"You can kill Boggart for his bell." Scott, that is some of the most vile shit I've ever heard you say. Boggart's the homie, you can't kill him. You let Dung Eater do it then take sweet revenge. Obviously.

For the final boss: There's a talisman in the Shaman Village that buffs Holy negation by an absurd amount. That might be helpful.

I love the emphasis when you say 'while completely naked'.

There is also a Golden Vow ash of war in limgrave you can just smack on a dagger. The buff is 45 secs instead of 60 and it gives 7.5% damage reduction instead of 10, but lets you skip any faith requirement. It's used in speedruns too for that reason

Scott casually telling Twitter to learn how to play the video game.

One thing of note, Flame Grant me Strength is a body buff, and so is the boiled crab, meaning you can only apply one at a time. Now you can stack either of these with Golden Vow because it’s considered an aura buff and does not overwrite the body buff

what i noticed i most enjoy about Elden Ring is the challenge of an impossible task slowly becoming possible by trial and error, memorizing, finding ways to beat the enemy and exploiting weaknesses they have and finally achieving it only to run into that same wall in the next boss fight and having to do it all over again

Golden vow is now a consumable as well if you find the cookbook

i think the problem is people play a certain way and when their playstyle isnt enough to beat something they are too stubborn to use the games mechanics to improve their chances or analyze the boss and iterate their strategy.

Appreciate you not spoiling and keeping your vocab very generic when talking about the DLC. It does not go unnoticed, thank you🙌

I just used the defense talisman, opaline hard tear and armor. It was enough for me to tank everything. The final boss didn't one-shot me with "that" move. You know which one.

Colossal Weapons are the best choice for tankiness as well, whenever you have hyper armor (so basically any time you're attacking) you take 17.5% reduced damage from all sources and can poise through many boss attacks.

Another tip to increase your defense, the perfume that gives you a bubble and a small damage increase can be used really quickly to tank a hit. I used this multiple times to save healing and you can carry up to ten of it.

Dont forget the dlc also has a cookbook that lets you craft the golden vow as a consumable. Battlefield Priests Cookbook 3

Also going from 60% to 80% damage reduction is far better than going from 0% to 20%. Reason being that there is only 40% remaining so the damage you are used to taking that point drops to the remaining 20%. This makes it feel like taking half damage, relative to the point you were already at when doing 60% reduction. To the extreme - going from 98% to 99%, a single 1% is taking half damage.

Btw, there is a new tear that gives you "Spontaneous guard". It is EXTREMELY helpful for no shield builds. It allows you to block effectively with weapons and do guard counters while blocking a lot of damage.

Honestly, as someone who'd forgotten a lot of the game mechanics and was getting slapped silly by the bosses, this was a really helpful refresher to help me figure out how to balance things out for my play through Thanks Scott! Gonna become great friends with Boggart and develop a crippling crab addiction

I think the problem we've run into with this DLC is three-fold 1)We have a lot of players who've never played a fromsoft DLC before, so they don't realize that it's always the hardest part of the games. Part of this is that we have a lot of new players to the franchise. A lot of these players have never played any of the other souls games so they have no experience in knowing just how hard the DLCs always are. 2) A lot of players have no idea, like you just showed, on how to build defenses and actually use things they pick up. Instead they just try to go to every boss and bulldoze their way through them. Not realizing they are playing a glass cannon build, essentially. I think part of this is people watching videos of people who are absolutely elite at these games. Just run through no hit. No Dodge roll. None of that stuff - and just be God tier and then other players thinking that they can do the same. When thwy have nfc how difficult those runs are. 3) I don't know what happened since the launch of the game and now but we now have people complaining that the game is" too open world". People are literally complaining about having to go out and find stuff in an open world game. This is utterly baffling to me. The point of coming up against a boss that you have no chance against because you're not god-tier player is that that boss is telling you to go out and find stuff to make you stronger so that you can face them and can have a chance without bashing your head against the wall.

Genuinely super helpful. I'd been having a blast with almost the whole DLC right up until the end, where I eventually felt like I had no chance and had pretty much given up. Ran all this and got close on my second attempt.

