Join my Discord, punks ► discord.gg/tsf-rusty For context regarding the outro, I already did the voiceover for both this video and the unique skills one, resulting in ~165 total audio clips, 1 per skill/ash. The follow-up unique skills video is pretty much already done, save a few edits and script revisions. So it should be going up (fairly) soon. EDIT: Oh, and here's that mod that makes me Sekiro dash like a chump: www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/1249

Another thing you can do is buff the prelates hammer with bleed and do the weapon art against malenia. It will then cause an infinate stunlock against her as long as you have stamina and because of the bleed you will get good damage.

Another tip for Raptor of the Mists: Dragonbolt Blessing makes it so enemies' attacks will bounce off of you. This works even with RotM active, so instead of them continuing their attack chain and potentially counter-hitting you out of a jump attack, you can almost always get a free hit in. Great synergy

Bonus for Wild Strikes. Put it on Great Stars (as everyone does) go against Mogh. Shackle him. Go to town. Totally skip phase one. Put bubble. Go to town during Nihil, break posture immediately. Totally skip phase two I call it the Bloodbonk

As someone who just dedicated himself to finding every Ash that I'm not already locked of by progression, this vid will be SO NICE to come back to multiple times. Another well-made one, my dude!

Also important to note that unlike Storm Wall or Golden Parry, Carian Retaliation only costs FP when you successfully parry a spell. Missing a parry or parrying a melee attack does not cost FP, but still gives small shield parry frames to medium shields.

Bonus one for Loretta’s Slash: put in on the twinblade and it can hit the same target up to 4 times

2:48 as much as I hate the dogs seeing that goat get wrecked was hilarious

10:32 amazing tip. It had me in tears XD

I love how damn cool all 4 Occult AoW's are, probably the best but most underrated of the Arc-scaling ashes. Lifesteal for short range, Spectral Lance for long range, and AG + WsL for utility and stealth. Could carry you through the game if used right!

Note on Sacred Blade. Not only does it shoot the wave, and hard kills skeletons. It applies a 40 second (used to be 20 second) holy buff to your weapon making it hit a bit harder, continuing the "Kills skeletons dead" effect for a while longer making a lot of catacombs trivial. Of special not, is there's a necromancer around who's rezzing the skeletons, Sacred Blade/its buff will stop that form of resurrection as well.

5:18 Golden Land also has a sweeping follow up attack which is extremely useful but I only found out after hours of using this ash lol. Phantom Slash and Wild Strikes also have great follow up attacks.

Fun fact: royal knights resolve on claw/fist weapons applies to BOTH left and right hands, making for some crazy jump heavy attack dmg.

5:18 Another thing about Golden Land: Great Club comes with it for free AND the weapon is BUFFABLE. I don't know if the buff transfers to the weapon art, but it might be fun to test.

Fun fact about shared order: It doesn't just increase one weapon's damage, it boosts ALL your weapons' damage. On top of that, if you use two weapons with the buff they stack.

9:25 poison moth flight isn't just meant to build up poison. When an enemy is already poisoned, the attack will have a sort of bleed effect and they'll lose a substantial amount of hp. It goes through shields too. The enemy will no longer be poisoned after it. You can use it at the end of the poison time to squeeze extra damage out of it, or repeatedly poison and use it.

Also of note with Cragblade, the animation of plunging your weapon into the ground and pulling it out covered in stone is a two part attack (the initial plunge, and then the pull) that does damage. It's super close range, but it does put the hurt on things that like to charge you while you use your ashes.

I've got a kinda neat Seppuku tip. it's super situational, but the self-bleed from Seppuku overrides any kind of enemy bleed. Since the self-bleed on the AoW is 10%, you can get out of some kinda nasty damage if you manage to kill the enemy that was building Bleed on you, but you know there are others around and you can't/don't want to wait around for the meter to fall.

Poison moth flight also gets a big damage bonus on poisoned enemies clearing the effect.

