I'm pretty sure this weapon is unique in terms of its scaling, yes when it comes to ar it scales best with dex but the Ash of War actually scales with Int so if you're actually focusing on using the Ash of war most of the time, it wouldn't be a bad idea to pump up int unless they changed that in recent patches
@RageGamingVideos Looks really fun build, but I have only one problem that this video had. Do not use great runes when playing dueling PvP, as summons cannot use great runes when in your game.
I love how this doesn't depend on FORCING yourself into low HP to be effective, but it becomes monstrously clutch in any scenario where you end up being taken to low health. Super cool!
@@RageGamingVideos It's cool that the whole Death Bird motif plays into the whole kit really well. It'd match some Death sorceries if you want to use it at a high level or slightly different stat spread, too which is what I love about seeing these theme-based builds being so inspiring for adaptation.
I'd almost want to call this the Zombie/Revenant Boss build, because once you hit that sub-20%, you go into your next "phase" and become harder to kill lol
@@RageGamingVideos hey rage! Ive been watching you since the binding of isaac series and now i just got back into ur videos because of elden ring and i see that the content has not changed a bit and its still so fucking good!!!
You're wrong about INT. The damage of the sword is DEX, the damage of the Ash of War is 100% INT based. With 75 INT the ground fire does 6k+ damage if you hit with the swing, the explosion, and the enemy stays in the fire it's whole duration. So it's a versatile weapon. Can use it as a strong DEX or INT weapon.
Goddamn. I didn't know the poker hit so ridiculously hard. I think it's compatible with the Rogier Spellblade buff too because that buffs Nebula, which isn't a glintstone sorcery ash, but is a magic ash.
@@Sletchman don't dis the man that just gave you an entire video of knowledge with also the ways of going about getting the items don't get me wrong he missed a few pieces of information but come on still good and nonetheless
I loved the build and the enthusiasm. I'm also a big fan of the Death's Poker. One thing that I love about the poker, that I don't hear people talking about often, is the option to poke with the L2, but then not use the follow up r1 or r2. You actually recover from the initial L2 extremely fast and can backdash, roll, jump attack or turn and L2 again if they are rolling out of the way. You have options to be tricky and come up with different shenanigans in ways that other weapons don't have
I had been using this weapon for a bit and never realized there was an r1 r2 followup. Gonna be so much more unpredictable now I'm excited to try it again.
For anyone having trouble with the death birds, the sacred blade ash of war does incredible damage since it’s holy. It’s ranged projectile makes it somewhat easy to land headshots after you bait out various attacks. I’ve used it on my level 1 to defeat the birds and it can deal over 1k damage a hit with no stat investments.
They are very weak to holy, I ran Sacred Blade and Golden Order greatsword just melts death birds. I did a quick dual wield set up really unnecessary but fun cause they didn't last long. Happy hunting.
@@monkeytoes1155 yea honestly when elden Ring first landed I stopped my notifications from this channel, I know it did them well in the algorithm, but man was it obnoxious to see a vid claim power and be like yep they are decent at best lol.
I LOVE the Death's Poker! I've been using it with my dex/int build and it literally slaughters anything that's unfortunate enough to stand in front of me. Another great video. I love how in depth you go. Elden Ring is such a deep, intricate, complex web of awesomeness. Millions of different weapon combos. Such a deep weapon selection. So many amazing spells to be a sorcerer of destruction. My character is a battle mage. He can sorcery you into ashes, or he can behead you with whatever weapon he has on hand. Thanks for the hard work to bring us this great info brother! Cheers!
Don't summon Duelist signs in The Main Academy Gate if you're using Great Runes. Duelists summons can't use Great Runes. Do it if you're just doing invasions.
@@bradyseward279 you can use it if you get invaded. PvP duels especially in The Main Academy Gate is the Fight Clubs of the Arena mode in the past Souls games. Arena Mode is also coming to Elden Ring (3 locked colosseums) where you cannot use Health flasks. Only the host can use Great Runes, so summoning a duelist Furled Finger who cannot use Great Runes while you have it on, is not fair. Might as well don't go to the Main Academy Gate and duel somewhere else if you want handicap advantage over them.
braggarts roar gives another 10% damage reduction and 10% more dmg :) if you want to use some big 2handed weapon or smth(axe in loadout for more roar damage) maybe with bleed and heavy attacks...
Love the video! I use the royal remains gear, the shield and the talismans on every build when I get low health through hardswapping, this set up is so awesome! Little note on the side: you watch Ufc? Your voice sometimes really really sounds like Michael Bisping xD Keep up the work mate :)
@@MrRobot-mi7ie with 40-50 int I almost one-shot players in duels with the explosion unbuffed. Whereas In the video he did little damage until he got the buffs
i've been doing this build for forever now. its only really good early game and for pvp at a low level. treat it like a regen build, not a tank. since it doesn't rely on resources you'll outlast people. and status effects are your bane, poison cancels your regen, rot will slowly kill you, and bleed and frost will instantly kill you. wear the mottled horn talisman +1 and pearldrake talisman because elemental damage is far more dangerous than physical. and a good weapon to use is the pests glaive for 2% more elemental defense
I think the health regen is not really necessary since royal remains set is such a weak armor set. Bullgoat or other heavier armor is definitely better for PVP.
