All 54 DLC Weapon Skills Ranked! (NO SPOILERS) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

[@youwy]

This will be the last spoiler free video. Every video from this point will include DLC boss gameplay Edit: Claws of Night skill is not unique as it can be equipped onto the Throwing Daggers. I did not forget about it.

[@artezac]

Ty for the spoiler free videos, I got the final boss spoiled for me on like day 2 from a random thumbnail

[@Sargatas]

I don't even know who haven't completed this DLC yet. 2 weeks have past already...

[@topdeckhelix8450]

Bro said…. “It’s time” lol

[@thisisyou6450]

I’ve been waiting for this

[@2manycheeses]

@@Sargatas Some people have jobs and kids lol. It took me 50 hours to beat so I imagine there are plenty of people that haven't had enough time. I don't think those people would be here though so it's probably a good time for him to start showing dlc gameplay for the rest of us.

[@KogasaTatara514]

Shoutout to unique skills that are reskins of basic ashes yet are somehow worse, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[@KingAlpha-cr2oc]

Fr, there's a good few too like they should have just let us infuse them

[@Slaughter_Hill]

But the dlc is a masterpiece

[@jashin888]

@@Slaughter_Hill The gameplay is good the balancing isn’t

[@thepikminbrawler1746]

@@Slaughter_Hill >someone makes a minor complaint that barely affects the overall package >”how can you say this dlc is good???”

[@Slaughter_Hill]

@@thepikminbrawler1746 all the weapons skills being trash isn’t a “minor compaint”

[@kuatokuatokuato]

One extra thing about the bloodfiends spear being worse than moghs spear is that you had to kill the boss that gave you the better spear to even get to the worse spear

[@cosmic7639]

lol I didn't even think about that but yeah you're rigjt

[@FruitsOfTheHearts]

you're supposed to give the bad spear to your little brother after you unplug his controller

[@spaceman10th31]

one better thing i can think of, and this is decent is that the weapon deals 100% damage, scaling off of a higher arcane scaling than mohgwyn's. so it has more bleed buildup, and pure physical so good for shield poke bleed builds to take advantage of counter damage and spear talisman. still too situational to make it good.

[@futurewolfjackson1628]

the ash of war is great though...unless you have a mimic with a mohg spear lol.

[@flowgauge2399]

The bloodfiend spear does more bleed and damage on the base moveset than mohg's spear, the ashes on both are not very good in pvp so it isn't really a consideration for me

[@dhakman8765]

*SPOILER The Best Ash of War is “Friends We Made Along The Way”. It’s a Unique Ash of War you Obtain From Meeting chads Like Moore, Ansbach, and Igon.

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

It's especially good when you consider those friends usually die, which enables glorious drip for us to wear.

[@wasabilai9405]

Moore did randomly invade me and I had to put him down… didn’t know what trigger that

[@arbre_mystique]

I told Moore to stay sad forever did I make the right choice?

[@kurokofs113]

@@wasabilai9405 u killed a kindred that was part of the forager brood probably

[@pedrocamargo9114]

I Killed Igon.. guess who's suffering through Bayle?😅

[@switch4964]

Still insane to me that both of Radahn's swords (Light and Lord) aren't just made into one set of paired swords with a stance that uses each skill for light and heavy attacks.

[@llawlied6902]

Also why an InT requirement wtf

[@edd4131]

Bruh. Why did you come up with a better idea than a triple a gaming company. Sounds so cool

[@MinniMaster]

And if they really wanted to commit to having two different versions, why not make one Faith and the other Int?

[@dammnpeople3131]

i guess because its based on radhan base weapons that use gravity magic so they kept it for the theme

[@thatonedude]

​​@@MinniMaster they did that exact thing in Dark Souls 3 with the twin princes weapon set. Yet they can't do it in a later installment.

[@omegawarrior7154]

All love to Steven, the Tester of Damage!

[@quandaledingle1268]

we all love steven

[@VSN-wb2ly]

My homie

[@Dr_Donald_Duck]

Steven the goat!

