If you don't want to make the min max builds, each blood code you get from the dlc boss before has skills in it that make the next one easier. The fire blades are from the hell fire knight boss, as is the small fire tornado. So the empress has the weakness to the next boss, but her gifts are tricky to use. Blood Sacrifice gives you ichor when you use it in exchange for health. Code Vein is a game that in courage's you to max out as many gifts as possible to maximize your dmg. And also quick tip, your blood veils can increase your buffs if you take the right type. I believe each buff falls under the light type. So one with a high light bonus means better buffs.
the zero cost skill used in the one shot builds is you spend health to gain back icor also im the same way as you when playing, i know theres tons of better builds, but i'd rather use my own and get it done that way
The Opportunist is a passive that works ONLY in peril, below 33% health. It increases your damage, stagger rate, and your balance by three to four times. Also, yeah. Using blood sacrifice to both lower your own health and activate buffs.
I love "builds" in games but I'm just REALLY slow to getting to them because I feel like there's no point if I don't have everything for it. In Code Vein since so many things are locked behind both progression and blood codes I just kind "use w/e I have at the time" and push through when realistically I could have a much easier time with a proper build. I definitely feel you in how you think but it's really cool to see you take a step back and gain some knowledge on how things work for the game and how you can improve. Smashing our heads into it can work if you go long enough but as you've found out that always isn't the most optimal nor fun way to go about it. Definitely will be taking a long look at this vid and the ones you watched myself for how they ended up doing some things ^-^
Usually I go through NG by slotting everything I can unlock from the code to inherit it, so you don't have to use proper builds to get through the game
@dima_keller I don't doubt it but it's one those things "it could be easier if I did" kind of mentality. But that is how I play most games with systems like this where I just want to unlock everything first and THEN start making builds lol
This made LoT Questionably easily I don’t even remember my old build but I was a glass cannon tha just teleported out of harm’s way all the time. But I had to go back and do it the way intended because LoD had to break my soul the way he was retextured to
I'd also say I'm not good at making builds, but playing CV, Monster Hunter, Borderlands and some other games is definitely making me better Had lots of fun killing Hellfire Knight for the first time (and like ten time after) with a Heimdall DPS build and a simple Prometheus build
Also high mobility is a big part of. I think this game is at least twice easier with lowest mobility, which you can achieve with every weapon class btw
Ah i love watching gellot i had a very similar build he has a better veil than me but basically what i was using but damn its satisfying seeing the dlc bosses get crushed that hard
Personally, those huge damage one-shot builds take a bit of the fun away from the fight. Not going to knock them because they work lol I prefer just taking one or two damage skills that are really effective against the boss and duking it out, makes the fight a lot more memorable imo 💯
The point of those builds for most people is speed kills or getting rewards for huge hit challenges on these 3 specifically The fun in huge damage/DPS builds in figuring them out yourself for me, so I don't mind using them, as long as I found it
I'd say yes, you don't use ENOUGH gifts. They're very important and even in your vids you can often see how often with gifts you manage to delete chunks from HP bars and then go back to an equivalent of chip damage with normal attacks 😅
First two vids ARE what have to play the game like, but 3and 4 are speedrun builds basically and isn't really how anyone, but speedrunners fight I only fought HFK for now and he definitely isn't a fight for min maxers only. He's punishing as hell, but not hard and very fun
believe that first video is using a build with the Venous Claw veil. A rather OP veil that was a preorder bonus. I dont think you can get it on PC or Playstation, but is purchasable on XBOX. just want to let people know that. since I had a frustrating time figuring that out last time I played. The closest Veil in the base game is the Ivory Grace. very similar stats.
I think one big difference is that you're always hella underpowered. I don't know what your builds look like, but taking two or three hits with GS, while guy in the vid takes one hit with a sword to down the crystal is not OK 😅
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Watching these builds is like experiencing therapy
U gotta love it
The fact u can make crazy builds just like elden ring is such a blessing
You gunna make me redownload this game watchin these build videos, I forgot how fun build crafting is in this
That "fire tornado thing" is a skill from Surt - the code you get from Hellfire Knight
Dude half of this build are crazy I have no idea how crazy it went
If you don't want to make the min max builds, each blood code you get from the dlc boss before has skills in it that make the next one easier. The fire blades are from the hell fire knight boss, as is the small fire tornado. So the empress has the weakness to the next boss, but her gifts are tricky to use. Blood Sacrifice gives you ichor when you use it in exchange for health. Code Vein is a game that in courage's you to max out as many gifts as possible to maximize your dmg. And also quick tip, your blood veils can increase your buffs if you take the right type. I believe each buff falls under the light type. So one with a high light bonus means better buffs.
the zero cost skill used in the one shot builds is you spend health to gain back icor
also im the same way as you when playing, i know theres tons of better builds, but i'd rather use my own and get it done that way
The Opportunist is a passive that works ONLY in peril, below 33% health. It increases your damage, stagger rate, and your balance by three to four times.
