On the Raw Meat Dumplings: The Mimic Tear can use them infinitely and is unaffected by the poison drawback. Have fun watching your Mimic solo bosses! Again.
I noticed the mimic has a tendency to use all the dumpings all at once right after each other. Like I walked into a battle summoned it and the first thing it did was use all three dumplings I’d given it. I don’t know how to fix it, but perhaps have like, bone darts so that the mimic doesn’t just have the dumplings to choose from.
get into boss arena -- summon mimic tear -- mimic starts to enjoy meatalls for lunch -- mimic pops a pickled fowlfoot while you get decimated -- you die, mimic leaves in satisfaction of the meal
on the matter of the Pickled Turtle Neck: the description of it used to mention how it "Boosts Virility" so it is cannon that turtles are the Viagra of the Lands Between
Call me weird, but out of those boluses the purple ones look like they could taste the best. Like some strange, soft berry-flavored candy. Probably way too artifical, but at least better than those moldy looking green or pink ones. Also better than some of those meats that look like you couldn't be too sure about wether they were really dried correctly or just left in some damp basement for 3 months. But those boiled crabs/ prawns and exalted flesh are all straight S tier in my books. They look actually f'ing tasty. That's already reason enough for me to chuck one of them those rare times I remember consumables to be a thing....I always forget about them when traveling, despite hoarding them because "they might come in handy some time."
If Alexander gives you exalted flesh, isn't that the human meat he extracted from his jar? Edit: Okay the item description disproves that but it's still a little suspicious that it comes from a jar filled with human corpses and it would be a whole lot more convenient for Alexander to just pull it out of himself to give it to you.
@@samdam1618 are the warrior jars specifically humans they stuff in them, or is it any combatant they find a worthy foe, beyond the scope of solely humans?
@@samdam1618 if I was in lands between I'd be less picky, and in real life if I was starving I might well eat dog meat, but I don't think it's going to get bad enough for me that I have to go through the convoluted process of trying to extract the meat safely from a dog and prepare it and cook it cos I really don't know what I'm doing, especially with things that unfamiliar, I feel like it would be easier and less deleterious to just breach the law to acquire alternative, prepared food, in such a scenario. Heck, if I'm absolutely in Elden Ring, you know, die and die again FromSofting, eventually I'd become a cannibal, maybe, if I had the stomach after all those deaths. But, if I was a crazed zealot warrior who stuffs enemy corpses inside himself, I'd stick a dog with a ghost sword there. Or a caelid bird after it just kicked my butt. Maybe even Radahn, I think Alexander probably stuffed some of him in there. Tree Sentinel? They have horses, high quality horses too I reckon. Course there's every chance in those jars it's just Rotten Slimes, Wormfaces, Hands, Pumpkin Heads, Cleanrot Knights, Sanguine Nobles, Vyke, Mercury Phalanx Slimes and their big steel balls, and Snailkes. Kind of a potluck I guess! Reach your hand in, Oop, Rotten Slime, in I go.
Raw Meat Dumplings have unironically saved my ass a few times when I've run out of flasks during Co Op or a particularly long dungeon. They also are great while helping someone as a summon since your flask total gets cut in half, but your supply of dumplings stays the same. They also heal for a surprising amount as well, and if you keep a handful of poison boluses in your back pocket (and you'll likely have a few by late game since poison gets phased out) they are basically the Elden Ring equivalent to the DS2 Estus, i.e. terrible to slam down mid fight if you have aggro but great to choke down between fights or in an emergency while you don't have aggro and then chasing it down with a poison bolus. Yes my Tarnished probably want to kill me irl but hey, they didn't die because of it!
If you're out of combat then use warming stones/regeneration talismans or equipment. Use the dumplings in extreme situations or with the exultation talisman
@@proto-type3201 sitting around waiting for Regen is slow as shit especially when you're co-oping with a host who doesn't want to sit back, plus warming stones also cost FP.
My main theory is that moss in the lands between rapidly adapt to sources of illness or otherwise injuries and soothe said affects, prompting those suffering from the conflictions to consume them and spread their seeds through defecation
@@midouban628 no, moss is plants. I could paste bits from the Wikipedia but it'd be less cumbersome than just linking it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss
Boiled Prawn/Crab should be S tier, it's literally 15/20% damage reduction and that's amazing in a game where everything hits like a truck. The duration is only 60 sec, so they'd probably see a bit more use if their effects lasted longer. Still good though if you can upkeep the effect or against particularly tough enemies/bosses.
