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Finally did a Reaper run. Definitely underrated weapons, and powerstancing them looks absolutely ridiculous. I just wish we had some Int scaling scythes like Friede's.

It'd be cool if there was a scythe that offered death blight build up.

i love scythes. they look sick and they have almost all the damage a greatsword has, plus the shield pierce, and it might just be me, but i feel like they're faster. plus the bleed buildup is nice touch. they're only major con is the fact that theres only 4. i dunno what from was thinking, but hopefully DLC with give reapers some love.

The ash on the Winged Scythe is absurd. Practically nothing can cancel it. You’ll take damage but that attack will follow through.

Holy damage may be less effective late game, but the mana efficiency of Miquella's Ring of Light is so good that you can just spam the weapon art and typically outperform most incantations, even at the Haligtree or Farum Azula. Additionally MRoL pretty much single handedly carried me through my first fight with Placidusax, and the movement delay means NPCs and other input reading enemies flubb the dodge, making it effectively a much faster glintblade.

Why do I feel like the satire title of this series is making fun of rage gaming

Love using these videos to plan out builds since its easy with how much info you give. 👍

On my first playthrough I used a Faith build with the Halo Scythe until Mt Gelmir and then changed to the Blasphemous Blade after Rykard. The combination of the two makes playing the game very forgiving, because you can fight most bosses from range and still do solid damage in close combat while exploring. I'd recommend using the Halo Scythe with a Brass Shield without an Ash. This way you can shoot the halos without constantly changing to two handed. The halos are pure Holy damage, so the damage does not change between one and two handing. Also putting a good amount of points into endurance helps because then you can just spam the halos until your MP runs out. (The halos stagger, so being able to shoot many without interruption can make a difference) It also helps with the equip load so that you can wear good armor, the brass shield and a seal, making it even easier for you. At the endgame I was able to hold both the Blasphemous Blade and the Halo Scythe, so you even get the healing of the Blasphemous Blade on kills with the halos, which is great for increasing the exploration duration. (The Halo Scythe is pretty useless on bosses after the capital) That way you can just carry more FP potions, which makes exploration a bit nicer. I would stop using all scorpion charms and soreseals in the endgame, because of the increase in physical damage. In my experience it's easier if you put more points into faith to make more damage this way than having to put more points into vigor, because you take so much damage. (The Blasphemous Blade (Taker's Flame) also makes ridiculous amount of damage, so you don't really need the extra few percent.) Definitely not a build for someone who wants challenging fights, but it's a really great build if you enjoy the exploration in Souls games more than the combat. In my opinion it's also more fun than playing a mage, because you have the option to go into close combat to change things up. But more importantly you are no glass canon with this build.

This really shows just how few scythe like weapons ER has which I find surprising. Loving the series and looking forward to more, fingers crossed for Axes and Greataxes soon. :D

If you like the Angel's Wings ash of war but don't want to go faith, as he said it's basically Loretta's Slash, which can be applied to either the normal Scythe or the Grave Scythe. From there, enhance it with whatever scaling you want, and have fun!

love the videos, not only the weapon descriptions but also your tips for using each one

I'm currently using an Occult Grave Scythe, with this infusion it has a scaling of E for STR/DEX and a B for Arcane which is why I'm using it. I have an ARC/FAI caster build with more Arcane than Faith just for the weapon's blood loss. I'm running 30 faith and 60 arcane which is almost the same as having 45/45 softcaps for the Dragon Communion Seal. With 60 Arcane, the Blood Loss buildup is 99 and it has an AR above 600.

I've been using the scythe with my int/dex build and I actually like to keep it in one hand. I use spells on distant enemies and when they're close I two hand the scythe to finish them off. I've also got Loretta's slash ash of war on it which has been scaling nicely with the intelligence side of my build.