@@yulu803 I think this build is awesome with the royal remains armor plus it just looks bad ass. The only thing I really changed was I dropped the dragon crest and went with the erdtree favor plus 2 that way I could keep my stamina were it was and still equip a whip and not fat roll. Love finishing people off with the whip...they never see it coming.
7:20 a good piece of advice for the Deathbird is you can take the grace warp from the church in the east, wait til night then hop on top of the nearby skull (W SW of the grace) There, you can cheese the bird if you happen to be too low or it hits you too hard. Bring plenty of ranged attacks, and stay up away from it!
@@failegion7828 that's not true champ. For one, you can't change the Ash on this weapon. For two, changing the affinity of a weapon with an Ash changes the weapon's damage scaling stat, but not the Ash's damage scaling stat.
From what I’ve seen, the Ash of War doesn’t actually scale very well at all, but the high base damage makes it really strong with %damage-boost items. That said, I do wonder if all this low health stuff is actually worth it when things like Rotten Wing Talisman and Alexander’s Jar Talisman exist. The damage would probably be similar except you don’t need to be at low health to get the boost.
@@theguileraven7014 I don't think the point of the build is to optimize the weapon, it's just a good weapon to use with the idea of being ultra hard to kill. I think of this build more as the defensive aspects of it, and that you could really use any weapon you want with it
@@TheCWasson12 The weapon works fine with the build. I was just pointing out that the Ash of War doesn’t actually benefit much from stat distribution, since the OP was suggesting the build needed more int for the weapon. As for the second part of my post, I think that applies to any alternative weapons as well. As said, I wonder how the damage actually compares to a more conventional setup with Rotten Winged Talisman + Shard of Alexander.
I believe like most weapons with magical Ash of War skills, the Deaths Poker explosion/frost part scale much higher with INT than the AR suggests, the poor INT scaling only applies to the weapon attacks.
AoW scales with anything as long as the weapon has such scaling, even purely magic AoWs scale with dex for example, as long as the weapon scales with it.
You (or I suppose Josh) must be some kind of mind-reader, I was just planning to build the (20% HP) character build and was kinda surprised how all the Death Bird items have the same low-HP-buffs-you theme.
I wonder if butcher blade would be good with this build with wild strikes having a high health build and being more aggressive to get health back but if you get low you can top off your health by being more aggressive.
I actually got all the Death's Poker yesterday. Had the shield, talismans and armor for some time and basically had the blue-feathered talisman equiped for most the yime
@@user-mu8ok5xf8d its one of the drops from the death birds, the weaker version of the Death Rite Birds. Icr if its the one behind the warmasters shack or not. But I am pretty sure that they made a video to get it and the red feathered one
A little late, but a good way to take out the Deathrite Birds is with Holy Water Pots. They do intense damage to 'em, especially if you can land a headshot. Don't even need that much Faith to do it either, and you can get up to ten Cracked Pots before even going to Altus Plateau. Maybe more.
There are ways to make it better. Use the physick flask that gives you health regen and forego the armor set so you can get a better armor set. Or use one of the regen incantations. And instead of using flame grant me strength I'd use a prawn for more defense.
odd question, but did you play the predecessor stress test recently, its the remake of paragon. Didn't know if you saw it and i know you really enjoyed paragon. hope you are doing well!
I've been maining the Poker and always looking for a good build. I run it with pumped INT, as it makes the AoW do crazy damage. Nice to know those talismans and shield are available.
everything you wear is coming from the Death Birsd. I dont think this build is "invented" by accident. the dev team have this build in mind when they gave all the necessarily piece to the same enemy type
@@TheAnalatheist Every point into vigor counts in a build like this because it’s going off of a percent of your HP. I checked this last night, the difference between having 50 vigor and having 80 vigor is that the Branchswords kick in at approx. 300HP on 50 vigor, and they kick in at approx. 500HP on 80 vigor. If you’re still taking hits to trade at 20% HP then even the bonuses from the Branchswords won’t save you from being oneshot if 20% translates to only 300 health. I’d go so far as to say that 80 vigor isn’t enough
Really really love this build currently doing a similar full HP build that uses the crimson and erdtree+2 and then the sacred butchering knife or (what I use) the heart stars that regeneration health on hit and the Ash of war that restores 30% HP on hit (modified from another video) although idk why you and the other guy both overleveled vigor? You get a ton up to 40 and then still get good gains up to 60 then you only get 6 hp per level so why not re-alocate those other 20 levels elsewhere like STG or DEX to bump that weapon damage. Or endurance to up your equip load and resistances or maybe even into and/or faith to get access to more spells. Tldr great build, I would drop the levels in vigor to 60 and relocate those elsewhere. Now your 2 cents richer lol
The damage of Ghostflame Ignition scales a lot more with Intelligence than the D scaling would suggest. I’m sure other people have said this already but the more the merrier right?
clever rat, morion blade, monk head band, monk catalyst. that was a great glass build in demon souls lol that reminds me of that execpt here dmg output is not that high. forgot that the makoto drained your health on purpose was really easy to set up. guess the closet thing to set up the build is using seppuku.
