Ranking 10 OP Elden Ring DLC Builds NO ONE USES (NO SPOILERS) |

THIS LIST IS PVE ONLY! I have thoroughly tested EVERY single NEW weapon from the shadow of the erdtree DLC. This list is my personal top 10 weapons that I think deserve to be talked about more! No these are not the top 10 strongest weapons in the entire dlc but they are VERY strong and just need more praise! I put a lot of effort into this video so please leave a like and subscribe if you enjoyed!
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0:00 UNDERRATED
0:35 Lizard Greatsword
2:47 BEST BLEED BUILD?
4:25 Carian Thrusting Shield
6:42 Flowerstone Gavel
8:02 SPREAD Crossbow
9:23 Regular Pata
10:30 Messmer Axe
11:35 CIRQUE
12:41 Barbed Staff Spear
14:03 Deathknights Long Axe
15:30 NEXT VIDEO
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[@syrobe]

WHICH WEAPON SURPRISED YOU THE MOST? From ranged status attacks on a melee weapon to becoming a literal tank, this top 10 list covers MY favorite weapons that i DONT SEE ANYONE TALKING ABOUT! (or at least not enough)

[@SPECREY]

can you please find a way to make a build that supports sekiro parry style, i am checking every weapons guard bosts, it doesnt matter if weapons have good resistance against magic,holy damage nagotation, the opaline hardtear protects against all damages ( a.k.a sekiro tear ), i tested myself, if you have a shield that has guard boost over 75 with erdtree favor +2, veridian amber medallion +2 , greatshield talisman ( for %20 guard bosst ) and another wonderous physic tear for stamina, you can make a sekiro build, im trying to find a way to boost the guard bost of weapons, maybe by adding extra points to endurance might help, can you please help ? i realy want to make a sekiro build, i made a realy bad build that can block every attack of final dlc boss ( wont write name due to spoilers but you know who ) and it worked like magic, every attack he makes hardly takes one tiny bit of stamina

[@Zantetsu13]

@@SPECREY If you want a sekiro build why are you not using the deflecting hardtear? it was literally made for this.

[@SPECREY]

@@Zantetsu13yes thats called opaline hardtear and the problem is it takes to much stamina, we need to find a way to boost guard boost

[@Zantetsu13]

@@SPECREY No, the opaline hardtear boosts damage negation, its a straight up buff to armor. the deflecting hardtear is a different one, look it up.

[@FelisImpurrator]

The thing that actually surprised me was the Carian Thrusting Shield being good. I genuinely thought it was terrible while trying to use the default Thrusting Shield ash, which is kind of bad.

[@Dontaiai]

Ansbach's longbow is criminally underrated as it acts like a light bow, like the black bow. However, it has more damage than the black bow and an unique ash of war which is borderline broken, where it shoots 8 arrows at once, doing incredible damage, building status ridiculously fast and can be spammed quickly as it acts like a stance that never ends until you let go of L2 (like barrage), all for 12 fp and at a far range. To put it into perspective, I killed Starscourge Radahn with 6 uses of the ash in ng+3. Bowbros we are so back.

[@Hagosha]

And they even added a new bow talisman to boot! Bowbros stay winning

[@FelisImpurrator]

So possibly an actual worthwhile use of Rellana's Cameo, with the Alexander shard and/or Lord of Blood?

[@sorcerer078]

@@FelisImpurratorit doesn’t work with rellana’s cameo rip

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@sorcerer078 mega rip They need to buff that thing. And make it work with everything that has a ready stance.

[@alphasierrabravo5905]

​@@FelisImpurrator I learned that Cameo works with Wild Strikes ash of war! Pair it with rotten sword insignia

[@forevahpanda8141]

Babe wake up, SYROBE, Lord of Mathmetically Correct Builds has uploaded

[@smokinggnu6584]

I put Blood Tax on my carian thrusting shield. I'm loving it.

[@jayjoestar14]

The lizard great sword is just an upgraded claymore and it’s crazy more people arnt using it, I just fire infused it on my strength build and it makes my claymore obsolete no statues build up needed

[@gmuta1]

Loved hanging out in ur streams these past few weeks! 👍

[@syrobe]

you saw it first best part of the streams 😊,😆

[@richardwiltison1562]

Yo can you do some tutorial on your outfits? I swear EVERYtime I Watch a Video you are dripping out.

[@Draidion]

Shadow militiamen helm is what he uses most of the time.

