Messmer the Impaler Build in Elden Ring - No DLC Required! 

Someone in HR at my office must be a big fan of yours as well! I've been googling everything on my work computer like you said and now they wanna have a meeting! I'm guessing it's to talk about what future builds you'll get to do in the DLC!

This build really makes me feel like Messmer. It has all the exaggerated swagger of a forgotten demigod.

Messmer the impaler is... um... in the dlc? Thats all we really know for sure... he'll probably make the swag jump to safety first try he jumps a shit ton in that trailer so it should work out.

Me: Mum can we get Messmer Mum: No we have Messmer at home Messmer at home:

Tulok: doesn't like when someone's spells deal good damage. Also Tulok: has bias against almost all spells and incantations, and doesn't like having to build around them. Fr tho, love the video

Giants flame, take thee! doing damage comparable to your fully upgraded weapon with high scaling in your best stat, while having near minimum stats for casting and a bad seal for casting it just proves how ok it is. I think spells are in a good place in ER, not too strong unless you specialize hard, fun to throw around because they're flashy, and gives you options outside normal weapon ranges.

If Shadows of the Erd Tree adds a character named after Fionn MacCumhail, I’d die of laughter listening to Tulok pronounce it

Hey you mentioned in an earlier video that you don’t read the comments but I have a very rare affliction to night terrors, which as an adult really sucks, and your videos have become a huge comfort to me

my personal theory comes from his name: "messmer" the impaler, messmer is an old german word for "knife maker" i personally think that after some argument or fight of some sort, messmer created a blade capable of hurting a god, and impaled the greater will, leading to the giant gash we see on its stomach. this would be what got him banished to the shadow realm, and what got snakes their reputation for being traitorous

Honestly, I agree with you when it comes to dragon spells with mainly Rotten Breath being an exception (though you should definitely try Dragonmaw; it does very high physical damage and actually decent (45) stance damage). Anyway, this was a fun run. Glad you at least got to see the power of Burn, O Flame! against Malenia even if it was on NG+, without the Fire Scorpion Charm and without the Giant's Seal or the Incantation boosting talisman(s).

16:46 Tulok, your theory is insane, but also, kinda fire

The insistence on using ritual shield while spending 1% of the time at full health is legendary. A man of the people.

I think outside of any other discussions about spell viability, one of the most simple explanations for why they’re good is that they’re pretty much the most damage you can do with ranged attacks outside of a very specific set of Ashes of War Like yeah Siluria’s Woe does insane damage but what if you wanted to run Ordovis’ Greatsword and needed a ranged option? Giantsflame, Take Thee babey! If you have the stats to at the very least take a single ranged incantation or sorcery in addition to a pure melee setup, you’ll be golden!

The neat thing about spells is that, generally, they don't ask you to get really close to your enemies. I will readily admit that very few are worthwhile as a primary damage source. However, plenty are good to great in the "it's kind of hard to get close to the boss right now" role. And another neat thing about spells, the ones that tend to be best in the supplementary damage role are generally the mid range beginner and intermediate spells rather than any of the big flashy ones that spell enjoyers like to rave about. Glintstone Pebble and to a lesser extent Magic Glintblade are unironically some of the best spells for this roll since they don't really ask much from you other than having a bit of mind, and plenty of great weapons already ask for a bit of INT or FAI.

Idk why I’m fixating on the spells thing but I guess I’ll comment on it since I have yet to do so. Others have probably said this but as far as I can tell spells aren’t really meant to replace weapons, they just give you more combat options than you would have without them. Long range spells like frenzied burst and Loretta’s great bow can delete enemies from a distance, aoe spells help with groups of enemies, medium range projectiles like night comet and ancient death rancor can be used to punish attacks where you can’t be close to the enemy. You can also use spells for status or to deal a type of damage that your weapon doesn’t have. So like, when I say that spells are good I don’t mean that they’re better at killing things than weapons are in every situation, I mean that being able to cast spells is pretty much always better than not being able to if you have the levels for it.

Thank god this came out while I was at work so I can google on my work computer 👍

Absolutely nailed the Irish pronunciation of the spells as an Irish man myself I approve this message

Awesome run. I did a Kain Highwind cosplay run with the same weapon and ash of war (ended up in Maleketh's armor, for the dark colors and beak). Super fun run in itself

relatively new here, but love the channel think I've managed to watch every Elden Ring video you have so far! The quality is brilliant, the jokes on point and content is great. Love every vid. An idea that I would find very useful would be a quick run through some of your set up routes, i.e pickle farms, grave and ghost glovewart routes, somber routes, smithing routes, things like that. I love using all part of the game (spirit ashes) and most guides just show end game when all the bell bearings are available.

By far the best commentary over any run ever. Easily subscribed

Love your vids super excited for the dlc!

Love it! Great idea and build

If Messmer ends up turning into a Serpent, I wonder if the Serpent-Hunter's gimmick will activate for that fight as well.

i don't think i've come across a youtuber/streamer that appeals to all my pop (and other) culture enjoyment with their references and tastes since i first started watching northernlion. huge fan.

