“Runs don’t need to be exclusively hard.” Words to live by, I just did an iron ball fist play of elden ring immediately after finishing the game sl1, and it was like I was treating myself to a good time. Also I appreciate the demons souls music in the background at the beginning.

Genuinely surprised by the dps you can get base game but was kind of expecting the dlc falloff. Great video though. Keep up the good content.

Cleric Robes and Knight Greaves are actually some pretty cool fashion souls, I hadn't considered the robes as a central piece for any of my fashion prior to now.

You don't need the Silver Pendant to dodge Manus' dark attacks. You just need good timing, like everything else in this game.

Very fun video! Honestly I have never really tried or thought about this weapon but this was very interesting to watch. I defiently do agree on the notion that not all runs have to be insanely hard challange runs which makes this video all the more refreshing 5/5 darksigns

"I love priscilla... She's cute!" That was adorable. I am enjoying your content.

This + scimitar was my main weapon for my first playthrough of this game, was not aware the damage could get so crazy with this buff. This video kinda made me understand more why some parts were difficult as well as the ones I found easy.

I love Manus. You definitely dont need the pendant to avoid his spells - you simply need to lock on less and work on spacing. Ds1 becomes much easier when you generally stop locking on to enemies, especially bosses.

I highly recommend trying Priscilla's Scythe. It was not only a fun and cool weapon the bleed and the special mechanic it has makes it really fun to take over the journey of a whole run, also it's awesome for a new game +

3:02 I was not aware of the existence of frog rays until now, but you have introduced a new thing for me to love in my life. Thank you.

Not really a challenge run, but an idea for a longer analysis-esque video. Beating the game with every class with only their base equipment and level to see which one is the most powerful on its own.

I don’t know if I’d have the courage to do a 2-handed build which forces you into close-quarter mêlée, but you know the game much better than I do, so congrats on the run!

I know a lot of people praise the Great scythe as one of the best pve weapons in the game. But recently I did a run where I used the regular Scythe you find in sens fortress. I got it to +11 fairly early in the run for the bump to B dex scaling, allowing me to one and two hit some of the more difficult early game enemies and making quick work of some early game bosses. I leveled mostly into dex and did a fairly even leveling of vitality and endurance. Also ran the thieves armor because its fairly light and has decent resistances also ran the grass crest shield. I got the scythe to +15 just before going to Anor Londo. Havel's ring is also a necessity early game, if you didn't level endurance enough usually taking the gloves off got you just enough equip load to fast roll with the ring. Overall the run was just very fun. Way less frustrating than some of my other runs. It was fun going through the game feeling way overpowered for some enemies and bosses. If you or anyone wants to do a similar run to mine, my early game weapon of choice for dex is the uchigatana, getting it to +5 and swapping out once you reach Sens fortress for the scythe.

A little surprised you did a DPS video without power within? Great video though, a good watch and just makes me want to do yet another DS1 run

I needed to watch this on 0.75x speed. But very cool video

Only at 4:47 but 40% DPS buff from Power Within is nothing to scoff at, and I don't think (in most cases) that the time spent healing is enough to counteract that fully. That being said, I don't know yet if you have something else in mind that wouldn't allow you to use it and would be better, but also FYI Power Within lasts 100 seconds. Just found your channel and loving your vids so far

Chances are someone mentioned this before, but you cannot increase either the damage or duration of weapon buffs by using rings. The only way to improve your DPS further is to use Hyper Mode (Power Within + RTSR) and the Dragon Torso Stone. With that being said, if you are going for max damage I suggest using a high AR weapon instead of a fast one, which could one-shot the enemy. This also solves the issues of reach, lack of large openings, and lack of buff duration, as you would be dealing upwards of 4K damage with a single swing even if the swing takes 3 seconds. If you want to use a fast DEX weapon Ricard's Rapier might be a better option for this type of build; going for minimum requirements with 50 INT/FTH and putting levels into stamina and vitality to use heavier armor to abuse the counter damage with the Leo Ring. The Leo Ring, however, will not improve the damage from the weapon buff as far as I know. Another spell-sword build would be to go DEX instead, using Great Magic Weapon with the Oolacile Ivory Catalyst. Since the Thief starts with 2 attunement slots you could raise your INT to 19 and DEX to 40, then attune Great Magic Weapon and Homing Soulmass (19 INT gives you 3 projectiles instead of 2), Great Soul Arrow, or Magic Shield/Strong Magic Shield, lastly increase your Endurance and Vitality. Strong Magic Shield is a pretty fun, albeit underrated spell that makes your shield 100% resistant to all damage while decreasing the stamina cost for blocking by more than 50%, meaning that even a small shield (better if it's fully upgraded) can provide you the benefits of a great shield with no strength requirements at a fraction of the weight. That setup in conjunction with a thrusting sword/spear and stamina recovery gear and you have yourself a pretty unique turtle build. The obvious choice here would be the Grass Crest Shield for this build, but experimentation is always fun.

