Can you beat DARK SOULS with only Rapiers?
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- This is a really hard challenge I promise
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Music List:
Risk of Rain: Chanson d'Automne
MGR: It Has To Be This Way
ULTRAKILL: Take Care
MGR: A Stranger I Remain
MGR: I'm My Own Master Now
Risk of Rain: Hailstorm
Risk of Rain 2: Once in a Lullaby
Deadbolt: The Proverbial Dustbiters
Persona 5: Daredevil
Persona 3: Iwatodai Dorm
Persona 5: Camping Trip
I obviously didn't create any of thse, I can barely make a CZcams video.
#darksouls #darksouls2 #darksouls3 #bloodborne #sekiro #soulslike #eldenring #darksoulsremastered
Dark Souls 2 players be like:
sorta
Can I! Can you? Can I! Can you? Can I!
DS1 players, when someone tries to beat DS3 which Black Knight Halbert
rapier in hands
gold pine resin
time to farm the rotten
@@TasTheWatcherWhy farm The Rotten when Giant Lord is more efficient?
So fun fact about sif: if you do the DLC before fighting sif, there is actually an alternate cutscene where they recognize you but still choses to fight you. It's incredibly bittersweet
What? No way! That's such a hidden secret no one knows! That's crazy! What other secrets do you know? Next you'll say Gwyn is the final boss or something!
@@devcrom3 i will explode you with mind
@@limerumpus3589can I assist
Yeah but you still have to fight her :(
@@devcrom3 chill dude
I fell hard for Velka's in my first playthrough of this game, too. It's so fun. And I love how the fight against Artorias was a battle of flips. Amazing.
I wish Velkas actually carried on throughout the games, I wish especially that it made it to ds3 because it probably would've gotten a custom weapon art :')
@@sariuswasstolenalreadyI was super ready to "um, actually" you but I looked it up and you're absolutely right, it ain't in DS3.
I've played so much of the Cinders mod that I completely forgot that Velka's Rapier is in fact not the item next to the Statue of Velka in Undead Settlement in normal DS3. Shame, really.
I miss the ds1 running attack with rapiers so much. Double hit on a super fast attack was absurdly strong when you had a magic buff on top of it
I KNOW RIGHT!!! It carried me this entire run
I can understand why they got rid of it though, the two hit running attack would've been atrociously good in elden ring pvp
8:53 I love how Ornstein lands on beat to the song lmao. These videos are great and deserve way more recognition
I TRY SO HARD TO GET IT ON BEAT it took so long to get ornsteins dumbass to land at the right time
Velka's Rapier is an underrated gem for Intelligence builds. First of all it's a Magic weapon that upgrades with Twinkling Titanite, given how stupidly difficult Blue Titanite Slabs are to get outside of the two guaranteed ones this is a good thing (even then one of those is a bitch to obtain). Plus it allows you to max it out once you reach the Giant Blacksmith in Annor Londo if you don't go out of your way to get a +15 Standard weapon, so you can have a pretty potent weapon as well.
It's also actually a pretty good choice for an Occult weapon only behind Daggers.
If you're confused by what I mean, what do these 4 enemies/bosses have in common aside from taking more damage from Occult weapons?
1. Gwyn, Lord of Cinder
2. Silver Knights
3. Black Knights
4. Paladin Leroy
If you said that they could be parried and reposted then you'd be correct, combine that with it being a Rapier, a weapon class with a higher innate critical modifier that's only second to Daggers, and you have a solid weapon for Annor Londo after making a quick pit stop in the Painted World for the weapon, which can easily be done before you encounter a single Silver Knight and only a few Black Knights.
This also applies to the other Thrusting Swords as well for a Faith build, an Occult Estoc or Raiper will be a pretty good choice to use over Divine.
Exactly, poor Gwyn never stood a chance
I recently played the Prepare to Die Again mod (which rearranges a lot of stuff in the game), and it really made me appreciate Velka's rapier a lot more. The mod lets you visit the Painted World way earlier than in vanilla, so I was able to get it before I could even find the green shards needed to get a Magic weapon. Normally I ignore it because by the time you can reach the Painted World you aren't far off from getting the Moonlight Greatsword.
Your vids are so good and well made they deserve to be put up on the fridge
:)
Mine never go on the fridge 😭
fun factoid about bonewheels: you can cheese them by having high poise, so havels or the stone armor or the wolf ring does wonders
Where were you a month and a half ago :(
DS2 went on sale on steam, and I'm trying to play through it casually with covenant of champs enabled and deprived. It's not easy, and I think my second playthrough will be this video.
