I'm out here casting glintstone shard and level 2 glintblade. I just heard someone two arenas over cast GRAVITATIONAL MISSILE or something and the camera didnt even go onto him. that's how common this shit is. I gotta get the fuck out of here.

Nurse is even OP in elden ring😔

Really wish Miriam's was also an AoW for staves. From's spell cycling system in general is in desperate need of an update but for now a Miriam's Ash of War would go a long way to making its use less aggravating.

It's nice to see you come back from the fog! There's a lot of magic tech you've missed since then, like charged comet having lingering AoE when it hits the ground, and Shatter Earth having the shortest cancel window into spells of any spell (outside Miriam's ofc).

Miriam's into Ghostflame Explosion is very funny in invasions. It's still bad, but it breaks people's brains enough that you can sometimes experience what actually dealing damage with that spell looks like

It's kinda rare to find meta-focused caster content so thanks for this. I started using fire serpent after catch flame thanks to your recommendation and it's become a permanent addition.

I bet Miriam's Vanishing plus incantations (wrath of gold / roars / placidusax's ruin) using the staff of the great beyond would be pretty sick as well.

This guy is my sweet little freak tonight

I kinda wish everyone took 30% less damage in 1v1 PVP. It would be interesting to see fights that didn't always end in 1 to 2 interactions.

Cat @ 23:53

HAHAHAHAH I thought for sure I was not fighting the real Jund! GGS you sure whooped my ass, not making excuses I'm definitely out of practice and was taking a break from the final boss. I sure hope we can fight again soon when I am more prepared, ty Jund

Sounds like you would benefit from a controller with remappable extra buttons on the back. I bought one because I was tired of using the claw grip to run while moving the camera when playing DS3. Now I have D-pad up, D-pad down, and D-pad left on the other buttons so I almost never have to remove my left thumb from the stick. If you don't want to shell out the money for a controller with built-in back buttons, it looks like they sell attachments for PS5 controllers that provide mappable paddles, for a fraction of the price.

Vile Scott abusing infinite i-frames spell for views... so sad! Can't believe my favorite wholesome Wraith main would do this

Scott "only casts miriam's" Jund

Dude wtf. I haven't seen your channel since ds3 narrated thought duels. Glad your back with the souls/elden ring stuff pal.

Love your narrated thought duels, you do a great job explaining your thought process in an entertaining and informative way even for someone who's never touched elden ring while still being able to play extremely well

i remember when you frist showed us the first beautiful variation of this build. Good times...feels already so long ago. How time flies

I remember Scott’s OG pure mage tutorial from the launch period, that shit helped my mage gameplay so much. Double Glintblade into Collapsing Stars hasn’t left my mage’s spell rotation since and it never ceases to be extremely satisfying. I’m surprised that it’s still pretty slept on in general, I think I’ve maybe only seen someone else use it in the wild once since launch. Anyways Miriam’s is goated and this is another certified jund moment. You could throw so many utility ashes of war onto this build and make it go extra nuts if you wanted. 10/10

I'm glad I'm not the only one who loved the idea of a blink sorcerer Reminds me of the early days of ER when darkness was the underrated obscuring spell

I love that all the gravity spells have the same animation. It someone guesses that youre casting Collapsing Stars and youre instead casting missile at the floor, they explode

love this format. narrated thought duels. keep it up

Chain casting is pretty awesome. It's like you build a deck and throw out different spell combos.

Really enjoy watching your builds play out in pvp.. glad you’re back! Hope you stay!

Did I just discover a wizard-centric pvptuber? Did I find my way into the pvp scene?

23:23 Mr. Jund: "is he trying to do an int/fai build at less than 250?!" Me with my lv100 int/fai build: ^_^;; eheh~

Nice one! Happy to see narrated through duels is back.

Narrated Thought Duels! Reminds me of finding you during the early DS3 days

Swift glintstone shard is unreactable at max casting speed. Yeah, if it's the only thing someone spams you can predict it but if they mix it in with other sorceries it's just free damage and does way too much for a spell that's just meant to chip.

Great video man, keep up the good work. I love these thought duels

This is so interesting to watch, well done!

i missed these narrated duels so much ❤️❤️

The way you think about and approach PvP makes me wish you were into fighting games, specifically anime fighters like Under Night In-Birth because of how creative and freeflow they let you be. Great video, love watching narrated PvP in any game.

Elden ring would be so much better if they added carthus curved sword

Fantastic video. Thank you for the pointers. I’ll utilize a lot of them.

I always liked using staff and offhand shield, especially with the carian sword spells

this is by far my favorite build to watch

Learned a lot from this thank you Scott.

hey jund! Fun fact! Rancor pots (i tested heavy pot varient, probably standard works too) can track miriam's through the teleport, sooo, have fun with that!

This plus staff of the grand cosmos are going to do some beautiful things.

What a whimsical little fella

Have you tried combining miriams with dragon communion spells like dragon claw with the great beyond staff?

Big fan of your mage, good stuff.

