Top 7 Incredible Secrets in Shadow of the Erdtree | Elden Ring DLC

[@midnightmatter2028]

I cannot overstate how happy I was accidentally finding St. Trina in the depest depths of the Stone Coffin Fissure after getting my shit rocked by the Putresence Knight. Damn Sludge Horse.

[@Triggermangravy]

I found her sword, then the cross and that spirit, I was immediately like "oh no, OH NOOO"

[@midnightmatter2028]

@@Triggermangravy Yyyyep. Second I saw that cross I got CONCERNED.

[@antoniodominguezjr4734]

I was disappointed you don’t fight her.

[@EndertheWeek]

The special move on the cleaver from his remembrance makes me laugh

[@midnightmatter2028]

@@EndertheWeek You just rotate agressively... XD

[@rach4997]

I’ve played around 200 hours of Elden Ring and I am positive nothing has made me as happy as running around bonking enemies with a giant sunflower.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

200 lmao

[@logangarner3578]

I feel ya. Moment I got that thing I went on a rampage of sunflower bonking

[@OakShield82]

😂👌🏻

[@OrggsOrggs]

Yes to this. Love that wep.

[@WBWhiting]

The 6 Winter Lanterns in the Abyssal Woods cannot be normally damaged, but do not respawn when killed. Sneak up close, alert them one-by-one, parry them, then they can be damaged as normal enemies. Thanks, Fromsoft, for forcing me to learn how to parry while simultaneously teaching me that parrying is inferior to dodging even when it's necessity is enforced.

[@chancehuber6095]

G comment, those guys terrified me. So I'd love some good old-fashioned revenge!

[@bobdylanlovr69]

Parrying is very good and trivializes some bosses

[@cosmicbilly]

It's necessity is not forced, like at all. You can beat the entire game without landing a single parry. Also, it's just good to learn how to parry anyways. It's worth it and has been a mechanic since Demon Souls. Many bosses can be trivialized if you learn the basics. Also comes in handy with PVP. Nothing is more satisfying than landing a perfect parry against an opponent in the arenas.

[@WBWhiting]

@@cosmicbilly Beating the SotE Winter Lanterns does necessitate parrying. And even in this scenario where parrying is necessitated for victory, I survived to eventually sorta learn the parry timing by dodge-rolling from their follow-up attacks, flask-chugging my madnessed-away health back up, then dodge-rolling more after parrying attempts repeatedly failed. Dodge-rolling with less than frame-perfect reflexes can still get you out of the damaging hitboxes and gives you space to heal and more easily dodge the next attack. Parrying with less than frame-perfect reflexes gets you screwed over and dead faster.

[@cosmicbilly]

@WBWhiting yes, but it's optional. The game tells you to use the tall grass to sneak by. So it's not necessary to parry them, it's optional and was a secret.

[@aniii88]

Torrent should form a support group with Roach.

[@katbercar]

I'd read that fanfiction.

[@KeithFraser82]

And Leonard.

[@spunoffsee]

Midra's Manse gave me Castlevania vibes, and the fight was fantastic. I'm still finding things after playing through this twice. It's so amazing.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Midra's Manse is the coolest zone by far IMO and the best boss in the DLC. His music is rad and he fights the most like a non-DLC boss with actual attack windows.

[@peterdubois7276]

You can use Mogh's Shackles to reveal hidden doors, and to unlock spirit springs. The shackles interact with doors and breakable spirit spring stones in the area.

[@austins.2495]

You can also use the shackle on those pots hanging from a rope

[@AquaMaryn.]

You know, this is actually more resource-efficient than me using the Law of Regression. 😂

[@arkekklesia]

4:18 man, that non-stop "panic" roll and then getting grab attacked by the boss is really funny.

