How To Use All 28 Elden Ring DLC Incantations...

[@Rusty._]

Download Asphalt Legends Unite now / when it releases! : gmlft.co/Rusty

[@reachazoidl3414]

how'd u write the comment 3 hours before you upload yo video

[@Guys._.]

Love you but no ❤

[@hardluckmk.52]

I swear it was making the priestess fall asleep before killing bayle

[@salihburakisik501]

Oi m8, when are you going to make builds videos? I mean come on dude.....please. I want see your takes on them.

[@powerforcex6190]

I remember playing Asphalt 2 and 3 back in the day where it was 2D and java apps were around, shit was cool and stylish as fuck, Outrun-style graphics with a shitton of action.

[@ChanCassiMeowMix]

In regards to the "Bear Communion" thing: It's a reference to a play test from before Elden Ring came out. There was a Runebear that was out of bounds that was damn near impossible to kill given the limitations set by the play test. The few people that did manage to kill it were surprised to see it drop a Dragon Heart. The Dragon Heart's item description mentioned how it could be taken to a Dragon Communion Altar, and the joke was born! Bear Communion ❤️🐻

[@FelisImpurrator]

The self madness proc on Midra serves exactly one purpose: Procs the new Aged One's Exultation faster than literally any other spell. And also that bit about baking dragons from the inside.

[@conan2096]

"bird feathers? is this a fully automatic shotgun?" "yeah, but more than 2/3rds of them dont count as doing any damage"

[@hitlord]

In essence, just a full auto glock.

[@itscznben8728]

I hope that’s a glitch.

[@hitlord]

@@itscznben8728 Probably not a glitch, given how wide the animation is. They probably meant it as a coverage spell, instead of a focus down spell like Crystal Torrent. But nevertheless, I'd like it to get the Crystal Torrent treatment. It's WAY too garbage as it is. At least make it flinch human sized enemies almost perpetually or something. That stamina cost makes no sense without a benefit.

[@blitzboy2934]

@@hitlordjust watching the footage of Rusty using it hurt my soul. The range doesn’t seem wide or far enough to cover much of anything, but I also haven’t tried the spell myself

[@FelisImpurrator]

Thing needs a serious buff and to be at most the same cost as Surge O Flame, because come on. Not even level 99-all can make that thing viable.

[@kevincooper537]

Rusty: I'm not a fuckin walkthrough channel Also Rusty: Provides a walkthrough to every Incantation

[@JordanMullen-sx6em]

Adhd is a hell of a drug 😂

[@Snake0Gamer]

Knights lightning strike is insanely good, and Messmer’s Fire spells are also not bad. But with every other spell it feels like they tried to make them look as flashy as possible (ex. Bayle’s spells and the rot butterflies) but then forgot to make them do any damage 😅

[@gunsevenwhillans420]

Messmer's Orb and Fire Serpent are so good man. That Founding Rain of Stars reskin is possibly the worst spell in the DLC though. Maybe it being so trash will get to From and they'll finally buff the Founding Rain + that spell

[@riemaennchen]

With the proper Build and the dragonheart (and while in DLC) the Bayle Incantations hit for 5k+. Might not be the best use for your FP but big number make brain happy.

[@pepe8918]

and looks amazing ​@@riemaennchen

[@Skiadummy]

I've gotten the Bayle spells to hit for like 8k damage against certain enemies so flashy doesn't always equal low damage

[@duckyduckington9736]

bayles actually does ridiculous damage since it can be buffed by stacking dragon communion and has the HIGHEST damage on a single hit and RIDICULOUS poise damage. Its numbers easily goes 8k+ if you run the proper builds.

[@PrapalyFree]

As a sacred holy main, this dlc gave me exactly what I wanted. Bosses weak to holy and more offensive good holy spells. Now I don’t feel like they’re at the bottom anymore

[@noooodIe]

I’m trying a holy build rn, what do you think I should use for Incants?

[@PrapalyFree]

@@noooodIe Definitely “Multilayered Ring of Light” & “ Giant Golden arc” they improve our offensive holy spells. While I love 3 rings and discus of light, these two are just so much better imo

[@envoyofrot7046]

It gave me what I wanted: Holy Spells for pure faith build, no Int required

[@VSN-wb2ly]

Same, holy is now cooler than ever

[@Healcraft]

killed the boss at the bottom by st trina with wave of gold lol

[@notfunny7918]

man the disappointment I felt the first time using minor Erdtree... basically a castable warming stone for 30 fp, 2 spell slots and 70 faith. if it would at least be looking as cool as the one Melina uses in the Morgott fight I wouldn't complain :(

[@L00kKilla]

they said they couldn’t have it be the same size as melinas because of frame dropping :(

[@Aryan_H1]

It was the same size. But fps concerns dropped it. Which is bullsht because a year ago someone modded that spell into the game and it was still 50 fps+ when active .

