TLDW, here are the Broken Tier Weapons: Straight Sword - Sword of Night and Flame 27:43 Greatsword - Blasphemous Blade 42:12, Dark Moon Greatsword 44:12, Death's Poker 41:28 Colossal Swords - Greatsword 49:22 Curved Swords - Wing of Astel 1:18:29, Bandit's Curved Sword 1:11:25 Curved Greatswords - Bloodhound's Fang 1:24:50 Katana - Nagakiba 1:32:53 Spears - Bolt of Gransax 3:03:32 Great Spears - Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear 3:11:24 Fists - Star Fist 3:35:59 Claws - Raptor Talons 3:41:50 (moved to the broken tier at the end of the video) The easiest ones to get from this list are the Greatsword (quickly loot a guarded carriage before dying by those TRex Dogs in Caelid), Bloodhound's Fang (South Limgrave Boss), Bandit's Curved Sword (farm skeletons at the Church of Pilgrimage in Weeping Peninsula), and Nagakiba (easy if you kill Yura (NPC) in Limgrave instead of doing their quests).
Thank you so much. I was looking for weapons to use instead of the bloodhound fang in my dex build but it is so hard to find reasonable replacements that are not a straight nerf.
@@drschwandi3687 apologies in advance if this is a spoiler but in the DLC there is a new weapon class called great katana that Will likely be fun for you to try :)
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100% agree with the Glintstone Kris being the best dagger. It’s basically like carrying a mini bazooka. Imagine being able to unleash the comet spell, with only 10 FP required to do so. That is absolutely nuts.
@@Echo_ohc3 if you're close enough to your opponent reduvia bloodblade can hit twice with one hit, while also not causing you to lose health, its definitely a great weapon.
Reduvia and glintstone Kris are both great options. Reduvia is a really good option for RL1 and it synergizes with ritual sword. The problem with glintstone Kris is that you can't chain cast the AOW, although that would probably be too OP
@@desantinotafrancesco2639 In the early game reduvia is better, but You can buff a lot the glinstone Kris, and when I say a lot is that I see people doing like 3k with the Ash of war, I think that is the most eficient weapon in terms damage/mana, I really don't know why it's in S and not in broken
Faith Int Arcane Miquella has weird lore implications at least for weapons in relation to her So my fun but retarded 40 faith int arc build might actiually have a place in the dlc But yeah The actual scalings in this game is a pain in the ass Fundemental incants are faith int But the golden order greatswords pure faith Staff of loss doesnt have arcane scaling Despite boosting blood sorceries Lightning scales off dex on a weapon But the gravelstone seal has no dex scaling Despite strength getting its own strength seal Wakizashi not having a crit modifier Shortsword not having a crit modifier Carian longsword being a actual warcrime in the scaling department Its like a quality+intelligence weapon With shitty letters in everything to “ballance” it Its a shame to cuz i can imagine ppl just choosing a magic longsword with carian greatsword Missing out on the absolute sexiest straight sword in this game
@@slaytora5235 you cant apply greases to an occult weapon A weapon has to accept weapon buffs while also having innate arcane scaling Which is literally just an axe and halberd
@@slaytora5235correction, it must have arcane scaling for that. This is not the same. Either a weapon has innate arcane scaling, or it can be added by blood and occult infusion. Sword of St. Trina is not infusable, so the sleep cannot be improved by anything.
I really like Lordworn's Greatsword for some reason. It's not flashy or anything but in like 5 minutes you can go grab the greatsword, buy impaling thrust, slap it on there, and start firing off a fairly quick, good range attack with 33 stance damage and follow it up with boosted crits. I'm not going to say it's S tier by any means but the level of power it gives you for as early as you can pick it up and as little investment as it requires to get online is honestly pretty wild.
Venomous Fang has become my favorite weapon in the game, extremely deadly with Bloodflame Blade and a Keen/Heavy Infusion with min Arcane + Faith. I'll try the Eochaid + Briar weapons next, they seem really fun.
I think blood infusion either high arcane and dex is best for Venomous fang. You can use both the white mask, kindred of rot exultation and Lord of blood exultation, so that when poison and blood proc, suddenly this weapon becomes absurdly strong.
I hope the dlc adds some scrabs with unique ashes of war like waterfowl or something. Cuz they already got that for some weapons like the godskin peeler and Lorettas halbard thing
Agreed with most of it but it doesnt make much sense to compare the ruins greatsword with the blasfemous blade. They only have similar skills, but the weapon class and builds are completely diferent. I can't even imagine a build that can run both swords as viable option, so i think it deserves that S tier you were gonna give it
I made a fresh STR/ INT character for the DLC (after doing FAITH/ DEX and Arcane), and I confirm that the Ruins Greatsword is MASSIVELY slept on. If you build for it, it is very comparable to the BB in terms of “it will beat the game for you”.
@@kode-man23 ruins scales with int and str which is arguably the worst combo in the game to invest in while str/arc is arguably the best combo. blasphemous heals on hit and does fire and scales with faith, ruins gs is trash compared to bb
Yeah, while the BB is objectively better, the Ruins GS is still broken and has different uses. For instance, since it is a pure strength weapon, you can use it for AoE trash clearing alongside a Lions Claw Giants crusher and the combo is possibly even stronger than the BB alone.