Shared Order is actually distinct from Sacred Order in that it's a buff that augments all damage you do rather than just your weapon, similar to how seppuku augments other bleed damage you do. Use Shared Order and then toss holy water pots for absurd bonus damage against undead enemies like Deathbirds. At just ~10 FTH I was dealing 1400 damage to deathbirds per pot with this combo on headshots.

A small add on for Stamp: Sweep & the Flaming Strike ashes of war: it allows you to add a very effective horizontal 'sweep' attacks to weapons whose move sets lack them. The Godskin Stitcher Heavy Thrusting Sword for instance loses the sweeping R2 of the Great Epee found earlier in the game, but with the flame strike ash of war you can keep the new R2 while still having a reliable sweep attack for crowd control & roll catches. At 0 FP, Sacred Blade also kinda works this way as the blade gains a hit box to compensate for the lack of sword beams.

My own tip for flame of the redmanes: aim it to the left side of malenia and she will not dodge it, two hit her and she will be stance broken

God damn I actually love these videos. You are god tier at making these informational, short and convince but somehow also sprinkling in your own personality and humor into them. I already know most of these but hearing what you have to say about each of them is like 90% of the fun.

Fun fact, all charged attacks affected by the roar ashes of war that are multihit are a true combo in pvp

Another tip for shield slam is that it actually counts for blocking, but unlike a normal block, if your stamina goes to/below 0, you dont get poise broken.

Something you missed with spectral lance that i've noticed from using it in pvp for a while, it actually slightly auto tracks your enemy when its at the half way point of reaching its destination. The best part is that it almost always gets a headshot if theyre in a long combo or they just got out of a dodge roll and headshots do like 300 extra damage. It also stacks with one of the arrow talismans but i forgot which one

One thing about storm blade is that you can keep pressing R2 to launch more attacks and each successive swing cost less FP then the initial one.

Don't forget you can use Raptor of the Mists do easily dodge through the chariots, skipping big chunks of dungeons. Also, you can use Quickstep to get through swampy areas where you can't sprint, it makes them trivial and you can even do it with no fp.

Little bonus for Carian Retaliation: it only consumes FP if it parries a projectile, unlike Golden Parry which always consumes FP. Get all the frame data benefits and none of the FP cost.

Weapon art glintstone phalanx will apply your armament effect ie casting blackflame blade will make the swords deal black flame damage as well

Extra Tips I've found on my own: 1-The spinning of the Ice Spear can also block the Breath Weapon attack from the fat Omens, not sure what else it can block. 2-You can ignore a Reflection attack on you with a Parry. 3-Phantom Spear can land Head Shots.

Another thing about Hoarfrost Stomp, you can use it to check invisible bridges!

Hilarious commentary. Although the "bonk" for Royal knight determination had me laughing in public.

Started my second playthru recently and after not even getting half way thru this video, I'm even more excited about the replayability of this game. Thank you!

I appreciate how much people respect Wild Swings and Rusted Anchor, experiment early on when i started playing and ive never been disapointed with it since

12:05 partisan, I think black knight halberd, spiked mace, and the wooden meme hammer had the spining attack back in dark souls 3

Tip for the torch attack. In early game, the torch in your left hand will likely kill Miners better than the weapon in your right hand. It helps with the early mines where you need light anyway.

Poison mist on great star is a great heal as each dot of poison is considered a hit. Useful on big or slow target thst stay in the mist.

A nice tip for braggarts roar, the follow up charged attacks get buffed from roar medallion, axe talisman, spiked tear and highland axe if you have it on your off hand. I managed to get 2200+ damage on a single charged swing with a colossal weapon.

