Ranking All 101 Elden Ring Incantations From Worst To Best... 

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Eviscerating Gideon by staring longingly into his eyes makes inescapable Frenzy a personal favorite, even if it is completely useless in 99% of the rest of the game

Honestly, Rusty should do these in reverse so we get to hear him get progressively more pissed as stuff gets worse. His insults are a gem.

List of all incantations with timestamps 101: Vyke's Dragon Bolt 1:31 100: Inescapable Frenzy 3:13 99: Immutable Shield 4:18 98: Cure Poison 5:10 97: Assassins Approach 5:46 96: Order Healing 6:29 95: Elden Stars 7:16 94: Lord's Aid 8:02 93: Order's Blade 8:32 92: Litany of Proper Death 9:09 91: Gurranq's Beast Claw 9:53 90: Fire's Deadly Sin 10:32 89: Surge, O Flame 10:58 88: Law of Causality 11:39 87: Poison Mist 12:28 86: Urgent Heal 13:05 85: Black Flame's Protection 13:38 84: Blood Flame Talon 14:15 83: Black Flame Blade 14:58 82: Rejection 15:35 81: Poison Armament 16:14 80: Darkness 14:46 79: Bestial Constitution 17:34 78: Shadow Bait 17:58 77: Lightning Fortification 18:31 76: Lightning Strike 19:06 75: Magic Fortification 19:46 74: Protection Of The Erdtree 20:24 73: Flame Fortification 21:06 72: Whirl, O Flame! 21:37 71: Scarlet Aeonia 22:05 70: AoTC: Breath 22:51 69: Lord's Heal 23:28 68: Beast Claw 23:59 67: Erdtree Heal 24:38 66: Flame of The Fell God 24:43 65: Law of Regression 25:31 64: Noble Pressence 26:19 63: Ekzyke's Decay 26:54 62: Blessing of The Erdtree 27:11 61: Bloodflame Blade 27:39 60: AoTC: Horns 28:15 59: Borealis's Mist 28:49 58: Flame Of Frenzy 29:28 57: Bestial Sling 30:07 56: Divine Fortification 30:44 55: Howl of Shabriri 31:14 54: Black Flame Ritual 31:21 53: Flame, Protect Me 32:06 52: Ancient Dragons' Lightning Spear 32:32 51: Heal 33:23 50: Dragonbolt Blessing 33:48 49: Lansseax's Glaive 34:34 48: Frozen Lightning Spear 35:22 47: Bloodboon 35:54 46: Bestial Vitality 36:30 45: Dragonice 37:17 44: Electrify Armament 37:56 43: AoTC: Tail 38:33 42: Dragonfire 39:16 41: Flame, Cleanse Me 39:53 40: Flame Sling 40:28 39: Swarm of Flies 40:41 38: Flame, Grant Me Strength 41:21 37: Glintstone Breath 42:07 36: Magma Breath 42:51 35: Fortissax's Lightning Spear 43:37 34: Theodrix's Magma 44:22 33: Smarag's Glintstone Breath 44:57 32: Great Heal 45:43 31: Scouring Black Flame 46:10 30: Golden Vow 46:48 29: Death Lightning 47:39 28: Rotten Breath 48:24 27: Agheel's Flame 49:09 26: Radagon's Rings of Light 49:40 25: Golden Lightning Fortification 50:25 24: Barrier Of Gold 51:07 23: Giantsflame Take Thee 52:03 22: Triple Rings of Light 52:42 21: Lord's Divine Fortification 53:26 20: Discus of Light 54:19 19: Placidusax's Ruin 55:03 18: Honed Bolt 55:56 17: Flame, Fall Upon Them 56:37 16: Dragonmaw 57:32 15: Wrath of Gold 58:02 14: Frenzied Burst 58:36 13: Dragonclaw 59:16 12: Black Flame 59:50 11: Greyoll's Roar 1:00:05 10: Unendureble Frenzy 1:00:50 9: Lightning Spear 1:01:33 8: Blessing's Boon 1:02:21 7: Stone of Gurranq 1:03:11 6: Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike 1:03:49 5: Blackblade 1:04:29 4: O, Flame! 1:05:15 3: Pest Threads 1:05:52 2: Catch Flame 1:06:46 1: Burn, O Flame 1:07:41

The fact you can't use vykes Dragonbolt on vykes spear pisses me off

each video is just another step towards “ranking every elden ring weapon from worst to best” video and i love it.

