NEW ELDEN RING UPDATE! Patch 1.12.3 Brings Lots of Nerfs and buffs Shadow of the Erdtree

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

after the new update and the patch that

nerfed many of the builds and overpowered

weapons in Shadow of the Erdtree, we're

going to test out to see how the nerfs

have actually affected these certain

builds and weapons. Okay, so first of all,

we got the Perfume Bottles and Rolling

Sparks, which used to do insane damage,

and now, well, the damage is just quite

not as insane as it used to be. So before,

you would do this And it would just roll

out a bunch of rolling sparks, as the name

implies, and they would explode on impact,

doing like 3 or 4 explosions per impact.

And it's pretty good. It used to do some

crazy damage. So let's have a look at it

now after the patch. So I used to be able

to one-shot these guys just by doing one

Rolling Sparks, and now it doesn't quite

one-shot them. It takes 2 shots.

So for this guy, yeah, it does like a

couple hits like it used to, but the

damage output just seems to be much lower

than it used to be. So they have nerfed

some of the, the cool new stuff after the

patch. Again, I used to be able to

one-shot this guy, not quite

anymore. So yeah, drastic changes

for Rolling Sparks and Perfume skills.

Now if you do it point-blank range,

yeah, it's still okay, I guess.

Again, against this guy, I don't know how

many attempts it's going to take.

So it's still not bad, it's just not as

broken as it used to be.

No, I ran out of FP. Coming up next, we

have the Blood Fiend's Arm, and the great

thing about this weapon was when you did a

heavy attack, you trigger a blood loss.

Now, I heard that it now does not trigger

a blood loss on the first hit of a heavy

attack. It now triggers a blood loss after

the second or the third. So we're going to

test out on some chunkier enemies further

up here. So we're going to sneak up to

this guy. He should have more HP than the

others, and we're going to charge up a

heavy attack. And we'll see that it

doesn't do quite as much damage as it once

did. Yeah, there's definitely less damage,

and it didn't proc the bleed on the first

hit like it used to do. So that has been

drastically nerfed. It's still a pretty

good weapon, as you can see.

It's just not quite as good.

Oh my god. You can also see here the blood

affinity. It only has 172 blood loss

buildup now, whereas previously it had

over 200 blood loss buildup. So it will

take more blood loss buildup to build up

the blood loss of the buildup. So again,

if I run up to these guys and charge up a

heavy attack, you can't quite

one-shot them like before. And it takes a

few more hits until the blood loss is

triggered,

but it's still a pretty good weapon.

And then secondly, the Spiked Shield, I

think it's called— no, it's called the

Dueling Shield, the Thrusting Shield.

This has been nerfed quite a lot. So

before, people could just spam up with the

block button— not that button— with the

block button and also spam attacks like

this without it really draining your

stamina much, and it was a pretty

overpowered and cheese way of playing the

game. But now your stamina bar actually

takes much more stamina damage, so you can

still play this cheese build, but it's

just not going to be as efficient as

before. So we'll test it out what it was

like now. Do like— I

didn't actually know you could 2-shot

enemies with this shield. I never used

this shield before. Oh my god, oh my god,

I didn't see that guy. Fucking hell. Wow,

I can actually put Ash of War onto the

Thrusting Shield, but then you lose Shield

Strike. Interesting.

You can put Flamespear on the shield.

What? Wait, if I put Royal Knight's

Resolve on the shield with fire, what's

gonna happen?

So yeah, you can still strike with it.

I keep doing Golden Vow instead of block.

Wait, I want to try something. I don't

understand the point of the Thrusting

Shield Ash if you can just

attack with it anyway.

That's such a weird— can you use like a

shield in the other hand as well?

Can you put, um, I don't know,

like this one? Now you've got 2 shields,

so you can block with that shield and

attack with this shield. Kind of weird.

So I want to see how much damage I can do

with the shield if I do like a heavy

attack. Oh my god, 5k damage!

And then I just poked him off the edge,

and then this guy's gonna come do

a counterattack with the shield. The

shield's pretty good though. I don't know

what they're saying about the nerfs.

It's basically just a spear. It looks more

like a spear but with like a wide shield

bit on it. So anyway, go back to Shield

Strike. Sorry, I want to put blood

affinity or maybe flame affinity onto it.

I'm not sure, maybe blood.

So I heard that you now take more stamina

damage. See if that's true or not.

So what is the difference?

Shield strike versus just normal strike.

Look, I'm pressing the left mouse button.

Now I'm pressing right mouse button. It's

literally the same. I don't understand.

Oh, it's so you can block and do shield

strike at the same time. Damn, I just lost

all my stamina. Wait, I still get hit

though. I don't understand the point of

it. Oh, where did he come from?

It's like Ned Stark moment when he gets

speared in the back of the leg by Jaime

I still don't understand what Shield

Strike is for. It literally does the same

move as normal. Look, left mouse button,

right mouse button, left mouse button,

right mouse button.

It does the same thing.

Weird. And also I heard the throwing

weapons, they got nerfed as well, but I

don't know where they— oh, Smith's Script

Suck. Isn't that a thrown

Oops.

I don't know how you throw it.

How'd you throw it?

I don't know what the Smith script weapons

even are, to be honest.

A Smith's Grip spear.

I don't understand. Oh, oh,

you do a heavy attack and then he throws

it. So I heard the range got buffed

on these.

It's rubbish though, 70 damage.

What? Where's my shield? Oh, why do I keep

doing Golden Vow instead of block?

I'm not even targeting him.

Just whacked him off the edge.

I couldn't even block, it took all my