the hard cut at 14:25 where you go from near the Siofra Golden Seed at perfect health to arriving at the base of the Caelid-side Siofra Well with three giant dwelling arrows sticking out of you is such incredibly subtle and also hilarious storytelling
Playtime is essential for understanding the fundementals, and the game is so open you can grab almost anything at level 1 with just knowledge alone. Natural invasions are also a good way to develop some understanding of PvP as you level and try differant brackets and setups to see what suits you best.
My big thing with build making is I know all the shortcuts to jump up to Altus super quick. But I also know entering Altus causes a lot of triggers to get fired for various NPCs, and I don't want to miss the quests for weapons, armors, talismans, or gestures.
I go to altus early everytime, I didn't notice anything that's actually missable. Early encounters with Blaidd and Alexander give common items anyway. Their quests still progress all the same. The priest guy leaves the hold but warns you before doing so, he won't leave until you talk to him. The only downside like someone mentioned is the red hot whetblade which requires you to kill radahn once the festival is open.
Yeah killing Margit and Godrick also triggers several things so I always advance the NPC quests before I move to the next area just to be safe. Once you can advance the NPCs in Liurnia then you're pretty much free other than triggering the Radahn Festival, which isn't a huge deal, the only thing that you'll have to wait for is the Red Hot Whetblade, then there's the Ruins Greatsword and Flamberge, but it's really not a huge deal unless you need that Wherblade for your build. You can just clear out Castle Redmane after defeating Radahn. To me it's worth triggering the festival going up to Altus Plateau and Mt. Gelmir so I can get all those Golden Seeds, Sacred Tears, Weapons, Ashes of War, Merchants, and Smithing Stones, etc. Max Flasks at +10 and a more upgraded weapon is better than that whetblade at first unless you're a Faith Build then you might want to consider clearing Redmane Castle before resting in Altus, you can go there without triggering anything, you just can't rest at a grace.
@@HadalStreetlights honestly, I just kill the guy out on MT Gelmir because he's way too annoying to run out to every time I need more explosive bolts. This way I can just refuel at the Roundtable.
@@josephcola9662 damn bro im sorry you dont like ADVENTURE i love taking walks through the lands between. especially while being violently assaulted by sane ryan.
Great video. I'm a veteran and there's good advice in here that people who make "OP PVP Build" videos never touch on. The little stuff like having the regen gear, crafting, and the rare crafting mats. I have some other tips for making a new invader build as well. Saint touched on it, but going everywhere possible is best because of how the invasion range works. You can only step foot in an area and then be able to invade there. Grab all the Larval Tears. There's a lot in the eternal cities, particularly nokstella. If you're going through the area, might as well get them. Never know when you might want to change your build. Besides just doing the Volcano manor questline, do Patches' one as well. Bull goat armor is ugly, but it is good and it's not one to miss out on. Consumables are your friend. I'd recommend every invader at least have throwing daggers on your item bar. I sometimes use throwing and fan daggers. Throwing is better to finish off at medium to long range, and fan is pretty good close up if all daggers hit. Volcano pots are quite underrated. They're cheap, they do area denial, and you can carry 20. Saint mentioned the ballista and jar cannon, but I want to say that some type of long range weapon is ideal. Cannon/ballista is best, but greatbows aren't bad either. Something you can use to harass and potentially knock people off ledges. I do recommend Carian Retaliation over Golden Parry. The ability to make people pause as they get hit, or force them to roll from the retaliation daggers is very nice. Unless you're a parry god and then Golden Parry is better, though it uses FP each time you press L2 unlike Carian Retaliation.
36:46 Just a warning, if you reach Altus Plateau (Leyndell does not count for some reason), then you trigger the Festival even if you ignored NPC quests, and the Red-Hot Whetblade will be locked behind an unlockable door, until you defeat Radahn.
You can go to Altus Plateau, Mt. Gelmir, and Leyndell and get whatever you might need and not trigger the Radahn Festival, you just can't rest at a Site of Grace.
