Dom, did you know that there’s a dog that can be seen playing in SotE? Just southeast of the Cliffroad Terminus site of grace, where the brood NPC is, there’s a Bloodfiend + Dog patrolling. If you wait and watch them from a distance, you’ll notice that it starts chasing and trying to catch the falling leaves in that area. Pretty neat touch FromSoft!
@@ramrodbldm9876 easy there captain autismo, there are videos dedicated to one line from a show that only premiered once in one area on local TV. It's RUclips. Pump the breaks Cochise.
in the Abyssal Woods mansion, there's a torn letter that says that the writer was able to touch one of the madness enemies by "grazing past their attack" i felt super big brained after realising it meant to parry lol
Technically you don't fully become the lord of frenzy until you beat the game (full on flaming head), and there's no way to play at that point because after you beat the elden beast, the lands between revert to the state they were in before you beat it.
They could have incorporated Melina depending upon if you embraced the frenzy. There should have been a NPC invasion or in case you used Miquella needle then she forgives you.
Drop rate must be awful, I've yet to see them drop one. Edit: Farmed them for about four hours before I got one and then got three on one run. O, RNG gods, why do you hate me so?
Summoning npcs in boss arenas been in the games since dark souls 1, where you could summon Sif on a fight with Manus But, about elden ring - everybody seems to forget that you can summon like 6 people on Radanh festival fight :D
Two more of those selective enemy drops based on location 1. Birds and deer past the Foot of the Jagged Peak Site of Grace have a small chance to drop a Dragon Calorbloom, that rare flower that doesn't respawn when picked on corpses. 2. Rats in Midra's Manse just before the Midra's Library Site of Grace can drop Swollen Grapes, which can be great if you killed all the Aging Untouchables.
I'm blown away that furnace visage is farmable, legit was saving my pots for the furnace golems with the foot braces. I know just from the first being this info this is gonna be so good
I only crafted one vortex pot and used exclusively the second strongest fire pots for those furnace giants. I feel silly now knowing I could've used the stronger ones instead.
You're supposed to use his rune? Tf lmao. I thought it'd just prevent you from getting charmed but I kept getting charmed so I said fuck it might be bugged
The winter lanterns is a direct reference from bloodborne, they are called the aged untouchables but i do think they drop an item called the winter lantern-fly
@@DomsRoundtable I love the music in this DLC. Couldn’t have possibly missed it. Thank you for putting it in there. Really fit the vibe of the Abyssal Woods as well.
Midra sound track is the best for me personally. It evokes such a sense of dread, wonder and cosmic horror all at the same time. And I am not even that much into the OSTs. But Ancestral Spirit Godfrey and Midra easily outshine the others.
One insignificant change is when you meet Leda at her bossfight and didnt help/kill Freya, completed Moore's quest and Hornsent so they are absent from the fight, Leda will only say:"Needle Knight Leda, Dryleaf Dane" and not say "and their ally". Thats it, thats the secret :D you can actually 3v2 them with Ansbach and Thiollier
Yep these things really should be removed or we are given a warning. I hate shit that changes your game and locks you out of shit without warning you first
@@argonaut_jay I agree...if we had a merchant or someone to explain the lore a little bit better, we'd be more careful...the base game had a lot of NPC questlines get ruined unknowingly too. Oh well, hopefully I will get another chance to do the DLC from the beginning.
The death blight eyes in the Scorpion River Catacombs can be disabled with Black Flame or with the Black Knife Dagger special attack. The mimic veil also helps get past them. As always, your videos help a ton. I've already bungled my playthrough as I broke the rune, but that's alright. :)
@@LordMoonIsaacJR yes I did it yesterday. You only accumulate blight if you stand like right in them. But from a distance after hitting them with black flame, they don't do anything to you.
Try the skill on the head torch... Makes you mostly invisible and you wont get blighted very low fp cost too... Try head And then praise the stealth! 🙌
Trying to summon Igon inside Bayle's arena once it's become a fog wall is _incredibly_ difficult without tanking a hit from Bayle... And even then it takes a while for Igon to give his speech before he even does anything. Very frustrating, but glad Bayle doesn't get _more_ health lol
@@andrewjazdzyk1215I fucking hate player messages sometimes like when they’re placed at the foot of ladders this player base is full of spiteful weirdos
Lol I felt the exact opposite, in the DLC it constantly felt like it was randomly turning to night and limiting my vision. I assumed it was just some consequence of it being the land of shadow but I have yet to hear anyone mention the day/night cycle is different in the DLC. Admittedly I think it might largely be because a lot of areas are misty and foggy but most confusingly I noticed that in at least one place it was opposite and daytime was when things were less visible. It was like the mist cleared up at nighttime for some reason improving visibility
Even though I’m still very disappointed with all the things that didn’t get rapped up in the dlc, realizing that Miquella’s curse of eternal youth extends to his mind does make what he does make more sense. He’s a child playing with toys, like that kid in the Twilight Zone that wants everyone to think happy thoughts.
@@EvilGeniusIIpi my B. The only bow I use 90% of the time is the serpent bow. I legit thought they were the same thing 😅 there's still a lot of new stuff I haven't tried out yet
I actually love Abyssal woods because you can't summon your horse. It forces you to take things slow and look around. The game feels so much more immersive when you can't just speed around.
Totally agree, I try to spend as much time on my feet as possible. One recommendation I give to first time players, or anyone for that matter, is to not use Torrent too much, you discover so much more on your feet and it adds a lot to the immersion
@@christopherlyndsay8611 I'm glad there wasn't a point of forcing us to use stealth. I didn't even use it in this area. What I liked was forcing us to move around on foot.
