Is Leveling Mind Only a Big Brain Play?

people are always asking Phil do you ever think you'll have a run worse than Sans and I've always said yes at the time I never knew what that would be but the answer was on the thumbnail of sans all along no Vigor is one thing but Sans had intelligence a little endurance and some dexterity to cast spells so what if you only had mind but none of the other stats you need for spell casting well what you've got is essentially a level one run with a big blue bar at the top this one's gonna suck let's go to watch these runs live follow me on Twitch we're going to start recording a run where I invite people from chat to beat bosses for me so I need all of you there join my patreon if you want to give me money and now I'd like to get started if you don't mind [Music] in my we're starting off as Megamind what's the difference between this build and some other builds presentation boom into Lim grave we have no need to be the grafted Scion he's kind of a handful as a wretch or several hands full we grab the crafting kit a horse a wet blade some dogs save Alexander and head into the high road cave we have to start off as a wretch because otherwise we'd have stats that aren't mined that also means we're naked and also means we can beat the guardian Golem easy two charged attacks on the ankles drop them to the ground open up the chest and repeat now we have the blue dancer charm for around 18 more damage while we're naked it's kind of a sliding scale so I don't have the specific number we'll also smack up the tibia Mariner which is pretty easy our club deals strike damage which he's weak to and our dogs love bones most dogs do that'll give us one death spaghetti we'll eventually need two to cash in the spaghetti we have to go to the dragon Barrel might as well grab a somberstone 9-8 before getting taken to our secret lair I don't actually want to go there just stopped at the grace to stop the dogs from killing us while we buy the spiked zestus punch the dragon toes get a bunch of runes and uh that's pretty much the only useful leveling up we do any further investment in mind is useless this is a level 1 run but with extra magic quickly into Ford fair with while we're here I grab The dactus Medallion the golden ruin 12 and Radigan Source seal it'll actually be useful for this run since everything's gonna One-Shot us really really soon back on the spaghetti Quest we go into the death touched catacombs and pull a lever to fight the black knife assassin apparently somebody already got this started for us but the dogs really want to do the work she just kinda doesn't get to play the game which is helpful when we can't take a hit the Crimson dagger is useless for us that'll heal us when we critically hit but the second death spaghetti in the chest will let us buy a beast seal and the Beast sling spell since it's all physical damage it gets boosted by the blue dancer charm and since it's a beast spell it gets boosted by the Beast seal since the Beast seal scales with strength we can actually two-handed for a damage boost and then boost the damage again with the syncadia I only fell to my death three times trying to get it with all those boosts it should be pretty good right right it should be good it isn't anyway interlernia and we find two fingers in a hole the two fingers in the hole are the only way we can boost a stat that lets us use the mind no form of spell casting does more damage with more mind it's just the pool of magic you have to cast with but taking these two fingers will give us five fate remember how I said we'd get one shot soon this is soon less than an hour and we get one shot by the lobster then a knight's Cavalry I thought I could get the ice beer Ash of war from him but uh I don't think it's worth it then a lobster again on the way to the bell of Grace now imagine Megamind in four tight there will grab the other part of the ductus Medallion and scoot up to Altus since we can't get a lot of faith I'm grabbing the golden order seal it also scales with intelligence and gets leveled up with somber Stones not sure why I grabbed the Bell bearing too since that's only for normal smoothing Stones uh force a habit I suppose for more intelligence we'll grab the intelligence boosting physic tier 4 plus 10 intelligence for three minutes at a time we need it just to hit the requirements to use the seal that means every boss fight now has a timer oh God EG will let us level up the seal but we can get somber Stones one through three for free in the Ryan Lucario Crystal tunnel not sure why I killed the crystalline at the bottom for the Bell bearing one since that's only for normal smoothing Stones force of habit again nice suppose now we can get the seal up to plus 4. speaking of somberstones let's go to somberland and pick up a faith boosting physique here from the Weeping Peninsula it's just like the intelligence one but for Faith letting us hit 25 faith and 20 intelligence worth noting if we hold the Beast boosting steel or the Cinque idea in our other hand that'll still boost the B spells we cast with the golden order seal