10 Crazy Useful Gameplay Secrets in Elden Ring!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Crystal Darts control golems
00:58 Night Sorceries don't trigger dodges
02:00 Crouch attacks can be OP
03:17 Weapon Feints are a thing
04:29 Certain spells can be chain-casted
05:49 Mimic Tear can become a tank
07:15 Armor Alteration changes a lot
09:09 You can destroy the chariots
11:58 Weather affects damage
12:44 Use all buff types to become stronger

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[VaatiVidya]

RIP Chain Casting in patch 1.05 (discussed at 4:32)

Getting rid of this entirely instead of tweaking it is a mistake, in my opinion. Sometimes "glitches" can enhance the depth of your game, and this was the perfect example of one. Spellcasting is much more bland now.

[TacoTuesdays]

11) When you start to feel burnt out, take a break. The game will still be there when you return and you'll enjoy it more.

[_ONGBAL]

That chain casting looks very useful. Thanks for the tip Vaati 👍

[Dran_____]

Here is a neat note: Margit's Shackle and Mogh's Shackle have a couple extra uses outside of their boss battles. They reveal illusionary walls within a radius, but also they lower and raise the flamethrower towers you find in catacombs within their radius, and since you need to hit a flamethrower tower in Auriza hero's grave, then you can use a shackle. You can stand in one of the holes beneath the 2 chariots and use it and watch as they get destroyed.

[konraddurz]

ProTip for the Chariots - Use the Ash of War named "Raptor of the Mists". Its basically an on-demand iframe and its such a massive quality of life upgrade for those catacombs.

[NP-zsyq]

I love how we not only get gameplay tips, but lore tied into them as well.

[spuppy]

A note on the weather "affecting spell damage" - it actually affects spell resistance. So rain doesn't make lightning spells stronger and fire spells weaker; it makes lightning resistance weaker, and fire resistance stronger. Also this happens to your character too, so you will be weaker to lightning spells while in the rain, and stronger to fire. Rolling in water does the same.

[tiredowl]

The rapier feint is also available on heavy thrusting swords like the dragon kings cragblade

[pilot]

About the spell dodge on enemies: since they're just reading your input and not actually reacting to the projectile, you can get them to dodge into your spell with a bit of practice. The longer the windup of your ranged attack, the easier it is to perform. I find it particularly strong on ice spear

[VaatiVidya]

At 04:30 I talk about spells that can be chain-casted. Write some of the ones you know in the replies! Here are some to get us started:

SORCERIES
Melee attacks > Carian Slicer
Most Spells > Carian Slicer
Glinstone Shard > Comet
Glintstone Shard > Adula's Moonblade


INCANTATIONS
Catch Flame/Bestial Sling/Stone of Gurranq > Honed Bolt
Catch Flame/Bestial Sling > Magma Breath
Catch Flame/Bestial Sling > Dragonclaw (I think)

[VaatiVidya]

As mentioned at 14:30 - my PC watercooling loop burst open last week lol, which somehow fried like 4 hard drives, among other things. I didn't have the willpower to put it back together then, so I got a new PC..and now I can actually run Elden Ring without it stuttering. The previous card was a 2080ti - it really shouldn't have been having issues running the game, but I was having a ton.

I'm not super impressed with Elden Ring's performance on PC - but maybe there was something wrong with my previous build. Have things gotten better for you guys with the updates? Any stuttering issues you think you shouldn't be having? Is performance on console pretty solid?

[TimeBucks]

Your videos are so calming and informative

[WynterLegend]

I've come to find some effects upon weapons are stronger than others:

Bloodflame on a weapon with bleed; not only does it count as fire damage, igniting foes vulnerable to fire. But, it increases the bleed stacking phenomenally. Frighteningly potent on the Hook Claws, for reasons described below.

Any Status Effect ability added to a Weapon (Poison, Rot, Hemorrhage, or Frostbite) will apply to both Fists or Claws when "Two Handing" (dual wielding) them. The fact most attacks hit twice is the fastest way to apply the status effect. Just remember to apply your Status Effect Buff (Frost Armament, Bloodflame, Poison/Rot/Blood Grease) to your Fist/Claws in the Right Hand, then switch to "Two Handing" those.