It’s really good to see you back to Elden Ring man. You’re my favorite YT channel when it comes to Elden Ring you explain things in such detail when it comes to pvp glad you came back dude hope you stay a while

Hey Scott I have over 200 hours in the game and I never even considered my defense. Its weird but I think I was just so excited for the DLC that I didn't want to re work my build and get to the best parts. This video really reminded me of what I was misunderstanding and am now having a great time in the DLC thanks man

I have read some negative reviews saying stuff like "I am currently on Ng+7 and level 200 so I know what I'm doing and I am a souls veteran, and I am getting one-two shot by every single enemy. DLC is bad".

Happy to see another Scott Jund video on my recommended. The last video I watched from you was when i was trying to get better at dark souls 3 pvp 6-7 years ago. Hope all is well king.

Thank you Scott for putting this information out there, i hope many people get a chance to watch this if they're struggling with the dlc

I would also highly recommend people use the crimson seed talisman or crimson seed talisman +1. The huge boost it gives to your flasks allows you to last way longer in boss fights.

Very good video! Been fighting Consort Radan for 4 hours and no luck, gonna try your tips!

Scott I found younwhen eldenring came out. You helped me out a lot. Good to see you doing more eldenring videos. I understand It was the game not having anymore new content. Just glad to see you back.

You are really good at explaining things. I randomly stumbled upon this video and can already start properly buffing before boss fights. I didn't know prawns and golden vow are actually that good, thanks man!

I would have prevented a lot of unnecessary pain if I knew golden vow stack with opaline

Not gonna lie Rellana was kicking my ass, took me wayyyy longer than it should’ve to kill her but I would never say the fight is unfair, I’m just bad. The DLC is fun as hell. Also great video! Hope this helps me not get 1-2 shot anymore gonna try it out

Wow had no idea about these tips (well except the scadutree fragments)! This will really help me out, thanks!

My algorithm definitely is working today. You put this in to terms I can easily understand. You Rock!!!

I’m not even lying when I say 30 minutes after watching this video and buffing the way he suggested I beat the final boss of the DLC. Honestly thank you so much!

That last line about the final boss is the whole reason I am here! dont tell me that at the end.

Genuinely thank you for this. I enjoy this game, but have a tough time with all the stats elements. This was super helpful.

Thank you for going through this. I needed it!

watched this in hopes of being able to change things for the finale boss, then heard the last couple seconds, aw man

How dare you put out such a well informed and helpful video for people struggling to not understand the new mechanics introduced and instead review bomb a game from a series notorious for difficulty and not holding your hand

Thank you so much for this video I was really struggling and this helped so much!

Just earned a sub for some good quality content. Can't wait to see more!

I'm playing through the DLC on my NG+ character and it's taught me to use everything I have to not die in two hits. I can't imagine people who enter boss fights without at least chugging their physic. As you said, people are too scared to drop damage boosting talismans in favour of defense. But can't you just make up for damage in other ways? I was struggling with the Finger Mother boss for a while then I remembered that fleshy enemies are weak to bleed and slashes. So I swapped off of Zweihander to the new backhand blades, put on heavier armour since I'm not using a greatsword, put on three defense talismans and the talisman that boosts HP recovery from flasks, and killed the boss first try afterwards.

I honestly didnt know that boiled crab stacks with Golden Vow.

Thank you Scott, I really needed this! It actually makes a huge difference for me! Gives me better chances of surviving just to learn their movesets.

This actually really help full, I knew there were buffs that people use but I didnt know you get that much % from them. I assumed it was like 20 percent overall not like 50 before armor. Thanks

My complaints with the dlc aren't so much damage, though some stuff is very overtuned. My biggest issues are the overuse of flashy particle effects, feels like these bosses are crazy anime villains with flashbang grenades. Most bosses I beat in under 5 tries (final boss was actually 5 tries, turns out greatshields are still busted.) but many bosses I still couldn't actually understand how to properly avoid their attacks because i simply couldn't see them. Also big issue is that a lot of the content and items in the dlc are just pointless, why do we get smithing stone 1s in an endgame area? That and a lot of the cool items in the dlc that you'd build around, you basically can't get until the whole game is over, considering you have to kill mogh to get in. Though it does suck that this dlc basically super forces this on you or you just have to almost play perfectly. A lot of the game's sense of variety kinda gets shut down when you need all of these buffs just to not die in 2 hits.