[@Castorcato]

Who said that? ​@@L00kKilla

[@torpidsrevenge]

@@Castorcato KZbinrs who playtested the DLC

[@thomasdevlin5825]

I had never seen the incantation before, I thought it was just the incantation Melina used at first glance. That is honestly really god damn funny, all I can imagine is a little sarcastic party horn accompanying the tree as it pops out

[@whatgari]

1. Obligatory "guys its not that hard" followed by things wrong with the dlc 2. The "jokingly called bear communion " bit is probably a reference to how bears dropped dragon hearts in beta and zulie pointed out they have the dragon eyes from doing too much dragon communion .

[@Project_19YT]

It is

[@osets2117]

3 second cast time with zero hyper armor is an insult, especially with how aggressive every enemy is in this DLC.

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

Yeah, lets hope they buff incantations in the next patch

[@vyor8837]

It deals less damage and rot than Malenia's spell too...

[@dimo6994]

Electrocharge feels just as useless aswell

[@osets2117]

@@dimo6994 wait until you see someone beat the game with it, won't you feel foolish then. I'm joking of course, some people are crazy lol

[@ltcaphide]

learn how to space your casts then lol

[@protodot2051]

The fact that rain of fire got put in the same dlc as the pocket nuke known as rolling sparks is insane to me. The balance in SOTE is batshit insane.

[@EonsEternity]

Yeah i tried making a couple cool builds with all the new stuff and it was either "this is on every youtubers hitlist"(the thorn sorcery) or "man i had the highest hopes for this but its ass"(rain of fire) and then id go to help my friends and theyre spamming thorns as i tried to boost radahns nuke to its utmost just to piss on everyone in its radius as my friends scream "oh god its in my eyes i cant see" as the boss murks them without a shred of shame for their piss stained clothes

[@Ivy64_]

Can't wait for the furnace golem ranking

[@christianlangdon3766]

Honeslty these guys are the worst part of the dlc.

[@mkv2718]

spoiler: they’re all shit

[@NickCombs]

First one you fight: 10/10 The others: 3/10 If it has invulnerable tootsies: -3 points

[@christianlangdon3766]

@@NickCombs ye those in particular are just wtf were they thinking unless they give an item that instantly kills them what are you supposed to do.

[@NickCombs]

I kind of liked the idea, but a few things let it down. 1. Homing fireball spam just makes it so the fight needs to be over as soon as possible. Without that, I wouldn't mind spiritspringing all over these dudes to fight them. 2. Don't make the enemy invulnerable to the weapon that's purpose built to destroy them when they are vulnerable to a crit. We only get a few visages. If anything, it should do more damage. 3. If you want us to use fire pots against them, let us craft them during the fight and have the enemy drop the ingredients with its attacks. Also, replace the mushroom requirement with more embers/pyreflies. 4. Instead of providing just one high ground with a spiritspring, have the enemy create its own thermals we can ride. It's more fun to stay engaged instead of hiding up on a cliff.

[@NickCombs]

The fire serpent spell's range was extra disappointing considering how the fire knights have been sniping us across the entire storeroom with it.

[@bigred212]

Yea I just realized that fromsoft be hoeing us when it comes to spells the enemy uses vs us lowkey

[@NickCombs]

Can't wait to see what the Reforged modpack does for this and the other DLC spells. They've done a great job rebalancing the base game.

[@corneliusarmstrong5018]

The chest in ruins of unte looks like a Dark Souls chest even has the chain to identify mimics

[@landsbetweendiary1476]

I even attacked it before opening it because while I know there are no mimic chests as there were in Dark Souls, you never know.

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

They were in the base game as placeholder assets as well, not sure why they brought it back for the dlc lol

[@paradox5384]

​@@mydrillasanjay5397just for lulz

[@joshuaarnett762]

That would also be exactly what they would to to suddenly hit us with a Mimic in Elden Ring

[@-SAGE-_]

@@landsbetweendiary1476yh pretty sure there’s some in red place

[@inwector]

The first time I used the rain of fire, my thoughts were "huh. maybe I respecced and forgot" then checked, and I still had 80 faith. It's damage is worse than a single cast of catch flame.

[@fafapapa1271]

After the buff it's actually very decent against group of enemies at a reasonable range. I used it quite a lot in the DLC.

[@twistedturnip8487]

A good bonus tip/trick with Knight's lightning spear is that the 4-6 surrounding spears will always target whoever you were locked onto when the spears began to appear, so you can swap lock on to another enemy to separate the main spear from the surrounding spears letting you hit 2 different targets with the spell, one with the main damage and another with the surrounding damage.