Been waiting for this one

Do you think it's possible to make a mixed incantations/sorcery build and do miriams into inescapable frenzy? :D

No, no, no! You're doing it all WRONG! What you need to do to play a mage character is summon your Mimic Tear, cast Terra Magica then chain-cast 15 Comets

Would love to see your thoughts on the staff of the great beyond.

Omfg! Scott's back 😭

Staff of Beyond + Miriam's allows for some *nutty* combo cycles. So hype.

I know it's a dumb question but I'm a noob to PVP, does two handing the staff like he does do anything? Couldn't he put on the azur staff in offhand for faster cast speed?

Anyone know if Miriam’s also works with incantations? Would the incantations and sorceries staff be needed?

Tell me how you choose to properly manage fp

Hey, scott. Mage is my favorite build for PVP, too, and we have a really similar playstyle, so I was wondering why you prefer pure mage no weapon. The only reasons I can see are that you do need a little more End, and maybe str/dex for stat reqs, but there's a lot of weapons that don't actually need you to dump any extra points in, and you'd only be missing out on maybe a passive staff buff, and you'd be getting an entire new moveset to mix people up with and an ash of war that can synergize with spells. For example, a curved sword with spinning slash doesn't really require anything extra, can almost proc frost or outright do so, and if it doesn't it will make the Adula's projectile proc it, so even if you lose out on some damage on carian spells, once you proc the frost, you get that damage back and then some. And if you wanna give up a few negligible points of damage, you can put a LOT of pressure on, with say, a Nagakiba and its running R2s and then when they get used to dodging that, you can running R1 into a spell combo or even set up a collapsing stars into unsheathe or something similar, and to me it adds a whole extra dimension to the game plan for just a small amount of damage sacrificed, so I'd have thought this would be right up your alley. So, yeah, I was just kinda wondering since we both seem to love how versatile the spells are, but I feel like melee weapons added to the mix make the spells MORE versatile, which it seems like you'd want, but seems like you don't like as much, and I was just wondering why. Also, on topic of the video, do ALL spells get this Miriam buff where they can be cast out of it, or just sorceries? I don't personally have the spell yet, so I was wondering if you could do something silly like a faith build with 26 int to teleport and try to mask the startup of the frenzied flame grab or some of the other lengthier incantations that otherwise wouldn't really have a place in PVP. Not sure if you know off hand, but I know in the past you did try some faith/int hybrid builds and wasn't sure if you'd tried this kind of thing out yet or not.

cant wait to play around with this

Are gravitational missile and Miriam’s the only good dlc PvP spells. Microcosm any good? Also how would this build differ for invasions so you think. Does it need any editing at all or would spells like cannon of Haima be too useful to pass up, while spells like gravitational missiles might become less useful? Furthermore, is it evil to use star shower after glintstone blades. The arc seems a little more fair? Or is the arc legitimately better for catching rolls with a free aim than just mindlessly doing the undodgeable attack💀 My combo that I don’t use because it is sick and twisted is glintstone blades, star shower, shard spiral, and then either adulas moonblade right as they all about connect to the opponent, or gravitational missile/ etc depending on their distance. Now obviously you can probably take shard spiral out of that too. The most it does is cause panic rolling even more, but it wastes a spell slot. I’ve had some pretty weird/ good rollcatch experiences with it though! Edit: Yeah I’ll have a little decency and use arc instead of shower 💀

do u get some kinda buff when you two hand a staff?

Just a quick question Scott : So is glintblade trio not worth it in general or is it personal preference ? Also is fleeting microcosm usable in duel or is it outclassed by gravitational missile?

I run an interesting combo that uses Miriams Vanishing to its highests potential with Staff of the Great Beyond. I have a 55/55 split for Int/Fth at 168 that easily does 800-1k damage with Wraith of Gold and between 600-800 damage with Grav Missle. Both of which come out super fast after Miriams Vanishing. Another cool combo is Fleeting Microcosms second explosion combos into both, so if you cast Microcosm at your feet and bait your opponent into range the inital explosion will roll-catch the second, larger one which then combos into either WoG or Grav Missle. Easily does 1.2-1.8k damage lol. Thats not even mentioning how so many other spells and incantations combo together and roll catch. It's so much fun, but you need really high casting speed to do this. You can use what scott uses (the Azure catalyst and Radagon Icon) or what I use: Beloved Stardust. It gives max casting speed so I can actually use a weapon and cast spells at max speed. The damage resistance down definitely sucks ass, but that doesn't matter if you don't get hit 😁😉 (im light rolling lol)

oh this is really fun. big fan of strats involving multiple weapons (spells). i want to try a sorc build now...

Can you use Miriam’s vanishing in invasions and give us your detailed thoughts about it?

Tips for hybrid spellcaster build?

Man, seeing mages have so many fun and VIABLE spells and combos makes me jealous. Wish faith builds were also like this..

omg i love ur build its so fun once you get it down

I don't know if you take duel suggestions, but one of my favorite builds you did a long time ago to watch was your Dynast's Finesse build, it was just really cool to watch if you'd do it again.

