Recommended Level by Location | Elden Ring Wiki

ngl level doesnt matter much, specially if its you first run since you are very likely to have a dumbass build like me that had 25 on arcane and my build didnt even made bleeds :skull:

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For New Player!: learn difference between true combos and spamming R1s and L2s.. It doesn't matter what lvl you are, Rats can kill you. learn to watch limbs of your enemy. Learn that dodge button will activate roll animation once you RELEASE that button NOT WHEN YOU PRESS THAT BUTTON! No matter if INT or STR or FAI or DEX or ARC, you will need stamina (End-endurance-stamina and equip load). 60 Vigor is wanted on every build unless you like being killed by 1 hit. You don't need that much Mind even if you're mage. level 150 is really enough to comfortably beat Elden Beast. This game is about challenge and getting better. You will die a lot and it's exactly how game is designed, you need to learn your foes attack to dodge them and at start you'll often miss and die. Come back later with clear mind. You don't need to fight single enemy to explore map of Limgrave,Liurnia,Caelid,Altus Plateau, Volcano Mannor and part of underground so feel free to just ride Torrent and pick stuff around you. Times are hard so try robbing some grave, it's 3asy to get to lvl 40 from this.. experiment, explore, enjoy..

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don't follow this unless u wanna be insanely over leveled for almost every area. although it's not like you could possibly even meet most of these levels without going out of ur way to rune farm

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I beat the game at level 10, naked, with just fists

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My rule of thumb for knowing how well I'm leveled for an area is how many two-handed R1 inputs does it take for me to kill a "regular" enemy. I consider myself on-level if a kill only takes 3 or 4 hits. I consider myself over-leveled if a Boss doesn't give enough Runes to grant me one more level.

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The amount of "I beat the game at level 10, naked, with just fists" is such BS. To any new players, just play the game and enjoy it. If that means grinding and over levelling, that's fine. If not, that's fine too. There are various machanics in the game that make it easier if you want that; and they're in the game for a reason. Better to be the 'casual' having a great time, than the guy who puts others down.

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Tried the recommended level/upgrades for academy invasions, getting basically nothing over the past few days. Would recommend level 45ish with a +6 weapon tops

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What are the recommended levels for new game plus?

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So, are we overkill at 310? Lol

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Level 90 currently clearing out Mohg, Mountaintop and just passed the capital I guess that's why there's a spike

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"100-120 for mountaintops" so that's why Niall was so difficult on my second character...

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It all depends on your build. You can get a pretty good claymore build going with 50 or so RL. Put 9 points in STR/DEX and the rest into vigor.
However, if you aim for a casting build, your points start to spread thin between int/faith/mind.

If you aim for the optimal PvE elden ring experience, take the guidelines with a grain of salt. It's all about vigor and smithing stones.

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Mountaintops and Snowfields regions only have a recommended level of 100-120? I’ve been a diehard fan since the original Demon’s Souls, but the massive spike in enemy difficulty upon reaching those areas is ridiculous. For newer players, whatever your build, I’d recommend a minimum of 40 Vigor and play more defensively. I ended up bumping mine up to 50(~1,600 HP), but some enemies like Misbegotten can still kill me in 5-6 hits.

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This was very useful as a guide. But for real, as so many other people have already said... Knowing how to play the game and learning mechanics will ALWAYS be better than your level.
My first playthrough was very cautious and I hated anything PvP and I was stupidly over levelled, which in all honesty just meant that I could bonk my way through the game without learning much of anything.
But 2 years down the line and now actually enjoying PvP, I've learned so much that I can go to many areas Under levelled (at least, compared to this guide) simple because I know how to play.

Guides are great, but just learn for yourself <3

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level says ****... what's more important are flasks, talismans, weapon upgrades, armor, etc. you can have a lower lvl with good upgrades and do better than a high lvl with bad upgrades

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im level -13 and have just beaten Elden Beast with my fists no problem, but now im facing Soldier of Godrick and its impossible. This scaling is horrible. Am i underleveled?

