This episode we continue through a large chunk of the mountaintops, taking out a dragon for the upgraded frostbite spell and work through the guardians garrison. We also pick up the Prelates Charge Ash of War this episode which is an incredibly strong choice for anyone using colossal weapons.
@@ravishah2255 thanks. I switched my weapon to the morning star and did so much more damage with each hit. I was wondering why the fang seemed to do nothing.
@@ravishah2255 Holy shit. I'm level 208 (67 vigor, 61 strength and 81 dex) and died 6-7 times and lost 30k runes trying to kill it with my +10 Bloodhound Fang. Never even got it below 25% health. Switched to my +18 Quality Great Stars, and killed him without even needing healing once. Unbelievable. This guy should get the Elden Ring award.
appreciate it im 5000 years old and live in a pyramid burial site and i dont have much time to play outside of work (haunting the children of those who crossed me in the glory days) so i really appreciate it man👍
0:54 Ash of War: Seppuku 1:22 Rune 11 2:01 Dragon Borealis the Freezing Fog 4:41 Dragon Heart 6:03 Somberstone Miner’s Bellbearing 6:13 Sacred Tear 6:18 First Church of Marika Grace 7:27 Smithing Stone 7 8:07 Graveyard with Many Runes 8:50 Lord Contender’s Evergaol (Vyke) 10:17 Vyke’s Dragonbolt, Fingerprint Armor Set 13:19 Spiritcaller Cave
The lock on feature really makes some bosses so much harder but they move so fast you almost need it. Double edged sword like everything else in this game I guess 🤷🏻♂️
After following you for 64 episodes I feel like you were my journey companion :D, when I start a new episode and hear your voice I feel joy and say lets go my friend :D :D
For the dragon, summon Black Knife Tiche upgraded to +10, your mimic is good but moves too slow and Tiche has high evasion and range along with bleed and lowers the health bar upon hit.
@@shaunuchiha4502 if you sneak around a bit, you can take out the snails before the samurai are fully summoned in and ready to attack. Once the snails are destroyed then all the wolves and samurai disappear, although you have to kill both the snails in the last room. Again, though, if you're a little sneaky it's not terribly hard.
If anyone is still struggling on that dragon, read on.. I am not Cowboy lol. I hide under my dragons and hit their legs. This dragon was not having that. I almost rage quit for the night after a good 10 deaths. Bloodhounds fang was doing nothing. I switched to my Quality Great Stars +23 and beat it in 1 try. I guess it makes sense. Ice dragon.. strikes better than slash? Anyways, hope this helps.
Thanks I did this and while mine is only a +20 I still took him down in the first try whereas the bloodfang hardly did anything to it. Although it might have felt bad for me the first couple of tries it bounced all over the place, even aggro’d the jellyfish. With the Stars she just stood there and took a beating.
Watching back on your bloodborne walkthrough and this made me realize how massive this game really is, you did like 29 videos for bloodborne and this is 64 and were still not finished. My oh my what a game this has been.
Cowboy the ice Dragon can be made so it is easier to take him out if you stay on top of the small island, Dragon Breath it a few times and sit back the rest will work out, slowly but works. I guess I have been getting lazy, but after 4 deaths due to frostbite, I changed tactics. Guess an old dog can learn new tricks.
Anyone tried to fight that frost dragon lately? Have you noticed that instead of dealing 300-500 damage you deal 30-100 damage with the same build as Cowboy.
I don’t have the same build as cowboy but very very similar. but I just fought him this morning still didn’t download the newest update as I haven’t got internet to update. I used envoys longhorn though and the weapon art melted the dragon.
If anyone is having trouble with Borealis, I used the Quality Great Stars+20 with Wild Strikes ash of war and just held L2 on his foot while Tiche distracted him.
i think its a shame that despite the milion subs these only get so little views, the amount of effort this takes compared to something like a simple lets play is like night and day, but i guess walkthroughs arent for everyone, he makes the best ones tho.
@@FightinCowboy hm okay if you say so, i still think you have a lot of dead subscribers, its probably because you play so many different games on your channel and not everyone subscribed because of souls games.
They're not dead subscribers, this is how all let's play channels work. Radbrad is prob the biggest channel of this genre. He has 169,000 views with a 13mil sub count. That's 1.3% of his sub base. This same video has 28,000 views with my sub base of 1.03mil. that's 2.7% of my base. On a lesser game you'll might see 0.5% of your sub base. This is literally how every variety channel works.
@@FightinCowboy so i assume that your ds3 walkthrough didnt blow up like that right away as well then? i cant say since i didnt watch you back then but right now they all average over a milion views an episode, but your probably correct, my bad. and im not sarcastic btw even tho it might sound like it xD the difference between the elden ring and ds3 walkthrough is just weird to me, thats all.
That's correct. It's a common misconception but let's play channels don't usually see all of their views on a video ever and the ones they will it takes a long time
At like 14:31 or so if you go up that alternate path there is a second cave you go in and get a rune arc and a couple other loots with some cave moss. Not sure if anyone else mentioned it
I had a lot of fun with this dragon. I put my black bow to use starting with poison arrows then switching to rot arrows. After that I made use of my great bow to using the ash of war: Rain of arrows with radahns arrows. Since the battle field was so large it was fun to do this battle without melee.