The effect lasts an entire 60 seconds, you can hold 99 of them at a time, and use them for no additional cost. Im surprised they haven't been nerfed yet tbh
How stackable is the buff again? I never used any items, save for crimson boluses in the lake of old spaghetti sauce. That and golden feet for extra runes from bosses.
Too bad the percentage based damage reduction after BB feels like it does anywhere between “fuck” and “all” in terms of survivability. 20% extra damage feels like it does infinitely more than 20% defense, I never even notice when my crab wears off.
Boiled Prawn and Boiled Crab is incredibly useful because of how available they are and because physical damage is the most common damage type in the game. These items have saved me more times than I can remember, particularly in Ng+ and it stacks with most if not all damage buffs. Plus Boiled Prawn/ Crab pairs extremely well with low equip load builds since damage absorption scales multiplicatively
13:15 The Raw Meat Dumplings are pretty huge if you decide to have them in your inventory whilst using the Mimic Tear since the Mimic Tear can eat them to recover HP and it cannot be poisoned.
My dream collab is you and Dark Tark, I can imagine the script going as such: You try to explain the mechanics and intricacies of the game in a sarcastic manner and Dark Tark continues to meme and talk about his bang Dung Eater cutscene
I recently did a Guy Fieri run, food/cooking related weapons/spells and consumables only (fire spells and “forked” weapons, devourers sceptre and butchering knife and food consumables) Lionel’s armour also kinda looks like a black shirt with flames so I rocked that too Not only is it doable, but also kinda good and The Lands Between were successfully annexed into the Flavourtown Empire
Yeh about the boluses: you can actually see ingredients used for them in crafting menu as all of them are craftable (as well as all "food" items) and although different mosses are used in them, medicinal herbs and animal parts are mixed in for different results. For example Thawfrost Boluses are made of cave moss, herba and crab eggs (which is an elden ring version of caviar by its description: "A nutritious foodstuff that warms from within. The flavor is exquisite. Only those of comfort and means know the truth: a crab's eggs are more delectable than its meat."). Also some of them you can buy infinite amount from twin maiden after getting the bell bearing.
So looking at the recipes for these things... Boluses: All of them combine cave moss with some type of herba and some extra ingredient. Considering moss barely has any taste and the herba looks pretty neutral, I'm assuming most of the taste comes from that third ingredient. For the neutralizing, this is the great dragonfly head. Indonesia actually has dragonflies fried in oil as a delicacy, so that's seems edible I suppose. The preserving has the sacramental bud, which probably tastes like copper and wood. Pass. As the cave moss has crystals in it, so that depends on how glintstone tastes. The stanching uses land octopus ovaries. I do like seafood, but the tidbit that the ovary has human blood coursing through it kind of turns me off. The thawfrost has crab eggs instead. Caviar is pretty good, actually. I'd try it. The stimulating uses the slumbering egg, which is an owl egg that will never hatch. This feels like it could be good. Hopefully the egg isn't fertilized. The clarifying uses Eyes of Yelough. My brother in christ, that "grape" is a human eyeball. The rejuvenating uses desiccated golden centipedes. Cronchy.
My problem with the cured meat consumables (and kinda all other items that increase your resistance to certain status buildups) is that they only make the bar longer (which then has to tick down to zero by the amount you added, because that is fun). Yeah sure it will take longer for the status to proc on you, but you will also wait longer for it to go down again unless you clear it with something else. It would feel so much more useful if instead it would simply reduce the actual buildup you recieve (like, idk, you become RESISTANT to that status or something) and maybe make it go down faster as well.
As a Jamaican chicken feet is actually a beloved food item you throw in soup as one of the meat items like goat and etc. It’s more of a community peasant soup that you cook for family and freinds during a big party. Once you properly boil the chicken feet the skin and the small amount of meat get soft enough that you can easily suck it off the bone…..I’m not sure the elden ring chicken feet is boiled at all though so I have no idea if those chicken feet will taste as good as irl chicken feet lol.
It specifies "pickled", and specifically pickled in either a gold or silver solution. Last I checked, you don't normally boil something, then pickle it, but I could always be way off base. That said, the description also mentions that you "scrape the meat" off of it, so I imagine it, indeed, was not boiled.