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Just to let anyone know who’s new to the souls games that you should always be Cautious regardless of level. I am level 161 and I could still die to a pack of wolves

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From my experience, for PvP, 136-150 is kind of the sweet spot.

Twink is pretty dead. 200 ha some hits but not nearly as active. Again this is just me.

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I was trying Astel at level 55 or so... most of that being Dex and Endurance... no wonder I was getting pummeled lmao

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strictly meant for first timers.

stay at 15-20 and below rlvl 80 if you want to get summoned for soop instantly.
(somber level is 2,5 normals)

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Yep, I'm overleveled. I made a habit to play extra save when carrying a lot of runes. Also sold 80% of unused items since I don't know that you could keep it in chest.

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I mean 30 point spreads? That’s odd isn’t it? I’m not super knowledgeable about the process but 30 extra points is a lot

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Thought I was really bad at this game till I realized that making it to mountaintops on rune level 29 before I had to ask wtf my weapon was only a back scratcher to some of these enemies.

Guess Im ok at the game according to this list

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I'm lvl 158 after getting close to 100% (prob some ashes of war missing), waiting for DLC. Anyone knows if i'm overleveled for it? Or will the next "meta" get close to 150-160?

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I like how they put the end game at 120 - 150 to stop the pvpers raging "125 Is Le MeTa!!1!"

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this list is great for not over-leveling, and keeping invasions available most often.

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A rule of thumb that's worked well for me in the DS1, DS3 and seems to be playing out in ER: the area boss will drop the amount of souls needed to get you ~ 1 or 2 levels, depending on if you went into the area at the low end or high end of the sort of planned level range.

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Friendly reminder before you scroll into the hellhole below: nobody cares what level you were when you beat Gorlock the Destroyer. Difficulty is subjective and heavily impacted by things like flask upgrades, talismans, armor, etc

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I'm doing my 1st playthrough and honestly following this area guide with doing all points of interest and bosses without grinding keeps me in line with around the recommend level that's indicated here

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when i'm playing, everything is underleveled

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People really failed discourse class lmaoo.

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Got to Lendell at level 76. Got pummelled

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Big coping in the comments here acting like extra levels doesn't do anything haha. There's a reason meta level exists in multiplayer. It's to keep people from being able to do everything in one build and they have to sacrifice points. Would maybe agree with you if this was the other games because stat spread was low compared to here. The sheer damage of weapons and Ashes of War is bonkers in this game. Only thing that balances is out is having above 50 vigor is pretty much a must unlike DS3 comparably because of how much damage endgame does. So you don't need to have 60 strength or dex to complete a build. Enjoy the game how you want of course. But Elden Ring has a big problem with stat distributing and the scaling of overall values. Dude's will have 50 vigor and 90 poise and not even be done with Leyndell and acting like your overleveled build isn't doing anything, lol. Man these games become more and more casual friendly every year. At any rate, I was about level 60ish in Leyndell my first run and I believe 110 when I beat the game. Of course, I made my first build with PvP in mind and stopping at 125. Either way, Only area I didn't explore was Lake of Rot and Haligtree. Which Haligtree is endgame anyway like Archdragon's Peak.

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My first time in the Capital I was level 120 and got bullied. A few characters later and I was celebrating defeat of Morgott at level 45 with +7 weapons. The key is Vigor.. if you can survive more mistakes, even if your damage is lower, you can probably overcome bosses anyway with some patience. Dont go crazy worrying about your level, just get vigor up to 35-40 and break stances.

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Honestly so long as you take your time you can’t really be under leveled.

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"Oh man I was at Leyndell at level 60 blah blah..."

Yes yes we're all very impressed. Anyway, to the hosts that keep summoning me at level 15 for Radahn, please read this page and make better choices.

