@@joshuaconnall4237firstly that lion slaps as a boss fight as well as their intro speech by granny. Secondly their fights slap hard enough tbh. I think romina could've used a custsence for sure given the lore but rellana has no presence in the dlc
The Lamenter actually has a mechanic where if you don’t kill the clones you’ll get a number of faces floating around you depending on how many were left alive. Once you reach max stacks on these faces the next time they would be applied to you instead it’s an insta-kill
Another mechanic of the lamenter is well Getting dirty Just like your own character Can always tell the real one from the fakes cause the real one is a bloody mess
“Shadow Tree Fragments.” The “c” in the spelling mimics the spelling conventions of Anglo-Saxon as does “Erdtree” instead of “Urd Tree.” The “c” appeared in Anglo-Saxon as the combined sound “consonant + h” because the “h” was not yet widely adopted in that slot, mostly being used at the front of words as the breathy sound we think of like “ham” or “Helga.” The “c” appeared in things such as “Sceal” pronounced “Shale,” but ironically this becomes “scale” in modern English. The “u” would also be here an “o” sound in that it would also match the Anglo-Saxon / Norse phonetic and morphological conventions being imitated. Ergo: “Shadow Tree Fragment.” Source: I am a professional linguist and scholar of Anglo-Saxon (Angelos-Saxxonie Getheode)
Gaius to me felt really like a boss by numbers. Everything about him felt really predictable and pretty uninteresting. Even his lore was just "he knew Radahn and was an albinuric". He just felt so lame. The Divine Beast was a really cool and much more fun boss fight, even if the camera was super annoying
i hated gaius at first but he is actually a pretty complex and satisfying fight we are all just pissed at that GOD awful hitbox on the rush. it takes this fight down alot since he can spam that move constantly considering that he is hidden, only gatekeeps a scooby doo level or two and some greaves, and he really only has one bad move, he is pretty damn good
You mean the furnace giants? That would be me. I am insane. I only used Torrent for the big jump slam, or to get up to where I can yeet pots into their skull. I started out using Torrent, but swapped when I decided I wanted to use Ashes of War.
Finally some respect for that npc brawl of a fight. I summoned EVERY ONE the moment I realized what was going on. To many people refuse to summon for this fight and make it so hard for themselves. The point is to summon, the point is to have this be a team fight. You want a challenge fine don’t summon, but don’t call this fight something it’s not because you refused to play the moment out the way it was intended. It’s a npc gimmic fight if you want to look at it like that. Rykard is harder with out serpent hunter because you’re meant to use what the game gave you
I'm the kind of person who doesn't summon, but after one attempt I instantly decided to summon because it's honestly just not worth it otherwise. I still think its not a fun fight though, I've never been a big fan of fighting NPC players.
Well, if you mess up your questlines you have no other choice than fighting a 2v5 which is pretty painful. And even if you have all summons and easily beat it it's still not a fun fight. It's just a neat story element.
I dont know why, but I actually like the giant furnaces. Something about the size, with the grim visage and the burnt bodies strewn around it, makes it very thematically satisfying to me. Knocking the big bastards down and doing a 50k damage riposte is just very nice.
edreed gets a bonus point for me because i met him massively underlevelled, ran behind him and up the tower thinking, well, bosses can't climb ladders. discovering he can was the biggest jumpscare in the game
fun thing about the lamenter: he actually has an attack not unlike the curse spell from the deacons of the deep, if you take too long to kill him, you become depressed and just lose.
I felt the same way with the Needle Knight Leda and friends fight. It'll probably be a primary reason for me to do all their questlines every time through the dlc.
For the giant furnaces a much easier way to take most of them down is to get up high near them and throw giant fire pots into their open furnace which will kill them in just a few throws, a note and a message in game hint towards this. This works against most but a few are placed that you do actually need to trip them first to reach. Those ones suck lol
For me this as a requirement is a detriment to them being a fair gimmick because ones that require it need to be stupid close to elevated spots to even throw the pots, and you need time and placement to in the middle of constant fire barages because there's too few other weighing options in their ai for opennings. So a 20 second fight becomes 8 minutes to attempt and maybe waste materials because you hit their face instead, adding to the rarity of the visage.
God I love the Needle Knight Leda fight. It was just so damned cinematic. I managed to get every NPC ally and opponent possible my first time around, and it was just incredible. I genuinely think the chaotic melee just added to the epicness. I summoned the mimic tear on one of my attempts too, and I think it was genuinely the perfect fight for it. It fit in perfectly with the NPC chaos, and the 5v4 fight was just really awesome.
the lore of the fight is fantastic but the actual fight has gotta be one of their worst yet. if you don't know about the extremely vague quest before fighting messmer then you have to fight *four* NPC's i'm glad someone enjoys it but god i wish it wasn't mandatory. speedrunners will most certainly try to find a way around it and if they do i will study that tech like my life depends on it godskin duo doesn't look so bad now
And the way you find the corpses of your former comrades, littered around the arena after the fight is such a powerful way to end it. Never had i been sadder for getting 4 armor sets in a Fromsoft game
@@Catwomans_Belt Weird, I didn't complete a single NPC quest line since I found almost none of them during my playthrough, as such I only had to fight Leda and Dane and had Nataan available to help to make it a 2v2.
I felt it really wasn't implemented well. Maybe if it was a gauntlet fight where you fought them one at a time it would be better. But as it is, it was terribly irritating. They all get bad endings from now on.
