UPDATE: Carian Sorcery Sword has been buffed! It ties for the best staff at 40 int with the demi human staff. However, at 60+ int it is not as good as most of the other staves in the game. It is a lot more viable of an option now.

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The sorcery sword is good only for using non-attack magic like Thops's Barrier or Scholar Shield so you don't have to switch between your weapon and staff.

I was under the impression that Staff of the Great Beyond had terrible spell scaling. I'm pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong. I'm very excited to get my hands on it.

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it would be cool if the carian sorcery sword had a hitbox when casting melee sorceries, so like with carian slicer you'd hit with both the spell and the sword at once, giving it an edge.

Man, when I first looted that sword and read the item description I screamed "blue flame is back!" internally and was sooo disappointed at the performance. Really hope the scaling gets fixed in a patch it doesn't need S scaling but as long as it gets spellbuff at least comparable to the weaker staffs it will still be fun.

Oof, and here I was, excited to actually play a Sword & Board Mage-Knight using the Carian Sorcery Sword instead of a regular staff…

So...the *Carian Sorcery Sword* is a Carian sword that doubles as a catalyst...but doesn't boost Glintblade Sorceries... Excuse me, but what the actual f-?

Love the staff of the great beyond, i swear miyazaki reading my mind somewhere cuz i wanted an ability to sekiro deflect/lies of p perfect guard and a staff that can cast spells and incantations

A video on your favorite weapons regardless of in game power could be cool. Or a general review of the DLC. Either way I started watching when you originally ranked the builds in elden ring and you've improved how I build my characters a shitload and I basically watch every video now. Thanks Youwy!

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Personally, I prefer comfortable play over optimized play, so when I get around to doing my int/fth build again I'll certainly be using the Great Beyond. So long as a dual stat casting tool can reach 320 or above at 60/60 it is worth using in my opinion.

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I plan to use the Great Beyond because I like having a mix of incants and sorceries, but I’d rather have the convenience of not having to constantly manage the menu since there are other ways of boosting my spell damage beyond just base scaling. It is nice to know though that Dryleaf boosts all the Order incantations too, not just Multilayered. I use Discus a ton, so that’ll be convenient for the off hand passive as a replacement for the Golden Order seal.

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We need more catalysts that casted both and or a weapon to cast incantations

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I was praying they'd add something like Staff of the Great Beyond. Love spellcaster builds and hated having to switch catalysts with hybrid builds. I expected the versatility to come at the cost of a damage reduction but I'm fine with that. Also like the staff design.

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Yo Youwy i really liked how you talked about max level in this one. Would love if you could always do that in your videos if it fits. Really helps with my max level loadout. There are not many creators who talk about that in their videos (which is understandable)

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My og character is a 50/50 split faith int build. I can’t wait to get into this dlc!

Maternal staff has the best arcane scaling so now that's the bleed staff

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I’m still rocking the frenzied flame seal but I might have to try out that dry leaf seal for my troubles

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a catalyst that casts spells and incants my dream come tru (i called it check the receipts)

Great video! Thanks for saying which spells are miquellas

10:20 IT DOES WHAT!! I need to know more, my current build is a golden order build by using all the rings of light spells. I would really love a video on the dry leaf seal and other equipment to know how all of this interacts with each other, so far as i know no one is really talking about the seals and spells of the dlc.

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I'm hoping that the Carian Thrusting Sword is bugged given how bad its spell scaling seems to be. That and if Fromsoft were to actually display its casting value on the weapon info (below the critical multiplier like on staves) it would be a lot nicer.

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am happy the int/faith staff is good, am using golden order seal with sword of night and flame, dlc gave me a lot of cool int/faith equipment, like relannas twin light greatswords and the scriptsmith weapons. also new faith sorceries. DLC SO FUCKING GOOD

8:00 the best way to mitogate the damage ossue os by using the appropriate talismans as both versions of the the incant and sorcery talismans that boost damage can be used together

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Staff of the great beyond is great for a 60 int/faith build that wants to primarily use sorceries but also have access to things like golden vow, law of regression, and heals.

Hey, test briars of sin with the staff of the guilty for me please? I found it strange you didn’t include it. Wouldn’t that be the most optimized option or is the staff you mentioned better?

4:19 youwy trying his hardest to make fire rain do something and failing is hilarious to me

Astounding that From went through all of the work putting so many new casting options in just to make them obsolete before the dlc came out.

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Power stance the Carian Sword with the Frozen Needle main hand for some fun spamming frost bolt and night shards. The spell cast then replace the Ash of War button. *pew pew pew* :) I feel there is an easy way to make it more viable though, while not completly broken : just make the sorcery scale off of DEX in addition to INT (similar to Frenzied Seal).

Stuff of Great Beyond is great to have all the utility and buff spell at your beck and call paired with weapons like Sword of Night and Flame and Rellana's Twin Blades that scales from Int and Faith.

Staff of the great beyond is all that ive wanted for a pure caster. I can cast everything at max speed with azur in the offhand and have the convenience of not checking if it was a sorcery or incantation. Just experiment with all combinations!

