The enemies dont fear you lol you mean inflicting pain

@@zakereysocey815 some enemy fears you in Elden Ring lmao

@@polinttalu7102 yea some run away when you kill their leader

@@TheBlackAztec3 Demi humans specifically come to mind. They cower if they’re queen goes down.

@@zakereysocey815 yeah when you kill the demi human queen and all the other enemies just squeak and cower from you. thats fear. ^^

This. I love using no weapons. I dual 2 seals and go heavy on fp flask with the fp regeneration talisman for kills. It's so much fun not having to use a weapon 😂 Edit: Plus it gives you the benefit of weighing less so you can get better resistances on your armor choices.

I don't quite follow, I tried this but the damage isn't changed. I have +16 goldslayer seal on left and +0 erdtree on right, should I enhance the erdtree seal?

@@arthoormoorgen9492 Yes you want to +10 (somber stones +10, smithing stones go +25) whatever you are using to cast the actual incantations with, which in your case should be the Erdtree seal (or just whatever in your inventory that has the best incantation scaling currently, though at +10 this will eventually be either Erdtree or Dragon Communion) . Let’s look at an example from a PS5 controller point of view and some made up damage numbers: Let’s say you have the lightning spear incantation equipped and ready. Left hand you have nothing equipped. Right hand you have the Erdtree +10 seal equipped. Right hand means you tap R1 (holding will charge up and do more damage, but for this example we just press R1 and immediately let go) to use your lightning spear incantation. It hits for 1000 damage. Now equip the Gravel Stone Seal in the left hand (upgrade level doesn’t matter as you will not press L1 to cast the incantation). The gravel stone seal boosts dragon cult incantations damage by 20%, which are lightning incantations (not to be confused with dragon breath magic from the dragon altars, that would be the Dragon Communion seal for boosting those). So now we press R1 to cast the same lightning spear incantation with our right hand equipped Erdtree +10 Seal. That same lightning incantation, just by having a Gravel Stone Seal equipped and ready in the left hand even though we are casting with our right hand, will now hit for a hypothetical 1200 damage Another side note if you want to test yourself and not take this post at face value. Make sure you test with enemies in the same state for both tests. I.e. first test if you hit with an enemy unaware of your presence (as the first hit with an unaware enemy has a damage bonus), then for the second test, rest at bonfire and then hit that same unaware enemy

@@darqdar I understand now, it works! But is it worth it to upgrade the Erdtree seal for midgame player? I enhance it to +5 and only could go as far as +7. My +17 Godslayer (not +16 apparently) deals around 900ish dmg of Lightning Spear, while with +5 Erdtree I'm dealing 800ish, raw dmg without Gravel seal on left hand.

@@arthoormoorgen9492 I’m not sure what level the scaling of the Erdtree overtakes the Godslayer, but it’s always worth upgrading the Erdtree Seal as high as you can as it is the best in the end (unless you are planning to do an 80 faith, 80 arcane build for the Dragon Communion seal, in that case, max out the Dragon Communion seal) My equip for the seals is Erdtree right hand and then I have the Giants, Gravel, and Frenzy Seal in the left hand and I just cycle by pressing the left d-pad depending on the spell I’m casting to get the damage boost. I don’t use Godslayer in the left hand as IMO, Black Flame is made redundant once you get the Giantflame Take Thee spell. It hits harder, has AOE and can knockdown cheese smaller sized bosses that aren’t immune to knockdown. The only issue is range which with a little practice is overcome through manual targeting rather than lock-on targeting

Its almost odd lol everyone respects a masterpiece

Games to good to spoil ☺️

And then there's ragegamingvideos...

also their DOT does percentage of total health making it good against super high health enemies

or, become a samurai god. and dual wield Katanas and just wreck them. that's how i've beat the whole game. dodge, then slash. EZ.

Good to know been on that boss for 5 days

@@christianruvalcaba7273 giT gUUd loSErS

@@christianruvalcaba7273 cringe

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O yea, lightning’s the best

The damage seems lacking to me…what kind of faith we looking for solid damage? 41 with the amulet and a 13/14 godslayer seal

@@bitharne Theres a seal that increases the damage of all lightning spells, called the gravel stone seal. Its pretty much a must have for lightning spear builds. I also recommend the talisman that increases the potency of all incantations

@@maw8533 which one is the one that increases all incantations?

