Ranking Every Crystal Tear in Elden Ring From Worst To Best

[@Rusty._]

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[@blackcatsmusicroom2553]

you are a (youtube) youtuber context rt games video by the name youtube

[@LemonEarth]

Damn this is like the only sponsored game that I actually want to play

[@Pseudo921]

I still want the helicopter, it's funny

[@Pseudo921]

@@blackcatsmusicroom2553 RT is such a youtube

[@blackcatsmusicroom2553]

@@Pseudo921 correct

[@Ghostly3011]

"The last half hour of the game might as well be a boss rush mode against the Vatican." Never have truer words been spoken.

[@TheXell]

If you want a full game doing that, that's basically DMC 4.

[@thehunter_3414]

@@TheXell DMC 5 is stopping someone for growing a tree

[@ashleydejong3402]

Tarnished after beating maliketh: What I am about to do has not been approved by the vatican

[@DrexelQuake]

Why does that sentence make me laugh so much?!

[@DanielGarcia-rx3kt]

@@ashleydejong3402 my Tarnished: I *am* the Vatican.

[@blue3094]

Please team cherry release silk song this man is going insane. he is ranking digital energy drinks.

[@ascended313]

I think we are getting news this month, maybe the 14th or the 24th.

[@blackmanbastion]

@@ascended313 we are getting news tomorrow because of nintendo direct

[@ascended313]

@@blackmanbastion let’s hope

[@grandmagunsales2125]

Any luck yet señors?

[@joaquinmoran75]

@@grandmagunsales2125 no

[@treydavidson5184]

twiggy also has the perk of preventing rune piles from disappearing, so if you die and are worried about getting your runes back you get unlimited attempts

[@ArcheoneGaming]

And if you combine it with skills like Sepeku you can kill yourself in a catacomb, keep your runes as you teleport to the entrance, and you can walk to the door you just opened. Without needing to walk all the way back through the catacombs after pulling the lever. Or if you went through an entire dungeon and now are facing the boss... just drink the potion and take the souls with you if you die. Like we all had that moment of, fuck those were 3 levels of worth of souls! That attack was bullshit! or whatever. Then ur under pressure because well you cant die now... souls are on the line! But with one little potion all of that is irrelevant. Just drink the potion and there is no penalty for death anymore. I mean in this game there are statues of marika / grace sites every 20 cm and you can teleport freely with your map, unlike other souls games... But this no penalty on death would have been AMAZING in a game like DS1 or something. Especially with farming runs. Just die instead of running back to the bonfire and no fear of risk... (Like this tear would have been an B for utility if you couldnt just fast travel from anywhere, if fast travel was limited from grace sites for example... this Tear would be SO valuable)

[@godlydestroyer4234]

Wish I would have known this a while back…. Rip 132k runes from a boss…

[@flareboy166]

@@godlydestroyer4234 Try losing 400k runes at Miquella's Haligtree 💀

[@Vexcron]

@@flareboy166 that’s nothing

[@flareboy166]

@@Vexcron What do u think this is? A pissing contest? 🤣 try telling that to the other guy ☝🏼️not me.

[@joekewl7539]

Put the twig and ruptured tear together for a reliable "forfeit and return to Grace" option in case you get locked in with something you aren't equipped to deal with, without losing your runes. This combo is also called "Homeward Boom."

[@papercat5829]

The best retreat tactic in the game is the mohg area teleport item you get from varre. Works in combat and takes about 1-2 secs to activate. Then just teleport from mohg area back to where u were

[@ASimpleInternetUser]

I absolutely love this 😂 I never remember to use my mixed physic anyway. I just run in and smash, so this is likely what I'll be using for whenever I get an invader that likes to show up with the Jar Cannon and then spend their whole time running away from you. No more wasted time, just homeward boom out of there.

[@ASimpleInternetUser]

@@papercat5829 Good to know, but I can't imagine it works during pvp invasions. Does it?