There's an invasion in the area right before the cave with the two snails and the large pack of wolves. Not sure why it activated for me. Was a bit taken back as it did the seppuku thing and did a lot of bleed damage. Luckily I've been following Cowboy this entire run through and had no trouble breezing past it.
I quit out of the game after killing the snail and when I re-started it the invader was there. Nearly killed me while I scrambled to figure out wtf was happening. Once I killed him he did not come back
Dragon frost was by far my most challenging part till now but when I change blood my sword to fire grease I kick his butt, must say a big thank FW, we are close to the end, I follow this guide since ep. 1, I made some mistakes that dnt affect platinum though
You missed a few items in the Spiritcaller Caves. Had you not dropped down from the crumbling floor you would have found 3 items including a rune arc. Your guides kick ass though. I would have missed half of the game without your help
@@Redrum1892 No even after I killed both the slugs the Idaba guy was still alive, he was like an enemy NPC, not a normal enemy. I think Idaba was added in recent patches because we don't see Cowboy facing him.
Thought I’d throw this out there but im currently on this video. Thank you so much cowboy. You’ve made this so much fun. And set up Ng+ so that we can try out whatever builds we want. I can’t wait to keep going I also see AC6 videos going up. That is next game. And then BG3. Be nice to see a walkthrough series of that. For old completionist like myself.
Those that struggling with the Ice dragon, you may try dragon rot breath and cast it in a high place so its ice breath cant hit you and you counter with rot breath, watch as its health rots, hope it helps
I wanted to get an item beyond the dragon a few episodes back but I tried doing it not completely sober. Had a bad time and after about 20 attempts i went to sleep. Next day it took me 2 or 3 tries, there might be a lesson here
Anytime Cowboy says you should have no problem with (x) it'll be easy that means I'll spend the next 3 hours hating Elden ring, the programmers, their parents...etc. Anytime he says it's going to be a challenging fight I'm going to breeze through it in 30 seconds. So far this system has worked pretty well for me.
Just a heads up now, or at least it did for me, after u kill the second snail in the cave area where u pick up the White Reed armor, one wolf stayed alive and I was invaded by a White Reed Samuria. It completely caught me off guard, but it is an easy fight.
8:06 - "Don't worry, these dogs are not very deadly. 🙂" - proceeds to get torn to absolute shreds, almost dying. 😂😂 I don't think they liked that statement very much lmaooo. 💀
Thank you so much for all the work you put in to thies guides ...i would have never had the determination to figure out anything in thies games with out ur help😊
In the snail cave there is a room with some loot you can see better going back out of the cave. But if you are walking from the front, down the log, go past the room where it gets narrow and keep looking to the left and behind you till you see it. Idk if it's a hidden wall or not because I used the shackle in the beginning which reveals hidden pathways
i’ve actually just now learned how to play the game. 160 hours in and things are starting to make sense. i know what build i like, and now to parry enemies. had to start another save where i try and run it by memory. still have yet to finish my main save
The One-eyed Shield is a fun shield for PvE. If you hold the shield ability button down. It acts as a guard. Soon as the enemy bounces their weapon; "say hello to my little friend!"
Love your walkthrough man. Really solid work. You missed a rune arc and some other loot in the spiritcaller cave. when you run back up from the drop down where the floor colapses, there is some loot to the right:)
Oh man, duel-wielding Blasphemous Blade with Death's poker (for frost buildup) and the Godskin Cloth and Taker's Cameo...I've got healing for days!! Also, it appears that killing one of the snails..when their summons die, that also counts as an enemy defeated and gives more HP.
I placed Latenna the albinauric on the cliff top and used those cliffs to survive frostbite. She did all the work. Best summon against dragons. Tried and tested multiple times with multiple dragons.❤
I love how everytime cowboy comes across dogs he says "you don't have to worry about these dogs....." then proceeds to almost die to said dogs! 😂😂😂 happens everytime it's become expected now lol
I died to the boss in the spiritcaller cave and dropped 85k runes. On my way back, I was unaware the floor collapsed and so I fell all the way down and died again losing all those ruins.
@toneloc8226 Some he beats easily, and some that he kind of struggled against, I beat more easily. I wasn't prepared for how hard the Elden Beast was tho. He really schooled me on that one.
That ice dragon was a huge pain in the ass. My mimic wasn't very effective in this fight which really hasn't happened before. I may need to try some different ones for different fights. My mimic is usually a much better fighter than I am, but the AI didn't seem to know how to deal with a dragon.
