains FP, or if you're just low on both.
🤯🤯🤯 thanks
This applies to ds3 as well
Le estus cancel
Another tip: Flask icon changes depending on you will heal for "more" than your max HP, if you have lost more HP than 1 flask use then it will have a small glow
-For all your minmax Flask users
Amazing, thank you.
Thank you! I hate wasting even 1 hp on a flask
Thanks so much, absolutely love this one
I tried this out and it doesn't seem to work?
What a tip. Thank you. I love this game.
The map tip at the end is extremely important, people are wandering aimlessly around looking for upgrade stones and their minds are blown when I tell them that.
It doesn't end there either, the way the map is drawn is very deliberate and conveys way more information than it first appears. You can find stuff like churches (that usually contain sacred tears for your flask), graveyards (contain a lot of rune items), and more, by just finding the right patterns and shapes that are consistent.
Also when you first enter a region the map location is always marked with an obelisk, just place a blue marker there and off you go, should be the first thing you go for.
The biggest tip I have for the map is R3 once you unlock underground areas. It never mentions it and just casually puts it on the bottom left which nobody reads.
I was traviling up and down long elevators becaue I thought I could only fast travel underground if I was underground and vice versa. R3 just swaps the maps
@@Hephaestus_God WAIT, WHAT?
Also, on a WAYYYY more obvious, but still maybe worth mentioning, note: Minor Erdtrees are also on the map once you've found the Obelisk in a region. And any perfect stone circles are worth checking out as well.
Oh, and ... the map has custom map markers. For what ever reason reading tooltips is hard and it took me until ~20 hours in to find out I can mark stuff I don't want to forget. You get 100 markers you can put down, so more than enough.
@@Hephaestus_God how did you guys not know that💀
@@Hephaestus_God It does say though, it's right there on the map screen UI
The Nightrider Flail has a charged R2 attack on horse back that has three quick hits with the spinning balls when charged. It's awesome for killing mobs and stacking bleeds on big foes
The normal flail has this too and it’s easy to obtain and use, I got it pretty much at the start of the game and still use it for horseback
@@SuicideGoat1 yup- it’s kinda busted actually, but since it can never be used in pvpv i hope it will never be nerfed cuz it’s my main way to kill dragons😅
@@JakeTalksGamesYT "but since it can never be used in pvp"
I love it. I’m using on my int/dex build. The cold ashes are awesome with it.
Holding L2 has been a life saver on Npc invasions
If you click in R3 to hide the right side of the menu while you’re using all your golden runes, using each stack won’t automatically exit the inventory so you don’t have to scroll down to them again, you just gotta wait for the animation and you can immediately use the next one. Not life saving but definitely more convenient.
@@FrigidOven that's not what they meant
@@Psychobum91932 my bad I didn’t see “using each stack”.
just sell them at a store tbh
@@Meowthix ??? Why would you do that? You get substantially less runes if you sell them.
@@JamesLacroixx You get literally the same amount.
Regarding jumping onto breakable objects, I noticed that the thorned armor that adds damage to your rolls for some reason removes the "damage" of your jump, so while wearing them your jump no longer breaks objects and you can climb on them easily. It seems like a bug, but it's interesting.
ive noticed this running around as kratos with that set's gauntlets, a very gentle god of war indeed
A quick note about the falling leaves buff: someone else pointed out that it seemed to be happening a lot more for them since adding a group password, and I'd noticed the same thing. From what I can tell, every time you get a 'player in your group has defeated the shardbearer' message, the buff is triggered. Might need more testing but it seems to fit.
It does occur naturally as weather at random, as I have had it trigger while playing offline.
While playing online, I have noticed the golden leaves from someone in the group felling a Shardbearer will not interrupt rain or heavy fog, but will occur as soon as the rain or fog clears.
Definitely needs further testing.
@@Taolan8472 ah nice, i hadn't noticed that rain etc can delay it. You're right, it definitely happens from time to time regardless of multiplayer activity though.
Its happened to me every time ive beaten a major boss... kind of like how in terraria every time you beat a boss you get a weather event where everyone celebrates.
Yeah tbh in my game ive mostly had the gold leaves falling for me almost all the time - if so then shout out to SEEKERS 🤙🏽😂
@@FijianSouljah1312 Have you contributed at all or just reaping the benefits? I've left a few messages about how to get out of tricky traps in dungeons.
That attacking off ledges thing actually could be useful when facing a drop you're not sure will kill you. If it's lethal then attacking won't let you fall, but if it's safe you'll go right off
Doesn’t work on elevators, I just lost 12k souls for science.
I'd be hesitant to rely on that since you're risking your life to check and there is already an item made for that purpose, which are called prism stones
I just use rainbow stones
It's only for ledges to void. When there is a death drop to another area you can get to, just not from there, you will fall off and die.
@@karmicknight I just jump because this game isn't permadeath and there's a grace every 20 feet
Two things:when you pick up a new item the tooltip shows the icon for the item category it belongs to. This helps finding it in your inventory when you have no idea what you just looted. Second, you can actually sort your inventory by type, new, or number held. The game only tells you when you press help instead of showing the bind on the bottom so I think many people will miss this. It's T on keyboard and L3 on controller iirc.
That's actually incredibly useful. Thank you.
