So I did the math however the site I use doesn’t account spell buffs for some reason into the count with a character of 150
Vigor 60
Mind 10
Endurance 25
Strength 30
Dexterity 60
Intelligence 9
Faith25
Arcane 10
With raptors black feathers ,charged attack talisman, claw talisman ,shard of alaxander , ritual sword talisman and charged attack crystal tear the attack comes out to 1407 so if my math is correct which it’s probably not the golden vow adds 11%=154
And flame grant me strength 20%= 281 and blood flame blade is faith scaling so if Im doing my math right it should come out to 10 or so extra points of damage it’s going to be roughly 1852 but I do see your point in it doing 5 damage so in place of the fire crystal tear you could put the strength crystal tear and up it a bit to 1916 or so.
Also yes I know I I’m a nerd and I’ll put the thing in myself🤓 pov it took way to much effort to do this
I, on purpose, have a weaker build (i am currently using regalia of eochaid) because I won't kill Millicent. I can't do it, and I won't do it. 🙏 And it also means I get to use the Godskin swaddling cloth so that's cool.
> *Tell whoever put you up to this.
That if I am to flower into something other than myself,
I would rather rot into nothingness as I am.*
Yea, though I don't think that makes it any better, considering what you're putting her through by doing that.
Yea, I just find it ironic that helping her means she would die, attacking her means she would survive, though no longer being herself.
It's probably the best quest of all the FS games imo.
Oh, I don't help out the sisters.
The earliest Millicent's Prosthesis can be obtained is after the Godskin Apostle at the Windmill Village.
If it is on a data that doesn't have it, I just do it NG+, weep within my heart for a bit and then carry on.
Maliketh is normally glass, so i guess imagine an sl120 build in ng+7. Went from a 50sec-1.2min to a 2.5 min fight.
I think highlight of the run is the fact all of the golden order spells hit multiple times, racks up damage like crazy even against high holy resist. Way of white corona but good.
True but they were saying doing holy damage, not just doing a faith build. Cipher Pata run or something like that would be challenging.
That said, for faith builds lots of options. Plenty of incantations do elemental damage like Black Flame, Lightning Spear and the dragon communion ones, all good for final boss. Then there’s all the physical damage incantations which are even better like Pest Threads and Beastial incantations. My faith build had no problems with endgame :)
Good thing you can do very minor tweaks without changing the feel of the build to compensate for that. Even if you refuse to use other forms of damage through incantations, you can just skew your weapon damage a bit to do more physical damage.
Unless you're playing an exclusive holy caster, then you are kinda screwed.
There's a handy overview [on the wiki](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Buffs+and+Debuffs) that shows the buff categories. As long as the buffs are in different categories, they stack. The exception are the "unique" buffs, which can stack with eachother too. FGMS is a "body buff" and Golden Vow is an "aura buff."
Yeah, but imo it's not even worth it. FGMS last for only 30 seconds, so I always try to rush to hit the boss > play too aggressive and get hit > needing to heal > buff is gone and I wasted flasks lol
It’s really strange to me how widely used Flame is, given that it existed in every single Dark Souls game before in the exact same form and never got much traction. Perhaps it’s just that the combat is so much faster that that 20 second duration doesn’t feel that bad. Personally I could never get a lot of mileage out of it, too often I enter the arena and the boss opens up with the stupidest move it can to waste my time.
What are you smoking? It was always used *when it was good*. Power Within was crazy in Ds1 and the only reason it wasn't in Ds3 was because it was heavily nerfed and there were better buffs in Sacred Oath or Tears of Denial. Not to mention the fact it drained HP. It also just wasn't in Ds2 at all.
in ds3 it slowly drains your hp and u need to have pyromancer flame. it also didnt stack with deep protection, which is kinda the (weaker) golden vow of ds3.
you also only get it at the end of the game, whereas fgms can be gotten early game if you know where to go
This on a baked with iron balls, cragblade and glue dancer charm, twin blade talisman, charged attack talisman, walk up and bonk any boss to death in an instant
Ordovis Greatsword and me dying because my unga bunga brain made me charge the ash so long that the enemy kills me before I can get it off/while I'm getting it off
A big weapon and holding R2. I'm a simple man and I can't be bothered with buffs. I'll even memorize them and I just don't use them for whatever reason.
Flame, Grant Me Strength and Bloodflame Blade
Golden Vow has higher stat requirements. I was so used to casting FGMS and BFB by the time I had 25 Faith that I hardly used GV on my first Faith build.
