Favourite bleed weapon... GO! ⏬

Fun fact: Eleanora’s Poleblade’s ash of war does a crazy amount of stagger, (able to stagger most enemies and bosses), and considering it’s a twin blade, it hits very often, meaning LOTS of bleed

played through 90% of the game using bloodhounds fang

I use reduvia against Melania for a ranged support weapon in multiplayer. The high end bleed buildup, low use requirements, and the fact that it's blood blade skill doesn't rely on player health like the basic ash of war make it at least high B tier in my eyes. Plus the light weight allows for heavier shields to be used without cranking the weight up to fat rolls.

Claws are really really good with bloodflame blade, an excellent pocket bleed build if you're running dex fth or even pure dex, since the buff applies to both hands when 2-handing, they have nice scaling on keen and weigh even less than daggers. Raptor's has marginally less dmg than the other 2 but their added jump dmg and their unique charged heavy makes engaging enemies way easier considering the short range of claw weapons. Really underrated weapon class.

Eleanora's Poleblade is the most fun weapon I've ever used in a game. It singlehandedly made me go from a sluggish guard counter build to a super fast arc/fai build.

Naginata is A tier at least. Dual weild them, stack blood loss and charge attack will do insane amounts of damage so easily.

it definitely falls off later, but don’t sleep on the morning star. you’ll be hard pressed to find a better bleed strike weapon that early on, and you can put sacred blade on it for catacombs. I am keeping it around on my bleed build because it comes in handy surprisingly often and like you said, low stat requirements.

Flamberge with Occult infusion, and like any of Blood Ashes is amazing. Personally I like using it with Bloodtax/Bloody Slash.

Personally very fond of the Flamberge for fashion reasons. Frankly, Jerren has fashion souls figured out

Elanora's poleblade was one of my favorite weapons to get when I first got it and I ended up using through the rest of the game till I got to my second journey. And the rivers of blood didn't even use it at all

For me it’s +25 godskin peeler w blood tax. 111 bleed w hp regen, beautiful.

Morning star should be a B tier at the least it carried me through 80% of the game it’s blood loss build up along with its strength scaling is great and it hits quick along with its stagger capability on most bosses

I absolutely love the Spiked Caestus. I went into NG+ 5 with them and the basic Claws, swapping between them depending on enemy type. I easily went through the entire game using them, probably the most fun I've had with Elden Ring. Its fast, the Heavy attacks stagger decently, the jump heavy stagger Nicely too. And that extra bleed is just icing on cake

The Vulgar Militia Saw is better than all the scythes imo. On Occult and with arcane investment, it reaches almost the same AR (at minimum requirements for each weapon, occult infusion and 60+ arcane), but has 10-15% higher bleed buildup (bleed buildup on the saw increases more with investment in arcane as compared to the two infusible scythes). On top of that, it has the same poise damage and attack speed as scythes, has lower requirements for wielding (more arcane investment at pvp or endgame meta levels), has a lower weight, can do pierce attacks, and can use more ashes of war, including seppuku for more bleed buildup, repeating thrusts for rapid attacks, piercing fang for a high damage pierce option, etc.

Wait cross nagis in C? 8 months since release and the spread of misinformation still surprises me.

i dont know why no one talks about dual godskin peeler with sepuku and it has 103 bloodloss buildup, jump attack with it is insane

In 1.08, Spiked Caestus are now insane. Not specifically as a bleed weapon, but as a weapon in general. The R2 comes out insanely fast, can true combo with the running R2 and does absurd damage. Also, their poise damage is stellar, a double charged R2 (which is still very quick) will stance break most things, and a lot of human enemies go down with a single charged R2.

The Razor Talons and Hook Claws remind me of Vega's claws from Street Fighter.

I absolutely love the Grave Scythe lol. Even though lately I've been using the grafted blade sword and Ghiza's Wheel, out of all the 100+ hours i have on the game, The Grave scythe occupies abt 75% of it.

A message FROM THE FUTURE! The raptor talons are scary as fuck with bloodflame blade... They destroy everything.

Thanks for putting this together. I watched the entire thing. The only difference in my assessment is that daggers are excellent weapons (in my experience). I would put Reduvia in a SOLID A or a low S. Radahn didn't stand a chance against the crazy bleed from the AoW.

