The entire run ended up taking around 45 minutes but this was with a death to Radahn, I think an optimal time with a starter class would be around 40 minutes! If you enjoyed the video please remember to like and subscribe for more such speedruns and challenge runs. Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ainrun
@@ainrun There is a bounty up for speedrunning almost exactly this route at the moment :D main difference being you have to kill Magnus for Varres quest. Not sure if posting links in youtube comments works, but giving it a shot: docs.google.com/document/d/19S_zwnFJvFwNGWl5E5e8ZphTCgTYpJsu8lecwPjsj_A/edit?usp=sharing
You wanna know the real future proofing that made me (and others) practically confirming that the cocoon was the DLC entrance? The fact that they patched in a PVE version of Varre's quest over a year after release.
After a year or so break, I did a new playthrough for the DLC, and the game tucked me in again, a lot of fun. Got my Bloodhounds Fang and Blasphemous Blade fully upgraded, and just beat Mohg tonight, hit 150, and dropped an "ahh, just getting started..., praise the Elden Ring!" message at Miquela. Just 11 days to go now.
Really good rough guideline for anybody that doesnt have so much time to prepare a new character for the DLC or just wants to get straight into it with a fresh character ! Also kinda fun run to do
One thing that I'd recommend when starting a new character, to make leveling up much less stressful, is speed running to get the Twiggy Cracked Tear for your Wonderous Physick, which stops rune loss for 3 minutes. This means that you'll almost never lose runes to dying, so you can level up much more efficiently. It can be obtained within an hour of starting a new character without fighting any major bosses (this is from memory, hopefully it's right): - get both halves of the Dectus Medallion (one half in Fort Haight in Limgrave and the other half in the fort in Northeast Caelid) - skip Stormveil (it's better done with the Twiggy Cracked Tear) by using the secret bypass to the right of the castle - make your way to the Dectus lift in Liurnia - sprint past everything in Altus straight to the Twiggy Cracked Tear (just look up the location) Then you can go through the whole game without fear of losing runes.
It was a great opportunity to play the game again. I didnt even know about the subterranean shunning grounds and the deeproot depths my first time through. Got plenty of surprises that i found my second time through and never was bored. Felt fresh again because i never touched the game after beating malenia.
I'm by no stretch an ER expert, but it took me around 6 hours to collect all the flask upgrades, beat most of the required bosses to get to those and beat Mogh at lvl 88. If we would try to grind to the recommended lvl of 150, this would've taken a bit longer. So I'm quite impressed, that you're so fast here.
Today I learned, that I don't have to run all the way up to the church of Inhibition and can get the blood for the Varre Quest from Irina instead, neat.
Thank you so much for this! I started a fresh new game plus months and months ago and forgot I needed to do certain things before DLC so now I can get that done before 6pm tomorrow, hopefully 😂
Nice vid Ain, many thx. Another quick tip. You can use the "pureblood knight`s medal" you get from varre`s questline to bail/warp out on any situation/bossfight (except dungeons). Quiet usefull for the DLC when you run into a boss with 2.5 million runes ;)
To anyone watching this Video after the DLC comes out. All you need to do is Defeat one Great Rune Boss to trigger Varre to go to the Rose Church, and it DOES NOT have to be Radahn. You can beat Godrick and it will do the same thing. He is WAY easier for new players, as well as I dont believe beating him messes up any Side Quests like Radahn can if you are not careful.
I'm glad i left my second official playthrough just before getting the second half of the secret medallion. I had time to beat malenia, burn the thorns and reach the scadu realm the day of release at lvl 160
fully prepared my character, pumped him up to lvl 150, farmed most of the strong talismans and weapons, all bell bearings, most spells, materials, etc. in 40 hours
I could do that but there's so many different builds and other creators with guides on that so I felt it wasnt necessary. If you want build tips you could take a look at my other videos that I've used for challenge runs. But with the DLC I'm sure I'll put out some helpful stuff.