I was JUST complaining about never being able to find new items, thank you so much! I pick up so many things in the heat of battle and then have to play where's Waldo to find it in my crowded inventory 😆
Sometimes i push T instead of R when i mean R and it actually irritates me sometimes but its my own fault lol
Crouching to regen stamina was confirmed a bug and patched in the collusium 1.09 patch a few days ago.
rip
Double drinking also works when swapping between HP and FP flasks. It's slightly slower because your character has to pull out the other bottle, but it's still noticeably faster than two single chugs.
Mage eyes sparkle. Refueling FP is brutal sometimes
20 hrs into the game and I’ve just defeated Godrick. Never have I played a more rich and dense open world game. A masterpiece in every sense of the word. From never disappoints
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
haha yeah I was like level 52 when I fought Godrick
Same here
Cough...DS2...cough, cough
@@justanormalguy4885 thats insane 😂 I thought I explored a lot ;p i was level 31 or 32 when I beat godrick O think
The Mimic Tear ashes will actually have the same quick items as you do! If you have a warming stone in one of the quick slots, your summon will use them periodically, and it doesn't use the actual item at all! This also works with firebombs and throwing knives!
2:48 I actually recommend *against* putting your lantern on one of your 4 precious pouch slots - those should be reserved for things you need immediate access to during combat. There's never really any time that you're suddenly thrust into darkness, so it's fine to take the time to go into your inventory to use it, but if you'd really want quicker access to it, put it in one of the 2 extra pouch slots. You have the open the menu and scroll over to it, but that's still convenient.
I have elixir, throwing dagger, mount, and grease in clockwise order
Eh. I only have horse and lantern slotted in there. Other 2 are empty, lol.
I don't really need anything else.
The Incantation that removes poison and rot makes rot/poison consumables useless.
The BIG TIP is... learn to use your right thumb to hit the down button while you run, hopefully holding an under trigger to run with an elite controller, OR using claw finger with your right index finger...
@@charleyweinhardt I just use my pointers for the D Pad and thumb/pointer for Right Side Buttons
I use it for the horse and flasks, saves me from ever having to scroll through if i need a heal quick (and yes i know the hold down gets you to first slot trick, i still think it is faster from the pouch plus same speed for both flasks as opposed to just the one in the first slot)
Another useful tip most people don't know about is that when you get an important item, the inventory section it fits under is displayed as an icon in the top left of the popup.
Saved me so much time scrolling through my inventory trying to figure out what the hell I just picked up.
Been playing the game for like 60 hours now and just found about that today. I still have to remember to look at the icon now though lmao
Oh my god that is so useful
Thank you
I didn't understand ..say what now ?
Legend. I did not know that.
Here's a tip: If you can't use your weapon skill because of the shield skill overwriting it, you can buy the Ash of War: No Skill from the Warmaster's shack and apply it on the shield.
i've found this very helpful for the legendary weapons.
Or just 2 hand the weapon
Except don't do this because you are using a shield without barricade shield and playing the game wrong
XD I'm kidding, mostly
@@TheMunchkin9 DEVOTEDquentin
As a new FromSoft player in Elden Ring, your line is something I'm trying to keep in mind "In FromSoft games, a win is a win so use every tool you have"
except in duels, you are not allowed to use heal flasks.
@@karlpuntigamer5786 good to know! Thanks. I guess I should look up a bit about pvp etiquette before i get into it
@@smitty7326 use em, and after winning point down lol
@@smitty7326 thats not universally true and with how big elden ring is i doubt that will actually be the meta for a long time.
Technically, rain raises your fire absorption and lowers your lightning. The same goes for enemies, which is why your damage is affected. You can see it in your stats screen. I wonder how this might affect people's PvP habits.
Pro tip if you're a caster equip a light weapon with the ash of war determination you basically get a 50% damage boost on you're spells for a small amount of time
Just started as a caster, this will be very useful!
@@Swarm509 remember not to attack with the main hand weapon tho, as that will consume the buff
You're'st've'ed*
@@MattHatter360 So to clarify, I have a straightsword in main hand with determination AoW, and my catalyst in the left hand. I two-hand the SS, activate determination on it, then go back to one-handing it, and my spells do more damage for ~10s?
@@MattHatter360 can you explain this to me like im five?
6:23 so does this mean can you attack near ledges instead of using rainbow stones to test if you'll survive?
Then again, if you don't actually want to drop down....
This made its round on reddit a while ago, and the results are inconsistent. As far as I know you shouldn't ever be able to 'attack step' off of a fatal ledge, but the game will also protect you from falling off of many ledges even if the fall is survivable, so it's not a catch all test.
I don't think it's reliable, I was trying to attack an enemy on a ledge two feet below me and it wouldn't let me drop down to hit him. So it wouldn't have been a good test for whether the fall would kill me
@@Rc3651 You already knew the fall wouldn't kill you.
@@KubaA7 You my guy may want to edit your comment. I for my part luckily solved that catacomb puzzle but didn't know about those invisible bridges
Fair enough the game is old, but this is a tipps and tricks video without major spoilers.. and you just casually spoilered stuff they may have found out themselves
“Remember, in Fromsoft games a win is a win” this has been my life model since DS1🤣
It was extremely satisfying when i discover that I could avoid attacks by jumping. I was fighting this giant and after a greedy combo I was almost with zero stamina and I couldn't possibly get away from him before his wide attack and then I instinctively pressed the jump button and avoided the damage. Definitely one of the most satisfying moments in my life as a gamer.