Also, yeah. Using blood sacrifice to both lower your own health and activate buffs.
I love "builds" in games but I'm just REALLY slow to getting to them because I feel like there's no point if I don't have everything for it. In Code Vein since so many things are locked behind both progression and blood codes I just kind "use w/e I have at the time" and push through when realistically I could have a much easier time with a proper build. I definitely feel you in how you think but it's really cool to see you take a step back and gain some knowledge on how things work for the game and how you can improve. Smashing our heads into it can work if you go long enough but as you've found out that always isn't the most optimal nor fun way to go about it.
Definitely will be taking a long look at this vid and the ones you watched myself for how they ended up doing some things ^-^
Usually I go through NG by slotting everything I can unlock from the code to inherit it, so you don't have to use proper builds to get through the game
@dima_keller I don't doubt it but it's one those things "it could be easier if I did" kind of mentality. But that is how I play most games with systems like this where I just want to unlock everything first and THEN start making builds lol
This made LoT Questionably easily I don’t even remember my old build but I was a glass cannon tha just teleported out of harm’s way all the time. But I had to go back and do it the way intended because LoD had to break my soul the way he was retextured to
I'd also say I'm not good at making builds, but playing CV, Monster Hunter, Borderlands and some other games is definitely making me better
Had lots of fun killing Hellfire Knight for the first time (and like ten time after) with a Heimdall DPS build and a simple Prometheus build
Also high mobility is a big part of. I think this game is at least twice easier with lowest mobility, which you can achieve with every weapon class btw
Ah i love watching gellot i had a very similar build he has a better veil than me but basically what i was using but damn its satisfying seeing the dlc bosses get crushed that hard
Personally, those huge damage one-shot builds take a bit of the fun away from the fight. Not going to knock them because they work lol I prefer just taking one or two damage skills that are really effective against the boss and duking it out, makes the fight a lot more memorable imo 💯
I just use it to take revenge on bosses or when I was farming depths boss for items to master skills as I was way too overleveled when DLC came out.
The point of those builds for most people is speed kills or getting rewards for huge hit challenges on these 3 specifically
The fun in huge damage/DPS builds in figuring them out yourself for me, so I don't mind using them, as long as I found it
First guy did basically what I was doing this evening. Only difference is that I also don't know what that diamond shaped skill is 😅
I'd say yes, you don't use ENOUGH gifts. They're very important and even in your vids you can often see how often with gifts you manage to delete chunks from HP bars and then go back to an equivalent of chip damage with normal attacks 😅
No ichor skill most of them were using is Blood Sacrifice. You sacrifice a bit of HP for ichor. Great for pre-buffing or for spamming gifts
You unlock the fire GS from fighting HFK with GS
First two vids ARE what have to play the game like, but 3and 4 are speedrun builds basically and isn't really how anyone, but speedrunners fight
I only fought HFK for now and he definitely isn't a fight for min maxers only. He's punishing as hell, but not hard and very fun
I try to put builds together but they're never the optimal things. They get the jobs done tho
Congrats to me on being absolutely brain dead and getting the Hellfire Pipe 😂😂😂
@@dima_keller I could never bro lol
Guess it's time to go watch your first playthrough 😅
believe that first video is using a build with the Venous Claw veil. A rather OP veil that was a preorder bonus. I dont think you can get it on PC or Playstation, but is purchasable on XBOX. just want to let people know that. since I had a frustrating time figuring that out last time I played.
The closest Veil in the base game is the Ivory Grace. very similar stats.
I think one big difference is that you're always hella underpowered. I don't know what your builds look like, but taking two or three hits with GS, while guy in the vid takes one hit with a sword to down the crystal is not OK 😅
First view nice