Can Patches Trick His Way To Elden Lord?

If you could get an entire armor set and its weapons before fighting any story bosses, that's basically a starting class right? Today we scheme up one of Elden Ring's secret starting classes: Patches. Check out this tricky build using the Leather Set, the Spear, and the Man-Serpent Ashes to deceive and mug the remembrances in the lands between... even Malenia!
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[@wolfwood770]

Pitching Patches patching patches proved profoundly provident

[@Confused_Pear132]

Precisely

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Someone bought Mike Trapp's Only P Keyboard

[@av7501]

Ooooh, practically perfect plug for Trapp’s ole only-p-board.

[@unsubme2157]

Phat phe puck pid i pust pead

[@roivisions5537]

Welcome to DISTRACTIBLE

[@curvilinearcube8716]

Patches is great at shoving people off cliffs, but will seeing so much falling help him with the swag jump to safety?

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

I can't remember if this week or next week fucks it up haha

[@poopguy3458]

Hey, I don't know if you knew this, but if you run backwards in the Radahn fight, he actually glitches out and goes straight to the melee phase.

[@ilith1189]

he is fully aware of that but just doesnt want to do that

[@KogasaTatara514]

​@@ilith1189it's satire. He brings that up in the video.

[@Z0M8I3D]

I always thought Narjius (sorry for misspelling) was trying to hunt down patches, forcing patches to be stuck in that cave since his last game appearance. Also didn't know he was first in Armed Core 4, very kool tidbit.

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Could be... or they could be lovers

[@xryeau_1760]

He's called No Dice in ACIV, there's also a proto-Patches in King's Field II

[@JPEGTOMUSIC]

its nerd-juice*

[@Shifsabre]

​@@xryeau_1760he's Patch the Good Luck, a wingman of No Dice

[@Z0M8I3D]

@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 or *plot-twist* ex-lovers....

[@grfrjiglstan]

If you wanted a real deep cut, you could've gotten the Icon shield, which is the same shield Patches has in Demon's Holes. Not kidding, you can see the regen effect on him in the remake and everything.

[@StanleyG23]

This was a nice run. Personally, I'm looking forward to a Moongrum run since all of his gear is easily aquirable and honestly quite good. Anyway, keep up the good work! P.S. If you ever do a Shield Run, you should definitely try using the Visage Shield.

[@darthplagueis13]

Weirdly enough, NPC Patches doesn't actually use impaling thrust in combat, he uses kick. Then again, he's not the only example of ashes being inconsistent between the user and their dropped gear. Moongrum uses Carian Retaliation for instance, but when you kill him, his shield has no skill equipped by default.

[@minespatch]

I'm shocked he didn't pick "no skill" for Bernahl. For my PAtches run, I put hoarfrost stomp on the spear so I get nice distance from my enemies and the frost acts like bleed damage.

[@connorburris4846]

He just pulls out the old DS1 forward smash.

[@krimson4257]

Watching tulok do secret starting classes so he doesn't have to do the wretch😅😂❤

[@thenotexistingguy]

Wretch is actually the best one🤓 🤓

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Actually: 1. I stopped because Bushy did them all in an 18 minute video (that's really good) so it felt worn out. 2. Secret starting class videos then POPPED off in a way the normal starting classes didn't. 3. Wretch would have been better than Bandit actually

[@supermalevitality1187]

the club absolutely fucks

[@toryunaminosaki1022]

Patches is far older than AC4, he's also an AC pilot in AC3 that betrays you in a mission, after helping you now and then in a few big ones, half way through one he turns on you. He might be even older than that, but my memory of the games prior to 3, which I've recently replayed, is a bit fuzzy

[@connorburris4846]

His first game as patches is in King's Field, but he has an appearance as Patch in ac2, piloting No Count (Based on the joke, if I leave, it Doesn't Count). He has an even older prototype appearance in an older game where he goes unnamed, but he boobytraps empty chests, and destroys bridges under your feet.

[@toryunaminosaki1022]

@@connorburris4846 never got to play King's Field, ty for the info

[@johndipietro9301]

Yeah, the spear is fine. It's great early game for pairing with Flames of the Redmane to get an early Golden Scarab (even without the stance pressure, the enhancement just makes the flames go fwoosh) but otherwise... it is definitely one of the weapons in Elden Ring.

