I wish theyd put in a DLC Incantation where I can resummon my Dad who left me

*plays spell only* *doesn't level mind* "Im out of mana, this is awkward"

Funny note about Poison Mist: It's completely stealthy. If you can get behind mobs in PvE, you can just crouch and slowly kill them with the power of farts

- For bloodflame blade, it's usually better when put on a weapon with innate bleed, since the blood loss build up it applies is a flat 40 that can't be changed/increased. - Greyoll's roar has an additional utility where it actually debuffs enemies hit by it, it reduces the damage they deal and increases the damage they take(basically a reversed golden vow). - For Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike, Death Lightning, Lightning Strike, and Frozen Lightning Spear, they shouldn't really be used as aoes due to inconsistent spread, their real strength is against big targets in pve. There are videos of people fucking one-shotting enemies like trolls and dragons. - O'Flame can true combo into catch flame, and iirc the charging speed of o'flame is EXTREMELY fast. Also, burn o flame has more consistent spread than you think and a big aoe, unlike ancient dragon's lightning strike(which is quite similar) it's a lot better against smaller targets like players with how much damage a single pillar can do. - Pest threads is also very good against big targets, because the same individual projectiles can potentially hit multiple times in short succession. Lastly, Scarlet Aeonia inflicts a special version of rot that is way stronger than other sources the player can inflict to my knowledge.

You can chain cast dragonclaw by alternating hands while casting with two seals, makes for some good mixups if people are used to the timing of the normal second cast

I appreciate that you never badmouth a single person you fight against and stick to being informative of the builds you use.

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That uncharged Lighting Spear @19:32 doing that insane damage (then the Glaive right after) was due to your opponent standing in water, reducing lightning res. So you had both seals boosts + Canvas boost + environmental advantage in that one hit. Just guessing but it may have done something in the mid 800s dmg if you had charged it. Some other fun little tidbits: Lansseax Glaive's blade part does more damage then the wave itself, so it's more like other summoned weapon spells, like Gavel. Both Dragon Lightning Spears can be aimed off a ledge and hit people below you. Scouring BlackFlame is weird because it sharply rises up after casting. Free-aiming it down make it hit stuff near the ground better. Heal spells scale with FTH very well, making them heal upwards to 1.3k hp at 80 FTH. And, while this is mainly a PvP showcase video, it does have a secondary use in PvE: all the AoE heals shred the damned Revenants. Even Blessing's Boon does DoT damage since it applies the regen to those bastards. Erdtree Heal is uniquely dangerous has it can heal Crucible Knights if used near them. EXTREMELY situational but lore accurate! (Don't worry if you didn't know, I also JUST learned that.) My favorite incantation has to be the Ring of Light. It is cheap, has really good range, not the best damage but can be combo'd into Erdtree's Greatshield's Golden Retaliation (or Carian Retaliation if you wanna change to magic dmg), giving it potential of 3 hits for the cheap cost of 7 FP (3 for spell and 4 for the shield reflect). Triple Rings also works but Golden Retaliation scales on upgrade level, not on the spell it reflects.

A tip for dragon claw. You can cast it indefinitely by alternating left and right hand seals and it prevents the extremely long recovery time from the second strike.

i'm kinda hoping they put casting ashes in the dlc, so we can have hybrid caster tools again, like Blue Flame and Mace of the Insolent, would give a lot more build variety. Claw seal also gets the 50% str buff to spells while 2h Whirl o Flame actually works decently in narrow hallways and choke points Law of Causality works with chip damage through shields

So obviously not shown in the vid cause it's only really useful in PVE, but darkness blinds enemies it hits and resets their aggro, which on enemies that can be backstabbed can allow for chain backstabs with little to no danger (so long as you remember to crouch walk or have something on so you don't produce sound). Also, the cloud can potentially stagger enemies with little to no poise. I recommend anyone who hasn't tried to use it to give it a try.

You've done a service to the community with this series, cataloging all weapons and magic in video like that will not only help current players looking to make new builds but future players that are yet to come, and you even did it before Fextralife that is the official wiki of the game Good work fellow tarnished, thy strength befits a crown

30:24 fun fact: since you are dealing fire damage to yourself, Flame Clense Me also removes the Frost debuff! (But not the buildup, only when it has been fully applied)

Im doing a black flame build with malikeths black blade incantation. Ritual is less of a get off me button in pvp and more of a stay away. You cast it to protect yourself with fire so that you give yourself a bit of time to cast scouring black flame or self buff etc. Its less about damage and more about utility. The black flame graphics make it harder to tell what you character is doing so it can throw people off, forcing them to mistime their dodge Not to say its great tho. Black flame shines more in pve than pvp. I really hope we get some more black flame spells in the dlc tho

elden ring should come with pronounciations in the help section

16:13 This made me question my main Faith build since the Dragon Cult Incantations are by far my favourites and I've never heard of Lansseax's Glaive being chargeable. And, yeah, it is not chargeable. I'm relieved I didn't misuse it and sad I didn't learn new gameplay-altering knowledge at the same time.

