Ranking Every Crystal Tear in Elden Ring From Worst To Best 

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Please team cherry release silk song this man is going insane. he is ranking digital energy drinks.

"The last half hour of the game might as well be a boss rush mode against the Vatican." Never have truer words been spoken.

It's a Tear List

All the tears that increase elemental damage are just perfect

twiggy also has the perk of preventing rune piles from disappearing, so if you die and are worried about getting your runes back you get unlimited attempts

the winged crystal tear raises the equip load by 450% if you were wondering

I actually really like the Helicopter Halberd bit

Put the twig and ruptured tear together for a reliable "forfeit and return to Grace" option in case you get locked in with something you aren't equipped to deal with, without losing your runes. This combo is also called "Homeward Boom."

Waiting for the two hours long ranking of every single weapon based on how fashonable they are

He'll never run out of things to rank.

Personally, I like the twiggy tear for when I'm about to do something completely stupid or I've hit a boss that is stonewalling me and I need to get my runes back before moving on to something different.

Oh God he's back and he's ranking crystal tears!

Something to remember about the Twiggy Cracked Tear and Twig Talismans: These items prevent you from taking any penalty from dying besides progress in the area you're in. This means that if you have a massive rune pile on your bloodstain and want to ensure you get that back, you can use this to prevent that specific death from vanishing since it prevents you from dropping new runes acquired on the way to that one cliff you could have sworn the player left message wasn't lying at. This mechanic isn't talked about enough for how useful it can be and it has existed in the souls series forever.

this is truly a Rusty Ranks Crystal Tears from Elden Ring moment

23:22 only applies to a purely Physical attack. If there is elemental damage, it will still pop the bubble.

Twiggy tear is an 'S' for your first playthrough, and still useful in NG+ when you might need a few hundred thousand runes to level up. I pop it immediately on entering every single boss fight, and basically saves you the effort of grinding for runes to level up. It's also useful for platforming sections.

the speckled hard tear is great paired with the cerulean hidden tear on a madness build because the madness resistance and clearing the buildup gives you like 3 more seconds to cast unendurable frenzy

Since you mentioned DLC, I wanna take the chance to say how glad I was to be wrong about Fromsoft's play. I was 100% certain that arena mode (which they figured out with DS3) would be paywalled behind a DLC. Then out of nowhere, boom: "We just wanted time to balance pvp a bit, here's arena mode." Kudos, Fromsoft.

Ahhh yes the very balanced tear that makes a full bull goat armor addict light roll for 3 minutes cant wait

The real reason why Ruptured crystal tears are S Tier is because of their extremely unique effect. No other item in the game let's you turn yourself into a highly mobile time bomb.

“Boss rush against the Vatican” almost had me spit my drink 😂

As someone who’s been playing this game nonstop for a year, it’s been tough to find RU-vid videos still filled with both passion and knowledge. These videos have both, consistently. Great footage, interesting lore behind the gear, and genuinely thought out tier lists will always keep me coming back to your channel

The items rolling on screen when introduced is really satisfying good job editing this

As a pvp efficianado, my favorite flask set-up is the leaden and crimsonwhorl tear combination. There really is no better way to let moonveil users know that you hate them by turning their transient moonlight spam into a light breeze. 10 second duration? They're already dead.

I think the str boosting tear is a bit better than the dex one. Mainly because of the 1.5x multiplier you get to str when two handing. If you know you're going to be two handing your weapon the majority of the time, this tear lets you get away with only leveling up to 44 str, as with the tear it'll go to 54 which when two handing hits the 80 str soft cap. That gives you a ton of extra points you can invest in other stuff like mind or endurance, or hybridize the build with faith or int or arcane.

The intelligence crystal tear sounds kinda interesting at the moment just because when trying to make my way to the perfect order ending I realized it requires using an incantation that costs 37 god damn intelligence to cast. It's not even something that you can fake use like swords where you can still physically swing it even if you don't meet the requirements, you just either have to scrape up enough INT by using tears and talismans or just be a dedicated mage

I love the twiggy tear. If you care about your runes you'll use it. You'll even use it just as you leave the grace even. Lost your runes in a boss battle? Use it before the battle and feel comfortable that you'll basically guarantee the recollection of them. Twiggy S tier, basically the homeward bone of Elden ring

10:39 this paired with the cerulean hidden tear can allow you to keep casting unendurable frenzy for more than 20 seconds without having to worry about getting the maddess proc. Which can be more than enough to stun lock and bring down Malenia in her first phase.

Missed opportunity to call it a "Tear" List.

