For those who haven't played this build, he's not joking. It really is the most powerful build I have ever seen, and it has access to physical, magic, and fire damage, as well as scarlet rot and frostbite (if you use borealis' frozen breath). In this video he basically spams dragonmaw, but because of the wide variety of dragon Communion spells, it is highly tailorable to your playstyle. I ran the dragon breath spells, using fire/magic Scorpion charm, magic/fire shrouding cracked tears, Golden vow, ritual sword Talisman, faithful's (and later flock's) canvas, and jellyfish shield to almost one shot every SINGLE boss in the game. Also, my opinion is that dragonclaw is better than dragon maw because you can chain 2 of them back to back with hyper armor, so I think you end up getting more damage and stagger damage. It's dealer's choice though. ALSO, Big Rot breath deals mostly physical damage, for when you need a ranged physical option for those who are resistant to elemental damage.
dragonmaw is better than dragonclaw because dragonmaw has way more hyperarmor imo. i dont ever get knocked out of dragonmaw but ig et knocked out of dragonclaw a lot. Dragonclaw is better against overworld enemies that have enough HP to get one shotted by it so you dont waste FP on dragonmaw overkilling, enemies with shields cuz Dragonclaw kinda just hits over shields, and enemies that are harder to hit with dragonmaws hitbox
@@GentMAB yeah thats what I notice too when I use it. Dragonclaw is mainly better against overworld enemies that have high HP but still not enough to survive dragonclaw, since Dragonmaw is almost always overkill damage in overworld anyway
Hey peeps! Quick word on Talismans for this build. I did the whole playthrough, from Goldfrey onwards, using both the Radagon Icon and Godfrey Icon. I later realised that NEITHER work for Dragon Communion Incantations 🤦🏻♂️. So you’ll have two extra talisman slots available. I’d highly recommend the Ritual Shield Talisman for one, as I say in the vid. The other is up to you. Erdtree Favour, HP boost and FP boost all seem like good options. Hope you like the vid! Thanks for watching! Edit: I’m an idiot and clearly misread. Radagons Icon DOES WORK. So use that and Ritual Shield!
The radagon icon works, but it doesnt speed up initial start up of the spell. So you better use lord of blood exulation talisman + white mask + seppuku ash of war for 30% attack up.
Dragon build was my first and favorite build in this game. It's nastier if you dual wield 2 +10 Dragon Communion Seal. Malenia really hated that Borealist Mist and Maw lol.
Yeah I think I’ll definitely do another Dragon build in the future. I got carried away with dragonmaw on this one and wanted to see if it would take me through the whole game. Wanna try borealis mist and theodorix’s magma at some point. Thanks for watching!
@@ThingfishyGaming Dragon was my first build too. Blew through my first play through with it. I thought dragon maw would carry me too, but then I fell in love with Roy Breath, but then I realized it doesn’t proc on a lot of bosses. That’s when I just went pure fire breath and Greyroll’s roar with occasional Ice breath. Broke bosses hard. Strategy: Always jumping when using named fire breath in main hand.
I followed the arcane build guide to get Eleonora's Poleblade early and took advantage of the stat synergy to add dragon incantations to that build. So far, it's REALLY powerful and tons of fun. You get to blast most things to death with breath attacks, and most bosses can be rotted and then melted away with the poleblade's melee attacks. Highly recommended.
Great video as always! For Flock's Canvas Talisman, u can kill Millicent at the Windmill Heights Site of Grace after defeating the Godskin Apostle there. Then go back to Gowry, he will be crying for Millicent's death, and u can kill him right there to get the talisman early this way and so save some trouble for going through the whole quest. Anyway, thx for the builds!
Every time I make one of these guides, someone points out something that will be immensely helpful for future one. This is one of those moments. Thanks, Terry! Hope you liked the vid.
I believe the trigger for flocks is milicent receiving the prosthesis you jack from Castle Sol. If so, then erdtree gazing hill is the earliest time you can do the deed. You monsters!
Confirmed by testing yesterday. Give millicent the prosthesis at Erdtree gazing grace, kill her then kill Gowry. He drops his bell bearing and flocks talisman.
I ran a dragon build on my first playthrough, always loved arcane and luck in these games, even when it wasn't so powerful. If you increase mind, and open with ekzyke's decay, you can run the mushroom crown and the kindred of rot exaltion talisman to increase your maw/claw damage by 30%, plus then the bosses might die when they have 1hp. nice vid mate, keep em up.
It really is. Doing it with a specialised build like this also creates so many new problems that you’ve never had to worry about before. So although it’s the same bosses, you haven’t to think so differently about your approach. Thanks for watching!
And it always feels good playing a new journey with a different build. I thought for sure after doing it 2-3 times I would be sick of the same boss fights and what not but not the case at all. Feels entirely new when your using a completely different build. If anything it just gets better because you know the locations of the things you want for the builds lol.
a quick tip, the dragon comunion seal soft caps at 45 arc and faith (with priority for arc as it reachs s tier in that) but the extra arcane can still be usefull if you plan on using weapons paried with the spell casting.
@@jet5934 Just stop at 45 arcane, then pump faith up to 45 so you have more incantation power that way. After that, just pump mind for more FP or vigor for HP, whatever you prefer.
I’m so confused on what scaling does for damage…if I want more damage from my dragon incants (while using the dragon communion seal) do I pump more arcane or more faith? I’m also throwing in a blood sorcery and I can’t too, so I’m leaning towards faith. Just trying to figure out which to prioritize.
I've played a dragon communion build and loved it! My strategy for Malenia was very different though. I used the fire shrouding cracked tear and cerulean hidden tear and just roasted her with Ahgeel's flame. It was the fastest and easiest Malenia fight I ever did.
Bro. I JUST beat the game thanks to this build! IT TOOK ME MONTHS to get to the elden beast!! I had given up!! And this build changed that!! Thank you!!!! I loved the dragon incantations and the spells. I went for heavy armor jar talisman instead of dancer but used winged sword too. I had progressed too far without doing some quests like Millicent. But damn. It was worth it. Thank you so much!
Making a variation of this build with much higher poise, a 100 physical medium shield and a spear from the beginning. Dragon incantations will absolutely be my bread and butter, but especially early game, it's kinda difficult getting around with it. So far it's working out quite well! Your priorities in stats are very good.
Not sure which one stacks bleed faster, but I've always found the Flail a better option for killing Greyoll. You can just cuddle up to the tail in a specific spot and hold L2. Even without FP, the bleed buildup is the same.
One note for the chariot at the Hero's Grave. If you drop down at the furthest corner where one of the Exile Soldier Spirits is as the chariot is going up towards the entrance. You have more than enough time to run all the way down and then all the way up to where the Dragon Communion Seal is before the Chariot can ever touch you.
