Does absolutely nothing

Lol

Muzet?

Sounds like something a Time Mage or Summoner would say in FF Tactics.

ayyyy tales of xillia 2 was a fun game

NekuroWinkel01 It does not works on Ravus though

probably because he already is dead ?

just did it ...works on ravus

Only thing it doesn't work on is Omega...of course

Didn't they patch it so It doesn't work on them?

Oh crap, I totally forgot to talk about damage types :O Yea, Holy does "Light" damage. Death has it's own damage type. Hard to say whether it's physical or magical, because the only physical-immune enemies in the game die before you can deal damage to them. Still, it's most likely magical damage.

Justin Bouma lol honestly it doesn’t always work

Yea, the ring sorta feels... out of place. There's just nothing mechanically similar in the game. I guess it's kinda the point that it feels unique, but Royal Arms manage to feel unique while still working like any other weapons at the end of the day. It even has its own tab in the equipment menu...

Honestly, the magic system in FFXV is ridiculous. Why would Square allow elemancy to harm allies? You are punished for using a core mechanic of combat. If it was to discourage players from abusing it, they already achieved that by capping absorption and limiting spell casts. I just dont get it.

"elemancy grenades" I love it. lmao

@@Greerthetis1 I know they added some other stuff to the game to make the game more "Real" Like the monsters crossing the road and what not. It's probably something to added on to that. Normal people can't just incinerate a populated area with flare and everybodys fine. But you can equip an accessory that nullifies the damage. granted I think its a waste of an accessory but thats just my opinion.

Thanks :D They indeed buffed it through the roof. I still think they took it two steps too far with Alterna, but like you said, I don't have to use it. Pre-patch it was useful for nobody, at least now some people might enjoy cheesing the game with it.

Honestly, in terms of story, this is how powerful the ring really is supposed to be. The original titles of Death, Holy, and Void were basically meant to make the wielder a god, literally. Lore wise, at least in VERSUS, you will the ring and you're the Inheritor of the Light, as Ardyn was supposed to be. Power over death, to literally just take the soul of someone in an instant and 'store' it. Literally being able to assume that person and their likeness/memories. Holy, literally the holy light of the crystal, casting a huge Crystal Shield around you, negating all damage (Luna uses it in the OMEN trailer against Noctis, and Regis uses it in Kingsglaive against you know who) and literally a nuke of light pillars as its offensive, pretty much deatomzing any demon on contact. And finally, the grand daddy of them all Void (called X-Zone, Alterna, and all kinds of other silly translations in the final US script). The power over space/time, to travel between worlds (the phasing, teleportation through the black 'void' that Nyx and the rest use) and finally, literally ripping a fabric in space and time, creating a black hole--complete city/army ending effect. Even the land for a radius--gone. In terms of the watered down lore for FFXV's game mechanics for the ring, it at least serves its purpose. But there's your lore for people like us. The price for using the ultimate spell--not shown--was your soul. Plain and simple. And can only be used once, and at the chosen time. It's about Etro, so that's about all I can say. "Expiring Souls". Source: SQUARE-ENIX script writer/VERSUS/FFXV (well yeah, me) twitter.com/mgaminglive No NDAs broken here, so fuck'em.

oh wow, thanks for sharing this with us!

Absolutely, you earned it.

MercilessV Fuck NDAs all they're designed to do is protect corporations from their own secrets, NDAs should be illegal. Yet even if they were it wouldn't make any difference in this world... I hope they don't screw you for allowing is a better understanding lf the lore of the game we love that, they supposedly love as well...but when developers cut content to please the political corporate bullshitaucracy they savagely murder their own intellectual property, all for the moneybags... It's good to see some people still seem to show a measure of care for their work. I hope they don't screw you over behind the scenes for sharing it with us...

I also love it, they did a good job there. It's so simple, but it's so pretty.

The Goblin It doesn’t lock you out of using them. It just doesn’t tell you how to use them.

Ikr. Just give me airsteps and link strikes! That's all I'm asking! Please!

I preferred the mp cost from the demo over the hp cost they have now. I'd probably use them more if I wasn't slowly killing my character with every attack.

MrAgentIncognito Easy to compensate for with regen items (black choker + megaphone on gladdi should do just fine, though you can always do more. With red and blue choker i managed just fine too, it's just that black is the best one)

Two more, and I'm very much enjoying Alterna as effectively saying "I cast: "I don't have time for this!""