13:35 anyone know how he was doing that quickstep? He has a different ash of war equipped so I don’t get how he’s quickstepping

Square off's deals great poise damage, u could slap it with Lord-Sworn Straight Sword or Noble Slender Sword for poise+crit playstyle

10:04 the reduced range on this from 1.06 ended up being a buff because you can now VERY CONSISTENTLY quickstep straight around an enemy for a free backstab after they throw out an attack

3:29 I paired it (double slash) up with Blackflame Blade, looks pretty neat if you use it before the buff wears off

Hoarfrost on a quick weapon like a curved sword or katana can give you a great damage boost in the early game

9:25 Don't forget that poison moth flight makes poison status into a bleed proc if the enemy is already poisoned.

one of THE BEST elden ring videos ive seen, period. super informative especially if you’re unsure about what ashes you wanna use for a run. keep it up homie

Can I also say that Hoara Loux’s earthshaker is also very good in invasion. Most people don’t realise the range of it, and the poise damage it does. Also, the litteral damage it does is enough to two hit someone. Also, to help it even more, if you are close to the ennemie, the roar will stagger them (making them vulnerable even with the long build up) and I’ve been never thrown out of the animation. So yeah, it’s realy good. Especially those who don’t understand and try to kill you before. Cute.

Another great tip about War Cry is that when used by your main weapon while holding 2 weapons, it’ll buff both, which means not only can you get damage buffs for both weapons in powerstancing, but you can buff unbuffable weapons with it(Like most somber weapons). Even weapons that don’t have a warcry moveset(Which is kinda funny)

Happy to see you here Rusty, loved your overwatch videos back when I played overwatch and was comforting finding your videos for my new interest in a game

Shield crash is also really good at proccing status too. I did the briar greatshield with cold. Hits 5 or 6 times in the animation. Dump trucks worth of dmg.

rusty though i am not currently playing Elden ring because I don't have it yet, your tips and knowledge would now help me in times of need and I thank you for that

Waves of darkness: the followup hitbox is broken and from what I can tell nobody has any intention of fixing it FromSoftware: And I took that personally

I love that YT shows you the most watched part so we can see that a lot of people went back to make sure the "bonk" was actually RKR

Sword dance has literally carried me through Ringleader with some good timing and bleed. Such a good and fun ash!!

Roar Medallion also buffs the heavy attacks changed by Barbaric Roar/Warcry. Stacks with Axe Talisman AND the crystal tear.

I found torch attack to actually be pretty useful against large Miranda blooms because the fire completely stops them for a bit at no FP cost

Shared Order is an aura type buff( takes up same slot as golden vow) so you can use it even if you have an uninfusable weapon by putting it on a dagger or other lightweight weapon

He sure hates crystalians huh

Barbaric roar changes the charged heavy of EVERY weapon it can go on, to a three hit combo that does about 2x regular damage if you can land all 3 hits

The mad lad actually did it, you have my respect.

holy crap, bloodhound step on malenia may be just the thing i need. thanks for the tip!

Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker is a handy delete button if you are farming the clifftop Albinaurics at Mogh's palace. The roar will stop that maddening rolling-ball-of-spikes thing they do and stun lock them within the range of the follow-up. Mimic Tear with this in the lower lake level clears everyone out quick (it will catch the submerged ones and stun them, too, so they can't sneak up on you). With Golden Scarab, go to town for late game levelling.

Prelates Charge can be used to run though Deep Lava and Rot great for Gelmir Hero's Grave to get the Ringed Finger Weapon and out running the chariots inside and ALL of Volcano Manor

These videos are insanely useful, thanks a lot man

one thing i wanna add onto barricade shield as a shield boy for most of my run is that when you press the button it is blocking, so you can use it as a parry :)

reduvia has a unique version of the blood blade skill allowing you to use it without the self damage just incase anyone was wondering and yes I've used it before so I know what I'm talking about here

amazing :) never watch this type of video more than half, watched it till the end, and saved it, thank you, well done

whatever mod you have that replaces the dodge with the step looks amazing. i wish that was the default dodge in this game

Ice spear is my choice. Excellent for dismounting also. Theres so many i want to try though. Love how creative we can be.