Great video, two small notes: 1. Finishing Sellen’s QL is always a good idea. If you’re an INT build, there’s some spells, but if you’re any other build, you can side with the other NPC and get an additional ancient dragon smithing stone. Since they’re finite, it’s a decent idea for any builds that aren’t muling. 2. As far as I know, unless you’re the sentimental type or are doing so for RP reasons, it’s always a good idea to murder the vendors. Collecting their bell bearings makes purchasing vital invasion supplies much easier, as you don’t have to travel from location to location (For explosive bolts for instance, you no longer have to scale two massive ladders to retrieve them). Good stuff as always!
You're not wrong but also when it comes to the npc vendors who aren't just merchants you'll get the most out of finishing their quest lines before any murder happens
When I make new builds I spend about 1hr just upgrading my flask. You can get over 10 flasks +9 just by walking around the world. Required for invasions and it makes subsequent game progress much easier
In addition to takers cameo, the serpent god's curved sword has the same effect for health on kill. You can find it up near the giant octopus in the ruin strewn precipice.
This seems like so much extra work compared to 'get a somber weapon, bumrush to Iji before first boss, steamroll game and collect bell bearings along the way'
This seems like so much extra work compared to going straight to killing godskin noble, collecting every somber all the way to +10 and using the zero stam glitch on serpent hunter to 1 shot every boss. Point is that there's not one way to do things
@@Crowned_PvP Guess I should've edited it after all. Here it is, what I would've addended to my first comment had I thought anyone would care enough to reply- EDIT: Though I know you like to test your builds as you level with them and simply going somber the whole way would be meaningless if you wanted to actually do some pvp before getting to max level.
@@kincaidnichols2517 guy replying, to the guy replying, to the guy replying, to the guy replying. i'm right. no i'm right. no here's what you didn't consider. no here's what you didn't consider. no here's what you didn't consider.
A great video for console users or those who dont want to dupe or have items dropped/spawned. I agree that the narural way to invade is the best way to play and build a character. Great video as always Riot, you are truly a Saint. 🙏 Edit: For players looking for a quick way to reach higher levels, a talisman to aid in the leveling process is the Gold Scarab, found in the cave between the Caelid ravine, the boss is duo scarlet knights, easy to beat one on one, just focus one at a time like you would an overleveled phantom then his host. Grab a Gold Pickeled Fowl Foot behind the First Step catacomb down on the shore (There will be a spirit spring so use Torrent) Then go beat the other bosses or farm the fat dragon mama(use bleed) and Nightrider cheese, easy runes, easy game.
It seems like during the time Placidusax was the Elden Lord, death was still very much a part of the world order. Perhaps the Deathbirds were a natural part of that order, not excluded like in Marika’s reign.
One thing I've come to realize is that outside of Shabriris Woe runs, the only starting gift that is worth a shit is the Lands Between Rune. The Golden Seed doesn't matter, the Cracked Pot is just pulled from a Caelid Merchants inventory, the Amber Medallion as well. The rune just gives you a nice 3K to buy all of Kale's important stuff or maybe a broadsword/bow/etc without having to do anything. Maybe it's me but I dont like feeling like I should warp back to Kale just collect his stuff.
The golden seed saves you time going out of your way for another and gives you one extra charge early on, the rune you'll get the same value of just going from one boss to another
@Erik Ghostwood and the crew not a bad point but I end up with 6 charges very soon anyways and the rune just let's me buy all of kales stuff immediately and move on. Convenience
@@KingThor128 very true, I consider one less ulcerated tree spirit I have to fight to be more than worth two trips to the lennes rise ball farm, but this is the first game where there's no objectively best starting gift
34:00 Near this grace, there is Radagon's Soreseal just lying around inside the fort. It's a huge boost (+5 in Vig, End, Str and Dex) that really makes life easier especially if you aim for lower levels. Imho it's also the superior choice over Erdtree's Favour +2 up to ca. Lv.80
Math-wise the soreseal is a net loss in durability if your vigor is 30 or higher, under that there is no downside. The net loss in HP you get from it increases the more vigor you have, so it is up to you how much durability you are willing to sacrifice for some extra stat.
