Ah my error. Thanks for confirming.

this comment is 1000x more useful than this video

Oh that's a great tip! Thanks. Now searching about I see that's quite well-known. I just went with what I tend to do. Worth a re-record to add that. I'll add it to a new vid and give you a shoutout for the info.

Most welcome.

Thank you for commenting!

Thanks!

Welcome!

I'm not sure why this is of interest or worth a video? Movement speed, as far as I'm aware is governed by your endurance level and weight of gear?

You're welcome. It's a deep questline, but a great one. It'll take me a while to complete the line but I'll get it all done!

You're most welcome. Thanks for watching & commenting.

My pleasure.

Good stuff! Handy when farming for certain drops.

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Welcome!

Thanks for watching!

Welcome!

Thanks for the kind thoughts! Souls games are difficult to work out on your own. I think FromSoft make the games that way to encourage online searches and interest in the game. I personally love that as it gets us all sharing information and discussing it. Even 2+ years after release, ER is still attracting many new players and keeping current players interested. It's a big reason why I've made a dedicated channel and I will keep adding content to it. Now is a perfect time for you to start playing again. I am trying to make sure this channel helps any new player get into the game and understand what to do and where to go. Much of the fun of the game is exploring, but I'm trying to add videos that can be dipped into when you're stuck or you want to find a particular item. It's a huge project, but I'll get there!

Glad you're enjoying it. Funny enough, I just finished the academy last night on a replay. More vids coming soon. 🙂

Fair point! Thanks for taking the time to let me know. I was focused on giving the info there and thought I'd taken a magic hit somewhere along the way, as my health had dropped. I'm not sure if the enemies there have any magic damage on their daggers, as that would be negated too by the item. But yeah, I should have shown a clear magic hit. But the tip is still useful info if you've not noticed items can protect against certain damage types.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad two handed was a useful tip for you. There are so many controls in the game to learn and experiment with. I think that's part of the reason it's so popular, as it gives you many different ways to fight enemies.

Thanks for taking the time to share that information. For me, I suppose I naturally hold the button until the roll starts, rather than click. But that may just be because I've played the game for so long, it's become second nature.

Thanks for the thoughts. Another solid weapon. Funny enough, I collected that earlier. I'll look to add some guides where to find fave weapons players have.

Glad you liked it! You're most welcome. Thanks for the kind comment.

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching and commenting again. 👍

Great weapons and tips there. Thanks for sharing! But I think both need you to defeat fairly challenging enemies which is difficult at start of the game. This said, I think both are still worth talking about. I'll make a note to cover them. I have covered Nagakiba on my other channel, but not Nightrider's Flail.

You're most welcome. Thanks for commenting! It's full of handy tips for beginners. Also, check out this one for some top starter weapons to go get: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGTUfGmNatd3iJosi=jCrcQCf0oyEt1vgR

Some great thoughts there that get me thinking more and others too I should think. Thanks for taking the time. Again, this is interesting that a video aimed to help beginners is getting interaction with advanced players too. Elden Ring gives so many options for combat. So much I can cover here and indeed learn from others who play in differing styles. I'll keep working on more content!

Good spot! Thanks/ I am planning to in time to cover all locations eventually. Elden Ring has so many places to explore!

You probably can, but I also think you could run in quick enough and grab the cookbooks before the invader wipes you out. I was just interested to beat her to get her drops too.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting.

Glad you liked the video. Again, wonderful insight by you there to add further value to this video. Thank you for taking the time. You're right that I was trying to keep the video as concise as I could. You've raised some good points there that could be worth exploring in other videos. I do show sacred blade in other videos, but totally agree that that would go some way to making a Darth Maul look. Bloodflame blade is calling methinks for a nice red glow. I'll make a note to add that at some point!

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Welcome!

If it helped you, great!

Thanks for the kind words. Early days on this channel, but it'll get there in time I think. 🙂

Nice idea!

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Glad it helped! I really like the interaction on a channel. Janet mentioned she wanted to get this so it's great it's helped at least two people. Plus it looks cool when activated.

