How many of these did you know? Correction: yes, going past blessing 12 is still worth it. But 12 is a good point to slow down on grinding for fragments.

fucking THANK YOU for not just showing footage of random bossfights in the dlc (minus the first boss which basically doesn't count) i swear every single SOTE video i watch will just show later boss fights as b footage for just no reason and put no spoiler warning

Actually, pest threads and pest threads spear is the best for the furnace golem. You can aim at the leg opposite of you and shoot through the leg in front of you, effectively doubling the amount of hits and stagger. It takes me less than 1min to kill them with either of those.

1:20 I have another tip for furnace golem. Raptor of the mist AoW trivializes the golems explosive jump attack. You phase through the initial explosion and are in the air to avoid the flame wave.

The Poison Flower Blooms Twice AoW has actually the same effect as the Poison Moth Flight AoW. The only difference between the two is that The Poison Flower Blooms Twice works for both rot and poison instead of only poison, meaning poison was already viable in the base game. Great video nontheless!

For me I called the pog imp the peashooter lol

Massive props for not spoiling anything major!

For mages, Shard Spiral is a great spell to use to stagger the furnace golems. It travels some distance and goes through the 1st targeted leg to continue to damage the other leg. Overall it's a great spell to melt the health of larger and slower enemies.

Pro Tip: Oil Tear and Black Flame Tornado

If you have a Faith build, Ancient Dragon Lighting Strike is fantastic for the golems. Buff with golden vow and flame protect me so you can facetank their attacks, and just start spamming lightning right under them. They’ll eat every single bolt and take quintuple digit damage even without buffs, you’ll get the stagger PING every other cast and often knock them out of animations

If you rest and stand up while the fire animation is still playing on the bridge it will also kill the respawned enemies, essentially 2xing the rune farm! You’ll need to rerest after this though cause you’ll get the runes from the respawned enemies but they won’t actually die and you won’t get runes from them again until you rest again.

You can drop the hanging pots using margit/mohg shackle, just be near it to trigger it to fall

Mad respects for the generally spoiler free video. I personally have not had enough time to finish the dlc yet and i love that i could actually watch this video

your last video with the sacred infusion tip saved me SO much effort. Never heard of you before that but you've def earned a sub; love your content.

Not sure if it's been made widely known yet, but another dps increase you can do is inflict yourself with the Lulling Branch before a fight, similar to using Fetid Pots to causing poison on yourself. Once the Sleep status procs, St. Trina's Smile will give a damage boost similar to Lord of Blood's Exultation or Kindred of Rot's Exultation. I could see a prebuff strat that uses all three of those plus Shriek of Sorrow to get at least *some* uptime on a whole bunch of ~20% buffs

The biggest one for me was learning that the furnace golems are the erdtree avatars of the DLC, I had no idea the DLC even added any physic tears until literally like 85% of the way through. When I first played this game my dumbass thought that crystal tears were consumable since so many other rare items like exalted flesh and rune arcs are, so I never used the wonderous physic until almost the end of the game because I was afraid I would waste it, the DLC was like my first playthrough all over again

Something that I rarely see people talked about: You can use Morgot/Mohg binding to unlock spiritsprings in the dlc (no need to find and break the seal) and also can be use to break the hanging pots. The bindings could also use to reveal hidden path within a large radius.

There's actually a ash of war called poison moth flight that is similar to poison flower blooms twice! It doesn't do rot. Instead it does poison exclusively. It's a slash attack but it has a similar detonation mechanic. The two are both boosted by the same talismans so they would go perfectly together. I've been putting together a build using them both for a few days now!

Top notch content, the puns, the amount of useful information and visual presentation, thank you

I have to wonder whether the furnace golems were meant to teach and acquaint you to utilize more jumping, it almost feels deliberate that it's one of the first things you can encounter and there are so many of them

you just saved me a lot of trouble fighting the fire golem, thank you!

I don't jump when dealing with the unarmored Furnace Golems, Vow of the Indomitable is amazing for that. Plus it's SUPER SATIFYING to pull off when they go for that jumping slam, it's basically a nope.mp4 button to not take damage during that attack.

My introduction to the pog imp was actually somebodys message, it read "first off, message and then explosion!" And whoever it was that wrote that was absolutely correct, IYKYK

The battle block theatre music gave me chills!!