To help you with chunks farming: in the great hollow there are 2 titanite chunks and 9 crystal lizards (probability to get additional chunks and slabs). Also in Sens fortress you can kill the 3 giants for 3 extra titanite chunks. Awesome run keep it up!
I FORGOT ABOUT THE LIZARDS IN THE HOLLOW
That's so annoying
@@sariuswasstolenalready It also appears you forgot about the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring
That knocking joke scared the crap out of me.
>:)
I still remember way back in the day thinking "what if linking the flame isn't the right option? What if following Gwyn's idea isn't correct? I mean look at him, he's only getting weaker" and for that to actually be where the series went is insanely cool to me. Excellent video btw, new here and I'm subbing to a fellow Aussie
I agree, I really like how it's setup throughout the game that frampt is the right way to go, but with enough game knowledge and experience you might realize the four kings aren't blocked by a gold fogwall, and then kaathe actually tells you the Truth. It's really cool to me when games have faith in their players to try and understand the game instead of just finish it
Your music taste is great man, loved the artorias x Im My Own Master montage. And the audio mixing is incredible too, I hope you keep creaing content cuz i'm here to watch it!
MGR soundtrack is just too good not to use
Also I'm My Own Master Now is very thematically appropriate for poor artorias :')
Thank you for putting the music credits in the description, not enough people do that, and it helps a lot for people who get stuck on trying to remember a song name, or listen to some new music.
Great video buddy, hope alls well
I will remove them next time ❤️
(thank you)
rapier is the best weapon in ds2 lol
The ice rapier was effective a Souls glock
Holy shit, that Knocking sound sent me on flight or fight mode. I was wearing headphones and my house door is very close to my PC on my right side. That one got me good. Very nice video bth
No that was just me knocking on the door got pretty sad you didn't open it :')
as soon as the music started playing i knew this was gonna be good. i would like to say that your choice in the music for the intro was amazing, not only is it a banger, but its the theme song for Mistral from mgrr, and her name comes from the strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France. Rapiers are famously seen as Spanish, Italian, or FRENCH weapons. so props to the appropriate music choice!
also is this run a jojo reference?
Have to be honest I completely forgot that the bosses in MGR were all named after different weather events but that is such a cool coincidence
I definitely planned this 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Everything is a jojo reference
Porunarefu is everywhere
Ahh, rapiers, disgusting to my strength main heart, you're a good man for using them
But I will admit they are cool as hell
My heart is the shape of the guts greatsword but dex is nice every now and again
Underrated?? I think I did this like my second playthrough. Being able to poke while your shield is up is unironically good. Counter damage is OP too. Scythes though, yeah, people sleep on the scythes.
I love how you used risk of rain OST for music in this video, brings back so many memories from times long gone by.
Risk of rain OST is so good, especially the first one, was not prepared for how somber the final levels theme would be in 1
@@sariuswasstolenalreadyOh such a good game. I’ve been playing RoR1 recently and wow. Chris Christodolou, the composer for the RoR series is a legend.
not only is this man hella entertaining , he's provifing us with good music , may you never go hollow from playing challenge runs !
I don’t know, can you beat dark souls with a weapon? Yes, you fucking can. This isn’t really a challenge at all.
Can you speak on CZcams without being a negative Nancy?
No you fucking can’t apparently
Oh my god
Finally
A youtuber that doesn't call Gwyndolin a slur
Twinkdolin doesn't deserve the hate, not his fault that his bow is terrible 😔
20:18 What the actual f*ck! I thought it was my door 🤣
the door knock got me off guard I bounced off my chair lmao
The Estoc might just be my favorite sword in DS1 straight up
Estoc is bestoc but velkas was my first love 🥹
I'm actually curious if you're planning to do any Ds2 runs, as the joke about the game's unique weaponry is very much true. I'd love to see some challenge runs based on weapons like the Disc Chime, or on the different classes of spells.
disc chime is honestly such a cool weapon, I wish it carried over to elden ring and whatnot. Probably at some point I'll end up doing some sort of new game to new game 7 run with the nil blade and see how fast I can go, or maybe the puzzled stone sword
Man, thumbs up for the intro! Reminds me of the eqrly days of youtube were channels used to have great personality
Appreciate it :)
"can i beat the game with one of the strongest weapon classes"
Maybe it should say beating the game with what the game classifies as thrusting swords because epee and estoc and the mail breaker are absolutely not rapiers.
I mean according to the internet an epee is just an estoc with a blunted tip, used for fencing (so a non lethal rapier) and an estoc is literally what we consider to be a rapier, considering it’s only use is thrusting. Where as the *actual* rapier apparently has an edge for slicing, which is something we never use it for.