[@joesheridan9451]

Everyday he wakes up/loads in he says to himself “Maybe today will be the day I finally get my payback”

[@thes1lv3rwolf27]

The boi the homie the main man he a real one an OG a real go-getter

[@kevinr7216]

The fact that the scarlet bud hali doesn’t give *one single nanosec of hyper armor* is one of the most confusing frustrating things I’ve ever seen lol it’s such a good ash and has pretty good stance dmg, but god forbid a GNAT hits you during it

[@raptorface2810]

I literally pressed L2 a single time while wielding that weapon and got knocked out of it by one of those teleporting pew pew carian guys then learned I can never press that button again. Gg for what could have been a really fun niche weapon.

[@WobiKabobi]

@@raptorface2810man f those guys teleporting as soon ass my attack goes off

[@poporiporo]

For some stupid reason From Software and their simps think giving things hyper armor “would be too op!” when, since you wouldn't be staggered, the boss would be able to attack you as much as it wanted during the animation, which I think is a good tradeoff

[@Raptchur]

@@poporiporo Especially in the DLC where you have your resistances all at 60%+ or so and nearly every hit still takes away half your health bar. Tbh though i think it's because of the evasive nature of this ash that it doesn't give hyper armor. There's been plenty of times i thought i should have gotten hit and didn't. My problem is the weapon just kinda sucks period. Damage wise, i mean.

[@Buddyguy1988]

I’m kinda mad about the lack of good arcane weapons. Guess the ugs**** and the hammer is the best one

[@ArtOfDyingWell]

The only real problem I have with the dlc was WHO THE HECK WAS IN CHARGE OF BALANCING. Rain of Fire and divine bird feathers do bafflingly low damage, no reason to use Romina's spell over Scarlet Aeonia except for the spell slots, Mantle of Thorns is a meme when the sorceries introduced are already anemic in quanity, and spells that require 70+ int/faith aren't nearly as effective as the stat requirements demand. Then the weapons it's like no one asked the question "compared to what". Yeah they look cool but either perform the same function or worse than what's in the base game

[@Someone-fv3iv]

Literally!! 😭😭

[@silverbolt6699]

Head cannon is that those things were monster OP at their inception so they nerfed them into the ground thinking we will patch it to be balanced/decent when the meta starts getting stale

[@ArtOfDyingWell]

@@silverbolt6699 I can see that but things like Rain of Fire and divine bird feathers are so bad I have no idea how it made it past testing.

[@Data-AnalystSera]

And it's only the super flashy unique weapons, too. Messmer Soldier Axe, as well as the Messmer Soldier Spear are both s tier top of their class. Messmer axe hits like a truck, easily over 600 AR with just 40/40 str/dex quality infused, and the spear is similar. Combine it with the fact that the axe has the faster moveset and the spear has the short spear heavy attacks (on a greatspear no less), they're murder machines. But then I get God's Godly Divine Sword of Righteous Judgement or something and it does sacred blade with 4 times the cost, half the damage, and no weapon buff. I just don't get it

[@ArtOfDyingWell]

​@@Data-AnalystSera I don't know who's in charge of that, but they need either reassigned or fired. Cause it was one of the most disappointing things. You have all this build up for a hidden area or boss and you get the weapon and it's just flashy and hits like a wet noodle or has nonsensical scaling. I get not wanting players to steam roll the dlc but investing into a weapon that takes alot of effort to get is just as terrible if it's bad.

[@vector2993]

Devonia's Hammer Ash of War should've been that centaur form that Devonia uses against you

[@HuzzaLoux]

Instead they just gave it the skill from the crucible knight sword

[@beef_baby]

Or at least… anything that isn’t literally just the same thing as an already existing unique skill

[@cristoincroce1597]

This choice was really terrible, they basically copied the ordovis weapon skill and pasted it at the devonia’s hammer. Crucible knights build have like 2-3 useful incantations

[@QuestionableObject]

Moore's charge does no damage... They forgot to tell Moore that...

[@Hel1mutt]

thatd be against Moore's law

[@gamerchords4526]

Glad to see Dragonwound Slash in your top 5 here: that skill was essential for helping me take down Bayyyyyyyyllllllleeeeeeeee

[@Kid_Named_Finger1]

CURSE YOU BAYYYYYYYLLLE

[@tragiic333]

Deaths poker is the real dragon slayer

[@pevsfreedom]

Oh yeah I had no chance with my Rellana blades at the time until I swapped to Dragonwound slash.

