How to Take WAY Less Damage in Shadow of the Erdtree - Elden Ring

tl;dr: Boiled Crab, Opaline Hardtear, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman should be on every build. Get Scadutree Fragments, as they are utterly crucial to your defenses.

[LaVojeto]

"You can kill Boggart for his bell."

Scott, that is some of the most vile shit I've ever heard you say. Boggart's the homie, you can't kill him.

You let Dung Eater do it then take sweet revenge. Obviously.

[hedgeyes]

For the final boss: There's a talisman in the Shaman Village that buffs Holy negation by an absurd amount. That might be helpful.

[thegrunch]

There is also a Golden Vow ash of war in limgrave you can just smack on a dagger. The buff is 45 secs instead of 60 and it gives 7.5% damage reduction instead of 10, but lets you skip any faith requirement. It's used in speedruns too for that reason

[xefficient]

Scott casually telling Twitter to learn how to play the video game.

[suggy_]

I love the emphasis when you say 'while completely naked'.

[fentamyl]

i think the problem is people play a certain way and when their playstyle isnt enough to beat something they are too stubborn to use the games mechanics to improve their chances or analyze the boss and iterate their strategy.

[soapy]

One thing of note, Flame Grant me Strength is a body buff, and so is the boiled crab, meaning you can only apply one at a time. Now you can stack either of these with Golden Vow because it’s considered an aura buff and does not overwrite the body buff

[AricHolmes]

Golden vow is now a consumable as well if you find the cookbook

[cyberneticbutterfly]

Also going from 60% to 80% damage reduction is far better than going from 0% to 20%.
Reason being that there is only 40% remaining so the damage you are used to taking that point drops to the remaining 20%.
This makes it feel like taking half damage, relative to the point you were already at when doing 60% reduction.
To the extreme - going from 98% to 99%, a single 1% is taking half damage.

[chingondres]

what i noticed i most enjoy about Elden Ring is the challenge of an impossible task slowly becoming possible by trial and error, memorizing, finding ways to beat the enemy and exploiting weaknesses they have and finally achieving it only to run into that same wall in the next boss fight and having to do it all over again

[dashtucker]

Appreciate you not spoiling and keeping your vocab very generic when talking about the DLC. It does not go unnoticed, thank you🙌

[SyntiSin]

Colossal Weapons are the best choice for tankiness as well, whenever you have hyper armor (so basically any time you're attacking) you take 17.5% reduced damage from all sources and can poise through many boss attacks.

[boke]

I just used the defense talisman, opaline hard tear and armor. It was enough for me to tank everything. The final boss didn't one-shot me with "that" move. You know which one.

[thstudio]

Btw, there is a new tear that gives you "Spontaneous guard". It is EXTREMELY helpful for no shield builds. It allows you to block effectively with weapons and do guard counters while blocking a lot of damage.

[mechamobibo]

Another tip to increase your defense, the perfume that gives you a bubble and a small damage increase can be used really quickly to tank a hit. I used this multiple times to save healing and you can carry up to ten of it.

[ilshail]

Honestly, as someone who'd forgotten a lot of the game mechanics and was getting slapped silly by the bosses, this was a really helpful refresher to help me figure out how to balance things out for my play through

Thanks Scott! Gonna become great friends with Boggart and develop a crippling crab addiction

[DustinEstep]

Dont forget the dlc also has a cookbook that lets you craft the golden vow as a consumable. Battlefield Priests Cookbook 3

[maniusdrand]

Genuinely super helpful. I'd been having a blast with almost the whole DLC right up until the end, where I eventually felt like I had no chance and had pretty much given up. Ran all this and got close on my second attempt.

[xWebdriverTorso]

It’s really good to see you back to Elden Ring man. You’re my favorite YT channel when it comes to Elden Ring you explain things in such detail when it comes to pvp glad you came back dude hope you stay a while

[JayBigDadyCy]

I think the problem we've run into with this DLC is three-fold
1)We have a lot of players who've never played a fromsoft DLC before, so they don't realize that it's always the hardest part of the games. Part of this is that we have a lot of new players to the franchise. A lot of these players have never played any of the other souls games so they have no experience in knowing just how hard the DLCs always are.
2) A lot of players have no idea, like you just showed, on how to build defenses and actually use things they pick up. Instead they just try to go to every boss and bulldoze their way through them. Not realizing they are playing a glass cannon build, essentially. I think part of this is people watching videos of people who are absolutely elite at these games. Just run through no hit. No Dodge roll. None of that stuff - and just be God tier and then other players thinking that they can do the same. When thwy have nfc how difficult those runs are.
3) I don't know what happened since the launch of the game and now but we now have people complaining that the game is" too open world". People are literally complaining about having to go out and find stuff in an open world game. This is utterly baffling to me. The point of coming up against a boss that you have no chance against because you're not god-tier player is that that boss is telling you to go out and find stuff to make you stronger so that you can face them and can have a chance without bashing your head against the wall.