For people using bestial incantations with a strength hybrid build who want to increase casting damage, you can actually two hand the seal. Since it scales with strength, two handing it increases the damage

It never gets old watching co-op summons just stand there in disbelief that their host died so easily.

Black flame ritual is better as a trap I think , it surrounds both of you so they’re trapped in there with you somewhat, they can get out but there’s a good chance they’ll panic and get hurt either way.

Correct me if Im wrong, but the passive bonuses only apply of the item is held in your hand. Just having it equipped in an inventory slot does not provide the bonus. Just so the information is out there!

8:27 New dlc incantations: Miquella's threads Formless hole Stones of Miquella Mohg's Thrust Miquella's "Ancient" Lightning Spear Dragoncock Bloodflame burst Acceptance Scouring Dark Web Jail Bait Surge, O Boon Wrath of Mohg And many more!

Swarm of Flies is hands-down my favorite spell in the game. I went from a Faith build to an Arcane build just because of Swarm of Flies.

Hey Monk, I've been playing around with an incantation build that uses all the fire incantations and have found the thing that was missing was oil pots. Once people realize you are throwing oil pots they grow bold and just let you hit them with it. Then you light em up. Doesn't matter what kind of fire, they all get boosted.

19:25 was so cool , I liked hw bro just walked thru the death mist n lighting while breaking through it all with madness

While flame of the fell god is kinda hard to hit, it makes it easier to charge and use other attacks while the enemy runs away from the fireball, freeaiming giant’s flame take thee with it is specially good cause they’ll get hit by either of the two or both. Also dunno how viable this is but you can keep yourself close to the fireball so people will be afraid of coming close to you while you can also close in distance

Okay, this might be the best time for me to have learned about this channel's existance. Instant subscribe!

When I first started Rldrn Ring, I went through the trouble of getting the Clawmark Seal because I didn't even know the Finger Seal existed.

This was so so useful.....effective testing...awesome......good to see some high dmg low fp spells out there.......this really opened my eyes....thank you:).

I saw that miquella joke coming a mile away

8:12 Just like poison, having to stop to use an item can often be a big disadvantage that the opponent can use to pressure you further. Plus, you can't always roll the bleed proc. If any "Bloodflame" effect procs the bleed through the bleed-over-time buildup, not even rolling will protect you from the damage of the proc. Thus, Bloodflame Blade + anything that causes a lot of phantom hits, like Prelate's Charge, can be very strong if not dealt with properly.

8:24 This has to be the funniest moment in all of your videos. I'm dying XD

Named dragon spells are not objectively better, the unamed one cost 25 percent less to cast which makes misses less catastrophic and just allows for more casts.

The crucible spells actually get buffed by the crucible armor!

I cant say enough how much I love the dragon claw.

The unnamed Dragonbreath spells have more range than the named ones. It's the primary reason I tend to prefer those. EDIT: Surge O Flame is meant to chip players who are nearly dead in PvP, just like every iteration that came before it in a Dark Souls game. It's not really good at anything else.

Goro Luigi and Goro Mario weren't there for long but they were both amazing.

You hit upon the weakness of many of the powerful incantations, which is that you run out of FP flasks quickly, which means you have to go hard into FP flasks or carry a backup weapon. It's difficult to make a pure caster work with powerful incantations, you have to mix it up with melee or low cost incants. I'm not complaining since it makes sense.

Placi's ruin was my favorite because one time I was doing co-op with a friend and we beat malenia with it and also, knocking her up was hilarious

Finger seal has the best faith scaling for buffs and heals before you have enough faith to use godslayers at 27! Also I really wish we had a black flame variant of catch flame 😢

Black flame ritual alone sucks, but when in combo with other spells is extremely broken Inside the flame u have 0 visual, so its almost impossible to avoid the next attack

A bit late to this party; but if you free aim the Flame of Frenzy and Unendurable Frenzy and aim basically straight down you can shot gun people who get close to you. :)

In PvE against large bosses Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike is stupid powerful, I managed to three-shot Placidusax with an arguably unoptimized build

awesome video as usual, i'll be using this to make my first faith/incant build thanks!

What's next for our boy Monk? I feel like, with all the testing you've done, you could apply that to some fun builds :o

BF ritual is really good if you pair it with burn o flame if you catch somone with BF ritual and then cast BOF it melts people I call it Inferno Galore

"You want another smooch?!" got me rofl. You're great, Monk! Love the content so much

"dab me up big dog" with dragonclaw is so funny 🤣

I don't know why "I could've gone mad once more," killed me lmao!

All this time and he still hasn't learned not to lock on when casting certain spells under certain conditions... pro tip for all interested in spellcasting, whether in PvP or PvE, you'll have more success if you learn when to unlock and free-aim your spell, as it gives you much more control over what areas you're covering. To use Beast Claw as an example, if your opponent is strafing right you might want to unlock and aim ahead of them to make a cone of damage they can't run past, forcing them to dodge.

Placidusax’s Ruin is just super laser piss, change my mind

I’ve only ever hit death lightning one time and the dude accidentally quickstepped into it but it killed him in one hit doing over 1,000 damage

I like to use the spells that shoot pullars out as counter spells. If the enemy tries to rush you down, it can create space or heavily punish them.