Love this build and just destroying people on pvp. You guys are freaking awesome. Between you and fightincowboy you guys have the best info. Thanks so much for your time and input into this game. Love you all.
Love the build I had the idea and tried it out on my first play through with half the equipment, now that I have 300+ hrs and seen this, ima try it out again. 😎
This looks fun to play although I'm a bit skeptical on how it will do against the harder bosses, still I'm very interested in trying it out. Thanks!! 👍
I could try it out on the endgame bosses. At the moment I have to do all of them on NG 1. But I have more lvl's to build around it maybe more int for the damage from the ashes of War. If you want I can report it later how it went. First on the list is the fire giant.
@@Soullessfabel Sure, it would be cool to hear you results. 👍 I will have to go get the weapon I think, I'll have to check later when I get online, I don't think I killed every one of those birds yet. I just defeated the fire giant on NG 1 last night but I was using 2 Godskin Peelers (fire, frost), plus Mimic as well.
@@markadams5009 so I just defeated the fire giant! It took him four till five hits to kill me. The health regen is noticeable. The Ashes of War gives a huge advantage against giant bosses. Like the build Vigor 80 but I pushed int and dex to 60 for more damage. Maybe tomorrow I gonna try this out against Maliketh. Depends on how many Dungeons or items I gonna collect that I missed. All around a fun build. It can hit hard. And damn I love to see it against the other endgame bosses.
Huh, I was planning something like this but using a heavy thrusting sword(great epee) with bloody slash as the ash so i could drop my own hp if i was just above the 20% threshold. the poker might be more fun tho
this is why I love From titles, there's just so many different ways to play these games unlike other RPGs "swing sword, maybe you applied a defense buff idk, just hit things without thinking too much"
Kinda curious if this would work better or at least as good on anything that makes people expect less vigor with. Like may be faith build? Thinking of tanky paladin build. And may be malenia rune to trade instead of morgott
Am I really getting recommended duel builds that use great runes? Do people not know reds can't use great runes? The dragoncrest talismans are also nerfed to 1/4ty effectiveness in pvp. But yeah great build good job using a great rune against people who can't have one.
You should show off combos with incantations, and sorceries. For instance you can cast bestial sling then straight into honed bolt, or catch flame into the magma breath.
There's a big difference between quick-casting (intended) and instant-casting/waving (actual bug). Using a regular Catch Flame into Theo's Magma will just cancel straight into the follow-up cast of Theo's Magma, which shows the wyrm-head in the animation, only spews magma and doesn't have the spike of on-hit damage. As you can guess - nobody is using this combo because it would just be bad despite the interesting interaction. The combo that people are using is jumping/rolling/sprinting/BHSing Catch Flame into Theo's Magma (you can also just cast Catch Flame twice before Theo's but that's objectively worse so nobody's doing that either) which will wave-cast the *initial* attack of the spell, instantly dealing the on-hit damage and spawning lava all around the target. This will often one-shot even if you miss with Catch Flame - it's also 99.99999% not an intended mechanic. Even if you fix the pseudo-double-cast bug on Catch Flame, it's still debatable whether _any_ spells are supposed to _ever_ be wave-cast. Bestial Sling doesn't share the double-cast bug of Catch Flame but otherwise performs the same; Casting Bestial Sling twice in a row will make a subsequent cast of Honed Bolt or Lightning Strike a wave-cast. Casting Bestial Sling *once* into the same spells will make them quick-cast (the wind-up is gone but the fist-pump casting animation is still present). Seeing as how these spells are already boosted to a point where only the actual animation of casting remains *do you really think there is supposed to be a version of the spells with no animation at all?* The thorns-magic combo makes it seem like maybe it's intended but if you approach it logically, that's probably bugged too. Both spells can be "cast repeatedly" but also combo into each-other. So each spell makes the other quicker but also makes itself quicker which is why they can be alternately wave-cast for as long as the caster has hp/fp to cast them. Just to give some extra context, I can cast Theo's Magma 10 times in one infinite FP physick (15 seconds). That doesn't seem right. This guy (or maybe the other guy, but same channel) has stated before that he won't use exploits in his build videos (why he didn't include FDS/Bloodflame in his rolling thorns build) and there are some very clear exploits going on with incantations right now.
@@graysaltine6035 I didn’t think it was a bug. It states in certain incantations/sorceries that it allows a follow up attack. Which I took to be the combos. Oh well, not a big deal to me either way.