[@SavageGameHawk]

Best dragon slayer weapon

[@ezzzzyyy]

"Guys what if we made the longest charged, most difficult to get ash of war and then made it holy and made it do bad damage" -miyazaki, about euporia

[@theg4062]

0:25 "My job is not to entertain, but to educate" But you do both so well youwy

[@nintilla9973]

"my job is not to entertain" Yeah I think the entire oil tear section in the DLC physick tears ranking video disagrees

[@VSN-wb2ly]

​@@nintilla9973"oiled up malenia"

[@nintilla9973]

@@VSN-wb2ly "oiled up Radagon is better than oiled up Mohg"

[@kim-xo]

these weapons are the definition of "all bark no bite" they're just flashy for the sake of being flashy

[@KoolDrip]

Yep! I wish they were great but my str faith build is still going back to Malekith, BB, GUTS and even giant crusher at times because they are all way better than DLC weps

[@llawlied6902]

Maybe that's why so many ppl still run around with moonvheil or rivers or stars of ruin / rock sling I made fun of them at first but seeing how most new spells and ashes suck I get it

[@TheOneBearded]

Really feels like From barely did any balancing for the dlc lol. Between the incants being mostly bad and a ton of AOW of the new weapons being worse than vanilla ones or just being poor without any hyperarmor, I don't know what they were thinking.

[@llawlied6902]

Just like base game at launch in a few patches stuff might be balanced Funny tho they made the exact same mistake they did with spells they did at launch

[@TheOneBearded]

@@llawlied6902 It's funny. At release, I did a STR/FTH build. The dlc is giving the same PTSD of everything feeling subpar. But, like you said, once several patches addressed both aspects, the build got very good. I'm expecting a mega patch in the near future. But damn is it weird to see rain of fire and electrocharge (which ask for 30 and 52 FTH respectfully!) and picturing someone go "yes add this in".

[@llawlied6902]

@@TheOneBearded that's so true some new incants are just not working properly it's like they never tested them even once And the poise lack for spells seems really weird like just test messmers orb against any regular enemy and see how any attack will cancel the animation how can this be intended meanwhile some other stuff has infinite poise for some reason Also PvP is really annoying with the damage creep where everyone can two shot players at LV 120 and above it makes having 50 or 60 points into vigor near pointless

[@TheOneBearded]

@@llawlied6902 Exactly. It's the release of the base game all over again. I'm interested to see how they balance some spells tho. Besides some definitely needing hyperarmor, will they increase the damage for the higher FTH requirement ones or keep the damage but decrease the requirement. I really hope it's the former. Such a baffling idea to have early game level incants for an end game level dlc.

[@UnfunnyMan5908]

​@@TheOneBearded i expect these all of the stuff from the dlc to get patched later but its really disappointing to see that they made the same mistake im the dlc as they did on launch. I have a feeling that fromsoft is scared to make powerful equipment because they think it will be too op but it just results in the opposite problem.

[@Scowleasy]

Regular sleep, enemies will wake up after 60s Eternal sleep, enemies won’t wake up

[@Titelitury1]

Bigger enemies are going to wake up anyway

[@Titelitury1]

Tested on a rune bear

[@mh_golfer]

One thing I haven't heard people mention, the weapons that split into two when you two hand them allow you to carry the blasphemous blade in the offhand and give you health regen when you two hand them.

[@TheKnightCrafter123]

fromsoft: hey guys in the dlc theres a whole 8 new weapon type. and we’ll give each weapon type 2 or 3 weapons. here have a thousand more colossal weapons 😊

[@magganboi1350]

The Goat of dlc content rn🙏 also congrats on 100k!🎉

[@Asteriarimia]

I feel like they should buff the scaling of most of the DLC weapons.

[@twoshu8940]

Why the fuck does the great hammer version do less stance damage than the greatsword version 😭

[@spaceman10th31]

a colossal hammer at that lmao 😭

[@solderingiron1008]

The worst thing is that there's NO SOLDERING IRON in the dlc. Great video though!

