So no fancy tricks this time, huh. Not enough time to moon him with my whole ass, or charge up the strong glintspells. Thanks for the ideas. Ended up beating him with Moonveil's Heavy Ash for phase 1 nearly hitless, and sprinting away with glintstone cometshard in phase 2. Took like 4 hours.
I didn't even bother trying to cast the usual Ranni's moon opener anymore... only sorceries I used on my int char were Scholar's Armament to buff up the Carian Thrusthing shield which I 2-handed, using the new deflect tear. I didn't even dare put my hand on a staff this fight xD but guess it's doable...
I used a different build, but your video helped me a lot to beat him as a mage! Hint: What also made the difference for me was the Haligdrake Talisman (- holy damage) and the Crimson Seed Talisman (+ hp restoration), so I could survive his 2nd phase
@@matheusnoronha677 I tried multiple talismans and it was tough. It was a toss up because I can choose defensive talismans but then do no damage or choose the damage talismans and my defense drops because of it. Whichever works for you.
I already killed him with a strengh/faith build and now I'm trying with my mage build and holy fuck is hard af. Just came to see which spells you were using, I'm going to try this
Already having a hard time with my strength/faith build. Using malkeith's blade and I nearly can't get a save hit in. Idk how I should do this with my mage build or the Dex/Arcane I have
@@dominiklange8382 I started with spells (str/faith) but I couldn't land them so I went with strong charged attacks, cragblade, basically to stagger him and get a critical. I only used buffs for spells, golden vow, fgms, and bestial vitality. I'm getting close with my mage lol
@@dominiklange8382 I used heavy charged attacks, cragblade, basically to get stance breaks and criticals. No spells because they were not landing, instead only buffs; golden vow, fgms, bestial vitality
@@dominiklange8382 just finished a run with dex and arcane. I used the backhand blade. Huge bleed buildup I’m sure it’s going to nerfed if it hasn’t already. I know there was an update yesterday that nerfed the perfume bottles tremendously
Hard? Dude mage is the most no skill out of all..How the f did you do it as str/faith. I'm str Faith as well and i almost broke my controller as my falx wasn't triggering bleed at all... Did you use frostbite? I saw it triggers much faster!?
I came to this video after worrying if a future Mage focused build wouldn't do well against Radahn with how little breathing room you get. This beat my worries into a bloody pulp since it was Solo'd. As a player who likes to play a Mage when I'm not an assassin/thief, I prefer a Summon/Follower (really prefer this regardless of Build cuz I like them in my RPGs but I digress). So basically, as long as you're willing to trade blows with good defense, you're fine. Noted!
This is awesome. I only beat him as mage by letting Taylew the Golem tank and damage him. Took 10 long minutes. I really wish we could reset boss encounters so we can fight them again. I would love to try different builds even after beating it.
@@yesjohnsoncan Yea I hear NG+ gets much harder for the DLC. The scaling on the difficulty probably outpaces the benefit from the tree fragments. Not looking for that drama either lol.
i can't get him down as a mage. manged to get him down to 55-60% phase 2. i'm running 83 int, and 60 faith, but all my spells are useless, mimic sucks and tiche gets killed fast.
cool story bro, but I'm 195 ! I dont have all these stats. i try to do the ash of war, I get poise broken the moment I try do it, if not, the second hit is my death... and then I dont have that much stamina to pull it off twice and be able to roll away. I tried so many times. I just cant solo it with my current build. I guess I gotta get more lvls or a new build -.-
@yesjohnsoncan I actually went and collected most of the things you had equipped and it actually helped me beat him today bro. You got crazy stats for your first journey. Couldn't get the stats exact but it was enough to defeat him. Thank you.
gives me hope on the second stage of the fight, im trying to cheese him with the golem and heal from afar .. i just wait till my golem wrecks him at 1/4 of his health , then i activate the terra magica and finish him off with a simple glintstone missile .. its the second part i have trouble , he always seems to finish me off before getting attracted by the golem
Dex and int builds are still strong. Just the armor, my poise is 96, with the bull-goats talisman, my poise is 128. If you beat the very first torch “boss” at the very beginning area of the DLC. He’ll drop the deflecting hardtear for your physick. That’s really good to use too but I didn’t use it.