When using Ashes of War, some are hit or miss with applying a weapon's special features.
For example: Great Stars or the Celebrant's Skull. Normally, it *needs* to be *the weapon, itself*, that hits. HOWEVER, certain skills, Golden Land and Gravitas DO APPLY the special effect of the two mentioned weapons. Each hit of Golden Land (slam, burst, darts, after-swing) each will apply the HP restoring effect from Great Stars. Gravitas, used in a mass of enemies, with the Celebrant's Skull, will grant 20 runes for each enemy hit.

Bleed/Frostbite is a deadly combination that effects anything not made of rock. Spiked Cestus, Star Fist, or Hook Claws. It is surprisingly effective against the Godskin bosses.

Sleep is a bizarre status effect, but can be used in an absolutely obnoxious tactic for anything that can be put to Sleep, and Critical Hits can be garnered: Sword of St. Trina
Sure, St. T's sword isn't impressive for damage, but it can trivialize fights with it's Skill: Mists of Slumber. Slap an enemy that can be tranquilized with it, then let it take a quick nap, swap to your high critical weapon, that applies a different effect (Bleed/Frostbite is nasty) and crit with that, applying a higher amount of Bleed/Frostbite on the critical.

Finally, there's another nasty thing I'm not sure the devs have noticed: the Mimic Tear doesn't run out of FP/Mana. If you want a tank that can also heal itself, give it a weapon with Prayerful Strike, a Shield with no skill, Shabriri's Woe (as you stated), Greatshield Talisman, and 2 Talismans of your choice to fit the situation.

If you have read all of my ramblings here, I thank you for taking that time to read it, and hope that it is helpful to you. I hope you have a sparkling day.

[wasf]

About the pillar on Heroes Graves, you can use both Mohg's and Morgot's shackle to activate them. This also activates the summoning of the chariot that destroys the other chariots on Auriza's Hero Grave

[AscendantStoic]

Another tip on some of the Night Sorceries, some of them don't require you to even have clear line-of-sight with the enemies, if you can lock on the enemy and see part of them you can shoot the Ambush Shard from behind a wall as it materializes behind the enemy regardless of where you are relative to them, it's quite fun in PVP to take people by surprise.

[Xavierpng]

Caveat to Night Sorceries being weaker: The Staff of Loss's Night Sorcery bonus is huge AND stacks with itself so NG+ dual wielding two Staff of Loss makes Night Shard/Comet ridiculously efficient.

[AnotherComputer]

- Bolt of Gransax's special attack, Ancient Lightning Spear, is also too fast to be dodged by Malenia.

- Black Flame attacks deal % amount of health damage, so they will stay relevant for later NG+ cycles. However, it's still fire damage so enemies who are resistant to it, like Mohg, can be a challenge still. Have a backup.

- Having high enough poise (close to or 100) means you can walk normally in rot puddles that force slow walk, like the one near the Drainage Chanel grace in Haligtree. Now, this could actually require some confirmation from someone, but my 100 poise heavy character walks normally there.

- 60 poise is the breakpoint where you can tank through some of Malenia's attacks and not get staggered

[RuthwikRao]

another tip rarely mentioned regarding chariots is the ash of war Raptor of the Mists. It's kind of like Mist Raven prosthetic from Sekiro. Basically whenever the chariot comes to you just use it and it'll just pass through you. This has a very short recovery time as well, so you can use it even at instances where the chariot almost immediately turns and comes back. This helps you in passing through the graves without ever needing to go to safety corners even once. This is how I got through most of the hero graves including the Lava one, didn't even need to find the way to ride the chariot or backstep spam. Although backstep is great used in combination with this ash of war at that last lava section, everywhere else you can pretty much keep sprinting and using this AoW whenever the chariot approached.

[maxmizera]

On the topic of altering armor, I actually noticed that altering Mohg’s robe increases its Holy damage resistance. The difference isn’t very noticeable, but I still find it quite interesting.

[Royce]

a few months ago I read a message that said 'crafting required ahead, try Crystal' outside that bossfight and was able to decipher what it meant