[@capnhoek2509]

I can’t be the only one who thought the minor erdtree spell would be like the one that pops up when Melina dies, not some “tree” the size of the grinches heart

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

That doesn't happen when she dies she can just cast that

[@shreeanshmahapatra2313]

Apparently it was like that in the CBT.

[@Jd_castillo]

It was like that on the testing, but according to youwu it made the pcs drop to much frames so they changed it

[@vyor8837]

​@@Jd_castillo they didn't change the final boss, so I call bull

[@iheartblock3792]

@@vyor8837presumably there were new issues from testing to launch. Fucking up the finale to your most popular game of all time *twice* without even testing it would be a new low for Fromsoft. It’s still abysmal, though.

[@arlen4861]

Babe wake up Rusty posted

[@bigdrip4789]

Grab the popcorn im coming too lol

[@braedenaldridge8452]

😂😂😂😂💯

[@WilliamChiara]

Babe go to sleep Rusty didn’t upload

[@michaelbarker6732]

Jesus is the top comment NOT about how he should rank every blade of grass or something? Thank you!

[@arlen4861]

@@evilgibson I know I am infact schizophrenic

[@dmcx-tv2308]

You gotta appreciate how Elden Ring gives you Chlorokinesis/powers of DC's Poison Ivy that just ends up sucking like a Broken Sword Hilt.

[@MaeIsOkay]

Another tip for Heal From Afar is to just shoot it straight down to have a heal with a way faster cast time than the other ones. Useful if you wanna use a heal spell mid battle

[@vegalucas7782]

The incantation itself is broken atm. You can literally let go crimson tear and switch it off into cerulean instead. You got way more benefit from this if you raise your mind around 35 and the cast itself are as quick as you drinking your flask ( if you put radagons icon that is )

[@vegalucas7782]

Ive seen people got carried in multiplayer, mainly because theyre literally cant stop healing themselves thanks to this

[@gunsevenwhillans420]

It heals for the same amount as Lord's Heal, can be used at range, has a lower FP cost than Lord's Heal, and has faster casting speed than Lord's Heal. Basically a direct upgrade to Lord's Heal

[@TheTretex]

Really bizzare there isn't an "Aspects of the Crucible: Frog" considering that one attack Black Knight Garrew has.

[@Yak2242]

as a faith build im so happy that the first dlc video is about incantations

[@kayhaich]

You might not have been happy about the actual incantations then

[@Yak2242]

@@kayhaich eh theyre ok, sorcery bros are doing even worse tho

[@vanaak9070]

@@Yak2242 Eh, you get a teleport that can combo with a lot of spells. But otherwise I think most of the 14 sorceries are better than the incantations

[@mastermarkus5307]

@kayhaich I think it's a mixed bag. Knight's Lightning Spear and Multilayered Rings of Light are some that I'm happy to have.

[@bigred212]

​@@kayhaichwe did kinda get cucked compared to int ngl But aye a flaming rasengan and orbital laser are pretty cool

[@Nomadestra1776]

I have faith the incantations will get buffed. I think with the balancing, From Software was more than likely thinking that it's a better idea to leave them a little underpowered until the community settles on their opinions on these. Leaving them underpowered at least would not make their already previous patch updates and balance changes null. Give it time, and they will make the new DLC stuff make sense with the updates they've made prior.

[@PoiutVioe]

Excited to learn about some new incantations that are hidden behind two NPC questlines, a remembrance boss, and a secret legacy dungeon.

[@VSN-wb2ly]

The good'ol "time to wait for a year to fix it!"

[@Guys._.]

I love how the rotton butterfly, well, butterflies will still drop if you get hit out of it. I genuinely love seeing people in PvP hitting me out of it and then getting hit by a barrage of deathly butterflies (they just took 200 damage and might have gotten scarlet rot)

[@asdergold1]

They probably won't get rot since the buildup isn't quite enough. It's better to just use the Aeonia. Now that's something I never thought I'd say.

[@iRunKids]

or you can use endure, swap weapons, and cast then you won’t get knocked out (from most attacks)

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@iRunKids Endure barely even lasts long enough for its long ass casting animation.

