Elden Ring DLC - 5 Of The Best BUILDS To DOMINATE Shadow of the Erdtree (Elden Ring DLC Build Prep)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be looking at some of

the best builds that will help you

absolutely dominate Shadow of the Erdtree,

the new DLC for Elden Ring which is coming

out next week. So I want to show you one

of my favorite builds. It basically

combines strength and faith to do kind of

like a melee fire battlemage build, and

we're going to be dual wielding the

Blasphemous Blade with the Sword of Milos,

and we're focusing on strength,

dexterity, and faith for our build. So

because this is going to be a fire-based

build, we're going to have the Fire

Scorpion Charm— increases fire attack.

We're going to be using the Godfrey Icon—

increases spells and skills. The Two

Fingers Heirloom to raise our faith, and

also the Shard of Alexander to raise our

skills attack power. So Blasphemous Blade

has this really powerful ability called

Taker's Flame, which does this. There's

this really cool fire attack which does

loads of damage. I'll show you how much

damage it does. Wait, I'll do my buffs

first. So you also want to get, um, some

kind of finger seal so you could do

incantations. Flame, Grant Me Strength is

probably the most important one because it

can buff your fire attacks. And then go

back to your other sword, and now you're

ready to do some fire damage like this.

Can nearly one-shot the Scarlet Rot

Knights. Now the good thing about

Blasphemous Blade is it actually heals you

for a little bit of— well, not a little

bit, actually heals you for quite a lot of

health. And the Sword of Milos actually

recovers your FP. So look at my FP right

now, I've used about half of it already,

but when I kill something,

you'll get like a little blue spinny thing

and it will regenerate some of your FP.

So that's pretty good. For being

self-regenerative. So if you only use

melee attacks like this,

it won't cost you any FP and you'll

actually regenerate FP and HP altogether.

So you're kind of like this

self-regenerating beast. Also, if you put

the Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, which

boosts fire attacks, and the Strength-Knot

Crystal Tear into your Wondrous Flask and

pop the flask, And also pop Flame,

Grant Me Strength. Can do some insane fire

damage. Watch this.

Oh my god, 3,000 damage. Yeah, so this is

easily one of my favorite builds if I go

up against something difficult like a big

boss and I don't really want to get into

melee range. This is a great ranged

ability to use from a distance, and fire

damage— can't really go wrong with that.

Another really good fire-based attack

spell for weapon is Flames of the Redmane.

So I put it on my Misericorde dagger,

which seems to do insane fire damage, and

does like this spread of flames that also

staggers and knocks back enemies. So if

you do this, so if you pop your flask and

do Flame, Grant Me Strength, you can

nearly 2-shot— actually, you can 2-shot

this guy, and it also staggers them and

knocks them down if you keep spamming it.

It also has quite a good range. It does

fan out quite far. Wait, I think

I've got the wrong one equipped. Oh no, I

had the right one. Yeah, that was Flames

of the Redmane. I thought I had

Flamestrike on. Flamestrike is kind of

similar, but it's not as good because it's

more close range. I like Flames of the

Redmane because you can stand pretty far

away, like here. From here you can

actually get them, and it does quite a

wide arc, so you can do this.

It even travels through enemies, so it's a

really good spell. See that?

It does pretty good damage. I usually

either spam this or I spam Taker's Flame

against bosses whilst I let my mimic tank

the boss. So yeah, it's a pretty good

spell. For some reason, it does more

damage when it's equipped on a dagger

instead of a Colossal Sword. Look, I've

got the Colossal Sword here. Oh wait,

so if we test out Flames of the Redmane on

the Colossal Sword, it only does 2551.

For some reason, when I use my dagger, it

does more damage. I don't know why, maybe

the dagger scales better with faith. So

watch, in comparison, I did 2551

with the Colossal Sword, but this time I

do 2639, so it does more damage with the

dagger. I don't know why. Okay, so

focusing further on the fire attack

aspect, there's some good fireball spells

like Flame of the Fell God and

Flame Sling. Giant's Flame, it's pretty

good. So if you do Flame,

Grant Me Strength and your Wondrous Potion

again, I can do some pretty good damage

with Giant's Flame if you watch this.

1,200. If you hold it down, it'll do more

damage. You can 3-shot this guy nearly.

But I think one of my favorite playstyles

and builds has to be using Royal Knight's

Resolve with a fire affinity on the

Misericorde. You can do some insane damage

if you combine all the buffs. So you want

this other spell, it's called Golden Vow.

You want to get rid of this one, replace

it with— where is it— Golden Vow,

and then just buff everything. Flame,

grant me strength. Wait, I need the

talismans as well. So you

want to get the dagger talisman,

increases critical hits. And also fire

attack. And also get rid of this and put

Ritual Sword Talisman, increase attack

power when you have maximum health. Now

you should be able to do insane crits. So

you want to do Grant Me Strength, Flame,

Grant Me Strength, Golden Vow,

and then use Darkness and also pop

Wondrous Flask. Now you want to do

Darkness so you can get around to his

backside. And then pop Royal Knight's

Resolve for a backstab. I can't, can't

quite get to his back yet. Hold on,

he's still facing the wall.

Okay, now pop Knight's Resolve.