Probably most players already know this, but you can put Shield Crash on the fingerprint shield and bleed infuse it, anything that's not immune/resistant to bleed and madness gets completely steam rolled, especially if you upgrade the shield Very fun in PvE, total cancer in PvP

Fun fact about Lifesteal Fist, it bullies Crucible Knights. Why patiently for them to open themselves up when you can just run in and suck them off without risk?

Malenia's waterfowl dance can be trivialized in a number of ways: bloodhound step, freeze pots, any one hit that staggers (i.e. jump attacks with downward motion), etc. Has made NG+5-7 fights against her rather easy.

Another tip for Raptors is the mist: it can be used to deal with the chariots. One use it and they'll pass right by you since they're going so fast trivilizing the threat they pose.

Charged attacks after warcry also deals poise damage as you run forwards right before attacking. Really cool ash of war.

that golden order + discus of light combo is so cool

Bloodhound’s Step: Press L2 to win

Great video dude. All the info with no stupid intros or face streaming

for a fun time use crag blade on caestuses with the raptor armor and claw talisman, you'll be destroying posture with jump attacks, I managed to stagger the fire giant like 4 times in a single fight with this combo

This is some quality content, no bullshit, straight to the point, well done!

The Lightning Slash stomp has a hitbox and can stagger for long enough to land the strike. The delay of the lightning ("meaty" in FGC terms) is also good because it gives you more chance to get off a charge R2 or something.

Anyone who blocks Malenisa's waterfowl dance is a madman! Also Shard of Alexander affects Lightning Rams damage as well since it's a Weapon Art and Lightning-Shrouded Cracked tear!

The charged heavy attacks of the Barbaric Roar, War Cry, and Braggart Roar can also get increased damage from the Roar Medallion.

You’re the best man love the work you do!!’

prayerful strike makes your mimic nigh immortal. the healing is % based and mimic is a truck 😂 also redmanes flame is so op that it alone can make the game trivial 🤣 them are my fave 2.

Dude, storm blade has a surprisingly long shelf life - I was able to essentially keep it as a ranged option on my dex character for most of the game

Hahahaha your outro alone was enough for a follow, thanks for the tips man!

Torch Attack: the fire damage make miners go kaboom Wild Strikes: you can immediately go into the follow up attacks from the start for mix ups and the light attack will duck under some swings.

Good job man, pretty much just used this as a shopping list for things I missed.

It's worth noting that on shared order, both for the caster and anybody around, the buff technically isn't a weapon buff, it's a player buff. Meaning you can pair it with a spell or grease to get even higher damage. In certain cases with the right stuff, you could achieve 1k or more damage with a single colossal sword hit, even if the enemy isn't undead.

wild strikes is a personal favourite in pvp, it gives crazy zone control against multiple enemies

Yo! How do you dodge like that without using quikstep?

i pretty much survived most of the game using barricade shield on the carian knights shield as a mage - only replaced it with the mirror shield in the very late game

Barbaric Roar on Nagakiba, too sweet to pass up.

Played my entire first play through with “square off” on a broad sword. Timing can get a little difficult but typically 2, max 3 hits with this with stagger anything in the game for a critical.

Worth mentioning that the strong attack on Unsheathe headshots for greater damage and stun so it's ideal for humanoid foes and will almost always stance-break them if it doesn't kill outright.

5:35 what the shit indeed 😂 A third of the way through and this video has already given me like five ideas for stuff to do on my everything character doin ng+ runs.

Phlanx skills also can target invisible targets

roiling magma works extremely well with radahns weapons. Since his ash of war pulls enemies all the way to you, even if they get caught at the edge. What’s cool is a roiling magma IMMEDIATELY followed by starcaller cry allows you to pull the enemy to you, and as you finish off your weapon art, you’re gonna see a badass purple explosion as the same exact time the magma explodes.

Barbaric roar doesn't only change Axe R2's, it works for a whole bunch of ones, even Collossal Swords.

I'm just here because your voice is brilliant, soothing, and really fun to listen to... :D