@@Catwomans_Belt If you do none of the NPC questlines you will only fight Leda and Dane, who are mandatory. Nataan will appear to help make it a 2 v 2. Moore will oppose you if you tell him to get over it, after Miquella's Great Rune is destroyed. Telling him to stay sad forever will make him stay as a merchant until the end. Freyja will oppose you if tou finish her questline by talking to ansbach and receiving the letter which you then give to Freyja. Hornsent will oppose you if you follow his questline by not killing him alongside Leda and if you dont summon him to fight against Messmer Thiollier will help you if you do his questline by going to St Trina and killing yourself many times with her poison, and telling Ser Thiollier about her words Ansbach will help you (replacing Nataan) if you give him the scroll Honestly the fact that you fought 4 but seemingly with few help is kinda unlucky ngl, did all the wrong quests
One thing to note about the Lameter fight. If you get hit by too many orbs you instantly die. No it isnt deathblight. You litteraly die of sadness. Which i think is funny to me.
One missing fight here is ancient dragon senessax, the one you can run past just before Bayle. He is one of the most challenging fights in the game for me. He has a truckload of HP, hits really hard, with mostly lightning attacks in an arena with plenty of water, and he is kinda hard to hit in the head unlike most other dragons. Funnily enough this is the fight were the antidragon great katana and its ash if war in particular shines the most. The ash of war can fairly consistently hit Senessax's head thanks to the blade beam on the charged version and it hits quite hard even without boosting it with talismans. I still kinda hate that fight.
I saw the water around that dragon and went straight to poison arrows bc that looked extremely unfun. Bro thinks he can cheese me with lightning water.
Man, I HATED that fight. I ended up using Torrent and just riding around him and slapping him for like 7 minutes and he finally died because I'd died like 15 times and had no clue how to tackle the fight. Luckily Bayle made up for it. Bayle was awesome, and Igol immediately became one of my favorite characters.
That fight is so ass Lost himself erased it from his memory it seems. I was progressively getting more anxious not seeing on the bottom of the list. What a relief it isnt even on it lol
@@formatomiHe said at the start that he wasnt gonna rank base game copy bosses. And as far as I know aside from Senessax being in water all of the moveset is just that of a basic ancient dragon
A fellow Needle Knight fight enjoyer, happy to see. One of the single best soundtracks in the game, and it just gets so EMOTIONAL. I literally ran around the arena for like five minutes to make sure I heard all the dialogue
I can accept Gaius not being the last remembrance boss on your list. But I don't believe you when you say many people have him as their facourite. No way he is anyone's favourite with no original ost, 2 attacks with bullshit hitboxes and other boss like Messmer, Midra, Bayle or Radahn around
Admittedly, I haven't fought him since he got nerfed, but pre-patch he was SHOCKINGLY unfun. He feels like a boss you're supposed to fight on Torrent, but while your weapon hit boxes are as slim as usual, the whole front of his boar is a hit box 90% of the time. I don't hate mounted combat like some people, but it's very undercooked.
Hot take: i kinda like fighting the giant fire guys. I enjoy turning my brain off and jumping when they stomp and getting a hit of dopamine when i do 30k damage from a visceral. It's the same reason i like fighting the golems in the base game. Big numbers make me feel good.
Fun fact: Lamenter actually has a one-shot mechanic. The shadow balls that his clones spit out mark you, and if you take too many marks you just die. No, I didn't know or notice that either when I fought him, I saw it on a challenge run video.
Your advice about Rellana is widely applicable and I think ignoring it is why a lot of people are having trouble with the DLC. Every single boss has jumpable attacks. You can avoid two attacks and get in a decent chunk of physical damage and stance damage for the cost of a single jumping r2. I say two attacks because the r2 puts you in a crouched state which causes follow up swings to sail over your head. People are too inured with using the dodge roll for everything. From made the bosses to punish that but people aren't getting the lesson.
Bayle is my #1 for sure. Partially because Igons voice actor kills it. But mostly because most dragon fight in Elden Ring are sort of mid after the first couple. Even Placidusax is not to inspiring. But Bayle, Bayle makes you feel every inch the mythical dragon slayer you should.
My second DLC run was my Faith character and fighting the undead dragons was hilariously cathartic. Golden Epitaph buff for 100% or so extra damage against undeads and the Golden Order Greatsword ripped them to shreds with about 10000 dps.
Furnace golems can all be trivialised by throwing a heft fire pot into their toilet bowl and all the golems are near landscape that allows the right amount elevation to do that
As a Solo boss fight, Is Bayle better than Midir from DS3? Excluding recency bias. I am genuinely curious on what you guys think. In my opinion, Midir was the best Dragon boss in Fromsoft even after Elden Ring. Except, Bayle. This is the only boss that makes me question which one's better.
I love the bayle fight, but I cannot place him above midir. Midir's moveset is far more engaging to me and his head is consistently easy to hit after an attack. Bayle's got the cinemaics by a mile tho, and Igon is one of the few summons that enhances a boss fight for me.
when bayle is your first cool dragon, then probably midir probably wouldn't be an remarkable experience for you, if midir is first, and then you got bayle 4-5 years later, then you gonna enjoy him too. Bayle is better: fancier, even better soundtrack(best in elden ring), better arena, and god the way to that arena is preparing you and then delivers the best dragon fight in games ever. I am still prefer ds3 over er as a game.
Midir is miles better. Bayle was actually quite bad imho. I don't know what OP means for perfect camera, mine clipped inside Bayle's body and I coudn't se anything. Plus, it only allows you to lock in on his head but he won't stay put for even a damned second. He flies, run and tosses AOE at his feet every second. I spent more time running to catch him than actually fighting, and when I did reach him, I coudn't hit him well because the face was out of reach or because he threw so many attacks I could only dodge or block. That's the new FromSoftware combat philosophy and I hate it.