During the Garrison run, my summon/mimic tear knocked the 'chief guardian' off the castle wall and he just walked around and stood outside doing nothing. Strange fight- he was still alive with ~20% health and I finished him off easily but that was some goofy shit
I thought Spiritcaller Cave was a cakewalk, until one of the snails in the large room saw me at a distance and summoned a Samurai Warrior who tore me to shreds; wasn't expecting that at all. Then he was waiting for me when I entered the cave a 2nd time and I barely beat him as I was trying to recover my lost runes. He was way worse than the 3 wimpy bosses, who went down fast and easy. On another note, mages have to divide up between health and mana flasks, and on a few dungeon occasions I was down to 1 health flask. Rather than going back to the Grace and starting again, you can equip the health talisman to top you off but it's slow, so go take a break and let it refill your health bar so you can save your last flask for the boss fight. Of course, if you have a lot of mana flasks you can cast a heal if you have it.
they’re students of okina. have you already killed okina? but yeah i was shocked they appeared as well. personally i decided to absolutely destroy them with their own masters sword just to rub it in their faces.
Yup, as of the latest patch there is a samurai invader that uses supuku. He invades twice, once on the 3rd snail and once again after killing the fourth on the right hand side just bum rush the last snail before the boss fight. Fighting the samurai in close quarters with a ton of wolves around you is hard. I suggest just rush the last snail and kill him as fast as you can. It will despawn the samurai ASAP. Dude is a straight assassin
I always watch these AFTER I do the area, that way i get to experience it first hand and after have you tell me what I missed.... I ended up fighting the lobsters.... DO NOT FIGHT THE LOBSTERS
Same. I like to experience some parts or areas first hand. And then watch the walkthrough at a sped up playback speed to see anything I missed. Thankfully this game lets you run away if you need to from some deadly parts and then come back to it. I sometimes like to watch the walkthrough for strategies against tougher areas.
To anyone watching, make sure you use a strike weapon on borealis, something like the great stars. It has an 80 percent negation to slash dmg, so the bloodhounds fang is gonna do baby damage.
9:35 this guy is honestly easy with a shield. No poise so even with moonveil you can get two or three hits in easy if he doesn't roll away. If you run out of stamina and he breaks your poise, he is slow enough you have time to roll away from his jab attack. Maybe it is easy because how late I got here, but i just ran up to him, blocked one jab attack and then would hit him 1-3 times. If he starts to cast just break the induction with a smack.
Want a stupid easy time on the dragon? Stay on your house as your summon attacks and stay a distance and use rock sling. Every 3 or 4th cast it staggers it ontop of doing massive damage.
Dude that frost dragon in new game plus is actually a pain in the ass. One attack does like 3/4's of your health bar at 60 vigor. Had me raging for sure lol. Just frost attacks and flies away soon as you get close.
DO NOT LOCK ON THE DRAGON AND USE KNIGHT OGHA IF YOU CAN. I spent so much time on this boss and I did it that way highly recommend if using horseback use the LANCE TALISMAN
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but for anyone struggling with the dragon, it has 80% damage reduction against slash, and only 10% reduction against striking (at least of 1.06) so a blunt weapon is definitely the way to go.
Please upvote this so FightCowboy can see, if your in your inventory useing runes, if you press y ( on pc ) change the view so it shows your player and the inventory, you can use all the runes you want, so you dont have to re enter the inventory
Anyone else playing now watch out when you pick up the somber 8 on the lake, not sure if it was just bad luck or if it's been changed with a patch but I was ambushed by a lobster picking it up, if you're on horseback then it's easy to get away just keep an eye behind you for the frost cannon. Also as others have noted as well, in the spiritcaller caver there is an offshoot with a hero rune and a rune arc if you follow the natural path without falling through the trap floor. That dragon was horrid as well, I had to run away first try because frostbite used up all my estus before I'd even done a quarter of its health. Second try I beat it by doing true cheap hit and run tactics didn't stick around for more than 3-4 hits a time and then turned tail and ran to avoid the frost damage which is truly insane if it ramps up.
At 12:35 when you pick up the somber 8 be careful, two frostbite lobsters will emerge from the ice and either grab you or snipe you with the water jet thing. Almost killed me. Idk why they didn’t spawn when cowboy pick it up, maybe they added it in on 1.04…
Only god knows how many time I died trying to kill this dragon, idk y this particular dragon was really hard to kill, was finally able to kill him after an hour of summoning players
Out of all the dragons, I hate the frost ones specifically this guy. Took me 5 tries to down him, had to go farm materials to craft thawfrost boluses. Had 35 total, ended up with 20 left. That frost is a bastard, normally the dragons don't give me trouble. But when they spit frost, then it becomes big trouble.
It took me a solid 20 tries to kill Alecto. Vyke...I felt bad for the poor guy. STR60/FAI25 Flame of the Redmanes. He never staggered, but he paused so long I could chain cast, and then he died before I ran out of FP (Mind 25). A win is a win though, so I'll take it XD
The Black Knife Tiche made this fight so easy. Constantly ticking bleed at the health. I basically stood back and let Black Knife kill the dragon. 5:52
Holy smokes. I was using a +23 Gut's Greatsword with lightning grease and just spammed Lion's Claw and kept pancaking him. He never moved a step and was on the ground the entire 15 second fight.
Fire monk armor looks sic 30:00 I like how the things you say are great and work very well keep getting nerfed, but the things you say need a buff never get buffed. Nice balance they have. for dragon, hide behind cliff, radahn's rain, radahn's arrows, and tiche did the job finally.