[@Hugo_Tate]

😂😂😂😂

[@FelisImpurrator]

There are at least two more epic ones tied to the same questline. Ox folks, you're gonna want to read this one if you like dragons and like purple. And I know at least some of you love dragons and love purple. If you talk to Thiollier near the Pillar Path Cross grace, he'll tell you about how he's good with poisons. Talk to Moore near the Main Gate grace and he'll give you Black Syrup. Give that to Thiollier and he gives you Thiollier's Concoction... Which kills you instantly if you drink it. But wait, there's more! He says it's powerful enough to bring sleep to even the oldest of dragons... And he's not even slightly exaggerating. As it happens, there is none other than an "oldest of dragons" standing right next to the Grand Altar of Dragon Communion - the dragon priestess Florissax, who has not slept for aeons as she offers her sleep up every night to the Dragonlord Placidusax. Hmm... Well, normally, if you defeat Bayle the usual way, when you return to the altar Florissax is dead; she leaves behind her weapon, the Flowerstone Gavel, as well as her heart that can turn you into a dragon priestess like her. But if you come to her at night you can hear her speaking to Placidusax about the whole sleep thing (or accept her blessing and read the item description to find that out). If you give her the concoction, it'll put her to sleep. Wait a whole day and come back, and she'll be sad that she's broken her oath and succumbed to sleep. Beat Bayle and come back, and... She's still there, and gives you the Dragonbolt of Florissax spell. But then you can admit to putting her to sleep. If you do so... She'll say you owe her. Owe her what? A Lord to follow, because you took away her pact with her old one. And she's decided you're it, and you don't get a choice in the matter. So you ALSO get her as a spirit ash. That talks! The second secret involves Thiollier's questline. If you go all the way down south to the giant hole in the ground, it'll be sealed at first. If you come back after Miquella breaks his great rune though, the seal is gone. As it happens, down there is a little trek through horrible undead and even more horrible laser-shooting evergaol rock snakes... But if you survive that trip AND the boss fight at the end, you'll find none other than St. Trina herself. Go back and tell Thiollier and he'll go to her. But when he's there... He can't get to sleep. And all you can do is interact with St. Trina... Which kills you instantly. Of course. It is ETERNAL sleep (except for the respawning bit). What's a Tarnished to do? Keep drinking, of course! Just keep drinking and dying, and eventually Trina will speak to you in your death-dreams. After a few extra lines of dialogue, you can tell Thiollier... But he'll be so mad he refuses to listen. And then he invades you at the grace outside. Beat him there and then you'll finally get to tell him the message inside Trina's garden. Eventually, he'll accept it - he shows up later as an ally at the end of the DLC. Then at the end he gives up his weapon and armor. Quest complete! Except for one tiny detail. Go back to Trina... And she'll thank you before disappearing, leaving behind a beautiful purple lily headpiece that raises your FP by 6%. Impeccable for fashion ring!

[@Arkios64]

This is definitely the quest line that's currently most obscure. It's a shame that Florissax seems to be a pretty weak spirit summon, but on the other hand this also means you can get her every time and just have her around to hype you up, without needing to worry about her making bosses easier. And for non-boss fights her abilities should actually be pretty decent.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@Arkios64 She isn't weak outside of her fairly low health pool, strictly speaking. She's just a dedicated support summon. But she IS tankier than other supports, pretty sure.

[@pmprestes]

Commenting here to track this down, I finished the dlc first time but didn't get Florissax's summon

[@rictacles]

Well shit

[@michaelrobertsjr3516]

400 hrs…and I missed that last bit about St. Trina!!! 🙃

[@Fennec333]

“Biblically accurate nightclub laser show” is my new favorite combination of words

[@AngelBeatYunara]

There's so much unsettling stuff in this DLC. It was a blast to play through. Also I managed to find most of these for myself by exploring. So much fun!

[@jaydyer3999]

And here I've been saying "Scooby-doo Tree" all this time.

[@G1R2TS]

You win. That is what it is known as from here on out. 😂

[@cooperjordan1554]

You actually can get multiple copies of the Irises so you can get both of them as summons or both of their weapons

[@Liammort]

How? If you don't mind me asking.

[@cooperjordan1554]

@@Liammort you get one from an ulcerated tree spirit, one from the fort of reprimand and one more, not sure about the graves of occulation, check the edlen ring wiki they tell you each place I think there's like 6

[@rikusschulze6249]

@@cooperjordan1554 the character's you give those items to died after receiving those items in the video. how do you suppose to give them another item after that?

