Elden Ring Is A Perfectly Balanced Game - Magic Is Very Broken

[@thespiffingbrit]

*try finger, but whole* Sorry for the delay on this video. It was recorded weeks ago but sadly harry the editor got covid. He is all good now and as you can see the results are still glorious!

[@AuVeI]

Try to get life

[@slightlycookedbread]

Best message I’ve come across “try pickle, but hole” directly behind a dead guy bent over a railing

[@Hellscream_9999]

Didn't expect comment...

[@shinjiikari1021]

i got the golden holy liquid the other day

[@zimattack9994]

You know what funny you being immortal is kinda of lore friendly

[@D3sdinova]

To be fair one shotting everything in a game where everything one shots you does actually sound balanced.

[@Gormathius]

It's just mutually assured instant death at that point.

[@Reavenator]

If everything one shots you then you should level up your vigor. It makes a huge difference. At 40 Vigor you have over twice your starting HP.

[@The1of1000]

@@Reavenator I mean, then you’re just getting two-shot which isn’t much better since most enemies combo and chain hits anyways lol.

[@VirtuaSavage]

@@The1of1000 it takes a boss like 6 hits to kill me buddy. Level up vigor.

[@bookabletuna1132]

@@Reavenator a mage with 40 vigor would be one at level 180, and even then your getting 3-4 shot

[@mightyflamberge713]

Spiff: walks right past Lenne's Rise, housing a free memory stone Also Spiff: We need to buy a memory stone to have three slots

[@Speedracer6]

Now he has 4!

[@joshwebb8687]

i didnt have the bells i needed to talk to the twin maidens so thanks your comment helped me

[@silentkill3142]

I was thinking that too

[@Nen_niN]

@@joshwebb8687 Bells? Are you daft?

[@kevinbeck8836]

@@Nen_niN ELDEN CROSSRING

[@johnauer4234]

Spiff was in Caelid and didn't take advantage of the completely defenseless dragon that drops 70,000 runes by Fort Faroth upon death with a completely safe path to it. Additionally, there's another Boulder spawn in Caelid that also kills enemies and gives lots of runes

[@andrewirrvent337]

I was using that spot to farm dragons. Then... I killed 1 too many, ruining the farming spot

[@MisterExciting]

Man, i really love that path. From my second character on I allways do that "trick". Step 1 take the Front door ruins ash of war knife applyer. Step 2 kill the guy at the top of Fort Haig for the bleed ash of war. Step 3 go to caelid via church of marika tp and kill greyoll (if I can't apply the bleed on my weapon, I just would take the caelid site of grace, travel to the round table and buy a sword or a swagger). Step 4 start the game at like level 40. I recognize that I am adictet to it ^^

[@riverpubby]

@@andrewirrvent337 killed one too many? What do you mean?

[@brucemartin1420]

He definitely used the dragon he talked about it and ran in that direction and then magically had 78k runes?

[@losermcgee1862]

@@riverpubby when you kill all the surrounding dragons near the big dragon the big one dies. That’s the intended way of killing it rather than using bleed

[@estval1055]

Spiffing Brit: literally immortal Also Spiffing Brit: *Dies while immortal, becoming mortal* This seems very on brand of spiff

[@resileaf9501]

Still destroys the game even when nerfed to mortality, though Gotta admire the determination.

[@n1mand]

@@resileaf9501 Nope...he just fights slow enemies, no chance vs many bosses.

[@PlebNC]

He can't kill the greatest foe in the game: The instant death trigger volumes.

[@Yes-kb5yv]

@@n1mand tbf, those bosses are literal tanks. They might move slow, but they could punch a hole on you like a paper against an anti-material rifle

[@stevep9177]

Yeah I was wondering about that, how did he lose the glitched invincibility?

[@SephirothRyu]

Today, the mighty Spiffing Brit was impressed by a goat. So impressed, he stayed his hand and spared the goat. Spiffing Goat, you are now the chosen of all goats! May you roll happily and in a perfectly balanced way!

[@olafthebear2327]

"True courage is about knowing not when to take a life but when to spare one." -Gandalf

[@Frost500-e3i]

He do be rolling

[@andrewsanford]

It is the GOAT of all goats

[@jasperskwar4824]

He shall be extra balanced for he will roll on for all eternity, the queen demands it.

[@eleventy7]

G.O.A.T. goat is G.O.A.T.

[@conan2096]

ive been avoiding everything about this game so i can play it blind, but how the fuck can i miss a spiff video?

[@Miranox2]

The game's been out for over 2 weeks now.

[@conan2096]

@@Miranox2 my hdd is full of games ihavent played yet and im partway into nioh 1. ill probably only get round to it when the dlc is out.

[@bastet113]

@@conan2096 u need to stop playing around and drop them bro!!! get to this first trust me

[@avananana]

@@conan2096 Elden Ring definitely doesn't require a DLC, the base game is worth more than the €60 it costs. It's an insanely good game and I highly recommend you play it as soon as you can. I'd honestly be surprised if this doesn't get any game of the year award.

[@212mochaman]

@@Miranox2 the ps5 has been "out for 16 months now" there's still a shitload of people who want and dont have one yet

[@CHEFPKR]

I shouldn't love this as much as I do. Now I shall traverse the game with Kamehameha.

[@noodlesama9347]

:-)

[@Nazgull2k1]

No you wont. FromSoft already nerfed the piss out of the spell a looooong time ago. like.. a week after launch. it now does garbage damage. (I beat the game using this combo I found organically.) Went back to play post patch and realized the damage is now 1/3rd of what it used to be.

[@Shalakor]

@@Nazgull2k1 Does the nerf of spells also work towards enemies that use them?

[@info0]

@@Nazgull2k1 you're joking right? In patch 1.03.3 Comet Azur still does insane amounts of damage. Get your timing right and you can kill bosses with it. Of course the movement type bosses like Maliketh, Malenia, etc. are almost impossible to hit with it.

[@jotarokujo3603]

Comet Azur still melts bosses to this day. We're currently on patch 1.09. Idk what this person was on about but it wasn't accurate. Kamehameha is still awesome and don't let anyone spoil your fun because what you want to do isn't "optimal".

