The summary of ‘Elden Ring: NEW TOP 12 MOST FUN & INSANE BUILDS in 2024’

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The video focuses on showcasing and discussing various powerful and innovative builds in the game Elden Ring. The builds are designed with specific strategies and synergies in mind, featuring a mix of weapons, talismans, and combat tactics catered to different playstyles. Key themes include optimizing damage output through weapon affinities like bleed, poison, fire, and frost, as well as incorporating robust defensive tactics with shields and tank builds.

Notable builds include:
– A melee glass cannon using bleed and poison effects, suggested by the community.
– A versatile John Wick-inspired setup combining melee and ranged attacks.
– A tank build leveraging high armor and status effects from the Palisade Shield.
– A gimmicky yet potent Cranial Vessel Candle Stand build focusing on fire damage.
– Character builds utilizing thematic inspirations, such as one derived from a Discord member's backstory.

Throughout the video, various equipment combinations are emphasized, such as the Royal Greatsword with frost damage, the Night Rider glaive with flame art, the Executioner's Great Axe for critical strikes, and the Cranial Vessel Candle Stand for fire spells. The use of talismans and Ash of War abilities to enhance attack power, guard counters, and charged heavy attacks is recurrently highlighted.

The video also invites viewers to join the presenter's Discord community to engage in discussions and participate in live events, fostering a stronger player connection and exchange of build ideas.

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In this part of the video, the presenter showcases 12 powerful and fun builds, including silver assassins, overpowered meta builds, and tanks. The first build, starring Enos, is a melee glass cannon utilizing a bleed and poison combo, inspired by the community’s ideas on Discord. The build uses dual scavengers’ curved swords with poison mist Ash of War, combining poison and blood loss effects for powerful attacks. Key items include Lord of Blood, Kindred of Rot exaltations, brager’s Roar, and several talismans enhancing attack buffs. Further discussed is an undead Elemental Hunter build, focusing on versatility with a fire-infused Z H sword using blood hound step and a cold Claymore with repeating thrust, allowing for tactical maneuvers and powerful thrusting attacks.

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In this segment of the video, the creator discusses an Elden Ring build focused on a combination of different damage types and synergies. The main weapon is a Claymore with a cold infusion that pairs well with the Spear Talisman for increased pierce damage. Additionally, the build incorporates fire Affinity on the Z Hunter, allowing the user to switch between frost and fire damage to reset and diversify their attacks. Key talismans include the Spirit Talisman for boosted heavy attacks, the Green Turtle for stamina, and the Great Jar Arsenal for heavy weapon support.

The creator also highlights a John Wick-inspired build. This includes the spiked cestus for melee combat with blood loss effect and the endure Ash of War to withstand attacks briefly. For ranged combat, the black bow paired with fire and bleed arrows serves as a stand-in for John Wick’s handgun, further enhanced with the blood flame ability to signify rapid, fiery combat. Despite not relying on blood loss for damage, the build performs effectively even against bleed-immune enemies.

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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses weapon and equipment strategies for maximizing damage and effectiveness in combat. Key tactics include using a Keen spiked cestus enhanced with blood flame and pairing it with the black bow ax Talisman. The strategy involves using the “endure” ability followed by charged heavy attacks, which are enhanced by various talismans like blood exultation, rotten winged Insignia, and AOS sting Talisman.

The video also highlights the effectiveness of the Royal Greatsword, emphasizing its frost damage and piercing thrust attack, which benefits from the spear counter Talisman and the spell Blade Set for increased damage. The build focuses on a mix of strength and intelligence, utilizing the Academy Glenstone staff for casting sorceries, and recommending cold spells to complement the frost damage.

Additionally, the speaker mentions a tank build that leverages the spiked Palisade Shield for its strong hyper armor and blood loss infliction, which can be further enhanced with poison. The shield provides robust defense and offensive capabilities, making it a versatile choice for a durable combat build.