I got the Crimsonwhorl bubbletear yesterday and also got to the Godskin duo boss a couple of hours later. Now i thought that I was going to be stuck there for hours since I had heard about how hard it was but it surprisingly only took three tries. Flamedrake talisman +2, opaline hardtear, crimsonwhorl bubbletear and pearldrake talisman +1 literally made me heal from almost all if not all of their flame attacks. Got stuck in godskin apostles tornado and came out with more hp than before, strongly recommend 👍

Glad to see another great upload! It genuinely makes me really happy to get the notif for a new upload

You do fantastic comedy jumps. I have no idea if you even do in this specific video, I binged a bunch when I was in that perfect ranking-video kind of mood, but I remember being unwarrantedly amused on multiple occasions of you jumping into or out of the shot.

Grats on 400k, Rusty. Great list as always!

I see you mentioned Flame of the Redmanes for stance damage, so I would like to bring to attention the fact that it was nerfed from 40 stance damage to 10 stance damage.

love these videos duder, you somehow make rankings fun

Greenburst CT is really good, but I'd personally dock it some points because you could always use a Pickled Turtle Neck in its place and free that Tear Slot up for something that can't easily be replicated. Rowa Fruit & Herba are everywhere, & thanks to the 300 turtles that spawn in that one Dungeon in Summonwater Village, these end up being one of the easiest consumables to farm in my experience. The same kinda goes for other consumables like the Dried Liver, Cured Meats, or Invigorating Perfumes, but some of those require much more rare or finite materials so using the Tears is worth the resources saved if you ask me.

I havent changed my Wondrous Physik since I realized the save runes/explode combo was hilarious and actually helpful

Hi dude, I just watched your last episode about the randomizer, and I can't wait to have the next episode. Keep up the good work.

You joke about Twiggy Cracked Tear but the fact that it'll give you extra comfort and effectively protect all those million runes you lost and is now on a tight challenging spot or getting into unfortunate stupid accidents (Especially in Haligtree or Auriza Hero's Grave),All without worrying about dying makes it rather invaluable. It may be niche but its still sure as hell S rank for me purely for that fact i mentioned above.. also super fun to combine with Ruptured Crystal Tear

That had to be the best ad transition I've ever seen. Most on other channels are fairly cringy, but that one actually made me laugh!

As someone that's creating a mohgwyns greatspear build, thank you for the magic shrouding tear.

Stonebarb and spiked crystal tears are what I like to use whenever I play with the meteoric ore blade. Stance broken with nearly every power attack, so unfair.

I’m just getting on the ER train and just beat Goderick the Grafted on my [redacted] try and the stamina regen tear was So helpful😂 I’m hyped to see where the game goes

You know, I kind of hope we get dlc around Mohg, Miquella, and the Formless Mother, just so that that tear can get a bit more use and love

I used twiggy cracked tear almost constantly in the back half of my first playthrough and ended the run at like level 210 or so, a good 40 levels above what's typical, so the benefit over time is worth it. also _great_ to switch to this after dropping a bunch of runes. as long as you can get there in under 3 minutes you have unlimited tries to reach it

THIS WAS A REALLY GOOD VIDEO, thank you

I just got recommended this video, and I really enjoy your editing style. I really enjoy your enthusiasm, which is surprising for me because I only really watch monotone youtubers. Great video, I'll make sure to sub and like :)

He's never going to run out of ideas is he?

I feel like using Winged, Str, Faith, etc talismans to allow you to equip certain weapons or armor effectively is a trap. after that 3 minutes go up, you better have a bonfire next to you or weap back to something weaker, or you're srewed. That really drops their usefulness in my eyes

I 1000% love your tier lists. Please make more. Literally subbed for them, yours are the best made so far, and the only complaint I have is that you don't paste the effect description text with the item you are talking about, cuz u gave literally 6 seconds of talking for some of the items.

Great edit Dylan!

I'm probably one of those poor unfortunate souls that hasn't played Elden Ring yet. But I do like watching others play, including you, and it's making me want to play it. When I do eventually play it, these guides you've made are going to be very beneficial to me when building my characters. So, thank you for the time, effort and attention to detail you make into your videos. Not to mention your sense of humor is just *chef's kiss*. Keep doing what you're doing good sir.

Twiggy getting a C and not an S++ hurt a bit, but other than that this was was great. I’d never even considered the potential of the opaline tear. Also if you’re like me and play the whole game at or below 22 hp the full heal tear is pretty useless, because your still getting one-shot, but I can see it being good for most builds.

Let's go, another ranking video that's gonna make me use up all my larval tears on builds for them, only too continue using the same ones in the end

I couldn't even tell you what your channel does for me, but it does it. I keep coming back like some sort of addict.

Bloodboon ritual does fire damage not magic damage so the flame-shrouding cracked tear would be better

At this point I can't wait for "Oh god, he's ranking every group of birds you can farm for feathers"

These videos have been a nice balance of learning about the game a decent amount within a decent time, and still be entertaining.