Thank you for the video! I love these! I’d like to see one on Axes. I don’t see many people playing with an axe and I want to learn more about them

Phantom slash on a reaper is quite fun. I recommend pairing it with frost build up

Straight up used dual grave reapers for my ENTIRE playthrough. Went straight over to get em when started, like lvl one farming it

Winged Scythe is what I used for my first playthrough. You really feel that holy resist on the late game bosses. I was chipping away at Melania and Maliketh almost made me co sider respecing. I persisted though and even though Im using the blade of calling and black knife now Im still getting a lot of mileage out my faith build with a 2k heal from Edtree heal. Faith is really fun to co op with.

Love these videos! Waiting for the next one!!

I'm gonna be honest. The Halo Scythe is one of my favorites. Its Ash of War works really well for my Elementalist build right now as it gives me a Ranged option for my Holy Element, but it also frees up a spell slot for a utility spell like Beastial Constitution. That and it prolly has my favorite Reaper design.

Great! I was waiting for this one! Thanks for these quality videos

thank you for making this! im trying to plan out how to set up a “Gherman” build for ER so thhis was really helpdul :)

Halo scythe is one of my favourites, that AoW is excellent against bigger enemies and is super FP efficient, beating out a ton of the incantations. all round great for my FAI/DEX build (even if faith scaling isn't amazing)

Nice! I’m looking forward to rapiers the most I think, then staves or whatever you want to call the “magic sticks” lol. Great job!

Winged reaper Carried me early game from the holy damage alone pair with the bleed, eventually I felt the endgame drag and focused on light spam for bleed and used the ash of war to escape combat. Eventually this just pushed me to focus on faith spells more which I ended up beating the last pause using godslayer magic

I played and finished with a quality(war cry) grave scythe through the game. Since I was unsure how well it compared with other weapons I was curious and I thank you & your team for making this vid, but with the reach and speed of the moveset, it was comfortable for me.

A other good vidoe dude keep you rock

First playthrough i mainly used the dual faith scythes. The crouching l1 is absolutely insane and my favourite move out of all the weapon types ive tried

Best informational elden ring video I’ve seen. Thanks so much!

I kinda figured those enemys would drop a scythe. Didn't get one to drop yet but now I will keep trying with renewed confidence. Thank you.

1st playthrough I used a winged scythe incantation build and I loved it up until the last few bosses. In early pvp winged scythe was great because it could "jump over" the fire from sword of night and fire

My first play through I picked one of the Grave Scythe up the first time I killed a skeleton wielding one, I was my main weapon all the way the end game, I added Int to my build and put cold on it and melted a lot of bosses up to having a small struggle with MBoM.

I am using Halo +10 I am in late game now so I am transitioning to the Grave. Halo has been my workhorse for a big stretch of my playthrough. I am using Phantom Slash on the Grave, a good AoW. I didn't know about the Cold Affinity so ty I will change to it. TY for this information! Appreciated!

I’m doing a dual wield Scythe/Winged Scythe with a focus on Lightning Incantations along with it. Buffing the Keen Scythe with Electrify Armament is a good way to get a solid coverage of damage types while still keeping physical high.

Ever since the Great Scythe carried my through DS1 I have a love to Reapers in general. Did some play thorughs by now but never got into NG+ which is I'm planning to do with the Grave Scythe dual wielded.

Grave scythe is definitely my favorite. I buff with bloodflame blade and flame grant me strength or golden vow and then go to town. Love it

Great vid.😺

Reapers are so much fun to use. I feel powerful but like I work for it. Also they're crouch light attack is pretty useful catching ppl with the range it has. I love just casually building bleed and frost on my scythes

Love using the scythes, hopefully we get a good DLC one

I guess from the souls game I'm totally obsessed with the claymore! Today I farmed a grave scythe and upgraded it max with blood flame blade and oh boy I found a new favorite weapon!

I LOVE reapers. Thank you for the great vid.

I’ve been using the Cold Grace Scythe for a while now and it’s easily my go-to. Yes, it’s attacks are a bit slow, but the damage is worth it’s pace. The frost/bleed combo with this weapon is unrivaled in my opinion.