my dude is speedrunning his script, take a breath man, you deserve it

Summon does channelers Trident, you have RTSR, Darkmoon talisman, darkmoon blade, +15 painting guardian sword, 99 dex, 99 str?, dusk crown, ring of the suns firstborn, power within. I think thats what you need

A DS1 challenge video? That Priscilla lives? Very nice

just found your channel and im loving your content, you are gonna get big, keep it up :)

this is a neat watch! ill check out the other video you mentioned. by the by, you have a pretty voice!

dude plays the chillest music but talks faster than his in-game framerate

Hey! Great video as always. Regarding the accessibility thing you mentioned, and as a soon to be video game programmer (5 months to graduate and start looking for a job on the field). This is my personal opinion: There are a lot of aspects that come into play whilst talking about accessibility, and it doesn't always relate to difficulty selections. The accessibility comes in many ways, such as visuals (Yellowish paint in the climbable or interactable elements of the games, such as in horizon zero dawn or tomb raider, they can help the visually impaired and are also great for regular players). The controls are also a great deal when it comes to this kind of things. I have a friend who only has one hand. He tried really hard to play Elden Ring but sadly had to leave it because there are simply too many possible inputs. The infamous difficulty selector is more often than not detrimental. When the development time for a videogame is just so short it isn't always enough to have a good game out by the date the publishers make you have it, let alone having a difficulty selector that gives you actual changes in the game. Usually, as you can see in The Witcher 3, it's only beefier health bars. The accessibility ultimately has to come from better visuals, simpler controls and a design element such as the one in super mario oddissey that helps the player not to die without touching elements from the actual game, it interacts solely with the player. But as I said that's my personal take :)

Commentary and gameplay were 10/10. Looking forward to other playthroughs.

I honesty hadnt even realised the painting guardians weapon was any good. Great video.

Max DPS and a high burst damage mage were probably the most fun I've had with this game! You probably don't like Manus because his moves rub you the wrong way. There are bosses any person can hate because yuck. I hate Bed like most other people for example, and I found Mohg and Malenia really annoying just because of how long they took. Pursuers and Giant Lord also suck because DS2 hitboxes. Yeah, Manus is the hardest in the game, but I find his moveset really fun and just hate the run because he also has one of the longest runs. I learned from Lobos that you can dodge the attack where he pulls in the big circle of orbs just by hugging him. Shotgun blast doesn't give me too much trouble. 4-hit combo sucks, but it has a 2-second tell where he rears back with a little roar, and that's usually just enough time to backflip away from the slam jam.

Manus is fire, but you have to play it like the hand is the boss.

You say you're alright with the bed of chaos? Complete and utter BLASPHEMY.

One challenge run that I've thought would be interesting to see is: A bow without lock on or crossairs. (I feel like it would be difficult, But not insanely difficult or impossible.) And the challenge could be characterized as sort of: Aiming and shooting the bow, More similar to real life aiming a bow in the middle ages/ Medieval Era. i.e. They would aim/ sight down the arrow (which you couldn't do since that pov isnt in the game) or they used instinctual aiming (which is sort of what: No lock-on or crossairs would be). But, I don't know if this would be super challenging or entertaining enough for a video. Buy, It's just a suggestion. And I don't remember seeing anyone else do it.

Imo curved swords are actually the best possible weapon for Manus, it's kinda bitchmade but the easiest way to fight him is run away in circles while baiting hand slams and the wombo combo, you can hit the hand as a punish, it takes some time, and for some people it can be hard to predict his attacks, but being at a distance constantly helps manage both his aggression and his spells. since curved swords have such fast running attacks(and halberds) you can very easily get at least one hit on the hand after dodging a slam and since he's so far he just can't close the gap in time due to the recovery, trust, if you play super passive for him he becomes the easiest dlc fight

Idk i think manus is ine if fromsofts best bosses, he’s so aggressive that it keeps you on your toes unlike any boss in ds1 since the majority of them are insanely easy

