Don’t want to waste ingredients? Load up on a few rare pots, unequip weapons and summon mimic tear. You fight with your weapons while your mimic throws pots. Like giving the halo marines rockets and having them ride shotgun on the warthog.
FINALLY! Volcano Pots are one of the easiest to farm and not only wreck enemies but stagger nearly everything. Been loving these pots since my first run.
Same! I actually went back to the Volcano area to farm more of the rock a couple times. It’s super easy to pick up 100+ volcanic rock! My favorite pot for sure.
@@andrewrchooven1996I just recently discovered the power of volcano pots and they won me two really difficult boss fights that I would've lost otherwise
The crystal darts only send them into a fervor and they attack what ever is closest, meaning if you are the only enemy around they will still attack you, the bewitching branch get them to fight for you
Well, we've known about using sleeping pots to deal with the godskin duo... right? I still don't use them even though they're good. The good news is...If you've never crafted anything but have tons of play time hours, you most likely have HELLA ingredients to make a lot of these pots.
12:20 For the miranda powder, you can just farm that and altus bloom at the same place. From the abandoned coffin site of grace near the perfumer's ruins, you can find around 4-5 giant miranda flowers and a bunch of smaller ones in the water next to the ruins. After getting those you can just go to the ruins, pick up the altus bloom, and then kill the additional miranda flowers in the ruins so you get both ingredients in 1 run.
Especially frustrating because I pick up EVERYTHING but haven’t crafted anything. Just saving ingredients until I need them, so you’d think 100 hours of resource gathering you should be able to craft a decent amount of anything. Nope, I mean I don’t need to farm rowa fruit but that’s about it. Mostly pissed about the inexplicable item rarity why are there only like 5 poison curing boluses available to buy in the entire game. Bizarre that you can respec 3x as much as a basic cure poison (not including incants/crafting)
Odd because I just reached capital of ash before deciding to gather all the crafting stuff I missed...discovered i have soooo many crafting materials. Only thing I needed to farm was some land octopus ovaries. @monhi64
@@monhi64 I don't think you're picking up as much stuff as you think you are. I don't farm at all, and I make extra pots to put in storage, any throwing knife I want, and any grease or arrows I need. The only things I run out of is livers, ovaries, and the very limited materials like arterial leaves and jar shards.
I highly recommend using sleep on rune bears and lobsters .... it allows you to burst them down before they can do much to you. Those 2 enemies used to be a huge pain in the ass, but I always have a couple sleep pots on me for whenever they show up.
But then the question is why even fight them in the first place. I do know there’s at least a couple rune bears that have a unique drop, that’s arguably worth going after. Not sure if there’s any reason to target the lobsters though
"Well begun is half done" | Gathering all your materials as soon as they are accessible and creating stockpiles before taking on the bosses helps make a run like this feel less of a grind. This has been an amazing run on Twitch. Thank you for making a guide for YT as well!
Swarm pots are amazing too if you build for them. Almost 1000 damage against enemies that are immune to bleed. Against enemies that can be bled and it’s a wrap.
This isn't a great recommendation for pot only runs imo, since an oil pot will increase the next instance of fire damage by 50%, but you use up a pot for that increase. So say a fire pot does 100 damage, with a oil pot and then a fire pot, it's 150, but with 2 fire pots instead of the 1 oil and 1 fire, it's 200.
I do like to keep some volcano pots and throwing daggers around even if I'm doing a ranged spell run. The pots are fantastic for cheesing the Avatars in the Haligtree. For the Avatar surrounded by the knights and mounted crossbows just get passed it, rest to reset the area, climb up the ladder, and angle it to catch the Avatar on the fringe of it while stepping back as not to get hit. Will take it out in short order. The other Avatar wait until you get to the grace by Malenia and take the elevator up. Wait until it is walking underneath you and you can pelt it with the pots retreating into the elevator to avoid the attacks. Also watch out cause some soldiers could drop down and attack you from behind. That's how you cheese some of the most pain-in-the-butt Avatars.
Yeah consumables were my main focus going into elden ring, seeing as they were near useless for 80% of every soulsbourne game barring DS2 I have always had an obsession with making them work, I saw that Fromsoft were changing the way they were handled, limiting the number of pots you had, which made me sure that they would be more effective individually. This led me to choose bandit as my first player character, not for the bleed builds but because I intended to be crafting a lot and needed a high drop chance (not that this really mattered, as most of the crafting materials you will be using already have high drop rates even without high arcane, and the hard to farm ones are still a pain to grind out with arcane boosted). I thouroughly enjoy consumables in elden ring, every character I make uses some form of consumable, depending on my stat spread, leading to some of the most entertaining battlemage builds. I just hope that one day fromsoft adds a baltic sling as a ranged weapon and allows us to load throwables into it, honestly they already have so much groundwork prepared for it, you could use ruin fragments as the basic ammo for it, it would give bombs a faster travel velocity and in general making them more efficient and fun to use, an alchemist grenadier build would be so fun, make some ammo that can heal or buff your team mates, become the status effect king.