0 of my enjoyment of these games from the challenge. The fun is being so strong it isn't a challenge. Wish I had the hammer that does 12k damage consistently from range.
gotta admit i was a little bit confused about the "exceedingly rare to find" tag on the furnace-thingies when i got to those soldiers and realized they dropped them when killed. immediate reaction was "so that was a lie.."
I don't think Torrent is necessarily scared of the winter lanterns per se, it's because the abyssal woods are frenzy flame central like nowhere else in the entire game and the frenzy flame can kill spirits. Torrent usually shrugs off any kind of death, but he'd die permanently over there.
For anyone else who wants to do the quests, but also likes fighting bosses 1 on 1, (at least for Thio and Ansbach) you only need to activate the summon one time, not necessarily on the winning attempt.
@@Stuphy1147it seems so. I’ve tried to kill the boss with both of them and it was incredibly hard for me (the scaling is significant). Eventually I gave up and soloed him. I found their bodies and all the loot in the arena after I reloaded as if they fought with me.
from what I've seen, the only change from summoning is that hornsent will invade you at the church of the bud before Rom if you summoned him at any point, kill or not, against mesmer. if you sided with hornsent and did not summon him, he "rejoins" Leda in the battle royal before radahn and can potentially make the encounter much harder. during the battle royal in my playthrough, he came in soon after Freya and would absolutely blender me if I tried to trade before anspach zones in. So I THINK there's no obligation to use quest summons during bosses, you will eventually get thier sweet loot
I need help. I've got a weird bug where the 'May the Best Win' gesture won't work on Dryleaf Dane in my game. I've tried using it countless times but all I get is his "..." response every time. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do or am I gonna be locked out of getting his quest rewards once I go near the castle? I was really looking forward to trying a martial arts playthrough & I'd rather not have to wait to do it all over again in ng+ if possible. Thx
The Miquella' s broken rune secret is so funny and obscure. He did kill me with his grab once, but then I knew it was possible and avoided it as it is the boss most telegraphed and easy to avoid attack in my opinion. I would never have thought there was a way to counter this!
I kind of disagree about doing all of the NPC quests. Yes thiollier and ansbach can be summoned later but the Leda fight becomes so much more difficult when all of the NPCs are present. It feels like a punishment that they all fight you for finishing their quests
I honestly didn’t do any of the npc questlines, I only had to fight two people at the end, and I still got the hornsent and moores stuff, the hornsent attacked me randomly by invading me after I beat the final boss when I went back to the rauh ruins, so I’m guessing I should be able to get freyas stuff somewhere.
Knowing that Torrent is afraid of frenzy flame forest because frenzy flame can kill spirits, makes the frenzy flame ending that much sadder. RIP Torrent. Saved my maiden but killed my horse.
The summoning NPC thing is almost certainly not true? When you summon your Mimic, you do it inside the boss arena, and it still gets the buff to its health and resistances. Why would that be any different for summoning NPCs in the boss arena? I’d want to see some definitive testing on this because from my anecdotal experience, it 100000% still buffs the bosses. They are about 50% tankier per summon or friend or NPC.
additional tip for the Abyssal woods if anyone’s struggling with parrying, there are flowers that are within the patches of grass that you can hide in that will attract the madness lanterns, you can use this to easily get around them they’ll be occupied with the flower being set off
It’s the sword of light and dark. Depending on which you use. That’s the dark spell in the video You can switch them at certain altars you find throughout the game
"I don't like one shot builds" - People who don't know how to build characters basically saying "Yeah, I meant to do that. I like the game harder anyways. I intentionally distributed attribute points like an idiot"
1- I went there once with them Mesmer soldiers and got a couple, didn’t have a clue they was farmable!? Holy shit! I’m currently running a high arcane bunk build so let’s go!! 2- lol watched Fighting cowboy make that mistake fighting a death bird and it disappeared mid battle 🤣🤣 3- Yet to hit that spot myself (was late to the dlc, started a ng+ and finished it before starting ng+ so I can go again lol) 4- Didn’t know this so thanks! 5- That’s hilarious btw! 6- have to make sure your NPC quest lines are upto date! Knew about the Avatar. 7- didn’t know you could farm the silver horns either!!! 8- yep. The last one I know why, but I forgot and just done messmer last night and done him first shot, didn’t even see the summon sign so guess I’ve effed up Ansbach’s quest 🙈 always dlc ng+ 🤣 I legit started an ng+ before the dlc was announced, bought the dlc but never touched it for weeks cus I wanted to do the base game first, so that when I finish the dlc I can wrap up and start my next ng+ and QuickTime that to jump back into the dlc and see what I want to power stance haha! This video was awesome thanks Dom!
finaly someone who sais Visage correctly LOL. by the way, you can do all of the moor questline even after the great rune breaks, i used your video to do his questline and it still worked, i just waited with answering his question of being sad or not, got all the cookbooks, and healed the bugman and got his cookbook aswell, then told him to be sad, then kept talking to him and he gave me the last cookbook and the black tar for the sleep pot, exhausted his dialogue and headed over to pick up his armor and bell bearing right after :)
For killing NPC, it is not just Igon. Once can also kill Freya when she is on 7th floor of Specimen Storehouse. However, you will be locked out of her quest and will miss an item she rewards you with upon completion. This way (like Moore) she will not participate in "allies" fight and you still will get her armor and weapon.
