Inescapable Frenzy | Elden Ring Wiki

I run a frenzy-themed build right now. So did this furled finger apparently, who busted out unendurable frenzy at Stormveil Castle. But I have the endure ash. Face-tanking frenzy spray, I latch onto this guy's face and spray him right back. He already built up his own meter so I get an instant proc and that was enough to finish the job. GG EZ

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you havent lived until youve used this on gideon

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This incantation had one ****ing job and now it can't even do that it's only job is to oneshot gideon and its not ****ing possible max frenzyflame seal with 80 faith faith and fire physic howl of shabriri commanders standard blue dancer flocks canvas red branchsword black dumpling and it doesn't even come ****ing close it has no ****ing purpose.

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God I miss Sacred flame from DS3, this incantation is like its successor but worse

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without fail the rotbabies panic when you use this sh

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BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR GO CRAZY GO CRAZY GO CRAZY
[madness]
YEEEEOOOOOOOW

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Tested chaining sleep or madness into Inescapable Frenzy with the Flame Guardian of Guardians' Garrison fort (works at least partially like a player character), it doesn't work, the grab does little damage, doesn't initiate the animation, and makes the enemy instantly recover from recovery frames. I incompletely tested it on PvP too and experienced the same phenomenon. Screw you Flame Guardian and Guardians' Garrison, you are a pain to test attacks on.

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We need more aow grab attacks for the player; imagine one like the Malenia sword-stab, that would be sick on a colossal, or an heavy thrusting sword.

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This plus dual frenzy seals OHKOs Gideon even on ng+11. It’s fine that this spell only works on tarnished enemies, because it one shots them.

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You can't land this on a player sleeping, at least not if the sleep was caused by the st trina sword.

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Now why did they go about making another flame-based command grab (the other being Sacred Flame in DS3) and have it not work on enemies? At least could have worked on humanoids. Feels like a regression, seeing as Sacred Flame actually worked on humanoid enemies and did good damage.

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I did some testing to investigate the damage and madness build-up of this spell using combinations of Frenzied Flame Seal, Dragon Communion Seal, and Finger Seal (because the first two seem like they could increase the effectiveness, and the last one functions as a standard). The testing was made in App Version 1.10.1, Calibrations Version 1.10. Disclaimer, the formatting might be ugly, I remember this site didn't know how to program text boxes.

I used the Silver Tear Mask (+8 Arcane), the Two Fingers Heirloom (+5 Faith), and Marika's Soreseal (+5 Faith, +5 Intelligence, +5 Mind, + Arcane). In total, 18 Strength, 24 Dexterity, 19 Intelligence, 31 Faith, 23 Arcane. Frenzied Flame Seal had 176 Incant Scaling, Dragon Communion Seal had 184, Finger Seal had 160. I tested this against the Flame Guardians, who afaik may or may not be equivalent to a PvP player.

For the sake of simplicity, I will call the Frenzied Flame Seal "yellow", Dragon Communion Seal "red", Finger Seal "finger". "main hand" will be the left hand which I used to cast the spell, and "off" will be the right hand.

835 damage, 2 yellows, 1 madness proc on 3rd damage tick.
835 damage, main yellow off red, 1 madness proc on 3rd damage tick.
835 damage, main yellow off finger, 1 madness proc (didn't check when).
779 damage, 2 reds, 1 madness proc on 5th damage tick.
779 damage, main red off yellow, 1 madness proc on 5th damage tick.
779 damage, main red off finger, 1 madness proc (didn't check when).
747 damage, 2 finger, 1 madness proc on 5th damage tick.
747 damage, main finger off yellow, 1 madness proc (didn't check when).
747 damage, main finger off red, 1 madness proc (didn't check when).

I made one more test, I took off Marika's Soreseal, the frenzy seal now has 160 Incant Scaling (same as the finger seal from previous tests), and with 2 frenzy seals, this spell deals 803 damage.

