Comprehensive Talisman Guide (with math) Elden Ring

[@Chrightt]

For some reason, youtube messed up bad with this video :( 200+ old comments are missing (not sure if they're just held for review or something, so I'll re-write this in case my old pinned comment doesn't come back) #1 Video not made considering hardswaps. With hardswaps some talismans are better. #2 I know cat talisman does negate fall damage if you fall within that 4m range :P It was a joke in the vid #3 Soreseal math slightly incorrect as I accidentally forgot to do it multiplicatively when I changed the example 0.73 (27 negation) * 1.15 = 0.84 1900/0.84 = 2261 so it slightly wins by EHP vs Heirloom (and also consider a few points of def leveling bonus, although this is more negligible at 125+) However, remember the test is skewed very much in favor of soreseals because I'm assuming pure raw HP when stats should be more evenly spread out. Overall, you still want to avoid soreseals at 125+ They are good talismans at lower levels though. UGH KZbin RESTORE THE COMMENTS!

[@BeaDSM]

I think the best thing about the Soreseals is that with both equipped, two Heirloom/Millicent's Prosthesis talismans, Godrick's rune, Grafted Greatsword, Commoner's Robe, and Silver Tear Mask, you can be sitting at a comfortable level 140 stats-wise whilst still RL1.

[@RatsAndLiqour]

Hey guy, just wanted to throw some flowers you way. You're by far the best Elden Ring channel I've had the pleasure of stumbling into. Initially I was thrown a bit off by the low audio quality and your somewhat lackluster speech skill, and I felt a bit sad because the actual effort put into these videos are waaaaay beyond what some other folks throw out there in a sleak package, and therefore get most of the attention. Very happy to say that you and the audio quality have improved continously, and leagues beyond the starting point. You already get the accolades from people who know their shit (I ain't one of them), but this'll defo get other folks to listen up and pay notice. I know it may be a silly proposition, but might I suggest you remaster/redo some of them earlier ones (in terms of audio). I know, I know, it takes time and wouldn't necessarily improve the actual "content", but for someone who stumbles into you for the first time who has an attention span slightly worse than mine, it could make the difference between staying or leaving, and you deserve the attention. Anyways, thanks for the stats and analysis, and keep on making great content!

[@KenchiofTaichi]

@Chrightt- Goodmorning sir, I pray this comment finds you well and in good spirits! I had a bow question for you sir! Additionally, I apologize if a bow weapon class video is in the works or if I missed an already existing one elsewhere contained within another video. I am running an arcane hybrid caster who would like a reliable ranged weapon to better conserve FP or to fallback on when FP is completely spent. Is the serpents bow a better option for me vs. A typical bow with the barrage weapon art while using status inflicting arrows? Or would a dedicated bow build with a barrage focused bow perform more reliably than an arcane build using a serpents bow and it's mighty shot?

[@tinminator8905]

I actually do believe that Radagon's Soar Seal can be effective if you are wearing very heavy armor as 40 percent damage neagtion also negates 40 percent of the drawback of the Soar Seal (Only 9% damage increase). It takes a very specific build tough that has to benefit from all stats a lot (Strange Quality Build). So for almost all people that wear them, they shouldn't but the answer is IMO not a simple yes or no even at meta PvP levels. Marika's Sore Seal is obviously always ass, as no caster can benefit from Arcane, Faith and Intelligence at once.

[@BeaDSM]

@@tinminator8905 it's still 15% more damage, regardless of your prior absorption.

[@unamusedrohan1666]

Crucible Knot feels like a preventative measure to a bow meta that never was

[@hatefulgaming1800]

FromSoft loves overbearing nerfs on random items and spells that no world would’ve ever been OP.

[@unamusedrohan1666]

@@hatefulgaming1800 Fromsoft's Multiverse of Meta

[@Matoro342]

DS2 had the infinite headshot stunlock but virtually nobody managed to pull it off

[@unamusedrohan1666]

@@Matoro342 And it also had an anti-headshot item, interestingly enough.

[@evenaarek1042]

Apparently, melee weapons can also headshot. I've heard that that is part of why Giant Hunt deals so much damage, though i can't confirm the statement.

[@Toogzoog]

Marika's Soreseal is made so much worse by the fact that it's in the Haligtree, too... by the time you can even reach it, there's no way it's gonna be a good idea for your build. Oh, and great breakdown as always!

[@bomes2084]

whereas you can get radagon’s in the first 30 minutes of gameplay

[@TJ-kv3fv]

@@bomes2084 Yeah, just be wary of Bats

[@LikeTheBirb]

@@TJ-kv3fv who cares about being wary of bats Spend runes and suicide run straight to it Go ahead, kill my tiny weak character I have already won

[@bomes2084]

@@TJ-kv3fv and rats

[@hachikuji_mayoi]

@@TJ-kv3fv don't even have to be that wary, if you sprint straight through the room and just climb the ladder quickly you most likely don't even get hit

[@mrgopnik5964]

Soreseals (specifically Radagon’s) can carry you trough the early game, but once you develop your build, you should look for a replacement. There, skipped you a math lecture.

[@TyronTention]

Exactly, plus in PVP the soreseal works against you even more.

[@iceman2184]

But I like math lol

[@ForeverLaxx]

The math is interesting but it neglects a key factor. That factor is... does taking more damage per swing reduce the amount of swings needed to kill you? If the answer is no, and the Soreseal lets you diversify your build into a stronger hybrid, then they're still valuable. When people focus too much on theoretical EHP comparisons, they often forget that being left with 50 HP vs being left with 65 HP after a combo still leaves them one-shot to a follow-up. He uses the same argument that players were using with regards to the Prisoner's Chain in DS3 and the end product was the same: if it still takes me 5 hits to die, then there's no reason not to get free stats if I'm a hybrid build.

[@STOPSYPHER]

honestly just use radagons soarseal cause I was too lazy to level my strength 5 levels for my nagakiba lol

[@Richard_Rz]

I trust math, not some random opinion on the net.

[@opalescent4694]

"Sometimes, defense is your best offense." Yep, I remember banging my head against Fume Knight in DS2 before, trying all the damage-buffs I could, before I stopped suddenly and went, "Let's try high defense instead." Beat him right away...

[@enderking6904]

If your enemy deals 2 damage and you take 1. You'll win eventually

[@DrunkedOwly]

Funny because my solution to him was strip and fight him rolling

[@airsaucesam89]

"Be like water" lol yeah switching it up is always the way to tackle challenges when one way ain't working in the souls Bourne games. As these game force to to "find more than one way to skin a cat" so to speak lol

[@garrick3727]

Elden Ring has a lot of hard to avoid damage, particularly late game. I was wearing almost no armor and going for as much damage as possible, but boss fights were frustrating because I would get killed by an attack chain very easily. Swapping some talismans to protection and equip load, and wearing better armor really helped. Technically, I only take 25% less damage than before, but it's the difference between being 1-2 shot and being 3-4 shot. Put it another way: It's going from 1 hit per hp flask to 2 hits per hp flask.

[@river7874]

Pretty much how I beat Malenia on my blind run. I took Ironjar Aromatics and face tanked my way through her fight with jumping R2's and the Blasphemous Blade. Can't out heal my damage when you can't stunlock or damage me all that much.

[@EmissaryOfSmeagol]

_ALWAYS_ quickly equip Gold Scarab right after killing a boss. There is a delay before you get the souls, so you can always get extra from bosses.

[@squidwardstesticles5914]

Idk, I feel like you get enough runes already. I usually end up at level 150+ by the time I finish a playthrough without any grinding so I’d definitely be over levelled if I did that

[@PrincessDoit]

@@squidwardstesticles5914 If you play the game on only one character through multiple NG cycles, gold scarab is the best talisman in the game

[@loverofjesusMKII]

something about the longtail cat: The distance between where you start taking fall damage and where you die automatically from a fall is extremely narrow. The Cat Talisman doesn't raise the survivable fall height it just eliminates the fall damage you would take at that short range where a fall would have otherwise hurt you but not kill you. It's lame but not exactly a lie.

