I Review Every Elden Ring Dungeon 

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lenny you missed one... once you take the elevator with to the concecrated snowfield you get to the "path to the halligtree" dungeon and at first it seems like there is nothing there but there are invisible bridges and a second mimic tear boss

Wait.. Why didn't he mention the hidden wall boss in the black knife catacomb? I feel like that could increase the dungeon's point at least a bit. As well as the Fringefolk hero's grave, the fact you can break the chariot to get some cool stuff as well as permanently gimp the dungeon. Its minor things but I feel like they add a lot of fun to it.

Fighting the invisible assassin without the torch was honestly sick tho, I summons the wolves and used them to find it like I was hunting it down, it was really fun once I gave up on doing it alone

In Azura's Hero Grave there's a hidden armor set you can get by breaking the chariots by doing the puzzle in shafts below. It's by far the coolest armor set in my opinion. The Tree Sentinel armor(giga chad armor).

Any dungeon that opens up into the overworld in some way tends to be my favourites because they're the most memorable. The Sealed Tunnel and Academy Crystal Cave are great for that reason. Even the Coastal Cave and Gaol Cave, despite not being as grandiose on their own, feel fresh because they lead to secrets and nice views.

Every veteran knows that all dungeons without a spiritcaller snail boss are in fact immediately disqualified and plunged into F tier, where they very much belong

I have to stick up for Dragonbarrow cave here. The bear is so tough because you're meant to avoid fighting it and sneak past, that's why there are bushes everywhere. Not to mention the poise talisman is in there which is super useful.

The Lord of Blood's Exultation is actually one of the best item's in the game for a Arcane/Bleed Build. I hate the dungeon but that talisman is probably the best in the game, helps you do the big game breaking damage with Rivers and Reduvia.

Im sad you didnt mention that Altus Tunnel and Perfumer's Grotto are connected. The Malformed Star (the semi Astel) that you found in both caves is the same. I visite the tunnel first and kept exploring it trying to find a way to the big boi, but couldn't. Cut to the next day when exploring the Perfumers Grotto and look who is there! Its a great detail that elevates both in my ranking.

Oh god he did it, the madman. Take a shot every time he says dungeon or catacomb.

You can totally beat the invisible Black Knife Assassin in the Sage's Cave without a torch, it's actually a pretty and unique cool boss mechanic, you have to stay on the center of de puddle and watch out for the steps on the water as she is slowly approaching to see in what direction to attack. In fact, I'm pretty sure she has a different AI to other invisible BNA, for example I can't really pull of the same trick with the ones on Ordina even while looking at the steps in the snow, they are more aggressive and dodge faster.

For Perfumer's Grotto, the Malformed Star enemy there can also be an enemy that shoots at you in Altus Tunnel, so if you go there before, it makes Altus Tunnel less painful, and if you go there after, you can get revenge on it. Not super interesting, but the fact that the two dungeons connect with each other is a neat little feature.

for the impaler's catacombs I think this is where you're meant to use a crystal arrow or dart on the watchdog and make him fight the little goblins, cause if you dont know crystal darts make stone enemies hostile to each other, so it really feels like they wanted you to learn that here but did nothing to teach you; they could've sprinkled in a few of them throughout the catacomb so at least someone might get an idea and go and read the item description to learn that there and not from a vaati video 230 hours and 2 playthroughs into the game like I did

This is actually one of the most user-friendly and straight-to-the-point dungeon compendiums available on the internet. And it comes with the benefit of being entertaining as hell, lmao. Edit: worth mentioning that Fringefolk hero's grave includes the incredibly OP dragon communion seal, which is well worth the keysword cost on its own. Or that black knife catacombs also aptly hide a black knife assassin as a side boss, or that you can break/ride/solve the chariot-related puzzles in most hero's graves

The Onyx lord is a reused enemy you can find in several spots through out the game. From Limgrave, to Raya Lucaria. There is even a mid/late dungeon where there are 2 of them as generic enemies in there.