Conclusions: Casting this spell with the frenzy seal, it visibly builds more madness, but having one on the off-hand or having two doesn't make a difference. I don't know if you can proc madness twice with the same spell, but I've read other people say madness can build up after proccing once, so supposedly you should be able to proc it multiple times per spell. I find it weird that the dragon seal (C Faith scaling) deals more damage than the finger seal (A Faith scaling) because I heard that this spell only scales with Faith. Maybe that means that Faith AND Arcane scaling can be used in the damage formula? I also find the damage of the frenzy seal weird, it's more damage than the dragon seal but has less Incant Scaling, and at the same Incant Scaling as the finger seal it still deals more damage. Maybe that means the frenzy seal's damage boost to frenzy spells properly applies? More testing could reveal that madness builds up in a more complex way (or not, maybe it's as simple as applying the madness build-up inherent to the frenzy seal you're casting with). Someone please update this page and the frenzy seal page with this info, I'm tired and I already tested for a long while.

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>This incantation only scales with faith, so the spell buff is only affected by faith.

I hate that I can't tell if this is an unique property of the spell or if somebody misunderstood the dmg calculation of spells again and made it everybody's problem.

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"Look at me when I'm staring at you!"

-Borderlands 1 Psychos

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This spell psychologically breaks people. I think it has a stronger psychological effect than parrying. They freak the f out after getting grabbed. My experience is that it buys you enough time to flask or reposition, and if you're aggressive they'll never mentally recover before the fight is over. Mind games, people, mind games.

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This basically does the damage of a mid riposte now but it's still great for the shock and awe

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The all knowing huh? Shitass doesn't even know how to dodge this.

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My favorite way to kill GIDEON OFNIR

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An invader tried the kamikaze exploding physic cheese, rolling into me waiting for the bomb to go off.
since this spell is a command grab the explosion went off and no damage was taken. one of the few times in FromSoft games im happy about janky grab hitboxes connecting for no reason.

it was a very poggers moment and a once in a life time experience

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Sacred flame

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Yoooo they added Winter Lanterns to Elden Ring?

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This needs some hype armor because from my experience the only way you have a chance at landing this is by using endure and trading a hit, thing is by the time you get endure off and start to cast this your opponent's animation is already done and they are rolling away.

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when people say "looks at you with my autistic eyes" this is what they mean

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Alexa, play the RE4 GIF. You know the one.

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Kinda wish it worked like sacred flame from DS3, where you could use it against humanoid enemies (like the lothric knights). I just think it would be neat to shut down a turtleing redmane knight by microwaving his eyeballs.

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Teacher: not naming any names, *Casts this spell on you*

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i have special eyes...

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Shabriri killed me with a single one of these In journey 5 with 60 vigor and radahn armor

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Hopefully this comment is better formatted than the reply I made. For some reason you can't do line breaks when replying.

Another TL;DR: Like I said before, damage increases from your weapon upgrade. Frenzied Flame Seal can trigger madness more times against your opponent compared to other seals for more damage. Frenzied Flame Seal also deals more damage with higher Intelligence level.

Responding to the commenter claiming my calculations are wrong:

In PVE: Same stats as previously stated in the original comment and +5 from Godrick's Rune / In PVP: same stats as previously stated in the original comment. First incant scaling and damage numbers are from PVE against Flame Guardians, second PVP.

Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 248/230 incant scaling: 1219/822 damage (no talismans)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 250/236 incant scaling: 1219/822 damage (+5 faith talisman)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 255/232 incant scaling: 1283/846 damage (+5 intelligence talisman)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 270/250 incant scaling: 1283/846 damage (Marika's Soreseal, Radagon's Soreseal & +5 faith talismans)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 276/255 incant scaling: 1371/910 damage (Marika's Soreseal, Radagon's Soreseal & +5 intelligence talismans)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 286/265 incant scaling: 1387/926 damage (Twinsage Glintstone Crown, Marika's Soreseal, Radagon's Soreseal & +5 intelligence talismans)
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 293/277 incant scaling: 1387/926 damage (Twinsage Glintstone Crown, Marika's Soreseal, Radagon's Soreseal, +5 intelligence talisman & Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear)
^ Gains some damage increase from having higher Intelligence. Doesn't increase damage with higher Strength, Dexterity or Faith (damage was 1219/822 with only raising these three stats up).
Without Godrick's Rune active the highest damage with the last two setups were 1299 in PVE for some reason. With Godrick's Rune & Grafted Blade buff it was 1475 for both.
Also only using Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear in PVE compared to having Marika's Soreseal & +5 intelligence talisman equipped the damage was 1299 for odd reason.

Erdtree Seal +9: 222/207 incant scaling: 1195/814 damage (no talismans)
^ Damage was the same no matter what stat-boosting items I used.