All they really have to do to buff Vyke’s Dragonbolt in my opinion is change it to bump you down a weight threshold. If Iron Flesh could force us to fatroll regardless of carry weight, it should be possible for Vyke’s Dragonbolt to adjust our effective weight as well.

The Crucible Incantations are pretty damn great stagger/stance breaking tools which is fitting for the Crucible Knights...and let's be honest they're mostly for the style anyway. Summoning horns to gore your enemy, slapping them across the face with a dragon's tail, or walking towards them menacingly as you belch flame in their face are all just satisfyingly brutal and stylish...also they're just plain fun.

A good thing about scarlet aoenias rot is that in addition to taking off a third of a bosses hp is how FAST it happens because it deals it across 90 seconds. Unless you're already doing an insane amount of damage to kill the boss in less than a minute and a half, it basically makes it so that you're fighting a boss with 30% less health. Plus, with how often bosses decide to do 30-second combos, it keeps the pressure up while you can focus on dodging.

I honestly love how good Catch Flame is. Combustion was my favorite pyromancy in DS1, and it feels so good to see it still pulling its weight

57:33 Expected dragonmaw to be at least in top 10 considering how much it’s carried you in the Randomizer run. Especially since they give you ridiculous hyper armor

It's funny how FromSoftware makes big beautiful spells and incantations that LOOK powerful and are visually stunning but awful in terms of damage or DPS but at the same time make a spell or incantaion that looks awful or unimpressive but is able to slay gods. Catch Flame has no business being as broken as it is when Giants Flame Take thee is practically a mini nuke.

PRO TIP: Fire resets the Frost proc

I know this may sound cheesy, but I genuinely appreciate the content you put out with all of my being. You somehow make it seem like you're both done with creating content as a whole yet making masterpieces at the same time. These long videos give me something to watch while just chilling or having it in the background. Even going back to some of your older videos that I've watched an unhealthy amount of times entertains me like I watched it fir the first time. Thank you Rusty for sacrificing your time and sanity to make content. Edit: Hi again, just here to say a few things. First off, thank you for 2k likes. Almost a record honestly. Secondly, to all of the people agreeing with me, I do enjoy seeing others' appreciation. Lastly, to all of the people calling me cheesy, haters gonna hate (jk, I still appreciate the interaction)

I will say Erdtree Heal is broken on your mimic. The mimic has infinite fp, so if you’re a melee build and set Erdtree Heal as your only incant, it’ll use it to become literally unkillable. It’s fun watching late-endgame bosses helplessly flailing their arms at something that literally won’t die.

When the game just came out me and my friend where playing together (his first souls) I went GS&shield+faith, him pure glass sorcery. We were never a huge fan of invaders, so we kept spells around to make them suffer. Me tossing lightning spears, rot dragon breath and barricade shield (back when it was broken) and him tossing rocks and the glintblades. Most invaders either got stuck attacking me, or took rot when chasing my friend. This changed when i found elden stars as it made people panic and run in circles miles away letting my friend snipe with Loretta's greatbow or giving me time to set up a nasty rot breath. I'm not saying elden stars is good, but man watching people run in circles in panic for the first month while rocks, magic arrows and literal artillery cannon spell rained down was amazing and i will never forget it.

A lot of spells look really cool, but swords don't run out of ammo.

The ranking of mob NPCs is gonna be legendary

You don't actually need to kill Malenia to get Lord's Divine Fortification. It and Black Flame's Protection both go to the twin hag's shop in the roundtable after killing Gideon, no matter what bosses you've killed prior.

Nah man I have a exam tomorrow

I would honestly rate Bloodflame Blade a bit higher for another reason that isn’t mentioned. As he already mentioned, it’s good with something with already high bleed build up, but the thing about the buff is that it leaves a Black Flame like effect where the flames persist for a few more seconds. Which in practice means the blood loss gauge will fill up after the initial hit for a few seconds after. Meaning it’s very good at keeping bleed up even if your offense is interrupted, and can lead to funny moments where the opponent just randomly explodes with blood everywhere after a few seconds of not even being hit. When it all comes together, this means it not only buffs blood loss while adding a little bit of fire damage, but the debuff after a hit means that it will also be able to keep that bleeding pressure up to prevent losing progress if your offense is interrupted, which also just means more regular blood loss all together either way. Because even if your offense is not interrupted, that periodic blood loss is still happening in cooperation with the blood loss inflicted by your weapon hits. So it essentially is double layering methods of inflicting blood loss. Oh, and did I mention that short debuff can stack with multiple hits unlike Black Flame?