[@papercat5829]

@@ASimpleInternetUser nope

[@michasokoowski6651]

@@papercat5829 Sadly doesn't work with statues of marika ;-;

[@MrMrStacho]

the winged crystal tear raises the equip load by 450% if you were wondering

[@Drunken.J0hn]

WHAT

[@Drunken.J0hn]

no wonder no matther what i wear im light rolls

[@bapob]

@@Drunken.J0hn 😂

[@spinningninja2]

Christ just make it infinite at that point lmao

[@liamwhite3522]

Another instance of "Is that 0 supposed to be there, or is that a typo?"

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

All the tears that increase elemental damage are just perfect

[@adriaanschoombie8573]

The elemental ones are always a source of GAME BREAKING DAMAGE! Fr tho the lightning one is what is carrying my dragon cult build.

[@michaelbowman6684]

This is only tangentially related, but if there was a version of Flame, Grant Me Strength for every element, that'd be wild.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

@Michael Bowman there's Terra Magica I suppose

[@AndreasFleissner]

​@@michaelbowman6684 "Howl of Shabriri" is your "Flame, Grant Me Strength" for every element if you don't mind the dmg increase to yourself (and the missing stamina buff).

[@pharaohbubbles1547]

With no damage penalty either. It's great

[@jeftecoutinho]

It's a Tear List

[@Literally_Heisenburg]

Cheesus Christ.

[@earth2cody172]

Underrated reply

[@alkoholikerensnill6810]

Praise the message!

[@Illusivem8ne]

@@Literally_Heisenburgcheese and rice*

[@Literally_Heisenburg]

@@Illusivem8ne no. Cheesus Christ.

[@Maello137]

I actually really like the Helicopter Halberd bit

[@aliteralboiledcabbage4836]

Same

[@elios7623]

same

[@becomingsentient1208]

Also

[@siddharthshishulkar8992]

same

[@Gondaldin]

Oh boy do I have a video for you! Search for "DS3 How to helicopter"

[@cosmic_coconut7503]

He'll never run out of things to rank.

[@hellfireplague]

“Oh God Rusty is ranking all cliffs in elden ring”

[@austinmc12]

Let’s hope not at least

[@TheDannoh403]

“Oh god he’s ranking Elden Ring tier lists again”

[@austinmc12]

@@TheDannoh403 I’m there

[@EricIsntSmart]

"Oh God he's ranking screen pixels"

[@freighttrainjohnson6771]

Something to remember about the Twiggy Cracked Tear and Twig Talismans: These items prevent you from taking any penalty from dying besides progress in the area you're in. This means that if you have a massive rune pile on your bloodstain and want to ensure you get that back, you can use this to prevent that specific death from vanishing since it prevents you from dropping new runes acquired on the way to that one cliff you could have sworn the player left message wasn't lying at. This mechanic isn't talked about enough for how useful it can be and it has existed in the souls series forever.

[@Skorm731]

I guess they learned from Dark Souls 3 in the fact that people get hilariously paranoid so they added a repairable/re-activating rune loss prevention item in Elden Ring. I lost millions of runes when I was very close to getting to max level in DS3 once. I got so mad when I lost those because that grind took me four months.

[@Zyk0th]

@@Skorm731 I recently lost 7.7k souls in Dark Souls recently. I'm new to the Souls games and that was more souls than I'd ever had at one time. I died and then when heading back to the bloodstain, I got flanked on a bridge and stun-locked to death. I was certain I was out of aggro range of the guy who came up behind me. What makes it worse is that I had a Ring of Sacrifice, but didn't use it.

[@Keebrev]

@@Zyk0thtrust me man once you get deep enough into this that 7.7k will seem like nothing. Definitely not worth a whole ring of sacrifice!!

[@SolaScientia]

@@Keebrev For damn sure. It sucks early on, but that's nothing compared to when I lost about 60k in the Grand Archives because I died to a knight and then went the wrong way and got stunlocked by a bunch of candle headed fucks. I still never really found a good farming spot in DS3. Even when I lost loads of echoes in Bloodborne there are plenty of good farming spots (not even counting certain chalice dungeons) to regain what was lost.