[@solartrash6146]

"It's fantasy sadness" the most accurate description of souls-bourne lore

[@tomisabum]

everyones sad and nasty, and only you, the saddest and nastiest of us all, can make everything less sad and nasty...or END IT ALL.

[@zigmus00A]

@@tomisabum THE LOATHSOME DUNG-EATER would take offense to that comment 😂

[@msolomonii9825]

Agree 100%!, so sad, so dark!

[@richardhicks5031]

Except blood born thats just a Tuesday in lovecraftian settings

[@Matthias-pj6th]

Hilariously enough Spiff, you could have easily made this nastier, in Limgrave on the ledge above Augeel Lake to the north there is a Scarab that gives the Ash of War: Determination which boosts the damage of your next attack but is consumed when you hit... except the programmers screwed up so it also boosts Spells while not being consumed by them. So what you do is you shove Determination onto a Dagger in your off-hand, activate it, then drink your Mixed Physick (pronouced Phys-ick) and let rip with Comet Azur for even more hilarity.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Fantastic find friend!

[@lokey57]

You can do more with this. There's a spell named Terra Magicus that boosts sorcery damage by 30%, and multipliers in Elden Ring are multiplicative. So if you stack Determination and Terra Magicus... Let's just say you rapidly approach war crime territory.

[@zero1343]

@@lokey57 There is also the moon spells that lower a foes magic resist for even further nuking.

[@andreasfredriksen5225]

@@lokey57 you can takr this an aditipnal step further, in the volcano manor you can get an improved determination that has a larger dmg increase. IIRC determination is 50%, and knights determination is 100%.

[@Matthias-pj6th]

@@lokey57 The point wasn't just for more damage, it was "more damage at minimum time / resource expense", and seeing how you usually ride right past the Determination Scarab on the way to the Third Church of Merika...

[@bob513993]

14:20 “That’s one of the downsides of having an open world game, you can just use the open world to avoid the game.” Joke’s on you, running past difficult enemies is the time-honored Soulsborne meta.

[@JesseLack]

"I'll come back later." he did not, in fact, come back later

[@savlosavage]

Lmao … running passed enemies is a skill set on these games

[@alexmiller8347]

"Soulsborne" So now that we have Elden ring, is it Soulsborne ring?

[@bob513993]

@@alexmiller8347 SekSoul BloodRing

[@savlosavage]

@@alexmiller8347 lol soulsbourning

[@dbs6678]

I need a collaboration between The Spiffing Brit and Let's Game It Out so bad. The amount of broken games they will leave in their wake will be glorious.

[@AndreNovaes_]

YES!

[@abbadonartorius4137]

GitGud with his "Perfectly Balanced" theme.

[@Neapolitanicecream1130]

Hey ive been looking dor you, got something im supposed to deliver, your hands onky

[@TheAnimeEncyclopedia]

Dont forget DangerouslyFunny

[@anthonymarcello1265]

*cries in developer*

[@Ragetiger1]

Note to self: Do not drink when Spiff is designing characters. I lost it when I saw the glory that is Seymour Clevarge.

[@AxxLAfriku]

AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! PAAAAAIIIINNNN!!!!!! I broke my hand yesterday because of the hate comments I get all the time. I was so angry that I punched a hole in my computer. Please don't hate me, dear rage

[@conan2096]

he certainly is from the lands between

[@armistancer]

it's everyone's favourite returning character from that one oblivion video! Seymore Clevarge!

[@ivanvuksanovic1664]

Shoulda had jumpscare warning...

[@morphine0000]

It actually took me about 10 minutes until the pun in the name actually clicked, heh.

[@Tekdruid]

"Am I broken? Maybe. You, however, are maidenless!" - Elden Ring

[@ArcNine9Angel]

No Maidens?

[@shakeweller]

I'm gay

[@NoOne-fe3gc]

@@shakeweller still bitch-less

[@the_jingo]

@@shakeweller then you’re gentlemanless

[@IlluminatiBG]

Hahaha, another favorite quote: 14:21 "That's one of the downsides of having an open world game, because you can just use the open world, to avoid the game" - The Spiffing Brit

[@imbirekpl1046]

But why would you do that, if there is no game, the open world stops to exist. - Bruh, why would i go so deep...

[@anonammon5939]

With that logic you might also be able to say that every game is a open world game because you could just use the open-world to avoid playing that game

[@alphamineron]

It is true for badly designed open world games like Elden Ring, not a problem with Halo Infinite, God of War, or Horizon just to name a few... Although Elden Ring couldn't do much, I don't think they should've stuck so strictly with open world given their game is all about fighting bosses which isn't true for these other games so it works better for them.

[@mgkpraesi]

Nonsense

[@jaybee8862]

@@alphamineron I don't really see a design issue tbh... the bosses are still difficult enough even with the open world farming... and it provides a great distraction from dying to the bosses

[@kaliss7192]

Comet Azure is classified as primeval sorcery not stonedigger sorcery. It gets a 15% damage boost from Azur's Glintstone Crown which you can get from the same npc that drops the spell.

[@danger_noodle1246]

"It's fantasy sadness. There you go that's literally this entire genre." That can't be right. *Checks the entire lore of demon's souls, bloodborne, dark souls 1, 2, and 3* Damn he's right it is just fantasy sadness.

[@ArcNine9Angel]

Oh god... the lore, the sweet deep lore... it's been (gasp), GENERALIZED!

[@specialperson335]

Oh god...

[@richardhicks5031]

Hey Bloodborne is just average lovecraftian

[@drewb1979]

Today several people learned about the Dark Fantasy subgenre.

[@ott1186]

@@ArcNine9Angel Imo it's a really good music video or fighting game intro. People get way too precious about how the lore in this game and its delivery is perfect. To me it reads like the background stories to fighting game characters. I do love it though.

