Just do 99 Str, 99 Faith, 99 Intel duh

that poor troll has a mushroom head coming to kill him after least six times a day

It's not so hard scott, it's a kevin weapon. These people don't stop leveling so the fucked up stats don't matter

Time for "Let me Fingr you" build. This in the main-hand with ringed finger in the off-hand.

The Godfrey Icon and Shard of Alexander not increasing the damage is not related to the weapon itself. It's applies to ALL Holy damage sources but only in PVP, and it's a bug that's been in the game since release AFAIK. Anything that doesn't straight up increase damage in doesn't work. So Alexander Shard, Godfrey Icon, Goldmask mask, any seal buffs etc.- none of them work in PVP. But things like Holy Tear and mushroom crown do.

The heavy attack is actually different from the alt heavy from other great clubs. It's a alt of a alt.

To truly grasp the power of outer gods, you must reach 99 all stats. No really, finger stuff scales with more than two stats, and frenzy stuff scales with up to four.

"Me at max level" Interesting now i know how to build for a weapon i dont have yet

finally someone else gets it. Gotten so many weird glances for using this thing religiously. Fun fact; cannon of haima fully charged at max vdex will consistently catch people who panic roll out of AoW’s launch, should they survive

Oh, cool, waves of piss but melee and an actual oneshot

Try finger, but hole

4:52 that exile guard really thought he got the drop on you

kid named finger:

I think the *best* way to build this weapons is to use a better weapon.

A rare "Job Interview Scott" has appeared!

FromSoft trying to make good int/faith weapons in Elden Ring is physically painful.

Hey Scott I know it is unrelated to the video topic, but what is your opinion on the nail spells? Why are they bad? Short range and delayed hit? Are they useable in PvP?

Hey Scott, I don't think anyone in your streamchat ever told you before, but there is also a new Armor set called the Rakshasa Armor that also boosts damage universally by 2% per piece - you could put on 3 pieces of it with the Mushroom Crown to buff your damage even more! :)

It's for faith and int hybrid builds. The Staff From Beyond (the other weapon you get from The Mother of Fingers) also lets you cast sorceries and incantations.

my one hope for the DLC was for the game to get new whetstones for faith/int scaling, madness, sleep, and or/rot From Software gives us the finger.....

This is a great weapon for invading outside of the rykard boss site of grace

I was using the Shard of Alexander the whole time I was using this... thank you for testing things that I'm too lazy to!

I love using this thing in invasions. It's so goofy

That R2 is why I love it so much.

To poison yourself i would like to add that the new poison perfume bottle AoW can be used to poison yourself too (dunno if is a bug or not tho)

Try the axe talisman, it might be coded so that the aoe is an actual physical atk in that case the axe talisman would increase the damage

I build it like a bonk with some bonus scaling and then mostly smack things with it (strength build mainly with a little bit of INT didn't even realize the ash of war scaled with faith)

Interesting, though doesn't howl/poison proc/sword of light/sacred scorpion combo let other better, easier to use weapons to still one shot? Damage comparison with wave of gold and other overbuffed holy stuff would've been nice.

What about an int/faith equally distributed build with the minimum in str just for using the AoW? 🤔🤔

Did the incantation (canvas?) talismans not increase the Ashe of war damage?

So basically, 54 Strength, 20 Intelligence, 60 Vigor, as much Endurance as you need for your Armor, any offhand weapon you might wish to use, and your Talismans. Since you need to invest a few points into Faith anyway, you may as well go for either 15 to get Flame Grant Me Strength (cheaper than Exalted Flesh, with a small stamina regeneration bonus) and some health regeneration in the form of Bestial Vitality, or splurge to 25 to additionally get Golden Vow and a more pungent source of health regeneration in the form of Blessing's Boon. Note: Shard of Alexander only works for the weapon portion of the Ash of War, not the wave, and Godfrey Icon doesn't work at all. The best Physick setup is probably to just go with Opaline Hardtear for universal negation and the Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear for boosting the wave on the Ash of War (which is the most damaging part of the most damaging attack of the weapon.) If you doing PvP, you could swap this for the Crimson Bubbletear and leave everything else the same, at least for an Invasion build which is where this weapon would shine the most, having massive AoE attacks helps in a 3v1 fight.

Has anyone tried the incantation or sorcery boosting talismans with it? Realistically, shard of alexander not affecting the shockwave is probably a bug, but maybe it counts as a spell for some reason? It wouldn't hurt to test, I think.