[@nayyarrashid4661]

​@@SolaScientiaThose gold winged knights are the best farming spot in dark souls 3. But there is a shortcut from the bonfire outside the grand archives gate. That takes you straight to those three knights without facing a single enemy.

[@spacecowboy5486]

Waiting for the two hours long ranking of every single weapon based on how fashonable they are

[@rk13567]

Ringed Finger is the clear #1

[@shagarumedic]

Hand of Malenia wins for looking like a banana sword

[@yasininn76]

Cypher sword wins

[@tytar1037]

@@rk13567Ringed finger is great for my Dr. Johnny Sins cosplay

[@CPUSublimeHeart]

Thoughts on the all weapons vid?

[@scottlife1697]

Personally, I like the twiggy tear for when I'm about to do something completely stupid or I've hit a boss that is stonewalling me and I need to get my runes back before moving on to something different.

[@310Firewolf]

same! it’s my escape rope tear

[@0ptimuscrime]

My uncle started playing elden ring about a month ago and was pissed at losing runes. I suggested this to him but he still kept losing them because he wouldn’t drink his medicine 🤷‍♂️

[@dumpy8312]

I loved the twiggy tear so much, any time I was walking in to someplace that felt unsafe I was okay with exploring it knowing I wouldn't just lose all my runes when I eat a few too many spells

[@tatri292]

@Freedom of Speech Enjoyer ... but you can just switch to it *after* you drop your runes in a bad place. That way you lose no utility and get *two* whole combat buffs

[@Moshmaschine]

@@0ptimuscrime I'm envisioning a "TAKE YOUR MEDS, GRANDPA!" type situation here.

[@Jaden-Ring]

Oh God he's back and he's ranking crystal tears!

[@ghjong001]

Twiggy tear is an 'S' for your first playthrough, and still useful in NG+ when you might need a few hundred thousand runes to level up. I pop it immediately on entering every single boss fight, and basically saves you the effort of grinding for runes to level up. It's also useful for platforming sections.

[@KingCasual1986]

Definitely not EVERY single boss. If you pop it in Pacidisax’s fight, it WILL run out because that fight takes forever!

[@becomingsentient1208]

23:22 only applies to a purely Physical attack. If there is elemental damage, it will still pop the bubble.

[@sasaki999pro]

Yeah honestly I hate that, same with uplifting aromatic. Seriously fromsoft, the bubble should only activate upon taking DIRECT damage, not chip damage.

[@AuramAlexander]

this is truly a Rusty Ranks Crystal Tears from Elden Ring moment

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

ok

[@jackharrow7147]

the speckled hard tear is great paired with the cerulean hidden tear on a madness build because the madness resistance and clearing the buildup gives you like 3 more seconds to cast unendurable frenzy

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

i recenlty ran a madness build for my frenzied flame playthrough and i'm genuinely surprised how strong it was. Madness incantations are crazy strong

[@_Shadoh_]

Exactly.

[@_Shadoh_]

@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse Yeah unendurable frenzy is so much fun!

[@adamplaga7859]

As someone who’s been playing this game nonstop for a year, it’s been tough to find KZbin videos still filled with both passion and knowledge. These videos have both, consistently. Great footage, interesting lore behind the gear, and genuinely thought out tier lists will always keep me coming back to your channel

[@AmaryIIion]

Wish the video was more beginner friendly though. For a couple of the tears he straight up never told me what they did, and just talked about synergies with them. Sure I could make an educated guess or just look it up, but why should I have to do that? I'm here for the convenience of this guy telling me about whats good and bad, so being told exactly what each tear does seems like the obvious start. Simply showing the card information would be amazing.

[@PoyoDesuka]

The real reason why Ruptured crystal tears are S Tier is because of their extremely unique effect. No other item in the game let's you turn yourself into a highly mobile time bomb.