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thx. waiting for DLC unique ashes of war tier list ^^

one thing with the staff of the great beyond, it lets you have incants, sorceries, AND a weapon all at once. sure its not "optimal" as far as numbers go, but the utility is undeniable!

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Had no idea you could use that sword for spells lol Was disappointed when i found it but thats a dope feature

At level 713, dragon communion has higher scaling than golden order for some reason

The thing of the great beyond is the combos and that you can and should pair it with azur's.

5:00 There are some int arc weapons. Both of the Echoaid weapons scale with these stats more or less directly. Especially their ash of war so paired with those that staff might not be the worst option to use.

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I've seen the thorn sorcery spell nuke so much stuff it's crazy. Good data. Spirit ashes? Oh man I'm hype. How good is Taylew ACTUALLY like an FSW Pokémon video lmao 🎉🎉

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To be fair on the Carian Sorcery Sword, it's more about the utility of it than the raw stats, being able to whip out sorcery on the fly without having to cycle through weapons or shields, it was never designed to be a powerhouse so much as giving you another playstyle option, in a way it's practically its own weapon class.

I kinda want to try some spell combos between sorcery and incantations. I feel like going 80/80 is kinda ridiculous so the great beyond staff is good for me. The most I see myself going is 60/60. Gravatation Missile + Multilayered Ring of Light sounds like a fun combo.

Agreed on the weapon catalyst. I think it's definitely good to have cool/fun stuff in the game that isn't quite optimal, but it sucks when they're so bad.

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Damn bro you even made a chart with complimenting level for the staffs and seals!? Damn bro you kick ass

The staff of the great beyond is the first time ive enjoyed playing a caster type. It was so annoying to constantly be tabbing though spells and seals and weapons i just would rather jump attach with a hammer. But having the all in 1 even if its not peak performance is super fun.

I really appreciate the testing and time and speed of these videos, but I think it would be really funny if you ranked something that we only got like 2 of, just to see the thumbnail saying ALL 2 _____

So my Tarnished is Level 581 with 99 in Int and Faith. Unfortunately I was disappointed in the sense that none of these new catalysts actually improved my spell casting, but at least with the Staff of Great Beyond it gives me a 3rd catalyst to cycle to so I can use all my spells seamlessly and summon my mimic before switching back to the better staff and seal I have when I need my own spells to be just a little more potent.

It’s a shame none of the new casting tools replace the old top tier ones at meta level. Buffing certain spells and incantations is nice, but people wanna build the new equipment

The utility of the Staff of the Great beyond makes it the best catalyst

I can still see a niche for the Carian Sword catalyst. Utility spells like the shield buff don't need a high Sorcery rating. Greatsword Phalanx is more about stagger and poise damage. Ice spells can still procc Frostbite, even with weak damage. It's actually a very narrow scope, but I think there is still a niche.

So much goofy balance in this game. I feel like things could be so much simpler so that optimizing damage didn't require constant experimenting with a stat as inscrutable as "incant scaling". Of course, damage doesn't matter that much if you can't even use half your spells on a boss because they're too slow for how little damage you get.

I spent 70 hours in the DLC just beat it and I only found one seal

I feel like the carian sorc sword was made to use with the thrusting shield

Can't wait for the "all bosses in the dlc review! (No spoilers)"

Thanks for the vid. Wish they spent this time making more melee weapons instead of these

Was invading the other day and someone looking to duel was wielding the stave that casts incantations and spells, and he messed me up big time. In my almost 60 hours of invasions have never come across someone so untouchable.

do a video on the summons!!!!!

If you have 2 fire knight seals the messmer flame incants do a little more dmg at 80 faith than using the Erdtree Seal in your main hand, much like how dual wielding Giant's flame seals are still optimal for maximizing those spells, despite having significantly lower scaling than the Erdtree.

For the seals that boost a spell group is it better to have two or just one in the office hand? Thinking of fire Knight and the one that boosts spiral spells

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Hey Youwy, I know this isn't related to the video but I wanted to tell you in case you are interested (or if you are reporting bugs to fromsoftware). I fought the final boss with parrying and I noticed 2 wierd things: If you parry the blood slash (not the thrust) you get the parry but the fire trail will still come out and explode behind you, while in most cases of other parryable bosses, a parry will completely negate the attack's after effects. The second issue is that it seems the boss's parry counter resets on phase transition, so if you got 2 parries and the boss goes to p2, your parries are gone which is a BS that even Malenia didn't have.

Put a staff of the great beyond into the hands of a mimic tear with 68int/35 Faith and enjoy your artillery firing Rann's Dark Moon *and* Scarlet Aeonia. Killed Bayle accidentally first try with that setup.

Dragon communion seal is better at lvl +150 as it laks a softcap after 30 for bothe Arcane anf Faith

on the other hand, the sorcery sword definitely has the best light attack string out of any other catalyst

I would like to point out that from my testing every seal seems to have it's own hidden scaling on weapon buff spells and fireknight seal consistently gives the highest weapon damage buffs. feel free to test it yourself.

So if your max level, which staff should you use? I use staff of loss in each hand for night sorceries. Are there stronger staffs and spells combinations at max level?

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