Fun secret for you. Did you know that there IS a reason as to WHY sometimes when u get invaded the invaders are bonkers overpowered ? Cheat engine allows you to level up to level 713 and max your stats and you can EDIT your levels manually back down to lets say level 150 (game things u have 150 level) in reality u are 713 you keep the same stats as 713 and get put in 150 matchmaking ._. thats just fking bonkers and idk how that is not patched i tested it once i learned it and i killed 3 people in like 2 hits .___. and they dealt so little dmg that my health depleted by 3% and my hits made their health deplete by half
#7 about Miquella's charm and rune, there's a 3rd place both will break. If you use the teleport directly behind Castle Enis that is protected by a Carian troll, it teleoports you to a piece of land in Rauh Ruins. My first playthough of the DLC is where they broke for me.
Torrent is not a coward, Torrent is aware that the Flame of Frenzy is able to permanently kill and destroy immortal spirits like himself. In the Lord of Frenzy ending, you can even hear it scream in agony as your flames destroy the whistle, and thus Torrent, for good. He KNOWS what is good for him.
I killed Freya in the Specimen Library after i helped Ansbach fight Leda off. I didn't do her quest because i hadn't found her there yet. I got her armor and her sword, and she didn't help Leda invade me at the end of the DLC
I knew about the silver tender and furnace visage secrets. Also knew about the parry on the madness creepers in the forest. I’m just bad at parrying but it looks like I’ll be using them as practice since there is a talisman for a reward. I didn’t know about that. Great video. Good info. Keep up the great job.
You can kill NPC, without ending their quest. I killed ansbach on the first floor in library, even before finding the scroll. Šo i ruined myself questline and missed his scythe😂
Ain't no fucking way you said RKR on Smithscript was wrong because it made the game too easy then used summons in the Radahn fight. Fromsoft fanboys are insufferable holy shit.
15:58 A small correction, you can kill some NPCs before the final fight, Freyja can be permanently killed in the storeroom area in black keep, Moore can be killed by telling him to stay sad or by killing his brood friends then he invades you, the NPCs are just immune to death when you try to directly attack them at the sites of grace where you first meet them but you can kill some of them before you finish their quest lines and before the final NPC fight.
You mean I could have had thiollier and ansbach as summons for Radhan? I'm so pissed, they're dead in my game... I also killed Igon because Vatiavidya said he did because he seemed to be in a lot of pain! I thought it was a mercy kill because he never stopped screaming in pain!
If you search around rhe world, there are TONS of Furnace Visages that I was able to get ahold of. You just need to look for them, especially in areas where there are dead fire golems. I have about 14 of them and I haven't even finished the game.
14 really isn’t many IMO especially considering how many seem to intended for use on the furnace golems themselves. God forbid you die after using them and not manage to take out the golem. Fortunately you can still use the regular hefty fire pots which are way weaker but still plenty strong enough to be viable. I’m just glad they turned out to be farmable, I hate the thought of super limited consumables just makes me very anxious about using them
Therer's a reason why you can't summon Torrent even after killing all winter lanterns, you see, the flame of chaos or the flame of frenzy can kill anything in both body and spirit, yes Torrent is a coward but understandably so, in a world where death isnt the end and you think your duty isnt done yet like a spirit like Torrent you'd probably wish to play it safe in such consequences. I mean even you have no need to go kill Midra, you are just going there bcs you are that much of a chad and hungry for power, Torrent is just playing it safer than you are.
I did actually killed NPC Freya in the 7th floor of Messmer tower :(, it was a mistake tho, she got caught while monologing as I was fighting this fire monk.
Damn, if only you found out that first tip earlier, I wasted all my visages on regular enemies so when the armored wicker men appeared I had to defeat them by shooting magic into their faces, didn't know you can actually farm the visage item, very cool tip.
What From Soft really need to do is fix those broken mechanics with magic and incantations. I mean whats the fun in screaming outside boss room for one minutr and then inside and boss fight is over in 11 seconds. There should be a limit over the offensive spell buffs stack. The defensive buffs can be the way they are.
I never knew about summoning pcs outside of the arena making the boss harder I was wondering why my second play through the divine beast was much easier😂😂😂
The madness enemies are also not immune to fall damage (not sure if someone mentioned this already). But I shot one with an arrow from a tall cliff and it teleported up to my location. I can't remember if it backstepped or I hit it? Either way it fell to it's death and I got a swollen grape out of it (didn't have to pick it up).
The sc hammer nerf is kinda pointless. The thing about this game is finding crazy builds like that to beat these bosses. Just watched some guy chug the metal skin physic but abuse the weight increase with the bearclaw/beast moveset. What you want a nerf on that too now?
I stopped summoning Ansbach for the final fight when I heard that the boss scales up just because he’s there. Pretty dumb mechanic. I was able to hear all his dialogue many times though 😂
“It would be mean of fromsoft to make the boss harder to complete a npc side quest to do so.” Unfortunately thats what they do with Thollier and Ansbach if you need to finish their quest line by bringing them in with you to fight the final boss. Tho correct me if im wrong that your stilll able to loot their dead corpses if you didn’t summon them after the fight.
Just a point of contention: some people play the game just for fun, not for a "sense of achievement". It sucks to have every fun, strong build patched out.
If Miquella broke their great rune then how can they still charm people? If they cast off everything that made them “them”, then how can he retain that power? It makes zero sense.
moore's questline can be broken, if u kill a kindred of rot npc, he will invade you, and if u kill him u got his gear, and his bell bearing would be on the area where you 1st meet him.
I pooped myself when torrent disappeared and i got a message that he was too scared. Although i do feel liek this area was meant to be bigger, or rather, have more content in it. But it seems oddly empty. Perhaps thats intentional. To add to the loneliness and anxiety feelings the zone induces.
I was kind of frustrated when i got locked out of the quests because i felt like i was just exploring, then suddenly there was a broken rune and i had few npcs to talk to.
