Elden Ring Great Katana Build - How to Build a SAMURAI KNIGHT Guide (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

Hello, we're back to a new video. So today

we're going to be talking about the Great

Katana, new weapon class in the Elden Ring

Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. This is the

Great Katana. It's really easy to get, so

you can get it straight away from the

beginning of the DLC. You have to go to

this blue bit and then you'll find a big

dragon sleeping, and nearby the dragon

there is a corpse and you just pick it up

from there. So this is a really good

sword. It is really big and long, and it's

got this special ability called— it's got

this new stance called the overhead

stance. Now it comes with that by default,

and you could just stick with the default

Ash of War. It's okay, it does this. So

you just hold it above your head, and then

you can walk around like that, and then

you can do slashes downwards. Does it a 3

triple combo just by clicking once.

And it's okay, it's not bad. But the good

thing about this Great Katana is the fact

that you can put on any Ash of War that

you want. So if you don't like the

Overhead Stance, you could choose

something else, like anything else. You

can put Bleed, Seppuku, Chilling Mist,

Lightning Attacks, Holy Attacks, Fire

Attacks. You can do this new one, uh,

Aspects of the Crucible Wings. That's a

new one for DLC. You've got all of the

Sword Arts, so you've got Spinning Slash,

Piercing Fang, Big Hunt, Giant Hunt,

uh, Royal Knight's Resolve. So you can

pick and choose anything you really want.

I think that Lion's Claw is actually

pretty good with it. So you can go for

like a blood build by putting the blood

affinity onto it, and it works pretty well

with this armor set. So this armor set is

called the Helm of Solitude. It's a

Solitude set. I don't remember where I got

it, but it looks pretty cool. Very

knightly. So you can two-hand this, or you

can one-hand it, or dual-hand it. Well,

you could even use a shield with it if you

wanted to. So you go down shields,

uh, good shields like that. So you can do

shield attacks with it. So yeah, it's a

pretty versatile weapon. The great katanas

are quite big, but it plays basically like

a normal katana but very slow. You are

going to need 18 dexterity to use it, so

if you don't have enough dexterity, you

can use the Radagon's Soreseal that

increases your dexterity, and also

Prosthesis Wearer Heirloom also

raises dexterity in case you didn't have

enough. And also Shard of Alexander is

good if you're going to use skills with

it. So that's the talismans. Also jump

attacks, you could swap that out for— I

quite like Ritual Sword Talisman because

it increases your attack power when you're

at max HP, and hopefully you're going to

be at max HP. Basically all the time. So

anyway, so you can switch to the

two-hander, which is what I use all the

time, and then do Lion's Claw. It does

pretty good damage like that.

You can knock him off the edge. Now the

reason why the damage doesn't seem very

good is because it knocks them

down really easily as well. Well, the

reason it doesn't do amazing damage is

because I've only upgraded it to rank 2

because I ran out of smithing stones, and

I can't be bothered to run around all the

stupid little tunnels in the beginning of

the game to farm the smithing stones. You

need like, I don't know, 30 stupid

smithing stones to upgrade up to like

level 10 until you need the higher level

smithing stones. I think the smithing

stone system is so stupid because you get

a new weapon, it looks really cool, You

want to use it straight away, but it sucks

because it's level 1, and then you've got

to go back to the beginning of the game to

farm tunnels and the mining tunnels so you

can get the smithing stone so you can

finally upgrade it to level 25, which is

what you really need it to be at to be any

good. But it takes ages. I want to get my

new weapon and use it straight away. I

can't be bothered. So yeah, it's a really

annoying gameplay mechanic in Elden Ring.

So for example, I got this— hold on— I

got this greatsword. I maxed it out to

level 25. This is my favorite greatsword.

I always use it for everything.

I'll show you how much damage it does

compared to this great katana. It doesn't

mean the great katana is rubbish, it just

means it's not maxed out. I'm sure it's

great when you max it out. So look, I

think there's a guy here. So I do

two-handed and then I just do a heavy

attack. It does so much damage,

look at that. Oh, he knocks me off, you

bastard. Is he gonna come down? Yeah.

So look at the damage. Oh my god,

that's so much damage. And then I switch

to the great Gotta find some enemies

first.

Climb up the ladder. I wish you could

sprint up the ladder. Climb ladder,

make sure it's two-handed, charge up a

heavy attack on— where

are the enemies? There's no enemies.

Charge up that heavy attack on one

of these. It staggers

them really easily, but the damage is

pathetic at level 2. See,

it's really hard to actually show if it's

any good or not. The range on it is

amazing, such a long weapon.

I mean, it's still doing pretty well

considering it's only level rank 2. You

can stagger them so easily just

with a few hits.

Oh my god, just smashed him!

But I just end up switching back to this

one because it's so much better. Level 25.

Versus level 2 weapon cannot compete.

Those arrows, they fly so slowly, it's

weird. It's like

they're just floating. So I'm sure this

weapon's really good when you get it to

max level. Yeah,

maybe I'll just go around farming the

stupid smithing stones.

It's pretty good. Everything in this

game is just such a damn chore. It's like

10% fun, 90% working. It just

feels like you're working a job when you

play this game. Go here, go there, do

this, do that, collect this, collect that,

die 100 billion times. Where's that cave?

There should be a cave here. Why can't you

just buy— I mean, you can buy smithing

stones, but you can't buy the basic ones.

You can buy them from— where the hell's

this stupid cave entrance? What's that?

Catacombs. I don't know if there's any

smithing stones in the catacombs. No, I

don't think there's any smithing stones.

I think you could go to the mining

tunnels, really. So annoying. Then you

gotta run all the way out of the tunnel

back up to the surface to be able to

teleport again. The people who developed

this game, they need a good slap in the

face. Nah, I can't be bothered.

I don't know if I can go back to the same

mine as before because I got some smithing

stone. Maybe in here. Mourn Tunnel.

Last time I went here to get smithing

stones But you only get like 5

or 6.

I think some— oh, there's a smithing

stone. Oh, they do respawn. I guess

I could farm a few smith—

oh, I got 2. Maybe it won't take too long.