[@Chrightt]

That was satire. 😂

[@T3N54Z4NG3T5U]

One interesting thing about the Blessed Dew Talisman that is worth mentioning (kind of) is that you can spam equip/unequip to heal up since it heals as soon as it equips and you don't want to wait.

[@erikenn]

The mage crowns are much more effective. The talisman spam gives maybe 6 to 8 hp a second. Not worth waiting

[@Casketkrusher_]

True, works also in older games. Same with shields that have regen effect.

[@takingbacktoxic7898]

Blessed dew talisman is all about those times when you need to conserve resources (flasks and/or FP) because you dont want an area to respawn. Same with warming stones.

[@Sjjsjjsjsjjeju4882]

@@erikenn Helmet swap is a broken glitch, not intended.

[@erikenn]

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[@allstarwoo4]

The Scorpion talismans are extremely powerful in PvE. I ignored it since I though split damage was terrible but Flame and Lightning affinity are really good. ChaseTheBro argued that Lightning affinity is really good in PvP since lightning defense doesn't scale with a stat, in combination with environmental factors such as rain and water.

[@wbhandy]

Yea! They also have a place in PvP for glass cannon builds. Some caster or lightweight shield/parry builds could definitely make use of them

[@DKarkarov]

Nah split damage is vastly more powerful in elden than single. Single only wins at low level, which is consequently, the only time it makes any sense to use a soreseal. Low level.

[@allstarwoo4]

@@DKarkarov it took until 50 strength at about level 125 for heavy to surpass fire. Defenses aside lighting and fire are purposely designed to give you more base damage.

[@DKarkarov]

@@Name-ql7jf no I don't. Have you tested at over level 300? I can tell you haven't. Let me guess you think STR is a good build too?

[@DKarkarov]

@@Name-ql7jf Your failing hard. You are also very wrong on quality. But I don't really care, someone being wrong on the internet especially in relation to from software rpgs is nothing new.

[@starslayer8390]

I feel like the roar medallion is bugged or there is an oversight or something. It is strictly worse than the shard of Alexander and it simply doesn't boost any breath attacks, even though it says it does.

[@Chrightt]

Yeah... me too. If the current roar medallion is intended, it is such a poor design.

[@atomick2398]

Roar medallion increases heavy attack damage by 15% when used with attacks that change your heavy attack like War Cry and Barbaric Roar. Useful with the Axe Talisman and Spiked Cracked Physick. Having a Highland Axe in your off hand gives a 7.5% boost to roars like the Roar Medallion. It's possible to make a build where going all in on a heavy attack will do around as much damage as a crit. I prefer using War Cry over Barbaric Roar as your heavy attack becomes a running attack, and the stance damage on Barbaric Roar seems to be very low

[@no1important777]

Beast roar ash of war. That’s all it helps with really

[@ates423]

@@atomick2398 barbaric roars attack string true combos for 2 hits on any part of the swing on battle hammers from what I’ve tested. Braggarts roar is my favorite because it boosts your stats so much and gives you a really high poise and damaging r2

[@ChoiceSnarf]

While, yes, the roar medallion is strictly worse than the Shard of Alexander, keep in mind that you can get the medallion at the very beginning of the game in Limgrave, while you can't get the shard until all the way in Farum Azula, not to mention the fact that you need to follow his whole questline -- which is missable, by the way! Unless it's possible to get the shard early by just killing Alexander as soon as you meet him, but even if that's true, then why would you do that, you monster?

[@izaacthebeatchef]

consistently the best youtuber when it comes to full, intense, mathematical breakdowns. love you chrighttt 💙

[@ewutermohlen]

Marika's soreseal is pretty bad, since you can only get it late game. And you're most likely past level 100. Radagon soreseal is Great, since you can get it easily early game when you're around level 10-50 it's highly effective. And most other good Talisman aren't available either. However both are very useful for spell/weapon testing. To meet certain requirements without respecing or leveling up.

[@Space_Australian]

I use Marika's when I'm farming rare weapon/consumable drops

[@MyRedHulk]

I got clandestinely lucky in my first playthrough, having no real soulslike experience. It was a slog to get through the fort in Caelid at level 40, but Radagon's soreseal gave me 20 extra stat points, so I could wield the golden halberd easily. Also found just the right somber stones to upgrade it to +8, giving me a weapon that could do 770ish damage before I even set foot in the lakes. That playthrough had a very... interesting early and mid-game.

[@Athanatov]

Marika's is mostly bad because it's almost impossible to use all of the stats.

[@MasterofLaziness]

Most I've ever gotten out of Marika's is three useful stats on an Arc/Fth build, and while Crightt does say that the defense loss isn't worth it for 15 levels, I'd say that's the borderline of worth from an experience standpoint on a second playthrough. If you're getting one-shot or two-shot by things that you feel shouldn't be doing that, then swap to one of the single-stat boosters instead for a while, which is something I absolutely did. I rocked enough Mnd to summon Dung Eater after +5, enough Fth to cast the rot flower after +5 and a flask, and 60 Arc after the +5, so all 15 of those points were points I could invest elsewhere while still adding value to my build. Outside of builds that use all 4 on Radagon's or at least 3 on Marika's, it's a hard sell, and you should probably stick to the Heirlooms otherwise. If you're only using 2 stats, adding 5 levels and swapping to an Heirloom permanently is perfectly viable, especially if you're a PvE player. I will say though that Marika's plus Mimic mask is the best Arcane boost you can get and is great for farming items when combined with the Silver Scarab and is good to grab even for that alone.

[@jamesruth100]

@@MasterofLaziness Yeah I have Marika's + silver tear mask permanently equipped while farming for stuff. Hell, since some of the droprates in this game are absolutely fucked, I even switch over to godrick's greatrune at one point because getting a total of 18 free arcane was worth it imo (and rune arcs aren't really much of a bottle neck so I never minded "wasting" them for farming lol).

[@Shyguymask]

Having higher max stamina is mainly useful for PvE situations like attacking more in a burst on stance-broken enemies, spamming more sorceries in general and a few specific moments like being able to more aggressively chase Fire Giant & Elden Beast without running out of stamina for attacks by the time you reach them.

[@grimsage5809]

Yeah, but.... intentional or not, you can prime stamina back into your bar by doing a running crouch/uncrouch.

[@Chrightt]

Ah yes, I immediately realized I messed up something. I forgot to do the soreseal calc with multiplicative rule yesterday when I last changed the example, ugh. 27% negation = 0.73 0.73 * 1.15 (from soreseals) => 0.84 1 - 0.84 = 16% negation, not 12% negation. 1900/0.84 = 2261 EHP vs 2166 (Heirloom) Actual EHP of soreseals is a bit higher than heirloom! So, it actually works a bit better than Heirloom in the example assuming no pots since you get all the bonus stuff sprinkled in. However, as I mentioned, this is already using a test massively favoring soreseals (directly changing all points into vigor to tap into the high % growth of vigor!) Sorry I messed up the example. I was feeling something was off when I compared it to my other older examples. Should've seen it >.> Still, because your stat won't actually all get focused onto vigor to calculate % benefit, Soreseals are only about as good as Heirloom talismans in duels where there are no HP pots. All other places, they're basically weaker. ONE MORE THING! This is assuming you're not hardswapping mid-battle. I know people often hardswap crimson amber into blessed dew for free HP as an example. ONE MORE MORE THING! The longtail cat talisman thing was supposed to be a joke xD There is a window where you take fall damage but don't die. Longtail negates fall damage if you jump within this 4m range. It's suppose to be sattire.

[@duanejennings3189]

You should pin this!

