Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree - Hybrid Build: Annoying Octopus

Thanks to Bandai Namco for a review code for Shadow of the Erdtree.
0:00 Intro
0:14 Showcase
6:09 Arena PvP
Follow in the footsteps of Miquella the Kind. This walkthrough will take you through all content of the DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. This includes all bosses, NPC quests, dungeons, items, etc. Any content patched or overlooked will be added as a pinned comment.
The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion features an all-new story set in the Land of Shadow imbued with mystery, perilous dungeons, and new enemies, weapons and equipment.
Discover uncharted territories, face formidable adversaries, and revel in the satisfying triumph of victory. Dive into the riveting interplay of characters, where drama and intrigue intertwine, that create an immersive experience to savor and enjoy.
Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
• A Vast World Full of Excitement
A vast world where open fields with a variety of situations and huge dungeons with complex and three-dimensional designs are seamlessly connected. As you explore, the joy of discovering unknown and overwhelming threats await you, leading to a high sense of accomplishment.
• Create your Own Character
In addition to customizing the appearance of your character, you can freely combine the weapons, armor, and magic that you equip. You can develop your character according to your play style, such as increasing your muscle strength to become a strong warrior, or mastering magic.
• An Epic Drama Born from a Myth
A multilayered story told in fragments. An epic drama in which the various thoughts of the characters intersect in the Lands Between.
• Unique Online Play that Loosely Connects You to Others
In addition to multiplayer, where you can directly connect with other players and travel together, the game supports a unique asynchronous online element that allows you to feel the presence of others.
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[@ipotato95]

Putting out a build and then playing against a viewer who wanted to try it has to be the coolest feeling

[@ArcaneDumpster-Fire]

The Ocean Man helm has made it's well deserved appearance

[@xaeCarolina1865]

I havent even seen half of these spells, thanks for making me aware. Can't wait to try this out!

[@cody3335]

Squidward build finally

[@m.a.dmatt6689]

The Omen Bairns tools also have fai/int scaling if you want/can add that to your build as well.

[@Lofff371]

I would probably swap the twin blade with Leda’s sword ‘cause that ash of war is quite good at roll-catching, fitting the theme

[@chriskotte8468]

Loving the PvP content. Most people just show of basic meta build that don’t have much flavor to them. Really appreciate the creativity and the fact you do this in a team battle.

[@paul4890]

Cowboy with the play by play commentary 👌🏾 Id love to see/play a sleep/eternal sleep build. Inflict enough cold youll proc a debuff. Inflict enough sleep youll proc a freeze

[@TeslaRaijin]

After watching the build here I know what I’m trying tonight lol

[@GeorgiaOllis]

The octopus head is a way Forgotten Realms and D&D fans can role play as a mindflayer or illithid 👍

[@guillaumeSONY]

That's really close of my current build 😊

[@sonoflightning8674]

Its great to see great fashion thats not just Rakshasa armor

[@tarasouthwell6132]

i've been running basically the same build for an ng+ run lol it's a lot of fun, being able to whip out basically an dmg type you want whenever you feel like it

[@magg_2k2]

I love these videos

[@SP73094]

I could watch you play pvp all day

[@Nickedup44]

I have a similar build at lvl 280 so much fun I love it. I use golden order seal and the carian regale septor. Giants flame with the twin blades is awesome

[@SF49ss]

I always click on these frickin videos and tell myself that I will watch a few minutes and end up watching them in their entirety. 😅

[@RRW276]

Not to sound ignorant, but I didn’t even know you could alter your garments. So many hours in the game and I’m still learning new things. Also, had no idea about the int/sorc staff, though I’m still making my way thru the dlc.

[@chriskotte8468]

Wouldn’t mind seeing a pure archer build at some point if that’s even possible for PvP. Maybe have a dagger or something for close up.

[@citrusjuice5517]

What would you recommend for PVE spells and incants?

[@Kmillski]

Legendary build

[@LunarValkyria]

you should check out the reusable consumables that scale with int/faith as well. There was a cool one I found that is basically homing soul mass from dark souls.