A great place to get smoldering butterflies and thin beast bones is the eastern table land in liurnia. It's near the camp where you get the fire cleanse me spell.
Great video, only thing I'd add is the the poison spraymist perfume. It is similar to fetid pot poison where it ticks do way more at 24 a tick, but also lasts longer than fetid pot poison at the cost of FP usage. It totals at over 2k damage I believe.
230 hours after starting elden ring i decided to try using those jar consumables, since I'm always used to avoid consuming those (specially on the ever-autosaving from software games). I learned the actual mechanics and looks very nice
@Casper's Studio did it happen to you that you amassed a "high" amount of jars and flasks of perfume and never used them because they pretty much seem "consumable"? I've read about the blood perfume, but never used it
Part of game’s balance is focused on consumables. Ditto summons. Fact that some people ignore these and still claim the game is too hard is a joke. A few more tips: 1. make sure to kill the slugs when farming smoldering butterflies. They can drop another one and will probably die in one hit. 2 With fetid pots most people already probably guessed, but using them can activate Kindred of Rot’s Exultation and the mushroom crown. 3. Trina’s don’t respawn so use sleep pots and arrows sparingly. Honestly I recommend the arrows rather than the pot for this one because you craft more arrows and the rain of arrows ash of war consumes a single ammunition but drops a barrage on the target. 4. Arteria leaf is another that doesn’t respawn so be sparring with them. 5. Don’t sleep on the ironjar aromatic. It gives 40% physical damage reduction, boost status resistances by 45%, and makes enemy weapons bounce off of you, making it great for crowd control since you can essentially ignore incoming attacks and do a big counter of your own, like a big AoE spell or a charged heavy or weapon skill. Especially if you also pop the baldachin’s blessing.
The best mushroom farm spot I know is right outside the very first catacomb (stormfront catcombs I think). Just walk out from the grace to the catacomb entrance and there's 2 mushrooms you can pickup
There's actually a great mushroom farming spot in Limgrave, way at the North of Agheel Lake. Just keep going past the spot where the NPC invades you, and you'll find this shady area with a TON of them, easily accessed.
Haha, I thought everybody spammed fan daggers, volcanos and kukris. Splattering a dragon's head up close with fans feels and sounds good. I use kukris to soften up fat targets as they approach and build up some bleed if applicable and the raw damage ain't even bad for the effort. The range on kukris always surprises me too.
The new Great Jar Helm from the DLC does better damage to pots than the regular jar helm. The regular boosts your regular jars at 15% and the Great Jar Helm boosts your regular jars AND your hefty pots at 16%. So its best to go get that Great Jar Helm and use that.
I like to start games as a wretch, because of the great starting stat spread that makes it possible to respec into any build you want. Fire pots are a great asset in the early game, before I find a good weapon and armor.
So, I'm just going to openly admit that I'm cheap when it comes to Death Birds, I make Holy Pots, and I basically never use all of them to kill it... >.>... YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME FOR THIS!!! If I had a dirtier move for Crucible Knights, I'd revel in that even more, because I ain't about to put up with their shit! Edit: The character that I'm furthest with primarily uses archery. and I collect cookbooks to have every type of fletched Bone Arrow that I can. I want to use weaknesses, and I already have the Bone Bow, thank you for asking.
For Aeonian Butterflies, I think a late-game spot is in those ponds of rot at the Root of the Haligtree. In the huge area before crossing the gap heading towards the Milicent encounter. I think it is dropped by those "baby" servants of Rot that are submerged and only comes out when you are close to them.
Consumables saved my ass many times on the back half of play through #1 (still on first play through 🕺) . I'm getting better with combat mechanics, but until I can beat bosses head up , no summons, I will certainly continue using pots . I've yet to use any greases though
The reason people don't use consumables is that you have to know which ones the bosses are weak to, otherwise you wind up wasting a lot time and resources trying to guess your way through. Unless you follow a guide, it's just not worth it.
Plsion Spraymist is my go-to consumable, it has insane Poison buildup of a special Deadly Poison that is STRONGER than Scarlet Rot from weapons (0.21% Max HP)+21. Its Poison buildup works like this, its ticks 5 times a second for 7 seconds. Its base is 26 and goes up to about 34 at 45 Arcane. That my not seem like mich, but remember that is each tick (and there are 5 of those per second), and 1 full second is roughly 170 Poison buildup. These things are great even on builds with low Arcane, my Strength/Intelligence build, which has the lowest Arcane stat of 7, was able to Poison Fire Giant with just two. Any attack that leaves the target still is a great opportunity to use them. At 35 ish Arcane Maliketh was quickly Poisoned while not spending much time in it. Its not too difficult to make use of them to delete 1k health from bosses who can be Poisoned.