9:12 I don't believe you are the person that gets to say what gives people a sense of achievement that's for them to decide may achieving ridiculously high numbers is some people's source of fun doesn't mean
Yeah those hecking lantern😂 my friend said you could actually kill them with destined death attack too. It just takes time. Never tried it so i don't know if its real or not.
You can get Moore’s armor set and shield by killing the wounded enemy near the church in scadu altus first grace. He invades you immediately. Once you take him out, you get his armor which is slightly better than the bull goat set!
@@viktorhalaj3029I believe the auto target option is a really consistent way to determine if an NPC in the area is a regular enemy or potentially an ally that should not be attacked. It doesn’t seem to want to target allies even if you could just regular attack them anyway. Fortunately all you missed out on was that set of cookbooks, I got all of them and the only one I cared about at all was the lulling branch that restores FP but no crazy recipes your handicapping yourself by missing. A lot of people practically ignore consumables
@monhi64 yeah regarding ignoring consumables I also do ignore them. I don't think I ever used any tonic or the livers and stuff like that. I usually just jump heavy my way through the game
Someone should make a mod for the final boss if you are on track for Rannis ending. She should hang on your sholders lobbing dark moons and give you a buff if you are using her darkmoon greatsword.
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Make sure you check out my latest build guide to help you through the DLC! ruclips.net/video/TEQ1prGC8GY/видео.html
Killed frejya in shadowkeep because i discovered I couldn’t complete her quest
Me too. Getting locked out of quests really suck ! Also the fact that it took me awhile to figure out I was locked out.
Dom, did you know that there’s a dog that can be seen playing in SotE? Just southeast of the Cliffroad Terminus site of grace, where the brood NPC is, there’s a Bloodfiend + Dog patrolling. If you wait and watch them from a distance, you’ll notice that it starts chasing and trying to catch the falling leaves in that area. Pretty neat touch FromSoft!
need a video on that!
@@hays0939 no clown you don't need a video on it. Nor will there be a video "just on that"
Also some of the stone golem pet the lava blobs in the forges XD
@@ramrodbldm9876 easy there captain autismo, there are videos dedicated to one line from a show that only premiered once in one area on local TV.
It's RUclips. Pump the breaks Cochise.
Blue scadu we can too
Azure shadow we can follow
in the Abyssal Woods mansion, there's a torn letter that says that the writer was able to touch one of the madness enemies by "grazing past their attack" i felt super big brained after realising it meant to parry lol
LOL thicc brain , well played
def better then getting it spoiled by a message on the ground lol
The real big brains are the people that tricked them into falling off a cliff and dying to fall damage
The winter-lanterns should have acted differently if you were Lord of the Frenzied Flame :(
Technically you don't fully become the lord of frenzy until you beat the game (full on flaming head), and there's no way to play at that point because after you beat the elden beast, the lands between revert to the state they were in before you beat it.
I expected a new interaction with Midra. But nothing.
I feel like fromsoft always has a lot of missed potential with everything i guess
@@jackdaw3822Previous FromSoft DLCs had interactions with the base game and vice versa though, I believe there isn’t a single such interaction in ER
They could have incorporated Melina depending upon if you embraced the frenzy. There should have been a NPC invasion or in case you used Miquella needle then she forgives you.
Genuinely awesome info re the Furnace visage mate - good job!
Dude aren’t you the smoughtown that I listen to for hours at work lol 😂!!!!???!!?
@@emadalhaddi8104Nah, it’s the other SmoughTown
@@rishg134 lmao I almost believed you then I’m like wtf is wrong with me it is him and yes I had to click his lil pic to make sure lmao 🤣
Drop rate must be awful, I've yet to see them drop one.
Edit: Farmed them for about four hours before I got one and then got three on one run. O, RNG gods, why do you hate me so?
The sleeping animals at Coffin Fissure can drop Nectarblood Burgeon.
Secret #11, Scadu is pronounced Shadow….as in Shadow Tree or Shadow Keep. There’s no K sound. It’s old English spelling.
Shadoosh tree
It felt so unnatural to say until I learned this. I love how they used old English words in this game.
@@universal_wisdom3416I have fun saying "skdoo-tree" I know it's wrong lol
Cool, ok still calling it a scahdooh tree cause it’s funny
@@YtinasniiableSkibidi Toilet Tree
Summoning npcs in boss arenas been in the games since dark souls 1, where you could summon Sif on a fight with Manus
But, about elden ring - everybody seems to forget that you can summon like 6 people on Radanh festival fight :D
Love fighting Radahn with the little militia band of misfits. It's a festival, after all.
You can also summon alexander in the fire giant quest in the arena
patches runs tho like the lil bitch he is lmao. gotta love patches
@@Bow_and_aro72 and Blaidd against Bloodhound Knight Darriwil, the one who drops the Bloodhound Fang.
I don’t think anyone forgot or didn’t know that you could summon all the homies to fight Radahn, but hey it’s your world
Two more of those selective enemy drops based on location
1. Birds and deer past the Foot of the Jagged Peak Site of Grace have a small chance to drop a Dragon Calorbloom, that rare flower that doesn't respawn when picked on corpses.
2. Rats in Midra's Manse just before the Midra's Library Site of Grace can drop Swollen Grapes, which can be great if you killed all the Aging Untouchables.
Sheep near the three-path cross can drop empyrean blood-burgeons
I'm blown away that furnace visage is farmable, legit was saving my pots for the furnace golems with the foot braces. I know just from the first being this info this is gonna be so good
I ran out of them to craft Heavy Furnace Pots and was fuming
I only crafted one vortex pot and used exclusively the second strongest fire pots for those furnace giants. I feel silly now knowing I could've used the stronger ones instead.