Nice idea. I don't think there's a way to zoom out. What I tend to do is spin the camera around with the right stick, but it's not ideal.

@ not so much zooming out but at least looking behind, I’ll give the right stick a go next time. I was not sure how everybody manages to look behind them.

Hopefully it helps.

I think weapons all start as standard, so you could apply a new ash of war and set it to standard. I'm not sure if there's a way to reset a weapon though.

Thanks for sharing. Quite right. Inseperable sword is a greatsword with sacred blade AOW set as its default skill. But it's a lot of work to get that one and like you say, much later in the game. Great weapon though! I'll probably cover how to get it later.

@@GrubmagnetRing Yeah much later but really worth getting. All my future reruns this lvl 10 sword is almost always one of my equipped weapons.

Good stuff. Thanks for the thoughts!

Thank you for taking the time to right such detailed thoughts. Very happy to meet you and give you my thoughts back as to what I'm making here and hopefully in time I'll make stuff that's of interest to you too: First up, as I mentioned on the other post from you: Whilst this channel is new, my Elden Ring content is not. I made quite a few guides on my main channel. There's 160 videos on Elden Ring here: kzbin.info/aero/PLgh5B3TtCBuqs_TjOTIKAMcOSoJ2cwf0g - The best of which had over 800K views. My main channel has covered many games and as a result it's got a very varied subscriber base (58K). This has caused a problem in that my subscribers aren't all interested in one game. So when I post a video on one game, only a small portion of the subscribers will show interest in it. This is now causing an issue because KZbin now takes that as a signal that the video must be bad because the subscribers of the channel aren't watching it. It's not bad, it's just I'm covering too many games on that channel. So my idea was to make dedicated channels on my most popular games and ask subscribers to come check out the new channel. That'll take time to convince them to come over. I get your point about loads of content being out there all over the place. But that's the problem. It's all over the place at varying quality. People spend many wasted hours watching content that's popular, but doesn't even answer the question because the route's been patched. The other issue is whilst you and I are fine with text based learning, many people struggle with text and much prefer video. From a personal view, my video hardware and editing knowledge is now much better than what it was two years ago. Whilst I'm proud of the views my videos have got, I know I can do those videos to a higher standard now. Another key point about Elden Ring is updates. What worked 2 years ago may not work now. Often Rune Farms are patched or quest lines slightly adjusted. So me playing through again is me making sure everything is working in the latest update. So on to content. I have tried content like your suggestions before and it's never got me many views. But that may be because the channel was too diverse on games before. Part of moving to a dedicated channel for Elden Ring is so I can try content that is a little more niche / advanced but hopefully of some interest to the subscriber base. Another point about the content I'm making initially is I'm trying to help beginners get into the game. Elden Ring still confuses a lot of new players. And feedback I've had on my other channel is they hate having to search all over the web for answers. They like learning from a few trusted sources. I hope to be one of those in time. As regards the specific content you suggested. Thank you for this. The issue is always how will this be discovered and how many people are searching for it? I've not had requests for such advanced tutorials on hit mechanics against certain bosses before. I am not sure if there are that many players who play at that level. The masses seem to like focusing on completing the game, exploring places and collecting stuff. But sure, I can test such videos at some point. As regards entertaining playthroughs with editing. The issue as you mention is editing time. Such videos take many hours to make. If only 10 people watch it, it's pointless. I've lost count of how many times I've tried this with various angles and ideas. You basically need to build these up over time and have a very engaged subscriber base to prove to KZbin that it's worth pushing the video out to wider audiences. But I'm not saying I won't do this. I just need to build up a following first so KZbin trusts the content. Hopefully this makes some sense on what I'm trying to achieve here. Creativity and more advanced content will come. It's just such a huge game to try and cover well. This said, I've now made over 100 videos in the space of a month. Pretty good progress. Give it 6 months and I think the channel will be shaping up rather well. I'm mixed whether to start mixing in advanced content while I'm building the core content. I'll ponder on that. Thanks again for taking the time to help me develop this.