I just finished my first playthrough of this game and found you on Twitch on time to watch you do your black flame build. It was so awesome getting to see you play the game from the beginning and watching how you approached everything. On top of that you're such a talented player and quite frankly hilarious. I learned a lot about the game watching you play and it was amazing seeing you steamroll every boss +body Malenia after just a few tries 😄
For invaders looking to invade all areas when searching far with the invasion item: The way you add an area to your list of areas that character can invade is by revealing the fog on the map, which is not the same as revealing the map through items you pick up. So essentially you have to actually travel to each site of grace you want to be able to invade at, simply having all the map items will not do it. There is however a script you can use in cheat engine, thanks to The Grand Archives (just search for Elden Ring TGA cheat table), which simply adds all the areas you want with one click, and even disables the ones you don't want to invade, like just before boss fogs, dungeons, or open world.
@@prins-henrik1530 I believe you have to enter the legacy dungeon.* (that's what I really meant sry) The way the script does it, it shows each site of grace as one of the invasion areas you can select to unlock. enabling or unlocking the grace is not necessary, you just have to enter the respective multiplayer area that the grace is in.
Basically you have to see the name of the area pop up on screen, but in the open world and legacy dungeons too, there can be more than 1 multiplayer area divisions per named area, so it's best to visit each grace in the place you want to invade.
Whenever I make a low level build I like to grab a good +10 spirit ash in case I end up stuck on a boss, or am fighting a late game duo/gank boss I don't have the damage output for. Doesn't matter how much they cost cuz... bubble tear. Makes my life easier and saves a bit of time. Rollo and Tiche can solo a lot of bosses or at least draw agro enough and do enough damage to be great, and the mimic is just to trivialize godskin fights with it's infinite sleep pots.
Down in Siofra River you can get two of the Ghost Glovewort 1 through 3 then one tier 4 and one tier 5. I typically save the 1-5 for when I get Mimic Tear during the Ranni Quest in Nokron. The other 1-3 I'll usually upgrade Banished Knight Engvall since he's easiest to get and a +3 Engvall will tide you over until you get to Mimic Tear. At the very least I'll save the 4 and 5 for Mimic because you won't come across anymore for quite a while. If you don't like Engvall then Banished Knight Oleg is a great alternative, he's just a bit harder to obtain in the Fringefolk Hero's Grave where you start the game. On a side note, you can also get Somber 5 in Siofra River up top where you get Ghost Glovewort 4 and 5 close to the Dragonkin Solider and Marika's Scarseal.
saint_riot, just came here to say you are a great content creator. Also great taste in video games, gotta love the Tactics franchises. A shame Square Enix is unlikely to make more pertaining to FFT or TO though.
tree sentinel is no joke at the very start. you can get two shot and the fight takes a while (considering you have to do it basically hitless) even with a +1 sword. not worth the time if you aren't really good at the fight. the route i usually take when starting a new character can buy pretty much everything i want from every merchant i find just by picking up rune items as i run around getting upgrade stones. i don't buy much from the first couple merchants, but i loop back around once i have runes (and the dectus medallion)
Its doable on samurai and prophet tbh. Hes not that complicated to get down and those two can put out high dps fast. Personally speakibg id kill him regardless just for the halberd as its decent for early to mid. Just respec for your preferred build once you get to mountaintop
@@MisterPudd recently, athurstyfam showed me the way. the vagabond's square off R2 can carry this fight on a fresh character at plus zero. tree sentinel still hits hard though
@@GhostGirlBlues oh yee that one too and ye he hits hard but hes got long windups and forgiving hit boxes. The only hard attack would be the shield ones cause of the aoe.
