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Rusty's ratings of Elden Ring
By FIRUIN
A guide with other guides and videos where Rusty evaluates something in Elden Ring - from clothing style to all the weapons at once (before the DLC release)
   
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Category: Achievements, Characters, Co-op, Crafting, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Secrets, Story or Lore, Weapons
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
84 Elden Ring & DLC Spirit Ashes From Worst To Best... 
80 Elden Ring DLC Skills From Worst to Best... 
23 Elden Ring DLC Remembrance Rewards From Worst to Best... 
39 Elden Ring DLC Talismans From Worst To Best (Patch 1.13) 
37 Elden Ring Crystal Tears From Worst To Best... 
42 Elden Ring DLC Spells From Worst to Best... (Patch 1.12.3) 
Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring DLC Weapons (Patch 1.12.3) 
126 Elden Ring Armor Sets From Worst to Best... 
19 Elden Ring Maps From Worst To Best... 
16 Elden Ring Crucible Knights From Worst To Best... 
115 Elden Ring Consumables From Worst to Best... 
69 Elden Ring Shields From Worst To Best... 
Explaining Elden Ring's Misleading Damage Calculation System 
88 Elden Ring Unique Skills From Worst to Best... 
308 Elden Ring Weapons From Worst to Best... (Pre-DLC) 
47 Elden Ring Gestures From Worst To Best 
64 Elden Ring Spirit Summons From Worst To Best 
36 Elden Ring NPC Quests From Worst To Best 
25 Elden Ring Bows From Best to Worst 
18 Elden Ring Staves From Worst To Best 
91 Elden Ring Ashes of War From Worst to Best (Patch 1.10) 
16 Elden Ring Daggers From Worst to Best (Patch 1.10) 
91 Elden Ring Talismans From Worst To Best 
Oh God, Now He's Ranking The Elden Ring Great Runes... 
101 Elden Ring Incantations From Worst To Best... 
70 Elden Ring Sorceries From Worst To Best... 
Damn It, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Paintings... 
The Food In Elden Ring From Worst To Best 
Oh No, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Evergaols... 
Elden Ring Bosses By How Well I Think They Play Chess 
9 Elden Ring Legendary Armaments From Worst To Best 
Every Crystal Tear in Elden Ring From Worst To Best 
Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Merchants... 
Every Elden Ring Magic Type From Worst to Best... 
Every Elden Ring Armor Set From Worst To Best (...In Fashion) 
Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Caves... 
Let's Rank The Keepsakes! 
Let's Rank the Spirit Ashes... 
Y'all Mind If I Rank The Elden Ring Catacombs??? 
Y'all Mind If I Rank Some Elden Ring Talismans? (PATCH 1.04) 
Y'all Mind If I Rank Some Elden Ring Weapons? (THIS IS OUTDATED STOP WATCHING) 
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84 Elden Ring & DLC Spirit Ashes From Worst To Best...
All 84 spirit ashes in both Elden Ring and the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC ranked from mightiest from tiniest.

Big projects coming up really soon.
Hope you're ready.

80 Elden Ring DLC Skills From Worst to Best...
I'm actually afraid that not listing this video as "79 elden ring skills ranked" might throw off the search algorithm just because I'm counting rancor slash twice.

Whatever.
Probably won't matter.

23 Elden Ring DLC Remembrance Rewards From Worst to Best...
Am I testing the waters for another all Elden Ring weapons ranking video?

Or am I just running out of steam and wanted an excuse to include that family guy reference at the beginning?

Or is it neither of these?

These descriptions are horrible for the algorithm.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3327748622
39 Elden Ring DLC Talismans From Worst To Best (Patch 1.13)
Ranking all of the Elden Ring Talismans in Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, as well as a list of reasons why you should feel bad for ever having requested an FP version of the Blessed Dew talisman and then not acknowledge its power.

This list was carefully concocted using a mix of personal opinion and factual research.

But I'm not gonna tell you which parts are which.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3307869545
37 Elden Ring Crystal Tears From Worst To Best...
Ranking all of the Elden Ring Crystal Tears both in the base game and the 8 additional crystal tears in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

This list was carefully concocted using a mix of personal opinion and factual research.

But I'm not gonna tell you which parts are which.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3302257948
42 Elden Ring DLC Spells From Worst to Best... (Patch 1.12.3)
All 14 sorceries AND all 28 incantations in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC ranked at the same time.