This plus Hyper mode would deal even more dps. Hypermode is Rtsr+PW. To counteract PW drain use Sanctus + Lingering Dragoncrest Ring

I see you've discovered the Painting Guardian's Sword. I remember when this thing was talked up quite a bit, it's fun when you get it to work, but I always enjoyed the Falchion even though there's a drop-off in damage due to slower attacks.

i feel like having 49(manus catalyst cuts 99 castings in half) dark beads is potentially higher dps since youre not stamina locked and you have somewhat better range since you still want to be close enough to land all projectiles

I know it would be annoying to record but would love to see this with rts and pw for boosted dps

If you jump attack the asylum demon from that ledge AND the Taurus demon, you’ll do a double hit

The faster one kills Sif, the better. Less suffering for Sif.

"This game needs and easy mode." Miss me with that rubbish. Nice video dude

great video man and i can't wait for the demon greataxe vid

the Falchion is probably better than the painting guardian sword with it's higher Ar while having the same moveset. Hard to tell how much extra dmg bleed gives since a lot of the bosses and even enemies seem to be immune to it.

Bro power within lasts 100 seconds, and buffes not only weapon damege, but moonblade too

okay, in case someone (in the comments) havent told you, the Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring and Lingering Dragoncrest Ring both do not have stat requirments.

"how hard is Dark Souls if you have a nuclear bomb"

manus' dark magic attacks are absurdly easy to dodge once you understand how they work, I don't think i've ever even used the silver pendant defensively in that fight its just not really needed

I’m so glad they got rid of the “spell uses” system where you only get one use of weapon buffs! I don’t know why they had mana in Demon’s Souls but then got rid of it in DS1 and 2 and made a worse system

OMG I did a run just like this last year only with the Balder Side Sword! 40 dex 50 faith with max dark moon blade and power within and I was doing over 800 damage with a one hand r1. Beat each Four King before the next one showed up. I also beat Gwyn with 3 parry ripostes with the hornet ring I’ve never been so strong. I was considering using the painting sword because I read that’s it like the best Dex weapon but I skipped it due to its blade length and the BSS was way longer and had a good R2 thrust.

First vid from you i’ve seen, ur pretty cool keep it up

Manus has always been my favorite fight in the game. But only very recently as in this year did I realize you can spam the silver pendant to keep using its effect... for literally no reason at all I assumed it had some kind of cooldown o_O. aanyway nice vid as always!

I always love running through DS1 with weird/op builds. Game has by far the worst balancing out of all the games so its always fun to do some weird build that is also OP like the lifeless scythe which takes the cake as far a fun and kinda broken builds go imo.

plin plin plon still haunts me to this day

This build + the other dmg boosts (red tearstone and power within) makes ng+6 and further games easy, i normally play like that haha

W video! I suggest making this weapon crystal as it only makes it better!

Sir, the video is nice, the idea is interesting, but you really need to put some expression behind that voice, it feels as if a teacher is making you read the script for the rest of the class. Take this as constructive criticism and not as an insult please.

currently playing a mage for the first time and pinwheel took forever with the moonlight butterfly horn. didn't even know he was coded to survive like 2 full minutes. I usually just kind of killed him before he does anything.

Hey no offense but could you talk a little slower? I like watching your videos but as a non-English speaker it's a little hard to follow when you talk so fast, as always a good video was fun to watch

Consider: NG+7 but on a new character, calamity enabled, black phantoms enabled.

First time I’ve ever heard someone say i forgor unironically

A really fun one, is just magic only, its not difficult by any means but its a good time to blast everything into oblivion

Subscribed :) you should do this in other souls games ( as long as it isn’t too taxing on your time ofc ) I feel like it would get a lot of views and stuff

I actually did a Demon greataxe darkmoon blade run before in ds1, the moveset was... not great, so much so that I actually ended up using jump attacks as my most reliable move

I saw that painting guardian blade and thought no fucking way

I will always respect my fellow Prissy enjoyers

FAP ring is literally the best of the tri rings in dark souls it’s literally a staple to almost every build that’s running any form of melee combat but honestly I’m more for dusk ring and flip ring to flip kill ANYONE

it would be fun to see a chaos blade or a lifehunt scythe run because of their gimmicks. And idk why but when I saw you faming the painting guardian sword I thought of the balder side sword because its also a low drop rate weapon which is hyped in the community. If you haven't already you can try one of those.

it would be super interesting if you did a full on faith build for the astora straight sword, ive done it before and its surprisingly good

Lightning blade is overall better tho, especially for PvE. More bosses resist magic compared to lightning