The empyrean blood burgeon can be farmed by sheep at the grace where Leda used to camp. If you need I can provide a clip
For summoning NPCs inside of boss fights, correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you do this with Alexander for the Fire Giant in the base game?
Yeah, you do
And the Radahn festival
Miquella also changes his voiceline the 2nd time you get caught but you used the broken rune first.
It was something about love
You're supposed to use his rune? Tf lmao. I thought it'd just prevent you from getting charmed but I kept getting charmed so I said fuck it might be bugged
@@landoncube769 The rune removes the charm, doesn't prevent it.
Its an item not a rune anymore lol
@@TheDemidem0nIt's classified as a tool, actually. But it's still called great rune so why wouldn't it be one? It's just broken.
The winter lanterns is a direct reference from bloodborne, they are called the aged untouchables but i do think they drop an item called the winter lantern-fly
6:19 I recognized St Trina’s theme immediately. My favorite song in the entire game.
Thank you! The only comment I've seen so far about the backing music 🤩
@@DomsRoundtable
I love the music in this DLC. Couldn’t have possibly missed it. Thank you for putting it in there. Really fit the vibe of the Abyssal Woods as well.
The music is so good! I like the theme when you are fighting in the NPC royal rumble.
The background music in the DLC is just pure 10/10 very atmospheric and incredible work there combined with the environments and the visuals
Midra sound track is the best for me personally. It evokes such a sense of dread, wonder and cosmic horror all at the same time. And I am not even that much into the OSTs. But Ancestral Spirit Godfrey and Midra easily outshine the others.
One insignificant change is when you meet Leda at her bossfight and didnt help/kill Freya, completed Moore's quest and Hornsent so they are absent from the fight, Leda will only say:"Needle Knight Leda, Dryleaf Dane" and not say "and their ally". Thats it, thats the secret :D you can actually 3v2 them with Ansbach and Thiollier
I wish I'd have known about breaking the rune earlier because I'd hardly touched any of the questlines before breaking it above the village.
I’m so sad about it
Yep these things really should be removed or we are given a warning. I hate shit that changes your game and locks you out of shit without warning you first
@@argonaut_jay I agree...if we had a merchant or someone to explain the lore a little bit better, we'd be more careful...the base game had a lot of NPC questlines get ruined unknowingly too. Oh well, hopefully I will get another chance to do the DLC from the beginning.
Just classic from software quest design.
Yea really stupid had absolutely no idea
The death blight eyes in the Scorpion River Catacombs can be disabled with Black Flame or with the Black Knife Dagger special attack. The mimic veil also helps get past them.
As always, your videos help a ton. I've already bungled my playthrough as I broke the rune, but that's alright. :)
Is this real I'ma try it
@@LordMoonIsaacJR yes I did it yesterday. You only accumulate blight if you stand like right in them. But from a distance after hitting them with black flame, they don't do anything to you.
@@TaniaPomalesArt I just did it idk how people think of these things
Try the skill on the head torch... Makes you mostly invisible and you wont get blighted very low fp cost too...
Try head
And then praise the stealth! 🙌
Trying to summon Igon inside Bayle's arena once it's become a fog wall is _incredibly_ difficult without tanking a hit from Bayle... And even then it takes a while for Igon to give his speech before he even does anything. Very frustrating, but glad Bayle doesn't get _more_ health lol
It's even more frustrating when player messages cover the entire stupid summon sign
@@andrewjazdzyk1215that specifically got me killed three times
@@andrewjazdzyk1215 I'd recommend going offline for the flight if you're having that issue.
@@andrewjazdzyk1215I fucking hate player messages sometimes like when they’re placed at the foot of ladders this player base is full of spiteful weirdos
a full day-night circle is just 1 hour? i didnt know that. felt like its way more... good to know, thanks dom
Lol I felt the exact opposite, in the DLC it constantly felt like it was randomly turning to night and limiting my vision. I assumed it was just some consequence of it being the land of shadow but I have yet to hear anyone mention the day/night cycle is different in the DLC. Admittedly I think it might largely be because a lot of areas are misty and foggy but most confusingly I noticed that in at least one place it was opposite and daytime was when things were less visible. It was like the mist cleared up at nighttime for some reason improving visibility
@@monhi64Time advances a large bit when you die, so if you die often the time of day changes often.
That furnace visage secret is definitely clutch. As clutch as the basilisks in the Lake Of Rot dropping Aeonian Butterflies
Secret 12, the main gauche can only be powerstanced with another main gauche… or any thrusting sword!!!! (But only when held in the off hand)
Fun fact, Main Gauche is actually French for Left Hand.
which is exactly how it was used irl... a parrying dagger to be paired with a rapier
Can we all agree that the furnace golems look sick
Even though I’m still very disappointed with all the things that didn’t get rapped up in the dlc, realizing that Miquella’s curse of eternal youth extends to his mind does make what he does make more sense. He’s a child playing with toys, like that kid in the Twilight Zone that wants everyone to think happy thoughts.
You can buy dragon harpoons from the twin maidens after giving them Igon's bell-bearing
Those are just arrows for Igon’s greatbow, separate from the regular dragon harpoons
@@EvilGeniusIIpi my B. The only bow I use 90% of the time is the serpent bow. I legit thought they were the same thing 😅 there's still a lot of new stuff I haven't tried out yet
The harpoons are craftable.
I actually love Abyssal woods because you can't summon your horse. It forces you to take things slow and look around. The game feels so much more immersive when you can't just speed around.