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I’m at Altus at 42 feel very unsafe here. I beat like the undead boss, the one that drops death root, and the one you are required to beat if you are going through the tunnel. I tried Radahn first but I get 1 tapped and like died 15 times so I decided to go there.but some this is some bullshit I think stormveil is at about 20-30 and so on. The guide I suppose is for people new to the franchise.

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What does the underground roadside belong to, royal capital or ashen capital? And what level is it?

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I liked exploring so I did just that for most of the game. Ended up being 140 at Castle Sol. I've never farmed once. Don't see how ppl are complaining about the leveling especially if it's their first play through. Are you even truly playing the game if you're just rushing to bosses?? You payed $60 for this at least try to enjoy the vast world lmaoo.

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It started as "ah man Caelid is being a bit rough let me che-ah 40 levels underleveled yea ok" and it continued with a different location every like 5 hours

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To everyone commenting nonsense: Recommended does not mean "have to be".
Of course you can be under-leveled. I was wildly over-leveled for everything and had a great time.
I love this game.
P.S.
NO it wasn't "eAsY mOdE" it was my first time playing so there were many surprises. Like Malekiths HP Drain, Godskin Duo respawn, Radagons teleporting, and the Waterfowl Dance.
High level doesn'd do S**T to help that.

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Just cleared Azula until Radagon at level 60. It was tough but very doable.

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Wow I just discovered this page only to realize that I was consistently 20-30 levels under the minimum recommended level for each area every playthough. No wonder I thought this game was damn near impossible saying to myself "miyazaki went too far in this game". I mean I got gud and have no issues being underleveled now but still.

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110 for Leyndell? Wut? I usually go there around 60.

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Ah so trying the drake tree sentinel at lvl 40 is a no no?

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Gotta love NEEDING to come here in order to know if it's skill issue or me not being all-knowing of the fact I should be in the other corner of the map for whatever reason.

They just don't know how to balance an open world game, this isn't the "one way only" progression system of dark souls III; just look at the difficulty jump of caelid south vs north. Seriously what the **** they're in the same landmass...

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"Recommended upgrade for Caelid is +10-14"
Me with my +0 longsword: "So that's why everything had so much health"

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And here I was at level 28 wandering why Raya Lucaria is so hard…

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stormveil castle at level 21 and i was wondering why it felt so punishing

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I uh... i farmed to 150 before i even cleared Raya Lucaria

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I think mountain tops is 80-90, that's where I am everytime I kill rahdan morgott godrick and renalla

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I feel like people's levels are too high in Limgrave and Liurnia and way below what they should be in Elphael. Kind of a design flaw with the open world, where early areas have many side dungeons to level up and late ones may be reached before others. I've seen many people say they were RL 80 for Raya Lucaria, but only RL 110 1w0 Elphael. Which is 40 levels above what they should be in Liurnia and 40 levels below what they should be when they reach Consecrated Swowfields. This, of course, isn't helped by self-proclaimed meta gaming arbiters who have decided that it totally makes sense to introduce RL 125 "level cap" for online play, in a game that's three times as long as Dark Souls 3 and where the last boss gives you four times as much EXP as Slave Knight Gael.

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I think Siofra River should be labeled level 50-60. It wasn't particularly difficult for me to clear in my 50s, including only 2 attempts needed to beat the Ancestor Spirit solo. I don't think its difficulty in on-par with Caelid.

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Gotta love how confusing they made the level progression; I followed the story no problems until I reached leyndell -level 70- took me a fair bit of smashing my head against ****ers with MASSIVE pools of health to think "****, I shouldn't really be here" and guess what, I SHOULDN'T! this moron of godeon offnir TOLD ME TO GO TO THE ****ING CAPITAL so, what did I do? follow the progression, play nicely but guess this isn't a souls game where progression is distributed nicely- no NO! who the **** thought this was a fair system for someone new to the game? not saying I need a marker telling me to go to caelid, just subtle clues other than meeting the same enemy I killed before but wth 3x their health...