This video I shall hold close to my heart, it way this build guide that helped me defeat fire giant, half way through I forgot the strat so I had to improvise by using dragonmaw while he summoned the fire bombs and whatever else that made him stationary for a long time. I will edit this comment if I beat the game and become Elden Lord, have some prawn while I do it 🦐🦐🦐 About 2 hours before I made this edit, I defeated radagon and elden beast, which by far have been the most frustrating bosses i have fought yet, this took me almost 4 days to beat normally, until i used the shabriri's woe mimic tear strat, in which case i beat them in the first 20 attempts (i know i suck) then i beat mohg using the same method, though i doubt i needed it, and now im currently fighting malenia, wish me luck❤ (Also I realized I gave y'all some raw prawn so have this instead, and sorry if i gave y'all salmonella 🍤🍤🍤) As of making this edit, I have defeated malenia, somehow it was harder than it needed to be, but it was my first time fighting her. I'm currently thinking on what to do with her runes and contemplating how hard it'll be to fight placidusax after hearing him say placidusax should be the hardest boss for this build. I refuse to give up because this build guide has brought me further than I ever thought I'd go in Elden ring and has showed me true power unlike anything I've ever believed, thank you thingfishy and all who might've seen this comment. The next edit I make will most likely be the last after I hopefully defeat the dragonlord, wish me luck. (Also after Millicent passed away, I left her a miquella lily, I didn't know what else to give her so I decided to give her something named after her uncle at the very least) And as per usual, here's some prawn. (here's a bit extra❤) 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤 Ngl, I got so excited when I beat placidusax that i forgot to edit this comment and update that I beat the game... I'm currently in ng+. Sorry. So yeah, I became Elden Lord and I'm currently working on doing most of the side quests right now. I'm also working on altering the build to incorporate some dragon cult incantations and I have plans on using the bolt of grannsax as my main weapon. (As of making this, I'm around lvl 150 and using dual +10 dragon communion seals along with placidusax ruin because it's my favorite incantation) I only realized I didn't update my progress because I saw someone liked my comment (whoever you are, who was the first person to like my comment, thanks m8. Have some prawn 🍤 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤) Also Alexander wanted to say hi 🍯-hellooo!
Great video as always. I thought I'd point something out. For the ulcerated tree spirit before Millicent, there is a very easy method (almost makes it seem like it was meant to be done that way. When you come out of the drainage channel and go towards the ulerated tree spirit, there is a branch you need to jump off of to get to it (see 22:00 for the exact branch I'm talking about). Take note of the right side of that branch, you'll see another smaller branch. After you go to the rot pool and it spawns, run back to the branch, look towards the left side and notice the smaller branch from before (that smaller branch I referred to as being on your right side, now since it is behind you, it is on the left side). Jump on to it, follow it up, and hop back onto the main branch. Now you can keep some distance from the spirit and hit it with ranged attacks (some of its attacks can still hit you so maintain some distance and back up when it does said attacks). Using this method, there are many incantations and sorceries you can try (swarm of flies works very well).
as someone who's done this run, I recommend dragonclaw over maw, because it chains into a second one that you can cast when you see wether or not it staggered the enemy. Also more useful in pvp since it has an aoe and tends to knock down opponents giving you a free second hit. If you're going hard arcane with this build, I'd also recommend the ripple blade or the albinauric halberd for bosses resistant to statusses, both of which have S scaling with arcane and can be buffed with spells. Otherwise, go bleed or other status effects.
wait youre so underrated! the intro alone was breathtaking and not to mention the top tier video! keep em coming! thx to you i really wanna go back to elden ring again
I've done all rememberances run with almost every build in your channel. The only thing I'd say is to show map when you are getting things out of the ordinary route. Can't wait to test this one out. Great content as always.
@@poopdogg666 that's what I meant with "ordinary route". I can follow it without a problem and there are tons of resources out there to find what I need but he always asks for feedback and that seems easy to do.
Thingfishy: Rykard Cheeses Back Had to stay up again but worth it. It was more like a "Dragonmaw only" build, but I won't hold it againt you this time. Chomping every boss sound and looks quite fun lol Great video once again! ^_^
You should never feel bad for killing Gowry imo, he's a creep that basically made clone daughters of Malenia and is trying to groom them into being Rot infested Valkyries.
So far I like the DragonClaw over the DragonMaw. You can hit multiple targets 2x in a row, it knocks down human mobs. You can also hit behind obstacles. DragonMaw is easily dodged by human mobs like invaders. Edit: Tried another playthrough and understand the power of DragonMaw. Still use the Claw for higher level invaders
It's amazing that you make a build video with high quality every weeks. How many hours you do for each playthrough to get these footage for editing. PS. I tried your STR/FAITH build and it's awesome.
Thanks, George. All the playthroughs so far have been around 8/9 hours on average. The faith guide took the longest at 11 hours. The giant crusher was the fastest at 7. Because I’m paranoid about losing footage, I’ll always overlap PS5 captures, so I usually end up with 10-15 hours for footage to sift through. The editing is the time consuming part for sure. Thanks for watching and glad you’re enjoying the str/fth build!
Welp, time to refine my Dragon Acolyte build. Although I have heard that the dragon communion seal has softcaps at 30 faith and 45 arcane, giving you some more levels you can put into vigor, mind or endurance so you can take bigger risks performing Grigori's rendition of hungry hungry hippos on bosses. Also, naturally, you can fit in things like the Albinauric weapons that scale hard with arcane, or maybe the Bloody Helice if you feel like switching some stuff around for a backup when you run dry on the blue juice.
Yeah, there’s lots more fun to be had with Arcane builds. Interesting about the scaling. I kept seeing increase with the arcane, but it’s possible that faith would yield more. The thought of this build being even more powerful in the late game seems ludicrous! Thanks for watching!
@@ThingfishyGaming I heard the scaling at 45 was for statuses and the damage kept scaling till 80, but I’m not sure if that’s accurate in terms of softcaps
This build definitely changed my mind too. I previously thought they were a great ancillary source of damage, but not something that totally viable as a main source. How wrong I was. Thanks for watching, Xen!
Wow great build and vid. I'll have to try this out on my next play through. I'm currently running your int build and it saved me from quitting the game. I can actually see myself beating the game now.
This was basically my first and favorite build! After the network test I wanted to main a dragon build but also felt like it would be niche so I figured why not just supplement with faith. I took the key as my starting gift on day 1 and was so happy to find after an hour or so of getting killed before that chariot before seeing the sunlight to get the dragon talisman. The rest was so much fun! Invading and helping people the first 3 days with dragon spells was so amazing
At some point in the video you have 59 arcane and barely any hp... Dragon communion seal soft caps at 45 arcane... Level you hp folks, especially if you'll be doing any co-op and PVP. You will get decent returns for leveling faith to 45 too, though stopping at whatever the max faith requirement is for your spells is works fine as the seal primarily scales from arcane. You need to get to at least 20 mind for 2 full charges of the upgraded breaths, generally you don't need more. The one downside to this build is that it consumes tons of mana, but going beyond 20 still results in your entire bar being consumed by a full breath attack. This build doesn't seem to have dedicated hybrid faith arcane weapon options but the ripple blade and halberd work wonders, especially if you'll keep pumping arcane like you did in this video. Both barely require any extra stats and can inflict multiple status effects, most critically sleep and poison, with greases that scale off your arcane. Otherwise it just doubles up as a bleed build, occult affinity on any weapon with natural bleed will do good. Imo this is still the strongest build in the game despite the nerfs to the breath attacks.