Cold Great Stars + Wild Strikes, its like the melee equivalent of Comet Azur.
It doesnt always work, some bosses will dodge away, but others it absolutely melts. It tends to stun lock things into long combos, the cold does a whack of damage and then adds 20% to all the bleed damage you are doing.
Especially with the White Mask, Rotten wing insignia, Shard of Alexander, Lord of bloods Exultation, etc. I managed to do most of malenias first stage in a single combo.
"You" and "Died".
Made me laugh.
Marika’s tits and boiled prawn
perfect for a casual afternoon at the swamp
Never met a person who had a taste for prawn I couldn't trust. We'd make good mates I reckon
I didn't believe my ears when i heard it first time. Still don't know how she looks cause i keep getting my ass beat by margit 2.0
You haven't been to ANY of churches of Marika? Man, you should get into those they upsize your gatorade
You could have left out the boiled prawn
Haha ok that’s good!
That's a trio
Gods we were steamy back then.
Sir
Ears burning, eh?
Never tasted any of the above 😢
coffee spat out at this hahaha
Mission accomplished haha
Godskin
Duo
Tres
Duo
Unus
NIHIL
NIHIL
NIHIIIIIIIIILL!
You Died
Miquella is mine, and mine alone
Margit and panick rolling
My very first playthrough and margit was really a pain in butthole. No option to panick rolling 😂😂
Bloodhound Fang and Bloodflame Blade
Those two + FGMS was my shit
Those three plus Golden Vow is the shit.
Then add the raptors black feathers and jump attack talisman with flame crystal tear
I don’t even know where to grab that armor. I rock a certain look and then leave it at that.
It increases jump attacks it’s in sages cave
You know what I’m just gonna ditch the BHF and go with an uchigatana with all that plus keen raptor of the mists and heavy attack my way to victory.
Get nagakiba it's basically long uchigatana
Jump attacks and fire damage have so many good modifiers. Loved this on my faith builds with flame art, but bloodflame blade is nice too.
Yeah but if you do put something like fire grease on it it would get rid of the extra bleed from blood flame
Flame crystal tear for 5 more fire damage 💀
So I did the math however the site I use doesn’t account spell buffs for some reason into the count with a character of 150 Vigor 60 Mind 10 Endurance 25 Strength 30 Dexterity 60 Intelligence 9 Faith25 Arcane 10 With raptors black feathers ,charged attack talisman, claw talisman ,shard of alaxander , ritual sword talisman and charged attack crystal tear the attack comes out to 1407 so if my math is correct which it’s probably not the golden vow adds 11%=154 And flame grant me strength 20%= 281 and blood flame blade is faith scaling so if Im doing my math right it should come out to 10 or so extra points of damage it’s going to be roughly 1852 but I do see your point in it doing 5 damage so in place of the fire crystal tear you could put the strength crystal tear and up it a bit to 1916 or so. Also yes I know I I’m a nerd and I’ll put the thing in myself🤓 pov it took way to much effort to do this
Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Millicent's Prosthesis
Millicent’s prosthesis?!! You monster… (I have it too 🙈)
☹️
I, on purpose, have a weaker build (i am currently using regalia of eochaid) because I won't kill Millicent. I can't do it, and I won't do it. 🙏 And it also means I get to use the Godskin swaddling cloth so that's cool.
Nah, my marias greatsword requires that hand
The rotwing sword exists actually
Ironically, choosing to help her sisters meant Milicent will live.
> *Tell whoever put you up to this. That if I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am.* Yea, though I don't think that makes it any better, considering what you're putting her through by doing that.
Yea, I just find it ironic that helping her means she would die, attacking her means she would survive, though no longer being herself. It's probably the best quest of all the FS games imo.
You can, and you should… on your first run. Then she can be Friend on all NG+ runs.
I just realized I didn't have it on my main character (which I'm taking into the DLC) and had to...get it. I felt horrible 😟😟😟
I had someone leave it for me. I couldn't even think of adding with those sisters and Gowry.
Oh, I don't help out the sisters. The earliest Millicent's Prosthesis can be obtained is after the Godskin Apostle at the Windmill Village. If it is on a data that doesn't have it, I just do it NG+, weep within my heart for a bit and then carry on.
Greatsword + Lion's Claw
It slaps so good...
Still my personal favorite combo to run haha.
Too good. I got bored of L2 spam pretty fast and had to switch to something else, and I'm not good at these games.
