1 QUICK TIP For EVERY Elden Ring Craftable & Consumable!

[@Rusty._]

Good thing they didn't touch consumables in 1.07 EXTRA TIMESTAMPS (by category): 0:13 - Buffs/Food 3:07 - Pots 7:39 - Aromatics 8:53 - Throwables 9:58 - Stones/Other Combat Tools 12:30 - Greases 14:10 - Misc.

[@AugustoXRock]

I'm not sure but seems like you forgot to mention that darts and pots are a really good way of keeping the poise meter of enemies from refilling, allowing you to get more poise-breaks in a fight :)

[@pieoverlord]

Pretty sure they touched shield grease. Also told me that shield grease exists.

[@AlphaNerdGaming]

soap also clears rot buildup

[@JadedJasantha]

They timed the update for your upload schedule xD

[@Ghorda9]

@@AlphaNerdGaming no it doesn't, it clears the rot stain off your clothes preventing the stain from causing buildup.

[@SquishyDotEXE]

The rainbow stone and glow stones can also be used to tell if a fall is deadly or not. If it lands you can land. If it shatters, so will your legs

[@guitarstuffs2082]

You can do this with any melee weapon too. If you attack next to the edge the game won’t let you fall off if it’s a lethal fall. This is the only fromsoft game to do this to my knowledge

[@SquishyDotEXE]

@@guitarstuffs2082 I thought that was a mechanic for any ledge but I haven't tested it out on nonlethal falls yet. Gonna have to grab my giants crusher and front flip off the side of a cliff now

[@retr0fusion46]

Glowstones (unless something changed) do not break with the ledge check

[@draghettis6524]

@@guitarstuffs2082 Yes, but this method isn't always reliable, especially on irregular cliffs, unlike Rainbow Stones that are only fooled by deathplanes on otherwise non-lethal falls.

[@buckyhurdle4776]

@@guitarstuffs2082 Sekiro also has sticky ledges when you're standing above a bottomless drop or a drop high enough to deal fall damage

[@grfrjiglstan]

Even if you never use Ironjar Aromatics, make one and put it in your mimic's inventory. It never gets consumed, and he wasn't going to dodge anyway.

[@mcita9292]

That's... very clever. I admit, I never thought about it The only situations I guess are against some bosses like Elden Beast and Astel

[@Bubba524dtm]

Lol mine I think used it once but then face-tanked wormface's death puke and just stood in it until he became a stinky tree. It's an awesome idea on paper though

[@cruoton.]

Even better is putting Radiant Baldachin's blessing on your bar for the mimic tear

[@RelativelyBest]

Similar tip: Have some Raw Meat Dumplings in your inventory. It allows the Mimic Tear to heal half its HP even after using up its flask.

[@therealdeeves]

Same! I do this too

[@RashFever26]

2:32 Fun fact - Siofra is the irish name for fairies/sprites and it's pronounced "Shee-fra". Ainsel is the name of a fairy in a northumbrian folktale, and it means (My) "Own Self". Now, in Elden Ring, we know that the warrior who mentored Malenia also sealed the outer god of Rot away. It is likely that he sealed it by redirecting the Ainsel river and drowning the god of rot: in many From games (and I think in japanese mythology as a whole) flowing water is always in direct contrast with the stagnation and corruption of still water, and the warrior's armor + sword references that. At one point Millicent says: "There is something I must return to Malenia. [...] The dignity, the sense of self that allowed her to resist the call of the Scarlet Rot." Malenia's rot is kept at bay by her *sense of self*, just like the outer god of Rot is sealed by the Ainsel - the "own self". This is easily my favourite obscure lore detail in the entire game, along with the countless Hastur/King in Yellow references in the Frenzied Flame.

[@leagueconfederatecrow2916]

so Malenia's from cork

[@juanma9339]

Very good comment.

[@milokiss8276]

The King In Yellow is my favorite lovecraftian horror... I’m SO glad that you mentioned it here because I haven’t been able to tell if the frenzied flame was ACTUALLY referencing it.

