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The biggest letdown with the Marais Executioner Sword is the fact that we don't get the huge horizontal slashes that the Bell Bearing Hunter has

One step closer to the every single weapon in the game tier list Edit: nice we got it

What I love about the Dark Moon Greatsword is that while all the other legendary armaments were the weapons of other legendary beings, the Dark Moon Greatsword is yours. It's gifted to you by an Empyrean. You are the legendary warrior that future generations while learn about should they one day hold it. That's neat.

I love how the Dark Moon Great Sword is just Ranni’s best attempt at a wedding gift, but said gift is juiced out of its mind on cold magic.

G.R.R. definitely contributed more than just Grafted Blade. He also added the self-cest children for Radagon and Marika.

In Bolt of Gransax’s defense, the version you’re using isn’t the true bolt, but rather a miniaturized version whittled from the real one. The REAL bolt was the skyscraper-sized piece of geometry you see in Leyndell. This is kind of like a bunch of ants scraping off some iron from a sword sized for human use and then using those filings to make a sword wieldable by ants. It’s still going to be strong of course, but just not nearly the same as the full-sized, real deal.

One thing that always throws me for a loop is the fact that the Godslayer's Greatsword is the only weapon in the game that has that "Legendary" Gold color to it's item box when you pick it up, but isn't a "Legendary Weapon". Lore-wise, also pretty Legendary IMO, despite being lore nerfed by death being sealed. But then again, we un-seal death and nothing changes?

So the Marais executioner sword actually has a really cool reason as to why its with a bell bearing hunter. Elemar was someone from a land called Eochaid and he was being sentenced to death at the Shaded Castle. But people from Epchaid can do some crazy jedi shit with swords and instead of being beheaded he used that power to rip the sword from the executioner and started murdering everyone

Can't wait for the arrow tier list

I actually like Radagon's sword being in the hands of some nobody warrior, the man literally tore apart his ex wifes gift and remade it into an image of his god, then abandoned it altogether. It was most likely held in the capitol or maybe he lost it while fighting the war in the north and didn't even bother to look for it. Gives the world a lot of depth as well that amazing things can be found anywhere in the hands of anyone.

Fun Fact about the Ruins Greatsword : Players have found after testing that it's magic damage really doesn't scale with a player stat, but actually just with the weapon's level.

I feel only the Dark Moon Greatsword actually has what it takes to be worthy of legendary status, being the wedding gift of Carla's ruler to their consort, you having to go through a long and interesting quest to find out how Ranni orchestrated Godwin's assassination and realizing she actually had a point and probably was helped by queen Marika. Also, isn't it so neat that you recieve Fromsoftware's signature recurring weapon after the quest?

That intro of insanity. The Overviews. The Insults. C'est Magnifique.

The Eclipse Shotel itself isn't that horrendous of an item, it's just that it's whole gimmick of death blight (and being one of the only weapons to apply it) is effectively useless because next to nothing is actually affected by death.

The golden order greatsword is so sad to me. It’s one of the coolest looking weapons in the entire game, it has a really awesome lore story, yet it’s found in the middle of nowhere with little to no context, and it is just… decent. Still would honestly use it on a strength faith build for the sake of it looking really cool anyways

What’s sad about the golden order greatsword is that that it was originally a dark moon greatsword given to Radagon by Renala, who reforged it into its current form after leaving her The great moon greatsword is given to the consorts of the queens of the Carian Royal Family. It’s why you get one from Ranni when you complete her quest. You even put a ring on her hand

The leonine misbegotten was called "children of Radagon" in the early development of the game, that's why they have the red hair and probably why it have the sword renala gave Radagon. I think there's a video on KZfaq where a guy recovered the files and talk about a this.

It's really hard to hit people 1v1, but the Bolt of Gransax is so fun to land a fully charged throw in PvP with.

ty for accompanying me on my way to buying a bodega dinner for myself, the walk was cold. you lack of an outro shows individuality and i like it. ty for the good content

Also, grafted blade still has the 5 second endure, which was hot fixed down to 2 seconds on the regular ash, 2 days after it was buffed to 5 seconds. 5 seconds of 2x defenses its crazy.

I like the sword of night and flame, the flame attack is strong against bosses and the beam attack knocks down and breaks guards. But physically I’d like it to do a little more damage.

My one gripe with the Bolt of Granssax is that it should’ve been a lance instead of a spear.

I would like to see a shield tier list, from the great shields to the medium shields to the party shields. Specifically the great shields. Great video as always. I enjoy your content. Keep up the great work.