[@itogillis2794]

W 100k. Majorly deserved.

[@negansmith5637]

I feel like they were way WAY too careful with these skills and weapons in the Dlc in general. They were holding back so hard with most of these which is a shame. Shoutout to Steven! We love you!

[@Jari_Kir]

Since I didn't see anyone mention it, the Ash of War "Blindfold of Happiness" is a lot worse than Assassins Gambit, since the former doesn't silence your footsteps like Assassins Gambit does. So unless you are crouching, most enemies will still notice you

[@chef5588]

Congrats on 100k, Youwy!

[@thomaspeterson8357]

I thought bloodfiends sacred spear must be bugged. It does like no damage and doesn't even seem to build up much bleed. You can't even kill squirrels and birds with it. It has to be bugged right?

[@Yobolight]

The Ansbach bow is probably going to get a slight nerf due to the way hitting with just 1 arrow currently counts as hitting with all of them.

[@prodlucidity]

Probably wont see this, but just started watching your videos for the DLC, and since then, you have been my favorite Elden Ring content creator! Thank you Youwy!

[@Emerson-ds5xm]

I just found your channel with elden ring dlc and i am so glad i did Your videos are very fun and been binge watching a bunch of them

[@seanmills5727]

This was so well put together! Thank you for the content and information.

[@justsomenerd284]

the infinite stamina tear actually has a single pretty decent use. bullying mohg. the infinite stamina crystal tear makes it so you can just spam your damage and poor mohg will just say tres dos unos and then die

[@CoperliteConsumer]

Shadow lands: "what are you?" Lands between: "im you but all my items are viable" Shadow lands: "Noooooo!"

[@nedal7037]

Thanks Youwy for the great content you are giving us, the best Shadow of the erdtree KZbinr FR .

[@thepyrokitten]

Woah, people were giving you grief? Your videos have been massively educational and have informed my decisions on how I use my time. Ultimately that's a massive service and I appreciate it very much.

[@spork6760]

It’s genuinely so surprising to me that people give you work for the vids, they’re genuinely so informative

[@ismeniomartins9887]

Congratulations for 100k!

[@Cazzdr]

Wake up babe new youwy tier list video

[@user-sz9yc2nj3s]

I appreciate the effort you put into the vids

[@thomas.poggers842]

Congrats on 100k Youwy you the goat

[@UNICORNF3TUS]

Can we all just thank Youwy for how much he's busted his ass making these vids? Since the minute the DLC dropped he's been deep dive explaining everything, all while not spoiling boss/story stuff. Thanks man. We all love this game and your videos contribute to us enjoying it much more.

[@alaxmckennedy519]

PLEASE make a BOSS TIER LIST, like a difficulty based or enjoyment based, also congrats on 100k!

[@KNGDDDE]

Why?

[@itsmiracle5158]

Isn't that also a subjective thing?

[@TheMetalheadWeeb]

@@itsmiracle5158For the most part these lists are subjective anyway

[@Unknowngnostic]

Everyone ranks subjective things Even some aspects of the weapon arts are subjective. Early on in the base game a lot of things were overlooked based on subjective experience. Like additional inputs were overlooked. These videos are informative and have a lot of objective information. But most of the lists or ranking videos are subjective in a lot of ways. Anyway, I vote commander asshole and his hippo. I finally beat him last night. But that fight was rediculous. I had to bring in mimic and use bleed on a spear with a great shield and stamina tear and just keep my shield up

[@jstar3382]

​@@itsmiracle5158in this dlc that shit is pretty objective

[@ldgarnett777]

Great videos and I love that you show off all of the new stuff without spoiling much. Seems like everybody else only shows the DLC weapons against DLC bosses

[@framedrop-_420.]

Awesome content youwy, your videos have been helpful ever since I got elden ring. Keep up the good work 👍 also congrats on 100k🎉

[@elrev_ctsos]

i dont always agree with you but i still appreciate everything you and steven do, i wish everyone would stop being a hater, youre the goat

[@glimmerxp]

Those falx hits on malenia look so satisfying

[@Klauspetergrandel]

Congrats on 100k you definitely deserve it! Keep it up man!