[@fenixchief7]

Are you acting like flowing water isn't in direct contrast to stagnant water in reality? Only in fromsoft games and Japanese mythology? And countless references? It's yellow and drives things mad. That's 2. If you wanna refer to the yellow sign, that'd be a big stretch.

[@yurifairy2969]

the king in yellow references got even more blatant with the DLC lol

[@ixelhaine]

Bonus tip for Cracked/Ritual/Perfume pot. Items crafted with these can be stored at Grace with the "Sort Chest" option & you'll get the Pots back, so if you have some fire pots & want to explore a catacomb with skeletons, drop off the firebombs & you'll be able to craft Holy Water without the firebombs being lost.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

THIS

[@jimshotfirst4887]

Oh my God I didn't need to waste all my pots to craft different ones?

[@ixelhaine]

@@jimshotfirst4887 I wasted SO many before I figured it out.

[@adoniramulloa2943]

I have been flat out yeeting pots everytime I need to make something else, thanks for the tip.

[@Hi_Lonesome]

pin this

[@headlesshiidra]

The frenzyflame stone also acts as a warming stone if you follow the frenzied flame ending and are touched by the 3 fingers

[@epicgaming11195]

and it heals faster and costs less fp to place than a normal warming stone

[@grogueQ]

And it builds up madness against human enemies that didn't do the Frenzied Flame ending.

[@limb-o7180]

plus it stacks with the warming stone

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

Does anybody know the answer: Warming Stone heals bosses/all enemies right? If this is the case and Frenzy Stones only heal those inflicted with the Flame of Frenzy does that mean Frenzy Stones are just a strictly one sided Warming Stone (granted I have the Flame of Frenzy)?

[@themphantom9138]

I need an adult

[@remito7839]

I guess a "tip" for the Golden Runes would be, you can sell them for the same amount as you get when using them. Saves you some time if you have a bunch of them stored up.

[@dyslexsticks3381]

Not to mention you can readily see how much they're worth from the sell menu. They're nice to keep for vendors for another reason too, in case you don't want to go through the hassle of fighting but want to buy something.

[@GuiltyDragon]

You can also see how much they’re worth in their extended item description.

[@monhi64]

@@dyslexsticks3381 I know I only just started playing a month ago and remember getting like a golden rune (6) and was damn I can’t believe they go up this high. Already up to at least a hero’s rune (3) and oh my god I cannot believe there’s like 40 levels to this shit. Not complaining obviously just impossible to remember value

[@rythmiccoma2809]

How dare you suggest killing my best mate Boggart for 'crab convenience'. I want crab friendship

[@kerbethegodkiller2914]

Might as well aim for the crab marriage

[@ASpaceOstrich]

I was saved in a five minute on foot slugfest with the liurnia lake dragon because someone rated my "don't give up skeleton" message. Was amazing.

[@Anchor-Supreme]

I honestly really like how strong consumables are in this game, pots and knives especially.

[@RelativelyBest]

Interesting thing I recently discovered: Hawks don't react to fire pots or explosive stones for some reason. So, lobbing a volcano pot at a group of them makes it easier to farm feathers.

[@cooldog8580]

This is probably super obvious, but I still feel like it's useful. If you're fighting someone in PVP and they have Opaline Bubble Tear on, then darts will shatter that thing easily. Use fan daggers for the best effect because they're harder to avoid due to their spread

[@alfredbanuelos7312]

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[@aeternusgaming8050]

If you're running low on boluses, the Medicine Peddler's Bell Bearing allows you to buy Neutralising, Staunching, Thawfrost and Stimulating from the twin husks! It drops from the Bell Bearing Hunter who spawns at night at the Hermit Merchant's Shack, in Altus just northeast of the Outer Wall Battleground grace.

[@drunkhas]

Boy, that and the Caelid Bell Bearing Hunter have NO right being that difficult.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

@@drunkhas Altus dude is annoying, but fine . . . Caelid though: F@$$ MY LIFE

[@TK-7193]

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 a bit late but what i did is chill on the roof of the shack in caelid and shot the bell bearing hunter poison arrows. use the serpant bow for easier procs too.