Why are there so many incantations? Like...
there's always so much more of them.

Is it that hard to come up with sorcery ideas?

Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring DLC Weapons (Patch 1.12.3)
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree brings over 100 new weapons to the table, and although I’ve already come to terms with what that means for my inevitable destiny, I am a man who likes to work smarter.

That means putting together a quick, impromptu list of sleeper hit weapons that I’ve seen literally nowhere… maybe one or two places.

Some of these may not even be that underrated by the time the video actually comes out.
Oops.


126 Elden Ring Armor Sets From Worst to Best...
The value of a set of armor is determined by many stats, conditions and isolated variables that seem unimportant by themselves, but are worth more than the sum of their parts when put together.

Some armor sets are excellent against a very specific type of damage while others could offer really great poison or frost resistance.

Heavier armor sets give the player an absurdly high poise value while lighter sets allow you the movement range of a caffeine-addled kid in a trampoline park.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3273108161
19 Elden Ring Maps From Worst To Best...
Map fragments were certainly not something I ever expected to end up with its own dedicated video.

Then again, neither was that stupid chess video I made like a year ago.

Oh Rusty, how far have you fallen?
Someone get this man a DLC before he like, loses his mind.
Or something.

16 Elden Ring Crucible Knights From Worst To Best...
We got about six weeks left in limbo until Shadow of the Erdtree comes out, and we can finally start quenching our boredom and staving off our ever-growing existential apprehension by minmaxing our favorite powerstanced halberd builds for 30 minutes…

and then watching a youtube video that tells us how broken the new katanas are.

There are 16 Crucible Knights in total.

This used to be a nice bit of lore before it got retconned after the network test, presumably to make room for more thrilling sparring matches in the DLC.
Woo.

115 Elden Ring Consumables From Worst to Best...
A consumable list was much more fun than I thought it’d be.
The range of quality is enormous compared to shields or catalysts.

Some have more base damage than most spells, and others are so useless they don't even show up in your inventory.

For the sake of simplicity, I’m only defining a consumable here as something that:
  1. Can be used up in quantity
  2. You need to either find or craft more in order to replenish your supply

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3218097963
69 Elden Ring Shields From Worst To Best...
A shield is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a broad piece of defensive armor carried on the arm”.

Almost always accompanied with a simple armament like a spear or an arming sword, the shield has long been a mainstay in the arsenals of history’s most basic soldiers.

No matter what type of shield you’re looking at, it is obvious at first sight that this piece of equipment was concepted solely for the purpose of protection.

Unless you're Elden Ring...
Elden Ring likes putting spikes and snakes on top of them.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169544466
Explaining Elden Ring's Misleading Damage Calculation System
A somewhat deep dive into Elden Ring's damage calculation system and how it misleads certain builds into investing in the wrong stats.

Also some general speculation about how NG+ cycles affect damage and defenses.

You ever wondered why weapons like Loretta’s War Sickle and the Crystal Knife hand out paper-cut adjacent damage all the way up to the endgame, but suddenly start performing miles above most other options a couple new game plus iterations later?

Have you ever asked someone online why you can’t get any power out of your holy paladin build and they just belch out words like “split damage” and “flat defense” at you without any further elaboration because they heard a youtuber say it once?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3155117973
88 Elden Ring Unique Skills From Worst to Best...
Elden Ring has a specific branch of armaments that have unique skills, which are skills that can’t be found on ordinary weapons.

They can be customized and improved variants of regular skills, such as Endure vs Oath of Vengeance, or they can have support utility like Devourer of Worlds or Taker’s Flames.

A few of them even have the sheer impertinence to be a spitting image of a regular skill while going by a completely different name…

These are my least favorite unique skills.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3128809311
308 Elden Ring Weapons From Worst to Best... (Pre-DLC)
All weapons were ranked with all kinds of different criteria in mind.

How fun the movesets/animations are, how effective they are against however many types of enemies, damage, range, consistency, just about everything down to how they look artistically.

Which means you absolutely should not use this video as your only source for this topic.

As always, I try as hard as I can to be objective, but with a video this enormous in size, points will have holes and details will be skimmed.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3131335858
47 Elden Ring Gestures From Worst To Best
It's the busiest time of the year. I'm working on like 18 different things.