If someone struggles with dragon: he has 80% resist towards slash and pierce. Just try and use strike weapon since he is the weakest to that type of damage
That dragon got way buffed. The damage it takes is alot lower then what cowboy does. That fight took 15 minutes. A ranged summon is recommended. Big time. Melee will die fast. Once you see Frost, get off torrent to save flasks. Use Lance talisman.
The dragon is the hardest thing I’ve fought so far. It’s like the game just ramps up on the last hit and makes my character stuck so he can’t swing on the last hit and then bam freezing breath
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This episode we continue through a large chunk of the mountaintops, taking out a dragon for the upgraded frostbite spell and work through the guardians garrison.
We also pick up the Prelates Charge Ash of War this episode which is an incredibly strong choice for anyone using colossal weapons.
Cheers cowboy i have just got my plat masterpiece of a game and you really are a walk through specialist 😎👍
That dragon has 80% resist to Slash, just use the morning star because dragon has 10% strike resist and you'll have much better time.
@@ravishah2255 thanks. I switched my weapon to the morning star and did so much more damage with each hit. I was wondering why the fang seemed to do nothing.
@@ravishah2255 thx..now its Hammer Time!
@@ravishah2255 Holy shit. I'm level 208 (67 vigor, 61 strength and 81 dex) and died 6-7 times and lost 30k runes trying to kill it with my +10 Bloodhound Fang. Never even got it below 25% health. Switched to my +18 Quality Great Stars, and killed him without even needing healing once. Unbelievable. This guy should get the Elden Ring award.
appreciate it im 5000 years old and live in a pyramid burial site and i dont have much time to play outside of work (haunting the children of those who crossed me in the glory days) so i really appreciate it man👍
14:28 If you go down the path rather than the drop there is a cave to the left with a Golden rune 10, Lord's Rune and a Rune arc.
Thank you for this
Was about to comment the same. I went in before he did and I fell to the bottom and wandered around and found that by accident lol
Do u know he got the blood hounds step or whatever he has with this sword and shield combo??
@@felixaripa6482 I didnt rewatch the video, but isnt it the weapon art for bloodhound?
@@felixaripa6482 it’s a unique weapon art exclusive to bloodhounds fang
0:54 Ash of War: Seppuku
1:22 Rune 11
2:01 Dragon Borealis the Freezing Fog
4:41 Dragon Heart
6:03 Somberstone Miner’s Bellbearing
6:13 Sacred Tear
6:18 First Church of Marika Grace
7:27 Smithing Stone 7
8:07 Graveyard with Many Runes
8:50 Lord Contender’s Evergaol (Vyke)
10:17 Vyke’s Dragonbolt, Fingerprint Armor Set
13:19 Spiritcaller Cave
Bless you
not sure why i can only see until minute 13 ..
8:04 “These dogs aren’t very deadly, nothing to worry about”. Any long time FCB fan knows either a death or a very near-death is moments away. =)
I legitimately said to myself "he's about to get buttered" because the only times he ever struggles is his "hold my beer" moments it's great.
Lol 🤣
Oh my oh my god OH MY GOD
This fight with the ice dragon was so frustrating. You fight a big ass dragon and for some reason, the game locks on a jellyfish sitting 2km behind..
The lock on feature really makes some bosses so much harder but they move so fast you almost need it. Double edged sword like everything else in this game I guess 🤷🏻♂️
the Great Stars is very effective against the ice dragon btw 😊
@@rainbowhaven what is this you speak of? I died 5 times now, and I am a higher level that he is in the walkthrough
You’re not supposed to use lock on for dragons!!
I know this is old but I used the Envoys longhorn and 2 casts killed him. I couldnr believe it
I know we haven't finished yet, but I'm already thinking about NG+ - Going to follow this walkthrough again, Thanks Cowboy!
After following you for 64 episodes I feel like you were my journey companion :D, when I start a new episode and hear your voice I feel joy and say lets go my friend :D :D
Same bro from day 1 to 3 months later
For the dragon, summon Black Knife Tiche upgraded to +10, your mimic is good but moves too slow and Tiche has high evasion and range along with bleed and lowers the health bar upon hit.
Great advice. I almost forgot about the cerulean hidden tear. My mimic wasn't cutting it, but with Tiche it was first try.
Ty buddy. After dying 6/7 times I used this. First try. Had to use cerulean hidden tear. Appreciate it ❤️
Tiche hasn't impressed me yet for some reason. I used her against the dragon and she dealt minimal damage (and she is at +10)
@@EarthenGames girl*
I used latenna on top of that small hill and she just kept pounding him.
Fun fact: if you wear the beast repellent torch, then the ghost wolves won't aggro and you can easily take out the snails
Following this in 2024, your comment helped a lot, but. I got perma stunned by the samurais a few times
@@shaunuchiha4502 if you sneak around a bit, you can take out the snails before the samurai are fully summoned in and ready to attack. Once the snails are destroyed then all the wolves and samurai disappear, although you have to kill both the snails in the last room. Again, though, if you're a little sneaky it's not terribly hard.