The Flame Art affinity can make a good substitute for Occult early on, since you'll be pumping up your Faith before your Arcane. A dip into Redmane Castle for the whetstone early in the game can be helpful for this build. By the time your Arcane starts to surpass your Faith, you should have access to Nokron and the relevant whetstone.
You can also combine it with a bleed build with the Reduvia dagger for some quick hits that do massive bleed-buildups. Espacially if you pump Arcane and level past 150. I'm level 210 now and i can afford both 80 Arcane and 45+ Faith aswell as having 60 Vigor.
Nice work yet again Thingfishy. Have just finished a run with your faith caster build. BBQing Radagon with catch flame was soooooo satisfying. I am 2/3 through a caster only dragon run and have picked up a few tweaks from todays video. Cheers. PS For other players trying the same run grab dragon claw. It has much less hyper armour than dragon maw but takes less FP, starts up much faster and has substantially better tracking. Easily crushed Radagons doggo and other quick bosses with this. Useful tool where dragon maw isn’t quite quick enough.
In fact, dragon claw can be chain cast if you play with a sacred seal in either hand and cast in alternate order. I can cast 4 in a row with my build but I imagine you could cast more if you had more FP and stamina.
To kill the Rotten Ulcerated Tree Sentinel in the Millicent Rot arena, you can just jump back on the branch you came down on and attack it with the normal Fire breath (more range) and be completely safe. You don't have to kill Millicent at her arena to get the Millicent's Prosthesis talisman. You can kill her right after you fight the Godskin Apostle in the Windmill Village. Then just kill Gowry for the Flock Incantation Talisman.
Thank you cool build ! For the milicent quest though you can actually kill milicent right after giving her the valkyrie's prothesis, go back to gowry and kill him to end his suffering you'll get the talisman
Dragonmaw is so freaking broken it makes me so happy to finally see a content creator acknowledging it. The combination of insane damage, hyperarmor, and poise damage it deals is just insane
This video just saved my dragon playthrough, I was about to give up at maleketh but then saw this, tweaked my build to this and boom! Unreal. Thank you
Holy crap! He's not kidding I just created my dragon character this morning. I've used rotten breath numerous times but I didn't realize how powerful Dragonmaw could be! Thanks for the video man! Look forward to more
This build is my favorite way to play the game I think. Consumables focused / only is also fun, which is where I learned to appreciate a lot of items that don't get that much appreciation! Being an arcane build that does huge AOE damage, farming is extremely easy. I would recommend using Ironjar Aromatic paired with boiled prawn/crab on this build, and you can use it to easily tank through any attacks and stance break pretty much any boss with your choice of Maw/Claw. After that, you can either keep going, or apply a breath and/or heal and do it again. This item combo gives you openings pretty much wherever you want. If it's a boss you think you could one-shot before getting hit with enough damage stacks, you could also use bloodboil aromatic instead of FGMS (extra 10%) Another buff you could easily apply is an extra 20% from Kindred of Rot Exultation talisman by using two fetid pot before or during a boss battle! This will poison you, and in turn give you the buff. IMO this is a great slot-in in place of faithful canvas (could also just swap when you boss, but tbh you'll likely not need that 4% damage against normal mobs anyways) This builds pros are: it's extremely versatile, and it does a lot of damage. The cons are: long windups, and mana-hungry. Using the above items with a hidden tear in your flask nullifies any of these downsides for any boss that doesn't do lightning damage to you (which isn't many, and those that do are easy with this build without those items anyways) Don't sleep on items!
just btw, you dont have to feel guilty about killing growry, he is actually just one of those centipede enemys u fight the whole game, the better talisman is an omage to the worse one wich is in the cave where those centipede enemys are praying, they pray for the godess of rot(wich is melenia) but if ur interested u should watch a lore vid :). PS: if u kill him before ending milicents quest he just drops dead as a centipede and gets exchanged for another one taking his place. i watch u for about a week now and u have come to be my fav elden ring conrtent creator, doing a great job man.
My mans you have no idea…I JUST started doing a build similar to this and this video came at a perfect time. Mine only adds 2 points of dex for bandit swords so I can bleed. Great video love to see it
It’s really fun to fight bosses and find opportunities for dragon maw. You don’t have to speedrun the build and can play the game normally if you want, using it when you have the items. That’s what I did and had a blast. I also used an arcane weapon I liked
For the ulcerated tree Spirit right before the last part of Millicent's quest line you can just go back up on the branch and use ranged attack and he can't get to you he'll try to climb up the branch but he's too big
I started this a lot differently and without dragon cult incantations. Start as thief with stonesword key, go get the Reduvia knife, use Reduvia and the buckler shield to kill the knight and get the dragon communion seal, then go kill greyoll with Reduvia for the free runes, and put it all into faith and arcane. Then go to cathedral of dragon communion with your dragon hearts and get rotten breath and dragonice. Rotten breath and dragonice are super strong but they need time to use, for fighting dragons I recommend baiting out a melee attack to get the time to use your attacks. Super op build and rot is obviously amazing at killing bosses
You can make bait the banished knight inside the chariot dungeon to come out and then the chariot can kill him , so u won't need to upgrade your finger seal .... Also the dragon in calid ...cheese him for infinite rune farm... It still works
Problem is that apparently cheesing him gives you the runes, but not the dragon hearts which you'll need for the incantations. Also the video was a no farming build anyways so.... Yeah
if you are struggling on the rotten tree spirit u can trigger the boss and jump back on the tree branch (he cannot hit you if you are a bit away from him) and spam lightning on him
Tip for anyone following this build you are probably better off rushing to 30 faith and 45 arcane instead of pumping more into arcane because 30/45 is the soft cap for the dragon communion seal so you'll get even more damage
Only just cottoned onto dragon breath incantations on my recent playthru and hoo boy................ what a freakin' blast. Especially with mimic casting the same spells. Oh those poor bosses.
Blue dancer charm is very underrated with this build. I mixed it up with stone of gurranq and pest threads as they profit from this talisman. Stone is fp-efficient and staggers greatly. Pest threads deletes large bosses.
I did a similar build only that i also includes the Reduvia dagger and the swarm of flies blood incantation. For some quick hits that builds bloodloss super quickly for massive damage. During times where the enemy is too quick to hit with the slow windup animations of the dragon spells.
this was my first playthrough build but i didnt realize how strong dragonmaw was until about the endgame... lots of rot breath but i've never played a from game either
I used a version of this build before. Really powerful. I switched between incants, marais executioner sword and dual bleed halberds quite easily. Lots of variety so you dont get bored
Just started a build like this, but my version of a Loux warrior. I call him draka Loux. So far I've unlocked dragon claw and glintbreath. 40 mind, 30 vigor and the rest in arcane, faith. I use dragonclaw as main source of damage, lol I'm never on the ground as the claw lifts me up high. I'm glad to see my thought on a build like this is viable. Thank you dragon Master.:)
Yeah so in my first playthrough Dragonmaw was basically my boss killer. I saw the dragon communion spells and knew that's what I wanted to do. Imagine my surprise when I realized there was an answer for every single boss in this game within this little subsection of spells. And yes, usually it was Dragonmaw but there were a lot of other super useful ones like the status breaths and a breath for every element except holy, which is the worst element in the game anyway
Fire Giant took me dozens and dozens of tries on my main character (more than the rest of the bossed combined) and on my first try with this build I got him down to 10% health before fucking up a roll and getting one shot. Flame guide me.