Because consumables are a hassle to use. you need to farm the mats, find the cracked, ritual, and hefty pots, find the cookbook, then craft, then assign them to a button that is shared by your flasks + other items. then when you run out after chucking a bunch at a boss you need to restart the process. oh and you can only carry a few so if the boss is still alive after you use all of them, well, you better have a good weapon to finish the fight. another point is that ashes of war sort of outclass consumables. some AoWs deal a certain element type or can stance break bosses easily. and it doesnt require half the amount of prep that it does to use consumables
It's so funny that this video came into my recommended because I was literally just thinking yesterday that I never use consumables in any souls games because I never want to rely on something that's finite. After watching this video, I think I'm going to give it a shot on the playthrough I just started.
I’m not interested in doing a consumables only run, but Idefinitely use pots. They are great projectiles and deal great damage. Will consider the rest of these options as well.
When I start a new game I sell every craft material to get leveled up, but after I save every feather and bone and when I got the volcano pot I'd spend an hour getting the rocks of the mountain and its the only material you need besides the cracked pot, so you are absolutely right about the volcano pot, when I first used one my jaw dropped
Just found your channel! This is so cool, I was like you I hardly ever bothered to use throwing pots in my playthroughs. I have always used bows and arrows, and other things like the cotton balls to break falls, etc. But I never really looked into pots at all! Can't wait to try some of these, thanks for sharing the info
youtube's algo is so weird. it's showing me this because i watched a movie with eddie redmane the other day. now i'm seeing stuff about redmane firepots.
wow, excellent. Thank you very much for this. I am very confused on the cracked pot stuff and consumables. Not really very understandable. How ever, you just helped me on a design build I want to make as a Pirate. The Jelly Fish shield I had NO idea was there. Will add that to the build as well.
As far as I know you can get infinite aeonian butterflies in the aeonia swamp in caleid. I might be wrong and sometimes you need to rest and search around a dozen times to get them but eventually you will find some just flying above the swamp. Little tipp, for me the roots around Commander O'Neil was where I found the most aeonian Butterflies.
No. If there was any respawning spot for aoenian butterflies, the pvp community would have found it a while ago, since rot pots and rot bolts are super common in pvp, especially invasions. Instead, if you want to have a supply of them, you have to farm basilisks in the lake of rot.
“The new rivers of blood” gotta admit i love the nerfs it received even tho i was the one using it and all my friends were complaining, sometimes even at coliseums people would leave the match cuz i had one but they didn’t realize I’m not a spammer, killing someone while not using the skill even once always feels menacing because i know they were worried abt my OP ability when they should’ve been worried about me
Yes using consumables is something too many player sleep on. With consumables you can play like batman and always have the right one on your belt to counter whatever tough enemy or boss you are fighting. Just having the right pot and weapon grease to max your damage on a boss on top of using the right liver to counter the types of damage they do can really help a lot.
Holy water / sacred order pots are also great against those who live in death - they stop them from ressurecting and a simple sacred water pot one shots most of them throughout the game. Bloodboone pot can be really awesome. I used it with the guts sword + lion claw + physic that increases poise dmg in pve. 2 lions claw will break most things poise with the physik, so you can brute force alot of bosses with lion claw chains / pancakes.
I have been following your All quests guide and am on episode 4, i have also been doing my own thing and im on about 110 hours this playthrough, I do like using pots and this has convinced me im doing something correct for once ha ha.
Frankly, you’d want Vigor, and the stats that any of your pots scale with. In many cases, that’s Strength and Dexterity, in others it’s Intelligence, and in the case of two pots, it’s Faith. So some of everything really, though you don’t need that much Faith. Even with low Faith and the right talismans, they melt Deathbirds. With the Golden Epitaph’s buff, they oneshot Deathbirds.
Right, now what's more fun, to use a melee weapon with a semi-complex move set, respecting enemy attack patterns, untilizing guard counters/parries/blocking and all that jazz, looking for an opportunity to strike back or just throw pots at things?
Ive found Throwing knives great against malenia aswel, not to hit her but to trigger her more tricky moves to dodge from a distance or to bait her into attacking you as attacking her is risky
I've only been watching this for a minute and a half and I have no idea how accurate this is, but the presentation is really good so I just wanna keep watching
FROST POTS STUN MELANIA OUT OF WATERFOWL DANCE And a lot of bosses will dodge throwables so using glinstones is an easy way around that as they dont dodge the projectiles.