[@soleil2947]

By coincidence I wrote essentially a whole research paper on the Soreseal too in hopes of a different youtuber picking it up (you can whisper me at soleil_soleil_soleil_ on Twitch if you want a view-only copy), and figured that it would be more likely for Radagon's Soreseal to compete with Erdtree's Favor +2 for a talisman slot, rather than one of the "stat +5" talismans. (Especially in a meta where you're likely to stack poise with bullgoat + great jar, and then stick shard of alexander on top, for pretty much any melee build.) From a non-mathematical standpoint, it looks like "a little bit of health, stam, and load with no downsides" versus "the same, but with more attack power too, and the downside of more damage taken". Not withstanding the EF+2 talisman's extra weight (1.5 vs 0.8) the calculations skew heavily in favor of the Soreseal for invader builds below RL90-ish (mid 40s base vigor), and marginally in favor of it for below RL120-ish (high 40s/low 50s base vigor). The basic procedure is to (1) take a build with EF+2 at some specific rune level and calculate the eHP and stamina (or load, depending on what you care about) (2) reduce VIG/END/STR/DEX by 5 each, (3) swap in the Soreseal, and then (4) pump vigor and endurance until the eHP and stamina (or load) of the Soreseal build equalizes with those of the EF+2 build. After you've done that, based on whether you went under, or had to exceed, the rune level of the EF+2 build to match the eHP/stam/load with your Soreseal build, you have a clean measurement of the number of 'free levels' the Soreseal provides over EF+2. There's some other complications I won't bother getting into here, but figured it would be prudent to put this info out there in case you are interested in the math on the low- and mid-end freeform multiplayer as well as meta level dueling. [Edit: Made minor edits for grammar/spelling]

[@Chrightt]

@@duanejennings3189 I pinned it xD It just gets unpinned for like a minute or two when I edit the comment and then back when I re-pin.

[@Chrightt]

@@soleil2947 The problem with this assumption is that you SHOULDN'T have that low of a vigor on an optimized build already. The lower the vigor, the more it favors soreseals, but such an assumption already makes the build unoptimal. There is also no point pushing stats to match Erdtree's because they should have markedly different stat distributions since that is exactly what soreseals are for. Even in a duel setting for RL100~120, unless your armor is not optimized for 61+ poise minimum, there is no chance soreseal comes close to pushing out Erdtree +2 unless the assumptions were already off.

[@Ignawesome]

It happens to the best of us. I think you can add an edit to the video someway. And you still got the point across

[@demonicdude1328]

Another hidden bonus to the sore seals and icons is the defense bonus you get from the levels themselves despite the absorption penalty

[@qwormuli77]

This is especially effective at low levels, where the static bonuses could go as far as to supersede the absorption penalty for all weaker attacks. At those moments you literally gain 20 free stat points for no penalty, which is (IIRC) the biggest single stat point giving ring in souls history. Past midgame, though, it starts to rapidly get worse and worse.

[@michaelbarker6732]

i dont think it will really work that way at any level. Stats only increase your defense whereas armour and talismans can increase and lower your damage negation. Defense is just a straight subtraction from the damage coming in and a few stat levels will at most be giving you like idk maybe 10 extra defense. And its usually somewhere in the 100s at low levels so ur taking off 10 or so extra damage from an attack while also adding 15 PERCENT more damage. So ya that might be enough if we are talking about some of the weakest attacks in the game but anything else it’s not gonna be enough to negate the extra damage.

[@fortello7219]

The filigree crest is also really good on SL1 builds. When I was playing my wretch playthrough I only had 10 mind, But against the elden beast with both Alexander's jarshard and the filigree crest I was able to use flame of the red manes several times.

[@Tonto117]

I had no idea the sacrificial twig was better used when you have already died, I wish I had known this before! Good video!

[@frederikklarname149]

Yep, same here. Could've saved me a bunch of runes!

[@LordDraco3]

Probably not a popular option, but I've started using the Physick flask that has the same effect as the twigs and just chug it before an encounter that I'm not confident about, and any bosses. I almost never have to go and collect my runes now unless I just have a stupid random death. Also good for any jump puzzle areas (like reaching the 3 fingers), which is why I started doing it in the first place.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

@@LordDraco3 when I found that Physik Tear I already knew it was gonna be a main stay in my build on my first run. Lone behold I still use on: Run # Whatever I'm On. Still wish Sacrificial Twigs were craftable... Like honestly would that have been too much to ask?

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Hah, I used it that way without even testing it(intentionally at least. I did accidently confirm it works that way). Still feel silly that I needed to though. It was during my first run and I was trying to get items by dropping down dangerous heights. Ahhh... the number of twigs I used up...

[@Geohara]

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 Lo and behold :D

[@kirito48673]

I think soreseals are actually multiplicative with armor, not additive, so in your example the soreseal one actually has 1900/0.73 * 0.85 = 2212 EHP. Also stat points gives you defense, so the actual EHP will be a bit higher.

[@Chrightt]

Yes, you're right. I added it in the pinned comment right when I scanned the video. Ugh, totally screwed up when I changed the example, but the conclusion remains roughly the same due to investing into one stat alone being a skewed test for soreseals. Thanks for pointing it out though!

[@AegisKHAOS]

Grateful you provided the math for this, including in the comments with your corrections. I sorta figured sorseals aren't worth putting on for the most part after over level a hundred, seeing the diminishing returns compared to the loss of damage negation. I am also generally lazy about hardswapping talismans in mid battle, so I do miss out on some benefits from several talismans.

[@DRida64]

The only time I felt myself using soreseals was for low RL challenge runs/pvp builds. A bit of food for thought below regarding such: The extra investment at RL11 or RL25, for instance, would help me meet thresholds for weapon stat requirements, while maximizing my vigor. Given this video, I'd need to run it through a calculator to see their EHP, but I guesstimate that they may become profitable at low RL since you cant afford to increase your vigor to anywhere near 60 vigor. That said, it may still be possible for crimson amber and erdtree to be better. However, given how endgame the +2's are for both, compared to how easy it is to acquire radagon's soreseal, I feel like it still points me to use the soreseal instead. Further testing would be needed to gauge the effectiveness between radagon's soreseal and the +1 versions of crimson amber and erdtree, which can both be acquired before entering the endgame areas. (the obvious counterpoint of muling might come up, so I'll just jump preemptively in to say that muling endgame talismans is unfair, thus I'm not considering it in planning a low RL build) Though you do 100% have a point that if there is only 1 stat you require a bump in at low RL to meet a requirement, it would increase your survivability to use an heirloom instead. Stat requirements tend to be the make or break of early game builds, so its a BIG tossup on how many stats you need to bump from any base class option, on a case by case basis. (There may even be a very niche reason to have a soreseal AND an heirloom if you were going for the memes, but one should probably rethink their item choice if this case comes up, as it limits your OTHER talisman slots)

[@crestfallenhussar895]

The Cerulean Dagger Talisman also works really well with that neat Flame of the Redmanes Misericorde set-up you showed off in the dagger video. Loving that on my Dex-faith build btw.

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

I was testing the axe talisman earlier today and when I realised that I had to fully charge an R2 for a 10% bonus I immediately ditched it.

[@IliumGaming]

claw is where it’s at for the really big bonks

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

@@IliumGaming definitely claw talisman gang

[@GustavoSilvaBM666]

19:15 I have read somewhere that the Ancestral Spirit's Horn activates even without enemies, you just need to activate other players Bloodstains (probably a bug)

[@carstan62]

Specifically bloodstains that where the player died on Torrent. Probably some flag on Torrent's model identifies it as an enemy/animal on accident.

[@giacomo91094]

Man, really, seriously, when you calculated EHP for taking resistances in account I wet myself. Even fextralife isn't precise and accurate the way you are. You are able to answer questions before they are asked. If I wasn't poor I would totally donate to the channel. Again, I'm a functional genomics graduate and seeing math, statistics and logic applied to a game like this is awesome. I wrote too much but it's just to show you how much I appreciate your efforts.