Theres something I realized when playing shadow of erdtree. It is the epitome of "die and die until you get the fight". You're supposed to die over and over again to learn the fight. I died a lot to one of the bosses and I actually started seeing where their opening attacks are.

This might be the most helpful Elden Ring guide video I have ever seen

I appreciate that you've been making the effort to help people actually learn ways to progress through the game instead of just shrugging and going "git gud".

Theres also the fact that Summons exist Tiche is to this day a live saver All hail the Assassine Waifu

Had a harder time with bloodborne. This is just the most popular souls game ever released. More people = more game journalists and asmongold types.

MMO players (among other) know the value of multiplicative percentage buff stacking. Turn your glass cannon into a MBT, and you can slug it out with bosses much easier. Don't take a tankbuster hit raw, you SHOULD plan ahead and be rewarded by taking less damage. Excellent video.

this video is a true game changer, many thanks

If i had a nickel for each time radahn needed to be nerfed, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice

Was really funny watch this and then see the bit at the end. But all of this advice very much still applies to the final boss as well, just need to focus more on holy damage. It becomes more manageable. Still really, really hard, but doable.

Bro awesome tips!! You got me to subscribe!

Thank you so much for this, it's really been a struggle.. earned my like

All of this and yet, my gripe is the camera lol - ive had to fight several bosses now using unlocked camera, its throwing me off, but hey, im adjusting as i beat the lion boss without a lock on .... i mean, i was forced too, that boss was setting off my motion sickness and was giving me a literal headache from camera frustration xD

scott people will always make some sort of excuse when someone else is able to do something they arent, people just need to learn how to play and get better instead of complaining about this, elden ring is a hard game just like every other souls game before it, some people just dont understand that this is the way the game is designed, anyways good video! hopefully people learned something!

This tactic I used for my second playthrough a while back. Completely forgot the locations for this stuff, thanks for the vid!

Awesome video, I'm definitely going to make these changes later. Thank you

Vile Scott says he has 15 faith, but has 16. Day ruined, advice ignored and unsubbed. (Jk this actually helps a lot thank you Scott)

wait you mean to tell me that in order to not suck at the game, I have to actually pay attention to what I'm doing????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I noticed theres a consumable golden vow now. Do we know what type of buff that is? I havent used it yet. Just wondering if it can be used in place of the incantation

Is there a reason to use the golden vow incantation over the golden vow ash of war? Because I usually toss it on some dagger and I dont think there is a faith requirement

Making people who brute strength every boss by being super over leveled actually consider their buffs is hilarious... They say when you have it easy for too long the slightest inconvenience feels like oppression...

Just don't get hit (obviously)

Excellent content, thanks for the info!

Can confirm this was the issue. Switched to the dragon crest talisman and beat the final boss 4 attempts later. Thanks for the tips!

Man learns to play the game and use resources in game and people rage when their playstyle doesn't work like his

I agree the final boss is way too overtuned, literally almost ruins the whole dlc. If they don't tone it down I will probably skip it on future playthroughs

Fantastic video! Started a new game for the DLC and completely forgot about opaline tear because it's been so long

Hey Scott. Great video as always. I'm an old DS vet and even I forgot most of this stuff going into the DLC (it's been so long since I've played I'm having to completely remember how to at this point.) Thanks for the pro tips! Hoping I can take it on a bit easier now.

When I see comments talking about levelling, I immediatly know the commenter knows very little about ER, levelling is just a small part, you can be lvl 400 and get 2 tapped if your build is shit

“If you put any thought into your build instead of instantly dying because of your shitty build, you did not beat the game.”

you always make teh best guides

Dude this video saved me. I’ve been stuck on that damned hippo for 2 days and I destroyed him first try now that every attack doesn’t one shot me. Thank you tarnished.

