How to Fully Prepare for Elden Ring's DLC

I'm sure a lot of you guys know this stuff already, but we wanted to put all this info in one place to make it easy for everyone to bring new characters up to speed for the DLC. What build are you bringing into the DLC? Also, thanks again to NordVPN for sponsoring this video! Link here if you want that deal nordvpn.com/vaatividya

about the Larval Tears: in addition to all those pickups, every single ball enemy in Nokstella drops a tear the first time you kill it. there's probably other spots, too

The weirdest unresolved questline imo is Patches. He acts like he's dying, gives you a trinket to give to Tanith that she doesn't seem to understand or care about, and then just shows back up where you first met him almost like nothing after that point happened at all.

My mom just passed away 3 weeks ago now and we were extremely close. I’ve felt like I’m sinking into a black hole of depression. I just want to say that putting this channel on, laying in bed, is the only way I’ve been able to sleep. These videos are great on a video game /entertainment level but weirdly, vattis voice is soothing. Every night I just let the playlists play and eventually my brain just shuts off long enough to get some sleep. Tell the people important to you that you love them because life is fragile. Thanks for the great content vatti.

about the npc summons in front of the great jar, those are actually player builds, when Fia holds you, it makes a copy of your build and uploads it, then it has a chance to appear as a summon npc variant for another player there, in front of the great jar, its pretty amazing, also, they change on each attempt so thats why it pretty hard to defeat them since you dont really know what summon you'll get, if it has a staff and sword, it could have any spells, or any incantations or combinations of those

Also disable all the walking mausoleums to duplicate remembrances from the DLC

For awareness sake: on Varre's quest. You need only kill 1 shardbarer to progress. It doesn't need to be Godrick. Heck, it could be Rahdan if you choose so lol.

For those of you using Vaati's guide to do Varre's quest. It should be noted that you might have a TON of trouble approaching that church due to a tower nearby where a madness aoe spell is constantly being casted that'll make you explode with madness if you're exposed too long. If you want to get through this part, there are two ways. 1. Hide behind walls. The spell is casted every few seconds. But as long as your character can't "See" the "giant eye of Sauron being conjured up above you" then the madness meter won't build up. crouch in bushes or go behind a wall that is facing the area, or under the tower itself. This allows you avoid the madness buildup. 2. Kill Hyetta. By this point if you've done Castle Morne already, then Hyetta will be available immediately in front of the grace that is your entrance point into Liurnia. Whether you skipped stormveil or took the path after Godrick's boss room. Obviously don't do this if you WANT the Lord of Frenzy ending or the Talisman that boosts madness incantations which you should note also scales with stats aside from strength and faith, which is rare in a talisman. But if you're okay with (and most are) avoiding that ending, then you probably feel no guilt in murdering Hyetta off the spot. She's one fast travel away with ZERO effort, and she hardly fights back. (This is coming from the person who never obtained Millicent's prosthesis cause she couldn't bring herself to do it.. you'll get over it.) Also you can go dip your cloth in the blood of your OWN finger maiden, who lies dead in the First Step when you first emerge into the game with a new character, which is also quite close by and easy to reach. Just go to the four belfries and pick the the right portal gate, and aside from fighting the Grafted boss who killed you the first time when you entered the game (who'll be super easy this time around since you're powerful enough and have ash summons to spam now), you'll be able to get blood easy. Also, to top it off, getting here is necessary to complete Nepheli's quest, so why not just kill two birds with one stone?

This might be the first video I’ve seen from you where I actually knew all the material! But I am sure many appreciate this good info 👍🏻

A small misconception about Varre’s quest: your invasions do not need to be successful, you just have to have invaded 3 players. You can literally just use the Finger Severer to leave immediately after invading, same applies to Magnus

This is the most complete Elden Ring tutorial video I have seen and it isn't close. Thank you very much. Well done!

For Varre's Quest, I find the easiest and earliest way to get maiden blood for the Lord of Blood's Favor is to go to the Four Belfries. Ride up to the top where the Fourth Belfry contains an Imbued Sword Key. After, go to the Second Belfry where, after beating the Grafted Scion, you're able to go to the starting room of the game and find an already dead maiden who's blood can be used. Sidenote, when forced to invade another world three times, immediately use the finger severer to return to your world as beating another player is not needed to progress the questline.

Me who has 100% the game multiple times. Im still not ready

I haven’t seen anyone mention this but you don’t actually have to beat another player or even beat the NPC when using the festering fingers. As long as you invade 3x you can move forward in the quest

Thanks for the video. Your voice is very calm and soothing. Some content creators done have a voice i want to listen to for too long. I usually do YouTube while working so this was great and tried it once I got home.

Absolutely incredible video!!! So much info and so little spoilers!! Thank you so much!

How to actually prepare: Watch all VaatiVidya videos again

I wonder if Malenia will have different dialogue if we meet Miquella before fighting her.

Thank you for sharing this stuff i didn't know a lot of these, keep up the great work vaati!

Great video, as always! I’m starting my new character this weekend! I notice you forgot to add the map thumbnail at 26:04, where you mention getting the physik for Mohg.