[@DP-wf8ws]

It is indeed one of the weapons in Elden Ring

[@stretch2796]

As a designated shield enjoyer your read on shields is kinda right. Elden Ring is very feast or famine on shields. Guard counters are an amazing way to get plenty of stance damage, the shield ashes of war are all pretty good, and its relatively easy to find ways to get super hefty amounts of guard boost including up to 100% guard boost! But bosses are chip damage, super comboing, stamina ruining monsters that make shields dead weight. Definitely more fun than they were for general play than the previous games but woefully underpowered for anything that puts a health bar at the bottom of the screen.

[@GPurcellMusic]

I always love seeing Tulok sass backseaters in these videos, but holy crow you are on POINT today, hah. Great run also, I really love these secret starting classes!

[@MrTheWeir]

Philosophy Tube clip in my Tulok & Mango video? Two great tastes that taste great together!

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Like Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and a chicken cordon bleu

[@hythan9198]

The class i didn't know I needed

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Well now you have it

[@spaceprole]

That Greyll fight is gloriously funny. I need to see the live vod so I can enjoy it in all its glory 12:21

[@tiredtortoise3396]

I always had fun imagining if you could 'choose a side' as it were in Elden Ring - instead of becoming Elden Lord yourself, follow another's orders, like in the Ranni ending. There could be a once-per-playthrough option when you arrive at a boss to submit instead of fighting, and you essentially skip that fight and get a bonus item or ability to represent your new master. Then, the ending is different depending on who you chose. There would be quite a few fun options among the larger bosses, like Rykard and Morgott, but I imagine there would also be plenty of people putting Patches on the throne.

[@dantereinhardt6911]

WHY DOES THE FORT HAIGHT JOKE MAKE ME LAUGH EVERY TIME.

[@mayhewstorm1473]

Love you for that NSP reference

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

It's quite literally the mansion party

[@softyspoken2045]

So the acid spraymist is a pretty neat effect on strong enemies that would give another tool to this theme, but I have no idea why they did That with the formic rock requirement.

[@teaganpatel3790]

I usually don't ask for runs and stuff, but all of this talk of Splatoon is actually perfect timing, as I've been thinking of a Splatoon run for a while! Basically, you use whatever you can use that you can justify as being from Splatoon. Here's some of my ideas, but if you have anything you'd like to add, that would be awesome: Main Weapon would be the Prelate's Inferno Crozier. It would be like the Dynamo Roller, with very big damage while being very slow. Also, the Prelate's Inferno Charge skill is just like rolling over opponents in Splatoon. I know the Ultra Hammer exists, but since the skill is much more like a roller, I'm just going to say it's a roller. You can't throw the Crozier anyways, no matter how cool that would be. Then you could use the Gelmir Glintstone Staff with all of the magma sorceries. - Magma Shot would be the Burst Bomb - Roiling Magma would be the Rainmaker shot - Gelmir's Fury would be the Super Chump (maybe?) - Rykard's Rancor would be the Fizzy Bomb, since it explodes multiple times (It has a 40 INT requirement though, so maybe not) Finally, you could use a seal. I'd suggest the Clawmark seal, since you need 45 strength for the Crozier, but if you want to mess with your stats even more, you could use the Dragon Communion Seal to boost the Magma Wyrm sorceries. - Magma Shot would be like a Blaster shot, and Theodorix's Magma would upgrade that to a Trizooka (I know that no Blasters have Trizooka right now, but this is all nebulous anyways) - Bloodboon could just be any kind of thing, I was thinking a Big Swig Roller swipe due to how much it covers the ground (As well as its lack of killing potential). - Frenzied Burst is the Angle Shooter sub - Howl of Shabriri would be the Killer Wail. You don't have to use it, on account of the defense debuff, but I will be when I play it because Inklings/Octolings seem to be pretty frail anyways. Other buffs are allowed, cause you could just justify them as Ink Armor for defense and Tacticooler for offense, but that's all up to personal preference. Oh, and for Spirit Summons you can either use the Man-Serpent again for that lava ink, or there's the Jellyfish, which is pretty self-explanatory. (Land-Squirt Ashes would also work, but those suck so probably just don't) This doesn't even include any consumables, like pots, perfumes, and the like, but I think quite a lot of them could actually work in a build like this. (My main thought is the Volcano Pot as the Toxic Mist sub, though Poison or Acid Spraymist could work for that too) If I have any further interesting ideas, I'll just edit them in, but that's it for now. If anybody else has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

[@shacamin]

Pinegrove is a nice touch :)

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Great song, fun meme, good dance

[@ILOVEVEGGIES445]

It’s always a good day when Tulok and Mango uploads

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Damn skippy!

