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“ i grew up obsessed with dinosaurs like all the boys in my generation” damn i have never felt more unity in my life

The Frenzy- and Sleep-Dragon are gonna be a Duo-Fight.

I just want a refight boss mechanic, Edit, for clarification I mean a ability to chose bosses and refight them so shush about how there are duplicates, also a boss rush would also be fun. If You want to see what I think would work look at Sekiro or hollow knight god home dlc.second Edit, I mean you just get runes and no remembrances and only 10-20% of the runes you gets for the boss normally.

I want two things. I want to be able to summon the giant eye laser skeletons that the Tibia Mariners do, and I want the Frenzied Flame head from the ending cutscene as a wearable helmet.

The Idea of Turning our own Spirit Summon against us is such a From Software move and is actually deviously brilliant.

I love how, when describing the Shadows of Yharnam fight, he didn't refer to the snakes they summon as snakes, he went as hyperspecific as possible and described them as "giant copperheads".

If they don't buff bow scaling in the DLC, I'm gonna forcibly remove Miyazaki's foot fetish with a grapefruit spoon.

All I want in this dlc is a rykard fight, like pre eiglay rykard. He has such a fantastic design that we see in paintings and I would LOVE to see how he fought prior to feeding himself to a snake.

As for the sleep dragon, i'd imagine something both dream-ish, and nightmare-ish : somethin' that looks beautifull and fairy, then when it open his mouth to devore you, turns into a gapping dragon.

My idea for a new dragon is a Blood Dragon, but grotesque and horrifying like the blood crows and creatures at Moghwyns Palace

I would love a third unique Omen boss. Like one Omen that is neither a mindless beast nor a demigod because so far it seems all omen are one or the other and I would like to see an omen warrior that is basically a prime example of what an omen is capable of being. Plus I just love the omen and want to see more of them.

Didn’t a cave in Altus lead to one of the Divine Towers or something? And the one that lead to the Dragon communion island in the early game. I love those cave/dungeon that lead to someplace different. It feels like less a waste of time

If we're getting a miquella boss the I hope fromsoft will give us the option to combine both the hand of Malenia and miquella's weapon just like they did with lorian and lothric

They should add a completely new weapon type - for example "ringblades", like the Crystalians use. They could have a moveset with a lot of wide swings and spinning around. Weapon arts could be things like rolling them on the ground or throwing em like a boomerang. Also - lots of people want trick weapons so it gave me an idea. A paired set of daggers or maybe curved swords, gold and silver. The weapon art is snapping them together to make a sword like the one D carries around, which you can then combo.

if the DLC decides to focus heavily on the mind control theme then i could see a tie in with madness as the bewitching branch may have been more invented than created requiring Miquela to research mind altering powers such as madness enemies and items witch would explain where the madness dragon went.

I haven’t even seen this and I agree with this message

I second that "dungeons as passages" thing. It was something I wished was more prevalent through the game because starting with the beachside cave going to the dragon church island was setting my expectations pretty high when maybe 5 or 6 dungeons in the game ever do something like that. As much as I love Elden Ring, I won't deny that there are a good amount of "filler" dungeons that don't really feel like they serve a purpose other than to put something in an otherwise empty area.

Miyazaki: "Okay, hear me out. Death blight poison swamp..."

The More Niche things i want for shadows of the erdtree is either a crafting overhaul that adds limited resources like arteria leafs and Trinas lily to be sold infinitely at a shop Or Adding more meat to some magic catergories ( Claymen sorcerid only have 2 spells , vyke's war spear is the only madness Weapon in the game apart from the shield , Etc just overall more variety)

I’d personally like endings where we can side with Mogh and Rykard or at least with the formless mother and GDS.

If Miquella can control spirits it's also possible he'll summon Malenia's mentor, the blind swordsman who supposedly sealed the outer god of scarlet rot. Miquella's arena might even have a massive bell hanging overhead that ding dongs to summon multiple other spirits against you, assuming he'll be an enemy.

are you MAD?!?! Why would they make a Frenzy dragon?!?!? That’s just INSANE!!!!!

My only prediction is that there will be bosses that are weak (or at least neutral) to holy damage. Every major boss being strong to it in the base game is...oof.

Someone said that miquella's probably gonna be like ranni and I think that'd be better than him being a boss

We need more frenzied love so I can finally make a viable frenzied build

Honestly I was hoping for a throwing knife talisman, giving them some extra damage/range so I can do a full playthrough with them without wanting to commit die. adding more types of Throwing knives would also be great.

