The Great Katana： Testing the first GREAT KATANA type weapon in ELDEN RING DLC (INSANE DAMAGE)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be testing out one of

the newest weapons in the Shadow of the

Erdtree DLC, new weapon type, the Great

Katana. Now this is one of the first Great

Katanas you get in the game. It's really

good and it's really easy to get. So if

you want to get it, you have to head down

to this little blue lake here. I'll

quickly show you. So you spawn here, this

Grace of Sight, and then you go down this

little area And you'll see this dragon.

He's just sleeping there, and you don't

have to fight the dragon. I already killed

him, so he's not there anymore, but

usually he's there. And there'll be a

corpse somewhere around here, so just head

for this blue bit and you'll see it quite

quickly. It's just around here, and you

can just pick it up, and then you get the

greatsword. And then next you need to

level it up, so I've got it up to level

24. If you want smithing stones, you'll

have to go to Uh, you have to go to this

mine, uh, the mine here,

Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel. Beat the boss

at the end of that, you get the Bell

Bearing. You can hand it into the old

woman at the Roundtable, and then you can

buy as many smithing stones as you want.

Then you can quickly upgrade this. Okay,

so I'm kind of focusing on like a strength

dexterity build using fire attack imbued

onto the katana. So my talismans are as

follows: the Fire Scorpion to increase

fire attack. I've got Shard of Alexander

to increase attack power skills. I got

Ritual Sword Talisman, increases my attack

power when health is at max, and Axe

Talisman enhances my charge attacks. So

first of all, I'll show you the default

Ashes of War that's attached to it. You

get this overhead stance like this,

and you can just do triple slash like

that. And it's okay, I guess, it's not

bad. And you can change the affinity

to fire, blood, poison, whatever you want.

But the good thing about this weapon is

the fact that you can put any Ash of War

on onto it. So you go to Ashes of War and

yeah, you put everything onto it.

Seppuku, Lightning, Eruption's pretty

good, and Royal Knight's Resolve is really

good. And also Giant Hunt is pretty good

for pushing them away or

knocking them up into the air. And you've

got all these wild strikes like Sword

Dance, Double Slash. So you've got loads

of options. Lion's Claw is pretty good,

so you can put on Lion's Claw And my

strongest affinity, I think it's quality.

Heavy is B, quality is also B. You can

also put blood onto it to increase the

blood buildup. It already has a passive

effect of blood loss buildup of 55 by

default, but you can increase that up to

99 if you put the blood affinity. But if

you go for Royal Knight's Resolve, you can

do like a +80% damage buff for the next

attack. And if you couple this with So

I just tested it out with quality and I

did like 3,200 damage crit, and then I

just tried it out with fire and I did

nearly 4,000 damage. So fire seems to do

more damage since I've got some talismans

that boost fire attacks. Now I'm not going

to do any buffs yet, I'll just show you

the base damage with Royal Knight's

Resolve to show how much damage it will

do. So we trigger Royal Knight's Resolve

and then we stand by and go up for a heavy

charged up attack. Attack.

3,900 damage, one-shot kill. Oh,

also I got the samurai armor, so you got

the samurai look, and I've got the sexy

legs look as well because, you know, you

want to be stylish. So I'm pretty sure

with various testing that the damage would

be highest with the fire affinity. So

first of all, I'm gonna buff myself up

with Flame Grammy Strength. This will give

me fire damage boost, and then I'm also

going to do a Golden Vow is going to boost

my attack power. And then do a Wondrous

Flask. This is going to— because I've got

the Flamecracked Shroud, it's going to

give me boosted fire. And then we're going

to do Royal Knight's Resolve. And this

damage is going to be insane. Watch this,

probably 6,000. Oh my God, 6,000! I

guessed it. So you do 6,000. I don't think

it was a crit, it was just like base

damage. So we do like a backstab or if we

sneak up on him. Imagine the damage. Oh,

if you want to be stealthy, you can

crouch, or you can just equip the Black

Knife armor and put on the Black Knife

hood as well. And then hot damn,

we look good. We look like a sexy ninja.

