Don't Use The Golden Ritual Spear (Dark Souls 3)

[@professorrachel96]

Cool video but what happened to your voice at the beginning? So weird!

[@Honly]

That was some good narration!! I always respect good voice work

[@professorrachel96]

@Holly Magala thank you! I figure if fate decided I'm gonna sound like an edgy 15 year old boy I should at least do something fun with it

[@khalidpapa6299]

you didn't finish the video did you.... (:

[@professorrachel96]

Also I do wanna say that it was great to work with ya, Jim! After helping me make my first ever Bloodborne build I was more than happy to do something in return 💗

[@kabrozkabroz]

@@professorrachel96 you really got me with the "unfortunately for you"

[@FlameEliwood]

I love the concept of these types of weapons because they have the most potential for variety in attacks compared to regular weapons

[@lepistanuda]

This is exactly what it has going for it, people do not respect it in the slightest either which encourages some very punishable plays that you can 0-100 people with. The flashsword blender is scary and real

[@junoglrr9119]

Have a feel that ER gonna be a paradise for all diff kinds of movesets

[@humble1107]

The last ds3 dangitjm underrated/don’t use video before elden ring, very excited to see the content you’ll put out once you have your hands on elden ring

[@amihs_4307]

Same here, I really love the in-depth analysis dangitjm provides in these videos, hard to put the feeling in to words but it is very pleasant, ''satisfying'' comes to mind first.

[@yamnbam4346]

Lol I bet it’s gonna be something like “don’t use Godrick’s axe” lol

[@joshuakim5240]

The Golden Ritual Spear was my first "non-standard" build because i absolutely loved spellcasting weapons in DkS2 and thought that Farron Flashsword would be awesome with this thing. You can probably guess how terrible of an idea that turned out to be.

[@nahrikkon]

You should’ve tried out the immolation tinder then Edit: or Heysel’s pick

[@quint3ssent1a]

Still, it has fashion and versatility (giving that R2 is basically whatever you want it to be.) Not the best weapon damage-wise, but still very cool.

[@joshuakim5240]

@@nahrikkon I've actually tried out all the casting weapons in DkS3 and the one that ended up being the most consistent and strong was...the Cleric's Candlestick (baffled me). Though that's more due to straight sword moveset power rather than its own merits, though what i found really cool is that it has its own super R1+R1+R2 combo but rather than the R2 being a thrust, it can be a Soul Greatsword or Dark Edge, depending on how your opponent is rolling. Just wish that the Weapon Art wasn't a joke and the actual weapon had a less stupid aesthetic to it.

[@trustmeImadoc91]

@@joshuakim5240 it was a crime that we didn't get the blue flame in ds3

[@Rat-mk6fk]

@@nahrikkon heysel pick is really good at low so never tried it on high sl I mostly do so 25 invasions with trash builds to challenge myself

[@calasay2688]

I love how all of these builds can trace back to Scott Jund. I didn't even watch Scott during his ds3 days, but he's coming back to the souls community for Elden Ring

[@junoglrr9119]

Feels great

[@csquared4538]

He said one thing in his video that made me wonder if he was trolling. He said something like "im obsessed with dark souls pvp" but he stopped playing ds3 in like 2016 or 2017 because he didn't like it anymore and refused to go back to it during early days when he was getting pressure from his community. So saying he's obsessed with dark souls pvp when he hasn't played it (to my knowledge) since dlc2 (and only did a pve playthrough of Ringed City) sounded really odd. I'm probably reading into it too much, he sounded genuinely excited about the game, but Scott is one to troll. He also did a totally straight face, and really convincing review of patch notes for DBD, that he weren't real, that he wrote himself.

[@amberhernandez]

I misheard "this is what you get for giving ten ears to Yorshka" as "ten years," and it honestly works lmao

[@Amir0]

The free-aiming throughout the video was incredible! Especially the ways you used the tracking on Soul Greatsword to either to space an opponent's attack DURING the animation and still hit them with the wide arc and superior range, or to make your opponents roll early only to be caught by the last frame of the arc.

[@gandingo9358]

Freelock casting is the way sad not many people use it effectively freelock sorcerer or pyro is fun

[@draxxilion5957]

Finally, a viable miracle build. Wait...

[@jmnthem]

Viable Faith Build* ;)

[@MikeDep]

Unfortunately for the lore reader at the start of the video, they never knew the folly of using the phrase "Unfortunately for you" in a dark souls video

[@lepistanuda]

I think the person at the start uses She/Her pronouns

[@MikeDep]

@@lepistanuda This is the only dark souls creator I follow, so when he brought up Scott's video I didn't realize he had someone else do a voiceover until later in the video after I commented

[@lepistanuda]

@@MikeDep Oh yeah yeah i was confused too at first

[@nikhildebrandt2059]

Oh she knew full well what she was doing. That U4U was the on-ramp to excitement!