I LOVED my reaper/faith playthrough. Though I never got a halo scythe, still. After farming quite a bit. I’d love to play again with it.

my first play-through was a grave scythe with chilling mist + fires deadly sin. my stats were all over the place for this build but the amount of frostbite procs was silly.

I sported the Winged Scythe and a shield for a while on my first play-though and it was very effective.

As an Int build, I've noticed Grave Scythe does more damage even though it's scaling is worse. I like using Bloodhound Step for the short teleport, kind of a nice flavor for a heavy armored mage. However, Spinning Weapon seems nice af too. Lots of hits. Basically 1 shots anything short of mini boss. Also I'm using Cold affinity rather than magic bc of the status effect. Both are Int scale, but Cold is lower, but again has the tradeoff of being able to apply frostbite in 1-3 hits. 50 blood loss and 127 cold seems decent in PVE. PVP probably not so much.

I actually ran a seal and winged scythe for like 80 percent of my first play through. I started out as confessor so ran a mostly faith build with high stamina so I could spam quick attacks and take care of the length to compensate for the slow attack speed

My first playthrough was with the Winged Scythe Faith / Dex build. Sprinkle in a little black flame and you've got a recipe for fun on tha' bun!

My mid-game Confessor is running Winged Scythe + Godslayer seal for Blackflame, the faith scaling works well with both

Picked up the Winged Scythe early on, swapping to it as a one hander to use alongside offensive Incantations, which coincidentally can help mitigate the situational nature of the weapon skill of both it and the Halo Scythe. In particular, I've grown fond of the running heavy attack, as it sweeps really well with good reach and good continued momentum. Making it ideal for poking at enemies which attack relentlessly. The jumping Light attack is also pretty nice as a general use tool. Also of note, the Halo Scythe can be one handed with only 13 strength, which is low enough that if you want to use the Winged Scythe until you get to Caelid and then switch you can use Radagon's Scarseal (which is even found in a nearby evergaol) to make up the difference should you wish to avoid respeccing.

reapers have the closest place in my heart due to my first run being a faith dex winged scythe run with a godslayer seal and eventually mixing it also with pykes spear and frenzied flame spells. now im on another run again farming for the grave scythe to get a winters death build going

I've been running around with a keen Grave Scythe w/blade dance, and black flame seal, running flame grant me strength and a few blood incantations. It's been a super fun time, but I am considering switching to a Scythe for the keen or moving from Keen to Cold.

Great series ! Definitely my favorite videos to watch on Elden Ring right now. This must have taken alottttt of work and I want you to know it shows ! Thank you 🙏

Keep this series coming....

the running dual wield L1 is fantastic in PVE, you can often hit two or three enemies at once if you have some poise

Great and very insightful video man. Time to give Scythes a go! The fact that there are only 4 Scythes in game is concerning. There is no unique flame or frost reapers, and I know it's a little traditional fantasy. But would really like to see Scythes with blade made of ice/crystal (stab the ground for Nito like attack) or style of Flame monks (even spining slash with added flame and small explosion at the end could be nice). Also... If there is unsheathe for katanas. Why there is no ash like L2 poke of Church Pick for Reapers? Why? It was such a great move in Bloodborne T_T

I was doing a faith/dex build because the only thin I loved more than the claws being dual wielded, was the dragon spells. Then I found a Scythe, and realized I have enough faith for the Winged Scythe too. I think the only thing more fun than dual claws would be Power Stancing Reapers.Had to check the internet, and found this video. Nice to see I'm not alone in thinking it would be cool.Just need one more level in strength, then I'm going for it!