[@cooperjordan1554]

@@rikusschulze6249 I'm saying you can get multiple irises of the same type, the video said you could only get one each

[@gavinlewis2853]

None of you are talking about New Game+ either

[@TaylorLopez412]

I will never not love Andy's sassy, cynical commentary on a game like Elden Ring ♥

[@killerjoke2945]

There's a part 2 for Jolan... If you get her spirit ashes, there's a cliff in the Shaman Village (around the Hinterlands area) that allows you to platform and enter a balcony of Rabbath's rise. Inside the balcony is a puppet of Jolan's sister Anna. You can combine them for a Twin Bleed Sisters Ash of War.

[@ryanharris5714]

Midra is my favorite boss fight in Elden Ring. I've helped others kill him so many times that I've gotten well over 4 million runes from him.

[@FelisImpurrator]

To some, he may only be mid(ra), but to you it seems he's peak(ra).

[@stillbald5827]

From Soft sure has a lot of coffin transportation in their games.

[@somebodyithinketh]

They understand we all want to nap in coffins and are not afraid to help with that desire.

[@kpb7123]

So glad Andy's enjoying this DLC so far One of us one of us one of us

[@danhill99]

Good to know I can once again get lost in the hinterlands before the next dragon age comes out

[@matthiasvannoppen1526]

If you guys were a few hours earlier with uploading this video i wouldnt have had to watch that one tutorial to get euporia, u guys are way more enjoyable to watch.

[@Liammort]

I have to say, the 6 smithscript weapons were a nice and unexpected surprise. Especially the greathammer being in the shape of a traditional mjolnir.

[@AlexanderEiffel]

Sword of Light and Ruins of Raul (i know is Rauh) are very tongue in cheek references to Shadow of the Colossus

[@manderic5436]

The Abyssal Woods feels like the Dung Eater questline on steroids. Both have the Undertale genocide route thing of constantly asking "Are you REALLY sure you want to continue down this obviously terrible path!?!?!"

[@marhawkman303]

So how many signs does it have saying something like "abandon hope all ye who enter here?"

[@jedimike7622]

​@@marhawkman303 many.

[@izanagisburden6850]

finding the second divine beast in ancient rauh ruins was pretty neat

[@green_dragon_knight]

Even after being an oxboxtra fan for so many years I am blown away by how funny, sharp and charming the writing is for their list videos. Y’all are the best 😂

[@matthiasvannoppen1526]

BEHOLD A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR, AND I IGON!

[@Soldeathscythe]

BAAAAAYLE!!! I love that guy

[@khaledahmed9136]

"CURSE YOU BAAAAYLE. " - Igon, a calm and reasonable person

[@shawnmiller1432]

CURSE YOU BAYLLLLEEEEE!!!!!!!

[@Krokodilius]

half the areas in the dlc felt like secret areas...need a key, figure out flooding to the underground place, to the backwater place that was so hard to find.

[@Dollightful]

How y'all come up with excellent puns for every entry card always amazes me

[@dawnmcauley6411]

Angriest, deadliest Sunflower? Excuse me, Nightmare Flowey has entered the chat.

[@youngtruth77]

I was literally about to say that 😆

[@gothicbutterfly013]

To be fair, Nightmare Flowey fights a child that isn't trying to kill him. He has nothing on the Scadutree Avatar.

[@Sunnysideview69]

Scadutree avatar is much much worse

[@springer1786]

Watching this now knowing full well it'll be ages until I get to it, currently only have about 11 hours in the base game, so I will have forgotten all of these and can rediscover them and feel really smart.

[@bobbyfernando]

Okay, I actually managed to discover all of these already, thanks to the multiplayer messages...except for one - the Euporia - which I missed, _because_ I didn't believe the, "Try jumping," messages that popped up in that area. I'm never _not_ going to do what those messages tell me to again, I guess! Also, a couple of secretive areas that didn't get covered in this video are the Stone Coffin Fissure (below the Cerulean Coast), and Charo's Hidden Grave (above the Cerulean Coast) - not sure if they're _actually_ secrets, or not, but both of 'em sure took me quite a while to stumble upon! Also, be sure to try gesturing in front of Dryleaf Dane, when you come across him.

[@chadflanaganCFC]

There's boss item duplication spots all over the map in Shadow of the Erdtree in typical Fromsoft style the game makes no mention of these, they have no map icons and you'll miss them entirely if you don't know about them.