Ghizas wheel gets bleed easier than anything I’ve ever seen. Bleed katanas got nerfed to the ground unfortunately. And bloodhound fang pretty much never procs bleed

Bandits curved swords dual wielded with seppuku is a lot better than what most think, you can get the same blood loss as scavengers but with more physical damage

Cross-Naginata is really good also if you are holding a shield (like you had in the clip). Its animation changes if you block with the shield while attacking with it: it turns into a thrust instead of the slash and that means that you can keep blocking while you attack. That creates a very defensive setup for many fights (where you can block).

Occult Great stars dual weild is op, the bleed procs in 2 L1/LB attacks. It deals insane stagger. Heals you, and has decent range. If you choose a aoe ash of war, its solid for any encounter. You can get 2 in 1 play through pretty early in. The only down side is the weight. If you dont want to use a katana and still want great range while not having to these high hit combos, try it out! 👍

Redureduvia at the bottom of c tier is crazy

Winged Scyths main benefit is its ash of war prevents healing (with the exception of Melina) so its main use is PVP or Enemy that use flasks. The debuff it causes lasts a very long time, a friend and me were testing it and it lasted roughly 6min. You can basically use it to apply the debuff then switch to a better weapon or power stance it with another scyth.

I'm using the Great Stars with the Prayerful Strike ash of War. It's damn good. Not only does it do a ton of damage, but it also heals a bit with every hit and it heals a ton with the prayerful strike. You can just spam the prayerful strike and brute force your way through most bosses a lot of the time. Get some heavy armor with a lot of poise and you'll pull off even more of the prayerful strikes. But even the regular attacks usually cause enough stagger to interrupt enemy attacks and allow you to just spam the attack button until the target dies.

reduvia is an S tier weapon. Close combat damage and it's ash of war makes this thing a monster

I would have put the flamberge higher on the list, I put frost and wild strikes on it and as soon as the frostbite kicks in I use blood boon to reset the frost and add some more bleed.

Currently using an Arcane/Faith dual Reduvia build. 1 L1 and your opponent is hemorrhaging. Combine it with White Mask, Dragon Communion Seal (S scaling on Arcane) Shard of Alexander, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Lord of Blood's Exultation, and Flock's Canvas Talisman. Start an encounter with Flame Grant me Strength and Golden Vow. Guaranteed every dual weapon swing will cause blood loss and melt everything before they get a chance to react.

Pizza cutter will forever be my fav weapon

reduvia's (Dual Wield) is surprisingly effective, REALLY effective unless the enemy has heavy armour. Also Bloodhounds claw, mine has poison with Lifestealers Fist (name?) ash, its stupid effective if your talismans & such lean into it.

Dual wielding Hoslow’s whips. Can get 2 in a single play through. Has natural bleed so you can have arcane primary scaling and bring bleed build up close to 100 with occult affinity. Also harmonizes super well with jump attack armor & talisman. Also reach is crazy and enemies get insta stun locked because they keep flinching. Crazy good. Also bloodhound’s step makes dancing around enemies so much fun with this weapon. You can melee like you’re casting magic since reach is crazy long. In addition, shields don’t defend well against whips at all. Dual wielding cross naginata or dual wielding nagakiba. They have natural bleed so same with Hoslow’s in terms of damage output and affinity relationship. They have crazy reach despite being fast weapons. Sword of dance ash is amazing with both.

Meteoric blade over cross naginata?!?! This man is on crack… the meteoric blade has one of the worst ash of war in the gamr

Sword of Milos is god tier when used in powerstance with another greatsword allowing you to kill multiple ennemies at one time like the blasphematory or the sacred relic sword, you can basically chain your weapon skill & never running out of mp :) NB : useless against bosses obviously, but otherwise it’s OP

My guy you did reduvia and raptor claws dirty. Raptor claws has a unique duel weild that strikes with both simultaneously which triggers winged insignea and prosthesis. Plus with bloodflame blade it stacks bleed like crazy with that one hit. Hoslows whip is good with another hollow whip, which you can get both of in first playthrough. The duel weild jump hit also hits simultaneously like the raptor claws and each whip can get 101 bleed with affinity. Throw Quickstep or bloodhound step on it and it becomes really good at punishing as you can side-dodge and then poke with a basic attack SUPER fast to keep the bleed building on the enemy. It's like the claws except more range and able to punish. I think the whip isn't really good without a second one though because it's power definitely comes from being able to switch from quick basic pokes to long-winded double attacks. Reduvia is stupid good in any situation. Weilding two daggers with it gives you stupid good attack speed that forces your opponent on the defensive, and in pve it just melts bosses with how quickly you trigger bleed. Reduvias ash of war allows you to continue the pressure from a distance and God DAMN it hits hard. I tested it out on great jar knights (which I'm pretty sure are scaled to my level) and it quartered their health in one strike. And if you ng+ and grab a second reduvia? Bro that's game for real.

