"i dont think you need more than 30 mind" immediately opens stats to show 31 mind, the comedic timing is extraordinary

Law of Regression is not from Gideon it's from the "Golden Order Principia prayerbook". Which is actually above the boss room you fight Gideon in, in like a hanging chair. Just gotta climb up there and grab it. And give to turtle pope

26:00 “To say that I know everything is absolutely incorrect” Gideon Ofnir: 🗿🗿🗿

Added "defeat Scott with a flail" to my list of things to do.

10:26 Holy shit I did not know that about adula’s moon blade I’ll keep that in mind next time I’m playing as my sorcerer

This is honestly one of my favorite builds that you showcased. Its just so fun to watch.

Just passing by to say you've become my favorite Elden Ring content creator, great job dude, love your videos.

I use law of regression with pure sorcery and the frenzy flame seal doesn't have a faith requirement and it weighs nothing, so it fits pretty well in the set up.

A bloodhound step spammer called me in for a duel a couple days ago and then proceeded to get 100-0'ed by the Zamor Ice Storm when he dashed in to hit me

@12:00 I believe his storm stomp must have started on his end before he got hit. The poise on storm stomp is insane. Don't think I've ever seen it staggered besides death.

Scott: you don't need more than 30 mind. Also Scott: 31 mind... I'm a fraud. Amazing. I chuckled

On PC it seems like one out of every four or five coop summons has either one or both phantoms disconnect. I've been doing a lot of helping with Godfrey because I think its a fun fight, but there are just so many disconnects. Its like some invisible monster just cuts the cord for one phantom, then 30s later I'll DC too. I couldn't imagine how frustrating it'd be actually trying to coop through a zone.

I see that you have finally discarded the croissant crown! Fashion wins again!

For Law of Regression, the frenzied flame seal doesn’t have any faith requirements so you can use that without respecting any points. Of course, you’d have to have a character go through and unlock it, but I hope that helps

Some things you can try that could potentially improve the build: 1) One strategy I like doing that has seen some success is aggressively chaincasting either swift glintstone shards or carian sword into glintblades. This is so you maintain close range pressure where they can't just run away to avoid glintblade frame trapping and often results in a lot of panic rolling. 2) Try out the helix sorcery (forgot what its actually called). The actual projectile damage is ass but it has very good tracking and takes up a lot of visual space so in that respect it's a more economical version of elden stars minus not having a horrendous cast time. I've used it to mask other spells, like setting up glintblades and also sneaking in chip damage by firing shards through the live projectiles every so often. Not that good if they're hyper-aggressive but I've found success doing this. 3) Law of regression can in some cases be a counter to barrier of gold if you're able to keep pressure on them before they have a chance to apply it again, especially if they're playing a non-caster setup where they'll most likely have far worse fp economy than you do. That and its just a nice utility to have to help deal with some cancer builds like seppuku dual nagis/havelmonsters abusing equip load flask and so forth. Gotta say though pretty surprised how good magic is in this game even vs. decent players. You can actually defend yourself besides being from uganda and giving the opponent heart palpitations because they swore that spell landed like 20 seconds ago and they're just nervously waiting to see if they'll just drop dead instantly

My friend, a full INT build user, fought the all-knowing dude and said to me “wow is fighting me that annoying?”

Hey Scott, I had had a few ideas on how this build could be improved based on some ideas I've been playing with. While not strictly sorcery only, the Clayman's Harpoon makes for an extremely powerful addition to a mage's toolkit. It's got innate magic scaling yet can be buffed with scholar's armament, which lets it reach very high attack ratings on the basic spear moveset. I'm personally pushing well over 800 AR with the buff + flask at 60 int, and adding the versatility of an ash of war to a mage's already expansive array of options can allow it to deal with a much broader selection of builds. For instance, running storm stomp, which as you've mentioned is a decent tool in dealing with bloodhound step, could be used. The spear moveset also compliments the quick horizontal slashes of carian slicer quite well, especially considering that after a spear r1, you can transition directly into a chained carian slicer which comes out much more quickly. This overall helps the build hold its own when enemies close the gap from mid to close range. As well, I've found as an alternative to stars of ruin, star shower can accomplish the same function while being less blatantly overtuned and the added advantages of a lower FP cost and faster overall cast time. Without bloodhound step, it's very difficult to avoid taking any damage at long range, but has a more tangible drawback compared to stars of ruin in that it is much easier to dodge at mid to close range. This makes it a very strong finisher, especially since each individual projectile seems to do more damage compared to a shot of stars of ruin to compensate for firing less of them, which helps if you clip with a single star. It also works well with the same tools that synergize with stars of ruin, like magic glintblade or shard spiral. Let me know what you think, I'd be curious to your thoughts on the potency of these tools. -Thorn