Dude, you have no idea how long I've waited to hear someone use Deabolts music, its so underappreciated.
woag bro i though this chalenge was inpoasible
My old way of playing. Ricards Rapier +15 poison pine resin. PvP slaughter fest
Exact same but in ds2, poison was so so good with the different rings and armour that buffed it
There is another skip in new londo. Requires some health, but right from where you open the seal, you can drop down to be literally right next to the four kings entrance.
Actually yeah I found that the other day!! I didn't realize you could just drop to the little outcropping it's such a good speed run tactic honestly
Dude, your editing and choice of soundtrack are amazing. Hope you get more recognition. 1 more sub
I did a similar run a few weeks back. For me, I grabbed the estoc as soon as possible till I got the regular rapier from the merchant. Then leveled it to +5 to beat Gargoyles, Capra, Pinwheel and Gaping, grabbing a catalyst and magic weapon in the meantime. Got power within and then killed Quelaag and Ceaseless. Then for me I get the two easy Titanite Chunks from New Londo, the very large ember and then buy as many large shards as needed from the merchant in Sen's. Upgrade to +12/13 (depending on RNG with crystal lizards) and then take on Golem and O&S with Power Within and Great Magic Weapon. Then focus on getting the last chunks needed and get the slab from Stray Demon. After that, get Crystal Magic Weapon from Logan and the build is complete to melt most bosses, even do good damage to DLC bosses.
The best part is no farming involved. The only real challenge is Quelaag, but with the two buffs you can still deal enough damage to survive, especially if you have 20 estus for the fight.
Can also do the same thing but with faith instead of int with Sunlight Blade. Just means you have to rely more on resin for damage than magic/great magic weapon.
Yeah I considered going that whole route, the estoc with sunlight blade is stupidly good, but honestly I just wanted to rush velkas because it looks and feels really cool
It's a shame you can't buff velkas with DMB, I feel like with the lore it should be allowed to :(
@@sariuswasstolenalready I feel that, I love Velka's Rapier. Definitely under utilized (like rapiers in general) in DS1 conversations but a great weapon and really cool. I respect the commitment to style.
I used Ricard's rapier trying out a DEX build. Definitely doable but for certain bosses (Kalameet, O&S) I struggled due to the rapier's moveset.
Kalameet, for example, had only one move I could reliably punish.
I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers. this is a very well put together video and unlike other souls CZcamsrs, you're actually mad funny
When you were farming the Darkwraiths I was like "why don't you just get the Gold Serpent ring?" But I remembered it's in Sen's Fortress and you didn't beat Quelaag yet. lol
1st comment, suggestion for a future run: gargoyle tail only
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A solid run.. but it's hard for me to define this class as ever underrated, simply because of how much i saw them in DS2. a game with counter damage, and THAT swing rate?! HAH!
Im more of a Ricards... that guard!
The ice rapier in ds2 will forever have a soft spot for me, it was basically a Glock it was so good
It's newer version in elden ring is also pretty cool especially in pvp
@@sariuswasstolenalready thats pretty neat! when it comes to DS/BB/ER, my focus is ranged weapons, but... since the Rapier is dex, it's always been taunting me to use it, with it's superior swing rate and often times better damage.
You do some great editing and deserve way more subs, but damn, try to mix the audio a bit more thoroughly, I've had to adjust my volume so many times between voiced sections and music sections
Your editing is so good!
Appreciate it :)
Calling rapiers little swords D:
To be fair a lot of people dont even know what a rapier is and jist call every pointy sword that.
27:48 i didnt expect to see an apex legends reference in a souls video PS respawn please bring the bocek back to the floor 😢
You make really good videos bro! Pure quality! Keep it up!
my soul left my body after that knock.
I'm going to have to look up Mr. Not-On-PC. When I did the DLC I saw him and just wondered what his purpose is. His outfit is cool, but all he does is sell some items at hugely inflated prices.
1:20 what's that theme. Jesus I love it
5:49 Ahhhh....i see you got a keen eyes for duel Rapiers.......Hehehehehehe....
>:)
I’m loving this channel so much ❤
I’m so glad I came across it :)
Definitely looking forward to future uploads
Been telling people this for years, mag+DeX with velka's and 2nd hand crystal blast. Game is toast.