Honestly I think you’re too critical mate. The reduvia and cross nagatina being in C is just flat out wrong

What you want to do with Ghizas wheel is use talismans and physick that boosts charged attacks and successive attacks and used charged R2s, not the weapon art. The weapon art doesn’t benefit from rotten winged sword insignia but the charged R2 does

The Halo Scythe has been my main since I first got to Caelid and got mulched by Cleanrot Knights. The blood loss might not trigger a lot but it’s Ring Halo ability basically a gun against lots of large enemies and bosses, lol. My 2nd fave is the Hook Claws which carried me through the first 20 or so hours of play.

Late but I have to mention the Vulgar Militia Saw... I made an ARC/STR War Cry (well, Braggart's Roar) build using this weapon and it slaps. The modified strong and charged attacks are piercing type, so you can trade with hyper armor and get massive counter damage. Add in the solid move set of the halberd with good area control, put a few points in FTH for value-add incants, and it's just a strong setup.

Reduvia blood loss increases with your arcane skill. So it's not strictly 51. And the sword of milos doesn't increase your damage. It decreases enemy resistances. And idk if you said it or not, but it absorbs 5pts of fp from each enemy. It's the fp version of blasphemous blade.

Double occult great star was the best s-Tier. Because it's blunt damage and no difficult enemies are resistent to it, it staggers, you put on each different ash, I had the dodge one and seppuku, but I have heard that both got nerfed so maybe that's why it's not the best anymore. Don't know. But it was insane.

I just randomly got river's of blood and didn't think much of it so I just tosses it in the back of my inventory... bad decision because now that I use it I realize it pairs great with my new blasphemous blade

Vulgar saw is amazing with blood tax, great range in pvp especially with something like swarm of flies to apply pressure

In my first playthrough RIvers of Blood was so massivly overpowered that i could have sworn its name was "easymode"

My first playthrough I found the hook claws early on and fell in love with the moveset and the badassatutde I felt being a demon wolverine

Sword of milos paired + blasphemous blade with takers cameo, ancestral horn, assassins crimson and ceruleans dagger is a great setup for constant health and FP regen.

The strength in Hoslows whip is to duel wield two of them for power stance with the jump attack talisman. It basically stunlocks most enemies.

“So you skipped to S tier shame on you go and watch the rest” How did you KNOW

the spiked spear is awesome. you can get frost and bleed buildup on it. it owns when its maxed out

Late game i switched to Blood Zwaihander, mostly for its looks. Fantastic weapon, bleed 166 at lvl 25, great moveset, good poise damage. Killed both Godfrey and Malekith on second try.

How the hell do you think bouquet is pronounced as banquet?? A bouquet (Bow-kay) of flowers where placed at the Banquet (Bank-wet) GG man, nice vid tho

The correct tier list

The night riders flail does fire damage I believe on top, not sure if each head has chance to apply bleed status but if it does x 2 the bleed build up

Ah yes "Varrs Banquet" lol

Scavenger's curseword instead of using Blood when you go pick a ash bar just use standard and make the arcane leveling Go up a lot.

My first play through I only used the Bloodhound's Fang -- I didn't use any walk throughs, just played the game and found it pretty early on. Maxed it out and used it for 99% of the game.

I like using the angel wing Scythe. It not only causes bleed but also disables healing in PvP

5:48 That Smashing Pumpkins reference LMAO

Your sleeping hard on the raptor claws, it literally has the best moveset of all claw weapons. First charged power attack lunges forward with two slashes, then an uncharged power attack after imediatly does two slashes and lunges back. It takes practice but bosses and pvp players have both whiffed hard while you get off 4 free hits.