@@WhiteBuffaloWakanGli The one where you see the head is the follow-up attack, but the one that is meta right now is the invisible cast where the lava just instantly appears which is actually the first attack of the spell not the follow-up (it just has the wind-up sigil and the wyrm-head animation both removed). People will often spam Theo's so you see both attacks but the first one is so hard to notice that you might not even realise they cast it twice. Some of the combo stuff is legit and some of it is bugged, the current consensus is thus; - Quick-cast combos like 'Glintstone into Comet' or 'Standing Bestial Sling (single cast) into Honed Bolt' are all *OK* - Instant-cast combos like 'Jumping Catch Flame into Theo's Magma/Dragon Claw' or 'Double Bestial Sling into Honed Bolt' are *NOT OK* - The combos specific to "follow-up attack" incantations like 'Standing Catch Flame into follow-up Theo's Magma/Dragon Claw' and the specific case of the two Thorns sorceries are a sort of grey-area and they aren't necessarily more powerful than legit alternatives so *We're not really sure but it's probably not intended*
How does this build perform against harder bosses? You mostly show early game bosses when testing the weapon, but most weapons are good against them. I'd love to see you show more bosses
If you wanna do the pve version of it use Shard of Alexander, Magic scorpion charm, magic shouting crystal tear, intelligence knot crystal tear and whatever else you want on. Do the L2 + R1 and yeh pretty much kills any boss. My int’s usually at 60 since there are items that can boost your int to at least 80. Even tho it’s D in int It weirdly does more magic power than moonveil
Man this amazing set up would be perfect for a viking berserker build who is at their very strongest when at low health, I just wish you could transfer armor bonuses so I could put the royal remains set bonus on a viking type armor like the Kaiden or bloody wolf set. I really hope fromsoft adds that feature in the future but I sincerely doubt they will ugh.. 😮💨
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So glad you guys enjoyed this one! I love creating more of the beaten track builds like this, plenty more to come!
Well done, this is just what I was looking for! 🤘🏼🔥
I'm pretty sure this weapon is unique in terms of its scaling, yes when it comes to ar it scales best with dex but the Ash of War actually scales with Int so if you're actually focusing on using the Ash of war most of the time, it wouldn't be a bad idea to pump up int unless they changed that in recent patches
@RageGamingVideos Looks really fun build, but I have only one problem that this video had. Do not use great runes when playing dueling PvP, as summons cannot use great runes when in your game.
Vigor exam time
This build is not good you know that really
I love how this doesn't depend on FORCING yourself into low HP to be effective, but it becomes monstrously clutch in any scenario where you end up being taken to low health. Super cool!
Glad you like it!
@@RageGamingVideos It's cool that the whole Death Bird motif plays into the whole kit really well. It'd match some Death sorceries if you want to use it at a high level or slightly different stat spread, too which is what I love about seeing these theme-based builds being so inspiring for adaptation.
High risk high reward, always love those
@@PierceArner love it!
Ye! You still do damage above 20% but being that low could make people more daring and make more mistakes/trades
I'd almost want to call this the Zombie/Revenant Boss build, because once you hit that sub-20%, you go into your next "phase" and become harder to kill lol
I like it!
@@RageGamingVideos hey rage! Ive been watching you since the binding of isaac series and now i just got back into ur videos because of elden ring and i see that the content has not changed a bit and its still so fucking good!!!
I thought the same thing, Elden Lord should have his/her own 2nd phase :)
Tarnished when above 20% : ”this is not even my final form!”
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?"
"Branch talismans, son. They buff in response to near-fatal trauma. *You can't hurt me, Bloody Finger.* "
You're wrong about INT. The damage of the sword is DEX, the damage of the Ash of War is 100% INT based.
With 75 INT the ground fire does 6k+ damage if you hit with the swing, the explosion, and the enemy stays in the fire it's whole duration.
So it's a versatile weapon. Can use it as a strong DEX or INT weapon.
I’ve been using the poker of death all game. Thanks for the knowledge!!!
Had no idea!
Goddamn. I didn't know the poker hit so ridiculously hard. I think it's compatible with the Rogier Spellblade buff too because that buffs Nebula, which isn't a glintstone sorcery ash, but is a magic ash.
@@Sletchman don't dis the man that just gave you an entire video of knowledge with also the ways of going about getting the items don't get me wrong he missed a few pieces of information but come on still good and nonetheless
@@Sletchman eh, the ash of war is still affective in this build without high Int.
I loved the build and the enthusiasm. I'm also a big fan of the Death's Poker.
One thing that I love about the poker, that I don't hear people talking about often, is the option to poke with the L2, but then not use the follow up r1 or r2. You actually recover from the initial L2 extremely fast and can backdash, roll, jump attack or turn and L2 again if they are rolling out of the way. You have options to be tricky and come up with different shenanigans in ways that other weapons don't have
I had been using this weapon for a bit and never realized there was an r1 r2 followup. Gonna be so much more unpredictable now I'm excited to try it again.
I fucking HATE getting low on health. I get all panicky and stupid. Gonna try out this build to see how it does for me. Thanks!
For anyone having trouble with the death birds, the sacred blade ash of war does incredible damage since it’s holy. It’s ranged projectile makes it somewhat easy to land headshots after you bait out various attacks. I’ve used it on my level 1 to defeat the birds and it can deal over 1k damage a hit with no stat investments.
i'll have to see how much dmg my +9 black knife does if they're weak to holy
They are very weak to holy, I ran Sacred Blade and Golden Order greatsword just melts death birds. I did a quick dual wield set up really unnecessary but fun cause they didn't last long. Happy hunting.
Great build. Actually giving ppl content.
Instead of saying super rare or OP.
Barbecue chicken guy, you know who I'm talking bout......
Dude is annoying
Unfurtunatly those practices are the norm and rewarded by RUclips
Like all this channels other fuckin videos?
@@monkeytoes1155 yea honestly when elden Ring first landed I stopped my notifications from this channel, I know it did them well in the algorithm, but man was it obnoxious to see a vid claim power and be like yep they are decent at best lol.