If anyone is still struggling on that dragon, read on.. I am not Cowboy lol. I hide under my dragons and hit their legs. This dragon was not having that. I almost rage quit for the night after a good 10 deaths. Bloodhounds fang was doing nothing. I switched to my Quality Great Stars +23 and beat it in 1 try. I guess it makes sense. Ice dragon.. strikes better than slash? Anyways, hope this helps.
Thanks bro, just did the same! I was getting owned with the Bloodfang
Thanks I did this and while mine is only a +20 I still took him down in the first try whereas the bloodfang hardly did anything to it. Although it might have felt bad for me the first couple of tries it bounced all over the place, even aggro’d the jellyfish. With the Stars she just stood there and took a beating.
The dragon deflects 80% slash damage and only 10% strike. Once I figured this out I killed him easily.
Easy mode for me was using a +9 Bolt of Gransax. Just stayed out of the dragon's range and used the weapon special attack maybe eight times.
Uhhh yeah, great stars with any flame ash destroyd this guy.
15:23 when cowboy says ”thats where I would have come from” … go there! There is a Rune Arc, Heros Rune and more…😆
24:15 "fashion wise" as Cowboy has a half of the 10 Commandments on his back!
Watching back on your bloodborne walkthrough and this made me realize how massive this game really is, you did like 29 videos for bloodborne and this is 64 and were still not finished. My oh my what a game this has been.
Yeah it's a huge game. It's amazing .
Cowboy the ice Dragon can be made so it is easier to take him out if you stay on top of the small island, Dragon Breath it a few times and sit back the rest will work out, slowly but works. I guess I have been getting lazy, but after 4 deaths due to frostbite, I changed tactics. Guess an old dog can learn new tricks.
Anyone tried to fight that frost dragon lately? Have you noticed that instead of dealing 300-500 damage you deal 30-100 damage with the same build as Cowboy.
I don’t have the same build as cowboy but very very similar. but I just fought him this morning still didn’t download the newest update as I haven’t got internet to update. I used envoys longhorn though and the weapon art melted the dragon.
It's resistant to slash and pierce . Use strike damage .
Use the Great Stars and I added the eruption fire ash of war.
I was using a mage and with dark moon was doing a lot of damage
@@alurianirudh1918lightning slash demolished this guy
I saw this done by another gamer on u tube. The invisible bridge is easier using hoarfrost stomp. No more glowing pebble trails.
If anyone is having trouble with Borealis, I used the Quality Great Stars+20 with Wild Strikes ash of war and just held L2 on his foot while Tiche distracted him.
i was literally looking for a comment to help me beat him. thank you so much . 1st try with your tactic!
haha bro thanks it works great
Lol, I died about 40 times before reading this comment. Then I successfully kill him on first try. Thanks!!
Thank you!!
Same. Used Strike weapon. Didn't even use the ash, although my mimic was spamming golden land, lol.
I cant go through any part of the game now without papa cowboy letting me know everything is going to be ok.
I am so glad I am not alone with this!!
Man your upload schedule is crazy you put in a lot of hard work cowboy you definitely deserve more subs man
Anyone struggling with the dragon, use the tiche summon instead of mimic, it obliterates the dragon with ranged attack while you scratch its legs
i think its a shame that despite the milion subs these only get so little views, the amount of effort this takes compared to something like a simple lets play is like night and day, but i guess walkthroughs arent for everyone, he makes the best ones tho.
They're doing fine dude the videos are a few days old they're not going to get a million views in a day
@@FightinCowboy hm okay if you say so, i still think you have a lot of dead subscribers, its probably because you play so many different games on your channel and not everyone subscribed because of souls games.
They're not dead subscribers, this is how all let's play channels work. Radbrad is prob the biggest channel of this genre. He has 169,000 views with a 13mil sub count. That's 1.3% of his sub base. This same video has 28,000 views with my sub base of 1.03mil. that's 2.7% of my base.
On a lesser game you'll might see 0.5% of your sub base. This is literally how every variety channel works.
@@FightinCowboy so i assume that your ds3 walkthrough didnt blow up like that right away as well then? i cant say since i didnt watch you back then but right now they all average over a milion views an episode, but your probably correct, my bad. and im not sarcastic btw even tho it might sound like it xD the difference between the elden ring and ds3 walkthrough is just weird to me, thats all.
That's correct. It's a common misconception but let's play channels don't usually see all of their views on a video ever and the ones they will it takes a long time
For dragons I place Lutenna on the cliff. Her range is ridiculous. Constant multiarrow shots. Makes dragons so easy.
Dude you are a legend! Thank you ❤
A year later - yep she pretty much did it on her own from the cliff - I just lurked around the bottom taking a few swipes 😅 Thanks !
Thanks!
At like 14:31 or so if you go up that alternate path there is a second cave you go in and get a rune arc and a couple other loots with some cave moss. Not sure if anyone else mentioned it
Yeah there's like 3 items in that cave
PSA if you’re struggling with the ice dragon, Tiche is particularly useful. Absolutely melted it for me
I had a lot of fun with this dragon. I put my black bow to use starting with poison arrows then switching to rot arrows. After that I made use of my great bow to using the ash of war: Rain of arrows with radahns arrows. Since the battle field was so large it was fun to do this battle without melee.
