Time to kick maidens and chew through arrows, and he's all out of maidens. Discussion thread : www.reddit.com/r/ymfah/comments/udcqry/thread_how_to_make_a_bow_only_build_in_elden_ring/?
@@myprogram3067 You can ride Torrent the whole way around the tower to it. It's very safe, and the stone arches can be platformed across with double jump.
For anyone who wants to shred large bosses, you can get the "Rain of Arrows" ash that can go on almost any bow. Rains down a dozen arrows of whatever type you just fired at the cost of just one arrow... It doesn't neuter the damage and still inflicts a ton of status. Enjoy instantly bleeding bosses.
Another good reason to go to Mohgwyns Palace early on, is that the imprisoned Merchant there sells infinite blood roses meaning you can get stacks of bleed arrows/bolts pretty easily
@@windflier1684 run through the tunnel and out the other side to the site of grace. Then come in from that side hugging the left (not quite to the wall just drop off the ledge and follow it). And you can get to him without pulling the sanguine nobles!
Love how Elden Ring has, almost, every glitch from the past games: the boss cheeses from dark souls 2, the wrong warp from ds remastered and the bow move set swap from ds 3. Just amazing.
Fun fact about the Mohg emblem; unlike warping, it has no combat restriction. So you can keep it on your hotbar and use it as a bootleg homeward bone to get out of places, although it wont stop any status effects/fill your bars.
@@brandylshey9367Ok, left hand bow, right hand cannon. Two hand the bow, then charge an arrow, as if you wanted to fire. Then, instead of letting go to fire the arrow, press the button to use an item that gives you a Yes or No prompt. When you press that button the bow should aoutmatically fire the cannons ammo. And you need to have both arrows and the bolts you want to fire equipped.
to EVERYONE watching this video! It has been fixed via 1.05 Quote: "Fixed a bug in which arrows and bolts that did not match the type of long-range weapon could be released in certain procedures."
@@barkerbarks2537 NK took me so long the first time beating him. Several playthroughs later, muscle memory made me beat him the first time. He is absolutely a boss you need to learn the pattern and take your time to beat. Elden ring seems like there is no real pattern to bosses like there was before. Its just burst them down before they can kill you. There is next to no window on some bosses attacks, especially if you get knocked down. I feel the knockdown mechanic punishes you way to hard for how fast some of the bosses move. I love the game, but if you don't do some overpowered build you have a bad time on some of these multi fight bosses, or ones that constantly attack. There are however quite a few that are fair and not hard, but too many of the multi-mini boss boss rooms they don't leave a window to attack. So the game feels built around either 1 shotting the bosses or having someone tank while someone else attacks be a summon or an spirit
Just a heads up to all OP early aficionados you can still do the bridge jump/skip in Volcano Manor. It's just harder and you have to aim a little more to the right.
Came here to post this. It took me a solid 5 minutes but if you really want a +7, it's still the way to go. The only other alternative at that point in the game would be to kill godskin noble, which would be possible with the right strat, but probably more trouble than the bridge still.
In case anyone might try getting upgrades early: The volcano manor jump skip is still possible, but it is VERY precise. You will want to go as much to the right as possible and jump at the last moment possible, basically
Ymfah: “In this ‘no walking’ challenge I will not even use ladders even though it’s technically climbing and not walking” Also ymfah: “The game considers this literal cannon a bow so it counts I promise”
@@Exoskel2 he is? Even in the parts where he talks (the "Thank you dark souls" parts I think) I can't tell he's Korean Maybe cuz I never heard a Korean person's voice before
For me, who is on his first playthrough and has just reached mountaintops of giants, hearing the old 'you are maidenless' feels great as it shows just how far I've come
Watch it now while you can, folks! F1 are absolutely rabid about copyright striking anyone who plays their theme. Like you can't even have the music turned on while streaming the F1 videogame!!!
I love how much effort ymfah will go through just to put a bit in the vid, where he's like oh shit I can't do the thing then goes on to restart from scratch fucking legend.
Yep, the first boss I fought in the open world was a big fuck off dragon. No way in hell I could've beaten that melee but my starting bow and about 90 arrows later it was dead. Even hiding behind cover to avoid the flames it was still a brutal fight. Never played a ranged character in Soulsborne before but my Samurai is getting far more worth out of the bow than the Uchi. Buying arrows is actually of greater benefit than spending runes on levels atm, which puts an extremely interesting twist on things.
For the Ancient Somber Stone, instead of having to wait for the 3 invasions, you can just kill Magnus the Beast Claw in the ruins before the bridge to Mount Gelmir and go back to Varre and that'll count it. For those who don't know.
They don't! Bows deal good damage at good range, they build up statuses quick and allow for relative safety. Hell, on specific builds, bows can crest 1200 damage (no RTSR required)
@@Data-AnalystSera in pvp it's really easy to dodge the arrows and in pve the arrows themselves don't do much dmg you just have to wait till the poison does the work also scarlet rot and sleep arrows would be very powerful but their craft needs materials that are incredibly difficult to farm
@@Data-AnalystSera Eh, doing normal runs with a bow sucks especially since anything bigger than a shortbow has no running or rolling attacks and are just slow in general. there's also the thing of it generally being really expensive and a lot of bosses won't let you stay far away for very long
@@Data-AnalystSera lol I play bow, they’re mid at best. Lock on is atrocious with about 15% of arrows hitting a competent player It takes about 8-9 arrows to kill a proper 125 build It takes a strength/dual nagitaka /any long pokey build one single powerstances lunge to take you out, one single roll catch/hit and you’re done, vs 9 arrows No viable bows scale in arcane, so while bleed can be inflicted from one power stances attack with melee, you can’t even make an occult shortbow, making pvp status take forever and incredibly weak via bow. Literally damn near everything got buffed last patch, and the bow which was already considered underpowered, was untouched. That’s a direct power slide. Bows are decent for certain bosses that allow you to just dodge+jumpshot backwards and rarely get hit (beast clergy man, mohg) but other bosses are way harder than most builds Not unworkable in pve, but definitely a poor choice for pvp. It could be argued they were workable before the last patch, but damn near every weapon beats it 1 on 1 now w the buffed recoveries. Bow pvp RUclipsrs make it look workable and viable, but 90% of their opponents are just bad/using joke builds, and not showing when a competent meta build ends them in 20 seconds. They genuinely need a huge buff
Honestly, I don't know what y'all quite mean. I played through the game using only a bow, it was quite good. The damage sat between a cool 200-300, which isn't a lot but the speed, range, and frequency of arrows meant I could pepper bosses non stop. My main arrows were stormwing and poisonbone. It worked more than well enough, and I didn't need too much to pull it off. I mostly used the Black Bow and Albanuric bow. Albanuric Bow deals absolutely insane damage, no joke. Any boss that can be headshot will take 1k+ damage from a mighty shot direct hit, which isn't super bad on most bosses. Black bow, however, is better because of the speed and having barrage. It's very unorthodox and hard to get used to, but bows are perfectly viable for pve. As for pvp, it depends on the bow. My favorite weapon for pvp is the hand ballista, and it cleans out. The black bow is great for sleep/poison combos to wear opponents down. It's, of course, going to perform worse than other things, dare I say worse than most things, but it is perfectly viable
The Iron Bridge skip is still possible, you have to aim for the right side slightly. I got it down after like 15 minutes. I got knocked off and then did it again within 4 tries, you just need to aim at a different spot.