@@GrubmagnetRing ​ @GrubmagnetRing No problem, and thank you for taking the time to answer all of this. In order to stop us from dividing any conversation between the two posts, I'm gonna bring up a couple things that are mostly applicable to the first video I commented on before deciding to investigate your channel more here. Sorry about that, by the way. I really should have done more due diligence investigating - had I looked at your channel's uploads and your pinned "Why This Channel" video on your homepage, it would have answered a lot of things I was curious about rather than making you take the time to answer it. That's my bad. Addressing what you brought up: "People spend many wasted hours watching content that's popular, but doesn't even answer the question because the route's been patched." Very little has been patched that would impact fundamental things (where to go for items, rune farms). The quality and impact of certain things has definitely been patched - Flame of the Redmanes used to be a 2-3 cast poise break, Bloodhound's Step used to have its full i-frames and travel distance on each of subsequent casts, colossal weapons used to struggle a great deal for a lack of a fast attack they could do until the crouch-R1 was made into a quickly executed move. Most of the changes are small idiosyncrasies, but for advice aimed at new players, everything still more or less does what you'd think at a glance from release, with most of the changes being QOL. I think one of the few things that straight-up doesn't work so far in terms of routes is the ability to drink an exploding physik while falling down the elevator from the Divine Bridge Site of Grace to access Leyindell early. That one was amusingly patched out like a month prior to me deciding I wanted to try it as a sequence break for the first time xD "From a personal view, my video hardware and editing knowledge is now much better than what it was two years ago. Whilst I'm proud of the views my videos have got, I know I can do those videos to a higher standard now." As a perfectionist, entirely sympathize with the idea of "I could do this so much better now." Indeed, part of me having 2000 hours in Elden Ring is that phenomenon of doing a playthrough, and then doing more or less the same playthrough but better, because I want to take what I learned in one journey and apply it on a redo. "Another point about the content I'm making initially is I'm trying to help beginners get into the game. Elden Ring still confuses a lot of new players. And feedback I've had on my other channel is they hate having to search all over the web for answers. They like learning from a few trusted sources. I hope to be one of those in time." This is definitely a big sticking point for a lot of people. In that vein (sort of in response to the other video), I might suggest doing similar content to what you're doing, but in chapters and aggregating it. What I mean there, is that rather than uploading a video on where to get JUST the Oridys's Rise Memory Stone, upload one on a route that takes you to all the Memory Stones and the intermediary steps to do it, which would cover how to quickly get the Dectus Medallion. That sort of comprehensive approach would, I think, also represent novel and rarely seen content, while being more tailored towards new players. It'd also be something that uses a relative minimum of editing. Getting all memory stones does require beating Loretta, Red Wolf, and the Demihuman Queen, but the nice thing about a video like that is people could refer back to it when they're in the respective areas, it gives them a head's up as to where to find all stones so they know not to miss those areas, and they can always skip things that don't apply to them if it's laid out neatly as chapters. I also think people are more likely to search "where to find memory stones" and get your video rather than using the actual in-game name for a single place. I do think (happily) that you're right about new people starting it though, my feed has been populated lately with uploads of people with videos titled things like "Elden Ring first playthrough two years late." More anecdotally, I'm definitely getting summoned at low level when leveling characters by people who are clearly new players :) "As regards the specific content you suggested. Thank you for this. The issue is always how will this be discovered and how many people are searching for it? I've not had requests for such advanced tutorials on hit mechanics against certain bosses before. I am not sure if there are that many players who play at that level. The masses seem to like focusing on completing the game, exploring places and collecting stuff. But sure, I can test such videos at some point." This is fair. If as a niche you want to appeal more to people who are outright new, rather than detailed breakdowns for people who have the basics and want to improve further, I get it. I do think that's more saturated, but I also think it's possible to form a brand and consistency in your videos that sees people coming to you anyways as their one-stop shop for getting started in the way you're talking about. I do think there's a nice meeting point where you can field test those kinds of videos, which are things like uploading a video on how to fight the Grafted Scion or Crucible Knight, both enemies that are encountered very early on. In particular, killing the Scion is one of those things that anyone wanting to see if they can Get Good can do that feels awesome to pull off, and can be done with any class, so there's overlap between your intended audience and the one I'm proposing.