[@mageshadow81]

The fact that spiff left out the troubles of getting the tears warmed my heart because they are beautiful experiences

[@aligr3224]

was just waiting to see how he was gonna go get it done with this build then he just cut it xD

[@aeriagloris4211]

I just killed Margit, I haven't found any tears did I miss any? I'm pretty much up to godrick

[@mageshadow81]

@@aeriagloris4211 to get the tears you need to go to calid and kill the boss underneathe the minor erdtree and for the other tear you need to find the ucerated tree spirit in the volcano area

[@Nekhanimal]

Is he literally dyslexic though? It's PHYSICK, not PSYCHIC.

[@flywhiteguy2327]

For anyone following this guide, just get the Meteor Staff from the swamp. You can open a trapped chest in the dragon burnt ruins that will send you to the crystal tunnel. Then you simply run downwards and exit it, to go into the swamp. Ride your horse over to the ruins and then politely borrow both the Meteor staff and Rock Sling from the nice swamp inhabitants. You can't upgrade the Meteor Staff, but you don't need to, since it starts at S rank intelligence scaling. It also boosts Rock Sling's damage, which already hits like a truck. Have fun breaking the game guys!

[@aleksajakic8447]

"What's the point of infinite health if you can't even murder a penguin?", i dont think anyone ever said that sentence before Spiff😂😂😂

[@Madiannereid]

Every dev ever: “Am I a joke to you?” Spiff: “absolutely”

[@anonsidious358]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

[@ott1186]

I'm a dev and I'd love it if he broke one of my games.

[@GoodGamer3000]

I like to imagine the invincibility glitch was found by some guy who just rage quit after dying and discovered, "huh, now I'm immortal"

[@info0]

It is what actually happened. The post was on Reddit. The glitch/bug still exists and it has been ~2 weeks since it was discovered. I guess From Soft knows that you will drop off the ledge and left it for now. So what if enemies cannot kill you? Gravity can...

[@ralcogaming7674]

@@info0 I found it by accident, I kept resetting the starting boss fight cause I wanted the swords, I accidentally forgot to restart and instead hit continue. Made me immortal yet it wore off for me as soon as I left the tutorial area.

[@xariotatriox6284]

@@info0 Gravity has always been the hardest boss in Souls games.

[@CyberRyder]

It doesn’t work on PS5 :( I backed out the game just as the screen went to black and it Didn’t work. Did I do something wrong?

[@yokyopeli1104]

@@CyberRyder I think you can't do this on PS5 because it hasn't a 'kill program' command/key combination. With "alt-F4" combination you end the game-program 'unsafely' so that's why the glitch. With PS5 all commands are safe, if I'm right? But be delighted, your gameset is better optimized and works much better than PC-version :)

[@MrMacPhails]

For anyone who wants to use this strat, keep playing and also complete Sellen's questline. It will boost your Azur comet damage even more!

[@PDAPDA2]

plus getting his set and staff

[@hades9189]

what do you do after killing the boss (the cliff i mean since it kills you and resets immortality)

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Lusat staff with azur crown and the right charms and buffs is absolutely busted in pve. Get a mimic tear and it’s braindead.

[@chrisdownes2146]

And dont upgrade the worst staff in the game like he did. If you are abusing the cerulean tear get lusats from Sellia town of sorcery, if you are going normal progression the staff upgrade path is Demi human queen -> academy glintstone -> lusats (optional as the increased FP can be an issue) -> Carian regal sceptre. Also missing a number of key items for this cheese, namely magic scorpion charm and terra magika spell

[@Shnauften]

A couple of things you could have done easier: -You can get a memory stone directly in the tower next to the site of grace by the boulder, you just have to use the air current to jump with Torrent on the roof and then get inside -There is a large dragon that yield something like 80 000 runes that you can kill very easily close to there, you just have to attack its tail with any bleeding weapon and you will kill it in about 2-3 minutes

[@river7874]

You don't even need the stats for the weapon for the bleed to proc either. I did it with a Reduvia when I didn't have the stats in Arcane and he still bled frequently.

[@thespiffingbrit]

I actually did the dragon whilst recording but it got cut from the edit. I will turn it into a short and upload it midweek so others can enjoy the level 1 flail with bleed vs level 100 dragon

[@marcosdheleno]

also, you can eat a golden fowl foot for extra runes just before the last proc. and it can get you from 70k all the way to just north of 90k.

[@goreobsessed2308]

You can just do the puzzle also to get in

[@Dragnsayr-ik7xg]

That would explain the large amount of runes you somehow had

[@mr.frankfurt4986]

As a mage player, I am perfectly aware of how utterly broken magic is in this game and will, therefore, continue to abuse it endlessly. Thank you very much.

[@flashback5007]

😂😂

[@Salmacream]

then you get invaded by a moonblade user

[@VirtuaSavage]

Lol try it on Pvp. Magic is not broken trust me.

[@mobiusone6994]

@@VirtuaSavage it's worse than broken since I three-shot people

[@PapaRunebeard]

tbh, parrying, archery ashes, dual wield dots are also broken, so you know

[@guacamoleguy6592]

"It's fantasy sadness" - great way to describe any souls-like game ever

[@LutraLovegood]

aka Sword and Sorcery

[@thunderbuns6811]

the worst part is, you can make that spell even stronger with another spell called "terra magicus", a better staff than the one you used called "Lusat's glintstone staff", and a nice pointy hat called "azur's glintstone crown" that increases azur spell damage.

[@trollshamanpwnage]

So not only did he plagiarize iron pineapple, he did it poorly.

[@ShiroiAkumaSama]

Don't forget Knights Resolve, which affects spells as well.

[@ferenir344]

Add jellyfish shield to it as well

[@zondor8123]

Add Radagon talisman to increase the speed of casting spells

[@marbell6353]

I read somewhere that terra magicus doesn’t stack with Lusats damage buff

[@schattenquark]

for easy runes you can also use a weapon with bleed damage, near the first grace when you enter the open world go down the beach and on it's end you will find a gold pickled fowl foot on a corpse. This item will increase runes gained by 30% for a short time. After that go through the same portal that spiff went through but this time cross the bridge with the dragon but ignore him, continue the path until you see a really big white dragon, in fact so big it can't move and you can poke it until the dragon dies. The dragon has lots of health but bleed does % damage this will speed up the process considerable. Use your gold pickled fowl foot just before the dragon dies and it's an easy ~96k runes.