For now I'd say Midir is better but I haven't really learned Bayle yet. It's so easy to miss out on fun fights in ER just because you might be so strong that you don't have to learn a boss moveset.
Rallenna’s fight was by far the best one imo, even as a casual souls fan it felt SO GOOD overpowering her by using some skill. It wasn’t as hard as I expected as I was pretty overleveled but even then I had a blast trying out different ways to kill her before finishing her off with my normal build.
I kind of despise Promised Consort Radahn. Yes, it's an incredibly challenging fight, arguably the most batshit insane boss From has ever designed... But that phase 2 damage is just no. I can't even count the amount of times I destroyed the first phase only to get one shot in phase 2 because that bastard hits so goddamn hard a single mistake puts you to death's door if it doesn't kill you outright, with half of his combos starting with similar stances but different delays to mislead the player. And if that wasn't enough, it's extremely unclear how you're supposed to dodge some of the phase 2 attacks, leading to damage you don't even understand. It's simply not fun to get thrown back to the grace 30 times straight because oopsy I got hit once, got stunned into the blinding light effects, and then immediately deleted while I squint on the screen to even see what the next attack is. I did beat that monstrosity, twice, the old fashioned way, and it was not a top 6 experience, more like excruciating pain with the only reward being relief at the end. Good to note also that this absurd damage I'm mentioning was with 50vig and an average of 66% physical/40% holy damage negation on both NG and NG+, and I was still dying in one third of a combo. Holy mother of Marika make it stop already.
What was your Scadutree blessing level? I've fought him at blessing levels 17 and 15 and he's not doing the kind of damage you're describing. There's no reason to eat a third of a combo because almost none of his attacks stunlock you.
I've heard people complain about the Ghostflame dragon fighting the black knights, but I just took out the black knights individually until they were all dead before fighting the dragon. I don't know what to say except that it worked out, and I didn't find it super hard. Use Crepus's Vial.
Anyone else gonna acknowledge that Onze is just yoda? Because he has a magic sword, he hops around like an absolute beast, he uses telekinesis and he’s tiny. He is literally Yoda
I could have sworn rellana took 3 parries for a stagger. Anyway, was happy to see her first. Her messer and midra are my top three, but i need more fights against radahn to really know where i place him
I don't know why but i remember the putrescent knight being from dark souls 3, i played both games, but i don't know why i feel like the boss was from ds3, i imagine him just like he is, jumping down a long fall and encountering him(it was probably just a dream, but a very real one for sure)
Final boss is growing on me with replays, but I think Bayle is still my favorite. I beat final boss four times now, three of those solo. I really favor stagger builds against the last boss. Solo build 1: quality ggs + lionsclaw (sl was like 200) Build 2: arcane / str with meteorite gs (basically just using the charged r2s) Build 3: Wing of Astel + Ranni's Darkmoon. Ranni's darkmoon hard counters his meteors while punishing him. Ranni's darkmoon IMO was my carry sorcery when I did an int build - let me dodge so much floor aoe while punishing and frostbiting stuff.
19:17 I can't even tell whether you're being serious or not. This is just where Elden lore is right now. Radahn could've been a demi-human like Yosh and I would have been like "yuh".
Hey Lost! I think you missed Crucible Knight Devonia, Ancient Dragon Senessax, and the deathblight Dancing Lion. Great video though! Your rankings mirror mine pretty closely
I didnt count Devonia and Deathblight Lion since they technically arent bosses in the sense that they dont have boss health bars (altho now that i think about it they could have been a honorable mention since i did do the giant fire) and Sennesax is something u fight in the base game. If ur list mirrors mine then i gotta say that you have great taste
Oh hey what’s up man, I’ll say my favorite fight in the dlc is the sunflower. Since although it looks like a plant, it’s got a bit of dna from midir, kalameet, and even sinh.
7:20 this one bugged out for me while I was sniping at it waiting for it to kill the remaining enemies, so the regular enemies were able to defeat it. I stole the final kill shot with a ballista headshot though.
WE NEED MORE NPCS THAT ARENT OTHER TARNISHED!!!! I wish they wouldve made some of these characters their own models and designs, instead of just designing the armour and pasting it onto another tarnished. Sure it makes sense since the tarnished are who would most likely be the friendly npcs as were on the same path, but I feel like it would be really cool to have a fight with a character that doesnt immediately get tossed in the pile of annoying npc fights, like Gideon Ofnir. It would allow so much more creativity to go into designs, and it would make the fights cooler since we wont be focusing on the annoying little shit were fighting.
I killed Rakshasa and all the others using ruin stars and the moon veil...then I got Messmer's spear and from there pure ash of war, none of them lasted more than two attacks
If you let his clones live, they put a lament counter on you (it's the faces around you), if you let too many lament counters hit you, instant death. You have to kill his clones. If you kill all his clones he gets stunned for a bit, so that's his counter. Just kill the clones. He got me a few times until I understood that as I was so used in these kinds of clone fights to try and find the real one and ignoring the clones.
I swear there are two versions of the DLC, the other with a fun and easy Gaius, and the other with the most frustrating BS Gaius ever. Watching my husband play that fight looked borderline IMPOSSIBLE, and he isn't bad at the game or anything. It genuinely felt like there was no way to dodge any of his attacks, nor were there any windows to attack or heal either 😂 We were pretty high on the scadutree fragments too. It's funny to see people online raging about the near impossible fight, trying to find any cheese they can, and then on the other hand bump into people calling it a really fun and easy or even boring fight 😂
The dragon and dudes start doing real damage to each other if you get all their Argo then run. The game won’t let them kill each time their if it thinks you’re not also fighting.