[@MrJack8700]

Did you know that if you actually run towards Radahn instead of away from him, there is this really cool sequence where he shoots more arrows and even has them rain from the sky???? Not a lot of people know that.

[@denultimatetoad1452]

I did not think I was going to see patches do the pinegrove shuffle but I dont mind

[@kode-man23]

It's wild when you just get low-percentage-drop items on your casual play through. I just had that shield in my inventory and didn't remember picking it up. No idea that it was such a small chance to drop haha. Didn't even remember that those guys were what dropped it haha.

[@capri5246]

I swear u get funnier every video. I literally laughed out loud at nearly every punch line. You literally had me sitting here talking to myself and repeating ur jokes. Also I think I watched that patches pin-grove shuffle like 8 times In a row

[@EmpireAnts42]

Patches's set is the best fashion souls in the entire game!

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Leather set enjoyers rise up

[@tacoman10]

I always use Gravitas when farming the Calid birds. You can hit all 3 consistently and it's very quick. Also I just realized on my most recent run that there's a spirit spring north of the walking mausoleum outside of Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel. It lets you skip the academy key and ruin strewn precipice entirely. Not sure if this is a repeat or even useful but there you go.

[@lucasimmons075]

The spirit spring is good but you can actually kill 2 birds with one stone by carefully jumping up the rocks at the shrouding physick avatar to the frenzied village grace. There's also a path up in the ravine that gets to Bellum highway that is also reachable from Caria manor. The interconnections are insane

[@GreatZarquon]

Always a delight, I'm always looking out for your recurring jokes and the one random political idea! Starting class suggestion - Eleonora/ Drake Knight! Eleonora's poleblade, dragon communion seal, Agheel's breath and Greyoll's roar. Will have to kill Eleonora at low level, but I'm sure you can find a way...

[@JudgeRanksworth]

16:38 An NSP reference was something I did not expect, but I’m so happy it’s here.

[@grfrjiglstan]

Seeing you have trouble with the dragons reminds me of how rarely players use Dragonswound Grease. Or any grease, for that matter.

[@ihaveinterestinkids2795]

The patches shuffle😔

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

I love to dance

[@PeregrinesChagrin]

It somehow took me until now to realize you're quietly one of my favorite content creators. I find myself looking forward to every one of your videos. This had so many great moments

[@kylintaylor865]

The Foo Fighters joke made my day. Thank you, O Great Barbarian in my ears

[@glitchmc9764]

I miss 1.0 Turtle Shield for the stamina regen + Barricade meant you could actually use it against bosses. Granted, I think it didn't have 100% Phys (maye 95?) and they gave it that after the nerf, but it was very much worth it, and the dew talisman offset it anyway

[@joshmartinez2518]

At 9:50, seeing you mouth the words “oh my * god” as you get the shield is so funny

[@TheFoxfool]

Since you tear into shields so much, you should try the Fingerprint Shield... It actually lets you feel like it's worthwhile to lug around a 29lb rock...

[@vengertheforceofinconvenie7377]

“A fine Elden Ring to you” -Patches

[@ivylifeindeath]

i saw that little pinegrove section. it made me happy. i love pinegrove.

[@blackdragongaming4539]

23:54 how dare you put this idea in my head and make me want it, knowing full well it will never happen

[@MaleficentNight]

A Philosophy Tube clip on an elden ring video?! I didnt know I needed that in my life

[@therealHLY]

tulok every other run: softcaps are a point of diminishing return so you shouldn't invest tulok this run: softcaps are a point of diminishing return so you shouldn't invest but also I'm still using the great shield talisman because shield very fun run :>

[@suhfee]

the patches shuffle bit was based

[@jackknowles4050]

Love the videos man keep them coming ♥️

[@iJocif]

Patches doing the Pinegrove Shuffle is peak canon

[@patrickespinel5670]

Mansion Party was a nice surprise, NSP will always be a great band!

