Still waiting on the stonesword key usage tier list

Unknown fact about swarm of flies: it can stun Malenia every tick of damage, so it’s pretty much useless against everything except the hardest boss in the game where it shreds her health bar and leaves her vulnerable to attacks.

The main thing i like about swarm of flies is that if you immedietly cast it right after a critical attack they will almost always face tank the full spell allowing you to immedietly proc bleed after the critical attack

One of the things about Bloodflame blade you forgot to mention is that the bleed buildup continues on an enemy while the fire is ticking. This is one of the most important aspects of the enchantment. If you want to see it in action, take a Nagakiba with Repeating Thrust and Keen affinity (I had 20 points in Arcane for this). Put bloodflame blade on it. Go the the Subterannean depths and use the Ash of War on one of the Omen dudes. If every hit lands, he won't bleed immediately but a second or 2 later he will proc blood loss because the bleed continued to build while the fire was damaging him. This is exceptionally handy as bleed begins to slowly tick down on bosses if you don't keep hitting them with a bleed weapon. That 2 seconds can be the time you need to dodge an attack and counter.

And at 00:23 seconds in, this list gets immense credibility by a) establishing this list is specifically applying PvE not accounting for PvP and b) showing what stats were used for the data on this list. And that, fellow Tarnished, is how you make a solid tierlist and gather good data. Youwy, you're the goat, my man. A certified LORD.

This was a fantastic list nobody is gonna agree on everything but your description off the bat was solid and reasoning for each was great good job man im impressed

I just started a faith build today and this timing was just perfect. Thank you good sir

Great video! Helped me clean up my incantation load-out and broaden my horizon.

Great video mate. Just starting a faith build and am glad to see it won't be hopeless, I'm already enjoying lightning spear and bloodflame blade but still have a lot more incantations to amass by the looks of it.

I'm happy that the youtube algorithm brought me to this video even if I don't speak English, great video, I can't even imagine the work involved. greetings from Argentina

You can proc Law of causality by using night maiden mist. That doesn’t make it any better but it’s kind of funny.

Love this ranking! Happy 2024 man \[T]/

Thanks for the amazing upload!

In terms of Black Flame Blade, I was just doing a bit of testing in the Underground Roadside with a +25 Nagakiba against the Omens. I tested out a 80 Dex Keen build with BFB, 80 Arc Occult build and 60/45 Dex/Arc Blood build. Consistently the 80 Arc Occult build out damaged the other 2. Single hits between the Dex and Arc builds were fairly close with the Dex build doing slightly more damage but with the quicker Blood Loss buildup from the Arc build the Omens would die a lot quicker and in fewer hits. Especially when paired with Spinning Slash, the Arc build out performed the Dex/BFB build.

awesome vid as per usual!

Amazing video! this helped a lot thanks.

i’m glad the Blood incantations are extremely good now. I remembered wanted to make a faith bleed build when the game just came out, I found out about them all over the days with videos and so on. Sadly they were all kinda ehh except for the weapon buff and swarm of files.

i still kinda miss pyromancies being a separate magic type

I swear youwy is psychic, everytime I'm thinking of something he makes a video about it

I bought the game at release but could only play it now, thanks for uploading updated content and so much at it 🌹

Thanks for the awesome video 👍🏽

Great video! Thank you!

Thank you for this video bro

Ahhh yes, the beginning of *"Youwy Semi-Debunks Rusty. ER Ranking Videos"* series has officially begun!

The quality of this video man !!! Insta sub !!!! 🎉 Thx you so much, I'm doing magic but its getting pretty boring pretty fast and wanted to inspect if faith build are good and fun and damn your video answers all my questions and more !! Way more ! So much dedication to details. Love it !!!!❤

1:02:00 Also AI ignores it in terms of dodging, so best incantation when they can avoid other stuff Edit: Winner does not surprise me. Absolute beast

The fact that black flame incantations absolutely shred trough enemies suscepdible to fire is crazy

Best explanation so far thank you Youwy

God thank you for talking about how dumb it is that people reset frost I never understood why people started thinking that's a good idea

