Severe Bleed + 400% extra damage bleed from grail + critical hit + Master Piece trigger + Maximun Femur critical damage + Orc x2 damage, almost all stars aligned for this. Unfortunately it wasn't boosted by Hidden Blade which btw was causing some serious damage. Those 5 seconds on bosses were gnasty
Beelz, I don’t think many people found this but bleed damage at 4th inscription becomes critical. What I mean is that items or other inscriptions that increase CRIT DAMAGE will also increase the bleed damage and I think bleed damage does not increase any other way like how ice or fire damage increases by magic damage so basically crits damage increase is the only way to deal more damage with bleed.
Something i personally like about beelz is that we have a lot of overlap in the games we've played and or gravitate towards (not specifically just him and I obviously) but its nice to hear him talk about games or series he's into or likes. He didn't do that much at all in this video in particular but it's just something i find to be relatable sometimes when i tune in. Glad to see that making content is working out for him overall.
Fatality! Another extremely blessed run, long overdue for Sword boi! He got his grail, he got the Piece - The Master Piece is real! - and he even got his sword! Extreme levels of potency, and blessings in every corner - nice to see that you still get something for getting that far with no max-rank bonuses, too! As always, best wishes t'ya on all that's ahead, person reading this, and remember to not try to be a final boss - there's always a Sword skull waiting to bleed you dry! The chance mightn't be high, but it's also not zero! Stay safe out there!
Can I just mention to you just how satisfying the bleed sounds are? Especially with your build, it's just endless bloodshed and it's almost ASMR at this point
I got it only now, that three forms of dark skull represent three kinds Power/Speed/Balance: *Skull with horns* - power skull (you can see how it dashes with delays and deals dmg just like all power skulls) *Skull with pike* - speed skull, well the flashy moves around the screen *Skul you start with* , which is a balance skull that throws its head all over the place
41:03 pog edit: Outward is so charming and great. It is even great BECAUSE of its flaws. It tried to do some stuff, and while it didn't execute it all perfectly (the balance on some of the unlock perks is wildly bad, for example), it's such a fun and rewarding game to immerse yourself in. Very creative little world and title.
beelz, if you get slime in an item room you can replace the item you have that you don't want copied with the item that was drop and then sell the new item in your inventory. Thus you get to keep the item while not having to worry about it being copied
It feels like no one here is talking about the most important part of this video... DAMN YES YOU ARE RIGHT HAEMOMANCY IS SO AMAZING! So many good approaches, be it like draining people of blood, or like seizing control of blood, or like damaging yourself and gaining benefits from using your own blood! A TTRPG campaign I am in has a bunch of haemonancers who have really, really amazing spells, like dropping a drip of blood on the floor and conjouring a massive crimson red cloud that drains other people of their blood. Also the inherent lifesteal feature often associated with bloodmagic is so amazing as well! Yes, yes, I hurt myself to start the process of casting blood-spells, but damn, give me a few minutes and the people who thought it was wise to pick a fight with me will turn into the fuel to my spells in seconds! Haemonmancy is just amazing and deserves a lot more respect uwu
I've also seen it called Sanguimancy, which I like using in more Gothic campaigns. I think the Tremere blood sorcery from Vampire: the Masquerade is my favorite version.
Dracula's Castle DLC Van Helsing skul? (Crossbow?) Vampire skul Frankenstein skul?(poison focused) Jack-o'-lantern skul?(Fire focused) Connect it with the brick house the big Knight wanted to build with us
40:10 CLUTCH MODE ACTIVATE Also, evil little girl Peach is the last thing I expected coming into this vid. I'm painfully outta the loop. I do like the idea though, pity brat Peach was scrapped.
1:01:03 You didn't sell bone of courage so dropping the circulator really would not have changed anything, it was still a chance out of 9 items, of course courage didn't dupe so it didn't really matter in the end.
Manipulation based on what slots the items are in. The game will often prefer to choose certain boxes regardless. So I knew my chance of getting a clone stamp was a bit higher (it's why I said I'd cry) but no luck....
Manipulation based on what slots the items are in. The game will often prefer to choose certain boxes regardless. So I knew my chance of getting a clone stamp was a bit higher (it's why I said I'd cry) but no luck....
Honestly seeing clone stamp in this half-masterpiece build makes me wanna see a masterpiece clone stamp with the max treasure buff and collection desire. I wonder how much damage that would stack up. Yet another great video, I love sword skull.