[@daftpanda6533]

@8:46 I love that Fromsoft uses different languages for names. Hinterlands simply means "the lands behind." Or more literally, "behind lands..." which also can also refer to where I stand when fighting bosses. 🤣

[@killerjoke2945]

Midra has been my favorite boss so far, as well as his whole Manse. Really brings out the Good Hunter in you. The area leading up to it "The Abyss" was too big to be that empty (yeah, I know, it's an abyss...) . They could still have done more in there than just rats, weakass candle guys, WinterLanterns on Roids, and more rats...

[@WrenchMonkey91]

"if there's any body part Elden Ring loves" I can see fingers, but can't believe you missed the feet...

[@lardman7667]

Behold, feet!

[@Gemmasis]

Huh, the Hinterlands, filled with bastards, demons and big horrible monsters roaming the land. Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Hinterlands are full of bastards, demons and bears roaming the land…. I think they might be a link in here somewhere? 🤔

[@SC2arc88]

100% agree with #1, midra is at this point my favorite part of elden ring in general. i was rlly hoping they would add a dlc continuing frenzy flame ending when i 1st got the ending.

[@willsimbala4291]

I prefer pronouncing scadu like skidoo as in "23 skidoo" which is slang for leaving quickly, which is what i do whenever a scadu tree avatar shows up.

[@FelisImpurrator]

I think "skadoosh" like it's the Land of Jack Black.

[@TinkeredSwan]

Skibidi fragments

[@offtheshelfpictures8592]

@@TinkeredSwanew no

[@Fertog1]

Huge Respect for playing the DLC with +7 Flasks and Fias std debuff. And they say there is no hard mode in Elden Ring

[@donovancatuncan2617]

The 'I hardly know her' in some of these features' title cards make me smile because I could tell Jane watches Drag Race and may have written that.

[@tmmw1975]

not only does a hefty furnace pot in the basket wake up furnace golems, it also does massive damage to them if you can manage to get one up there while it's active.

[@EndertheWeek]

You can get to the top of the building behind it to make that possible but I'm not sure you can do it before waking him up. Furnace pot does ~40k (3 should do it) and Fire pot (6) does ~20K. There are 3 (beside this one) you can do it to.

[@stone5against1]

That Mother of Fingers is the stuff of nightmares

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

Mother of Fingers? More like "Mother of fuck, what the hell is that thing??!"

[@Soldeathscythe]

Fun fact for those who arnt aware euphoria was a weapon that was supposed to be in the base game but was removed cause they struggled to balance it correctly

[@Soldeathscythe]

Also the hidden path you take where the 2 Tree sentinel knights are is actually merika's home village wich is why there is a tiny baby erdtree glowing out front and the old lady in the tree you get the holy hair braid from was actually her grandmother...man elden ring has some oddly fun facts

[@abydosianchulac2]

Point on Euporia: if you power it up enough, apparently the ash of war gets a ranged laser effect.

[@axlotl_with_pi]

This is true. In order to charge it, you have to attack normally and the AoW consumes the charge.

[@danieljohnson9917]

21 attempts later, and I can finally bonk people with a bigass sunflower. Still my favorite boss in the DLC thus far.

[@pockylovingranger]

Almost done with the DLC here, just need to kill Radahn and then I can maybe start NG+4. I also was confused why the Scadutree Avatar kept coming back only to finally realize that I had to kill it three times xD

[@Just_really_tired]

7:21 Fun fact: smacking an enemy with the weapon increases “sheen” which only matters for the skill which increases in damage the more sheen you build up, which goes away when the skill is used. If you get max sheen it launches a laser with the skill Also: you can have a few different versions of the Lady Leda invasion depending on who you talk to. Lady Leda, hornsent and dry leaf Dane are all permanent but there are a few variations Completing ansbach’s quest adds red and freyja on Leda’s side and ansbach will let you summon him against lady Leda I’m not entirely sure here, but either talking to Moore or helping make tholliers concoction without finishing his quest adds him to leda’s side Finally finishing tholiers quest adds him to help against lady Leda like ansbach Every variation adds new dialogue between the characters and the people you can summon to help you can also be summoned for the final boss. I almost forgot, if you helped leda kill ansbach a sanguine noble can be summoned in his place, who they are I have no idea It’s really cool

