15 Absolutely Essential Elden Ring Tips

Summary

This video offers 15 essential Elden Ring tips to enhance gameplay, including understanding HUD icons, exploiting environmental objects, and maximizing rune gains. It covers stealth tactics, spell acquisition, and boss strategies, ensuring a comprehensive guide for new players.

Takeaways

• 🔋 Pay attention to the icons on your HUD to understand the status effects affecting your character, as they can indicate whether buffs or debuffs are permanent, temporary, or situational.
• 🗿 Interact with statues and wooden structures to reveal hidden items by attacking or using the 'quit and reload' trick.
• 💨 Watch for white particle effects from defeated enemies to signify item drops and increase your item drops by using certain talismans and consumables.
• 🍂 Keep an eye out for the golden leaves of the Her tree, as they can increase the amount of runes you gain from defeating enemies.
• 💰 Equip the Gold Scarab Talisman to boost your rune gains and combine it with the Gold Pickled Foul Foot consumable for a significant rune gain increase.
• 📜 The Silver Scarab Talisman increases item discovery and can be found in a chest in a hidden path, requiring specific key items to access.
• 🐉 Defeating the dragon Grol early in the game can yield a large amount of runes, especially when using the Gold Scarab Talisman and consumables.
• 🛠 Unlock the option to buy Smithing Stones by obtaining Miner's Bell Bearings and interacting with the Twin Maiden Husk shop.
• 🔮 Level up your faith to access useful spells that can heal, cleanse, and boost your character's abilities in various situations.
• 🐞 Listen for the sound of Scarabs to find and defeat them for loot, including flask replenishment and smithing materials.
• 🎖️ Utilize the ability to Respec your stats multiple times with a Larer Tear, allowing flexibility in character builds and weapon usage.
• 🤫 Employ stealth tactics at night or by using specific actions to sneak past or backstab enemies for a more covert playstyle.
• 🗡️ Trade or duplicate boss remembrances with NPCs for powerful weapons or spells, using the mechanic of walking Melum to duplicate.
• 🙏 Use the Church of Vows and a Celestial Dew to remove NPC aggression if you've accidentally angered them.

Q & A

What are the three variants of the icons on the heads-up display in ELD, and what do they indicate?

The three variants are a square, a diamond, and no shape around the icon. A square indicates a permanent buff or debuff, usually from an equipped Talisman like an HP up Talisman. A diamond signifies a temporary effect, such as consuming the item Exalted Flesh for a 30-second attack buff. No shape around the icon means the effect is situational, like being near a Stalk of America for revival.

How can you reveal items hidden inside glowing statues in ELD?

You can reveal items by luring a large enemy to hit the statue, causing it to break and reveal the item inside.

What is the trick to access items hidden inside small wooden structures in ELD?

Approach the wooden structure as closely as possible, then save and quit the game. Upon reloading, the game will automatically destroy the wooden structure, allowing you to pick up the item inside.

What visual cue indicates that an enemy has dropped an item in ELD?

Strands of white particle effects coming out of the enemy's body indicate that they've dropped an item for you to pick up.

How can you increase the amount of runes gained when defeating enemies in ELD?

You can increase rune gain by equipping the Gold Scarab Talisman, which is found in the abandoned cave and dropped by minibosses at the end. Additionally, using the Gold Pickled Foot consumable item temporarily boosts rune gain.

What is the Silver Scarab Talisman in ELD, and how can you obtain it?

The Silver Scarab Talisman increases item discovery by 75. It can be found in a chest in the hidden path to the Halig Tree, which requires the left and right Halig Tree Secret Medallion key items to access.

How can you defeat the Dragon Grol early in the game for a massive amount of runes in ELD?

Grol can be found in the northeastern section of the Lands Between. Attack it from a specific spot towards the back and left side to avoid smaller dragons coming to its defense. Equipping the Gold Scarab Talisman and using a Gold Pickled Foot item before Grol dies can maximize rune gain.

How can you unlock the option to buy smithing stones at the Twin Maiden Husk shop in ELD?

You can unlock this option by obtaining the Miner's Bell bearing key items and giving them to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold.

What are some useful spells that can be accessed with 15 faith and a Sacred Seal in ELD?

With 15 faith and a Sacred Seal, you can cast incantations such as Bestial Vitality for healing, Flame Cleanse Me to remove poison and Scarlet rot, Urgent Heal for quick health recovery, Heal for moderate area of effect healing, and Flame Grant Me Strength to increase physical attacks and fire damage.

How can you respec your stats in ELD, and what is required for this?

You can respec your stats by defeating Rala at the Raya Lucaria Academy and then handing her a Larval Tear each time you want to respec your stats.

What is the benefit of using stealth in ELD, and how can you perform a backstab attack?

Using stealth reduces the range at which enemies can detect you, especially at night, allowing for deadly backstabs or sneaking past enemies. To perform a backstab, you must be behind the enemy and very close, then press the light attack button.

How can you duplicate a boss remembrance in ELD, and what are the limitations?

You can duplicate a boss remembrance by trading it to the NPC Enia at the Roundtable Hold. The limitation is that you can only duplicate one remembrance per Walking Melum, and if there's no bell on the Melum, you can only duplicate remembrances from the demigods.

How can you remove NPC aggression in ELD if you accidentally attacked them?

To remove NPC aggression, visit the Church of Vows in Lionia of the Lakes and perform an Absolution using a Celestial Dew, which is a rare key item that can be obtained from certain NPCs or merchants.