[@alexthorold3496]

spiff: "this immortality will last about 5 minutes" also spiff, 7 minutes later: *has slapped exactly one scrub on the highroad* spiff, again, after 2 minutes more: "I got yeeted off the map and I can now be killed" I can't believe I had to edit the last one in

[@kjell1979]

That's why they say, "the greatest enemy in a soulsborne game is gravity".

[@caleblayne6329]

I love how instead of opening the door behind “bird boy” and activating that bonfire The Spiffing Brit runs all the way down the hill to one he’s already activated. Love it ha ha ha

[@Just_Adrian_]

Magic is overpowered, but have you considered 40 strength 40 endurance 25 vigor and using nothing but comically oversized weapons?

[@pagatryx5451]

Honestly, that was how I played the game for two playthroughs and it's extremely underpowered. Compared to literally any other character builds anyway. Most of the more difficult bosses move fast and have very little cooldowns to get hits in. This puts colossal weapons at a large disadvantage and quicker weapons hit just as hard so you don't even see a damage increase. Lighter weapons also get access to better weapon arts that give movement abilities that are invaluable for fights like Malenia. The only thing you can really do with colossal weapons is constant hit and run tactics with a jumping attack. But it ends up being more dangerous and doing less damage than a bleed katana with a teleporting weapon art. I only persisted with colossal weapons because I'm stubborn and duel wielding colossal swords is badass.

[@Just_Adrian_]

@@pagatryx5451 don't care, funny big sword

[@mmorin92]

@@pagatryx5451 you can get a whetstone, put the bloodhound step on your big sword using the heavy option so it does more damage based on your STR stat, dash around the enemy doing heavy smacks to their back while they are recovering from their big swing

[@rose348]

I went through the game with guts and grafted but malenia made me switch to bleed :((((

[@TheRoldrage]

Envoy's Longhorn is the best big weapon, the ultimate dootstick

[@Varrizwatches]

11:11 That tower has a free memory slot in it and you can easily jump onto the balcony from a wind booster with your horse.

[@kbabykysen]

It’s so crazy how he can break the game without even figuring out how to sprint

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Took me about 6 hours before I figured it out. You can sprint while crouched also and it doesn't make noise.

[@kbabykysen]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer didn’t know if you knew but you can also crouch light attack to do a very fast attack!

[@Unethical.FandubsGames]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer I'm going to assume that you're joking because... that's the only thing that makes sense.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

@@Unethical.FandubsGames nope, thought the normal run and walk were the only movement speeds until I accidently held roll. Then I figured out you can use it to sprint climb and sprint sneak.

[@jojolafrite90]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer Took me 3 seconds... Took me a lot more time to figure out weird new mechanics like the way to 2 hand a weapon and other weird things, it's worse than ever.

[@BurdieFromHell]

There is a story called Disk-World, in which there is a mage known as the world's most powerful mage. However, this mage never seemed to use his abilities until it is revealed that the only spell he knows is so strong it would end the universe, making him the most powerful mage, while also not being able to actually ever do magic. That is the vibes I get from spiff in this video.

[@oxybe]

Goat just beyblading away from the perfect balancing it knows is going to happen soon is quite the mood.

[@csbeverly1]

It hurt me to the core watching you farm that Boulder. It hurt me, knowing that only 100ft away there was a dragon, that can be killed lvl1, that would give you 100k runes, and take only minutes, not hours.

[@viniciusdantas3577]

How come? Which dragon?

[@blatantslander]

@@viniciusdantas3577 bruh watch the how to be op in elden ring video

[@Orangejuiceinthefridgs]

u can only kill the dragon once tho so the boulder is better for the long run

[@jackrobertson5500]

@@Orangejuiceinthefridgs you would be better off killing the milita men before the boulder as each gives just as many souls and can easily be stun locked

[@grognakthedestroyerattorne3211]

@@jackrobertson5500 it's pretty easy to Fram those grey bois that don't have a lower abdomen

[@kartik9251]

"If you can't defeat your enemy, the most logical way to defeat them is to just die to them" - Dr. Strange's tried and tested method.

[@edgychico9311]

No wondering why they nerf the half of the weapons in-game is because of this gentleman.

[@TheMorrogoth]

Just a note: Digger's Staff does NOT buff Azur Comet! Its listed as doing so on Fextra's Wiki - But extensive testing has been done to show that it does NOT buff the dmg at ALL.

[@KrunoslavSaho]

The placebo effect improved his game.

[@TheMorrogoth]

@@KrunoslavSaho I don't hold it against him. Fextra had it listed as "potentially" improving the damage on it (while also saying that it may not). That being said after we pointed it out to Fextra that it didn't - He has since removed it from the Digger's Staff page.

[@GenesicShinZyraelKai]

even better...:3

[@TheMorrogoth]

@@GenesicShinZyraelKai You mean that Fextra (or whomever runs his Wiki) has updated Digger's Staff's entry page? I agree! I assume a lot of people (because of how popular the game is right now) runs by those pages a lot! Lol

[@etienneraymondbeaulieu1035]

Fextra wiki... game is totally new, after 1 year i will believe more info. KZbinr, steamer, gaming site, its like a big buffet without bonds lol

[@decil-azure4223]

I honestly love hunting the bayblade goats for the thin beast bones. Helps me with making the rot arrows. Which, no matter your resistance, if you get hit by the crimson rot effect, does the same amount consistantly to you based on health and ticks at a faster rate than regular poison. Also, suprised you didnt know about the spot down at the bottom of the Caelid that you can basically get 5k runes by watching a fight between some knights and giant doggo t-rex things

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

in all fairness, the boulder pry works faster as it's just a trigger rather than a rest at a grace

[@aznperson8]

Yeah, but then you gotta be in Caelid.