These games are limitless with viable play options. If you don’t want to level up you can put those items you found to good use. The perfume bottles are cool options too. Your imagination is the limit.
dont sleep on the oil pots. only require 1 material to make melted mushroom that is and throwing them makes the next fire damage slap hard. Crazy combo vs the tree avatars
arteria leaves can be farmed at the giants gravepost, from the giant across, using silver tear mask and silver scarab, I've been using uplifting aromatic from the start, it's sooo good. Great videos btw
I, for one, never use any consumables on ANY game I play. I just think to myself "what if I need them later, when tougher situations arise?" Well right now I'm stuck at Commander Niall, with my useless garbage build ( lvl 87, perks put up completely randomly, as it is my first time ever playing Elden Ring, or any Souls game really ). Failed a good 100 tries already, wasted all of my Bewitching Branches and still didn't kill him, weapons or spirit ashes don't do anything to the guy lol. Perhaps it's about time to start using consumables in game :)
in your experience/s what pots will melt mellinia blade of miguella. i have only gotten her into her second phase once and she ended my existence insanely quickly
answer because it's an order of magnitude more difficult to test and experiment the throwables, let along figure out how to manage them in your inventory
It's so weird to me how consumables are a staple of all the Dark Souls games, but as soon as Elden Ring comes out so few people use them. There's a very small niche of people who actually uses consumables to anywhere near their true potential. Is it because there are more weapon options now? Weapons with innate status effects and elemental damage? They're not around in the early game, though, and the crafting kit is at the Church of Elleh right at the start, and plenty of crafting books are available with little work from the start, so I don't think it's the weapon diversity. Is it the crafting aspect itself? I don't think so, because you can pick up the same consumables all over the place, and people still don't use them. It's just weird!
One of my favorite builds was the walking conundrum. Str based katar wielding assassin who spammed flames of redmane (pre nerf rip) and specialized in consumables
Yea I been loving the volcano pots since day one. Just destroyed the hardest tree avatar In Caelid at level 70ish with only 4 volcano pots the other day. They are fun to farm too in the “Altus plateau loop” as I call it haha
the quickest way to farm fulgar bloom is probably by the minor erdtree in dragon barrow just jump off the cliff and respawn at the stake right next to them
I've always saved up consumables in almost every game I've ever played expecting to use them at some important time, then I never do. I just don't even think about using them, tragically.
Arcane for bleed/poison pots improves proc rate (and damage of flies) per pot. Dexterity is most recommendable for knives, if you got enough strength for jellyfish shield as he has, you got enough.
Good video! To mix and match i use these buffs and determination to whack sh*t out of of enemies on one to three hits... These pots and daggers offer great ranged option to hyper powerfull melee. After 500hrs still fun game
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Don’t want to waste ingredients? Load up on a few rare pots, unequip weapons and summon mimic tear. You fight with your weapons while your mimic throws pots.
Like giving the halo marines rockets and having them ride shotgun on the warthog.
Great analogy
I do this. Lol. Rot pots and poison pots are crazy good.
Great video!
This is a trick I used while playing BG2 with unlimited spell casting.
Solid advice
FINALLY! Volcano Pots are one of the easiest to farm and not only wreck enemies but stagger nearly everything. Been loving these pots since my first run.
Same! I actually went back to the Volcano area to farm more of the rock a couple times. It’s super easy to pick up 100+ volcanic rock! My favorite pot for sure.
Volcano pot, I am on ng+3 and never heard or used it. I better start using it now.
Same finally someone acknowledging the best pot in the game
Are they still good?
@@andrewrchooven1996I just recently discovered the power of volcano pots and they won me two really difficult boss fights that I would've lost otherwise
The crystal darts only send them into a fervor and they attack what ever is closest, meaning if you are the only enemy around they will still attack you, the bewitching branch get them to fight for you
only specific enemies
Only golems. There are very few. Mainly in dungeons
@@ThePorkchopExpress975 It's great for the twin burial watchdogs boss fight, get them to fight each other and you sit back and watch.
Well, we've known about using sleeping pots to deal with the godskin duo... right? I still don't use them even though they're good. The good news is...If you've never crafted anything but have tons of play time hours, you most likely have HELLA ingredients to make a lot of these pots.
12:20
For the miranda powder, you can just farm that and altus bloom at the same place. From the abandoned coffin site of grace near the perfumer's ruins, you can find around 4-5 giant miranda flowers and a bunch of smaller ones in the water next to the ruins. After getting those you can just go to the ruins, pick up the altus bloom, and then kill the additional miranda flowers in the ruins so you get both ingredients in 1 run.
Love the pots and perfumes. Problem is the best ones have limited numbers like living jar shard, arteria leaf, and this may mean farming.
Or dupping :D
Yeah, farming kinda sucks.
Especially frustrating because I pick up EVERYTHING but haven’t crafted anything. Just saving ingredients until I need them, so you’d think 100 hours of resource gathering you should be able to craft a decent amount of anything. Nope, I mean I don’t need to farm rowa fruit but that’s about it. Mostly pissed about the inexplicable item rarity why are there only like 5 poison curing boluses available to buy in the entire game. Bizarre that you can respec 3x as much as a basic cure poison (not including incants/crafting)
Odd because I just reached capital of ash before deciding to gather all the crafting stuff I missed...discovered i have soooo many crafting materials. Only thing I needed to farm was some land octopus ovaries. @monhi64
@@monhi64 I don't think you're picking up as much stuff as you think you are. I don't farm at all, and I make extra pots to put in storage, any throwing knife I want, and any grease or arrows I need. The only things I run out of is livers, ovaries, and the very limited materials like arterial leaves and jar shards.
