ELDEN RING | Get “Overpowered” At The Very Start

Elden Ring gameplay guide, with tips for “overpowering” your character in the first 20 minutes!
Get a +4 weapon, better armor, double the healing, a strong spirit, tons of runes, and more!

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00:00 Intro
00:28 Section 1
01:11 Section 2
01:43 Section 3
02:59 Section 4
03:58 Section 5
05:35 Section 6
06:51 Improving Weapon
07:19 Buffs and Spirits
08:02 Side Quest
08:45 Better Armor
09:09 Completed Build
09:42 Bonus Stuff
10:50 Outro

#EldenRing #Guide #Tips

[BoomstickGaming]

*I just put out an "advanced gameplay guide" video with 25 ACTUALLY useful tips!*
*Some hidden combat techniques, secret mechanics, and just generally useful stuff.* _-BoomstickAlex_

[darschpugs]

just a heads up for those that don't know, the glowing skulls on the ground, you can roll over them or ride the horse over them and often times they have golden runes in them

[jduff]

To save runes, after you first get your mount when resting, if you fast travel back to the Church of Ellah there will be a phantom witch you can talk to who will give you the wolf spirits and the bell for free.

[the_ktb]

At Point "15" in the route you can find a pink boat boss that's rather easy to do. You get cool self-reviving skeleton spirits if you defeat him. I found them to be very stylish and exceptionally good against these big flowers.

[dominicfoxwell]

This guide was perfect. This is my first souls game and I followed this guide to the letter. Bosses I was getting wrecked by suddenly found themselves getting wrecked. Thank you so much

[mt_baldwin]

Tip for true newbies that are playing a strength type fighter, after doing what's in the vid, everything you need gear wise is right in that first ruin near where you got the horse, gatefront ruins. The enemies in it random drop weapons, the best shield for a long time and every piece of armor you'll need, I'm still using the armor at level 50. The captain in it is the target for heavy armor and the soldiers the medium armor. The brass shield is the best shield stat wise for a long time. They also drop smithing stones, bow ammo and in the ruins basement is a critical item. Farm this place getting used to the controls and how to fight, that's what I was doing, and you'll be set for quite awhile.

[Bloodchylde]

Not sure if this is helpful but at
1:00 - Grab the WHETSTONE KNIFE from the cellar in the soldiers fort/ruins (will allow you to apply Ashes of War to your weapons. You may want to wait until you have the SPIRIT WOLF summons, so they can distract the guards while you run down the stairs and get it)
1:11 - After getting your horse activate the Grace Point and rest until Nightfall. Teleport back to the Church of Elleh (where the Santa Merchant is) when you arrive Ranni the Witch will be sitting on a wall in front of you, talk to her and she will give you the SUMMONING BELL and SPIRIT WOLF summons.
1:20 - As you approach the bridge, kill the Ball-Beetle for the ASH OF WAR - DETERMINATION. Just as you cross the bridge, head SOUTH and jump over the rocks for a SOMBRE SMITHING STONE [1]
2:54 - After you grab the Smithing Stone from the Jelly graveyard, head EAST up the hill to another Jelly Graveyard and grab the GODRICK SOLDIERS summons
3:48 - Head NORTH instead. Drop down into enemy camp and sneak through the bushes to an enemy sitting in front of a chest. Loot that chest for BEAST CREST HEATER SHIELD. Then quickly ride out to the WEST, when the wolves ambush drops look to your left for a LOST GRACE POINT, grab that and enter the shack to talk to the Warmaster. He sells lots of ASHES OF WAR. Head directly NORTH until you touch the gigantic stone column, then turn and ride SOUTH-EAST, stop at the cliff edge, you'll be above the camp where you just got the shield. Jump onto the ruins roof from here to loot the LANCE from the corpse. Drop down and resume EAST to the bridge.
4:23 - From the tombs, look SOUTH. On top of the arching ruins is a npc. Talk to him, its Lord Haight, he wants his Fort back. Accept his quest, if you ever kill the boss in Fort Haight, come back to him for a reward, the ERDSTEEL DAGGER.
5:48 - Before taking the side path to the right, head around the bend to the left a little, kill the Ball-Beetle for the ASH OF WAR - WILD STRIKES
10:00 - To get to Cliffbottom Catacombs, head NORTH down the path from the Church of Irith. Ride NORTH through the enemy camp, picking up the GLINTSTONE RECIPIE on your way. A little further NORTH is a LOST GRACE POINT, grab that and a little further NORTH is a merchant, buy the LANTERN. Ride directly EAST to the cliff and use the Springjump to get up top. Grab another LOST GRACE POINT then ride SOUTH along the road, sneak around the Troll and loot the carriage for the TREESPEAR. Teleport back to that Grace Point you just got and ride NORTH along the road, through the enemies, until you get to another LOST GRACE POINT, grab that but before you ride EAST to the Guide Statue, look to the NORTH-WEST, see the small ruined tower on the cliff? race up there and climb up to grab another GLINTSTONE RECIPIE and the CARIAN GLINTBLADE STAFF, return to the Guide Statue near that last Grace Point, he will point to the Cliffbottom Catacombs down the south path. Before you enter the Catacomb, go SOUTH a little more and grab the SOMBRE SMITHING STONE [2]