When I played around with this weapon on my first playthrough I did notice that the light wave does not get boosted by Shard of Alexander. Do you know why? Is that a consistent behaviour for similar ashes of war? I thought it was a bug when I tested it

waltuh

With the dlc out will the meta level change? I feel like at least invasion level would increase cause people would level up more to go through it, but others would def know better

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

I am using this thing as a caster with Carian Slicer and Piercer. Not too shabby.

Is the damage higher then the sacred relic sword? The two seem oddly similar

It’s funny that the boss with the most broken scuffed AI also has a scuffed weapon

Maybe decent in PvP with something like a dagger offhand? Could see the weapon art blowing up aggressive gankers

Genuine question: how much difference did you see betweeb 14 faith and the 52 faith you have on this build? I did some testing right after the latest patch and i swear the difference between 14 and 80 faith added less than 200 damage to the shockwave itself.

Did he mention the two handing talisman :)

Seeing everyone stumble over the pronunciation for kowtow gives me a chuckle, (its cow- tau)

Why are these dlc weapons so weird. Arcane/faith/str weapon that has split magic damage and the aow does holy. Arcane str weapon that does physical but aow does lightning damage. Faith/int weapons that cause madness. Bunch of other weapons that have random faith or intelligence requirements and scalings

I read this as "Glazing Finger"..

My favorite dlc weapon

Flesh dumpling to poison is solid too

More like glazing finger.

Aren’t sword of light and howl of shabriri both body buffs? Doesn’t that mean the second will cancel the first?

wouldn't howl and sword of light cancel each other out as body buffs?

Hey I’ve got a noob question, when people say “X scales poorly with X stat” what specifically are you looking at to determine that? I welcome anyone’s input

Lol, you need 20 int to be able to figure out what to do with the weapon. XD

bro idc if its supposed to have a theme where it looks weird and otherworldly, there are other ways to execute that without making the weapon needlessly complicated to build around

This things weapon art should scale of int. It should literally be a str int weapon for the absolute crap ton of int you need for it

But the faith influence is very little in the ash of war

Glazing finger but hole

Going 50 faith for this weapon is absolutely ludicrous. It has E scaling in faith. The ash of war damage is affected mainly by strength due to its higher scaling. Just because it’s a holy damage ash of war doesn’t mean you pump faith. Always consider scaling

Just for the sake of science The dmg you did with and without Shard of Alex were different. Both initial hits and AoW follow up did more dmg with Shard Unless I'm confused as to which part is the AoW

I bet it’s not a bug, like you said, it already one shots, they aren’t dumb, they are trying to negate that from being easy without doing all the buffs you are

With the many bugs in this game we will end up like the "shield poke situation, using right hand weapon block while attacking behind shield" in DS3. Just too many big bugs on the system side and noone ever talks about them. Like that one guy on replies mentioning holy ashes of war and spells dont get buffed by godfrey icon, alex shard and all the seals that buff them only in pvp.

Didn’t they “fix” this weapon by adding faith scaling . . . And it turned out to be E? 💀

more like glazing finger am i right heheheh

scotty, dont wanna be rude, but you re very heavy on your build :D :)... anyway, have a nice day :D

3:52 Those only affect the DLC and you're not in the DLC. 🤔

Fort, Night

Yeah, it’s a shit weapon.

most stuff is borderline weak. in base game its op. miazaki needs to patch the whole game :'D xd

Ugliest weapon I've ever seen.

You can tell that Scott is from the DBD community, because every video is saying something is broken, but the souls community can't care less about it and just thinks these things are fun. DBD mains in shambles when everything isn't weak.

Who does all this stuff? Who stacks so many buffs from a practical standpoint? Most have low uptime so you're refreshing more than you're playing. Pvp makes sense though since this is L2 one shot the game. How many years into the franchise are we? How many games now and they can't get like any buffs and new weapons right? Do QA departments even exist? This is DLC, they had comparatively much less to do and they didn't check something as important as a weapon worked with basic talismans? Like, just play your game and you find this stuff. They are actively depending on the players to do the work for them. That's modern game dev in a nutshell though.

Ok bro this is too much. You fine tune your build for hours so you can do 6% more damage when up against a gank squad in farum azula. This is a game where you lose to a team of wizards or a sudden blender, or you win because the host panic rolls or falls of a cliff. You’re not building a rocket here. This is not serious

Stop acting like you don't know this game is a broken beta lmao of course NOTHING functions as intended. Yall bought half a game 2 years early and have been beta testing it. Miyazaki just sold yall the other half of his cut content and it's still Janked 🤡. Thought you had some pride enough to call that out.