Elden Ring - Assassin Rogue Dagger Build

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times. Hello, welcome back to a new Elden

Ring build video. So today I want to build

upon my assassin stealth build. I found a

few extra talismans and items and spells

that makes my ninja build more ninjary and

more efficient at backstabbery. So this

build is mainly going to be focused around

this incantation called Darkness. And

Darkness is really the best spell that you

could ever hope to have as an assassin

kind of rogue player. If you remember the

Vanish ability that rogues have in World

of Warcraft, then this basically does a

very similar thing. It releases this black

dark fog, kind of like a smokescreen, and

if the enemies walk into it or they're

near it, then they'll lose sight of you.

Whilst you have Darkness floating around,

you can literally just run around the

enemy and jump up and down touching him,

and they won't even know that you're

there. One of the great things about

Darkness is the fact that you can cast it

and then do a backstab and then keep

spamming it whilst they're on the ground

and cast it again, and when they get up

they lose sight of you again and then you

can do another backstab. And this can be

really useful against strong enemies,

usually shielded enemies like the Crucible

Knights are very tricky to fight head-on

directly face-to-face, but if you keep

spamming this you can keep getting them to

lose sight of you And really there's

nothing to stop you from chaining

backstabs after backstabs unless you're

unlucky and they get up and they get a

quick swipe in. But then you could just

step backwards, cast Darkness again, and

then start backstabbing again. It really

is a very cool way of resetting the fight

if you start getting too many hits,

taking too many hits, and you need to step

back and reset things and get in another

backstab. Then it's a very useful tool.

I'd say the main weakness of Darkness is

the fact that it doesn't really last very

long. It lasts a couple of seconds, so you

don't really have a lot of time to get

back in position to do another backstab or

maybe use a potion. It can also take quite

a long time to cast the spell, so if

you're up against a very aggressive enemy

that keeps attacking you, then it's quite

tricky to get the spell off in time before

you get hit. But overall, it's a very

useful ability to have against very tough

enemies. It's very easy to get the

Darkness spell. Just go back to Roundtable

Hold, go past the blacksmith, go down the

stairs, And you need to have 2 Stonesword

Keys to unlock the 2 doors. In the first

room, there's a chest and you should be

able to get some kind of crossbow and

another spell. I think it's Assassin's

Approach from this first chest. And then

in the second room, you'll be able to get

the chest that has the Assassin's

Prayerbook inside of it. And you could

give the prayerbook to the guy that's at

the Roundtable Hold, but if he's

disappeared— if you get further into the

game, he eventually goes somewhere— you

can then take it to the Church of Vows.

And give it to the Giant Tortoise, and

you'll be able to buy it from him along

with other spells. Okay, so now we have

Darkness. I'm going to tell you how to

maximize the damage of our backstabs. For

the talismans, first of all, we have

Radagon's Soreseal just to boost our stats

a little bit. And then we have the Dagger

Talisman, which enhances critical hits,

which is very useful. I'm not sure if

backstabs do 100% chance of critical

hitting, but they do critical hits quite a

lot of the time. So having this talisman

is very useful and boosts your damage a

lot. Next, we have Scorpion Charm, which

actually raises fire attack. And we're

boosting fire attack because we're going

to use the Flame Art Fire Affinity when we

do our Ashes of War. So boosting fire

damage is going to help us to do maximum

damage. And finally, Ritual Sword Talisman

just gives us an attack power boost when

our HP is at maximum. And for the Ashes of

War, I like to use the Royal Knight's

Resolve on the Misericorde Dagger because

that dagger does really nice damage when

it's maxed out compared to the other

daggers. Plus it looks pretty cool. And

the Royal Knight's Resolve basically just

gives you a massive damage boost to your

first swing of your weapon. I think it

boosts your damage by about 20%. And we're

going to choose Flame Art and max out our

Faith. And you might be wondering why I

chose Faith and Flame Art instead of going

for Strength or Dexterity. Because it's

because I tried out all of the other

stats. I tried a heavy build with max

Strength. I tried a keen build with max

dexterity, and out of all of them, I kept

coming back to Faith because it did the

most damage. Blood and Poison are not

really very good because with Blood you

need to get a few hits to trigger the

blood effect, and really we want to do

maximum damage on the first hit and try

and one-shot the enemies. Okay, so to do

maximum damage, first of all we're going

to cast Flame, Grant Me Strength because

it does bonus to fire damage, and also

drink the Wondrous Physick, which also

does fire damage boost if you chose the

Cracked Tear or whatever it's called. And

as you can see, the amount of damage we do

with all those buffs stacked up is just

insane. We just backstabbed this enemy for

5,455 damage, and that is just a huge

amount of damage. Before I tried out this

build, it was taking me maybe 4 or 5 hits

to take out those Cleanrot Guardian Knight

things, but now I can just one-shot them

with one backstab. It's crazy. I don't

know why, but using this dagger seems to

do more damage when you do a backstab.

Compared to doing a backstab with a sword

or a claymore or a greatsword. So as you

can see, Darkness is pretty useful if

you're kind of outnumbered and you need to

reset the fight. You can cast Darkness and

the enemies walk into the cloud of

darkness and then they just lose sight of

you. It really helps if you want to play a

kind of assassin rogue backstabbing build,

and it adds a lot of versatility to the

playstyle. Now the main problem is when

you're fighting against bosses or larger

enemies that you can't really do a

backstab on. It's a bit annoying because

there's so many enemies in this game where

you can't do a backstab, and the Darkness

spell doesn't even work on bosses, so it's

kind of useless in this kind of situation

where you're up against a boss and you

can't backstab him and you can't Darkness

him either. So I wouldn't really recommend

it if you're up against a difficult boss

fight or if you're in an area that's full

of giants and large enemies that can't be

backstabbed. The best time to use this

kind of stealth backstabbing playstyle is

in dungeons where it's mostly human-shaped

enemies. So that's what I had to say about

Darkness and this kind of playstyle as an

assassin rogue. Hope it was useful for

you. Thanks so much for watching and