Golden Order Seal +9, 266/236 incant scaling: 1163/742 (Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear to be able to use the seal in both PVE and PVP)
^ Damage was the same no matter what stat-boosting items I used.

Dragon Communion Seal +9: 306/288 incant scaling: 1171/798 damage (no talismans)
^ Damage was the same no matter what stat-boosting items I used.

Finger Seal +23: 233/218 incant scaling: 1147/798 damage (no talismans)
Giant's Seal +24: 227/212 incant scaling: 1179/830 damage (no talismans)
^ Damage were the same for both seals no matter what stat-boosting items I used.
Note: Finger Seal +23 also has blue S Faith attribute scaling when hovering over the seal while having Giant's Seal +24 (also having S Faith attribute scaling) equipped meaning Finger Seal has higher Faith attribute scaling compared to Giant's Seal.
^ This means even if the incant scaling and/or attribute scaling is higher, you still deal more damage with a higher upgraded seal. Why a seal that scales better with Faith and has higher incant scaling would otherwise deal less damage if it only scales off of Faith scaling?

Testing damage with Inescapable Frenzy sometimes dealt a little bit less damage, like you get one tick of hit less for whatever reason.
I was testing damage where it dealt around 50 damage less with the same setup sometimes. Doesn't matter if you wait 5 seconds or a full minute and also doesn't matter what seal you are using.

Frenzied Flame Seal also gives more madness buildup where it can probably trigger madness effect one (or more) extra time compared to other seals meaning it can deal more damage that way to people who have less focus status. When I was testing this against my opponent who had 261 / 101 focus stats, according to them Frenzied Flame Seal dealt around 150% status buildup while other seals dealt a little over 100%.
For reference, triggering madness deals damage equal to 100+15% of the opponent's max HP.

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Oh my. Why the long face?

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TL;DR: Using Frenzied Flame Seal does NOT deal 40% more damage in PvP compared to other seals with the same incant scaling unlike someone stating so in the comments below.

The comment made in late July 2023 (right after the 1.10 patch) is wrong about the extra 40% damage in PvP from Frenzied Flame Seal using this incantation.
I was testing this today and it seems like the comment from early December 2022 about the 1.08 patch seems correct with how the damage works with this incantation: only your seal level and buffs like Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear or Flame, Grant me Strength for example increases the damage.

When I was testing Inescapable Frenzy to another player, I saw only around 30 damage difference with four different seals.
Stats and incant scaling for seals:

STR 50 / DEX 15 / INT 9 / FTH 41 / ARC 35
Dragon Communion Seal +9: 288 incant scaling
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 230 incant scaling
Erdtree Seal +9: 207 incant scaling
Godslayer's Seal +24: 224 incant scaling

Damage with Inescapable Frenzy against another player:
Dragon Communin Seal +9: 806 damage
Frenzied Flame Seal +9: 830 damage
Erdtree Seal +9: 822 damage
Godslayer's Seal: 838 damage

Godslayer's Seal and Frenzied Flame Seal share almost the same incant scaling with Godslayer having slightly less incant scaling but dealing a little bit more damage.
All tests were done by casting the incantation once without having any talismans or other buffs applied, every cast was done with being summoned -> casting the incantation on the host -> leaving the world -> repeat. Tests were also done when it wasn't raining as that lowers fire damage.

In fact at this moment the page about Frenzied Flame Seal specifically mentions Inescapable Frenzy does not receive a buff from that Seal because of the incantation's unusual damage calculation. The person who made the July 2023 comment on that page is saying this information is incorrect, stating on Frenzied Flame Seal page they had similar incant scaling: 117 incant scaling with Frenzied and 119 incant scaling with Clawmark seal and then stating Frenzied deals 40% more damage in PvP failing to mention the upgrade levels (as well as player stats) for these seals.
So it does not seem to calculate damage by incant scaling or if it does, it's very minimal change and Frenzied Flame Seal definitely does not increase damage by 40% when using Inescapable Frenzy in PvP.

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I want this to have some hyper armor, not a lot but just enough so that I can grab a dude with lighter weapons without having to use endure.

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My introduction to this incantation was when I summoned a guy to help me with a mimic boss.
I was a little perplexed when bro started making out with a clone of me.

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"Points at tarnished"

"You..... Guilty"

"Grabs Tarnished by the shoulders."

"Look into my eyes!"

"Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent, feel their pain!"