Vyke's Dragonbolt is not only bad, but disappointing. A red lighting buff to your weapon seems like a super cool idea, but much like the Dragon Greatclaw, it does not deliver. I don't understand why they had to make it worse than regular electrify armament in almost every way but add the most situational body buff ever on top of it.

Flame of the fell God is amazing against Malenia. If you're an incant user who struggles to get any projectile to land it's the one that hits consistently since she dodges the initial cast but not the explosion.

Law of Causality is actually very easy to make work by running the beastman jar shield. It has 95% physical resistance so you can just take tiny chip damage through your shield to trigger the explosion. Of course its usually better to just use a different spell for damage but if you're looking to use it for some flavor then it's not like you can't get it to pull its weight. You were in fact using the wrong catalyst for Lansseax's Glaive as the Gravel Stone Seal has such terrible incant scaling compared to the rest that its passive bonus actually doesn't make it outperform just using the Dragon Communion, Erdtree, or Golden Order seals instead. The only screen time that seal should be seeing is when you carry it in the other hand to buff the incants you cast with your seal that actually pulls it's fuckin weight.

Thank you for putting the number ranking and picture in the corner of the screen. I wanted to get all of them, and I have about 60% of the incantations at this time, so that allowed me to skip passed ones I had already which made this video much shorter. Also your commentary is really hilarious. Subbed

Fun fact: holy damage doesn't Perma kill those who love in death. If a spell or effect or weapon has terminology like "sacred" or "holy" THEN it Perma kills them. I tested this with the elder beast's wave of gold and sacred blade. Sacred blade Perma kills(and insta kills if your weapon is strong enough) while wave of gold does a bunch of damage, but the skellies still get back up if you don't wack them fast enough

Flame Cleanse me is an absolute staple in every build I do. That 12 faith is an easy ask, and 10 for the base seal makes it a constant utility for me on every single character.

Informative and entertaining, my dude! I’m heading into ng+ after my first run through and you have opened my eyes to the glories of incantations! Can’t wait to slot some faith and see how it goes!

I'm watching your videos in prep for the DLC and I just wanted to say that I love the Spyro soundtracks playing in the background of your vids!

Bloodflame has the pretty nice effect that the bleed still builds up a little bit after you hit your enemy bridging some downtime inbetween hits. This makes bleed build up much easier. It get's outclassed by arcane builds and bleed weapons, but if you have a physical build with a weapon that builds up bleed, you can spend a few points into faith (or just hotswap a talisman) and get a pretty strong combo. For example if you combine it with bloodhound fang.

I will give some credit to Erdtree Healing in that’s it’s great for full caster builds. My last playthrough was a full caster with 80 Int, 80 Faith, 60 Vigor, and no Crimson Flasks only Cerulean. This means that my only source of healing was incantations. Which also means that if I’m super low on health, Erdtree Healing will get me all the way back to the top in a pinch. Otherwise Great Heal was my go to

Quite the talent you have here mate. An hour long video about ranking sorceries that I'm excited to watch! That's genius! You're a genius!!!!

First video I've watched from you, very informative, long time souls fan. Just now playing my first play through of elden ring, and you gained a new subscriber

The thing about Inescapable Frenzy is that its damage relies on the Crit of the weapon in your main hand. So having something like the Misericode in your main hand will greatly boost your damage. The biggest issue with Inescapable Frenzy is that it is NOT boosted by the Frenzied Flame Seal boost.

Correction on Firestorm: it goes all the way back to Demon's Souls, where it actually was a very powerful spell for both PvE and PvP. So really, Burn O' Flame is a return to form for the Firestorm type spells.

This video is much appreciated, Can tell it took a while too! Doing a Str / Fai build currently and its a bit harder than spamming sorceries with an int build.. you have my sub good sir.

Thank you for adding the spyro music in the background! That brought back a lot of great memories!!

Rusty you are genuinely one of my favorite youtubers, you're really funny and your voice is amazing, and your personality of not giving a shit always makes me laugh. I absolutely love your content.

I really like incantations in Elden Ring. I never really did a mixed magic build in any of the other Soulsborne games, and I didn't start with it in Elden Ring either. But incantations are just so varied and there's catalysts for basically every build, _not_ using them after you do use them for a while feels... naked. There's just so many varied uses of them and they add so much to shore up the weaknesses of melee builds that playing the game as a magic knight of some flavor feels like the intended experience.