I highly recommend using sleep on rune bears and lobsters .... it allows you to burst them down before they can do much to you. Those 2 enemies used to be a huge pain in the ass, but I always have a couple sleep pots on me for whenever they show up.
Never thought about using them on bears, good idea
But then the question is why even fight them in the first place. I do know there’s at least a couple rune bears that have a unique drop, that’s arguably worth going after. Not sure if there’s any reason to target the lobsters though
"Well begun is half done" | Gathering all your materials as soon as they are accessible and creating stockpiles before taking on the bosses helps make a run like this feel less of a grind. This has been an amazing run on Twitch. Thank you for making a guide for YT as well!
Swarm pots are amazing too if you build for them. Almost 1000 damage against enemies that are immune to bleed. Against enemies that can be bled and it’s a wrap.
I figured out early on that volcano pots absolutely WRECK those iron maiden enemies
I recommend you check out oil pots as a precursor to using fire pots. The consumable equivalent of cast Terra Magica before using other sorceries.
This isn't a great recommendation for pot only runs imo, since an oil pot will increase the next instance of fire damage by 50%, but you use up a pot for that increase. So say a fire pot does 100 damage, with a oil pot and then a fire pot, it's 150, but with 2 fire pots instead of the 1 oil and 1 fire, it's 200.
@@common_undead That is a fair assessment I hadn't considered. Thank you for sharing.
@@common_undead i guess if you want to go for aromatics or redmane pots its a viable idea at least
Does oil pot only help fire damage from cracked pots? Or is it any fire damage
@@jayquickscope4446 it boosts firedamage from all sources not only pots but only for 1 hit.
I do like to keep some volcano pots and throwing daggers around even if I'm doing a ranged spell run. The pots are fantastic for cheesing the Avatars in the Haligtree. For the Avatar surrounded by the knights and mounted crossbows just get passed it, rest to reset the area, climb up the ladder, and angle it to catch the Avatar on the fringe of it while stepping back as not to get hit. Will take it out in short order. The other Avatar wait until you get to the grace by Malenia and take the elevator up. Wait until it is walking underneath you and you can pelt it with the pots retreating into the elevator to avoid the attacks. Also watch out cause some soldiers could drop down and attack you from behind. That's how you cheese some of the most pain-in-the-butt Avatars.
I’ve just recently been using consumables after over an entire year of avidly playing the game. Rancor pots are some of my favorite thematically.
Yeah consumables were my main focus going into elden ring, seeing as they were near useless for 80% of every soulsbourne game barring DS2 I have always had an obsession with making them work, I saw that Fromsoft were changing the way they were handled, limiting the number of pots you had, which made me sure that they would be more effective individually.
This led me to choose bandit as my first player character, not for the bleed builds but because I intended to be crafting a lot and needed a high drop chance (not that this really mattered, as most of the crafting materials you will be using already have high drop rates even without high arcane, and the hard to farm ones are still a pain to grind out with arcane boosted).
I thouroughly enjoy consumables in elden ring, every character I make uses some form of consumable, depending on my stat spread, leading to some of the most entertaining battlemage builds.
I just hope that one day fromsoft adds a baltic sling as a ranged weapon and allows us to load throwables into it, honestly they already have so much groundwork prepared for it, you could use ruin fragments as the basic ammo for it, it would give bombs a faster travel velocity and in general making them more efficient and fun to use, an alchemist grenadier build would be so fun, make some ammo that can heal or buff your team mates, become the status effect king.
A great place to get smoldering butterflies and thin beast bones is the eastern table land in liurnia. It's near the camp where you get the fire cleanse me spell.
I killed Patches on my first run and never got to experience fan daggers, but wow they look strong!
Anyone looking for a challenge this is a fun one indeed. Cheers for the vod and idea cant wait to start an item only run!
One my like 30th play through, having a blast with only bow and craft ables. The most fun I've had honestly
There's something satisfying about getting 5k+ damage per throw with holy hand grenades vs Deathbirds, even if it is basically cheesing.
How is it cheesing?
Great video, only thing I'd add is the the poison spraymist perfume. It is similar to fetid pot poison where it ticks do way more at 24 a tick, but also lasts longer than fetid pot poison at the cost of FP usage. It totals at over 2k damage I believe.
Never thought about consumables before…I will give it a try right now.
Thank you so much for your kind words and generosity, also have fun you won't regret it, some of them are genuinely so powerful!!!
I have been raving about kukri and throwables for ages!