[@centurosproductions8827]

Did you know that if you crouch while wearing the Goomba hat, you walk at the same speed as a Goomba?

[@alexjensen5993]

2:19 Always just assumed patches pissed him off and now he’s waiting to jump em outside his cave.

[@ReadySetJoe384]

I don’t know why “keep Gilika’n in hell” is my favorite joke you’ve ever made.

[@christyencremins7676]

Another amazing video!

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Thanks Christy, another amazing comment

[@huffn_puffn3710]

The Tulok and Mango + PhilosophyTube collab???? Im here for it

[@GaryMcNeill]

this is my favorite channel by a big margin!

[@Captions-Eric]

Patches may have appeared (spiritually not by name) in Shadow Tower Abyss TO!

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

I guess I need to try that game STAT

[@hannahn5364]

Mr. Mango! I am eagerly awaiting the arcane only run but this was very satisfying!

[@tiberseptim8434]

Looking forward to you finally having to run away from Radahn, because it’s canonically accurate.

[@jackboland39]

love the philosophy tube clip

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Hell yeah

[@moonlight2870]

"End poverty, no one likes to break the law, it is done out of desperation" and the philosophy tube quote...comrade? 🤨⚒️

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

I probably should try to make a Patches char, just for the lols, but I feel that the lack of a escape tactic to flee from Radahn compromise the fidelity of this one. But thankfully new patch also means that we can kick people off a cliff more reliably so that is a plus.

[@UnhingedBear]

Happy excitement for the Philosophy Tube reference.

[@kodyaldana3966]

Loved the Scott Pilgrim Reference 😂😂

[@Pennywise12528]

If you have a greatshield I wouldn't block an entire combo from a boss, yeah. There's something to say in dodging most of a boss' combo then intentionally blocking the last bit, though. That way you can get in a guard counter as they're recovering for basically free, which is one of the best attack types for stance damage.

[@Nelm_Knight]

Thing I have learned from watching this and the twitch stream: Patches likes to thrust and greatshields are good for overworld and dungeons but not bosses.

[@LispyJesus]

I did a tower shield run with guard boost buffs and the naginata spear on frost still keeps it’s bleed too. Easiest run I’ve done. Get scholars shield spell and the Demi human staff first thing and you can just tank boss hits for barely any stamina loss up til fingerprint shield. Then you can block anything for no stamina loss.

[@kagemuri1474]

If U build for shields. and that doesnt mean only shields but like use a weapon that corresponds well with them or sth then they are amzibg against bosses

[@eatrawskin]

The return of the king

[@xaviercardinal3594]

tree sentinel would be a great secret starting class. i would say bell bearing hunter but that's obviously less convenient.

[@AtomicPage]

I love when people reference NSP. It's My favorite!

[@johnhart3798]

I knew you had a good taste in music! But hearing the NSP just proves it!

[@nitramreniar]

On my list of things I would expect in these videos, a PhilosophyTube reference was not among them lol

[@billgogi8108]

Patches and Nerd Juice are clearly roommates, like Mal and Fin.

[@TheMcmansilla]

good a plague upon your houses reference

[@beaudyer9364]

See your channel and had to follow on twitch your content is sick

[@yujirohanma9580]

If you have a good shield with the correct talisman and enough endurance they can be really reliable but that’s in like ng+ 3 or 4 when you have all those extra levels/equipment to make the shields better

[@-beelzebub]

Honestly whenever I rune lv 1 person needs help I come on to the scene with my lv 329 and I can’t tank Godfrey and radagon and all his combos it’s awesome with my big ass shield

[@bidoofapostle8910]

That shot of malenia in the beginning had me feeling different

[@user-wf2ch8mt7q]

Lol "Weapon compromised of a blade" 23:42

[@ericb3157]

i think i mentioned this in an earlier video but... i've heard that if you lure Radon near the water, you can trick him into landing IN the water and drowning, after he does his Meteor attack.