I frequently use a shield and reaper, with incantations. It may not be perfect but it's fun

I beat the game running Winged Scythe (up close, lots of bosses) and Halo Scythe (range, dodgy enemies). So much utility and tons of fun

wish developers showed some love to greataxes and scythes in future

Thanks for the help I’m trying to do like a build that’s similar to that one anime I watched kinda hard to replicate but whatever

I wanna point out that in most cases, a weapon with pure physical damage that has slightly less attack rating than a weapon with split damage will deal more total damage overall. Because it will go through only one instance of defense/resistance unlike the one with split damage that will go through two types of defense/resistance . Not always true, especially if the enemy is weak to the elemental damage in the second weapon; but in most cases raw damage is better.

my first playthrough had the most suffed build using the winged scythe with most of my levels going into int and faith for the golden order seal

I recently did a playthrough where I got lucky and the skeleton wielding one near summonwater dropped the grave scythe first time so I used the grave scythe for the entire game except for 2 fights where I used the rivers of blood and the serpent hunter and I used it using shields for almost the entire run occasionally using a staff to use magic glintblade had a fun time

Grave scythe also boosts your death blight resistance. XD very helpful in a few situations.

Currently dual wielded the winged scythe and halo scythe on a Dex faith build. Also switching between dual coded swords/ ornamental swords

For anyone thinking Round-Table Vyke is too difficult: He doesn't know hos to react to the Winged Scythe weapon art and you can do the whole fight just spamming that weapon art. It also keeps him from healing so that's nice.

Love the Winged Scythe!

I went spellblade with Winged Scythe on my first run in ER. Very natural Faith synergy there. By endgame I did drop the scythe for Blasphemous Blade though. So it wasn’t really a spellblade-with-reaper all the way through… but it could have been (although holy damage and bleed are both not that good at the very, very end of the game).

thank you

Holy damage may be resisted by a lot of late-game bosses, but holy is also easily enhanced in a build and, more importantly, if you have a lot of faith then you aren't going to be using melee or an ash of war as your main way to defeat bosses. Almost exclusively for killing mobs on your way to the boss followed by using incantations of the appropriate kind (lightning or fire, mostly) as your main method of attack. Also, keep Height's rewarded Erdsteel Dagger with Golden Vow on it and use Flames, Grant Me Strength! and use electrify armament on your main weapon in order to get in some really beautiful damage depending on the weapon you use. Though really the big bosses themselves should be fought with either a two-handed seal or with a seal and shield. But don't bother equipping the shield until you're outside the boss room unless you have the equip load to handle it as it'd just be dead weight.

Badass content Fextra! As always

I notice you didn't mention one aspect of Reapers that, assuming it's the same as in Dark Souls, is to my knowledge unique to scythes. That's "tipping". Which is to say, intentionally aiming to hit the foes with the blade of the scythe at the tip of your range does slightly more damage than hitting with the handle up close. Intentionally aiming for this does however make you vulnerable to backstep attacks and spacing. I remember testing this myself in DS3 and confirming that scythes do in fact do slightly more damage if you hit with only the blade.

Quick tip for the regular scythe, it’s charged r2 true combos into Loretta’s slash

My favorite thing about the Grave Scythe is that when set to keen and given the Spinning Slash ash of war it does a bunch of helicopter spins that are surprisingly good against enemies and bosses with lower poise. Against Malenia it staggers her easily and repeatedly. I’ve even knocked her out of water fowl a few times by just holding L2. It’s really funny.

The winged scythe is a beast

Finally got a Grave Scythe to drop last night in CFA. Those are certainly hard to find...at least for me.

Currently my main two builds are a bleed build And a holy warrior/angel of death build. For the ladder when I’m not using the coded sword or incantations, I am spamming angels wings with the angel scythe XD would Absolutely love to see more.

And here I sit with my block counter and incarnations reaper build :D not even 1 min into the video and already got the feeling I failed my build xD

Funny as I am about to begin NG+2 with the Winged Scythe and a Seal. I used the Bestial Seal, and then the Giants Seal before getting the Erdtree Seal. Just 1 handing this and throwing incantations around. I just bust through much of the game. I can 2 hand but rarely need to. I Flippin love this weapon.

Halo and Grave are my favorite ones. Halo ash of war spam is kinda fun ngl

I love reaper weapons, they have the range of a greatsword but slash and hit enemies quicker than one. And with enough faith and somber smithing stones they can be absolute beasts in combat. The halo scythe is my go-to weapon in elden, not only does it do great damage and stagger enemies up close, but allows me to pelt them with ring beams from a safe distance when I feel unsafe facing a super tough opponent head on.

