Ranking All 19 Elden Ring Maps From Worst To Best... (2024)

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The all enemy ranking is calling you rusty. Let it happen

This is what no DLC does to a mf

now rank all of rennalas toes form worst to best

The grand finale for Rusty's channel will be ranking the ranking videos.

Rusty is starving for the DLC content

*_"Now rank all the pixels on Marikas fractured corpse..."_* 💀 💀 💀

Rusty at launch: This game is awesome, I love it.
Rusty now: I like 5 things in Elden Ring, and even that's being generous.

Its ok. It wont be long until the DLC come out

He shouldn't have mentioned the enemy list. Now it WILL haunt him forever.... Also 90% he's working on it, knows it will take a while, so is mining the wait time for engagement. Honestly if so I respect the hustle.

YO. RUSTY. You forgot HALIGTREE AND FARUM AZULA. Wtf

Rusty the type of guy to jump up and click his heels when he’s excited.

Man’s going to start ranking his videos.

MIRIEL IS IN EASTERN LIURNIA

Now, rank all your ranking videos 💀

You know what? This reminded me of my first impressions of the Siofra River area. Few things in any game have ever come close to matching how I felt finding a random lift in a forest (in an attempt to find refuge from all the big ass bears) and riding it down expecting a dungeon only to find the lift was still going...and going...and oh hell this is a DEEP elevator shaft....and then my first view of the underground domain, complete with its own starry sky somehow. Completely unforgettable.

That medallion Varre gives you takes you right to where the map is

I feel like most people didnt see the ledge at the end of ainsel that overlooks the lake of rot, that was my favorite moment of exploration

Caelid was the only place in the entire game that ever made me feel "i shouldnt be here.." no matter my level. Just...unsettling

The giant crow at the start of Caelid is fantastic. It's a great intro to hell

I see, I see it now.
You're waiting for the DLC to rank all graces.
Brave tarnished

Bro really needs this DLC soon😭

Rate every day till the DLC

No mention of the Miquella's Haligtree?

I understand this was a bit more comedy than anything, but I still have to add that loot carried just a bit too much value in the evaluations. I get that you can't re-discover what's already been discovered, and that after playing through the game many times it can feel like the loot is 90% of an area's value, but open-world discovery really is about that first time and I don't think that should be forgotten.
Also, East Liurnia has the Frenzy Tower, Village, and Vyke invasion; Carian Study Hall, which I think is vey cool with its dual nature; the Grand Lift; the lift that takes you to Ainsel; the overground Uhd Ruins, and the things you mentioned, especially the soldier vs spirit battle (mage tower guarded by the spirits and lone mage included, which is a cool little setpiece) which I personally think have some pretty good environmental and mechanical worldbuilding.

East Liurnia is great and you're wrong.
You get the Church of Vows which has the best spell merchant in the game, the 2 best early-game incantation books, 2 easy mausoleums, Jarburg for flower farming, and the Crystal Cave where you pick up your first smithing stone bearing.
One of my favourite parts of the game for setting up a solid faith build.

East liurnia makes me mad because the palace ruins section doesn’t resemble the actual area in the LEAST. There’s a castle wall on the map that DOESNT EXIST.

Man’s going to start ranking his videos

Imagine not thinking Jarburg is literally the best little side area in the whole game?
Who hurt you Rusty?

The ad transitions are always gold

Radhan slamming the map is now actually made apparent by a pop up in game and I hate it. I loved the moment I was riding through Limgrave on my first playthrough when I stopped and had to ask myself if those rocks had always been floating there. Then when I found a location I’d been searching half the game for I was so hype.

1. The Cloister grace after the Lake of Rot with a million bloodstains around it, specifically designed so you can see it mocking you from a distance while you make a desperate run for it
2. The rooftop one in Farum Azula hidden just past the roided up Crucible Knight after a brutally long runback from the dragon temple
3. That central room with the fireplace in Stormveil that connects to everything else, it’s not sad*stic like the others but it reminds me of DS1 and I like it

Here's a freebie king: Ranking all 7 letters in the title of Elden Ring

For north Liurnia, you said the only things worth stopping and looking at were on the western side if the map while showing the minor erdtree from the eastern side.
The eastern side also has the black knife catacombs and a ton of mausoleums

I want to be ranked in a "guy who asked to be ranked" category

In the lake of rot you forgot the scarlet rot ulcarated tree spirit, one of the most fun and unique enemies to fight in the whole game!