What really sucks is that those Wicker Men are the most plentiful boss in the game. Sure, some of them are as simple as finding a high ledge and throwing a fire pot in their head- oh wait it was just 2 of them out of 8.... Anyways, spamming attacks while jumping over the stomps while praying to the Greater Will that the random positional grab doesn't jank out with its hitbox and nearly/instantly kills you right before you manage to stagger it down a second time... It wasn't fun. At any time.
chief bloodfiend has the appearance of a larger version of a normal enemy but you must have been too high scadutree level, or you were not paying attention when fighting him, because he's got a completely new moveset with like 3x the moves of the originals at his disposal. try going there at 0 scad, or try fighting him hitless, or even just fight him without a good weapon at like 7 scad. i promise, you will notice the difference right away when you can't just tank his attacks.
also i thought fighting red bear, this npc using a totally new type of weapon with a very unique and mobile moveset, was significantly more interesting than fighting the same dragon communion guy with a katana twice in a row
for the ghostflame dragon, idk I didn't have that problem, i just was like "yeah I'm not doing that" basically ignored the dragon, let him 1v1 the hammer guy for a while as i went around the perimeter, and took care of all the black knights and messmer foot soldiers one by one. occasionally would get hit by a stray ghostflame breath, in which case i just heal and continue, or if i get domed by a great arrow, i would just heal and run away until they refocus on each other. worked perfectly fine for me and i got to 1v1 the dragon afterwards. you can also just get on top of that hill thing and leave your game running with the fight in the background, or sit in the far end of the tunnel next to the grace, and just afk until all the soldiers die their own death
is it bad to say I beat Rallenna in like a 1 min 24 secs cause I explored everywhere else first but the place they were at...uuuuhhhh whoops XD didn't help I used a twin colossal hammer and faith build on them at lvl 200 on NG+ so I need to beat them again on a manageable character this time.
Rellana and Romina not having an intro cutscene is nothing short of a human rights violation
The lack of cutscenes and voice lines in this DLC was disappointing
@@TheMudsnaketime constraints
@@sunshineandrei2569so they gave two guys in a lion costume a cutscene but not the sister of Rennala?
@@joshuaconnall4237 yeah, the lion was dead on an alter or whatnot.
@@joshuaconnall4237firstly that lion slaps as a boss fight as well as their intro speech by granny. Secondly their fights slap hard enough tbh. I think romina could've used a custsence for sure given the lore but rellana has no presence in the dlc
You can't fool me, Rusty. What did you do to Lost???
Nah, he didn't bring up motion values once, we are good
oh boy I sure do love this up and coming RUclipsr that came out of nowhere with no pvp related content at all
whats pvp?
@@PerfectlyLostMySanityThat's the correct answer
@@PerfectlyLostMySanity good
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@@PerfectlyLostMySanityI think he's talking about mesmers eighteen inches
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The Lamenter actually has a mechanic where if you don’t kill the clones you’ll get a number of faces floating around you depending on how many were left alive. Once you reach max stacks on these faces the next time they would be applied to you instead it’s an insta-kill
Another mechanic of the lamenter is well
Getting dirty
Just like your own character
Can always tell the real one from the fakes cause the real one is a bloody mess
Does he have a special death message like the "heart stolen" message?
I found this out many times because my dumbass didn’t understand the trick 💀
All his moves stagger you no matter what. So annoying
@@Xanarchist7777 No, but you are treated to your character falling to their knees and bursting into tears as a unique death aniamtion
“Shadow Tree Fragments.” The “c” in the spelling mimics the spelling conventions of Anglo-Saxon as does “Erdtree” instead of “Urd Tree.” The “c” appeared in Anglo-Saxon as the combined sound “consonant + h” because the “h” was not yet widely adopted in that slot, mostly being used at the front of words as the breathy sound we think of like “ham” or “Helga.” The “c” appeared in things such as “Sceal” pronounced “Shale,” but ironically this becomes “scale” in modern English. The “u” would also be here an “o” sound in that it would also match the Anglo-Saxon / Norse phonetic and morphological conventions being imitated. Ergo: “Shadow Tree Fragment.”
Source: I am a professional linguist and scholar of Anglo-Saxon
(Angelos-Saxxonie Getheode)
Gaius above bloody dancing lion hurts I hate gaius so much but to each their own fun is subjective
Gaius to me felt really like a boss by numbers. Everything about him felt really predictable and pretty uninteresting. Even his lore was just "he knew Radahn and was an albinuric". He just felt so lame. The Divine Beast was a really cool and much more fun boss fight, even if the camera was super annoying
@trumbogrumbo363 I would largely agree I mean he has no lines barely any lore he is just an invonvenient hurdle to 5 fragments
i hated gaius at first but he is actually a pretty complex and satisfying fight
we are all just pissed at that GOD awful hitbox on the rush. it takes this fight down alot since he can spam that move constantly
considering that he is hidden, only gatekeeps a scooby doo level or two and some greaves, and he really only has one bad move, he is pretty damn good
I am in the exact same boat. I would rather fight every fire giant in the dlc and the actual fire giant in a row before fighting gaius again.
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The real difficulty in fighting Leda is trying to see the screen through your tears once Moore summons in
I genuinely felt sad after finishing this fight, thanks a lot Micheal Zaki
@@maxplusothernames a tragedy indeed
Not to mention his massive health bar and high defense means you can’t rip off the metaphorical bandaid and kill him fast…
@@maxplusothernamesMichael Zaki is in cohorts with Michaelsoft to make us feel RAGE AND DESPAIR
Loved it when Radahn equipped the Gower's Ring of Protection in the second phase. 🙂
Who the hell tried killing the Giant Fire enemies on foot instead of on Torrent? That's actually insane. With Torrent this fight is easy.