[smiah]

Just a quick tip, you can actually get the summon bell and wolf summon for free if you go back to the the first church with the merchant after you talk to marina and get your horse. There will be a lady that you can talk to and she gives it to you.

Edit: It also needs to be night time

[AngryCalvin]

Man this walkthrough really helped a ton. After completing it I've been breezing through the bosses with a samurai build. There is a helpful boss map online I recommend that will save you hours and help you finish the game even defeating ever boss in the game. This walkthrough really gave me a catapulted start to this game. I was watching someone else's video earlier and was getting nowhere. This is how gaming videos should be.

[Yorien]

Great guide, but here's a recommended path update that just requires around 1 extra minute:

GLOWING SKULLS: May sound stupid, but this can quickly add up if you simply pay attention while doing this tutorial. In the open world there are white Glowing Skulls scattered around, and they actually seem to respawn at random locations from time to time. Hitting them or simply stepping on them with Torrent will break those skulls, revealing a Golden Rune [1]. These net 200 runes a piece when used, and you can actually find many of those during your travels, so when going between steps, just detour for a second to break nearby skulls you find and hit the collect button.

STEP 1.5 (timestamp 0:45): Before getting the map on STEP 2, activate the Gatefront Grace right at the NW of that soldier camp at the side of the giant gate (activate this Grace first, then go down the road through the camp, picking the map on your way and continuing to the other Grace).

STEP 5.5: Generally it'll be nighttime (or pretty close) when you're doing STEP 5. now teleport back to the Elleh Church Grace (STEP 1). If it isn't nighttime yet, just rest there until nighttime. Witch Renna should appear around and give you Spirit Calling Bell key item plus the Wolf Spirit summon for free, saving you a few thousand runes later at the round table. Then tp to the Gatefront Grace (the one you got on Step 1.5) and proceed. With the summon, is easier to carve through the canyon if you are so inclined.

STEP 8.5 (timestamp 2:48): Also, as recommended already, once you get the smithing stone in the jellyfish area, instead of TP'ing back to the stormhill shelter ride back hugging the ridge wall to your left. You'll see another group of Jellyfishes there, a couple of them glowing bright red so use those as beacons. You can find the Godrick Soldier Ashes there near the upmost grave, nab it and keep running back to the shelter. You get only two soldiers opposed to the wolf trio, but they tend to be more tanky.

STEP 12.5 (timestamp 3:31): After breaking the statue and getting the smithing runes, go North instead and activate the Warlord Shack Grace. You'll eventually want to come back there to purchase skills or for other reasons. You can then follow the path East to proceed.

STEP 17.25 (timestamp 5:30): After dealing with all operations at the Third Church of Marika, go to the back of the church (to the north); there's a pond there (don't go uphill, is at the same level as the church) and at it's northern corner you'll find a Teleporter hidden between the bushes (you should see some bluish "gusts of wind" being dragged by the teleporter when close). Use the teleporter and you'll end at the Beast Sanctuary. Go down the steps and you should immediately notice another glowing tree next to the road, with it's respective Golden Seed. Stick to the road (there are some enemies hidden in the bushes if you go offroad), grab the seed and follow the path further down until you reach the next Grace right before the bridge. Note that once you have 6 flasks, next upgrades costs more Golden Seeds, so depending on whether you picked a Golden Seed as your starting gift you may have no immediate use for this one.