So, I’m gonna rank the gestures, you’re completely fine with that, and we can all collectively tell the schedule for this month to go dive under a falling tree.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3116427717
64 Elden Ring Spirit Summons From Worst To Best
The presence of spirit ashes/spirit summons in Elden Ring has been a hotbed of quarrels and unnecessary arguments in forums since the very day of launch…
to about five people.

The rest of us don’t really care and just don’t use them, or we use them for low level challenge runs.

But if this channel being alive for 12 years is proof of anything, it’s that complaining about things on the internet is very profitable, which unfortunately means these weirdos are here to stay.

There’s no real system here, at least not one that’s as rigorous as usual, but I’m still going to try anyway.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3108645776
36 Elden Ring NPC Quests From Worst To Best
I’m not sure if I can consider this a “popular request” or not, but the NPC side quests are one of the few things in this game I haven’t spoken about at length, if at all.

Some quests are pointless but have great rewards while other NPCs have you jogging across the entire map just to get some mushrooms and an axe no one uses.

25 Elden Ring Bows From Best to Worst
We’re ranking the crossbows too… That cool with you?

Bows in Elden Ring have cultivated their own beloved following who force these illegitimate pieces of driftwood into viability.

Bow mains have it exceptionally rough, but the lack of hope that something will ever fix it has made bow users extremely tenacious.

Some options like the Jar Cannon have charming lore, some just want to cosplay as Legolas or something idk who cares

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3052802811
18 Elden Ring Staves From Worst To Best
What's your least favorite staff and why is it Gelmir?
All 18 of them...

Can you tell what I'm preparing for yet?
Turns out, staves are much easier to rank than most weapons.

Depending on how they scale with certain stats, most of its utility is literally measured by a single number.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3038427563
91 Elden Ring Ashes of War From Worst to Best (Patch 1.10)
There are 91 ashes of war in total.

Some are bad, some are sad, some are blatant reiterations of spells and other abilities you find elsewhere in the game.

You can charge, you can thrust, you can bash, you can slash.

I include some motion values in with the list in efforts to try and be at least semi-objective, but if it's a personal favorite of mine, it'll probably still in the top somewhere.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028258841
16 Elden Ring Daggers From Worst to Best (Patch 1.10)
Daggers and thrusting swords occupy the same space in my head as late night television.

I get why people like them.
I understand the appeal.

But if it stays in my line of sight for more than about 30 seconds, I just want it out of my face.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3019486644
91 Elden Ring Talismans From Worst To Best
I wonder when I'll make an incantation overhaul...

Uh, I mean~
Welcome to the obligatory talisman ranking video.

I'm sure no one has ever become tired of these.

Turns out, capturing footage for this topic ended up being extremely awkward because of what talismans affect.

So if a lot of the B-roll just seems like random bits of gameplay...
I tried.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006406813
Oh God, Now He's Ranking The Elden Ring Great Runes...
Only 7?
Really?

You haven't posted a video in almost two weeks and this is what we get?

Yes. Yes it is.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2988829258
101 Elden Ring Incantations From Worst To Best...
Incantations are very different from sorceries.

A lot of sorceries tend to be multi-purposed damage just in different flavors, whereas incantations are much more isolated and focused around one specific purpose, making this list particularly difficult.

Because even if you're the worst incantation in the game, you're still probably good at something at least.

Nevertheless, a "first" and "last" place must exist.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978784714
70 Elden Ring Sorceries From Worst To Best...
Pay your respects to the list god.

Elden Ring has 70 sorceries.
I once said there were 60.
This is incorrect.

I've technically never made an hour long video in my entire life.

Today, this continues.

Yes, I will probably make an incantation list as well, but I'm still putting the final touches on my sorcery mod and that's taking a massive amount of time.

Thank you guys for being patient.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004577099
Damn It, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Paintings...
Pay your respects to the list god.
I'll never run out of things to rank.

Elden Ring just got updated to 1.09 a few days ago, so there are plenty of subjects I could've made a video about.

But instead, I just vent out my frustrations on modern art and the US educational system.

Oh, and the bloodflame exploit with Fire's Deadly Sin got patched out too.

You're welcome.

The Food In Elden Ring From Worst To Best
I've never eaten a pickled turtle neck in real life, and something tells me I'd rather actually live a week in the game than ever go near one.

Today, we're ranking food.

We have lots of time to kill before the DLC, so I hope you're ready for the inevitable ranking of every blade of grass once I run out of ideas.

Oh No, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Evergaols...
War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development.

Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.