[@giovannirusso3912]

Yo cowboy, can you do a video playing a strenght arcane build? Kind of want you see your take on a bleed build with bulky weapons and the meteoric greatsword

[@FightinCowboy]

Ots pretty straightforward. Marias, chickenwing, meteoric

[@jamesmaid3466]

I have a hybrid similar to this with Maria's execution to start my rotten wing and enough arcane to make it hurt with Godfrey and alexander shard to boost

[@neerkum5428]

You should pit all your builds against eachother that would be fun

[@AngelB-bu5zr]

Is there a way to transfer Xbox progress to pc? Cause I’ve been watching ur tutorials since I couldn’t get my Xbox progress to pc love the vids

[@FightinCowboy]

Not that I'm aware of, but you can find plenty of starter saves online

[@Davewonder31]

Does anyone know if cowboys group in Elden ring is private or not ? Or does he have a public group? I know a lot of people have been taking advantage of this since the dlc dropped for any that don’t know anytime someone defeats a shardbearer or becomes elden ring it gives anyone who is in the group a temporary rune buff. From my experience though it goes away if you warp to a site of grace

[@FightinCowboy]

Its been fcb forever

[@Davewonder31]

@@FightinCowboy my bad I hadn’t seen anything about it in the videos I’ve watched so I was just curious

[@briang5661]

Ive never seen a build like this i mostly do strength but im gonna try this out do you feel its great for PvE also???

[@FightinCowboy]

I mean you can use any spell basically so you can set it up to handle any situation

[@fullmetalathlete]

That's a cool concept...i like the permanent chase spells...coming from pvp in other games (mostly MMOs) im used to leaning hard into support/healer roles so im curious if its even possible to make a build like that for these team fights where you just spam out buffs and healing essentially make your teammates and self unkillable.

[@FightinCowboy]

Could go around throwing heal from afar but damage is so high in this it's hard to outpace incoming damage

[@fullmetalathlete]

@@FightinCowboy good to know

[@landonscott3819]

Awesome build! Quality build next please🙏

[@soulpunisher743]

He did one a few years ago look in the playlists

[@landonscott3819]

@@soulpunisher743 yeah I know, I just want to see his take on it after dlc, RL 200, etc

[@Jason-..-]

​@@landonscott3819 basically you use the dragon great katana😂 you win the game

[@blackairforceenergy4055]

This is my favorite type of build, but it suffers from close combat. Especially when you have swift dash spammers.

[@denizalan7694]

will I get a ban if I download a no cheat endgame file from Nexus with all the gear/weapons etc ? I really liked your "can do anything" playthrough run for the extra freedom to try out stuff

[@FightinCowboy]

If you don't know how to swap saves there's a good chance you could flag something. Do your research beforehand

[@thevalhalla3635]

I can confirm you won't be banned. There is a save file editor available that can swap saves replacing the new save with your own steam ID making it a proper swap. I swapped my 40 hr save back in the day when I switched from the pirated version to the actual game I bought.

[@jameshaines604]

Bro this build is awsome are most of those spells new from the dlc?

[@FightinCowboy]

Nope most of these are actually base game.

[@tomkuzik4908]

🙏😤🙌

[@Jason-..-]

Do you like vortex of putrescence?

[@FightinCowboy]

I think for a 2 slot cost its not worth

[@evannadeau3938]

So do you find that level 200 is the new stopping point? I feel like you pvp and play enough to know lol

[@rayz5508]

Like to see an 80 int night sorcery build? 2000+ damage is possible with the build.

[@FightinCowboy]

Int will be a bit out still, I haven't started my int playthrough yet but it'll kick off this week most likely.

[@degeneratecollector9950]

Thank god u didn’t name it ending in “boy” again

[@still52]

anyone else having trouble watching these videos. they seem to buffer way more than others

[@thevalhalla3635]

That's true. I thought it's my internet at first. Bit seeing your comment I guess it's not.

[@tyaeden510]

The why do you make me do this fucking sent me.

[@A.Eco00]

Does Xbox just have more players on united combat in general? Feel like it takes a while just to get 2v2s. 3v3s seem to be just non-existent at lvl 150

[@FightinCowboy]

This is pc 200

[@A.Eco00]

@@FightinCowboy Oh ok. How's the population there? There much downtime between united combat matches?

[@HurtMachine]

why did you move away from 150?

[@FightinCowboy]

Because i wanted to

[@joeyjones9041]

150 is too limited anyways

[@JuicyPiickle]

Cowboy has a massive following of souls players, so I would say whatever he says is meta pvp lvl most players are gonna go to that level, I myself am probably gonna go to lvl 200 because he is.

[@HurtMachine]

@@FightinCowboy great way of engaging ;)

[@Howl4514]

You know....I suck at pvp, and play offline just because trying to help my friends became joyless, but seeing all these people spamming constantly, the weird connections, the weird glitch types....I'm starting to understand why I suck.