[@vyor8837]

​@@asdergold1 Aeonia is exceptionally powerful

[@RevoltOfAges]

@@asdergold1You have to get some rot buildup going before you start the butterflies, preferably using rot weapons like Romina’s halberd. Or if you’re feeling cheesy you can just forego the whole thing and chuck some rot pots their way

[@Shinofeya]

pest thread spears are INSANE against anything omen sized or more. due to the fact that they are slow moving and linger after hitting their target, they can easily get some follow up hits in for some wild damage. Bayle and the furnace golems gets absolutely shredded by it too i would go as far to say its better for clearing out dragons than the dedicated dragon killing weapons

[@halfbakedn00b]

Me and my homies love Pest Thread Spears. It has replaced Pest Threads for me. It shreads

[@pedanterrific212]

I almost skipped Bayle's second phase the first time I used Pest Threads against him, I had to intentionally stop and let him get up from the stance break or I would have melted him 100 to 0 without getting to see any of his second phase moves. I have a hard time imagining Pest Thread Spears could be much more effective.

[@ologames1185]

Can't wait to find out about some new incantations that are locked behind two NPC questlines, a secret legacy dungeon and a secret remembrance boss

[@hitlord]

That will only happen if From Software decides to add stuff to the DLC in patches. Unfortunately, the DLC was datamined to hell and back this time around. Fextra had entire guides on just about everything other than technical data (which requires editors) on the wiki the very first second the game launched.

[@duckyduckington9736]

@@hitlord well yeah, the dark souls community is rabid.

[@l0rd258]

Just 3 Messmer incantations :( why????

[@helger-yr9zw]

@@l0rd258and one of them is very bad :(

[@VSN-wb2ly]

This time? I don't think so

[@CypherOfSolace]

Electrocharge does less damage than licking a 9-volt battery

[@KogasaTatara514]

Divine beast tornado can be useful for speedrunning knocking the barnacles or whatever they are off of the walking mausoleums

[@LuckyLiarK]

That ash of war gravity pull, the one that doesn't do much damage and pull everything toward you, is quicker, wider and more fp efficiency if you want to clean mausoleum foot tbh.

[@salihburakisik501]

Yeah good point but might aswell use that light version of light arc spell as it won't get cancelled

[@HopefulTarnished]

pmsl

[@knavenformed9436]

Speedrunning what though? You get it from an end-game boss lol Edit: fxed language barrier wording

[@LuckyLiarK]

@@knavenformed9436 he talking about walking mausoleum, not boss.

[@ericharden1359]

"This rat is standing completely still and I still couldnt hit it more than 2 or 3 times with this spell" *only hits the rat he ISNT targetting*

[@SeventhGod77]

I seem to remember people saying the exact same things about difficulty in every other fromsoft DLC too. The scadurtree blessings are probably the only thing saving us from getting turned into raw meat dumplings by every other boss.

[@asdergold1]

Damage dealt to the player is worse here, that much I'll say. And yes, that is with all the fragments. That and the AoE spam. It's all flashy with no substance now.

[@suru2915]

@@asdergold1there’s only a few aoe moves that u can’t dodge (u just gotta run). Which is a fair criticism, but most of the aoes are very easy to dodge.

[@keyamazed1038]

@@suru2915 It's not a fair criticism that bosses requiring other methods of avoiding attacks than dodging is bad lol. They should've included more attacks that required jumping and running, base game included. Being able to handle everything with a well-timed roll gets boring.

[@GOAT-rl2uq]

The main gripe I have (and this extends to the basegame) is that so many bosses have functionally limitless stamina so they just never stop attacking and jumping around. It's obviously still doable but it's so fucking obnoxious IMO. First Souls game where I've felt like Fromsoft really started to lean too hard into the realm of bullshit.

[@boshwa20]

WHERE!? WHEN!? Fromsoft fans are practically trying to gaslight others just to defend the million dollar company from any criticism

[@SSthunderchild]

I can't wait for the quick tips for DLC sorceries. That'll be a whole 20 seconds of amazing content.

[@TheKeyOfAnarkh]

I knew we were gonna hear about the Frenzy Dragon 😂

[@seriphan399]

That area was such a waste, fucking huge, scary atmosphere, and messages trying to hype it up only for it to be 99% populated by rats and goats with glowy eyes.

[@Ämyr2006]

@@seriphan399thats the fucking point. Its lifeless. The msg literally says „avoid this place“ or sum shit

[@vanaak9070]

@@Ämyr2006 Please, don't try to defend an area that is absolutely wasted. They could have done so much in there. Why can rats and animals survive there but the denizens of the Lands of Shadows can't? A rat is mentally stronger than a god damn dragon? The area is absolutely huge and there's nothing but a talisman, pair of gloves, perfume bottle, stones and a small dungeon with a good boss in it. Oh and you can't use your fucking horse.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@vanaak9070 It's way too big and empty for a place that you can't use Torrent in. I was expecting that maybe you could use him after defeating Midra, but NO, I've got to walk my ass all over the place to collect the spread-out items.