@@terrycruise-zd5twThe Ruins GS ash or war only scales with strength. It has a small int requirement to wield, but otherwise it is a pure strength weapon that gets an S in strength scaling.
@@jeffx40 so? blaspehmous weapon art is a better version of ruins, you dont need health estus when you use that weapon, its broken tier, ruins is maybe b tier
I did a run with whips recently and they're actually very good. Solid damage, can stunlock most enemies, dual wield moveset bodies NPC invaders, great against stone enemies found in tunnels, surprisingly decent status, etc. Not the best weapon class but they're one of my favorite secondary options.
I'm actually using a frost infused Duelist Greataxe on my DLC character. Even tho it's classified as a colossal, the Duelist GA has a high motion value on its charged attack (like all axes do), which makes it perfect for war cry builds and also makes it a beast for applying status effects. I hit over 3000 damage in a single hit against Niall with a +18 while only meeting the base weapon requirements with no golden vow or fgms, and I even managed to apply frost to Borealis. It's certainly hard to use, but I think it deserves higher than D tier
Been waiting for this video for a while. Finally a great Elden Ring weapons tier list that doesn't have Vyke's Spear at no.1. Looking at the end result I would have moved Regalia and Marais Executioner's Sword in S tier tho because the successive hits build with Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis and Godskin Swaddling Cloth is still OP!
@@DeadLine1337 other than vykes spear being number 1, and maybe a couple other choices, I genuinely don't think its that bad, even this list isn't perfect, its all personal opinion at the end of the day, as any tier list is.
thing is you gotta compare it to the others in s tier and we both know neither of the spinsters hold a candle to anything in s aside from bandit's curved sword
Gj you madman, kinda expected you to do it after dlc but im glad this is made so we can see how much the dlc will powercreep the base game Does this mean naginata is no longer on your top 10 best aow infusable weapons and is being overtook by raptor talons and bandit swords ?
One thing I really like about this game is they balanced the weapons (for the most part) around trade-offs so you feel like you can experiment and use weapons for aesthetic reasons and not feel like you're struggling the whole time. My 2 favourite weapons in the whole game are the Watchdog's Greatsword and the Golem Halberd. They absolutely slap and I don't care that I technically could be using something better in the same class lol Also Duelist Greataxe with blood infusion gets 156 bleed per hit at 40 arcane as an fyi- that bleeds most enemies in 2 hits and most bosses in 3-4 while also staggering them Good vid
Been in love with the Guts sword since I first tried it and was happy and unsurprised to see it listed as broken. Been two handing it with cold infusion Lion's Claw for 2 years. My favorite part of it (aside from the damage) is the range and how you can attack almost every angle in a huge sphere around you if you use the camera right, and even use thrust attacks in small spaces by crouching. I just wish it looker. Make it black or something
@@sweetxcalibur5319 Haha yeah I found it and now it's almost impossible for me to even try the new DLC stuff. That Ash of War is just not fair lol I get like 3k dmg per cast
@noamias4897 Good stuff 😂🤝 Also found out you can whack on Bloodboil aromatics for 30%phy dmg but u lose 25%dmg negation for 60 sec. Also putrid pots can proc the Poison/rot tasilsman than buffs dmg if they occur in vicinity then a poison bulosses to cure. (you can switch out for another talisman like charge attack one as soon as it procs). Then obv you got flame grant me strenght an gold vow ontop. Just watched sum do this with Giant-Crusher Hammer. Aint gon lie tho this might be better with greatswords an thee Flame element on ash of war.
Impaling thrust is a perfect match for most greatswords. It deals the highest stance damage possible on them, and solves the lack of poking attacks (except claymore of course).
Lordsworn straightsword is definitely not the best straightsword. Broadsword is the best one. It deals the most damage, and deals almost as much damage as a lordsworn crit, since it deals about 8% more damage. You also do not have to farm for it, increasing reliability.
The vulgar militia shotel is pretty solid for magic infusions, it has lowish requirements and gets decent ar and with elemental damage the shield pierce becomes quite a bit more effective. Pest glaive also has low requirements and is very light, so again it can make sense on magic/flame/sacred.
The GOAT Stars is how I beat Malenia the first time round. I was struggling cause she kept sidestepping my Blasphemous Blade, so I used GOAT Stars to stagger and poise break her. So good.
Don't forget that with the executioners greataxe, it has the highest crit damage in the game with fire affinity and an active fire buff on the actual axe from the ash of war because of its really high damage and crit rating. It even out damages that one French named Dagger
This will be fun, because in preparation for the DLC, I farmed my character to have 50 in all stats, except for str and dex, that are 60, so I can use every weapon I find in the DLC, and I just spent a few hours upgrading every weapon to atleast +18 or +6 for the rare ones, so I can test them in the haligtree knights at the western gate site of grace, it was fun, using weapons that I never really gave credit that turned out to be really good, specially because those knights have a balanced poise. So comparing my experience to this list will be interesting.
Godskin peeler actually has an editional hit in its animation that a lot of people don’t know about. Meaning it hits an editional time compared to other twin blades.
For the dlc I’d like new ashes of war and spells for frenzy flame, dragon incantations and other neglected categories. The Banished Knight’s fire breath aow would be nice.
