The NEW Ultimate Buff Stacking Guide - Elden Ring 

@@AlphaSeagull is the jellyfish and terra magicka overall or just PVP? Kinda disappointing in the sense that the shield is heavy and takes up a slot until the buff runs out, and Terra Magicka takes time to cast and then it's stationary, especially as a caster where you might want to run out of it to get further from the boss after they approach you. Plus I find it's really easy to NOT be overpowered in the DLC so having things that are maybe a LITTLE overpowered seems like a good compromise as an optional feature for anyone struggling.

Also it seems a little sketchy to "nerf status buildup" when that's one of the only things used in a true arcane build, but I haven't made an arcane status build yet and some of them ARE pretty easy to proc so I can't say for certain. But I don't thing poison for example should take too long to trigger since it's something you kinda need working ASAP so the damage has time to play out. Also if nerfing the cerulean tear still allows one-shot builds if you research, it seems like it's not really a nerf to it being OP and just nerfs regular players trying to save some FP. Like I might use it to add some buffs or summon a spirit but even just a few buffs and a spirit I'll run out of time and still spend a chunk of FP, just kinda makes it more of a chore to decide what's faster/slower and what takes more FP and is worth getting free. Idk though 'cause again I haven't done a magic one shot build. FP is easy enough to come by for me that it's fine if I don't even use the tear but I'm certainly WAY less likely to use on my faith build if it's just 10 seconds, makes other tears seem much more worthwhile.

How does the Sacred Order glitch even work? Like I couldn't reproduce it.

@@Redart15 so Sacred Order (not to be confused with SHARED order) is a weapon buff, and weapon buffs typically ONLY affect the weapon you cast it on, and go away the moment you swap out the weapon. Sacred Order, for some reason, doesn't do the first part. If you cast Sacred Order on one weapon and do something with the other, it'll be affected by Sacred Order. Not just weapons either, everything you can deal damage with. So the idea is that you cast Last Rites (an aura buff that gives +100% undead damage), Sacred Order on left hand (+100% undead damage weapon buff, but affecting everything) and finally Sacred Blade (+100% undead damage weapon buff with an attack) for a total of 8x undead damage.

@@AlphaSeagull Would love to see an updated video with all the new stuff added in the DLC and an updated calculator.

Because the darkmoon was hard to get you noob

@@JS-lx1kr what does that have to do with anything lol

@@SUScorporation you dont know BCS ur a noob and didn't even played ds on release

@@JS-lx1kr damn bro youre right youre so cool im so bad youre so awesome

@@JS-lx1kr wrong channel for this kinda toxicity buddy. We're all "noobs" here

I still hoard consumables lmao. Like 9/10 times if there's a skill/spell that can give a similar buff as the consumable, I'll just use the skill/spell

ever heard of iggm? they have all resources 999 in a pack for like 25-50 cents💀

can also get a good chunk of runes for a dollar or 2

@@thatboylookcold8961 that’s a scam

@@thatboylookcold8961 you can also get the same using any of the free mods that let you get items, lol. P2W mentality is rotting your brain on a mostly single player, 0 microtransactions game.

I got in the habit of pronouncing it this way because twitch got obsessed with a different word it rhymes with

Yeh came here to say the same

@@AlphaSeagull lol if you have to mispronounce words to keep twitch chat from dropping the N word, there's something very wrong

It adds to channel lore

More like 'ogre' right ? I call it "Vi-gore"

I hate when I undo the dark blessing of the god slayers by eating a crab afterwards 😢

LOL same! instantly felt it going down my throat and had to click off video! disgusting bro. learn to edit

@@DeathstarsEG damn i thought it was funny 😭

Your english is good dude. Just thought you should know lol

your english is better than some people I know

Just if you get I mean a really good build. I mean a build that is good for not just attack power but attack speed and buffs with status build-up plus extremely good hit-boxes then plus it being a non dlc item. You should probably keep quiet otherwise miyazaki might patch it. That way you can have a bit more fun if the game patches the dlc items.

I love westerday (your english is fine)

Ok glad to hear I’m not alone.