I just want a fifth talisman pouch, the empty space drives me insane (like the insanity dragon)

I hope we find a single opening room when you walk into the middle 4 revenants in each corner come out of nowhere and you're trapped in

Shadow wizard money gang

I'm really excited at how the DLC might end up practically improving the base game. I expect there to be multiple entry points into it which can make the last 1/3 of the game more fun to navigate having more options for areas to explore and stuff to do. Also imagine the amount of tools they'll be adding that can make experiencing base game encounters engaging in a new way.

Dragons are the most anticlimatic fights in elden ring. As long as you are on horseback if you get hit it's from your own bad positioning or learning the move set since every attack is hugely choreographed to the point the hardest part is being patient enough to no hit since I love starting new characters and killing Agheel with the flail to get a head start on runes. At least we aren't slashing at an ancient dragon's toe jam...

Near the top of my DLC wishlist is more colors of torches. Rot torch, Bloodflame torch, Madness torch, Blackflame torch, etc

I want a blood flame dragon who's main weakness is ice, a frenzied dragon that you had in the video, and a black flame dragon with one or two things that come with its remembrance: Black Flame Breath or some new weapon that uses black flame. New armor sets would be cool too. Maybe a few new talismans, and most importantly, 2 new endings for the game, cuz... I'm over becoming elden lord. Lol

Idea: Wormface Incantation Similar startup animation for Dragon Communion spells and copies theordix magma but its a wormface. Attack would just be the worms spew attack from them

I’d want to see a dragon transformation like in previous souls games

That bit at the end was what I was expecting on my first playthrough. I'd found the Siofra river well before entering any catacombs and turned around at the time and unlocking the underground map convinced me that at least SOME of the catacombs would be a vast interconnected secondary world, creating shortcuts to the overworld and housing all kinds of unique enemies. Oof, was I disappointed.

I'm just hoping for an FP version of the blessed dew talisman

Another angle the DLC could explore is the Gloam Eyed Queen; the Propreitress of Death. It could be argued that the title of the DLC suggests that there's a dark *secret* to the age of the Erdtree (Similar to how the Old Hunters DLC unveiled the eldritch secrets of the Healing Church). From my understanding of the lore, Marika's rival was the Gloam Eyed Queen; Life vs. Death. Whereas Marika represents multiple facets of brandishing life, The Gloam Eyed Queen might represent the multiple facets of brandishing death. Seeing as how the Godskin cult has ties to the God Devouring Serpent, Faram Azula (a home for deathblight and dragons; a possible connection to the creation of death lightning?), and the cursemark; it could perhaps be theorized that the Gloam Eyed Queen sought out various ways to deliver death to the gods. So we could potentially see: - The Gloam Eyed Queen having a family tree herself, rivaling Marika's (GRRM loves family trees). - Stronger blackflame since the GEQ's blackflame was strong enough to slay gods. - More blackflame spells, death lightning spells, and deathblight sorcery. - More ghostflame stuff if the GEQ has ties to Deathbirds.

i think honestly the tree in the teaser image is the haligtree rather than the erdtree. the shape of the tree in the image matches with the image on the map, it's also (probably) miquella in the image, and the shadow of the erdtree, could be a refrence to the tree itself due to the fact that its below the erdtree in its shadow, if a giant glowing nightlight of a tree could have such a thing

My personal most-wanted change for the DLC is to make the Gravel Stone Seal scale with Dex. Essentially splitting lightning damage into 2 pieces, with Faith being for spells and Dex being for weapons, has never made much sense to me and is one of my least favorite changes from DS3 to Elden Ring. If the seal was given at least an A in Incant Scaling, it would do a lot to make Lightning builds more complete.

I think ER already had its Blackreach moment in the base game in the form of Siofra/Nokron. At least the awe I experienced upon riding down the elevator and discovering these locations in felt very similar. Although I can definitely get behind the idea of hiding more large regions behind some challenging catacombs/caves.

Double boss fights are a cool idea, but they need to do more than just stick two bosses together. Fights like Ornstein and Smaugh (1 fast, 1 slow) and the Demon Princes (they tag team for both melee and ranged) work because they have complimentary movesets and patterns. The Godskins Duo doesn't because they're both fast melee focused enemies.