Maybe it's just me but I really like black flame ritual. The effect may seem lacking against single enemy due to the FP cost but it helps me get out of many multi enemy situations because they will almost always run into it. It has fast animation, deals decent percentage damage and stuns enemies for some good seconds, meanwhile I can either heal, charge up something else, or just let the spell finish the job for me.

very good video - keep it up 👍👍

ive found a single use for law of causality and its in my ranged builds whenever i am going into an area where i know there are ambush dogs/rats/imps etc, often they manage to surround and stun lock you to death (i am a pretty newish player) so this delayed shockwave helps get them off and gives me space to figure out a way to fight them

Nice video bro 🔥🔥

Idk why but his red character is annoying

Great work)

I personally prefer black flame fireball over Lightning spear as it's just so efficient at dealing damage, especially lategame. It's also worth noting that the godslayer's seal has the best scaling in the game until you get like 60+ faith

Flame cleanse me also removes frostbite due to the self fire damage which is just a neat design. Doesn't move it higher though

We are getting closer to the ranking of all the 308 weapons in Elden ring

There are 2 other weapons besides Sword of Night and Flame that scale off of Int/Fth Fire/Holy infused Clayman's Harpoon Magic infused Erdsteel Dagger And kind of in a roundabout sense, Tree spear (Really op when buffed with Scholar's Armament with Azul's Staff)

This guy is by far one of the best Elden ring game informers. Really like your content bro👌🏾

Surprised about Death Lightning. I found it pretty good and it carried me against Godfrey in a pure Lightning Damage run. It casts faster than ADLS, has a 360° radius so you don't have to worry about lackluster tracking like with Frozen Lightning and the damage massively outperforms Lightning Spear.

My only problem with Catch Flame is how close I have to be to the enemy. The entire point of being a caster is to fuck shit up before it can even get near me.

are you using the dlc set with mods or were they aways in the game and i didnt know

Its like michael zaki had a slight feeling of guilt over all the poison swamp areas so he started to give more options to heal. But in the middle of that process he came to his senses and instead decided to troll us with so many useless poison heal spells

i just beat malenia for my first time last night after about 50 tries, so seeing her tossed in the air by aspect of the crucible horns was immensely satisfying for me lol

Swarm of flies deserves better!!! This is slander! I have consistently used it to great effect when defeating Malenia every time

What armor are you using in this video?

I didn't know I needed this but I did

Babe wake up new definitive best take on incantation’s dropped

Well, at 20 mind (can't remember if it's at 20 or 20+5 with Godrick's rune) you get 2 casts out of every major (named) dragon incantation, including Borealis' and Ekzykes'. That is because you can get a full second cast with just a sliver of FP left from the first cast. I haven't noticed much advantage in using the lesser versions of the incantations, since my FP gets emptied anyway. You can't use them on horse, but you can jump before using them, which sometimes is cool.

tk so much for all the data

How to do the attribute points when playing with seals in both hands? Thank you

250 hrs played and I never thought to try and spell parry my own rebounding spell. Thats sick as hell.

great stuff

i dont like the argument of the lesser dragon breaths>named ones bc fp cost: 17% is an absolutely massive damage increase for incantations that do so much damage. With such slow attacks you need them to hit as hard as possible It is more than worth 25% more FP

Damn I had no idea that Theo's Magma does such insane damage. Killing Radagon with it in 2 hits is hilarious

What armor are you wearing in this video mate?

is a solid tier list the only thing I don't agree with is swarm of flies in D yes after the nerf it does 0 damage but it chases enemies over a long distance and in combination with a weapon or other enchantment it causes bleeding very easily and because i chases enemies you can just move away and cast it a few times and it will have safe damage, it is not used as the main source of damage but on the other hand it complements an arcane build very well

You sound like C3PO. Keep up the great work

Fun video. Idk about Rejection, Shadow Bait, Whirl O Flame being C tier. Also upgrade your mind lvl, like you have no reason too have that little mana 😆You do not mention the stamina usage that much which can be very punishing

Question how’d you get that armor even though it was removed

Legit question 🙋🏽‍♂️ Couldn’t Carian Slicer be used with prince of death staff in place of a weapon for Int/Fth pure caster???

