25 Enlightening Secrets in Elden Ring!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Rare Astel Attack
00:56 Fallingstar Beast's Stages of Evolution
02:15 Hardest Rise Puzzle
02:59 Invisible Paths
04:27 Ways to Cross Invisible Paths
04:43 Attacking at Ledges
05:35 Items Behind the Sanctum
06:37 Weapon Scaling Secret
07:45 Soap
08:40 Deadly Rot
09:23 Deadly Poison
09:54 Merchant Violin
10:22 Merchant Feathers
10:54 How to Pause in Elden Ring
11:34 Rare Accords
12:13 Backup Shielding
12:39 Backstep Attacks
13:30 Invade Spamming
14:02 Songs of the Two Fingers
14:57 Scabbards Look Nice
15:50 The Jar of Warriors
17:10 Every Ruin Has an Underground
17:57 Flask QoL Changes
18:21 Rune QoL Changes
18:40 How to Beat Radahn at Low Level

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[megakiller]

Considering how many bleed builds I fought at the great jar, I instantly realized they were other people's characters

[mkohanek]

The fact that you can summon Patches for Radahn, but he immediately exits your world is probably my favorite hidden secret I have heard so far

[protocolsummit]

I must have died more than enough times by Astel's "Grab Attack", it frustrated and infuriated me to a great extent. I had no idea it was some kind of "hidden" or uncommon attack, he did it to me every time I went up against him, this is the stuff of nightmares since it is a one-shot as well.

[theonlyzanny]

Bought the Soul Arts book. So hyped cause I love the world art of these games

[murderalphabetinc.]

There's a good secret I discovered recently. Following D's questline, you can give his brother the armor set. If you do, his stance is different while wearing the armor, and it looks like his upper half is always leaning back, kind of unnaturally. What's actually happening is that the silver part of the armor is dominant now instead of the gold part of the armor. If you get a good look at D's brother wearing the armor (best at the very end of Fia's quest) you can get a really good look at how the silver armor is holding up and supporting the gold armor, just like how D was holding up and supporting the silver head of the armor when he was wearing it.

[gwztavo]

The narrative structure, the calm voice, transitions, footages... bro you really did an amazing job. Congrats!
And no doubt Elden Ring is the game of the year.

[McGeeMcGeeMcGee-gw]

The Astel Line having such variation is really cool! one of the biggest advantages of having youre babies be SO different to the adults is no longer compete for resources with your own young. And thats really easy to see here! it looks like the young Astels are grounded, live above land and are very rocky (probably for protection, since they havent developed their big boy magic powers) while post pupation they move underground, gain wings and honestly just look super freaking cool

[DarkKosmic]

I ‘solved’ the “may erudition light the way!” puzzle in the most perfect storm of events possible.

I had read it, and somewhere in my brain I went; “that sounds like the name of a gesture, let me check my list”. I didn’t find anything, so my brain went to the “light” part, and I remembered Thops sold the cast light sorcery, so I went to buy that to see if that did anything. Turns out, I had the glintstone key he wanted, so I dropped it off while I way buying the spell. Lo and behold, I got a gesture titled “erudition”.

“Cool!” I thought, “maybe I do have to use this gesture, but with the cast light spell active.”

So I went back, but I didn’t have the INT for cast light, due to running a faith build. Easy fix, popped on the twinsage crown for the extra INT. Cue my surprised ass when the crown lit up and the door opened.

It was then that I realized, a lot of these secrets/puzzles that are super weird, are solved by sheer dumb luck that just so happens to discover the solution.

[cosmic_caveman]

I thought that grab attack was common, took me over 35ish try’s to beat Astel . For some reason I was getting anxiety throughout the fight and whenever it disappeared I would panic. Roll at the wrong time, get caught and insta killed. It’s just a really unsettling boss design like an eldritch being beyond our understanding. I was shooketh

[Spiritchuckpvp]

Slight correction for the Cinquedea 6:03

The reason it's called Cinquedea or Five Fingers is because the width of the blade past the guard is roughly five fingers wide.

[Hypercrone]

10:25
I don't know, if this is already known, but this is an observation I have made about the feathers on notes:
- Light gray feathers have always info on how to deal with enemy type
- Dark gray feather has info on how to exploit magic type (Gravity's advantage)
- Grayish blue feathers lead you to obtain something (Physick + Sorcery) (+ _unobtainable note_ -> armaments)
- Pure white feathers warn and help you against evil (frenzy and cursed enemies)
- Colorful feathers tell you how to get to hard to get into places and locations
- Yellow seems to be for Leyndell

I don't know if it has any merit to it, but I think these feathers may have more to them then just "finishing touch".
It may tell us something about personalities of these merchants.
For example, one having pure white feathers might be a cleric of sorts.

[Jenn_with__N]

7:48 one other way to remove rot or poison once you've rolled in it, is if you've rolled on it in such a way that only your armor has been splattered, but not your skin, you can simply remove the soiled armor and the rot/poison stops building up on you!

[wilderposey]

Vaati, do you think there is any lore reasoning for certain upgrade materials being related to sadness? “Somber” smithing stones and Tears for the flasks?

[fresh-fish]

6:00 Small correction: 5 fingers actually refers to the width of the blade (at the guard), not the number of fingers required to grip it. The visual of the Elden Ring version actually shows this which is cool.

[TahnTheDorn]

It actually makes sense for Jerren to wait to enter until Radahn is almost dead. He would want to honor his former boss by joining in the festival, but if the festival fails and Radahn survives, someone has to be around to find fighters for the next festival. If Jerren runs in the first round and dies, but then everyone else dies with him, there's no one left to try again.

[Consumstra]

When you're about to sleep but Vaati releases a video

[KitZunekaze]

I just had a thought about Patches during Radahn's fight. I know it's hilarious and well in-theme for him to desert the fight and run when he sees how dangerous Radahn is... but what if he's using the festival as an excuse to collect valuables on the battlefield? The battlefield is well-known to have the bodies of many powerful warriors. Maybe he's not there to fight Radahn, but to restock his wares?

[NightmareBlade]

I can't wait to see how they incorporate the stars/outer gods/falling star beasts into the DLC. I want to be able to go the moon and fight some fully developed space alien monsters.

[WeatherReportsHat]

An interesting thing about the Falling Star Beasts and Astels are the eyes (at least I think they're eyes) beneath their skulls. The Astels' designs are clearly reminiscent of Bloodborne, but that detail really reminds me of how Insight worked in that world. It allowed you to gain 'eyes on the inside' and eventually ascend to a Great One.

[DakkaBert]

In addition to triggering illusory walls, the shackle items can also be used to trigger dungeon trap pillars from a safe distance, making that one hero grave with 3 chariots much easier.