MOD LIST: Longer Dragonscale Blade ► www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/1321 Malenia Recolor ► www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/1569 Bloodhound's Step = Light Roll ► www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/472 DS_AnimStudio was developed by Meowmaritus. It's a great program. Please support him here: www.patreon.com/Meowmaritus/ Oh, and this is on Nexus now btw: www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/2164

If I had a nickel for every time someone made an extremely high-quality, badass overhaul/remake of the Dragonscale Blade because of how cool-looking yet underwhelming it is, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's odd that it happened twice.

Dude if I had this weapon I’d literally never use any other sword. Fantastic work!

I wish Fromsoft would make all of their weapons as fun as how this looks... Its always misserable seeing modern Fromsoft enemies and bosses doing these amazing flourishes and combos, but we just get the same old basic slashes or bonks again and again

Ok wow this is actually really impressive. Very well done and I'm totally gonna use this for my next playthrough. How long did this take you by the way?

I was watching Lenny’s dk bongo run of this game and when someone in chat suggested he uses dragon scale blade he just said “eugh no” and as soon as he said that the notification of this video appeared

The fact that you can do so much mods by messing with stats and movesets alone. I wish FromSoft is watching this video and taking notes

I would absolutely love to see more alternative takes on weapons like this!

As the guy who loved the sword and brought it to every boss fight I could including the Radagon fight, I'm glad it got the love it deserves.

For the heavy attacks, an interesting alternative would be the Meteoric Ore Blade's Ichimonji-style attack, for more of a "falling lightning" feeling.

I loved the moveset, the weapon skill, and the music.

This was easily one of the most disappointing weapons for me in the base game. A literal "Dragonbane" style weapon that completely flounders by being a damage type that dragons are inherently strong against, terrible scaling, and no secondary damage baseline. The damage boost and inherent lightning damage you gave it are perfectly reasonable and right in line with many other katanas. Honestly one of the biggest failings I saw with lightning as an affinity in particular is that while electrify armament scales with faith, lightning affinity does not which is just nonsensical. Lightning affinity should have been given the same flexibility as the Fire/Flame Art affinity where there was a physical style version of the affinity (fire) and then a faith version (flame art). Lightning should have gotten two affinities as well. Something like yellow lightning (or just lightning which scaled with DEX) and then red lightning (maybe call it Dragon Lightning or something and let it scale with FTH). It would have provided more flexibility to FTH builds when it comes to damage types (particularly since so many late game bosses are strong against holy leaving fire as the only viable option) and it would have let people do DEX/FTH builds and not feel like they were hurting their lightning damage by not going pure dex, a choice flame art affinity users don't have to make. Personally, this would have been a GREAT candidate for being another INT/FTH weapon due to the Frost/Lightning nature of the weapon art. This could have been the Katana answer to the Sword of Night and Flame, but more melee-centric focused on mixed damage through physical attacks. Something like 12 STR/20 DEX/15 INT/15 FTH would have been about right, and it could have dealt mixed Physical/Lightning/Magic damage with a frost buildup. I personally would have made the WA something a little more active like Unsheathe but with a Lightning/Frost effect at the end of the slash.

You're doing great work out here. One of the main problems with Elden Ring is the lack of variation. You can pick up the final boss' weapon, but it does the same moves as your crusty mace that you started with, minus one cool attack. So, I really appreciate when modders create a better moveset for a weapon that could have been more, but wasn't.

*Cries in console* Game is still very fun to play though. This rework is absolutely stunning! I did feel as though this blade needed more. Regardless, I might work it into a run later on. We’ll see!

I knew it was a reason I subscribed to you. Amazing job at this mod! 👏🏾

This is the single sickest weapon I’ve ever seen. Your creativity and flair for the dramatic never ceases to amaze.

I absolutely love the moveset. Light attack combo flows like a river, gracious, deadly and unimpeded, which is a rarity among the mostly clanky or frankly stupid moveset mods I've seen. Transition from Morgott's run-up to Double Slash to Waterfowl is also magnificent. One of the most underrated and unjustly treated weapons in the game finally get what it deserved! So, if I am getting this right, this is still a Dex-scaling weapon with no additional scalings? I wonder if it's possible to add Faith scaling to the weapon and make Lightning damage Faith-scaling, akin to Flame Art infusion as well as to add innate Frostbite buildup to the weapon.