Realy usefull video and THANK YOU for saying the names of the items ^^

13:22 Bloodboon Ritual deals fire damage, not magic damage

One might call this a Tear List.

Bubble tear is my favourite. I had it equipped till the end & even in NG+

Saddest part for me is that I only found 40% of every single tear in the course of beating the game (for example I never even knew the Magic shrouding tear was in the game before watching this video) but my go two physick flask all the way to the end of the game was opaline hard tear and stonebarb cracked tear. It just worked so well with my Vergil dual katana + summoned sword build because of the insane amount of staggering that gives crit dmg in bosses. It just works for me

In my second or third character, I literally just didn't care about the physic flask at all so I just straight up had only the base crimson tear until decently late game and remembered "oh hey, I should go kill some trees for tears"

He's doing everything he can not to make another boss ranking video 😭

Rusty your videos keep getting better

Crimson and Crimsonwhorl bubble tears are great for PvP. I ran into someone who used this to great affect and basically became invincible. I remember it was United Combat and we pummelled him with strong incantations and constant AoW’s when his teammate died. It felt like Krillan and Trunks vs Cell when he first transformed.

Sorry honey, cancel the wedding. Rusty uploaded

As a side note, Cerulean Hidden Tear also REMOVES all FP costs outright while it's active. Meaning that, even if you didn't have the FP to cast it before hand, you can cast it while it's active, as if you had enough Max FP to cast it in the first place.

Once I had them both, I used the health Regen and opaline hard tear for pretty much the entire game. Great combo and they've kept me alive many times.

"As blunt as a Baseball bat As indisputable as the FUCKING SUN" This fuckin whole bit. The delivery, the word choice and the whole damn video. Good shit man

The twiggy tear, just like the sacrificial twigs, can be used to prevent the loss of runes already on the ground. It's niche but it's a nice failsafe against losing a big pile of souls stuck in a rough spot.

Nice vid. At some point in the game, i just got tired of buffs and scrolling items. This flask was rarely used. Maybe it's time to pick it up.

Thanks for an excellent Crystal Tier Tear Ranking.

So fun fact, for the longest time, I was running Crimsonburst Tear and Opaline Bubbletear together for my Flask. Get that bonus healing, which sometimes could be life saving, while also having that damage barrier. It was a huge help for many fights. However, that strategy kinda, collapsed because of the hardest boss for me in my main playthrough (which is in NG+ now, and steadily approaching said boss again), Maliketh. Mostly because my strategy with the flask would be to have the health regening as I run away, and hopefully thr Bubble to soak a hit. But, for some reason (not sure if it’s coded or not), that one flask (Not the Crimson or Cerulean, ONLY MY WONDROUS) would immediately draw his ire, and even if he was mid-combo dealing with my Summon and I was hiding halfway across the map, he would stop, AND CHARGE ME. So the INSTANT the bubble was up, and my health regen began, I couldn’t even dodge because of those few frames at the end of the flask animation before I was on my back, lost 1/4 my health, and my bubble was already gone. And if I was REALLT unlucky, he’d then skewer me on the spot and I was dead. I swapped Crimson Burst for Crimson Bubble around attempt 25 of that fight, and while it didn’t SEEM to help much (the Opaline bubble still seemed to immediately aggravate the doggo), after a few attempts, I realized how much further I was getting into the fight. Going from maybe getting to hit him 1-5 times in his second phase, to managing 7-15. When my summon survived Phase 1 with more than 50% health, it was easily double those hits. And by attempts 45+, Inwas getting Triple (21-30 hits being on worse attempts where I got distracted, and 40-45 hits being my hetter attempts). The one attempt I won, which was somewhere in the 50s or 60s (I lost exact count cuz of attempting that fight for over 5hours) tooks around 50 hits. And that’s only because I said “Screw it” and began spamming the Spiral spell and Pebble while BARELY managing my stamina enough to dodge and RUN. Which was helped for having Opaline when I had a bad timing and needed that soaked hit, and the Crimson Bubble for when his hit got me low right at the end of a combo and into those few seconds I had to chug a Crimson Flask.