This video is so informative and hilarious! Love the little comments for each spell man!

Firestorm was also there in Demon Souls and it was a BEAST. Combining it with Clever Rat’s ring, Morion blade and 30%HP melted just about everything in sight.

Something cool with vyke's would be automatically taking you down a roll level rather than just increasing equip load, so youd drop from a heavy equip to medium, or medium to light, and itd actually justify the incredible stat requirements while also making it more useful on heavy builds

55:39 first ever recorded case of the final part of placidusax's ruin hitting

In two videos you've become my favorite Elden Souls person. The honesty, the comedy, and cut throat straight to the point and yet some fucking how still telling a story is rare gold. Bravo, man.

What armor set are you wearing and where did you find it?

Black Flame Ritual has to be my favorite for sheer style points. It combos into literally everything, including itself. You can cast it uncharged, then charged, then uncharged again until you fall down, and nothing without enough poise to ignore Malenia's kick can break through and get you. It also loops nicely with the other area spells, as well as straight damage like fireballs or frisbees.

Eardtree heal is extremely good for magic/faith only builds because you can just dip the red estus and learn how to time this heal in about an hour.

something to note about a few of these incantations 1. a lot of two finger incantaions are just really good for hteir efficiency and solo play, sure i may find a better fortification later, but i don't need that if i'm not buffing everyone around me/not summoning. 2. lightning spells are the only damage type in the game that doesn't have an attribute that increases lightning resistance, and can even hit harder if an enemy is wet (and this include being soaked in rot or poison YEAH HAVE FUN WITH THAT NOTE BOYS N GIRLS), also like i say earlier, dex faith is probably better for lightning anyway....and dex increases cast time which come to think about it the lightning spells all have LONG cast times...huh.. 3. Black Flame Blade is a short cast spell like catch flame and beastial sling, meaning you can cast it faster after any attack/movement animation (rolling, backstepping, jumping, or sprinting), it prioritizing fast/multi hit weapons, take a spear with repeating strike and that %burn adds up. (and obviously all black flame spells stay good because of the %burn) 4. Whirl, O Flame.. do you have turtles? do you have the leyndell/Haligtree knights or anything that hides behind a shield? WHIRL FLAME IGNORES SHIELDS! on top of the tracking affect and distance it's you can use it as a combo tool to force someone into an attack they don't want (same advice for Flame of Fell God) 5. all AOTC incantations are HYPERARMOR MONSTERS! sure the fire damage isn't as good as dragonfire/blackflame/giantsflame. but it's still fire, a damage type that's very versatile through the entire game and easily buffable. slap on crucible armor and you're gunna have a good time tanking stuff with this AND the other crucible spells (and slap on other erdtree spells, they are all *Technically* in the same school with the armor) 6. Beast Incantations, same with two finger incations (like the fortify spells), these are honestly for just strength boys, physical damage that scales off strength better than faith, either slash, pierce, or blunt damage, quick to cast and more range....yeah pair this with your favorite bonk stick and you have a good time being a feral tank. oh and alot of these spells are multi hit with several projectiles...and what do we do when we have a spell that does that? that's right boys and girls, we make giant monsters cry. 7. Erdtree heal, GHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEH CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH HEALING IF YOU BUILD FOR IT BUDY BOIIIIIII 8. Flame of The Fell God... god i love that spell and i like WHEN we get the spell, Prophets in my experience, especially playing as one, play this dance with their spells and simple weapons where most of the damage is from...the spells duh, while the weapon is meant to keep people away... THIS SPELL, does 2 things at once: 1. it forces a player to run or dodge, letting you have a better chance of landing a hit. if they run you can bully them with spell fire, if they charge well they just put themselves between you and THE FUCKING SUN... also against pve this thing is a good aoe stagger to ambush enemies, and the fire patch burns more than you think. it's just a good aoe spell, work around it, don't try to let it do the work (SAME GOES WITH ELDEN STARS....even though that damage sucks ye) 9. Ekzykes/rot dragon breathe. doesn't matter how bad they nerf that it's an ARCANE scaling spell that applies rot these two spells are going to stay where they are in the power chartes of PVE and PVP just because of how Rot damages things, all the nerfs do is lean people more into Arcane Faith, not Faith Arcane if you know what i mean. 10. bloodflame blade, repeating strikes... no seriously