@@GrubmagnetRing "As regards entertaining playthroughs with editing. The issue as you mention is editing time. Such videos take many hours to make. If only 10 people watch it, it's pointless. I've lost count of how many times I've tried this with various angles and ideas. You basically need to build these up over time and have a very engaged subscriber base to prove to KZbin that it's worth pushing the video out to wider audiences. But I'm not saying I won't do this. I just need to build up a following first so KZbin trusts the content." Having been there from the start as a viewer of a few channels for a few different games that rose from nothing to being big in their communities: this stuff is thankless at first. If you want to engagement max and average consistent views, this isn't it. The people who do well with this kind of edited content view it as art and pour their soul into things from the start. With that said, it doesn't stay thankless - these things, in my experience seeing the channels grow, get nonlinear engagement that guide and tutorial content simply doesn't. Viewership accrued with this kind of edited content tends to see people watch the whole video, stop what they're doing to get in on every upload, engage with comments, and noticeably, come back to the videos well after their relevance has passed. I STILL see people watching Rav's LoL videos for their comedy, Zwag's LoL montages, and Cobrak's Warlock in WoW, even though the game is only superficially similar and something like half of the mechanics on display have changed drastically. These things have a theatrical and artistic angle to them that makes them, in a way, timeless. They stop being infotainment or tutorials and become a valid media independent of the game itself, where the game acts as a kind of shared touchstone more than something that needs to be a direct interest (Randovend's Elden Ring gank cheese videos often have people posting who stopped playing Elden Ring, same with Rav's LoL videos or Cobrak's WoW videos). It builds an audience, and a passionate one willing to follow people from project to project (Rav pivoted from LoL to WoW Classic and Cobrak from WoW to Final Fantasy while basically keeping his viewerbase). With that said, there's definitely concerns to be had about it, and it has to be something where your passion shines through. There's nothing wrong with having the attitude that taking the time to edit your gameplay into something theatrical simply isn't something you're about. I don't think I could do that. I don't think most people could. But that's why it gets appreciation. "Hopefully this makes some sense on what I'm trying to achieve here. Creativity and more advanced content will come. It's just such a huge game to try and cover well. This said, I've now made over 100 videos in the space of a month. Pretty good progress. Give it 6 months and I think the channel will be shaping up rather well. I'm mixed whether to start mixing in advanced content while I'm building the core content. I'll ponder on that." That is a fucking wild upload schedule and you have my admiration for that, no joke. Regardless of how this Elden Ring project of yours turns out, that's legitimately impressive, and don't let success or failure in this new endeavor ever take that from you. I do tend to think that implies you'll find success, if only because it's a work ethic and readiness to create lots of things that is required to do well at almost anything. "A master has failed more times than the beginner has tried" is a time-worn adage, but it's worth remembering. That kind of output tells me you're trying. "Thanks again for taking the time to help me develop this." No problem, and thank you for the opportunity to talk to someone in the unique position of developing a new channel, but who also has had success with creating an existing large channel. That's a rather rare position to get to talk to someone in; most of the creators making new channels are, well, new creators making new channels, so few of them have experience on how videos usually do, making lots of videos, or having a large existing audience. It's an interesting POV for someone to bring. The people who have that usually are saturated with comments and don't have time to talk to one person :) I'm always happy to help, though. I'm not really creative in the usual sense, but I get a lot of pride and passion from helping make other people's ideas shine as much as possible, be it as an editor, a coach, a playtester or a reviewer. If you ever want substantive feedback on something, especially if you can grandfather it in that my sometimes clinical descriptions aren't meant to be cold or detached, I usually do an alright job ^_^