About Rykard, when I built a Zeus cosplay with Gransax Bolt, if I went in and started the fight with the weapon art, it's usually a guarantee he will use the eruption attack. It might be an AI thing that sees another weapon besides Serpent Hunter, because that attack doesn't come out first, and rarer throughout the fight, when I switched to the intended weapon.
This is the only caster build that warranted using the moon of nokstella. No need for charms when your damage types are spread. With a sacred weapon, you're covered. Even better if it has bleed.
Nice work man. Really enjoying your build vids. I had a moment when listening to your description of the "Castle Sol Skip" I thought you said you can run straight into Niall without having to deal with teleporting "vaginitis" lol I worked out you said banished knights of course .
I did mine a bit differently. I almost never used Dragonmaw, but I did use a fair bit of dragon CLAW, for the same poise reasons as here. Most often though, I started every fight with a rot breath, then alternated regular ice and fire breaths. On most bosses, the regular frost procs will take large chunks of HP all throughout the fight. I'll admit, these strategies look more calculated, but I enjoyed the breath-based gameplay. The only boss I didn't defeat exclusively with dragon incants was Rykard, because he would slowly crawl towards me as I charged up and continuously knock me out of a *flying in the air charge* with his _ground-based lava_ like the big, thick knob he is.
I am doing a Dragon Communion build now. I am about halfway through. Generally relying on Opaline Bubble Tear and high Poise for survival (still at 10 Vigor), and using breath weapon attacks for bosses, but I will have to experiment with Dragonmaw. I have a lot more invested in Mind. I went with FP recovery items and Frenzied Burst/Lightning Spear for clearing mobs, then switch to damage talismans and buffs for bosses. Silver Tear Mask and Godrick's Rune gives some useful stats, and I'm not running out of Rune Arcs. I'm hoping to get a second Dragon Communion seal in NG+.
Hi there, I recently found your channel and love your guides! If I may make a quick suggestion, could you implement a map of where you are at key moments? I mean, I know by now where the Saintsbridge Grace in Limgrave is, but at other times in the video I felt like "huh, gotta google that one". Also, will you ever do a LVL1 guide? I am at my first atempt at a LVL1 run in my entire Soulsborne career, and would love to see your inout on what could be done.
Hey, Smarag. Yes I’m currently trying to figure out a way of doing that without it being too time consuming. I will definitely be doing an RL1 build, but will probably leave that until the DLC comes out so I can get the whole game in one. It’ll be a long one to film and don’t want to do it twice. Thanks for watching!
Im you're doing this and have trouble with firegiant phase 2, Instead of dragon mawing the hands, use rot breath, one fully charged on the hand then one more on the leg will trigger the rot, then all you need to do is run like mad and he'll go down. I had a slightly higher arcane than is used in the video as I went around taking on other bosses too. I was also using the ritual sword talisman instead of godfrey icon to boost damage.
Some advice also is can you show the map location even for a split second when you're giving the directions., I'm still kinda new and want to try this build but it's a little hard to follow along.
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For those who haven't played this build, he's not joking. It really is the most powerful build I have ever seen, and it has access to physical, magic, and fire damage, as well as scarlet rot and frostbite (if you use borealis' frozen breath). In this video he basically spams dragonmaw, but because of the wide variety of dragon Communion spells, it is highly tailorable to your playstyle. I ran the dragon breath spells, using fire/magic Scorpion charm, magic/fire shrouding cracked tears, Golden vow, ritual sword Talisman, faithful's (and later flock's) canvas, and jellyfish shield to almost one shot every SINGLE boss in the game. Also, my opinion is that dragonclaw is better than dragon maw because you can chain 2 of them back to back with hyper armor, so I think you end up getting more damage and stagger damage. It's dealer's choice though. ALSO, Big Rot breath deals mostly physical damage, for when you need a ranged physical option for those who are resistant to elemental damage.
dragonmaw is better than dragonclaw because dragonmaw has way more hyperarmor imo. i dont ever get knocked out of dragonmaw but ig et knocked out of dragonclaw a lot. Dragonclaw is better against overworld enemies that have enough HP to get one shotted by it so you dont waste FP on dragonmaw overkilling, enemies with shields cuz Dragonclaw kinda just hits over shields, and enemies that are harder to hit with dragonmaws hitbox
I've tried both too and Dragon claw is about half the damage of one dragon maw
@@GentMAB yeah thats what I notice too when I use it. Dragonclaw is mainly better against overworld enemies that have high HP but still not enough to survive dragonclaw, since Dragonmaw is almost always overkill damage in overworld anyway
You can chain dragon claw into dragonmaw!
@@user-gw3yy4ex6v wait you can? Is the dragonmaw that comes after claw faster than if you just used maw by itself?
Hey peeps! Quick word on Talismans for this build. I did the whole playthrough, from Goldfrey onwards, using both the Radagon Icon and Godfrey Icon. I later realised that NEITHER work for Dragon Communion Incantations 🤦🏻♂️. So you’ll have two extra talisman slots available. I’d highly recommend the Ritual Shield Talisman for one, as I say in the vid. The other is up to you. Erdtree Favour, HP boost and FP boost all seem like good options. Hope you like the vid! Thanks for watching!
Edit: I’m an idiot and clearly misread. Radagons Icon DOES WORK. So use that and Ritual Shield!
the radagon icon works for all *spells* in the game and incantations are grouped under spells
@@secondsonofkrypton Thanks Second Son. No idea how I managed to get so confused on that.
The radagon icon works, but it doesnt speed up initial start up of the spell. So you better use lord of blood exulation talisman + white mask + seppuku ash of war for 30% attack up.
I just checked the wiki and it currently says as of 1.07 Radagons icon doesnt work with dragon incantations.
@@Gigapally so it doesnt work?
Dragon build was my first and favorite build in this game. It's nastier if you dual wield 2 +10 Dragon Communion Seal. Malenia really hated that Borealist Mist and Maw lol.
Yeah I think I’ll definitely do another Dragon build in the future. I got carried away with dragonmaw on this one and wanted to see if it would take me through the whole game. Wanna try borealis mist and theodorix’s magma at some point. Thanks for watching!
@@ThingfishyGaming Dragon was my first build too. Blew through my first play through with it. I thought dragon maw would carry me too, but then I fell in love with Roy Breath, but then I realized it doesn’t proc on a lot of bosses. That’s when I just went pure fire breath and Greyroll’s roar with occasional Ice breath. Broke bosses hard. Strategy: Always jumping when using named fire breath in main hand.