I made a similar build because I love the Death Bird items I've been using Maliketh's headpiece because it looks similar to a birds beak.
I been looking into low hp but i never found a good combo. Thank you guys for presenting this.
This was one of my favorite builds, I'm glad people are noticing it now! It was slept on
I LOVE the Death's Poker! I've been using it with my dex/int build and it literally slaughters anything that's unfortunate enough to stand in front of me.
Another great video. I love how in depth you go. Elden Ring is such a deep, intricate, complex web of awesomeness. Millions of different weapon combos. Such a deep weapon selection. So many amazing spells to be a sorcerer of destruction. My character is a battle mage.
He can sorcery you into ashes, or he can behead you with whatever weapon he has on hand.
Thanks for the hard work to bring us this great info brother! Cheers!
what are your stats at 150? both high int and dex? or one 80 other lower?
@@gamimaster1 I think I'm 70 int and 47 Dex. Death's Poker is at +8. And it rapes.
Don't summon Duelist signs in The Main Academy Gate if you're using Great Runes. Duelists summons can't use Great Runes. Do it if you're just doing invasions.
you can't use great runes when invadinh
@@jordanpaz8635 I meant, he can use Great Runes if he's being invaded. He's using it when picking a duelist sign.
@@jordanpaz8635 he's saying it because it's scumy when dueling
You can use great runes it’s not against the code.
@@bradyseward279 you can use it if you get invaded. PvP duels especially in The Main Academy Gate is the Fight Clubs of the Arena mode in the past Souls games. Arena Mode is also coming to Elden Ring (3 locked colosseums) where you cannot use Health flasks.
Only the host can use Great Runes, so summoning a duelist Furled Finger who cannot use Great Runes while you have it on, is not fair. Might as well don't go to the Main Academy Gate and duel somewhere else if you want handicap advantage over them.
braggarts roar gives another 10% damage reduction and 10% more dmg :) if you want to use some big 2handed weapon or smth(axe in loadout for more roar damage) maybe with bleed and heavy attacks...
Love the video! I use the royal remains gear, the shield and the talismans on every build when I get low health through hardswapping, this set up is so awesome! Little note on the side: you watch Ufc? Your voice sometimes really really sounds like Michael Bisping xD Keep up the work mate :)
The deaths poker ash of war benefits greatly from intelligence as that's what scales with it
all ashes of war scale with the level of the weapon, not necessarily your stat spread unless it's a buff like golden vow etc. :)
@@MrRobot-mi7ie with 40-50 int I almost one-shot players in duels with the explosion unbuffed. Whereas In the video he did little damage until he got the buffs
@@MrRobot-mi7ie that's simply not true. It's quite easy to test out. Leveling int gives insane damage on the AoW
i've been doing this build for forever now. its only really good early game and for pvp at a low level. treat it like a regen build, not a tank. since it doesn't rely on resources you'll outlast people. and status effects are your bane, poison cancels your regen, rot will slowly kill you, and bleed and frost will instantly kill you. wear the mottled horn talisman +1 and pearldrake talisman because elemental damage is far more dangerous than physical. and a good weapon to use is the pests glaive for 2% more elemental defense
Do you just hate poise?
The Dragocrest Greatsheild Talisman gives much less protection in PvP 6% many better option for that slot
Shard of Alexander works great for the ash of war
Or even erdtree favor+2 for more hp and bullgoat for that omg level poise
I think the health regen is not really necessary since royal remains set is such a weak armor set. Bullgoat or other heavier armor is definitely better for PVP.
@@yulu803 I think this build is awesome with the royal remains armor plus it just looks bad ass. The only thing I really changed was I dropped the dragon crest and went with the erdtree favor plus 2 that way I could keep my stamina were it was and still equip a whip and not fat roll. Love finishing people off with the whip...they never see it coming.
Lol he managed to give the player a second phase like a boss fight soooo awesome
7:20 a good piece of advice for the Deathbird is you can take the grace warp from the church in the east, wait til night then hop on top of the nearby skull (W SW of the grace)
There, you can cheese the bird if you happen to be too low or it hits you too hard. Bring plenty of ranged attacks, and stay up away from it!
Or just kill the damn thing normally. They're not hard at all, super vulnerable to holy damage.
This might be the sneakiest sleeper build I've seen. Makes you look like a run-of-the-mill mid gamer in pvp
Btw the Ashes of War of the Poker Scales with int so you could go for all out Ashes in pvp
This is basically an Anime Build. The closer you are to death the more powerful you get. “This isn’t even my Final Form!”
Awesome video once again!
The Ash of war doesn't scale well with dex/str. The Ash of War scales with int
You can change what the ash scales with...
@@failegion7828 that's not true champ. For one, you can't change the Ash on this weapon. For two, changing the affinity of a weapon with an Ash changes the weapon's damage scaling stat, but not the Ash's damage scaling stat.
From what I’ve seen, the Ash of War doesn’t actually scale very well at all, but the high base damage makes it really strong with %damage-boost items.
That said, I do wonder if all this low health stuff is actually worth it when things like Rotten Wing Talisman and Alexander’s Jar Talisman exist. The damage would probably be similar except you don’t need to be at low health to get the boost.