[@rightousnesspursuer6523]

​@@seriphan399 It takes the heat death of the universe to explore it too, only for there to be nothing.

[@alexanderjohnson6178]

Midra’s Frenzied Flame sucking makes me sad, because it was something I was super excited for using (frenzy builds are some of my favorites)

[@tehdopefish]

I thought I was almost done with my blind play through but you've shown half a dozen things that I've missed. Back to the skidoo tree I go!

[@sahmirthompson3211]

Honestly you’ve become my favorite Elden Ring information source.

[@obgog4687]

Heal from afar is super good at clearing revenants, easy stun from distance and run up to finish off, probably my fav heal incantation because of that

[@trailgamer5]

Unironically believable that that is why they added that incantation

[@VSN-wb2ly]

Sometimes I forget how miserable their existence is

[@Rewighting23]

I didn't actually think it'd work on them (Not sure why.) and then I caught one by accident while trying to heal. Nope, now we just get to carry around anti-revanant nukes.

[@Cman04092]

Rusty: ok, Bayles flaming lighting. Ok.fromsoft, which is it!?! Miyazaki: yes

[@LAK_770]

As always, the low and mid workhorses are the best. Knight’s LS, Fire Serpent, Multilayered RoL, Pest Spears (omg lol). These easily fit in alongside the old standards and I had a lot of fun with them.

[@Dragon1231567]

"That rat is completely still" as the rat moves towards him unimpeded

[@austinmc12]

CANT WAIT FOR THE REST OF THESE DLC RANKINGSSSS🤝🏻🤤

[@prototypetwo4042]

Almost all of these incantations are fantastic and then there's the tower/storm sorceries which almost all suck balls. The first one I found was wrathful guardian and I was so excited for a minute with a new thing to cast only to see the lowly soldier's healthbar barely go down after getting hit by a slow moving projectile from a skull above my head and all that joy immediately went away

[@Mrhellslayerz]

I mean, if you're a redditor who thinks every spell in the game should explode the enemy's health bar like comet azure, then I guess you'd be mad.

[@prototypetwo4042]

@@Mrhellslayerz never once did I make the claim that it should do that but okay man

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@prototypetwo4042 I was exaggerating dude. I was making the point that people only care about the damage of a spell, rather than the utility.

[@prototypetwo4042]

@Mrhellslayerz I mean okay but this spell just generally doesn't have one either outside of getting smaller enemies to not run as fast maybe, it doesn't do damage and it doesn't have any stopping power. It's a waste of a slot

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@prototypetwo4042 It still has hitstun though..? Ain't a waist if you can get it to combo into stronger attacks. Expecting more out of it is like trying to make Miriam's Vanishing enable fast travel.

[@TheBoyInOneSock]

The tornado bit is really fucking funny

[@MrTmm97]

6:42 honestly your content is informative and gives me decent ideas in the game to try… however you share your information/opinion in such a hilarious and entertaining way… it really gives your content a unique feel amongst your other fellow souls like content creators Please never stop making content! I’ll keep watching, commenting, liking as long as your making them!

[@phalamy9180]

They are gonna need to patch in a LOT of balance and typing for all the spells. Half of them don't work with the base game spell boosting effects. I don't think a SINGLE dlc spell works with Godfreys icon. And nether do the spell type boosts from base game staves and seals. They added like 4 new death spells and not a single one is boosted by the prince of death staff.

[@iheartblock3792]

Honestly, several spells don’t work at ALL

[@VSN-wb2ly]

Yesterday I did testing the damage of Knight's lightning spear with multiple talisman for comparison and I was shocked how small the damage differences are when using Godfrey icon and without it, there's difference but not even close to 5%

[@phalamy9180]

@@VSN-wb2ly possible that specifically may be because it only effects the main bolt, not the side bolts, which would have it make very little difference

[@aydeniswise4081]

I’m so glad to see you still posting, I got into Elden ring recently after knowing your hollow knight content and saw you pop up again and I was like “OH SHIT” lowkey made my day

[@ony806]

Looking forward to the fashion tierlist brother

[@shadowdragon7347]

Random thing for the electrocharge incantation, you can combine it with the sorcery that covers your character in thorns and its surprisingly good in pvp, you just spam roll and the other person slowly dies while the game tries to figure out your latency. if the opponent doesnt have good connection they literally cannot hit you.

[@DTGeorge]

Rate all the DLC maps next

[@kayhaich]

These maps aren't great

[@GOAT-rl2uq]

I honestly feel that they could have shrunk the overall map size by about 70% and nothing meaningful would have been lost. There's several zones that are almost literally completely empty.