[@eternalsummer8409]

I too love roleplaying as a haligtree soldier in pvp

[@pugwhisperer7211]

Ahhh yes the very balanced tear that makes a full bull goat armor addict light roll for 3 minutes cant wait

[@kevinoneil5120]

Since you mentioned DLC, I wanna take the chance to say how glad I was to be wrong about Fromsoft's play. I was 100% certain that arena mode (which they figured out with DS3) would be paywalled behind a DLC. Then out of nowhere, boom: "We just wanted time to balance pvp a bit, here's arena mode." Kudos, Fromsoft.

[@awoodenkiwitoy6293]

As a pvp efficianado, my favorite flask set-up is the leaden and crimsonwhorl tear combination. There really is no better way to let moonveil users know that you hate them by turning their transient moonlight spam into a light breeze. 10 second duration? They're already dead.

[@TheValiantBob]

I think the str boosting tear is a bit better than the dex one. Mainly because of the 1.5x multiplier you get to str when two handing. If you know you're going to be two handing your weapon the majority of the time, this tear lets you get away with only leveling up to 44 str, as with the tear it'll go to 54 which when two handing hits the 80 str soft cap. That gives you a ton of extra points you can invest in other stuff like mind or endurance, or hybridize the build with faith or int or arcane.

[@Sirransborg]

“Boss rush against the Vatican” almost had me spit my drink 😂

[@daveray6195]

10:39 this paired with the cerulean hidden tear can allow you to keep casting unendurable frenzy for more than 20 seconds without having to worry about getting the maddess proc. Which can be more than enough to stun lock and bring down Malenia in her first phase.

[@josephstrassfield7921]

The items rolling on screen when introduced is really satisfying good job editing this

[@thomasdevlin5825]

The intelligence crystal tear sounds kinda interesting at the moment just because when trying to make my way to the perfect order ending I realized it requires using an incantation that costs 37 god damn intelligence to cast. It's not even something that you can fake use like swords where you can still physically swing it even if you don't meet the requirements, you just either have to scrape up enough INT by using tears and talismans or just be a dedicated mage

[@jakubpuawski3875]

probably best to just respec for that one moment and the spec back

[@theawickward2255]

The wiki has a set of items that can be used to get +36 intelligence if you don't want to respec: Twinsage Crown Intelligence-Knot Crystal Tear Stargazer Heirloom Godrick's Great Rune Grafted Blade Greatsword skill Marika's Soreseal All of these save the Soreseal (and that can be replaced with the Scarseal since you have some starting intelligence) can be found before Leyndell, if you go looking.

[@thomasdevlin5825]

@@theawickward2255 I could just respec, but I never did the academy of raya lucaria on this save and really don't feel like going all the way through

[@becomingsentient1208]

@@theawickward2255 Hero and Prophet start at 7 Int, so using all but the crown is enough to cast the spell. And it's not like you have any combat between the grace and the quest objective to worry about.

[@steelseraph7413]

Not to mention the perfect order ending is heavily associated with FAITH which means it would be more suited to Incantations users who prioritize the faith stat.

[@That3th3]

I love the twiggy tear. If you care about your runes you'll use it. You'll even use it just as you leave the grace even. Lost your runes in a boss battle? Use it before the battle and feel comfortable that you'll basically guarantee the recollection of them. Twiggy S tier, basically the homeward bone of Elden ring

[@Superluminal_30000]

Plus it sounds funny.Twiggy.

[@baaanana]

I got the Crimsonwhorl bubbletear yesterday and also got to the Godskin duo boss a couple of hours later. Now i thought that I was going to be stuck there for hours since I had heard about how hard it was but it surprisingly only took three tries. Flamedrake talisman +2, opaline hardtear, crimsonwhorl bubbletear and pearldrake talisman +1 literally made me heal from almost all if not all of their flame attacks. Got stuck in godskin apostles tornado and came out with more hp than before, strongly recommend 👍

[@birdjericho]

Thank you for the suggestion, I'm dreading that fight!

[@alexterieur8813]

You can upgrade talismans ? How?