@@theguileraven7014 I don't think the point of the build is to optimize the weapon, it's just a good weapon to use with the idea of being ultra hard to kill. I think of this build more as the defensive aspects of it, and that you could really use any weapon you want with it
@@TheCWasson12 The weapon works fine with the build. I was just pointing out that the Ash of War doesn’t actually benefit much from stat distribution, since the OP was suggesting the build needed more int for the weapon.
As for the second part of my post, I think that applies to any alternative weapons as well. As said, I wonder how the damage actually compares to a more conventional setup with Rotten Winged Talisman + Shard of Alexander.
I believe like most weapons with magical Ash of War skills, the Deaths Poker explosion/frost part scale much higher with INT than the AR suggests, the poor INT scaling only applies to the weapon attacks.
AoW scales with anything as long as the weapon has such scaling, even purely magic AoWs scale with dex for example, as long as the weapon scales with it.
You (or I suppose Josh) must be some kind of mind-reader, I was just planning to build the (20% HP) character build and was kinda surprised how all the Death Bird items have the same low-HP-buffs-you theme.
Finally. A out of the box build that actually works well
Love the themed builds!
Should I get God of War PS4 and GoW Ragnarhok?
I wonder if butcher blade would be good with this build with wild strikes having a high health build and being more aggressive to get health back but if you get low you can top off your health by being more aggressive.
Every day there is a video of a build from someone which is amazing, game breaking lol....
Does this build still work or did any updates nerf the build directly or indirectly
Sir Buffs-a-lot. Best builds require no buffs. Plus I’m the guy in PVP who won’t give you time at the start to apply 10+ buffs
Very cool concept. Digging the synergy.
You could add fires deadly sin to this build and cause even more burst damage.
I'd wear the Pearl Drake Talisman along with or in place of the Dragoncrest Greatshield as sort of the counter part for non physical damage reduction.
I actually got all the Death's Poker yesterday. Had the shield, talismans and armor for some time and basically had the blue-feathered talisman equiped for most the yime
Were do you get it
@@user-mu8ok5xf8d its one of the drops from the death birds, the weaker version of the Death Rite Birds. Icr if its the one behind the warmasters shack or not. But I am pretty sure that they made a video to get it and the red feathered one
A little late, but a good way to take out the Deathrite Birds is with Holy Water Pots. They do intense damage to 'em, especially if you can land a headshot. Don't even need that much Faith to do it either, and you can get up to ten Cracked Pots before even going to Altus Plateau. Maybe more.
There are ways to make it better. Use the physick flask that gives you health regen and forego the armor set so you can get a better armor set. Or use one of the regen incantations. And instead of using flame grant me strength I'd use a prawn for more defense.
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odd question, but did you play the predecessor stress test recently, its the remake of paragon. Didn't know if you saw it and i know you really enjoyed paragon. hope you are doing well!
does this ash of war proc the tear in the flask for successive hits? Or does it have to be weapon attacks specifically?
Creative build!!!! Thank's for share it. Good job
I've been maining the Poker and always looking for a good build. I run it with pumped INT, as it makes the AoW do crazy damage. Nice to know those talismans and shield are available.
Does this defense buff stack with Crab meat or black flame protection?
It does!
@@RageGamingVideos what about holy ground? Might not be ideal in pvp but you get more HP Regen and defense
everything you wear is coming from the Death Birsd. I dont think this build is "invented" by accident. the dev team have this build in mind when they gave all the necessarily piece to the same enemy type
Ghostflame ignition sounds like a stories move for Magnamalo
or R. Kelly
Or an Avenged Sevenfold album
Was playing around with death poker and didn't even know it had the other 2 attacks with the AoW, I only knew about the explosion. Great video.
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@@MeanAndPristine Yeah shame on me I missed it like a chump, what was I thinking...
@@LuckyLuch1 No worries, it’s general advice. From does their world building through it
Does health regeneration incant stack with armor regen?
@ragegamingvideos Is there anything in the dlc you think might be good to update this build with?
Great build. Assuming you kept everything the same but wanted to slot in a strength weapon what would you choose?
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So is it good for NG+ runs ?
would a weapon with prayerful strike not be straight better?
just imagine the power of that build mixed with a faith / hp regen build with incantation and such....
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Id say black flame protection is better for this build flame grant me strength only last 30 seconds and that extra defense will be super clutch
True but that’s a stat investment up to 30 faith using a weapon that’s already scaling with intelligence, and you need astronomical levels of vigor
@@MeanAndPristine 80 is too much vigor tbh, you could drop at least 10 points off of it and split them between int and faith
@@TheAnalatheist Every point into vigor counts in a build like this because it’s going off of a percent of your HP. I checked this last night, the difference between having 50 vigor and having 80 vigor is that the Branchswords kick in at approx. 300HP on 50 vigor, and they kick in at approx. 500HP on 80 vigor. If you’re still taking hits to trade at 20% HP then even the bonuses from the Branchswords won’t save you from being oneshot if 20% translates to only 300 health. I’d go so far as to say that 80 vigor isn’t enough
Does the Death's Poker have a critical health trigger?