Sure I am missing something but what even are these intros.

you didnt mention that the moonlight greatsword's beam attack deals the same amount of poise damage as a normal heavy. Thats what really sets it apart in my eyes, massive damage, good fp cost and it gives you a free stance break on any enemy that doesn't die in 3 or less hits.

I will never be able to unsee the grafted blade greatsword as a metal Christmas tree now. Thanks Rusty.

Dude, I stumbled upon your channel recently, and now I'm a sub, because you are not only concise and informative, but funny as hell. Keep up the good work!

Good job as always and loved the wildpie reference bro

As a newer player, I have almost no clue what most of these really mean (since they all just look cool to me) but they're entertaining as hell to watch.

I’ve been using Dark Moon Greatsword for quite a time and jesus it does actually feel legendary. So much damage, such a great design, visuals, effects, the power of it. I love it and it is truly the best legendary armament

Hey Rusty, I recommend trying Marais a second time. One thing I learned in my journey of using every one of it attacks singularly from Ng +0-+7 is that while the charged skill does more damage, the uncharged version of the skill does a huge amount of damage as well for far less time cost and risk of being hit. The charged is only effective on enemies that give you eternity to hit them such as beginning of Radagon and beginning of Elden Beast and even then having max buffs is really kinda needed. It is definitely better than the Golden order greatsword and honestly, it’s my 2nd best legendary weapon, after DMGS

I can't believe i just found you on KZfaq, man. 😂 I love your delivery! Subscribed for sure!

I use Maria’s executioner sword solely bcs of how badass it is/looks. It helps that the skill is good too

As someone who has a build entirely revolving around the Sword of Night and Flame I must have equal stats, lest I go insane

First video I've seen of yours, and the opening alone was enough to warrant a subscribe.

Haha I loved your opening description of the Ruins Greatsword. God I love that weapon! My favorite of the game so far.

I really really really love that quick reference to WildPie. Their guides helped me with my first post through on the remaster

I love the sword of night and flame. At times, it feels so stupidly powerful. It's versatile, stupid strong at times and honestly has two amazing skills to ever be seen on a weapon. I love it a lot, easily my favorite elden ring weapon based on how fun it is to use.

Love the sword of night and flame, mained it on my first playthrough. Up to about 75% of the way through the game it’s ridiculously OP without having to build into it too heavily.

Best outro I’ve heard yet bro great job 👍👍

Eclipse Shotel's skill has a part 2 that helps a lot with the deathblight build-up. I think ppl go too harsh on it.

Bro, that opening is so well-done and so self-aware! You guys put so much time into this one, I can tell. Well done, dude. Well done. o7 😁

The best outro is no outro at all. It’s actually really refreshing how you make videos while being funny and not cliche at the same time. And the way you break character while editing is also refreshing. You win KZfaq. 10/10

Just wanted to say thank you for making all of these videos, they are informative AND hilarious.

You know that face wrapping thing makes me want to make a Joshua Graham build. Not entirely sure what that would entail, but I know Fire's Deadly Sin needs to factor somewhere.

I wonder why you don’t need the black knife or the godslayers greatsword to get the legendary weapon achievement

I did a marai's only (more or less) run and it was great tbh. The points are 1) you don't always charge the art like the video shows as the uncharged version is also powerful and very quick when combined with roll cancel, 2) the weapon art is not only for damage, but also charges the consecutive buff stacks and empower regular attacks or even spells and 3) the weapon art is a good replacement of repost combined with good stagger ability of gs. The starting animation is also fast so that you can chain it after a lvl 3 damage level gs jump attack on elite mobs. Only downside is the build is not finished until ng+ but regardless it's my second weapon on the list after dmgs.

I have already finished elden ring and i am in Ng+ i had all of these already and knew how they worked so i dont know why i clicked the video, but it was very fun, definitely subscribing, keep up the great work bro!

also for the dark moon greatsword if you use it in melee range charged heavy attacks It is a poise breaking MONSTER

I think an even split with the SoNaF is the most fun way to use it. 50/50 Int/Fth means both options are really good, just not overpowered. The split damage of physical attacks only matters if the enemy has a particularly strong resist to either magic or fire, otherwise the AR is among the best of straight swords. And you don't want more Str or Dex, because their scaling is trash on this weapon. Add a Blue Gold Kite Shield and cast Scholar's Shield on it, and you have one of the coolest sword and shield builds in the game. My build had enough End for Cuckoo Knight Armor, 40 Vigor, and 30ish Mind.