[@capperbuns]

If this weapon actually scaled with int it would actually be the "perfect" weapon-staff for sorceries.

[@matthewsimon6170]

Wait, it scales with Faith? Ooooooh, that's why it's not that good. Here i saw a montage from a channel I randomly clicked on, so was confused why not to use it.

[@Legolas.T.Spencer]

That would defeat the point, unless you mean if it scaled with both int & fth. It allows for a build that good with miracles & good with most low LV sorcery, saving you stats that you would otherwise have to put into int so that the spells hit good damage

[@tomskeleton]

Can we talk about the heinous crime that sorceries got four catalyst weapons to choose from and pyromancies and miracles only got one each

[@veravera6571]

jim, so proud of you for coming out after all these years. being a dark souls fan it was a long time coming for sure, but better late than never :)

[@planetmoises2405]

came out as what?

[@boukh_h]

@@planetmoises2405 a souls fan 🤮

[@nikhildebrandt2059]

Long live the "self-indulgent montage" ! Nobody does 'em like DangitJM. Even if this was "spoiled" in that stream months ago, this vid was well worth the wait!

[@LaurensK90]

You chose a banger of a track for that montage, that was a real Magic Show!

[@fin3662]

For whatever reason this series holds a special place in my heart, the editing, the music choice, the clips, just all of it fit together so perfectly, and you should totally continue it for elden ring weapons.

[@hobosorcerer]

I love to see flashsword getting love in this video, but I have to mention something. The extra hitstun on flash sword comes from a special hitbox on the hand that does medium instead of dagger hitstun. This allows you to combo into a variety of different attacks-- anything about the speed of a 1H great axe.

[@lepistanuda]

you're referring to the running attack/ rolling attack hitbox right?

[@jmnthem]

Does this explain the "double hits" that tends to happen when using the flashsword with this spear? I would routinely proc'd tears and kill a player at the same time. Is the model of the spear also hitting them as well as the flashsword? Crazy!

[@lepistanuda]

@@jmnthem I think so yeah, you can get the same effect with Staves/crystal chime too but generally i've found you can only hit for 1 damage when you get this style of stun if its not a weapon catalyst for whatever reason

[@hobosorcerer]

@@jmnthem Indeed it does, as some staves are short enough for the hand hitbox to overlap.

[@hermitcard4494]

If DS3 had DS2 items that lowered the stats requirements of spells, this weapon would be efficient.

[@capperbuns]

Yeah, it's efficient at MAX level as well. Since y'know, you have all stats maxed out so the split scaling doesn't fugg you up.

[@TenguOfTrisuna]

I think you got summoned as a Blade of the Darkmoon when i was invading, you gave me hell with this build, it was great

[@alexepic3255]

I swear that "unfortunately for You" should be just as popular as "time for crab" in the Souls fandom xD

[@athurstyman2139]

Your comedic flow really never goes stale. Love that I have an idea for an end-ish game build for any Return to Lothric events >:)

[@ValentinParkourGaming]

11:44 Jim is hitting his teammates again ^^ Awesome video, it's always great to see you invest so much into finding hidden gems

[@jmnthem]

In all fairness, I was putting my face in the wall. The angle of the Soul Greatsword is just that wide. You gotta believe me 🙏

[@ValentinParkourGaming]

@@jmnthem I am just joking, its a reference to the othe rinvasion you had with Jeenine. You're a great player and we all love you. Qui aime bien chatie bien

[@mattblevins3373]

I'm really spooked cause I literally looked at this weapon yesterday and was like "hey I wonder if the weapon has anything to it?.....nah if it did Jm would probably have a vid on it." Dark souls is aggressively trying to get me to branch out and I'm scared.

[@hobosorcerer]

Good, you should branch out!

[@Bluecho4]

Even five years later, Dark Souls 3 still has secrets worth pursuing.

[@Anhero64]

You've easily been my favorite souls-tuber in the twilight years of dark souls 3. Just wanted to say thanks for helping to keep me from going hollow during the dearth of Elden Ring info, and i hope to see you out there in the lands between

[@zoem3605]

The voice at the beginning was a super cool choice!

[@professorrachel96]

A friend just sent me this comment so I wanted to reply and say thank you for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed the monologue

[@adamyohan]

This is the sickest INT build I've ever seen

[@pizza-for-mountains]

viable faith build..?