I’m wondering if FS will follow suit and have the majority of the best weapons be from the DLC? It’s hard to imagine anything being better than the Blasphemous Blade, Dark Moon Greatsword and Mogh’s Spear, but I’ll be excited to try whatever they managed to concoct in these past two years.
Bastard sword seems to be the best Option for eraly Str/Arc Bleed/Poison and and such also as dualweild with Marai to brake stances with jump-attack to remove all for-thought the Echoid dancing Blade ussuly needs.
Best build in the game for bosses gets put into A teir 1:42:23 helm: mushroom crown=+10% Chest:raptors black feather=+10% Ring 1:claw talisman=+15% Ring 2:kindred of rot=+20% Ring 3:lords of blood=+20% Ring 4:rotten winged sword=+6-13% Weapon 1:bleed twinned knights +seppuku(massive bleed build up) Weapon 2:occult twinned knights+poison mist(massive poison build up) Incantation: dragons bolt blessing(hardness) for pvp or golden vow=+15% dmg and 10%dmg midigation Obviously howl is better(+25%) but you take +30% more dmg, less noob friendly Basicly you cast 1 spell, cast off hand AoW, cast maind hand AoW and go to town with jump attacks Not sure on the math but i believe its a total of 104.5% and could be more if you cast more spells but youll be running to a problem of duration of effect vs dmg output resulting in probboly less dps
IMO Celebrant’s Sickle definitely deserves to be higher than F tier. Even though the other Celebrant weapons suck the sickle has the second highest damage on keen infusion out of all the daggers only behind Wakizashi, so if you are powerstancing daggers on a keen build it’s a fantastic option, especially since it has longer range than the other daggers with great keen scaling, those being the Great Knife and Parrying Dagger.
I love how terrible the celebrant weapons are given that they are easily the worst weapons to farm for. The Magma Blade, infamous for being annoying to farm, took like half of the amount of time that it took me to get the celebrant rib rake alone.
Of all the Elden Ring content I’ve consumed, perhaps nothing else has so thoroughly demonstrated knowledge of the game. Well fucking done, Sir. I name you a True Friend of this community. Cheers!
The bleed infused venomous fang is one of the most broken weapons in the game. You just stack the multi attack talismans with lord of blood + kindred of rot and the damage is absurd.
Ayyy, the mad lad followed through before the DLC dropped. Hope this video does well for you. And (complimentary) shout-outs to Rusty for maybe prompting this.
Royal greatsword is my favorite weapon, i really dont like the downsides of the AOW (52:27), but those are outweighed by two other issues that i think are bigger, no frost on the normal attacks, but ALSO somthing unmentionned, it has 18 DEX requirement! on a STR/INT weapon!!! that's the same req as the fricking MOONVEIL!
lol its bad, iron ball should be on the same tier as spiked ball, also guts greatsword being above any collosal weapon like giant crusher or even the colossal axes and the fact that guts gs is put on broken tier LOL!
@@terrycruise-zd5twGiven that the Star Fists completely outclass the Iron Balls, putting them in the same tier is moronic. When weapons are ranked, it's in comparison to the other options, making an objectively inferior option impossible to rate highly. And the Guts gs is comfortably better than any colossal weapon
@@kingsmorely3697 iron balls has more poise damage than star fist though they are both broken tier just slightly different trade offs. Youre crazy if you think colossal greatsword is better than giant crusher or any of the colossal axes. Even zweihander is better than colossal greatsword because it has a better move set and is much lighter and has lower stat requirements
@@terrycruise-zd5tw its worse in everyother aspect. U have cheap ashes of war like giant hunt to beat the exceedingly few enemies that dont get stun locked by an r1. In return u get alot more range and comparable damage.
Golden Order Greatsword just needs its animation of the ash of war sped up. The Wrath of Gold should be almost instantaneous and the the follow up should come out faster and have better tracking and give the sword lingering holy buff. Make it strong, it should be the go to faith weapon for holy damage.
From a PvP perspective, I'd generally say the Katar is better than every Fist besides the Star Fists (higher damage + innate bleed) because of the shared moveset it has with the Cipher Pata while still being infusable, which will primarily be Endure. It gets a 3 hit true combo of with the running paired heavy into the unpaired standing heavy to activate all the multihit buffs, and it's running paired light attacks come out really fast and make you step forward _really_ far, making them probably the best roll catching tools in the game that isn't an Ash of War, and they consistently stagger dealing a combined 162 Poise damage since both attacks hit at nearly the same time, which forces your opponenet to roll, which results in you roll catching them, which forces them to roll, which results in your roll catching them... you get the picture. And you can even use it as an offhand weapon that deals 135 Poise damage that can true combo off of any Level 2 Stagger, like from Greatswords, Curved Greatswords, Halberds, etc. This means that anyone who tries to monkey mash out of hitstun without Hyper Armor can get stagger hit into oblivion by alternating which weapon you swing with until they learn to respect your priority and roll away. And in the case of facing opponents with Hyper Armor, you can just two hand your Level 2 Stagger mainhand and obtain Hyper Armor yourself, then have a stat checking "duel." Or you can use Endure and trade with basically anything and win.