Dude amazing videos thank you for all the amazing tips & tricks I wasn’t even aware of!! Only issue is, I’m going to forget all this tomorrow and go back to panic rolling and fighting every boss the exact same way lol

poison flower blooms twice also benefits from that kicking stomping talisman, dealing even more dmg

That is fucking amazing, thank you so much I love status builds in every game that has them and poison/rot has evaded my interest in this one but now that there’s a “detonate” mechanic I HAVE to give it a go

ooft that BB theatre music is a godly choice

This video is incredible, I didn't know about any of these. Thank you so much. Already shared this with my friends!

This is legitimately my favorite souls KZfaq channel, your voice, punctuation and delivery are all perfected. Great job Levi

That's pretty cool! I would love to see a video list of the top 2 ways to kill most anything.

You are the hell of the best man. Nearly 2 weeks and all i saw in internet is "BEST BUILD..." No one told me that you can find 8 bell bearings hanging off the cliff. Luv you mate °^°

Very nice vid. Thanks :D

When i realised how much thought went into this video i immediately subbed lol thankyou!!

Stellar summary! Thanks again!

I never saw those pots, this has been very helpful

Nice video, learned a few new tricks, thanks! However I would like to mention that the oil tear has a hefty cooldown where if you are using catch flame inc., only every 3rd attack would get the bonus damage. Additionally, you also take 20% more fire damage under the duration of the tear.

this is amazing, I love it and will be saving this video

Battleblock Theatre music, ah the nostalgia!

Finally this ash of war is underrated Bigger enemies get hit 2 times It has Super armor It has tracking It has Stagger Its really good

Fantastic video. so much game knowledge and show the depth of the game

yer videos are hella good. thanks my man.

Omg....my mind went interdimentional at 1:29 with firepot trick 😮

Wild Strikes vs. Furnace Golems just made my life so much better. Thank you!!!!

That was really good video, cheers :)

The zuck joke killed me nice one!! 😅😂

The section on the 'Pog Imp' made me subscribe instantly - thank you

PFBT AoW feels so good to play that I changed my build to a poison-focused build and re-did the whole game including the dlc with it.

I'm currently trying to make this into a build also! So glad someone is covering this this Ash of War is so fucking fun to pull off

Wow what a perfect video! Basically zero meaningful spoilers and tons of info.. My man!

This is a shrimping good list

dude I can't express how thankful I am that there are still people around on yt who genuinely want to help instead of pushing some promo in my face and coming up with "13 things i NEED to be doing in the dlc"

you avoided spoilers, i appreciate you x

Great video as always. Your last video made me try jumping to dodge attacks and my god the dlc would’ve been waaay harder without

This is actually really cool info

Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike also pretty much chain staggers the furnace golems, if you're a faith caster

Oh my god that pog imp is hilarious

Another op mechanic: Some palyers might know you can use Margit's Shackle to remove nearby illusory walls, hit flame thrower traps in dungeons from a distance and get rid of those annoying chariots. Now with the DLC they added (at least) 2 new things you can hit with Margit's Shackle. Those pots 3:13 hanging from the wall and sealed spirit springs. This way you don't have to switch to a bow to hit the pot and you won't have to go look for the pile of rocks to activate the spirit spring. Just use the shackle next to the spirit spring and you are most likely gonna be in range to hit the seal.

My first kill of the final boss made use of PFBT in a pretty perfect way if I do say so myself. I put it on the Antspur Rapier with a poison infusion. By the time poison procs with lights or heavies, the rot buildup from the AoE will usually be enough to trigger it. So big dmg burst from removing poison and now he’s rotted so you can do it again for more dmg and repeat the cycle. P.S. you can slip rolling r1s in between some of his combos for keeping the buildup pressure on.

Fully charged Ancient Dragon lightning strike with the full death Knight armor set and the dragon cult seal lets you insta-stagger furnace golems and can lock them down if you time it right (lil more complex than the ones shown in the vid but if you're lightning-pilled this works well)

To elaborate on the undead holy weakness tip: Order's Blade gives you the same bonus damage and doesn't require you to swap your weapon (assuming your weapon can be buffed) or your ash of war. I'm very happy that this weapon buff that I quickly fell in love with but has so very limited utility in the base game is actually really good in the Shadowlands.

Sis was a wary gut video, I rily leiked se niu inseit on se new sings in se gaim!

Anything that rains damage down from the sky can “mini” stagger the furnace golems. My favorite is Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike cause it gives you multiple chances to hit the sweet spot and get a stagger.

i used the poisoned flower blooms against malenia a couple days ago on dry leaf arts it was so fucking good and yes... you CAN poison Malenia

Thanks for making this spoiler free! There are so many KZfaqrs that already put bosses in the Thumbnail, you dont even put them into the video! THANKS! #germanengineering

What controller do you use? I saw some of your runs and your camera control was flawless :0

for the furnace guys the spiral glintstone sorcery is the best period. fast casting tons of little hits i could stagger and restagger before even one move from the furnace golem

Put poison affinity on 2 hand to hand wraps with the poison blooms twice ash. Very fun (I did switch to bleed though 😂 too fun)

Great tips, thank you! Although, I still can't dodge the mega jumps of furnace golems. It's a literal nightmare move.