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here I am sitting at 180 rune level after completing every dungeon and story in new game.

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Lv110 with maxed out summons and weapons. Most bosses without problems. But I can still get killed by 3 dogs. Or one bird.

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Couple things (major/moderate spoilers omitted): I know this is for matchmaking but people use it as a reference for area difficulty. With regard to that, I want to point out that build can drastically affect the accuracy/consistency of using such a list that way. For example, I see people regularly state that Caria is harder than Sellia, but as someone running a casual dex/fire incant build on ng, this played the other way around for me. Additionally, regardless the suspected difficulty, I'd suggest considering letting 'Rya' transport you to Volcano Manor ASAP (as far as I know, this doesn't affect any quests/progression) in order to buy Assassin's Gambit AoW from 'Recus. B.' and then using that to run through at least part of Nokron as early as possible (must have defeated Redmane Castle special event boss in Caelid) to grab renowned ash upgrades — this can help you push through spots your build may not be optimized to deal with and these upgrades are scarce elsewhere.

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I think the game may actually have some sort of area level built in. It seems to me like if you're underleveled for an area, more of the enemies with glowing gold eyes show up (I think they drop 4x runes?). It might be the game's way of trying to "level you up" for the area. Anyone else seen this?

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I've been using this as a frame of reference (finally trying to clean up achievements and completion on NG before the expansion) and I've had a blast. If you clear an entire listed region without losing too many runes you should be on a steady level pace. I'd say use the lowest levels listed, really by the time you've level 90 you can attempt anything.

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Farming the broken statues in Deeproot Depths is around 14,000 runes per minute with no buffs. Start at the across the roots site of grace and kill the 4 broken statues along the tree trunks heading towards the nameless eternal city site of grace.

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It should explain that for weapon levels, the lower number in the range is the natural progression level for each area. The higher number is for people that are scrounging up every possible hidden crafting material using guides, or by memory if they know their locations. By Miquella's Haligtree, you would've naturally acquired all the crafting materials necessary to have maxed out at least two weapons.

Dragonbarrow may be accessible the second you reach The Lands Between, but the bosses in the region are tougher than anything the Royal Capital, or Forbidden Lands has to offer, and should technically be placed after them.

Character level, on the other hand, is kinda meaningless after a certain point. lvl 80 I think, maybe 90? After that you're just putting points to maximize damage output by a bit, or meet stat requirements for weapons, spells, and incantations, or pumping Endurance for heavier armor, or weapons, or pumping mind for a deeper FP pool. In other words, your build is complete by lvl 80. Then you're just refining it, or working on your Elden Bling.

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+6-8 somber for Siofra? Damn,if you don't even wanna have fun then sure man, haven't ever played a souls game and I can say you can literally do Siofra with +1-2 somber.I mean... Ancestor Spirit gives you 13k runes,if you are level 60-70 u won't even get a level.For singeplayer this entire guide is literally telling you to be 20 levels overleveled and and have 3 more somber upgrades than you need.

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I agree. So stupid how people get on these free sites looking for advice but then act like they know more than the people posting. If you do know more then make your own list and don’t worry about this one. Start your own wiki!

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These levels are a good azimuth check for an average player to progress through the game with a reasonable incline in difficulty. Its also a pretty natural rate of level gain that may only require grinding to buyout merchants or correct item mistakes, assuming you follow the route and clear all of the dungeons and bosses. Just felt like the comments were nothing but naysayers and complaints.

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I think i might be a bit overleveled, just beat rennala at level 190 on 1st playthrough... whoops

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Level 30 Rennala ez

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what about ng+?

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Wait 60-70 for radahn? I'm level 90 and he one-shots me, even with decent armor and 40 vigor, no sore/scarseals either

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I am not sure why some people do not understand that not every level (arbitrary nr) 30 is comparable..