I think this list is pretty top heavy. I'd only consider a few weapons really broken when they totally carry you without even using your brain. I'd personally shift like 3/4 of all these weapons down 1 tier
Considering the Blasphemous Blade has the same L2 of the Ruins Greatsword but better it should also be Collosal Sword. That thing is huge when Rykard holds it and when we get it it's merely a Greatsword. I do understand that it would be a nerf because it would have a much worse moveset but that's the point, it's way too OP. It would still be OP but a bit worse. Balancing it a bit.
Because the glintstone Kris exists there is zero reason to use any of the comet spells, it’s less than half the fp cost, does more damage depending on build and the projectile moves way faster
Helphen's Steeple gets more damage, both base, scaling, and from the skill. Also gets a lot more Frost buildup from the skill. What it doesn't get is ranged attacks.
This is mostly incorrect. On paper, Helphen's has higher damage. The frost buildup is not "a lot more." It's only 10 points higher when both are buffed, but Dark Moon still has 55 frost buildup without the buff, Helphen's has none. What you're not accounting for is that Dark Moon's beams aren't just "ranged attacks," they're completely independent hitboxes, that stack with the actual weapon's hits. That's why Dark Moon is outputting almost 1.5x Helphen's damage, status, and stance damage on its heavy attacks. You're getting the weapon and projectile hits. Dark Moon also gets buffed by Alexander's Shard, Godfrey's Icon, Rogier's set. And it does almost entirely magic damage, so it can use the magic scorpion charm for a further 12% boost. Helphen's doesn't get any of those buffs, and is more split damage, so it doesn't get the full 12% boost from the scorpion charm.
@@DoctorrDude wow, some stat stick looks prettier to someone than the other stat stick, it definitely should break the whole spine of the tier list of stat sticks in a video game
Link to the tier list (I made some changes)- x.com/TheSlimSigma
YOUWY YOU ARE SO VALID, big respect for staying consistent on both rankings and content
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Warped Axe is A+ tier, maybe S tier, Blood infused in a strenght build melts enemies
@@LJK69420 nah its bad
TLDW, here are the Broken Tier Weapons:
Straight Sword - Sword of Night and Flame 27:43
Greatsword - Blasphemous Blade 42:12, Dark Moon Greatsword 44:12, Death's Poker 41:28
Colossal Swords - Greatsword 49:22
Curved Swords - Wing of Astel 1:18:29, Bandit's Curved Sword 1:11:25
Curved Greatswords - Bloodhound's Fang 1:24:50
Katana - Nagakiba 1:32:53
Spears - Bolt of Gransax 3:03:32
Great Spears - Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear 3:11:24
Fists - Star Fist 3:35:59
Claws - Raptor Talons 3:41:50 (moved to the broken tier at the end of the video)
The easiest ones to get from this list are the Greatsword (quickly loot a guarded carriage before dying by those TRex Dogs in Caelid), Bloodhound's Fang (South Limgrave Boss), Bandit's Curved Sword (farm skeletons at the Church of Pilgrimage in Weeping Peninsula), and Nagakiba (easy if you kill Yura (NPC) in Limgrave instead of doing their quests).
THis is what I was looking for thank you!
Thank you so much. I was looking for weapons to use instead of the bloodhound fang in my dex build but it is so hard to find reasonable replacements that are not a straight nerf.
@@drschwandi3687 apologies in advance if this is a spoiler but in the DLC there is a new weapon class called great katana that
Will likely be fun for you to try :)
Thank you so much
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You are just flexing your yapping skills at this point
Someone used a trash weapon I see, lmao.
@@nishantbharali6895weak ass comeback
@@ICr4zyI doesn't change the fact u trash though :/
@@ICr4zyI actually, that was pretty funny. You have a better one?
@@dustinleonard3408 comebacks aren’t meant to be funny? Lmao what.
If St. Trina’s Torch is not number 1 I’m killing myself
Put down some plastic
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Mushroom is nr1
Please do, sir. You and the meme.
@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 chill down dude 💀
3 hour 45 minute yap session is why I subbed to you
Finally. 8 days before the DLC. And I was wondering if you forgot about it
You try going from Elden ring to starfield
@@nothanks9503 what
8 days omg can't wait
100% agree with the Glintstone Kris being the best dagger. It’s basically like carrying a mini bazooka. Imagine being able to unleash the comet spell, with only 10 FP required to do so. That is absolutely nuts.
Reduvia is better imo, but id say they're both amazing weapons in general.
@@desantinotafrancesco2639 Reduvia is directly outclassed by any weapon with good ar with the blood blade AoW
@@Echo_ohc3 if you're close enough to your opponent reduvia bloodblade can hit twice with one hit, while also not causing you to lose health, its definitely a great weapon.
