I found a really old copy of Frozen Throne in one of my very first laptops and man, i love that it has no actual connection to anything, is just pure TFT without all the things reforged broke, all the old custom maps are safe there

Good tier list. It makes sense given the orc heroes are top tier basically across the board, so the units are less strong for the most part.

Grubby back to dota 2??? POGGERS

Oh, about gatekeeping Margit - I know how it feels. I remember beating Father Gascoigne - first serious mandatory boss of Bloodborne - with summon too. I did use summoning bell just to see what it does, like I wanted to now how this item in my inventory worked. But it was worse - it summoned a real player, who killed Gascoigne for me without any struggle and I could continue playing the game. I was a bit salty - I didn't expect that effect, so I never used that bell anymore in the game. But I also felt relief, cause that boss was stressingly hard, so I was also in doubt, like, should I play this game any further or not. But I did, and I finished it and it's DLC killing every single boss at the end, but that starting difficulty spike wall was also memorable. But in Elden Ring you are not obligated to struggle with Margit. It's an open world game, so you can just go on somewhere else.

Campaign Mission Tierlist alongside Chapter Tierlist

Try playing a mage next run.

Amen! Let people enjoy summons! It IS easy mode and you owe it to yourself to try bosses without summons. But if you really can't take it, then summon away. I would say NPC summons built into the area are actually important content and skipping them is depriving yourself of the intended experience. So Rogier is absolutely legit. Spirit bell summons are for new players or players who really need an easy mode because they don't understand what git gud really means.

A lot of useful information for causal players here. Some of these uses I never even heard of. Good video

I always felt like making the hot keys make sense was my next plateau to cross. Thanks!

The mountain king death is like an ice explosion with fragments crushing on him

You know land mines are strong when its used to defeat Archimonde with ease lmao

Upgrade tierlist!

The change 1:14:37 for town portal scroll was better, the yellow suggests thats its some sort of healing scroll while the blue does match the animation effect. I wish you didnt get them to change it.

6k mmr under 2 years is insane especially nowadays when the average skill of all players is way better compared to 5 years ago.

G.R.R Martin wrote just mythos for elden rimg . Story telling is pure fromsoft fashion. Every their soulsike game has the same story telling expect sekiro (like it still has it but its not that present).

D4 right now is actually really really good

This is great! the classic maps. lol

Great stuff. I’ve watched all the tier list stuff and would love to see Hots ones.

Marika tricked Death so she could steal Godwyn's soul. It goes like this...Marika stole Maliketh's eyes and replaced them with others she controlled like a Stygian Witch.(the 2 fingers are this). The trick on Death/Maliketh worked enough to allow the power of death be wielded on Godwyn. Marika didn't care if others might be watching through other eyes her plan to steal Godwyns soul as long as she got the immortality. Like the Stygian eye or Pilantirs others were watching and plotting. Shattering ensues bc Marika isnt going to be punished alone

10:10 15:20 hysterical sapper laughter

while it is a good video for lore breakdown stuff, it is old and over time more information has been dug up, like some of the stone monuments were translated and hint at things surrounding the DLC, so some of the info in this video may become disproven, while some could be just proven further. Other things that have been talked about in the community are things such as "mushroom" lore (the Erdtree might actually just be a giant mushroom) and connections to the deep lore of Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, such as the Weirwood trees having a lot of similarities to the Erdtree, in that both are fed the corpse of the dead and have a far reaching root network or a mycelium network if both the Erdtree and Weirwoods are mushroom coded. Essentially, there will be a more definitive lore video in the coming weeks and maybe even months down the line as the DLC surely will have hidden details just like the base game

Really love that you were able to get a good amount of things right, given this games story telling! I think you would be interested in the video about the demigods next!

Thanks. Looking forward to the next lore video.

Hey Grubby, I immensley enjoyed your Elden Ring playthrough & getting to know you as a streamer. I hope that you'll consider breaking your 'keyboard & mouse' rule and make an exception to experience Bloodborne. It is an amazing journey set in an unforgetably unique world that every fan of video games should experience at least once. Regardless, keep up the great content & I can't wait to watch whatever's next 🍿

ER is bad and overrated. Worst souls game

Awesomenauts is best then HOTS

man I should have expected Grubby to get some of these really solid subversive catches. Understanding the Elden Beast is a foreign entity to the Lands Between, meaning the Erdtree is too, is really important for understanding the motivations of the likes of Marika and Ranni

The game is a huge cosmic horror when u move closer to the throne Like The entities or sth above cant influence or rule the land between directly. They need speaker or translate aka 2 fingers. They need something to rule the land aka golden order. They also need a guardian the link between them and the land, something do their dirty work when things happen aka elden beast. So when u destroy the elden beast, mean that u destroy the last link between them and the land, cut off them dont let them influence the land anymore

Piracy of this game is justified

Cant wait for more lore videos this was amazing!

Grubbzy, you need to dive in deeper, it is way way deeper than this just one video, watch more videos by Vaati

Did anyone tell him about the Carbot animations? As a SC2 players he is surely aware of them?