[@dannyeeltink]

Nice ones! There's even a follow-up to giving the Iris of Grace to Jolán; because after recieving her spirit ash you can go to a certain tower and ask Anna to 'join' the spirit ash so you can a combo of both as a spirti ash 🙂

[@NGE7]

Settled. Next playthrough is going to be madness based

[@mari-anne]

You don't need to choose between Jolan and Queelign if you want to give them Iris of Occultation or Grace. There are 2 of these items each in the DLC, just make sure not to use them yourself until you're done with Jolan and Queelign.

[@nfwlpw]

Looks like Andy rocked SoNaF the entire game.

[@Roboman20000]

For me, the dead giant dragon at the Dragon Altar was so cool. Though I may be biased as I really really like the whole behemoth thing and seeing large creatures with a sense of scale to them is my favorite.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Slight correction on the Irises, there are two of each iris. Additionally if you care about Spirit Ashes at all and aren't a katana loving degenerate you should give Jolan the Iris of Grace despite it being very mean. It gives you her ash, but if you take that ash to Anna's puppet you can get the upgraded combo Spirit Ash of Anna and Jolan which is the new undisputed best ash in the game, dethroning Mimic Tear because they are stupid strong, use the better NPC invader AI and there are two of them.

[@HollowKnight21]

Considering how hidden Anna's puppet is, it could have been another "incredible secret" included in this video.

[@ajkarma66]

I most say, finally meeting St. Trina and seeing it's a human/flower hybrid surprised me a lot

[@bartmongiello]

Regarding number 5, you can indeed choose to give both characters one type of iris. You can actually find two of each throughout the lands of shadow.

[@hawlkman]

Usually I learn something for these videos but this time I learned nothing, these were all easy to find, I found them all and beat the dlc in 40ish hours.

[@todd3143]

the irises of grace and occultation also act as a rune arc, with the iris of occultation taking all of your possessed rune on activation. the ideal way is to give both irises of occultation away to both npcs, since their respective weapons are better than their respective ashes, and then keep the irises of grace as backup rune arcs

[@UYM]

There's more to Jolan's quest as well. If you give her the iris of grace (and there's more than one in the DLC, so you can get both hers and Queelign's summons) and get her summon, you can then take it to the top of Rabbath's rise (you have to jump down on it from the hidden shaman village) and reunite her with her sister Anna. Then you get a summon called Jolan & Anna which is much better. 🙂

[@birthday_Jake]

I found the Stone-Sheathed Sword in the Ruins of Unte and the Altar of Darkness in Fog Rift Catacombs.

[@ArchHippy]

I'm surprised you didn't go one layer deeper and tell us what happens when you tailor Ymir's clothes.

[@illegalmemedealer3549]

I wonder if it’s possible for a DLC to get Game of the Year, because honestly this might be in the running

[@ghostderazgriz]

I feel like it would at least receive an honorable mention given its quality and size.

[@stevenmbari]

You can add Anna's to Jolien's spirit ashes if you climb to the top of Rabbaths from the Shaman village and find Anna's puppet

[@betteryou7hanme]

You can jump down from the shaman village onto the top floor of the mage tower. You can find the other sister there, who is a puppet. This turns the ash summon into a duo.

[@Fennec333]

Bro the design of that last boss is SO cool holy shit

[@videogamevalley7523]

This looks savage (I have never played any Elden Ring game) and frustrating at the same time.

[@simongoj]

The random screaming man in the creepy mansion. I thought ut was a psychicpebbles scream for a second. Lol

[@azuredragoon2054]

I will keep pronouncing it "ska-doo" until they spell it "Schadu"

[@Emil-Roma]

“A jerk in a pig” is an understatement. My description starts with a c.

[@chrsjxn]

Andy in the DLC with only a +7 flask is making me feel sympathy pains. Ouch.

[@lyderjohnaugusto3891]

I enjoyed fighting metyr,mother of fingers. The background music and overall ambiance of the fight sa so good.