You can have a pro parry, no damage taken player who has sunk all levels in damage stat and stamina f.e..
Same level for a more regular player with the damage stat, stamina and health leveled will not be comparable.
And then you can have someone with same level with very spread out stats, same as before plus int and/or faith and maybe a point in something else as well. Which.. can feel as a lower level, since neither dmg will be as high neither you will have as much stamina and such.

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Consider rune drops and level up costs. These matchmaking recommendations basically say that you should have to kill 60-80 rank-and-file enemies in a given area, if you are appropriately leveled, to level up. If you are actually exploring the massive world that From built instead of running past everything, that sounds about right. It seems like lots of people are exploring, and that is a good thing.

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What constitutes Liurnia of the Lakes (South)? That's not a region in the game.

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Probably my second biggest criticism is that it's virtually required to be higher than level 75 or 40+ vigor for the later areas. Is it hard to understand that if they increased the runes to level and squished the damage that the player base would be less divided? They've been bad at this ever since DS3.

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Baleful shadow and lake of rot feel higher than that..

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These levels may be a little high for a difficulty recommendation, but they feel spot on for multiplayer. I get summoned at these areas at these level ranges.

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Wait you're supposed to be level 50-60 for Raya Lucaria? I cleared it at lvl 20-25ish on my first playthrough!

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Just finish Liurna level one. Uchigatana + radagon seal.

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Don't know how many new players will read this, but if you're worrying about being underlevelled... these levels are VERY generous. If you do every dungeon and explore every area you will easily reach these levels without deliberate grinding. Being high levelled is a lot of fun. But if you want a challenge or you wander into the wrong area it's viable to complete any part of the game at 20 lower than the minimum here.

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They need to update this to include what level you should be for NG +1 to NG +7. Like I just started NG+1 with my lvl 175 astrologer and I steam rolled Stormveil and Raya Lucaria. I am sure I could beat Leyndell capital but, I am wondering if I should gain more levels before Fire Giant and Farum Azula?

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I'm lvl 120 and haven't done academy yet lol

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moonlight alter 400+ non NG+

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moonlight altar 400+ no ng

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First journey Def underleveled spent the first half of bosses up to rykard at like 80 then I kinda maxed somewhere at 110 for the rest of the game not too bad but definitely bad enough because it was my first fighting every boss and such, now on journey 3 and sitting at 250 B)

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I'd like it more if getting summoned was more generous. Hard to know if I'm the wrong level, or if no one's looking for coop, or what.

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I’m under leveled I’m at the fire giant at level 74 with a +10 blood hounds fang

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These level ranges are absolutely bonkers after Weeping Peninsula. I am doing Caelid as a level 41 spellsword without any twinks. Only +5 upgraded Academy Glintstone Staff and a +5 Rapier with the Carian Shield.

I struggle with Commander O'Neil and got my ass handed to me a few times going through Sellia. But mostly because I got careless. I face rolled both Margit, Godrick at level 20 and Rennala at 30.

My nemesis is those grafted Scions or whatever they are called and every single Rune Bear I run across. ****s sake I get so stressed out by their super aggressive combat :)

Level 41 seems an appropriate challenge for Caelid as well as Altus Plateau East. It even works for Mt. Gelmir, but I'll probably get to level 45 before going through all of it.

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I am very under-leveled, apparently. I killed the omen king at lvl 75 with a Moonveil spellblade build(1st playthrough). It took about 50 tries but it was still very doable.

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This level guide seems off. The lakes area with my mage I was killing everything at lvl 25. My first sticking point was the fire dragon dude after climbing all the lifts with the annoying flying bat things. Then I put on some music and spent the day at dragonbarrow to quickly get to lvl 50. Sure if your parry and stuff is on point you can get past all of this before lvl 50 but any first souls game I gotta "gitgud' still lol.

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i am really underleveled lol
i am at consecrated snowfield at level 72, and the only boss i cheesed was draconic tree sentinel.

