Why you shouldn't pick this item up in Elden Ring

[@Leviathannohit]

3 IMPOSSIBLE Things in Elden Ring you didn't know about - did you know about them? Sorry for the short video getting ideas is rough out here. Also ToTK exists lol.

[@M4xxD]

@@Leviathannohit How do I get the hylian shield. It truely must be a mod, or not?

[@Wicked_Knight]

​@@M4xxD oooh that's what ToTK stands for, until I googled the shield you mentioned I was sat here scratching my head like "TF does ToTK mean?" 😅 was never a Zelda fan personally.

[@gedoplanet]

The dragons taking no poise damage except eyes makes sense in lore since they are made from extremely hard stone

[@mimictear6788]

And Fortissax not having this benefit also makes sense since his scales have been peeled away by Godwyn's Deathblight.

[@smallweinersteve8808]

With each discovery ive grown more respect for the developers

[@haryjackazzgaming1813]

It's not that hard to poise break the dragonlord so probably an oversight

[@Ronam0451]

​@@mimictear6788 wow they really reused dark souls lore lol

[@Z3d195]

@@haryjackazzgaming1813 3 months late but half of plascidusaxs scales have dissolved which is why we can break his poise easily

[@DanielPowell357]

"Why you shouldn't pick this item up in Elden Ring" *Proceeds to talk about Dragon Poise levels*

[@w12266]

Sounds like some Vsauce kinda content

[@viviv6197]

Thank you

[@AceAviations2]

The Ash of War Vow of the Indomitable is another way to survive Radahn's meteor attack, and it's arguably the most stylish and badass way to do so.

[@DanYami]

oh the thing that fucks up my D2 search results

[@Keatsy12]

@@DanYami what does that mean? d2 search results? Destiny 2? Diablo 2?

[@DanYami]

Destiny 2 obviously

[@Keatsy12]

@@DanYami thx

[@DimkaTsv]

Did this AoW as my choice. It was surprisingly easy to do for me. I messed up maybe 20-25% of times only. Just one press and your fine.

[@Pennywise12528]

On a similar note to the last one, hyper armor can actually get you killed against attacks you'd normally survive because the game expects you to take only one hit then fall over and miss the rest. Never try to tank through Hoarah's earthquakes with the Lion's Claw ash of war.

[@glorytoukraine5524]

@masterraccoon2883 why were you figthing Hoarah loux with 40k runes. Also, by that point in the game, 40k aren't even half a level up, unless you have been doing a lower level run

[@haryjackazzgaming1813]

Horse also prevents you from falling over immediately so it's a really good way to instantly die from dragon breath

[@AutistiCat2406]

​@@glorytoukraine5524 another terrible mentality gamer Oh no 40k but that's not close to enough to level up Yeah it's still 40k that can and very likely will help you later down the line, tired of seeing people talk about how 4/5 digits aren't as great later on and that they don't matter as much when they still matter a ton

[@glorytoukraine5524]

@@AutistiCat2406 they literally don't, you get twice that amount with 2 minutes of killing mobs in Elphael/Mohgwyn. Which you should have gotten to if you're fighting hoarah loux. Either way, if you couldn't learn by that point in the game that you just do NOT go into a risky boss fight with runes you don't wanna lose, no KZbin comment is gonna help you.

[@blaiddfumbler]

@@AutistiCat2406 yeah I kinda expected this answer from someone with the name of "AutisticCat" 40k won't get you shit if you're in that point of the game, if you still need that 40k for who knows what you're incredibly underleveled, you're gonna need 3 times as much just for one level when you're level 130, which let me remind you, is underleveled when you're fighting godfrey.

[@takeachance5881]

Seems like radahn's meteor acts similarly to godfrey and hoarah loux's ground energy spikes, the difference is that it's much harder to not get knocked up/down by the ground energy than meteor.