I'm so happy you're drawing attention to the Barricade Shield skill. I've been trivialising so many melee encounters with a combination of that skill and guard counters, even against enemies with two-handed swords it's ridiculously good, it even seems to increase the shield's non-physical resistances slightly as well as greatly reduced stamina usage. You can literally block an entire boss attack combo and still have stamina left for a guard counter most of the time.
I was having so much trouble with the erdtree avatar, I tried out the turtle shield and it made the fight SO much easier, I'm thinking of changing my dual swords build
Reminds me of the magic shield spell from dark souls 3, you were able to essentially turn certain shields into 100% stability shields, meaning their stamina never went down.
It's so good it single handedly makes a fat rolling greatshield tank build viable.
Turtle Shield is unironically godly.
That it's also a Grass Crest Shield with Stamina regen only makes it better.
@Charles Hastings Barricade + Guard Counter Talisman + Magic shield/greese + Spear/Rapier + Greatshield. Become unkillable. Poke away at the enemy from your walking fortress of a character
When making jump shots with a bow "always" shoot again when you land on the ground. That way you are able to get two shots in way quicker than normally, this safed me some times! And looks awesome to do as well!
dex increses bow shot speed aswell
I believe this is exclusive to shortbows but please tell me if I'm wrong!
an extra tip for swapping weapons on horseback: it counts your right hand as 1h, and your left hand as 2h, so if you're using a big weapon that you can only use with 2 hands, put it in your left hand so it'll work on horseback
aahhh This is why I kept thinking the 2h before mounting thing was wrong because I was testing a LH weapon and it was the same whether I 2h before mounting or not. So you can EITHER 2h your RH weap before mounting or you can use your LH, which will automatically 2h
Best comment on Elden Ring content ever.
@@DavWK22 thanque
It blows me away how many Hidden Mechanics this game has.
Elden Ring really is something
My favorite new mechanic is being able to write fort, night as a message
Fun fact! While crouching, you get a special roll animation, and when you come out of it, you’re still crouching.
Also, I know most of you probably already know, but blocking makes you stand up from crouching.
Also also, you can sprint while crouching. Very useful for stealth gameplay.
in the map menu you can press triangle to bring up a list of all the sites of grace, you can then press square to go back to the round table hold instantly
hey bet you can fast travel out of the underworld with this! time saver! those elevators suck..
@@charleyweinhardt you can always fast travel in and out of the underworld, there's a button to select different layers on the map. I forgot which one, but it says on your map after you find the first underground map piece.
Pro Tip: You can open the map and fast travel while resting at a site of grace. Didn't realize this for the first 20+ hours of playing since there's no menu option like previous titles
There's no menu option because you can do that from the map from anywhere not in combat, not just while resting
Yup! You can open the map anywhere except while inside a cave or with an enemy nearby trying to attack you
@@tomc.5704 yea don't trust the map button to tell if you are safe though that killed me the other day. enemy never de-aggroed and came and got me while i was looking at my map.
Wait what!? This is a game changer since I always find myself resting at a site of grace by accident when I wanna fast travel, still used to the old souls titles in so many little ways lol
Re: the "golden leaf shower" weather effect: Since putting in the SEEKERS group password for Vaati's group, I've noticed the showers coincide with a prompt stating that a shardbearer has been defeated. It also seems to trigger more frequently... I guess it's a huge group, so shardbearers go down a lot. I think they can occur at any time of day, too.
That’s sick
Yup, when someone from your group beats a main boss everyone in the group gets a Rune boost (I think around 10% which isn't bad at all)
Yeah the SEEKERS group seems to be huge. I get a lot of those buffs and I see a ton of group specific signs. Iron Pineapple should start a group as well!
Oh that's why I have that weather effect so often! Thanks! I thought it was a bug or something. :D
The weather changes affect your character as well. Your lightning resist goes way down and fire resistance goes up in the rain.
i didn't know it affected your character thanks!
Which is exactly why lightning damage appears to go up, while fire damage appears to go down. It isn't the damage that is changing. Everyone's resistances are changing, including both yourself and your enemies
TIP: The Baldachin's blessing (that you get from hugging that woman) has a hidden health health debuff (something like -5%) while the item is in your inventory. If you use the item, this debuff will go away immediately after the effect wears off
its not really hidden, its explained when it happens the first time. But it is easy to overlook.
It also steals 10% of your runes every time you die
@@skyblue2708 where is it in any way explained?
@@baadlyrics8705 Before the first hug she's telling you that it will take a little vitality from you.
@@ambercheshire6881 its not her, its the gate guy at stormveil castle.
I actually just found out about the soap today. I got super green from the poison (cause I rolled mb). And just as I was about to be poisoned. I remembered the soap. And it went away XD
I like how there's a lot of options for removing poison and crimson rot
@@cybunny25 which is good, since poison is strong now (apparently in From land, green is more deadly than purple 😅), and that red rot can also be used as a weapon buff. i hope there’s a rot weapon. it wouldn’t surprise me, got killed by a dude with a sleep sword. that thing hurt
The Cure Poison incantation only requires 10 Faith. I use it all the time. There is also an incantation that cures Rot and Poison.
@@SneakyLittleHobbit yea im not much of a magic guy but i use cure poison. its really cheap too only like 1k souls i think.
Same thing happened to me just a minute ago in a scarlet rot pit.
In co-op, using a critical hit on a staggered enemy is almost always disadvantageous because it locks out damage from all other sources during the entire animation. Instead-- don't do it and all party members can keep attacking while the enemy is staggered. Different from Dark Souls 3 as well, hitting a staggered enemy doesn't immediately stop the staggering (until they're in that downed state), so you can hit them while they're falling and still get a critical hit after a swing or two.