I'm honestly really surprised how popular that doc got lmao. I'm actually planning on making a quick-start guide video that goes over a very similar build, so that's gonna be fun when I get around to it

Where's the docs?

​@@actuallyfungi1384I forget how well it's aged cuz it's been a while since I read the document but here it is docs.google.com/document/d/1nknMNkH_8Ix9YoMvYiQndd5rBWBpAEN2tMBWH88nC2g/edit?usp=drivesdk Basically the context was that somebody in early 2023 was asking for a recommendation for a sword and shield type build, and my reply was so long it turned into a Google doc. People really liked it.

@@AlphaSeagull this is sick thank you for posting the link

Well now with the new DLC stuff you can have poison hand in off-hand, mushroom crown and kindred of rot exultation. Use the skill of deadly poison perform to poison yourself, all 3 activate and buff you for about 41% damage/20sec. The rest your build would depend on the attack you're actually using

Same I love hugs 😅

I am not going to recreate another RU-vidr's content as a video lol, sorry. Thanks for the suggestion though

@@FranciscoCamacho-lb9bx Nope! I've tried this and it doesn't work. Neither does Spiked Cracked Tear. However, both of those DO work on all the roar-type weapon buffs that affect your charge attack. Those aren't affected by shard or godfrey icon, but they are also affected by Roar Medallion and Highland Axe. Haven't tested if two-handed talisman works on either Dark Moon nor Roar buffs yet (I've noticed it doesn't typically work on skills) but I should test that eventually

@@AlphaSeagull It doesn't affect the projectile, but it does affect the melee hit part of the R2, which also has a hitbox. So you can pretty much treat it as a normal charged attack during fights and do massive damage if you hit with both.

Godfrey icon only works on certain charged skills and spells \incantations it's so difficult finding the inns and outs with how much misinformation there is on the topic of elden ring even the fextrawiki is wrong a lot

@@Ecliptor. That's a great point, but I think if you were going close-range melee with this build in the first place, better melee options exist

Yeah Vyke's a weird one. It's both a weapon buff AND a body buff. The part that goes on your weapon is a weapon buff and gets overridden by other weapon buffs, and the part that goes on your body is a body buff and gets overridden by other body buffs. Because of this you can decide to either keep just the body buff or just the weapon buff by casting a different one of the other buff after Uplifting Aromatic is pretty similar. The 10% physical attack is an aura buff while the 90% negation bubble is a unique buff

I actually started using Rellana's swords a lot in the DLC! I noticed it pairs pretty well when combined with FGMS, Golden Vow, Fire Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Milicent's Prosthesis and Rotten Wing Sword insignia. For Physicks, use Flaming-Shroud tear and Thorny Cracked Tear. The idea is that you can either use the Fire attack and combo R1s off it, or use a bunch of R1s and combo into Fire attack. Definitely not as game-breaking as other strats and there's probably more you can do with it, but it's pretty reliable and fun. That's how I beat Blackgoal Knight. As for scaling, you just ignore INT past 20 and go all in on FTH for this strat

@@AlphaSeagull oh thats sick, thank you so much! that actually helps me a lot for my Build. Rn i thought i gonna pick around 60 vigor, 30 Endurance, 20 strength, 50 dex, 20 INT and 30 faith Tho i think i should maybe put more into faith instead of dex for this to work properly? I was thinking about golden vow and maybe the commander's Standard, sadly i dont have rotten sword insignia, just the normal one, but i'm currently about to finish the alexander questline to get his shard haha

@@Derdaida Just a heads up, how Rellana's swords work is that the right one scales off str/dex and Int, while the left one scales off str/dex and Faith. This is because the right sword does physical and magic damage, while the left does physical and fire damage. You can almost think of it like powerstancing two differently infused weapons.

Anything you can deal damage with actually. Consumables, spells, skills being used by the other weapon, everything. Now, you're probably asking this so you can try holy pots. It DOES work, but it's not gonna give you as much damage as Sacred Blade will, at least when the weapon's upgraded.