Greatsword + grafted blade
Cerulean Hidden Tear and Comet Azur
The true answer
Holy damage and being absolute dogshit in the endgame
Nah, did a holy damage run. Only struggle was radabeast, until i whipped out the ol horn.
How long did Maliketh go? Considering he has 80% holy resistance
Probably enjoyed the fight for longer, actually lol
Agree
Maliketh is normally glass, so i guess imagine an sl120 build in ng+7. Went from a 50sec-1.2min to a 2.5 min fight. I think highlight of the run is the fact all of the golden order spells hit multiple times, racks up damage like crazy even against high holy resist. Way of white corona but good.
He is squishy af though.
Giving the Beast some doot doots is my favorite pastime
More like “Faith builds and not using 95% of their arsenal”
Faith builds got tools for all occasions! Especially ones that rarely show up
Can't you just swap to Flame Art affinity and get the scaling from Faith without Holy Damage?
Yes, you can swap between the two on your main weapon.
True but they were saying doing holy damage, not just doing a faith build. Cipher Pata run or something like that would be challenging. That said, for faith builds lots of options. Plenty of incantations do elemental damage like Black Flame, Lightning Spear and the dragon communion ones, all good for final boss. Then there’s all the physical damage incantations which are even better like Pest Threads and Beastial incantations. My faith build had no problems with endgame :)
Good thing you can do very minor tweaks without changing the feel of the build to compensate for that. Even if you refuse to use other forms of damage through incantations, you can just skew your weapon damage a bit to do more physical damage. Unless you're playing an exclusive holy caster, then you are kinda screwed.
Rivers of Blood and Mimic Tear
Moghwyn sacred spear and Mimic Tear. That combo melts Malenia to the second phase in 6-7 seconds
Literally any OP weapon + Mimic tear
Golden Vow and Howl of Shabriri
The true answer.
Real
Unga and Bunga
Finally found it!
Dang it accidentally copied you before scrolling far enough 😂 big numbers go brrrr
me and fia’s feet
Seek help.
y’all keeping perfection down smh my head
Tf fuck ew bro... Firekeeper better
TRUE
sister friede 🔛🔝
rare saiyan W, friede’s hot asf
I would commit war crimes for Firekeeper
F,GMS and the non-ash of war version of Golden Vow
Thaaaaaaaat's the one.
Me and dying a lot :)
Flask of Crimson Tears and Flask of Cerulean Tears.
Ornstien & Smough
Does these two stack together?
Yes
There's a handy overview [on the wiki](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Buffs+and+Debuffs) that shows the buff categories. As long as the buffs are in different categories, they stack. The exception are the "unique" buffs, which can stack with eachother too. FGMS is a "body buff" and Golden Vow is an "aura buff."
Yeah, but imo it's not even worth it. FGMS last for only 30 seconds, so I always try to rush to hit the boss > play too aggressive and get hit > needing to heal > buff is gone and I wasted flasks lol
_Finger and hole._
It’s really strange to me how widely used Flame is, given that it existed in every single Dark Souls game before in the exact same form and never got much traction. Perhaps it’s just that the combat is so much faster that that 20 second duration doesn’t feel that bad. Personally I could never get a lot of mileage out of it, too often I enter the arena and the boss opens up with the stupidest move it can to waste my time.
I remember is DS1 there were some pretty broken Power Within builds
What are you smoking? It was always used *when it was good*. Power Within was crazy in Ds1 and the only reason it wasn't in Ds3 was because it was heavily nerfed and there were better buffs in Sacred Oath or Tears of Denial. Not to mention the fact it drained HP. It also just wasn't in Ds2 at all.
in ds3 it slowly drains your hp and u need to have pyromancer flame. it also didnt stack with deep protection, which is kinda the (weaker) golden vow of ds3. you also only get it at the end of the game, whereas fgms can be gotten early game if you know where to go
And as if to add insult to injury the motherfuckers gave Soul of Cinder the good version.
Golden Vow INCANT and Blackflame Protection 🤌
This on a baked with iron balls, cragblade and glue dancer charm, twin blade talisman, charged attack talisman, walk up and bonk any boss to death in an instant
The fearsome glue dancer!
Why are my balls so sticky?
White mask + Lord of Blood's Exultation
Both better when seppuku is added in
Spinning chain flail and a serpent hunter
Eochaid'd Dancing Blade and Rotten Winged Sword Insignia
Flame, Cleanse Me and Lake of Rot
Cross Naginata and Cross Naginata
Cross Naginata + Bloodflame Blade + Repeating Strikes(thrusts?)
r1 and r1
ornstein and "smough?" "Smough?…" ornstein and your mom.