I had a mage-off with a guy who thought hiding under Eternal Darkness meant he won. What he failed to realise is that I DO run Cannon of Haima in duels and he just sat there and ate a nuke to the face.

man I watched every single one of your DS3 thought duels, love that they are back!

Perfect! I had just run out of narrated thought duels to watch

One thing I've been playing around with on my sorc build is actually the glintstone pebble AOW. It actually does crazy poise damage and has a great follow up charge. Pairs well with the cross-naginata as it lacks poise damage

23:35 "Was that fun? Was that an engaging duel? Did you learn anything from that? Of course not." Yes, Scott. Yes, I did. Stars of Ruin is dumb is what I learned.

I was that bow build you fought in this video I recognized my name and fashion that I was using at the time. you caught me just as I was learning bow in pvp, and testing what arrows work. love the videos, always learning new things. trying to know what things do, so I know when to plant and shot.

Really happy to watch those videos again

10:05 I've actually found that super-heavy aggression basically limits the effectiveness of stars of ruin. Granted, I have way more experience with invasions right now than duels, but if I throw stars of ruin against an aggressive opponent, they tend to roll through it and chunk me for half my health.

The Carrian Phalynx trick has been around since DeS, love how you can set it up so easily with the Glintblade allowing you to either go aggrow or zone with the blade spells or ranged. Been pretty much fooling around with it for a bit now and feel like your conclusion on magic in this game is probably the best out of any of the soul series (and this is coming from someone who thought magic peaked at DaS2 but its kinda changing now to ER)

As a mage main since ds2 pvp days i can confirm that cannon of haima, collapsing stars, and great ocular bubble are the big dick spells of the game. A great combo that i recommend is magic glintblade into great ocular bubble into collapsing stars to suck them into the bubble

I feel like SGS into Comet is just the Int version of Beast Sling into honed bolt. Just a solid spell combo. Some are even doing it into the lingering lighting. So the faith builds have the same combo style available. Seems intended. Feels good to pull of a combo that can be messed up. Slicer into piercer works too! Love the vids. I main pebble spear and alt arcane bloody helis as my two characters, both 150.

I always thought to myself if you played for honor and as soon as you mentioned conq I knew it also started watching your absolver stuff and it's sooooo good

Phina was a legend, inspired me to get a lot better as a hexer back in DS3. Nice to see someone else still sticking with their signature Homing Soul Mass backstep tactic

8:10 Dunno if you ever watch Zullie the witch, but recently she did a video on jumping in elden ring, and it turns out there are I-frames to jumping. It's only on the lower body however, so your arms can still get clipped which dip past the i-frames around the middle of the body. She also shows how you can 2 hand to have less of chance for arms to get clipped during jump dodging. Still would be latency dependent for dodging UGS stab, but something to keep in mind is that it'd be easier with arms up.

That backstopping homing soul mass combo is something I came up with in ds2 pvp,it makes me happy that the same teks can be performed 10 years later

Fought Fina a couple'a times in DS3. Hated every second of it. Love doing it to the others. Also, 277 damage on a Carian Slicer is still a massive improvement over the wet noodle that was the magic straightsword of faron or whatever it was called.

22:17 Roll forward with the right timing on the first roll, and then do repeated follow-up forward rolls until the cast stops. You have to already be somewhat in close to take advantage of the arc of the projectiles.

I've noticed that Adula's second cast (that also comes out when chaining out of swift glintstone) doesn't hit with the blade for some reason, only projectile, even in off-hand.