@stupid Cat thing is I wouldn't even call it a glitch, definitely harmless though. Being able to jump onto that ledge just kinda made sense with the way this game's platforming works so really it just seemed like clever use of the game's geometry to create a little shortcut. Patching it the way they did just seems a bit unnecessary
Your choice in background music is one of my favorite things about your videos, this video being no exception - the jazz at 3:30ish slaps harder than a thrown cymbal.
Well this was educational for me! I was basically doing this exact build getting the cannon early to +9, same talismans (no idea about the shortbow glitch) and was going for plus 10 but had no idea invasions factor in your upgrades. Was sat around for ages wondering why I couldn't get a match. Was also making bone balista bolts which only requires a hefty beast bone to make 5 bolts
For anyone wondering: level 70+ will get you invasions in Subterranean Shunning Grounds at +9 somber. I learned this the hard way trying to get to Mohg early lol
In Caelid at the beginning as well there is the Serpent bow which has low stat requirements and is great for helping with the poison build up. No fighting necessary just got to avoid one poison mage and navigate some stinky rot pools. Also a good source for aeonian butterfly's if you want to incorporate rot arrows into your later boss runs. Not for bow only but ALSO in Caelid you can pick up the Rot Dog Spirit Ashes which are lovely for a brief bit of respite from a boss as well as basically a free rot proc
also prioritize the rotbone arrows for the fight instead of serpent arrows, you can farm materials for it at the abandoned cave where you get the serpent bow
Was waiting for this, honestly from all the cool things they did with bows I think having a bow build might actually be viable so to those who like archery well hope you enjoy it.
I've been doing a bow-only run and endgame is fucking miserable because bows simply DO NOT scale well enough whatsoever. The only remotely viable tactic is, predictably, to spam bleed arrows, but unfortunately you're capped on how many arrows you can carry at a time still so it becomes almost impossible to kill some bosses without resorting to alternative arrows like poison or scarlet rot.
@@freedmfe8934 might get patched, but it's not nearly as good as just running spells or Bolt of Gransax if you want ranged damage, so it probably won't ruin anything unless there's parts of it that could transfer UGS damage to a dagger or sumn
Until Radagon decides to catch all your arrows. Not knowing about the black bow and with maxed out damage from talismans I dealt a pitiful 150 damage per arrow if they connected. At least Elden Beast was incredibly easy. I would recommend anyone ho goes for a bow build to at least use ashes for some support.
You played Orchestra Piece #1 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess around 2:30, and made me remember how much I used to listen to it back when I played a shit load of music. Thanks man
I feel like "How to break" going to be the new format of Elden Ring series from Ymfah. I mean this is refreshing considering there is a lot build that can be created, but I kinda miss the sense of adventuring in any run from first boss to last boss.
Honestly, your editing and music selection is so spot on that every moment the track is about to change I get excited. You're doing something right. Also... Love the edition of the Formula 1 track. lmao
It's weird to me how - well, basically disagreeable the bow balancing is when to me it seems just giving them better scaling almost completely fixes most of the issues - the early bosses deal with ranged attacks way worse than the later ones when they get way more aggressive - increased (optional) damage also removes the frustration of arrow management. Giving an ammo efficient "Shotgun" ability could also give some more risk/reward playstyle. Or how about a sekiro style heavy jump kick into backflip arrow flurry?
It’s weird that the increased the speed of the jump and roll attacks but the regular ones are still horrible slow. Also holding down my bow should charge it to increase damage
there's so many things that could be done, it just seems like FROM has a death grudge against bows. They'll throw you a bone and give you a mighty shot ash of war and a bunch of different arrow types, but they're not going to let you actually deal DAMAGE with bows.
@@RuFi0000000 except its dogshit and costs 20fp, only viable against Big enemys that dont move. This is because over half the arrows miss anyways, so why not just shoot twice normally and do the same damage Its tracking is also pretty bad, often missing the entire barrage due to the enemy doing a slight jog towards you. Its just a super fustrating ability that seems good but is super inconsistant and clunky in practice.
5:02 PERSONA 3 PORTABLE MUSIC LETS GOOOOOOO!!! I've always loved your taste in music, man. :) I'd often find some little-known stuff that I like on your channel and you've introduced me to countless tracks I now have saved as well. Keep doing what you do best, m8.
Assuming 1.04 didn't patch it, you can apply weapon grease to a crossbow by equipping it in your left hand and putting the grease onto a melee weapon in your right hand. It stacks with the status effects on your bolts, so you can use it with burred bolts in the pulley crossbow to near-instantly proc bleed, or mix and match to get dual-effect bolts.
