How to Fully Prepare for Elden Ring's DLC

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Prepare for the Shadow of the Erdtree
01:00 Rune Farming
05:25 Powerful Talismans
08:08 Powerful Buffs
11:16 Infinite Smithing Stones
14:56 Infinite Glovewort
18:13 Golden Seeds and Sacred Tears
19:00 Larval Tears
19:38 Poise Guide
20:35 Powerful Consumables
23:49 Defeat Radahn Easily
24:32 Defeat Mohg Easily
28:20 Which NPCs will appear in the Land of Shadow?

BEST TALISMANS

ALL ANCIENT DRAGON SMITHING STONE AND ANCIENT SOMBER STONE LOCATIONS

ALL GOLDEN SEED AND SACRED TEAR LOCATIONS

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[VaatiVidya]

I'm sure a lot of you guys know this stuff already, but we wanted to put all this info in one place to make it easy for everyone to bring new characters up to speed for the DLC. What build are you bringing into the DLC?

[noahsan]

about the Larval Tears: in addition to all those pickups, every single ball enemy in Nokstella drops a tear the first time you kill it. there's probably other spots, too

[origamikira]

about the npc summons in front of the great jar, those are actually player builds, when Fia holds you, it makes a copy of your build and uploads it, then it has a chance to appear as a summon npc variant for another player there, in front of the great jar, its pretty amazing, also, they change on each attempt so thats why it pretty hard to defeat them since you dont really know what summon you'll get, if it has a staff and sword, it could have any spells, or any incantations or combinations of those

[Marlboro-lights]

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[YourDevastator]

For awareness sake: on Varre's quest. You need only kill 1 shardbarer to progress. It doesn't need to be Godrick. Heck, it could be Rahdan if you choose so lol.

[HouseofRedWine]

Also disable all the walking mausoleums to duplicate remembrances from the DLC

[uncle_buck_that]

This is the most complete Elden Ring tutorial video I have seen and it isn't close. Thank you very much. Well done!

[darkridoom]

A small misconception about Varre’s quest: your invasions do not need to be successful, you just have to have invaded 3 players. You can literally just use the Finger Severer to leave immediately after invading, same applies to Magnus

[HottiGuaddi]

I haven’t seen anyone mention this but you don’t actually have to beat another player or even beat the NPC when using the festering fingers. As long as you invade 3x you can move forward in the quest

[solaire]

I am so looking forward to thr DLC, and this is a fantastic guide, as expected from Vaati, but I am taking a slightly different approach. Having completed the game previously, I have started a couple of different spec characters, completed the first areas, up to the 
gates of Leyndell, and completed Radhan and Mohg and then I will enter the DLC, and continue my game from there. This will give me the chance of running the rest of the game again with any new skills or weapons or anything else they give us in the DLC, and see how different it will be. I will totally blackout any reviews or guides so I go into it totally blind, and once again know that I will have the chance to experience that ‘souls effect’ of trepidation, fun and excitement that these incredible games give us all. I look forward to helping many of you in Jolly cooperation!

[AustinFreeman-RTR]

Vaati, I just want you to know that I greatly appreciate what you do. As a souls/elden ring/ sekiro/ bloodborne superfan, who doesn’t have the patience and ability to piece together all the lore, it is great having someone who does it for me, and does it so well! Someone who makes their videos so well and puts so much attention to detail in everything.
So from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

[RicAdbur]

The weirdest unresolved questline imo is Patches. He acts like he's dying, gives you a trinket to give to Tanith that she doesn't seem to understand or care about, and then just shows back up where you first met him almost like nothing after that point happened at all.

[DrakePlatinum]

1:50 you forgot the third secret option where you kept a backup right before you started ng plus and you revert to it.

[redmonkeyninja]

For ancient Dragon smithing stones, 13 can be found per playthrough. 2 can be earned through gostoc and nepheli's questline. 1 through siding with Jerren, and 1 through gurranq after collecting all the deathroot, the rest are found as drops in the world. There are a total of 8 somber ancient dragon smithing stones available, 1 through anastasia's 3rd invasion, 1 through Latenna's quest to the consecrated snowfield, and 1 through millicent's questline after beating malenia and using the needle on her "bloom" flower. the final 5 somber stones are found as drops in elphael, the ashen capital and farum azula. Making 13 dragon smithing stones, and 8 somber, the maximum number you could hold going into the DLC (in NG+0), which will no doubt hold at least a couple more of each.

As for NPCs that show up in the dlc, I actually think there is a possibility that Jerren might showup again if however a slim chance. since he is one of the only NPCs that straight up dissapears from the lands between after you side with him against scoceress sellen. He then says as his final line:
"Well, I must be leaving now. Brave warrior, if the fates deign it.. No, we shall indeed meet again, at the next glorious tourney"
before despawning from the world and not being seen again, which to me, may mean he shows up again in the dlc, but for what purpose I dont know.

[jakekeskeys]

Me who has 100% the game multiple times.


Im still not ready

[FGCmtg]

Picking this gem of a game back up again after two years, starting a character from scratch. Thanks for all this.

[Mauntium]

Tip: Before summoning your mimic tear, equip the Shabriri's Woe talisman, which increases aggro towards you. After summoning your mimic, unequip it. Now only your mimic draws aggro. Optionally, equip the Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman too before summoning, to make it more resilient. Equip an ironjar aromatic as well. The mimic will use it and become unkillable.

[borgwardd]

Vaati, I'm *dying* for that cinematic lore video for Armored Core VI!

[tknight]

An easy Cheese for the Great Jar’s Arsenal for those struggling with the Champions: Start a Fight with one of the Summon Signs, go Towards the Great Jar till you hit the Fog wall, Run Left till you reach the ledge and you will see a dip in the ground, here you can crouch just behind the ledge and each Champion, after some time, will Roll off the ledge to there Death!!! 😊

[fermat]

I wonder if Malenia will have different dialogue if we meet Miquella before fighting her.