Law of Regression actually comes from the Golden Order Principia prayerbook in the Erdtree Sanctuary in Leyndell, idk if it's reachable after Farum Azula but it's probably worth checking. Gideon gives you Law of Causality

im glad narrated thought duels are back, i have literally watched all of your NTD videos back in the good old DS3 days.. keep it up you absolute madman the video cathegory is "dark souls" 2011 release dunno if you care

It genuinly feels so weird seeing you play a souls like game again. I've been watching you back since ds2, dont know if I was always subbed that long, but I've been watching

Scott, another good thing to do is jump backward Swift glintstone. Excellent way to bait whiffs and punish people

5:00 I was scratching my head the entire time you mentioned the Sorcery-only player in DS3, not remembering them, until you showed the Phalanx backstep LOL

So I started this game as a full INT mage and got really discouraged in the 2nd half of the game. Mostly due to not building properly & finding or experimenting with other spells. 6 builds, couple NG+s and a platinum later and I’ve come back around to loving full mage. Your videos have really helped me utilize the spells in PvP. Thanks Scott 💯

One strategy I’ve tried to develop is trying to move the glintblades off camera by counter-strafing my opponent. So far, it has worked surprisingly well, a lot of people just forget about the glintblades if they can’t see them.

Just some additional info that i've gleaned from running a similar build: Adula's seems to only hit multiple times on the first cast, which is why it does so much less damage when you combo it. it's also an example of a spell that's faster on the first cast than on the combo cast if you have max cast speed. Also, to beat Barrier of Gold I run Law of Regression on an offhand seal. You do not need the stats for the seal to cast Regression, just the stats for Regression itself (37 INT). It has a range into the next zipcode so typically i'll throw a few glintblades down to zone and cast regression to cancel barrier. I've had people quit when i use it but i feel that it's fair as i cast it during the duel and it's using a memory slot.

A cool combo is glintblade, wait a sec and then adula. You're almost guaranteed to hit with the glintblade if they rolled through adula. It also works with piercer

This build is actually a lot of fun!

@scott jund The poise at 12:00 is from the stamp ash of war. During that stomp the poise is through the roof almost completely guaranteeing the next hit in the aow will go off.

Very cool build. I'm gonna incorporate some of this into my royal greatsword spell blade build like the glintstone shard into comet and carion piercer for mix ups.

I thought you were a magic player based on your name, but the shit hand analogy just sold it for me. Great video, clear communication and thinking. Sub.

Heya Scott, small tip (even though you're maybe aware?) i was using this trick a lot in ds3 pvp, I was one of the few who mained purely sorceries, and it works here the same way. If you do phalanx and turn around quickly and then turn back again you send out the projectiles in waves rather than sending them out all at once. If you turn around quickly and turn back it only sends like 3 instead of all of them, so for example if you're backturned and you spin quickly twice you can send out three waves of projectiles from phalanx to an opponent, which is super good for resets. Once people realize what you're doing they won't want to approach you at all while doing this trick so it's nice if you want to chug blue estus. Thanks for the amazing content!

11:57 I believe the reason why he poised through the carian piercer was because of the ash of war he used called Storm Stomp...that's what i think it's called but most likely thats the reason that he had so much poise