My predictions for Elden Ring DLC, based on my experiences in the base game, and my understanding of how From Software designs things: (1) Deathblight Swamp (with horse) (2) Deathblight Swamp (without horse) (3) Scarlet Rotbear (all attacks - including the roar - inflict rot now) (4) Godskin Trio (a fourth one shows up when you think you've won) (5) Miquella boss fight (with a Spirit Ash Malenia he summons during the cutscene) (6) Thriving Tree Spirit (the most common boss in the base game, but healthier and harder hitting) (7) Blood Lobsters (the sniper rounds inflict bleed) (8) Ghostflame Dragon (it's Adula again, but palette-swapped instead of copy & paste) (9) Completely Invisible Hero's Grave (the chariots are also there, and also invisible)

I'd love for them to finally add the Erdtree codex prayer book, it could have incant variants of things like carian slicer and piercer, and gavel of haima. Like the phantom weapons that morgott uses. If fromsoft doesn't add it themselves imma figure out how to mod this game

It could just be me but given how almost every demigod we fight and kill leaves a corpse behind and how much Elden Ring seems to be implimenting a lot of good mechanics that were present in DSII, I am half expecting to revisit bosses in their prime version via their dreams we enter from their corpse much like the Giants in DSII except given how dreams and death are tied together between all the lore it could be to take something from them to make Miquella's own erdtree grow. We already know that its possible to enter dreams due to Fia's questline and the very direct way it says "enter the deathbed DREAM" despite the fact she says she's very much dead, and what do we find? Lichdragon fortissax's spirit seemingly fighting off the deathblight in a trippy afterlife area of what is supposed to be Godwyn's soul but since it was killed and only the deathblight remains thats what we fight instead of Godwyn's spirit.

3:58 It is to buff perfumes... NOW PAY MY MORGAGE

since sleep items(outside of the torch) seem to use either Int or Arc i think sleep and charm magic could be for Int/Arc builds since that'd give those setups something other than the two bubble spells and would flesh out a new build archetype

An idea I had that I think would make a really interesting dlc is if the character goes back in time, to before the shattering, and gets to fight all the bosses in their prime, as well as some that may have died before the time in which Elden Ring is set.

I've been hoping for Sleep and Haligtree(bewitching) incantations since release. 😍

A thing that I know others have mentioned before would be a way to “revisit” bosses. If I remember right right there was a cut npc who would have you collect a-thing(tm) from sleeping enemies. Maybe something like you’re entering the dream of defeated bosses, and maybe these versions are buffed up with new move sets (think radahn at his peak)

6:42 My dude. THANK YOU. I feel like this is one of the most overlooked elements of Miquella's arsenal. As "beloved" as he is, items associated with him are items of *domination magic* that suggests he compels people's love. Not earns it. Everything in the game we can see suggests that Miquella is based on Griffith from Berserk. If this is the case, we will undoubtedly come to find in the DLC that the eternal man-child is a pure psychopath with an incredible, maybe even truly beautiful vision of the Lands Between that he is willing to do **ANYTHING** to obtain. Where as every other power in the Shattering played their ambitions very honestly, Ranni and Miquella have extraordinary and disturbing undertones that have always made me deeply distrustful of their characters. I still think Ranni's ending is the true bad ending due to the number of *horrible* things it subtly implies and immediately compels you to *not think about.* You get that same feeling boss?

Anyone else hoping for a fight with the Twin Bird, Mother of Deathbirds?

idk about frenzy dragon but it's odd there are no bosses that inflict frenzy in the base game. It would be cool if they add that ancient god mentioned in the description of the fingerprient shield as a boss and have him behave absolutely hysterical like the Orphan of Kos and inflict frenzy.

"I wanna find blackreach in one of these things" was so real

I want to see a crab that inflicts sleep on big overhead hits. It'd be funny to just get knocked out by a crab randomly

I really want an exultation talisman for frostbite, since theres so much for frostbite

One thing I'd like to see alongside the very likely expansions of damaging Holy spells, lightning, and Death sorcery is the return of Miranda's Prayer. Such a neat item that just got cut out when it could have really helped with expanding damaging options for holy builds. And also just more lightning spells that don't take an age to cast. I could never get them down and lightning just feels wonk: not just because of how lightning weapons scale, but with how the spells are either crazy broken or nearly useless with little in between.

About Golden Lightning : the description of Gravel Stone Seal states "This seal, and lightning itself, are both imbued with gold." Golden lightning isn't restricted to Godwyn, it's just the regular yellow lightning.