Hey Beelz! i watch this video and it inspired me to play with Bleed build. I play with Werewolf with 4 Excessive Bleeding and 4 Duel, and i got Insane 17k dmg, werewolf is a little broken, lol
If you like status effects, I played around with a fireball mage build. Mage, mages necklace, arson. Just become a DnD wizard going "fireball fireball fireball!"
Just finished a Pike run with courage and chase inscriptions. Was able to buff physical to over 900, everything buffing dash attacks, melted the last bosses easy-mode.
Hey, so when you found the slime in Act 4, you could've rigged it more in your favor by destroying the bone and the clone stamp. You end up with 7 items, you pick up the slime item, and then you take back the manatech, and boom, you got 9 items.
goblet of battlefields works on the moment of dealing a damage sourced from a melee attack. This is unlike mana eater which just procs on the next swing. It's weird on sword because sword has a very tiny normal hitbox compared to, say, berserker. Time, gravity, and blood magic? Have you played Tales of Maj'Eyal? They have blood plague warlocks, time traveling rangers, and gravity/teleport mages, plus some other cool classes like slime druids, celestial shotgun wizards, body snatchers, and steampunk chainsaw man. Very fun game, highly recommend. Also, I finally got mods to work on Linux!
The goblet items feels inconsistent because unlike other "proc when basic attack" items, this one needs your basic attack to actually connect with the enemy for it to come out. The other items (like mana eater, or the bleeding shards that you have here) not only come out immediately after you press the button, they're actually faster than the basic attack and might have more range (depending on the skull, swordsman here has low range, for example), meaning that there are gonna be instances that those effects will kill your enemy before your basic attack hits, or the effect might mask the range of your basic attack, fooling you into thinking that you've hit, and in those cases the goblet won't proc. At least these were my findings after being confused about the same thing a couple of times while trying stacking those effects, feel free to correct me if wrong!
"BREAKING NEWS! Miracle Grail No Longer Fail?!" Also, Sword boy has a bowl cut, idc that it's the helmet, it reminds me of the time I first subbed years ago, it's a bowl cut!
1 a water skull with nimue for theming would be fun / 2 dark paladin run / 3 seeing what maxed out stun ~ freeze ~ arson are like at the end would be neat
Wapeach's giant boots make her seem more like a Mega Man character. Give her a blaster and she would totally fit into Mega Man or without one a side character like Roll.
Question: At the slime why didn't you sell bone of courage and clone stamp before the slime duplicate. It would have left you with a higher risk of masterpiece and the circulator on the ground
Haven’t finished the video but I know it’s a great run. With that said, i was thinking making a series of runs where you take the myth skulls and mod in their exclusive items to see how it goes
BEELZ WTF, i was watching this at 5am and was not looking at the screen when the bloody exagerated holy voices of the grail almost give me a heart attack... anyway, rigged.
With the demon hunter, you can tell when he's going for the jump-slam because his jump is slightly faster (and I think he jumps higher). Its not by much, but it is noticeable
just a note: the blood drinking/sanguinare blade, try this with the fang, you stack dat asap! (you get it, nice!) :D Edited: you got the shards, dats also a great item to stack the sword
Funnily enough I have a pretty stacked Herc (AKA mr IS THAT THE HEAD OF THE ASCETIC!?!?!?) Run going with 4 mana cycle with the prayer of grace and mana tech circulator with his multi charged moves so I'm grabbing fools all day everyday! Also got archer girls legendary and got the spokesman of the mists crit rate buff. My build is literally skill cool down, raw damage, and crit rate and it's disgusting! Literally manhandled poor chimera in 5 seconds with orc boost! Once I get off work I'll try to edit with the exact build but I also have the bone shield curse as well with gambino and samurai blessings so I'm very happy right now with it!
The highest I think I saw was a 9k, but there may have been a bigger one. I think you made his blood bleed. Additionally: WaPeach gives big brat energy and I'm 100% for it.
I just had a mirror 3 bleed run. I was hoping for prisoner but just ran with basic sword boy and ended up finding Heracles in act 4. And proceeded to bully dark skul lol
When you mentioned adding a demon hunter skull for some reason it made me think of devil may cry. Dante would be the most difficult to make if you included the four styles and exclude devil arms. Nero or Vergil would probably be easier to make.