I love this. I laughed pretty hard. Subbed

New to your channel and the starting bit has me immediately hooked

Also, I think Fallingstar Beasts are my favorite design for enemies in video game history, they’re both adorable and menacing at once! not the FG one though, they didn’t need to give it a damn eye….

My man turning his kojima voice acting audition into content... I respect it

Great vid. Funny and useful. The best kind. You have a new sub.

Good episode man. I can tell a lot of work went to it. And you may be onto something with the new outro style. If I here the same kind of stuff at the end I start to clock our but now I wanna see how it ends now as well.

I swear you have some of my favorite Elden ring content. I have vatti zulli and agtjake for lore. Dom's roundtable for walkthroughs and things I missed and dark tark for silliness. But there's Rusty. , Dear Rusty., Leading with the humor and the knowledge both. Double good on ya.

Another video to make the day go by woo!! Also do you think you will ever do a boss rememberance weapon tier list?

Blasphemers blade w/ Black Knife as a swap. It only weights 2.0 and does a massive amount of medium ranged damage on strike, causes bleeding AND takes like 5% of maximum HP away. The combo is so good I find myself trying so many other weapons and keep coming back to that setup.

I've been playing since Demon's Souls, and I've never really taken the plunge into sorcery or any kind of magic before, not even faith. I started off with a versatile axe and spear mix with some bows, and the second I found and used my first Greatsword I've been an unga bunga strength build user. No shame, no shade, no hate on anyone for the builds they use, I was just too attached. First after the armor and sword of Tarkus help propell me through the four kings, and then when Dark Souls 2 brought us Guts' visual design on the same weapon, I just carried a lot of attachment. Well Elden Ring I wanted to build organically; start with nothing, and find the pieces of my build overtime as I travel the world. The first lucky break I had was Carian Straight Sword, and so my road took me down the path of magic, intelligence and strength, and eventually to the Moonlight Greatsword, which I'm happy to say I used for the first time in the entire series. Very worth it, and so wherever it ends up on this list when I watch this video, it remains number one in my heart. EDIT: Ayyyyy

I also find it funny that Golden Order Greatsword is found basic cavern being used by one of the games many copy paste bosses. This thing is basically the Holy equivalent to the Dark Moon Greatsword and it's acquired the same way you'd acquire some random high stat normal weapon.

I used the Darkmoon Greatword in my first playthrough when PVE and PVP were not separated and it had subpar abilities but now its godly I would say. They were smart to buff the weapon tbh.

I love the intro was made as a machinima, well done!

I really like your videos, rusty!

i used Darkmoon Greatsword unironically. I love the design and it's frost affinity, the special attack doesn't use Mana except for charge-up, and deletes HP after a flask of magic. considering it's lower than average speed, i'm surprised to see it #1!

you mentioned lightning not actually being effective against endgame dragons, to be honest that's what it felt like in ds1 too. i remember looking at the lightning effect descriptions and thinking "oh, i should use this against the dragons in Valley of Drakes, bc they're like dragons" only to find that they're actually highly resistant to it.

huh. This is weird. Usually ranking videos feel like a lazy kind of content but this felt very cleverly written and thought out. Great video.

Thought you yoinked the Ending style Ember uses but you made it unique enough 😅 good vid

DMGS is goated. I’m on my third playthrough and cannot fathom using anything else after I first got it. I used strengt weapons first but it felt too monotonous and katanas next but it felt monotonous and cheap. With this I can build for a varied magic build on the offhand and every boss is still fun. Even if some bosses have high magic/frost resistance like Mogh, I don’t feel like changing anything. It’s just the goat

The tutorial and music to get the Dark moon Greatsword is a such a cool reference that only people that havent completed dark souls 1 using guides will get

8:57 love that you're literally dying trying to make this weapon work; both in narration and in your footage. Bravo sir, Bravo

your funny man amazing commentary sub earned

important missed fact about the marais executioner sword: enemies look really funny getting hit by that special

I think you have the grafted great sword pretty far down for what it can do for you. With godrick's great rune and this thing's weapon art, that's a plus 10 to every stat. That makes Liurnia and caelid MUUUUCH smoother. And yes, you'll probably replace it for the ruin great sword or the giant crusher hammer in late game, but that makes it fit nicely into a playthrough. By the time this thing falls off you are finally starting to be able to even USE the optimal weapons for strength builds. that isn't a negative by any means. In fact, There isn't a single weapon out there that's going to beat it in damage in early game anyway. Also, just putting this out there, if a weapon has a one shot build attached to it that's not a bad weapon. The "set-up" for those builds is just a couple talismans and a quick trip to renalla for stat adjustments.