[@zigmus00A]

Or the giant dragon that can be bled to death and net you 90 thousand runes or more

[@decil-azure4223]

@@zigmus00A which dragon is that? I have found 3 named ones (one being the same one that Spiff killed), a bunch of the children and then one that is anchored to the ground that dies with 5 red-eyed child dragons

[@haloman26]

@@decil-azure4223 that anchored down one can be aproached from behind and bled to death without killing the other dragons. once she dies she takes her children with her and gives u said 90k + 5 hearts :)

[@jonathanvernon7251]

Typical Eleden Ring: "I've done all these shenanigans to become completely over-powered.. and I died in one hit. Again."

[@yunuendiaz4705]

Did you no one else notice that he got the achievement for being the first boss in the game which means this is the first time playing

[@Cevonis]

There are tons of exploits to get overpowered easy but I'll list a few here. that short bridge where you farm bouldy at nighttime a night Calvery will spawn, simply run up the poison trapped hill and MAKE SURE IT FOLLOWS YOU, the boss will die to the poison, it will lose about 5% HP and then immediately die granting you 45k runes. Move onward to fort farroth there will be a huge dragon that doesn't move, simply get a bleed weapon and wack it until it dies netting you 75k runes or 100k with a gold fowl foot. after beating godrick you can do whitemask quest which is super easy then get early access to a very late game zone with another boss (mohg) that you can cheese for an easy 600k runes with rune boosting items, in the same area you can farm a chicken with a bow for easy 10k runes every ten seconds. there are tons of videos on how to achieve these so you can easily find out how to do them.

[@Xhawk777]

How do you get the night cavalry to instantly die? I tried it and it just sat there slowly ticking down HP and eventually it stopped being poisoned

[@thefool8224]

@@Xhawk777 .no idea, in the video it just dies

[@hosenOne1]

please send links

[@lordhughmungus]

@@Xhawk777 You have to run it all the way up the hill through a good amount of the poison clouds. He can be annoying, took me several tries to get it.

[@Xhawk777]

@@lordhughmungus hmm, I see. For me it teleported back to the bridge after going a little ways up the hill, but I’ll try it again. Thanks for the help

[@ComicalRealm]

"The only thing that had me worried about the game was whether they’d be able to make the open world feel varied and interesting where it seems so many open world games fail to do this. I’m super glad to hear they knocked it out of the park in that respect. Never doubt FromSoftware, they are masters of their craft. " - Gandalf

[@avananana]

"Gandalf definitely said this, it's a known fact that Gandalf holds the world record for speedrunning Elden Ring at only 5 minutes" - Sun Tzu

[@colinclement2752]

"A quantity of giant ass crabs has a quality of its own" -Some Russian Guy

[@Ixarus6713]

"ahaha yes poison swamps and crabs..." - Miyazaki

[@Eo-ms3kw]

@@Ixarus6713 "Would be a great idea to also add lobsters with railguns to Elden Ring" -some FromSoft dev

[@SoonToBeGoodName]

Everyone else: *Does normal things* Spiff: shoot the shooty wand

[@biiyen8458]

Game Journalists: "eLdEn rInG nEeDs aN eAsY mOdE" Spiff: "So anyway, I started blasting."

[@riskyworks]

I am bad at videogames, but if I ever buy Elden Ring on my ps4 (standard cus no stores have pro in stock for some reason) I will drill the skills into my head. Yes, I already bought the drill

[@JohanFaerie]

Comet Azur can get so much more damage with a bit more effort. Also Meteorite staff is great for no investment, and all you have to do is go pick it up in the swamp in Caelid.

[@rockyle2]

Agreed. I just tested comet azur with +2 diggers staff (sorcery scaling 174) vs +1 glintstone staff (scaling 177) and confirmed that azure does not count as a stone diggers sorcery. I was still getting less output with the diggers despite the minimal scaling difference; if there was a boost to azur, it would have come out on top using the diggers staff. Meteorite staff is much easier and stronger to obtain in early game

[@solartrash6146]

It's better to get the staff that boosts azure sorcery. Forgot the name of it cause I'm a monke strength player 🤣

[@darklee16]

Never would I have seen the day where I discovered something OP before the spiffing brit. And it can get even more powerful with A skill called Knights resolve. Another way to level up is to use a save file manager and a friend.

[@BigFootTheRealOne]

You think he place for midnight release of games so we can speed around them and find their exploits.

[@Veristelle-]

To be fair, he recorded this when we likely didn't even know of the uber cheese of Determination/Knights resolve and Terra Magicus.

[@marcosdheleno]

you can swap KR for determination which is found at the star of the game.

[@godlygamer911]

You didn't... He literally even explained to that in the description

[@ZomgLolPants]

The meteorite staff might be a good pick. It's got S scaling by default but can't be upgraded

[@firebat36]

Lusats or Azur eventually beat it, but it can help cheese the early game and is strong until you get an endgame staff.

[@dominikvondran9713]

@@firebat36 lusats gets better at around +7 and it needs somber smithing stones. So meteorite is BIS for a long time. Btw you can dual wield staffs to get both buffs. So diggers staff in offhand plus meteorite/lusat in mainhand is even more OP XD

[@Sljm8D]

@@dominikvondran9713 Except Comet Azur isn't a Stonedigger sorcery. Always test things, don't believe the wiki.

[@clxoid3439]

@@Sljm8D what’s it classified as ?

[@watchfulwanderer6443]

@@clxoid3439 It's Azur's primeval sorcery, boosted by Azur's helmet.

[@scotch4890]

1:30 actually you made a deep one from the mythos of HP Lovecraft. Good on ya mate

[@Andy-iq6rk]

I really want you to do something with the actual sun incantation because just the idea of firing a sun at someone and it being broken is a beautiful idea.

[@seriouslywhatever3234]

It flipped my shit when he went to buy a memory stone right from the waypoint you only need to take a springstep jump from to get one for a free.

[@synthraofficial5366]

It causes me physical pain that he didn't pick up the 80,000 runes that he dropped after killing that dragon.

[@Eli_Weston]

Me hearing you describe half of my build which is even more powerful than just using Comet Azure makes me think all that Yorkshire Tea has finally started to make me perfectly balanced

[@ShadowAraun]

something that requires 4 buffs and can be used once per rest on a stationary boss you catch by surprise isn't over powered. its called prep and planning.