[@dslman737]

Stonebarb and spiked crystal tears are what I like to use whenever I play with the meteoric ore blade. Stance broken with nearly every power attack, so unfair.

[@CatsLeMatts]

Greenburst CT is really good, but I'd personally dock it some points because you could always use a Pickled Turtle Neck in its place and free that Tear Slot up for something that can't easily be replicated. Rowa Fruit & Herba are everywhere, & thanks to the 300 turtles that spawn in that one Dungeon in Summonwater Village, these end up being one of the easiest consumables to farm in my experience. The same kinda goes for other consumables like the Dried Liver, Cured Meats, or Invigorating Perfumes, but some of those require much more rare or finite materials so using the Tears is worth the resources saved if you ask me.

[@Olav_Hansen]

As someone that's creating a mohgwyns greatspear build, thank you for the magic shrouding tear.

[@lizord0]

Saddest part for me is that I only found 40% of every single tear in the course of beating the game (for example I never even knew the Magic shrouding tear was in the game before watching this video) but my go two physick flask all the way to the end of the game was opaline hard tear and stonebarb cracked tear. It just worked so well with my Vergil dual katana + summoned sword build because of the insane amount of staggering that gives crit dmg in bosses. It just works for me

[@jaysanj152]

You joke about Twiggy Cracked Tear but the fact that it'll give you extra comfort and effectively protect all those million runes you lost and is now on a tight challenging spot or getting into unfortunate stupid accidents (Especially in Haligtree or Auriza Hero's Grave),All without worrying about dying makes it rather invaluable. It may be niche but its still sure as hell S rank for me purely for that fact i mentioned above.. also super fun to combine with Ruptured Crystal Tear

[@AlexanderBaird]

I’m just getting on the ER train and just beat Goderick the Grafted on my [redacted] try and the stamina regen tear was So helpful😂 I’m hyped to see where the game goes

[@geordiejones5618]

I havent changed my Wondrous Physik since I realized the save runes/explode combo was hilarious and actually helpful

[@gnolfo]

I see you mentioned Flame of the Redmanes for stance damage, so I would like to bring to attention the fact that it was nerfed from 40 stance damage to 10 stance damage.

[@cellophaneoxygen]

another skill turned obsolete. thanks fromsoft!

[@MartinPurathur]

@@cellophaneoxygen It's still a medium tier useful and quick skill

[@NoNono-o3h]

​@@cellophaneoxygen username checks out

[@tomnope540]

I feel like using Winged, Str, Faith, etc talismans to allow you to equip certain weapons or armor effectively is a trap. after that 3 minutes go up, you better have a bonfire next to you or weap back to something weaker, or you're srewed. That really drops their usefulness in my eyes

[@KassFireborn]

You do fantastic comedy jumps. I have no idea if you even do in this specific video, I binged a bunch when I was in that perfect ranking-video kind of mood, but I remember being unwarrantedly amused on multiple occasions of you jumping into or out of the shot.

[@rainer516]

I just discovered your channel, and watching you slowly lose your marbles putting things in rankings and tier lists has been a joy.

[@MightyOProductions]

That had to be the best ad transition I've ever seen. Most on other channels are fairly cringy, but that one actually made me laugh!

[@George_Floggins]

Crimson and Crimsonwhorl bubble tears are great for PvP. I ran into someone who used this to great affect and basically became invincible. I remember it was United Combat and we pummelled him with strong incantations and constant AoW’s when his teammate died. It felt like Krillan and Trunks vs Cell when he first transformed.

[@Capybarristan]

I’ve been on the receiving end of this exact situation while having those tears slotted in arena and I can say that this tear combo is a real saving grace.

[@ultra824]

I used twiggy cracked tear almost constantly in the back half of my first playthrough and ended the run at like level 210 or so, a good 40 levels above what's typical, so the benefit over time is worth it. also _great_ to switch to this after dropping a bunch of runes. as long as you can get there in under 3 minutes you have unlimited tries to reach it

[@azrioael2814]

Glad to see another great upload! It genuinely makes me really happy to get the notif for a new upload

[@Valdex0]

He's never going to run out of ideas is he?