that's it, get a multi hit weapon and watch this thing fucking people, specially if that weapon already applies bleed...oh and THIS type of bleed is actually worse in PVP...because you can't dodge the bleed proc on it. 11. Borealist Mist/frostbreath, FROSTBITE DEBUFF GO WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 12. flame o Frenzy, deceptively high damage for when you pick this up, decent aoe spell for early game too with the other one being lightning damage...and not usable indoors... >:C, also multiple projectiles, make anything the size of a trailer car cry 13. frenzy Howl, while i don't like the talisman effects this thing applies, the bonus damage and putting this on a tank build with a greatshield/spear setup is the funniest meme in existence because of HOW counter damage is done in this game, also the defense debuff is easily countered by greatshield talisman 14. Black Flame Ritual, lightning storms FoTFG, Elden STars, and Firestorm, anything that makes a lot of death around you for a few seconds after casting... good against big monsters OR just to give yourself a breather to heal/buff 15. blessing/anything bigger than heal, lords fortifications and Golden Vow all rely on two things: are you cooping? and are you using the dragon lord talisman? if so? use them, if not? well keep using Golden Vow because what does that NOT stack with? 16. buff armamnent spells....feel more like they're for spellblades than casters if you get what i mean by those titles, like if im a pure int, faith, infaith build that focusing on my casting stick than my weapon? it's better i just infuse my weapon to open a spellslot to hit stuff...but if i'm a strength/dex/qaul build? that added damage might be nice i dunno 17. breath spells in general now get a buff from the roar medallion...as if dragon breath spells NEEDED that but hey i still they it should've done that from the start. 18. Red Lightning spears are tricky to use, but here's tip i reminded myself from the DS3 days...remember Lightning Stake? YEAH USE IT LIKE THAT, these ain't Crowd killin tools, not better than Glaive or other incants for that anyway no these are the spells you use to FUCKING DUMPSTER A STRENGTH BUILD IN A TRADE AND COME OUT ON TOP 19. Giantsflame Take Thee.... "BY FIRE BE PURGED". ima tell you how hard this hits at 80 faith and beyond...this is hitting so hard for me...that i took off Black Flame, yeah, i took off black flame. sure 30 fp kinda hurts but i have 38 Mind, and if i REALLY need to cast something cheaper i slotted O Flame and Flame Fall Upon Them (the multi fireball one, both spells are 16 fp and they hit like MONSTERS)...also fun note, nearly all of the FireMonk/Giants Flame spells can be charged, if you're not using Godfrey Icon you're a damn fool. 20. speaking of, 69 faith is the point where Erdtree Seal outscales every other seal in the game, but holding the right seal in your other hand will still apply it's damage boost to the spell even when casted with the erdtree seal... so yeah no hit people with THE POWER OF GOD! 21. placudisax ruin, you notice how that explosion starts immediately when casting? did you know that does damage? yeah now you know how to use this in pvp, shotgun people with it while midair it's hilarious. 22. Honed Bolt, Lightning Wave, and Lightning Spear can actually send a bolt THROUGH enemies from above (LS if charges fully)...which means if you use it on water.... 23. Dragonmaw/claw, remember how i said Crusible spells have ALOT of hyperarmor? yeah these are the HYPERARMOR KINGS!

For #2, Catch Flame, you can chain it with Magma Breath upon landing the former from a jump, canceling the animation and just going straight to the damaging part of the latter.

26:00 when you talk about law of regression being somewhat lackluster, Rusty, I think it shines more in PVP when you’re dealing with an opponent that had an anime protagonist monologue in front of you and you want to give them a slap across the face. You noted it deactivates enemy buffs, it does the same against players. I maybe would’ve given it a bit higher on the list, but the rest you’ve stated is well said. Much love

Whirl o flame saddens me. When I see it, I remember the absolute broken poise breaker that was DS2 fire whip

I have to disagree with The Flame of Frenzy. I loved this spell in my first playthrough and still do. If you can hit all or at least most of it's projectiles the poise and fire damage are both very high, while not consuming a whole lot of fp, which makes it very efficient. It's best used against clumps of small enemies or even single large mobs, since almost all projectiles can easily find a target in these situations. The madness buildup can mostly be ignored, you'll just have to switch to another spell after a few casts, so it can't be used standalone very well. Still The Flame of Frenzy is one of the, if not the most underrated incantation in my opinion and i can only recommend at least giving it a serious try. Note: It also confuses enemies with input reading and is generally hard to dodge if aimed correctly, which can be a bonus in certain fights.