[@Gyno-Mackima]

Just over

[@Gyno-Mackima]

Jump*

[@takeachance5881]

@@Gyno-Mackima we are talking about the amount of poise required to be able to not get knocked into s animation instead of, you know, dodge it. Btw, jump can't dodge the ground energy spikes, what you are talking about is the stomping. And another btw, you don't get knocked into animation by stomps, so I really donno why you would think it is the stomps at all.

[@ultra824]

i actually have staggered lansseax before. i managed it because i was using stone sling which can hit the head fairly reliably in some animations, and i summoned latenna, who's great at denying poise regen, and _also_ hits the head a fair bit. i wasn't even going out of my way to do it, that was just the way my build was at the time

[@duncandonuts9]

Same, beat them as a wizard using whichever spell shoots three rocks (might be stone sling lol sorry it’s been awhile). With how dragons move, it usually hits the head and it’s great at staggering most big slow things

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

​@@duncandonuts9rock sling

[@minecraftcommandnerd1280]

Back when the Fallingstar Beast's Horn waa still doing like 40 poise damage with its weapon art before it was nerfed, I managed to stagger pretty much everything if I wanted to. I think I staggered an ancient dragon like two times in one fight.

[@Corbin_Dioxide]

You can drop onto the platform from behind the ancient somber smithing stone by mohn and get the seed really easily

[@Hoovy-SV]

I don't think you and I have the same definition of "Impossible"

[@skyhawkslcb18]

ya so stupid

[@jasonmendoza2044]

@@Hoovy-SV not even close lol

[@yusufbukhari6962]

I still wonder what the lore connotations of being able to block Radahns meteor mean. Like is your character strong enough to block a meteor, if so why didn't everyone in the lands between just block the stars smh my head

[@Gyno-Mackima]

They weren’t naked like our character

[@onomatopoeia300]

Why does the way you said smh annoy me so much?

[@Haise-san]

@@onomatopoeia300 because he is shaking his head of his head

[@Typomixer15]

Both heads? 🤔

[@alastor8091]

​@@Typomixer15helicopter helicopter :D

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

But the item isn't out of bounds? What are you talking about?

[@Rannulfus]

The item isn't out of bounds, but most people will miss it due to grabbing the one next to the erdtree sapling and resetting their game at a grace, or by teleporting, or dying. As a result its an effective, but not literal "out of bounds" for most people.

[@Hu1tziil]

@@Rannulfus but out of bounds means out of the playable area, if you can reach it without glitches it isn't out of bounds. If it disappears it disappears, that's it

[@Dowjy]

Parkour

[@DerDrakko]

@@Hu1tziil ist nicht erreichbar Ende!

[@krtairlines]

@@DerDrakko doch ist es

[@sndrc9]

Laughs in unused golden seeds

[@talongreenlee7704]

I know, right? I'm usually able to upgrade mine to max before beating Morgott.

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

Kinda hope we have an NPC or mechanic introduced in the DLC that utilizes extra Golden Seeds.

[@chaoticstarfish3401]

@@xXLunatikxXlul I doubt it. You'd just sell these in any past game and there's nothing really wrong with that imo.

[@yuukiraijin96]

@@xXLunatikxXlul surprise surprise, nope

[@snipercomrade3059]

For a long time, I wondered why some ancient dragons were so difficult to stance break even though I performed several charge attacks, then I went over the Reforged mod's changelog as I was browsing some mods and realized that these dragons (also the Night's Cavalry) had a hidden poise multiplier making them incredibly difficult to stance break.

[@MLWJ1993]

Rock Sling is capable of poise breaking a lot of dragons, or at least, it was capable of it when I played through as a mage in 1.05 (I think) 🤔

[@phoephoe795]

Rock Sling deals a fair whack of poise damage for each boulder, and you can easily hit the head which negates the poise reduction. Still in the game.

[@MLWJ1993]

@@phoephoe795 Good to know it hasn't changed significantly, my friend plays as a mage now (and uses Rock Sling) & it indeed still breaks poise a lot! 😆 Add my Eleanora Poleblade Ash of War to that carnage & most bosses stand little chance to even do much of anything.