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Just realized that I should be grinding a LOT more throughout my playthrough - beat Morgott at around lv 50-60 with a lot of deaths

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Killing most main bosses on your first attempt, because you massively over leveled without trying, from exploring every sub-location, and killing all 48 variations of every field boss, is a perfectly acceptable strategy.

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The map is really dumb. The only progression arrow it has that point into altus plateau is from lake of rot, which is a much harder area. People should go there via one of the three methods after completion of main caelid (not dragonbarrow)

Ultimately though being an open world game, there is no set path. But I still think recommending players do the lake of rot before altus is pretty silly. Altus also has some of the better weapons and spells dotted about.

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I have all effigies on all characters and I'd like to share my observations on PC from the past few weeks. Since patch 1.06, my lvl 60 character gets summoned more often in the mountaintop or in farum azula than in Caelid or Liurnia, to my surprise. Two times, my level 46 character got summoned in the consecrated snowfield, against the Astel in the mine ! Also, this level 46 character was summoned for Borealis once. My level 80 character has a lot of activities against the last bosses of the game, more than my lvl 100 in fact. There was one evening in particular where I got non-stop activities with my lvl 100+19, but otherwise, my lower levels have more activities than my lvl 100 or my lvl 130. But if I want to have the absolute most activities, I play as the host, instead of being the summon. However, too many players skip some cool effigies. And I find myself having a hundred people available for Malenia but none for the Ancestral Spirit in Nokron, or Commander O'Neil in Caelid.

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I have all effigies on all characters and I'd like to share my observations on PC from the past few weeks. Since patch 1.06, my lvl 60 character gets summoned more often in the mountaintop or in farum azula than in Caelid or Liurnia, to my surprise. Two times, my level 46 character got summoned in the consecrated snowfield, against the Astel in the mine ! Also, this level 46 character was summoned for Borealis once. My level 80 character has a lot of activities against the last bosses of the game, more than my lvl 100 in fact. There was one evening in particular where I got non-stop activities with my lvl 100+19, but otherwise, my lower levels have more activities than my lvl 100 or my lvl 130. But if I want to have the absolute most activities, I play as the host, instead of being the summon. However, too many players skip some cool effigies. And I find myself having a hundred people available for Malenia but none for the Ancestral Spirit in Nokron, or Commander O'Neil in Caelid.

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These are insane, I really don't know how you can genuinely get numbers like 40 for Stormveil or 110 for Leyndell unless you're treating this game like an MMO and grinding before even trying to overcome stuff. You can definitely reasonably get to 120 by the end of the game, but I have no idea what you're doing if you get past 20 before beating Godrick.

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Nah reduce everything by 15 or 20 after raya lucaria and you're fine

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No thanks. It's nice to know an estimate, but getting to Morgott at 52 with +11 seemed like the proper difficulty. In concentrated snowfield and beyond, level 80 with +17 feels perfect. I do not recommend this table unless you want to ragdoll and 1 shot everything.

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150!!!

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This is wrong, right?
It should be base class level and +0 upgrades for every location.
What is the point of a playthrough if you don't strive for a character with endgame gear/flasks to invade new players?

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Advice to people about leveling. Kill everything (hostile) you encounter. You’ll be quite pleased by the stack of runes you have by the time you’re done and the time will pass quickly. Do this in the section of the region you are in until the juice doesn’t feel worth the squeeze. Then, move on to the next section of the region (except in Caelid, which seems to be essentially a trap in that way). Repeat. Now ignore the region boss and slaughter the mini-bosses. Ignore the bosses again and move on to the next region. Rinse and repeat. It’ll keep you well ahead of things that otherwise would pose any challenge to you. Think of this as the bubble-wrapped “safe” way to play.

I fully intend to mill every region like this before I even fight Godrick simply because there’s so much to do and so many monsters to slay and treasures I’m finding that doing a dungeon honestly feels more like a chore than enjoyable at this point. And because screw fair fights, I’m in it to win it.

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Ainsel Main and Nokstella should be separate from the rest of Ainsel River and somewhere after Nokron.

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