while we're in the area a couple of sacred tears though they don't really matter our health will be fully restored by the Crimson flask at this point and we're never going to run out of mind or at least very rarely there's a somberstone 5 in the Altus tunnel it's kind of stressful getting in and out but we made it out alive obviously the death count will be low don't skip ahead there's a somberstone 6 up at Mount gel near it's a bit of a hike but thanks to the magic of editing boom there we are plus six casting seal the most useful way to spend our mind will be summoning Spirit ashes I thought about using lutal but she's not super aggressive and I need someone who's gonna tank for us Oleg is also good but we'd have to go through the cringe folk Hero's grave and beat a putrid tree Spirit I'm going for Engvall he's just as good as Oleg and in a much less annoying dungeon The Merc water catacombs let you just pull a lever and fight the Giga Chad grave Warden duelist watch him throw off his coat he's so cool from Salt I want the grave Warden doulas Spirit Ash and the DLC please I'll give you sixty dollars for it between the dogs are relatively high level seal and the duelist's low-level stats were able to clear it out no issues for Bill Engvall let's go on a blue collar tour of the lands between Margaret first he's no match for us emphasis on us not me angville Raji or go we're basically a Pokemon trainer complete with the ability to throw rocks if we don't have other options beastling has a pretty low range but we're able to manage that fight we'll head to get something a little bit better later the dragon Frost and dragon rot spells are not replacements for the beastling there are totally different option I just want them to put on status effects like frostbite and rot to our next boss but for the Arcana cast those spells we have to get something out of the search around and River well I was worried we'd have to fight the dragon king Soldier but it turns out we can just sneak around the sleepy boy and get America's sore seal which boosts the soft stats by three each while we get a penalty to our damage absorption that's fine we can't live hits anyway the Albert Eric mask could also do that but it's further away and this also boosts our intelligence and Faith for better casting with the golden order seal just a quick memory Stone so that we can actually memorize all the Spells before we go fight radon status effects are just the way to go with this large lad the bigger they are the harder they suffer from tummy aches only issue when you cast the dragon spells the big dragon head covers so much of the screen real estate I can't see where radon is winding up and he hits us twice but third try we managed to get the Rock and the frostbite off at the same time apparently you just need to get the rod on at once and it'll slowly kill him but I'm extra by the way everyone with redonden part one is over that means it's time for the adult section of the video so we can say whatever the hell we want [Music] big fat load of Covenant for one of this Quest is to beat O'Neill but on the way to fight him we get millicented the idea of fighting Melania Jr without figure sounds like a nightmare thankfully we just Spam the giant dragon breath push her away hopefully O'Neill is easy with Melania Jr too or is that Wendy oh sent she's not enough all of O'Neill's voice will kill us pretty fast O'Neill one shots us this is gonna be rough I tried again I died again so detour let's make Engvall stronger so he can carry us through with his blue collar sensibilities a Ronnie quest in my tulock and mango content more likely than you'd think unlike on other ones the arrows running up to carry a manner are a genuine threat Loretta is also way more of a threat normally she's a non-ending stream of magic damage but you can heal it off and live a few hits we can't most of her hits are one shot the Loretta slash is technically a two shot but the first shot stuns us into the second shot so basically a one shot after four deaths I decide our rocks and dragon spells won't cut it we need some heat perhaps some Blasphemous heat gostock was planning to rob me so I killed him a villain robbing a villain have you no class on the safe path we die because I got distracted and someone threw a fire bomb next to all the gunpowder safe paths and from soft games have a bunch of loose gunpowder OSHA would be pissed next run we get past the wind Knights and make the big jump to open the fog gates to get the god slang prayer book imagine reading a Bible with instructions to kill God we bring that to corn syrup he gets all judgy but I buy magical fortification anyway should have gone to the dog Pope he's much more chill magic fortification will give us 35 more magical resistance so Loretta's carry and spam will be easier though her halberd still carves us up like a turkey the new hotness from our black flame tornado is strong enough since we can keep that seal in our offhand for a 20 damage boost and each Fireball takes away about three percent of her Max HP I talked to Ronnie and tell her I'm gonna enter her