It seems that the new masterpiece legendary almost has a priority system on when it will proc. So, 1 the basic has to deal damage. 2 if arms or something along the lines of arms is up to proc, that will proc first before the new masterpiece legendary
Wow i cant believe you didnt sell off clone stamp and bone of courage before slime. Granted you wouldve only gotten blood drunk sword but that still wouldve been crazy.
You are actually so good my man. I just started playing the game on nintendo switch yesterday and today I just beat leiana sisters for the first time. do you have to beat the game for you to get those new enemies?
You gotta beat the game on normal difficulty (just jump out of the castle). After that you'll trigger new story stuff where the Dark Mirror is discovered. Once you're inside you begin by doing runs starting at difficulty 0. Each time you beat a level you can increase it by 1 all the way up to 10. Each new difficulty tier comes with a new perk to assist you (choosing skulls at the start, locking in inscriptions, bonus gold and bones etc). But as you progress new enemies are added and more of the elite dark infused ones will spawn. After you beat Dark Mirror at least once (even on zero) you'll trigger the newest story stuff that wraps everything up.
1:26:17 the big crit
I will reply to this instead of commenting: Belz couldn’t you just sell the clone stamp at the slime
That crit hit harder than a drunk step dad.
1:20:55 too he did 11.9k too
Severe Bleed + 400% extra damage bleed from grail + critical hit + Master Piece trigger + Maximun Femur critical damage + Orc x2 damage, almost all stars aligned for this.
Unfortunately it wasn't boosted by Hidden Blade which btw was causing some serious damage. Those 5 seconds on bosses were gnasty
Dude. 13.k bleed damage. My guy was a blood donor but not by choice holy hell. Gnarly
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
NOT ON MY WATCH HERETIC! FOR THE EMPEROR!
MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!!!!!!
LET CARLEON BUUUURN
DARK QUARTZ WILL CONSUME YOU
BROTHER I AM PINNED HERE!!
Beelz, I don’t think many people found this but bleed damage at 4th inscription becomes critical. What I mean is that items or other inscriptions that increase CRIT DAMAGE will also increase the bleed damage and I think bleed damage does not increase any other way like how ice or fire damage increases by magic damage so basically crits damage increase is the only way to deal more damage with bleed.
I believe bleed scales off of your physical damage, like poison does
1:20:08 BEELZ YOU MISSED SWANNY BEEEEEEEEEEELLLLZZZ
I know I know, but Orc though.
I had a god tier bleed run a few days ago, it was monstrous. So glad to see Sword Boi making the cut.
Something i personally like about beelz is that we have a lot of overlap in the games we've played and or gravitate towards (not specifically just him and I obviously) but its nice to hear him talk about games or series he's into or likes. He didn't do that much at all in this video in particular but it's just something i find to be relatable sometimes when i tune in. Glad to see that making content is working out for him overall.
"How much can you bleed without dying!"
Is the single best title for a metal album, ever.
My fave part... Act 2 - "Does he not know I'm here?" *bonk*
Had a small cry-laugh
20:54 Poor ninja, not even worth looting... Also bleed builds are what got me up to op 8, they're so much fun, great run Beelz.
Fatality! Another extremely blessed run, long overdue for Sword boi! He got his grail, he got the Piece - The Master Piece is real! - and he even got his sword!
Extreme levels of potency, and blessings in every corner - nice to see that you still get something for getting that far with no max-rank bonuses, too!
As always, best wishes t'ya on all that's ahead, person reading this, and remember to not try to be a final boss - there's always a Sword skull waiting to bleed you dry! The chance mightn't be high, but it's also not zero!
Stay safe out there!
53:41 that man just got fileted like a fish. You turned that guy into very fine sashimi.
1:19:51 that was indeed a 5536 damage bleed proc. Disgusting...
1:20:23: That is a orc empowered 5848 damage bleed proc beelz.
Beelz saying Succulent like that is an amazing message tone.
Can I just mention to you just how satisfying the bleed sounds are? Especially with your build, it's just endless bloodshed and it's almost ASMR at this point
I had to pause the video to say that your G-Fuel ad was the best ad I’ve ever seen. Thank you Beelz, 💀
I got it only now, that three forms of dark skull represent three kinds Power/Speed/Balance:
*Skull with horns* - power skull (you can see how it dashes with delays and deals dmg just like all power skulls)
*Skull with pike* - speed skull, well the flashy moves around the screen
*Skul you start with* , which is a balance skull that throws its head all over the place
41:03 pog
edit: Outward is so charming and great. It is even great BECAUSE of its flaws. It tried to do some stuff, and while it didn't execute it all perfectly (the balance on some of the unlock perks is wildly bad, for example), it's such a fun and rewarding game to immerse yourself in. Very creative little world and title.