Gotta say the margott running slash into the double slash, ending with a piece of waterfowl dance. One of sauciest looking combos I've seen. Excellent work!

This entire moveset is anime as fuck and it's wonderful. I feel like more weapons in this game deserve movesets in this vein. The only gripe I have is that there is a bit too much going on in terms of effects, but I'm sure that could be toned down in future iterations.

This is actually amazing!! Good work!! you do some Incredible work here.

The overhead twirl on the end of the 2 handed heavy combo is such a nice touch. The weapon art looks amazing too. This is incredibly well made.

Dude I really hope these videos pay off cause this is awesome and want more of it. (as long as you also enjoy making them)

Rusty your diversity in videos is incredible and you put depth in them all. Loved it

Amazing Video.. I was curious about this Katana and loved the video..

Beautiful new combos for the dragon scale blade, the new stats work really well, and the mix of cursed blood slice, waterfowl dance and corpse piler for the unique skill is a brilliant idea

I wasn't expecting that. This is one of my favorite weapons and I totally agree it needs a tune up! You made it beautiful 🥲

This is AMAZING, so much more style and flair with the moveset changes :D

Holy shit this is beautiful, the effects are so cool

Great work, I would love to see you modify the dragon greatclaw to its potential, having endure as it Ash of war is pretty terrible and can’t be changed, and not having any lightning moves of the draconic sentinel is sad tbh

I pray you do more of these

I do like it, though I think all the lightning flashes and such on the basic swings are a bit much. I think it would be interesting if the WA buff gave you all that for a set amount of time, though, similar to how War Cry gives you an alternate R2 on some weapons.

Awesome to see my go to weapon getting some amazing love

Amazing work!

I’ve used this thing your right it does suffer from a lack of love and what you’ve done here is brilliant

This is so cool, and so good that it actually pisses me off we don't have this.

I actually just found this weapon off the dragonkin soldier in lake of rot, and i was kinda sad that from didnt expand upon it at all, especially when ice lighting looks so nice and can really be built upon, and i absolutely love what you did with the sword

Never fail to amaze. Nice job.

It still amazes me how many weapons in this game are actually viable, if you take the time to get to know them. Let's hope future patches bring more awesome stuff into relevance. Another very interesting thought-piece, my dude. Kudos! :)

I would never take this off, Great stuff!

this is sick, i'd love to see more. maybe something like The Axe of Godfrey, that thing really deserves some TLC. Or some already sweet weapons, just making them flashier and cooler, sorta like how you did your moonveil video. Maybe the Marais executioner sword, ruins greatsword, or the halo scythe, just as some suggestions. Great work!

Rusty you have done a great service this day may the devs see this video and take your idea into reality

Those lightning flourishes are immaculate.

I loved this thing despite its flaws. I went for an Ice/Lightning build, and it was a lot of fun. I didn't care about the flaws, the weapon was just cool. Took it all the way to the Elden Beast after my friend gave me it for my Guts Sword. Getting to the lake of rot in your first two hours for a newbie is.... not going to happen lol. Besides, its not like it is or was op. Glad to see it getting the love it deserves. Maybe From will balance it out and cool it up a bit. Thanks for the video! I would recommend trying that thing normally. The Unique Skill does hit three times and claps poise. There are better sure, but this is cool lookin.

Love how you used the animations of other weapons like the charged being of elenoras pole blade and of the water flowing sword also saw a bit of bh finesse in there

I’ve actually been using the regular dragonscale blade for a themed run so having a much more interesting move set will be really fun

Bro that unique skill looks like something straight out of Sekiro

This is insane. I was doing a Kakashi cosplay Character using this sword but there weren't any mods at the time that did it justice. This really completes the theme. Can't wait to use it.

Holy shit this looks awesome! I'm using this weapon in my current run and though the weapon is unique it doesnt feel that way. Looking forward to using it again next run with this moveset

When rusty formats his videos like this, i feel like im watching Zullie the Witch

i need more movesets like this in my souls experiences

Very impressed I’m actually mad this move set isn’t in the game, I at least need one of those combos

Woow... I got some Black Desert Online vibes from seeing the different animations depending on your combat moveset. Yeah this is a unique moveset indeed. Awesome! I'm gonna try this out for sure. Thanks for sharing this, Rusty. Stay awesome! ^^

Great work. Is by far the best looking katana in the game.