Didn't get the logic behind to exit gameplay to break the wall just to get hit by rolling ball. 0:56

Awesome run and you have a new subscriber 👍😎

DMB isn't... Entirely... the best Buff in the game, there are some instances where SLB is slightly better, however this requires you to abandon DMB entirely, but for those not wanting to use DMB, SLB is a very close 2nd in strongest buffs (barring Force Buffing any Magic based weapon with CMW... which literally is the best Glitch buff bar none) Edit: Didn't use Power Within for that 50% full attack boost and GIANT +30 stamina regen boost, allowing for a massively increased DPS and stamina sustain... PW is used in these DPS builds as it's literal "free" DPS boosting, as it's a 0/0 Stat requirement Spell with 1 slot requirement, that heavily boosts all forms of damage... and is found REALLY early into the game for the best buff in the game period.

12:23 that wasnt for fun that was for revenge lol

Great video i like how ur giving alot of information but look into wiki why this sword is the highest dps, its becouse its scaling and darkmoon blade scaling both S one in dex and one in fth soo i would love to see a video on maxed possible "usable in real gameplay" dps ;3

I think a fun one could be doing your take on beating the game with only gear and spells found in the asylum. Nice, simple, and could be fun to see how well they last.

Ooooooo, 8:00 not happy you didn’t use the weapon just because you didn’t want to get back to Andre….

5 minutes and several bosses in and you're still not showing the subject of the video... Should have just started with the spell and weapon so you can show how easy it can be from start to finish

@Solarpellets dude, slow the hell down when you are talking or PROPERLY ENUNCIATE YOUR WORDS! plz thx

Great vid! TND 💎🥶

YOU USED THE WRONG WEAPON. Epicnamebro made a weapon comparison video WAY back when and came to the conclusion that the GREAT SCYTHE is the highest dps in the game. the video is unlisted now but i saw it way back when. to add context he tested every weapon on the dragon in ash lake, with and without weapon buffs, and the great scythe came out on top RUN IT BACK RIGHT THIS TIME.

Talked smack about my astora straight sword, sadge

Dex Faith was always the goat.

Cool vid, made me subscribe, waiting for more. Consider doing some challange runs in DS3 too :)

You know some point you should be like “fuck it so I glitched 30k souls just to get the dumb thing upgraded they haven’t patched it out so they must wanna keep it in the game for quicker leveling” as a meme and never do it again

4 kings is quaking.

Wouldn't the highest DPS be Richard's Rapier with Darkmoon blade???

“I don’t like Manus.” Maybe you would like him more if you wouldn’t use lock on the entire time.

Havent even seen the video but I already know it's not as easy as running full havels +Zweihander

Wait….channelers can teleport? I have never seen that.

do a dex only run cuz i didnt see anyone doing it before and with ur dodging skills it will be easier than ur previous nightmares

15:04 correct me if i'm wrong, but you should get the lingering ring if you kill him? Or maybe that is the bellowing ring?

Slow down your speech. If you annunciate more it would be more enjoyable for the video

The fact you said the fap ring is bad is just so weird it is known as the best ring in the game and it’s why everyone uses it for basically every play through

Great video, but i disagree with the Manus fight being badly designed other than the spells, yeah, the spells suck, but manus is, tied to artorias, my favourite ds1 boss to fight and i'll never forget struggling for like 4 hours on my sl1 level run, so i ended up with stockholm syndrome, it feels like a ds3 boss in ds1 and i just think that's awesome I mean, you don't see people complaining about nameless king being designed as a ds1 boss in ds3, so i think it's fair for manus to be let free of those accusations

It says DS2 in the description

Don’t mean to be mean, but I feel like you talk too fast at points and my brain genuinely doesn’t catch on at times

Love your tempo

It always feels like you're desperately telling me a secret or trying to share some forbidden madman's knowledge before something happens to the knowledge inside of you. I kinda like it

Super disagree on Manus, he is one of the less junkier fights, especially compared to Kalameet. in my opinion Manus is the best boss fight in dark souls 1. If you learn all his moves, it feels like a dance, a real dual and a great fight. And i say that from a perspective of beating Manus with consumables only. It took me 1,5 Hours but it was worth it, the amount of fun i had there

Cool watch! Leaving a comment as a sacrifice to the ever-hungry Algorithm Gods, may they bless you.

this build is much better with pyromancy buff tough,

I tried magic weapon and Gwyn dies with 2 parries by bandit's knife btw