I followed the arcane build guide to get Eleonora's Poleblade early and took advantage of the stat synergy to add dragon incantations to that build. So far, it's REALLY powerful and tons of fun. You get to blast most things to death with breath attacks, and most bosses can be rotted and then melted away with the poleblade's melee attacks. Highly recommended.
I’m literally doing the same thing now! I got the poleblade and the communion seal without even fighting Margit yet! Very OP so far
Great video as always! For Flock's Canvas Talisman, u can kill Millicent at the Windmill Heights Site of Grace after defeating the Godskin Apostle there. Then go back to Gowry, he will be crying for Millicent's death, and u can kill him right there to get the talisman early this way and so save some trouble for going through the whole quest. Anyway, thx for the builds!
Every time I make one of these guides, someone points out something that will be immensely helpful for future one. This is one of those moments. Thanks, Terry! Hope you liked the vid.
You can do it earlier as well all the way back at the erdtree gazing hills grace location
I believe the trigger for flocks is milicent receiving the prosthesis you jack from Castle Sol. If so, then erdtree gazing hill is the earliest time you can do the deed. You monsters!
Dude I have like seven characters and I thought you had to complete her whole quest for that flock talisman
Confirmed by testing yesterday. Give millicent the prosthesis at Erdtree gazing grace, kill her then kill Gowry. He drops his bell bearing and flocks talisman.
I ran a dragon build on my first playthrough, always loved arcane and luck in these games, even when it wasn't so powerful. If you increase mind, and open with ekzyke's decay, you can run the mushroom crown and the kindred of rot exaltion talisman to increase your maw/claw damage by 30%, plus then the bosses might die when they have 1hp. nice vid mate, keep em up.
Really amazing how many different builds you can make, in this amazing game!
It really is. Doing it with a specialised build like this also creates so many new problems that you’ve never had to worry about before. So although it’s the same bosses, you haven’t to think so differently about your approach. Thanks for watching!
And it always feels good playing a new journey with a different build. I thought for sure after doing it 2-3 times I would be sick of the same boss fights and what not but not the case at all. Feels entirely new when your using a completely different build. If anything it just gets better because you know the locations of the things you want for the builds lol.
a quick tip, the dragon comunion seal soft caps at 45 arc and faith (with priority for arc as it reachs s tier in that) but the extra arcane can still be usefull if you plan on using weapons paried with the spell casting.
What do you recommend putting the extra in then? Vigor?
@@jet5934 Just stop at 45 arcane, then pump faith up to 45 so you have more incantation power that way. After that, just pump mind for more FP or vigor for HP, whatever you prefer.
@@sion3471 alr thanks
I personally went with 50 arc since i use arc weapons with the build
I’m so confused on what scaling does for damage…if I want more damage from my dragon incants (while using the dragon communion seal) do I pump more arcane or more faith? I’m also throwing in a blood sorcery and I can’t too, so I’m leaning towards faith. Just trying to figure out which to prioritize.
I've played a dragon communion build and loved it! My strategy for Malenia was very different though. I used the fire shrouding cracked tear and cerulean hidden tear and just roasted her with Ahgeel's flame. It was the fastest and easiest Malenia fight I ever did.
Bro. I JUST beat the game thanks to this build! IT TOOK ME MONTHS to get to the elden beast!! I had given up!! And this build changed that!! Thank you!!!!
I loved the dragon incantations and the spells. I went for heavy armor jar talisman instead of dancer but used winged sword too. I had progressed too far without doing some quests like Millicent. But damn. It was worth it. Thank you so much!
Making a variation of this build with much higher poise, a 100 physical medium shield and a spear from the beginning. Dragon incantations will absolutely be my bread and butter, but especially early game, it's kinda difficult getting around with it. So far it's working out quite well! Your priorities in stats are very good.
Not sure which one stacks bleed faster, but I've always found the Flail a better option for killing Greyoll. You can just cuddle up to the tail in a specific spot and hold L2. Even without FP, the bleed buildup is the same.
One note for the chariot at the Hero's Grave. If you drop down at the furthest corner where one of the Exile Soldier Spirits is as the chariot is going up towards the entrance. You have more than enough time to run all the way down and then all the way up to where the Dragon Communion Seal is before the Chariot can ever touch you.
Absolute legend.
This advise shaved at least an hour off of my attempts of fringefolk!
4:48 Level Up - 12 Vig, 20 Mind, 26 Faith
6:04 Level Up - 21 Mind, 22 Arc
8:20 Level Up - 23 Arc
9:02 Level Up - 27 Arc
11:13 Level Up - 15 Vig, 32 Arc
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12:38 Level Up - 16 Vig, 40 Arc
14:45 Level Up - 20 Vig
15:07 Level Up - 22 Vig, 49 Arc
18:44 54 Arc
20:26 56 Arc
21:35 32 Vig 58 Arc
24:13 59 Arc
25:25 34 Vig 60 Arc
25:47 35 vig
26:46 39 Vig
27:53 44 vig
29:18 48 Vig 64 Arc
30:18 50 Vig 68 Arc
Thanks @Thingfishy i fixed my build and prepare for the DLC
This video I shall hold close to my heart, it way this build guide that helped me defeat fire giant, half way through I forgot the strat so I had to improvise by using dragonmaw while he summoned the fire bombs and whatever else that made him stationary for a long time. I will edit this comment if I beat the game and become Elden Lord, have some prawn while I do it 🦐🦐🦐
About 2 hours before I made this edit, I defeated radagon and elden beast, which by far have been the most frustrating bosses i have fought yet, this took me almost 4 days to beat normally, until i used the shabriri's woe mimic tear strat, in which case i beat them in the first 20 attempts (i know i suck) then i beat mohg using the same method, though i doubt i needed it, and now im currently fighting malenia, wish me luck❤
(Also I realized I gave y'all some raw prawn so have this instead, and sorry if i gave y'all salmonella 🍤🍤🍤)
As of making this edit, I have defeated malenia, somehow it was harder than it needed to be, but it was my first time fighting her. I'm currently thinking on what to do with her runes and contemplating how hard it'll be to fight placidusax after hearing him say placidusax should be the hardest boss for this build.
I refuse to give up because this build guide has brought me further than I ever thought I'd go in Elden ring and has showed me true power unlike anything I've ever believed, thank you thingfishy and all who might've seen this comment. The next edit I make will most likely be the last after I hopefully defeat the dragonlord, wish me luck.
(Also after Millicent passed away, I left her a miquella lily, I didn't know what else to give her so I decided to give her something named after her uncle at the very least)
And as per usual, here's some prawn. (here's a bit extra❤) 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤
Ngl, I got so excited when I beat placidusax that i forgot to edit this comment and update that I beat the game... I'm currently in ng+. Sorry.