Collect "Golden Seeds" / "Sacred Tears" ( Collect Crystal Tears aswell ) in Limgrave and Weeping peninsula, go to "Fort Haight" ( On the way see the merchant nearby and get the "*Cookbook" for the "Exalted Flesh" consumable ) Get the lift medallion and "Bloody Slash" from the Knight. Go to the "Third Church of Marika" get the "Physick", take the teleporter to Caelid. Collect the "Golden seed" head to "Lenne's Rise" make the "Nightrider Cavlry" jump off the cliff, use the spiritspring, collect inventory runes, go to the fort with "Radagon's Soreseal" get it and collect the lift medallion and "Golden Rune (12)", equip a small weapon with the Bloody Slash and kill the half dead Dragon ( You can get a "Gold pickled Foul Foot" from Limgrave on the beach behind "The First Step" site of grace near the "Spiritsprings" ). This takes all of 40 minutes, you'll ended around level 42 to 54 ; You should be collecting upgrade materials as you go ( I'd give locations but they're a bit specific, most merchants sell (1)s and (2)s on the cheap ). If you're going for a Somber weapon you can kill the Knight at "Fort Morne" for a +8 Halberd early on, very good weapon and doesn't really have the need of upgrading.
Nah, the bell bearing hunters have additional criteria to appear. First time I got to the church of vows, I talked to Miriel, passed time and rested twice and the bell bearing hunter still didn't appear.
@@akitas8165 I tried that - pass time, get up, rest, get up - two times on a recent character, and the church of vows Bell bearing hunter still didn't appear.
I've found that just sitting down at the grace doesn't work, I have to warp back to the grace at night. You can just take a couple steps away after passing time to make it night, and warp back to the same grace. What I found interesting here is how easily Saint stomped those guys, the one in Caelid is particularly strong. I've never tried the parry strat, guess it's time to git gud...
@@Eternal-Seven Nope, I just did exactly as you said, warping to the grace at night, and still no bell bearing hunter. I then asked Miriel about Radagon and Rennala, and only after that did he appear. Also, saint was right, it's really easy to get him to chain the shield bash. Walk behind him, give him a poke, dodge the bash, repeat.
If you're good enough to beat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit right off the bat, the stonesword key is probably the best keepsake you can take. That'll net you a golden seed and 15,000 runes straight away, and you can also grab the Erdtree's Favour talisman which all builds can benefit from. You can also make a detour to grab the Dragon Communion seal if your build calls for it, and if you REALLY wanted to you could destroy the chariot for the greatbow, although you'd probably need to start as a class that comes with a bow so you can shoot the explosive jars down.
Saint bruh my guy my main man whats good yooooooooooo so this is an old video but between 18:00 and 19:00 you mention documenting what all you did for the video, you don't happen to still have that document do you? If so could you drop it in a pastebin and link it? The transcript is there but it'd be awesome if you have a straight up doc for it.
I really want to invade in ER, it looks fun as hell, and I had so much fun invading in every other souls game, but I literally can't play online without the game crashing every 5 minutes.
I've got my strength and faith build characters done and I'm working on my int/faith one now. I don't feel like respeccing all the time so Imma just beat the game with a different build 10 times
The first track that's playing is one of the battle themes from Tactics Ogre, specifically the new remaster that just came out. I forget the name of the particular track. The second track that plays in a loop from around 11:00 to 27:00 is Avilla Henya, also from Tactics Ogre.
Saint, what's your opinion on people doing save duping so people always have a generic starter build with items ready to go? Spoiler: I personally prefer working through each one of my builds to feel like I connect with them more - also, I just like playing the game.
I was surprised to see that you did not tell people to kill every vendor at first meeting. Their bell bearings can then be delivered to the maiden husks in roundtable hold. One stop shopping instead of trying to remember what each merchant has for sale. Saves quite a bit of time in the end.
You can't invade/co-op effigy in roundtable so it makes the grind more tedious compared to just dumping all your runes on the merchant between invasions to max out after one trip
You're telling me right now straight faced if I put you in a fight and said "okay you can have a team mate. Would rather have Honky Tonk Man or the Macho Man Randy Savage?" you would pick Honky Tonk Man?
I recently ran into the worst Jar Knight I've ever faced. It sounds silly, but it was a fucking bow-only build that I was fighting at level 60, and it was a fucking nightmare.
