The NPC change is probably things like Tholliger not moving in or doing anything somethings in the final boss right.

The super vague fix to “text not displaying properly” probably refers to that Stake of Marika that had bugged text after it let you examine it for some reason.

the fix for perfume aow not doing ay damage was that if you used the aow varient of golden vow it would literally do 0 damage. it would stagger tf out of enemies but do nothing otherwise. i wass all to familiar with that bug on my perfumer playthrough

So after seeing this you know what this means.... the ansboch bow doing max damage on a single arrow is intended baby let's gooooo

Really cool of you to show things in game rather than just reading the patch notes. Quality work. Good gamer.

The carian sword should have a hitbox on its casts so if you cast slicer, it hits with the sword too

Insane they made a patch that brought back the chainsaw glitch the death blight glitch AND added a somehow even worse bloodhound step and still none of that was priority number 1 for the next balance patch

Fire knight greatsword is still extremely good if you ask me. Obviously you can’t two tap people now. But what we’re left with is a Zweihander with much better scaling, better light attacks and an inherent damage increase whenever flame is applied as a weapon buff. With 72 faith and flame art, my fkgs hits 1006 AR, you’ll have to work for your kills more but that damage is absolutely insane.

Calling a thrusting sword “really not that great” is crazy

i tested dueling shield and they are still goated in pvp the thing i like about it is how every time u finish a light attack the weapon moves back to guard and actually guards from attacks. so u can delay attacks to confuses other players while still blocking.

I think they bug fix about "text being displayed incorrectly" is probably for Jolan & Anna ashes, since the item description was cut off. Can't check right now though, sadly, so I'm just gonna assume it is.

Rolling sparks should still be good against large bosses

I believe the Fire Knight greatsword "affinity" change was the fact that how its flavor text referenced getting more damage on fire infusions. Before this patch it used to get more damage on sacred infusion rather than flame art.

Perfume users were REALLY upset in the comments on Oro's video. One of my comments making fun of them got shadowbanned. One of them claimed they had beaten every Souls game at level 1 with no upgrades, so it was fine they abused the bug, it was crazy.

They need to fix rain of fire

Apparently, the Sorcery Sword is one of the better Catalysts now at 40-50 INT, so at least it has that going for it. Although the physical scaling is not great, so you'd want to pump your INT up to 80 to get the most out of it anyway.

The rolling sparks bug was sometimes if you cast golden vow it would do no damage. I’ve seen it on a friends stream The gaius change will probably be helpful for players that are struggling. Now you can summon right out of the gate

But the chainsaw bug still exists

I think the big thing with discus hurl in PvE was Royal Knight's Resolve. You could buff your right hand weapon and just spam discus hurl with 80% more damage until the buff ended.

ngl my takeaway from the patch was mainly that people can finally use lighting perfume and FK greatsword because they're neat and fun, and not feel bad for it

Thing is carian sorcery sword is one of the best magic catalysts for less than/equal to 40 int, the real use for it will probably be some cool combos like how the heysel pick was used in ds3 (though notably it is not a hammer and in a game with passive poise)

4:50 The bug was that if you had the Golden Vow weapon art active (Not the spell) then Rolling Sparks just did 0 damage

I wish the carian sword’s effect was an ash or just given to more weapons. I would’ve loved to have a colossal sword version to two hand

The reaction to this patch makes me think that about 20% of the people who play are fans of all souls borne games and the other 80% just look up the best build to carry them through the game without actually experiencing difficulty

Ayy I'm glad you went over this you have the best patch note videos

For the 2nd Fire Knight Greatsword bug, the R2 was not doing Thrust damage as it should, but was doing Standard damage instead. This is what was fixed

Congratulations for 200k ! I'm mostly here for the humor but the quality of analysis and elaboration really makes this channel special

Swift slash is still overtuned but theres a chance to fight it now

Really appreciate the background gameplay highlighting the changes!

The problem of a casting weapon is that it's either not viable in terms of damage or the best-in-slot weapon you can take, you can't make it inbetween. Since other casting tools do nothing else than let you cast spells, having a weapon that lets you attack and cast spells has to do less damage than both casting tools and similar weapons, otherwise you wouldn't use casting tools or other weapons.

