Shoutout to when Bandai Namco's official Dark Souls II website had stats for how and where people were dying and Raime was reported to have a 93% winrate.

Wearing Veldstat helm is like point down gesture for Raime, no wonder he's so pissed

dark souls 2: scholar of the extremely obscure mechanics

Clearly, the glowing variant has I-Frame deleting tech so that you always get hit when you "totally rolled that"

This is such an obscure detail that it's a MIRACLE you noticed it. I wonder if there's a BUILD that can take advantage of it.

Wanna know what does do something? A miracle build

The lack of any meaningful change and unique debuff visuals makes me think things got changed in development. In the concept art the sword is just blank. I always found the darkflame buff to be a weird idea, the other DLC bosses had bigger gimmics. So my theory is that it used to be whack-a-mole minigame that has changed into a bossfight.

"Does it do anything?" Yeah, it looks cool.

Endless heals are pretty miraculous

Thank you old man for answering all the burning questions.

Kind of liked how wearing that helmet points out a serious gesture to Raime so much that he just goes into phase 2 to end you as fast as possible. Too bad there weren't any other times From implemented such a mechanic anywhere else. Was really hoping ER would maybe have something like that, ex: Wearing certain gear against certain bosses that would trigger a "hard mode" for them, like wearing Morgot's cloak would send Mohg into immediate Nihil overdrive or vice versa for his brother.

The Fume K***ht joke killed me. Thank you for this everlasting peace.

Velstadt’s armor was my look for my entire playthrough, so I had no idea Fume Knight’s phase 1 even existed. Honestly, I think it was easier this way? His attacks are so much slower.

I always thought his glowing sword was just meant to be an indication for the player for when he can switch phase. You know, standard big glowy thing please pay attention

It's not just heals, any item use can bait that attack.

Ymfah taught me one thing it did in his Consumables-Only run, so I'm interested to see what else has been found.

My guess is Nadalia who "haunts his sword" temporarily draw out more power by making contact with the Ash. Right after it makes contact a cloud of black smoke briefly forms like when Fume Knight appears at the start of the fight. So any time his Fume Ultra Greatsword vertical slams into the ground it gets a temporary buff from rubbing against it. Then when he plunges the FUGS straight into the ground, he draws out much more power from the Ash to expel the fire balls in all directions.

Think you could do a video on how durability/corrosion is technically a status effect in ds2 when applied to enemies? As in: You can't break the equipment of enemies in ds2 with urns/acid surge but instead you can apply a debuff that stacks and lasts 60 seconds per stack. -This debuff is manifested by a sound + some crumbling particle effects. -This debuff multiplies outgoing damage by 0.95 and incoming damage by 1.05 per stack. -Reapplying the debuff does not update the timer, but adds a separate timer for each reapplied debuff. -This does imply that each enemy has a proper "corrosion resistance" and after some mining we found out that it's value is shared with their curse resistance. This is also the reason why most bosses (not all though) are immune to this effect if you were able to like throw 500 urns per second you could kill most bosses in a couple of punches, and I think that's pretty cool.

Dark Souls 2, game where miracle builds did their jobs.

Strongest Attack in Sekiro. WHERE IS IT, OLD MAN?

Correct font usage for the various wikis! I will never not despise fuxtralife.

I honestly look forward to your videos so much, incredible hard work put in every time just fantastic. Thank you for researching the forbidden knowledge we didn’t know we craved.

That's some pretty nice attention to detail that it buffs his weapons when the Fume Ultra hits the floor

All the kudos to you for covering the most underappreciated game in the series and to shed some light on this obscure mechanic.

I miss Dark Souls 2 :(

im genuinely addicted to these videos. good work

Another electrifying video, Old Man, almost as electrifying as a Miracle Build could be! If only we had a video on the subject...

I literally never noticed that woah. Guess I'll try it out on my current run. Thanks for the info!

I really love you resurrecting these old school final fantasy songs my man. Keep up the quality content.

Old Man always out here with the most obscure and useless information possible. I love it. I never noticed the boss arena was a massive Old Knight, that's cool.

You can bait his slam attack via any consumable item, it doesn't have to be Sunny D.

This DLC is still my all time favorite by quite a long shot, there's just something about the Brume Tower that was just very memorable.

I died when Fume Knight entered phase 2 and said "It's fuming time" then proceed to fume all over the arena. Truly one of the hardest bosses in Souls history.

I actually wear velstadts headpiece whenever I fight raime because his second phase is easier

thank you, mr genius wow i had no idea about any of this stuff. well done.

FINALLY DS2 COMES ALIVE AGAIN.

That one particular slower attack of the Fume Knight...such precious memories xD

Now I can go troll my friend who's new to DS2 by telling him Velstadt's helmet makes some bosses easier

Truly exceptional content

His sword glows after breaching the ashen bedrock...

Best Souls 2

There are a lot of theories on why raime instantly goes to phase 2 while wearing velstadt's helm like Since velstadt beat raime's ass and exiled him, he was enraged upon seeing velstadt's gear because of their grudge But i like to believe he went phase 2 because he recognises the player as a strong opponent and goes all out since the player bested velstadt who was presumably stronger than raime. Ps it would have been really cool if you could summon velstadt and raime phantoms for the nashandra fight, with kings blessings as a requirement since it would be like the left and right hand warriors of the king following the new monarch for one last battle

I actually did where Veldstat's helm during my first run of DS2, not for the extra challenge, but because I found his second phase to be easier to play against with my build and I found it easier to only deal with one moveset and not two.