The ruin-strewn precipice is honestly my favorite way to get into altus, the rising tension as you climb through a mine and then along a cliffside is so satisfying, you can feel that you’re getting closer to altus, I like it way more than the lift, and I personally used the magma wyrm greatsword quite a bit it’s a neat weapon

4:15 That trap is actually in at least one overworld enemy encampment, one of the camps in northern Limgrave has those scattered around the edges to alert all the enemies inside.

In Gelmir Hero's Grave, you can actually ride the chariots. There's a point where you can drop down on one and it's the way to get over the lave. Rest of the dungeon is still shite but I think being able to stand on a chariot was pretty cool.

I love Gelmir Hero's Grave. Two badass armor sets right next to each other, can skip the chariot by dropping down the pit early on and even ride it to the end, two unique weapons, awesome spirit ash for beating the boss. Maybe it's stockholm syndrome but it's nice dreading an area in a Fromsoft game again. I also love the Leyndell sewers for the same reason so yeah I'm probably just messed up mentally by this point

If we’re talking about loot in dungeons though, what about the Dragon Communion Seal in Fringefolk Hero’s Grave! It’s such a great deal that scales incantations off of Arcane, letting players know early on that there is some crazy build variety to be had!

One thing I'll say on the Sage's Cave: I like it a lot, definite 10/10, but that is if you fight the Black Knife Assassin without the torch. Reason why is that its a very dynamic fight, cause you see the ripples it makes through the water when moving around. Keeping a track of it really swings this fights "prey and predator" feel of the assassin. If you got a torch, this guy is honestly really really easy for most builds.

11:02 Fringefolk: "It's the first dungeon the player sees, and it's a trap." Which I think might actually be good design, the same way the Tree Sentinel just outside also teaches you to move on if something is too hard. It reminds me of running into the graveyard when you first arrive at Firelink, and getting annihilated by the skellingtons.

Ah so Earthbore cave is in the northern section of the weeping penninsular, south of limgrave, on a small ramp down and around a cliffside edge. Love the voice by the way!

The Coastal Cave in Limgrave has two things that make it very good imo- 1. There is a summon sign, often the first one players find, so it’s neat to have a 2 on 2 fight + summons and the demihuman mob. 2. Boc!!!

In the black knife catacombs there is also a black knife assassin boss after you take a trip up the guillotine, that’s tied to Fia and Rogier’s quest lines. It may have been behind an illusory wall, I forget.

In the black knife catacombs in Liurnia there is another hidden boss behind. A hidden wall after riding the guillotine upwards, it is a repeated boss but it gives the player something needed for a quest, though since Lenny said he doesn’t care much for quests he may have missed it, meaning he may have missed the Fortissax dragon boss.

From what I can tell, the bell traps are actually used in every military camp you can find in the open world with them being placed in bushes or in gaps in defenses where you could otherwise walk in from unnoticed

Lenny, In the Fringefold Hero's Grave you forgot to mention the banished knight that drops one of the most useful seals that boosts dragon incantations that can go to S scaling for arcane.

Oleg is a pretty damn good summon imo, i'd put him in like top 5. 2:10 The black knife catacoms has a black knife behind a secret wall and drops a keyitem to progress rogeier, fia and even kicks off raani's questline in a different way. You can ride that chariot in that dungeon 30:30. it's a unique thing they do once. 36:00 in that hero's grave, you can do a little puzzle in a different section and then make all the chariots crash into each other, it is really satisfying and you get the full erdtree armorset and an ash of war.