[@keiranteccam7820]

Yeah, this would very quickly turn into a "i can't get anywhere easily" situation in any of the legacy dungeons like the castle or the academy because you have 1 flask, one spell... and not much else.

[@steeplewiththesnakes]

This set-up basically only works against Mohg, unless you're using spirit summons as well. Every other boss seems smart enough to just get out of the way.

[@eragon78]

@@steeplewiththesnakes For this specific spell yes, but you can still kill about half the bosses and field bosses in the game with this set up. (Dragons, Deathbirds, gargoyals, Rykard, Fire Giant, etc.) And there are still plenty of other broken spells that do tons of damage still that work better on endgame bosses. So magic is overall still pretty OP, you just cant rely on ONLY one spell.

[@steeplewiththesnakes]

@@eragon78 yeah maybe you can kill the early game bosses with a late game spell. Rykard is easier with the weapon they give you. Fire giant etc will move out of the way. I feel like magic is very strong early game, but late game it's more situationally useful. Which is fine because the int weapons are quite solid.

[@eragon78]

@@steeplewiththesnakes Its still pretty good late game, you just need to use different spells and not this one. There are plenty of good endgame spells and stuff that have good lock ons for bosses. You just need to know which spells are worth it and which ones are kinda duds.

[@zreal6169]

I knew from the beginning it wouldn't take long till Spiffing Brit started breaking the game tremendously. Looking forward to more Elden Ring from this guy

[@OmniPieTV]

Wow, you making these bosses look like butter

[@65-bitgamer]

Trust me he barely scratched the surface. There’s ways to make this even stronger.

[@thoralexandermichelsen6592]

@@65-bitgamer It has its limits though. The late game hyper mobile bosses this dont work against.

[@J.R.Swish1]

There's no way they didnt want you to farm runes in this game. Theres a much superior farming spot, literally ON a site of grace, not next to it. In mohgwyn palace, shoot an arrow at a big bird all the way across and it jumps off a cliff for a modest 11K runes... this whole process takes approximately 7 seconds to complete.......

[@Pieces93]

Or additionally once you’ve completed the game once, you get the ‘Sacred Relic Sword’ (I think it’s called that), which kills all of the caelid people at once, and if you use a golden fowl foot and the golden beetle talisman, they give you extra money, and you can make around 120k per swing of the sword 😜

[@J.R.Swish1]

@@Pieces93 is there a video tutorial for that? Thats a very vague description of how to do it

[@Pieces93]

@@J.R.Swish1 - let me find a vid link for ya ☺️

[@thatotherdan9984]

@@Pieces93 it's the sacred relic sword, the last bosses weapon and it's does indeed rake in the runes, without any exp items it's like 40-50k runes per 4 second run

[@Pieces93]

@@thatotherdan9984 - yah that’s the one, I’m on NG+3 now and with the right rune boosting items, I can get around 120k-140k, which is probs about right for NG+3

[@tio_john]

the only thing you broke on the game was on the start with imortality but the giant and gravity turned you back to mortal. the rest off the game you just played as a mage.

[@lostdescendant9214]

I'm beginning to realize that he isn't saying the game is broken, he is declaring that he has found the true way to play.

[@MichaelMacGyver]

5:05 Spiff the problem with penguins isn't murdering just one, it's not murdering half a pack with your cup of tea

[@LoredanSunstrider]

19:27 for an even better staff, you can go in Gaelid and, in the lake of rot zone, find the Gravity staff, wich can't be upgraded but has an excellent S scaling in int.

[@Michael-qv7pn]

But his upgraded one had higher sorcery buff isnt that all that counts for damage?

[@VickyChijwani]

It’s called the Meteorite Staff, and yes it boosts gravity spells like rock sling :)

[@kylenorris4068]

Or just walk like 20ft and grab meteor staff....

[@kylenorris4068]

Ah, you meant rhe meteor staff. My bad

[@epochx7157]

Oh man I'd love to watch Spiff doing videos on cheesing various bosses, as there are still some truly glorious wheels of cheese left in the game.

[@hadeZgaming69420]

Theres a full set of clothes that goes with that spell along with another 2 spells that buff all your spells. And a sword that does a mini and cheap version of comet azur so you can cheese literally all the enemies and not just bosses. Oh, and also rune duplication to immediately get to level 200+

[@abesto4576]

Elden ring is like the most hardest lord of the rings game I've ever played

[@pieterdonia439]

Sorta depends how you play and what you use. Also depends on how stubborn you are, game can be agonizing if you refuse to change tactics... which I'm guilty of.

[@abesto4576]

@@pieterdonia439 haha

[@darendarus3076]

Watching you do that to Margitt was *very* cathartic thank you! As always you are the most spiffing of Brits! Looking forward to more videos by you!

[@glossybt7493]

The tower by the grace where you farmed the boulder has a memory stone in it, no need to buy one. Just jump inside through the balcony on the backside using the updraft and go to the top.

[@abbadonartorius4137]

So... You become immortal. Get the most powerful spell in your hand and... *Drink tea* ...didn't run ever?

[@heliostxg2235]

Thank you, Mr. Spiff, for making it sound like you can just pick up the tear gems from the erdtree instead of having to kill the two bosses that spawn there.

[@jeremygrant1325]

He did say that at the northern one you had to stunlock the boss.

[@danwolf6076]

Depends on the tree, some dont have an avatar

[@desacrator1]

I finally managed to get the flask items for infinite FP. I uploaded a boss fight to my channel and tagged you; couldn't figure how to video response. Thanks for the video!

[@creativi-tea398]

After you go through the teleporter in the shrubbery, The enemies on the road give you 1000 runes each, theres a point of grace just down the hill and there are about 10 or 11 of them in that small area. (They will pretty much oneshot you normally... but they stunlock easily and if you are immortal you can get infinitely more runes just farming them than you get with the boulder. Also more fun lol.) Also if you follow the road down along the bridge and past the dragon (you can just ride past if you're quick) and then go down the hill to the minor erd tree, go around the tree to the left and youll find a jump pad thingy, which brings you to a spot behind a massive dragon.... who won't move an inch... even if you hit it with everything you have. So If you go beat it up for a while and then use one of the golden chicken foot item boost thingys before it dies. It gives you about 90k runes. It also kills the three dragons that surround it when it dies.