brother's hole then I do fighting the mimic tear in this run is great because it sucks and it's me and I suck now that we've beaten up ourselves we can go into the night sacred ground for the Finger Slayer blade and ghost glove Ward 10. Ronnie gives us a statue to congratulate us for making it out of radon's hole alive and then we use that to turn the carrion study hall upside down remember everyone you don't have to do the carry and study hall for the Ronnie Quest just because I used to think you did but at the end of this horrible plan platforming challenge complete with a dude spamming lasers at you we got a nice reward we got killed on the way down but don't pay attention to that pay attention to the Stargazer heirloom which will give us plus five to our intelligence for better casting if we're gonna survive the ancel river Maine we should dress up like Ronnie and cells are terrified of women so hopefully it will keep us safe well I thought it might second try we make it to Knox Stella we say hi to Phalanx Demon's holes and Phalanx says die to us back again Summerstone 7 and we diagramming in glove Ward 8 without getting the grace oof but that just means I can try a new route and find another glove War 9 in this chest where I also died but I don't care now we can level up angle maxed out Engvall is ready to hit O'Neill with a big here's your sad his moveset isn't really complicated he just spins the big Halbert and jumps a lot kind of like a Dragoon for my final fantasy fans final fans dull sees uh O'Neill die we give the needle the gallery run through the town of horse where he died some ball crushing and cure Millicent I accidentally found some speed running Tech by jumping off the cliff and tying which put our body near a snake America next to Gary's Hut it would be better if there was a Grace here from soft if you're watching you can charge me sixty dollars for a gallery hunt Grace I'll pay for it I don't care let's go back to Altus and dip into the Shaded castle for the valkyrie prosthesis after we deliver it to Millicent Gallery will sell us the pest threads we don't have enough money for it I'm so poor I want to kill godrick eventually I guess let's go do that and make it to the secluded cell brace right after getting to it we die again but it doesn't matter I just needed the grace godric is pretty easy with a maxed out angle and black Flames coming out of a plus nine seal it's nice to have easy bosses I hope this trend continues we take his runes and buy the pest threads now we can start shooting ropes all over everything might seem like similar strategies to the speed run and that's fair I just needed all the best stuff if I'm gonna get through this took the name Metro man defender of matrosity stream two begins with a trip to raiolukarya first we blast a load of webs onto Smart's face for the key I guess you can grab the key and run look at how good pest threads is even with our little investment what about says multiple hitboxes the threads penetrate through and hit everything multiple times the bigger they are the harder we shoot let's go to college and fight the mascot the red wolf of radagon if seeing past transit in the red wolf of radagon makes you feel a certain way you might be a furry now I'm doing Jeff Foxworthy furry Jokes wait Foxworthy he already has a fursona after killing his dog we can lift radigan's icon from the balcony above the fight that'll be our only way to increase our spell cast and speed since we can't invest in dexterity shooting ropes on moongrim worked fine it breaks his shield but only just none of the ropes are actually dealing damage so he gets up close and smacks us down embarrassing let's just ignore him ranola time our pest threads don't deal enough damage to one cycle phase one and I decided to use an actual weapon to hit the kids I could add them with magic but you only have to hit them once it's kind of nice to just keep them alive for once Space 2 is rough even with magic fortification she just doesn't stop shooting it's miserable eventually we get it and we don't die great for another great casting Tales when we head back to Altus and fight Godfrey who's just godric without a phase two oh and we can't summon so how hard is Engvall carrying us pretty hard actually not only does he distract bosses after looking at the numbers here seems like he's also dealing a majority of the damage ropes and black flame are both super not effective here but eventually I just figured out black flame was super better I died twice to figure that out but hey at least we're learning that's everything we need from outside Altus let's go for the draconic tree Sentinel and head into metrosity I brought some Rune arcs first since those are probably a better investment than leveling up the duraconic 3 Sentinel is surprise a bit of a problem because we surprise get one shot I thought staying on the horse was the best idea since horse fast but is horse fast as Lightning no I learned that lesson twice then I just got hit all we have to do is rot this sucker then get our toes on the ground for better dodging and Chuck black Flames