I appreciate The Spyro 3 music in some sections, because I love that game and adore that soundtrack.

40:20 Seriously? Flame, Cleanse Me is ridiculously useful in Caelid in general, as well as whenever you're up against any tough enemy (or group of enemies) or bosses that inflict Rot status. This is especially important in the Haligtree. The fact that it also cures Poison is a nice bonus, too, so you can have one spell for those situations too. And since you can easily get it early on (when you won't have any boluses for Rot), combined with how easy it is to get the Faith Talisman too, it becomes a really handy tool for curing Rot when you're running around the map in the early game, where you have little healing and no other way to cure Rot (looking at you, Abandoned Cave where you can get the Gold Scarab Talisman).

A small note on the black blade incantation. Its max health debuff can stack with the weapon arts of the black knife and malikeths black blade.

The assassin's approach incantation is good for mitigating fall damage which can be useful occasionally. It's one of the few incantations I ever found myself actually using because most builds streamline you into just a few damage incantations at a time. I'd rate it higher cuz it never left my slots

Great vid, I'm just playing through Elden Ring now and this was helpful. Also, it is a little funny that Rusty (maybe) doesn't know the super broke-ass history of Firestorm in Demon's Souls. You can one-shot the final boss. I had no idea the spell was back to it's former glory in Elden Ring.

Just a heads up, you can still use Poison Mist to cheese the Tree Sentinel. You just have to hug the wall really tight. I just did it today 5/28/23.

Hell yes I’m bored at work and just rewatched the tips for all incantations and then saw this. Let’s go

There aren't many Int/Faith hybrid stat requiring spells in this game... but I do like how most of them are both good and/or fun to use. Pretty much all of the Golden Order offensive spells completely EXCELL at at least one thing, half of the Death spells are quite good in PvE and PvP if you know how to use them, and the Magma Sorceries are just fun, even if they're not the most practical.

what are those robes you use in the video?

Lord's Fortification could probably be bumped up a few slots since you can buy it from the Maiden Husks after killing Gideon, regardless of whether you've suffered through the Malenia sanity check or not. You don't get it for Fire Giant or Godskin (who don't do Holy damage anyway...) or Maliketh (who's squishy enough, hits hard enough and has Blasphemous Claw exist that it probably won't matter), but you do have it for RadaBeast which is the major place it'd matter anyway.

Order's Blade also has a huge damage bonus against undead. And by undead I mean Death Rite Birds. Stack with Last Rites to trivialize them completely. I think Elden Stars might do a little stance damage which would prevent them from recovering stance at all. I think.

I just wanna say this video gave me a strange sense of nostalgia with the Spyro 2 soundtrack playing in the background, and i love it

Respect for all the effort of testing and analyzing :) Law of causality though, is a very good pvp spell. Getting a shield with 95 % block helps to get the blast off, but even without that it forces your opponent to either refrain from combo's or keep counting their own hits. The best your opponent can do is getting greatsword hits in (which are easily dodged) or throw some knives aggressively to try and proc the blast from a distance, which means.. you are given the initiative for aggression and you might as well try to let the blast go off in his face anyways. Damage is always around 300 - 500, which is pretty nice. Summary: law of causality - underrated spell that does actually quite well.

I think that one incantation that relieves deathblight build up is top tier

It's nice to see discus of light so high up, it is such an underrated incantation

Surge O Flame, awesome for co-op. Invaders have an intense fear of getting stunned and it definitely helps keep the pressure on.

Well, this has convinced me to give the Crucible and Frenzy incantations another shot. And Disqus of Light **any** shot (I was under the impression it was as worthless as it was in DS3). That said, Black Flame Blade is still one of my favorite incantations, ever since I started using it kinda like an inverted status effect. Since black flame is so quick to cast, only requires one touch to apply, and refreshes on hit instead of stacking, it works fantastically with long range weapons (regardless of their speed). And like you acknowledged, percent-based damage makes it work great for low-level runners. And as long as you can hit at least twice, it's more FP-efficient than regular Black Flame. After I managed to melt a gargoyle at fairly low-level with a BFB-enchanced whip (seven seconds was still enough for three hits per cast, while still being able to dodge), I started thinking buffing its duration would prolly make it overpowered.