[@randomizedtaco6565]

Literally yesterday I rock slung Ekzykes to death, got 3 poise breaks. It is easily the best dragon hunting spell for early/mid game.

[@gonggonglive]

@@randomizedtaco6565 not to mention it’s THE best tactic to kill Magma Wyrms

[@Kryptnyt]

@@gonggonglive You mean shooting him for 45-68 damage with a crossbow 120 times while running in circles around the big ol' pillar wasn't the optimal way for me to kill Makar?

[@artur3306]

I used to watch you for your calamity videos back in the day. Now i bought elden ring and came across your channel again! I am very glad you still exist, as i remember seeing a video of you where you talked about personal struggels with your life and an other person around you. I am happy you overcame all that, still enjoy gaming and making content and its nice to see your channel grow this much.

[@RA8IDP3NGUIN1]

Okay so why shouldn't I pick up the item? Did I miss something?

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

It will despawn another item drop if you rest after picking it up.

[@Elrog3]

@@BaldorfBreakdowns So? He said the other item is out of bounds anyway.

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

@@Elrog3 It's not out of bounds, I've gotten it many times.

[@masasuzuki1762]

oh I saw your stuff back from calamity summoner days. Glad to see you're still going strong

[@ButterNuss.]

1:12 Funfact: The single most powerfull normal attack in Elden Ring is Astels (Star of Darkness) grab attack he does when he goes low HP. If it gets you, it does a whopping 2300 damage to the player, making it pretty much impossible to survive, even on the spongiest builds.

[@raptorcyclone5156]

Ah yes, Jerma's infamous meat grinder

[@KogasaTatara514]

Pretty much impossible even on tanky builds..? I doubt it. 60 vigor gets you 1,900 HP, so you need to negate about 18% of the damage. Add on any decent armor and a single buffing spell and that should be all you need. Boiled crab negates 20% of damage, so you can tank it with no armor if your damage number is correct.

[@ButterNuss.]

@@KogasaTatara514 Keep it mind that its a grab attack, meaning its a critical. (Actually, after checking again, its 2450, not 2300. mb) Yes, you could probably survive it with a dedicated tank build and some buffs. But on the other hand you probably wont be fighting him in NG-0 with that kind of setup, unless you specificly prepared to get grabbed by him :D

[@KogasaTatara514]

@@ButterNuss. Do criticals have a different damage formula or something?

[@ButterNuss.]

@@KogasaTatara514 No, but it means they cant be blocked or reduced by shields

[@c1deon363]

Falligstar beast's AoW was dramatically nerfed in poise-breaking department

[@Mashiromitsumine409]

You can survive rahdans meteor by using the shield ash of war that makes you invulnerable for a few seconds

[@abdouakak5851]

What is the highest damage you can do in elden ring🤔

[@andy4an]

i think it's more than 6

[@Viperacrx600]

Probably

[@HelloHSR]

A guy did like 157,000 damage in one hit

[@andy4an]

@@HelloHSR aha, i was correct

[@Ixxlostinabox]

emotional damage

[@MrDerpinati]

oh wow its good to see youre doing good levi! havent watched you since your calamity mod days

[@mes0gots0its]

Crazy, just yesterday I found that golden seed on the corpse in Mohgwyn palace for the first time. This video may explain why I didn't find it earlier

[@chance_hollow]

I've seen the wiki say that taking certain seeds (from quests or starting gift) it makes that seed disappear. Idk why maybe to keep an even amount

[@SaraAliciaCaster]

I don't even know how to reach that seed

[@DillonMagreveous]

It actually is possible to survive Radahns meteor attack, it’s just stupid hard and had alot of setup to it. Gino did a sort of all hit run and survived it.

[@ryanlamb8458]

Loving the runescape damage popups. Beautiful. I have had my main account since 2005, nearing the 20yr mark. Cant wait for my 20 yr cape!

[@mushroom11g55]

@ryanlamb8458 that's not fair, whenever I stop playing an account for a couple years, and try to sign back in, they ban my account for "botting" even though I never bot. So i will never get a 20yr cape.