[@Never_Winter]

Cool build! But after the "elden wrong" pvp system + dlc lore (no spoilers) I think fromSoftware definetely need to take back to Bloodborne. Unfortunately current state of elden wrong is wrong , lol))))

[@joshemfinger]

Ohhh Cowboy….You say they’re making you show off the shittiest part of this build…..I say the funniest part 😂

[@lucifersatani7446]

As cool as this build is, I kinda just feel bad for F.F. Like. it went from a 2v2, to two people, with vastly different builds, just taking turns killing him lol

[@sweatychaw3105]

The new flame incant would fit perfectly into that casting rotation

[@FightinCowboy]

Yeah but the range is quite short

[@user-Darknugget6588]

Why don't you do 1v1's in these showcases? Those require more skill and thinking as well as knowledge of your match ups. Wouldn't it be better to show these builds can stack up to current strategies and not just hit unaware distracted opponents?

[@FightinCowboy]

1v1s are kinda dull imo as it largely comes down to spacing and who has superior movement. Group fights like this better showcase the chaos that most PVP happens in.

[@schabikssjbcurtis]

🤔 ?

[@brandonloyo1394]

Why do your videos always take really long to load? I thought it was my internet but I checked other videos and they play smooth like butter. 😢

[@FightinCowboy]

No clue, runs perfect on my end.

[@00ABBITT00]

I pooped in the shower today.

[@bladetofall]

ahh watching a swift slash spammer get destroyed makes me happy

[@shadow_wolfgaming7397]

Imagine being so atrociously horrible at the game that you have to spam swift slash and still loosing xD

[@furizakura2575]

First

[@ricosuave4026]

‼️Cowboy‼️ PLZ HELP!!!! Anyone know why my camera pans up by itself it does it every single time it doesn’t happen so often but does now why????

[@markogreshock4738]

Sounds like a controller issue my dude

[@jabcmw1]

I think you have controller drift

[@FightinCowboy]

Agree controller drift

[@ricosuave4026]

@@FightinCowboy are you sure cuz the controller isn’t new but I never dropped it

[@ricosuave4026]

@@jabcmw1 my controller isn’t that old, not old or that new but it’s just over time usage never had stick drift

[@huntermoreno7805]

This build works so much better at lvl 300.

[@fotuto13]

Is there even pvp at 300? Seems a little too high

[@huntermoreno7805]

@@fotuto13 yes

[@WokeandProud]

I wouldn't even say you have a build at that point hell 200 is pushing the envelope as it is at 300 you're just an everyman.

[@huntermoreno7805]

@@WokeandProud to be a strong “fundamentalist” with high lvl caps is op. Considering you need faith and int.

[@WokeandProud]

@@huntermoreno7805 60-60 is pretty decent.

[@degeneratecollector9950]

That build sucks bruh 😂😂

[@FightinCowboy]

For my opponents it sure does

[@cassiopeiiaa]

u must have gotten your ass beat by it

[@sirsiloz]

@@FightinCowboywould be much better on 80/80 using prince of death staff. Rellana blades are underwhelming af, even sonaf is better and requires less stats. Also explosive ghostflame is a most for int/faith builds, with the right setup u can 1shot with that thing

[@FightinCowboy]

Unfortunately you can't hit 80/80 without making some pretty big sacrifices. Namely you'll have to be below 60 vigor, which in PVP is generally a recipe for disaster, and you're losing out on mind+ endurance so less poise and FP.

[@JuicyPiickle]

​​​​​@FightinCowboy wonder if you can make another build expanding even more on your badass pryomancer/faith build, like maybe sacrifice some points in faith just enough to where maybe you can boost strength up a little bit more so we have even more variety for pvp but also make it really good for pve as well like a perfect hybrid of all that while still having good dex as well, would be freakin awesome, would have tons of powers to use and so many weapons to choose from the strength and dex and faith categories, I would imagine it would be possible would just have to get those stat points just right for lvl 200, I'm not sure how many cool status effect weapons there are but being able to fit those into the build to would be so freakin cool, would just have so much variety, or maybe instead of boosting strength more could possibly boost arcane some to use those type of weapons? But iono much about the arcane stuff so I'm not sure if there are any cool weapons worth using in that category, whatever one is the better option I just love having the crazy variety, and being able to do well in pve and being a trickster in pvp to where the opponent just doesn't know what I'm gonna pull out on them next, keep them guessing.

[@Nickedup44]

I have a similar build at lvl 280 so much fun I love it. I use golden order seal and the carian regale septor. Giants flame with the twin blades is awesome