[@lastsoldierbr]

Thanks, always the best with the ranking!!!

[@bes7054]

Crossbows costing stamina makes no sense

[@Dustedveil]

It's extremely hard to pull that trigger😅

[@Billy_Herrington1969]

complaining about a game mechanic which makes the weapon viable is crazy

[@thatonedude]

​@@Billy_Herrington1969and making no good argument about it is even crazier.

[@Billy_Herrington1969]

@@thatonedude If you think an argument has to be made, you are mentally challenged or have got a deficiency, it is as obvious as it gets, crazier thing is that it has to be explained to someone like you, it would have been unbalanced had they cost stamina, there's a lot of things that don't make sense in the game, but you are playing a fantasy world game with wizards and some god-like beings, nothing makes sense, calm your tits little man

[@VSN-wb2ly]

Boss when use it: 🔥💪🏼 You when use it: 🤡

[@ryan_drums]

The Greatsword of Solitude’s skill vaccum slice reminds me of the Drake sword’s ranged attack from Dark Souls 1. Anyone else cut off tail of the helkite drake on your first playthrough of DS1 by shooting it with a bow from underneath the bridge? Ah the good ol days when noone I knew irl actually played Dark Souls but me.

[@classydeathclaw2101]

Good times, i used the claymore for my first playthrough, i was told the drake sword fell off back then so i just avoided it

[@DayneLopena]

Nice one, thanks Vaati and others!

[@BatmanGabz]

Great video and congrats on 100k

[@PrinceDeSean15]

Hey Youwy, I think you missed the Claws of Night, Scattershot Throw. Where would you rank it? I would consider it somewhere in the top 5.

[@spaceman10th31]

its got an ash of war exactly like it. i think he ranked it in the dlc ashes of war video

[@IAm.Messmer.Brother.Of.Malenia]

from soft makes no sense sometimes. multiple of these are the same as base game weapons, but worse. almost like we should have gotten the shittier version FIRST and then get the cooler upgraded version in the long awaited DLC sometimes all i can think is: what the fuck is wrong with these guys

[@rael7z]

Great video, Youwy!! Keep up the good work.

[@hyperion4152]

**DLC weapon skill exists** Youwy: Well.. there is already a similar ash of war but better.

[@battsengelnurzed4787]

W Steven, respect for the real one

[@paulsaunier2532]

Awesome work man, thanks for your videos, I just subscribed :) And shoutout to your man Steven as well

[@beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee1]

Big thanks to you and Steven for all your hard work!

[@devastatheseeker9967]

Fan shot is supposedly bugged. Apparently it just deals the full damage of all arrows combined instead of set damage per arrow hit (so regardless of if you hit 1, 3 or 5 It still deals full damage) Seriously hope they don't fix that so bows can be viable but when was the last time they left a bug in because it's a fun bug?

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

FS will nerf it, 100%

[@devastatheseeker9967]

@@wellingtonrodrigues7654 and they won't even fix blade of ansbach when they do

[@fishman432]

Goated video goated streamer day 12

[@frankbrowniii3057]

Thank You for the great Videos!!!

[@rordongamsay8478]

Congratulations on the 100k, Youwy! Now for the 200k!

[@nosleepforme2242]

Just further proof that everyone saying the DLC is 10/10 is wrong. It’s a solid 6, maybe a 7 simply because 90% of the reward content is reused/reskinned AND trash on top of that. Such a shame too, so much of this content is promising and they just dropped the ball tremendously. If they update some of this stuff it’ll be a solid 8 or 9/10, until then, it’s an alright DLC.

[@justhaku9240]

My man, most of the rewards might not be OP but 95% of them are usable and can get you through the game no problem, just use whats fun/cool not everything needs to be broken the only valid point I agree with is reskins, they do that a lot that's a fact, but lets not act like only 10 weapons in the DLC are usable

[@llawlied6902]

There's enough fun stuff honestly but just like the base game at launch most are either weak, unpractical or too strong The re skins sometimes are cool and sometimes boring just like base game stuff that was copied from DS3

[@icyvolts]

@@justhaku9240bro he prob looks at best weapon in Elden ring guides and does runs using that rather than just picking what he likes and beating bosses or doing challenge runs.