12:36 : watch out, looks like this was updated for the lobsters to ambush you as you grab the item.
He just ran away from them, but yeah they got me the first time too
32:39 “These guys have beards. I’ve never noticed that.” 😂
Cave always starts from the entrance and everything respawns. Awesome 😢
There's an invasion in the area right before the cave with the two snails and the large pack of wolves. Not sure why it activated for me. Was a bit taken back as it did the seppuku thing and did a lot of bleed damage. Luckily I've been following Cowboy this entire run through and had no trouble breezing past it.
The snails summon the invaders. If/when you kill the snails the samurais de-spawn/won't spawn.
I killed the snails and the invader did not despawn. I died. When I went through again it wasn’t there, just a lone wolf. Idk.
I quit out of the game after killing the snail and when I re-started it the invader was there. Nearly killed me while I scrambled to figure out wtf was happening. Once I killed him he did not come back
That evergoal fught was NOTHING compared to that last one. That last one took me prolly 30 tries. This guy hit me twice.
Dragon frost was by far my most challenging part till now but when I change blood my sword to fire grease I kick his butt, must say a big thank FW, we are close to the end, I follow this guide since ep. 1, I made some mistakes that dnt affect platinum though
I used the Envoys Longhorn and 2 cast of the weapon art killed him. I couldn't believe it
You missed a few items in the Spiritcaller Caves. Had you not dropped down from the crumbling floor you would have found 3 items including a rune arc. Your guides kick ass though. I would have missed half of the game without your help
I fought some person named Idaba, looked like a samurai, while I was killing that third slug...
@@mac1bc that was from the slugs..
@@Redrum1892 oh ok lol
@@Redrum1892 No even after I killed both the slugs the Idaba guy was still alive, he was like an enemy NPC, not a normal enemy. I think Idaba was added in recent patches because we don't see Cowboy facing him.
@@srinjoy_79 I just did same cave yesterday the slugs in the long hall spawn jn samurais npcs
Thought I’d throw this out there but im currently on this video. Thank you so much cowboy. You’ve made this so much fun. And set up Ng+ so that we can try out whatever builds we want. I can’t wait to keep going I also see AC6 videos going up. That is next game. And then BG3. Be nice to see a walkthrough series of that. For old completionist like myself.
The firemonk armor is one of the best looking sets out there, very stylish.
Never, ever, EVER trash-talk the mobs before their dead! 7:57
Those that struggling with the Ice dragon, you may try dragon rot breath and cast it in a high place so its ice breath cant hit you and you counter with rot breath, watch as its health rots, hope it helps
Pro tip! I've been struggling with that bastard for 2 days. With that advice I managed to kill it with 1st attempt. Cheers bro!
I wanted to get an item beyond the dragon a few episodes back but I tried doing it not completely sober. Had a bad time and after about 20 attempts i went to sleep. Next day it took me 2 or 3 tries, there might be a lesson here
Anytime Cowboy says you should have no problem with (x) it'll be easy that means I'll spend the next 3 hours hating Elden ring, the programmers, their parents...etc. Anytime he says it's going to be a challenging fight I'm going to breeze through it in 30 seconds. So far this system has worked pretty well for me.
Man, you're amazing! lots and lots of work put in to this. Thank you!. Regards from Colombia
Just a heads up now, or at least it did for me, after u kill the second snail in the cave area where u pick up the White Reed armor, one wolf stayed alive and I was invaded by a White Reed Samuria. It completely caught me off guard, but it is an easy fight.
8:06 - "Don't worry, these dogs are not very deadly. 🙂" - proceeds to get torn to absolute shreds, almost dying. 😂😂 I don't think they liked that statement very much lmaooo. 💀
Thank you so much for all the work you put in to thies guides ...i would have never had the determination to figure out anything in thies games with out ur help😊
22:36 oh we got something better alright
Exactly
In the snail cave there is a room with some loot you can see better going back out of the cave. But if you are walking from the front, down the log, go past the room where it gets narrow and keep looking to the left and behind you till you see it.
Idk if it's a hidden wall or not because I used the shackle in the beginning which reveals hidden pathways
i’ve actually just now learned how to play the game. 160 hours in and things are starting to make sense. i know what build i like, and now to parry enemies. had to start another save where i try and run it by memory. still have yet to finish my main save
The One-eyed Shield is a fun shield for PvE. If you hold the shield ability button down. It acts as a guard. Soon as the enemy bounces their weapon; "say hello to my little friend!"
Love your walkthrough man. Really solid work. You missed a rune arc and some other loot in the spiritcaller cave. when you run back up from the drop down where the floor colapses, there is some loot to the right:)
Oh man, duel-wielding Blasphemous Blade with Death's poker (for frost buildup) and the Godskin Cloth and Taker's Cameo...I've got healing for days!!
Also, it appears that killing one of the snails..when their summons die, that also counts as an enemy defeated and gives more HP.
beast repellant torch makes spirit caller cake a lot easier. pacifies the wolves.