7:45 The sauron tower and the frenzied flame village were pretty good. That’s also where the best dog is as well as where almost all of Hyetta’s questline takes place.
You can also find Flame cleanse me there, a must have for Caelid and the lake of Rot, as well as some of the best vistas in Liurnia.

"Sacred Tear I don't need"
In a game where 1900 hp still gets you slapped to death in 3 hits I'm taking all of the healing I can get.

Rusty, you could rank anything and I'd watch it, but you know what the people want

Entering #1 on your list for the first time was the peak of my Elden Ring experience. Such a beautiful area

This was amazing and really well put together. I found your channel through the armor core melee weapon video and I've really enjoyed your elden ring ranking videos even if I don't play the game. I would love another armor core video, ranking the missions or other weapons, but I'll still be excited to watch any video you post even if I don't understand everything your talking about.

oh... I thought he was gonna talk about the areas, not the map items... lmao

bro has so much hate in his heart for maps

Id put Altus above Lyndell, like Lyendell second, and Altus first, but that entire region in genral is just AWESOOMEE!

What I took away from this video: Rusty is so tired of not having the DLC that he's beginning to hate the game, and also sem*n Lobsters are the best part of Liurnia.

Still waiting on ranking how comfy it would be to rest at all graces (one day you will be desperate enough)

Do you even like this game bro

East Liurnia has Miriel in it, he's the only teacher that doesn't move.

I am so excited to see Rusty to do any dlc related rankings video. Be it weapons, enemies, talismans, or spells you name it.

Rusty you know you can't just keep procrastinate a video about best grace location ranking from worst to best

Literally the most seamless promo transition in history

15:20
There's a 3rd entrance, which involves getting munched on by the iron virgin thingy under Raya Lucaria and getting sent to the Volcano Manor. If, instead of heading into the manor, you instead go deeper into the volcano, and kill the duo boss at the end of the cave, you pop out at the base of Mt. Gelmir, where the Seethwater River meets Altus... right next to another f'ing Tibia Mariner. The view is... okay, but IIRC you can't actually see Leyndell from there.

Vike with vuck your vass......put some respect on his name

A lot of the end game areas feel unfinished. Safe to say they sped toward the release date and left tons of sh*t on the cutting room floor.

As a faith player since dark souls, being in East Liurnia actually became really exciting when I got that lightning spear incantation there. Even the Leyndell Knight set looked cool enough for me to try farming that guy for it (I gave up after I got the chest piece)

Do a ranking of all the worst ranking ideas we’ve had with this as the number 1 worst idea ever and then put that video up behind a paywall so we have to pay to watch bad ideas.

"Do you remember how much I loved these caves when the game first came out?"
Kind of surprised you didn't hate them immediately.

While I understand the grievances of Goadfroy, but I always found it to be an interesting bit of storytelling. It makes Godrick look even more pathetic, because he didn't even lead the attack against Leindell, he was just following another person, and subsequently fled and took leadership as soon as things went south

Every enemy in the game tier list when (I mean every single individual enemy, like godrick soldier number one and godrick soldier number 2)

Another thing that makes Leyndell so great is that on my first playthrough I realized, and have since tried it failed to disprove is that there's not a single spot where you can get stuck and forced to fast travel. No janky fence, house, statue or anything you'd expect to get stuck near like in any other game ever does that

Rusty corrections:
East liurnia has the church of vows and a spellbook that has lightning spear.
Honestly there's not much. He glanced over some minor details and questline stuff but that's about it.

This video is a great study on being able to say much about a whole lot of nothing, it's a great way to not only up your nitpicking game but learn a politician-tier level of saying the exact same thing over and over again without anyone complaining (too much). What I mean to say is Rusty yaps a lot about small stuff when there's nothing actually significant to say. "Quick, what do I complain about in the Mountaintops (East) map? Ah yes, the frozen lake has *detailing* (bad)!"

Rusty., not even Nord can save you from the inevitable. The DLC item rankings.