I have found a lot of success with Glintstone Stars/Star Shower (Much cheaper FP wise options to stars of ruin and they cast faster so they can punish faster). But a low-key great option versus enemy casters has been Collapsing stars, it casts significantly faster than spells like Stars of Ruin or weapon arts like Sacred Relic Sword, does fantastic damage, always interrupts regardless of poise, and ignores Eternal Darkness, it also forces them closer to you and can set up combos with Glintblades or Carian Phalanx. Collapsing Stars also outranges Stars of Ruin significantly and its great for hiding followup spells like ambush shard, swift glintstone shard, carian piercer, Adula's, etc. Magic Downpour is also pretty good as the little magic bolts shoot at the target's direction, the ball tracks their movement, the shots deal decent damage, have decent range and the FP cost is pretty low at base 20. A stagger in the orb's AOE can easily chunk a player VERY quickly. Law of Regression on a frenzy flame seal is my favorite mage buff, the buff that removes ALL buffs. It has tremendous range (about the size of the Raya Lucaria dueling area) and removes other flasks, consumables, weapon buffs of any kind (to include Seppuku), temporary buffs like Exaltation of Rot/Blood, you can then drink your flask and have both. Stars of Ruin can also be effectively avoided by rolling first forward into the burst, then rolling laterally twice in opposite directions (ex: left then right, though latency usually means you take 1-2 of the 12 bolts). I recommend having bestial sling on even non-faith oriented builds (a 1 point investment for starting Vagabond) to be able to stop a caster from doing a followup cast of stars of ruin if they are trying to be spammy. Edit: Staff of Loss could also be a good consideration over the Carian Glintstone Staff for builds that want to focus more on blasting than using slicer/piercer, its a 30% buff to Night Comet (and shard i guess), so swift Glintstone shard into Night Comet for big damage punishes is a possibility.

love the vids man, would be very intrested in a mage invade build.

Maybe you already know but due to the buffering you can input the backstep command and input the direction right after letting go of the backstep button. you only get some frames but your character basically starts the animation to backstep in one direction and you can literally turn 180 degrees in any direction and thereby chain backstepping in any direction you want. ive also been doing this with carian phalanx and its pretty fluent.

I found out when trying your build that you don't need to meet the stat requirement's for seals to cast stuff with them. I can use the Finger Seal while not meeting the requirements and still cast Law of Regression.

If I remember correctly, storm stomp gives A LOT of hyper armor/poise. Once you’re in the animation of the ash of war, you can tank through almost anything.

I really love the swift glintstone>comet combo, and swift glintstone > moonblade combo, to shorten cast times. And it seems like one of your opponents shortened a comet cast time with carian slicer like slicer>comet. I need to try incorporating a few of those into my own playstyle. P.S. Law of regression isn't from Gideon. I think you get it from a prayer book in Leyndell right above the Erdtree site of grace. I guess if you already set the tree on fire though you probably can't get it anymore.

this very close to the build I use, and yeah it feels so powerful. I've always done PvP with multiple builds in all the souls games, but it's so nice that my favorite (pure sorceries) finally feels on par with the high end meta shit.

The tone when you said "I'm a fraud" made me chuckle

it might be latency, but I've noticed that sometimes you can roll through the entirety of stars of ruin by rolling forward instead rolling backwards or sideways.

Personally to deal with Barrier of Gold I just have Law of Regression attuned on my sorcerer. Only has int requirement and not having enough faith for the seal doesn't matter since it still casts and removes all buffs in the vicinity

This looks sick ngl nice job bro

thanks, you inspired me on this. i initially gave up on my mage when i realized i dont like spamming bullet hell on enemies in pvp. now this puts on another perspective on how to play mage without doing those BS moves.

Can’t wait to see dex/int and dex/faith builds!!

Okay so I’m rocking an int/faith build which is really niche But I enjoy it since it’s throws off so many people. The least expect a build with so many magical attacks

looking forward to your naked dual wield fingerprint stone shield build!

For that first guy w/ barrier of gold: Slot in Law of Regression. You don't even need to meet the faith req for whatever sacred seal you choose to cast it with. Range is massive, and you'll screw over his buff!

Night Shard, Carian Slicer, and Carian Piercer are the spells I've found to be must haves in duels. Night Shard especially is incredibly underrated and is probably the best finisher.

Magic glintblade is easily one of my favorite spells in the game. You can play some serious mind games with it.

Thanks for the video! Also can you jump over all ugs pokes or just the roll r1?

Halberds are my favorite. Kinda hard to give up that garenteed stagger and long running poke. Not to mention you can combo them into a weapon art after their staggered to roll catch them perfectly.

Great vid! Really helpful to me as a sorcery main. Have you tried the "invisibility" sorceries, i.e. Night Shard and Night Comet? I've heard good things about them in PvP; would love to see how they actually work out.