So yeah, I became Elden Lord and I'm currently working on doing most of the side quests right now. I'm also working on altering the build to incorporate some dragon cult incantations and I have plans on using the bolt of grannsax as my main weapon. (As of making this, I'm around lvl 150 and using dual +10 dragon communion seals along with placidusax ruin because it's my favorite incantation)
I only realized I didn't update my progress because I saw someone liked my comment (whoever you are, who was the first person to like my comment, thanks m8. Have some prawn 🍤 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤)
Also Alexander wanted to say hi
🍯-hellooo!
They just buffed the Dragon Communion seal. I'm adding this as an offhand option for my build going into the DLC!
Seriously. How was the Seal buffed? Arcane scaling Faith Scaling?
@@craigslaunwhite579 All the seals got the increased attribute scaling buff on the June 20th patch, so yes
Great video as always. I thought I'd point something out. For the ulcerated tree spirit before Millicent, there is a very easy method (almost makes it seem like it was meant to be done that way. When you come out of the drainage channel and go towards the ulerated tree spirit, there is a branch you need to jump off of to get to it (see 22:00 for the exact branch I'm talking about). Take note of the right side of that branch, you'll see another smaller branch. After you go to the rot pool and it spawns, run back to the branch, look towards the left side and notice the smaller branch from before (that smaller branch I referred to as being on your right side, now since it is behind you, it is on the left side). Jump on to it, follow it up, and hop back onto the main branch. Now you can keep some distance from the spirit and hit it with ranged attacks (some of its attacks can still hit you so maintain some distance and back up when it does said attacks). Using this method, there are many incantations and sorceries you can try (swarm of flies works very well).
as someone who's done this run, I recommend dragonclaw over maw, because it chains into a second one that you can cast when you see wether or not it staggered the enemy. Also more useful in pvp since it has an aoe and tends to knock down opponents giving you a free second hit. If you're going hard arcane with this build, I'd also recommend the ripple blade or the albinauric halberd for bosses resistant to statusses, both of which have S scaling with arcane and can be buffed with spells. Otherwise, go bleed or other status effects.
wait youre so underrated! the intro alone was breathtaking and not to mention the top tier video! keep em coming! thx to you i really wanna go back to elden ring again
Thanks, Crimson. Glad you enjoyed it! Many more to come! Thanks for watching!
I've done all rememberances run with almost every build in your channel. The only thing I'd say is to show map when you are getting things out of the ordinary route. Can't wait to test this one out. Great content as always.
He posted the general set up video that most of the builds use actually.
@@poopdogg666 that's what I meant with "ordinary route". I can follow it without a problem and there are tons of resources out there to find what I need but he always asks for feedback and that seems easy to do.
Thingfishy: Rykard Cheeses Back
Had to stay up again but worth it. It was more like a "Dragonmaw only" build, but I won't hold it againt you this time. Chomping every boss sound and looks quite fun lol
Great video once again! ^_^
Haha, thanks bandit! It was very fun indeed! Thanks for watching, as always. Now get some sleep!
You should never feel bad for killing Gowry imo, he's a creep that basically made clone daughters of Malenia and is trying to groom them into being Rot infested Valkyries.
So far I like the DragonClaw over the DragonMaw. You can hit multiple targets 2x in a row, it knocks down human mobs. You can also hit behind obstacles. DragonMaw is easily dodged by human mobs like invaders.
Edit: Tried another playthrough and understand the power of DragonMaw. Still use the Claw for higher level invaders
It's amazing that you make a build video with high quality every weeks. How many hours you do for each playthrough to get these footage for editing.
PS. I tried your STR/FAITH build and it's awesome.
Thanks, George. All the playthroughs so far have been around 8/9 hours on average. The faith guide took the longest at 11 hours. The giant crusher was the fastest at 7. Because I’m paranoid about losing footage, I’ll always overlap PS5 captures, so I usually end up with 10-15 hours for footage to sift through. The editing is the time consuming part for sure. Thanks for watching and glad you’re enjoying the str/fth build!
Welp, time to refine my Dragon Acolyte build. Although I have heard that the dragon communion seal has softcaps at 30 faith and 45 arcane, giving you some more levels you can put into vigor, mind or endurance so you can take bigger risks performing Grigori's rendition of hungry hungry hippos on bosses. Also, naturally, you can fit in things like the Albinauric weapons that scale hard with arcane, or maybe the Bloody Helice if you feel like switching some stuff around for a backup when you run dry on the blue juice.
Yeah, there’s lots more fun to be had with Arcane builds. Interesting about the scaling. I kept seeing increase with the arcane, but it’s possible that faith would yield more. The thought of this build being even more powerful in the late game seems ludicrous! Thanks for watching!
@@ThingfishyGaming I heard the scaling at 45 was for statuses and the damage kept scaling till 80, but I’m not sure if that’s accurate in terms of softcaps
Just so everyone knows in patch 1.09 rykards first phase still does spam the lava wave
big rot breath is op, Dragonmaw is opier, I have never tried it before
great build as always, changed my mind on the dragon communion incantations
This build definitely changed my mind too. I previously thought they were a great ancillary source of damage, but not something that totally viable as a main source. How wrong I was. Thanks for watching, Xen!
Love your videos man. So pumped when you come out with new stuff
Thanks, Gost! Glad you’re liking the channel!
Wow great build and vid. I'll have to try this out on my next play through. I'm currently running your int build and it saved me from quitting the game. I can actually see myself beating the game now.
That’s great to hear, Turkey. Let me know how the rest of your playthrough goes. Yeah, this build was super fun. Thanks for watching!
This was how I did my first play thru all dragon incantation, I think it was my funnest play thru of the 3 runs I did
This was basically my first and favorite build! After the network test I wanted to main a dragon build but also felt like it would be niche so I figured why not just supplement with faith. I took the key as my starting gift on day 1 and was so happy to find after an hour or so of getting killed before that chariot before seeing the sunlight to get the dragon talisman. The rest was so much fun! Invading and helping people the first 3 days with dragon spells was so amazing
Same! I’m about halfway rn and am having too much fun with this build
bro makes better video than some 1m channel, love the dedication keep up the good work
Thanks for watching, Narva. Glad you’re enjoying the channel!
At some point in the video you have 59 arcane and barely any hp... Dragon communion seal soft caps at 45 arcane...
Level you hp folks, especially if you'll be doing any co-op and PVP.
You will get decent returns for leveling faith to 45 too, though stopping at whatever the max faith requirement is for your spells is works fine as the seal primarily scales from arcane.
You need to get to at least 20 mind for 2 full charges of the upgraded breaths, generally you don't need more. The one downside to this build is that it consumes tons of mana, but going beyond 20 still results in your entire bar being consumed by a full breath attack.
This build doesn't seem to have dedicated hybrid faith arcane weapon options but the ripple blade and halberd work wonders, especially if you'll keep pumping arcane like you did in this video. Both barely require any extra stats and can inflict multiple status effects, most critically sleep and poison, with greases that scale off your arcane. Otherwise it just doubles up as a bleed build, occult affinity on any weapon with natural bleed will do good.
Imo this is still the strongest build in the game despite the nerfs to the breath attacks.