Excellent video, can't wait for the All Golden Seeds ranking!

bro hates the game by what he is saying

Dude, Minor Erdtree Catacombs has a guaranteed find for one the best all-Game Helms that is also the Objectivly best Helm for the entire first Half. So yes, imma use it as defence

Oh great! Now he's ranking how clever his advertising intro's are...
Rusty....lol...do that 😂😂😂

RUclipsrs above 100k and complaining about their fan base.
Name a more iconic duo.

Earliest I've been to a Rusty video, me and my friends love your stuff man always great content :)

Just redownloaded the game yesterday and of course Rusty drops a list today 🙏

EXCELLENT video. All of your videos are fantastic, but this one... is easily my favorite. I have beaten the game MANY times. This may actually be my favorite game... EVER.

This was definitely in the top 3 of ad transitions in a Rusty video

Been binging this dude’s vids for the past 3 days i didn’t realize this was a latest video lol

Ight, ight, that intro to the ad read made me legitimately laugh out loud. Well played.

I appreciate how you always bring the energy even for something that requires so little comment

That ad segway made me laugh harder than it should've, goddamn it lmao

Getting to Caelid via the trap chest to Sellia Crystal Tunnel is quite a reveal, too.
I'd never played a Soulsborne game before, and was low level. Repeatedly dying trying to get out of there only to be met by a horrifying red fungus swamp was seriously memorable.
Especislly the mad dash to find a grace because I misunderstood how fast travel worked.

Now he’s gonna do all the previous videos but for the dlc it’s genius

Haligtree should be considered part of Snowfields considering that you're rating the map rather than the area. Farum Azula should be part of East Mountaintops.

I’m excited to see all of the new ranking vids for shadow of the Erdtree

Can't wait to watch this. I swear I only go to gelmir to finish my map. Rykard was my last shard bearer because of it.

east liurnia has so much in it for quests plus it has that cool tower AND the dragon cult book which has some of my favourite faith spells

Thank you for all the work you put in to give us these rankings rusty :p

So when's the all trees ranking coming out Rusty?

No way you ignored farum azula - the best location in the game

Speaking of shadows of the erdtree, I hope you’re ready to do it all again when the DLC releases

your script writing is so good, love the vids

I am so excited about the all enemies tier list

imo the area I had the most fun with was Mt. Gelmir. You knock the wild enemy variety but I loved it. It makes it feel like a true battle of the fittest where all these weird groups are just hashing it out the hard way. Very consistent with the ideals of the Volcano Manor but the manor itself is full of actual people and even though they are aggressive personalities (for the most part) they show you nothing but courtesy and kind of emphasize the divide between the crucible's chaos and the Golden order's humanity... but tbh the reason why I thought it was so fun was because there's no wrong way to do it. There's multiple ways to get there, whether you're going up or down, it will feel like a hectic adventure.

I'd like an enemy ranking but the way you almost lost it going into the Nord ad roll was very funny haha

I got to say that transition to sponsored ad was fire

Thanks for telling me about the secret passage to deeproot, I had no idea that was there

When's the all item descriptions tier list Rusty? We've been waiting.
(I'm sorry for your curse)

Awesome video can't wait for the sites of grace video

Man, hopping back into Elden Ring in preparation for the DLC, I was once again struck by how absolutely massive the world is. Like, that's months worth of exploration... and we're getting another Limgrave's worth of new area! God bless Miyazaki and his masoch*stic tendencies. It's so encouraging that not every triple A developer hates my guts. At least, not the Japanese ones.

imagine me learning about the illusory wall in the frenzy flame proscription to get to deeproot, always just fought the valiant gargoyle duo.

Rusty, I’d like to let you know that I’ve grown to listen to your videos often up to the point where they actually help me sleep. Love turning up a video to listen to in bed lol. Keep it up bro!

I can’t wait for Rusty to have to redo every single one of these videos to add DLC

To be fair to the Mogwhyn Palace Map, for a lot of players the entrance is not where the portal spits you out but where the Knight Medallion warps you to, which the map is right next to. Really the map is for navigating the outskirts rather than navigating the Palace. The original intent was probably to have it closer to the portal destination but when they put in the early game access point for the area they realized that players would want access to the map ASAP and moved it.

"Decent Items"
Brother, East Liurnia has:
Ice-Spear, Electryfie Armament, Winged Sword Insignia, Miners-bellbearing and last but least
VYKES FCKN WARSPEAR (if it's still your Number 1 Pick)