I really like this and the sorcery tier lists, they give me previews for what they look like, how they work, and if they're effective. All things I want to know before choosing what goes best with my characters. One thing I would like to request (although I know it's a lot of work) is ranking the Ashes of War. I saw there was a tips video for them, but not a ranking yet (unless I missed it).

‘Flame fall upon them’ is such a great incantation because of its low FP cost and characteristics. It hits harder than Fireball, costs slightly more, and has a massive AoE. The only thing this should do better is if the projectiles lasted longer so you could carpet bomb enemies like the name suggests.

Armor set name ? Please 🙏

To anyone who may watch this video for build planning: Black Flame Blade, as i've come to learn it, is meant to be paired with ashes of war moreso than with normal attack inputs, one example being Stormcaller. This AoW with its 2 follow ups has the exact same duration as one cast of black flame blade, whilst engulfing you in crazy hyper armored wind that pretty much stunlocks every enemy up to the size of say, omen enemies. You can even slap it Rotten Insignia and Prosthesis for that crazy build up damage. Just an example, tho.

13:26 just incase y’all didn’t know, I love urgent heal because it’s quick, way more convenient than a flask, overtime heal, or a large FP incant heal. The seal you use for your incantation heals make a difference. Erd tree seal with urget heal heals about a 3rd of a max HP flask. Definitely a great spell for a back up heal due to the low FP cost, speed, and the amount from it. It really shines if you use the talisman that raises defense or attack when Hp is full.

For Black Flame Ritual, try casting an uncharged one right after casting a charged one; it both fills a lot of the charged version's empty space and looks pretty cool. I don't think it will do 2 HP debuffs but I'm pretty sure anything fat enough to get hit by both rings will take the fire damage of both at least.

I was following Nizar ggs dragon incantation build video and I realized I was struggling a bit with the upgraded versions of the dragon incantations and they felt pretty bad to use, I didn’t realize they were nerfed into the ground. I’m going to continue using dragon incantations but I’ll switch to the regular versions, I prefer how they feel way more.

Theres also the sacred blade AoW from the scarab near the Mixed Physick flask which does the same as Orders Blade with the bonus of a holy beam at the start to bounce people back

The named dragon infants are able to be used while jumping, making them much safer and unpredictable when used. The fp trade off varies on person to person, but I think it’s worth it.

To answer your question on Erdtree Heal: Your spirit ashes. Your spirit ashes need that much healing.

I run a melee setup but i always keep that bestial vitality and discus of light on me because its so good for dungeons to snipe the ambush goblin things and bestial vitality really carries its weight. I think its worth it to get those no matter what your build is because it works everywhere

13:04 You can still kill the draconic tree sentinel with poison mist if you move slowly and crouched. I did it on stream a few days ago.

Inescapable Frenzy's only defense is that using it to kill Gideon while he tries to finish his monologue is funny.

Heck yeah, waited for this one, what an effort to make this! 👏just one tiny thing: you don't have to kill Malenia to get Lord's Divine Fortification, you can buy it in Roundtable Hold after killing Maliketh.

Never donated to a YT channel before but yeah. Awesome stuff!

A bunch of these I used in my int/faith builds and they worked pretty nicely. The golden order seal is no joke