STEP 17.75 (timestamp 5:53): Once back at the Stormhill shack, passing the "creepy lady" and dropping down from the broken bridge, you should notice (and hear) one of those dung beetles to your right mere metres away from your path, so it takes few seconds to kill. This one holds the storm wall skill (for shields).

OPTIONAL

These steps involve either taking a decent detour, or engaging active combat.

OPTIONAL 2.5 (timestamp 0:55): In the middle of the soldier camp (next to where the soldiers and wolves/hounds are) there are some stairs down leading to a basement, inside there's a chest with a Weapon Skill and the Whestone Knife key item to swap gear skills.

OPTIONAL 3.5 (timestamp 1:00) After getting Torrent at the Grace, go straight SW and drop to the swampy area (might need to go more to the south then backtrack north as the fall at the northmost point is large). There's a small mine dungeon (a small "cave" is actually shown in the main map) at the northmost tip of the lake area itself there you can get a bunch of tier 1 smithing stones from (along with a couple other goodies), generally enough to upgrade a second weapon to at least +2, plus a couple spares. The miners can also be farmed for stones. Miners are resistant to slashing/piercing, so bring a blunt weapon if able to.

OPTIONAL 13.5/14.5 (timestamp 3:54): As some people recommended, Tidal Mariner world boss is fairly easy to beat and holds an useful spirit, the Skeletal Militiaman Ashes (couple of squishy skellies that respawn indefinitely unless hit during the spawn animation). From the Saintsbridge Grace (step 13) or the merchant past the bridge (step 14), just follow the road and you'll reach the flooded village boss is located. There's a grace near the village.

OPTIONAL 19.5 (timestamp 6:05): After picking the tear in the church, instead of returning back to the earlier Grace simply follow the road north and through the canyon leading to an enemy campsite you can simply ignore by going through one if its sides. After the campsite you should see another Grace downhill, near a campfire. There's a merchant on that campfire that sells the Lantern (a hands-free light source; sheds less light than the torch but you can attach or remove it from your belt at will) plus the Astrologer gear, including the staff (possibly first caster staff your character will have access to if you picked a non-caster class). You can then use the nearby Grace to proceed.


EDIT: Added Glowing Skulls, steps (8.5, split 17.5 into 17.25 and 17.75), timestamps, optional content (2.5, 3.5, 13.5/14.5, 19.5) and some wording.

[antiflower]

You don't need to buy the summoning belt or the wolves after talking to your fire maiden the first time and getting the horse, go back to the first church, Church of Elleh with the merchant at night and talk to the npc who appears there to get the bell and wolves for free.

[DeZnitro_]

I had 6 hrs on my first character and was so defeated and frustrated. With this guide im further ahead in 30min with my new character! Makes the game much less defeating and frustrating! Thanks ( First Souls Game)

[renegadephilosopher]

Skip the weapon upgrade. If you’re already at lake of Liurnia just ride torrent into the temple quarter and grab a pretty decent early game weapon called icerind hatchet. It’s required stats are low and it has a pretty neat ability. It also gives a frost ailment to your swing. Do that instead. It’s stronger than that +4 most likely. You have to fight nothing, though you will have to run past enemies. It’s just sitting there in a chest.

[JJxlian]

Another Tip: Behind the lost Church there is a thing to teleport with, you will spawn behind some strong enemy so just use your Horse and run down the hill, there you should find another Golden seed and a lost grace near the bridge.

[henrycordes]

This has so far been the most helpful video for a good start to this game, i just started a new character and ran through this, admittedly i needed up killing a few wolves, and a solider dude here and there, because of random timing, but it was pretty much exactly this easy. Amazing work, no real exploits, no game breaking character killing, perfectly done sir. I will probably start every character this way from now on.

[celestialswearing]

I have 20 hours in this game and felt like I’ve achieved very little. This was very helpful. Thank you so much!!

[pudgehog]

It's crazy that after months of playing this game, all of my playthroughs still start alongside this video. Bravo to you my friend.

[engineergaming]

Just wanted to let you know that I come back to this video every time I start a new character. Thank you for making one that’s short and to the point.

[mhdragon]

Let me add to this: once you do the last part head to sellia crystal tunnels north east in Liurina of the lakes. You will get a bunch of smithing stones 2, 3, and somber smithing stones, along with a miners bell bearing that you can give to the twin maidens to buy rank 1 and 2 smithing stones. This will allow you to get a plus 9 weapon easily.

[VED]

this video was the difference between me actually playing this game and giving up. Thank you man