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You mean the furnace giants? That would be me. I am insane. I only used Torrent for the big jump slam, or to get up to where I can yeet pots into their skull. I started out using Torrent, but swapped when I decided I wanted to use Ashes of War.
Finally some respect for that npc brawl of a fight. I summoned EVERY ONE the moment I realized what was going on. To many people refuse to summon for this fight and make it so hard for themselves. The point is to summon, the point is to have this be a team fight. You want a challenge fine don’t summon, but don’t call this fight something it’s not because you refused to play the moment out the way it was intended. It’s a npc gimmic fight if you want to look at it like that. Rykard is harder with out serpent hunter because you’re meant to use what the game gave you
I'm the kind of person who doesn't summon, but after one attempt I instantly decided to summon because it's honestly just not worth it otherwise. I still think its not a fun fight though, I've never been a big fan of fighting NPC players.
Except that Rykard without Serpent Hunter is still fun somehow, and this gank squad without summons is ugly. 0/10
Well, if you mess up your questlines you have no other choice than fighting a 2v5 which is pretty painful. And even if you have all summons and easily beat it it's still not a fun fight. It's just a neat story element.
DIsagree, you only need to fight Dane and Leda if you don't do any questlines so it's a 2v2.
@suchar7175 no it isn't you just want to be contrarian
22:20 is peak Elden Ring shot. Truly the best boss with the best camera work in the whole game.
23:06 Yeah this gank fight kinda broke my heart too, especially Moore
tragedy this is...
@@PerfectlyLostMySanity Sad forever?
F*** Moore and his damn Rot Pots 😂
This one didn't hit me until after the fact. I realized almost every npc was gone, and the dlc suddenly felt that much emptier
A tragedy indeed…Moore was just an innocent victim. He doesn’t even carry a proper weapon, just a shield!
11:48 HE'S PLAYING VERGIL DUDE!!!!
The lamenter is fantastic, if just for the laughing cramps I got from seeing the transformation for the first time
I dont know why, but I actually like the giant furnaces. Something about the size, with the grim visage and the burnt bodies strewn around it, makes it very thematically satisfying to me. Knocking the big bastards down and doing a 50k damage riposte is just very nice.
edreed gets a bonus point for me because i met him massively underlevelled, ran behind him and up the tower thinking, well, bosses can't climb ladders. discovering he can was the biggest jumpscare in the game
fun thing about the lamenter: he actually has an attack not unlike the curse spell from the deacons of the deep, if you take too long to kill him, you become depressed and just lose.
21:19 Local man boasts about not getting hit while beating an elderly to death.
I felt the same way with the Needle Knight Leda and friends fight. It'll probably be a primary reason for me to do all their questlines every time through the dlc.
19:56 “MIQUELLA BACKPACK” FUCKING MADE ME FALL ON MY ASS LAUGHING.
For the giant furnaces a much easier way to take most of them down is to get up high near them and throw giant fire pots into their open furnace which will kill them in just a few throws, a note and a message in game hint towards this. This works against most but a few are placed that you do actually need to trip them first to reach. Those ones suck lol
Actually Furnace Pots work better, they 2-3 shot it.
For me this as a requirement is a detriment to them being a fair gimmick because ones that require it need to be stupid close to elevated spots to even throw the pots, and you need time and placement to in the middle of constant fire barages because there's too few other weighing options in their ai for opennings. So a 20 second fight becomes 8 minutes to attempt and maybe waste materials because you hit their face instead, adding to the rarity of the visage.
that lion placement hurt because its my favorite fight of the dlc
Aint no way he put it before Metyr, Gaius, and the Sunflower
In my opinion its actually really bad, not worst than the sunflower tho
@@elid-gagne2576 why would you say that
@@Iamverykarpy cause people can have different opinions?
@@elid-gagne2576 is it too much to ask for specifics? im not saying that your opinion sucks, im asking why you have it
God I love the Needle Knight Leda fight. It was just so damned cinematic. I managed to get every NPC ally and opponent possible my first time around, and it was just incredible. I genuinely think the chaotic melee just added to the epicness. I summoned the mimic tear on one of my attempts too, and I think it was genuinely the perfect fight for it. It fit in perfectly with the NPC chaos, and the 5v4 fight was just really awesome.
the lore of the fight is fantastic but the actual fight has gotta be one of their worst yet. if you don't know about the extremely vague quest before fighting messmer then you have to fight *four* NPC's
i'm glad someone enjoys it but god i wish it wasn't mandatory. speedrunners will most certainly try to find a way around it and if they do i will study that tech like my life depends on it
godskin duo doesn't look so bad now
And the way you find the corpses of your former comrades, littered around the arena after the fight is such a powerful way to end it.
Never had i been sadder for getting 4 armor sets in a Fromsoft game
@@Catwomans_Belt Weird, I didn't complete a single NPC quest line since I found almost none of them during my playthrough, as such I only had to fight Leda and Dane and had Nataan available to help to make it a 2v2.
I felt it really wasn't implemented well. Maybe if it was a gauntlet fight where you fought them one at a time it would be better. But as it is, it was terribly irritating. They all get bad endings from now on.
@@Catwomans_Belt If you do none of the NPC questlines you will only fight Leda and Dane, who are mandatory.
Nataan will appear to help make it a 2 v 2.
Moore will oppose you if you tell him to get over it, after Miquella's Great Rune is destroyed. Telling him to stay sad forever will make him stay as a merchant until the end.
Freyja will oppose you if tou finish her questline by talking to ansbach and receiving the letter which you then give to Freyja.