[@adamyohan]

@@pizza-for-mountains faith builds were always viable

[@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398]

Before I even watch this, I already know I'm gonna hear Vylet Pony in this. You did it last time, and I'm hyped. Edit: Ah, and it's one of my favorite songs. And the kills were so fucking satisfying, nice job!

[@DragonHornet]

This is the miracle build we've all been waiting for... one where you don't have to use miracles at all

[@themeatmann]

more vylet? hell yeah i love that album fantastic video as always, man

[@JustKrona]

6:18 Is no one going to talk about that SMOOTH transition? Great work as always, JM!

[@Honly]

I love the Vylet music every time it shows up

[@lepistanuda]

Aw I didn't expect to be in this!! You highlighted like all the things the spear does well, which obviously my take on the build ignores in favour of being weird and flashy! One thing worth mentioning too though is the little Gimmick tech where you can transfer the poise from unfaltering prayer lightning stake onto any spell if you queue it immediately after, which makes the lightning stake > dark edge/ old moonlight/ soul greatsword pretty deadly if they try to contest (you can also charge old moonlight with poise if you want to be extra about it). Also one thing I noticed you doing was lots of block buffered running attacks, which I think - especially with flashsword - are the bread and butter of getting use out of the low damage, low range nature of the GRS and gives it a boon that casters often lack in the form of efficient chasedowns. I also reckon its worth noting that a properly specced GRS build will do criminal amounts of dark damage which give you access to forms of burst that greatly help balance the lack of guaranteed burst damage on this build I.E. a strong offhand (I use offhand Thrall axe, which can be used to punish roll-ins and rush-ins that mage play encourages from your opponent) and chaos infused crit tools - a second slot or hardswap to chaos rapier can very much turn the tides, and set you up for very cruel wake-ups like lightning stake or in your case soul greatsword. Super super good, and appreciate your buildmaking expertise and thoughtful use of off-meta weapons and playstyles always!

[@lepistanuda]

Oh and something else to note that I discovered recently, this setup with offhand Dark Estoc and Flashsword is absolutely brutal, you have combos like running flashsword > l2, wait for roll l2 > r1 etc. etc. Like just really mean to fight

[@Yeetomato]

hi lepi 👁👁

[@lepistanuda]

@@Yeetomato 👁👁

[@Yeetomato]

@@lepistanuda 👁👁

[@lepistanuda]

@@Yeetomato 👁 👁

[@TemporarilyWoW]

I love these videos so much man.. please keep making them in Elden Ring!

[@K1ZGODTAIL]

im glad my initial belief that you had warped into a cartoon character at the start turned out to be false

[@professorrachel96]

He just asked a cartoon character to make an appearance

[@meteormedia7021]

Oh its that time of the year again when JM posts a video

[@prohikikomo]

Dude, your content never disappoints.

[@Mistheart101]

OH YO THE PROFESSOR'S IN THIS, HELL YEAH

[@professorrachel96]

I'm everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

[@AdamBarkerThe]

Oh Ye bby, new dangitjm video on a Sunday 🙏

[@AdamBarkerThe]

That Faron dart burrito was dirty af, I am impressed.

[@AlrauneDollmind]

I am so grateful for you, Jm. Thank you for passionately keeping the spirit of the game alive all this time. You represent more than a souls fan, and more than an invader, with each swing of your weapons and each stroke of your pen, so to speak. You are a legend to me at this point, something I can always aspire to be in the games going forward, someone I turn to for a reminder of what the games mean to me, any time I need one. Your mastery over the GRS shouldn't even surprise me. And yet... ❤️ I don't think there could ever be a player quite like you in the series. I'll see you again soon, Jm. Look forward to it.

[@UnpronounceabIeName]

Leave it to JM to give us all one beautiful last hurrah for Ds3 with a unique almost optimal sorcerer build!

[@LaterLumi]

Loved the video! I liked the idea of using it to tech some sorceries onto a faith build. I definitely WON'T consider looking into this when ds3 remastered comes out

[@whoopsthatsasinisntit]

Congrats on coming out

[@Wacck]

well now I am going to use it

[@Vidaxer]

I hoped they learned from weapons like this and Elden Ring has better balanced unique weapons.

[@kajzer8544]

I waited SO FUCKING LONG for this… thank you jim.

[@starofaetherius]

I used the Golden Ritual Spear a lot earlier on and had a ton of fun with it, nice to see you give it some love.

[@lucasrubin8654]

man i thought proof of concord kept were little knight helmets, not severed ears...... thanks for that

[@TechNinjaSigma]

One last Hurrah for DS3!