With the right setup, Frenzied Burst can 1shot people.

finally someone who views magic objectively and not just "huhu weapon better just use a sword"

Fire surge used to be so good. Flame spray in demons souls was really busted because stacking every magic booster and the insanity catalyst would basically desimate most people.

Dragon cult incantations and a good melee with lightning infused is nuts

FYI: standing in water reduces Lightning Resist, being wet by rolling in water also lowers Lightning resist. These effects stack

The best incantation is Force. Oh Force, how many have you helped me send to their graves by launching them from cliffs, elevators, and into holes… it genuinely never gets old.

The dragon claw can be alternated when dual wielding seals. I think it might help mix up opponents, swapping it up like that.

My frenzied flame build is one of the most fun builds I've played. Also very strong in pve and pvp.

Something interesting about dual seals with Dragon Claw is that you can alternate between left and right seal and it will keep chain casting, as long as you have stamina and fp. Just Donkey Kong foul Tarnished.

Having the three fingers blessing also gives the frenzy flamed incantations a boost too. I used them in my first play through with my friend abd they were doing massive damage to bosses

Miss your content, would be happy to see your videos more often

pest threads is honestly either a zoning tool in pvp and a massive enemy killer in pve

One thing I noticed when doing the dragon communion Incantations is that you stayed locked on, these incantations work better when free aimed.

Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike is so OP. It is like the Comet Azure of Incantations, exept it is actually useful outside of biss cheese setups.

Sonaf in right hand, mikellas ks is left hand, int/faith build and g order incantations. Great build pve, ans pvp

Spent a long time learning how to free aim giantsflame and making a glass cannon build. If you free aim the spell right it's actually pretty hard to dodge and you can just one shot anyone lol

Fortissax’s lightning spear if aimed down from a cliff side will send down the spear itself.

Great video definitely will be looking up how to get some of these they look sick

With the fire incantations O Flame combos into catch flame And Flame of the Fell god into a Giants flame can create frame trap if you learn the timing meaning you'll have almost 100% chance to hit one of the strongest two fire incants

Beastial incantations are also pretty fp efficient. So much tanky goodness with buff stacking and just hucking big rocks all day.

noteworthy: crucible incantations and ashes of war (ordovis, siluria) are buffed by wearing the crucible knight armor set

My favorite combinaision of seals for beastial ones is : two-hand clawmark (for 1.5x str scaling), cinquedea off-hand : best bonuses and a dagger at hand.

Dagger talismen boosts madness hugs

Whenever you’re casting AoE spells, have a weapon with the “endure” ash of war. It always guarantees the fattest of trades even if the spell you’re casting doesn’t have innate hyper armor.

Oh man I’m so excited for the dlc incantations

Give me the bloodflame splash from Mohg that shoots straight insgead sideways and I would be happy.

You can also chain cast honed bolt with lightning strike

Don't know if it comes up, but i think Greyoll's Roar applied a damage and defense debuff as well if it hits.

The godslayer one where you trap an enemy inside fire would go hard with the dragon incantations tho you just need to know how to use it I think. Also what happens when you spam the chasing spells while spamming other spells when they chase? That’d be a guaranteed hit right

Sorry I was late to incantation class sir monk

for some incomprehensible reason inescapable frenzy applies your mainhand weapon as its damage so if you want to kill people with the incantation you gotta have like a bleed dagger or something

Monk my beloved

For the blakcflames, the double godflame seal is weaker than the dragon communion with the godflame if you want to spec into arcane too.

Always amazes me how much content they have in this game

In my experience the dragon communion seal is the best, it requires way less faith than the erdtree seal and scales incantations almost just as well. Ive tested in and with my build at least (40 faith 20ish arc) it actually scales most incantations better than the seals meant for it at +25

Hitting frozen lightning strike in pvp is so nice, cause it feels like cocking a shotgun and then firing.

Death lightning is amazing and will always one shot, if it hits.

death lightning as the worst is wild, it is EASILY one of the strongest in terms of raw damage

Appreciate you not being cheesy in PvP by not using a bunch of buffs

I really wish that Lansseax’s Glaive was better. Maybe you could keep swinging it in quick succession, or better yet, maybe her glaive could be an actual physical weapon, like the Bolt of Granssax. Justice for the true best girl of Elden Ring!

I’m a die hard advocate for ancient dragon light strike

Swarm of Flies is amazing against Melania's second phase

law of causality has to be a beserk reference

You didn't give enough PvE credit to poison mist. It's not good in a fight generally, but it doesn't aggro the enemies when used on them, so it's great to spend 5min behind an enemy's back, waiting for them to die, instead of trying to actually fight them.

I believe you can infinitely combo dragon claw if you alternate the hand you cast in

Death lightning is probably only useable vs npcs cause they're the only ones stupid enough to stand in it

Surge o flame is an anti-lock on spell, you get the best of it if you don’t lock on to your opponent (still doesn’t make it good though.)

Thank you for the blessing Monk