At the bird soul farming spot, instead of killing the bird, you can do a little parcour, jump into the void at a specific place with your horse, fall for 2 ish minute, and if you keep attacking in the emptiness, every mob on the map dies and you get 140 000 runes. You can warp back to the grace and then repeat, since the whole things takes less than 3 min total once you have it down. There's a video out there that details all the steps and where to go precisely, I'll post the link later,can't do it RN
Here's a vid that showcase how to do it in two different location. You should mute it though, cause the voice and music are both really bad. ruclips.net/video/R0Oc8e7qk8I/видео.html
@@letwolf there's a vid by DPJ titled "Elden Ring -100% BEST RUNE FARM For Low Level Players - Bird Rune Farm Vs Map Exploit TEST" Also they're link may have just been deleted as most all links in comments are just deleted on RUclips to protect for phishing
the survive 1.04 is refering to the weapon swap glitch he is using. Its taking the cannons damage with the bows animation, so you can take hard hitting weapons but with very fast animations. 1.04 nerfed a lot of shit, so its surprising that weapon swap wasn't nerfed. You can weapon swap literality at the start of the game.
This is what I absolutely adore about Elden Ring, you are literally able to go to mid-late game areas without any glitches or skips, is so freeing and amazing ❤️ Not that I dont like skips/glitches those are amazing and need amazing skill to perform, I just like the fact that From allows you the freedom to explore almost everything basically from the very start of the game
Btw, you can kill Queen Margot from behind the wall, there is a one spot where you can throw daggers/poison stones and hit her. Unless it got patcher recently.
I've done the bridge jump in Volcano Manor in v1.04, so it is still possible. However it is much more difficult and it took me nearly an hour to do it. Do not recommend.
Ymfah is like a pick up artist to me. Almost sold me the dream of a bow build looking viable as a main weapon dps for a second. I love bow's, even legit practice archery as a hobby with my compound. But goddam. It's almost nonsensical to try to main them when literally every other build in comparison gives so much more mileage, for a fraction of the cost bow builds provide. Sometimes even free. *cough bleed builds cough* I treat bow as more of an "adventuring tool" if anything else in Elden Ring. Sadly enough.
"You have to pay RUNES to hit through a 100% physical block shield??" - literally any other build in the game I mean I guess you could get a little bit of mileage out of the Horn Bow that does some split magic damage, but otherwise everyone can choose to do split damage at pretty much any time for free. I remember some poor low level invader who invaded me at Stormveil. Guy knew every single path in the castle, and it did him no good because I just blocked his arrows. Eventually he ran into a room while we were struggling with a Banished Knight and got vigor checked for 440 damage by the crossfire and instantly died.
[13:36] Assuming the person you've invaded has already beaten Godrick, they could have obtained Rogier's Rapier for free at the Roundtable Hold. It comes upgraded to +8 right out the gate... and can completely screw you over in PVP matchmaking because of that.
@@Flygoniaks Though you are looking at a video that shows how to get that high w/o killing a single boss. You can get to anywhere except the late game areas without killing a single boss, so you can loot some late game weapons easier if you have the patience to run all the way to get what you need.
@Prdgmshft To my knowledge it's both. The game tries to pair you up with players that are roughly the same level as you, but it's also based on the highest-upgraded weapon in your/their inventory.
Really nice run. The problems with bows in this game is unfortunately not only the damage, but also the input reading. You can make the lions with scythes jump around like circus animals if you fire a bow, despite not even being in their general vicinity. Hitting is gonna be more difficult for some than killing with the damage.
I believe you can circumvent the matchmaking system at +9 by putting your weapon in your strongbox. I know in previous games that didn't work but I've heard rumours that it does. I have tried it and I have been able to invade in earlier areas but I'm not sure if it actually worked or not. Worth a shot I reckon.
ben watching ever since i first beat DS remasted almost 4 years ago, lo e the uplifting music when u break the game at 7:25, editing stays great by the way only ever gets better keepit up
6:05 - you can farm runes from that ball that falls off the cliff in the Dragonbarrow, so as long as you farm it for a bit you can restock all your arrows and try again, so you really have infinite tries.
@@AndrewTheUltraBoss99 the boulder offers 2000 runes, but yeah its still more of a low level thing as the bird is way faster to kill and offers far more runes. (you can get in 5-10 seconds what would take several minutes with the boulder and I've timed the boulder at 1 run every 30 seconds with the bird being around 7 seconds for me on a fast run)
That night cavalry cheese never works for me, he always gets poisoned but doesn't fall to his death. The GinoMachino method is much more reliable, from the rise grace the outer left side of the bridge has a small ledge you can stand on. Lure him over there (you may need to walk back onto land if his AI makes him go back towards the bridge), if he goes for the jumping attack while close to the ledge he falls to his death. I did have one time where he landed on the sliver with me, just quit to menu and retry (or die). It's very uncommon and 90+% of the time he just jumps to his death.
I wanna see you do more of a gun build in this game there is some kind of hand crossbows those could be utilized along with the gun shield obviously and the jar Cannon steel I’m sure you could come up with something pretty cool with a lot of gun themed weapons
Could be wrong but I don't think the serpent bow actually poisons itself. I'm not even sure that it even has any benefit for serpent arrows despite the name either.
@@shamfyre the serpent bow adds a little poison buildup to any arrow shot with it. This stacks with serpent arrows. But you're still gonna poison enemies faster with any light bow or the black bow because of the faster firing rate.
@@mainlyjm are you sure? I just finished ng+2 and I've been using the serpent bow since my first run but I've never noticed any sort of poison buildup without serpent arrows, even firing dozens of arrows in a row.
@@shamfyre It doesn't seem to add a lot. This is information I got from the wiki, and personally I've only ever used it with poison arrows myself so I'm not sure if it's true. But like I said, light bows are better at it in every way. You can poison a majority of the enemies with a light bow in one weapon art that has the arrow rain Ash of War on it.
@@mainlyjm correct my original point was that it is possible to still poison without having to pay extra for poison arrows which can be 6 times the cost of a regular arrow (or the mats for making poison arrows)
Time to kick maidens and chew through arrows, and he's all out of maidens.