Or you could just synch up your critical attacks on a staggered enemy and double the damage.
I've noticed that while it may have been a bug in DS3, Elden Ring makes it WAY easier to synchronize a double (or more) visceral attack. This is pretty trivial to do if you have voice chat and makes it worth the damage. Plus, you get a couple extra charged heavy attacks during the recovery animation! Just used this technique to destroy an Erdtree Avatar.
There are some cases where this is not advantageous. The large golems with flaming cores take way more damage from the stance break critical as do some bosses like Mennala who will take like half her health bar from one
I let my boy with high critical and bleed damage do those, but rizzu is right that in some situations this is a better strat.
I prefer to have everyone get in a hit or two, do the critical, then have folks charge an R2 while it's invincible
I have a tip, If you are standing at the edge of a cliff on your horse and you have a usable bow equiped, you can spin your camera around and tap the aim button and Torrent will adjust to face the direction you aimed.
1:23 pretty cool! Thrust Weapon while holding shield up, Nice!
RE: Horse Strong attacks, Halberds have a 2 hit strong attack only when fully charged on horseback. It does a lot more damage than releasing early!
as does the Partizan spear, which makes sense because it has a halberd's moveset
tt should also be noted that the halberd's second attack actually knocks humans and demi-humans far into the air, like when you get hit by the tree sentinel's charge attack, making it really fun when you pull it off
Colossal great swords function the same way. Idk about great axes though.
Small thing I found out is that crystal darts can put some weird effect on certain enemies. Throwing a number of darts will put an enemy off balance and then give some weird confusion effect, best part is that other enemies around start attacking that enemy as well. I discovered it fighting 2 Erdtreee Burial Watchdog, basically nullifying one of them right off the gate. It does not seem to work on all enemies but it was fun finding something new!
Are you saying this works on one of the Caedis mini-dungeons with the double boss?
@@sburban320 I don't remember what exact mini-dungeon it was but it did work on that specific boss
@@nimorp pretty sure it’s the one in the NW of Caelid.
does this work on the double sentinel?
8:42 I actually like to assign both tear flasks on puch, so I don't have to cycle my items to heal / restore FP, even if you can jump to first, you still waste more time holding the button and chugging or holding the button, cycling to desired item and chugging than it does to just click pouch binding
Crouch R1 with colossal swords is amazing, really nice to mix up with normal attacks in pvp too.
Jump and roll is amazing for safely dealing with the grabby zombies.
Pineapple, in horseback halberds have a combo heavy attack if you max charge it. The second hit can send enemies flying, really cool animation.
The timing can be tricky but that uppercut hits HARD
You basically have to hit the 2nd attack because the first hit is baby damage
If you're taking on groups of enemies on horseback this attack absolutely rocks their shit. The timing isn't as precise if it's a group and the hitbox is big enough to hit a ton of dudes per swing
The colossal sword charged horse r2 is just flat out better tho
Same thing with curved swords, but the first swipe does maybe 1/5 damage of the second swipe
Escaped Ukraine, finally made it back to Australia, and literally just installed Elden Ring.
Your videos sustained me in the refugee camps of Moldova. Had me excited to get back home and play.
Amazing dude, that's fantastic! Enjoy the game, you've definitely earned it.
Enjoy the game brother! I am genuiely happy to read that you’ve made it safe.
Glad your safe, Elden Ring is so much fun enjoy!
stay safe, tarnished.
That’s awesome! I’m glad you got out alright and I hope the game goes well for you
Dude im so happy i get to watch new videos, seriously every video is seriously a treat to watch. Glad your having fun with this game. Would love video on your own end game build that you find unique.
I would appreciate you looking into the rusty anchor. It's a "greataxe" with a very unique hitbox, it also does piercing damage with a swinging movement. It's very interesting.
I rocked it for a bit, I wonder if there's a trick to every weapon...
Regarding the Golden leaves falling, if you join a multiplayer group, then every time a member of the group kills a shardbearer, the weather event triggers. I currently only know of the SEEKERS and FEXTRA groups.
Group "Penis" regularly gets the buff. Just a heads up.
There’s the group “Guidance” which had a lot of people killing the shard bearer, about every 5 minutes.
@@NaltaStrife DUDE I've found another Penis member! I put it in as a joke and didn't expect to see so many messages... actually I probably should have
Heyo Pine!! Please keep these Elden Ring vids as spoiler free as you can (You're doing amazing rn). HUGELY appreciate it dude. Absolutely love your stuff
The crouching attacks just seem to be the attacks you do after rolling, just stationary of course
So if those look good you know what to expect, knowing the moveset of your weapons is very important
Also a good tip for those that don't know (if it wasn't mentioned already):
The angle of the camera can affect the attack animation, when it looks up your attacks swing more up, this is really good when some attacks go over small enemies heads, what you do is stop locking on and swing with your camera looking to the ground. It's annoying but it generally works and with weapons that have thrust attacks it's good to hit certain enemy parts (like the head)
works good for the glowing skulls
You and everyone else who suggested these tips are really changing my entire experience of the game. THANK YOU🥺
here is some tip for next vid :
- bleed, poison and forst do damage in % of max hp.
- when you guard break an enemy the place where you do the most damage with a critical hit is shown with an orange light
- fieldbosses don't regenerate hp when they reset.