I can't believe you've been uploading this entire time and KZfaq just refused to tell me

Well-well, isn't that my favourite souls-youtuber released a new vid

Its always a good day when Limit Breakers uploads

I've fought him several times and I never noticed he had an extra buff beyond the second phase, thanks man !

“If you wanna lose” bruh i get Velstadts helm every time I fight him, one phase is less moves the memorize and it’s so much easier

Oh wow, his stance even adjusts a bit when the buff wears off

can you do a video about hitboxes in grab attacks in all the games?

idk if Limit will eventually do this but i was always thinking if you would do "whats the maximum icon possible" like you did on dark souls 2

Fume Knight on launch had people on their fucking knees

yo that last fact was fricken awesome! Fighting the hardest boss inside a fricken giant impaled by a massive piller. hella metal

Let’s go, best boss in the series.

Love your stuff but it’s been a while since another build vid

Back in the day, I preferred to start off with Velstadt's helm because I found his phase 2 easier to deal with than phase 1.

Finished ds2 recently and I've been wondering that.. ty

Thank you

This is why i love ds2. Its commitment to small, insignificant mechanics carried right from ds1, but instead of stuff like vagrants and item migration its in the bossfights, making even few fight that are kinda bland by their own exsiting for me

Love the fugs sword

A step closer to the miracle build

The Comic Sans for Fextralife had me giggling.

Can you hold my hand, mr break?

Plottwist: Limit mainly made this video so he has an excuse to make these puns at the end. Totally worth it, I'd say.

Awesome 👍

Only really need two smelter wedges to use on the same side of the arena. Then just keep him on that side.

I hate that I recognized the ymfah video despite you changing the title. Seen his ds2 runs too many times to not notice the font.

Old man, will u do a Max Stamina and roll count in ER to compare with champion - BloodBorne? And what 'bout ER's builds? For example, miracle.

All these years and I didn't even knew this was a thing. I never even noticed his sword cracks after those attacks, I was always too focused on the fight itself.

Lets fucking go! dark souls 2!!

I wonder if the crack stops his transition because it's supposed to be an extra buff only in phase 2 or if it's supposed to be like this and a neat trick you can abuse

I'll always love how grandpa says "STYLE"

I love this boss. I struggled at first but ironically managed to win once I wore the Velstadt helm and forced his second phase.

Ok, it is surprisingly useful for me because i started to notice inconsistent damage ranges in phase 2.

Fume Knight was one of few bosses I have vivid memory of making me rage. I've never been one to seethe during soulsborne bosses but I can remember wanting to pull my hair out the first time I fought him

Wait so does the Fume knight buff happen when the player uses a vertical slam? And if so does it apply to DS2 and DS3?

With the new frontiers of environment and map modding in Elden Ring, I would love to see some DS2 areas recreated in the ER engine

Don't use a wedge on the very first idol right next to the first bonfire, until everything else is done.

He so strong because he has the power of love... and whatever power living in abyss infused ash for ages does to a person

I never saw the sparks come off the sword but I always thought it was just a glitch in the fumes coming off his sword hiting some loop end or something.

Whoa! Seeing Raime again on my feed brings back awesome but horrible moments playing DkS2 BEFORE Scholar Edition! That game was wild and I don't miss most of it, however Raime was my favorite boss to help players with alongside Ivory King 😁😁

I beat fume knight just earlier today. I now remember why he had that dreaded 93% win rate. There is just something so beautifully perfect about his design. He’s not doing some crazy waterfowl 59 hit combo. He’s just a dude, with a big sword, who has like mostly three hit combos that are relatively easy to dodge. But he hits that sweet spot of being juuuust easy enough to read that you get overconfident, and his combos leave you with only juuuust enough stamina to get one attack in, but it feels like you could get two. Greed kills in this fight more than just about every other.

Would have appreciated knowing some of that like a decade ago lol

I had more problems against the other boss. I do not remember the name, but it was the knight clad in an oriental armour that wielded a two-handed long-handled katana. I never got him to commit seppuku.

If his bossfight is inside of a dead giant Is that his kill, that he decided to turn into his own turf? If so... He's an even bigger parasite than Grandson (Well more like a disease or something, but still)

Damn i missed ya buddy!

I have never even noticed the glow

The Vel helm thing is something I never knew

I’m still waiting for the lighting in water elden ring video. 🙏

Is there a move the player can use to activate that cracked sword buff when they’re wielding the fume sword??

This gives me fable vibes

The censoring of K***ht, I laughed so fucking hard! Thank you old man, with a simple jape you've made the shitty day I was having infinitely better.

Hey, Old Man. Can you check how the Old Lord's Talisman in Elden Ring works? I know it is a straight-up buff to the Lingering Dragon Crest Ring since it increases the length of Regen spells with no penalty to the amount healed as compensation but some people say it also increases how long the Black Flame debuff is active causing more Max HP drain overall, and I can't find if this is true. To that end, could you also check if it extends the duration of other debuffs like the Moon Sorceries' Magic Defense shred and the Destined Death effect?

0:26 Limit what is this audio effect? I hear it everywhere and it kills me.

I was so sad his armor wasn't in ds3

But what about the secret pvp fugs tech? (Consistent block attacks 😳)

With all the ff7 music it makes me wonder what a limit breaker ff7 video would be like 🤔💕

"REEEEEEEE Sword" is a lot funnier than it should be.

Hey old man what’s the best gun in bloodborne?

I must know how many items provide a light source in elden ring such as the dwelling arrows