The Oily Boily Guy I thought the Ring was banned from timed quests... It actually does work in the Final Trial, but the proc chance is extremely low. There are some story bosses that are unaffected by it. I've heard that at least Titan, Leviathan and Ravus are immune, but there could be others.

Asetoni FFXV The patched that ended the timed quests (so now they are offline) you can use the ring. But your assertion still stands that there is virtually nothing it cant kill.

@@asetoniffxv22 Omega is also immune

@@Herodegon Yea, he is. This video was made way back before Royal Edition was released.

Old comment but fyi if you see miss after using alterna that means they can be effected by it, just didn't get it to work

ShadowXaiden Angelus is IMMUNE to Alterna. So is another mech called MA-X Patria. Its Level 76-78.

Serene Knight nothing is inmune to alterna(void)

Like I said in the video, it's rng. Just keep trying and you'll get it.

The OtakuVip Just lucky

i-frames, also known as invulnerability frames are a period of time during an animation, where you can't take damage or get staggered. The enemy's attack simply passes through you (so, in other words, they are the frames during which your character is invulnerable :P). Hyper armor refers to a period of time where you can get hit and receive damage, but are not staggered or interrupted by these attacks (unless they kill you).

Ah I see, thanks!

GunShot No, it still works the same, at least for me. Maybe you just were unlucky. As for distance affecting it, I don't know and testing that would be extremely time consuming and bothersome. However, I have my doubts, considering I've gotten quite a lot of Adamantoise kills from max distance.

Asetoni FFXV maybe I was unlucky.. but I genuinely do feel distance affects the chance since I also use it to kill the giants at night, and when standing further away it tends to miss more often

@@gunshot911 according to the ff15 wiki adamantoise has an alterna resistance of 1% so good luck getting it to happen

You load your save file and go to a resting point. There you can select "Call Umbra", this allows you to travel back to Lucis before chapter 9.

thank you

just did it

this is the easiest way to kill it, but not the shortest

Let me guess, you're trying to cast it on Adamantoise? There, Alterna simply has a new "breaking" animation when it fails. Just keep trying, it's pure RNG and the chance to kill Adamantoise with it is quite low.

@@asetoniffxv22 i brought the turtle to a quarter health then got bored thanks though i thought it happened on everything

Well, yea. This video was uploaded a year ago when Omega wasn't in the game yet.

All good then :) I spent so long trying to use it on him

As I said in 4:17, Noctis will automatically cast it when guarding with the Ring of the Lucii equipped

@@asetoniffxv22 Yes I have the ring and know it's the square button but when I press it nothing happens other then going into guarding mode that's the problem I'm having I'm thinking it's some kind of glitch in the game

he was teleported to skyrim

@@kiemugen9830 Where is your proof he could have telepirted to the Soul Carn.

Hąrlęy• Qûiņņ If you work your way through the game at low level, yeah you can have it as early as lvl 1 if you want to. (Some people have done lvl 1 runs if you're wondering) And yeah you do get it at chapter 13

You can equip the "Nixperience Band" item, which prevents you from leveling up when you camp. I simply did a level 1 run for the challenge.

well the ring is part of the main story it hard to just put it away into NG+

I actually like that i finally find a game again that has a couple OP items in it, a lot of em seem to get no real outstanding ones or large setups before you finally become OP. Here you just straight up get one at a decent risk with a badass animation.

0:30 When you *press the attack button...* 4:18 *Instead of phasing,* Noctis will cast Holy *when guarding...* 6:49 If you're at full MP, you can cast Alterna *by holding the warp strike button and the lock on button.* The reason why I don't say "Circle button" or "Triangle button" or "R1" is because the game is on three different platforms and has three default control schemes. The comment section would be flooded with people asking something like "What button do I press on Xbox with control scheme C?" By the time you have the ring in the game, I expect you to know which button attacks, defends and warps. The game even tells you the controls when you get the ring.

Daniel Burgess The game explains it to you, dude.

Have you played the game? When you get it they explain it, plus you can revisit the tutorial.

townnet To just fuck around with the post game and be a badass, it's not that spammable unless you have easy acces to warp points, or use items. It isn't even amazing against groups as sometimes enemies don't get caught in it, and it doesn't kill every single enemy + it's RNG based. But my answer remains the same, it's just for the sake of fucking around or quickly killing an enemy that you can't be arsed to fight.