at it oh and have angle keep him occupied up close what a great minion let's actually armor up a bit maybe not for damage resistance but the stylish hat Moon mother wears boost our intelligence by three that's slightly better casting intimatrosity and intimatrosity again we scoop up the Lionel tummy since we can actually wear it with the low endurance that's because casting seals are light as hell and we're still not wearing pants Engvall isn't the brightest of boys in the Godfrey fight he really wants to fight the mushrooms outside but this version of Godfrey is easy just throw the black flame and wait for him to stop back up and repeat hopefully the next version will be this easy and won't have a more powerful Stomp The Black knife assassin is easy but deceptively so I would love to go get teached from the blue and light altar but fighting electo without a bed to jump on would be a nightmare not to mention the nightmare of fighting Estelle without any Vigor overall Tish is very good I understand why people thought I should use her but she's just probably more trouble than she's worth more God is next or should I say more rot because we rot him then throw fire at him little tick tick ticks of Health eventually add up to a more lot and then we more fought our way to Victory the path to the fire giant is somewhat uneventful I'm happy that I got the grace at the elevator so we don't have to run all the way back after the gargoyle Snipes us with the accuracy of a U.S marine which over 300 confirmed kills otherwise it's just slowly scooting through the mountaintops of the Giants which takes a while but it's easy fire giant should also be easy we have pest threads and this is pretty much a free win not this time no not this time it's totally made up pure fiction well it turns out we can't take a single hit also the camera will change what we're locked onto sometimes it changes into blocking onto nothing instead of shooting ropes on the fire Giant's face and chest we just shoot our ropes on the floor overall we got squished seven times for eventually covering this dude in enough threads to burn him down one boss that can normally be easy being really hard doesn't mean a hard boss will be easy but sometimes it does different builds handle different things well and apparently fighting the godskin duo like a coward is the right way to do it we summon Bernie get some rot on these puppies and jump on the pillar to avoid the rollout it works again it's been working lately I'm so happy I hate the rollout this is the last easy thing everything after this is gonna suck mind over matter does it matter to any of us okay so malachapt is the next big wall right no it's the bird run we don't even make the swag jump first try humiliating the birds are an issue the lightning is an issue the birds and the lightning together make this feel like trying to throw Jello through a nest of razor wire and hoping it comes out in one piece you know that relatable experience great simile me the solution is to just kill a few Birds on the way down that way they can't chase you easy enough I only died seven times fighting the three sentinel without angle sounds like a special kind of help so I just ran into the fight with Malachi right away but it turns out that's going to be another special kind of hell so let's just go through the hell of fighting the tree Sentinel without help first dexterity is the stat that makes you cast faster we don't have it the only boost we can get are from radical sorcille and radigan's icon problem the tree Sentinel doesn't give us enough time to cast I guess technically it does but the window is so much tighter than it would normally be the margin for error is also non-existent since every hit is a one shot slightly good news though we only have to fight half a tree Sentinel since we can rot it while it leads with its worthless hoof attack always starts with that don't know why then back away and wait for the rod to bring it down to half HP bad news the AI doesn't actually reset with its position so we can't route it again seven more deaths until we get it done now let's do the hell that is malacath he's really aggressive and even has ranged attacks so we can live through the shotgun of rocks sometimes but only if we only get hit by a few rocks I'd say it kills us more than it doesn't but that's just phase one phase two his sword does damage over time that kind of doesn't matter because we never lived the original hit does that make it better in a way damage over time is the key to Victory though just stay back and throw the Fireballs that's the way to go that's only eight more deaths hopefully Gideon dies first try Gideon dies first try we open with a route then shoot ropes while the ropes are great on big bosses they're also great against NPCs since they track really really well that's a win but this section is for suffering and uh we don't even know what suffering is yet [Music] foreign [Music] fact Godfrey is super aggressive against casters every time he cast a spell he wants to crash into you then we can't take a hit we couldn't take a hit seven bosses