Starting over is kinda nuts. The difficulty is negligible in ng+1 - 4. So if youre still in those then probably dont start over unless you really want to. But having to get everything all over again just for the dlc is bonkers
Ive beaten mohg with +6 antspur rapier and +1 cross nagita lvl 65 to see if any special cutscene happen when you leave the lands between when melina is still alive I also have a playtrough with the frenzied flame. Maybe melina still alive but angry at you might change something
Ah, so I didn't need to fight Godrick at all when I went into NG+ so I can do the alternate versions of NPC quests, grab Bayle's other Heart Incant, and not mess up the NPC quests I missed.
You don't need to go to the DLC at level 10. This is meant to showcase the shortest possible route to reach Mohg for people who don't want to invest too much time into preparing a character. You can always farm runes and get to a decent level in Mohgwyn Palace or go beat the other bosses.
i'm not as good so I think i'm gonna need the greyroll runes. also ER on my PC runs on 40 fps. LMAO I would dodge but it would fps drop so my input won't get read and i'll get hit.
Take this with a grain of salt kids, going into the DLC at lvl 46 will not be an enjoyable experience. He knows these bosses in and out and can kill them easily. Here is a new challenge/video for you: Use your lvl 46 character into the DLC BLIND.
Eh, varre’s quest can get you in the dlc like 2-4 hours into the run for an average-everyday player, depending on their competence with certain early game bosses. Obviously we don’t have the full context, but there will be a new separate levelling system unique to the DLC. Miyazaki referred to it as similar to Attack Power in Sekiro. He also vaguely talks about how it will be easier for lower level people to enter the DLC, but also harder for higher level players with high-end builds If it works as to be believed, then your maingame ‘Rune Level’ won’t matter in the DLC area - but that’s not to say that you still won’t gain Runes by killing enemies in that area. The Runes you’ll gain will still be effective towards attributes you need to (e.g.) wield certain items, but the your actual Rune Level won’t affect the DLC. The purpose, presumably, behind this decision was to make sure everyone enters the DLC on a “base” power level, whether you’re RL14 or RL180. It shouldn’t matter. The DLC-specific scaling will be responsible for this method. If it works as theorised, then this is also a genius way to improve upon Fromsoft’s prior DLC-entry issues. In prior games, the DLCs were scaled to lategame, forcing the players to trudge through the entire games’ content to be at an adequate level for DLC. For this DLC, that shouldn’t be an issue - instead, allowing the players to comfortably experience the DLC as early as they want or as late as they want, without worrying about what level you are in the basegame. This new change will help players, who don’t have time to play games, to be able to reach and still intuitively experience the DLC as a completely separate experience to the basegame - without ever suffering from their lower Rune Level
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 Alexander was the reason I 1st tried fire giant on my very first playthrough, stop talking shit about my boy. Would rather use him than a horse who gets stunlocked for 4 years by just simply turning 180 degrees.
ok my trick is kind of lame but I used a hack to get unlimited runes & I used a guide to get the sword of night & flame early in the game. I killed Bernahl to get his armor kit and become tanky and I was able to create the build that I need to almost one shot all the bosses. In Caria Manor you can get +2 Somber Smithing Stones by killing giant hands and upgrade the weapon pretty quickly. Then you can also go to talk to the Miriel Pastor of Vows (big turtle) at the Church of Vows to buy the Carian Greatsword. You should be able with this combination of weapon/spell to do the quests in this video without having his gigachad gaming skills. Thank you.
Bro. You have never done a level 1 run. Hahaha. Call your self a gamer. Who even are you at this point…🤭🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴 jk Like this vid it’s helping players.
Tried booting this up today, got the plat and around 300 hours.wtf have they done to this ps5 performance in this game.its unplayable now. Absolute disgrace
I don’t know why anyone would want to just rush through this game. Just enjoy it and absorb everything you can while you explore and find awesome weapons and fight terrifying creatures.
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The entire run ended up taking around 45 minutes but this was with a death to Radahn, I think an optimal time with a starter class would be around 40 minutes!
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hey do you know if we start with new characters or do we continue with our current saved game? or is both an option? thanks
Both work.
@@ainrun There is a bounty up for speedrunning almost exactly this route at the moment :D main difference being you have to kill Magnus for Varres quest. Not sure if posting links in youtube comments works, but giving it a shot: docs.google.com/document/d/19S_zwnFJvFwNGWl5E5e8ZphTCgTYpJsu8lecwPjsj_A/edit?usp=sharing
Wait I have to beat this game a second time to get DLC access? I already beat the game it took my 3 months
@@RokuHisense same, crazy.