[@Chrightt]

Thanks for watching and the support! Np :D

[@RagnellAvalon]

Fextralife is VERY not a good place to go to for math or even accurate information

[@rawen160]

As somebody who very often changed loadout without respecing, on my end I Radagon's Soreseal is still usefull sometimes, as a way to increase to equip load and more heavy Elden Blink, and to meet the requirements, mainly for the one-eyed shield (Elden Ring gives you cannons the Powder Kegs could only dream of).

[@terminalarray1047]

Bless the Powder Keg's souls

[@crim8684]

I’m so used to my seals on me they’ve become part of my build and when ever I take them off it’s like a weight of preventable death has been lifted, tbh there not bad there are some spells that help with damage negation and dragon greatsheild talisman

[@irontiki551]

I continue to value having your style of analysis on hand as I go to consider builds for a new playthrough!

[@Chrightt]

Glad my guides help!

[@ts6603]

agree. love the dragon greatshield. its almost a must in pve at higher new game + if you dont run heavy armor that is. vs bosses i often pair it with black flame protection since most of the really dangerous attacks are all physical based. most elemental attacks can be avoided easily but vs dragons i prefer the specific incantation for their damage type, cause of the aoe elemental oneshot attacks. overall i would say lord of blood exultation, alexander and claw talisman are the best damage increasing talismans by far. old lord talisman for buffs is a must and imo the duration should be buffed to 50% at least. who the heck wants to reapply buffs during a boss fight. surely nobody

[@icetiger-4760]

I use sore seals at low levels, and once I hit 40ish vigor, and 20 str/dex/end I drop it for something else. I use them because I feel the trade off, with radagon’s because marika’s is kinda bleh and really late game, the trade off at low levels is worth it, you are lvl 20, and now you have 20 extra levels in health, endurance, strength and dexterity. It’s not perfect but now you are effectively lvl 40 with the trade off of taking a bit more damage. In the end it all boils down to personal preference. No one is wrong for using certain talismans, nor is anyone right for using other ones. Elden ring has this great thing about it where it doesn’t matter as much what you do because you can be great without min/maxing for the meta. Have fun, and remember, hugs from Fia are free.

[@VeetiM]

Yesss! I was hoping for this, thank you! Also I noticed something funny with the blessed dew talisman, when you equip it, it immediately gives you the 2 hp, so if you unequip it and equip it rapidly, you can heal significantly more health... At the cost of your fingers, and inability to play for a couple minutes... But it can heal you for free!

[@aptom203]

if you're rapid swapping to regen the glintstone crowns trick is better. Rapidly un- and re-equipping erdtrees favor can give you infinite stamina while sprinting though.

[@VeetiM]

@@aptom203 they should call that the hat trick Also I don't have the glintstone hats, and cbb to get them lol

[@dumpy8312]

Ngl at least once in singleplayer I have waited out poisoning using this because I didn't want to go back and heal or whatever lol. If you click fast enough you'll heal faster than the poison can hurt you 😂

[@nanoblast5748]

what I might add on the cerulean amber medallion, only past 220 FP does using it gain you more than 5 levels worth, so you'd be better off investing 4 levels in mind and using one of the four +5 talismans instead.

[@Chrightt]

Yes, this sort of comparison will be made in part 2 of the video where I make many comparisons!

[@guesswho1047]

You can level up talisman? Or they are drops? (Yes...noob here)

[@Chrightt]

@@guesswho1047 You can find upgraded talismans as drops! You can't upgrade talisman, and don't worry. We were all newbies.

[@guesswho1047]

@@Chrightt Thank you so much for replying! This video is extremely helpful!

[@dainemoda]

from level 71 to 91 you get 1 DEFENSE AND 1 RESISTANCE PER LEVEL from level 91 to 111 you get 1 RESISTANCE PER LEVEL if you use soreseals to close these gaps they are much more worth it

[@rashiro]

TLDR: Soreseals are VERY worth it through the early game, still worth it through midgame, and still not terrible for PVE later game depending on your build. If you wear them in PVP though past level 70, you're going to get absolutely wrecked by the multiplicative damage stacking, causing many ashes of war to one shot you with plenty to spare.

[@Garl_Vinland]

It’s really weird that they put a item in the game that is specifically made for twinks. Seems like they’ve done nothing to get rid of twinking. They should’ve got rid of those items and removed the ability to drop equipment for other players.

[@rashiro]

@@Garl_Vinland in ER it’s a five minute horse ride to go get the Sore Seal, seven minutes if you stop to get the beast repellent torch so the rats don’t bother you.

[@Garl_Vinland]

@@rashiro Truth be told, the level of those enemies suggest you shouldnt be there that early. Also, good luck getting Marika's Soreseal. Also Radagon's Soreseal is only good if youre wearing armor which, lets be honest are the end game locked ones. Like Veterans.

[@rashiro]

@@Garl_Vinland Marika's Soreseal is also pointless by the time you make it to the Haligtree. Armor or not the RSS boost vastly outweighs the 15% extra damage at lower levels. And if you really want to be sweaty about it, you can trot Torrent to the Bestial Sanctum and drop down for the Dragoncrest Shield talisman. Margit is an easy kill, and there's your second talisman slot. Now you're only taking 5% extra damage for the RSS boost. Suggested or not, RSS is easily acquired by everyone. And reality is that after their first playthrough people are spending the first hour on a new character grabbing RSS, seeds and tears for 12 Flasks at +10, the two miner bells, and their primary weapon. What's actually suffering here? The few brand new players that run into a "twink" and get butchered below level 35? Those folks are going to get carved apart regardless, and represent less than 5% of the people I've seen on low level invasions. Once people make it Liurnia and explore a little the "twink" advantage is pretty much nonexistent. 99/100 invasions in Limgrave and Stormveil are a host with two password phantoms in endgame equipment with status effect weapons.

[@Garl_Vinland]

@@rashiro Thats what Im saying. Its a twink item made for twinks. These games are notoriously "offline until level 80" after you get to a point BECAUSE of these things existing. Its not fun, even for seasoned players because they basically need to either spent 20 hours smurfing through the game, or they need friends to mule the items to them. How to fix low level PvP: -Delete the soreseals/prisoners chains from the game. -Have the amazing laser weapons locked behind absurdly high stat requirements. -Get rid of password matchmaking. You wanna play with a friend? have them level along with you and put their sign in a bush somewhere like the good old days of DS1. -Give certain spells "tiers" so they arent available at low levels. and have spells scale with catalyst level. No more Dark beads. -Get rid of item dropping for other players. There exists no other purpose for this other than smurfing/griefing. "Item trades" werent a thing since Dark Souls 1. -Bring back Soul Memory. DS2 is the only game that didnt have smurfs EVER. Until the devs caved and gave us the Agape Ring. SURPRISE, Twinks showed up because of it. Soul memory didnt even effect the meta level because of how it scaled into the millions. It only made sure Twinks couldnt invade at Giants. Its not surprising though. The same people who complained about it also complained about Poise being absent in DS3. Well, its back and wouldnt you know it? Havel Moms and Giant Dads are back, only this time its some dude in a funny hat and Veterans Armor casting spells. Its honestly all just an alt right plot.

[@colorgreen8728]

Cerulean seed is good at 60 fp or higher after you use it all, switch it on, drink, then take off

[@nathanielwerick2616]

I would almost be disappointed I chose to do an arcane build my first playthrough if it didn’t lead me to eventually finding this channel. Another righteous video with exceedingly useful maths and info. Keep up the prime work my dude

[@DrunkedOwly]

I did an quality with some arcane build,pretty fun. Like 40str 40dex 30arc

[@nomisukeindustries]

Longtail Cat Talisman is not "a lie". It specifically tells you it will prevent fall damage, not death. So it's still useless since there is only about a two-foot space between falling with no damage and falling to your death.