I've always been a little skeptical of spirit ash upgrade levels affecting matchmaking. Seems like general consensus is no, but I've never seen conclusive proof
@@anitaremenarova6662 But the problem with trying it out is if I'm wrong, I might lower my ability to matchmake. I have a RL35 faith build I've taken to endgame. Would it be nice to have a +10 Tiche? Sure. But if that makes it tougher to get invasions it's not worth
I think it’s pretty conclusive because people who use +10 summons at low level would get no activity and not one person has reported that happen while many people have used summons it and said it doesn’t matter.
Now can you please make a video about poise and hyper armor? I seriously don't get it. Someone can be naked with any weapon and I lose trades with scythe with gs. I had mad poise with godslayer and couldn't trade with a gs with poise. Then encounter is and have poise and a gs with good hyper armor and I lose the trades and the other dude had no poise. And it feels like no matter what I lose trades. Is it a latency thing? I can't figure it out and it passes me off lol so if you can drop some knowledge I'd appreciate it!
A video that helped me understand poise is this one. The effects do a lot of explaining. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NrX2TFV8Hpw.html
Not specifically about poise/hyper armour, but basically the poise damage of one or two r1's while two-handing any weapon is enough to stagger unless you really stack it-bullgoat talisman with heavy armour. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bFo_XqsTlMg.html As for hyper-armour, I think 2-handed r2's particularly on ultras boost poise where the r1 doesn't... though, actually, anecdotal: i have experienced follow up r1's with an ultra having added poise, even when one-handing... and that's any follow-up; an L1 offhand spear→troll sword R1 let me tank a one-handed R1 from a curved greatsword, for reference I was wearing... perfumer armour, with chainmail greaves, really flimsy shit. I think it might've occurred with other weapons too. this could all be in my head, or some latency thing, so please take with a rock of salt. This video is also good/more in depth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--3ruOwBf5_o.html
@@RealMonkeyDKirby I see, I see... I'm right with you there then: I could also use a breakdown of hyper-armour and winning trades specifically. it's completely opaque to me at the moment.
Something unfortunately telling about the state of er pvp that invaders need an hour long video to maybe have a decent shot against hosts bc the balance of invaders v hosts is so busted (furled finger died? Just summon in 13 hunters back to back instantaneously)
i like watching your videos and imagine making new characters of my own, but out of all the games the PVE combat (delayed attacks and boss combos spam) and lack of a structured world, i cant bring myself to even turn the game on. thousands of hours in the other games, multiple playthrough in 2 even. i was bored of elden ring before i finished the Mountain top. keep thinking ill start a new character and it will be fun this time, then remember its not ds1 or 3.
If you’re invading and not prepared to go to these lengths, just duel brother. Unless you’re some kind of hyper instinct input demon , You’ll just go in unequipped, get whomped, get addicted to copium etc. And miss out on a really unique incomparable style of gameplay
Saint I don't think you've done a lightning build. Please do a lightning build with 64-bit Gwyn's Theme as background music and I will unsubscribe just to resubscribe
I like that this rambling stream of consciousness intended to give a grocery list for invasions builds comes with free schitzo lore crackpot theories. No Saint video is complete without Saint saying something crazy and baseless about the lore.
Probably the worst video you have done yet. "Come out, fight Sentinel" lol. 3200 runes. You want the best start for invasion builds, first thing you do is get as many Golden Seeds and upgrades for it as possible. The Sacred Blade Ash of War early is also great. You can literally get ten Estus flasks/Cerulean Tears and a +7 or +8 flask before you fight a single boss. There is also the early bleed dragon near Fort Faroth, and using a Gold Foot right after you kill it. Use a bleed weapon, Morning Star or Flail that you should have already along with the early talisman you pick up in Fort Faroth. You are literally Rune Level 33 without killing a single boss. After you defeat this boss get 15 Faith and 12 Arcane for using Rotten Breath AKA easy mode for most of the game. Leave about 27K after leveling to go to various merchants that you met along the way, including two in Weeping Penninsula and buy a Lantern from one of them. Trust me. The Limgrave to Caelid transport chests/waygates are also helpful. One is just down the stairs in Dragon Burnt Ruins just east of The First Step grace. The other is just north in a watery area of where you will want to go for the Physick flask. Bro, terrible start to the video.