[@Deh9o11en8or]

also the ingredients to craft them are generally pretty common

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

Actual tip for runes: do the math! Nothing is worse than popping all your runes, seeing you are short of getting another level, then dying and losing all of them before you make it back to a grace. Use them like a bank, and withdrawal only when needed.

[@RelativelyBest]

Honestly, I usually only use them when I need runes to buy something, or when I'm already farming ludicrous runes and I figure I might as well. But, yeah, the whole point is that they're backup runes that you can't lose while they're in your inventory.

[@leme686]

This. I use them solely to top off for lvling..

[@-DeScruff]

Ive always saved them since they can't be lost on death and use them in situations where they are instantly going to be spent. (usually in situations where your only off by a few runes.)

[@elis7081]

another tip for the frenzyflame stone: if you accept the flame of frenzy down in leyndell sewers, the frenzyflame stones don't give madness and heal like regular healing stones

[@junktruck]

Sell them instead of popping them. It's so much faster, you don't need to check the wiki to make sure, and you don't lose any runes by doing so. Generally just save them for when you need something from a shop or a new level. There's so many to find in the open world you can acquire quite a few. The first time you kill one of those chanting harpy ladies they will drop a level 9 rune. Theres an narrow bridge area in Caelid near the Church of Plague that has several of them

[@LeiraVeil-Challenge]

6:35 its worth noting that while this can be used to cancel out waterfowl it shouldnt be attempted more than twice in one boss fight attempt. due to how enemies gain resistance to status effects, malenia will no longer be frostbitten in one pot anymore after the 2nd proc and you usually do not have enough time to throw 2 before being stunned out.

[@shanec9672]

I clicked on the video when it came up in my feed just to make sure someone had said this. Thank you. As an addendum, I've never really felt like I had enough time to switch to ice pots from anything else by the time I reacted to the animation starting up, so if anyone does intend to use those to beat malenia, you might be well served learning her attack animations well enough to do it perfectly or almost perfectly, and use the assassin's crimson dagger talisman to heal off of crits (parry ripostes or stance breaks) - if you use a dagger to do so, it procs twice. This saves you the time and possible confusion of changing items at a critical and dangerous moment in the fight. Also, don't try to use ice pots against the attack where she sends out a bunch of pink phantoms. You'll knock her out of it, but not before the first phantom hits you.

[@julispears4949]

Try bringing a cold affinity weapon or spells to keep applying build up to mitigate the status resistance mechanic, I would recommend something that can have the chilling mist ash of war

[@shanec9672]

@@julispears4949 the problem with that is it's not reliable unless you have a very accurate mental counter of what her resistances are, what they've changed to be, how much you've applied, etc. The point isn't to proc frost, really; it's to have something that will stun her out of an animation, and those pots just so happen to work twice on their own. It is, however, why I make the crit tool that I'm wielding fire or flame art infused since that resets the proc in case RNG is not on my side and she uses it twice very close together, although in that case, I'm probably screwed later on in the fight when I would need it more and she's more aggressive.

[@LeiraVeil-Challenge]

@@julispears4949 I mean cold affinity or spells can certainly help when fighting her but it kind of defeats the purpose of using the pots. Plus you run the risk of getting procs at the wrong time leading to you potentially eating a waterfowl.

[@julispears4949]

@@shanec9672 the point wasn't using it as your main weapon but to keep buildup for WHEN she uses waterfowl

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

I actually didn't know baldachins blessing gave defense, thought it was purely poise

[@Legless_Amphibian]

You can deactivate the frenzy flame tower near the frenzied flame village by climbing up it and beating the dudes at the top to death, they don't even fight back

[@thedragonknight3600]

Here's another little thing about darts and daggers of all kinds: poise is like a bar that fills up when you deal damage, and after a certain amount of time it begins to drain if they've taken no hits of any kind. If you pepper them with darts, their stance never has an opprotunity to recover making poise breaks and ripostes more frequent. Illusory wall has a much more in depth video on the subject.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

This is the sort of comment that will go a long way in helping people. 👍

[@noahoakley339]

That's what I figured, given the weird stance breaks I'd gotten

[@enlongjones2394]

Additional thing about the fan daggers. They do *way* more damage than you’d expect from them if all the daggers hit the target. Making them good up close, and really nice against huge targets like dragons or giants. They’re also a rare attack that can reliably hit dragon heads.