Theres also a cerulean tear that refils part of your health when you're low, great for pvp
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Really really love this build currently doing a similar full HP build that uses the crimson and erdtree+2 and then the sacred butchering knife or (what I use) the heart stars that regeneration health on hit and the Ash of war that restores 30% HP on hit (modified from another video) although idk why you and the other guy both overleveled vigor? You get a ton up to 40 and then still get good gains up to 60 then you only get 6 hp per level so why not re-alocate those other 20 levels elsewhere like STG or DEX to bump that weapon damage. Or endurance to up your equip load and resistances or maybe even into and/or faith to get access to more spells.
Tldr great build, I would drop the levels in vigor to 60 and relocate those elsewhere. Now your 2 cents richer lol
Making a hybrid of this and a poison crown build could be interesting..... that buff works if you poison yourself too
Speaking of those birds found one that gave me an axe yesterday, it spawned by castle morne if anyone wants to find it
The axe any good??
@@IIISWILIII haven't played with it much yet but it restores fp with kills not sure if it's set or percentage based
The damage of Ghostflame Ignition scales a lot more with Intelligence than the D scaling would suggest.
I’m sure other people have said this already but the more the merrier right?
Can I use death's poker properly if I have 80 int build?
the art damage still scales off of int tho.
Does the shield have to be left hand/on back or does it work like cinequedea and just need to be in slot to proc?
Just passive so can be on the back
The blasphemous could be a nice option for this build, especially for PvE
Healing per hit would kinda defeat the purpose of fighting at low health
Love you gentlemen’s Elden Ring content, but I really enjoy Hollows videos! Keep it up brotha!
Didn't know that the Royal Remains armor did that, tbh. Still wished the helm didn't have those bits of hair on it, tho.
Death poker favors INT or just the AoW??
It's not clear at first glance at the (+9/+10) scaling
clever rat, morion blade, monk head band, monk catalyst. that was a great glass build in demon souls lol that reminds me of that execpt here dmg output is not that high. forgot that the makoto drained your health on purpose was really easy to set up. guess the closet thing to set up the build is using seppuku.
I used the great rune for hp and I have the same health as before what should I do to fix it?
You guys have some really high quality elden ring content
I maxed out vigor plus items I’ve only reached 2835, yours is 100 points more, what I’m missing?
Love this build and just destroying people on pvp. You guys are freaking awesome. Between you and fightincowboy you guys have the best info. Thanks so much for your time and input into this game. Love you all.
I LOVE THIS BUILD
What other weapons could work with this build?? (any ideas)
Anyone know if those Death Bird weapons give the benefits even if you swap to other weapons in the load out?
Love the build I had the idea and tried it out on my first play through with half the equipment, now that I have 300+ hrs and seen this, ima try it out again. 😎
Is death's poker mandatory for this? Seems like there would be better sword choices. Or is it just because it is thematic?
Probably just thematic like imagine using a strength weapon with this setup or whatever you want even spells n shit
Death's poker isn't even a good fit. The ash of war itself scales with int and not dex.
That bird for the deaths poker is a real in in the sack to beat at lower levels.
This looks fun to play although I'm a bit skeptical on how it will do against the harder bosses, still I'm very interested in trying it out. Thanks!! 👍
Yeah, anything that swings on you like Iron Mike will still be difficult to handle
I could try it out on the endgame bosses. At the moment I have to do all of them on NG 1. But I have more lvl's to build around it maybe more int for the damage from the ashes of War. If you want I can report it later how it went. First on the list is the fire giant.
@@Soullessfabel Sure, it would be cool to hear you results. 👍 I will have to go get the weapon I think, I'll have to check later when I get online, I don't think I killed every one of those birds yet.
I just defeated the fire giant on NG 1 last night but I was using 2 Godskin Peelers (fire, frost), plus Mimic as well.
@@markadams5009 so I just defeated the fire giant! It took him four till five hits to kill me. The health regen is noticeable. The Ashes of War gives a huge advantage against giant bosses. Like the build Vigor 80 but I pushed int and dex to 60 for more damage. Maybe tomorrow I gonna try this out against Maliketh. Depends on how many Dungeons or items I gonna collect that I missed. All around a fun build. It can hit hard. And damn I love to see it against the other endgame bosses.
Oh and you could swap some amulets around. I used the blessed dew talisman for more health regen or the shard of Alexander for more damage.
Huh, I was planning something like this but using a heavy thrusting sword(great epee) with bloody slash as the ash so i could drop my own hp if i was just above the 20% threshold. the poker might be more fun tho
this is why I love From titles, there's just so many different ways to play these games unlike other RPGs "swing sword, maybe you applied a defense buff idk, just hit things without thinking too much"
Elden Ring is the first real true RPG that's been released in a long time. Best game this year by a mile.
Very neat build. Fortunatelly, I already have all the items from my first playthrough, I have to test this.
What's your damage reduction percents when at 20% hp?
For me it's almost 70% across the board with just the Blue Feather Branch Sword.
Kinda curious if this would work better or at least as good on anything that makes people expect less vigor with. Like may be faith build?
Thinking of tanky paladin build. And may be malenia rune to trade instead of morgott
No, you DON'T want to recover health. If you go to 21% you get one shot.
@@acrab6527 i mean he uses the regen set ?