The wing scythe has taken me to the very end, best weapon 🤘

@@oh718 awesome weapon, im having a lot of fucking fun with it

I just need more somber smithing stones.... :|

@@vplgery you’ll get the bell that allows you to but it from the freaky twins in RT!

Screw the wing scythe; get the halo scythe and NEVER have to cast an incantation again

I'm enjoying how many incantations and spells have melee explosion components (aka rewards for melee casting). Makes a spellblade/miracleblade feel SO much better. Reminds me of Lightning Stake from DS3 which was insanely good despite DS3 not being great for offensive miracles by and large.

Water increases it slightly, not too much

I would like to add Iron Virgins are vulnerable to Lightning Spells.

@@InstagramWanker wooo I didn't know that !

Yep if you use it on that giant dragon you can kill it fast without bleed or high damage

By St George, is that it? Black flame, o' black flame....

Doesn't every spell scale throughout the game

i see what u did there 😂

Nice of them to take inspiration from KonoSuba

@@DreamingNousagi Healing to do dmg to undead has been around much longer than Konosuba, oldest example not even being final fantasy or dragon quest

@@EXL72 doesn't mean they saw it in any of those games tho

@@benji7275 if they took inspiration from anywhere it would definitely have been dragon quest or final fantasy and definitely not konosuba

Whats holy Fire?

@@AzrealJ "works when your holy, fire and lightning damage doesn't"

@@toggle3927 “works when your holy, fire, and lightning damage doesn’t”

@@raygun2180 Both renditions are grammatically correct. The use of the "serial comma" is a stylistic choice, mandatory only in certain formatting styles.

@@miguelr7282 I’m American so unless it’s essentially NYT formatting then it’s with a comma hence me not putting an asterisk as a correction but just putting my variant.

Good build

Lmao bruh you really wrote my build and I’ve never played dark souls before. Went in blind and made a build around other games. I got the grace scythe instead(for looks). Also try out dual whips with bloodhound step. Nothing crazy but a nice different weapon you don’t see to often.

once you get to leyndell, the bolt of granssax is also a good alternative as a main weapon

@@ScrodumHat The Bolt of Gransax is more of a quality weapon than spellsword. It scales only with str and dex. While, I do have a couple of points in dex, my build is mainly faith focused

@@Kintaro426 it definitely is a quality weapon, but it’s ash of war is basically a better lightning spear. i can understand not using it if you haven’t put many points into dex though

The rot breath has damn near trivialized the game for me lol that and barricade shield

Try esykes breath it’s the rot breathe and you can do it in mid air

​@@xEmissionz That's the one I mean. It makes anything not immune to scarlet rot utterly trivial. Cast it run away or cast it use barricade shield and let them die.

Regular Rot Breath is somewhat superior to Ezykes version. It has lower DMG, but it's a lot more consistent with it's hitboxes and uses less FP. If anyone is considering any Dragon spell, Regular Rot Breath is better imo.

No shit, I went up against the godskin apostle at caelid divine tower at level 89(any attack he hit me with that wasn’t the fireball would insta-kill me), hit him with rotten breath a grand total of twice, and just ran and dodged over the course of the battle while his health whittled itself down to nothing. Rotten breath is absurd.

Pretty sure al the blood incants are also fire based

No you’re right. I’m lvl 90 faith build, 60 faith w/ a few of these spells and the Godslayer sword, but my brother did an Int build and has all these badass spells that makes me wanna do sorcerer next. And my other brother is strength, carrying colossal weapons, looking like Guts. We’re all pretty formidable by this point, but they’re saying the same thing about my faith build.

I've tried both and it's definitely as you say. The grass always does deem greener on the otherside. Faith incantations are usually cooler than the spells in my opinion but after a while i went back to int magic.

I mean you lose all your range and a majority of your damage since faith is more of a hybrid spec than a full spec in ER to be fully honest. I don't even know why this YT said the RLightning spells were good since pretty much all of them are terrible and should almost never be used due to cast time vs damage output. I'm 7-9 builds in and I've ran primarily 2H strength builds, like 2-3 int builds and 2 faith builds (Ints were made to experiment for things like moonveil, SoN&F, Faith was primarily Blasphemous Blade primary with 60+ faith with incants as a backup / 2ndary, they just don't hit that hard for what you put into them to be honest. I would agree with the video that prob LS is the best because of its CT, but in all honesty coming from somebody thats in the higher 100s, I would say it depends on the playstyle. Sorcery is definitely more potent, but Faith has way more utility and other tools / options.