4:25 I'm pretty sure one of the buffs this effected was golden vow. If a player was affected by golden vow, the perfume skills stopped doing damage. It's not like the old wall of sparks needed golden vow to do good damage before, and perfume bottles in general probably won't see a ton of use now, but it's good they didn't leave the bug in the game regardless.

Super happy about the throwing dagger buff and sorcery sword

Actually got a notif when the video got uploaded.

For the fire knight great sword affinity: might refer to the weapon getting a buff with holy infusion instead of fire infusion

Carian sorcery sword is meant to be used with a shield ash of war like golden parry or shield bash. It'll give the utility of poking with some spell casting. It's not as good as two weapons, but it could probably make a decent build.

2h ts staggers everyone below 116 poise, which on meta level is basically impossible to get. It also has significantly more range and speed than even 70 vdex slicer

I will say the perfume bottles carried me through the ng+7 final fight yesterday but it's good to see them nerfed. And out of all the bosses that got a tweak.... the golden hippo...? I never had any issues with his grab attack if you just roll to the right when he gets close. He just circles you trying to get you while you're free to r1 spam away

Really love seeing Scott back on the ER grind

Swift Slash still needs nerfs. damage and hitstun was just one aspect; it's still unreactable and travels way too far. you still need to carry a shield to counter it; remember, block the dash, roll the after effect. Rolling Sparks has been brought in line with other ashes, as long as you use it against enemies with large hitboxes. Unbuffed, if you get three sparks to connect, it's about 1800 damage per use. buffed up with talismans and an elemental physick, we can get close to 3500 damage per ash use, which is about average as far as ashes of war go. Hopefully we see some buffs to the base moveset, because as it is it's still an ash-of-war stick with no merits by itself. Thorns is still overtuned. Blindspot is still overtuned. Spread crossbow is still overtuned. Ansbach bow still overtuned. More work to be done. I'll wait til we're in a better spot.

For rolling sparks it was not working when you had golden vow active, it basically absorbed the attacks

Though it won't be great I think the thrusting sword could now be used on a turtle build. Apply Magic Shield with it and the occasional swift glintstone pebble. Probably not unusable.

RIP Perfume bottles. Despite Hosts' inability to stay alive, it was a big help in helping people clear bosses.

glad i got to try out the customary op 1.0 giga-nuke build but those perfumes were not long for this world - everything about them felt fucked and still kinda does, they are a very cool idea but id imagine they are gonna either be oppressive or total shit - very tricky to balance a weapon like that

Unfortunately they kind of overnerfed Rolling Sparks. Or rather, it wasn't just fixing a bug. I never even knew about the exploit of aiming it at the ground, I just used it as a like, line AoE that could deal good damage on bigger targets who'd be hit by multiple explosions. And now the damage on it is like, extremely, extremely low. It can usually outdamage normal attacks, but that's hardly saying much given how low those attacks already are. And even then it's only usually.

I was testing a bit in the colosseum and idk if it's just me but the only thing that this patch seems to have fixed is the perfume bottles. The Swift Strike AoW is still incredibly broken, the thrusting shield's nerf is minimal at best, and the fire knight's greatsword is still true comboing me. Again I might just be a moron but to me this doesn't seem like it actually did anything.

I wish "didn't apply to PvE" applied to a lot more patches

Carian Sorcery Sword is good for shield poke builds. You can shield poke and use sorceries on the same build. It's very good IMO because the main issue with shield poke is that you're locked into a short range thrusting weapon.

The int sword also does higher poise damage so its better in pvp but yea i think going pure caster is better

@4:55 Its likely referring to the ash of war version of golden vow, which made the rolling sparks do 0 damage.

Hey Scott, have you messed around with miriam's vanishing + incants at all? I can imagine some pretty nasty stuff with wrath of gold/radagon's rings/triple rings on a build like this.

"Carian Slicer on an unaware enemy is still 712 damage. On an aware enemy, it's still 859." Huh? What happened there?

Idk why I'm even watching this. I haven't even beaten Radahn yet.