Oh, you do 5,500. My record is like 8,700,

but I forgot how I did it. Oh, if you get

these oil pots, you can make them by using

melted mushrooms. You can actually

increase the fire damage they take by 50%,

so it's quite tricky to get all this off

properly. So Flame, Grant Me Strength,

Golden Vow, Darkness.

So first you want to throw— wait, get your

pot. Wondrous— oops, wrong one. Wondrous

Potion and then oil pot. Where is it?

Throw the oil pot. I mean, do Darkness and

then throw the oil pot.

Ah crap, Darkness didn't work. Get

Darkness again. Royal Knight's Resolve,

watch this, it is insane. Oh,

8,700 damage! Did you see that?

I don't know how you can get to 10k

damage. Maybe if you buff everything.

Yeah, so this is a pretty good dagger

stealth build, but it only works against

humanoids. Obviously you can't backstab a

giant or anything like that. Also, it's

kind of hard to get to their back

sometimes, especially if they're walking

around in a group. A lot of times you fail

to do the backstab, but even without the

backstab, just slashing is pretty powerful

as well with all the fire buffs.

Was he aiming at. And then next we have my

favorite holy build. So I want to use the

Sacred Relic Sword, has this really cool

move called Wave of Gold which does holy

damage. And we're going to be using the

Sacred Scorpion Charm which has holy

attack, basically it raises holy attack.

And we're also going to be using Shard of

Alexander which boosts the attack power of

skills. So this move is really powerful,

watch this. It shoots out this massive

wave of holy damage, and it can nearly

one-shot almost everything. And you

can do this— oops, wrong button.

I don't really like Rings of Light. I

tried really hard to make Rings of Light

do good damage, but it always does really

rubbish damage. Look, there's like

280 damage.

It's pretty bad.

Also, if you use the Wondrous Physick Mix

and you put Holy Shrouding Cracked Tear to

increase holy attacks, it can do more

damage like this. So you pop the flask and

then you target him and then you do Wave

of Gold. Oh, you do 1,300 damage.

The cool thing about it is it knocks him

down as well, so he can't even do

anything. He just keeps getting knocked

over. There's some pretty cool holy

attacks, like Sacred Blade is pretty good.

You can use Sacred or Heavy or Keen,

so you could do things like this.

Sacred Blade, that's pretty good damage.

And you can also do Golden Land,

which does like an AoE and shoots out

these lasers, which is pretty cool as

well. So yeah, if you're looking for a

holy build, you don't have to use Sacred

Relic Sword, even though that does have

the best holy attack. There are other holy

attacks using Ashes of War which are

pretty cool. Those all just missed

everything. Didn't even shoot any enemies.

You can also do this Chilling Mist build,

which is pretty good on the Colossal

Greatsword. Does frost buildup and does

this pretty good attack like, like this,

so you can almost 2-shot him.

It's pretty nice, does this cloud of mist.

Chilling Mist. And then last of all,

going back to the fire theme, um,

what's it called? Eruption is a pretty

cool Ash of War. I put my Colossal Sword,

I buff up using Flame, Grant Me Strength.

Oh wait, I don't have Golden Vow. Hold on.

So I buff up using Golden Vow,

Flame, Grant Me Strength. Wondrous physics

for the fire boost, and then we do this.

Oh my god, I just one-shot it and it's

still doing damage. It does like an AoE

fire damage. This thing is so good. So

again, watch, you can do this and

the fire AoE damage is actually pretty

good. I mean, I missed the initial 1-2 hit

But then the fire DoT damage actually

Pretty good. So yeah, I do like my fire

melee builds. I like to use melee with

some kind of fire ability because it's

pretty overpowered. I want to see if I can

buff the massive hammer. Oh, you can.

And I think fire affinity, or maybe heavy

affinity, might be better. So I'm gonna

try— okay, let's fully buff Flame,

Golden Vow, Wondrous Physick,

and then Eruption.

Huh, it did more damage with the Colossal

Greatsword Maybe it does more damage if I

put fire affinity instead of heavy

affinity. Okay, put fire affinity on.

Buff up again. Buffing up is so annoying.

Golden Vow, Flame, grant me strength.

And then— oh yeah, it does way more

damage with fire affinity. Than heavy

affinity. Just one-shot that thing,

didn't even move. That has to be easier

than the backstab thing. The backstab

thing, you have to put darkness so you can

get his back. Everything just gets

one-shot. Oops, I keep accidentally

casting a spell instead of actually

attacking.

And then least but not last, I'm gonna try

out these 2 very tough warriors. They

always give me a hard time depending on

which build I use, so let's see if I can

one-shot these guys as well.

So the really annoying one is this guy

with the shield. Watch this. Do you think

I can one-shot him? Oh, oh, I can!

He's one-shot. I don't know why I just

froze. I one-shot him, but I froze

for some reason, like I got stunned. Let

me try that again. I don't know what

happens. It's like I do the Shift, left,

right mouse button, and then he just

starts casting a spell even though I

didn't press the button. Okay, try again.

Maybe if I go double-handed so I can't

accidentally cast spells. Okay,

one-shot this guy. Move out of the way.

He does die, the stupid bowman behind me

gets me before I can get out of the way.

Maybe I take out the bowman first. Okay,

this time I'll take out the bowman.

It can't one-shot them, it needs to do

some damage from the AoE flame. Be nice if

I could one-shot them though.

Oh, I missed the first shot.