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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses enhancing a crossbow build in a game, emphasizing the pulley crossbow when using bolts with status effects like Frost to enable blood loss, poison, and frost effects simultaneously. The speaker suggests carrying a pike for versatile combat situations and outlines a build involving the pulley crossbow, spiked Palisade Shield with poison Affinity, and Pike. Key buffs include blood exaltation, rot exaltations, Arrow sting, and Shard of Alexander for Shield crash Ash of War. Additionally, they introduce a SpongeBob-themed build featuring the bombastic Barnacle great Axe, Rusted anchor, bubble spells for crowd control, and other spells like Glenstone ice CAG, stars of Ruin, and magic hammer Slammer. This build uses the Academy Glenstone staff and spear Talisman to complement the Rusted anchor’s Pierce damage.

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In this part of the video, the presenter discusses a build for a powerful yet gimmicky weapon, the Cranial Vessel Candle Stand. Despite its impracticality, when combined with heavy armor and fire damage buffs, this build becomes highly effective for burning enemies. The required high Faith level complements the use of pyro incantations like the Giants flame spells for ranged attacks. The build utilizes specific talismans and tiers to maximize fire damage and poise.

Additionally, the presenter introduces the Dragon Halberd, noting its potential due to its weapon art that adds lightning damage and frost buildup. However, its short reach limits effectiveness. They demonstrate combat strategies using guard counterattacks to break enemy stance and inflict significant damage, even against formidable foes like Millenia.

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In this part of the video, the narrator discusses a character build featuring a blend of strength, dexterity, and faith. The build includes equipment like the dragon halberd, mirror shield, Shard of Alexander, curved sword talisman, green turtle, and great jar arsenal to manage load. Highlighting a narrative inspired by a Discord member, the build involves a former assassin who gains godly powers at the cost of becoming disfigured, using tools like dual whips with Thunderbolt Ash of War for ranged attacks and unique heavy attack combos. Emphasis is placed on maximizing damage and style, with key stats being 66 strength, high dexterity, and 25-30 faith for enhancing the Electrify Armament spell and other abilities.

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In this segment of the video, the creator discusses a powerful build centered around the Night Rider glaive with a flame art affinity and the Flaming Strike Ash of War for both PvP and PvE scenarios. The build features high strength and faith levels to maximize its effectiveness, complemented by pyro incantations like the Black Blade spell. Essential equipment includes the Shard of Alexander, Flock Canvas Talisman, and Fire Scorpion Charm, aiming for maximum fire damage. The segment also humorously delves into a fictional story about Satan loving pizza but detesting pineapple on it, leading to the banishment of a chef who wields the Giza’s Wheel, highlighting the weapon’s strengths and weaknesses.

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In this part of the video, the focus is on a build that maximizes the effectiveness of charged heavy attacks, specifically when using a one-handed weapon with a shield. The key actions include leveraging guard counters to break enemy stances, allowing for potent charged heavy follow-ups. The recommended setup uses Giza’s Wheel, a medium shield, and various talismans such as the Winged Insignia and Axe Talisman to enhance successive attacks and charged heavy damage. Stat prioritization is evenly split between strength and dexterity.

Additionally, the segment discusses an alternative build centering around the Executioner’s Great Axe, which boasts the highest critical strike bonus among great axes. The strategy involves breaking stances using the Stamp Ash of War to deliver powerful critical strikes. The build can either incorporate a shield for guard counters or a second great axe for jump attacks. The segment also highlights the choice of cold infusion on the Executioner’s Great Axe to benefit from frost procs, further increasing critical strike damage.

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In this segment, the focus is on enhancing speed and effectiveness in combat through the use of various talismans: Dagger Talisman, Claw Talisman, and Curved Sword Talisman for guard counters when using a shield. In the drink flask, the Stone Barb tier is recommended for its ability to break stance, especially useful in boss fights due to its 30-second duration. The speaker advises prioritizing strength in level-ups, with the Executioner greataxe highlighted as a strength weapon that benefits from a bit of intelligence because of its cold affinity. Additionally, there is an invitation to join their Discord community to engage with other players and participate in live events.

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