[@someguyatsubway]

"As blunt as a Baseball bat As indisputable as the FUCKING SUN" This fuckin whole bit. The delivery, the word choice and the whole damn video. Good shit man

[@mammalianmolasses4724]

Twiggy getting a C and not an S++ hurt a bit, but other than that this was was great. I’d never even considered the potential of the opaline tear. Also if you’re like me and play the whole game at or below 22 hp the full heal tear is pretty useless, because your still getting one-shot, but I can see it being good for most builds.

[@hanticleer1372]

The twiggy tear, just like the sacrificial twigs, can be used to prevent the loss of runes already on the ground. It's niche but it's a nice failsafe against losing a big pile of souls stuck in a rough spot.

[@MyouKyuubi]

It's not a Niche at all, it's the best tear for levelers. >_> Frequently, and consistently useful... So, the opposite of a Niche, lmao.

[@snubabubba2745]

At this point I can't wait for "Oh god, he's ranking every group of birds you can farm for feathers"

[@itsxora3207]

The ones on the coast of the weeping peninsula are good

[@firestargaming9521]

The crimsonburst tear and the opaline bubble tear literally carried me through the early game. So many times when I had poison proc and just saw my health bar fighting back against the ailment instead of slowly dying. Great tear, you will never be forgotten

[@cyrusardyn]

Grats on 400k, Rusty. Great list as always!

[@Michael-ex8lk]

My favorite tear is the exploding one combined with the faith boost. Especially when I am invading. VIGOR CHECK.

[@kevinoneil5120]

I slept on the spiked cracked tear until I started using Vyke's spear and understood its application as a stance breaker. My god, what a combo.

[@jnhensley09]

I'm probably one of those poor unfortunate souls that hasn't played Elden Ring yet. But I do like watching others play, including you, and it's making me want to play it. When I do eventually play it, these guides you've made are going to be very beneficial to me when building my characters. So, thank you for the time, effort and attention to detail you make into your videos. Not to mention your sense of humor is just *chef's kiss*. Keep doing what you're doing good sir.

[@ProfessionalRacist007]

Bubble tear is my favourite. I had it equipped till the end & even in NG+

[@jrmungandr_4404]

13:22 Bloodboon Ritual deals fire damage, not magic damage

[@tillhecameback]

I 1000% love your tier lists. Please make more. Literally subbed for them, yours are the best made so far, and the only complaint I have is that you don't paste the effect description text with the item you are talking about, cuz u gave literally 6 seconds of talking for some of the items.

[@SubmachineExplorer]

Bloodboon ritual does fire damage not magic damage so the flame-shrouding cracked tear would be better

[@TheMonacleSpy]

I almost spat out my drink at 20:16, amazing edit.

[@Revan5556]

In my second or third character, I literally just didn't care about the physic flask at all so I just straight up had only the base crimson tear until decently late game and remembered "oh hey, I should go kill some trees for tears"

[@DuskFox7]

These videos have been a nice balance of learning about the game a decent amount within a decent time, and still be entertaining.

[@perplexus1015]

Sorry honey, cancel the wedding. Rusty uploaded

[@nolanthedude]

25:51 man I loved Mohg’s second phrase

[@yourweirdplant]

NIHIL! NIHIL! NIIIIIIHIIIIIL!

[@mlgbrogaming7719]

One might call this a Tear List.

[@JonathanNormandy]

-2

[@AngryBoozer]

Sir, I must ask you to leave.

[@plutoisaplanet5331]

Twiggy Tear for me is an A+ for the sole reason that you gain all of its benefits without having to keep it in your physique. Accidently died in a bs location with 200,000 runes? Just swap out one tear from your flask, run to your runes, jump off the nearest cliff, and swap back. There's no harm in dying without your runes if you have the buff, since it prevents them from despawning. It's essentially an infinite use sacrificial twig that you can grab early, and never worry about losing runes ever again.

[@fred718]

It's pretty stupid that this guy doesn't see the benefit.