Discussion thread : www.reddit.com/r/ymfah/comments/udcqry/thread_how_to_make_a_bow_only_build_in_elden_ring/?
ok
Nice
Yes
Maidenfull behaviour!!
The music list in the decription is from the previous video. lol
Predicting that ymfah will complete every challenge run imaginable for Elden Ring before Limit Breakers finally gives us the miracle build video.
Elden Ring No walking when
Edit: I already know ffs
Hey at least in elden ring a miracle build is more doable than ever
Oh he went there LOL
@u know me this is the first “finally it’s here” comment that seems relevant, lucky bot.
Suckers bet, no dice
For future runs: Tower of Caelid has a numen rune accessible without fighting. +10000 free at the start
I thought about the same thing but it's annoying as SHIT to get, also I think it's 12500, even better.
Wait where??
@@myprogram3067 You can ride Torrent the whole way around the tower to it. It's very safe, and the stone arches can be platformed across with double jump.
Radahn's wallet
push enemies off, easy +1k each time
As one Man said Every path leads to a Stealth Archer build
Very true
The skyrim special
It's been...a long time.
sure does
The one build that truly never dies.
For anyone who wants to shred large bosses, you can get the "Rain of Arrows" ash that can go on almost any bow. Rains down a dozen arrows of whatever type you just fired at the cost of just one arrow... It doesn't neuter the damage and still inflicts a ton of status. Enjoy instantly bleeding bosses.
Doesn't work with this glitch
@@mattyryon It... wasnt supposed to be? Its just a gameplay suggestion
Thank you. I wanted a legit bow build not a glitch that can get patched
@@spinerflame7922 You did comment it on a video about the glitch specifically, and didn't indicate that it's not for use with this
Lol imagine rot rain and bleeding arrows right after each other that would be hella deadly
Another good reason to go to Mohgwyns Palace early on, is that the imprisoned Merchant there sells infinite blood roses meaning you can get stacks of bleed arrows/bolts pretty easily
My dumbass didn't even know what they were for and I only wanted to buy a few for experimenting..
I ended up maxing my inventory with them.
good luck killing him at low level with that sanguine noble on ur ass lmao
Well, shit. Now I have to go back.
Problem is there are mutliple
Sanguine Nobles spawn near him, and it's a narrow pathway you can't avoid. Good luck deal with them at low level.
@@windflier1684 run through the tunnel and out the other side to the site of grace. Then come in from that side hugging the left (not quite to the wall just drop off the ledge and follow it). And you can get to him without pulling the sanguine nobles!
Love how Elden Ring has, almost, every glitch from the past games: the boss cheeses from dark souls 2, the wrong warp from ds remastered and the bow move set swap from ds 3. Just amazing.
Working as intended lol
it technically still uses the same engine as Ds3 lol (if I'm not wrong)
@@Mgirald yeah since dark souls 2 every each of them uses same engine
@@splintergp wrong, ds2 has its own unique engine, then they remade a new engine for blooborne, which they have been using ever since
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Fun fact about the Mohg emblem; unlike warping, it has no combat restriction. So you can keep it on your hotbar and use it as a bootleg homeward bone to get out of places, although it wont stop any status effects/fill your bars.
Finally I can get my Souls out of the Soilder of Godrick fight
@@AlfredoSoraX you can get your souls out of any fight by entering, picking up the souls, then exiting game - spawn back outside the gate with souls
@@pa7764 Solidier of Godrick kills too quickly for that
@@slyseal2091 good point, elite gamers ONLY
great tip
Tried this right now and even with a +1 cannon it feels like Fying Dragon Agheel vs Concealed Carry Rocket Launcher
It happened way too fast for me. How does he get the weapon switch thing?
@@brandylshey9367Ok, left hand bow, right hand cannon. Two hand the bow, then charge an arrow, as if you wanted to fire. Then, instead of letting go to fire the arrow, press the button to use an item that gives you a Yes or No prompt. When you press that button the bow should aoutmatically fire the cannons ammo. And you need to have both arrows and the bolts you want to fire equipped.
@@Arance_Rosse as max0r put it: go go gadget concealed carry
@@Arance_Rosse is this trick still available in 1.09?
@@akanalan Don't believe so, no. Pretty sure it was fixed in 1.05
to EVERYONE watching this video! It has been fixed via 1.05 Quote: "Fixed a bug in which arrows and bolts that did not match the type of long-range weapon could be released in certain procedures."
le sad, seemed like a fun way to play even just PvE :D
Thank you for letting us know hero💪🏽
Fromsoft is always more interested in modding their nonsensical combat system instead of fixing their bosses
@@tylerlackey1175 fixing what bosses o.o
@@malpheus4299 wfd
"Every boss is now the Nameless King"
I felt that one...
Same… at least I didn’t have the worst time beating nk
Nah, you forget that Malenia is basically Sister Friede's daughter
@@shaquiberaihan6212 Considering both are basically the hardest boss in their respective games, it makes sense.
@@barkerbarks2537 NK took me so long the first time beating him. Several playthroughs later, muscle memory made me beat him the first time. He is absolutely a boss you need to learn the pattern and take your time to beat.
Elden ring seems like there is no real pattern to bosses like there was before. Its just burst them down before they can kill you. There is next to no window on some bosses attacks, especially if you get knocked down. I feel the knockdown mechanic punishes you way to hard for how fast some of the bosses move.
I love the game, but if you don't do some overpowered build you have a bad time on some of these multi fight bosses, or ones that constantly attack.
There are however quite a few that are fair and not hard, but too many of the multi-mini boss boss rooms they don't leave a window to attack. So the game feels built around either 1 shotting the bosses or having someone tank while someone else attacks be a summon or an spirit
@@iHaveTheDocuments Midir would like to have a word with you in Private.