My int built obliterated every single thing the game TRIED to throw at me -- Until Radanh. You could argue this is my first souls game, and the vast majority of it was literally no struggle to me... Except malenia, Messmer (my fault), and Radanh. The three kings who own my ass -_-
Just cause you're a mage doesn't mean you gotta be low armor rating in this game. No penalties to magic for high armor. I rock full Beast Champion unaltered cause that cape drip screams magic user.
Wasn’t too bad. Two bosses I summoned because I just didn’t care lol. If you’re not using frost sorceries the other spells work just fine. Frost for some reason was working really good, almost as good as bleed builds.
lusats glintstone staff
Milady(put on Carian Sovereignty ash)
Terra mágica
Golden order seal
Flame grant me strength
Golden vow
Physick(stonebarb cracked tear
Magic-Shrouding cracked tear)
Talismans:
Graven-Mass
Shard of Alexander
Pearldrake +3
Godfrey icon
Vigor - 65
Mind - 83
Endurance - 49
Strength - 31
Dexterity - 48
Intelligence - 83
Faith - 33
Arcane - 9
Stats?
@@SageMode3D
Vigor - 65
Mind - 83
Endurance - 49
Strength - 31
Dexterity - 48
Intelligence - 83
Faith - 33
Arcane - 9
@@yesjohnsoncanWhy do you need that much mind
@@DragonicOverlord I like to comet azur and Meteorite of Astel at times lol
What level is your guy?
No matter how many times I try different builds in this game when it comes to beating tough bosses I always come back to Mage. It’s just too good.
Mage builds are my favorite
same here but with blood build :D
It's been that way for souls games for a while. Even with all their efforts to nerf it, waving a magic stick is too strong.
@@jimistalione16nihil
Opposite for me This is the only boss I struggled with as a mage and had to use a Shield
So no fancy tricks this time, huh. Not enough time to moon him with my whole ass, or charge up the strong glintspells.
Thanks for the ideas.
Ended up beating him with Moonveil's Heavy Ash for phase 1 nearly hitless, and sprinting away with glintstone cometshard in phase 2. Took like 4 hours.
I didn't even bother trying to cast the usual Ranni's moon opener anymore... only sorceries I used on my int char were Scholar's Armament to buff up the Carian Thrusthing shield which I 2-handed, using the new deflect tear. I didn't even dare put my hand on a staff this fight xD but guess it's doable...
That was close but good job, you give me hope on my mage.
I used a different build, but your video helped me a lot to beat him as a mage!
Hint: What also made the difference for me was the Haligdrake Talisman (- holy damage) and the Crimson Seed Talisman (+ hp restoration), so I could survive his 2nd phase
@@matheusnoronha677 I tried multiple talismans and it was tough. It was a toss up because I can choose defensive talismans but then do no damage or choose the damage talismans and my defense drops because of it. Whichever works for you.
Thanks for the help. I just beat him! I realized all I needed was a little more mind..
you would think I would have know that as a mage!
It took me 5 hours to do it but I was able to finally kill Radahn by myself thanks to your video thank you man💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
@@johnnydaher 🫡
I already killed him with a strengh/faith build and now I'm trying with my mage build and holy fuck is hard af. Just came to see which spells you were using, I'm going to try this
Already having a hard time with my strength/faith build.
Using malkeith's blade and I nearly can't get a save hit in.
Idk how I should do this with my mage build or the Dex/Arcane I have
@@dominiklange8382 I started with spells (str/faith) but I couldn't land them so I went with strong charged attacks, cragblade, basically to stagger him and get a critical. I only used buffs for spells, golden vow, fgms, and bestial vitality. I'm getting close with my mage lol
@@dominiklange8382 I used heavy charged attacks, cragblade, basically to get stance breaks and criticals. No spells because they were not landing, instead only buffs; golden vow, fgms, bestial vitality
@@dominiklange8382 just finished a run with dex and arcane. I used the backhand blade. Huge bleed buildup I’m sure it’s going to nerfed if it hasn’t already. I know there was an update yesterday that nerfed the perfume bottles tremendously
Hard? Dude mage is the most no skill out of all..How the f did you do it as str/faith. I'm str Faith as well and i almost broke my controller as my falx wasn't triggering bleed at all... Did you use frostbite? I saw it triggers much faster!?