Using a bleed build feels like beating a crippled person with a stick
Yes, it is GREAT
@@fam.mouraramos6718 🤨
A run where you just rig in all the bones from the start would definitly be awesome
That Beelz pic on the Patron page looked super good! Kudos to the artist!
Great way to start my morning!! Happy to see ya beelz!!
beelz, if you get slime in an item room you can replace the item you have that you don't want copied with the item that was drop and then sell the new item in your inventory. Thus you get to keep the item while not having to worry about it being copied
I have been watching for so long, finally, finally Beelz got the OP bleed sword boy run! Congrats Beelz!
This was super cool. Would it be okay to see a shield or warrior run? I remember you talking about how good they both were
It feels like no one here is talking about the most important part of this video...
DAMN YES YOU ARE RIGHT HAEMOMANCY IS SO AMAZING!
So many good approaches, be it like draining people of blood, or like seizing control of blood, or like damaging yourself and gaining benefits from using your own blood!
A TTRPG campaign I am in has a bunch of haemonancers who have really, really amazing spells, like dropping a drip of blood on the floor and conjouring a massive crimson red cloud that drains other people of their blood.
Also the inherent lifesteal feature often associated with bloodmagic is so amazing as well! Yes, yes, I hurt myself to start the process of casting blood-spells, but damn, give me a few minutes and the people who thought it was wise to pick a fight with me will turn into the fuel to my spells in seconds!
Haemonmancy is just amazing and deserves a lot more respect uwu
I've also seen it called Sanguimancy, which I like using in more Gothic campaigns. I think the Tremere blood sorcery from Vampire: the Masquerade is my favorite version.
I swear RNJesus hates me or anyone I watch that attempts a Bleed build but once in a Bloody Moon he smiles at us and blesses us with the Miracle Grail
Seeing the big damage makes me wanna see the one shot Samurai build vs Dark Skul and Alexander.
Yes indeed, OH MY GOD HE SAID OUTWARD!
Gotta now dive into discord, how did I miss all the Outward talk?!
Dracula's Castle DLC
Van Helsing skul? (Crossbow?)
Vampire skul
Frankenstein skul?(poison focused)
Jack-o'-lantern skul?(Fire focused)
Connect it with the brick house the big Knight wanted to build with us
40:10 CLUTCH MODE ACTIVATE
Also, evil little girl Peach is the last thing I expected coming into this vid. I'm painfully outta the loop. I do like the idea though, pity brat Peach was scrapped.
1:01:03 You didn't sell bone of courage so dropping the circulator really would not have changed anything, it was still a chance out of 9 items, of course courage didn't dupe so it didn't really matter in the end.
He could’ve sold the clone stamp as well. Honestly didn’t know what Beelz was cooking there
Manipulation based on what slots the items are in. The game will often prefer to choose certain boxes regardless. So I knew my chance of getting a clone stamp was a bit higher (it's why I said I'd cry) but no luck....
Manipulation based on what slots the items are in. The game will often prefer to choose certain boxes regardless. So I knew my chance of getting a clone stamp was a bit higher (it's why I said I'd cry) but no luck....
This run is your reward from the RNGods for the tribute of a proper Yaksha run that cleared DM10.
Honestly seeing clone stamp in this half-masterpiece build makes me wanna see a masterpiece clone stamp with the max treasure buff and collection desire. I wonder how much damage that would stack up. Yet another great video, I love sword skull.
54:49 the prophecy has been fulfilled.. 😮
"Oh my God, he said Outward!"
That was my honest reaction lol Wasn't expecting that reference
Hey Beelz! i watch this video and it inspired me to play with Bleed build. I play with Werewolf with 4 Excessive Bleeding and 4 Duel, and i got Insane 17k dmg, werewolf is a little broken, lol
My headphones are like 8 seconds out of sync with the video and it's immensely funny hearing your reactions before seeing it happen
Build wrapped around the quindent, either use dp, mummy, or gravy for the best inbetween results for magic and physical
54:45 this is the moment. when shit got real
58:11 sword skul vs sword hero what a cool coincidence
Wapeach was missing fishnet tights and enough eyeshadow make her look like she is peering at you from a cave
Robbing the coolest inscription from having an even cooler upgrade is so evil, I want justice for Masterpiece.
