This Vulgar Militia Build in Elden Ring is INSANE

This week with the Secret Starting Class series, we take a look at the Vulgar Militia and their strength in numbers, and bleed! Check out this Plentiful build using the Vulgar Milita Saw, the Vulgar Milita Set, and the Vulgar Milita Ashes to saw through all remembrances in the Lands Between... even Malenia!
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[@apocolototh1948]

Id say the mist spells/ashes would have fit in nicely as well, since the militia sets up mist traps with all the status effects at different places

[@overlorddante]

Aye. It's already S tier, adding poison mist aow would make it even more cracked

[@Demokaze]

They do use bestial incantations but their mists come from traps and throwables instead of spells so it would be more accurate to throw pots in order to emulate that or use aromatics like the poison spraymist.

[@overlorddante]

@@Demokaze or the poison stone consumables

[@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640]

I think the mist incants would be good replacements for their floor traps, since we don't have access to such things ourselves

[@markrobison5199]

I believe that, much like the Pope, the Vulgar Militia's funny hats are a symbol of status and power. Fromsoft, give us a Vulgar Militiamen boss with an even bigger hat in the DLC please.

[@doodlemaster5406]

I need to fight big hat person and get big hat, goblin power

[@angeryboye]

Agreed, we need to fight Gob Linadome owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome

[@AaronCano-lm6xs]

Greedy green gobler goblin coming right up!😂

[@wowvinnyr4306]

They do that in order to appear taller than they acutally are. According to the lore, The Vulgar Militia men are spit upon due to their height. that's why they wear it.

[@gregbrown3082]

@@doodlemaster5406funny goblin pope hat guys riding the funny pope plz!

[@QuartzJones]

Would love to see an Omenkiller secret starting class. You can find two Great Omenkiller Cleavers without going into NG+ on top of them being amazing weapons, the outfit looks great, and Rollo is one of the strongest spirit ashes in the game.

[@waitingfortheequinnox]

I think Perfumer Tricia would be a better fit as an Ash since Omenkillers and Perfumers can be found together

[@thally4061]

Omenkiller Rollo SUCKS as an ash of war.

[@QuartzJones]

@@thally4061 How do you figure?

[@AaronCano-lm6xs]

This build looks like a fun break from the builds I gravitate towards where I refrain from summons. In this, the summons seem like an essential part of the build. Goblin mode looks fun.

[@matthewanderson1916]

Summons are really fun when you roleplay or when they have a significance in your build. Rather than an op summon that carries you like mimic or Tiche, pick a different one that synergizes with you build. I did a dragon incant build with Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff which was very fun and he wasn't op :D

[@Ruleradminius]

@@matthewanderson1916 I had a two handed warrior roleplaying with a knight/wolf/hawk motif, he would charge into battle with a set of soldier ashes, and later used Stormhawk as it's main summon, who I was pleasantly surprised buffed my warriors unga bunga greatsword slams. If you look through the list of spirit ashes, you can get all sorts of ideas for builds that could make great synergistic use of the spirit ashes.

[@archmageguidla]

I did a glintstone mage build where l made Stormhawk Deenh my “familiar” and called for each fight. Perfect amount of distraction to compensate for squishy mage armor and general weakness because of narrow damage types in many spells. Lots of fun!

[@shadowx3benz117]

​@@matthewanderson1916I've used the mimic similarly, did a run in NG+ as Mohg and had Mimic be Morgott, build was fun but the hotswapping at the start of every fight kinda sucked. On the bright side I'm now very good at hotswapping.

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

I swear, this will be top tier. 🤬

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

It already is (mostly because as per the goblin code imply, it already stole it)

[@Spillane001]

Edit: This is top tier video. Thanks

[@sirreynolds3028]

Wait are you Tulok like part of Tulok and Mango? Who is the Fort Knhaight guy we see here? I feel like there are multiple people as part of this channel, but only Recognize this guy's voice and face as a new viewer.

[@breezyrusta7800]

@@sirreynolds3028 it’s all this guy if I’m not mistaken it’s called tulok and mango after his dnd builds tulok the barbarian and mango the bard but it also could be a editor there’s only bro on this channel and the main

[@RadiantPaladin4]

@@sirreynolds3028there’s another guy, but he’s mostly just the editor. Tulok does the actual playing and script writing/reading, while the other guy does the editing and maybe some channel maintenance stuff? But Tulok’s the “face” of the channel, really

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Secret starting class idea: Sister Friede? The scythes can be farmed, Hoarfrost Stomp is free until you get to the other ice AoWs, the outfit can probably be replicated decently. She gets upgraded once she has access to black flame stuff.