[@2iBMX]

Gino recently tanked radahns entire meteor attack lol

[@SaxSlaveGael]

Your testing for this video is questionable sorry Laviathan. I have broken Lichdragons Poise twice. Once using a Bow with Mighty Shot and Storm arrows. And again spamming Spectical Lance. Both are great for head shots. Additionally, I have also tanked Radahns Explosion using the Erdtree Great Sheilds AoW Golden Retaliation.

[@Leviathannohit]

I did end up adding that its the other ancient dragons, fortissax is just very difficult but lansseax is basically impossible due to the head not taking proper poise damage.

[@SaxSlaveGael]

​@@LeviathannohitFurther evidence to me that these dragons are the most BS designed bosses in Elden Ring... Appreciate the response, and apologies if this came across as rude. That wasn't my intention! Love your fun facts 👍

[@talongreenlee7704]

If you use the glintblade phalanx ash of war it's possible, but not easy. It does pretty heavy stance damage but almost no actual damage.

[@SaxSlaveGael]

@@talongreenlee7704 Kind if the same with Spectical Lance and a Bow. But damn, Riposte Damage is insane against him!

[@cesarbernardi1646]

I've actually managed to break Lanseax stance when fighting her in early Altus (had a build mostly focused on that, powerstancing Great Stars infused with Cragblade + Thorny Crystal Tear, and got some lucky RNG to get a lot of hits in). She fled, I thought "hey, this is one easy boss, would fight again, 10/10". I must've gotten killed in the second fight like 20 times before winning, and couldn't get a single stance break.

[@Lemonszxhshrux]

Just a quick one on Radhan, I have seen a video where someone parried Radhans meteor attack, you should test this

[@MrGoul78]

I'm waiting for someone to calculate the energy/force it would take to achieve something like that, like they did with Malenia's Waterfowl dance

[@Gyno-Mackima]

@@MrGoul78 i was so surprised when I was playing pvp and someone parried my waterfowl dance after working so hard to get the hand of malenia

[@tylerlackey1175]

@@Gyno-Mackima that can be parried? I thought the blade orb was an aoe type attack? That's odd.

[@Gyno-Mackima]

@@tylerlackey1175 i tested on ng+ as well and he can parry corpse piler ash of war a long with other skills

[@Aversivestar]

Are you using a mod at 0:45 or is that an animation edit on the video? Having a poise meter in the game like that would be very useful! Great video btw!

[@mfyrisingmayo1913]

oh staggering dragons isnt the issue.... its the 'realizing you got a stagger but now you have to find the head to get reposte' part

[@Rexhunterj]

Positioning skill issue honestly.

[@TehCakeIzALie1]

@@Rexhunterj if you mean 'the dragon's head is positioned inside a wall' then yes

[@josephchacra2840]

Clickbaited me in, got me to sub! Great content, thanks for the tips

[@Ashlevon]

Fun fact! In Dark Souls 3, there are also two items that disappear. These two items are the Twin Dragon Greatshield in the Crucifixion Woods, and one Red Bug Pellet on the outside of the Cathedral of the Deep, under an archway to the right of the huge doors near where Patches tricks you (the massive double door up the stairs from the Grave Warden/white birch tree area). I only know these two disappear if you've defeated every required boss. All other items are unaffected/behave as expected. I don't know what triggers this behavior yet.

[@Ericutz4thewin]

You're editing is amazing! May I ask what editing program you use?

[@seedmole]

The defensive voluntary knockdown technique also comes up against Maliketh's 2nd phase. His nasty aoe attack after he plunges his sword into the ground or whatever will multi-hit you if you stay in it, and will probably catch a roll if you try to roll it.. but if you jump, the hit will knock you out of the jump animation and give you s long enough to not get hit by the rest of it.

