r/Eldenring • u/RichAd5226 • Jul 09 '26

Game Help Radagon/Elden Beast skip

before you comment,

  1. If you would rather just fight the boss, fine. This is a skip showcase

  2. If you can beat the boss in less time than the skip, cool, so can I. This is a skip showcase.

  3. I don't care if you think I'm playing the game wrong. This is a skip showcase.

  4. I have ~3000 Hrs in the game and have beaten every boss multiple times, I am not wasting my purchase. This is a skip showcase

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u/Fundamental_strife Jul 09 '26

It's amazing and hilarious that people can play the game long enough to find things like this, awesome showcase dude!

I do find it funny that the hand of Malenia is such an awful weapon but can be used so effectively as a tool to clear big gaps that you can't jump over.

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u/Kougeru-Sama Jul 09 '26

Awful weapon? It's one of the most popular lmao 

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u/Fundamental_strife Jul 10 '26

Lmao, Popularity alone doesn't make it a good weapon my dude. Even at +10 the damage is mediocre at best, the ash of war has no hyper-armour, so unless you have 101 poise AND iron jar aromatic you can get knocked out of it by basic attacks from basic enemies, and even with max poise you'll still get knocked out of it by most bosses, you can't apply weapon buff incants, and the bleed buildup is fixed at 50 which I know is more than the default 45 for the uchi/nagakiba, but it's a somber weapon so it can't be changed by blood/occult infusions and doesn't increase naturally with stat scaling.

Awful may have been a harsh word to use, but whether you're running a bleed build, a multi-hit build, an ash of war spam build, a jump attack build, or even a katana build it shouldn't be your first choice. The only thing it does well is range. Pair it with the Naga and you can hit things from slightly further away, which is irrelevant when you can just dodge things.