Seeing erdtree heal below the normal heal is wild

2:09 Vyke's Dragonbolt 3:13 Inescapable Frenzy 4:19 Immutable Shield 5:09 Cure Poison 5:47 Assassin's Approach 6:28 Order Healing 7:16 Elden Stars 8:00 Lord's Aid 8:32 Order's Blade 9:08 Litany of Proper No12 9:53 Gurranq's Beast Claw 10:33 Fire's Deadly Sin 11:00 Surge, O Flame 11:40 Law of Causality 12:28 Poison Mist 13:03 Urgent Heal 13:37 Black Flame's Protection 14:15 Bloodflame Talons 15:04 Black Flame Blade 15:37 Rejection 16:15 Poison Armament 16:46 Darkness 19:04 Lightning Strike 19:43 Magic Fortification 20:24 Protection of the Erdtree 21:04 Flame Fortification 21:38 Whirl, O Flame 22:05 Scarlet Aeonia 22:52 AotC: Breath 23:28 Lord's Heal 24:00 Beast Claw 24:38 Erdtree Heal 24:43 HERE COMES THE SUN 25:31 Law of Regression 26:19 Noble Presence 26:55 Ekzyke's Decay 27:15 Blessing of the Erdtree 27:40 Bloodflame Blade 28:15 AotC: Horns 28:50 Borealis's Mist 29:29 The Flame of Frenzy 30:08 Bestial Sling 30:46 Divine Fortification 31:16 Hown of Shabriri 31:21 Black Flame Ritual 32:06 Flame, Protect Me 32:32 Ancient Dragon's Lightning Spear 33:22 Heal 33:48 Dragonbolt Blessing 34:35 Lanseax's Glaive 35:22 Frozen Lightning Spear 35:53 Bloodboon 36:30 Bestial Vitaliy 37:18 Dragonice 37:58 Elecrify Armament 38:33 AotC: Tail 39:18 Dragonfire 39:53 Flame, Cleanse Me 40:28 Fire Sling 40:41 Swarm of Flies 41:21 Flame, Grant Me Strength 42:08 Glintstone Breath 42:52 Magma Breath 43:38 Fortissax's Lightning Spear 44:22 Theodorix's Magma 44:58 Smarag's Glintstone Breath 45:42 Great Heal 46:11 Scouring Black Flame 46:48 Golden Vow 47:40 Death Lightning 48:25 Rotten Breath 49:09 Agheel's Flame 49:41 Radagon's Ring of Light 50:25 Golden Lightning Fortification 51:11 Barrier of Gold 52:03 Giantsflame Take Thee 52:43 Triple Rings of Light 53:27 Lord's Divine Fortification 54:22 Discus of Light 55:02 Placidusax's Ruin 56:01 Honed Bolt 56:38 Flame, Fall Upon Them 57:33 Dragonmaw 58:02 Wrath of Gold 58:37 Frenzied Burst 59:17 Dragonclaw 59:50 Black Flame 1:00:03 Greyoll's Roar 1:00:50 Unendurable Frenzy 1:01:34 Lightning Spear 1:02:21 Blessing's Boon 1:03:11 Stone of Gurranq 1:03:50 Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike 1:04:30 Black Blade 1:05:13 O, Flame 1:05:52 Pest Threads 1:06:46 Catch Flame 1:07:41 Burn, O Flame

I always carry Law of Regression just because of the insult value against invaders. I love just calmly standing there while they stack buffs and consumables just for me to flap my arms a bit and wipe them all away.

15:37 REJECTION! “A simple spell, yet unrecoverable for those affected…”

Burn O flame is so much fun against Malenia, cause she always swings her sword above my head, when I dive into the ground and always gets hit and knocked down by the flame as seen in the video. Love that spell also against the crucible knights duo, works perfect on them

It's actually kinda hilarious how high catch flame is, especially because when the game first came out and I did a faith build I was disappointed by my damage and used EXCLUSIVELY catch flame to beat both Margit and Godrick

I watched the first 20 minutes of this video thinking it would be just "background noise". By the end, I was subbed and laughing, good job Rusty!

Subbed and watched the entire video in x1.0 speed. Good commentary, good information, and entertaining. Thank you sir. /salute

This guy feels like if Sam O'Nella made Elden Ring guides. 10/10

I think Fortissax's Lightning Spear is actually pretty fp efficient against anything that isn't Fortissax himself. If a spell consistently does 3k on my level 100 build, 35 fp is warranted. I would personally put it higher on my list, but it could be that catching duel lightning bolts and smiting some dumb black knife assassin who thought that she could grab me out of the air makes me grin. RIP Tiche, respect the bolt.

I've just CAME across your vids and I love your approach to content.

Ngl, my Faith Caster (lvl250) PvP build used Erdtree heal a ton because I could supply myself with the mind points. When you want as much FP as possible but also want to heal yourself for any situation, you can convert all your Crimson Flasks to Cerulean and technically speaking, with high enough faith and mind, you get more healing out of a Cerulean flask and healing than you would a Crimson flask, several times over

Bloodflame Blade is an interesting one. It has ridiculous synergy with claws and fists because of how fast they hit, but other weapons get mid to bad results with it.

There's another reason why Discus of Light is so much better than Way of White Corona actually, and that's because it doesn't expire upon hitting a wall! Instead, it just acts as if it's reached the end of its range and zooms back to you, which makes it actually worth using indoors or around objects, or just at all. The damage buff and FP efficiency is also pretty great.

the way you talked about vykes dragonbolt made me felt personally attacked after I used it entirely for the endgame in my first playthrough