Grave Scythe with either Holy or Flame Art affinity goes very hard on a faith build. Just get the minimum requirements and scale your damage entirely with faith up until you hit caps. Pairing this with flame or even black flame incantations works very well thematically.

Winged Scythe's ash carried me through the game on my first play through, until I got to Radagon when I had to change up my build to beat'em. This was also my first Souls game.

Reapers seem to stagger enemies well enough to be timed with its attacks, so the time for the combo attacks isn't really a big deal.

I wished there were more than 4 reapers in the game. Need more variety(including smaller hand scythes)!

I love reapers and necromancers in all game

I just wanted to cosplay Gehrman, but now I think I'm going to make a full build

I plan on making a jester build with it. Which you should try to make a jester build

I used the Winged Scythe and the Godslayer Seal for my midgame (Finger Seal and Uchigatana for early game, now on Fundamentalist's Seal/Prince of Death's Staff and Sword of Night and Flame for my endgame). I loved the reach on it and miss it dearly, frankly--the Sword of Night and Flame is the only weapon that scales on my Int-Faith late-game build but I dislike everything else about it, even the weapon arts. Downsides of the Winged Scythe were its weapon art, which I basically never used--with my faith spellblade build in general I don't want to hit trade, having minimal defense; attempting to deal damage at range and finish things off or clear mobs with the weapon. In retrospect I liked the Winged Scythe a good bit, but while weapons that scale with regular Smithing Stones are frankly more of a hassle to scale, I wish I'd gone with the Grave Scythe, for the slightly better reach but also so that I could use the wide variety of Faith-scaling Ashes of War, which I am quite sure I could have found something better than Angel's Wings.

I played the Game using the Grave-Scythe. I‘m using Reaper-Type Weapons, whenever they are present in Games. A cool Fact about the Reapers is, that their Damage Output is increased, when you hit with the Blade-Part of the Weapon. Reapers are exceptionally good at Rollcatching, because their Arc of the Swings are actually very wide. I often killed People in PvP when they were trying to roll besides me and the Bleed thy cause surely comes in handy. I don‘t mind that the Attacks are a little bit slower, then other Weapons. The Hitstun caused by them is enough to get even one or two more Hits at the Target, mostly finishing them right of, if they are not heavy Armored. Also I want to ask: Does the Grave-Scythe actually increase or decrease your protection from Death Statuseffects? Every time I swap Weapons the Bar does show up, but does disappear very quickly.

Do spears please! I really wanna learn more about my favorite type of weapon !

Is halo sythe for dex builds or faith? or do you have to mix it up?

Going to use a single Grave Scythe with Bloodflame Blade, slap Wild Strikes or Stormcaller on it, use Royal Remains helm and Night Cavalry set for my Death build. High VIG/STR, medium END/FAITH and a little MIND.

i love the halo scythe early game for miquellas rings. late game it does unfortunately always get replaced for me. rip holy damage

Possibly the only question I have about ashes of war is do the unique ones have different modifiers on damage. If not it really makes the case to just use the scythe or great scythe with the ring of light because they are overall better/more versatile than the Halo. That being said, that move is incredible on anything that doesn't highly resist holy making it amazing in 2/3rds of the game when doing ng+s

I play using faith and strength. The only reapers I sort of tried, are halo and winged combo. They are alright, but feel too slow compared to greatswords who do more damage on top of the speed. Miquella's ring is dope for sure.

Another minor note about reapers is that their mounted moveset is kinda OP. Unlike regular swings the mounted animations use the full length of the weapon in these giant one-handed sweeps which are also quite a bit faster than similar sized weapons for no adequate reason.

Which ashes of war did you use while showing off the Grave Scythe?

I've never tried them but I might try to powerstance the grave sythe with suppuku and sword dance + bloodflame in a strength/arcane build. Ill lean into the ash of war and jump attacks.