thanks to the people yesterday who helped me test something with posting this early. it did not work at all looool.

No armour. No magic. No weapons. Just naked man with fists. Easiest build by far.

It’s literally the “real ones win with their favorite Pokémon” thing

My overwhelmingly powerful strategy proves my own skill and moral superiority. Your overwhelmingly powerful strategy is disgusting subhuman behavior. When my build numbers beat your build numbers it's a demonstration of my skill. When your build numbers beat my build numbers the game is bad.

"Like you're a 3rd edition Cleric" hey, I understood that reference

My favorite "powerful" build type is "ignore leveling my Vig up high enough and replay each boss a million times to learn the pattern by heart so I can actually beat it."

Generally, I view the "easiest" build as the one that gives you access to the most tools to exploit. Something like a 30 STR and 50 FTH gives you access to a massive amount of tools. You can use a greatshield, have optimized melee damage since fire and holy infusions soft cap at 50 instead of 80, and have a bunch of stats left over to dump into END.

Very informative, thank you ,other guides just glance over some builds that people think are bad, but you find the strengths in every build.

Part of the reason why I and so many others are still in love with this game, they finally just said fuck it and made everything pretty good. Elden Ring, and more specifically your mage build is the only mage build I've ever done because of the insane amount of spells you can have, the use cases, and the impossibly fun combo spell mechanic thing where you can mix up spells on the fly are just beautiful

Scott if you ever skibidi some gyatt rizz ever again im going to go insane

so what you're saying is just use mimic tear +10 in every fight. ok got you, thanks

What I really don't get is the amount of people "prepping" for SotE. (this only applies to people who beat the game originally 1 or more times) OK. Just take any character you beat the game with, use that. "but I want a different build" You have at least 10 respecs to use throughout the expansion to try out everything. The only way making a new char makes sense is if you want to start SotE in NG+ / next NG cycle. But most people just make a new char for some inexplicable reason. Edit: My argument will not hold any water if after the DLC patch drops, From will add extra content to base game also.

Mate, I wish I could just translate the worlds you spoke in this video to all languages in the world, because you're 100% right. People just have to accept the fact that any play style can be broken if you're know what you're doing and how to build properly.

Scott, I think I’m going crazy. i swear I’ve already seen this video

I used the Fingerprint Shield on Gaius. Got that off my chest...

THE ONE WITH THE BEST L2 BUTTON. L2 RING.

Insane that some people think certain builds break the game when it gives you so many tools to make any build adaptable. First played the game with a dual UGS build and simply by going to 15 Faith you can stack Electrify Armament and Flame, Grant Me Strength on top of your physick and just do stupid damage and stagger. Got even more broken with some further Faith investment and swapping to an Iron Cleaver, basically had no situation it truly struggled with and excelled in situations my INT build struggled with.

For me, it’s what I call the “Dungeon Runner” build. Blasphemous Blade + offhand Sacrificial Axe or Sword of Milos, Takers Cameo, Shard of Alexander, and Ancestral Spirit’s Horn + whatever other gear you want. Basically, you never run out of HP or FP because you can spam Takers Flames and then recover all your HP and FP right back from killing enemies. It’s makes dungeons and the over-world piss easy. The only major weaknesses are bosses and PvP because you can’t utilize the regen as much, but yet again Blasphemous still carries a bit and you can just change up the talismans before fights.

watching this again because i always gotta tune in for the fromsoft scoot videos

as a guy who just finished his first playthrough with only using bleed (bloodhound/morgott weapons, later used Mohgwyn spear) I can confirm that it's OP when it works... but i honest to god struggled more on Radagon and Elden Beast than Malenia.