27:57 i am glad you muted the game calameets laser sound always hurts my ears and every other dark souls youtuber leaves it in
See I wanted to do a run with rapiers because they seemed fun and only got to send fortis before I got the lightning spear and realized this one weapon was basically better than anything I’d gotten before it so just had to switch to spears as they had a similar feel but actually good damage
Yk it's gonna be a good challenge run when the mgrr music is the intro
Bro the knock jump scare sounded so genuine in my head phones I near pissed myself. Dear GOD. Also someone GET THIS MAN A BALLER SWAG SWORD
>:)
Balder sword isn't a rapier 🥹🥹😞
20:28
ULTRAKILL DETECTED
Shattered Illusion
1-1 //Heart of Sunrise//
"holy shit guy can you beat dark souls with a weapon??????" fucking insane challenge run idea
4:01 horseplay being cut off is pretty funny
this is so well made wtf
Poke, poke, poke
Rapiers are a funny "weapontype" so this is a funny video lol
Poke poke poke I love how varied the rapier moveset is
10:35 nice avatar reference
Great video I'm glad this run was a more low key one that didn't make you suffer all too much
It's more of a warm up before I attempt All Manus and have my psyche obliterated
17:30 omg that ost you are man of culture
Not done watching yet as of writing this, but man, you make some clean edits!!
Appreciate it :)
You can spare solaire from his dark fate by giving quaelaags sister enough humanity to open up a shortcut so you can kill the parasite that turns him hollow and have them fight with you against gwyn
They do call it "Bestoc" for a reason.
Pssst i vote whips next 👀
You can definitely beat it with the baller swag sword🎉🎉
I beat ds1 with thief, no leveling up, the rapier is your best friend
Loved the jokes and the inside jokes of the souls community
Gonna be looking up for next vids
A fellow persona 5 enjoyer, subscribed
most epic intro ever
My favourite weapon in DS1 along with moonlight greatsword is Velka's rapier.
I'm very happy to see another challenge run! thank you for sacrificing your sanity
It's already gone I'm not sacrificing anything don't worry
1 thing with fast weapons is the magic weapon etc. buffs are really good, because the bonus they give is not percentage but a flat dmg bonus.
Intro hooked me. Now for an epic 30 min video. Nice :)
:))
Great video, but do you think you can cut down on the earrape/extreme bass boost audio on future submissions?
Did you mean the dialogue or the music?
@@sariuswasstolenalready You're good on your dialogue mix, and the music mix is also fine (maybe a hair loud, but that's inconsequential). Specifically, I'm referring to the sfx found at 10:46, 12:49, 16:08. In my opinion, the mix was too loud and grating, especially on the first and third listed timestamps. In hindsight, the second timestamp is probably fine, but it shook the crap out of my desk 😂though, the timestamps I pointed out are nowhere near as egregious of a garbage mix I made in a few videos years ago.
But anyhow, great video! Great cuts and edits that highlight a weapon class I considered trash for the longest time.
Did you ever acquire the gold spent ring from send fortress? It boosts item discovery 100% on top of the humanity bonus.
Nope, couldn't be bothered to do the boulder puzzle it was too boring and I'm too impatient
there are actually 11 dark wraiths in new londo ruins. its likely that, seeing that you didnt defeat the large soul mass, you missed the two dark wraiths in the wooden rooms
holy shit that intro is fucking awesome my friend would love this
:)
Super super late but that artorias fight was an anime battle and a half
rapiers have always been my favorite class of weapons irl and games, im more of an estoc bestoc enjoyer myself.
11:37 you can kiss your oscar now
Poor squishy Oscar deserves everything after being smited through the asylum roof like how he was
incredible video my dude. Keep this up. You'll be huge.
:')
not gonna lie, the knock got me
>:)
Do these challenge runs really need rules? I feel like they're almost always exactly the same. If someone can't figure them out by now, skill issue
bro, I absolutely love your commentary ❤ we need more videos, please 🙏🏻
appreciate it :))
8:46 it floats down
All this Thrusting going on I would say this is Dark Souls: Alpha Males Only Run 😎💪
>:)
Next vid should be "Can you beat dark souls with only black knight weapons"
Honestly would be kinda fun if you couldn't get black knight halberd and/or great axe within 5 mins of starting the run
worried about thrusting swords parry frames
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I've finally found what IIIIIIIIIIII WAS LOOOOOOOOKING FOR
:)
16:08 : Awesome gaming moment
Poor Priscilla the sheer amount of times she's had her tail cut off
This was such a great video, I loved it!
:)
Going with the Griffith build, I see
Broken straight sword hilt and missing one arm for the guts build next run 🥳🥳
@@sariuswasstolenalready haha hell yeah
Seath is actually weaker to fire than lightning, it’s dragon scales that are weak to lighting after all.
the knocking scared me shitless
:)
I just want to say while watching this video I got the rapier drop from the guy first try...
I've seen so many challenge runs that at this point if I see one use a weapon that has state scaling and can be upgraded, I think it'll probably fairly easy
gigachad with the persona music
Persona music clears everything else honestly
@sariuswasstolenalready one thing I love about dark souls youtube is that so many channels play the p3 soundtrack which is very underrated compared to 5s