Totally agree, I try to spend as much time on my feet as possible. One recommendation I give to first time players, or anyone for that matter, is to not use Torrent too much, you discover so much more on your feet and it adds a lot to the immersion
Yeah I thought it was the one thing the base game was missing, as it never really used stealth
@@christopherlyndsay8611 I'm glad there wasn't a point of forcing us to use stealth. I didn't even use it in this area. What I liked was forcing us to move around on foot.
if only there was stuff to find and take in lol
@@corazzellimthis. I wish they had a cave or a catacomb 😭
Does anyone try to use that Mohg shackle on Radahn yet?
It's Mohg body after all.
0 of my enjoyment of these games from the challenge. The fun is being so strong it isn't a challenge.
Wish I had the hammer that does 12k damage consistently from range.
gotta admit i was a little bit confused about the "exceedingly rare to find" tag on the furnace-thingies when i got to those soldiers and realized they dropped them when killed.
immediate reaction was "so that was a lie.."
I don't think Torrent is necessarily scared of the winter lanterns per se, it's because the abyssal woods are frenzy flame central like nowhere else in the entire game and the frenzy flame can kill spirits. Torrent usually shrugs off any kind of death, but he'd die permanently over there.
For anyone else who wants to do the quests, but also likes fighting bosses 1 on 1, (at least for Thio and Ansbach) you only need to activate the summon one time, not necessarily on the winning attempt.
Is this actually true? Cuz if so that would be a life saver
@@Stuphy1147it seems so. I’ve tried to kill the boss with both of them and it was incredibly hard for me (the scaling is significant). Eventually I gave up and soloed him. I found their bodies and all the loot in the arena after I reloaded as if they fought with me.
@@Snegojuiwhat do you mean? Summoning them inside doesn't scale the boss any further.
from what I've seen, the only change from summoning is that hornsent will invade you at the church of the bud before Rom if you summoned him at any point, kill or not, against mesmer. if you sided with hornsent and did not summon him, he "rejoins" Leda in the battle royal before radahn and can potentially make the encounter much harder. during the battle royal in my playthrough, he came in soon after Freya and would absolutely blender me if I tried to trade before anspach zones in. So I THINK there's no obligation to use quest summons during bosses, you will eventually get thier sweet loot
@@Rap1dACE the summoning signs are outside the boss arena at the final boss
"most known secret" at 09:21 describes this entire video besides the furnace visage. Should be your last bait secret video cmon mate
I need help. I've got a weird bug where the 'May the Best Win' gesture won't work on Dryleaf Dane in my game. I've tried using it countless times but all I get is his "..." response every time. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do or am I gonna be locked out of getting his quest rewards once I go near the castle? I was really looking forward to trying a martial arts playthrough & I'd rather not have to wait to do it all over again in ng+ if possible. Thx
BRO WHAT… YOU CAN FARM FURNACE VISAGES?????? LESHHGOOOOOO
The Miquella' s broken rune secret is so funny and obscure. He did kill me with his grab once, but then I knew it was possible and avoided it as it is the boss most telegraphed and easy to avoid attack in my opinion. I would never have thought there was a way to counter this!
I kind of disagree about doing all of the NPC quests. Yes thiollier and ansbach can be summoned later but the Leda fight becomes so much more difficult when all of the NPCs are present. It feels like a punishment that they all fight you for finishing their quests
I honestly didn’t do any of the npc questlines, I only had to fight two people at the end, and I still got the hornsent and moores stuff, the hornsent attacked me randomly by invading me after I beat the final boss when I went back to the rauh ruins, so I’m guessing I should be able to get freyas stuff somewhere.
I only did Ansbach's quest and had to fight literally everyone else (except Tholier). It was terrible
I keep reading SotE as Symphony of the Eight
5:05 they're actually called aging untouchables as confirmed in multiple items descriptions
Knowing that Torrent is afraid of frenzy flame forest because frenzy flame can kill spirits, makes the frenzy flame ending that much sadder. RIP Torrent. Saved my maiden but killed my horse.
The summoning NPC thing is almost certainly not true? When you summon your Mimic, you do it inside the boss arena, and it still gets the buff to its health and resistances. Why would that be any different for summoning NPCs in the boss arena? I’d want to see some definitive testing on this because from my anecdotal experience, it 100000% still buffs the bosses. They are about 50% tankier per summon or friend or NPC.
You eatin good with this dlc bro, I hope this can keep you making content for a while. Love the things you missed and build series
Torrent isnt scared of the winterlantern enemies he is scared of Midra
additional tip for the Abyssal woods if anyone’s struggling with parrying, there are flowers that are within the patches of grass that you can hide in that will attract the madness lanterns, you can use this to easily get around them they’ll be occupied with the flower being set off
Also, use the buckler as it has the most forgiving parry-window and parry just as the lantern raises his staff to hit you.
What is happening at 1:09? Is that a spell? Weapon art?
It’s the sword of light and dark.