I really value armour as loot, it's one of my favorite things to find because it can be used in any build, and I like fashion souls. So I personally would rank any dungeon which gives armour much higher, even Gelmir's hero grave because it has two armour sets (which are both very nice) as loot in the dungeon would be ranked really highly. Idk maybe 8? I don't mind the rest of the dungeon as much as you did lol. Other comments I would have on the video, you don't usually mention loot in the dungeon unless it is the boss loot, though it would be completely unreasonable to expect you to know every single item in every dungeon, there are a few dungeons which have the best item in them as a random item on the ground which would increase the ranking of a few dungeons. Other note, I very quickly had more stonesword keys then I ever needed and always was able to immediately open up every stonesword gate I found, so I don't put that many expectations on dungeons that require them. It was a really good video thanks for all the effort you took :)

Wanted to add something special about the Gaol tunnel that wasn't mentioned by Lenny. I think its a rare example where the game finally makes use of the "no teleporting inside the dungeon" mechanic. You start by falling down a hole from which you can't get out of, and from there you are forced to clear it before you can leave. I entered at a very low level and panicked for a sec there. Not even dying will get you out so it was a nice change. In reality its not too punishing; you aren't required to defeat the boss so you don't lose your fun. I don't recall any other dungeon that was like this.

Fingerfolk Hero’s Grave has: Erdtree Favor talisman, Arcane-scaling seal, Flask upgrade, first Greatbow for player, one of the best Ashes - that’s a lot of rewards for one dungeon! Also you hate the chariot - you get the opportunity to destroy it! It teaches player that there are ways to make things easier and to look for opportunities in Hero Graves. imo you went to harsh on it

Okay, you missed that you can break the chariot in the hero's grave and get the Erd tree greatbow, so it's a lot higher on the list. #GamersDontLookUp

I'd actually argue that Groveside is more likely to be a first dungeon in terms of both design and overworld placement. When you go past the tree sentinel to the church, you're soft directed towards a soldier patrolling on the edge of the forest. And the path leading up into the forest. And then midway through there's another soldier off to the side crouching, and then even further off the path in that direction is a little camp and the dungeon entrance.

The rusted anchor in Morne Tunnel is one of the few strength scaling pierce weapons for strength builds trying to take on dragons right away. You also forgot to mention the Tree Sentinel armor set from Auriza Hero's Grave which is drippy as hell.

You do realize that the "useless" poison talisman is one of the two best talisman in the game, right? Thats 20% AR as long as someone is poisoned or suffers under scarlet rot, including yourself.

If you’re bringing rewards into the scoring, shouldn’t you of brought up the fact that Fringefolk’s has the Dragon Communion Seal (arguably the best Seal in the game for non faith builds) and the Erdtree Greatbow, as well as the Erdtree’s Favor which is a fantastic talisman for most of the game? All that on top of the gold seed and Spirit Ashes. Seems odd to not even mention it.

I ike how he values the dungeons presentation and the "first time experience" doing it. It's a shame the devs didn't thought on NG+ for the dungeons (0 rewards) , some are really fun. Edit: he became more ruthless throught the video haha

The day elden ring came out me and my friends stayed up up to 4 am just trying to beat fringefolk hero grave before even stepping out into limgrave for the first time, fair to say we died a lot trying to beat the ulcerated tree spirit lvl 1 with basic gear

I love how this video has just explained to me in excruciating detail that I missed all the good dungeons whilst simultaneously doing all the bad dungeons

Man you really did Fringefold dirty. You didn't even talk about half the dungeon like the he area where the 2 scions drop down that has a good talisman, the part with the stone guys or the reward you get for destroying the chariot. Definitely worth the 2 keys you need to enter. Really felt like you wanted to give it a bad score from the beginning and ignored everything else that made it enjoyable. But that's just my opinion.

The seethewater cave definitely left you seething. the kindred of rot's exultation is really good though for the builds it applies to. Well for any build you have a pocket +20% damage for 20 seconds which is pretty big.

great video, I was honestly impressed that you managed to make a review of all the dungeons in this game while keeping it fresh and funny!

I found the spiritcaller cave before I had ever found a godskin apostle so I was so surprised when a noble popped out after because I had struggled quite a bit already

I really enjoyed the longer format for a video. I haven’t played much elden ring honestly but I do plan on doing every dungeon and beating every boss and this video has shown me to just enjoy the game instead of getting down on how much of a slog it can be sometimes. Keep on staying epic kid

For the azurias heros grave, you can kill the chariots, which I think deserves a mention, its easy to do and it gives you another armour set

I spent alot of time exploring as much of the map as I thought was reasonable, really digging around for secrets. The sheer amount of things I still missed makes me feel like I was wearing a blindfold the whole game. What a big video, loved every second!