Reduvia and glintstone Kris are both great options. Reduvia is a really good option for RL1 and it synergizes with ritual sword. The problem with glintstone Kris is that you can't chain cast the AOW, although that would probably be too OP
@@desantinotafrancesco2639 In the early game reduvia is better, but You can buff a lot the glinstone Kris, and when I say a lot is that I see people doing like 3k with the Ash of war, I think that is the most eficient weapon in terms damage/mana, I really don't know why it's in S and not in broken
The funny thing is, st trina's sword scales off of Intelligence, but sleep scales off of arcane
bruh
Faith
Int
Arcane
Miquella has weird lore implications at least for weapons in relation to her
So my fun but retarded 40 faith int arc build might actiually have a place in the dlc
But yeah
The actual scalings in this game is a pain in the ass
Fundemental incants are faith int
But the golden order greatswords pure faith
Staff of loss doesnt have arcane scaling
Despite boosting blood sorceries
Lightning scales off dex on a weapon
But the gravelstone seal has no dex scaling
Despite strength getting its own strength seal
Wakizashi not having a crit modifier
Shortsword not having a crit modifier
Carian longsword being a actual warcrime in the scaling department
Its like a quality+intelligence weapon
With shitty letters in everything to “ballance” it
Its a shame to cuz i can imagine ppl just choosing a magic longsword with carian greatsword
Missing out on the absolute sexiest straight sword in this game
The weapon must be occult for that property.
@@slaytora5235 you cant apply greases to an occult weapon
A weapon has to accept weapon buffs while also having innate arcane scaling
Which is literally just an axe and halberd
@@slaytora5235correction, it must have arcane scaling for that. This is not the same. Either a weapon has innate arcane scaling, or it can be added by blood and occult infusion. Sword of St. Trina is not infusable, so the sleep cannot be improved by anything.
All the yapping has lead up to this very moment of yappers career.
I really like Lordworn's Greatsword for some reason. It's not flashy or anything but in like 5 minutes you can go grab the greatsword, buy impaling thrust, slap it on there, and start firing off a fairly quick, good range attack with 33 stance damage and follow it up with boosted crits. I'm not going to say it's S tier by any means but the level of power it gives you for as early as you can pick it up and as little investment as it requires to get online is honestly pretty wild.
*skips to Katanas, called out immediately
Hahaha damn that's pretty funny
Oh sweet, I was just looking to change my build. Your video couldn’t have come at a better time thanks!
Venomous Fang has become my favorite weapon in the game, extremely deadly with Bloodflame Blade and a Keen/Heavy Infusion with min Arcane + Faith.
I'll try the Eochaid + Briar weapons next, they seem really fun.
Same
I think blood infusion either high arcane and dex is best for Venomous fang. You can use both the white mask, kindred of rot exultation and Lord of blood exultation, so that when poison and blood proc, suddenly this weapon becomes absurdly strong.
Love the claymore respect 😎 Nice list bro
I hope the dlc adds some scrabs with unique ashes of war like waterfowl or something. Cuz they already got that for some weapons like the godskin peeler and Lorettas halbard thing
Agreed with most of it but it doesnt make much sense to compare the ruins greatsword with the blasfemous blade. They only have similar skills, but the weapon class and builds are completely diferent. I can't even imagine a build that can run both swords as viable option, so i think it deserves that S tier you were gonna give it
I made a fresh STR/ INT character for the DLC (after doing FAITH/ DEX and Arcane), and I confirm that the Ruins Greatsword is MASSIVELY slept on. If you build for it, it is very comparable to the BB in terms of “it will beat the game for you”.
@@kode-man23 ruins scales with int and str which is arguably the worst combo in the game to invest in while str/arc is arguably the best combo. blasphemous heals on hit and does fire and scales with faith, ruins gs is trash compared to bb
Yeah, while the BB is objectively better, the Ruins GS is still broken and has different uses. For instance, since it is a pure strength weapon, you can use it for AoE trash clearing alongside a Lions Claw Giants crusher and the combo is possibly even stronger than the BB alone.
@@terrycruise-zd5twThe Ruins GS ash or war only scales with strength. It has a small int requirement to wield, but otherwise it is a pure strength weapon that gets an S in strength scaling.
@@jeffx40 so? blaspehmous weapon art is a better version of ruins, you dont need health estus when you use that weapon, its broken tier, ruins is maybe b tier
I did a run with whips recently and they're actually very good. Solid damage, can stunlock most enemies, dual wield moveset bodies NPC invaders, great against stone enemies found in tunnels, surprisingly decent status, etc. Not the best weapon class but they're one of my favorite secondary options.
I'm actually using a frost infused Duelist Greataxe on my DLC character. Even tho it's classified as a colossal, the Duelist GA has a high motion value on its charged attack (like all axes do), which makes it perfect for war cry builds and also makes it a beast for applying status effects. I hit over 3000 damage in a single hit against Niall with a +18 while only meeting the base weapon requirements with no golden vow or fgms, and I even managed to apply frost to Borealis. It's certainly hard to use, but I think it deserves higher than D tier
Been waiting for this video for a while. Finally a great Elden Ring weapons tier list that doesn't have Vyke's Spear at no.1. Looking at the end result I would have moved Regalia and Marais Executioner's Sword in S tier tho because the successive hits build with Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis and Godskin Swaddling Cloth is still OP!
Are there other lists that put vykes war spear at number 1 ?
@@desantinotafrancesco2639Rusty's. His videos are well put together and funny, but his rankings aren't that good
@@desantinotafrancesco2639 Rusty's infamous tier list of all weapons. It's beyond terrible, but it's not taken too seriously not even by Rusty anyway
@@DeadLine1337 other than vykes spear being number 1, and maybe a couple other choices, I genuinely don't think its that bad, even this list isn't perfect, its all personal opinion at the end of the day, as any tier list is.
thing is you gotta compare it to the others in s tier and we both know neither of the spinsters hold a candle to anything in s aside from bandit's curved sword
With this video you have taken away 1/6th of a day of this agonizing wait. Thanks Youwy.