It's great to see you get into the lore, you misconstrued a lot of things which is very understandable, a little clearing things up sounds good.

You're doin much better than most of us understanding and figuring out the lore. love to see how the big and deep lore unveil more and more to you! awesome after this 160h long first playthrough.

I want a tier list of all the WC3 Orc tier lists.

I like how you think man, nothing pacific great video man

Who hasn't fallen in love with your opponents, I was a warcraft 3 progamer, I get it. Fitting names, Grubby of the 4k order and his rival.... spirit_Moon

Hey Grubby! Just wanted to mention, there's dispute on the nature of the various Outer Gods (Whether it's as it's stated here, or if the Greater Will is a supreme god, with the others like the God of Blood or Rot or Chaos being more akin the embodiment of those concepts that have been excluded) and of the nature of the Crucible (whether it, and life before the Erdtree, was an earlier incarnation of the Greater Will's order). Basically, the argument is between whether or not these are cosmic gods playing King of the Hill, or if it's a capital G God, with its incomprehensible divinity, and with everything else being subordinate (Lands Between and all who dwell within) or without substance (God of Blood, Chaos, the Rot, etc)

Grubby, the Radagon is Marika is part of Goldmask's questchain who I don't think you ever met. Goldmask is who Brother Corwin leaves the Roundtable Hold to find in Lyndell.

I recommend the last protagonist’s videos

8:59 - endurance aura affects everyone around him - no cap 🤣🤣🤣 Unsure if that was intentional but it was brilliant

Ziostorm does some pretty decent lore videos also, same with Tarnished Archeologist. but the latter might be too long form for you. Vaati is definitely the authority of Soulslike Lore, but Elden Ring is unique that a LOT of other lore YTers happened and Vaati did a good and honorable job of not stepping on their toes with his established community. Props to him for that, and props to you for taking the first plunge into the deep dive that is Elden Ring Lore and Souls Lore in general.

45 minutes in, and I was done with it. I hate the combat, and I'm not a fan of the world at all. I hate parrying and rolling as a combat tool. I'm kind of surprised that I tolerated 45 minutes and mouse and keyboard is a shit scheme.

souls games have this thing where early game bosses end up becoming late game regular mobs. Youll see a ramp up in the victory screen too from just enemy felled all the way to legend and god felled.

One thing Grubby you are missing is viewing the word "God" in Elden Ring as literal, it's just a royal title. The game is a race on who will take the throne and marry Marika, that's it. Look at the candidates for "Godhood", they are all women with royal bloodline, who can legitimize your rule. The "mending runes", are just whatever philosophy you will adopt in your rule. Ranni has no mending rune, because in her ending you do not become the "king", so to speak. Both of you leave the population to decide their fates for themselves, which is why "fear, doubt and loneliness" just means the uncertainty of not having your fate dictated to you anymore. I really dislike Vaati and many lore creators because they treat the story as this cosmic grand thing, instead of a story about royal succession, fighting for your own fate, just generally human themes and stories filtered through grand fantasy.

Grubby A-Z again?

Fabulous!

I don't get why Malenia is describe as a "bad loser" for using rot against Radahn. Like, they at war what do you expect? It's like saying Radahn is cheating cuz he oneshot Malenia with a Meteorite. They have an all out war but you are supposed to nerf yourself?

well.. you're mostly right. we are the tarnished, what are the tarnished? well, you can look it up elsewhere. why do we go there? we want to be the lord of the lands between, why not be the god of the land replacing marika? we physically cant. or... can we? well.. about death, the runes that govern death is keep safe in the hand of maliketh, it was removed by marika from the elden ring, so basically noone can trully die in there, unless well.. unless marika decided to order maliketh to kill someone, he is the only one who can trully kill anyone. but it was stolen from that furry beast, and those assassin use it to kill the blonde demigod. have fun deep dive into the lore, its very interesting, as most hints about the lore can be found from the descriptions of the spells, or armaments. or well.. from someone you meet along the way

Important thing to remember: basically all lore videos about Elden Ring are interpretations. I'm only ten minutes in and I'm not going to analyze the whole vaati's video, but several things said by him are already pretty dubious: 1) "the greater will is an outer god" - we don't know if greater will is an outer god, it's never called an outer god in the text. Maybe it's similar in nature to outer gods. The problem is we don't know what "outer god" even means, especially the "outer" part: perhaps it's a relative term - for example, outer gods are every god that isn't ruling the lands between, or simply every god considered heterodixical by the golden order 2) "the elden beast became the elden ring" - the description of elden stars says: "It is said that long ago, the Greater Will sent a golden star bearing a beast into the Lands Between, which would later become the Elden Ring". When you carefully read that sentence, it becomes obvious that there are 2 valid interpretations: a) the golden star became the elden ring; b) elden beast became the elden ring. The game is full of ambiguity like that by design These may seem like pedantic nitpicks, but my point is only that: both statements could be true just like both of them could be false. And it holds true for much bigger lore claims. Ultimately it is the player's choice to decide what's the truth