[@bedlam_blaze1840]

The normal scythe, which is ground loot, would be better than the grave scythes. Sadly you can only get one per ng cycle

[@dormrifle6174]

He went mad for one secret starting class about a scythe, he'll go crazier when he has to powerstance them

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Insert diabolical laughter @@dormrifle6174

[@GreatZarquon]

"Fextralife for words" is the best description of a dictionary I have ever heard, bravo!

[@hanselthecaretaker]

Best testament to Elden Ring’s game design is two years later consistently being like, “‘*insert any build/weapon*’ is insane!” Also, vulgar militia saw is like the tarnished prototype of Bloodborne’s saw cleaver.

[@emeraldparmesan6431]

I’ve gotta say, I really appreciate the lore reading as someone who does not read item descriptions.

[@ItWasBetterBefore]

I read them, and immediately forget what I read. I don't know why I bother.

[@devin5201]

In today's episode Tulok learns that halberds are crazy strong

[@-beelzebub]

Yeah put black flame tornado on it and it works pretty well

[@That__Guy]

The fextralife for words almost made me spit out my food.

[@jameshuff6130]

literally same

[@icetide9411]

The vulgar militia chest piece is honestly so cool looking, I don't think there is anything better for that kind of dirty traveler look. The way it hangs to near the knees too, such a great look

[@RAVajayEN]

It kinda gives off Blood Bourne aesthetics too

[@Getzapped42]

Vulgar Militia is my favorite Mother Trucking Build in the game, but can it make the Swag Jump on its twelfth try? Make sure you swear every time he gets a drop!

[@samuelwilliams2266]

I think a cool run would be as the guardians (those guys that hang around minor ertrees). They drop the swordspear which is a really good dex weapon, and they have a full armor set that they drop as well. They only thing they dont have is a spirit ash but mimic would be fine for that. Also, the best place that I've found to farm them is on the way up from the grace to the dragonbarrow putrid avatar.

[@kode-man23]

Both the saw, and those spirit summons are super underrated. If you do powerstance them and run Seppuku... it's ridiculous how much damage that they will do. I'm guessing that it doesn't get very much attention because it kind of occupies the same niche as the Cross Naginata, and it is slightly worse than that thing.

[@ASimpleInternetUser]

Check the wiki. The saw is actually stronger by the numbers both at base level and max level. The biggest differences would be spear vs halberd movesets and potentially a range difference.

[@kode-man23]

@@ASimpleInternetUser Oh yeah, that's what I was referring to specifically was the moveset. Spear moveset, especially powerstanced spears, are very good. I just meant that the same niche that they occupied were Seppuku sticks haha.

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

Goblin mode unlocked, now in the lands between

[@faded7217]

The voice acting for the lore descriptions has been one of my favorite things from the recent videos

[@colinmartin9797]

Fun fact about swearing: it's scientifically proven to help with pain. To test it, two groups of people were asked to put their hand in a bucket of ice water. The first group was told to curse and swear however they wanted. The other group was not. The grouo that swore could hold their hand in the painful water over twice as long.

[@andrescaetano6203]

Rusty ranked 308 weapons yesterday, and the militia saw was ranked pretty high.

[@otex5155]

“It’s like fextralife for words.” 😂 I love this guy

[@monoclesquid9667]

Your Mohg joke got me thinking: Splatoon in Elben Bing? A challenge run using entirely on lingering AoEs such as Poison Mist, Bloodboon, Fia’s Mist, etc

[@matthewanderson1916]

I love this weapon, I used it a lot on my first run. It has a special place in ny heart. My first Malenia win was a cheese with vulgar militia saw and pre-nerf flame of the redmanes + mimic tear. It was very easy and unrewarding and I didn't have to learn the fight at all 😅

[@tmkkirby8673]

Amazing video as per usual the goblins always annoy the hell out of me so glad to know it can work on bosses as well, imagine if you had the lord of bloods exaltation,

[@mrmeup_6633]

This channel is my favorite for playthroughs, You and Gino. Happy Holidays

[@t0m040]

