Top 5 Things I WISH I Knew Before Playing Shadow Of The Erdtree!! Elden Ring DLC Guide

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

Shadow of the Erdtree is shaping up to be

one of my most favorite DLCs of any game

I've ever played. It is so amazing. Look

at this scenery, is beautiful. Anyway, I

wanted to share with you 10 things that

might help you when you're starting off

the new DLC in Elden Ring. Okay, so first

of all, tip number 1, there's a lot of new

weapons and items and stuff, and sometimes

when you defeat a boss and then you go

into inventory it can be kind of hard to

find exactly where the new item is because

you probably have loads and loads of items

already after finishing the base game.

And there's a really useful setting in the

game options. You go to Display and

then go to Mark New Items and just turn it

on, and then go into your inventory.

And then, and then you also want to turn

Show Recent Items to on. Don't forget that

one. And then go to your inventory, and

then you've got this new tab here called

Recent. Items. And this

is just going to put all of your new items

here. All the new items you'll get from

the new DLC will be put straight here. As

you can see, I've got the Golden Vow, I

got the Crusade Insignia, I got the

Backhand Blade and the Mesmer Soldier's

Axe. Got these new weapons. I got this new

armor set, looks pretty cool. Helm of

Solitude. Wow, I want to see what that

looks like. How do I change the view?

So that's my character now. I'm gonna put

some— well, how do I put it on?

Oh wait, you had to press equipment and

then go into your armor thing. And, uh,

oh wait, it doesn't show the new items

when you try and equip it. It's kind of

weird. Anyway, the new armor set, I found

it. It's here. Helm of Solitude. And where

is the other one? The chest. Chest of

Solitude. And I got the trousers too, but

I like my sexy legs, so I'm just gonna let

my wet shiny thighs show outside

of my armor because it looks pretty cool.

Yeah, so it's really useful going

inventory. You got this Recents tab and

it's got all your new items and new ashes

and stuff like that go straight into here.

So that's pretty good tip. Okay, so the

next tip is to replenish your flasks. So

if you just use your flasks, so you lose a

few, you Usually you go to a Site of

Grace, replenish everything, but actually

if you go and you fight these birds— you

can see a bird over there. So currently

I've got how many flasks? I've got 5

flasks. We're just gonna attack this guy.

You kill these birds— now

I've got 5, and now I've killed it. But I

nearly killed it. I killed it now.

So I've got 5 flasks, and now I've got 7

flasks. I just got 2 flasks from killing

that bird. So if you are running low on

flasks, look for those birds. There's some

birds over here, and yeah,

they're a bit tough, but they can

replenish your flasks. There's one up

here. See if I can get him.

No. With a Taker's Flame, you can nearly

one-shot them with Taker's Flame.

Damn it. All right, now I've got 6

plus— oh, I didn't get any. That's weird.

It's kind of random then. Uh, maybe I need

my flame buff first. Although there's

another one there. I think you need to

kill 2 of them to get the replenishment.

So I got 5 flasks.

One-shot it. Now I got 5—

oh, I still have 5. That's weird, it's not

working anymore. Let's kill another one,

this one here.

See if I get flasks. I got 5 plus— oh,

I got 7! So it seems like you need to kill

2 or 3 and then you'll get a +2

to your flask. So that's pretty good if

you need more flasks. Tip number 3 is you

want to be very aware of the new buffs in

the game. You got the Shadow Realm

Blessing and you get 2 items.

There's 2 new items scattered around the

world, the Revered Spirit Ash Blessing and

the Skedu Tree Blessing. Now the Skedu

Tree Blessing basically just buffs your

damage output, and as you pick them up,

you can then upgrade your character by

doing that, and you get empowered. Now for

the Revered Spirit Ash Blessing,

basically buffs your mount Torrent, and

Torrent is really important in the DLC.

There's many giant enemies that you kind

of have to fight on the mount, otherwise

you just don't have the mobility to be

able to fight them. So you want to make

sure you go to the Sites of Grace, and

when you pick these up, you want to make

sure you use them and empower yourself and

your torrent. Next thing you want to do is

make sure you boost your discovery stat as

much as possible. Now, there's many items

in the game that help you boost your

discovery, such as the Silver Pickled Fowl

Foot to temporarily boost discovery.

There's just so many new items in the

game, you wouldn't want to be missing any

because you didn't put enough points in

arcane to boost your discovery. And also,

you'll be playing the game at nighttime

Because actually the moon plays a very

important part in this game. So you want

to go to the Site of Grace, and we'll

change the time to nightfall,

and you want to run around when it's

nighttime. Um,

yeah, so you want to get your horse,

and as you can see in the distance,

there's like a bluish glow over there that

only appears when the moon's out. Um, the

moon— oh, there's the moon. The moon's

over there. Now the moon plays a big part

in the game because of lore reasons. And

if you go over to the blue thing, you can

see there's an item. So if you pop your

Pickle Fowl Picklefoot, and now you'll

have a total of 159 discovery. And then

loot this, might get something cool. Oh my

God, I've got a Laval Tear! Thank God,

because my build's sucks. For some reason

I put all my points into strength and then

I spread it out into all of these, but I

didn't put any into vigor. That's why I

keep dying, because I got barely any

health and any stamina. So thank God I got

freaking Larval Tear. So yeah, you want to

put onto nighttime and then boost your

discovery, get some nice items from the

little blue area. See an item over here.

So you get better items the higher

discovery. Oh, I got Revered Spirit Ash.

That'll boost my mount. So yeah, before

you really get stuck into the DLC, you

want to ride around the Great Site Plains

because there's some pretty nice stuff

that's going to help you in the beginning

of the game. You also got these potted

enemies here. Now they act kind of like

the scarab beetles. They'll give you

something. Not sure if I got anything.

It dropped a Spirit Gravestone. I don't

know what that does. And there's something

here too. Black Firefly and

the Silverhorn Tender. Got some kind of

NPC here. You can't talk to him if you're

on the horse, it's a bit annoying. So you

get off the horse. I keep accidentally

buffing myself.

Get rid of these. Okay, where's that NPC?

Over here. Oh,

I nearly— I don't know if you can kill him

or not. Okay, see what

he does. So you want to find these little

sparkling guys because they'll give you

lore info and little story hints,

and it's quite interesting to see what

they have to say. I don't know why he's

staring at this tree.