[@Jermo43]

my man! i loved watching your thought process this past few weeks on your live streams. Keep up the awesome work! ps IM so stoked that my beloved Deathknight Axe cracked the top 10. Probably the weapon i am most excited to get and will be my favorite weapon in the game.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Deathknight Longhaft is insanely good. I was honestly surprised to find out just how stupid fast the greataxe moveset is when trying that and the Putrescent pasta knife (which is a meme, but at least it's a viable meme). In comparison... The twinaxes could use a little tiny bit of hyper armor, and then they'd be about as good sidegrades for Dex/Fth folks. Hopefully it happens this week or something so that multihit abuse can really get to work.

[@Aaron-WeinsteinI23]

Yo syrobe where do u get that helmet in the first build?

[@zephyr6138]

Its been talked about a little bit but ive been LOVING Ansbach's Longbow, the fact it has a shortbow moveset on a longbow whilst having the 8-shot Ash Of War which is so good for building up status effects switching between that, a light greatsword and then the Spear Of The Impaler (i just personally love it so much) has been a blast

[@FelisImpurrator]

Is it better than the Black Bow, which also has a shortbow moveset? Does shotgunning things like you're playing Monster Hunter have higher ammo efficiency or DPS than the Barrage on the Black Bow? Some people claim it has a hit limit of two on a single target, some say the arrows get less damage per hit, others say the arrows get more damage per hit. What's going on with the ash?

[@zephyr6138]

​@@FelisImpurrator it's definitely better, ash does a good amount of dmg esp with talismans and the status effect build up itself makes it better

[@1999slim1]

Never disappointed with Syrobe!

[@cybercrallis5021]

How do you have that display at the top right showing poise and max poise? I have never seen that before.

[@iRunKids]

Have you tested the move sets with roars? I’d be curious to know if the Pata gets that crazy 5-hit combo that the Katar gets with Barbaric Roar.

[@siralexandertggaming]

Looking forward to this one!

[@Travies_scot]

Never miss a syrobe vid always heat

[@bowenjudd1028]

That new red great katana that literally has a hyper armor gimmick is nuts

[@robbe3334]

A fun thing about the pata. In 1.12 fist weapons had some of it's heavy attacks stun duration reduced. Because against other players and tarnished enemies it could true combo with running heavy into uncharged heavy attack. Patas however did not get this changed. The weapon that is probably the main reason why this change happened and can best use it with it's fantastic range for a fist weapon.

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Great video!

[@LuisGarcia-oy5fd]

you said u spawn in runes sometimes ? do you use cheat engine for it? i wanna learn how to do it but the videos ive seen use cheat engine and i dont wanna get banned

[@emperornero1932]

Needed a new build outside of my lighting perfumer build because it made the dlc so bloody easy I'll try out the shield build

[@Farsquad1821]

How would you rate the curseblade cirque? Are they useable for an endgame weapon? Can i use the bloodflame on them?

[@FelisImpurrator]

Last I checked you can't buff the curseblade cirque with incants. But you know what you can do? Use the Dancer set to buff its ash of war. Backhand blade moveset being so stupid good plus innate bleed means it basically can't be bad if you commit to the build with something like Godskin/Rotten Winged Sword/Millicent.

[@syrobe]

the curse blade cirque imo is the worst of the back hand blades because its ash of war is locked, the reason back hand blades are even good is due to swift strike and blindspot

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@syrobe Ehhh, is it rrally significantly worse than the Blades of Ranah? Why do you say that about backhand blades? What do you consider bad about them?

[@CG1337Noob]

​@@FelisImpurratorhe didn't say the Backhand Blades are bad, just the specific ones OP asked about because that ones AoW is underwhelming compared to Blind Spot.

[@Xxiluv2snip3xX]

HOw do the twinblaades compare tobloodfiends arm?

[@Nanoqtran]

I've been liking the Smithscript Cirque. The throw may be short range but it does give you a safe poking option on a melee weapon. Also jumping in and throwing the weapon has caught quite a few people off guard. I think the jump throw really makes them excel over the traditional backhand blades.

[@trashc4nn]

So why would you use the black steel twinblade over the peeler on a bleed build? The holy damage? Or you were saying more for faith/int builds? Great call on the dueling sheild with scholars sheild, hard stuck on radhan and seeing that maybe the only real way to get past him is turtle builds, was having a hard time finding something that works for a dex/int build tho. This was a great call man thanks!

[@skynir6247]

great video, please I would like to see your build on milady.