Hornsent will oppose you if you follow his questline by not killing him alongside Leda and if you dont summon him to fight against Messmer
Thiollier will help you if you do his questline by going to St Trina and killing yourself many times with her poison, and telling Ser Thiollier about her words
Ansbach will help you (replacing Nataan) if you give him the scroll
Honestly the fact that you fought 4 but seemingly with few help is kinda unlucky ngl, did all the wrong quests
Damn the sunflower from PVZ got cross faded and ended up in the land of shadows
One thing to note about the Lameter fight. If you get hit by too many orbs you instantly die.
No it isnt deathblight. You litteraly die of sadness. Which i think is funny to me.
One missing fight here is ancient dragon senessax, the one you can run past just before Bayle. He is one of the most challenging fights in the game for me. He has a truckload of HP, hits really hard, with mostly lightning attacks in an arena with plenty of water, and he is kinda hard to hit in the head unlike most other dragons. Funnily enough this is the fight were the antidragon great katana and its ash if war in particular shines the most. The ash of war can fairly consistently hit Senessax's head thanks to the blade beam on the charged version and it hits quite hard even without boosting it with talismans.
I still kinda hate that fight.
I saw the water around that dragon and went straight to poison arrows bc that looked extremely unfun. Bro thinks he can cheese me with lightning water.
This was one of my favourite for sure. I did the entire fight on torrent with incantations… managed no hit thanks to his jumping skills
Man, I HATED that fight. I ended up using Torrent and just riding around him and slapping him for like 7 minutes and he finally died because I'd died like 15 times and had no clue how to tackle the fight.
Luckily Bayle made up for it. Bayle was awesome, and Igol immediately became one of my favorite characters.
That fight is so ass Lost himself erased it from his memory it seems. I was progressively getting more anxious not seeing on the bottom of the list. What a relief it isnt even on it lol
@@formatomiHe said at the start that he wasnt gonna rank base game copy bosses. And as far as I know aside from Senessax being in water all of the moveset is just that of a basic ancient dragon
I had a misfortune to drink when Onze came up. His opening description led to several minutes of cleaning the keyboard.
13:45 who the fuck has ever said this???
A fellow Needle Knight fight enjoyer, happy to see. One of the single best soundtracks in the game, and it just gets so EMOTIONAL. I literally ran around the arena for like five minutes to make sure I heard all the dialogue
I can accept Gaius not being the last remembrance boss on your list. But I don't believe you when you say many people have him as their facourite. No way he is anyone's favourite with no original ost, 2 attacks with bullshit hitboxes and other boss like Messmer, Midra, Bayle or Radahn around
Admittedly, I haven't fought him since he got nerfed, but pre-patch he was SHOCKINGLY unfun.
He feels like a boss you're supposed to fight on Torrent, but while your weapon hit boxes are as slim as usual, the whole front of his boar is a hit box 90% of the time.
I don't hate mounted combat like some people, but it's very undercooked.
Egregiously low placement of the dancing lion and Messmer is redeemed by the properly high placement of Leda and allies.
Hot take: i kinda like fighting the giant fire guys. I enjoy turning my brain off and jumping when they stomp and getting a hit of dopamine when i do 30k damage from a visceral. It's the same reason i like fighting the golems in the base game. Big numbers make me feel good.
but we ARE fighting Miquella in a patchwork skinsuit made with the body of Mohg! ^__^
It's just a very well polished one.
I mean when the soul of someone as chiseled as Radahn enters your corpse , you are bound to look at least sort of like a Greek god statue made flesh
9:04 Goddaym Boogie jumpscare im horrified
Fun fact: Lamenter actually has a one-shot mechanic. The shadow balls that his clones spit out mark you, and if you take too many marks you just die.
No, I didn't know or notice that either when I fought him, I saw it on a challenge run video.
This is probably the only time where i saw a tier list with almost no similarities to mine yet i completely agreed.
The NPC gank fight over Bayle and Midra? You have to be trolling
I fought the lamenter on acid and it was actually really spooky and eerie
I dunno what it is about your intro, but I love it. I love it so much.
Your advice about Rellana is widely applicable and I think ignoring it is why a lot of people are having trouble with the DLC.
Every single boss has jumpable attacks. You can avoid two attacks and get in a decent chunk of physical damage and stance damage for the cost of a single jumping r2.
I say two attacks because the r2 puts you in a crouched state which causes follow up swings to sail over your head.
People are too inured with using the dodge roll for everything. From made the bosses to punish that but people aren't getting the lesson.
Pest Threads pest shreds the furnace golems btw
Bayle is my #1 for sure. Partially because Igons voice actor kills it. But mostly because most dragon fight in Elden Ring are sort of mid after the first couple. Even Placidusax is not to inspiring. But Bayle, Bayle makes you feel every inch the mythical dragon slayer you should.
bruh when I found drake fighting one of them flew of the map
gaius over lion is criminal
We all wanted Miqeuelster to bring up the mecha. His armor with him as a core.
Gaius at 12 is a crime.
Fun fact, the blackgaol knight is a reference to berserk as the knight is wearing almost exactly guts’s berserk armor
My second DLC run was my Faith character and fighting the undead dragons was hilariously cathartic. Golden Epitaph buff for 100% or so extra damage against undeads and the Golden Order Greatsword ripped them to shreds with about 10000 dps.
Furnace golems can all be trivialised by throwing a heft fire pot into their toilet bowl and all the golems are near landscape that allows the right amount elevation to do that
As a Solo boss fight, Is Bayle better than Midir from DS3? Excluding recency bias. I am genuinely curious on what you guys think.
In my opinion, Midir was the best Dragon boss in Fromsoft even after Elden Ring. Except, Bayle. This is the only boss that makes me question which one's better.