Elden Ring Bosses By How Well I Think They Play Chess
Loretta would totally checkmate you in like, three moves.

They both require smart use of resource management, the ability to read your opponent, the understanding of your circumstances and how you can use them to your advantage even when backed into a corner…

They’re pretty much the same game when you think about it.

9 Elden Ring Legendary Armaments From Worst To Best
There are 9 legendary armaments in Elden Ring.

Not all of them are legendary. In fact, some of them can be argued as suboptimal.

Perhaps even disastrously, tragically inept.

Some of them are outclassed by ordinary "blue" armaments, while others seem to be in a class of their own.

I've run out of things to summarize about this video.

Every Crystal Tear in Elden Ring From Worst To Best
Everything from the ruptured tears to the cerulean hidden tear to the twiggy cracked tear that I almost forgot to rank.

There are 29 types of crystal tears in the game, not including separate halves of the same tear.

We're ranking them all today.

Is that clear?
Good.
Now, move along.

Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Merchants...
There are a total of 19 "merchants" in Elden Ring, excluding any sidequest NPCs, summons, and other unique characters.

They offer consumables, crafting ingredients, swords, shields, arrows, and even knowledge of the world around you. Precious knowledge such as...

"Revenants will take damage from healing incantations" or...
"Seluvis is a huge asswipe".

The spirit of giving and gifting is in the air, and that means putting soft christmas jazz music in the background actually makes sense now!

Every Elden Ring Magic Type From Worst to Best...
Magic in Elden Ring is separated largely by different schools of sorceries and incantations.

Some schools can be divided into smaller subtypes, such as the Crystalian and Loretta sorceries falling under the Carian umbrella, or how the Clayman sorceries tend to be grouped with the Sellian school.

Some spells may be placed into categories despite being standalone, but this is just to make the comparisons themselves easier and more convenient for the video.

Every Elden Ring Armor Set From Worst To Best (...In Fashion)
The tale of House Hoslow is told in fashion...

Consider this not only an armor ranking video, but a definitive guide on how to look your best in Elden Ring.

I tried to pack as many suggestions as I could in here, and apparently that resulted in an hour-long video that I'm probably never doing again.

This will be more opinionated than most of my other videos.

If we happened to clash, then that's all good and fine.

But please don't act like I snuck into your house and clogged your toilet just because I didn't like the Spellblade set.

Oh God, He's Ranking The Elden Ring Caves...
Highroad Cave good, Abandoned Cave bad.

These descriptions are becoming less and less detailed overtime.

This video has been a long time coming, mostly because people asked me for it since the dungeon ranking video over three months ago.

Let's Rank The Keepsakes!
Ranking the keepsakes from worst to best.

You'll probably disagree with at least one of them, and it will definitely be the rune.

Either that one or the bewitching branch.
Maybe both, depending on the mood you're in today.

Subscribe or perish.

Edit: Turns out, it was the Cracked Pots that was the most disagreed with. Honestly didn't expect that one.

Let's Rank the Spirit Ashes...
Yes, the demi-humans are on here.

Summons like the Mimic Tear and Black Knife Tiche have sort of dominated the conversation around spirit ashes simply because of their sheer power as carry summons.

This ends up overshadowing genuinely great spirit summons that are just as capable in a surprisingly high amount of situations.

Elden Ring is also getting low-key boring lately due to the lack of replayability, so doing lower level playthroughs and using summons have actually been a little refreshing.

I recommend it.

Y'all Mind If I Rank The Elden Ring Catacombs???
Y'all Mind If I Rank Some Elden Ring Talismans? (PATCH 1.04)
A month late as usual, but at least I put the Exultation Talismans on here so that makes up for it right?

This is also a shorter upload than normal because I'm in the middle of moving which is a paind, but hopefully we can resume some semblance of a routine within the coming week.

Until then, enjoy a few inevitable jokes about Eochaid's Dancing Powerdrill.

ohmygod these builds are so BUSTED they practically BREAK THE GAME

Y'all Mind If I Rank Some Elden Ring Weapons? (THIS IS OUTDATED STOP WATCHING)
I promise, it'll only take like a few minutes.

Please be wary of late-game spoilers.

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3 Comments
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Derpboy 18 Oct @ 12:30pm 
I like rusty , gives me so many ideas on new builds.
Zabloing 14 Oct @ 2:20pm 
rusty is ass
trigger 14 Oct @ 5:07am 
now rank his rankings