Love this long format vids. Great job!

Lenny delivers a banger AGAIN. I loved every minute of this, and it could be SO helpful for newer players. Despite whether or not anything was overlooked/not mentioned, this is still a really well done video that deserves a FAT FUCKIN LIKE for the effort!

@16:30 For Lakeside Crystal Cave, you may hate quest lines, but the thing with this one is it's barely a quest line and the reward is a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. While you only get the stone in Consecrated Snowfield, it's literally just... talk to the NPC here, run to a spot in Consecrated Snowfield, do a simple interaction, and get the stone. Given how few SAD stones there are in the game (only like, 6 total or something per NG cycle) and one of them is gated behind this dungeon and requires basically _only_ this dungeon over the work you'd do in a normal playthrough, I would say it's not unfair to say that this dungeon functionally rewards you with a SAD stone, which makes it a very cool dungeon with an S-tier reward. Also, calling a Bloodhound Knight a "reused enemy" feels slightly unfair; it's a reused _boss_ which appears in one or maybe two other places, and the fact that it jumps you makes it a pretty unique encounter. Thus, between the very cool cave, almost-unique boss in a new environment, and the absolutely top-tier reward, I would give that dungeon a solid 10/10 tbh. @36:30 I think you're being a little uncharitable to the boss fight. Crucible Knights are a reused enemy, sure, but it's not like you've seen tons of them at this point or whatever, and they always have non-respawning miniboss status at least. By the time you're here, you've fought _maybe_ 3 of them, if you've already gone into the Capital itself, found the Spiritcaller Snail Crucible Knight fight, and found the Evergaol. If it were just one of them, then yeah, fair to be unhappy about seeing it for the 4th time, though I think they're always a pretty cool and tough enemy, but they work pretty well as a duo boss and the fact that it is a duo boss makes it a very different encounter, even if the enemies themselves aren't new. Though I dunno, I personally feel relatively charitable to reused bosses as long as it makes sense. Reusing story bosses? Yeah, that's fucking annoying. But reusing non-story bosses, or making enemies from the end game into bosses? I dunno, I don't mind it. It's not realistic, to me, to expect them to have that many unique bosses. That said, every single Catacomb except the first one can go fuck itself, and so can more or less every Hero's Grave. They're all same-y and they all suck. I honestly think the game would have benefited a lot from drastically cutting down the number of dungeons, and just leaving the good ones. The loot and cool elements from the small dungeons could be recycled into other dungeons or just into the open world. Most of the dungeon loot from the mediocre dungeons has no thematic connection to the dungeon itself, so you could just have easily have just slapped it into an evergaol. And like, with an evergaol, there's no build up, there's no expectation. It's just a glorified treasure chest with a boss fight, and so like, I could not care less about reused bosses in evergaols, unless they're fucking Shardbearers (what the fuck, Godefroy?). And a hypothetical contester of my point might say "just don't go into them if you don't like them, they add content to the game" to which I say: fuck no. I _tried_ to play this game blind. I really wanted to. But when there are 700 caves and 90% of them are repeat trash which just might happen to be really cool or contain a really good item, playing blind is just infinitely less fun. I would infinitely prefer that there be like 2 dungeons per region and they both be really good, so that finding them is cool, and when you do, you're not questioning whether this is worth it.

Love your videos man, this was super informative and I'll be coming back to it constantly to look at rewards for dungeons in my future runs. Thank you again!

Don't know if it qualifies in your mind or not, but I really hoped to see the Divine Tower of Calid in this list. It's a one of a kind puzzle getting into the tower to start off, then once you're inside, you can go get Radahn's great rune to the right. But that's not all. You can go left and go through a really unique jumping puzzle down the tower, and at the bottom, you get to fight what is most people's first godskin apostle. After which the reward you get is an amazing colossus sword with some neat lore attached to it. 10/10 for me at least.