Definitely the grass is always greener. Made a second char after finishing the game with a faith build bc the sorceries looked really fun 😭

Dude idk, late game as a sorcerer really fell off. The hard hitting spells left me too open so I switched to a high arc, decent faith(to use certain incants) build + bleed. I'm not a good player so it's how I enjoy the game 😎

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There is a poise talisman, bull goat talisman.

@@davidanderson4335 he means the unfaltering prayer weapon art that was on the talismans. It gave your miracles hyperarmour.

@@VeryOrigionalMan2 is it as effective as the ds3 one? Will still miss lighting storm and lighting stake tho.

@@patrickpitz1879 as far as I’m aware there isn’t a version of that ability in Elden ring. Shame because some of the incantations are almost impossible so land due to the massive casting time.

Im going to try it!

Is bloodhound fang and blood flame blade 2 weapons or a weapon art?

@@Gravity616 second one is an enchant

Did you have to keep pumping points into str and dex to keep it viable throughout the game? It's the only reason I've stopped using it cuz I don't want to have to keep pointing points into both AND faith in order to keep bloodhounds fang viable. I just want to do faith and then either str or dex, not both tho

@@Gravity616 bloodflame blade is an incantation that you get near the rose church in Liurnia!

They made magic builds actually fun and not just the typical crystal ball spam like in ds3

@@xanderlaskey2753 complete agree

@@xanderlaskey2753 Absolutely agree. The amount of awesome, powerful stuff to use is like a gigantic toybox full of nuclear weapons.

Not even endgame my dude, im only have three main bosses kiled and can one tap anything thanks to a couple youtube videos lol. They did such a great job if youre willing to put the time in

Does gravel stone make the scarlet rot quicker on bosses?

@@rudys.artous5477 it buffs dragoncult incantations (not to be confused with dragon communion)

Did u mean breaking their stance or killing them

Hey Swoop, I'm doing a Draconic build as well. Are you pure Faith or a hybrid with melee? If melee, which weapon are you using?

@@feedmyaddiction2078 more of a hybrid build and currently testing different melee weapons for right hand. Dark moonblade, night and flame, cipher pata and the wing of astel are my melee options im testing.

I use it because it just looks so cool. Ice blue lightning 😍

How do you find enough stones to upgrade them? I’ve only Magee foully upgrade one special weapon so far

@@thatoneguy1741 you need an ancient dragon somber smithing stone for +10 on special weapons. So far I only know of 2. You get one right before Mohgs boss fight in a chest surrounded by enemies and you get the other by killing a dragon in Crumbling Farum Azula. Somber Smithing stones can sometimes be tricky to find but if you wanna find specific ones I recommend you watch Ragegamingvideos as they have guides on how get tier 5, 6, 7 and even 8. Hope that helps

Theres more somber stones in the area where you fight Malenia. I think I got two there along with a shit ton of runes. Plus you can get the final somber stone bell there so you can purchase 8 and 9 stones. To get there you have to use the secret medallion at the elevator to the giant lands. One piece you get from a dude hiding as a pot in the southwest area of Liurnia. The other you from the castle in the northwest part of the Giants lands. It allows access to a hidden part of the giant lands once you have both pieces of the medallion. This is also where another deathroot is located, but you have to jump onto an invisible floor to get to it. Once you go up the secret lift head north until you reach this village. There's a spot that you can activate and you need to go turn on all the lanterns in the area(in these towers for the most part). Once all four are lit you can take a teleporter to where Melania is located. Just fight your way through a boss and a bunch of tanky enemies and you will eventually reach her deep down at the roots of an erdtree.

Have you tried comparing Ordovis blade with Gargoyle black blade? I have more fth than str so not sure if BB will be better. What are the scale ratings for Ordovis at +10? Thnx

Just enough to use the weapon you want. You get the vast majority of your damage off faith scale. For both weapons and incantations. There isn't a seal that covers them all that I know of.

@@masonpope9015 erdtree seal covers them all. It doesn't have any bonuses to certain types, but it has three damage types while all the others have two. It gets physical, the normal incantation scaling and holy damage. It only scales off of faith though, but it was still increasing my damage considerably up until I hit 80 faith.