[@alexandersong5753]

16:30 thats uhhh 44 levels lower. even crazier!

[@devoteeofmediocrity821]

16:54 I misheard you say “ears” as “years” and it still made sense. So many silver knights, so much time. ب_ب

[@DJcystrom]

Love your videos! Thank you so much for this latest one!

[@Prynne_]

With the buff, that damage gets pretty close to what the court sorcerer can do regularly, which is extremely impressive! Wonderful video, and great to see Lepista and Yeeto in there too!

[@gingervald8601]

Hot damn I wish my coming outs could be that cool. Was not expecting to see a link to Verilybitchie when I started this video, but am happy to see one. Love your content and happy to have you out here, look foward to seeing more of you in Elden ring!

[@iamamish]

I wondered if that footage might ever make an appearance - mercifully the end got cut. I guess I should be grateful for remote code exploits? Great video - I love the mixups with this setup, and can confirm - Soul Greatsword does a lot of damage.

[@charred_dog]

Not enough vitality to wear the onion helmet. Me no like, me angy.

[@brynlds_er]

Your series has all but completely changed the way I play these games. Rather than using the most optimal weapons, I now like to take the role of a weapon pioneer, finding the most optimised ways to use obscure weapons haha

[@heretornado788]

Missed your videos so much, love you man!

[@DS_DoggerX]

Been waiting for this. At last, this is the one weapon I could never work with. You've gone above and beyond my resourcefulness. Excellent work, as usual.

[@forlaith9321]

Love to see your still making great content JM ❤

[@djbayless9205]

Always love your vids. Frankly when I found out there was only so few spell-casting arms in these games, When coming from DS2, I had hoped they’d have kept Blue Flame, but this is as close as we can get until ER and start poking at those weapons!

[@MoonRose-Valentine]

It straight up out cancered the cancer knight twin swords

[@superceilingfan9741]

4:33 I actually have a character named Old Soldier Zach lmao. He's a gigatwink that passes out warmth to people in Cathedral, Farron, and Carthus and kinda just chills, and seeing a sudden "soldier zack" threw me off and now I wanna play that character again lmfao

[@DonutSwordsman]

The title was so interesting I had to watch lol. Glad to be subbed

[@Yeetomato]

Fancy moves, the farron dart burrito was beautiful. Looking forward to spilling spaghetti on you in elden ring.

[@derpy4593]

Heya JM, I just finished watching and of course, you will always do great with your vids. No doubt you'll get plenty of comments on your quality video, but I wanna give you kudos for finishing this video and feeling creatively motivated to come back. I realize that it can be tough, but me and a lot of others are proud of you (as cheesy as it sounds haha). Awesome work on making a case for the GRS. Very much looking forward to what you do in Elden Ring. Ya got this B)

[@nahrikkon]

1:56 “but unfortunately for you..” I’m still playing this game

[@Lithiumc]

This series is just jm gatekeeping questionable weapon choices from the rest of the ds3 community

[@ericbright1881]

One of my favorite hex-build tactics during invasions is using either the Izalith staff or murky longstaff, moving very little, and bonking opponents who get too close. No sword/scythe spells, just low damage and high disrespect. Then when they're good and tilted, throw up an affinity, swap to a deep Millwood axe and charge them down.

[@hermitcard4494]

Beautiful pvp skills and true melee sorcery without heavy defense armor.

[@HAHAd2]

Anything is viable against bad players, there’s people who actually think strength is good in pvp

[@Por_QPine]

Great video JM! I was wondering when this would be the case! A great way to say goodbye to DS3 and welcome Elden Ring into the stage light. Hope to see more of your videos soon! 😁

[@Rukir]

Congrats at coming out, jim

[@pulseless_1916]

I learnt this from somewhere, but if you cause Lightning Stake with Unfaltering Prayer through a Talisman offhand, then immediately hold cast Old Moon Light, the poise transfers to the Old Moon Light! It’s really cool to use that spell to trade against bosses!

[@frostedbricks1828]

Jm please somewhere link us a playlist of music you love. Every video I look forward to what new amazing music you use almost as much as your in-depth coverage of weapons/mechanics/some new cool game I didn’t know anything about.

[@JJ-qo7th]

So, just......have a catalyst in one hand, and a magic spear in the other.

[@aidankeogh9994]

"You _don't_ want to use the Golden Ritual Spear." After that montage, I sure do

[@damiens1998]

MORE HORSE MUSIC IN MY DANGITJM VIDEOS YESSSSS

[@EtherealFissure]

I love non-standard builds. This is awesome. Reminds me of the heysel pick one you did a while back. Great work.