Hey ymfah there is a melee attack you can do with a great bow while on horseback I look forward to your actual bow only run with great interest
Holy shite yeeesssssss
JAR BONK
the only bow no arrows run
A lot of the main fights won’t let you use the horse though :/
(Sorry for being pedantic, I know this comment was almost certainly a joke)
@@roach9397 It's ymfah, he'd find a way
Just a heads up to all OP early aficionados you can still do the bridge jump/skip in Volcano Manor. It's just harder and you have to aim a little more to the right.
i second that. It's a major pain but you can still do it.
oh fk me I went through all the trouble of killing Godskin noble cause I thought it was patched thoroughly.
@@pwnmonkeyisreal
there is a way to platform around godskin boss..i did it yesterday on my rl1 run
I've only played post update, I thought it was always that hard!
Came here to post this. It took me a solid 5 minutes but if you really want a +7, it's still the way to go. The only other alternative at that point in the game would be to kill godskin noble, which would be possible with the right strat, but probably more trouble than the bridge still.
Can't wait for "How To 1 Million"
Seriously tho, you deserve it man. For years, you have upload the best souls content ever made. Congrats Ymfah.
he did!
And the best skyrim content!
In case anyone might try getting upgrades early: The volcano manor jump skip is still possible, but it is VERY precise. You will want to go as much to the right as possible and jump at the last moment possible, basically
*Reads bow between quotation marks*
"finally, the return of punching with bow"
*cannon*
"nice"
Wish it was the punching tbh
Had to explain to my friends why I was skeptical of this run after his other "bow" only runs.
FINALLY, IT'S TIME FOR THE NEW SEASON OF "HOW TO ONLY"
I love the "i'm out of arrows" in every bow related video
The way everything syncs to the music at 5:47 is too satisfying
The patience and determination of this man to craft videos as fine as these is never to be maidenless.
@u know me maidenless
I mean, you kind of have to be.
big bellied swamperts are the best maidens
I'd be ymfah's maiden ;)
@@genevievew.5837 Gay
Ymfah: “In this ‘no walking’ challenge I will not even use ladders even though it’s technically climbing and not walking”
Also ymfah: “The game considers this literal cannon a bow so it counts I promise”
Don't try to find logic in the ravings of an insane Russian eldritch horror enslaved to a greater eldritch horror
He could not use left stick*
It is arbitrary but at the end of the day it is fun.
@@isaacmayer-splain8974 he is Korean btw
@@Exoskel2 he is?
Even in the parts where he talks (the "Thank you dark souls" parts I think) I can't tell he's Korean
Maybe cuz I never heard a Korean person's voice before
The return of useful Hawkeye! The 40mm auto cannon versus the Jar Howitzer, which would win?
the auto cannon has superior stagger swagger, but the howitzer has more range
For me, who is on his first playthrough and has just reached mountaintops of giants, hearing the old 'you are maidenless' feels great as it shows just how far I've come
L still maidenless
You lose your maiden in that area💀
The fact that he uses the f1 theme makes it even more epic
Watch it now while you can, folks! F1 are absolutely rabid about copyright striking anyone who plays their theme. Like you can't even have the music turned on while streaming the F1 videogame!!!
@@gupiwa how long does it take for them to strike it's been 1 whole day !!
It sucks
@@sheepdog5799 your mom
I love how much effort ymfah will go through just to put a bit in the vid, where he's like oh shit I can't do the thing then goes on to restart from scratch fucking legend.
Don't you just love how versatile someone's playstyle can be for Elden Ring and you can make it work no matter what?
One 11 second video and 295k subs? Is this a bot farm account or something?
@@Hikurac nah, they just comment a lot on a LOT of videos so everyone kinda just subscribes
Could have sworn you used to have blue hair and a moustache
Ymfah can make everything work. It's not limited to Elden ring.
Yep, the first boss I fought in the open world was a big fuck off dragon. No way in hell I could've beaten that melee but my starting bow and about 90 arrows later it was dead. Even hiding behind cover to avoid the flames it was still a brutal fight.
Never played a ranged character in Soulsborne before but my Samurai is getting far more worth out of the bow than the Uchi. Buying arrows is actually of greater benefit than spending runes on levels atm, which puts an extremely interesting twist on things.
I feels like we underappreciate ymfah for always creating the literal perfect character for every run, his bb Walter is still my fav to date tho
Which video is that please?
@@sad8648 consumable only run I believe?
@@sad8648 Consumables only Bloodbourne
The man, the myth, the legend, the OG of fucked up hard and weird challenges.
weird? its just an archer class basically but definately hard
Ah yes, the mythical Cannon Bow.
Another masterpiece by ymfah.
I love playing games in the least "right way" possible keep doin what your doing man.
For the Ancient Somber Stone, instead of having to wait for the 3 invasions, you can just kill Magnus the Beast Claw in the ruins before the bridge to Mount Gelmir and go back to Varre and that'll count it. For those who don't know.
That was added in a later update, and didn't exist when this video was made. But it's still good to know for everyone without PS+.
@LittleZbot Yeah i just wanted to make sure people knew, so those who didn't want to go online could still have a way of doing this.
The lesson of the story: they really need to buff ranged attacks to be their own playstyle.
They don't! Bows deal good damage at good range, they build up statuses quick and allow for relative safety. Hell, on specific builds, bows can crest 1200 damage (no RTSR required)
@@Data-AnalystSera in pvp it's really easy to dodge the arrows and in pve the arrows themselves don't do much dmg you just have to wait till the poison does the work also scarlet rot and sleep arrows would be very powerful but their craft needs materials that are incredibly difficult to farm
@@Data-AnalystSera Eh, doing normal runs with a bow sucks especially since anything bigger than a shortbow has no running or rolling attacks and are just slow in general. there's also the thing of it generally being really expensive and a lot of bosses won't let you stay far away for very long
@@Data-AnalystSera lol I play bow, they’re mid at best. Lock on is atrocious with about 15% of arrows hitting a competent player
It takes about 8-9 arrows to kill a proper 125 build
It takes a strength/dual nagitaka /any long pokey build one single powerstances lunge to take you out, one single roll catch/hit and you’re done, vs 9 arrows
No viable bows scale in arcane, so while bleed can be inflicted from one power stances attack with melee, you can’t even make an occult shortbow, making pvp status take forever and incredibly weak via bow. Literally damn near everything got buffed last patch, and the bow which was already considered underpowered, was untouched. That’s a direct power slide.