I make the grafted scion jump off the cliff to its death every time, turns out if you hang out at the top of the ladder for a few seconds he teleports back up there with you and then jumps to his death immediately. Kinda useless but very fun

glad you included the snake shield. Def the one thing I see Messmer builds lacking. good stuff

Dude I just love this channel

Don’t know if you’ve done this already, I had a look and couldn’t find it. Would love to see a Carian Knight build. The sword has a unique moveset, the armour, shield and sword all look awesome, the ash of war hits like a small truck, and you can get the weapons before any boss, so it could be a secret starting class.

With one of my chars, I also use a lot of bloodflame weapon in guardian swordspear, merely for the drip, to match the other arcane red-flame weapons she uses as well (from Eleonora Poleblade to Moghwyn Spear), and it's worth it just because of that.

Nice video i love the ng plus videos

Talking Heads needle drop! And my favorite Talking Heads!

I heard that Burn, O Flame against Malenia can really... Messm-her up. At least you found some use for spells/incantations on this run.

I just did a full playthrough with the Bloodhound's Fang and all the faith weapon buffs and bloodflame blade absolutely KILLS on that thing. bleed proc in two hits on basic enemies. I might do that with the Vulgar Militia saw as well now cuz that buildup would be insane.

I can’t wait for the dlc runs.

Liked for the Yaakov Smirnoff reference.

This is gonna be a lot of fun to come back to in four to five months

5:18, and that's where I lost it. That's the joke that kills me. My sense of humor is silly

It seems the lands between are about to be, messmerized

I'm so happy it's not another reaction video! This is fun.

I'm so hyped for the dlc, but I have to do like 13 more runs to prep. Great video as usual (I might steal the build, sorry)

I agree with the sick guy the sword of st Trina joke was hilarious

Messmers spear kinda reminds me of the one you get from the curse rotted great wood

You could’ve used vykes war spear because the aow is a jumping attack that leaves fire on the ground

If I remember right from my playthrough with the Guardian Swordspear (which isn't great memory; it was one of my early playthroughs 18 months ago), it has deceptively low Poise damage for some reason. In my opinion, that is why you weren't getting the stance breaks you expected. Great weapon, but weird in several ways, and I think it takes longer to get used to than other weapons.

Messm-her? I hardly know here

I subscribed for the great content.. I stayed for the “look it up on your work computer” 😅

i think vykes war speak matches perfectly for messmers spear even the ash of war is a jump of flames

I'm definitely gonna come back in June to see how accurate this build was to mesmer

Finally my favorite weapon gets its own video :3

Damn that ODB reference was fire 🔥

I know PvP isn't for you, but Burn O Flame is really fricking deadly in PvP! Eespecially if you do it in a tight corridor, where there isn't enough space for the pillars to spread out, so they just clump together and fill the whole corridor! :D Also, I've said it before, but those are some very nice RU-vid stats. 44% subscribed is way more than most RU-vidrs have!

28:35 gotta love build bleed-up

Truly a Messmerizing video

For the perfect drip you should have put on the rotten Gladiator greaves

regarding the radahn kill requirement - i assume it’s for lore reasons since radahn’s death was rumored to be a pretty important pillar for miquella’s plan. can’t wait to get to june to find out tho!!

Wow very early! Love your vids man!

Time to impale all the lands between! and it make sense to start on a NG+ run, the man is basically a boss equal to all the (currently very ded) demigods

Instead of looking up Elemer and Messmer, I'm watching this on my work computer. Not sure how many builds you're working on, but maybe a Tulok's Favorites Build? Like it uses the Blasphemous Blade with Night Comet just in case, have Tiche as your Spirit Ash and...not sure for armor. Maybe make it a NG+ run to cut out farming too? It'll likely just be a Blasphemous Blade NG+ run, but nothing wrong with a simple and clean run.

Did you consider vikes spear considering its flame smash which is nearly identical to storm assault and is astethically more similar? was there a problem with getting the spear or

Okay but why messmer kinda...

If the knockoff is this good, I can't wait for you to fight the real thing.

"I'll get the next one" was so funny

what about vykes war spear? would that work with the jump attack and also do fire

You're incorrect about Bloodflame. It stacks, it does not refresh. If you'd used something like Spinning Weapon, you'd stack like 300 bleed buildup every cast. If you did that with a base bleed weapon with bloodflame applied, it's more like 450 or so (for some reason spinning weapon hits apply lower bleed value but not bloodflame blade bleed bleed)