Okay, so we want to buff up by— okay,

buff up. So we shouldn't have to crouch.

We can go in for a backstab. It's 3

buffs, I think. Yeah, and then we go up

behind him. Oh, he knew us. Oh, did he?

Oh, uh, it wasn't that much damage, like

3,000. I guess it's not really like a

backstab crit. Or you can do the dagger

talisman. Maybe you get more damage if you

put the dagger talisman. Where is it?

Dagger talisman. Try again.

Okay, I'm going in for the kill.

Backstab. Yeah, slightly more.

It's like 4,000 damage, but I think you're

better charging up a heavy attack with

this. If you want to do backstab crits,

you want to use like a dagger. Now you

might not want maximum damage because

sometimes you don't just want pure damage,

you want some utility. Like Giant Hunt is

really useful, and if you couple Giant

Hunt with also fire, since we're focusing

on a fire build You can do some pretty

cool stuff with it. So you don't really

need to buff up every time unless you're

going up against something difficult, but

we'll buff up anyway so we can look at how

much damage we do. So you go

double-handed. Also, I put on heavy armor

because you want to get your poise up over

50 so you can charge up a heavy attack

without getting interrupted. So you go up

to these guys and then just charge up a

heavy attack and Oh, nearly one-shot. And

then this guy, do heavy giant hunt.

Oh my god, one-shot, can't even do

anything. Do another giant hunt on this

guy. Oh,

the range on this thing is so good because

the blade is so damn long. Look at that,

just destroyed. So if you want a place to

do some testing, the prayer room in the

Haligtree area is Prayer Room is pretty

good because it's got the Scarlet Rot

Knight standing outside and you can test

out moves on her. And they're usually

quite tough enemies with a lot of HP, not

those weak ones that just die in one shot.

So test out some other ashes like Lion's

Claw. Where is it? Lion's Claw is also

pretty good. Put flame on it and

then we buff up Golden

Vow,

flask, and then double-handed, and then we

can just run in, and then Lion's Claw will

just smash him into the ground and knock

him down. So that's pretty good as well if

you wanted to knock them down. So this

weapon's also good against normal mod

without doing a special attack, just

one-shot them like that. And also the

charge-up heavy attack is pretty good as

like a swipe, but it's overhead slash and

a stab, and then you can do like an

overhead slash and a stab in the gut. The

thing is so damn good. I love this weapon.

It's like my new favorite weapon now.

I can't wait to do NG+ on the DLC to get 2

of them, then dual wield great katanas

like that'd be pretty cool. There's also a

new Ashes of War called the Aspects of the

Crucible Wings. It's pretty good. You put

Sacred onto it and you do some extra holy

damage. And for that, you want to switch

out your fire talisman for the holy attack

talisman. There's also an incantation that

buffs your holy damage, but can't really

be bothered. Do Golden Vow, should be

enough to kill this thing.

And then watch this. Oh, look at this

thing! You can nearly 2-shot it if

you buff your holy damage a bit more, but

the range is pretty good on it.

See, the damage is pretty good. It's not

as good as the other ones though, but it's

an interesting Ashes of War.

Oh my God, check this one out. Flaming

Strike. I just 2-shot it,

and you can set your weapon on fire. So do

Flame, Grant Me Strength, Golden Vow,

flask, crouch,

sneak up on him, and then go, uh, go

right-click and then left-click. Oh, I

just did like 7,000 damage on it. That was

insane. You could set your fire— set your

sword on fire. Watch. Oops,

you got to do it quickly. Why isn't it

working? It's weird.

Try again. No,

it's not working anymore.

Weird.

But I have to say, after everything's said

and done, out of all my testing, Royal

Knight's Resolve with the fire affinity is

so good. Watch this, buff everything,

do like 7 or 8,000 damage, all the fire

buffs, and then Royal

Knight's Resolve. Oh crap, he interrupted

me and he stabbed me. Oh my God.