Sure, its super fun having to buff before every single boss try.. Its kind of lame that they are scaled so high tbh.

None of this has anything to do with why the enemies are unfun to fight. When you get 1/10th of a frame every 5 minutes to get a shot in, the game becomes unfun. Playing a musical piece that consisted of nothing but G half notes for 10 days straight would be super difficult... but in no way would anyone want to do it. That's the issue I keep coming back to with the DLC. "The game is balanced around you finding these items" yeah, great. See what it does to my interest? Yeah, it's gone. At the end of the day these are supposed to be games, not jobs. I beat every soulsborne game to this point, and loved them all, including base elden ring. This though? Yeah. I'm done. There's a lot of little reasons why, but I just can't find the motivation to care. That does bother me, but not enough to slog through this crap.

Such a helpful video, im actually thinking about getting erdtree now. Sadly i killed the boiled crab guy before progressing his quest enough to update the bell bearing inventory.

man tysm like the dlc bosses have been hell with the crazy one shots

Are scatter tree fragments only found in dlc area or all throughout elden ring?

Does the crab food stack with the black flame protection incantation?

what do you think about using scorpion charms in the DLC

I loved the ending lmao Awesome video, it was great seeing the clear numbers from a blank slate, no-armor character. Had no idea you could reach 80% DR even before you use perfumes and Endure on top of that (I know people are using Endure to survive the last boss for example).

Thats an amazing video, thanks a lot for that. I want to add something aswell, in relation to the scadurtree fragments. I don't think they do as much as people think in the later half of the dlc. I tested this on two different characters on two different build and weapons and had the same results. Scadurtree fragment 1-15 gives you an dmg increase of 3.2% and a defense increase of 2%, after 15-18 (where i'm atm) i noticed that this 3.2% increase went down to a 2.7% increase dmg wise, and the defense went down to 1% instead of 2. So far at 18 this stayed consistend. Since the bosses also do more and more dmg later on in the dlc, there is not much of an damage or defense increase you will get out of it. What furthermore makes the fights MUCH easier are exactly the points Scott pointed out perfectly, and what also helped me clear the DLC much easier then it would've been. If you have to happen a couple upgrade, please tell me how your numbers are if possible, i want to get some info from other players aswell, since i often hear it's a flat 5% increase, which does not seem to be true.

Does pearldrake stack on top of say flamedrake or other elemental talisman?

Yo do scadutree fragments just go up per playthrough or is level 20 level 20? Cause im ng7 doing this with buffs and still getting railed by final boss😂. Curious if it is worth resetting dlc and just farming them out till im good

That video was so helpful, thanks so much

Question. Does the game scale since I'm in ng+ compared to a new character. I'm wondering if it would be easier at a lower level. And second question where is the best place to get the things to upgrade weapons. I forget their name lol.

Can you use a boiled prawn and FGMS at the same time? Sorry if dumb question, I beat Elden Ring twice but i never really got invested into finding out what buffs stack or override… i just use GV and FGMS on my STR/FAITH build. So I just know that if i eat a prawn i stop glowing from FGMS, and if i use FGMS the bubble from the prawn goes away…

How did you have the Shadow flower hammer? Was that fight on a second playthrough of the DLC?

Thank you for this. I have been so confused on how to utilize most of what ER has to offer and have just been brute forcing my way through 1.5 playthroughs. Currently I have been getting absolutely annihilated by Messmer and this is going to help tremendously.

Thank you. I’ve pretty much already done everything, but this will help what’s left

Applying your recommended defense buffs, I managed to beat messmer quite easily.

Just wanted to leave a comment for the algo. I’ve been around the Elden Ring speed running/challenge running community for a while, and this video was still WILDLY helpful to me. Love the way you showed the resistances increasing, fantastic job.

Great video, liked and subscribed.

Where did you get the large fire/magic/non physical damage shields from? I never have seen any of these! Only the la4ge physical damage shield

Quick, informative, and no bullshit clutter in the video. Thanks, algorithm. Have a sub, Scott . Thanks for the info.

Thank you Mr. Scott, Very cool.

You're my hero. Thank you so much