[@mr.derpshurps5750]

A tip for the furlcalling remedy, if your friend dies, use the remedy again to enable spirit ashes

[@Lunapocrypha]

b r o that’s a t h i n g 💀 i’m gonna hang myself 😭

[@TheJonyfication]

Fun fact, you can tank radahns meteor attack with the Uplifting Aromatic. So if you're bad at timing like me, you can face tank it with a full health bar (:

[@FurieMan]

15:35 The tip I would give for golden runes is to only use them to top up your runes when you arrive at a site of grace and you se that you are like 20% or less away from leveling. This ensures that you don't continue on and end up losing your currently accumulated runes.

[@purplehaze2358]

I love how swarm pots are basically beenades from Terraria.

[@deldarel]

More fun gold pickled fowl foot tip: Have it on your pouch. You can last hit a boss, and then quickly eat to get a ton of extra runes.

[@enlongjones2394]

If there’s anything to say as advice for the rune items, it’s that their descriptions tell you how many runes they give, after a patch.

[@XIVDock]

Additionally, they can be sold to vendors for exactly what they give without sitting through an animation or backing out of a menu.

[@buckyhurdle4776]

And as they go up in value they have slightly different lore in their descriptions

[@mastermarkus5307]

The one thing I don't like about Baldachin's Blessing is that it's inconvenient to get since you can only carry one and will have to go to Fia every time you need another.

[@ianmcgregor576]

Thanks for adding the images! Its not often a youtuber actually takes feedback like that

[@Jayshay13]

BTW if you have raw meat dumplings in your inventory your mimic can heal itself and it won't proc poison, just saying because I don't think enough people know this.

[@BigHatLoganGaming]

I use them for healing tbh, just gotta munch a poison bolus after

[@iggorka]

Actual tip for golden runes would be "sell to merchant", it's way more convenient to get exact amount of runes this way

[@giantpopeg9986]

For the runes, if you're in the inventory and click what button it says for simple view you can use your runes without leaving the menu!

[@chronofreak]

Scrolled too far to find this. Everyone needs to know this tip.

[@spce4967]

Use high level golden runes for free levels. Keep low level golden runes for if you can barely not afford something (item in a shop, weapon upgrade, or another level)

[@alistairsnowshroud8069]

It's also worth noting that Wraith Calling bell's projectile moves slow enough that you can parry it, and can cheese anything if you pair it with a carian retaliation ash of war.

[@javiermaldonado7120]

Tip for golden runes, sell them to npc’s instead of using them if you’re about to buy something, you’ll get just as many tunes but you’ll be able to use them much faster since you don’t get the animation and you don’t get kicked out of your inventory

[@Aemni1]

My anxious ass not using any consumables in 400+ hours of gameplay because "i'm afraid i'll need them for an emergency": 👁👄👁

[@jorcornel558]

Extra Hint about kukris: throw them at flame pillars in Catacombs to lower them. They have longer range than other thrown daggers, and dont take up any weight like bows, which can also be used to trigger the pillars in a pinch

[@becomingsentient1208]

It's doable, but swapping on a bow to shoot the pillar and then removing it isn't a huge deal either

[@cpnquack]

I honestly didn't know half of these existed, but man i wish i did my first play through. Those rot pots would have been my saving grace multiple times.