Bows are decent for certain bosses that allow you to just dodge+jumpshot backwards and rarely get hit (beast clergy man, mohg) but other bosses are way harder than most builds
Not unworkable in pve, but definitely a poor choice for pvp. It could be argued they were workable before the last patch, but damn near every weapon beats it 1 on 1 now w the buffed recoveries.
Bow pvp RUclipsrs make it look workable and viable, but 90% of their opponents are just bad/using joke builds, and not showing when a competent meta build ends them in 20
seconds. They genuinely need a huge buff
Honestly, I don't know what y'all quite mean. I played through the game using only a bow, it was quite good. The damage sat between a cool 200-300, which isn't a lot but the speed, range, and frequency of arrows meant I could pepper bosses non stop. My main arrows were stormwing and poisonbone. It worked more than well enough, and I didn't need too much to pull it off. I mostly used the Black Bow and Albanuric bow. Albanuric Bow deals absolutely insane damage, no joke. Any boss that can be headshot will take 1k+ damage from a mighty shot direct hit, which isn't super bad on most bosses. Black bow, however, is better because of the speed and having barrage. It's very unorthodox and hard to get used to, but bows are perfectly viable for pve. As for pvp, it depends on the bow. My favorite weapon for pvp is the hand ballista, and it cleans out. The black bow is great for sleep/poison combos to wear opponents down. It's, of course, going to perform worse than other things, dare I say worse than most things, but it is perfectly viable
The Iron Bridge skip is still possible, you have to aim for the right side slightly. I got it down after like 15 minutes. I got knocked off and then did it again within 4 tries, you just need to aim at a different spot.
@stupid Cat No fun allowed ya know.
did you have fun doing the glitch
@stupid Cat thing is I wouldn't even call it a glitch, definitely harmless though. Being able to jump onto that ledge just kinda made sense with the way this game's platforming works so really it just seemed like clever use of the game's geometry to create a little shortcut. Patching it the way they did just seems a bit unnecessary
@@oxxy6678 "glitch" is something like wrongwarps or zips. this is just platforming.
@@EliasKaydanius It's obvious though that it's not intented to be reachable from that point
Your choice in background music is one of my favorite things about your videos, this video being no exception - the jazz at 3:30ish slaps harder than a thrown cymbal.
Well this was educational for me! I was basically doing this exact build getting the cannon early to +9, same talismans (no idea about the shortbow glitch) and was going for plus 10 but had no idea invasions factor in your upgrades. Was sat around for ages wondering why I couldn't get a match. Was also making bone balista bolts which only requires a hefty beast bone to make 5 bolts
Just started my bow build before this went up, now I know exactly what to do
Same here , also people appears to say that lighting is the strongest arrow, follow by storm veil arrows
@no way no
this is the big bonk of archer builds
Glad to learn that it took me 4 hours to do the +7 jump the other day because they patched it, and not because I suck
Still doable, just much harder
ymfah wanting to do a stealth archer playthrough
can't be seen if everyone is impaled and exploded
But useful Hawkeye is useless if evreyones been detonated into gibs!
Stunned by the sheer quality of all your videos, they are always a treat to watch, thank you
The whole F1 theme around the video cracks me up so much
Great video. Just a note: the link in the description which directs to the music list actually sends to the "dark souls 3 no walk" music list
That explains why I couldn't find the song used when fighting Margot, and idea what it might be?
@@Christopher-eq1rn Boko no pico soundtrack
@@Christopher-eq1rn darude sandstorm
@@Christopher-eq1rn danger zone from persona 3 iirc
@@yes-gn4kn thank you
For anyone wondering: level 70+ will get you invasions in Subterranean Shunning Grounds at +9 somber. I learned this the hard way trying to get to Mohg early lol
In Caelid at the beginning as well there is the Serpent bow which has low stat requirements and is great for helping with the poison build up. No fighting necessary just got to avoid one poison mage and navigate some stinky rot pools. Also a good source for aeonian butterfly's if you want to incorporate rot arrows into your later boss runs.
Not for bow only but ALSO in Caelid you can pick up the Rot Dog Spirit Ashes which are lovely for a brief bit of respite from a boss as well as basically a free rot proc
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far easier and more reliable to do this before you have jar cannon, instead of praying you can win with poison in two tries. helped a lot
also prioritize the rotbone arrows for the fight instead of serpent arrows, you can farm materials for it at the abandoned cave where you get the serpent bow
I live for the "up and up" in those videos! Makes me happy every time.
The sound track for this slaps way harder than anyone asked for and I love it! XD
Man love the upgrades in editing you're just getting better. Glad to see your success, and hope it keeps goin.
Was waiting for this, honestly from all the cool things they did with bows I think having a bow build might actually be viable so to those who like archery well hope you enjoy it.
Not sadly, they just need to buff scaling
I've been doing a bow-only run and endgame is fucking miserable because bows simply DO NOT scale well enough whatsoever. The only remotely viable tactic is, predictably, to spam bleed arrows, but unfortunately you're capped on how many arrows you can carry at a time still so it becomes almost impossible to kill some bosses without resorting to alternative arrows like poison or scarlet rot.
Basically no scaling and super expensive ammo
@@freedmfe8934 might get patched, but it's not nearly as good as just running spells or Bolt of Gransax if you want ranged damage, so it probably won't ruin anything unless there's parts of it that could transfer UGS damage to a dagger or sumn
Until Radagon decides to catch all your arrows. Not knowing about the black bow and with maxed out damage from talismans I dealt a pitiful 150 damage per arrow if they connected. At least Elden Beast was incredibly easy. I would recommend anyone ho goes for a bow build to at least use ashes for some support.
When ymfah beats the game with a bow faster then you can beat the game normally
Well we like to go to every side of the map...
88 hours and ive just recently killed fire giant and got to miquella haligtree
You played Orchestra Piece #1 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess around 2:30, and made me remember how much I used to listen to it back when I played a shit load of music. Thanks man
I feel like "How to break" going to be the new format of Elden Ring series from Ymfah. I mean this is refreshing considering there is a lot build that can be created, but I kinda miss the sense of adventuring in any run from first boss to last boss.