Like for Malenia I tried Latenna who can be pretty good, but it didn't help even slightly, she did a little damage, distracted Malenia briefly for me to hit her, then got the crap beaten out of her bringing Malenia all the way back to full HP, so she just wasted time. Not nearly as strong as the people equipping crazy gear and rotten meatballs and summoning mimic tear, who do objectively have an easier time in the fight.

Couldn't agree more my friend

I carry around an unleveled Stormhawk Deenh for the same reason, low FP req and gives a really good buff when it screams ( I think its +20% physical, stamina, and poise dmg that stacks with other buffs). Has little impact on the fight outside of the buff he gets off once usually and maybe 1 "free" heal

@@Heowolf that sounds about right for the buff. I think it DOES overlap some buffs like it's an aura buff or something maybe? Not one of the unique buffs that stacks with everything. But yeah, that one, Therolina, I think it's the other perfumer that gives you an opaline bubble thing occasionally? Maybe something like Aurelia or rot dogs to aid with status build in the start or distract the enemy/boss. Lots of good options to just get creative or have fun.

@@concerninghobbits5536 Oh yeah mb, it's def an aura buff. It overwriting uplifting just looked like multiplicative scaling since it's a better buff in general lol.

@@1SlyGuy yeah the bubble effect from Uplifting Aromatic (the part that negates 90% for one hit) is considered a unique buff, but the 10% physical attack is considered an aura buff. That one's a bit confusing

A different build lmao

Apparently it works on the beam but not the actual blade

Usually the reason for someone to do this is that the buffs that they're applying in the arena have such short durations that they have to do it this way so it doesn't run out before the fight is over

@@AlphaSeagull Ahh ok i had a feeling that was the case. I was thinking that certain buffs gets erased by the fog wall before entering so people wait till they are inside. This game gets so confusing so quick i swear smh

Yes that's why I recommended dual seppuku instead of the bleed/frost combo. The damage is still fantastic, you're just not as likely anymore to land both bleed and frost before the boss dies so you might as well use double bleed

@@AlphaSeagull thanks! :)

It's on the later half of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lb0fRDaXGtc.html just swap the bloodboil for FGMS, and swap the frost twinblade for another seppuku one, and you're golden

Already on it 😉

Depends on the buff. Some are spells, some are skills or ashes or war, some are consumables, some are armor/weapons. If it's a spell then you'll need a seal or staff to cast it

Ok so this mostly depends on your main spell of choice. I usually go for Night Comet on INT builds cuz they're pretty strong. If you're on NG+ or have a friend willing to trade one with you, it's best to have 2 staves of loss because you can have one in each hand and double stack the buffs from them. Otherwise you can use staff of Loss in left hand and the best spell scaling staff you have on the right (usually this is Lusat staff). There's no harm in using jellyfish Shield and casting with Staff of Loss, especially if you care about FP consumption, but either combining Lusat+Loss or Loss+Loss will result in more damage than jellyfish would give you, even before the recent nerf As for armor, you should only be using spell-blade set if you're using magic SKILLS specifically, as it doesn't work on spells. If you're going full caster no weapon, you don't have to use that armor. For talismans you probably want both school-graven and mass-graven talisman, which are stackable for some reason, as well as Godfrey Icon (you can charge each shot) and where magic scorpion would typically go, you can put something defensive like Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman. If you wanna go even more defensive you can swap school-graven with basically anything else that helps you tank better since it's only a 4% boost. From here, your other buffs are boiled crab (good choice) and golden vow (skill on a dagger), then physicks should be Magic-shrouding tear and any other tear of choice (I recommend opaline hardtear) and, if the boss allows it, you should try pulling off a terra magica and/or a couple Ranni's Dark Moons. If you only have time for one, pick the dark moon. Not only is it a relatively strong spell, but it's also already a -10% magic negation debuff, and if frost procs, it's -20% on everything, stacking with the initial debuff for 32% more damage. Main stats should be Vigor and INT of course, only getting what you need for the rest. Armor should be as strong as you can realistically manage without heavy rolling. If you wanna go full glass cannon, not only would you need the scorpion charm, but there's also ways of fitting in the low HP buffs and bleed buffs with seppuku, then you'd need 80+ INT and 33FTH to use Howl of Shabriri snd the golden vow spell which is stronger than the skill. That said I don't think a build like that is gonna work in the DLC for most people lol

@AlphaSeagull this is really thought out and I'll read through this and come back to let you know how I fare!