[@archaic_fool]

About the neutralizing boluses, you can fight a bell bearing hunter at night in front of a shack found off of a branching path on your way to the draconic tree sentinel, off to a left path with gravestones. This bell bearing hunter drops the medicine peddlers bell bearing, which allows you to buy neutralizing, stanching, clarifying and one other type of bolus. I have like 88 neutralizing, it's great

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

Old fangs are easily farmed, honestly. I find most misbegotten enemies drop them over their common weapon drops. I had been farming for the Iron Cleaver for an early game butcher-themed build for what felt like hours before it finally dropped and had enough old fangs to fill an entire nursing home with fresh dentures.

[@Zanuth-001]

Sell golden runes to a merchant like Kale if you've got a lot of them; you don't have to deal with the use animations and you get the same amount

[@TheFizio]

It should be noted that the Freezing Pot can also stun Malenia out of her Scarlet Aeonia, so as soon as phase 2 starts you can throw one to get the battle started early. Thanks to it, and 2 scavenger curved swords (before the 1.07 nerf to dual buildup...), i killed ng+7 malenia in less than 40 seconds

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Rainbow stones are also great for marking paths a rooms in confusing dungeons.

[@brianduhon9629]

This couldn't have droped at a better time, because im using alot more consumables in my most recent playthrough. Thank you!

[@RelativelyBest]

Best tip I know of: The Mimic Tear can use any consumables in your inventory without consuming yours. So, for example, having raw meat dumplings lets it heal 50% of its HP after using up its flask, and it can use Baldachin's Blessing once in every fight you summon it for as long as you don't use yours, throw all of your pots, use your aromatics, etc.

[@menialbee]

I got summoned by someone who had placed the max amount of glowstones in one singular spot and I think my monitor became more powerful than the sun

[@evanpetrolle2596]

Your thumbnails are expertly made. They always look so crisp and clean. Very nice work.

[@deletekeys]

Malenia’s fighting style embodies flowing water. It is beyond clever that Ice is the method that stops her waterfowl.

[@zeterzero4356]

The most positive in terms of consistency through a video Rusty has ever been. Items really are the spice of life...or something, I don't know.

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

Giants fire pots are busted in pvp

[@ythandlename]

These tips would 100% help people who dupe items but not so much with those who have a honest character. Not saying what's good or bad but I'm saying that very finite but beneficial things like Starlight Shards can't be utilized at all considering their value. Good video nevertheless. Side hints for anyone reading this far: I love coop so I usually farm sanctuary stones, bloodroses and crystal bud in the scenic isle grace to where the Deathbird spawns. Also any item that can be brought I would use to most often since I get runes from coop and can refill them in merchants instead of farming them. I highly recommend the following: Any throwing knife but mostly Poisonbone Darts, any combat pot but Fire/Volcano pots are a great stable for early/mid game, always use Boiled Crab as there is almost no instance when it's not useful, Poison Clump which is better than Poisonbone dart used to poison most bosses at the start of a fight, Warming Stone to heal party and Pickled Neck because stamina is useful to be able to roll out of danger in time.

[@samuelkerl5457]

The Wraithcalling Bell can also proc the carian retaliation or golden retaliation skill on your own shield if you walk forwards, since it's so slow

[@kodieherrington1019]

Pro tip boars drop old fangs so find a good spawn my spot is at the sword master shake

[@justsomeannoyingredpanda]

Thank you for the pictures of the items Rusty! Very much appreciated 👍

[@boatmeal_]

New Rusty post, my day is immensely better

[@UncleBeerus]

There is a difference between the holy water pot and the sacred order pot: the holy water pot is just better. Unless you’re using it for holy damage specifically against something isn’t undead, then the holy water pot is better. It does like 400% extra damage to undead creatures compared to I think like 15% of the sacred order pots. It’s really weird

[@LyonAMV]

7:55 Aromatics are great in general, but this are, so nice

[@leonysprice1150]

11:15 warming stone: leave these on you hotbar while using mimic tear, the mimic will drop many of these on the ground wich is free healing

[@eagengabriel]

Also any throwing dagger/dart is a good option if a boss is on a golden pixel, or for baiting out waterfowl dance if she hasn't done it in a minute but you know it's coming

[@alliebonesVODs]

Wraith Calling Bell also has a HUUUGE range, which makes it excellent for pulling a single enemy from far away.