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To gaze into one another's eyes is truly the most intimate form of
human contact.

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Just a thing I found out, when an invader uses their phantom finger to teleport near you, it's a window of time where landing inescapable frenzy is very easy. There's nothing they can do about it if you time it right. Not exactly game-changing but it's worth keeping in mind.

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This is mostly for humiliation PVP kills. Kind of like taking out the knife in CS.

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From my experience, it won't always insta-kill, but my god does it give me a huge dopamine rush when I hit one of these, especially in PVP.

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After spending my entire Frenzy playthrough essentially not having a chance to use this beyond the occasional invader when helping a friend, it was REALLY to lock Gideon Ofnir into a chain of four grabs to incinerate him.

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C'mere, you.

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They could’ve made this spell usable on enemies when you have the change to riposte them. Just latching in a Dragon’s side of the face and burn one eye.

Gargoyles and enemies that are just constructs would be inume to it.

I want frenzy dragons and more frenzy enemies

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I did some tests with this and described them in the Frenzied Flame Seal comments, but to summarize: use this spell with the Frenzied Flame Seal in PvP, It seems to get about 40% stronger if you do. You won't see it in tests versus NPCs.

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Drop from the beams until you get to the passive merchant playing the sad song. Drop down to the coffin lid on his right. It's small jumps and drops to nearby lids from there. There are many other routes (you will see notes and bloodstains marking them) but they require much trickier jumps.

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"Come give me a kiss on my hot mouth" the spell

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"Gideon! I need you to look at something!"

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this incantation actually does MORE damage in pvp (~25%)

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This incantaion will not grab if a target is slept. Really dumb, considering how hard it is to actually land it.

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have trouble fighting jar invader trio in NG+?

Use iron flesh aromatic and spam this at close range. Don't forget to put your game to offline to avoid spawning mage players.

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Everyone needs a warm hug once in a while while also screaming, and letting out all the pain for the day. Fia approved cosplay

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They should make this affect humanoid enemies just like the lifedrain fist skill

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Kiss Rory

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Pro tip: Use dragonclaw's first attack to nullify the range & startup problems inescapable frenzy has.

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Seriously. How does this spell actually work? I had a max level flame art Misericorde in my right hand, and the damage was near non-existent. Almost as if this line is a total BS: "damage is completely reliant on the critical damage of the weapon held in the caster's right hand"
For the sake of context I was using a non-upgraded frenzy skill and was testing against the Vyke gaol boss. Switching to the fully upgraded Erdtree seal the damage went up to 1600, but this did not change with the right hand weapon. Is this a bug or just wrong/outdated info?

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killing someone with this spell should give them the spell, if were goin down this route, reduce the faith cost so we can spread the frenzy like gigahchads

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This incantation does fire damage now that it works normally. Checked against the humanoid slides in Night's Sacred Ground, once with Flame Cracked Tear and once without.

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I like how 50% of this page is now useless knowledge because all of it was just coding bugs that got patched out. Probably should also be ordered in a way that isn't "Hey here's several paragraphs that tell you how to make this deal damage! But actually, all of that is meaningless. It's damage is actually consistent now lol"

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Hitting people with this in PVP is better than drugs

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If you're looking for someone to test this or other madness spells on, try mimic in Nokrons Nights Sacred Ground grace. There's one with a spear and one with a sword you can grab.
I have a frenzy seal in the off-hand and dragon seal in main. Both at plus 8. When casting grav the off hand seal does more damage than the dragon one even though its incant scaling is crap compared to dragon seal.

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AKA the incantation you use when you are done with Gideon's bullshit

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Effective against Tarnished other than Godfrey

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This could be us, but you dodging

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Dagger talisman has no effect.

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What enemies does this work on in PvE?

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Inescapable friendzone, most maiden's go to incant when I invade them IRL

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Until fromsofware says otherwise, i'll canonically see this incantation as giving your foe the megamind stare coupled with the "no maidens?" Before they go insane from the humiliation

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“Ah, I knew you’d come. To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord.”
Don’t care get grabbed

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The hitbox on this is broken. Also, I've already attempted grabbing like 4 people at the arena, only for them to take little to no damage, and not get grabbed, even if they made no attempt whatsoever to avoid it.

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Guys help, I basically use a sleep infused weapon and then I cast inescapable frenzy, but only inflicts like 40 damage without doing the animation also if the player is sleeping, how is it possible ?