Love how he calls both demihumans and the mini gargoyles as goblins

I love the little aesthetic/world details you spot in a lot of the dungeons. Great video Lenny

Well done Lenny. Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would based on the concept and length. Felt entertaining throughout and didnt feel long at all

12:45 It gets a negative 1/100 from me for changing the drop from the awesome hammer (that is now only available as a low, I think 1-2% drop, from a temporary enemy).

You absolute legend, you did it!!!

I liked this video so much I watched it twice! I appreciate your commentary as much as your regular videos. It's calming, and authentic :D

Love it man, there where a few i missed and i wouldnt of even known without this video. You are awesome Lenny.

It's been a pleasure to watch most of this live, well done! PS: I'm actually glad you showed the tombsward cave location, since I actually missed it. Now I know to never go near it

While watching this video I remembered one of my favorite dungeons and was so excited for you to get to the point where ya reviewed it. Little did I know that you were gonna roast it to shreds, lol. It was the Leyndell Catacombs dungeon for me, the second looping dungeon in the video. For me, that was my first dungeon I found that looped. And I was so confused at first, but when I discovered things were slightly changing, I got a real kick out of it ^^ Guess I got lucky and discovered that dungeon while the looping mechanic was still novel :P Wish ya had the same fun time as I did, but I definitely loved the video! Really love how ya effortlessly tear up any of the dungeons ya found to be lackluster or boring! Thanks for making the vid, and have a nice day Mr.Lenny!

Man, i finally had timme to watch the first half of the video, cant wait to watch the second half tomorrow! Love this video already so much! Great work my guy!

Hey Lenny, really enjoyed the review of the dungeons. I'm currently on my second playthrough and this is a great guide to know which dungeons are worth re-entering. Keep it up my man!

For the miner enemies that bounce your weapon, you can two hand to prevent it from happening. Crush weapons, magic and some consumables still do more damage to them, but it's a good budget option and even comes into play for the crystaline dickheads you find in other dungeons/areas.

Fingefolk hero's grave has the erdtreefavor talisman and the dragon communion sigil. Also you can destroy the chariot. It also contains 2 grafted scions. Would this change your rating?

Ruin-Strewn Precipice was one of my favourite highlights of the game. I didn't know about the dectus medallion, so when the lift didn't work I chalked that up to it being too old to function or some other factor. The only other way to the Altus Plateau was via the dungeon. I love how you enter from the bottom of this cliff and occasionally reappear outside to see how far up the cliff you've travelled, it was extremely immersive.

Thanks for the vid, man. Between my laptop not being up to spec and the story not being my thing, I haven't really done much of anything personally with Elden Ring so it's been nice to have fun vids from you going about it in your usual style, this one included. Looking forward to seeing what you have planned next.

I thought the assassin in Sage's Cave was one of the best dungeon boss fights tbh. I didn't even know until this video that you could see her with a torch. I honestly love the boss fights that make you lay close attention. The fact you can track her movements by staying in the water is so unique. It only took me 2 attempts to beat her.

Glad we had the same thoughts on Ruin-Stewn Precipice. That place was awesome

This was a great video Lenny! Really appreciated showing the locations of each dungeon as well as the boss/rewards since it's a nice way to check and see "did I do this, huh I don't remember this, where was this again?" Funnily enough I had the opposite impression with Leyndell Catacombs and the Auriza side tomb. I did the side tomb first really late at night so I was so confused going around, trying to figure things out and eventually remembering that I found where to progress and then ignored it. Then I got to Leyndell Catacombs and I thought it was cool how the repeating part has little changes to make you question, like the room full of Land Squirts that then has a big one, or the Omen looking down at the corpse of another Omen enemy that is such a cool way to mess with the player.