The Flame Art affinity can make a good substitute for Occult early on, since you'll be pumping up your Faith before your Arcane. A dip into Redmane Castle for the whetstone early in the game can be helpful for this build. By the time your Arcane starts to surpass your Faith, you should have access to Nokron and the relevant whetstone.
You can also combine it with a bleed build with the Reduvia dagger for some quick hits that do massive bleed-buildups. Espacially if you pump Arcane and level past 150. I'm level 210 now and i can afford both 80 Arcane and 45+ Faith aswell as having 60 Vigor.
Nice work yet again Thingfishy. Have just finished a run with your faith caster build. BBQing Radagon with catch flame was soooooo satisfying.
I am 2/3 through a caster only dragon run and have picked up a few tweaks from todays video.
Cheers.
PS
For other players trying the same run grab dragon claw. It has much less hyper armour than dragon maw but takes less FP, starts up much faster and has substantially better tracking. Easily crushed Radagons doggo and other quick bosses with this. Useful tool where dragon maw isn’t quite quick enough.
Dragon claw can also combo with itself for a faster second hit, which makes it that much more appealing for cases like Radagon's dog
In fact, dragon claw can be chain cast if you play with a sacred seal in either hand and cast in alternate order. I can cast 4 in a row with my build but I imagine you could cast more if you had more FP and stamina.
To kill the Rotten Ulcerated Tree Sentinel in the Millicent Rot arena, you can just jump back on the branch you came down on and attack it with the normal Fire breath (more range) and be completely safe.
You don't have to kill Millicent at her arena to get the Millicent's Prosthesis talisman. You can kill her right after you fight the Godskin Apostle in the Windmill Village. Then just kill Gowry for the Flock Incantation Talisman.
i've beat this game several times and this has to be the coolest build i have seen. im going to try it ASAP
also subbed. you are killing these build guides my guy.
Thanks, Allied! Really glad you’re enjoying the channel!
As a double colossal hammer player, this hit too close to home... One strike and a huge bar from bosses disappear. Love it thanks for this video!
Step 1: Get 15 Faith
Step 2: Get 12 Arcane
Step 3: Acquire basic rot breath.
It got nerfed, it's not good at all now
@@foxxo217 They really need to buff it. It’s underpowered now. 80-90 rot buildup should be about fair.
@@vgman94 Ikr! It takes two or three full casts to proc the rot now :c
So I finally finished it. INSANELY powerful 🙌 thank you
My first playthrough was Dragon Communion caster and it was busted AF, super fun though
Thank you cool build ! For the milicent quest though you can actually kill milicent right after giving her the valkyrie's prothesis, go back to gowry and kill him to end his suffering you'll get the talisman
Dragonmaw is so freaking broken it makes me so happy to finally see a content creator acknowledging it. The combination of insane damage, hyperarmor, and poise damage it deals is just insane
This video just saved my dragon playthrough, I was about to give up at maleketh but then saw this, tweaked my build to this and boom! Unreal. Thank you
Holy crap! He's not kidding I just created my dragon character this morning. I've used rotten breath numerous times but I didn't realize how powerful Dragonmaw could be! Thanks for the video man! Look forward to more
im gonna try this strat, its so awesome but kinda funny when you left the final hit :D
Even though some of the information on talismans and physicks was unclear (unless I'm oblivous) I thoroughly enjoyed this walkthrough! great stuff!!
These videos of yours remind me of Yamfahs but with a voice over, these must take days to make, props to you! :)
That’s as high as praise gets, as far as I’m concerned, Foes! Thanks for watching and glad you’re enjoying the channel!
dude the casual meme humor it's too smooth 😂😂 this is perfect
This build is my favorite way to play the game I think. Consumables focused / only is also fun, which is where I learned to appreciate a lot of items that don't get that much appreciation!
Being an arcane build that does huge AOE damage, farming is extremely easy. I would recommend using Ironjar Aromatic paired with boiled prawn/crab on this build, and you can use it to easily tank through any attacks and stance break pretty much any boss with your choice of Maw/Claw. After that, you can either keep going, or apply a breath and/or heal and do it again. This item combo gives you openings pretty much wherever you want.
If it's a boss you think you could one-shot before getting hit with enough damage stacks, you could also use bloodboil aromatic instead of FGMS (extra 10%)
Another buff you could easily apply is an extra 20% from Kindred of Rot Exultation talisman by using two fetid pot before or during a boss battle! This will poison you, and in turn give you the buff. IMO this is a great slot-in in place of faithful canvas (could also just swap when you boss, but tbh you'll likely not need that 4% damage against normal mobs anyways)
This builds pros are: it's extremely versatile, and it does a lot of damage.
The cons are: long windups, and mana-hungry.
Using the above items with a hidden tear in your flask nullifies any of these downsides for any boss that doesn't do lightning damage to you (which isn't many, and those that do are easy with this build without those items anyways)
Don't sleep on items!
just btw, you dont have to feel guilty about killing growry, he is actually just one of those centipede enemys u fight the whole game, the better talisman is an omage to the worse one wich is in the cave where those centipede enemys are praying, they pray for the godess of rot(wich is melenia) but if ur interested u should watch a lore vid :).
PS: if u kill him before ending milicents quest he just drops dead as a centipede and gets exchanged for another one taking his place.
i watch u for about a week now and u have come to be my fav elden ring conrtent creator, doing a great job man.
My mans you have no idea…I JUST started doing a build similar to this and this video came at a perfect time. Mine only adds 2 points of dex for bandit swords so I can bleed. Great video love to see it
It’s really fun to fight bosses and find opportunities for dragon maw. You don’t have to speedrun the build and can play the game normally if you want, using it when you have the items. That’s what I did and had a blast. I also used an arcane weapon I liked
Thingfishy is ridiculously underrated and deserves way way way more subs. These vids are always on point.
Throwing knives in your pouch is so clutch, finish off those little hp bars safely
I just want to say thanks this build looks so amazing can't wait to try it best dragon video I saw yet cheers bro 😊🎉🎉🎉
As a communion fanatic, use dragon claw instead of maw. It does the same thing but you can chain it if you use two seals. I also think it costs less
For the ulcerated tree Spirit right before the last part of Millicent's quest line you can just go back up on the branch and use ranged attack and he can't get to you he'll try to climb up the branch but he's too big
I started this a lot differently and without dragon cult incantations. Start as thief with stonesword key, go get the Reduvia knife, use Reduvia and the buckler shield to kill the knight and get the dragon communion seal, then go kill greyoll with Reduvia for the free runes, and put it all into faith and arcane. Then go to cathedral of dragon communion with your dragon hearts and get rotten breath and dragonice. Rotten breath and dragonice are super strong but they need time to use, for fighting dragons I recommend baiting out a melee attack to get the time to use your attacks. Super op build and rot is obviously amazing at killing bosses
You can make bait the banished knight inside the chariot dungeon to come out and then the chariot can kill him , so u won't need to upgrade your finger seal .... Also the dragon in calid ...cheese him for infinite rune farm... It still works
Problem is that apparently cheesing him gives you the runes, but not the dragon hearts which you'll need for the incantations.