I remember when it came out everyone called RoB easy mode and Jump Attack Str build which staggers Bosses every 3 hits the GIGACHAD build lol

They all resist holy meanwhile theres me with a holy build crying in the corner

Great video, Scott. Hope to see you posting DLC content soon. 💚

Finally Elden Ring content

Honestly i never really thought any one single archetype or build was superior than the rest there might have been some on launch but now its just an even playing field basically. i know i need to redownload the game and go kill mohg before friday and than planning on swapping my build for the dlc so looking forward to that

*Laughs in Greatshield*

I used spirit ashes when ER came out with zero shame.

ok can you help me with these erdsteel dagger Celebrant's Sickle Varre's Bouquet Harp Bow and no like 50 buffs like jelly shield and Commander's Standard

Night Comet my beloved

I suppose to have a more tangible answer, the “easiest” playstyle is the one easiest to make. Personally I cannot build int because I’ve never built Int, so technically Int is the hardest but dragon communion, magma blade puddle strats is easy for me (I can imagine the greeding for damage in Close battle is very difficult for some) people play game’s differently and that’s okay.

hes actually talking about quality build, with greatsword and giant hunt, thats the best build for the entire game

Hi! I have some thoughts on the subject that I'd like to talk about given I've a fair amount of experience with these games (and I've beaten Malenia with strength, dex, faith, int, and arcane builds for the fun of it (sometimes multiples times, in cases where damage stats have internally diverse builds like speccing into bleed in one save file or into the dragon seal in the next)) but first-- while I agree that all builds are the easiest if you build them in specific ways-- I take issue with: 1:07 "Every single build is broken as long as you are good at making your character" and 2:43 "if you're struggling and you're looking to other builds for complaints because your build is just so weak and theirs is just so strong, I guarantee I can take whatever build you have and make it look just as broken, you just have to know how to actually build your character." My problem with these claims is that they offload the burden of responsibility from Elden Ring's theoretical capacity for introducing a diverse range of viable build crafting options, and makes it the player's fault for not running optimal loadouts. I think it's fair to point to things like "rivers of blood" or "comet azure" and whatever, but on first principles, not every arcane build wants to run bleed against Malenia. Not every magic user wants to run comet azure against Mohg. Not all strength builds are equally strong. Some incantations and combat arts are next to worthless. It also just has to be said, there's no such thing as being "good" or "bad" at building your character in Elden Ring. The first half of build crafting is your stat distribution, and it doesn't take any serious skill or effort to put all your points in your health and respective damage stats (either you know what those stats mean, or you're new and you don't. The quality being tested here is hindsight). The second half to build crafting is your equipment, and not all weapons, talismans, and elixirs are created equal. Some are easier to get to. Some are EARLIER to get to. Some you don't even unlock until you're almost done with the game. Others are trapped behind questlines you might not even know about. Others are stuck behind difficult bosses and others are trapped behind boring ones (shoutout to my +10 dragon seal and the stupid fucking dragons I had to kill). So unless when you say "I can take whatever build you have and make it look just as broken" you mean "I can swap your stats around so enemies die in one extra hit in your stage of the game" or "I'm going to completely change everything about how you like to play Elden RIng because you're playing sub optimally, also you might not even have access to the areas that drop the items you need to make this build work" then I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Granted, I expect most veteran players already have every item in the game (or at least have a guide open to find the ones they've missed) but veterans also aren't the ones who need help making a broken build (and some of them might not even need one to begin with), so on some level I'm not sure who this video is for. Anyway! With that out of the way, my two cents is that builds that lean into dumping points into health are the easiest. Vigor is the easiest build. Certainly not in every situation, but at least in my experience, it is the most brain dead: health is the stat that determines how many hits you can take before "taking damage" becomes something with consequence, i.e. when it crosses 0. I've seen some b u l l s h i t magic builds, but even they at least get heart attacks when they're out of mana and about to die in one hit. I think strength builds are especially guilty here, cause it doesn't matter if you have shit recovery (and unless you're running 13 vigor) you're healing through the next few hits and then hitting them again for all the damage in the world. Also "rivers of blood." I love bleed archetypes, but that was the one that made me go "wow, I fucking hate these weapons, I'm never using them against Malenia again." For me, overpowered weapons have killed more moods than bosses.

My first 100% playthrough was pure intelligence and summons and i loved it. 2nd playthrough was a dual wield jump attacking bleed build. Not nearly as fun.

even RL1 can be easy, all you do is just put on red feather, blue dancer, and use a katana to do some massive damage.

Since this video is kind of on the topic can anyone give me some advice with a tree sentinel cosplay build I've been trying to make? I want to continue using the golden halberd, but that holy damage is brutal against the main bosses. Anyone have any tips to help me eek out a bit more damage without turning it into a dragon ball power up scene?