@@jmg24bad It it makes you feel better, in the DLC I've stopped using the scorpion talisman because I needed more defense (swapped it for Dragoncrest Greatshield). I only put it on if while exploring I need slightly more damage for either DMGS waves or Loretta's Greatbow to kill in one attack instead of leaving the enemy with a sliver, but for boss fights I always take it off now. (ng+ with 80 int for context)

@AlphaSeagull your advice did work for me and as I get stronger it's easier to do massive damage to bosses

I haven't tested for confirmation on all the new DLC stuff as I'm currently playing through it myself. But yes, if it's a body buff, it shouldn't stack with other body buffs.

same 😂

It does both actually. The hitbox does inflict madness buildup (as with any other madness attack) but it also applies a body buff to your character which increases all damage by 25%, reduces all negation by 30%, and draws aggro, all for 40 seconds. Lots of stuff in the game are both a buff and an attack at the same time

@@moreauclement9702 Well, the weapon buff type isn't necessarily buffs casted by weapons, but buffs that APPLY to that weapon, and these have noticeable visible effects to make that clear (except all the roar-like ones). A handful of weapon skills are actually coded as Aura buffs or Unique buffs, meaning there's no need to keep the weapon out after using them. Only exception to these rules is Jellyfish shield, which is technically coded like a unique buff but has all the same behaviors as a weapon buff (visual indication and needs to stay out) Every single buffing skill (prior to DLC) is listed in the buff chart linked in the description with its corresponding category, and in the case of the flagpole, what they're using is Rallying standard, an Aura buff giving 20% attack and negation for 30s. It's usually a choice between using this and Golden Vow, as that's also an aura buff, except a little weaker and lasts a lot longer.

Close. Flame Grant Me Strength and Howl of Shabriri are both body buffs, so the only 2 buffs you're actually getting from that setup is the Weapon buff from Vyke and the Howl. Just casting Electric Armament and Howl will create the same effect, since the Vyke weapon buff is identical to Electric Armament other than being a different color

@@AlphaSeagull Damn just tested it now been wasting fp for no reason

@@sunrider98_85 yepp we've all been there lol. For me it was throwing Uplifting Aromatic and thinking it stacked with Rally

@@joeypie96 I mean it's not that frost and bleed CAN'T work, it's just that buildup from powerstanced attacks as a whole were reduced, so it's debatable that it's slightly better to just focus in on double bleed just because you get the proce faster

@AlphaSeagull 1st off thanks for replying so fast. Tbh I'm doing this build not because it's efficient but because it tickles my brain in a funny way and I just enjoy it. I'm using the Eleonora poleblade with a chilling mist twinblade so when theres frostbite it resets. I gwt it's not the meta but I like it so if there's any way you can possibly see how to make it better (especially with the dlc and all the new items I'll be in ur debt) Also I subbed btw, love ur content❤️

@@joeypie96 Yeah so the actual Bleed/Frost combo is still perfectly optimized as is, none of the new buffs help make it better other than maybe Sacred Bloody Flesh for the Arcane boost, but even then I don't know if it's always better than Flame Grant Me Strength. That said I have been playing around with Twinblades in the update and found something I think is rather disgusting. So if you throw Crucible Wing Ash of War on a Twinblade, the attack becomes a multi-hit. Use this on a Heavy Gargoyle Twinblade with 34 STR 80FTH, then use an Erdtree seal to cast either Order Blade or Vyke's dragonbolt depending on enemy weakness (you can opt for electrify armament if you plan on adding a body buff to save FP) then Two-hand your twinblade and cast the attack whenever. For equipment you want the full crucible set (this works on the skill, I tested) then Shard of Alexander, Millicent's prosthesis, Rotten Wing Sword insignia, and any talisman of choice (when I'm jumping enemies I like ritual sword, otherwise bull-goat, Dragoncrest or Crusade Insignia is good) The attack itself needs to be spaced properly to land all the hits, but if you do land them, you're looking at maybe 4000-5000 damage with one skill and 1 active buff casted, which is insane. I imagine if you went all in on buffs beyond that you'll hit damage numbers that can almost one-shot, which is crazy for a skill that doesn't even need to be charged and is overall pretty reliable

@AlphaSeagull hell yeah brother I'm going to build this tomorrow. Thanks for the help my guy. Btw I watched ur mimic tear videos and tbh you just built different

@AlphaSeagull also I was looking online, I didn't see a heavy gargoyle twinblade just a "gargoyles Twinblade" found in siofra. Is that the one you are talking about?