[@lexisking152]

The Backlogs is going to have a fun time with Elden Ring, like seriously there are so many fire bomb type weapons in this game and I love it

[@ngg4399]

0.38 Neutralizing Boluses are not difficult to find at all. Just find the Medicine Peddler’s bell bearing and buy however many you want from the Twin Maiden Husks. :)

[@tommyc8006]

with the glinstone chunks i found great use of them in ordina by using them to push the archers into positions where they cant shoot me without moving into their line of site. makes crossing the roofs alot easier when you dont have other options to hit em and getting ins hard

[@Achilles3666]

Golden Runes are runes you can carry around without any risk of losing them because they're items and don't drop on death. Resist the urge to use them immediately, wait until you want to level up or need some extra runes at a merchant; you can sell them to merchant for their full value

[@MortalVildhjart]

Tipp for Using more of the Runes in your Inventory,; If you toggle off the right side of the inventory screen with pressing in the analog stick (Makes hud invisble right side) the Inventory stays open and you don't have to reopen it when trying to use all the runes you got in yer pocket ;)

[@MinecraftMartin]

Ruin fragments - You know that heroes grave with the chariots that can destroy eachother once you activate that pillar? You can toss a ruin fragment high up over the wall to activate that pillar toward the beginning of that dungeon.

[@Svoorhout85]

Equip warming stones so your mimic tear becomes a part time healer. They will use them often without expending your supply.

[@RelativelyBest]

I don't recommend using bone darts to hunt: You need two thin beast bones to make one of them, and you usually only get one bone per animal, meaning you are bound to use more darts than you can make. I prefer to buy regular throwing daggers for hunting and farm the bones for crafting arrows. You can only carry 99 of any arrows but you can carry 999 thin beast bones and flight feathers, so this is highly advisable if you frequently use a bow. On a related note: I recently discovered that hawks do not react to fire pots for some reason. So, tossing a volcano pot at a group of three hawks will kill all of them and make farming feathers much easier. Also works with explosive rocks, I think, but oddly not with any other throwable I've tried.

[@involuntaryanalysis]

Glintstone pebble is the most efficient means of hunting I've found. Yeah, you spend FP, but besides a shot or two from the flask if you run into trouble along the way, you're not spending anything.

[@RelativelyBest]

@@involuntaryanalysis I think I tried that but I never stuck with it. Don't quite recall why, I may have had trouble with the range or didn't want to bother changing weapons. (Plus, throwing daggers are available to all classes at the start of the game.) BTW, it occurs to me that if you equip the Ancestral Spirit Horn and off-hand Sacrificial Axe you should be able to use Glintstone Pebble indefinitely as long as you always one-shot the prey.

[@Relics_AI]

Last item, banked runes can be sold directly to the blacksmith for their full value quicker than using them manually.

[@TheTolnoc]

0:33 YOU CAN DO THAT!?

[@LeiraVeil-Challenge]

11:20 frenzyflame stones also work like aditional warming stones if you have inherited the flame of frenzy

[@MrElvisNilsson]

11:30 Bewitching Branch is wicked in the Sol Castle boss fight. You get to skip phase 1 with 2 of these, just turn his summoned knights into yours ^^

[@drunkhas]

Tip for Golden Runes, if you wanna pop'em quick either sell them to Master Hewg or go to simple view in the UI, that way it doesn't kick you out of the UI everytime you pop a rune.

[@L115Marine]

You can find the bell hunter in atlas plateue that makes it so you can buy most bolus from the twin maidens at firelink- round table

[@hxtch0colate405]

So I noticed immediately, if you check the Altus plateau’s Hermit Merchant’s Shack in the Capital Outskirts a Bell-bearing hunter will spawn at night. This drops the Medicine peddler’s bell-bearing which at the Twin Maiden Husks can give you infinite Poison boluses, Blood boluses, Frost boluses, and stimulating boluses. Huge for those 4 but the rest you gotta find for yourself so huge tip for those 4 status effects.