I'm not interested in abusing bugs personally but I was interested in using the perfumes. It would be nice if they got a little buff to be solid. I was using beast claws and those felt like nerfing myself in PVP lol such a tough weapon to master. Not a top player or anything but I've been a souls fan since og demon's souls and man these weapons have been a good time.

I need "Hey guys Scott here" as my morning alarm

I wonder if they’re gonna get around to fixing the staff of the great beyond because I want to rock it in good conscience

Gazing Finger is insane! That AoW being a chargeable knock-up is disgustingly strong.

Great video... I think, wasn't paying attention, was on a nostalgia trip from the shirt.

Just a note regarding the Carian Sorcery Sword, apparently at 40 int it is the best sorcery option. Assuming that's true it makes it much more viable depending on your build i think?

4:32 It was golden vow, after buffing with golden vow spell or consumable or ash, rolling sparks would cause zero damage, it wouldn't even aggro hahaha

2:30 for rollcataches in pvp as an offhand?(iirc does hae spellcasting when in the left hand, but i might be misremembering)

All they had to do was boost Carian sword sorceries with the Carian sorcery sword. It's right there in the name. Really it should have some interaction with them, like the sword's hitbox counting too, or slicer being applied to the weapon's usual combo, when slicer is the active spell.

No buffs for poleblade of bud? It's a damn shame that one of the few weapons with scarlet rot status remains mediocre compared to other boss weapons from the DLC.

As a pure strength build, happy to hear the spread crossbow haven’t been touched lol

please make a video explaining how you make a build

You should have tested the Carian Sorcery Sword at lower INT levels. Fully upgraded sorcery sword, Youwy has it as the best "staff" for sorcery scaling until level 40 int. At that point the scaling begins to skew in favor of the staffs that you compared it to, end game staffs at level 80 INT 😂 Anywho, just thought I'd point out your results were misleading. Feel free to fact check my source if you want: Youwy 🤙🏾

So the lightning perfume won't do the massive damage anymore?

I knew I wasn’t going crazy when summoning Black Knife and these bosses where at full HP after 2min of fighting

Scott I’ve never played Elden ring. Nor any firmsoft game, and not cause i don’t like it’s just never came across my radar as all my friends gravitated towards shooters growing up. But I’ve always kinda been peeping at it from around the corner. I enjoy your dbd videos and the Elden ring videos are a nice touch and nice to see your enjoying something instead of pretty much always criticizing (rightfully) dbd lol. Also. Congrats on 200k

I hope they fixed the scaling on the great beyond staff

note about carian caster sword, thrusing attacks are really good if you compliment it with a good left hand weapon, very similar to yhormes great machette from ds3. The best sorceries to cast with a low damage casting tool is spells that provide hyper armor or CC (Gavels great hammer, glintstone trio, zamor icestorm, greatsword phalanx. It will provide pressure while you are performing running attacks with the thrusting sword which will control what your opponents can do in a fight. Haveing a duel weild build with an array of CC heavy spells is worth testing at the vesy least. Also to add, this kind of adjustment patch is typical for fromsoft, they address the severe outliers first, then they bring up the under performers on the 2nd or 3rd balance patch. We are probably looking at another month before buffs

I’m a mage. Mage love jellyfish shield. Jellyfish shield love thrusting sword because I can shield-n-poke. Jellyfish shield doesn’t love other int weapons because their combat art is blocked by the shield. You can argue that carian slicer and moonblade are better close-range options, for which I agree. But I really wanna use this memory slot for other spells…

People are a bit obsessed with things being “optimal” in these games, if something is not amazing it’s often thrown to the wayside. Don’t forget to have fun people! Everything is viable with only a couple exceptions in the entire game (think varres bouquet). Elden ring has an immense amount of variety so try some creative combos with your builds, use things that aren’t considered meta, I promise you can still see plenty of success in pvp. I had ~600 hours of pvp playtime in ds3 before I got bored of it, I have at least 1600 hours of pvp playtime in elden ring and I can’t see myself getting bored of it anytime soon.