I love the bayle fight, but I cannot place him above midir. Midir's moveset is far more engaging to me and his head is consistently easy to hit after an attack.
Bayle's got the cinemaics by a mile tho, and Igon is one of the few summons that enhances a boss fight for me.
when bayle is your first cool dragon, then probably midir probably wouldn't be an remarkable experience for you, if midir is first, and then you got bayle 4-5 years later, then you gonna enjoy him too.
Bayle is better: fancier, even better soundtrack(best in elden ring), better arena, and god the way to that arena is preparing you and then delivers the best dragon fight in games ever.
I am still prefer ds3 over er as a game.
Midir is miles better. Bayle was actually quite bad imho. I don't know what OP means for perfect camera, mine clipped inside Bayle's body and I coudn't se anything. Plus, it only allows you to lock in on his head but he won't stay put for even a damned second. He flies, run and tosses AOE at his feet every second. I spent more time running to catch him than actually fighting, and when I did reach him, I coudn't hit him well because the face was out of reach or because he threw so many attacks I could only dodge or block. That's the new FromSoftware combat philosophy and I hate it.
For now I'd say Midir is better but I haven't really learned Bayle yet. It's so easy to miss out on fun fights in ER just because you might be so strong that you don't have to learn a boss moveset.
@@gabzsy4924his arm bone has the same weakness as his head does, so if you find yourself closer to the bone it's better to hit that
That boogie cutaway during Jori has me speechless
I will never forgive Miyazaki for denying us the tongue spell
The Porcupine Hippo is like the Family Guy Noah’s Ark scene where there’s a penguin with an elephant head
Sir you will be fined 2T dollars for having bayle at 3rd he is EASILY the best boss in the SERIES
Rellanas fight is a gorgeous dance and super satisfying to dodge and punish her attacks, also the OST is just S+ tier
Rallenna’s fight was by far the best one imo, even as a casual souls fan it felt SO GOOD overpowering her by using some skill.
It wasn’t as hard as I expected as I was pretty overleveled but even then I had a blast trying out different ways to kill her before finishing her off with my normal build.
I hope Im not the only person that had Curseblade Boi get stuck behind the fog gate and spent minutes walking around trying to find him
I kind of despise Promised Consort Radahn. Yes, it's an incredibly challenging fight, arguably the most batshit insane boss From has ever designed... But that phase 2 damage is just no. I can't even count the amount of times I destroyed the first phase only to get one shot in phase 2 because that bastard hits so goddamn hard a single mistake puts you to death's door if it doesn't kill you outright, with half of his combos starting with similar stances but different delays to mislead the player. And if that wasn't enough, it's extremely unclear how you're supposed to dodge some of the phase 2 attacks, leading to damage you don't even understand.
It's simply not fun to get thrown back to the grace 30 times straight because oopsy I got hit once, got stunned into the blinding light effects, and then immediately deleted while I squint on the screen to even see what the next attack is.
I did beat that monstrosity, twice, the old fashioned way, and it was not a top 6 experience, more like excruciating pain with the only reward being relief at the end. Good to note also that this absurd damage I'm mentioning was with 50vig and an average of 66% physical/40% holy damage negation on both NG and NG+, and I was still dying in one third of a combo. Holy mother of Marika make it stop already.
What was your Scadutree blessing level? I've fought him at blessing levels 17 and 15 and he's not doing the kind of damage you're describing. There's no reason to eat a third of a combo because almost none of his attacks stunlock you.
I've heard people complain about the Ghostflame dragon fighting the black knights, but I just took out the black knights individually until they were all dead before fighting the dragon.
I don't know what to say except that it worked out, and I didn't find it super hard. Use Crepus's Vial.
Anyone else gonna acknowledge that Onze is just yoda? Because he has a magic sword, he hops around like an absolute beast, he uses telekinesis and he’s tiny. He is literally Yoda
Radahn that far up is insane, I like to be able to SEE thank you very much.
dancing lion below gaius is a sin
I could have sworn rellana took 3 parries for a stagger. Anyway, was happy to see her first. Her messer and midra are my top three, but i need more fights against radahn to really know where i place him
I don't know why but i remember the putrescent knight being from dark souls 3, i played both games, but i don't know why i feel like the boss was from ds3, i imagine him just like he is, jumping down a long fall and encountering him(it was probably just a dream, but a very real one for sure)
Final boss is growing on me with replays, but I think Bayle is still my favorite.
I beat final boss four times now, three of those solo. I really favor stagger builds against the last boss. Solo build 1: quality ggs + lionsclaw (sl was like 200)
Build 2: arcane / str with meteorite gs (basically just using the charged r2s)
Build 3: Wing of Astel + Ranni's Darkmoon. Ranni's darkmoon hard counters his meteors while punishing him. Ranni's darkmoon IMO was my carry sorcery when I did an int build - let me dodge so much floor aoe while punishing and frostbiting stuff.
I'll be real with you, this video feels a little ...premature. I'd say come back to this in 6 months.
19:17 I can't even tell whether you're being serious or not. This is just where Elden lore is right now. Radahn could've been a demi-human like Yosh and I would have been like "yuh".
Hey Lost! I think you missed Crucible Knight Devonia, Ancient Dragon Senessax, and the deathblight Dancing Lion. Great video though! Your rankings mirror mine pretty closely
I didnt count Devonia and Deathblight Lion since they technically arent bosses in the sense that they dont have boss health bars (altho now that i think about it they could have been a honorable mention since i did do the giant fire) and Sennesax is something u fight in the base game. If ur list mirrors mine then i gotta say that you have great taste
@@PerfectlyLostMySanity Deathblight lion had a boss health bar for me.
