Best DLC Build Guide + Important Tips BEFORE Shadow Of The Erdtree ｜ Elden Ring Prep

Welcome back to a new video. So with

Shadow of the Erdtree, the Elden Ring DLC,

coming out soon, you might be wondering

what is the best build for tackling the

new content. Now I've come up with this

build that I believe is going to be really

good for the DLC, and I wanted to tell you

about it. So basically it's a purely

strength build that focuses on using

massive two-handed weapons, using heavy

armor, and just trying to do max damage

with big heavy swings. So for the

equipment, I've decided to choose the

heavy greatsword, the Colossal Sword, and

I chose this because it's actually the

highest amount of damage that any of my

Colossal Swords do, where I can also add

an Ashes of War. For the armor, I went for

the Omen armor set because this gives you

a great amount of poise, and I want high

poise so I can charge up heavy attacks

without being staggered or interrupted.

So for the talismans, I went for the

dagger talisman, increases critical hits,

and I went for the Axe Talisman, enhances

charged attacks because we're going to be

building up those heavy attacks, and

Bull-Goat's Talisman to raise poise even

more, and also Ritual Sword Talisman to

increase attack power when our HP is at

maximum. So for the Ashes of War, I put

the— where is it— Royal Knight's

Resolve Ash of War onto my main weapon.

And basically what this does is it buffs

your weapon for the next strike. It will

give it like +80% damage. It's insane. So

I did this one and I did Heavy Affinity

because we max out strength and this is

going to give us maximum damage when

we have loads of strength. Now you could

put blood on it as well, or cold to slow

the enemies, but I went for maximum heavy

damage. As you can see, gives you an

A-grade with strength. So as you can see,

we're buffed with bonus AP because we're

at full health, and we can buff our sword

like that and it'll last about 10 seconds

for the next strike. So if you go up here

and charge up heavy attack, you do like

2,500 damage with it. You can nearly

one-shot this Scarlet Rot Knight.

Sometimes I have actually two-shot it.

Now the amount of damage you do with this

when you have Knight's Resolve enabled is

just insane. Watch this. So I sneak up

behind this guy, I charge up a heavy

attack. Oh, 3,700 damage!

You just end up one-shotting these little

guys here like this.

And because you've got so much poise, you

can easily charge up your heavy attacks

without being really interrupted. Look at

the damage on this thing, is absolutely

insane. It's kind of annoying, do you have

to keep applying Knight's Resolve onto

your weapon, and it does use FP. Now if

you went for the build I went with,

you're not gonna have a lot of focus

because I didn't really put any points

into INT or Faith. So the build I went

with was I basically maxed out Strength,

99, put as much into Dexterity, loads into

Vigor, so I got loads of health points.

Didn't really put much into Mind, so

that's why my focus points are very low.

So what you can do about that is you could

replace Poise because you don't need that

much Poise with something like you get FP

when you get critical strikes, or you can

do lower FP consumed by skills, or spells

consume less FP, one of these.

Now if you don't really care that much

about maxing out your maximum damage

output with one hit, you can also go for

Giant Hunt. Now this does a bit less

damage than when you've got the Knight's

Resolve enabled on your weapon, but it

does give you more crowd control ability

by knocking the enemy into the air. So I

like to do again heavy build with this

because that focuses on strength, and then

we double hand it, and it's really useful

against these tougher enemies like this

guy. You can easily disable them by just

knocking them up into the air like that.

And you can 2-shot them. I actually prefer

Giant Hunt over the other one because it's

just safer. Now for Giant Hunt, you want

to fiddle with your talismans a little bit

because it's kind of messed up now. So you

definitely want, um, Shard of Alexander.

Now this greatly boosts the attack power

of skills, so we can do like 2,000 damage

with Giant Hunt with this enabled. So

we've got, um, Shard of Alexander

also raises attack power when HP is

maximum. So if you really want to maximize

the damage using Giant Hunt, that's what

you want to do. Oh, 2,000 damage! Look,

you just 2-shot it so easily. So you will

do a bit less damage than with Night's

Resolve, but yeah, you can crowd control

the enemies. It also works on bosses. I

fought Malenia recently and I was just

spamming Giant Hunt on her and it was

knocking her up into the air a lot and

staggering her. Damn, I nearly died.

Wow, look at the damage though, that is

insane against these little guys.

It just one-shots them easily. Oh my God,

2,700.

Counterattack staggers him in one shot.

That is insane with the Colossal Sword,

is so good. So I got this quest to do for

the mana volcano, mana to kill this guy

Istvan. I want to test out my build on

this guy because I have tested out this

build against those red invader people and

I can usually sometimes 2-shot them

without them even doing anything to me

because I can just giant hunt them into

the air, do a Knight's Resolve if I have

that equipped. It is kind of annoying you

have to be at max health to get the AP

boost, so even if you've lost a tiny bit

of health like I have now, you want to top

it up so you still get the bonus buff if

you really care about that extra damage

boost. Okay, so he should be around here.

I want to get off my mount so I can do the

giant hunt. Oh, he should be here where

this red thing is, so invade his world.

See how good this is. Oh, there he is.

Old Knight Istvan gonna get giant hunted.

Oh my god, you see that? Into a heavy

attack. Oh, he dodged it.

Oh, he got me. Oh, you see, even if he

dodges, the giant hunt thing kind of like

tracks him. See, it's so good, you can

just keep spamming it.

It's looking bad. Oh my God, I nearly got

him though. I don't know what happened,

he just kept spamming attacks. I couldn't

really do much, so I guess we do it again.

Where is it? It started off so well, I

don't know what happened. Just run

up to him, Giant Hunt, try and do a heavy

attack. Yeah, last time the heavy attack

missed, the 3-shot him. I don't know why

it was so easy this time, but sometimes

you just get really unlucky in Elden Ring

and you do stupid things and you die

stupid ways. So the reason for this build

is because I heard that in the new DLC

there's going to be a lot of magic

enemies, spellcaster enemies, and they're

probably going to be strong against

magical attacks and weak against physical

attacks. So that's also another reason for

this build. I want to see if I can kill

this guy with Giant Hunt.

Obviously it doesn't knock him over.

But it should stagger him faster than

other builds. Oh my god,

how did that hit me? You have no

idea where that attack's gonna come from.

Really doing low damage. I think these

guys are good against physical damage,

that's the problem.

But you can see how tanky this build is.

I'm just taking a massive beating.

Oh, I knocked him over. I keep getting

stuck on this dead giant guy.

Oh,

I knocked him down again.

That— see,