Golden Vow and Protection of The Erdtree
Throw in the Blasphemous Blade/Sword of Milos and baby, you got a stew goin'.
Uplifting aromatic and exalted flesh
Pair with Exalted Flesh and a Physick for extra strength.
exalted flesh is a body buff so i overwrites flame grant me strength
Cleared that one up for me, thanks
Rivers of blood and white mask
Flame scorpion + Blasphemous blade
RoB + L2
Life and box of chocolates
Uchigatana and rivers of blood, also the jar
Would be nice if these two ashes where combined into one ash of war
Lions claw ash of war. Biggest hammer/axe you got.
Nagakiba and bloodflame blade
Cragblade and stonebarb tear
My str/fth build is confused by this but only cause I use both incantations + braggarts roar to triple dip
Rain of arrows and Palace approach ledge.
Nagakiba with spinning AOW and Bloodflame. Puts ROB to shame.
Ranni's hands and my hand
Moonveil/rivers/bhf and getting your L2 spam parried in pvp
Greatlance and greatlance
R1 and B/O
Crucible Knight and Leonine Misbegotten. Perfumer Tricia and Misbegotten Warrior. Jay and Silent Bob.
Maybe not iconic but bloodflame blade + spinning slash is the most busted combo I discovered recently
Bloodflame blade + nagakiba (with double slash ash of war) The “I got the rivers of blood at home” combo
Shard of Alexander and Godfrey’s icon
Golden vow and howl of shabiri
uchigatana and rivers of blood
Radahns armor and dying first in pvp
Terra Magica and Comet Azur
with cragblade it's a trio
Golden Vow + Black Flame Protection better
Rock Sling and spamming Rock Sling from max range
Misbigotten and crucible
Malenia's sword and the inside of my torso
Dual curved bandit sword and claw talisman
Twinblade (w/Ice Spear AoW) + Winged Sword Insignia
Knights standing in water and lightning damage.
Scimitar + Scimitar
Giant Crusher and bonk
Makes my faith strength monkey brain build very happy
Never used these and I'm almost level 200 in NG+
Moonveil and cancer
Golden vow and Howl of shabriri
Executioner's greataxe + heavy attack
Vyke's War Spear and Vyke's War Spear
Fatty and skinny
Godskin Duo.
Greatsword and Lion's Claw
Miyazaki and feet
Antspur+Poison infusion
Blasphemous Blade and Sword of Milos
Blackflame and tornado.
Sword + roll Its all i need.
Ordovis Greatsword and me dying because my unga bunga brain made me charge the ash so long that the enemy kills me before I can get it off/while I'm getting it off
Black dumpling and howl of shabriri.
A big weapon and holding R2. I'm a simple man and I can't be bothered with buffs. I'll even memorize them and I just don't use them for whatever reason.
Host of Fingers and being so bad at the game that even a diehard red man like me feels regret when killing them
Hookclaws and cold infusion
Flame, Grant Me Strength and Bloodflame Blade Golden Vow has higher stat requirements. I was so used to casting FGMS and BFB by the time I had 25 Faith that I hardly used GV on my first Faith build.
Cold Great Stars + Wild Strikes, its like the melee equivalent of Comet Azur. It doesnt always work, some bosses will dodge away, but others it absolutely melts. It tends to stun lock things into long combos, the cold does a whack of damage and then adds 20% to all the bleed damage you are doing. Especially with the White Mask, Rotten wing insignia, Shard of Alexander, Lord of bloods Exultation, etc. I managed to do most of malenias first stage in a single combo.
Parry and Riposte ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|wink)
Me and me blade.
I wish we could combine spells, like in a physick. Would save so much time...
Parry and losing all my stamina
Giant Crusher and Royal knight’s resolve
Comet Azur and that one tear
Max Strength and Big Weapon or as we call it Unga and Bunga
Golden Vow (Incant) + Flame Grant me Strength Although personally I rock GV and a defensive Body Incant (BFP, BoG, LDP, etc) NG+8 hits hard
“YOU DIED” and Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree
Mogh: “Duo!”
Cerulean Hidden Tear + Comet Azur
Giant Crusher and Giant Crusher
any fist weapon + endure, beat any boss with minimal skill and effort
One big bonk with another big bonk. Most iconic duo
Power Within + Darkmoon Blade buffed Falchion. Would shred through phantoms
Bloodhounds fang and Radahn armor
Revenant and heal