As a Chinese person, chicken feet can be cooked a lot of ways and all of them are delicious. Yeah it’s a little annoying to pick off but if done well you’ll end up eating like 10 anyway
@@vengefulpianist257 Chinese here as well, can confirm, it's a delicacy. I remember eating it a few times as a kid before and thinking just how bland and skinny it was xD
People sleep on the raw meat dumplings, but they'll help in a pinch. This game has so few options for restoring health outside flasks and miracles, those things are basically your Divine Blessings for this game. If 14-15 heals aren't enough, they can pull you through.
Don’t remind of of DB, now I miss them. The ultra-rare Hail Mary heal… I miss those legendary moments in the forest where a fight would be down to the wire and someone would use one and turn the tides. Good times.
Hors D'oeuvre: Preserving Boluses Soup: ??? Fish Dish: Boiled Crab Meat Dish: Exalted Flesh Main Course: Dragon Heart Salad: ??? Dessert: ??? Drink: Crystal Tear There, my Elden Ring inspired Full Course Menu (with blank spots I couldn't figure out). If you are one of the 12 people allowed to understand this reference congratulations and goodbye.
I actually made good use of a raw meat dumpling once. I was out of crimson flasks, so I ate one of them, followed immediately by a immunizing bolus. Worked like a charm.
Both varieties of boiled shellfish in the game looking incredibly delicious and sound incredibly delicious in their item descriptions and I don't even like shellfish. This game may actually get me to consider trying it.
13:23 I don't know, I only use them to reward Torrent for helping me Survive an Over World Monster by out running them or Out Leap a Death Fall or, on a Rare Occasion, we Defeat a Boss together. My Boy needs his Rewards for being A Fascinating Steed.
Ever since I did Boggart's quest on my first run crab has never left my hotbar. A close second favourite would be the Preserving Bolus. It genuinely irks me that friends I play with completely beeline items for their build and ignore crafting entirely only to ask me for one when an invader decides to shoot some poop arrows at them. Pickled Turtle and Exalted Flesh I sprinkle in when I have an abundance of mats in the lategame. I definitely slept on the status resist meats since I thought meats were only for elemental damage until watching this. I'd use the latter type on some bosses if I didn't have the stats for the corresponding miracles or was lacking the +2 talisman for the damage type. I'll definitely be wolfing down some in heavy bleed/rot areas and PvP after seeing this though.
The speckled hardtear with the cured meats and high immunity armor with talismans is a great way to navigate the lake of rot without ripping your hair out. Since the speckled tear instantly removes any status buildup, it vastly improves the efficacy of the meats
Have you ranked the different ruins yet? Like the above ground stone brick structure thingies that usually have a basement with loot and/or a boss fight and/or an NPC
Eating food items to buff right before big enemies is probably the one reason I always seem to have an easier time on the big enemies than most people, despite me not being especially good at the game. Always popping a Rune Arc, boiled crab (or prawn before crab is available) and the most appropriate dried liver tends to make things a lot easier.
Bird feet are pretty much inedible. Maybe pickling them could soften them up enough, but then you're also eating the equivalent of shoe soles dipped in a nice white wine vinegar. Fun fact though: they don't actually taste bad, and are perfect for hearty stocks. They have so much gelatin in them that you could probably turn it into jello if you kept it on the heat long enough.
Rusty: "I'd say the Rejuvinating Boluses are D tier. They're good against wormfaces, but everything else that inflicts deathblight is easy pickings." Fromsoft dev who worked on Scorpion River Catacombs: "...and I took that personally."
The pickled turtle neck is high S tier because it is considered a stamina regen buff and is stackable with every other buff (except greenburst crystal tear) so you can have other stuff in your physick to max buffs
The boluses are just those puffed cereals. Trix right? The one with the rabbit? Anyways, I always max out my crab and prawn supply, and drop some whenever I get summoned or invade.
8:00 I live in Utah, and around here you are considered weird for not liking ranch with your pizza. I was the weird kid that didn't dip his pizza in ranch.
4:30 I was eating dinner and honestly surprised I didn't either spay it all over my monitor or inhale it when that hit as I tried my damnedest to suppress laughter.
I'm actually so happy somebody is talking about the food crafting. The food can help alot and make some bosses a cake walk, and make up for your weaknesses if you've got low resistances on your build.
When my Grampa was little he came home from school one day to an empty house and as the growing boy that he was, found himself peckish. So he found himself a box of raisins and ate the whole thing, and I’m not talking about those little boxes that fit in your palm, I’m talking the BIG boxes. By the time his folks got home he was sicker than a dog and ever since then he’d never eaten a raisin again, but for some strange reason we’d always find those little boxes in his pantry.