[@dustysaurus6137]

I just want to thank you for all your Elden ring breakdown videos. They’ve helped massively in giving me the tools to build my own builds instead of trying to Google search for builds and getting those idiotic clickbait builds (BECOME AN ELDEN GOD) or some dime a dozen builds that have trash stat distribution. I’ve never had more fun making builds armed with the knowledge on how to min max to suit my needs. Hoping to see more and more out of you!

[@Chrightt]

[@o7freedom]

I would like to argue that slow heal effects can be good for mitigating/halting/outhealing environmental/status-effect damage

[@samanthaw.8560]

Blessed Dew is the perfect piss break talisman thank u for mentioning this

[@ryansapp6814]

If you are pvping at lvl 125 shield builds don't work, unless you A. parry or B. Run fingerprint shield. Now I'm not saying shield only builds just to clarify. The problem is a severe lack of stamina/gaurdboost. To run things optimally for shields you need to prioritize endurance more than the typical 20(10 point investment) It is so so very easy to break the gaurd of someone who is not doing A, or B. You can just run through their stamina bar in a couple hits even with the great shield talisman, and stamina boosting talismans. Increasing that stamina bar is a must. But compromising damage or health are not good options. You could argue the health, But either way you look at it it's a comprise in stats. If you throw radigons soreseal in there. That is no longer the case. Running all the numbers you can easily get 39 or 40 endurance using radigons while not compromising health or damage. That added benefit is that running a shield build mitigates the negative aspect of the talisman. The problem you run into here is that anyway you look at it(for non parrry builds) great shields are where it's at and aside from the lordsworns great shield. You are forced into a strength build. So why would you not run fingerprint shield? There is literally 0 reason not to. So what weapon? Your options are then narrowed to great spears or great epee. Great epee is faster. And has A heavy strength scaling and you can change the ash of war.(go to option) Talismans? Radigons Greatshield talisman Spear talisman or curved sword talisman(can have both if you sub out GTT) Green turtle talisman Woderous physic? Strength knot Greenburst My point in going through all of this is to say that in very niche circumstances mainly pvp radigons is very viable. But outside of that, there are better options.

[@BeaDSM]

This is a good and well presented video. Some minor constructive feedback: it would have looked a little slicker and been a little clearer to consistently use the images/names for the highest level of each talismans (or if going for the base level ones, to explicitly reference the different levels and what numbers they give); as it is I think you are using highest level numbers with the base level image some of the time, but not all the time (and the description for one of the horn charms too had the image for the base one but the description for the +1 version). But still a really clear video and good maths for EHP!

[@Chrightt]

Sorry, I grabbed the images from the wiki, and they only have base versions unless the special versions were different.

[@furfoxownage]

Great video as always. Really helps optimize my builds and sometimes help come up new ones. Tho as a cooper I personally find the primal glintstone blade useful because it allows me to comfortably use spells without having to worry about having enough mp for the boss while still having some healing flasks. Also in a coop situation, you are less likely to be targeted so health is not as much of an issue and allows for more spells per flask chug. Tho this is specifically a coop situation I think it is powerful when in that situation

[@lionheart4424]

Happy to know that I figured out heirlooms are better than soreseals quite a while ago and have been building without sorrseals. Once I looked at the drop in damage reduction I was like... NOPE! Also yes, Dragoncrest Talisman is GOD for facing Malenia. It even decreases the amount of HP she sucks from you lol. Great video!

[@Niktuono]

Yeah but I’ve a question why it’s nerf to the ground for pvp?

[@lionheart4424]

@@Niktuono I assume because of the fingerprint shield being broken mixed with the bull goat armor. Unkillable build.

[@Niktuono]

@@lionheart4424 I understand but that is really specific.

[@yourname5984]

Wait until u find the dragoncrest greatshield

[@k-musicradio]

royal remains and stacking hp with flask and talismans with the blue and red feathered talisman gives you an effective 10% extra total hp as the blue feathered talisman reduces damage for around half.

[@guyonlead]

I'm not the best at math but it's good to see someone confirm to not use Soreseals past RL 100. lol.

[@Sljm8D]

Best Elden Ring channel tbh

[@Chrightt]

Means a lot! Thanks!

[@Necrotaku999]

chrightt i respected you, i had you in great steem, then you do dirty my preciouss moon of nokstella, I WANT TO GO WITH PLACIDUSAX RUIN GOLDEN BARRIER GOLDEN FULGURANT BARREIR ALL THE ANCIENT LIGHNING INCANTATIONS ROTTEN BREATH AND THE COMBO OF ROCK SLING AND LIGHNING STRIKE, ITS NOT USELESS 10 slots are not enough...

[@VeetiM]

Lol

[@Chrightt]

Ah... I'm sorry. I bow down and pay my respects to the massive incantation overlord.

[@Necrotaku999]

@@Chrightt *Humanity restored*

[@higguma]

Soreseals are fine on higher levels (pve) if you're using a shield where the negation is almost trivialized.

[@iframez3424]

A good way to think of the soreseals is THEY MAKE SOME NICHE BUILDS POSSIBLE but MAKE NO ALREADY POSSIBLE BUILD STRONGER. it’s for variety and fun, not power and optimization.

[@voxlity]

This is what makes them and the heirlooms amazing in earlygame where you don't have high rune gains to powerlevel. It allows you to focus on a stat rather than spread out your levels for stat requirements.

[@stevenluoma1268]

I dont even think they make niche builds more of a possibility. You can play basically anything without them. You'd just have to give up some other stats (like vig/mind/end). If you required some seriously hybrid stat investment, I'd STILL not use them unless I was, say, under level 60.

[@syn010110]

also they basically enable RL1 runs

[@lloydegildner7554]

@@stevenluoma1268 No some builds are simply impossible without the use of a soreseal. One of mine at 138 is a good example of that. The extra damage you take does suck a little but if i was getting 1 shot chances are even without it i was getting 1 shot XD

[@ingamesniperr]

I use radagons soreseal early game as its good for some quick stats to hold more weapons. But late game i swap it out if it allows me to tank extra hits. Stat scaling damage isnt worth taking more damage for. Most of your damage comes from the weapon upgrades

[@alik250]

IMO, greatshield talisman should have boosted stability by 10% of the REMAINING stability, making it better with small shields (although still not great due to low stability overall) and worse with good stability shields (although still improved)

[@Vastolorde30]

I have to say, I love the video, Im a huge numbers nerd, so take my subscription and keep up the good work.

[@gryzziarth8288]

My brain hurts. I love coming to your channel for in depth stats on what is effective and what isn’t. Heck for the last week or two I’ve been recommending quite a few of your videos to people on Reddit when they ask about how some things work like in depth soft caps, best staves, fun build (your night wielder was fun!), and seals!

[@Chrightt]

Thanks for recommending my videos! Hopefully my videos made some confusing points understandable and potentially settle some popular questions for you!

[@sarbe6625]

26:00 I don't think this really gives the full picture though since stats like intelligence and strength also increase some of your resistances a little bit with each level. Which makes comparing just the vigor give an incomplete picture of how much tankier the soreseal makes you. It kind of makes the Crimson Amber Medallion looks better in comparison than it really is.

[@LooterGameplays]

The fact that the greatshield talisman is so unbelievably nerfed in pvp actually broke me down a little, I used it so often and so confidently, just to find out it did bumblefuck nothing

[@acrab6527]

Taking 5% less damage quite often adds an extra hit before you die, turning a lot of fights around. The other guy just has to die, doesn't matter if you also die.

[@LooterGameplays]

@@acrab6527 I know, but these "A little bit more defense and I'd still be alive" situations are so rare, that you're better off using something else. At this time, PvP is broken to the point where either you get one/two shotted or the enemy gets one/two shotted, unless you're using something off-meta to have fun, In which case, good luck... I guess...