@@IceNinja18 great to know thank you! How many pts did you put in mind?

@@masonpope9015 do you guys put dex for casting speed too?

@@guiltycross I just 70. I probably will at some point but not yet. I've just been using that talisman that boosts speed.

That sword made a lot of things easy mode. Almost stopped using incantations completely.

@@IceNinja18 yeah the ones I have just aren’t as strong as the sword. I mainly just use heals sometimes :p

its worse then rotten breath, one if you get touched you fall and stagger, two its damage is not nearly as consistent, and 3 its harder on the fp cost. it is not a good spell

@@halomank agreed and Ezykes decay does good DOT and covrage

If you are going that route then dont forget to get the prince of deaths staff. It does the A/A split as well. Best staff for int/faith builds.

@@demonintellect9834 I’m only faith building rn just have a little high intelligence cause playing around with new spells til I respec plus the golden order rn is way stronger than my +15 godslayers seal

@@lunariangoddess1206 if your respecing, do you plan on switching to the erdtree seal? it has s faith scaling and does holy damage. I have been wondering about this, but I think the golden order seal is probably the best seal in the game. Though, only when you have the levels to invest into both stats.

@@IceNinja18 haven’t found that seal yet but will prob check it out when I do. But ya so far the golden order is nutty high scaling for my meager all around setup

@@IceNinja18 oki got the erdtree seal and it looks like if ya go straight faith it is stronger. At 70 faith and a +8 erdtree it’s 319 scaling where golden order +9 with my 30 Int and 48 faith was 311. However I think both are best depending. If ya want to use weps like the katanas or night and flame sword or have some options regarding Int gear then go golden order. Side note: I believe if ya doing a strength/faith build then godslayer seal would be like golden order in terms of best since scales on both

I doubt it. Lighting’s always been meh, they don’t care about making it viable

After 68 tries I had to use it on Rahdan and beat him in 3 mins lol

@@iTzLagz1995 hey, 69th time is the charm lmao

@@BenderIsGreat3464 ik right lmfao. CHEESE forever unkindled one (yes ik its tarnished but nearly a decade of dark souls has my brain wired to say it a different way and I will probably never change that, I prefer the old names, except "touch grace" I say touch grass lol)

Rot breath is imo the strongest incantation in the game. When boosted correctly is melts everything and my rot ticks for 100ish which is absolute madness. Throw in a mimic tear to duplicate you and its gg.

the spells scale off what ever your catalyst scales with they just have arcane requirments if you are not using the seal that scales off arcane no spells will scale of arcane

The actual incants scale off of Faith, it's just the the Dragon Communion Seal scales mostly with Arcane.

What people said above. If you're focusing on arcane though, you'd be using the dragon communion one anyways. But the good thing is, while the passive effect damage increase won't affect other spells, you'll be able to scale stuff that isn't dragon breaths with arcane too. My build has 12 slots and i literally am having trouble deciding what to put in

None of the spells in this game scale. There damage is based off of your catalyst.

@@rightousnesspursuer6523 agreed, took me a while to realize that just because I got a new incantation doesn't mean it's better than the one I got towards the start of the game. What determines if a spell is good is a lot of factors(cast time, range, accuracy, etc) and preference, but if you want to do damage then you need to upgrade your seal.

Rot breath guarantees easy mode

also arcane bleed builds. pure str/dex seems kinda lacking compare to the others

@@prodbyyungtrav The game clearly wants you to do hybrid builds, that's why most items scale with multiple attributes. Some people don't want to adapt and they have trash builds because of it. Pure faith/Int is trash in pvp.

How did you get enough runes to get that high

Slow and no hyper amror

agreed. If enemies are close enough to be hit by it, then you 100% arent getting it off because it's so slow and easily interrupted.

@@demonintellect9834 It's good against big bosses that have long wind ups or you can get behind for a short period of time.

@@IceNinja18 Ok but there probably would be a better spell you could use that would do more damage safely. Hell the blue lightning is better for what you just said. They can get hit by it twice, once from the downward cast and then again by the lightning strikes.

@@7mzab887 In comparison to something like red lightning strike or any of the lightning spears, they're all virtually as risky to actually try and use (the downwards spears, not like the projectile)

it’s a wider range and i think it does a little more damage but the regular one is longer and you can cast it on your horse