Status is life. I love it.
Edit: Not life but status... effects. I'm not vein... I'm a gamer.
Edit2: 40:05 Man that was quite a tone shift.
Hi Beelz, what a nice build (haven’t watched it yet) hope you’re having a good day bro
If you like status effects, I played around with a fireball mage build. Mage, mages necklace, arson. Just become a DnD wizard going "fireball fireball fireball!"
Just finished a Pike run with courage and chase inscriptions. Was able to buff physical to over 900, everything buffing dash attacks, melted the last bosses easy-mode.
31:30 yeah hemomancy is cool and all but I’m still a fan of lactomancy, fear me and my milk magic
Hey, so when you found the slime in Act 4, you could've rigged it more in your favor by destroying the bone and the clone stamp. You end up with 7 items, you pick up the slime item, and then you take back the manatech, and boom, you got 9 items.
Khorne has witnessed a great bloodletting today
goblet of battlefields works on the moment of dealing a damage sourced from a melee attack. This is unlike mana eater which just procs on the next swing. It's weird on sword because sword has a very tiny normal hitbox compared to, say, berserker.
Time, gravity, and blood magic? Have you played Tales of Maj'Eyal? They have blood plague warlocks, time traveling rangers, and gravity/teleport mages, plus some other cool classes like slime druids, celestial shotgun wizards, body snatchers, and steampunk chainsaw man. Very fun game, highly recommend.
Also, I finally got mods to work on Linux!
1hour 04: OMG IS THAT THE HEAD OF THE ASCETIC!?!?!?!?!? 😱😱😱😱
Also John not even getting to finish her monologue before she fucking bled to death! 😂😂😂😂
The goblet items feels inconsistent because unlike other "proc when basic attack" items, this one needs your basic attack to actually connect with the enemy for it to come out. The other items (like mana eater, or the bleeding shards that you have here) not only come out immediately after you press the button, they're actually faster than the basic attack and might have more range (depending on the skull, swordsman here has low range, for example), meaning that there are gonna be instances that those effects will kill your enemy before your basic attack hits, or the effect might mask the range of your basic attack, fooling you into thinking that you've hit, and in those cases the goblet won't proc. At least these were my findings after being confused about the same thing a couple of times while trying stacking those effects, feel free to correct me if wrong!
I am just now realising that medal box is a box with two medals and not a little smiley face
"BREAKING NEWS! Miracle Grail No Longer Fail?!"
Also, Sword boy has a bowl cut, idc that it's the helmet, it reminds me of the time I first subbed years ago, it's a bowl cut!
Blood for the blood sword
53:50
This Guts wannabe is funny.
Jumping nearly in sync with the bleed relapse XD
1 a water skull with nimue for theming would be fun
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2 dark paladin run
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3 seeing what maxed out stun ~ freeze ~ arson are like at the end would be neat
i glared at the screen
when you almost left with out the heal
Yes..... The bleed boy returns, for Khorne cares not where the blood flows.... so long as the blood is flowing
what about the most powerfull no dash build beelz ?
i was coming to your house when you said "and now we leave" thankfully you didnt
Wow that masterpiece'd goblet transition took me off guard lmao, nice one
Beelz saying he needs to slow down then pops orc at the start of the alexander fight. Lmao
had a ridiculous sword boy build recently, the max damage was bugged on the end screen, so i posted it to reddit.
"If daddy give me a suck, and i blow up and die..." (Beelz, 2024)
Wapeach's giant boots make her seem more like a Mega Man character. Give her a blaster and she would totally fit into Mega Man or without one a side character like Roll.
Question: At the slime why didn't you sell bone of courage and clone stamp before the slime duplicate. It would have left you with a higher risk of masterpiece and the circulator on the ground
There was a 10k Crit on Joan at her end. Was sure, you'd notice.
Highest i saw was 8.5k. Had no idea numbers like that could be reached. I knew bleed was my favorite for a reason.
Haven’t finished the video but I know it’s a great run. With that said, i was thinking making a series of runs where you take the myth skulls and mod in their exclusive items to see how it goes
Masterpiece‐ treasure finish- all items transformed build.