[@VSN-wb2ly]

I wouldn't say 10/10 but a 8/10 is pretty fair score, it's fun in the first playthrough but I quickly noticed how barebone the DLC is

[@SimplyRandom.]

In the title: No Spoilers Later in the Video: Greatsword of RADAHN So the name of the final boss isn't a spoiler for you?

[@0rionx]

And goes in to make a comment say it's directly the final boss instead of countless scenarios it could be something else

[@user-lv5rj6ur5o]

Womp womp

[@avEn_12]

Youwy I started watching you probably since you had fewer than 10k subs years ago, now you reached 100k and you deserved them so much

[@wassim6351]

Hell yeah you finally hit 100k! Congrats man

[@justice999]

thanks for making these videos possible Steven ❤

[@funkyskibo]

Great job, Steven. Keep up the good work... He has also taken more hits from me while I'm testing my builds than every other enemy in the game put together. And, he still keeps coming back for more. 😄😄😄

[@MoreSoju001]

awesome video and congratz on reaching 100k!!!

[@lazyFox99]

yo youwy congrats on the 100k, keep it up :D

[@Juicyburrito421]

Congrats 100k youwy. I’ve been watching for about a year and it’s great to see someone get success without selling their soul to KZbin.

[@Bazingus22]

Congrats on 100k! You deserve it👍

[@SemNome-tv8qi]

Thx steven and youwy for the vid

[@rektlegend1844]

Congrats on 100k!

[@LucasLeCompteMusic]

Congrats on 100k!!

[@medi6892]

Congrats on 100k my man. You been hard at work.

[@cytharion]

Thanks for putting in all this work for us I tried out the dancer before myself and I just kept getting knocked out of it

[@PenOfEvil]

Congrats to 100k 🎉🎉🎉

[@ethan8525]

I thought I was the only that tested all my weapons and damage on that omen by the underground roadside lol. Great video btw

[@Wise-lobster]

Love these types of videos

[@jaimegarcia6008]

One of the best break down well down sir 🎉well done! Thumbs up and subscribe

[@AnasOmega]

thx mate it was really helpful I fell in love with captain america shield

[@temnbl1]

Love your vids!

[@afk2402]

The wind effect in the bear claws also makes you unable to stop guarding while being hit by it so against some shield types of build in pvp it’s pretty useful

[@Migg89]

great video thank you

[@AustinB415]

I thought the whole point of the rakshasas weed cuter skill was you could poise through anything no matter what. The item description even says it

[@Fish_Balik]

The skill on the dragonhunter Katana also has an effect similar to destined death on dragons (Or atleast on the ghostflame dragon in the cerulean coast)

[@CuddleBuddee]

Hahaha the shout-out to STEVEN!!! I LOVE IT! WE LOVE YOU DURING LIVE STEAM STEEEVEN!😂

[@grimkxdo]

These videos have been great for me personally I switch weapons every 10 or so bosses I help people with so having viable options already noted helps a lot been running a full inventory a lot of as of recently

[@zakariyadasti7746]

Yoooo Congrats on 100k 🎊

[@blrolz3544]

#24 Onze's sword has a follow up like rain attack when you hit R2 at the end of the combo, try it out when you aren't fighting as you get knocked out of it easily. I can't consistently do it, but I've done it many times just messing around with it trying out the AoW.

[@todorra]

Congratulations on 100K!!!

[@CivSki]

You did it! 100k Subs!!

[@kevinmcdowell11]

Seems like it could be fun to combine the flowerstone gavel with the blinkbolt weapons. Proc the lightning damage debuff with the gavel skill and then switch to the twinaxe or longhaft axe and go to town, or if you want to stay at range just use knight lightning spear.

[@gamersreactions9267]

Amazing Tierlist!

[@darknight16667]

🎉Congratulations for the 100k subscriber!!!!🎉

[@deetee6554]

Steven appreciate that work ethic you putting in bro 💪🏼

[@tizra5923]

Shout out to Steven! Been making Youwy look good from the start! Great content Youwy, keep it going!

[@RabidCupcake2010]

Congrats on 100k! 🎉