[@RazorDiamondexe]

1:12 what about using the Crimsonwhorl bubble tear? This video is over a year old i know, but for Radahn's meteor fall attack in the DLC, the Crimsonwhorl actually heals you off the damage, you don't die from it

[@ARIGATOUIKKEIKE]

All I can think about is how someone was tasked with making a tiny, functional hit box for the eyes even though most wouldn’t even notice

[@SocraTetris]

It's super easy to get 1 poise break on Fortisax if or any of those style dragons of you use the spectral lance ash of war. Pocket lance is cheaper and more effectice that 99% of spells.

[@thehungrylittlenihilist]

Is that the golden seed by the chicken farm? If so I've never grabbed it, and never noticed the body with the item

[@draghettis6524]

I am very late, but the deal with ancient dragons is this : All Ancient Dragons have a 0,2 multiplier to incoming poise damage, meaning their effective poise is 5 times what's expected. However, on top of headshots dealing twice the amount of poise damage, for some reason Fortissax has an unknown modifier that doubles all poise damage, stacking with headshots, so in practice he has a 0,4 instead.

[@mizaniki2]

short and a lot of info, I wish there were more channels like this

[@RandomSelectGaming]

It hits you more than once to ensure a one shot... words have meaning.

[@Superabound2]

I staggered Bayle but i got hung up on his body and couldn't get to his head fast enough

[@FuyoBuho]

super helpful, thanks a bunch!

[@Robot-Overlord]

Actually, you can get up there to grab that high seed if it's available. The horse in elden ring isn't too dissimilar to the horse in skyrim. Pretty basic parkour on torrent will get you up there. It might not be "intended" but it's not difficult or impossible. Anyone that has done any soul farming in that area knows There's several cliff faces you can jump up to reach that top area.

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

You can just jump down to it from higher up, too.

[@Lazzerglasses]

Hey, Gino discovered a way to survive Radahn's meteor, btw!

[@kamelakawmada4301]

Hey Leviathan, Can Rennala be poise broken at her first stage? I am kinda curious.

[@_Umbrael_]

No. I'm fairly certain she can't. At least not without mods or cheating.

[@gameraz1990]

OH! So that's why that body was itemless in my game! I saw it lying there, alone, and I just had to jump down on the rocks to inspect it, because there's no way there's just a random body in a random patch of rocks that are set up in a way a player can jump down to.

[@VaultTecCitizens]

While watching the footage where the character is fighting the ancient dragons, for a minute I thought I had accidentally clicked on a Monster Hunter video.

[@cyberpancakee6627]

Just started the dlc, savage lions claw on zweihander works well against poise breaking dragons

[@Zedonus0]

You can also jump over the metor General drop if you time it right and not take damage.

[@yobogoya4367]

If you want to ensure you survive Rhadan's re-entry, just use the mixed physic to negate the next "damage taken event" as soon as he leaves the battle field.

[@danielrobinson7872]

I’ve guarded against Radahn’s meteor attack before with minimal damage. Unless you mean just letting yourself take the full brunt of the force.

[@CesarDraigcyfail]

Ginomachino survived Radhans attack by stacking Fire and Physical damage negation.

[@Angels-Haven]

3 impossible things? a golden seed that doesn't matter an animation from dark souls 1 and something we all should already know, don't try and tank something with a lingering hit box that hits multiple times

[@w12266]

Didn't even know there's a golden seed up there until this video.

[@Kinoksis]

Is that visible poise meter a mod? If so, where did you get it?

[@LeMajesticJames]

We went from talking about a specific item to a WHOLE different and unrelated topic

[@leyrua]

The fact that fighting naked allows you to survive a direct meteor strike... 😂

[@Lone-Nep]

Yeah no wonder the Ancient Dragons are my least favorite enemy to fight in the whole game. Pretty much infinite stance means you can never rest or take any risks for a stance break as a melee build.

[@infinitepotato001]

I remember staggering forisax and going "Wait, you can stagger ancient dragons? That only took 50 playthroughs..."