Gj you madman, kinda expected you to do it after dlc but im glad this is made so we can see how much the dlc will powercreep the base game
Does this mean naginata is no longer on your top 10 best aow infusable weapons and is being overtook by raptor talons and bandit swords ?
My favorite weapon, Marais Executioner, S tier. Nice!
How much are these relevant for patch 1.12? Saw that most changes to weapons are tied to pvp or am I wrong?
Damn dropping this video right before patch 1.12 changed a lot of things
Why yes I do think I'll watch another 3 hour elden ring tier list on this beautiful day. Thanks Youwy
Watched this earlier. Would be surprised if your top 3 broken tiers changed
One thing I really like about this game is they balanced the weapons (for the most part) around trade-offs so you feel like you can experiment and use weapons for aesthetic reasons and not feel like you're struggling the whole time.
My 2 favourite weapons in the whole game are the Watchdog's Greatsword and the Golem Halberd. They absolutely slap and I don't care that I technically could be using something better in the same class lol
Also Duelist Greataxe with blood infusion gets 156 bleed per hit at 40 arcane as an fyi- that bleeds most enemies in 2 hits and most bosses in 3-4 while also staggering them
Good vid
Been in love with the Guts sword since I first tried it and was happy and unsurprised to see it listed as broken. Been two handing it with cold infusion Lion's Claw for 2 years.
My favorite part of it (aside from the damage) is the range and how you can attack almost every angle in a huge sphere around you if you use the camera right, and even use thrust attacks in small spaces by crouching.
I just wish it looker. Make it black or something
Theres a new version, called Savage Lion Claw....For us GS users. Goodluck buddy 😎👍
@@sweetxcalibur5319 Haha yeah I found it and now it's almost impossible for me to even try the new DLC stuff. That Ash of War is just not fair lol I get like 3k dmg per cast
@noamias4897 Good stuff 😂🤝 Also found out you can whack on Bloodboil aromatics for 30%phy dmg but u lose 25%dmg negation for 60 sec. Also putrid pots can proc the Poison/rot tasilsman than buffs dmg if they occur in vicinity then a poison bulosses to cure. (you can switch out for another talisman like charge attack one as soon as it procs). Then obv you got flame grant me strenght an gold vow ontop. Just watched sum do this with Giant-Crusher Hammer. Aint gon lie tho this might be better with greatswords an thee Flame element on ash of war.
Impaling thrust is a perfect match for most greatswords. It deals the highest stance damage possible on them, and solves the lack of poking attacks (except claymore of course).
Lordsworn straightsword is definitely not the best straightsword. Broadsword is the best one. It deals the most damage, and deals almost as much damage as a lordsworn crit, since it deals about 8% more damage. You also do not have to farm for it, increasing reliability.
The vulgar militia shotel is pretty solid for magic infusions, it has lowish requirements and gets decent ar and with elemental damage the shield pierce becomes quite a bit more effective.
Pest glaive also has low requirements and is very light, so again it can make sense on magic/flame/sacred.
Hell yeah, this is the person i wanted to see rank all melee weapons 💯💯💯
Thats hit, im going to do a Gargoyle Black's Weapon only playtrough
Me: skips straight to Katanas Youwy: I'm sure this is going to be the most replayed part of the video . lmao
There it is.
The GOAT Stars is how I beat Malenia the first time round. I was struggling cause she kept sidestepping my Blasphemous Blade, so I used GOAT Stars to stagger and poise break her. So good.
Don't forget that with the executioners greataxe, it has the highest crit damage in the game with fire affinity and an active fire buff on the actual axe from the ash of war because of its really high damage and crit rating. It even out damages that one French named Dagger
He’s finally made it!
I think that loretta's war sickle should have had the hability to cast sorceries as skill, she literaly uses it as a staff in battle.
This will be fun, because in preparation for the DLC, I farmed my character to have 50 in all stats, except for str and dex, that are 60, so I can use every weapon I find in the DLC, and I just spent a few hours upgrading every weapon to atleast +18 or +6 for the rare ones, so I can test them in the haligtree knights at the western gate site of grace, it was fun, using weapons that I never really gave credit that turned out to be really good, specially because those knights have a balanced poise. So comparing my experience to this list will be interesting.
Hahahaha... I was there Gandalf... It was a really amazing and very loooong experience! Thanks bro! 🎤🦖💌
Godskin peeler actually has an editional hit in its animation that a lot of people don’t know about. Meaning it hits an editional time compared to other twin blades.
bro sits right there and keep talking about Elden Ring weapons for 4 hours non-stop.... what a giga chad...
Uchigatana's niche is that its the best Katana for Strength which has some value
how convenient I was already watching your videos
My man is GEARING UP for the DLC with a 4 hour video
I run a cold Lance equipped with Ice Spear and Ordovis' Greatsword. Shit is hella savage together!
They fixed the Godslayer Greatsword's hyper armor in patch 1.12!
Mace gets 1h poise on the heavies as a unique btw, pretty niche info tho
Mad respect for dropping a weapon tier list after dissing Rusty’s
Wake up babe another tier list from youwy
For the dlc I’d like new ashes of war and spells for frenzy flame, dragon incantations and other neglected categories. The Banished Knight’s fire breath aow would be nice.