The value of the powerstance lies in the jump attack. This weapon procs blead more than any other weapon especially using the occult affinity. But I can see where you're coming from with your thoughts on its powerstance moveset

[@skipjacks85]

Not really. There are plenty of other weapons that hit higher blood loss than Vulgar Militia Saw. Godskin Peeler was the highest in the game at 127 blood loss iirc. And Occult affinity has nothing to do with the rapidity of blood loss proc’s. You actually have it backwards. When set to Occult, you’re basically trading out status effect proc’s for better arcane scaling which means higher AR and more damage. Which prob sounds better than the Bleed Affinity but it’s not. With the only exception being when Seppuku AoW is applied. You’ll get crazy blood loss set to Occult w/ Seppuku but that’s due to the AoW not the Occult Affinity providing greater blood loss velocity. However, bleed affinity is still better since blood loss is percentage based the more times you proc blood loss the more damage you’ll do so you want your blood loss numbers as high as possible and don’t worry about your AR being lower with Bleed Affinity vs Occult. You’ll still do more damage at the end of the day with Bleed affinity.

[@radojerkovic3059]

​@@skipjacks85 status effect proc rates are directly scaled by your arcane stat and the weapon's arcane scaling though

[@skipjacks85]

@@radojerkovic3059 Not when affinity is set to Occult. If you have a non-innate bleed weapon when set to Occult you will get zero blood loss. And when you have an innate bleed weapon when set to Occult your default bleed goes down, not up. Occult doesn’t give you more blood loss and better scaling/more damage. Bleed Affinity would be totally unnecessary if that was the case. The whole point of the two affinities is to choose more damage or more status proc’s. Which takes me back to my original point - since blood loss is percentage based, Bleed affinity is better since it favors burst damage as opposed to standard dps.

[@theenbee8222]

Vulgar Militia are just the Lands Between's unique subrace of goblins, and because of that, I have developed a newfound sense of respect and adoration for them; great video :3

[@banditbro25]

18:32 damn, a bird being chill as hell. That's a rarity Elden Ring wise. Lol

[@abelbaez6617]

I’m a fairly recent viewer and I love your videos I always watch them while eating my lunch or just binge watch them. Your videos are awesome 👏

[@Feralhyena]

Everyone's at least a little cannibal in Elden Ring, even you. Even if you don't actuate the Frenzied Flame or Mt. Gelmir questlines. Also: why no Beastclaw?

[@NickTheDM]

24:54

[@lokithepoki959]

Your videos are hilarious and have got to be the best elden ring videos I've ever seen

[@digthewreck]

I like your content and sense of humor. Great stuff.

[@tub74boat]

It's crazy how each of these videos are just as interesting as the last

[@giancarlofermin5719]

nice to see our short annoying kings get some love

[@Manny_Manny56]

I really enjoy your videos. Your reference are *chef kiss*. I have a hard time following along sometimes because your captions are auto generated by KZbin. I can tell you put a lot of effort into your scripts, however due to youtubes poor "auto caption" feature sometimes it is very difficult for me to follow along. Would you ever consider adding your script to the captions so myself and others like me could follow along accurately. Thank you for making great content.

[@adi47vash80]

Been laughing for a week straight now and can finally watch another video yay

[@DespereauxHarvey]

Shoutout to my first and favourite commander in a video my son and I were looking forward to, what a wonderful Yule gift!

[@cmdrhavoc2357]

Oddly enough I started doing something similar but not quite as lore friendly last night before I came across this video. Running 1 saw and the spiked pali shield. Watching this video has been a hoot... "Gerblins!". Didn't even know there was a gerblins summons. TIL! Great vid.

[@jeremyjoy2731]

hey tulok i’ve been a fan for forever and have seen every eldin ring vid. i think you could do an ichigo build with moonveil and maybe some sorceries!!

[@garrettsweet9826]

You *are* my fave, Phil. Thursdays are better for your runs, cheers. Happy holidays!

[@r0bz0rly]

merry christmas

[@manjiimortal]

And you could have gotten the Destined Death effect by using the Black Flame Blade incantation, which you get in Stormveil Castle. Really solid cosplay build.