I always thought it was weird that Mohg is accessible so early, it’s because they were future proofing DLC access.
Great point.
You wanna know the real future proofing that made me (and others) practically confirming that the cocoon was the DLC entrance? The fact that they patched in a PVE version of Varre's quest over a year after release.
I mean, yea he is accessible but the way you get to him early is so convoluted that many players would never come across it.
DLC HYPEEE
Disting
The goat
Can't wait for shadow of the erdtree any%
After a year or so break, I did a new playthrough for the DLC, and the game tucked me in again, a lot of fun. Got my Bloodhounds Fang and Blasphemous Blade fully upgraded, and just beat Mohg tonight, hit 150, and dropped an "ahh, just getting started..., praise the Elden Ring!" message at Miquela. Just 11 days to go now.
Really good rough guideline for anybody that doesnt have so much time to prepare a new character for the DLC or just wants to get straight into it with a fresh character ! Also kinda fun run to do
One thing that I'd recommend when starting a new character, to make leveling up much less stressful, is speed running to get the Twiggy Cracked Tear for your Wonderous Physick, which stops rune loss for 3 minutes. This means that you'll almost never lose runes to dying, so you can level up much more efficiently.
It can be obtained within an hour of starting a new character without fighting any major bosses (this is from memory, hopefully it's right):
- get both halves of the Dectus Medallion (one half in Fort Haight in Limgrave and the other half in the fort in Northeast Caelid)
- skip Stormveil (it's better done with the Twiggy Cracked Tear) by using the secret bypass to the right of the castle
- make your way to the Dectus lift in Liurnia
- sprint past everything in Altus straight to the Twiggy Cracked Tear (just look up the location)
Then you can go through the whole game without fear of losing runes.
Thank you so much. I started a NG+ run many months ago and didn't realise I was still at the start of the game until this week
Same here, bro...
Saaaame
It was a great opportunity to play the game again. I didnt even know about the subterranean shunning grounds and the deeproot depths my first time through. Got plenty of surprises that i found my second time through and never was bored. Felt fresh again because i never touched the game after beating malenia.
I'm by no stretch an ER expert, but it took me around 6 hours to collect all the flask upgrades, beat most of the required bosses to get to those and beat Mogh at lvl 88. If we would try to grind to the recommended lvl of 150, this would've taken a bit longer.
So I'm quite impressed, that you're so fast here.
Today I learned, that I don't have to run all the way up to the church of Inhibition and can get the blood for the Varre Quest from Irina instead, neat.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Im not in ng+ but my main playthru is messy and idk what I have and haven't gotten. Tysm for this video!
This is the exact guide I've been looking for. Thanks so much
Thank you so much for this! I started a fresh new game plus months and months ago and forgot I needed to do certain things before DLC so now I can get that done before 6pm tomorrow, hopefully 😂
Speed running to Mohg. Easy.
Beating Mohg. Good luck.
HE'S SO FAST
Didnt even know there was a teleporter for mogh's palace in the snowy mountains lol ive always only done varre's questline xd
Nice video Ain! 45 minutes seems super fast
Nice vid Ain, many thx. Another quick tip. You can use the "pureblood knight`s medal" you get from varre`s questline to bail/warp out on any situation/bossfight (except dungeons). Quiet usefull for the DLC when you run into a boss with 2.5 million runes ;)
I mean, you can also just quit to title and load back in.
yo i saw your no hit run with bushy. keep up the good work!
To anyone watching this Video after the DLC comes out.
All you need to do is Defeat one Great Rune Boss to trigger Varre to go to the Rose Church, and it DOES NOT have to be Radahn. You can beat Godrick and it will do the same thing. He is WAY easier for new players, as well as I dont believe beating him messes up any Side Quests like Radahn can if you are not careful.
You cannot enter the DLC without beating Radahn.
I'm glad i left my second official playthrough just before getting the second half of the secret medallion.