[@acrab6527]

@@LooterGameplays You must be getting different invaders. Mine are like Chright's last video. 3 minutes of quick pokes, throwing knives and glintstone darts. A dozen little hits as either whittling you down or trying to proc a status. That or just trading. If the enemy has to hit you more times than you have to hit them, you win.

[@LooterGameplays]

@@acrab6527 I mean, I am doing high-level PvP, so maybe that's why the experiences are different. Most of the people I fight usually use the RoB, or Glintstone Pebble, Lion's Claw etc etc and can deal stupid amounts of damage in an instant. I don't think it's because of the RL I am at tho, these things are broken in and of themselves, not because of a specific build that makes them super strong. Also, status are as common in high level as META, it's actually kinda stupid.

[@ForeverLaxx]

The Cat Talisman is worse than a lie. It *does* work, but the fall ranges that you take damage in are so small that it will almost never do anything anyway. You already fall a far distance without taking damage, and if you fall too far, you're just killed outright no matter what. The difference between these too distances is so small that you rarely land between them. 90% of the time, you will already take no damage or you will die -- there's almost no in-between. That in-between is where the Cat erases the fall damage, but since it almost never happens, the ring is useless.

[@acethirtysix8378]

The hp regen talisman heals 2hp every time you equip it. So if you are in a safe spot and don't want to afk and wait for the heal, you can button mash to equip/unequip it and heal much faster. Doesn't work with the regen shield though for some reason.

[@WhereIsMyAlbatross]

Entertainingly, at low enough vigour Radagon's soreseal can negate its own drawback because the health boost provided by the +5 vigour (about 112 at 11 vigour) is greater than 15% of your maximum health (about 65 at 11 vigour). In this niche scenario it is better than the strength and dexterity heirloom talismans.

[@darkmatterpancake]

That's generally why all my builds pick up Radagon's Soreseal right out of the gate.

[@thornbush8295]

Hey! Big fan of your content; taking a more quantitative approach to analyzing the viability of certain tools is very cool to see. If I can make a request, I'd love to see you cover the topic of cast speed. While potentially complicated, I'm not sure if there's much info other than "70 virtual dex is the max". Looking at the distribution of returns and differences in spell benefit could be very interesting and informative!

[@Jeenine]

Great vid there, cant wait for part 2

[@Chrightt]

Hello there, JeeNiNe! :D I've seen your PVP vids!

[@iceman2184]

I love me some elden ring math. Well done, sir. I subbed after watching all of your video

[@garrick3727]

My own opinion is that Sorseals are for meeting minimum requirements and not much else. The damage increase negates any health benefit. There are better talismans for boosting damage. It's just the illusion of higher stats. It's "20 levels worth of stats" but only if you would put points in those stats anyway. The physical sorseal is about +200 health, +8 stamina, +8 equip load, +30 AR. All for about +12.5% net extra damage taken. The extra damage doesn't matter if you don't get hit, but then the extra health doesn't matter either, and you can get more damage than +30 AR from using a specialized talisman such as the Claw, the Axe, one of the exultations. If you don't have alternatives for damage then I guess it's decent. I used it for the equip load, but once I had raised my endurance by 5 I stopped.

[@memitis]

Cool to note that Assassin’s Crimson and Cerulean Dagger sometimes double proc depending on the enemy and weapon used. For example: I critical hit a Tree Avatar Boss with the Great Knife dagger and the effects double procc’ed but not when using say my flail. Hope it helps

[@kkkk-uh1cu]

It's that way for daggers and with a bunch of enemies including dragons I think. Build videos around the items tend to explain which it works on

[@occultnightingale1106]

Longtail Cat Talisman is not a lie, it says it renders the wearer immune to from Fall *Damage,* but not Fall *Death.*

[@thror1709]

16:36 I'm not bad at this game, I just have a heavy Crimson flask focused setup!

[@JD-kl9xw]

17:37 It's also worth mentioning that swapping from Crimson Amber to Blessed Dew after getting hit is a good thing to do in duels to get some HP back as the Crimson Amber Tallisman is basically useless after you get hit and if you don't have any source of regen.

[@Chrightt]

Ah, yes. Forgot to mention this is assuming no hardswap. With hardswap some of these definitely find more use.

[@TheG119YT]

Same thing with the Primal GlintStone Talisman. You can use it to reduce the massive cost of Blessing of the Erdtree and once you take it off the regen will fix you right back up in no time. Works even better if you have the Old Lords.

[@JD-kl9xw]

@@Chrightt In general yea constant hrdswapping might not be something most of the players are going to do, but in some cases, especially this one, I think even more casual players could easily see the value it has

[@syn010110]

@@JD-kl9xw menuing is my bane

[@michaelmain1990]

The cat talisman says in its description it only removes damage from falls that won't kill you instantly

[@Chrightt]

That part was meant to be satire (mentioned in pinned comments >.>)

[@xinderx1039]

Side note on Arrow's Reach Talisman, because arrows experience damage fall off, past 5 yards or so it acts as a damage buff. And if you aren't using your bow from far away, what are you doing with it?

[@Chrightt]

😂 Barrage bleed builds I guess. Definitely really good for PVE. The two arrow talismans are pretty much a sure slot. PVP-wise most people will chase you to kingdom come anyway.

[@xinderx1039]

@@Chrightt Yeah I'd imagine that it works best in PVE. As far as I can tell Black and barrage ash Serpent are the best bows for PVP. I do think that it works on the Ballestas and Great Bows so I'd be suppressed if the snipers haven't slotted it into their builds.

[@John-uw2je]

shabriris woe is actually useful, it takes attention away from your summons and can trick enemies into doing specific attacks.

[@Ignawesome]

Thank you for your hard work! Understanding all of the underlying mechanics makes character building so much more fun. I knew those soreseals weren't really worth it when I tested them.

[@Chrightt]

My pleasure!

[@GameBoy_44]

Best Videos to explain Talismans etc. Btw. Can you do a video on a Dex/faith build ?

[@Chrightt]

I will definitely be covering more build videos! When you say dex/faith do you mean in general or a specific build video?

[@GameBoy_44]

@@Chrightt General

[@jellydamgood]

The essential talisman for the "endgame bosses one shot me build".

[@The_Industry]

Since it came up a fair bit I thought I'd ask, what is the difference between hitstun and poise breaking, because I've been trying to figure it out for ages, and I can't find answers anywhere. To clarify, by hitstun, I mean the ability for attacks to interrupt animations. The answers I've been finding have all said some variant of "that's the poise system, interrupting an attack is what happens when poise hits zero". But the other day, I was working my way through Castle Morne with a fairly new character. Powerstancing straight swords I could never interrupt the Scaly Misbegotten, but when I used the Zweihander, almost every attack it performed got interrupted. On top of that, by using jump attacks and charge heavies, I was able to stance break it, where it hunched over for a bit and became open to a riposte. So there's two different things happening here, and I have no idea what the distinction is. Cheers.

[@Chrightt]

Zweihander is a colossal sword with higher poise damage on every hit than powerstanced straight swords. In that case, I believe it's just high enough to interrupt the Misbegotten's hitstun check. Stance breaks happen when total poise health is depleted. It is easier to see the extra "hitstun" check in PVE through weapon arts or spells as they have a different hitstun attach to them. You can try checking out my dagger video. You will see that blades of gold/blades of death have the same poise break but different "hitstun" type. Gold is a knockback while death is a stagger stun. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGetmouLaLN3f5o

[@BaBaNaNaBa]

pve and pvp poise damage are calculated differently

[@craig4300]

radagon's soreseal is the only viable soreseal unfortunately. there really isnt a single build that will make use of all 20 stats given by marika's soreseal. even with the stat hungry golden order build, the 5 arcane points give you nothing, so marika's soreseal only really gives you 10 points.