[@rydervanwaveren]

He's doing everything he can not to make another boss ranking video 😭

[@tomhanks1769]

I use Opaline Bubbletear + Crimson bubbletear and then cast unendurable frenzy, usually in PVP the enemy gets maybe 1 or 2 attacks in which usually isn't enough to destroy my poise but is enough to make the enemy not being able to do anything. On PVE (or in PVP if you manage to get the enemy staggered before he gets a hit on you), you can just keep shooting this thing for a ridiculous amount of time, since the first fill of the madness meter just breaks the invulnerability allowing you to use the spell twice as long, doesn't matter how much you suck at PVP if you can get this going.

[@AidanCrisp]

Who’s watching a month before DLC finally drops?

[@TheTolnoc]

As a side note, Cerulean Hidden Tear also REMOVES all FP costs outright while it's active. Meaning that, even if you didn't have the FP to cast it before hand, you can cast it while it's active, as if you had enough Max FP to cast it in the first place.

[@andymofoincross]

Missed opportunity to call it a "Tear" List.

[@LuckyTrout]

it'd be cool if the purifying tear blocked three instances of statues effects while still "procing" them

[@Afsafs123]

I couldn't even tell you what your channel does for me, but it does it. I keep coming back like some sort of addict.

[@moonlightmagician8279]

16:20 The holy negation is annoying, but, Discus of Light is genuinely such a good spell its worth it having an fp cost of 3 hitting twice and able to be chain cast

[@phobiawitch835]

So fun fact, for the longest time, I was running Crimsonburst Tear and Opaline Bubbletear together for my Flask. Get that bonus healing, which sometimes could be life saving, while also having that damage barrier. It was a huge help for many fights. However, that strategy kinda, collapsed because of the hardest boss for me in my main playthrough (which is in NG+ now, and steadily approaching said boss again), Maliketh. Mostly because my strategy with the flask would be to have the health regening as I run away, and hopefully thr Bubble to soak a hit. But, for some reason (not sure if it’s coded or not), that one flask (Not the Crimson or Cerulean, ONLY MY WONDROUS) would immediately draw his ire, and even if he was mid-combo dealing with my Summon and I was hiding halfway across the map, he would stop, AND CHARGE ME. So the INSTANT the bubble was up, and my health regen began, I couldn’t even dodge because of those few frames at the end of the flask animation before I was on my back, lost 1/4 my health, and my bubble was already gone. And if I was REALLT unlucky, he’d then skewer me on the spot and I was dead. I swapped Crimson Burst for Crimson Bubble around attempt 25 of that fight, and while it didn’t SEEM to help much (the Opaline bubble still seemed to immediately aggravate the doggo), after a few attempts, I realized how much further I was getting into the fight. Going from maybe getting to hit him 1-5 times in his second phase, to managing 7-15. When my summon survived Phase 1 with more than 50% health, it was easily double those hits. And by attempts 45+, Inwas getting Triple (21-30 hits being on worse attempts where I got distracted, and 40-45 hits being my hetter attempts). The one attempt I won, which was somewhere in the 50s or 60s (I lost exact count cuz of attempting that fight for over 5hours) tooks around 50 hits. And that’s only because I said “Screw it” and began spamming the Spiral spell and Pebble while BARELY managing my stamina enough to dodge and RUN. Which was helped for having Opaline when I had a bad timing and needed that soaked hit, and the Crimson Bubble for when his hit got me low right at the end of a combo and into those few seconds I had to chug a Crimson Flask.

[@danielh.8473]

Rusty says the word "boons" in this video and I know that's a weird thing to latch onto but it made me realize how much I'd love to see him do Hades content, or Hades 2 when it releases

[@heathermelton5688]

Let's go, another ranking video that's gonna make me use up all my larval tears on builds for them, only too continue using the same ones in the end

[@neverpaint691]

You should rank all the ruins. And then all the shacks. And the graveyards. And Churches of Marika. And beaches.