That's really cool that the rot ash works like moth flight but beefier. Hopefully now more people will get use out of them, it'd be silly to not use them if you're running a poison build

i expected this video to be complete clickbait, but those were actually some really useful tips i havent thought about

you can get the bowl cut invaders weapon with the Iris of Occultation once you defeat him twice and get the prayer room key

Respect for not spoiling stuff, even if DLC was released more than 2 weeks. Some of us take a while to beat the game and it sucks when algorithm recommends spoilers.

I'll have to give shriek of sorrow a shot. I usually avoid buffs that work when you're low hp because I feel more okay with taking hits. Like the red feather talisman. But it seems like a good buff regardless. Also cursing us with the knowledge of Pog imp is unforgivable

DAMN, I really thought that the last 2 scadu levels carried me through the yellow disco boss but it was only a 5% help lol

So in my testing for the Flower Blooms twice: using it on a poisoned, badly poisoned, rotten(from weapon), or badly rotten (from spell) enemy remove the all applied poisons and deal 5% of max HP damage. So its good to get talisman and hat that get attack boost if someone is poisoned nearby and apply / reapply poison with this AoW What is not good. Using rotten dragon breath or Scarlet Aeonia spells and then remove strong rot from enemy using this AoW.

I shall use this on my Poison Great Mace ❤️‍🔥 the big damage in conjunction with the Kindred talisman will allow a big smack.

how are your colors so good, could you drop a settings tutorial

oh good i wasnt the only one to think damn that cannon imp looks like a pogchamp

I loved fighting the furnace golems, once I leaned how. Went around the map and enjoyed every second. I love every damn atom of these games lol, one of the best gifts the universe has bestowed during my brief time here

BTW you can also use the Iris of grace on urself and it has the same effect as using a rune arc

I used the Sword Lance and the mimic against the Golems and it destroys them, also i believe the Sword Lance deals bonus damage on horseback but i'm not sure

you give us so much. praise levi

IIRC the patch notes said that the final blessing level was stronger - ie. You get diminishing returns until that last level

Shard Spiral is the cheese for furnace golems. I used it to kill every unarmored golems, and each fight took like a minute or less to kill.

3:50 the albanaric slayer works here too aka sacred relic sword

Note: The furnace golem bridge rune farm is only marginally faster than farming the bird at Mogh's place, the main appeal being that it's easier. Farming the albinaurics with the Sacred Relic Sword is still way better, so the golem bridge is mostly viable if you're playing through the DLC before beating the base game. Also, you _have_ to rest at the right time so that the fire whirl kills double the enemies every time, since that's the only thing making this method better than the bird.

Spear Pest threads can Proc 2 stuns back to back if you get both legs in one cast.

"I don't know why the Grace one exists either." Underrated joke

Ancient Dragon Lightning’s Strike does a ton of damage to furnace golems. It just takes long to fully cast so you have to work on the timing a bit at first.

Spiral shard drops golems very fast along with any other big enemy. It hits numerous times and goes through things. You know you can cast on torrent if you double hand your catalyst. Making drive bys possible. Dragon fights and golems easier as a caster.

The best thing about PFBT is that it is really fun to use!

1. Iris of Grace IS important. If you give it to Jolan you will get her spirit ashes, which you can take to Rabbaths Rise to upgrade it, making it one of the most powerful ashes in the game. 2. ALL golems, except from the very first one, can be fully done with new hefty pots strat. They all have highground nearby you can access, sooner or later. No need to fight them the long way. 3. Albinurics farm is still more efficient.

pest spears if you target from the side, the leg furthest from you, it will double hit for 10k+ damage

Interesting video.

It never even occured to me to try using a hefty pot while they were on the ground

I can have an OILED UP fight with melania now?? Best DLC EVER

Where does the ghost flame weapon art come from in the dlc? My mind is blown at the thought of slapping that on something

i like this channel. no "git gud" vibes, just good advice with no condescending nonsense.

I swear I literally thought of the trick where I brought that sleeping Golem down and tried to throw the big furnace pot into its head but it didn't seem to work. So I went back to hitting the face. Seeing it mentioned here confuses me. Maybe I did something wrong. I'll try it again one day. Useful video btw, as always.