I had time to beat malenia, burn the thorns and reach the scadu realm the day of release at lvl 160
I have my character beaten every boss and explored every area only the elden beast remains i purposefully didnt go to ng+ just for this :D
You can kill the Elden beast and just refuse to go to NG+ afterwards if you’d like
@@Delmworks oh wait actually? i thought once i get an ending, ng would just start automatically
@@fumetsu-950 nope you have to start that manually
@@fumetsu-950that’s bloodborne
@@Big_Chicoand Demon Souls and Dark Souls 1
fully prepared my character, pumped him up to lvl 150, farmed most of the strong talismans and weapons, all bell bearings, most spells, materials, etc. in 40 hours
Dude I'm gonna be on vacation the day it comes out. I have to prep my character asap.
to prepare for this dlc i platinumed every single souls game on the ps5 so i think i am prepared
Haven't watch the video yet but I can say this, it is relatively quick getting to the dlc area doing maidenless guy's questline.
Also have to beat radahn - pretty quick to do so as well
Really good video, after DLC drops I'd like to see a long form build; but, I know that isn't really what you do. Thanks man.
I could do that but there's so many different builds and other creators with guides on that so I felt it wasnt necessary. If you want build tips you could take a look at my other videos that I've used for challenge runs. But with the DLC I'm sure I'll put out some helpful stuff.
Great guide. To me the requirements to enter seem very reasonable. TBH I am surprised it isn’t required to have killed the Elden Beast
Bold to assume I didn’t already have 2 separate characters raring to go, but ready to go none the less!
How quickly can you access the DLC vs how quickly noob that hasnt played in 2 years is very different Ain 😂😂😂
Starting over is kinda nuts.
The difficulty is negligible in ng+1 - 4. So if youre still in those then probably dont start over unless you really want to. But having to get everything all over again just for the dlc is bonkers
I beat the game, haven’t gone to new game +, can I enter dlc?
@@Cory_vs_CoryIf you’ve bought the DLC and you’ve beaten Mohg and Radahn on your current character then yes, you can do the DLC.
I can never get to the DLC as quickly and effortlessly as God Gamer Ainrun himself
Games been out for almost 2 years. You don’t have multiple characters that’s already beaten the game?
For those who don't speed run, might make it safer adding some points into faith and using the scarlet rot dragon breath?
Mohg is weak to bleed, any bleed build would be great.
you also need to wrap the invasion at 2nd marika church if you want to see summons at mohg! you wont see them unless you beat the invader
Nice, just in time for DLC
I guess I will borrow this guideline too
Ive beaten mohg with +6 antspur rapier and +1 cross nagita lvl 65 to see if any special cutscene happen when you leave the lands between when melina is still alive
I also have a playtrough with the frenzied flame. Maybe melina still alive but angry at you might change something
I'm 20 hours in and I'm in mountaintops of the giants.
I reached it after 27 hours ingame, around 6 for grinding to level 200
Actually a really helpful video for people considering buying the game because of the DLC. Great stuff Ainus
Thanks ain
I thought I was fast getting there in about 9.5 hours on a fully built NG+ character lmao.
Ah, so I didn't need to fight Godrick at all when I went into NG+ so I can do the alternate versions of NPC quests, grab Bayle's other Heart Incant, and not mess up the NPC quests I missed.
Im level 313 on the og base game. Im ready to steamroll through the dlc 😂
I beat the game, haven’t gone to new game +, can I enter dlc?
Yep, just go to mohg arena and access it @@Cory_vs_Cory
@@Cory_vs_Cory yes you ng+ changes nothing for dlc acces. Only requirements are beating mogh and radhan
Yeah how's that going lmao
how is the "steamrolling" goin?
I made a new character on the 20th right before the dlc came out, took me about 8 hours to get to mohg and beat him
Ain really used no hit speedrun strats like memory of grace, save and quit, and jumping on a chest to save time in a tutorial
Just stupid habits LMAO especially the chest thing cause the time save is so minor
There's a way to get to that snow teleporter by jumping off a cliff and killing yourself near a statue. That's the way I did it.
21 days. IM FUCKING EXCITED! And I know were to go.
My bro skipped radgons sorseal at the start at the start 💀💀💀
I have beaten Radahn. Quickest way now to access Mogwyn's Palance and defeat Mog? I don't have any fast travels as foolishly launched NG+..