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

I love how if you pay enough attention, and run in the right circles you can get a sense for what weapon Jm's been playing around with and get months early foreshadowing of videos like this. Dont even know what video it was but I think Saint Riot pointed out Jm using this thing a while back? Same thing happened with the greatlance popping up in a few miscellaneous vids Jm posted

[@gingervald8601]

Meanwhile one of my early invasion builds was a golden ritual spear one. It was really similar to your 125 build. I didn't realize the spear was "bad" at the time, my main line of thinking was I could be a mage with lightning urns. Str/dex/hollow builds have decent-good stats for firebombs, a normal faith build has that but better with lightning urns, while Int builds don't have access to that option at all. I wasn't good at the time but the build functioned with the same gameplan as your did. Golden Ritual Spear was a lot of fun!

[@NathanTruby]

Since there you're leveling your faith with your intelligence, you could stick some miracles in your offhand

[@littlebattler]

another thing to note is that GRS has the lowest stamina cost for casting spells out of all catalysts

[@LuciaLaVA]

Convinced this man could make the Morion Blade reliable as anything other than an early rtsr

[@agentmaine4746]

You know, it had never even occurred to me to try to use this thing. I now wish to.

[@Sregg.21]

I need a video call "unfortunately for you, you don't gonna use toxic"

[@jorgeoquendo7514]

The staff is probably worn down from Aldrich eating Gwyndolin, same with the longbow

[@jmnthem]

A fair hypothesis! It's still odd that there are two copies of the same weapon though, one right next to Sulyvahn and the other held by Gwyndolin. If you're curious to read a detailed perspective of why that could be, look up "lokeysouls.com" and search for "Golden Ritual Spear" in their blog.

[@jorgeoquendo7514]

@@jmnthem i will read that, i always assumed that the duplicates are not actually there though since they come fitted in your size. There are duplicates of everything you just find in chests, like i doubt theres another prayer set when its description says it was worn by Lothric his whole life

[@ungratefulingrate1268]

I already know I'm gonna love this

[@ungratefulingrate1268]

I didn't even know it was held like a staff, that's do nice

[@mikewillner8626]

Here's an optimancy I thought of. Instead of using scholar's candlestick in the offhand use the saint-tree bellvine to increase cast speed and then wear the young dragon ring. That'll give you an extra 2% sorcery damage and also it means you don't need to crowd your hands with an extra chime/talisman to cast tears.

[@TheValiantBob]

Fromsoft really should have made it so when using these weird catalysts that use a different stat, that it used the alternative stat for the spell requirements too. Also, if you could make a decent build outta this thing, wonder if you might be able to salvage the cleric candlestick too. Doubtful, but you never know. Too bad servers are down.

[@jorgeoquendo7514]

The cleric's candlestick being bad stopped when its spellbuff was buffed to 200 at 60 int, its actually just good at this point. A little damage buff would have been nice

[@TheValiantBob]

@@jorgeoquendo7514 Also if its WA was replaced with literally anything else

[@jorgeoquendo7514]

@@TheValiantBob No way! Have you tried lighting the flames before a fight? It looks cool

[@TheValiantBob]

@@jorgeoquendo7514 Fair counterpoint lol

[@MustDefeatPizzaMan]

Running this build through the game had actually taught me to manage my stamina better and to panic roll less. So I would actually recommend this build its ain’t so bad.

[@khknight]

Nice use of the furi soundtrack. Love that game

[@Chronomaton]

Since the Spear would mainly work along the lines of a Hex/Pyromancy build Pursuers would likely be a great choice with it.

[@dragonknighty6610]

8:24 hidden Jim lore?

[@greedsin555]

LOL I though JM had started to transition in the beginning

[@jmnthem]

There are a lot of transitions in my editing. 😉

[@greedsin555]

@@jmnthem OWO

[@Abblesauc3]

That’s so cool. I didn’t know soul greatsword combos into the golden spear r1

[@fraion7648]

I've played this game for 5 years and yet i've never seen this weapon in my entire life.

[@NathanTruby]

You say I don't want to use it, but then the rest of this video makes me want to use it

[@rutsugo]

YES!!! FINALLY! ive been waiting since the twitter video, thanks sweetie

[@pingas469]

vaugely threatening thumbnail.

[@Bagel920]

Can’t wait to see the hybrid weapons in Elden Ring that JM can make videos on telling me why not to use them

[@Golab08]

Oh my god! After so many years, dangitjm found my favorite/most-hated weapon! I'm just at the start of the video, but thank you for making video dedicated to this piece of beautiful garbage