ago so we definitely can't take one here fun fact number two the Fisher attack begins when he puts his ax in the ground it will erupt no matter what even if you push him into phase two the cutscene plays and whoop we die phase 1.5 is the real problem though with a giant AOE Shockwave that covers the entire Arena and we get stuck there for a long time because we're not dealing damage and we're dealing less damage because there's no safe window to make an attack while the AOE covers the screen against the shade it was only rocks with the stops we could move away get a fireball off while he cools down since we have to dodge every time we don't have time to attack after eight deaths we need a new strap I'm going to get the black knife maybe we can take away a percentage of his max HP then Whittle him down with some more damage over time that will stack with our black flame much like the tree Sentinel fight I tried to stay on the horse and much like the tree Sentinel fight that was a bad idea you can't Dodge on the horse even if you sprint and the beams one shot us I died twice before learning that because I'm stubborn let's try it and it uh it doesn't work I mean the damage over time works but the percentage off the top doesn't activate until you're in phase two for some reason I do give it a 12 solid prize just to be sure I'm a scientist after all that's why my mind is so big next we're gonna try flame grant me strength it's a spell that'll give us 20 more fire damage for 20 seconds that might not sound like a lot of time because it's not a lot of people have been asking why I don't go get the 20 second power boost and to them I say a Pity your lovers and I don't like this spell seven deaths so not until I try something new just until something very funny happens the Stomps look at this this dude stops so many times in a row and for extra fun look at engvall's health bar let's count here one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen times in a row he even kills us before Engvall slaps him into phase two so we get to watch the cutscene before I die then die anyway I died a lot of times to this guy this was the funniest good news that means all the other deaths don't matter and we can speed through them I guess at some point I went into the cringe folk Hero's grave and grabbed the dragon communion seal which will boost the damage from our Dragon smells while we afflict the rot and Frostbite but it doesn't work for a long time here's the win first we avoid the ax throw I think the best way to bait it is walking forward instead of running forward then you 180 into a dragon breath and Frostbite Takes Two Hits to pop maybe that's better since it's more damage right away I'm not sure honestly the rot breath only takes one pop to hit and then we start hitting black flame attacks for phase 1.5 and get a blade of death and black flame off again to get into phase two there it's engvall's turn to take the aggro rot breath and run just run and let the rock do its thing now we're doing big Stomps and all I can do is run until he whiffs a combo then I hit him with a blade of death avoid the daddy grab again and land one more blade of death to finally clear it out only one more boss to go baby so why don't you kill me we had a little bit of time left in this Stream So I activated goddard's great room and got the holy fortification spell for radagon and let us live a hit or two but not really we get smacked down and die a quick five times we'll have to do another stream and considering how brutal radagon was for Sans which could deal decent damage I do not think this is gonna go better let's come back later coming back I wanted to test how Engvall did on his own we really just need to get to the aldenbeast then pest threads should be able to melt it down Engel does really poorly on his own I know someone else we can get but it's not gonna be fun for our new assistant we have to go through the Castle's hole and almost make it to the shortcut on the first try but everything on the way up there will one shot us and there are a lot of things trying to hit us after three deaths we get there which means now we get to die to Nile he has two friends who can one shot us one of them is just Engvall with frostbite so we have to fight Niall with our own Spirit Ash but better and a second Spirit Ash but it's also better than the normal version meat somehow after four deaths were able to squeak by a win which we're on our way to the hidden path to the hallig tree after we get the second piece of the ductus Medallion and jumping to our death again because it's faster the mimic tier we have to fight is easy enough I just send an egg roll and let him do it but on the way we died four times whoopsie our reward is black flame monk a mod who does a lot of damage with black flame that does percentage of Health like our black flame does we need to grab some ghost glove words but that doesn't take too long then we get in there and uh die well I guess I didn't get the glove War 10. so maybe that'll make a difference I tied to the ball trying to get it and also uh no okay let's maybe