Thanks again for the thoughts. Re patches I've seen several things change. Various routes have been blocked to try and reduce shortcuts to certain items like top smithing stones. I've also had reports of certain items no longer being available from certain merchants. Various rune jumps have also been blocked. Sure key items are still where they were, but I still want to cover them. Even now, there is still stuff I missed in my preivous playthroughs that people want. I also enjoy the querys you get from players interacting on the channel. Like Janet on my channel asked about how to find the Sacred Blade Ash. So I made a video on it. Then another person chipped in and said they found that useful. Someone else said there's a top sword you get later on in the game that's like that. So it's nice to get that conversation going. What you'll notice is unusual about me is I tend to reply to every constructive comment and I try to add what people want to see if I can. Over time, this ends up building a nice channel where we build a nice community and content people want to watch. Re single, longer videos on getting all of something. I am intending to make long montages when I've got the smaller videos done. Based on my previous channel, some people want just one item, some want them all. Both serve a purpose. Elden Ring is difficult to show complete videos all in one go as you have to unlock most of the game to do so, which takes many hours and sometimes you have to cover one step many hours before the next step. Regarding the niche content. It is something I do want to look at, but most likely when the channel is bigger. It depends also what you want from the game. Personally I enjoy the exploration aspect of the game rather than taking down an enemy with pure timing skill. But others like the skill side of things too, like yourself. That's one of the things I like about the game. It caters for various playstyles. Naturally, I will try and add content to make all subscribers as happy as I can, but I can only do what I know and I only have so many hours in the day :)

Thanks for the further thoughts. I totally appreciate the entertaining playthrough process. It's very hard work to break into, but if you do you can get some crazy viewing numbers. I will probably test it at some point, but first up I want a solid base of guides. I am debating trying some shorts with a bit of humour as a tester. Making people laugh is great. But it's hard to do it consistently. Thanks for the kind thoughts on output level. I am confident I can make this channel a success. Perhaps that's a bit too confident, but hey I have a fairly sucessful channel already with a lot of Elden Ring players subscribed to that. The game is still well played and given its success, we'll likely see more DLCs occur in time. I think I can bring something useful to the table. A lot of useful Elden Ring content all on one channel, all recorded to a decent standard. You're very welcome for the replies. I value detailed thoughts. Don't worry about things seeming cold sometimes. It's often hard to read tone in writing. But I totally appreciate you're trying to help me build something of value to fans of the game. I will do my best to build something great here. I'll crack on with more and I look forward to your thoughts as this channel grows.

Thanks for the thoughts. It's frustrating when KZbin puts targetted keyword videos up randomly, but I suppose it has some use in that players of the game may discover a new creator. Whilst this video is not of interest to a Elden Ring veteren, perhaps the channel will be eventually as it develops. I'll reply more to your longer post in a moment, but basically this is a long term project to remaster all my old guides I made 2 years back and add more. My hardware is much better and I also wanted to create a dedicated Elden Ring channel which solely covers this game. My main channel covers many games, and KZbin seems to be changing so if a video doesn't resonate well with subscibers that look at it, then it's not pushed further. In my main channel's case, only around 15% of my 58,000 subscribers are Elden Ring players, so any new content isn't of interest to the bulk of subscribers. I am trying to get that 15% to come subscribe to this new channel, but that's tough work! On my old channel, my best guide video has had over 800,000 views: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJnCfKuvZpuJibc. Whilst it's a solid video, the sound and video quality isn't as good as what I can do now. So why the beginner stuff? Well my old channel still gets a lot of views on the early type videos and beginners still seem to be coming to the game. The intention here is to create one channel that gives most of what you need to play and develop a good build. As I'm sure you are aware, there are countless guides out there, but the video quality is often ropey with no commentary. On here, everything will be at the same standard. It'll take some time, but I think it'll be worth it eventually.

Thanks!

@@GrubmagnetRing Tried it but it didn’t work, whichever stick I use the character just turns with the camera. I’ll give up on it and just keep running till the music changes! Thanks anyway. Happy New Year.

Hmm I wonder whether it's a setting or platform limitation. What platform are you on? HNY to you too!

@ I’m on a PS4 which is maybe 8 or 9 years old with a 2 year old DualShock controller.

Ah. Might not be as advanced on PS4 version. I play on Xbox Series X. I'm not sure if your save files transfer over from PS4 to PS5 if you do ever upgrade the hardware. I have PS5 too, but ER is on my Xbox.

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Nice tips! Thanks for sharing. Ah chocolate and coffee. I too am a fan of both!