I’m wondering if FS will follow suit and have the majority of the best weapons be from the DLC? It’s hard to imagine anything being better than the Blasphemous Blade, Dark Moon Greatsword and Mogh’s Spear, but I’ll be excited to try whatever they managed to concoct in these past two years.
Bastard sword seems to be the best Option for eraly Str/Arc Bleed/Poison and and such also as dualweild with Marai to brake stances with jump-attack to remove all for-thought the Echoid dancing Blade ussuly needs.
GET THE MAN THE DAMN DLC ALREADY 😭
Anyone here from Rusty's vid on this?
Need more mentions of how fire damage can reset frostbite.
Rusty's list is dumb..
@@aNsWeRkEy02 It does factor in PVP too, so the ranking's a bit different. Also he released a post saying that he should've put moghwyn spear first
i watched the stream but ill watch it again
Ruins Greatsword also gets a special charged heavy that deals extra damage.
Tier lists are better than fully ranked lists. This is the way
great job man
Youwy going insane in the last week before the dlc
Endure or hit poise cap for godslayer greatsword is the key. My favorite weapon in the game. I miss the hyper armor
I think he may've forgotten the Giant-Crusher's charged heavy is basically Lion's Claw
It is slower and does not have hyper armor, in exchange you can make it deal more damage with royal knight's resolve.
Best build in the game for bosses gets put into A teir 1:42:23
helm: mushroom crown=+10%
Chest:raptors black feather=+10%
Ring 1:claw talisman=+15%
Ring 2:kindred of rot=+20%
Ring 3:lords of blood=+20%
Ring 4:rotten winged sword=+6-13%
Weapon 1:bleed twinned knights +seppuku(massive bleed build up)
Weapon 2:occult twinned knights+poison mist(massive poison build up)
Incantation: dragons bolt blessing(hardness) for pvp or golden vow=+15% dmg and 10%dmg midigation
Obviously howl is better(+25%) but you take +30% more dmg, less noob friendly
Basicly you cast 1 spell, cast off hand AoW, cast maind hand AoW and go to town with jump attacks
Not sure on the math but i believe its a total of 104.5% and could be more if you cast more spells but youll be running to a problem of duration of effect vs dmg output resulting in probboly less dps
IMO Celebrant’s Sickle definitely deserves to be higher than F tier. Even though the other Celebrant weapons suck the sickle has the second highest damage on keen infusion out of all the daggers only behind Wakizashi, so if you are powerstancing daggers on a keen build it’s a fantastic option, especially since it has longer range than the other daggers with great keen scaling, those being the Great Knife and Parrying Dagger.
Can't wait for the updated version invluding DLC weapons a week from now!
A yess a three hour video, this walk shall be legendary
Shields are weapons too. Fingerprint shield with blood affinity will one shot tons of things using shield crash.
I love how terrible the celebrant weapons are given that they are easily the worst weapons to farm for. The Magma Blade, infamous for being annoying to farm, took like half of the amount of time that it took me to get the celebrant rib rake alone.
Of all the Elden Ring content I’ve consumed, perhaps nothing else has so thoroughly demonstrated knowledge of the game.
Well fucking done, Sir. I name you a True Friend of this community. Cheers!
The bleed infused venomous fang is one of the most broken weapons in the game. You just stack the multi attack talismans with lord of blood + kindred of rot and the damage is absurd.
Ayyy, the mad lad followed through before the DLC dropped. Hope this video does well for you.
And (complimentary) shout-outs to Rusty for maybe prompting this.
Dual weilding blasphemous and the gold wave soul farm sword were my main build on ng. Smashed though the whole game no problem.
Where would you move the Godslayer's Greatsword, if at all, since they added hyperarmor to it with the latest patch?
I have never used short melee weapons like daggers or fists but I have tried the claws
Maria’s being below guts sword is pain
Marais need a lot of talismans e buffs to do a lot of damage, greatsword is better early-mid game
Put Giant hunt on a flame art GUGS in a faith build. You'll understand why it's where it is
@@wellingtonrodrigues7654 agreed it’s better early, but it’s not the early stuff that’s hard.
@@marrcl7986finding a good opening for Maria's can be a bit more challenging than say lions claw spam
It’s crazy how I agree with 99% of your choices, probably because you actually test out all the weapons
why is vyke spear so low? it doesent deserve S but at least A, if you have the right talismans it absolutely melts enemies
might be because madness doesn't really work on enemies..its good on pvp though
I can’t believe you put [so and so] weapon in C tier. When it actually should have been in B!
You've done well, fellow disciple of Rusty!
Royal greatsword is my favorite weapon, i really dont like the downsides of the AOW (52:27), but those are outweighed by two other issues that i think are bigger, no frost on the normal attacks, but ALSO somthing unmentionned, it has 18 DEX requirement! on a STR/INT weapon!!! that's the same req as the fricking MOONVEIL!
Damn dude thanks for the 4 hour tier list. I watched my weapons type only, but still very good job. Thanks!
this is truly crazy bro, its finally out
No way, the mad man did it.