Depending on which you use. That’s the dark spell in the video
You can switch them at certain altars you find throughout the game
"I don't like one shot builds" - People who don't know how to build characters basically saying "Yeah, I meant to do that. I like the game harder anyways. I intentionally distributed attribute points like an idiot"
1- I went there once with them Mesmer soldiers and got a couple, didn’t have a clue they was farmable!? Holy shit! I’m currently running a high arcane bunk build so let’s go!! 2- lol watched Fighting cowboy make that mistake fighting a death bird and it disappeared mid battle 🤣🤣 3- Yet to hit that spot myself (was late to the dlc, started a ng+ and finished it before starting ng+ so I can go again lol) 4- Didn’t know this so thanks! 5- That’s hilarious btw! 6- have to make sure your NPC quest lines are upto date! Knew about the Avatar. 7- didn’t know you could farm the silver horns either!!! 8- yep. The last one I know why, but I forgot and just done messmer last night and done him first shot, didn’t even see the summon sign so guess I’ve effed up Ansbach’s quest 🙈 always dlc ng+ 🤣 I legit started an ng+ before the dlc was announced, bought the dlc but never touched it for weeks cus I wanted to do the base game first, so that when I finish the dlc I can wrap up and start my next ng+ and QuickTime that to jump back into the dlc and see what I want to power stance haha! This video was awesome thanks Dom!
finaly someone who sais Visage correctly LOL. by the way, you can do all of the moor questline even after the great rune breaks, i used your video to do his questline and it still worked, i just waited with answering his question of being sad or not, got all the cookbooks, and healed the bugman and got his cookbook aswell, then told him to be sad, then kept talking to him and he gave me the last cookbook and the black tar for the sleep pot, exhausted his dialogue and headed over to pick up his armor and bell bearing right after :)
I could finish quests of all NPCs way after breaking the rune no problem. I don't know whether it's patched or just disinformation.
I somehow got NEITHER the hammer or shield from the Church of Consolation Knight, and now they don't respawn.
That darkness weapon art specific to the weapon? It's neat
It’s the sword of light and dark
You can switch between the two spells at certain alters found throughout the game
@@Squishy_420 Good to know, Tah
For killing NPC, it is not just Igon. Once can also kill Freya when she is on 7th floor of Specimen Storehouse. However, you will be locked out of her quest and will miss an item she rewards you with upon completion. This way (like Moore) she will not participate in "allies" fight and you still will get her armor and weapon.
Fun secret for you. Did you know that there IS a reason as to WHY sometimes when u get invaded the invaders are bonkers overpowered ? Cheat engine allows you to level up to level 713 and max your stats and you can EDIT your levels manually back down to lets say level 150 (game things u have 150 level) in reality u are 713 you keep the same stats as 713 and get put in 150 matchmaking ._. thats just fking bonkers and idk how that is not patched i tested it once i learned it and i killed 3 people in like 2 hits .___. and they dealt so little dmg that my health depleted by 3% and my hits made their health deplete by half
In my books you’re just as important as vaati as far as increasing my enjoyment of this game goes. Much love man❤
#7 about Miquella's charm and rune, there's a 3rd place both will break.
If you use the teleport directly behind Castle Enis that is protected by a Carian troll, it teleoports you to a piece of land in Rauh Ruins. My first playthough of the DLC is where they broke for me.
Torrent is not a coward, Torrent is aware that the Flame of Frenzy is able to permanently kill and destroy immortal spirits like himself.
In the Lord of Frenzy ending, you can even hear it scream in agony as your flames destroy the whistle, and thus Torrent, for good. He KNOWS what is good for him.
I killed Freya in the Specimen Library after i helped Ansbach fight Leda off.
I didn't do her quest because i hadn't found her there yet.
I got her armor and her sword, and she didn't help Leda invade me at the end of the DLC
I knew about the silver tender and furnace visage secrets. Also knew about the parry on the madness creepers in the forest. I’m just bad at parrying but it looks like I’ll be using them as practice since there is a talisman for a reward. I didn’t know about that.
Great video. Good info. Keep up the great job.
I accidentally broke the rune outside Bonny Village early in my first play-through and spoiled nearly every NPC's questline.
You can kill NPC, without ending their quest. I killed ansbach on the first floor in library, even before finding the scroll. Šo i ruined myself questline and missed his scythe😂
Ain't no fucking way you said RKR on Smithscript was wrong because it made the game too easy then used summons in the Radahn fight. Fromsoft fanboys are insufferable holy shit.
And of course the one bloody npc I kill is igon….CURSE YOU ME!!!
15:58 A small correction, you can kill some NPCs before the final fight, Freyja can be permanently killed in the storeroom area in black keep, Moore can be killed by telling him to stay sad or by killing his brood friends then he invades you, the NPCs are just immune to death when you try to directly attack them at the sites of grace where you first meet them but you can kill some of them before you finish their quest lines and before the final NPC fight.
You mean I could have had thiollier and ansbach as summons for Radhan? I'm so pissed, they're dead in my game... I also killed Igon because Vatiavidya said he did because he seemed to be in a lot of pain! I thought it was a mercy kill because he never stopped screaming in pain!
If you search around rhe world, there are TONS of Furnace Visages that I was able to get ahold of. You just need to look for them, especially in areas where there are dead fire golems. I have about 14 of them and I haven't even finished the game.
14 really isn’t many IMO especially considering how many seem to intended for use on the furnace golems themselves. God forbid you die after using them and not manage to take out the golem. Fortunately you can still use the regular hefty fire pots which are way weaker but still plenty strong enough to be viable. I’m just glad they turned out to be farmable, I hate the thought of super limited consumables just makes me very anxious about using them
Therer's a reason why you can't summon Torrent even after killing all winter lanterns, you see, the flame of chaos or the flame of frenzy can kill anything in both body and spirit, yes Torrent is a coward but understandably so, in a world where death isnt the end and you think your duty isnt done yet like a spirit like Torrent you'd probably wish to play it safe in such consequences.
I mean even you have no need to go kill Midra, you are just going there bcs you are that much of a chad and hungry for power, Torrent is just playing it safer than you are.
Yeah but what happens when the SUMMON SIGN IS COVERED IN PLAYER MESSAGES
It's asinine design
I did actually killed NPC Freya in the 7th floor of Messmer tower :(, it was a mistake tho, she got caught while monologing as I was fighting this fire monk.