230 hours after starting elden ring i decided to try using those jar consumables, since I'm always used to avoid consuming those (specially on the ever-autosaving from software games).
I learned the actual mechanics and looks very nice
@Casper's Studio did it happen to you that you amassed a "high" amount of jars and flasks of perfume and never used them because they pretty much seem "consumable"?
I've read about the blood perfume, but never used it
Part of game’s balance is focused on consumables. Ditto summons. Fact that some people ignore these and still claim the game is too hard is a joke.
A few more tips:
1. make sure to kill the slugs when farming smoldering butterflies. They can drop another one and will probably die in one hit.
2 With fetid pots most people already probably guessed, but using them can activate Kindred of Rot’s Exultation and the mushroom crown.
3. Trina’s don’t respawn so use sleep pots and arrows sparingly. Honestly I recommend the arrows rather than the pot for this one because you craft more arrows and the rain of arrows ash of war consumes a single ammunition but drops a barrage on the target.
4. Arteria leaf is another that doesn’t respawn so be sparring with them.
5. Don’t sleep on the ironjar aromatic. It gives 40% physical damage reduction, boost status resistances by 45%, and makes enemy weapons bounce off of you, making it great for crowd control since you can essentially ignore incoming attacks and do a big counter of your own, like a big AoE spell or a charged heavy or weapon skill. Especially if you also pop the baldachin’s blessing.
I’m already a pothead irl. I guess I should just be me in game as well😂
The best mushroom farm spot I know is right outside the very first catacomb (stormfront catcombs I think). Just walk out from the grace to the catacomb entrance and there's 2 mushrooms you can pickup
There's actually a great mushroom farming spot in Limgrave, way at the North of Agheel Lake. Just keep going past the spot where the NPC invades you, and you'll find this shady area with a TON of them, easily accessed.
Haha, I thought everybody spammed fan daggers, volcanos and kukris. Splattering a dragon's head up close with fans feels and sounds good. I use kukris to soften up fat targets as they approach and build up some bleed if applicable and the raw damage ain't even bad for the effort. The range on kukris always surprises me too.
The new Great Jar Helm from the DLC does better damage to pots than the regular jar helm. The regular boosts your regular jars at 15% and the Great Jar Helm boosts your regular jars AND your hefty pots at 16%. So its best to go get that Great Jar Helm and use that.
I like to start games as a wretch, because of the great starting stat spread that makes it possible to respec into any build you want. Fire pots are a great asset in the early game, before I find a good weapon and armor.
So, I'm just going to openly admit that I'm cheap when it comes to Death Birds, I make Holy Pots, and I basically never use all of them to kill it... >.>... YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME FOR THIS!!! If I had a dirtier move for Crucible Knights, I'd revel in that even more, because I ain't about to put up with their shit!
Edit: The character that I'm furthest with primarily uses archery. and I collect cookbooks to have every type of fletched Bone Arrow that I can. I want to use weaknesses, and I already have the Bone Bow, thank you for asking.
Curious how you do against elden beast who is immune to most everything, or maliketh who doesn't stay in one spot.
For Aeonian Butterflies, I think a late-game spot is in those ponds of rot at the Root of the Haligtree. In the huge area before crossing the gap heading towards the Milicent encounter. I think it is dropped by those "baby" servants of Rot that are submerged and only comes out when you are close to them.
Consumables saved my ass many times on the back half of play through #1 (still on first play through 🕺) . I'm getting better with combat mechanics, but until I can beat bosses head up , no summons, I will certainly continue using pots . I've yet to use any greases though
Dom it’s been a blast watching you go through this run on Twitch. Keep up the great work!
yeah thanks bro
The reason people don't use consumables is that you have to know which ones the bosses are weak to, otherwise you wind up wasting a lot time and resources trying to guess your way through. Unless you follow a guide, it's just not worth it.
Plsion Spraymist is my go-to consumable, it has insane Poison buildup of a special Deadly Poison that is STRONGER than Scarlet Rot from weapons (0.21% Max HP)+21.
Its Poison buildup works like this, its ticks 5 times a second for 7 seconds. Its base is 26 and goes up to about 34 at 45 Arcane. That my not seem like mich, but remember that is each tick (and there are 5 of those per second), and 1 full second is roughly 170 Poison buildup.
These things are great even on builds with low Arcane, my Strength/Intelligence build, which has the lowest Arcane stat of 7, was able to Poison Fire Giant with just two. Any attack that leaves the target still is a great opportunity to use them. At 35 ish Arcane Maliketh was quickly Poisoned while not spending much time in it.
Its not too difficult to make use of them to delete 1k health from bosses who can be Poisoned.