[@RelativelyBest]

Oh, so _that's_ what causes that guy to spawn. I only ran into him once, got killed because I didn't expect it and never saw him again.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

@@RelativelyBest he spawns if it's night *and* you didn't cause it to become night in *this* life/waking up from a rest

[@RelativelyBest]

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 Huh. So to be clear, you mean I actually have to start during the day and then wait for nightfall in real time? I feel like I've used the Pass Time function to make it night and then run into one of the bell hunters by warping in from another area. Then again, maybe I'm confusing them with Death Birds. I know for a fact that's how it works for them.

[@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172]

@@RelativelyBest Not really, if you pass time, rest, and look for him he won't show up. If you pass time, rest, wake up, rest again, and *then* look around he will be there. Just make sure to rest twice/start a new "life" post time-passing and he'll be active.

[@RelativelyBest]

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 That's... kinda confusing. You can't pass time _without_ resting, since you automatically rest when activating a Site of Grace. So, do you mean I have to access the Site of Grace, pass time to Nightfall and _then_ use the Site of Grace one more time for him to show up?

[@drmuffin8403]

Golden rune tip: they don't fall on the ground when you die so you can stash them. This can be useful when having a hard time with a boss since you can go to the round table hold, buy a few items, and upgrade your gear without needing a sacrificial branch or farming to have runes.

[@Navek15]

I’ve trying my hand at a pure Strength Guard Counter Build, so crafting items like Greases and Pots are a vital part of giving pure melee builds some extra versatility and elemental damage. Also, minor one, but I think the Grease-applying animation looks cooler than any of the Armament spells/incantations

[@jacobw8634]

Pro tip: DON’T use golden runes. Sell them to Hewg for the same amount of runes and a lot less hassle

[@bljy853]

That scripstone tip is actually amazing to me because I got healed through the Mohg fight on my first playthrough right as he was about to end my life with the blood ritual (didn't know about the physik at the time) by a silly joke message I left outside the Margit fight at the beginning of the game getting rated up, and it saved the fight for me. Don't doubt how good it might be to rate a message for someone else's sake.

[@thetsarofall8666]

Not a consumables tip, but an ash of war tip: The zweihander's ash of war, stamp: upward cut makes humanoid enemies a cakewalk. It hard stuns them to the point where even if they roll after hitting the ground, 99% of the time they are still in range to get hard stunned again. Hell, it even soft-stuns crucible knights.

[@UltimaPhoenix-dx3kt]

Can't wait for the "1 quick tip for every elden ring enemy" vid

[@cubex2160]

there is a tip for golden runes, if u push down ur right analog to show your character while in the menu it will not kick you out of the menu when using them which makes it much easier and less painfull to use them. (instead of selling them to merchants which is also quicker)

[@Chwiztid]

Shield grease is amazing stuff! I used it on a cold spiked palisade shield with shield crash applied to it, and I could handle a lot of attacks before getting staggered.

[@kayn9651]

Here's a tip for the golden runes. - Instead of trudging through the animation to pop them, just sell them at a vendor, that way you also get to see exactly how many runes it will offer so you don't pop a 50k rune when all you need is a 12k one to do your weapon upgrades. What I do is that I save them for when I need to make an emergency purchase, like when you got your runes stuck in a boss room but need to buy some stuff from a merchant to beat that boss? - Just use the rune bank. - It's runes that don't vanish when you die, once you pop the rune that utility is gone.

[@Th3Antagonist]

Thanks for the awesome tip on the golden runes, it worked like a charm!

[@meangirlovania]

If you need a tip for runes: you can sell them for the same amount that popping them gives and save a bit of time watching the animation. Maybe everyone knows that already but it's all I got

[@tehSunBro]

There is one tip for Golden Runes, sell them to vendors instead of using them, saves a lot of time and you still get the same amount of runes.