I understand why the shield takes less stamina damage while attacking, and while in previous patch it was probably too little it definitely was never a bug; since you're attacking while guarding with most attacks, and those attacks costume stamina, taking full stamina damage on your guard would cause virtually every attack to be at risk for a guard break. One decently heavy attack against your shield, and the stamina consumption + the stamina damage could easily drain massive chunks of your bar, so mitigating stamina damage is clearly necessary for balancing. I'm glad they didn't hit it with a heavy hand here and still let it mitigate a lot

Swift slash with bleed is still really strong from fighting it and testing it with friends like back hands blade proc bleed way to fast

I no nothing about Elden ring but I miss Scott and his dbd patch videos so I watched some of this

No Staff of Great Beyond buff 😔

the patch that just came out last night is 1.013.003 on ps5 is this the same patch?

Skipped the backhand blade one… which is the one I came to see 😢

I didn't even know the thrusting shields were bugged. I killed the final boss last night using it and it got nerfed the next day. Part of me is relieved I beat it before then, and part of me is a little said that I only beat it bc I was basically abusing a bug. Fmlll

Praying Carian Sovereignty and Ansbach's bow will survive the next bigger patch.

bloodfiend arm was rlly good

Serpent hunter still glitched.

Kneejerk quick patch sounds about right. Fix a few bugs people bitch about (which is good sure but so many left in the game), do a few unnecessary nerfs "compensated" by buffs that barely could be considered that at all (still awful range for those smithscript weapons, and now with a fourth of the damage cut off! Classic FromSoft balancing). Perfume bottles aren't broken anymore, BUT they made sure any other forms of dealing damage were cut too so now they're bad meme weapons like the DS2 Ladle or DeS Needle of Eternal Agony or DS3 Yorshka's Spear/any miracle build in general. And also true, people keep bringing up stuff that's broken but the stuff that's just complete garbage to use outweighs it by far. A patch that fixes things that are broken is good but a bunch of stuff needs some buffs too. This patch was kind of half-assing it. Things are either trash or brokenly OP with a few in-betweener "good" things. And as apparent they can't fix broken things (or things that weren't even broken to begin with, like smithscript weapon damage) without burying it in the ground. Hopefully they figure things out by the end because the regular game of ER before the DLC drop was actually balanced well in an enjoyable way for the most part, thanks mainly to being able to separate PvP and PvE balancing finally. If they were able to do that in the Dark Souls 2 and, especially Dark Souls 3 days then those games would've had better changes in the end (DS3 got hit the worst by far though from FromSoft "overbalancing").

The sorcery sword is actually the best catalyst in the game at 40 int and under, you probably won’t be at that level of int if you’re a caster in the dlc but worth noting ig

10:25 not jut sacred and flmae art, but also magic

That tiche bug has been part of the black knife weapon and tiche since I can remember I thought it was just how death flame worked.fumer bottles need a but of a buff, thyere not that useful in their current state. They fuck up little guys but their animations are so slow that its not visble to use them outside of the field to kill small enemies

Guess I accidentally beat the final boss with a broken smithscript weapon. Thanks Miyazaki

FS nerfed the smithscript weapons, yet erdsteel dagger remains the unintended faith scaling. It's not that erdsteel dagger is strong or anything, it's the inconsistency that bugs me.

Glad i beat final boss with that shield before nerf

where is the bugfix for fire rain ;-;

I love that they try to pass what they did to throwing daggers as a buff when they almost halved the damage by stripping out the affinity scaling

Honestly never had any problems with boss placement.

Yeah at 1.12.4 my spirit summons are STILL broken.

RIP Jeremy Fragrance 😭

The ray tracing is bad? I dont think i have the frame of reference for it yet.. i turned it off to stop the frame rate from crying 😂

R.I.P Bloodfiend's Arm... taken from us much too early

So bow still OP huh

RIP perfume, the one thing that made it viable is gone. Can't wait for them to buff it in 6 months though

I hope they actually start buffing things

Smithscript Cirque/Throwing daggers are just trash even with new patch, there isn't any instance where the Smithscript Discus/Hammer aren't just objectively better for range and damage. A base game Kukri or Throwing dagger have more range and the Kukris have bleed build up and range just a bit less than shortbows with lock-on.