Am I really getting recommended duel builds that use great runes? Do people not know reds can't use great runes? The dragoncrest talismans are also nerfed to 1/4ty effectiveness in pvp. But yeah great build good job using a great rune against people who can't have one.
Exactly what I need. I just got to grab that blue talisman.
I've had this shield forever grabbed it first playthrough and never bothered reading the description >.< Cheers
You should show off combos with incantations, and sorceries. For instance you can cast bestial sling then straight into honed bolt, or catch flame into the magma breath.
There's a big difference between quick-casting (intended) and instant-casting/waving (actual bug). Using a regular Catch Flame into Theo's Magma will just cancel straight into the follow-up cast of Theo's Magma, which shows the wyrm-head in the animation, only spews magma and doesn't have the spike of on-hit damage. As you can guess - nobody is using this combo because it would just be bad despite the interesting interaction. The combo that people are using is jumping/rolling/sprinting/BHSing Catch Flame into Theo's Magma (you can also just cast Catch Flame twice before Theo's but that's objectively worse so nobody's doing that either) which will wave-cast the *initial* attack of the spell, instantly dealing the on-hit damage and spawning lava all around the target. This will often one-shot even if you miss with Catch Flame - it's also 99.99999% not an intended mechanic.
Even if you fix the pseudo-double-cast bug on Catch Flame, it's still debatable whether _any_ spells are supposed to _ever_ be wave-cast. Bestial Sling doesn't share the double-cast bug of Catch Flame but otherwise performs the same; Casting Bestial Sling twice in a row will make a subsequent cast of Honed Bolt or Lightning Strike a wave-cast. Casting Bestial Sling *once* into the same spells will make them quick-cast (the wind-up is gone but the fist-pump casting animation is still present). Seeing as how these spells are already boosted to a point where only the actual animation of casting remains *do you really think there is supposed to be a version of the spells with no animation at all?* The thorns-magic combo makes it seem like maybe it's intended but if you approach it logically, that's probably bugged too. Both spells can be "cast repeatedly" but also combo into each-other. So each spell makes the other quicker but also makes itself quicker which is why they can be alternately wave-cast for as long as the caster has hp/fp to cast them.
Just to give some extra context, I can cast Theo's Magma 10 times in one infinite FP physick (15 seconds). That doesn't seem right. This guy (or maybe the other guy, but same channel) has stated before that he won't use exploits in his build videos (why he didn't include FDS/Bloodflame in his rolling thorns build) and there are some very clear exploits going on with incantations right now.
@@graysaltine6035 I didn’t think it was a bug. It states in certain incantations/sorceries that it allows a follow up attack. Which I took to be the combos. Oh well, not a big deal to me either way.
@@WhiteBuffaloWakanGli The one where you see the head is the follow-up attack, but the one that is meta right now is the invisible cast where the lava just instantly appears which is actually the first attack of the spell not the follow-up (it just has the wind-up sigil and the wyrm-head animation both removed). People will often spam Theo's so you see both attacks but the first one is so hard to notice that you might not even realise they cast it twice.
Some of the combo stuff is legit and some of it is bugged, the current consensus is thus;
- Quick-cast combos like 'Glintstone into Comet' or 'Standing Bestial Sling (single cast) into Honed Bolt' are all *OK*
- Instant-cast combos like 'Jumping Catch Flame into Theo's Magma/Dragon Claw' or 'Double Bestial Sling into Honed Bolt' are *NOT OK*
- The combos specific to "follow-up attack" incantations like 'Standing Catch Flame into follow-up Theo's Magma/Dragon Claw' and the specific case of the two Thorns sorceries are a sort of grey-area and they aren't necessarily more powerful than legit alternatives so *We're not really sure but it's probably not intended*
after watching this i decided to try death's poker with Helphen's Steeple. good for triggering frostbite
This is litteraly my build already
How does this build perform against harder bosses? You mostly show early game bosses when testing the weapon, but most weapons are good against them. I'd love to see you show more bosses
If you wanna do the pve version of it use Shard of Alexander, Magic scorpion charm, magic shouting crystal tear, intelligence knot crystal tear and whatever else you want on. Do the L2 + R1 and yeh pretty much kills any boss. My int’s usually at 60 since there are items that can boost your int to at least 80. Even tho it’s D in int It weirdly does more magic power than moonveil
Just use a Nagakiba with Spinning Blade and Bloodflame Blade, or Blackflame Blade for the bleed immune.
Man this amazing set up would be perfect for a viking berserker build who is at their very strongest when at low health, I just wish you could transfer armor bonuses so I could put the royal remains set bonus on a viking type armor like the Kaiden or bloody wolf set. I really hope fromsoft adds that feature in the future but I sincerely doubt they will ugh.. 😮💨
I feel like there was a missed opportunity on calling this the "Adrenaline" or the "Heroics" build lol
The dopamine build
@@scissrface2182 Gmagala lala was making a monster Hunter reference because of the skill that functions similar to how this build does.
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I think it’s funny how there is a subset for MH speed runs specifically not using heroics or felyne heroics
Nice. I thought the weapon would have its uses, now this is hilarious.
This is even more crazy if ur fighting a boss with a friend that has I fire weapon