I absolutely love raw meat dumplings. They're rare, so I almost never use them, but I never fight the Elden Beast without chowing down on some of that sweet, sweet salmonella. The poison doesn't even matter by then because anything less than Stage 4 Scarlet Rot does less damage than the final boss. And even if you don't need the extra health, it's just nice to reward yourself with a savory snack after winning such a tough fight.
@@semi-useful5178 Yes and no. You get them the first time you kill each jar, but it's a one-time deal. That, and Edgar's meat shack, are the only places I've managed to find this tender goodness.
Raw meat Dumplings are as stated by this comment section very useful as a backup heal if you have the means to cure the poison/counter it. But people don’t realize that it’s massive downside is that you don’t get enough to make it a practical choice as that, still semi useful as a NPC summon backup heal but it’s not that practical.
I actually got more use from the raw meat dumpling than almost anything else. Neutralizing boluses are cheap and easy to craft, and using the two together is basically a free health flask draught
I figure Cave Moss turns the colour as the thing you're combatting with it because it's easy for the player to remember. BUT in-universe justification is this in my mind. Cave Moss is highly resilient plant that can grow anywhere. When it is faced with a hostile environment, it adapts quickly to combat it and mutates. Boluses are created by exposing the moss to the hostile effect, they take the status-causing substances into them (changing colors) and then create their supernatural mutation defenses against them. Thus, a bolus enriched with a yellow ember of frenzy resists the pull of the outer god and when you ingest it you get the same kind of defenses. Thus, the bolus isn't the microdose of Rot that acts as a vaccine. Instead you basically put a vaccine into the moss and it creates an appropriate microbial defense for you. Instead of your immune system fighting rot on its own, it teams up with the luttle moss protectors.
Striking while the Iron is Ice Cold here, but they should have rolled death blight and destined death into one status. Give destined death a status bar, increase the reduction of max hp to 1/2 and give it a DoT that is around what standard poison is.
Ik it's weird but I discover3d you like 1 month ago and I can't stop rewatching your ranking videos, your voice and you not giving a shit makes my day repeatedly
I've always thought that eating Boluses is kinda like eating something that is both soft and crunchy at the same time (i dunno how to explain it), but with different added things based on what Bolus you eat. So like, if you eat a Stanching Bolus, then when you bite it, it gushes out a bunch of liquid, probably blood or something, while Thawfrost Boluses are completely solid and are like Captian Crunch cereal
I physically had to go to target and buy some beef jerky before watching this video because the cured meats remind me so much of beef jerky, which is a comfort food for me. Don't even get me started on the boiled prawn, it looks SO delicious.
I would disagree with the placement of the Raw Meat Dumpling. Although it poisons you, it also recovers health. If you're also packing Neutralizing Boluses or any spell/incantation that cures poison, this is essentially a mini-flask with a couple of extra steps.
I'm like 90% certain the Raw meat dumpling is made from rotted human flesh . Seeing as the only thing that drops them is the jars, filled with human bodies and well, sludge. So now they are S tear consumables!
reminder that you get raw meat dumplings from living jars, and the living jars are full of decomposing body parts and innards, so yeah, probably not a good idea to eat them
I love how everyone out here defending the utility of Raw Meat Dumpling, but not one mention of the fact it’s made of human meat. S-tier for cannibal dumplings.
Hey, don't diss the fowl foot. Not sure about other places, but, here in the philippines, eatigg the feet of chicken or ducks is very common. There aint much meat on them, but what's there is tasty. Also, the way I use the golden fowl foot in game personally is just at the very end of a boss fight right after dealing the final blow so that the boss gives me a bigger payout. Reminds me of quick swapping the Tseldora armor in ds2
gameplay wise, I do think raw meat dumpling deserve some respect because it can act as an backup heal. Poison suck early game but you can make it less bad with the Crimson Spill Tear (regen) In the end game, it become more relevant since Poison wouldnt hurt that bad with 40+ vigor, and cuz Im suck at the game and 10 Red Flask somehow isnt enough for me lmao But yep, I wont be stuffing that thing in my mouth in real life
Counterpoint on raw meat dumplings: 50% max health healed for the low low cost of eating a green bolus or casting flame cleanse me. It's basically 3 extra flasks if slightly slower to execute.
I'm just happy to see the home boi crab mans crab at A tier. God rest his soul, cause Dung Eater sure didn't. Seriously, how could you kill a man that makes crab so good?