And then 13354! You have won. Like at life. Congrats
BEELZ WTF, i was watching this at 5am and was not looking at the screen when the bloody exagerated holy voices of the grail almost give me a heart attack... anyway, rigged.
Had almost the exact same run yesterday. Crazy timing lol
With the demon hunter, you can tell when he's going for the jump-slam because his jump is slightly faster (and I think he jumps higher). Its not by much, but it is noticeable
Damn that bleed. Love bleed, it’s so good. Got a good bleed with werewolf and it was fun
just a note: the blood drinking/sanguinare blade, try this with the fang, you stack dat asap! (you get it, nice!) :D
Edited: you got the shards, dats also a great item to stack the sword
We gotta see the other maxed out status inscriptions now
1 down, 4 more statuses to go.
Let's have a shield boy run on dif10 for more pain for both viewers and Beelz
BUT BEEELZ!!! YOU FORGOT TO LOOT THAT THIEF ON THE SECOND ADVENTURER FIGHT
Oh nooooo~~ Did I? Damn that sucks, what if he had sick loot?~~ Now we'll never know
And then there’s me struggling to get off DM 7. I’m both impressed and saddened by this.
Funnily enough I have a pretty stacked Herc (AKA mr IS THAT THE HEAD OF THE ASCETIC!?!?!?) Run going with 4 mana cycle with the prayer of grace and mana tech circulator with his multi charged moves so I'm grabbing fools all day everyday! Also got archer girls legendary and got the spokesman of the mists crit rate buff. My build is literally skill cool down, raw damage, and crit rate and it's disgusting! Literally manhandled poor chimera in 5 seconds with orc boost! Once I get off work I'll try to edit with the exact build but I also have the bone shield curse as well with gambino and samurai blessings so I'm very happy right now with it!
Outward is an interesting game. Not for everyone, but I enjoyed it, and I'm not usually into survival mechanics.
The highest I think I saw was a 9k, but there may have been a bigger one. I think you made his blood bleed.
Additionally: WaPeach gives big brat energy and I'm 100% for it.
1:01:45 got obliterated
Demon Slayer skul would be cool but imagine a skul for each of the boss fights. Imagine the chimera or the sisters as skuls.
THIS WHOLE RUN WAS A SLOWBURN GFUEL ADD!!! \(ò -ó)/
I can't even be mad at that, that was the best gfuel delivery I've seen you fan demon xD
The Gfuel add was perfect!
Hey, Beelz. You didn't forget :D
I just had a mirror 3 bleed run. I was hoping for prisoner but just ran with basic sword boy and ended up finding Heracles in act 4. And proceeded to bully dark skul lol
Now we need Berserker with Heart of the Ascetic.
When you mentioned adding a demon hunter skull for some reason it made me think of devil may cry. Dante would be the most difficult to make if you included the four styles and exclude devil arms. Nero or Vergil would probably be easier to make.
Yes the it's time for blood and me and beelz are not talking about our blood....also hiya beelz rest well and keep up the great work
And here I am thinking about what your reaction would be if the Bone of Courage was duplicated...
It seems that the new masterpiece legendary almost has a priority system on when it will proc. So, 1 the basic has to deal damage. 2 if arms or something along the lines of arms is up to proc, that will proc first before the new masterpiece legendary
The budokai tenkaichi theme has gone so hard🔥
Wow i cant believe you didnt sell off clone stamp and bone of courage before slime. Granted you wouldve only gotten blood drunk sword but that still wouldve been crazy.
> "One Of The Most Powerful Bleed Builds I've Ever Had"
> Barely 2 minutes faster than the Yaksha run
Yaksheads stay winning don't @ me
You are actually so good my man. I just started playing the game on nintendo switch yesterday and today I just beat leiana sisters for the first time. do you have to beat the game for you to get those new enemies?
You gotta beat the game on normal difficulty (just jump out of the castle). After that you'll trigger new story stuff where the Dark Mirror is discovered. Once you're inside you begin by doing runs starting at difficulty 0. Each time you beat a level you can increase it by 1 all the way up to 10. Each new difficulty tier comes with a new perk to assist you (choosing skulls at the start, locking in inscriptions, bonus gold and bones etc). But as you progress new enemies are added and more of the elite dark infused ones will spawn.
After you beat Dark Mirror at least once (even on zero) you'll trigger the newest story stuff that wraps everything up.
Bruh you and I share the exact same feelings about magic systems