'Air conditioner' honestly really got me, good job, top humour

A frenzy dragon is cool and all but what about a black flame dragon

I want to see more elemental fusions or maybe new element types entirely, like ice lightning that we have almost NOTHING of 1 sword and 1 incant

I think Golden Lightning Fortification is an unfortunate case of ambiguous adjective attribution. The Lightning Fortification is Golden, it is not that the Fortification is against specifically Golden Lightning.

Ok but a “Godskin Archbishop” sounds sick as hell.

If they wanted to update deathblight to be uh. at all functional in pve, i could see it functioning like an extreme resistance decrease, putting them at death's door, so to speak, without just being frostbite 2

Something I was thinking while watching this video, what if we enter Miquella’s dream world through his hand in Mohg’s palace and we have to save Miquella from the blood that Mohg was infecting him with? I think that would be pretty cool. And we have to help “pure” Miquella fight off his “infected” self.

I actually have an idea for something called the Elemental Arms Talismans. Here's how it works: Say you got the Fire Arms Talisman equipped, and you apply fire grease to your heavy Zweihander. This activates the Talisman, giving you an exultation-style buff of overall damage increase for however long the grease lasts. And this doesn't just work for Greases. Any AoW that gives your weapon a temporary elemental buff like Flaming Strike, Lightning Blade, Chilling Mist, and Sacred Blade also activate these Arms Talismans. But it's mostly there to incentivize more players to craft greases like Dragonwound and Holy. Seriously, outside of meme and challenge runs, too many people sleep on the usefulness of the crafting system.

I'm kind of holding judgment of what the dlc could be just because Fromsoft doesn't typically deliver on what most player believe it will be. But all your ideas sound pretty good.

Me personally, I’d like a Bloodflame Dragon that the Knights of Blood could have, sorta like how Caria had giants, regular soldiers, and a dragon that had a sword in its mouth. And also instead of a stomp move, it could have a spin-kick move that left claw marks in the air that would then explode, sorta like the bloodflame talons incantation. Maybe even instead of a breath attack, he could have an upscaled version of the Blood Crow blood cough. I’d also like the Idea of a “friendly dragon” that could take us to another part of the dlc, like the Shiro Bird from Jedi Fallen Order; maybe pre death blight Fortisax? Idk I’m probably wrong, but this is stuff I’d like in the dlc

I hope malenia comes back in the dlc, i feel as if she's too integral to the story to be dead in one fight

I just wanna be able to tell Malenia where Miquella is. I dont know how it'd work, but I just want the option to tell her

4:59 Some ideas for talisman variants. A "Flagellent" tailsmen. Less HP = More Damage, and DR. Debuffs give you an Upside, and their traditional downside, Madness might increase your melee damage and Stamina regen, Sleep could regen FP (slowly). Could be collected by some sickos who constantly last themselves to stave off sleep, fearing that if they fall asleep, they will never wake up.

Going further into the uses for Bewitching Branch, I would LOVED if you could brainwash the grayback wolves in places where you could summon Latenna. So instead of attacking each other (besides earlier patches), they'd y'know.... work together instead and make for the most awesome OP spirit ash. In fact, I would love for this concept to open up other Spirit Ash combinations with certain enemies since you'd be surprised how many of them have mounting animations implemented that were never used.

I can’t wait for the sleep and deathblight swamps!

that was the smoothest sponsor transition i have ever seen

I love watching your videos you make my days 10x better. I have about 1k hours in Elden Ring and still don’t tire of your videos. We share the same two brain cells fighting for third place when it comes to Elden Ring. Keep up the great content I look forward to it! 🙌🏽🙏🏽

Remember folks: the reason there's no poison, bleed, madness or sleep dragon is because those breath spells would all have highly increased status build-up from communion seal users.

I’d love a new wet knife that could apply other stats like rot or madness or death blight. Even if they aren’t good in PVE (save rot), I feel like they’re missing given that there are individual weapons which have those effects. Like an outer god’s or unalloyed gold wet knife or something. And given the dlc is likely about Miquella, who with fiddled around with rot to figure out how to get rid of it in his sister, it would make sense to find something like that there.

Wish they'd add some new affinities to the whetblades we already have; affinities for the four status effects that don't have one, affinities for stuff like faith-scaling lightning or arcane-scaling fire or magic, more than one affinity that scales with two stats (int/fth players still starving out there).

