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The video provides a structured and detailed walkthrough of "Elden Ring," focusing on gameplay strategy, class and build choices, and key items. Emphasizing concise, easily digestible episodes, it highlights the 'Vagabond' class for its balanced attributes, ideal for beginners. The creator discusses starting items and self-imposed gameplay restrictions, such as using spells and maintaining agility. Strategic elements include using spells over weapon arts, dual-wielding staffs, utilizing stealth, and exploiting critical damage mechanics. The importance of exploration over linear progression is stressed, recommending early collection of key items like the stone sword key and golden seeds. Lastly, the video covers essential early-game resources and vendors, such as acquiring a crafting kit for item creation and locating upgrade stones. Preparing for future segments, the creator aims to complete a comprehensive guide including all unique items, upgrades, and trophies.
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In this part of the video, the creator introduces a revised and improved walkthrough of “Elden Ring” after multiple playthroughs. He plans to structure episodes to be as concise and bite-sized as possible. He suggests starting with the ‘Vagabond’ class due to its balanced attributes, making it a versatile choice for beginners who can later adjust their build. He emphasizes that this class minimizes wasted stats, particularly beneficial for different character builds, including magic users. The creator also mentions a personal challenge of avoiding investments in strength and dexterity, focusing more on spell usage. The video goes on to discuss other classes and their attributes, such as strength-heavy or dexterity-heavy builds and the distinction between sorceries and incantations.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses various character build options and useful starting items in the game. They explain that character appearance can be changed later, so initial customization is not crucial. Notable keepsakes like the storm sword key, cracked pots, fanged imp ashes, and golden seeds are reviewed for their utility. The speaker suggests that while all options have their uses, they each can be found throughout the game, making them non-essential at the start. Ultimately, the speaker chooses to skip selecting a starting keepsake, allowing viewers to decide based on their preferences. The segment ends as the gameplay begins with an opening cutscene and an initial exploration of the character’s inventory.
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In this part of the video, the host discusses various strategies and restrictions they plan to impose on themselves while playing the game. They aim to stay in a “light load” to maintain agility, avoiding investment in strength index, and focusing on the use of spells. They explain the reasoning behind equipping spells in the left hand, which conserves the use of weapon arts or Ashes of War. Additionally, the possibility of dual-wielding staffs for cumulative buffs is mentioned, though the host prefers to have a sidearm for backup. Then, they proceed to a scenario where the player is meant to lose to a boss early on, providing insight into this game mechanic meant to teach the player about game dynamics. Finally, the host prepares to guide viewers through the game’s tutorial, offering personal tips and controls insights as they progress.
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In this part of the video, the speaker outlines their gameplay strategy, emphasizing using more blue spells than red due to their dangerous nature. They discuss receiving one heal per run until obtaining another seed and highlight playing as a highly evasive mage using spells frequently. Viewers wanted to see a focus on mage skills, differing from previous playthroughs that featured a spell blade and a strength build. The speaker explains mechanics like dual-wielding for extra damage, guard counters, backstabbing, and sneaking. They mention the importance of stealth in certain situations and the utility of bushes for avoiding enemy detection. Additionally, stance breaking (referred to as stunning) is explained, where breaking an enemy’s stance leaves them vulnerable. The plan includes using a rapier for its high critical damage to exploit this mechanic, aiming for effective melee damage despite low overall melee capability.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the strategy and build choices in the game, emphasizing that no particular build, including a mage build, has a significant advantage over others. Instead, the game encourages using a variety of tools for different situations. They suggest picking up a stone sword key for difficult areas but recommend returning later when stronger. Key items like the Earth Tree’s favor and golden seeds are highlighted for their benefits. They advocate exploring rather than following a linear path, heading to Limgrave, and mentioning the importance of speaking to certain NPCs and collecting items like the golden effigy for multiplayer features. The segment concludes with tactical advice on avoiding tough enemies early on and collecting resources like glowing skulls.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the value of collecting a golden rune early in the game, which provides 200 extra runes, although it becomes less useful later on. They talk about acquiring an upgrade stone, noting that two are needed to enhance a weapon, and suggest it’s not immediately necessary. The speaker then mentions meeting a blacksmith soon. They recommend taking a grace checkpoint to ensure a safe respawn point.
Next, they emphasize the importance of buying a crafting kit from Cali for making bone arrows and other useful items, although a bow is not yet necessary. The crafting kit also enables the creation of multiplayer items, which requires collecting Erdleaf flowers found along the path.
Finally, the speaker explains that resting at grace points allows these flowers to respawn, making it easy to craft multiplayer items repeatedly. They then highlight moving to the next grace point where a character named Elena will appear, and they note the importance of collecting loot along the way, despite potentially missing some consumable items.
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In this part of the video, the speaker assures viewers that they will cover and obtain all unique items, upgrade stones, and trophies in the game. The speaker then concludes the segment by planning to start the next episode focusing on how to level up, aiming to keep each video around 20 minutes in length.