‘why care what other people use?’ I wish it felt like other people had a shared experience with me like dark souls. I am lonli and i need the human connection :’)

I like to think my magma sorcery is op on ulcerated tree spirits. Endure + gelmir's fury on the triple shitter ulcerated tree spirits is funny.

Watching ginomachino has shown me that all builds are op.

I wish I knew a single thing about making a build 😭I hardly understood a single term in this video but Elden Ring looks really fun. Idk how to start though...

Ignoring investment, I think Faith ARC is the best build. Maybe some STR or DEX just to equip stuff. The variety of tools you get is just insane.

I'd love to see you make dual daggers look broken tbh, I wish they were.

vacuum slicer build?

Default torch build is the only honorable build

I would agree bosses dodge spells if night comet didn't exist

Honestly, I'm actually really curious how you make Int/Faith work - the archetype seems really cool & I love the idea of casting Every Spell, but it just doesn't seem to get rewarded very much.

Yea pretty much everything can be strong, just gotta be good kek. Though bow builds are still pain to play with. Not bad, but pain.

The easiest build is finding out whatever the enemy is weak to and using that (my build)

Every build is easy except for my build, which is a pure Mind build with literally no points put into anything else. Depleting my mana bar takes three hours. Please help.

the easiest playstyle is to have overlevel phantoms carry you threw the game say in the 300+ lvl

Props to you for telling the truth! Would have been easy to join the endless delusional bandwagon of "magic is op!! pure strength is the real elden ring experience!!". For me personally I found strength builds to be the easiest to beat the game with, took a 6month break, came back and first timed malekith with a strength build even though i struggled to beat him with int. I also think its a complement of the games design that bosses are designed such that some will be stronger vs some builds/playstyles and weaker vs others, though i never really felt disadvantaged when playing strength builds. Same with pure faith builds but for different reasons.

Dude said "shamefully had to use mimic tear" in this spoiler free review so clearly Scott does have some thoughts on what's "proper".

Appreciate you stepping away from dbd long enough to deliver this psa

the easiest build is the one that suits your personal play style the best :)

Say it louder, yayuh!

What about quality?? Unless you're around lv 200 it's not worth to use. Of course that's just for infusions, somber weapons are good.

its def bleed or int, but being easier doesn't matter just play the game how you want lol, but i don't think anyone should just be preaching copium, there's definitely a hierarchy of what's strongest, it's just they're all very strong and viable

OBJECTIVELY the strongest build is whichever one makes other people go "damn, that was sick" when they watch your overly compressed Malenia kill in the Elden Ring twitter replies.

The easiest build is the no dodge build i think or radans greatbow ashe of war spam

This video was fact-checked by real Boletarian patriots TRUE

i'll give it a second watch dw scott but that Scott x Zubat reading is still waiting like your homework, so

I play bleed almost exclusively and I still think it is the easiest. 😂

Scott assuming that i "build" my character. My brother in Christ i get 60 vigor and dump stats until i can use cool weapons

W vid Scott

Distortion2's Lv.1 build is pretty easy...

Yeah I want to enjoy Elden Ring but I'm a soulslike noob except for sekiro for some reason. I'm like actually cracked at sekiro but i just can't with the other games.

preach

I still dont know how to play the game

What about dex? Didnt hear you say anything about dex 😂😂

Obviously the easiest build type is the summoner.

Any run is invalid if it’s not level 1 wretch, no site of grace, no damage, no buffs, no armor, no talismans, no weapon, no summons, no jumping, no rolling, no audio, blindfolded. Anything else is just op easy mode.

Really hate the elitism in souls like games but it's totally understandable. Two people can beat the game but have totally different experiences. It kinda sucks when you spend 100 hours to beat the game and watch a friend marathon the bosses and beat it in a fifth of the time just for them to say "tHiS gAmE wAs EaSy!". Like sure you shouldn't care but there's no clear distinction the game gives like hard mode and stuff. I think one day there should be a souls like game that works like Slay the Spire where, for example, if you beat the game for the first time it allows you to do it again, but with a small debuff or limitation. The first playthrough would still be hard, but it allows all kinds of options for players to experiment with to win. Imagine getting into the 20th playthrough though and the games like "now do it with fists lol". Just a better version of NG+ that allows everyone to play at whatever level they want while also letting sweaty players earn their imaginary metal for beating the game the "right way".