This looks so good, you should add an attack that charges inside the scabbard.

Holy shit dude this is awesome! 😲

Its very flashy, maybe a bit too much for my liking. The fact that Bloodhound step makes the game feel so different is quite amazing. I never found it during my initial play thru and once I tried it the second time around it becomes very obvious how easy it makes a lot of the fights.

This is really cool. The devs should take notice

This is amazing, maybe have an option for a little less light effects on the wep art

This is honestly just so amazing. Idk how it’d do for balance in pvp (I mention that because of how bad I want this to be the real version of it), but it’s simply just amazing

Would like to see more of your modding to weapons.

Wow thank you for this

less lightning on screen and that sword would be perfect imo still feel like its a shame that the dragonscale doesnt live up to what it looks like and the lore behind it hopefully it is buffed in a future patch

I was so excited when I found this sword in game. This is what I was expecting.

9 hit combo with the skill would have RoB disease of toxic L2 spammers tbh

The charged heavy combos are so sexy

This is so clean it should be in the game

This is really cool

imagine a dual wield moveset this guy could make for this sword

Bro gave the weapon that Bloodborne level of depth with the moveset. Amazing job man really love the moveset

Very impressive!

Good job Rusty :D

Thanks, I always feel like most of the katanas are quite under the top, of the top of my head I could think of several ideas, like meteorite blade could have gravity well into spin slash, serpent blade could have a poison spit into a lunging sweep like flaming strike, something like the lightning slash from sekiro that buffs your weapon

You're kidding me... this is unbelievably cool!

Thank you, even if its just a mod seeing my favourite katana get some love makes me smile

finally, a reason to use the Twinblade talisman

I just started using it today!! Serendipity 🥰

I wish all weapons had this amount of effort in variety put into them.

The move set reminds me of starkillers lightsaber lightning fighting technique that he created

bruh this is beautiful.. i wish all Katanas had these movesets, maybe not Nagakiba cuz its so long but they couldve also made Nagakiba a proper Nodachi and put it into curved greatsword category and give it proper heavy, twohanded attacks.

This needs to be an update

Impressive rework of the sword. Would fit well with a boss.

Only bad thing about this is the parry sound it has

gosh i wish this was a change that fromsoft actuality did, but i'd likely go with having a quick parry animation for the weapon art that also acted as the self-buff ability. Short parry time but also would mean that the weapon would have a quick buff that could activated at a moments notice mid combo. Sort of to offset the already crazy cool moveset. Something i also noticed, or maybe missed, but no different jump attack moveset?

This makes me wish more weapons in base ER were like this. It's a shame so many of them are just another generic sharpened stick variant. Absolutely amazing work here, though!

Not sure if it's been mentioned but in version 1.00 the Dragonscale blade had faith scaling lightning damage built in along with frostbite buildup on every hit with or without the buff. I've been playing through the unpatched game and this thing is so much better for some reason

The first time I took down Placidusax I was dual wielding this and the rivers of blood katana. Good times.

Clever and gorgeous. 10/10 would visit again.

I love how it's a hybrid katana/curved sword

I always thought this weapon had so much potential because the ash of war but the move set was underwhelming and there were to additional inputs added for it. Nice to see such a dope mod for it.

that new unique skill is soooo badass, wish console had mods:c

This is exactly how the special weapons should be! A lot of the weapons feel samey and so I’m glad I came across this and the new moveset and effects look dope. I am begging for one of these with Varre’s Bouquet. Awesome weapon concept of a little bouquet of flowers that purely bleed and HP restore, but in practice it’s super weak and the moveset is pretty lame. I always imagined it as an undercover bleed/lifesteal machine with some flashy flower-tossing in between. 👀

I have allways thought that the stance system that sword of Night and flame has could work wonders for a lot of wepons, like the black knife. R1 for the projectile and r2 for the special attack that the ringleader has.

This was already done by Dasha on Nexus and showcased by The Great Orange. Said mod changes the entire moveset to leave the weapon in it's sheath until you attack. It pretty cool.

Thank you!

This video alone is the reason I want to learn how to mod. Because this weapon is so beautiful.

This looks rlly cool. Should be called the lightning godblade

This is so badass

I’m down for cool lightning options. Great changes.

if there was one with toned down effects, i'm all for man !

Never knew about the lightning in water AoE. Cool.