Honestly, your editing and music selection is so spot on that every moment the track is about to change I get excited.
You're doing something right.
Also... Love the edition of the Formula 1 track. lmao
Can't wait to see how he handles the no walking run.
Bloodhound Step lmao
start bandit and u get quickstep then get bhs
@@evelyn315dnd
Pst, fellow egg, ur valid as hecc!! Take ur meds (this is a threat)
As much as I love these videos, I’m afraid that pvp in Elden Ring will just abuse the hell out of this
@u know what i did use rick roll nigga
dude, we'll be lucky if they dont get this shit patched by a month from now, they've been on everything zullie covers within like 2 weeks.
@@gremlinman9724 Yeah, why is it smoothies though.
my dude, bows in pvp sucks beyond belief, this is a bug i can ignore
@@gremlinman9724 Carian Retaliation bug was a thing for almost 2 months since release. They care, but not THAT much
Some EXTREMELY solid music choices as usual, right when I was recovering from Balan's Bout, you hit me with the Ni no Kuni soundtrack
It's weird to me how - well, basically disagreeable the bow balancing is when to me it seems just giving them better scaling almost completely fixes most of the issues - the early bosses deal with ranged attacks way worse than the later ones when they get way more aggressive - increased (optional) damage also removes the frustration of arrow management. Giving an ammo efficient "Shotgun" ability could also give some more risk/reward playstyle. Or how about a sekiro style heavy jump kick into backflip arrow flurry?
feels like bows are seriously unloved in all fromsoft games. a moveset with combos similar to monster hunter bows would be nice
It’s weird that the increased the speed of the jump and roll attacks but the regular ones are still horrible slow. Also holding down my bow should charge it to increase damage
there's so many things that could be done, it just seems like FROM has a death grudge against bows. They'll throw you a bone and give you a mighty shot ash of war and a bunch of different arrow types, but they're not going to let you actually deal DAMAGE with bows.
Ash of war: Rain of Arrows lets you shoot multiple arrows for the cost of a single one. You also don't need to have FP to use it.
@@RuFi0000000 except its dogshit and costs 20fp, only viable against Big enemys that dont move. This is because over half the arrows miss anyways, so why not just shoot twice normally and do the same damage
Its tracking is also pretty bad, often missing the entire barrage due to the enemy doing a slight jog towards you. Its just a super fustrating ability that seems good but is super inconsistant and clunky in practice.
0:32 that tree sentinel panic shield was fuckin funny as hell LMAO
And so, a new era of Ymfah begins. Can’t wait to see what crazy stuff you’d do with this game. LOVED your Skyrim no walking video btw!
You never cease to amaze, do you?
"how did this survive 1.04?"
1.05: took out dope jar cannon glitch
F1 Music, League Music, and Elden Ring; My three favorite things.
Man I can't wait to see what you're gonna do with this game over the next few years.
Really was not expecting the Formula 1 theme at the start 😂
5:02 PERSONA 3 PORTABLE MUSIC LETS GOOOOOOO!!!
I've always loved your taste in music, man. :) I'd often find some little-known stuff that I like on your channel and you've introduced me to countless tracks I now have saved as well. Keep doing what you do best, m8.
ymfah is a person of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.
I love how this game allows you to get away with falling directly into lava by essentially hopping backwards over and over.
you're allowed to walk in it, it just does a small amount of chip damage. He hops backwards as it's faster movement but you can 100% walk through it.
Assuming 1.04 didn't patch it, you can apply weapon grease to a crossbow by equipping it in your left hand and putting the grease onto a melee weapon in your right hand. It stacks with the status effects on your bolts, so you can use it with burred bolts in the pulley crossbow to near-instantly proc bleed, or mix and match to get dual-effect bolts.
Loving your videos per usual, with the added bonus of f1 theme 😅
That GLORIOUS F1 intro caught me off guard, thank you ymfah :D
I can’t wait for the one true king of masochistic challenges to drop his next vid
At the bird soul farming spot, instead of killing the bird, you can do a little parcour, jump into the void at a specific place with your horse, fall for 2 ish minute, and if you keep attacking in the emptiness, every mob on the map dies and you get 140 000 runes. You can warp back to the grace and then repeat, since the whole things takes less than 3 min total once you have it down.
There's a video out there that details all the steps and where to go precisely, I'll post the link later,can't do it RN
Here's a vid that showcase how to do it in two different location.
You should mute it though, cause the voice and music are both really bad.
ruclips.net/video/R0Oc8e7qk8I/видео.html
post the link
@@letwolf there's a vid by DPJ titled "Elden Ring -100% BEST RUNE FARM For Low Level Players - Bird Rune Farm Vs Map Exploit TEST"
Also they're link may have just been deleted as most all links in comments are just deleted on RUclips to protect for phishing
What the f*ck.
"Why is bow in quotations? Ymfah what are you-"
*Cannon*
"Oh"
"how did this survive 1.4?" Getting all that stuff requires that you have balls made of pure hardstone. This is the good stuff.
the survive 1.04 is refering to the weapon swap glitch he is using. Its taking the cannons damage with the bows animation, so you can take hard hitting weapons but with very fast animations. 1.04 nerfed a lot of shit, so its surprising that weapon swap wasn't nerfed. You can weapon swap literality at the start of the game.
Ymfah's gonna do every single possible challenge that he did in Dark souls in Elden ring
Of course you're the first one i see do this, incredible as always lad !
This is what I absolutely adore about Elden Ring, you are literally able to go to mid-late game areas without any glitches or skips, is so freeing and amazing ❤️
Not that I dont like skips/glitches those are amazing and need amazing skill to perform, I just like the fact that From allows you the freedom to explore almost everything basically from the very start of the game
This is my first time actually watching an Elden Ring video. Have to say I’m not disappointed, looks pretty damn good.
okay
how have you lived on the internet for so long and not seen an elden ring video? (the games been out for months)
@@speedy01247 I’ve actually been avoiding it TBH.