The intro to this was way too good man love it

The coded sword should be a legendary armament. It looks super badass. I used it in my Elden lord play-through, it’s not necessarily good, but it is beautiful, and it’s ash of war “unblockable blade”, is crazy. I was taking a decent chunk out of the Elden beasts heath bar, doing straight holy damage. Lightsabers are fun.

Fully agree with this list. Including the praise for the Sword of Night and Flame that way too many people shit on for what it is since if used correctly it’s the best. Not to mention regardless of where you stand on the Darkmoon Greatsword, personally I love it, if you’re including acquisition in the the rank then it’s an easy first. That Eclipse Shotel thing is so forgettable that I legitimately think that in the future when I’ve long since stopped playing and decide to reminisce on my time with this game I will not remember that weapon which is downright unacceptable for something considered legendary in a game that doesn’t flood you with “legendaries” and that’s not right.

you have no business making intros this freaking good mann...

Love your commentary.

If you think the grafted blade greatsword is the only thing GRRM contributed, then I gotta say that I think you forgot about the noncon brother incest- THAT is GRRM right there. Marika and Radagon also feels characteristic of his love for twincest, but I get the feeling that got vetoed and made into selfcest because you can't miss that lorebit compared to Mohg and Miquella

My hope is that Miyazaki planned Holy dmg to perform the way it does throughout the game so that it can shine throughout the DLC

The honesty in this video made me sub

That was such an awesome intro!

Speaking as someone who mains Night and Flame: The only reason I'm split between Faith and Int. is because I can't make up my mind on what I want to do. Sometimes I wanna feel like Gandalf and use a glowy stick to throw boulders the size of my body; other times I'm just like IT'S WIZARD TIME MF FIREBALL

Photons do have a weight, despite being miniscule. They are also tiny, so making a giant sword made out of pure photons could believeably be heavy considering how many photons you would need to make a sword of that size. It's like how 5 tons of feathers weighs the same as 5 tons of iron.

Best review of all I've seen. I totally agree. I myself use The Ruins GS at new game plus 4 now. With 99 str it's absolutely a monster. With high vigor and endurance I'm breezing thru the game.

Is it bad I want some Machinema of Elden Ring now like they did with Red Vs Blue? You did some amazing work with that intro, man. On the list, great job :D

14:00 Love the dumbshits guide reference here

Honestly i think the grafted sword also has a cool setup to obtain, taking in consideration the surroundings lore and the tragic questline of the npcs involved. Tho they’re not mandatory to obtain it i guess. Better than just be found randomly in the floor

Dont need to yoink, you only need to flip at the inverted tower

Late to the party here- but love your channel. Your commentary is hilarious. Good stuff.

8:23 OKAY! I'll try to explain. Radagon is a very very divorced dad. He was trying to connect with Miquella. Sharing spells and getting into the golden order together. He had a sword that still brought up bad memories of his ex but was what he had made into the definitive Golden Order weapon. So he gave it to his son Miquella. Miquella being too small to actually wield it didn't have much use for it but appreciated the gift from his dad. As he became disenfranchised about the Golden Order's inability to find any kind of cure or fix for his brother's condition, he decided to leave Leyndell and found his own order. Along the way, on the trek to the future location of the Haligtree, he decided to discard the weapon. A symbol of his father's shitty attempt at being a dad and shitty order that couldn't help his brother and only offered him a weapon too big to wield and utterly pointless to him. So he chucked into a cave along the way in the Consecrated Snowfield. The Misbegotten who found it was just one of the Misbegotten on their way to the Haligtree. The Leonine Misbegotten are greatsword snobs and this one couldn't pass up the sword and guards it for all the value he sees in it. There. The explanation. Coherent and consistent with established item descriptions and encounters and the world, overall.

I just watched this video and really enjoyed it, I went to go subscribe only to realize I used to watch your hollow knight videos like 3 years ago lmao.

First video of yours I've watched and your rants give off a great Rick Sanchez vibe

Yes! Thank you for the Sword of Night and Flame as three! My favorite weapon and my best play style of “whatever works” being validated is an awesome feeling

Dude, Rusty, I really dig your presentation! You’re entertaining, informative and goddamn funny as fuck! Please keep it up, I’m gonna dive through your old videos

Very cute video, liked the "cut screens." I need me that Dark Moon sword.

Finding this content a year later. Great stuff.

I subbed after that outro, I love KZfaqrs that don't take things seriously to an extent such as others, video sounds like its made by one of the boys rather than a nerd.