Wouldn't it be faster to go through Ruin-strewn Precipice instead of getting the Dectus medallion?
Didn't they say be like level 120-150 for DLC you would be stomped at lvl10 no?
You don't need to go to the DLC at level 10. This is meant to showcase the shortest possible route to reach Mohg for people who don't want to invest too much time into preparing a character. You can always farm runes and get to a decent level in Mohgwyn Palace or go beat the other bosses.
Can you shorten the Radahn fight by making him jump into the sea at the start of phase 2 by standing on the waters edge?
I still haven’t fought Melania (cause I can’t find her) and still missing some other bosses. Gotta kill them before the dlc
Man I am level 200 on my first save... I will have to do it all over again
That's fine. Overlevelling won't affect the experience as much as going into further New Game cycles.
@@ainrun thanks man, I appreciate this reply 🫡
Out of curiosity, which would be faster Dectus->Radahn or Ranni->Radahn. I know you went Dectus for the Bell Bearing.
i'm not as good so I think i'm gonna need the greyroll runes. also ER on my PC runs on 40 fps. LMAO I would dodge but it would fps drop so my input won't get read and i'll get hit.
What Interactive map is shown at 7:49?
mapgenie
Do you find alexander in the radahn fight if you dont smack him?
yes
I’m going in on ng+ I refuse to play any higher 😂
I’ve done everything I can think of on this save though
Do I need to beat both bosses on new game plus? To enter DLC?
yes
Waiting for the dlc is killing me 😂
I am exactly in that situation, 2 years without playing, and in NG+6, very far from the place to start DLC.
Still a lot of time left to prepare
I didn’t even know there was another way to get to mohg other than varre 💀
Yes. Teleportation portal in Consecrated Snowfield.
i think going through white mask varres questline is a tad faster in my opinion.
Great point! That's exactly what I did!
Does anyone know if playing new game + makes a difference? I beat Elden Ring and started new game +...do I have to fight these guys again?
Yes, you will need to access the Cocoon for which you need to beat Mohg again, and Radahn is required to progress some events in the story.
From start? I don't know. From ng1, like 20 mins.
I've followed these steps but the portal is not active for me. I've activated the grand lift of decatus
same, turns out u gotta go kill the Magma Wyrm then rest at bonfire after you leave boss area and talk to melins at grace, then it will activate
@RAYED2008 thanks bro it worked you've just potentially saved me a few days time 🤣
@YTverZa Im glad 😄 this is the hardest video game DLC to start. A new form of of difficulty for fromsoft💀
You have to rest at a grace in Altus to trigger the festival, you don't have to kill the magma wyrm.
speedrun killing dahmer is insane
Step one: varres quest Step 2: mogh
Step 3 Radahn which requires Altus access
I beat the game, haven’t gone to new game +, can I enter dlc?
Yes
I already have 7 characters ready for the dlc, 2 of them are on ng
So if I beat mohg and radahn already when the dlc comes I’ll have access or do you think I’ll have to start another run I’m already on max new game
Pretty sure you can just go to egg. Would be crazy to force a new playthrough.
You can access the DLC on any NG, but it will be significantly harder if you are on Max NG.
@@ainrun by max do you mean NG+7?
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 I’ve beaten the game with this specific character about 13 times but thank you guys
@@amorphisbrito9937 max level?
For fucks sake I killed Varre at the start of the playthrough on my NG+
can you do build videos to prepare for dlc😅
Soon™
Don’t you need to beat Radagon as well?
No, the main game's ending won't have any effect on the DLC
I know what your going for but doing this dlc with this character is going to be pretty damn rough most likely lol
Take this with a grain of salt kids, going into the DLC at lvl 46 will not be an enjoyable experience. He knows these bosses in and out and can kill them easily.
Here is a new challenge/video for you: Use your lvl 46 character into the DLC BLIND.
Eh, varre’s quest can get you in the dlc like 2-4 hours into the run for an average-everyday player, depending on their competence with certain early game bosses.