THE MAIDEN IN THE ROUND TABLE GIVES YOU A 5% PERMANENT HP DEBUFF, MAKE SURE TO REMOVE IT BY USING THE "BLESSING"
Well, not really permanent, since using the blessing and resting removes it
The blessing gives you a fuck load of poise tho. It's 100% worth it. Also she tells you about the debuff
OMG So that's where that was from!! 30+ hours in and I hadn't figured that out. THANK YOU.
Isn't the orange light just showing where the critical is? I've never tried to pull off a visceral on a giants knee caps cause I'm 100% sure you can't 😆
That hug is worth minus 5% hp
You can kill skeletons mid-regeneration with a jump
Now thats a good tip. Does dodging on top of them break them too?
You're just goomba stomping the skelly fuckers lol
@@J.R.Swish1 apparently no, you need a little of height to deal 1 damage and kill them
@@italolouro3283 okay, ty
You don’t even need to jump, when they start glowing just attack them and they die.
Tip for new players. upgrade your endurance to about 20 pretty early, before investing in health (,use gear and weapons without fat Rolling) and to be able to Block without to many guard breaks.
Also don't get to hung up in damage numbers when choosing wich weapon to use. A weapon that has 130 in dmg, isen't neccesearly better than a dager that has 90. Pick a weapon that you like, and have fun using it.
Absolutely love and appreciate both of your tips/tricks videos. Time to go practice...Thanks.
So glad to see the charged attack cancelling getting some more attention! I only wish it had an animation for every weapon!
The clip at the very end reminded me of something: if you see a roaming caravan with a chest, you don't need to kill all the enemies to open it. You can't open the chest while the caravan is in motion, but if you knock the giants dragging it a couple times to get them to stop moving, you can swoop around back and open the chest and get out quickly with your horse!
You can also shoot a sleeping arrow on one of the giants to stop the caravan
You can also just walk near them lol
When you press x while in any of the armor menus, you'll notice some armor pieces give effects. For example, Okina Mask raises dexterity while lowering focus.
Yes! Check out the Y side too for resistances... spiralhorn small shield and the eclipse greatshield give +50 to robustness (bleed/frost), vitality (death), and immunity (poison/rot). The item descriptions don't really give much indication of this. Other ones I've noticed are the small ice shield and the small lava shield, but these are just +30 to one resistance, though.. point is, if you're running through... idk... a lake.. of say... rot.. then you should carry one of these shields! Even just having it on your back gives you the effect if you are 2hing something else or on a horse.
The heavy attack while dodging tip was an absolute mind blower mate, never woulda thought !
Things like the "rain affects damage" or "fire damage makes bomb enemies explode" is why Fromsoft makes the best games. Such tiny details that barely change anything, but From goes the extra mile to care about it. Makes the world feel so much more alive and in-depth
That stuff was all in Breath of the Wild as well, I think I read that Elden Rings used some elements of BOTW for inspiration
This has been a thing since the original Dark Souls in 2011. The water thing didn't come until the 2nd game.
The poison thingy is from ds 2's mechanics
Reminds me of Dragon's Dogma where being soaked in water makes you vunerable to lightning but it also can spread lightning to other enemies fast if they're wet or standing in puddles and you can throw oil at enemies to make them more vunerable to fire.
I mean . . . this aspect is like the core of what BotW was designed around, and they didn't make it a little 10% buff or debuff, but a HUGE factor that couldn't go unnoticed like metal weapons being lightning magnets. This is one area that From is definitely not innovating in, but borrowing from.
And lightning water circles weren't from DS2, they were in DS1 as well. DS2 added the lightning doing more damage from a player being wet thing because it added being wet as a "Status effect" for the first time. To be clear on the "water thing," as there were a couple in the video.
About the "two handing shield" tip: I once accidentally switched my shield to two handing it instead of my weapon and I finished a boss fight this way out of panic. It's actually pretty strong, especially if you are a strength dude and use tower shields.
Try blocking the strongest hits with a 2h shield heavy attack
It worked on previous souls games and it's severely underrated
Maybe it works in Elden Ring too
Two handing a greatshield with Barricade Shield is pretty good
For 3:34 "Golden leaves at night," this buff isn't night-time exclusive.
It's a blessing of the Erd Tree, and there's a few ways you can tell that it's active. One is the falling gold leaves that you mentioned, another is rays of radiant light shining from the Erd Tree, another is that you'll have golden anime powering up lines coming off your character, and finally you will have the status icon under your health bar that looks like the golden claw status icon that shows up when you use the golden claw item.
I haven't tested if this rune bonus stacks with other rune bonuses, but since the golden claw item stacks with the golden scarab talisman I assume that this buff would also stack. So if you're sitting on a bunch of golden claws that you haven't been using, the Erd Tree blessing might be a good excuse to use them since you (probably) get to double dip on the buff.
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Bloodhound's fang: *look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power*
Another really useful tip is that you can see where map pieces are located even if you don't have a certain area filled out. There are these little brown/redish statues on the map and if you go to these they are always map pieces. For the longest time I was just randomly running around trying to find them but it turns out they are always on the map (as long as you've explored enough of an area to clear the mist on the map)
he has that in his previous video
That's not a trick or hidden mechanic
@@Yikeo Neither is the fact that mines are marked on the map. Neither is the pouch. Are you gonna criticize those too?