Because consumables are a hassle to use. you need to farm the mats, find the cracked, ritual, and hefty pots, find the cookbook, then craft, then assign them to a button that is shared by your flasks + other items. then when you run out after chucking a bunch at a boss you need to restart the process. oh and you can only carry a few so if the boss is still alive after you use all of them, well, you better have a good weapon to finish the fight.
another point is that ashes of war sort of outclass consumables. some AoWs deal a certain element type or can stance break bosses easily. and it doesnt require half the amount of prep that it does to use consumables
Yeeeeeees, I love consumables, every time I do a playthrough, it's consumable/arrow/projectile heavy. Lol pots are my jam.
It's so funny that this video came into my recommended because I was literally just thinking yesterday that I never use consumables in any souls games because I never want to rely on something that's finite. After watching this video, I think I'm going to give it a shot on the playthrough I just started.
Now I'm inspired to play this game
I’m not interested in doing a consumables only run, but Idefinitely use pots. They are great projectiles and deal great damage. Will consider the rest of these options as well.
When I start a new game I sell every craft material to get leveled up, but after I save every feather and bone and when I got the volcano pot I'd spend an hour getting the rocks of the mountain and its the only material you need besides the cracked pot, so you are absolutely right about the volcano pot, when I first used one my jaw dropped
Just found your channel! This is so cool, I was like you I hardly ever bothered to use throwing pots in my playthroughs.
I have always used bows and arrows, and other things like the cotton balls to break falls, etc.
But I never really looked into pots at all!
Can't wait to try some of these, thanks for sharing the info
I ❤ POTS !! 😁 my motto is "If all else fails, cheese it from ABOVE!" 😁❤ Great video Dom!
youtube's algo is so weird. it's showing me this because i watched a movie with eddie redmane the other day. now i'm seeing stuff about redmane firepots.
wow, excellent. Thank you very much for this. I am very confused on the cracked pot stuff and consumables. Not really very understandable. How ever, you just helped me on a design build I want to make as a Pirate. The Jelly Fish shield I had NO idea was there. Will add that to the build as well.
Arcane is a gateway to some seriously OP and hilarious items
As far as I know you can get infinite aeonian butterflies in the aeonia swamp in caleid.
I might be wrong and sometimes you need to rest and search around a dozen times to get them but eventually you will find some just flying above the swamp.
Little tipp, for me the roots around Commander O'Neil was where I found the most aeonian Butterflies.
No. If there was any respawning spot for aoenian butterflies, the pvp community would have found it a while ago, since rot pots and rot bolts are super common in pvp, especially invasions. Instead, if you want to have a supply of them, you have to farm basilisks in the lake of rot.
@@common_undead thank you for the information, I felt like they would respawn, but apparently they don't.
“The new rivers of blood” gotta admit i love the nerfs it received even tho i was the one using it and all my friends were complaining, sometimes even at coliseums people would leave the match cuz i had one but they didn’t realize I’m not a spammer, killing someone while not using the skill even once always feels menacing because i know they were worried abt my OP ability when they should’ve been worried about me
Yes using consumables is something too many player sleep on. With consumables you can play like batman and always have the right one on your belt to counter whatever tough enemy or boss you are fighting. Just having the right pot and weapon grease to max your damage on a boss on top of using the right liver to counter the types of damage they do can really help a lot.
Holy water / sacred order pots are also great against those who live in death - they stop them from ressurecting and a simple sacred water pot one shots most of them throughout the game.
Bloodboone pot can be really awesome. I used it with the guts sword + lion claw + physic that increases poise dmg in pve. 2 lions claw will break most things poise with the physik, so you can brute force alot of bosses with lion claw chains / pancakes.
I have been following your All quests guide and am on episode 4, i have also been doing my own thing and im on about 110 hours this playthrough, I do like using pots and this has convinced me im doing something correct for once ha ha.
Great video. Learned a lot!
Learning that malenias waterfowl dance could be interrupted with small frozen pots was when I learned I had to use everything in my arsenal
If you guys don’t know. This is a really great game.
What’s the best stat mix for this? Do we need high Arcane?
Frankly, you’d want Vigor, and the stats that any of your pots scale with. In many cases, that’s Strength and Dexterity, in others it’s Intelligence, and in the case of two pots, it’s Faith.
So some of everything really, though you don’t need that much Faith. Even with low Faith and the right talismans, they melt Deathbirds. With the Golden Epitaph’s buff, they oneshot Deathbirds.
Thanks so much
You may need Arcane if you wish to farm for rot pots.
The silver scarab talisman will be helpful as well.
Right, now what's more fun, to use a melee weapon with a semi-complex move set, respecting enemy attack patterns, untilizing guard counters/parries/blocking and all that jazz, looking for an opportunity to strike back or just throw pots at things?
Dom I love you!💖🤟 I been searching so long for a video pumping up how good items can be!
where do you get all your cracked pots from? are they limited in the game?