Much appreciated.

The only proper use case for vykes dragonbolt isnt riding med-heavy rolls, but light-med rolls, that way the buff feels like it does more than "letting you play normally with a bit of extra armor on for a bit", i mean it only will add some distance to your roll, but at least that's an advantage and not just normal gameplay (i say normal because most players will go for that med roll) And imo the way to reset frost is near the end of the debuff, with a nuke

What armor is that, the blue chestpiece with the helmet and patterned scarf? Some kind of mod?

How much fp diff is there between glinstone breath and the smaraged one ? Is it the fp diff that Makes the Diff between them ? Like its Not Even A its B and glinstone is S

Surge o flame is basically 1 fp for every flame partical it shoots.

how are you wearing the highland warrior set 6 months before the dlc dropped? Was it in the game files already?

Every time I watch one of your vids I double check to make sure my playback speed is still set on 1x

This ranking video is awesome. Doing sorcery next would be pretty nice

How important is slot use to yall? personally i never have more than 5 maybe 6 max spells equipped since it feels cumbersome past that.

Flame cleanse me also deals 15 fire damage. It cleanses already procked frostbite :)

Thanks for adding boss spoilers in the video. Its good to show respect. But also where do you get that armor set you use in the video

how do you turn ageel into arga-heel?

Great video Rusty!

Started ER on Christmas. Accidentally found out how OP Dragonmaw was on my 1st playthrough. Finished Foreskin Duo first try. I'm still trembling from it. This is unfair. Turned my dex/faith build into faith/arcane.

Lords Heal is amazing for co op- if you don’t know what your getting summoned in for it gives a lot of help in a lot of areas

I’m pretty sure they recently buffed the swarm of flies, I’ve been using it with my bleed build and I cannot stress this enough, nothing procks bleed faster than that little spell there, 2 casts with 80 arc and the base faith and everything gets bleed. Obviously some weapons and ash of wars are better but you cannot go wrong with this spell, I tend to cast it twice before anyfight and 9/10 times my enemy or boss gets their first bleed proc as I begin my normal attack combos, and for any enemy who doesn’t get their bleed counter will ideally they it after the first two hits after casting the spell. As a spell to use by itself it is bad but in tandem with anything bleed it’s actually hella good.

How do you create that character 0:04

Weapons list in the future? What tier could the Pike be, how valuable is having the longest reach

I understand why insescapable frenzy is so low on the list, but it's so goddamn fun to bully Gideon and the Mimic Tears with it.

Whats the current best build do u think?

valid ranking nice

For 80/80 str/faith which seal is the best? Clawmark or erdtree? I don't care about specific buffs some seals give. I just want one

5:35, dualwield fast bleed/frost weps and use this buff.

flame surge, the surge oh flame of ds3, was top 3 pvp spells. that is likely this one is nerfed to be slower

I WISH... 'Dragon Claw' was cheaper but did less damage. I want a 'Catch Flame' for pure dragon incants. Even with the FP cost buff its still expensive. While it hits like a truck there isn't enough of a difference between it and Dragon Maw for it to have the specs it has.

"Flame, Cleanse Me" should be top 5. It's the most useful incantation in the game for any generic build.

I thought using fire damage completely reset frostbite, meaning you could proc it again with the same ease as you did the first time.

How i can get that armor?

If you look down with scouring black flame it gos much straiter

“Glorified skeleton killer” yes, that’s what it’s intended to be

1:05:39 you did NOT have to do yourself dirty like that 😭

26:46 you pair it up with Giantsflame take thee in 1-2 punch

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After watching the bushy video, the unendurable frenzy placement is criminal, you can get a massive 40% dmg buff if you pair it with the jellyfish shield and its respective seal, you use the hidden cerulean tear and a build just upgrading poise and focus and you can legit one shot almost any boss

How much has this changed since the video?

Is there no faith spell that raises ur resistance to bleed, frost n rot ?

Fit goes hard (feel free to screenshot)

5:55 glad somebody speaking truth