[@CobaltWarden]

WASHINGTON IRVING FAN SOUNDING OFF

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Also, the (probably) first Pumpkin Head you see? On a bridge

[@isuccnewton2654]

great video as always. small question, whats the background song you used in the intro?

[@btarczy5067]

I‘d love it so much if From Soft really made an Elden Ring RTS. It could be like SpellForce or Rise & Fall and make it possible to join the fights in third person. If anyone could breathe new life into a genre that‘s held together with remakes of games from the 90s and (kind of) MOBAs, it’s From.

[@bobbywalker2980]

Storm the gates 🎶 I love Jack black.

[@Luachra]

Tulok & Mango day.

[@Pethodieus]

Love that Scott Pilgrim reference ❤️

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Sex Bob Omb, truly one of the bands of all time

[@Cliche8701]

Here's a suggestions for your next phrase to Google on your work computer: Come over to my Stormveil Castle and use your Impaling Thrust in my Lands Between 😁

[@zoeyvfx2381]

I love all of these videos so much 💕 my favorite recurring bit has got to be the forbidden lands jokes :p gets me every time 😂

[@magnuswannabe4374]

The best thing patches did was bring us the lapp armor set

[@lesterhawkes7809]

Narration was top notch

[@hotaru1231]

"THERES NO DESCRIPTOR TO THIS" hahahahahahahahahhaha my favorite new thing to say about rando stuff

[@Shifsabre]

If you see this, you could quip about turning land octopuses into takoyaki, that actually IS octopus

[@JackTheDead]

You were on a roll for a while there you must have been using something… spearical

[@colinmartin9797]

Turnips & Mustard Greens taught me something about Armored Core that I didn't know... I feel inadequate now.

[@connorburris4846]

Loved the Incel River Joke.

[@jacopocroce59]

I love how patches will kill a poor jar stuck in a whole but will draw the line at a single mother that can't move

[@LoganTurner-xk1jd]

You should've got the frenzied flame ending because you betray melina but overall great video keep up the good work

[@anniebot_45-73]

you can actually farm bird feet pretty easily if you beat the knight in the dark room on the hidden path into the castle. go up and up to the roof, go to the area with a fallen stone thing, allowing you to climb to a different area. from here, you can snipe the explosive barrels near the gank squads ballista-blocking your penetration efforts, but in the area with a 4-man gank, there should be a pillar in the middle with ladders up it. climb to find a **whole BUNCH** of birds nesting. some will fly away, but that's ok. war crime the next pillar and jump over, looting the corpses. quit-out and hopefully the birds that flew away will return. kill them and teabag their drops. chicken out back to the nearest bonfire, which should be above a coked-out berenike knight that's guarding the dark room with a coked-out berenike knight.

[@wasf8569]

I'll start now, but we need a Fremen/Paul Atreides build before Dune 2

[@themambawarrior2290]

Greatshields can actually be super powerful against bosses, you just need something to let you hold it forever. I beat Godfrey without dying on my first ever attempt, and a massive part of it is that the build had 60 endurance and a fully upgraded fingerprint greatshield (along with a spear allowing me to shieldpoke), meaning I only had to really dodge the grabs. This was in march of this year. For context, Greatshield Talisman being nerfed on higher block shields was in April of last year, and the nerf to Fingerprint's guard strength, along with the nerfs to the effect of other shield boosts like Scholar's shield on high guard shields, was in October of last year. So even post-nerfs, Godfrey is able to be effectively trivialized by greatshield usage.

[@sgtpastry]

"Nobody likes to commit crimes." Billionaires: This is true. It's why I buy politicians to make it legal for me to use children in factories and dump toxic waste into the water. If I didn't do that I would've had to pay dozens of dollars in fines! Think about all those lost profits!

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Most of the worst things in human history were legal! Fun!

[@hawkstein4464]

Who's gonna tell him he can hunt birds with spectral spear?

[@bobbywalker2980]

Tbh I like the random elden ring tips added . Better then those they put on the loading screen.

[@DP-wf8ws]

"The shields suck"💀

[@tabletopnephilim4633]

"Diminishing returns!" Is my number bigger? "But diminishing returns!" Is my NUMBER BIGGER?

[@elliotalvermark2374]

I think you can fight astel without rannis questline if you go to deep roots first and take the coffin