[@joshzuker8308]

​It kinda got to the point where I was begging for a reused enemy at the very least in jagged peak lol​@@GOAT-rl2uq

[@VSN-wb2ly]

30% contents and 70% gimmick

[@VSN-wb2ly]

And don't get me started how miserable the walkthrough of midra's mane, it's literally WALKthrough

[@sharkrider3045]

bear communion is a reference to a bug in a previous patch where runebears dropped dragon hearts

[@josephcola9662]

Out of everything I've done in the DLC so far, I've only come across two things that I considered blatantly unfair: 1. For some reason, the Ghostflame Dragon on the Cerulean Coast's Fire has like *nine times* the range of every other one I've fought. 2. Commander Gauis spawn-camping the fogwall. Got murdered within 10 seconds the first 3 times I stepped through. On the 4th, I got on Torrent, got away from the initial attack, and then proceeded to beat him on that first actual attempt. Nothing about the rest of that fight felt unfair at all. Like, literally, my only two complaints about difficulty is if they could fix the range on the fire attacks of that one dragon and maybe have Gaius spawn a bit further back.

[@Dreska_]

Theres another boss even worse than Gauis and does it in both their phases. Enjoy!

[@based_windwalker]

For gaius, run back behind the corner to the left of the door you enter the boss room in. The wall will stop his rush and you can buff and summon mimic yadada. Godspeed friend

[@secretlyaslug2325]

Most of it's pretty fair. 2nd phase of the final boss has obnoxious visual clutter. Not as unfun as Malenia but it's not as polished as most of the rest of the DLC bosses it feels.

[@Emerald_Raven08]

​@@secretlyaslug2325 istg you can't even see them 80% of the time

[@zsDUGGZ]

​@@Emerald_Raven08exactly. To add on to that, Malenia at least has clear punish windows and only has 1 bs move. The final boss is a bullet hell on phase 2 and his main bs move is hard to read.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

I will now imagine multilayered ring of light screaming in despair and existential dread 600 times per second as it tries to correct its path, but can't.

[@johnweaver311]

Looking forward to all the quick tips for sorceries and unique skills, and all the ranking videos too!

[@ecothedragon37]

The blood flame slash doesn’t currently even apply any bleed btw so hopefully they fix it soon so it will actually be more useful

[@ASquared544]

I was hoping Fire Serpent would be more like a Faith version of Magic Glintblade

[@magicalgirl1296]

Fire weakness on a bunch of stuff makes sense honestly when you remember that Mesmer was kicking everyone's ass before you get there. (I do in fact remember the complaints about the base game. I still think Malenia is a super fucked up boss so you'd best believe I think the final DLC boss's second phase is absolute garbage. The first phase is really awesome though. And I actually really enjoyed Mesmer)

[@Aryan_H1]

That light of miquella spell is bugged and doesn't get any buffs whatsoever from the circlet of life or the seal.

[@Mass0404]

Finally finished the DLC and now I can watch your newest videos without spoiling anything for myself 👍

[@randomdegenerate9180]

Day 17 of asking Rusty to rank every enemy in Elden Ring. If you could rank all the weapons, the enemies should be no issue for you. The DLC is already out, so you might as well include enemies from there as well.

[@purplehaze2358]

With how shortly after the release of SotE this video dropped, there is no way that not a single one of these impressions is going to change with time.

[@angbald]

I made it to the final boss and have all 9 remembrances from the others.....that means the difficulty is balanced because I suck. It was so beautiful. Like Dark Souls in Elden Ring. Now this final boss I just need to learn some more of their moves.

[@BFG93]

Fire serpent, man that tracking was a live saver in scadutree fight. Honestly fell in love after that. So useful

[@raiden64_]

I'm pretty sure the furious flames of ansbach are bugged, because I've heard alot of people, myself included, saying the can't seem to proc bleed with it

[@abrupt9090]

Tested it with a buddy in the arena. It has no blood loss buildup currently

[@raiden64_]

@@abrupt9090 it really sucks because it's my one of my favourite looking incantations in the dlc, probably even the game. But as it stands without the blood loss, it's pretty mediocre at best

[@christopherguilfoyle8163]

I also didnt know what bear communion was its a joke to the early days when rune bears dropped dragon hearts by accident

[@lunarOntologist]

damage negation becomes more potent the more negation you have. if a boss 2 shots you at 0 negation, itll 4 shot at 50%, 8 shot at 75% and 16 shot at 87.5% as long as your blessing levels are good, damage negation spells like the protection spells and florisax's blessing are actually really significant increases to your durability

[@JinFreeks]