[@0Blueaura]

15:39 you could just sell them to a merchant and get the same amount of souls quicker (good when you are back to roundtable hold and just want a quick lvl up or upgrade)

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I never used it to counter the Waterfowl Dance, but yeah, putting the frost pots on my mimic tear made Malenia waaaaaaay more manageable. I was doing a Greatstars build with Dragon Incantations, so it probably should have been even easier, but I’m not very good at the game.

[@senorkaktusz5940]

Soap is also good to wipe off the scarlet rot goo that's stuck on your cloak. It is especially useful in areas like the Lake of Rot, Gaol Cave or Swamp of Aeonia, where that shit is as high as your damn ankles - sometimes, even if you cure yourself of it, it starts the buildup again, because your armor is covered in it.

[@fancyteaspoon]

tossing a glowstone at the trap door/black room in Stormveil before i walked in illuminated the whole room so i could see the damned banished knight without needing a torch. also hadn't gotten the lantern yet so the stone was a big help.

[@ieatmice751]

I think there are around 6 giant sleep crabs in the game. 1 in the academy, maybe 2 outside in the town ruins. And I think about 3 in the consecrated snowfield. They’re pretty much all well hidden and out of the way though so you’re unlikely to run into them. There may even be less than 6 but it’s probably something around that number

[@ieatmice751]

There are however, millions of the harmless little ones. In the academy, Liurnia and the snowfield

[@arellajardin8188]

I would respect the Livers if the buff wasn’t 15%. The barrier incants give 35% negation, and only require 10 Fth. I thought about using Exalted Flesh instead of Flame Grant Me Strength for one one playthrough, but they require Arteria Leaf, which don’t respawn, and the farm is in the Mountaintops. Just, why?

[@aymeric3756]

Hey Rusty, Can you give us a facemaking tutorial? Actually, can you make that a character making tutorial? Mostly because your character very slim whilst wearing armour. Thank you!

[@iammax1393]

Since golden runes got no love, my tidbit is to opt to sell them instead of using them if you don’t need the runes right away. If you’ve got a full inventory and don’t want to wait for the animation each time you can run over to Hewg and have a quick fire sale.

[@movezig5]

Here's a tip for golden rune items: keep a few handy for those times when you're about to do a difficult section of the game and you don't have _quite_ enough souls to level up. Also, these items say how many runes they give you in the description, so you can fine-tune the amount of runes you get! This way you can avoid wasting consumable runes and minimize the number of runes you lose if you die.

[@SchansKir]

I have a tip for the consumable runes! It is much faster to sell them to some merchant than breaking each rune individually!

[@ArtArtisian]

Drop a volcano pot on any invisible scarab route to guarantee the hit and item. No timing required!

[@DanteScarlet]

One question I always had with the soap is does it stop the constant build-up if you had to roll in scarlet rot muck in War-dead or something like that?

[@amberhernandez]

Soap stops the additional buildup from rolling in _all_ poison/rot puddles, but make sure you're _out_ of the puddles before you use it.

[@RadahnHimSelf]

Another thing you can do with rainbow stone since you can easily craft it throw it if you want to see if you gonna jump from a high place if it brake then this jump will kill you if it didn’t then you are save but you might get a bit damage

[@limb-o7180]

fan daggers are very useful both in pvp and pve, very reliable way to pop your enemies' bubble

[@knowmatter5503]

Fire pots are just the best in general because of all the useful things you can do with fire like igniting barrels to blow up groups of enemies, lighting the giant flowers enemies on fire stops their spore attack, and the big hand enemies are stunned for several seconds when hit by fire. Also people sleep on how much damage they do on strength builds. Slap on the pot helm and you’ve got a great ranged damage option that doesn’t even require you to take both hands off your beat stick. Be smart unga bunga and discover fire.

[@WarlockSlayerYamano79]

The frenzy stone also has the benefits of the warming stone if you have the frenzy flame.

[@RugaQwarrcall]

10:55 And today I learned that rating messages heals people... I was wondering what that glow was whenever I had a message appraised. Had never once considered it was a heal.