Good job on branching out from dbd! Keep it up, you are great

I always have this metaphor in mind when this topic is debated. I know I will get some hate for it but w/e. Imagine, you really like doing marathons, you've been doing marathons for years and this marathon named Elden Ring is definitly your favorite one but also the hardest you ever done. You get to the finish line and you start talking with the other competitors on how hard it was and how much fun it was to overcome the difficulty. But then, another competitor comes to you and you realise he did it on a bike and say "I don't really think it was this hard?" Sure, you can do it exactly like you want to, but let's not pretend we achieved the same thing, we didn't have the same experience and it's frustating to see you hanging out with us. Bike is an analogy for Magic build with summons/ strong spirits ashes, where you just click your magic spell 20 times in a row and never have to learn the bosses moveset or dodge a single time. And for the question "where do you draw the line for which build is normal and which one is cheesy?" I just throw the line at: Did you learn the boss moveset? If not, you probably cheesed it with your build.

Ye but bows are objectively shit

Wrong, my build is the hardest (i forgor to equip weapons)

Ok but the real answer is intelligence. You get Night Comet to ignore all mechanics except spacing, you get Rock Sling to get giga stagger and ignore magic resist, you get Meteorite Staff for an early-mid game +17ish equivalent staff, you get more ways to apply frostbite, you get SUCCUMB, you get Haima/Gavel, and with a little strength and/or dex investment you get access to some of the most fun weapons and AoWs in the game. Int mains stay winning.

Okay, counterargument, Blasphemous Blade. It's good even if the boss has high fire resistance.

The mimic build is the easiest. It's just that simple

tldr: git gud (at making builds)

Facts. Some long critiques ive seen judge the combat with a zwei and think they know what their talking about just because they hitless it. Literally forgetting about regular players

Gigachad take, people love to low other's effort. Who cares if they used summons, it's a singleplayer game man.

Thing is, game doesn't teach you how to build a character. You are limited by what's within reach or what you find. You can only "build" a character with heavy use of fextralife and foreknowledge. and that's not to mention the outright lies and mistranslations the game has in a multitude of item descriptions. Like, the steelwire torch does NOT increase firepower like it says it does. Full Moon Crossbow does not do better with holy bolts like it says. And the problem is how awful and annoying and time consuming it takes to make a proper build (emphasis on proper) that you want. And those "builds" trivialize the game, so can you say you're really playing it when the boss doesn't get to do anything? The alternative since the game is poorly designed, is that YOU don't get to do anything since the bosses are so oppressive with so many terrible mechanics. I also think a game like this shouldn't be required to do math (with obscure stats the game actively hids and doesn't tell you like how much talismans increase potency) or require online guides. Something messed up about that making a community mandatory to make a build and then "have fun".

Hey! "Build" is not only stat distribution, you talk here ONLY about that. Buid is everything, stats, weapons, armour, talismans, spells etc. down to playstyle. Show me how op is melee centered faith build using ONLY Sorcerer's stuff.

This is why I don't care about PvE after beating all the main bosses. To bad PvP is a joke.

def strength

Chainsaw is the answer

Nah man, star fist with endure lets you just ignore everything

List of easiest tools : Magic Shields Bleed Summons

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Magic

shield and magic = ez mode

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well this was a pointless video, learned nothing about what build to choose.

Mage night comet and comet azur and blasfemous blade l2 mash. Game sucks btw

0:45 So I Comet Azure the whole health bar of: Godrick Rennala (endgame set-up) Ancestor Spirit Radahn Magma Wyrm Makar Regal Ancestor Spirit Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella Valiant Gargoyles (1 of the 2 obviously) Astel Godskin Noble Rykard (endgame set-up) Elemer of the Briar Godfrey Morgott Mohg, the Omen Commander Niall Fire Giant (up to phase transition) Loretta Malenia (Phase 2) Godskin Duo Dragonlord Placidusax Maliketh (phase 1) Lichdragon Fortissax Mohg Hoarah Loux (Phase 1) "3 bosses in the game"

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