I placed Latenna the albinauric on the cliff top and used those cliffs to survive frostbite. She did all the work. Best summon against dragons. Tried and tested multiple times with multiple dragons.❤
Like always, the best walkthroughs on RUclips🔥 Thanks Cowboy
"These dogs arent deadly" proceeds to nearly get annihilated 😂 that gave me a good laugh
I love how everytime cowboy comes across dogs he says "you don't have to worry about these dogs....." then proceeds to almost die to said dogs! 😂😂😂 happens everytime it's become expected now lol
I died to the boss in the spiritcaller cave and dropped 85k runes. On my way back, I was unaware the floor collapsed and so I fell all the way down and died again losing all those ruins.
damn man. stuff like that happens a lot. i probably lost 100k runes when we went through the sewers in the capital. damn imps.
I just lost 120k. Thought my flask was active. It wasn’t. Went for my runes in the god’s kingdom cave and died.
Happen to me one time because I forgot to call the elevator down and walked off hahahah
Really enjoyed this one. Dragon had me for a while, but my trusty mimic and I finally prevailed!
I had to take a break from attempting it. The way he beats it so easily the first try is insane 🤣
@toneloc8226 Some he beats easily, and some that he kind of struggled against, I beat more easily. I wasn't prepared for how hard the Elden Beast was tho. He really schooled me on that one.
That ice dragon was a huge pain in the ass. My mimic wasn't very effective in this fight which really hasn't happened before. I may need to try some different ones for different fights. My mimic is usually a much better fighter than I am, but the AI didn't seem to know how to deal with a dragon.
The albinauric with the bow is a good one, check some videos on the net and you will see
18:48 the soundtrack is amazing
For the ones struggling with the jail fight, the spell stars or ruin take a lot of damage and they follow him.
During the Garrison run, my summon/mimic tear knocked the 'chief guardian' off the castle wall and he just walked around and stood outside doing nothing. Strange fight- he was still alive with ~20% health and I finished him off easily but that was some goofy shit
I thought Spiritcaller Cave was a cakewalk, until one of the snails in the large room saw me at a distance and summoned a Samurai Warrior who tore me to shreds; wasn't expecting that at all. Then he was waiting for me when I entered the cave a 2nd time and I barely beat him as I was trying to recover my lost runes. He was way worse than the 3 wimpy bosses, who went down fast and easy.
On another note, mages have to divide up between health and mana flasks, and on a few dungeon occasions I was down to 1 health flask. Rather than going back to the Grace and starting again, you can equip the health talisman to top you off but it's slow, so go take a break and let it refill your health bar so you can save your last flask for the boss fight. Of course, if you have a lot of mana flasks you can cast a heal if you have it.
they’re students of okina. have you already killed okina? but yeah i was shocked they appeared as well. personally i decided to absolutely destroy them with their own masters sword just to rub it in their faces.
Yup, as of the latest patch there is a samurai invader that uses supuku. He invades twice, once on the 3rd snail and once again after killing the fourth on the right hand side just bum rush the last snail before the boss fight. Fighting the samurai in close quarters with a ton of wolves around you is hard. I suggest just rush the last snail and kill him as fast as you can. It will despawn the samurai ASAP. Dude is a straight assassin
Absolutely brilliant walk through so detailed and precise awesome cowboy 😎
Got the dragon in 2 attempts, nice tips was also doing him alot of damage via horse
I always watch these AFTER I do the area, that way i get to experience it first hand and after have you tell me what I missed.... I ended up fighting the lobsters.... DO NOT FIGHT THE LOBSTERS
Same. I like to experience some parts or areas first hand. And then watch the walkthrough at a sped up playback speed to see anything I missed.
Thankfully this game lets you run away if you need to from some deadly parts and then come back to it. I sometimes like to watch the walkthrough for strategies against tougher areas.
Died 8 times to the dragon and gave up, not sure if its bugged but his scream is getting me through mountains
Wing of Astel is a dragon destroyer. Just get under it and start dropping L2 bombs. If it flys away get on your horse and take off after it.
I like how that thumbnail looks: "Elden Ring 64"
Same bro i like
To anyone watching, make sure you use a strike weapon on borealis, something like the great stars. It has an 80 percent negation to slash dmg, so the bloodhounds fang is gonna do baby damage.
Giant crusher goated
Can confirm maxed tiche plus horseback makes the dragon a breeze
9:35 this guy is honestly easy with a shield. No poise so even with moonveil you can get two or three hits in easy if he doesn't roll away. If you run out of stamina and he breaks your poise, he is slow enough you have time to roll away from his jab attack.
Maybe it is easy because how late I got here, but i just ran up to him, blocked one jab attack and then would hit him 1-3 times. If he starts to cast just break the induction with a smack.
i just worked out, if you use margits shackle it reveals hiiden rooms, well the illusory walls
Good tip on Everfall knight...Fortisaax Lightening Spear is just ridiculously OP..
Whenever FightinCowboy says "not very deadly" it means they're "very hurty" instead.
"Very hurty" is now a phrase I'm going to try and sneak into conversation daily. Thank you for that.