[@QwertYuiop-rv5uy]

finally some love for the lizard GS its fucking awesome

[@SubmachineExplorer]

Don't forget the flowerstone gavel AoW can be charged and that increases not only damage but the debuf it aplies froma around 10% to 30%

[@3amshreddedcheese304]

I love how many niche or just ok weapons we got in the dlc. It’s a weird thing to enjoy, but I like the variety even when it’s mid.

[@Grunge_Cycling]

The lightning AoW on the flower gavel is really good for chasedowns in PVP. Most people roll too early if you charge it.

[@_Snarky]

Good video, favorite has to be lizard GS, its goofy but still good.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Statistically, the Lizard Greatsword may be the single strongest infusable greatsword in the game. It has top 3 base AR out of all the normal greatswords, only slightly trailing the Iron Greatsword while being 2.5 less weight. The ranged shot gives it insane reach, its status buildup is the highest due to the double hit, its stat requirements are virtually nonexistent... Somehow this random lizard on a stick might be a straight upgrade to anything that isn't unique in its class. Plus if you infuse cold Carian Sovereignty it's basically a baby version of the DMGS.

[@themutedflag]

Lizard Greatsword. Inherent intelligence for intelligence ashes of war. Huge. Awesome video!

[@FelisImpurrator]

Can you upload a full build guide for Thrusting Shield shenanigans?

[@spiritandsteel]

“Un-ciphers your pata” killed me. Does that make it a decrypted pata?

[@kingjohn8980]

A video covering the Anvil Hammer would be neat

[@thomaspeterson8357]

I put carian sov on a great sword and I don't get any hyper armor. I get knocked out of the animation all the time. What's up with that?

[@FelisImpurrator]

You don't get infinite hyper armor or anything. They reduced that in a very early patch. But you get a solid increase in hyper armor compared to not using a GS, still. Just don't try to tank giant single hits.

[@thomaspeterson8357]

@@FelisImpurrator thanks for the answer

[@whyyouhere561]

This is the reason why i turned on bell notifications

[@Nikrxm]

The pata joke had me dying way more than it should have lol

[@mr.e7005]

I have like 3 lizard greatswords sitting in my inventory, and at first, i thought the moveset was kinda lame. I have no idea how i missed the projectile

[@syrobe]

I MISSED IT TOO, (well at least the status part)

[@darkphoenix7966]

It was a pleasure watching you for 14 hour

[@janovmi2]

make ranking of all new consumables including hefty pots :)

[@0DeathTheKid15]

I actually started playing the Cirque today 😂 So far I see quite a lot of Pro's Mine is with over 100 Frost so its really easy to proc. 1. The running R2 is really nice. It curves just enought to more often then not hit enemys behind shields. That was so far quite the downsides of the smith script weapons. 2. They look really cool when using running R2 and Blindspot directly after. Since they curve from right to left and you from left to right you hit the enemy from both sides at the same time😂 3. Thanks to the jumping or running R2 you can easaly put frost an any enemy from a save distance.

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

The Blackhand Blade also does pierce damage, so you could use the spear talisman. I’m using it in my dex build with a lightning infusion, feels like a blender

[@user-yz8py5dt5h]

I have mine infused with holy with 60 dex 60 str and 60 faith and i made such short work of the mother of fingers

[@BobbyGentile]

Little note on the thrusting shield: if you're worried about elemental damage, use immutable shield. It completely negates ALL elemental damage when blocking. Much better than spending that talisman slot, imo.

[@syrobe]

correct but immutable shield does not offer guard boost which imo is key

[@BobbyGentile]

@syrobe Fair point, and I understand the reasoning behind the pearlshield talisman. I was having this discussion with someone in the official discord earlier, and I don't know the exact math behind it - but it may be more beneficial or "easier on the build" to leverage the elemental barrier spells instead of the pearlshield, since the barriers offer 65% resist vs the 20% the pearlshield offers only when blocking. Not sure how it'd work out mathematically though, could be a neat video for you to explore it!

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@syrobe What ash are you throwing onto the shield, anyway? Cragblade overwrites Scholar's Armament, but I find that the Scholar buff is so absurdly good it's basically irreplaceable. I've been running cold shield with Spinning Weapon for the Carian magic knight roleplay nonsense, and honestly, it's a massive enough weapon that it makes for a good cold blender. I know Blood Tax is good on it, Endure is actually pretty fun (albeit gimmicky) for hotswapping to the staff and dunking a Rellana's Moons all of a sudden... But I can't really pick. Kind of wish Waves of Darkness could go on it. And what talismans, for that matter? Currently sitting on Dragon Greatshield for general beefiness, Greatshield greatshield, Pearl Shield, and Old Lord for the comfort of having Blessing's Boon+Golden Vow+Scholar's Armament last for ages. I'd probably drop Great Beyond if I could find a replacement for having Blessing+Vow and Heal From Afar on demand that fits better with a full Carian Knight theme, and then run the moon staff to swap between 2h shield, shield and staff, shield and Rellana LGS, and dual LGS as needed. Great Beyond is just way too convenient though.