You're narrated thought videos are the best. I would love to see you duel at SL150 to point out the flaws you believe are inherent in duels at that level. I'm also curious to see what the SL meta would be if the damage for PVP is tuned down at all in the future.

that guy was for sure trying to look like Conqueror from For Honor. I was a conqueror main in FH so I was so happy to see that haha

I use collapsing stars to pull people into range of a abdula's moonblade, sometimes people are caught off guard by it, others will roll through the moon blade close to me and hit me. But collapsing stars invasions at the sewers or Haligtree is insanely fun to use

How to make Stars of Ruin and other sorceries with insane tracking bearable: make the tracking partially dependent on keeping the button constantly pressed down after the projectile was already launched. If you want to spam, you have low tracking, if you want high tracking, you can't spam.

scott idk if youll see this but im pretty sure if youre under the spot where stars of ruin was cast it becomes easier to avoid because some of the projectiles just dont curve enough to hit you so its way less to dodge if that makes sense

14:26 could you run law of regression with the frenzy flame seal (no faith requirement) in your line up to counter barrier of gold?

Ambush shard is pretty nice for cancelling the casts of your opponent. Works well with the magic glintblade carian phalanx combo

Little tip for Law of Regression, you don't need to meet the requirements of a seal to cast it as long as you have the int requirement for regression. At least I didn't meet the requirements of the erdtree seal to cast dragon bolt successfully. this was a mechanic in ds3 as well

a lightning incantation build would be nice to see there's a lot of cool incantations for it

What do you think about running a dagger in main hand with endure to tank hits and just trade with adula or slicer? Or maybe endure and just cast one of the moon spells

That is some great fashion I’m going to have to copy it

This is my first time playing a souls like game, and I also chose to go all spells. I noticed that some of them are pretty op so I went all sword spells, and sometimes I'll poke around with an off hand weapon.. does equipping two staffs boost your spell damage?

I used to do the backstep thing with the pursuers spell. When u get close enough u can spin and each Orb would fire at a different interval making it very hard to dodge roll away from. then I could rush in and either cast another spell off time with the pursuers orbs or I could bring out the moonlight greatsword and start staggering.

Thanks for the content! What is your reasoning on forgoing Radagon Icon and/or dex for cast speed? Just not enough faster for the investment?

You dodge toward the cater at an angle to dodge stars of ruin, and you can only do it in melee range. If you're at range you'll likely get chipped, but even then you can get through it

In case no one's pointed it out, law of regression is in a prayerbook, which you can give to the turtle pope, so you dont actually have to go to new game plus

Thoughts on radagon soreseal? Could always use great dragon shield crest to counter it as well.

TIL How to Stars of Ruin. Thanks for the informative video.

Dodging by jumping also might have to do with the weapon you have. It deactivates your lower body hitbox, but sometimes your arms are down (with staves, for example) so big weapons that make you keep your arms up help you dodge by jumping.

Frenzied flame seal doesn't have any stat requirements so u could use that for LoR and leave your stats unchanged.

Ambush arrow is also pretty good for mix ups and shields/spell parry imo

Yeah charging Collapsing Stars does make the pull stronger. I use it in invasions on my Moonveil mage, because a charged one brings you a lot farther and people always panic roll immediately after they get pulled, which means I get a free Transient Moonlight R2 if I time it right.

I'm pretty sure you get Law of Regression from the book above the Erdtree Sanctuary site of grace, the room where you fight the spirit Godfrey before Morgott

What’s better for a STR/INT Gravity Mage with the Meteoric Ore Katana? 70 INT and 20 STR for more Spell Damage & Magic Katana Damage. Or 55 INT and 35 STR for more Physical Katana Damage and the bare Minimum INT required for Meteorite of Astel.

law of regression is in the boss room of gideon and godfry hanging in a chair above the root. you get it from the prayer book

I enjoyed the video the most when you changed the build and spammed stars of ruin very intuitive hahaha.

Jumping gives partial I frames to your lower half. Your arms can still be hit, so when 2 handing things like great swords you get better use of those s since your arms are up.

Yeet This is my Favorite of your builds

THE COUNTER TO STARS OF RUIN, rolling in rather than away or to the side.