Yes and no. The way ER does scaling is that defense "basically" gives you about as much EHP (effective HP) independent of what you already have. Say you have 50% negation. This would double your EHP. So now your 1900 HP (because you leveled vigor like the good Tarnished you are) is worth 3800HP. If you now stack another source of 50% negation ontop the game will calculate the new defense values so it raises your EHP again by 1900. But what you see is that in the stats is that your defense went from50% negation to 66,6%. What I'm saying, with this system, thinking of defense as a % reduction value is not that great. Think of it as EHP. The thing that is mostly improved by stacking EHP (defense) is the healing you receive. With 0 defense your flask heals ... 500 HP lets say. Now if we go back to the 66,6% reduction you now suddenly heal 1500HP EHP per flask. Stacking lots and lots of negation will yes, increase how much you can tank, but even more importantly, how effective your regen is. With enough defense stacking even dinky heals that only trickle 8hp per second start to become powerhouses that heal 40-50-100EHP per second. There is a great video of GinoMachine (no hit FromSoft games runner) where he goes *all in* an tank and it is quite funny to see. The main reason why health increasing talismans (chief being Crimson Amber obv) will give you more in return even than the Drakeshield once you've stacked enough defense beforehand. What I'm trying to say, it doesn't matter what your defense is like, the spell always gives 190 EHP. You just have to figure out for yourself if that's worth the upkeep. (it usually isn't as most anything in the DLC worth a salt is hitting for 1000+ damage per hit, so adding another 190 EHP ontop of the ~5000 you're running around with with normal'ish armor and good blessing levels does very little)

[@PrinceSilvermane]

The big issue with Florisax's blessing is that Golden Vow is both easier to get and gives you the same, lasts longer, AND boosts damage.

[@mkv2718]

and with the new tanky talisman (forget the name), you get like 70% dmg negation if you’re overweight, making iron jar aromatic kind of nuts

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@JinFreeks you're thinking of systems like armor in dota 2 and league, whereas er's damage negation is a straightforward stacking multiplier. when you get +10% extra negation, that's really just adding an extra x0.9 step in the damage calculation, meaning you get x1.11 effective hp _based on your previous effective hp._ which means there's no actual distinction between 11% extra hp and 10% damage negation for every damage type, other than the fact that damage negation also affects effective hp from healing hell, this is why gino's defense run even worked. if all the armor and buffs he was using were only providing like +17% to +33% of his base hp as effective hp, he'd only end up taking around half as much damage as a usual run because stacking them all together wouldn't break far past +100% ehp, which is half damage. which is a far cry from the paper cut damage he was taking in the vid. like, he was regularly reaching 90% negation even before getting the end game stuff, which would be +900% ehp and if you'll notice, that would require stacking _nine_ different 50% damage negation sources under the system you're proposing

[@JinFreeks]

@@hi-i-am-atan Apparently it is. Good to know. You never stop learning something new every now and then. Not that it massively changes my stance on 10% worth of negation, but it does make it a lot better.

[@cyberneticReverb]

For Bayle's Flame Lightning, you can actually cancel the recovery animation with another cast, preferably something fast, like beast sling. I bet internally it was intended to be like Dragonclaw in more ways than one, so they let you just cast immediately after the impact.

[@lmfaosama]

WE CAN FINALLY CONTINUE ASKING FOR MORE ALL WEAPONS TIER LIST

[@Castorcato]

You were very kind to the butterfly spell.

[@bbluva21]

Bro doesn't understand the Bear Communion community joke, did you start playing ER when the DLC came out? 🤔

[@vengefulretreat]

Midra's strongest application seems to be proccing madness for Aged One's Exultation or any other gear that provides a DMG bonus on Madness since it has the fastest madness build up of any frenzy spell.

[@zedakh]

This is nice, but when will you rate all of the characters feet?

[@DrORRB-qm7fl]

I feel a need to confess this somewhere so here goes: I beat the final boss by using heal from afar on taylew the golem smith and cowering in fear a mile away from every attack. It wasn’t as easy as it may sound (it still took over 10 attempts and many attacks are still hard to dodge) but I still felt like I had somehow broken the game a little.

[@BlaZay]

I never used it because I renounced using Spirit Ashes as a whole, but as soon as I saw those stone golems being summonable (and the description specifically mentioning the ranged fist attacks), I knew it'd be way too good. Especially with a healing spell.

[@aceofdoors2746]

It's crusty!!

[@erichilyerd]

Rain of fire got a massive buff

[@Trooth]

I'm convinced the whole point of Rain of Fire was to make us look at Elden Stars and go "At least it's not as bad as Rain of Fire"

[@twitchyb9950]

How come no one has mentioned that pest thread spears can hit multiple times? That spell tore Bayle into even more pieces than he was already in!