I use Opaline Bubbletear + Crimson bubbletear and then cast unendurable frenzy, usually in PVP the enemy gets maybe 1 or 2 attacks in which usually isn't enough to destroy my poise but is enough to make the enemy not being able to do anything. On PVE (or in PVP if you manage to get the enemy staggered before he gets a hit on you), you can just keep shooting this thing for a ridiculous amount of time, since the first fill of the madness meter just breaks the invulnerability allowing you to use the spell twice as long, doesn't matter how much you suck at PVP if you can get this going.

stonebarb is actually pretty funny if you use a fist weapon,use craglable or something that help with break stance too.using a defense build with the ironjar aromatic,the fist with stonebarb is really fun to use as you can punch your dear friends (ennemies) and just look at them try to stop you but you just punch and punch and end up breaking their poise after just two to three light hits and they just don't understand what happened.also,i'm trying to make a build with the ruptured tears that combine with law of causality,and nightmaiden mist (that actually triggers the law of causality) and maybe something else like the golden jump to make a "hey ,i jump on you and boom" build,or something,it's mostly for fun but the maxed casting speed is imperative for it to work,and the timing is super hard to get.i took out radahn just after reaching him on the character with this build and i really couldn't stop laughing

I slept on the spiked cracked tear until I started using Vyke's spear and understood its application as a stance breaker. My god, what a combo.

dude honestly your videos are so freaking hilarious, literally every time I watch one of your videos I about have a cardiac event from laughing so hard

Love the increased editing quality.

25:51 man I loved Mohg’s second phrase

this video was a good idea. thanks.

Another thing about the winged tear is that it doesn't stack with the crucible feather talisman except for making you take even more damage. So, yknow, use that instead probably? I think you're undervaluing the utility that the strength/dex tears give to hybrid builds. When stat points are spread thin, being able to grant significantly more base damage to a keen/heavy weapon before spell-buffing is super valuable. (also when two-handing, the strength-knot tear is an effective +15 - that can be like 50+ extra AR depending on the build) Huge agree on the ruptured tears. They're actually kinda cracked in pvp as well, hilarious against people who don't see it coming and guaranteed to incite panic in people who do.

For a while I used the tear flask like a classic Final Fantasy elixir, using it as a mixed HP/FP pot, which probably works best early game when you haven't gotten alot of golden seeds yet. I've used it far longer than I should've but it's kinda like an ol' reliable.

Great video

Twiggy Tear for me is an A+ for the sole reason that you gain all of its benefits without having to keep it in your physique. Accidently died in a bs location with 200,000 runes? Just swap out one tear from your flask, run to your runes, jump off the nearest cliff, and swap back. There's no harm in dying without your runes if you have the buff, since it prevents them from despawning. It's essentially an infinite use sacrificial twig that you can grab early, and never worry about losing runes ever again.

Having watched every elden ring video back several times, this one may just be your absolute best work. S tier, high S tier

On my last run I ran the magic shrouded tear and the thorny crystal tear with Eochaid’s dancing blade, great run.

Crimson Bubbletear is PvP: The Tear. Absolutely invaluable.

Stonebarb cracked tear is my secret favorite. My sleeper endgame boss wrecking build, especially for radagon, is a big ass weapon (golems halberd is a favorite of mine for this, colossal weapon poise dmg is insane) with cragblade and that tear in my physic. Radagon will stancebreak in like 3 jumping heavies. So fucking fun.

it'd be cool if the purifying tear blocked three instances of statues effects while still "procing" them

Also ruptured tear is a speedrunning tool that if your good at timing is very useful even in places besides getting to the capital early

Wow, what a great *tear* list!

My whole play through I’ve used crimson tear and crimson burst tear together. You get a 50% heal plus regen for 3 minutes on top. This saves the hell out of my flasks.

You should rank all the ruins. And then all the shacks. And the graveyards. And Churches of Marika. And beaches.

this video was both fun and informative to watch- a welcome change from the strangely large cesspool of elden ring content on this site, haha.

16:20 The holy negation is annoying, but, Discus of Light is genuinely such a good spell its worth it having an fp cost of 3 hitting twice and able to be chain cast

19:20 Spiked Cracked Tear stacks. You can stack it with the Axe Talisman. Then you can War Cry/Barbaric Roar to make your Heavy Attack even stronger along with the attack boost to physical damage by 7.5% and +5 to strength. That also stacks with the Roar Medallion. Which added all together gives a 26% to Charge Attacks. Which then encourages staggers and then when that happens don't go for a Crit it's not worth the damage. Go for another Charge Heavy and watched them just melt. Killed Margit in 3 swings early game with the Greataxe no shackle because of how easy it is to get War Cry, Axe Talisman, Roar Medallion, and Spiked Cracked Tear since they're all basically next to each other. So it does in fact stack with Weapon Skills. Just very specifically the Roar Skills. I'm currently about to go up the Lift of Rold and it's been my most easiest playthrough. One shotting everything that's a none boss and 3 shotting every boss or just doing mad damage. Took Mohg out in about 6 swings. It's pretty crazy thinking that the first Greataxe is also the strongest Greataxe. It's basically an entire finished build right there in the early game that will carry you the whole time!

I run the blue dancer talisman and the winged crystal tear is very effective for increasing my damage as it makes the talisman give me a higher damage buff as I'm below 15 equip load