[@rivalharpy777]

"in my universe, death is completely optional" -Marika

[@Vanq17]

I'm surprised you didnt include the Meteorite Staff, a super easy to get staff which has S scaling in INT right from the get-go. Its immensely powerful and isnt overtaken by other staffs until those are around +7

[@aligr3224]

he even thinks the digger staff boosts comet azur xD there is only one staff for this build and its lusats glintstone staff, boosts dmg for cost of fp, which you dont use anyway

[@aligr3224]

oh, and use azurs set helm for boost on azurs spells, ie the comet azur

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

I have a ton of other staffs level 10+ and I still use Meteorite lol

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

@@aligr3224 Good to know, I have the spell but not enough INT yet, close though :)

[@therealfriday13th]

Comet Asur is not a Stonedigger Sorcery. It is not affected by the Digger Staff. It IS, however, affected by Azur's Glintstone Crown. And, like all sorceries, both Azur's and Lusat's staves.

[@Donderu]

19:25 I really don’t know where spiff got the idea that comet azur somehow counts as a stonedigger spell, when it’s a primeval spell

[@ziaxthewarrior3167]

yeah i farmed 1 up and +12'd it only to realize it does less damage than my meteorite staff

[@JimBobat420]

he knows just enough about the game to break it lol, sometimes that works out just fine and sometimes it means pain for those who know the game more intimately as we watch him make things harder for himself

[@ziaxthewarrior3167]

however if anyone needs a good staff for this, theres one at the town of sorcery i believe that buffs all sorcery damage at the cost of more fp

[@tripleadog5868]

Theres a staff called the meteorite staff in cailed (the place with the dragon) that can't be upgraded but has s scaling and is just sitting in a chest no need to kill anything. It will be the strongest staff until you max out anotherone and even then it can still compete so if you wanna be op early there ya go

[@Force2reckonVods]

*cough* where exactly is this chest?

[@SirGarthur]

It's actually a body, laying halfway out a window. I think it's in the swamp

[@zantanzuken]

also its not -that- good. the S scaling on the staff is only for its melee damage, not for its spell scaling.

[@ladwarcoffee]

@@zantanzuken its the best early game staff. The S scaling isn't for melee damage, it is for spells. There are better staffs thou but you need to upgrade them to get them better.

[@ladwarcoffee]

@@Force2reckonVods caelid, in a place called street of sages ruins. If you found Aeonia Swamp Shore grace, just north in the rot swamp on horse. There a body hanging onto a wall with the staff.

[@DiceyWolf]

Gotta do that trick where you use Determination or, Brave knights Determination on an Offhand dagger, and then use a spell, It ups spell damage by... almost double if not triple sometimes.

[@DivisionMardukToo]

Oh man, Patch 1.02! What a glorious time it was... Icerind Hatchet spam, pre-nerf Corpsepiler.... fun times. Thanks for the memories.

[@KatonRyu]

The way you just obliterated Margit like that was absolutely amazing.

[@haku8135]

Fair warning, they nerfed this strategy. You can still do it technically, but it will NOT one shot anything worth all the setup. It just doesn't do this much damage anymore, even if you get like ALL the damage boosts. I know, because I tried. Adula didn't give a FUCK.

[@AnarchicYang]

I believe Adula is the only boss who you actually have to fight.... if I remember correctly.

[@haku8135]

@@AnarchicYang FromSoft just broke it by accident. Somehow. It got patched, this magic super bonk works again.

[@Neceros]

You make everything fun. I love open worlds and there's always something fun to break the game with.

[@danielwilson9122]

Watching this 2 years later, great vid, criminal you didnt make that much elden ring content

[@SageSchispell]

I wouldn't call anything beyond the temporary immortality an exploit, the tear is insanely hard to get, unless you keep that immortality long enough by not being yeeted off a cliff. All in all it's a fun gimmick that works on some bosses

[@tracyblanchard7663]

It does work on just about every boss with some better setup (meteorite staff, determination ash multipliers, etc.), and isn't terribly tough. Your only required boss to get the tear is the Ulcerated Tree Spirit, which can be very safely fought at a range, gets its AI broken by a stagger in the phase change, and has a weakness to any fire you can cast. At the very least, it shows off your staple from the late level 50s to your endgame as a caster, which can be accessed before you fight a single shardbearer with the right rune farming spots.

[@brenlyd]

I wish you had gone into some pvp invasions with the glass cannon. I feel this would have been very entertaining!

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

Here I thought using fireballs in dark souls 2 was cheesy enough. Spiffing Brit- hold my souls

[@pillznarRy]

watching you non sprint everywhere is more painful than my hemorrhoid.

[@NougatFromOrbit]

There's a giant dragon in Caelid that doesn't attack back and gives like 75k~ runes which goes up even more if you eat a gold pickle foot (or whatever it was called). It has an enormous HP pool but is super weak to bleed damage so you can just find whatever weapon with bleed and kill it in like 5 minutes. Skip an enormous part of the boulder grinding.

[@drafty9580]

From what I understand he is a quest npc....

[@zantanzuken]

@@drafty9580 they arent. theres no way to interact with them and killing all the smaller dragons around them with red eyes also kills the big dragon.

[@BlahBlah-wp9gr]

@@drafty9580 She is Elder Dragon Greyoll, mother of dragons. Unconfirmed as to a potential questline link.

[@Cr4v1nDys]

19:30 You used some kind of "mod", right? Because how are you still Rune Level 61 there? If I try to get your stats with a Larval Tear, firstly I can't get lower than the stats of the starting class I chose, which means 1 Endurance is not possible since there is no starting class with 1 Endurance. Secondly, if I go for the stats displayed there and subtract the Endurance stat to 1, I still calculate a Rune Level of 121. That is basically end game level for a regular NG playthrough. So yeah, something like Margit will die just by looking at him :D I mean, comet azure is a very strong spell for most enemies/bosses that don't move around a lot at the start of the fight. I don't deny it. But this showplay/demonstration is a bit out of proportion^^

[@louthinator]

there's around 70 points of bonus attributes you can get from various passives and items that boost you through the roof. Also with the 1 endurance thing, it seems to be a bug. It should say 10 but a 1 is missing, if you look earlier in the play vs later his max stamina bar is the exact same size. If he actually had level 1 stamina it would be a lot smaller.