Obviously we don’t have the full context, but there will be a new separate levelling system unique to the DLC. Miyazaki referred to it as similar to Attack Power in Sekiro. He also vaguely talks about how it will be easier for lower level people to enter the DLC, but also harder for higher level players with high-end builds
If it works as to be believed, then your maingame ‘Rune Level’ won’t matter in the DLC area - but that’s not to say that you still won’t gain Runes by killing enemies in that area. The Runes you’ll gain will still be effective towards attributes you need to (e.g.) wield certain items, but the your actual Rune Level won’t affect the DLC.
The purpose, presumably, behind this decision was to make sure everyone enters the DLC on a “base” power level, whether you’re RL14 or RL180. It shouldn’t matter. The DLC-specific scaling will be responsible for this method.
If it works as theorised, then this is also a genius way to improve upon Fromsoft’s prior DLC-entry issues. In prior games, the DLCs were scaled to lategame, forcing the players to trudge through the entire games’ content to be at an adequate level for DLC. For this DLC, that shouldn’t be an issue - instead, allowing the players to comfortably experience the DLC as early as they want or as late as they want, without worrying about what level you are in the basegame.
This new change will help players, who don’t have time to play games, to be able to reach and still intuitively experience the DLC as a completely separate experience to the basegame - without ever suffering from their lower Rune Level
@@HeevaEgo True, forgot about the seperate leveling system.
I’ve completed the game and don’t want to ng+ can I still access it
Yes, as long as you’ve beaten Mohg
As long as you have Mohg and Radahn defeated on the same NG cycle you are on, you can access it.
@@ainrun nice one , I have never done a NG I just have my first playthriugh and completed every boss on it
I wish i didn’t do a NG+
You dont have to beat radahn you can beat godrick to trigger varre at rose church
You have to beat Radahn to get into the DLC.
Ain, why it sound like you used AI to make your voiceover? 😁
I'm wondering that, too. No way he sounds like THAT IRL.
@@atlantic_loveyou can hear his normal voice during the Radahn and Mohg fight.
It's not AI, his narration voice is just way too formal.
@@arhamsaa I agree. The term "AI" is bandied about way, way too much on RUclips and Reddit. Clowns that don't even know what it is.
The only thing aboug this is you actually have to be cracked to get anywhere near his time. The average player is gonna take way longer
Is this the voice of Elden Ring?
OMG, you can use the horse in the Radahn fight? TIL!
Yea. Been like that since launch.
@hybridmomentz Fire Giant as well.
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187only if you don’t use the Alexander sunmon
@@samhasnoplan7631 still counts as a major boss you can use Torrent for. It’s on you if you stupidly use weak Alexander.
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 Alexander was the reason I 1st tried fire giant on my very first playthrough, stop talking shit about my boy. Would rather use him than a horse who gets stunlocked for 4 years by just simply turning 180 degrees.
ok my trick is kind of lame but I used a hack to get unlimited runes & I used a guide to get the sword of night & flame early in the game. I killed Bernahl to get his armor kit and become tanky and I was able to create the build that I need to almost one shot all the bosses. In Caria Manor you can get +2 Somber Smithing Stones by killing giant hands and upgrade the weapon pretty quickly. Then you can also go to talk to the Miriel Pastor of Vows (big turtle) at the Church of Vows to buy the Carian Greatsword. You should be able with this combination of weapon/spell to do the quests in this video without having his gigachad gaming skills. Thank you.
Boring.
… And die there in few seconds 😂
Sooo..If you want to play the dlc you have to start an entire new gameplay with a character you have to build by 0, damn😅
Bro. You have never done a level 1 run. Hahaha. Call your self a gamer. Who even are you at this point…🤭🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴 jk
Like this vid it’s helping players.
This Is the worst mode to start the DLC.
My top 3 hated bosses are Elemer, Mohg and Niall because of the downtime on their attacks
kinda like that
W vid
Tried booting this up today, got the plat and around 300 hours.wtf have they done to this ps5 performance in this game.its unplayable now. Absolute disgrace
AINwave
You killed Alexander how could you im disliking
What he drops helps a lot in a game like Elden ring
My personal best is 52
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Not gonna play this...
please play it
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Hello
@@ainrun ?
I don’t know why anyone would want to just rush through this game. Just enjoy it and absorb everything you can while you explore and find awesome weapons and fight terrifying creatures.
So i can suffer less
@@skiez7430But suffering is part of the experience! lol