I want them to do more with the Crucible, its knights and omens, its such a neat and cool concept that it sucks they don’t do to much regarding lore

11:03 Also, Godwynn is now the lord of Death. Sleep and Death is a TERRIFYING duo combo.

Some great ideas man 😂 I might be a bit disappointed if we don't get a Godwyn and Miquella duo battle.

It would be nice to get a covenant/guild system as well. It would further promote PvP and provide a chance to fight unique minbosses or side-bosses.

RE: Golden Lightning All lightning in Elden Ring is imbued with gold to some extent, which is the reason given by the Golden Order for the Dragon Cult not being really heretical. Even the red lightning of the ancient dragons is considered to be gold tinged with red. In the color scheme of Elden Ring, red is associated with both powerful emotions as well as life itself, and gold is associated with order and divinity.

Idea for talisman: Marika’s compass..it shows you where all nearby site of grace are

It is wild that From Soft can go from the Friede duo boss fight, from the Demon Princes duo boss fight to some of the most horrendous boss fights in with Elden Ring

honestly one of the smoothest segues into an ad read that i've seen in a while.

Just to speculate but both sleep/ deathblight could somewhat be condensed into 2 half's of a status bar first half for sleep and death could drain a small part of health/ stamina as a half proc for death and sleep if you run out of either before the half bars run out or if the enemies apply it it would slowly add up the duration of the half tick damage/ if it gets to full bar you either become a tree or fall asleep.

The dungeon criticism is ridiculous, do you really expect Fromsoftware to make a whole new boss for like 100 different dungeons???

I feel like the wells and rannis quest was the equivalent of blackreach for this game

I want to see new whetstone blades I have 3 in mind 1. Rusty Whetblade: gives Scarlet Rot (Faith) and Deathblight (Faith) affinities 2. Mindscape Whetblade: gives Madness (Faith) and Sleep (Arcane) affinities 3. Fratured Whetblade: allows you to pick 2 stats and make your weapon scale with those stats; the weapon will only do physical damage and cannot be buffed

What I want: 1) Miquella storyline quest and ending - eclipse related 2) Miquella and Melania's Shadows boss fights 3) Ability to refight bosses in the coliseum 4) Would love to fight a Godwyn boss. Pre-death Goldwyn. 5) Add a crap ton of Weapons/Shields/Armors/Talismans/Spells/Incantations

I got excited when I saw frenzied dragon, and the concept of a godskin archbishop sounded amazing….. we get told about how the gloomed eyed queen originally owned the power of destined death and how the god slaying incantations lost their power, it’d be cool to expand on that

The real question is what stat does sleep belong to? The sleepy sword is int, the sleepy torch is faith, and the sleepy grease is arc. Also MOAR FROST LIGHTNING

*Imagen if in the dlc they add an entire area just dedicated to enemies that inflict sleep, bleed, madness and frostbite...*

Ruin strewn precipice. That's it. That's the golden standard for caves and dungeons in my opinion. A transition area, badass singing ladies, actual threats, a good relatively easy boss to claim something the game wants you to have for advancement (elevator to the plateau), open space that's still linear for the progression but gorgeous (coughs in roadside cave...that one was awesome in the layout too)...yeah. I think that area stuck with me for the canyon you cross through, the cave with ambushes, then the ruins and singing harpy to end up with a secret item and a giant octopus fight on a roof and a fun boss with a fun golden summon. Idk, fromsoft can give us this greatness. They"ve shown us they can, many times.

I absolutely adore the entire frenzied flame story and that portion of the game, and frenzy as a spell type is so undersaturated. I would absolutely love some more frenzy lore and frenzy spells, and maybe fighting some frenzy-afflicted or frenzy-centric boss. I just adore frenzy.

I've been checking twitter since January for news on shadow of the erdtree and as soon as I click on this video I check twitter and its trending for the trailer tomorrow. Its fate

I feel like with the the dlc they will start experimenting more with talismans, instead of them being a flat buff to something specific, id like some more more labor for more reward talismans, similiar to the prosthesis or insignia talismans

Expanding on the bewitching branch sounds really cool. Imagine a bewitching arrow/bewitching bolt that you could snipe a mob from afar and completely mess up an ambush party waiting for you or better yet an amazing way to deal with the degenerates that invade, realize they can’t beat you fairly and run away to the nearest tough mobs to hide behind and you watch has the confidence completely drain from their face because that ohmen they ran to is now trying to give them a fresh new clever sized fade