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Greedy Gankers + Endure + Inescapable Frenzy = two people scattering like rats while their friend takes flames to the face. Human psychology is hilarious.

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love using this, pretty good damage, drains enemy fp with the madness proc, and can punish certain attacks like wiffed jumps.

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Still incredibly fancy to punish whiff parries.

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In case anyone wants to still use this spell that has now been massacred to death (why Fromsoft, why), it is still bugged with Azur's Glinstone Staff which will boost Inescapable Frenzy's casting speed (despite being an incantation), if you have it in your off-hand.

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And now this is useless becease they patched the 2 handen one shot. There goes the best grab in the game. Reduced to being now useless in battle. No more reducing greedy gank squads when you are once again 1v3. You will be missed and i shall never forget you in the prime days.

Look at how they massacred My Boy T_T patch 1.08

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as update 1.08 nothing works with this, tried every seal, every right hand weapon, every upgrade lvl, every stat distribution and all talismans.

Only thing that changes the dmg is the Upgrade lvl of the seal. So rn dmg only useful at low RL minimum stats pvp builds

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Currently bugged when 2 handed it takes on your other hands status effect. So a lot of the one shots people are seeing are getting hit by this exploit. It will be patched

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I'm the salty comment below, but after some more duels it's really not all that bad. The recovery buff is much bigger than I gave credit for. Not immediately losing for deciding to throw this out is such a relief now, and if you're really in someones head it's not out of the question to snag 'em. Still avoidable by people paying attention, but it's at least a tool in the kit now, as opposed to a bad joke.

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gee thanks, I'm getting one shotted in PvP! Thankfully I could oneshot others too

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buffed still doesnt quite mean usable. The recovery endlag buff is nice, but good lick hitting anyone with this. Make it yoink people out of jumps and rolls and then we're talking, but the opponent pressing almost any button in response to this usually beats it.

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Doing a casual NG+1 with summons (RL117+20/8) a dude invaded me and killed me with frostbite+bleed twice in a single grab. I was the host, i have 2400 HP. (Y)

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“Let’s give several sleep proc animations for bosses and enemies, but not madness!”

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the vyke and gideon deleter

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As of 1.07.1, still inflicts bleed. Exposed to it today when a full bull goat with a dagger invaded my solo run. He bled me twice and killed me in one grapple.

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Great Gideon skip button

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a perfectly useless spell in pve. enemies can grapple you, but you can't grapple them. sounds about right for fromsoft now a days.

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Uh so does anyone know if there is a way to one shot in pvp with this as of 1.07. Cause an invader just deleted me with is plus endure.

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Since Fextra is broken right now and you can't reply to comments, for those who are wondering this instantly will proc madness regardless of their resistance to it. Either it deals an astronomically high number that isn't possible to reach with maxed stats, armor, and buffs, or it straight up ignores the resistance altogether and just triggers the effect.

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how much madness build up does this do?

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does anyone know how much madness build up this does? I've tried it on pvp once and i think i remember the dude got madness proc immediately, but i cant be sure. I've tried to test it multiple times but thats the only time i managed to connect this spell.

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Very fun to punish attack spam by endure casting this. Nothing like violently making out with an ironjar powestanced greathammer user to assert dominance

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Prank em, john

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Grapple range is noticeably better after the update. Maybe fix the left handed two-hand bug now since it is kinda consistent to hit.

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Useless trash. Takes more effort to land than it does using ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ELSE to win a fight.

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Fun fact: After recent testing, the incant seems to inflict nearly the same amount of damage regardless of the right hand weapon. However, if the Seal is two handed while also having a right hand weapon, Inescapable Frenzy’s damage output will climb exponentially higher.

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Me when I GET you

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put endure on your right hand weapon. gain crackhead endurance, grab your enemy and scream at them until they become based and frenzypilled

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i wish you could cast this mid air, timing it with a good plunge and landing on somebody like a jockey from L4D would be the funniest thing ever

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Almost useless most of the time in PVE sadly, but its great for ruining Gideon Ofnir's day.

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I've had issues trying to make this work at all, I tried it three times on Juno Hoslow but I wasn't grabbing him. It wasn't because of the bloodhound step because you can't see him when he spams it. So what was I doing wrong?

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its not fantastic, but against a bloodthirsty gank you'd be surprised how many grabs you can pull off

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