Scott at the first step, his favorite spot (he loves getting ganked)

Feels appropriate that Mages finally got Blink

Love vanishing a lot

NARRATED THOUGHT DULES LETS GO

Gravitational missile is such a cheesy and annoying spell to deal with

what level does scott play at?

I messed around little with int/faith with the new staff. Miriam’s into fortisaxx lightning spear worked great in invasions

Int-fth is definitely doable, at least with the new mixed spellcsting staff, focus on int(at least enough for gravitational missile) and you can pull off similar combos as what you showcased, except you can have catch flame which does actual poise damage and the opponent has to respect it for more than damage alone unlike slicer, also allows the usage of drahon braths and gurranq spells

I know you're rocking an 80 int build with Lusat's but holy fking moley 300+ damage per swift glintstone shard is stupid. It's insane. You say you can "react it" and roll it, but the thing is it's pretty darn fast and even if you can roll it it's among the best whiff punishers in the entire game. I personally consider it much more dishonest than star shower, as long as you don't simply spam the latter. Other than that, insane mix-ups! Lovely gameplay.

Are you able to chain cast incantations with a seal or beyond staff with this spell? I’m just imagining how funny it would be to Miriam’s into inescapable frenzy or dragonmaw

I like to run this with a little faith for the Putrescent Spells, sacrificing some Mind and End to do so. Probably not optimal but very fun. Miriam's into Vortex catches people all the time. I feel like I'm good enough at active flasking where I can do just fine with 25 Mind, especially with Miriam's and Gravitational Missile to cover your flasking

I think an int faith build ist actually possible with low level: you need the hairlooms that's +5 int or faith 10 if you use bozh, the hatpice that gives you +3 int, fingerprint nostrum gives + 6 mind, faith, int arcane. That all one could save you 37 statt points 26 if you use 1 loom and don't count arc. You could also use arc tools like the mimic helm of you want to use the coroponding cathalists for that. Didn't counted the phisiks that could be 20 stats in theory, but there are more usefull effects. I also, but that's preference, don't use much endurance, low poise can be tricky, but let's be honest most meta weapon stun with running r1 anyway since last patch, but that's me. With the new catalyst you can do some interesting mix Ups with different timings without switches catalysts. Maby it inspire some of you to try it out.

high quality. instant sub

What's so bad about Glintblade Trio?

I rebound my spell selection to left stick instead of DpadUp, super easy to cycle and move simultaneously.

Watchin you fight is terrifying. I think I’d melt if I ever matched with you

I was most exited for Miriams vanishing to evade star shower.

it feels like I'm going for style points if I cast anything besides swiftshard 90% of the time

Have you ever tried int faith spell casting. There’s a new special staff for incantations after all

I love this spell conceptually, I just don't have the dexterity to pull it off well. Keep vanishing into standing there like an idiot because while I swapped to gavel or whatever, it didn't take the cast press or I did it before swapping spells. Need more practice for sure. Nice to see how many things it can combo into though

Try perpendicular double left right dodge for star shower

Why's glintblade trio bad? I haven't found it yet

I tried using Rellana's Twinblades Ash of War after Miriam's and, perhaps it is my own perception but it felt like I could assume the stance after teleportation to surprise enemies with fire version of ash.

Shadow wizard mone gang 🧙‍♂️

I like using Miriam's Vanishing with the Carian Sorcery Sword.

There's actually some PvE boss attacks that you can predict well enough to use Miriam's vanishing to counter. Like the second hit of Carian Sovereignty from Rellana. Though you have to skip her in order to get it before you fight her, lol. Makes me wonder what other attacks you can use it for.

BoG only being +20% magic negation in pvp now is so nice for pure sorcery way rarer now and even when u do see it it isnt absolutely gutting your damage

love this build

Faith/int caster only with Metyr staff coming when?

can you try making a video on Faith/int build

This is great. The only reason I dont mage is because I cant scroll up properly. I cant get use to it.

CAT DETECTED 23:52 I DEMAND TO KNOW THEIR NAME AND COAT PATTERN

Damn, the Cult Of Miriam got him…

i wish mirams was also an ash of war usuable only on staves just like how i wish you could also use carian retaliation and thops barrier as ashes of wars for staves as well

Miriam's is a great mix-up, but it really shines as a dodge. (Favorite combo: Carian Greatsword > Miriam's > Carian Greatsword > Carian Slicer > Miriam's > Carian Piercer) Scarlet Aeonia? Teleport in after the explosion, while the opponent is still in recovery frames. Bloodhound Fang WA? Space it, teleport in place, backstab. And if someone slow walks at you, slow walk back, then cast Miriam's.. they panic every time, losing all sense of "cool" that they had

My personal fav in pvp is magma shot, freeaiming nerds from across the map is great

Too high for meta arena and duels, but RL200 is really fun for caster invasions with the DLC and higher NG+ being so active right now. Love being able to cast basically everything that doesn't require arcane and still have 60 vig.