Ive found Throwing knives great against malenia aswel, not to hit her but to trigger her more tricky moves to dodge from a distance or to bait her into attacking you as attacking her is risky
I've only been watching this for a minute and a half and I have no idea how accurate this is, but the presentation is really good so I just wanna keep watching
FROST POTS STUN MELANIA OUT OF WATERFOWL DANCE
And a lot of bosses will dodge throwables so using glinstones is an easy way around that as they dont dodge the projectiles.
thank you! now i know what all these things i’ve been hoarding are used for!
This has been a revelation to me. I‘ll try this 🎉 thanks
Didn't realize this until Lydia hit me that op pot every time I healed
These games are limitless with viable play options. If you don’t want to level up you can put those items you found to good use. The perfume bottles are cool options too. Your imagination is the limit.
dont sleep on the oil pots. only require 1 material to make melted mushroom that is and throwing them makes the next fire damage slap hard. Crazy combo vs the tree avatars
arteria leaves can be farmed at the giants gravepost, from the giant across, using silver tear mask and silver scarab, I've been using uplifting aromatic from the start, it's sooo good. Great videos btw
The Elden Beast and Malenia would have been better boss fights to showcase since they are difficult.
When i Saw they added crafting and crafting books i knee something was up ,just have been to busy exploring to try it out
I wish we could just flip chimichangas during boss fights
great content my friend thanks for the idea :D
Thanks for compiling such loas source of information for our pleasure. Amazing job
the perumers in shaded castle have a pretty high drop rate of x5 miranda powder and budding cavemoss + you can get their set
I, for one, never use any consumables on ANY game I play. I just think to myself "what if I need them later, when tougher situations arise?" Well right now I'm stuck at Commander Niall, with my useless garbage build ( lvl 87, perks put up completely randomly, as it is my first time ever playing Elden Ring, or any Souls game really ). Failed a good 100 tries already, wasted all of my Bewitching Branches and still didn't kill him, weapons or spirit ashes don't do anything to the guy lol.
Perhaps it's about time to start using consumables in game :)
in your experience/s what pots will melt mellinia blade of miguella. i have only gotten her into her second phase once and she ended my existence insanely quickly
Good luck you will beat her. Patience
Always take advantage of boosting item find from both consumables and items and arcane when going on farming runs!
Nothing is more fun than farming for consumables.
Cool accent, straight forward, friendly and creative build for the video! I vibe with the style.
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because it's an order of magnitude more difficult to test and experiment the throwables, let along figure out how to manage them in your inventory
It's so weird to me how consumables are a staple of all the Dark Souls games, but as soon as Elden Ring comes out so few people use them. There's a very small niche of people who actually uses consumables to anywhere near their true potential.
Is it because there are more weapon options now? Weapons with innate status effects and elemental damage? They're not around in the early game, though, and the crafting kit is at the Church of Elleh right at the start, and plenty of crafting books are available with little work from the start, so I don't think it's the weapon diversity.
Is it the crafting aspect itself? I don't think so, because you can pick up the same consumables all over the place, and people still don't use them.
It's just weird!
One of my favorite builds was the walking conundrum. Str based katar wielding assassin who spammed flames of redmane (pre nerf rip) and specialized in consumables
Thank for ur vids you have an amazing way of bringing & building them !
I would love using pots, but on PC it's a nightmare. Scrolling through items to find the right one and sacrificing easy access to your health pot.
Assign them to the pouch in the main menu, then press triangle or Y in-game to use them
Yea I been loving the volcano pots since day one. Just destroyed the hardest tree avatar In Caelid at level 70ish with only 4 volcano pots the other day. They are fun to farm too in the “Altus plateau loop” as I call it haha
Consumables SHOULD be good, that's why they're consumable! And yet most are lackluster at later levels
the quickest way to farm fulgar bloom is probably by the minor erdtree in dragon barrow just jump off the cliff and respawn at the stake right next to them
Great video Dom,love your channel
The butterfly's respawn after you die!
Dang well put together guide my guy
Thank you and coodoos
I've always saved up consumables in almost every game I've ever played expecting to use them at some important time, then I never do. I just don't even think about using them, tragically.
Butterflys respawn actually from what ive seen recently
Arteria leaves are all over the Mountaintops of the Giants
Great stuff 👏
Any recommended stats to boost, aside from str/dex for the knives? I heard him mention Arcane, but not sure why?
Arcane for bleed/poison pots improves proc rate (and damage of flies) per pot.
Dexterity is most recommendable for knives, if you got enough strength for jellyfish shield as he has, you got enough.
@@SCh1m3ra Thanks for the follow-up and clarification!
does this work with any kind of character build? I am playing an int build and when i threw a volcano pot, the damage is so low
Good video! To mix and match i use these buffs and determination to whack sh*t out of of enemies on one to three hits... These pots and daggers offer great ranged option to hyper powerfull melee. After 500hrs still fun game
This would be sick for a villager build where you just use a wooden shield and a normal dagger
thanks dom :) hope you´re fine. see you on twitch ✌