try and take more hits the ritual Shield Talisman will give us 30 more defense at full health so yeah maybe we can take a hit uh kind of most of the time not actually so let's get the Hope line bubble tier maybe some of you were screaming for it in the comments but let me tell you this it sucks well it gives us one free hit it cuts our intelligence or faith because we can't use that physic here so it makes our offense much worse and that means fighting radagon longer which means more chances to take a hit also more time for our plus 10 bonus to the other stat to fall off because it only lasts three minutes which would mean we don't have a way to continue to deal damage so yeah 14 deaths with that on you really can't say I didn't give it the old College try I have one more idea and it's really stupid like no way it's gonna work but this isn't working either so I might as well go do something else that's not gonna work this time it's volcano Manor we're able to beat the god skin Noble on the first try it actually let us hide behind the pillar again like it was supposed to God skin Nobles are actually working tonight hooray we die to a snake on the way to Reichard but second try we make it through and get the spear then go level it up but of course die once on the way that doesn't mean reichardt is free though he gets this eruption move and I straight up have no idea how to dodge it all the other hits are also a one shot everything is a one shot we get the win after I go grab the strength tier since the serpent slaying great spirit mostly scales with strength now it's leveled up high enough and we're able to kill him and get the blasts from this blade little problem though EG's out of Sombra Stone Force so we have to bully down the crystallians with tickers flames videos 30 plus 100 when you use it and also does great fire damage we can boost that damage further with The Shard of Alexander so we'll head up into from Azula and fight the pop lad I didn't realize his ground slam is so giant so this is the first death to Alexander in our history I'm honestly just happy he got a win after shooting ropes on our friend to get to his innards we die to a Nastia once before beating her to max out the blast from this Blade with the somberstone 10. here's the bad idea I'm gonna put on heavy armor get into heavy load and just Poise through radagon's hits with taker's flames hoping it heals us enough to keep us at full health it's a bad idea it didn't work but the damage was so much better from taker's Flames so that's the new strategy then eventually we make it to the eldenbeast now we have to use the pest threads and uh oh no that's not actually that much damage and then the Elden stars comes out we have no choice we just die maybe if I'm able to hot swap some talismans we could get naked and boost our damage with the blue dancer charm just hot swapping the talismans is hard though I fudged up the first time second try we get the talismans right except even that's not enough maybe I just need a few more attempts once again we make it and Elden Stars just not something we can get around our damage isn't big enough like it was for Sans to just kill the Beast I had to go on a trip soon and we were already doing worse than Sans so I made an executive call we lost I even made it worse by going to kill the putrid Avatar to start leveling up our vicar since I still wanted to kill the eldenbeast but that was only enough for one level so instead I just go to ranola and respect the only stat I improved was vicar no other damaging stats and guess what we won first try if there's a lesson to be learned here mind is useless after 40. even 40 is too much in my opinion you have blue flasks you can drink and there's no benefit to having more than 40 mind in game time 10 30 though technically we did not complete deaths 219. though again we did not complete and bosses 31 but only 30 with only mine we have a new build below Sans and in the future if we're obviously worse than this build I'm just gonna call it and give up it's kind of nice to have a floor if you like this video subscribe for more we're finding new ways to play Elder ring all the time we've been on a bit of a break from twitch but we're back and doing some very silly ideas join me on the patreon to give me money that's the best place to do it and check out my other channel if you like tabletop RPGs and other silly stuff

Channel: Tulok & Mango

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Keywords: Edlen Ring, elden ring, play as, final boss, challenge, CHALLENGE, Playthrough, full game, elden beast, character build, fromsoft, gameplay, bosses, elden lord, Full, character, build, Tulok, stream, rank, tier, summon, stun, posture, poise, stance, critical, lands, Ashes, quest, line, questline, spirit ash, spirit ashes, weapon, only, leveling, run, Leveling, armor, set, helm, Megamind, Mind, mega, blue, blasphemous blade, ranni, renalla, witch hat, crescent crown, engval, level one run, level 1 run, no vigor, stats

Id: G9kO8trxFow

Length: 25min 5sec (1505 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 03 2023