[@user-yz8py5dt5h]

Flame skewer and giant hunt are soooo good on the carian thrusting shield

[@-kinxschlatt-7718]

What is that helmet?

[@noahherrera7281]

The Lizard great sword also does strike and Pierce damage!! 🔥 Just another reason to use that weapon

[@choealiac]

ur legit the best

[@turtle_jones]

At least From gave holy dmg some love in the DLC. My holy dmg characters have been slapping. Lot of DLC enemies and bosses weak to holy and a lot of bosses are standing in water so that’s a net nerf to fire, buff for lightning and neutral for holy and magic.

[@gorkemkomurcuoglu]

Pata is so good it's crazy

[@thomaspeterson8357]

I put parry on the pata. It's cool looking. I haven't messed with it enough to get big damage out of it but I hope there's a good build for it. Can you put put parry on all fist weapons? I thought it was just daggars and shields. I just read the item description for pata where it says it's good for guarding them looked to see if parry could go on them and it worked

[@ceshadow]

What's the name of the armor piece he's wearing?

[@user-xp5jm9dn6u]

Which one?

[@ceshadow]

@@user-xp5jm9dn6u The chest

[@SlickDangler10]

Oath armor buffs the twin axea amd long axe plus some incantaions like lightning being its dragon cult

[@justinburtonracing5135]

Put blood tax AOW on sword Lance and run a gaurd counter build and when they get stunned on the shield L2 instead of R2 you have time to get the blood tax off and with 169 bleed build up its quite enjoyable

[@pedroromarhernandez6554]

I do LOVE the shotgun crosbow

[@deadlyhalls]

Could you PLEASE make an entire build video or a build description on the lizard greatsword.

[@syrobe]

stats nd gear right there 0:47

[@deadlyhalls]

@@syrobe what is the armor?

[@syrobe]

​@@deadlyhallsjust random set for style lmao

[@deadlyhalls]

@@syrobe how do you get the chestpiece/ whats it called 😭😭

[@The_P3lican]

Finally someone mentions my beautiful pata 😁

[@lharsay]

I think the Dancing Blade of Ranah is also an excellent weapon, at first it looks weaker than the Bandit's Curved Swords but the Ranah armor boosts the ash of war and also thanks to being the lightest paired curved sword it works really well with the blue dancer charm. I'm not gonna lie the ash might have the highest raw melee dps I've seen in the game and it also gives you just enough movement to straife quite a lot of boss attacks.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Fun fact. The curseblade cirque ash also gets buffed by Ranah set. It's not as flexible as the Unending Dance ash, but it's still pretty ridiculous, especially since the curseblade can bleed.

[@lharsay]

@@FelisImpurrator Does it effect Waterfowl?

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@lharsay Legitimately have no clue and I can't check right now. But if you can please try it and get back to me.

[@hitsagayagod6837]

Syrobe can you make an updated sleep build

[@pannychanman]

Messmer's Soldier Spear.

[@robthebuilder8624]

Yess A spear option, Spears are so satisfying in games to me

[@robthebuilder8624]

And better yet, Faith is my favorite 😌

[@TheRagnus]

Poison infused Smithscript Dagger (with new rot aow), Deadly Poison Perfume Bottle, Poisoned Hand. Poison assassin build.

[@sanoober]

what the chest piece at 0:50

[@AscendAndSee]

Ahhh yes. Love me some Lizard Greatsword

[@ORBrunner]

Obsidian Lamina also quite underrated But the weapon and its ash of war are so elegant and beautiful it makes me to use Arcane builds And also... Freya's Great Curved Sword - probably one of the most hard hitting curved sword in class with a right affinity

[@FelisImpurrator]

Lamina is weirdly simple. No fancy bloodflame FX, no magic gimmicks, literally just a pure dex/arc physical scythe with a little bleed and a lot of style... But man, it feels satisfying. Freyja's seems to be made for that Savage Lion Claw the DLC just gives you as a welcome present.