[@zcannon012]

they didnt mention Euphoria has 3 phase the first is what the showed, the spin to win attack. But as you attack the blades will continue to glow more intensely. phase 2 lasers will shot out the the spin attack and phase 3 a holy comet asur will blast out

[@dewey_montana]

4:19 was this a "roll only for movement" playthrough? The irony that, after ALL of the rolling, you still got hit by the attack that went after you lmao

[@abydosianchulac2]

Looked like an initial pull (or close to it) where he was just trying to survive enough to see a few of the moves he needed to learn.

[@aimeeg4809]

​@@abydosianchulac2Or trying to stay alive long enough to get decent footage for the video?

[@abydosianchulac2]

@@aimeeg4809 True, he didn't have the mods Ian used to turn the boss AIs off for the Eurogamer's videos.

[@texting7856]

you can parry those creepy winterlanterns to get some secret goodies

[@jiubboatman9352]

Metyr gave me a Monty Pyhton vibe for some reason. The animations, not the people.

[@Shinju_Dragoness]

Love the humor, worth a like and subscribe 😂🎉

[@drewster-vh8su]

I really hope they make another DLC

[@evahera8316]

Try alter Ymir clothes. That way you get even cooler and more unsettling version of it.

[@michaelmaxwell4825]

I see everyone making this mistake about the stone shef sword. The altars are in the same places but depending on which one you go to first you'll get the sword then the other two will give you the light and dark sword

[@Eramaeis]

@8:20 "is that not how you greet your Mother?" 😂😂😂

[@trevorsawyers426]

What kind of build is Andy/Oxbox using in this video? Looks fun as hell

[@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר]

So Scadutree is literally just prounanced as shadow tree? Why the hell didnt Fromsoft didnt just called it shadow tree? Would have saved alot of headache.

[@Michael_Lindell]

Could someone tell me why secret No. 1 is significantly more incredible than secret No. 7?

[@catman9222]

I don't know about DLC, but the base game has this epic boss hidden down a hole named Rick.

[@angrypantsman6034]

Angriest deadliest sunflower ever? What about Flowey?

[@radioaftermaththeband]

Torrent knows what they’re about

[@woyogoyo3639]

Oh hey, already found all of these. Neat.

[@Becktastic01]

That is how everyone should greet their mother

[@Dylan4farley]

It's very upsetting watching these videos because I've come up with some creepy things but I never could have thought of mother of fingers. It's wonderfully horrible and I just can't quite make anything like it

[@KingZolomon]

10:47 completely missed the chance to make the joke calling matyr one tough mother

[@tracesizemore6736]

Not enough fingers. Ymir's armor can be altered to have a bunch of fingers coming out of the chest.

[@BotterZA]

I was able to use iris of grace on the twins as well as that invader guy, i have them both as summons now

[@Greaseball01]

Revealed you cvan get Jolan as a summon but not that you can find a double of her hidden at the top of the wizard tower below shaman village and all that, and you can combine them into a double team summon

[@madalice5134]

I'm still mourning the fact that I went back into Elden Ring to polish my skills, saved ny game and put ny ps5 into rest mose, not knowing that apparently there's a glitch that causes that to scrub your save and for some reason the onlyy cloud save back up I have is from when I was level 29 and was still running around unlocking stiff around Limgrave. I'm trying very hard to reignite my enthusiasm to get my Tarnished back to being and boss wrecking bad@$$.

[@cosmicbilly]

Thought I found everything... Turns out I missed the divine bird warrior spirit ashes. I assumed they were just the horned warriors lol also got their armor set aswell. I also missed the teleporter in scadu Altus that leads to the divine bird warrior in the ruins on the top left of the map. Wonder what else I missed?

[@talon2162]

There are 2 of each iris. You can definitely get both ashes or weapons.

[@zacharychaber1791]

Your useing euporia wrong, if you attack enemys it charges up with light and once it reaches its max charge the ash of war will shoot a massive laser

[@opalescent4694]

Ah, the real reason Luke Westaway left... He didn't wanna capture footage for Shadow of the Erdtree for them.

[@tehstachegamingllamavision1596]

Never change andy

[@rikusschulze6249]

to be honest, the way to open the door to the hinterlands doesn't seem terribly convoluted for a from soft game.

[@kristopherenglehart8704]

If you ever do a part 2, St Trina

[@Spirit451]

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