[@Baaaaaaalls]

This man’s sound effects are pools of nostalgia, particularly flight of the concords and labyrinth

[@alyssayutzler1527]

Ayyy love these secret starting class vids

[@colelewis2482]

Bro your references are fucking peak. Got me hooked on your channel from a Bloodhound Gang reference and I'm losing my mind at the Leafy is Here reference. Me and my buddy have a whole joke about the "#15 Burger King Foot Lettuce" video

[@redcloud1029]

Will we ever get a fire or black flame monk run? Amazing video though, gotta love the short kings

[@stompingpeak2043]

I made a vulgar milita build as well a while ago. I did a whole playthrough and found it pretty strong once i could upgrade everything.

[@ASimpleInternetUser]

I've got an interesting build idea (hopefully you haven't already done it, I'm a new-ish viewer) -- Melee INT build. I was commenting on a prior video about how much I enjoy you dunking on typical caster builds in your videos, leading into the melee INT build that I did myself. That gave me the idea to come to the newest video to suggest it, as it'd be much more likely to be seen at all. But, there are quite a few interesting unique weapon choices between Wing of Astel, a few different gravity swords (including Radahn's), and the Royal Greatsword, and more, you've got some decent options. Of course, you could also just take your pick for just about anything else and throw a magic or even cold affinity on it. I'm sure a fire/ice melee STR/INT build could be fun.

[@thememe986]

my first character used the commander's standard as a main weapon, that halberd is an absolute beast and it has a pretty good unique ashes of war

[@sirleytheclown-ei7en]

I like the dillion is chillin reference burgerking foot letus

[@mrsteelfinger]

I just had an absurd idea for a themed playthrough: Musician! You’d have a horn-section a string instrument (harp-bow) and probably a number of cool quasi-musical sounding weapons. May sound like Industrial (no, not what Americans call industrial, the European stuff like Sonar, Throbbing Gri**** (search that on your work-computer) and the like) but, hey, its considered music. Anyway, I love your videos. I play ER at least as bad (or good) as you and I cannot wait for new episodes. And I think you’d be a great commentator in Bingo Brawlers.

[@ppbuttfart2215]

Would love to see a Soldier of Godrick run

[@awter.they-it]

I am so grateful that you finally made the Tyrion Lannister of Elden Ring builds Tyrion Lannister being a character from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, which was also partially adapted as a HBO show called "A Game of Thrones". Tyrion manages to be adapted in the TV show, but his more evil goblin nature isn't truly explored. To delve into a good read of Tyrion Lannister, one should consider the main books, including A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons... (*The Winds... The Winds George... They Howl at me...*)

[@jvin248]

I've used the vulgar militia gear to get through some high poison/rot areas before. I really like the demihumans and iron shield summons so I'll have to audition these little guys.

[@Silverfur01]

i did not know those annoying little dudes were a spirit ash lol love the goblin town song, that was my favorite movie as a kid. i always use the vulgar militia as an early game rune farm. if you start at the beast clergyman grace and travel downhill on the left, then back up the middle once you hit the cliff, you can fight them one by one. it's pretty easy when ranged, with enough levels you can two-shot them from torrent and keep moving. found it interesting you had trouble getting the pants; when i farm them i tend to never find gloves 😆

[@CarbonKnights]

Been doing a run using the golden halberd lately and haven't had any way to bleed, might try out those Vulgar Militia Ashes now just to see if it helps, thanks for the idea!

[@stevens4957]

Hi, so my favorite family friendly cuss is 'fetch'

[@user-og3gk3ye5v]

I really love your videos and would love to see you do an erdtree guardian build

[@Lightning_Lass]

Love the Rankin/Bass Hobbit rep!

[@Alexm920]

Continuing to love the Secret Starting Class series, but also the increasingly deep magic the gathering cuts. Marrow Gnawer is my boy, I love that ratty lad, and it was printed 19 fricken years ago, which makes me feel ancient.

[@craigQuixote]

I have been drinking just enough that the Fort Height joke about #1 and #2 was hillarious!

[@WhySoSeriousBruh-fb7ud]

I loved the Goblin music. Sounds like its from the 1977 hobbit cartoon movie. Loved watching it as a kid.

[@lordvermintide4441]

Get ready for Obnoxious Professionalmilitary boss in the DLC

[@OneDr1pman]

You gotta do the Gojo build. That would be fire. Great video

[@Gauntea]

The grave scythe's are really good if you power stance them and put cold on one of them

[@primetimeforcrime]

7:34 "Thats like Fextralife, but for words." -Tulok and Mango.