Damn, if only you found out that first tip earlier, I wasted all my visages on regular enemies so when the armored wicker men appeared I had to defeat them by shooting magic into their faces, didn't know you can actually farm the visage item, very cool tip.
What From Soft really need to do is fix those broken mechanics with magic and incantations. I mean whats the fun in screaming outside boss room for one minutr and then inside and boss fight is over in 11 seconds. There should be a limit over the offensive spell buffs stack. The defensive buffs can be the way they are.
I never knew about summoning pcs outside of the arena making the boss harder
I was wondering why my second play through the divine beast was much easier😂😂😂
The madness enemies are also not immune to fall damage (not sure if someone mentioned this already). But I shot one with an arrow from a tall cliff and it teleported up to my location. I can't remember if it backstepped or I hit it? Either way it fell to it's death and I got a swollen grape out of it (didn't have to pick it up).
Here's one: Scadutree is pronounced the same as shadowtree, it's just an old spelling. The japanese is 影樹 which is just "shadowtree."
Lmao that's not how you pronounce visage. It's not like "massage". It's "vis-idge".
The sc hammer nerf is kinda pointless. The thing about this game is finding crazy builds like that to beat these bosses. Just watched some guy chug the metal skin physic but abuse the weight increase with the bearclaw/beast moveset. What you want a nerf on that too now?
I had the option to summon Jolan for Messmer. I picked Hornsent instead. What would that of changed in Jolan's questline?
I stopped summoning Ansbach for the final fight when I heard that the boss scales up just because he’s there. Pretty dumb mechanic. I was able to hear all his dialogue many times though 😂
“It would be mean of fromsoft to make the boss harder to complete a npc side quest to do so.” Unfortunately thats what they do with Thollier and Ansbach if you need to finish their quest line by bringing them in with you to fight the final boss. Tho correct me if im wrong that your stilll able to loot their dead corpses if you didn’t summon them after the fight.
Just a point of contention: some people play the game just for fun, not for a "sense of achievement". It sucks to have every fun, strong build patched out.
If Miquella broke their great rune then how can they still charm people? If they cast off everything that made them “them”, then how can he retain that power? It makes zero sense.
Hahaha Imagine if for every NPC you would summon in Radahn's fight his health bar would double
I just know the so much not secret that the most difficult boss (last boss) gives you the worst weapon & magic) very disappointing
5:25 So you’re telling me after ONE parry I could’ve just attacked them normally? I parried every attack to get a critical hit until they died 😭
moore's questline can be broken, if u kill a kindred of rot npc, he will invade you, and if u kill him u got his gear, and his bell bearing would be on the area where you 1st meet him.
I pooped myself when torrent disappeared and i got a message that he was too scared. Although i do feel liek this area was meant to be bigger, or rather, have more content in it. But it seems oddly empty. Perhaps thats intentional. To add to the loneliness and anxiety feelings the zone induces.
In the base game you summon bunch of NPCs for the Radahn dude....
I was kind of frustrated when i got locked out of the quests because i felt like i was just exploring, then suddenly there was a broken rune and i had few npcs to talk to.
9:12 I don't believe you are the person that gets to say what gives people a sense of achievement that's for them to decide may achieving ridiculously high numbers is some people's source of fun doesn't mean
I killed Igon first time I saw him, thought he wanted to be out of his misery :( I need to do a 2nd playthrought for the epic voiceline :(
18:25 that makes a lot of sense and good reasoning. But I don't care, its a pain in the ass to try to summon while being viscously assaulted.
Pop one of those perfume things that bubble u for a hit
Yeah those hecking lantern😂 my friend said you could actually kill them with destined death attack too. It just takes time. Never tried it so i don't know if its real or not.
You can get Moore’s armor set and shield by killing the wounded enemy near the church in scadu altus first grace. He invades you immediately. Once you take him out, you get his armor which is slightly better than the bull goat set!
Yep. Learned the hard way to look at the enemies before killing them. But the armor is great since it has a fuckton of poise.
@@viktorhalaj3029I believe the auto target option is a really consistent way to determine if an NPC in the area is a regular enemy or potentially an ally that should not be attacked. It doesn’t seem to want to target allies even if you could just regular attack them anyway. Fortunately all you missed out on was that set of cookbooks, I got all of them and the only one I cared about at all was the lulling branch that restores FP but no crazy recipes your handicapping yourself by missing. A lot of people practically ignore consumables
@monhi64 yeah regarding ignoring consumables I also do ignore them. I don't think I ever used any tonic or the livers and stuff like that. I usually just jump heavy my way through the game
About summoning inside boss arena: in the base game you can summon Alexander in the fight vs the fire giant. So, it was a feature already.
I've got one for you. Scadutree is actually pronounced "shadow tree". Based on old spelling.
Torrent is scared because the flame of frenzy is (probably?) the only thing that can kill spirits
I killed igon within like 2 minutes of finding him on the road bc brother was in agony. Oh well, new playthrough tomorrow
I’m pretty sure you can buy the anti dragon arrows. I’ll come back with an edit but I’m quite certain you can.
Someone should make a mod for the final boss if you are on track for Rannis ending. She should hang on your sholders lobbing dark moons and give you a buff if you are using her darkmoon greatsword.
North of the Fissue Cross-there are blood Fiends that use sleep weapons. They drop Nectarblood Burgeon.
For the original Radahn fight, you could summon npcs inside the arena.
Alexander helped me out in that fight. Patches not so much.
Alexander is inside the Fire Giant arena too
The moonlight is like Ranni guiding you from afar ❤
Please do list all the changes.