Btw, you can kill Queen Margot from behind the wall, there is a one spot where you can throw daggers/poison stones and hit her. Unless it got patcher recently.
Your music choices are all phenomenal. Great video again!
Formula 1 theme slaps unbelievably hard
The craftables only run is going to be godlike...
I've done the bridge jump in Volcano Manor in v1.04, so it is still possible. However it is much more difficult and it took me nearly an hour to do it. Do not recommend.
Oh hey! Just like the video said!
Literally. 9:24.
Ymfah is like a pick up artist to me. Almost sold me the dream of a bow build looking viable as a main weapon dps for a second.
I love bow's, even legit practice archery as a hobby with my compound. But goddam. It's almost nonsensical to try to main them when literally every other build in comparison gives so much more mileage, for a fraction of the cost bow builds provide. Sometimes even free. *cough bleed builds cough*
I treat bow as more of an "adventuring tool" if anything else in Elden Ring. Sadly enough.
"You have to pay RUNES to hit through a 100% physical block shield??"
- literally any other build in the game
I mean I guess you could get a little bit of mileage out of the Horn Bow that does some split magic damage, but otherwise everyone can choose to do split damage at pretty much any time for free.
I remember some poor low level invader who invaded me at Stormveil. Guy knew every single path in the castle, and it did him no good because I just blocked his arrows. Eventually he ran into a room while we were struggling with a Banished Knight and got vigor checked for 440 damage by the crossfire and instantly died.
So charming to watch these videos from the games early days. How little we knew.
I love all the use of the F1 theme in the latest videos
[13:36] Assuming the person you've invaded has already beaten Godrick, they could have obtained Rogier's Rapier for free at the Roundtable Hold.
It comes upgraded to +8 right out the gate... and can completely screw you over in PVP matchmaking because of that.
It's normal +8, Somber +7 is equivalent to normal +17
@@Zeredek Right, I forgot. Arguably still kinda high level for that point in the game though.
@@Flygoniaks Though you are looking at a video that shows how to get that high w/o killing a single boss.
You can get to anywhere except the late game areas without killing a single boss, so you can loot some late game weapons easier if you have the patience to run all the way to get what you need.
@Prdgmshft To my knowledge it's both. The game tries to pair you up with players that are roughly the same level as you, but it's also based on the highest-upgraded weapon in your/their inventory.
Really nice run. The problems with bows in this game is unfortunately not only the damage, but also the input reading. You can make the lions with scythes jump around like circus animals if you fire a bow, despite not even being in their general vicinity. Hitting is gonna be more difficult for some than killing with the damage.
Wait till you try firing through a doorway
I believe you can circumvent the matchmaking system at +9 by putting your weapon in your strongbox. I know in previous games that didn't work but I've heard rumours that it does. I have tried it and I have been able to invade in earlier areas but I'm not sure if it actually worked or not. Worth a shot I reckon.
ben watching ever since i first beat DS remasted almost 4 years ago, lo e the uplifting music when u break the game at 7:25, editing stays great by the way only ever gets better keepit up
10:30 when Fromsoft gives a middle finger but you give them a middle finger back.
Ah, yes i realized something was wrong with the ledge to get the +7, it took me 15 minutes but i finally got the damn stone
6:05 - you can farm runes from that ball that falls off the cliff in the Dragonbarrow, so as long as you farm it for a bit you can restock all your arrows and try again, so you really have infinite tries.
I mean, those are 1000 runes.
I'd do that only at very low level
@@AndrewTheUltraBoss99 the boulder offers 2000 runes, but yeah its still more of a low level thing as the bird is way faster to kill and offers far more runes. (you can get in 5-10 seconds what would take several minutes with the boulder and I've timed the boulder at 1 run every 30 seconds with the bird being around 7 seconds for me on a fast run)
That night cavalry cheese never works for me, he always gets poisoned but doesn't fall to his death. The GinoMachino method is much more reliable, from the rise grace the outer left side of the bridge has a small ledge you can stand on. Lure him over there (you may need to walk back onto land if his AI makes him go back towards the bridge), if he goes for the jumping attack while close to the ledge he falls to his death.
I did have one time where he landed on the sliver with me, just quit to menu and retry (or die). It's very uncommon and 90+% of the time he just jumps to his death.
Congratulations on *1 MILLION* subscribers!! ;D
Bro did you actually sync up Margots headslams with the music at [5:50] and [6:20]? You see I appreciate that.
This man has done so many challenge runs and game-breaking videos, and I haven't even beaten the game once yet
I wanna see you do more of a gun build in this game there is some kind of hand crossbows those could be utilized along with the gun shield obviously and the jar Cannon steel I’m sure you could come up with something pretty cool with a lot of gun themed weapons
How to make Giant Dad in Elden Ring when? 0.0
The invasions had me dying. You just shamelessly shot them with your grenade launcher and I loved it
I thought I miss licked between this and an F1 video. Lol you already got me hooked and subbed in less than 3 seconds.
Wouldn't it be easier to grab the serpent bow in caelid since it auto poisons? For the beginning section
Could be wrong but I don't think the serpent bow actually poisons itself. I'm not even sure that it even has any benefit for serpent arrows despite the name either.
@@shamfyre the serpent bow adds a little poison buildup to any arrow shot with it. This stacks with serpent arrows. But you're still gonna poison enemies faster with any light bow or the black bow because of the faster firing rate.
@@mainlyjm are you sure? I just finished ng+2 and I've been using the serpent bow since my first run but I've never noticed any sort of poison buildup without serpent arrows, even firing dozens of arrows in a row.
@@shamfyre It doesn't seem to add a lot. This is information I got from the wiki, and personally I've only ever used it with poison arrows myself so I'm not sure if it's true. But like I said, light bows are better at it in every way. You can poison a majority of the enemies with a light bow in one weapon art that has the arrow rain Ash of War on it.
@@mainlyjm correct my original point was that it is possible to still poison without having to pay extra for poison arrows which can be 6 times the cost of a regular arrow (or the mats for making poison arrows)