Very good 🎉🎉🎉 fighting him as a mage is not easy at all Bravoooo🎉🎉🎉
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Me as Mage just found this awesome!!! I need this sorceries right now! 🎉
I came to this video after worrying if a future Mage focused build wouldn't do well against Radahn with how little breathing room you get. This beat my worries into a bloody pulp since it was Solo'd. As a player who likes to play a Mage when I'm not an assassin/thief, I prefer a Summon/Follower (really prefer this regardless of Build cuz I like them in my RPGs but I digress). So basically, as long as you're willing to trade blows with good defense, you're fine. Noted!
I will try tomorrow as a mage, thanks for guide.
Thank you for giving me hope 😭
@@KryXRiku you got it 🫡
This video convinced me to rebirth and start a mage build💀
@@ramihaj3500 A mage build is always a good time.
This is awesome. I only beat him as mage by letting Taylew the Golem tank and damage him. Took 10 long minutes. I really wish we could reset boss encounters so we can fight them again. I would love to try different builds even after beating it.
@@kestononline I know Sekiro has the feature. It would be dope to it in this game too. I’m not trying to new game plus nor make another character lol.
@@yesjohnsoncan Yea I hear NG+ gets much harder for the DLC. The scaling on the difficulty probably outpaces the benefit from the tree fragments. Not looking for that drama either lol.
Havelmage flashbacks from DS2 pvp days intensifies..
The sad part is I really tried to use other builds, I really did. Then I try this once an just steamroller over him with glintstone comet.
nice work!
@@Kroniklis 🫡
I'm having a hard time also as a mage, will try your strat and hoping I can also finally beat it without respecing and using the bleed cheese strat
This is was the only boss that made me respec because he did so much damage lol. I needed more health.
i can't get him down as a mage. manged to get him down to 55-60% phase 2. i'm running 83 int, and 60 faith, but all my spells are useless, mimic sucks and tiche gets killed fast.
@@LostUndertheSky the glintstone icecrag will be your best friend. Frost build up, good damage, decent casting speed.
Imma try this build for myself. What are your stats and the name of your wand?
@@ashgaming8942 I have it all in my pinned comment
Lmao I didn’t even see that comment somehow
@@ashgaming8942 all Gucci Mane
THIS BUILD WORKED I FINALLY BEAT RADAHN TYSM
@@ashgaming8942 🫡
i still have no idea how to defeat this guy as a mage
cool story bro, but I'm 195 ! I dont have all these stats. i try to do the ash of war, I get poise broken the moment I try do it, if not, the second hit is my death... and then I dont have that much stamina to pull it off twice and be able to roll away.
I tried so many times. I just cant solo it with my current build. I guess I gotta get more lvls or a new build -.-
People love to dog on mages for being cheese builds and then use shield poke
@@MultiZernez can’t win lol. Every build is trash or OP.
Why using ice instead of the normal comet or night?
@@boodienoonga5451 less fp consumption, casts faster and frost has build up
What journey are you on? I wanna know if i could expect similar results or not. Would love a response if you get the time.
@@hectorportillo2572 this is still my first playthrough. I haven’t new game plus yet.
@yesjohnsoncan I actually went and collected most of the things you had equipped and it actually helped me beat him today bro. You got crazy stats for your first journey. Couldn't get the stats exact but it was enough to defeat him. Thank you.
@@hectorportillo2572 ggs 🫡
@@yesjohnsoncan Level 400 for first playthrough, dude how long have you been farming these runes? XD
@@oskarszymanski6529 I have two characters around 320. I just started a new game for one of them. Sacred Relic Sword does wonders lol
gives me hope on the second stage of the fight, im trying to cheese him with the golem and heal from afar .. i just wait till my golem wrecks him at 1/4 of his health , then i activate the terra magica and finish him off with a simple glintstone missile ..
its the second part i have trouble , he always seems to finish me off before getting attracted by the golem
I see you pay like me - no hit. And by no hit I mean none of his hits miss me.
Damn this was awesome thing with my character I can't take a hit like that 😂
Yea I tried with mage armor on and even some medium armor and it wasn’t working lol
What is going on? For me, 10000 damage to him is like 1/15 of his healthbar, but for like half the videos i watch, he only has like 50k health
Are you summoning Ansbach? I’ve heard that if you summon him, it increases Radahns Hp
How can i get this armor when i spent all my runes to get 99 mage 😢
Damn even a mage build needs to wear heavy armor and use giant bonk spell to tank through it. As a faith build Im so screwed.