Kinda badass that you grinded that out for us homie. No one else could have made that as enjoyable as you, keep it up big boi❤️

As someone who loved the chalice dungeons, I’m a sucker for these things, love the challenge of figuring out the puzzle

Really interesting to see some of my favourite ones being low ranked. I loved all the Chariot ones, especially the first one. It's an optional challenge you can try at the very start of the game and get a pretty significant early game boost equal to about 8 levels *and* and a seed for beating a pretty good boss. And yes I think the ulcerated tree is a pretty good boss. Also the fact you can destroy the chariot to get some decent gear is also just beautiful. It's easily my favourite.

Thanks, actually useful for me to decide which dungeons to do, and great video!

I cannot tell you how much I just appreciate the fact you took the time to make this video. Thanks for being you Lenny :)

I thought the Black Knife Catacombs has 2 bosses and one is behind an illusory wall. Did Lenny miss it or am I thinking of the wrong catacomb?

It's interesting to see a pve perspective on these I agree with most of it except for the kindred of rot talisman being a bad reward that thing is pretty powerful is you use it right.

Amazing video Lenny and the Pokémon music on the background was top to make this video even more calm and relaxing (a part from being useful of course!)

Great vid!! I'm surprised I missed out on about 5 dungeons in this video haha

The dungeons do hurt replayability. I feel like they could have incorporated the blood gem, and chalice dungeon system into the game... hopefully they do it in the future. I think itll make the game soo much better. Itll give people a reason to come back over and over again

Truly the peak of reviews.

amazing Video lenny, ill be sure to check this out again on my next play through to remember what to hit up and what to avoid

Fantastic vid, Lenny. I've been through virtually all of the dungeons myself and, largely, shared pretty similar opinions overall. It's interesting to see a more informative take on it, as well. Looking forward to your upcoming videos, too!

You know what? I really like the double crucible knight fight. I missed out on it in the first playthrough, but encountered it in the second and by that point, i had already mastered fighting crucible knights, so this duo battle where you had to lure out the one who isnt turtling with a shield and kill him was a breath of fresh air

hello mr blue guy

Leyndell catacombs was my favorite dungeon. I actually liked how it was so twisty and slowly shows what it is. After the first drop down you think more enemies might have spawned but then you start seeing more differences until you figure it out. Helps break up the mundane task of going through catacombs.

This is a great reference video for planning playthroughs, thanks!

Wait hold on. At 37:57 you seriously said "Oh yeah this blood talisman is so niche most people don't even know it exists". What. This thing might be one of the most overpowered items in the game. But ok.

This really puts in perspective the nagging feeling I had at the end of my first playthrough: the game could have been 30 to 50% shorter and wouldn't have lost much.

Honestly, a lot of dungeons are largely interesting for lore. For instance, Groveside Cave is interesting because it shows you that Limgrave used to be part of the dragon/beast empire and that the ruins strewn all over the place fell from Faram Azula in the sky. The beastman is leading a pack of wolves ambushed and killed Godrick's soldiers who were using the cave. You find one of Godrick's Soldiers outside the cave, investigating the wreckage of the cave's camp.

This is a great and informative video idea Lenny. Turned out well I loved it good job 👏

Not sure why you were afraid this video weren't going to make it. For me it was one of the most enjoyable ones, really like how you rated them and said what things of interest each dung contains. More stuff like it please! Cheers!

I liked the dungeons, massive improvement from chalice dungeons sometimes, I just wish there were good or at least decent rewards often not just once every now and then but yeah it wasn't bad at all. Great vid about 1/5 done.

Hi lenny i genuinely love long videos. Its honestly so nice to sit down and just watch a video for 1 or 2 hours since i cant really catch your livestreams. Thanks for making me laugh and entertaining me.

This vid is actually so good. Very informative and showing off dungeons I’ve never seen

43:15 There is a hidden room in this dungeon with the Bull-Goat's talisman, that should bump it up a point at least

Literally every Fromsoft youtuber: "Elden Ring is a masterclass on the open world genre" Those same youtubers: "Ranking all Elden Ring side content from boring to absolute frog vomit"

yt was playing elden ring videos while i slept all day and you managed to wake me up just before my work shift. thanks bro

legit im gonna save the link to this vid somewhere so i can use it as a fun little guide to find all the dungeons, awesome work Lenny!