0:36 aint no way bro just said vars banquet

I really liked using the bloodhound curved sword on my first playthrough,I never really used curved swords so it was a good first impression but my favorite bleed is and always will be the flamberge

I literally went through the whole game with a basic twinblade that i changed to have bleed buildup

Really? Cross nagi in C tier? You do realize you can make the bleed on those *insane* with turning them both into blood enhancements and double seppuku-ing. then spam l1 or left bumper and just win any fight, right?

Dual Bandits Curved Swords with seppuku on it is my absolute favorite. 117 blooloss buildup for each and with the right talismans these Swords just melt anything

Marais executioner is an easy S tier. its probably the best boss killer weapon in the game and overall very good

My only comment is to put reduvia in S+ tier

They buffed the hell out of Reduvia with bleed builds. Probably one of the best right now.

I use the grave scythe with a frost buildup. Popping bosses with insta stagger through timed buildups is so satisfying.

Eleonora's might not be the most OP but it's the most fun, the move set and skill is just so cool.

Reduvia deserve a solid A or low S , considering how early in the game you can get it , the unique skills is combined with the actual attack when close enough , that bleed stack is phenomenal. My actual build is double Reduvia and it shred pretty much anything even in NG+6 . Nice video keep them coming for the DLC

I love the godskin peelers they are actually so good

Straight up casual list

i like elenora's pole blade the best

Bloody helice is top 5 most fun weapons ever. just a better bloodhound’s fang

#1 Bloodhound's fang fan. It was so easy to get early on and I kept it till the very end on my first playthrough

Nagakiba is definitely a S-Tier weapon. Put some points in arcane and dex, and use Sword Dance or Double Slash on it and it will melt the health bars away. It‘s better that Eleonora‘s Poleblade for sure.

Putting reduvia in C tier tells me you've never used it. That weapon is nuts.

Thanks for entertaining me while doing chores. Great video. Does this hold to today before the DLC?

No nagakiba s tier??? It's just better Rivers when you have the bloodflame buff

U can change the ash of war on bloodhound claws 😅

kinda feel like you should have touched on the reduvia more. right now its the duel wield im trying to get. the bleed damage is something i heard could be epic but i dunno yet. but for debate, you only touched on it for like 10 seconds lol. not hating . i hit the subscribe. good video

I recently switched my build to Eleonora's Poleblade and it feels fantastic!

As someone who beat this game with whips I find this so amusing you got a new subscriber

That bloodborne build was my favorite. I loved that man. Very cool.

Great Stars + a poison ash of war = you get healed when enemy gets poisoned...kind of neat having bleed + poison + massive healing

The reduvia with relatively high arcane + dexterity is unreal. I beat Melania on my first try (with the mimic), it was actually very anticlimactic. It’s ash is a bleed projectile, you can just spam and eviscerate bosses.

i personally like the grave scythe, especially cause it always drops first time for me. but after seeing this, i really like the moonviel and rivers of blood. looks like it would work in my build a lot better.

The raptor talons is one of the best weapons in the game, same for reduvia and star fists

Eleonora's Poleblade is my go to for most pve. But for bleed resistant enemies I actually found Regalia of Eochaid to be absolutely mental. I powerstance them now and the damage output is pretty obscene with that AoW. Somehow I've had a ton of luck with them in PvP as well despite everyone saying it's not much good for it.

sacred spear got me through the Elden beast, malikith and godskin duo

Overall very nice tier list but me personally i would put Eleonoras twin blade higher than rob just because its a twin blade and it hits way more often and also has crazy stagger.

I quite like the morning star for those rock enemies that are weak to blunt/strike attacks. Its quick enough to build up bleed and destroy rock miners

I cant believe you put Varle's bouguet at the bottom lol, this weapon is amazing if you are building a status effect build/ almost pure arcane build in the fact that you can literally stack effects on this, its on of like 7 weapons in the game with in built status effect that you can still apply greases and ashes of war too stack. You can put sleep, piison, bloodflame, anytging on this and atill deal that damage plus the 125 bleed buildup. I still agree though, i would rather use bloody helice or reduvia over it if i was goinf for a bleed build

my friend...kick ash of war, made break guard to big shields enemies. Its broken. and in pvp, vs shield people, one kick, and you can made critic.

You forgot about Staff of the guilty

All poison/rot weapons?

I battled that bloodhound knight for like 4 hours straight until I killed him and used the bloodhound fang for the rest of the game. That combo is deadly AF