Finally made use of the bayle inspirational poster 😂
Oh hey what’s up man, I’ll say my favorite fight in the dlc is the sunflower. Since although it looks like a plant, it’s got a bit of dna from midir, kalameet, and even sinh.
Personally, I gotta disagree. I’d go:
1. Messmer
2. Bayle
3. Midra
4. Rellana
5. Radahn
6. Devine Beast
7. Romina
8. Metyr
9. Scadutree Avatar
10. Putrescent knight
11. Gaius
12. Npc gank
I've literally never heard anyone call Gaius their favorite boss. The most positive thing I've heard about this boss is "he's not that bad".
7:20 this one bugged out for me while I was sniping at it waiting for it to kill the remaining enemies, so the regular enemies were able to defeat it. I stole the final kill shot with a ballista headshot though.
To each their own, but that gankfight was balls.
pro tip storm blade on a greatsword knocks the big fire pot people in like four-five swings
Rellana deserved at least a cutscene
The intro alone has already sold me in on this video
grab a couple of golden epitaph`s ?! sure..
nice video but I have no idea why you included NPC fights
Finally, elden ring content
WE NEED MORE NPCS THAT ARENT OTHER TARNISHED!!!! I wish they wouldve made some of these characters their own models and designs, instead of just designing the armour and pasting it onto another tarnished. Sure it makes sense since the tarnished are who would most likely be the friendly npcs as were on the same path, but I feel like it would be really cool to have a fight with a character that doesnt immediately get tossed in the pile of annoying npc fights, like Gideon Ofnir. It would allow so much more creativity to go into designs, and it would make the fights cooler since we wont be focusing on the annoying little shit were fighting.
I like to think that the Radahn fight is what Elden Beast, and Malenia wanted to be on a difficulty to fun ratio.
I killed Rakshasa and all the others using ruin stars and the moon veil...then I got Messmer's spear and from there pure ash of war, none of them lasted more than two attacks
i thought the lamenter early on and he has an instant kill thing i dont understand how it works but it got me on my first try
If you let his clones live, they put a lament counter on you (it's the faces around you), if you let too many lament counters hit you, instant death. You have to kill his clones. If you kill all his clones he gets stunned for a bit, so that's his counter. Just kill the clones. He got me a few times until I understood that as I was so used in these kinds of clone fights to try and find the real one and ignoring the clones.
Gotta give it to lost tho.
He has the drip.
Only missing thing is banish knight unaltered chestplate.
For the thumbnail armor that is.
Unfortunately, I decided to Rank Every UNIQUE Elden Ring DLC Boss From Worst To Best
I swear there are two versions of the DLC, the other with a fun and easy Gaius, and the other with the most frustrating BS Gaius ever. Watching my husband play that fight looked borderline IMPOSSIBLE, and he isn't bad at the game or anything. It genuinely felt like there was no way to dodge any of his attacks, nor were there any windows to attack or heal either 😂 We were pretty high on the scadutree fragments too.
It's funny to see people online raging about the near impossible fight, trying to find any cheese they can, and then on the other hand bump into people calling it a really fun and easy or even boring fight 😂
Laughed so hard at the Gais bit
Romina has the cute bug waifu slot that was missing. Other 2 had the sexy down.
The dragon and dudes start doing real damage to each other if you get all their Argo then run. The game won’t let them kill each time their if it thinks you’re not also fighting.
What really sucks is that those Wicker Men are the most plentiful boss in the game. Sure, some of them are as simple as finding a high ledge and throwing a fire pot in their head- oh wait it was just 2 of them out of 8.... Anyways, spamming attacks while jumping over the stomps while praying to the Greater Will that the random positional grab doesn't jank out with its hitbox and nearly/instantly kills you right before you manage to stagger it down a second time... It wasn't fun. At any time.
chief bloodfiend has the appearance of a larger version of a normal enemy but you must have been too high scadutree level, or you were not paying attention when fighting him, because he's got a completely new moveset with like 3x the moves of the originals at his disposal. try going there at 0 scad, or try fighting him hitless, or even just fight him without a good weapon at like 7 scad. i promise, you will notice the difference right away when you can't just tank his attacks.
also i thought fighting red bear, this npc using a totally new type of weapon with a very unique and mobile moveset, was significantly more interesting than fighting the same dragon communion guy with a katana twice in a row
for the ghostflame dragon, idk I didn't have that problem, i just was like "yeah I'm not doing that" basically ignored the dragon, let him 1v1 the hammer guy for a while as i went around the perimeter, and took care of all the black knights and messmer foot soldiers one by one. occasionally would get hit by a stray ghostflame breath, in which case i just heal and continue, or if i get domed by a great arrow, i would just heal and run away until they refocus on each other. worked perfectly fine for me and i got to 1v1 the dragon afterwards.
you can also just get on top of that hill thing and leave your game running with the fight in the background, or sit in the far end of the tunnel next to the grace, and just afk until all the soldiers die their own death
is it bad to say I beat Rallenna in like a 1 min 24 secs cause I explored everywhere else first but the place they were at...uuuuhhhh whoops XD
didn't help I used a twin colossal hammer and faith build on them at lvl 200 on NG+ so I need to beat them again on a manageable character this time.
That lion thing kinda reminds me of eddy the iron maiden mascot. Just me?
golden hippo have me crippling depression
Calling Romina "not as erotic" as other bug lady bosses is coward talk, she's beautiful XD
8:45 stone scabbard pvp when??
Dude you missed that the lamenter can one shot you if you’re too slow killing the clones
The npc gank fight would be at the last spot on my list, but otherwise the list is acceptable
The music and emotional weight, plus your friendly summons if you did their quests, made it a highlight personally.