Also the video was a no farming build anyways so.... Yeah
Wow, I had been sleeping on Dragon Maw, but that spell is legit.
Truly underrated content creator
Thanks for watching, Sad. Glad you’re enjoying the channel!
Getting the crafting kit after getting to Farum Azula is one of the most casually derranged things I have ever seen in Elden Ring
In your next build video, can you try to be more spesific about where things are?
HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON! I HAD TO STOP THE VIDEO AT 6:20!!! DID HE JUST CALL THE TURTLES DOGS?!?!?!?
Yea bc thats a dog
someone's new to elden ring
definitely going to be trying this build
The dragon communion build is one of my favorite builds. It's very easy to get the build setup early game, it's really powerful, and really fun.
What a wholesome walkthrough.
Thanks, Gameplato. Thanks for watching!
My first playthrough I finished was a dragon communion build, rot breath and the glintstone breath were my bread and butter
if you are struggling on the rotten tree spirit u can trigger the boss and jump back on the tree branch (he cannot hit you if you are a bit away from him) and spam lightning on him
love how you made your character look like a targaryen!
Tip for anyone following this build you are probably better off rushing to 30 faith and 45 arcane instead of pumping more into arcane because 30/45 is the soft cap for the dragon communion seal so you'll get even more damage
Only just cottoned onto dragon breath incantations on my recent playthru and hoo boy................ what a freakin' blast. Especially with mimic casting the same spells. Oh those poor bosses.
Blue dancer charm is very underrated with this build. I mixed it up with stone of gurranq and pest threads as they profit from this talisman. Stone is fp-efficient and staggers greatly. Pest threads deletes large bosses.
I did a similar build only that i also includes the Reduvia dagger and the swarm of flies blood incantation. For some quick hits that builds bloodloss super quickly for massive damage. During times where the enemy is too quick to hit with the slow windup animations of the dragon spells.
this was my first playthrough build but i didnt realize how strong dragonmaw was until about the endgame... lots of rot breath but i've never played a from game either
I used a version of this build before. Really powerful. I switched between incants, marais executioner sword and dual bleed halberds quite easily. Lots of variety so you dont get bored
Just started a build like this, but my version of a Loux warrior. I call him draka Loux. So far I've unlocked dragon claw and glintbreath. 40 mind, 30 vigor and the rest in arcane, faith. I use dragonclaw as main source of damage, lol I'm never on the ground as the claw lifts me up high. I'm glad to see my thought on a build like this is viable. Thank you dragon Master.:)
Yeah so in my first playthrough Dragonmaw was basically my boss killer. I saw the dragon communion spells and knew that's what I wanted to do. Imagine my surprise when I realized there was an answer for every single boss in this game within this little subsection of spells. And yes, usually it was Dragonmaw but there were a lot of other super useful ones like the status breaths and a breath for every element except holy, which is the worst element in the game anyway
Fire Giant took me dozens and dozens of tries on my main character (more than the rest of the bossed combined) and on my first try with this build I got him down to 10% health before fucking up a roll and getting one shot.
Flame guide me.
great video! also love the info about stats throughout the run!
Become a wyrm in Elden Ring 101
Very cool build!
Thanks for watching, Calvin!
yay this is the one I've been waiting for
You can also get an ancient somber stone in the mountaintop of the giants. That way you can have it for the fire giant fight
About Rykard, when I built a Zeus cosplay with Gransax Bolt, if I went in and started the fight with the weapon art, it's usually a guarantee he will use the eruption attack.
It might be an AI thing that sees another weapon besides Serpent Hunter, because that attack doesn't come out first, and rarer throughout the fight, when I switched to the intended weapon.
I did a dragon(communion)lord build with the seal in my off hand. Grafted dragon in main. Wearing all drake knight set
Going to try this challenge out after my current one where I defeat all 165 bosses with a different weapon or incantation.
This is the only caster build that warranted using the moon of nokstella. No need for charms when your damage types are spread. With a sacred weapon, you're covered. Even better if it has bleed.
even after patch 1.07 my arcane/faith build still is just unstoppable
"parry the jumping attack" sounds so cursed, but i guess sometimes it works
" Ashen one, hearest thou my voice still? " Ohhhhhh!!! The Memories.
My Only True Waifu.
Nice work man. Really enjoying your build vids. I had a moment when listening to your description of the "Castle Sol Skip" I thought you said you can run straight into Niall without having to deal with teleporting "vaginitis" lol
I worked out you said banished knights of course .
I did mine a bit differently. I almost never used Dragonmaw, but I did use a fair bit of dragon CLAW, for the same poise reasons as here. Most often though, I started every fight with a rot breath, then alternated regular ice and fire breaths. On most bosses, the regular frost procs will take large chunks of HP all throughout the fight.
I'll admit, these strategies look more calculated, but I enjoyed the breath-based gameplay. The only boss I didn't defeat exclusively with dragon incants was Rykard, because he would slowly crawl towards me as I charged up and continuously knock me out of a *flying in the air charge* with his _ground-based lava_ like the big, thick knob he is.
I am doing a Dragon Communion build now. I am about halfway through. Generally relying on Opaline Bubble Tear and high Poise for survival (still at 10 Vigor), and using breath weapon attacks for bosses, but I will have to experiment with Dragonmaw. I have a lot more invested in Mind. I went with FP recovery items and Frenzied Burst/Lightning Spear for clearing mobs, then switch to damage talismans and buffs for bosses. Silver Tear Mask and Godrick's Rune gives some useful stats, and I'm not running out of Rune Arcs. I'm hoping to get a second Dragon Communion seal in NG+.
I'm at the morgott portion why does fishy do more damage then me I've followed the video perfectly
Hi there, I recently found your channel and love your guides! If I may make a quick suggestion, could you implement a map of where you are at key moments? I mean, I know by now where the Saintsbridge Grace in Limgrave is, but at other times in the video I felt like "huh, gotta google that one".
Also, will you ever do a LVL1 guide? I am at my first atempt at a LVL1 run in my entire Soulsborne career, and would love to see your inout on what could be done.
Hey, Smarag. Yes I’m currently trying to figure out a way of doing that without it being too time consuming. I will definitely be doing an RL1 build, but will probably leave that until the DLC comes out so I can get the whole game in one. It’ll be a long one to film and don’t want to do it twice. Thanks for watching!
The chariots are the bane of my existence 5:23
Im you're doing this and have trouble with firegiant phase 2, Instead of dragon mawing the hands, use rot breath, one fully charged on the hand then one more on the leg will trigger the rot, then all you need to do is run like mad and he'll go down. I had a slightly higher arcane than is used in the video as I went around taking on other bosses too. I was also using the ritual sword talisman instead of godfrey icon to boost damage.
Insane vid and editing. Maybe jst quickly drop the map for some of us noobs out there too 👍.
Some advice also is can you show the map location even for a split second when you're giving the directions., I'm still kinda new and want to try this build but it's a little hard to follow along.