[@x265_hevc5]

Excellent analysis as always Chrightt!

[@Chrightt]

😜Thanks!

[@zukomaki]

I know its probably a meme/joke about the cat talisman.. but maybe some people will take it seriously. it at least negates all fall damage from survivable drops

[@newt2120]

Utterly useless

[@Longknife]

I have a list of helpful and informative Elden Ring content creators that are underrated/not getting sub counts to reflect their view counts, and this channel is on that list. On a side note, shame on you, Elden Ring community! There's multiple good channels like this one under 20k subs but by God the channels with clickbait titles going "DEVASTATING new Rivers of Blood build DELETES MALENIA! MUST WATCH!!" have all the subs.

[@lexkek5625]

Blessed dew tailsmen stacks with heal over time incantations. It's really useful for invaders as their flasks are cut in half leaving them few options of healing. Pair with it beastily vitality or something similar and let it do the work while you heal and run. You'll last a lot longer and you don't have to fight on low health.

[@DrownedLamp]

+8 hp/s while low with the royal remains set. Add/swap out the red/blue feather branchsword tali or bird shield If ur feeling extra cheesey; swaddling cloth and butchering knife.

[@zkatom3773]

I would argue to stop using soreseal after level 60, since a lot more used stronger weapons past that level. Under 50, most players don’t really use strong stuff.

[@BaBaNaNaBa]

I did the math even further on soreseals and cam to the conclusion that the nullpoint was somewhere around sl76. however, I would have really appreciated if you could have done a more precise analysis for let's say sl15, sl35 and sl50 for soreseals

[@Chrightt]

This is largely dependent on what the soreseals enable you to use (typically strongest on an intelligence build that still needs the str/dex) up to around 100 assuming duels (so no HP pots). For lower levels at 50 and under, there is no doubt soreseals are pretty much a direct slot because of how early the curve is and how much % bonus you will be getting from it.

[@PapaSurf]

Yeah at 35 vigor, the marginal 5 points of vigor from the soreseal gives you more than 15% extra HP so the other extra stats are essentially free. Absolutely amazing for low level invasion builds.

[@BaBaNaNaBa]

I actually heavly disagree with marikas soreseal being superior. why? cause you won't be able to utilze arcane, faith and int at once much. cause lik3 each of them covers a different weapon category, whereas radagons soreseal perfectly covers all the melee weapons with additional hp, stermina/equip load!, strength and dex (to hit either str or dex weapon requirement!) that's why I actually would say radagons > marikas (as far as my 650 hours of ER showed)

[@BaBaNaNaBa]

rest of video is great though, finally someone who acknowledges the power of stermina regen aswell as differentiating between pve and pvp usecase.

[@BaBaNaNaBa]

cause as far as I can tell pvp/duels is more about defense buffs instead of offense buffs. cause it's way easier to get let's say +30% of a specific defense than it is to get +30% for offense. I will say you should preferably use offense buffs for pve only. aswell as the buff duration. personally I would never go for anything below a 60 seconds buff.

[@ElectroShadowAngel]

I feel that it's more accurate to say that the Old Lord's Talisman doesn't "increase" the duration of buffs, but rather that it slows the decay of the timer remaining for the buffs while it is currently equipped. Hence why you can buff then equip it then unequip it and still have some duration added to the overall timer. I completely disagree with the Primal Glintstone Blade talisman being bad. It is actually amazing for PvE. Especially in co-op doing a long session in someone else's world where you can't rest and have half flasks. In PvP dueling and stat building per point investment it is bad yes. The important thing neglected is flask usage. But let's say for example you have 60 Vigor and 30 Mind. 1,900 HP and 173 FP. Technically the "optimal" thing would be to get hit first and drop below 1,615 HP and not use spells until you equip it after getting hit. But let's say you have 4 HP flasks and 3 FP flasks. You can still drop down to 805 HP and use a HP flask to get back to 1,615 HP without wasting any healing from the flask. Basically heal at half HP. Assuming you equip it after getting hit you still have a total of 5,140 HP to work with (1,900 HP > take damage > equip talisman > 4 HP chugs at max upgrade). This Talisman doesn't change that total HP pool to work with if used this way. Now the FP flask on the other hand will over recover the FP pool at 30 Mind. Assuming you use all 173 FP perfectly with 3 chugs you go from 692 FP total to 920.36 FP worth of spells based on the same way we look at Bull-Goat's +33% poise actually being a 25% reduction. So in this scenario not only do you avoid the downside of the HP penalty and still have a lot of HP to work with but you effectively gain over a free flask worth of chugging in this specific set up while also being able to perform more actions before running out.

[@Chrightt]

This is discounting hardswapping (in pinned comment). Primal glintstone definitely a lot better with hardswap, but I don't expect people to do talisman swaps mid battle.

[@veras7927]

Fp is not hard to come by. Even if you're somehow pinched on fp, starlight shards are basically consumable fp flasks that you can carry 10 of.

[@ElectroShadowAngel]

​@@veras7927 FP not hard to come by? I don't understand how to interpret that. You make it sound as if FP is collectable like Root Resin. You can't really compare FP flasks to a Starlight shard. Not everyone has someone to dupe them with or backs up their save to restore their consumables after every session that they decide to use up rare consumables that are already limited to a set amount per playthrough. That you also have to go out of your way to get 1 here and there. Or simply just use this Talisman to greatly cut the amount of FP consumed on spells. This Talisman can make a massive difference when equipped with a Scarab helmet, Ancestral Spirit's Horn and a Sacrificial Axe. It can literally be the difference in having near infinite FP without using an item. Even more amazingly for sustainability when used in conjunction with healing spells.

[@veras7927]

@@ElectroShadowAngel By fp not being hard to come by, I mean that I've never had fp issues. Like, what are you using and fighting that you have to plan ahead for hundreds and hundreds of fp? Sorceries and incants have specialised spells which are very fp efficient and effective at killing enemies, whether they are trash mobs or minibosses/bosses. Carian slicer costs 4 fp, glintstone pebble and bestial sling costs 7fp. If you're using these kinds of spells, especially if you're using the ancestral charm and axe you were talking about, you should realistically never run out of mp while you're clearing out an area (you even get flasks back every now and then from killing enemies). Sure, you might want the option of using more expensive spells like dragon breaths more often, but those spells aren't optimal fp ratio wise to begin with, so optimising fp cost on those spells kinda defeats the purpose. You're also giving up huge amounts of hp to do this, unlike carian crest which does it for skills (which are mostly better than spells anyway) without the hp penalty. Basically, I'm saying primal glintstone blade isn't useless, but it isn't really optimal either.

[@vankakt]

Again Lord Chrightt does it again :) I've had a rough idea of just how bad soreseala were for late game and how well jar's arsenal translates into stats but this one just sets it out nice and clean, very well done, thank You for making this hope this reaches to as many people as possible to clarify talismans :)

[@Undead25_]

I like to call level 70-90 my 'soreseal withdrawal' period

[@sadeknight9112]

Something you didn’t mention is that having more stat points increases your defense so the 15% decrease in damage reduction is much lower. With the Soreseals you effectively get 20 extra levels which is much more than the Crimson Medallion’s 13 extra levels at 60 vigor. If you are solely using one damage stat it most likely isn’t worth it but, as someone who is using SoNaF in PVE, I’m going to keep using Soreseals.

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

This is assuming defence works exactly like dog3, which in er that is not the case. In ER absortion is king. However, another theory i have is that flat defence seems to matter very little and absorption a lot may be due to how huge damager number is in the late game. Because flat defence in early game matters more when it comes to actual reduction. I know this because i hate a fat tank character that wear all heavy armour and he does not give a shit about any attacks thats not from a downscaled phantom.

[@garrick3727]

It's about 12.5%, which I would not call much lower that 15%.