[@songbird6414]

Recently did a randomizer and stumbled across Renalla by complete accident, got completely rushed down because apparently the valiant gargoyle arena is perfect for her. Unfortunately for her, I’d randomly picked up the vulgar militia ashes and man when I say they soloed completely unupgraded(cannot for the life of me find a low level grave glovewort), I mean they SOLOED. All I had to do was hold aggro and hit her maybe twice and she was just done. She’d been scaled up, too. S tier summon imo.

[@jaydeus]

I used dual saws for a long time in first run and had no issues with moveset. It was pretty op

[@lordaaa9945]

Fiddlesticks! It's another Tulok video!

[@doodlemaster5406]

Gotta love the vulgar millitia, they give a good name to us short people

[@Man_of_Tears]

After finding these guys just today in my 3rd playtrough as summons (hint, Leyndell hero grave down near the boss doors) - this is a timely appearance

[@GC-ji3ye]

Subbed. All notifications. Should've done this ages ago. Great video. Google bad dragon on your work computer.

[@dsingboyblock4079]

I like to switch out the helmet with the traveling perfumers hat. Makes an amazing looking scarecrow type outfit

[@AndrewStonerock]

Wasnt expecting a chills meme, but i support it.

[@Wreckingba113r]

secret starting class suggestion: ancestral follower/shaman. you get weapons! and a bow! and weird skull thing!

[@thecookiegoblin]

On behalf of the goblin community, thank you for your service in the Lands Between. See you at the next SawCon!

[@TheMoogleKing93]

This makes me want a Greatshield Skeleton build with the boys

[@swampert564]

Red Goblins would be pretty sick if they did forced discard shenanigans like Black Rats do. Though to be fair Red Goblins is one of the gnarliest tribes anyway.

[@FlybertF.]

I remember my first playthrough I used two vulgar malicious saws it bled most bosses in like two hits it was so good.

[@umbracolt6364]

In my first play through I used the vulgar militia as my farm for lvls it was hard but I was a sneaky snek clawed in the back.

[@Chaotic_gray]

Thank you for the new video

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

No problem!

[@sidewaysfcs0718]

The militia are basically ninjas: 1. Farming equipment as weapons 2. Ambush tactics 3. Smoke bombs

[@Shurmash]

They have to eventually include the militia men kusarigama in the game. It would be an awesome dexterity weapon.

[@approximately27goats]

Bro how do you come up with all this commentary? Your videos have more zingers than a Hostess delivery truck. I love it

[@GeoCaesar]

FEXTRALIFE FOR WORDS???? Clinically insane

[@danc6167]

You had me at GOBLIN MODE

[@raydunda8939]

Like the MTG reference. yeah do a marrow gnawer run please

[@matskubatsku]

The fort haight joke 😂😂😂 tbh the whole vids a banger

[@grymmjack]

LOL you are on a roll with the Fortnite swear bit! 5:52

[@micasoftheworld4890]

This makes me so happy! The vulgar militia are my favorite enemies.

[@Capt.Beaunrr]

I used to farm these guys when I first started playing, I've got the route to kill every one of them in dragonbarrow memorized.

[@tytofurcata1]

I suspect this run will be pretty good. I know the vulger militia saw is pretty fun, though I don't now how much you'll use the bestial incantations.

[@blackeyedturtle]

Ignominy is a village in Nebraska if memory serves me correctly . . . I didn't brush or floss for awhile, and it led me to Gingivitis, it's also in Nebraska.

[@grymmjack]

LOL love the lore voice. 3:38

[@G1R2TS]

Ahhh, a drop from The Room!!!! Welp earned my sub.

[@DevelopedMysteries]

Hi big fan. So I did notice something. There's actually two more good secret classes you can get. Kaiden rider and godrick knight. Could you do a run for both of those?

[@Mnisz3K1]

How about Loretta build ? I know reaching loretta's weapon and armor is hard and late, but I'd say use whatever looks similar to her weapon and armor until that time plus some staff to use her sorceries, or similar ones until obtaining her sorcery.

[@FemboyFrankenstein]

son of a biscuit...

[@tulokthebarbrarian2033]

Language!

[@derrickshuey]

fav farmin spot early game!

[@dasaggropop1244]

my fav headpiece in the game

[@Unamerican_Swagtivities]

Good to see more Conchords in these videos

[@jessemcmurray8100]

Ok now I wanna see a nox monk playthrough