Your shitting me
A small detail I've found about switching weapons on horseback:
You know how it's good to two hand your weapon before going horseback, so that you get the strength increase from two handing? I've found that if you switch to your other hand's weapon, there is no way to get the two handed bonus again while mounted. I found this while using a scythe I can only wield effectively when two handing. If I swap from it to use my seal, and swap back, the red X is shown on the scythe, meaning I'm no longer technically two handing it. It's pretty brutal because I end up doing next to no damage with the scythe when this happens, where as when I am two handing it, it does a lot of damage.
time to level up then.... don’t worry about being “over leveled” endgame levels are really high now, so go nuts. people are averaging between 130 - 160 from what i’ve seen, plus weapons upgrade to +25 now, so go ahead and get those stats you need without worry!
@@mkv2718 I wouldn't go past 125, that's likely where PvP will stay, later
Yes swapping whilst riding causes them to default to 1h mode, this is obvious and i'm hoping they instead make weapons default to 2h mode when riding in a patch soon, because there's literally no reason not to, and lots of reasons TO do so.
@@Rakshael I've already theorised that for this game, the pvp SL cap will be higher, due to the incredibly high stat requirements of many sorceries and incantations in the game. Plus, more weapons require heavy stat investment in multiple categories now!
Most importantly though? The game is much, much longer, so I can see the SL cap being higher just off of that merit alone.
I reckon Elden Ring will be about 160 for the level cap once I community have decided.
@@Genasidal I'll still wait and see. I'm still about 30 levels off from 125 and I'm getting towards endgame
Another excellent video! I really love this “series” so far! Looking forward to a lot more
so helpful that i watch it over and over which is helping my progress, thank you.
1) if you hold a heavy attack with a shield on a horse, then the character will be protected from damage while riding, but, unfortunately, will not cause damage to enemies, for example, ramming them with a shield on the move. As well as a heavy blow with a weapon. Such a block on a horse cannot be kept forever, after a few seconds (or when you release the heavy attack button), the character will hit with a shield.
2) Crossbow shoots fast, but takes a long time to reload. Moreover, you can reload the crossbow at any convenient moment, i.e. firing and reloading are two independent actions.
The first click on the shot button - the crossbow makes a shot.
The second click - the character loads the crossbow into combat position, and does not make a shot.
And also a crossbow and a bow can be prepared for a shot by holding the shot, the character will aim the bow / crossbow at the target, but the shot itself will be fired only when you release the shot button. This is convenient, especially with a bow, you can pull the string in advance, and wait for the right moment to shoot directly, if the enemy is moving quickly, or is covered by a shield. Or if you are riding a horse, because you can’t shoot on a horse with your back to the enemy, you can hold down the attack, turn the horse around and immediately shoot.
Another interesting thing, crossbows dont have any stat scailing... unlike bows, so regardless of class you can use them with ease as long as you have the equip load for it.
Your first tip is great for fighting lobsters and giant archers on horseback. Those aimbot snipers keep knocking me off my horse
Good trick that might help with boss fights: Skeletal Malitia is an amazing Ash Summon. It is cheaper than the larger crowd Summons like Demihumans and gives you 2 Skeletons with spears. The reason they are so good is because they behave exactly like the skeletal enemies in game. When a skeleton goes down, it has to be hit again or else it will get back up with full health after a short delay. This applies to your Skeletal Militia summon as well. And Bosses seem to instantly de-aggro the skeletons after they go down, so they don't get attacked on the ground and can just keep coming back over and over. Really effective.
they do seem to de-aggro the skeletons, but they can switch back on a dime. though the skeletons are very low to the ground while reviving so if the move doesn't slam into the ground they'll probably whiff anyway
I find the 5 Great Shield Soldiers much more reliable. They can tank some pretty hefty hits and keep the boss off you longer than the skeletons do, which is the main reason I use summons as a caster. But before that yeah, the skeletons were nice.
I've tried them a couple of times and when I have the bosses kill them right after they hit the ground maybe I've just tried the wrong bosses though trying on a dragon for example was very dumb of me :)
Hmmm. That actually is useful since I picked those guys up and then immediately ignored them thinking they'd be as useless as those enemies are in-game.
I have been using the fire eagle summon, quite a few of humanoid enemies have problems even hitting it reliably and it's fire breath has quite a good stunning effect
Some tips and features I came across:-
- Hold down the sprint button while climbing ladders and crouching, to go faster.
- Use "Rainbow Stones" to check whether a fall will kill you or not. Throw one over an edge, if it shatters audibly, that means certain death, if it doesn't shatter and remains there, you will survive the fall. (Helpful to figure out troll messages near edges/falls)
- Leave helpful messages whenever you can, the moment someone "Applauds" (likes) your messages, you're health will be replenished to full. This can really come in clutch in fights/bosses when you're out of healing flasks. So always "Applaud" helpful messages whenever you see them, you might just help a fellow Tarnished win a fight.
- Press Y or Triangle on your controller while leaving a finger message to increase the number of words and make it complex and even add gestures.
- The obelisk/tower icon on an empty/unfilled map is where you get map pieces.
- The random golden leaves falling from the sky at night can be triggered even more frequently if you join a multiplayer group. Each time a fellow group member defeats a major boss (shardbearer) or becomes an Elden Lord, the Erdtree Blessing Rune Buff will trigger. "SEEKERS" is VattiVidya's group, quite a big one, as every 5 mins I get this buff. Do note that fast travelling and resting gets rid of the buff.