[@sadeknight9112]

@@garrick3727 hyperbole

[@TheG119YT]

Wow… The Scorpion Charms not only do less dmg in PvP but also hurts you MORE… Why? You can’t even offset the defense drop by using the GreatShield Dragon Talisman. I get you have to sacrifice something for more dmg and 10% was already a lot but 15%?! I guess they want you to pair it with the GSD Talisman if you’re gonna use it in PvP.

[@Chrightt]

Yeah... much rip.

[@TheG119YT]

@@Chrightt what about the Scarseals? Do they hurt you more in PvP?

[@MatNightmare]

roar medallion doesn't increase dragon breath attacks? I love when the game just straight up lies to you lmao

[@Chrightt]

Yeah... doesn't work.

[@monoclesquid9667]

Crucible scale talisman’s only real use is making Black Knife fights less infuriating

[@pedja-yt]

I think we are missing a point for soreseals in PVE: bosses. Since a lot of bosses will kill you in 2-3 hits (unless you use bull-goat set or very specific defensive builds), many times you will be in the same 2-3 hits range with a soreseal or even with both, making them a great way of having that exttra boost to kill the boss faster.

[@Chrightt]

Already taken into account. You would just use another talisman that would boost your damage by more than soreseals would, which there are plenty of options. A shame the comments are bugged out atm.

[@pedja-yt]

@@Chrightt I see, but that also means in that scenario heirlooms can also be discarded, because when there is no penalty in practice soreseals would always be superior to heirlooms. Am I getting it right?

[@Chrightt]

@@pedja-yt You're a bit off. I'm measuring whether 15 points of extra stats is worth -15 reduction in damage. As it turns out, the effect is negative, meaning you hurt yourself more than you gained thus cutting into the "base 5 points" making soreseals worth less than +5 points of stats. I also did the measurement for 5 points vs just raw HP (in which case we come out worse than Crimson Amber, but it does not mean that 5 points to help meet requirements or more damage/hp is unusable. It is, in fact, a better option than soreseals overall. So you can think of the conclusion as Hierlooms are worth 5 points of stats while soreseals are worth 4 points of stats after taking into account the reduction in negation, so Hierlooms are better. Remember, diminishing returns also hits soreseals harder than Hierlooms because you have more stats that are less effective.

[@pedja-yt]

@@Chrightt Yeah, I get that and I agree, it's better in general, what I'm saying is there are times when damage negation doesn't matter, like let's say I don't care if a hit takes 60% of my HP or 75%, it's 2 hits either way. In that case I don't see any possible benefit from heirlooms.

[@wolvenedvard3049]

It’s not that huge of a boost though if I understood correctly

[@ascio.20]

I do appreciate the video, but it is DEFINITELY too much tailored for pvp and a high-lvl case Of course at high lvl it's not gonna perform well hp wise or other, but the focus on "you could distribute your points in another way" gets tiring very fast became it immediately removes 3/4 of your playthrough and the value those talisman bring on it, ESPECIALLY radagon soreseal who is available from the first 20 minutes of the game Strengths of that one in particular are barely or not talked about at all: -allows for s stronger weapon that what your strats would permit otherwise, since they ask often dex/str and fth/arc together (even with "optimized distribution", you gotta consider if the weaker weapon is worth the talisman swap, and since there are weapons so powerful in ER, the radagon soreseal can allow for a way stronger build in a fixed lvl) On pve it's a no brainer for at least half the game, the real dabate should be that vs erdtree favor (depends on your stats) -the best talismans you can possibly have on a lvl 1 char, it's criminal not pointing it out -Assuming those "missing lvls" would go on vig as it's stated, you gotta also consider that the radagon's extra endurance allows for a better armor, negating the drawback even more than the free vig. It also gives more poise at the same time because of that, the value is ridiculous and worth the slot until a heavy lvl investment in vig -worth noting, the marika soreseal can be used for buffs/spirit ashes requirements then removed before any fight. Its existence then allows for less points in int/fth/mind allowing that sweet "optimization" spoke so much. Obviously that's another debate as it doesn't count as a slot talisman then - The free points for marika are excellent on a glass cannon build, especially one spamming magic. EHP are nice, but you don't need them if you comet azur your enemy to death. Considering the other talismans to be blue scorpion charm, ritual shield and graven mass, marika is a direct upgrade over the heirlooms (as it gives both the heirloom effect and more mind) Overall, very easy to put on a lot of build, it's such a shame the video boils down to basically "if you put it on this specific scenario (over hundreds) and ignore the base game, it won't be useful"

[@syn010110]

radagon's soreseal is so easy to get on a new file that I use it for all my melee characters at low level to meet weapon equip requirements, and early game nothing really hits that hard. I swap it out later.

[@B33b3]

idk I have to disagree on Primal Glintstone, I know it's very niche but when I went into NG+ and beyond on my dual staff sorcery only runs it was an absolute mainstay for me. I also didn't use Lusat's though, I personally don't find the extra FP to be worth it. But with Primal Glintstone it makes your FP bar last forever, which allows you to flask less which is really nice for bosses (and only gets better the deeper NG+'s you go) and for long times not resting at graces. imo I think it's pretty underrated but I can definitely understand not using it.

[@Chrightt]

Please look through the numbers for HP loss versus mind gain in my dual staff video. If you simply invest in mind instead of vigor you will get the effect of primal glintstone blade for the most part. Then, you will have enough mind to not run it so that you don't eat a fat 15% HP deficit.

[@kisukoev]

Without watching the video, I'd guess the soreseals, especially radagon's, are worth it in the early game, which is why marika's sucks since you find it in fucking elphael

[@kx7670]

Numbers on Consecutive Attacks talismans / Thorny Cracked Tear (20% third tier on the wiki) may be wrong, or there's some missing details about how these bonuses apply. Dual Curved Sword jump attack spam appears to reach around 80% to 100% damage bonus (comparing first and last jump attacks), which is far beyond the expected value of 44% (11 +13 + 20). Maybe the buff can stack twice with enough multi-hits? Asking because I'm looking to try a different build, but I can't seem to find anything that matches the sheer damage output of dual Curved Swords empowered by Consecutive Attack buffs. It would give me some closure if you're also observing that Consecutive Attack buffs are potentially the biggest damage boost in the game.

[@theindexfinger3434]

Ive killed all the dragons on horseback. Really easily. Its super easy to avoid getting hit while mounted.

[@gustavoalverez6934]

I personally like blessed dew talisman when i have health regen on my physik because im not very cautious and don't mind the cope

[@YodaSmokes]

Radagons soreseal can def be worth it based on your level and ability to play the game

[@Vagossssssssss]

I use seals at low level but people should also consider that if the enemy has a weapon with 2 or more damage types then the math really show that the seals fuck you up good, so yea..... I advise people to do as they want but if you are level 80 or above I really really don't recommend them unless you doing some really fancy stuff or you checked your math

[@baldgaming6204]

I think the soreseals serve a good purpose. But higher levels u actually suffer from them since the damage number u take is a lot higher, and that multiplier is not worth it just for a few stats difference. The clutch talismans are 50/50 at higher levels also, depending on how u build. I'd like to also add, radagon soreseal is a great way to meet wep requirements early on so u can focus on what ever stats u need to work on for early investment.

[@Lyeron]

So Soreseals bad on higher levels. Makes sense, think we guessed as much but its nice to have some measure of confirmation.

[@AnarchyIsLove]

I have too much practice with the greatshield talisman lol. 100 stability will drain 0 stamina on block, and the fingerprint shield used to achieve that (tested on Malenia so it was definitely 0), but now I can't achieve 100 anymore; my shield had 89 stability so I'm guessing it used to add a flat 15~20 stability (like magic shield spells in Dark Souls) because I couldn't achieve 0 stamina damage with a 75 stability shield. Either it works the same now and they capped the max stability (what I think is more likely, feels like the cap is 95 now) or they changed it from flat to a %.