I was using Flamberge and Sword of Milos together. It got me through the Main Game. Hope it works for the DLC as well 😂.
Wow, this is some S-tier tiering. Subbed.
lol its bad, iron ball should be on the same tier as spiked ball, also guts greatsword being above any collosal weapon like giant crusher or even the colossal axes and the fact that guts gs is put on broken tier LOL!
@@terrycruise-zd5twGiven that the Star Fists completely outclass the Iron Balls, putting them in the same tier is moronic. When weapons are ranked, it's in comparison to the other options, making an objectively inferior option impossible to rate highly.
And the Guts gs is comfortably better than any colossal weapon
@@kingsmorely3697 iron balls has more poise damage than star fist though they are both broken tier just slightly different trade offs. Youre crazy if you think colossal greatsword is better than giant crusher or any of the colossal axes. Even zweihander is better than colossal greatsword because it has a better move set and is much lighter and has lower stat requirements
@@kingsmorely3697 guts gs can’t pancake enemies with r2 like colossal weapons can or stagger chain omens with r1
@@terrycruise-zd5tw its worse in everyother aspect. U have cheap ashes of war like giant hunt to beat the exceedingly few enemies that dont get stun locked by an r1. In return u get alot more range and comparable damage.
Golden Order Greatsword just needs its animation of the ash of war sped up.
The Wrath of Gold should be almost instantaneous and the the follow up should come out faster and have better tracking and give the sword lingering holy buff.
Make it strong, it should be the go to faith weapon for holy damage.
From a PvP perspective, I'd generally say the Katar is better than every Fist besides the Star Fists (higher damage + innate bleed) because of the shared moveset it has with the Cipher Pata while still being infusable, which will primarily be Endure. It gets a 3 hit true combo of with the running paired heavy into the unpaired standing heavy to activate all the multihit buffs, and it's running paired light attacks come out really fast and make you step forward _really_ far, making them probably the best roll catching tools in the game that isn't an Ash of War, and they consistently stagger dealing a combined 162 Poise damage since both attacks hit at nearly the same time, which forces your opponenet to roll, which results in you roll catching them, which forces them to roll, which results in your roll catching them... you get the picture.
And you can even use it as an offhand weapon that deals 135 Poise damage that can true combo off of any Level 2 Stagger, like from Greatswords, Curved Greatswords, Halberds, etc. This means that anyone who tries to monkey mash out of hitstun without Hyper Armor can get stagger hit into oblivion by alternating which weapon you swing with until they learn to respect your priority and roll away. And in the case of facing opponents with Hyper Armor, you can just two hand your Level 2 Stagger mainhand and obtain Hyper Armor yourself, then have a stat checking "duel." Or you can use Endure and trade with basically anything and win.
I think this list is pretty top heavy. I'd only consider a few weapons really broken when they totally carry you without even using your brain. I'd personally shift like 3/4 of all these weapons down 1 tier
15:45 The weapon that I used to defeat mohg/mogh for the first time only using square off
Considering the Blasphemous Blade has the same L2 of the Ruins Greatsword but better it should also be Collosal Sword. That thing is huge when Rykard holds it and when we get it it's merely a Greatsword. I do understand that it would be a nerf because it would have a much worse moveset but that's the point, it's way too OP. It would still be OP but a bit worse. Balancing it a bit.
Because the glintstone Kris exists there is zero reason to use any of the comet spells, it’s less than half the fp cost, does more damage depending on build and the projectile moves way faster
Comet Spells are more buffable, probably making them stronger and if you are already using a staff, you do not need to find somber stones and runes.
Comet spells can be chain casted, that's their advantage.
Nice man
Helphen's Steeple gets more damage, both base, scaling, and from the skill. Also gets a lot more Frost buildup from the skill.
What it doesn't get is ranged attacks.
This is mostly incorrect. On paper, Helphen's has higher damage. The frost buildup is not "a lot more." It's only 10 points higher when both are buffed, but Dark Moon still has 55 frost buildup without the buff, Helphen's has none.
What you're not accounting for is that Dark Moon's beams aren't just "ranged attacks," they're completely independent hitboxes, that stack with the actual weapon's hits. That's why Dark Moon is outputting almost 1.5x Helphen's damage, status, and stance damage on its heavy attacks. You're getting the weapon and projectile hits.
Dark Moon also gets buffed by Alexander's Shard, Godfrey's Icon, Rogier's set. And it does almost entirely magic damage, so it can use the magic scorpion charm for a further 12% boost. Helphen's doesn't get any of those buffs, and is more split damage, so it doesn't get the full 12% boost from the scorpion charm.
@@Gatchu137 everything you said is 100% correct and DMGS outclasses it completely but have you considered:
Helphen Steeple look cool 🙂
@@DoctorrDude Hell yeah I have. It's the coolest thing in the game.
@@DoctorrDude wow, some stat stick looks prettier to someone than the other stat stick, it definitely should break the whole spine of the tier list of stat sticks in a video game
It looks cooler :)
You missed the Cleanrot Spear.
I'm really hoping there are scarlet rot AoW in the DLC. I won't hold my breath for them though, might be too good.
Dragon halberd is the GOAT. It's great for both PVE and PVP. Probably one of the best all around Halberds
Guts great sword got broken tier W tier list
Well brother you made this about a week too soon