[@vengefulmonkgaming411]

I agree on the Frenzied Flame Dragon. I also wish they gave us a BloodFlame/ Formless Dragon.

[@viriel9946]

I want what your character looks like!!! Make a video showing your creation!

[@snipinglegend8165]

You can slightly increase DBF with the Divine bird warrior helm

[@shizukousapostle1stapostle710]

Rain of fire buff alert, its pretty good now, great on bigger bosses but then again every wide aoe incant is good on bigger bosses

[@BroIbrahimASL]

First time in a long time that I enjoyed a video so much, that I said to myself, "that was 28? Wow that went by fast!"

[@Lazypackmule]

There are so many baffling design decisions in this DLC, but one of the more bewildering ones is that there are MULTIPLE incants that seemingly only exist for passive area suppression in pvp invasions- and even then would only work if they panic roll and don't know how little damage they'd eat by just ignoring it

[@Ryoko41]

The Pest Spears spell is what got me through Bayle. I think it counts as multiple hits when it passes through different parts of him. It was doing minimum 1600 damage but usually around 4000 damage with each cast.

[@zombiekungfumaster]

Divine Beast Tornado might work like Zamor Ice Storm in that the storm will block physical projectiles like the Storm Wall ash

[@ImZafearious]

The frenzy spell is probably a lot better if you intentionally proc madness on yourself with the madness talisman to buff your damage

[@jamiehughes5573]

Better off using deadly poison perfume bottle with poison hands, mushroom crown and rot talisman since it instantly procs on one ash of war use

[@exigentgamer]

You are hilarious. I love your content!

[@CommanderChris66]

Believe it or not but the ‘bear communion’ text is pretty lore significant. Long story short, the bears are essentially a type of dragon.

[@ivarramirezpaulsen8212]

25:05 Finally someone that agrees with me on this

[@qcevolution]

That chuckle at the beginning of the bloom spell cracked me up

[@Mooniowo]

fun little nugget of info light of michella does not get boosted from the endboss headpiece (even though it specificly says so) or dryleaf seal! on the other side the head piece boosts all holy ring incants by 10% so use that with 2 dryleaf seal and charge the multilayer ring up to max for big TRUCK dmg (can also use holy scorpion and incant boost charm) that setup also makes the 3fp cost discus of light do unreasonable amount of dmg on high faith builds

[@Giranox]

thanks for the showcase and describing the incantations. i was not sure about this dragonbolt of florissax and i missed that

[@0aeaquerda]

Hi, Crucible John here, the bloom is meant for thoose turret enemies like the machine gun mages or the cannon imps so you can kill them without leaving cover, and the thorns deal holy damage

[@l3esme568]

I haven't tested it but having a ranged healing spell sounds like the ultimate middle finger to revenants

[@alfonshedstrom9859]

Fire Serpent is so simple yet so nice. Shoutout to cheap basic spells that you can use at mid range, gotta be one of my favourite genders

[@Dumbstuffwatcher]

As someone who's refused to level intelligence, having a ring of light spell without an Int requirement is most welcome. Not only does it do decent damage, it keeps regular sized enemies occupied long enough for Milady to use the Wing Stance leap attack and break through almost any amount of poise. Im having a ton of fun with Milady and the Death Knight greataxe so far

[@DJYungHoxha]

Knight's Lightning Spear actually has the hidden benefit that if you lock on to one enemy, charge up the attack, and then switch to another enemy before launching the attack, the surrounding lightning spears will hit the first enemy, while the main lightning spear will hit the second one. Pretty useful when getting ganged up on!

[@ZombieKun5441]

"Intangible Charlie brown christmas tree" has to be my new favorite thing rusty. has ever said

[@Miu-souls]

heal from afar has great sinergy with the mimic tear it will use it like a attack spell meaning as long as you stay near the boss or enemy it will heal you very regularly. used it against the final boss and mimic used it like five times in a row ones fullhealing me and even healing itself by around half its hp. the aoe effect also lingers a bit meaning if you can see it you can often just run into it and get the healing.

[@artoriapendragon3234]

It should be noted that Messmer's orb is fantastic in PVP. Its explosion radius can seriously catch people off guard and due to that it almost falls in the same category of "Hard to Dodge" as Ranni's Dark Moon, only better cause of more consistent targeting and the ability to send it out uncharged in the air quickly to force your more aggressive opponents to have to gain space on you.

[@turtle_jones]

Once you get used to multilayered ring of light it absolutely slaps on larger enemies and groups. You can combo from this into knights lightning spear or even the basic discus of light or swift glintstone shard. I love this incantation. Really good boon for faith/golden order builds.

[@kingartimberly]

Rusty has the honesty that no other KZbinr has