Turtle neck stacks with dappled meat just fine, but dappled meat doesn't stack with other body buffs like FGMS, exalted flesh or boiled prawns/crabs

Yes, actually! Though you're better off just having a Staff of the Guilty in your off-hand since that gives a 20% boost and Jellyfish shield was nerfed to 12.5%. They can be farmed so you're not even limited to one per playthrough

@@AlphaSeagull I was just debating the two in my head 😅😂🤣 Thanks man, you put out awesome info!

I'm not AlphaSeagull????

Ikr, I think its cuz the old one racked up a lot of views over time so it's still fed to people more

It's definitely a great weapon but it was never the best really

@@jellydamgood the only true souls experience is brain damage

Yeah they're pretty tough lol. Make sure to cast Flame, protect me. Makes the fight a lot easier

Nope. Once you have Ranni's Dark Moon there's no reason to use Rennala's. They both give the -10%, but Ranni's also deals frostbite for another -20% if it procs

@@AlphaSeagull I completely misunderstood the effects of those spells then 🤣🤣

@@gamist8166 yes. It's too late to go back

Oh my god someone finally read one of my tabs

@@AlphaSeagull We’re a dying yet persistent fandom 😔✊

That pyromancer is using buffs too, it's just that most of the buffs are passive. They'd likely have two Giant Seals (+20% each) Fire scorpion (+12%) Godfrey Icon (+15%) Flock Canvas (+8%) and maybe Lord of Blood's exultation (+20%) along with white mask (+10%) then flaming shroud tear (+20%) FGMS (+20%) and Golden Vow (+15%). So the actual setup would be flask, vow, FGMS and Seppuku. Pretty short, relatively speaking, and the spell would receive a boost of 4.38x damage on Burn O Flame, which is ALREADY an insanely high damage spell, on Radagon who's relatively weak to fire, and boom, suddenly ng+8 radagon gets one-shotted

Bro stop you are scaring the arcane & dex stans

@@michaelm3178 which one? They all seem to work on my end. Now the buff tables don't include the DLC stuff yet but that's not an issue with the link, just an issue with me not having updated them yet

@@AlphaSeagull ok , any idea when you will update this and what are the best combos

@@Anniehater it does. My description has tables where you can check buffs of every type and see what overrides what

@@AlphaSeagull Thank you o blessed content creator. Now, this may be pompous of me, but I noticed something peculiar with the description for the "Uplifting Aromatic" consumable. It said, and I quote: "10% Phys ATK +Other buff 60s" Does this mean I could possibly stack Uplifting with golden vow or Commander's Standard? I apologize for asking when you have offered me a full, fool proof source, but I've no clue what I am looking at. Brain battered and rotted. Thank you for your time.

@@Anniehater well you're not crazy. Uplifting Aromatic does have 2 buffs and technically does stack with rallying standard.... Kinda See, the 10% phys damage is the Aura Buff. The 90% negation for one hit bubble functions as an active unique buff, and you can find it in with the other buffs page. What this means is that casting uplifting aromatic and then rallying standard WILL override the 10% phys attack, but the bubble will still remain. Vyke's dragonbolt works a similar way. If has both a body buff and weapon buff as part of the spell, and you can override each portion of it as you like

@@AlphaSeagull thankies

Says you … people are entitled to play how they want

@@justblaze. yes says me. It's my opinion and people are entitled to those as well. If you need to stack every buff in the game to beat a boss your first time you didn't experience the fight, you just cleared a road block. And with radahn its not a road block, he's the last boss so there isn't much other than the remembrance and a single item and armor set that he's blocking.