[@michaelcarroll5801]

@@louthinator If this was the case, is it mentioned what items and such? I really would like Spiff be upfront because as far as I can see, this isn't possible even with items and passives. Same with the wrongwarp invinc., apparently that was patched before this video came out... So all I can assume was that either he cheated or just doesn't bother to mention all the passives/consumables he is using and there is a visual bug? According to the only thread I could find even with red tearstone, terra magickus etc. magic builds at ~lvl. 60 don't perform this well.

[@thedancingpipestuffer]

Two things, the boulder farm is easier with your horse and there's a second one time "farm" with a huge dragon just laying there and a few smaller dragons walking around, if you get a weapon with bleed you'll kill the big one in a minute, which kills all the smaller ones at the same time, netting you a huge amount of runes

[@kyltredragmire4939]

yea the heck is with that? Did From actually put that there just for us to farm money? Is there even an actual boss fight with the huge drgn? I thought it was a static landscape piece at first.

[@echomjp]

@@kyltredragmire4939 It's clearly intended for you to kill the smaller dragons around him, as each killed takes away about 1/4 of his health. Only can be done once, gives you about 5 dragon hearts and a lot of runes though so it's worth it I think. If bleed works, that would be an easy way to cheese it I guess.

[@magicbufo4277]

@@echomjp dont the babies respawn for 3.5k a pop? I havebt killed it yet because it doesnt fight back lol id feel kind of bad about putting him into extinction for sleeping lol

[@echomjp]

@@magicbufo4277 I don't know if they respawn, but there did seem to be more than the 4 I needed to kill to make him and all of the dragons around him die. They all are red-eyed variants that did a lot of damage, but also could only really walk I guess. As far as feeling bad goes - well, just gotta weigh if those dragon hearts are worth it I guess.

[@magicbufo4277]

@@echomjp maybe on my second playthrough, currently im only doing melee and dont really use any dragon attacks or magic but who knows ive almost softcapped my main skills so i may play around with the dark arts some towards end game

[@commanderpuffy1014]

FYI invincibility glitch now only works for that one fight although it might be possible with the iron maiden at the bottom of the Raya Lucaria water wheel/elevator Edit: also recently discovered a glitch you can pull of at the bestial sanctum which involves agro ing the black gargoyle and running to the back right side of the sanctum and having him fall off the cliff You can also cheese White Dragon, Elder Dragon Greyoll in calid by using a bleed weapon on its back left leg (south from the fort faroth site of grace) There is a rune grind location in Mohgwyn's Palace just rest at the site of grace called the palace approach ledge road (bottom left, you will need to to varre's quest after stormveil) Get up from the grace, look down to the left down the cliff and shoot the closest giant birds, they will come running and fall right off the cliff for a tidy 10,000 souls a piece be sure to stand close to the edge most other players put down messages of optimal locations to draw the birds agro or just watch for their phamtoms.

[@_eeveeon_]

This was my go to strat on my Mage xD I play multiple different Characters at once and after going at it with a couple of melee characters, a Cleric and/or Paladin a Dragon worshipper and others it's nice to just sit back, walk into the bossroom and destroy basically everything and anything that's behind that fogwall :D

[@noblesparten1469]

If you use a gold pickled fowl foot it actually goes a lot faster; using one will make you get a lot more runes per kill for a short ammount of time

[@dashridla625]

I like how the video ends when he makes it to the castle gate with the archers lol

[@Darkwolf12328]

Huh, perfectly balanced as all things should be. I love how ever class has a completely over powered and busted build it makes the game so much fun. Except for fires deadly sin, that shit sucks so much.

[@worldeater2414]

*Cries in Hero*

[@spinyslasher6586]

My favourite 'broken' build (that is not an obnoxious exploit like the instadeath build) is flame of frenzy build. You literally have sniper lazer eyes that can stun people in one charged shot, which is basically a death sentence.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@spinyslasher6586 It's also literally just the Jackie Chan Adventures HEAT BEAM EYE BLAST meme down to the color.

[@tracyblanchard7663]

The machine gun shield is hilarious for a melee build, just a shame it shares a spell with the Exploit Which Shall Not Be Named

[@MaRe-yi1zn]

He could have just gotten lusat‘s staff which is the best staff but costs double FP, which doesn‘t matter because of the physick flask. He could have also killed the NPC which he got the spell from for a crown that gives +15% damage for this spell.

[@H3iMda11_G0d]

There's another area that you can farm runes with no interaction. There's an area where spectral soldiers spawn and fight the enemies there. They just keep respawning and you get a buttload of runes 😁

[@a-blivvy-yus]

Your description of the public reactions to Elden Ring is very accurate. I have a circle of friends who love Elden Ring while being extremely frustrated by bugs in the game. I personally am fairly neutral about it. I feel like that group, and myself, are the entire middle ground when I look anywhere on the internet for anyone's reactions to the game or discussion about it. And this is a group of about half a dozen people in a population of millions of gamers who know about the game, possibly bilions. Also you should cover exploits for Sifu, it came out not long before Elden Ring and got a lot of "this game is hard but fair" positive critique, and the devs have already started patching out exploits, so I bet you can find some they haven't fixed yet!

[@matthewbergeron3641]

Dont run back up the hill, just fast travel and it automaically counts as resting. Also as far as early game grinding spots there is one that gives 17k every 10 seconds and all you need to do is beat the first story boss to have access to the NPC and also have a bow or crossbow

[@chrisogrady28]

13:29 "we can't even see it" *literally looking directly at Mt. Gelmir*

[@SquirellFriend]

So excited to witness the glorious return of our hero Seymour Clevarge