The Beginner's Guide to Elden Ring

Simple, clean, no major spoilers and no ridiculous rambling. Always one of the best for souls content

"they're not blockin the path, they ARE the path" is one of the best realisations about how to play Soulsborne games. Thanks for the guide.

"They aren't blocking the path, they are the path." Good philosophy to live by. Reminds me of an old Roman proverb: "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

One more key tip: You do NOT have to fight everything, it’s okay to run away from the big baddies and come back when you’re stronger. I spent the first three hours of my playthrough trying to kill the Tree Sentinel and made no progress.

This is easily the most helpful guide out right now. And good luck to the folks who are starting their very first Souls game with Elden Ring.

This video is the modern day equivalent of reading the manual on the way home from blockbuster. Your channel is relaxing and engaging. Thank you for making videos.

Some more tips not mentioned. Sorry I'm late. 1] Most smithing stones for upgrading armaments can eventually be purchased infinitely once you acquire a special item called a "Stone Bell Bearing". These are exchanged at round table hold with an npc who sells useful things. Once you give the npc a stone bell bearing, they'll sell you unlimited smithing stones corresponding to the tier of the stone bell bearing. Look for small circular symbols on the map with a slightly orange highlight, they indicates its a cave. Stone bell bearings are mostly found in caves. And more difficult areas give you higher tier bell bearings to exchange. What this means is that contradictory to what was said in the guide, you can actually upgrade as many weapons as you want later on, so don't be scared, it is not a finite resource. 2] A good indication that your dodge roll is going to be fast enough and that your armour isn't too heavy for your character is that you'll see it says "Light, mid or heavy" under your weight category. If it says "heavy" then your armour is going to slow your dodge roll. Forget the 70% thing. Just read that tool tip. If you equip armour and it knocks up your weight load to heavy, consider leaving it unequipped until you've got enough endurance stat to carry more. Also regarding weight, if you equip multiple armaments, it adds to your weight, even when you switch out the armaments. So while it might seem cool n fancy to have so many weapon slots, it might not be practical to use them all. Stick to one or two weapons. 3] You can backstab if you "light attack" an enemy from behind or "critical strike" them if you light attack them from the front after you break their armour and they become briefly wounded. Eventually you'll get a talisman that can heal you whenever you get a critical strike, which helps immensely with sustaining your health during long encounters and you don't want to use all your flasks. 4] Your actual inventory is limitless and adds no weight to your character. So don't be scared to hoard up all your findings. There really is no need for a stash in Elden ring (although there is one if that's your thing) 5] Don't immediately use/sell your golden runes. Stockpile them until they're required. You'll lose your currency on death, but runes are kept. I made the mistake of selling all of mine for about 130k and died shortly afterwards. Losing it all :(. When I could have just kept them in the inventory and sold them off when I was in a safer location and could level up or spend them for items. 6] if your gonna play a melee focused build, regardless of strength or dexterity, consider investing most of your early attributes on Vigor first. You'll need the health, TRUST ME. your damage scaling should mostly come from armament upgrades in the early game that's more than enough. Won't be until later you start dropping it all on your damage scaling stat. (Str/dex) based on weapon. Feel free to add more tips here in the reply section to my comment. Cheers & have a good one

As someone who has never played a souls and for w/e reason finding myself oddly very curious about Elden Ring, this was invaluable. Thank you for making this.

Tree Sentinel was the most humbling boss for me, I played the samurai class and every engagement ended in about 2 hits. I spent hours fighting him, not moving from the opening area, when I decided to move past him until I get a better shield. I explored caves, cleared out encampments and even fought other mini bosses until I got a 100 physical defense shield. After that I returned and beat Tree Sentinel like he was a walk in the park. If anything Elden Ring taught me that it's okay to explore and return to bosses when you're better equipped. You don't have to slam your head into a brick wall and I think this design philosophy makes it one of, if not the most accessible soulslike to newer players and I'm all for it.

haven't even gone to Margit yet 6hrs in, the open world is so filled with fun stuff to discover and good bosses to fight

Every YouTuber should watch these videos as a guide. No dumb graphics or intros and this guy has such a great, calm voice for these videos. Love it.

Small piece of advice for handling your mount: in order to double-jump, you have to jump first. Falling doesn't enable it. If you fall off a cliff while riding your steed, you won't be able to double-jump because the game registers falling as being different from jumping. Instead, if you want to double-jump near a landing spot below, you have to make sure you jump off the ledge, not just run off.

I'm a "souls vet", but holy moly I am so damn rusty this time around. Got my ass beat by Tree Sentinel like 10 times in a row. I will persevere!

This is exactly how I would want the basics taught to me if I were starting this game without experience. Great guide!

You have a calm voice, get to the point without rambling or over explaining and the content is fantastic. I've never played a Dark Souls game and I'm downloading Elden Ring as we speak so there! You have my sub! Thank you!

This is literally Elden Ring ASMR. I’m all for this. Instant sub. Incredible content!

One extra tip, certain enemies like those made of stone or in mines, take way more damage from strike weapons like the mace, so try a strike weapon if your sword is struggling

thanks for this, man. elden ring is my first souls game. i’m absolutely loving it so far and am slowly but surely getting used to the combat, and this video is great help. tbh i was worried i’d wind up getting frustrated by now but even when i’m repeatedly getting my ass kicked, i’m having a blast. it’s tough but fair, and i can tell that if i keep at it, pace myself, and don’t get cocky, eventually i’ll win. i think i’m starting to understand why people like these games so much :)

This game was my first experience into this genre of gaming. It has been a rough one. I was overwhelmed and confused and angry because it seemed like everyone was stronger than me and i didn’t know what steps i needed to do to get better. This guide is hopefully going to help me and get me better because the game is wonderful

This is the best Elden Ring beginner’s guide out there at the moment. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to create such an accessible, spoiler-free handbook for new players.