Lions Claw on Great Stars is amazing
for anyone who struggles with humanoid fights, just the nightriders glaive with giant hunt its really op
Halberd*
Want a stupid easy time on the dragon? Stay on your house as your summon attacks and stay a distance and use rock sling. Every 3 or 4th cast it staggers it ontop of doing massive damage.
Already hip 😎
Dude that frost dragon in new game plus is actually a pain in the ass. One attack does like 3/4's of your health bar at 60 vigor. Had me raging for sure lol. Just frost attacks and flies away soon as you get close.
DO NOT LOCK ON THE DRAGON AND USE KNIGHT OGHA IF YOU CAN. I spent so much time on this boss and I did it that way highly recommend if using horseback use the LANCE TALISMAN
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but for anyone struggling with the dragon, it has 80% damage reduction against slash, and only 10% reduction against striking (at least of 1.06) so a blunt weapon is definitely the way to go.
Yea I was using my uchigan kitana and died like 5 times. Used my great stars and killed him super quick
Please upvote this so FightCowboy can see, if your in your inventory useing runes, if you press y ( on pc ) change the view so it shows your player and the inventory, you can use all the runes you want, so you dont have to re enter the inventory
I wish I had known this from early game. Great info!
Also, you can just sell your runes at a merchant and it's setup to calculate the total amount as you select the number of particular runes to cash in.
@@st8kout961 it works not just for runes, but using consumables aswell ect
Damn, didn't know I would be spending my entire Sunday on the dragon. haha
Anyone else playing now watch out when you pick up the somber 8 on the lake, not sure if it was just bad luck or if it's been changed with a patch but I was ambushed by a lobster picking it up, if you're on horseback then it's easy to get away just keep an eye behind you for the frost cannon.
Also as others have noted as well, in the spiritcaller caver there is an offshoot with a hero rune and a rune arc if you follow the natural path without falling through the trap floor.
That dragon was horrid as well, I had to run away first try because frostbite used up all my estus before I'd even done a quarter of its health. Second try I beat it by doing true cheap hit and run tactics didn't stick around for more than 3-4 hits a time and then turned tail and ran to avoid the frost damage which is truly insane if it ramps up.
When i fought the dragon i used the summon black Knife tiche. He almost killed the dragon by himself. Very good summon for the dragon.
if you go back up the path in the cave, there's a lot of loot runes
At 12:35 when you pick up the somber 8 be careful, two frostbite lobsters will emerge from the ice and either grab you or snipe you with the water jet thing. Almost killed me. Idk why they didn’t spawn when cowboy pick it up, maybe they added it in on 1.04…
Only god knows how many time I died trying to kill this dragon, idk y this particular dragon was really hard to kill, was finally able to kill him after an hour of summoning players
On your next playthrough just use tiche while horseback and whack him
@@HardDanceKickz thank you for the advice! I died 5 times with my mimic but killed the dragon my first attempt with Tiche
@@codyhall6279 your welcome bro
Late, but that dragon in the freezing lakes is weak to strike damage so you'll finish it easily if you use a strike weapon.
Fun Fact: Vyke is the knight on the cover of Elden Ring and he has a very tragic backstory.
Out of all the dragons, I hate the frost ones specifically this guy. Took me 5 tries to down him, had to go farm materials to craft thawfrost boluses. Had 35 total, ended up with 20 left. That frost is a bastard, normally the dragons don't give me trouble. But when they spit frost, then it becomes big trouble.
It took me a solid 20 tries to kill Alecto. Vyke...I felt bad for the poor guy. STR60/FAI25 Flame of the Redmanes. He never staggered, but he paused so long I could chain cast, and then he died before I ran out of FP (Mind 25). A win is a win though, so I'll take it XD
The Black Knife Tiche made this fight so easy. Constantly ticking bleed at the health. I basically stood back and let Black Knife kill the dragon. 5:52
Holy smokes. I was using a +23 Gut's Greatsword with lightning grease and just spammed Lion's Claw and kept pancaking him. He never moved a step and was on the ground the entire 15 second fight.
Fire monk armor looks sic 30:00 I like how the things you say are great and work very well keep getting nerfed, but the things you say need a buff never get buffed. Nice balance they have. for dragon, hide behind cliff, radahn's rain, radahn's arrows, and tiche did the job finally.
Dan fact about phantom slash if for example you use bloodflame blade on the halberd your phantom will have that on as well
That dragon hits like an absolute truck
If someone struggles with dragon: he has 80% resist towards slash and pierce. Just try and use strike weapon since he is the weakest
to that type of damage
Press L1 with the torch. It lights up a wider area.
That dragon got way buffed. The damage it takes is alot lower then what cowboy does. That fight took 15 minutes. A ranged summon is recommended. Big time. Melee will die fast. Once you see Frost, get off torrent to save flasks. Use Lance talisman.
The dragon is the hardest thing I’ve fought so far. It’s like the game just ramps up on the last hit and makes my character stuck so he can’t swing on the last hit and then bam freezing breath
I just killed him. Took me several tries and different strategies. He was hard. Using Rotten Breath in the beginning did help
FC's my Spirit Summon through and through !✊️ Good dude all around