- When levelling up stats, you can check the middle and right side tabs to see how much damage/resistance/HP/FP is increased, specific increase in Left/Right Handed weapon damage in multiple slots are also shown.
- If you see golden eyed enemies, always kill them, as they carry 5 times the runes than they normally would.
- Weapons, gear and items have rarities. Golden is Legendary, Blue is Rare, and White/no colour is common gear. When you pick up a new item and it has a blue background, it's a rare item; and if it's a rare gear piece, it likely has bonus effects. This rarity is also represented on the item pickup glow, rare items will have a blueish glow, rather than a normal white one.
- Always read item descriptions, they provide lore and mention whenever any item/weapon/gear has any bonus stats/effects.
- You can find "Bell" items throughout the world, these Bell items when given to the Twin Husk Maiden in Roundtable Hold, unlock additional items to purchase or other merchant inventories. You can find Bells that allow you to buy an unlimited amount of Somber/Smithing Stones, Ghost/Glovewort. And, if you "accidentally" kill a merchant, they'll drop a Bell which can be used to unlock their shop inventories at the Roundtable. It is inadvisable to kill merchants, as most of them have questlines which give better & unique rewards.
- To know if you're being chased by an enemy or not, you can press the map button. If you cannot open the map, you're being chased by someone and have aggro. If you can open the map, you're likely safe.
I LOVE your style of video. Consice, right to the point, useful AF. 10/10
The mimic spirit summon is op since it copies everything you have from spells to equipments. Not only does it have basically infinite fp, it also gets your ring effects, meaning you can equip the taunt ring before summoning it and swap it out after. This way the boss and all enemies will primarily attack your summon while you are free to do dmg from relatives safety
hoooly, the taunt thing is kinda broken, gonna use it fs
Very cool, need this asap
thats craazy. where do you get the taunt ring?
@@cashel5232 the frenzied village, (to the right of the first major lift)
I had the Mimic spirit for ages and didn't even know it just copies your player. I learned that it's a really good spirit for the Rykard fight since you need to use a special weapon on him like Yhorm from Souls 3- and the Mimic helped out a lot since it will also use the weapon. I've been using it as my main spirit summon since.
Also for areas where the ground is poison, if you stay on your horse you won't get any poison buildup.
My god! I learned so much from your videos without worrying about spoilers! It's made my life so much better since I'm playing my first Fromsoft game blind.
7:50 One thing I've noticed is that while backstabs do less damage than frontal ripostes, they almost always leave you more "plus" after the animation, meaning you're free to act while they're still stuck on the ground for a longer window. Depending on the enemy or boss you're fighting, this might make the difference for a guaranteed attack afterwards, sometimes making it so you can land bigger, heavier blows. Basically, there are times when it makes more sense to go for the poise-break backstab!
Some great tips here!
Here's a suggestion: “Wacky Tactics,” an Elden Ring series where you take on areas in the most outlandish of ways with mis-matching armor, odd weapons, and generally somewhat of a balls-to-the-walls kind of approach.
I would love this. I want to see dual wield crossbows getting through a tight dungeon or something.
@@ryguytrys Yes! Lmao, exactly that
Im allready mismatching armour 😂
'Wacktics' if you will
@@justins4814 perfection!
accidentally learned about crouch attacks, i cannot emphasize how useful this is especially with colossal swords that have a thrust move. since all your moves are slow and heavy, the thrust attack is arguably the most useful attack, so being able to initiate it outside of rolling is super good!
If you learn the timing, you can do jump attacks extremely fast by beginning the jump attack animation on the same frame your feet leave the ground. I haven't measured it, but it really looks like it comes out faster than crouch-into-R1
Great content. I’m a souls veteran and these tips really helped plus perfectly spoiler free!
nice commentary, very easy to understand and follow without giving away it all, first time player of souls games so helping a lot
Little tip usefull in the beginning, when you go around, especially with torrent, you'll encounter a lot of shiny skulls on the ground, they always give you a little usable rune, wandering around you'll collect a lot in no time. After 10 min of riding torrent I found 30 skulls, equal 6000 rune. So keep an eye for shiny skulls and spam the collect button.
i’m pretty sure those infinitely respawn around the world too
I've roamed all over and still haven't seen a single one of these skulls people keep talking about. Beginning to think my game is cursed cause I've been looking for them everywhere I go, even backtracked lol
@@MongoTheMagnificent666 youve probably been kicking them around or something. theyre insanely hard to miss. saw one within 10 seconds of leaving the starting area and continue to. thought they were just rocks at first. stomp on it with a horse or hit it while unmounted.
they show up a lot near where players have died, similar to bloodstains, but more useful.
@@NateTheScot i play exclusively offline, never connected to the internet, theyre everywhere
I assigned my crimson and cerulean flasks to the left & right spots in my item pouch, respectively, and it's been an absolute gamechanger. Instant HP/FP restoration in basically one button press!
Wait that’s kind of genius
@@papajohn6839 It's not, you have to press 3 buttons instead of 1 or 2, also you can't move while using the pouch because you're taking your thumb off the analog.