[@jashin888]

This is one of the only KZbinrs I can trust, most of these other ones are frauds

[@fishnutz5196]

Rakshasa's Great Katana is my baby tbh. The moveset is basic as hell but so realiable. Plus the heavies being pokes is massive. Messmers Impaler would be my go to if it could do normal heavies. Ranged attack is cool on horse back but suffers alot against bosses imo

[@k1ngMagnus]

Nice video

[@D00MTR33]

I love the lizard GS but I'm bummed it can't use all the AoW that other GS can.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Doesn't need to. It's only locked out of "temporarily infuses the blade" type ashes, but it doesn't matter because the lizard GS already gets fantastic infusion scaling, a projectile for double strong hits and status buildup, and can use Carian Sovereignty. You aren't losing much.

[@abdulrahmanwaleed6363]

i think that u missed a weapon which imo deserves more builds and ppl using it and its the milady because if u go cragblade for example u can just destroy poise meters of bosses heard that impaling thrust also gives a similar effect and yes i intentionally avoided talking abt wing stance

[@user-yz8py5dt5h]

Flame skewer is insane on it too. That being said wing stance is so good. The r1 combo directly into r2 does insane poise damage. You can usually get a break if you r2 again

[@abdulrahmanwaleed6363]

@@user-yz8py5dt5h ye and the best part is that u can do so many r1 and r2 combos with the regularly moveset as it feels like they took that into account when making this weapon and I agree with flame skewer being very good as I used it in my faith/dex build

[@lharsay]

The Lizard Greatsword has the highest damage in the class on keen affinity I beleave, it works really well with the new roar buff. (since it's not allowed to be used with most other buff ashes)

[@FelisImpurrator]

Which roar buff and which ash? And do the roars remove its ranged attack or just add a projectile to the replacement move...?

[@lharsay]

@@FelisImpurrator Braggart's Roar keeps the 1 handed heavy unchanged, Shriek of Sorrow (the new one) doesn't alter the heavies.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@lharsay Ah, right. I feel like Shriek is still pretty hard to use though. You have to be nearly dead to get anything out of it, and that means finding a window to cast it and heal up before the next stiff breeze obliterates you. Hard to get that much spare time in a DLC boss, for one thing.

[@lharsay]

@@FelisImpurrator It's a 12,5% buff even at full hp, almost as strong a cragblade

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@lharsay Ah. So it's just free damage? Nice.

[@joelhodoborgas]

the legend!

[@samfish2550]

Ok, why do both anti dragon melee weapons look like they are rot weapons. The great katana with its pink aura aow and the flower gavel, just name and design feel fitting.

[@fireemblemistrash75]

What about the Baja Blast build??? How can we be the true John Elden Ring without the Golden Taco Bell order’s best spell, the Baja BLAST

[@noodlah_]

Can you please make a holy build😢 I wanna use miquellas light

[@morpheus9062]

number #29 lets go also i love the lizard great sword its so goofy

[@vEclxpse]

W video best Elden ring yt you and youwy

[@richcaudillo5802]

Take the bag from sponsor! See if you can add it to end of video like vati does

[@DiscipleWT]

try the claws of night with the smithing shield and switch between the two while your fighting. you’ll thank me later.

[@DraZtheProbleM]

90% of boss attacks knock me out of Carian Sovereignty

[@brenohds]

Best Elden Ring content creator ❤for

[@juli3754]

My ansbach bow build is dumb broken. Its so good. Everything dies so fast.

[@shavoncole6663]

I LOVE THE PATA❤❤❤

[@thatdawgrich]

Da goat 🐐

[@dordor4361]

w vid ganger

[@Zantetsu13]

-Saying Swift slash should be buffed in any way shape or form. Dude, are you ok?

[@syrobe]

i was referring to the charged heavy needing to be buffed for its range.... i even said charge attack

[@breadmiser]

hello goat

[@mhead1117]

No dancing curved swords 😢

[@Dr.WalmartBag]

sighs in ng+7 😔

[@le34100]

I love the dlc, that said the weapons are honestly mostly mid. The good ones that are broken just aren’t super visually appealing to me personally. That’s really my only complaint.

[@ashwinter2459]

ily

[@elijahescamilla396]

w video

[@emerss5592]

Cool

[@bubbydacat]

Background music is lacking hair

[@soliderofgodrick]

Please make a mathematically correct bow build..

[@articnationn806]

Did you use to make videos for any other games, your voice sounds so familiar but not from Elden ring

[@sahel468]

Early squad

[@samuelbeliveau]

You should lower your crossbow build. It fucking suck

[@fatuihomicide]

You can put carian thrusting shield in your right hand and buff it with bloodflame and stuff too