Call Phil a hypnotist cause this is Messmerizing

I've actually recently completed a run where using Bloodflame Blade was the primary driver and I 100% agree with the assessment of it. My weapon of choice for this run was a Cross Naginata. I started on Blood Tax but that didn't work at all. Sword Dance saved the entire run, pretty much. I was aware of the faith-only scaling bug for weapon buffs (and heals) so the seal of choice was Godslayer. Levelling up two common weapons was not fun, tho BfB REALLY is only worth it if you already have a bleeding weapon and the timing grace so that you can back off when needed is the real advantage. A bit unfortunate that it pays for this with lesser damage values compared to Lighting and Holy buffs. It also ends up being unfortunate that Occult scaling locks you out of buffing. That IS understandable, but it would open some nice possibilities. You get SOME easier bleeding and a bit of extra fire damage but... I dunno if there are many weapons BETTER than the Cross Naginata for this, maybe the Scavenger's Sword? If fire and bleed is what you're looking for, Mohgwyn's Spear and Eleonora's Poleblade just kind of dominate that entire space. From different angles too so you have options even Did end up having some nice surprises, tho: Played a bit with this game's Avelyn and using THAT and the BFB for bleeding was fun. Also just picked up the Moon Crossbow and it was more handy to have than I initially expected? That is a solid ranged option, turns out While having a Keen weapon and BfB'ing it will just kinda never be as good as just making it a flame art weapon instead (something that I think speaks a lot to how underwhelming the weapon buff spells are in this game) having the flexibility of always carrying the three buffs was SUPER fun. Farum Azula, in particular, saw a lot of switching back and forth depending on the specific section I wish Bloodflame Claw was good. I tried but it just can't I find it a bit wild that they never patched the scaling for weapon buffs. With how flexible the ash of war and whetblade system is in Elden Ring, having their scaling broken just ultimately makes them a poor option kind of always? Even with that flexibility angle, if you want that, it's easy enough to grab and equip a Golden Epitaph for those situations. They have their fun but you know you're always handicapping yourself by counting on them

Lore theory time: TP = Toilet Paper What is toilet paper used for? Shit! Teleports are shit! (Love the Lothric fight so they really just are when the boss teleports away)

vykes war spear is probably the better choice for a great spear in a messmer build tbh since it’s got- -jump attack -isn’t golden -flame aoe perfection!

Do you somewhere have an easy overview of the builds in each tier?

Like you said bfb is pretty good on a weapon with inate bleed I used it with bhf and mimic and I first tried malenia on my first play through got insanely lucky as I got a bleed proc when she went for ducky dance and she never tried it again even in phase 2

26:15 best comparison of all time

Mesmer the (hardly know her) impailer (hardly know her).

Video aside, I'm super excited to get his spear and armor in the DLC. I hope the AOW on his spear is the ground stab into the fire spears coming out of the ground!

I like Giantsflame Take Thee cuz its a big fireball that does overkill damage, especially with the right seal. It's just super funny to oneshot people with a miniature nuclear bomb

The appeal behind spells is that they make the screen go funny colours ❤

i literally played this build on the day the DLC trailer came out lol

This is the most jank-detective shit ever, and I love it. Thanks for all the great videos, Phil! Algorithm!

I will comment my praises for you and this channel until I make it into a video and then continue to do so because these videos are amazing

Tulok, whens the incantations tier list coming?

Please make one of these three: Green Goblin, Mr. Negative, Venom/Carnage. Would be a really cool build if you could pull it off

i’ve been doing a playthrough without spirit or npc summons, was all fun and games until i got to the godskin duo. i did beat them tho.

@9:00 On the other hand, the Dragon Cum Seal has much better scaling than the giant's seal, so you're probably not losing too much.

I think vyke's great spear wouldve been better since it has fire damage and a jumping skill. great vid tho

The Burn o Flameee line got me 😂. Also, yeah spells in FromSoft games are kinda weird. For general use, the best spells are almost always the cheapest ones that you usually get at the start of the game like Glintstone pebble and catch flame. The bigger more expensive spells only show their full power when under the effect of all the buffs in the game or against specific enemy types. I love spells, but Strength builds are definitely the power house in most of the FromSoft games.

20:29 you look good asf in a flannel

Spells are good because they look really cool 👍

I’m curious what Gideon will give us for finding miquilla, he gave us spells for all the other unfound Demi gods

The new raya lucarian guy isnt a royal, its the guy in the inverted statue

You should try a god slayer spell build with the godslayer greatsword

I have a feeling that Messmer is Merikas first born, hidden from history after she used him to come to God hood in the Shadow Lands (similar to Hella in MCU)

The purple butterfly spell is a St Trina's spell bc it makes enemy sleep

i do wonder if ive appeared in one of these subcription reminders but then i remember i never comment

I've been using the Swordspear in my current run. I'm pretty sure they gave it shit stance pressure because of its fast moveset. I have to use the stance tear to get breaks

2:20 Let me know when you start draGOONING. I’ll come along for the draGOONING. 😅

Suprised you didnt use the frenzy spear due to the jump & fite on the ash

If you didn't know, JRR Martin took a lot of inspiration from Celtic mythology to Elden Ring's lore.

that's my king that's my goat

I want to see more Mangos on the channel. Tulok is amazing, and mangos taste great, if only he could incorporate that into the ads or something

Just saying this here so i can say i called it if it does turn out to be true but i have a feeling that messmers mother he speaks of in the trailer is St. Trina

Do a Drizzt Do’urden from the d&d books