[@MamaTrixxieAsmr]

indomitable vow is the best way to survive radahn's meteor attack, why take the damage when you can just friggin negate it

[@iNVENCIbLL]

1:30 that shield tho 🤩

[@leedehart3225]

Aim at the head and cast rock sling 3-4 times. Almost always breaks poise unless half the rocks miss. Broke placids poise 3 times when I beat him.

[@grfrjiglstan]

The guardbreak animation having I-frames just threw me for a loop.

[@jacobisterrible]

you dont tell me what to do

[@sharif47]

Now that we have Sekiro deflect, can we tank the meteor with timely deflect?

[@nessnake123]

That Legend of Zelda Shield looks good.

[@Damanticore]

They "fixed" it. Today I picked this one up first and it made the first one by the tree disappear.

[@missingone9185]

As a mage who's main spell against dragons is Rock Sling, I have never found any difficulty staggering any of the Ancient Dragons at all. Aiming for the face is my goal.

[@vgman94]

Only way I can consistently poise break ancient dragons is by spamming Flame of Frenzy. Everything else for my build is… less than consistent.

[@Onigure]

I remember watching radan coming at me for the first time, and me saying "I can parry that".

[@LFOtobot]

"The meteor hits you multiple times to ensure a one-shot kill" "multiple times" "one-shot kill"

[@kkcombs622]

Darkmoon GS will stagger most dragons, and most anything else that doesn't just die.

[@franciscohidalgo6042]

Have people tried using the best weapon, Star Fist? 2 hand, jump attack, charge up that R2 hit and break its ankles.

[@tylerpatrick3511]

You can also use a bubble tear to tank radahns meteor attack.

[@TheFatPunisher]

I just drink the bubbletear physick when radahn jumps

[@masalano]

oh.. thats why the tree had no seed, i picked it on the corpse..

[@317NEETz]

I picked up the one on the cliff and had no idea why a rando had a golden seed

[@MFD00MTR33]

Guess he needs to change this after Gino face tanked Radahn meteor with barely any damage taken.

[@Sam-zw2kp]

So what does the second and third part have to do with the video title?

[@soarel325]

Why the hell would you put a Master Sword skin on a thrusting sword?

[@bolderog6070]

what if you can parry Radahn's meteor attack? that would be so wicked.

[@Karak12357]

I wish I had saved it, but I killed Radahn out of the sky during his meteor dive with the fire attack of Sword of Night and Flame

[@csheese]

I'm always the guy to abuse the few seconds on the ground from low poise

[@WhoThisMonkey]

I don't understand I've staggered dragons multiple times in a fight more than once. I use either moonveil or wings of astel and twin cold estocs as mains.

[@orhankeyvan]

I always equip a pike with giants hunt on it and repeatedly snipe the dragons head for stuns. It's easy to get at least 2 stuns while fighting with Lanseax this way

[@Dreska_]

So... Why shouldn't we pick it up? You explained why we probably won't, not why we shouldn't, which was the title of the video

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

Because it will despawn the other Golden Seed on the cliff, if you rest/reset the area.

[@sleepy-cartoonist]

tbh the first time I stunned an ancient dragon is by spamming the ash of war spectral lance

[@paxtonkrogh3574]

Where and how did you get links shield?

[@Blargy2inch]

I swear i survived a graze from the meteor and i was under level for that fight

[@alexsanderviscaino6255]

Tfw the video title represents not even half of the video

[@wolhaiksong2558]

That's why i use an Opaline Bubbletear moments after i see that Raddan is beggining to fall from the stratosphere.

[@Sound_Tech]

Long time, no see! I didn't recognize you, did you get a haircut?

[@Shiftdougler]

Spectral lance seems to do well against the world dragons, I am unsure of fortissax and the other ones like him

[@ghastlyanarchy1720]

The Hylian shield goes hard

[@fabiankuntzig6507]

that beautiful shield though....

[@malachaikettle494]

THERE’S A HYRULIAN SHIELD?!?!

[@leahl5007]

Waat? Why would they put one golden seed as a dead body item in the game, when all others are tree boys? 0,o

[@LordRazer3]

1:12 YES! A reason to use the wooden buckler!