@@Eagle3302PL true but it takes the mental strain off of having to look at your flasks to make sure you’re on the right one and frees up your square input for a different item. Idk I’m not gonna use it because I’m so used to square to heal but it’s not a bad idea especially if you can manage to move the analog stick still
I'm loving these, lots of things I never knew about the game. Keep em coming man!
again - a great helpful follow up video! 🥰
One tip that I noticed is that certain spells are more effective when on your horse
1:51 The 'special crouch attack' is actually just the rolling attack btw, it's the case for every weapon, it just substitutes a rolling light or heavy while crouching, still useful for large weapons as a mix up
Damn, tis an excellent list. I learned 11 new things out of this one. Love the content and cant wait for more! I discovered the weapon swapping on horseback when I was trying to cast magic. Although what cracks me up is that a normal R1 with magic out will cast, but if you do L1 or L2 your character will go for the melee attack with the implement
Knew most, but definitely learned a couple of things
Subbed, keep up the good work!
Idk if it counts as a "combo", but with a flail (at least basic "flail") you can charge a heavy on horseback, which has the player spinning the flail, doing damage with each hit (3 wind ups, plus the heavy swing). Allowing you to stunlock an enemy from horseback. And if all 4 hits land, it will usually stance break, and will usually cause bleed out. Best horse weapon I've found so far, imo.
this works with most weapons, as long as the sword is realistically close it will hit with heavies during charge
I've enjoyed doing it with the halberd, it usually knocks enemies into the air
@@dumbass9116 agreed. when i heard they were in the game i bee-lined straight for it. glad i did. makes horse combat soooo much easier
@@facepalm2834 yeah, but it won’t multi hit the same enemy 4 times. you can just stand there on the horse and destroy enemies
The flail heavy attack on horseback is so much fun. Just twirling and smacking and mowing down everything in your path! You can ruin big chunky enemies crazy fast with some bleed effect added.
Your tips are so useful and your last vid changed my play style completely and I kept exploding the stone guys with blasphemy’s blade and didn’t know why
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Swift Glintstone Shard can also be cast while jumping, unlike any other spell ive tried so far. Havent tried it after rolling but i assume it works the same way as bows
One thing people should know that I haven't seen mentioned: When crouching, enemies can't hear you. Even if you run. You don't have to inch close to enemies like in some stealth games, you are free to move as fast as you please.
To add to this, you can even stealth-run up against the enemy and they won't "sense" you, unless you're in their line of sight or another enemy spots you. Some of the more intricate levels have AI patrolling and positioned in such a way that you can take them out one by one with a backstab and a well placed rock.
Don't recall if he mentioned this in the previous video, but another hot tip is that you can often distract enemies with an arrow/throwing knife/etc. They'll face toward the impact sound or pathfind to it, giving you another opportunity for stealth required ahead.
@@NATT441 The crystal arrows are MADE for this (they are really loud)... I kept trying to figure out why I would want a crappy broken crystal arrow...
It really helped me to realize that touching them doesn't alarm them. Since the backstab area is so close and can be difficult to judge on enemies of different sizes, just sprint crouch all the way to running into them and then stabby stabby
There's a giant dragon to the far east past Caelid that sleeps on the ground and does not move when you hit him, if you carry a bleed weapon, you'll be able to kill him rather quickly by hitting his tail, when you do, he'll drop 70,000 runes and 5 dragon hearts, you can easily level to the 20s with whatever stats you need for weapons and equipment.
You can do this whenever you first leave the starting area, all you need is the horse, and a bleed weapon.
It's especially nice if you're a faith character, because you can literally start the game with the dragon spells
If you can manage the small ones around it you can also farm runes pretty efficiently, each drop a bit over 5k and don't have breath attacks.
@@robertwright2259 yeah I never bothered with them lol I just happened to find the place because I was searching for high level gear along with somber stones around level 15, i figured if I tried to fight I'd get pancaked LOL
But that is good to know, runes are pretty hard to come by starting out, it takes Forrrrrrever
Also try to use a Golden-pickle fowl foot for extra souls to pump that number up to 100k
@@FosterC144 If you feel brave, the Fort right near that juicy dragon tail has bats in it. The golden ones with faces can drop Rune [9] fairly often, that's 3.8k Runes a pop. They are ruthless in that tiny corner but if you lure them out to the doorway and pelt them with bombs or smack them with a heavy weapon they'll stagger and die pretty swiftly. Bonus: the Grace is next to it, so if you flop no issue.
Not as fast as the tail but still worth mentioning, I think. :D
You can also do it in your friends' games, so up to two people can join in on the jolly soul farming. Don't forget the buy 3 chicken feet from Patches so you get almost 100k souls each time.
the item pouch was something I took from this vid... my God does that make the scrolling trough shortcut inventory so much quicker and better.... thanks! I've put horse, lantern, and poison/blood cures... makes pvp so much easier
This was beneficial.
Thanks for the tips bro ✨👌🏻
The stealth attack actually usefull in pvp, since people didn't expect a fast aanimation from heavy weapon.
It took me over 10 hours wishing that the game had a stamp system similiar to BOTW. And it has one... Just press X or Square on the controller to add markers to the map. I don't know how I missed this.
Awesome vid. Love the ending of hitching a ride on the wagon.
You get bonus runes if you land a killing blow on an enemy that does a huge amount of overkill damage
From my admittedly minimal testing, I think the overkill bonus only applies when full health bar and a little more is taken away with a single hit. In any case, this is usually achievable only with a backstab. Definitely if you are farming vulgar militia near the sanctum or, if you are evil, the dejected albunarics on the palace approach ledge, you might look into bumping your backstabs a bit with trinkets if you can or upgrading a dagger for this purpose. You will see XP jump a couple hundred and that gets multiplied eating a golden foot or using golden scarab trinket so it can really add up.