[@lukaszboczar2441]

All stakes of Marika as well

[@Zeredek]

Crimson Bubbletear is PvP: The Tear. Absolutely invaluable.

[@le1660]

Honestly. It's great

[@cameronwise-maas5610]

Twiggy is my most s-tier tear. Basically guarantees no rune loss ever when used properly.

[@halo4014]

Cant wait for the dlc energy drink tier list

[@gregorycarmichael6907]

Honestly I didn't even realize the purifying tear existed until I was looking through the wiki a month after beating Mohg. I just assumed you were supposed to deal with taking 2 health bars of damage and the boss healing to full health.

[@light6666]

I mainly dont use the stamina regen tear simply cause of the turtle talisman wich is so early in the game that the game might as well not give you a 4rth slot cause of it

[@xPix1e]

No joke, twiggy tear is actually my favourite tear in the game. Call me a bitch if you want for taking away the core soulsborne mechanic of losing your resource on death but having that insurance when you're learning a new boss or exploring a new area is so nice. Oh also the helicopter halberd bit is so good and I think it's really funny.

[@kreeepyk0]

Once I had them both, I used the health Regen and opaline hard tear for pretty much the entire game. Great combo and they've kept me alive many times.

[@cpu6207]

Yeah, Flame Cleanse Me works way better than speckled hard tear when you’re trying to clear scarlet rot. Might even have more applications.

[@yaboijchris2501]

My whole play through I’ve used crimson tear and crimson burst tear together. You get a 50% heal plus regen for 3 minutes on top. This saves the hell out of my flasks.

[@jettblade]

The one thing I really don't like about the Tears is that there is no way to refresh them outside of resting at a grace site. I know it would be broken as hell if you could have multiple uses of them. I could see using a Golden Seed or Scared Nectar or both in order to refill it. If you play the game long enough those items become just a waste of space. I literally have 34 Golden seeds and at max flasks. Maybe a DLC would use them to upgrade Torrent, let you refill the Physick, or at least sell them.

[@seal7144]

On my last run I ran the magic shrouded tear and the thorny crystal tear with Eochaid’s dancing blade, great run.

[@matthewanderson1916]

Stonebarb cracked tear is my secret favorite. My sleeper endgame boss wrecking build, especially for radagon, is a big ass weapon (golems halberd is a favorite of mine for this, colossal weapon poise dmg is insane) with cragblade and that tear in my physic. Radagon will stancebreak in like 3 jumping heavies. So fucking fun.

[@ZomgLolPants]

Int knot is "required" tier if you want to do goldmask's quest without wasting larval tears.

[@icyphoenix2401]

I do like how the dlc did give a decent use to holy damage(i assume the ghostflame dragons are weak to holy, havent looked it up tho)

[@v0rtexbeater]

12:51 using the ash of war at the perfect moment and dodging that swing was Golden.

[@dragoo468]

I still like the polearm helicopter, in the caves video when you were flying above Liurnia with it I laughed so hard I started crying.

[@deltastudio9726]

With all jokes aside, I do agree with you with the Ruptured Tears. I had a (literal) blast with it in my samurai build in NG+2 and PVP. Seeing enemy tarnished in the middle of a marsh pit…I just take a swig, Run at them yelling like a headless suicide boomer, And BOOM!!!

[@thomaswilson1544]

Having watched every elden ring video back several times, this one may just be your absolute best work. S tier, high S tier

[@AmaryIIion]

Not beginner friendly though.

[@starrunner2838]

Bull goat with twin crushers is my build without winged tear… I have like 90 end

[@PrestiJV]

Hi dude, I just watched your last episode about the randomizer, and I can't wait to have the next episode. Keep up the good work.

[@jacobshafer1675]

3:27 hot damn them crunchy crisp sheep animations. Like a fine iceberg lettuce.

[@OddityFromBeyond]

Hi! Fun fact! The crimson whorl bubbletear was used to grant players COMPLETE ELEMENTAL IMMUNITY, as in, people used it in a glitch to cause any ele damage to heal them.