I’m assuming he has holy negation but it shouldn’t be too bad lol.
Is he susceptible to frost damage?
@@lbgrindel just as much as bleed, yes
Nice dude!
@@dezerogue5396 🫡
Nice strategy, can I ask whats your scadutree level was ?
@@tamim3319 20
This is some 713 level mod.
Thank you for this
I was starting to doubt dex/int build into DLC endgame
What was your poise to tank his first few hits?
Dex and int builds are still strong. Just the armor, my poise is 96, with the bull-goats talisman, my poise is 128. If you beat the very first torch “boss” at the very beginning area of the DLC. He’ll drop the deflecting hardtear for your physick. That’s really good to use too but I didn’t use it.
My int built obliterated every single thing the game TRIED to throw at me -- Until Radanh. You could argue this is my first souls game, and the vast majority of it was literally no struggle to me... Except malenia, Messmer (my fault), and Radanh. The three kings who own my ass -_-
@@rakiest Messmer is way too easy with impenetrable thorns
how do you do the second attack after the charged magic sword attack?
@@klausklaus6080 hold the charge attack until the slam and then press it again
Thank you sir
Do you mind posting your stats? I need to respec my character.
@@mackfiore5013
Vigor - 65
Mind - 83
Endurance - 49
Strength - 31
Dexterity - 48
Intelligence - 83
Faith - 33
Arcane - 9
"Mage" with a full set of the heaviest armor in the game lmao.
It be like that sometimes lol
I mean, why wouldnt you.
That's a heavy mage
Just cause you're a mage doesn't mean you gotta be low armor rating in this game. No penalties to magic for high armor. I rock full Beast Champion unaltered cause that cape drip screams magic user.
I can only afford Traveller's set.
what sword is that ?
@@SG-mr1wc Milady - with the carian sovereignty ash of war/spell
thanks
This build seems fun. What is your stat distribution?
@@ogikay7056
Vigor - 65
Mind - 83
Endurance - 49
Strength - 31
Dexterity - 48
Intelligence - 83
Faith - 33
Arcane - 9
Was a mage build doable for the DLC? I found the last 5 bosses of the base game difficult for mage and was wondering how it was for the dlc
Wasn’t too bad. Two bosses I summoned because I just didn’t care lol. If you’re not using frost sorceries the other spells work just fine. Frost for some reason was working really good, almost as good as bleed builds.
What level are you? Because I have everything you got but not hitting as hard
Vigor - 65
Mind - 83
Endurance - 49
Strength - 31
Dexterity - 48
Intelligence - 83
Faith - 33
Arcane - 9
@@yesjohnsoncanwhat armor set are you wearing?
@@Mokulsssss the solitude armor set. It’s at western nameless mausoleum. You fight the Blackgaol knight.
What sword did you use?
Milady with the Carian Sovereignty ash/spell
Any heavy armor or just tht one
@@mgmxetg up to you. This was the heaviest I had and that had the highest poise.
@@yesjohnsoncan appreciate you
Is this ng, ng+ or ng+2?
@@busterwalsh4703 neither lol. I just started ng now.
What spells are they?
Glintstone icecrag
Carian Sovereignty is an ash of war on my weapon(Milady)
What’s the armor called?
@@mr.person4381 the solitude armor set
@@yesjohnsoncan thanks bro
@@mr.person4381 🫡
What's your Sadutree Blessing level? Btw, nice job! Yo gave me hope with my mage build!
@@Capb96 I want to say I was 20, if not 18-19
Max level. Hard pass.
all this must have been nerfed. same stats and not getting the same damage
@@patricklayton9748 I’m also not on any new game plus. That could be a factor as well.
@@yesjohnsoncan I’m not either. Icecrag was helpful though. I’m getting close.
Thats fuckimgbdope
Whoaaa
How does that skill hits like a truck? Damn
Had to put on a bunch of buffs lol. At first I was curious if you can stagger him and when I did it I, I just kept with that strat until I got him.
What ng
@@xPoncake none lol. Eventually I will ng to run it back with Malenia.