PvE Builds for Elden Ring focuses on providing recommendations for character stats and player equipment which benefits on Solo or Co-op gameplay against AI enemies and bosses. This page contains a list of various builds that are created by the community. If you have a build you would like to add, click on the "Edit" button to share your own creation - for PvP Builds, click here.
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Elden Ring PvE Builds
Elden Ring Flying Mantis Build
Jumping attack focused build with wide sweeps applying bleed and frostbite.
- Class: Vagabond
- Flask Spread: 1 FP, rest HP
- Weapon: Grave Scythe in main hand, Scythe in off-hand
- Armor: White Mask, Raptor's Black Feathers, heaviest armour that lets you medium-roll.
- Primary Stats: Vigor, Endurance & Dexterity.
- Secondary Stats: Faith
- Spells: Black Flame Blade
- Skills: Ash of War: Chilling Mist with Keen affinity on main hand, Ash of War: Hoarfrost Stomp with Frost affinity on offhand.
- Spirit Ashes: Spirit Jellyfish Ashes until you get Stormhawk Deenh
- Talismans: Claw Talisman. Others to taste: Radagon's Soreseal, Erdtree's Favor, Lord of Blood's Exultation, Green Turtle Talisman, Bull-Goat's Talisman. If a more dodge focused build is desired, use Great-Jar's Arsenal and Crucible Feather Talisman and get your weight down low enough to fast-roll.
Main method of attacking is the mid-air L1, which does a wide sweep with both scythes in a large arc, dealing both huge upfront damage and applying both frostbite and bleed. Chilling Mist doubles frost outpit, once frostbite is applied, switch to your sacred seal to cast Black Flame Blade, then jump back in and to reset the frostbite bar, doing additional health % damage from the Black Flame DoT. No block option, so stay mobile. Malenia's Great Rune can further aid your staying power, allowing you to play even more aggressively and take fewer breaks to heal. If you prefer, once you get a second scythe from NG+ or a friend dropping one for you, you can replace the grave scythe and drop the faith aspect entirely, just using firebombs to reset frost, and put Ash of War: Bloodhound's Step as your main weapon art, setting the affinity to either frost or bleed according to your preference once you have the appropriate whetblades.
Elden Ring Cipher Build
Cypher is an extremely easy medium build to use, collect, and adjust to your liking.
- Class: Prophet
- Flask Spread: Adjustable. Take more Red when you are focusing on melee and more blue when you are focusing on holy.
- Standard Weapons: Cipher Pata, Coded Sword, Godslayer's Seal
- Early Game Weapons: Longsword, Broadsword, Short Spear, Shortbow
- Shield: Beast Crest Heater Shield initially, any other low strength shield you prefer later, based on boss/area progression.
- Armor: Whatever's in fashion or has the resistances you need for progression. Keep your weight to medium.
- Talismans: Two Fingers Heirloom, any other useful talisman. The Green Turtle Talisman is always nice.
- Primary Stats: Faith
- Secondary Stats:
15 Vigor
15+ Mind as needed for FP
10+ Endurance as needed for the armor set you prefer.
12 Strength (Just add your first level here to gain access to a good number of weapons and shields)
10 Dexterity (Prophet Initial)
7 Intelligence (Prophet Initial)
30+ Faith (minimum)
10 Arcane (Prophet Initial)
Startup: You can grab all this stuff without killing a single boss. First get the horse, snag the Limgrave map, and get the seed en route to get the Beast Crest Heater Shield, pop up on top of the cliff and grab Ash of War: Golden Vow, then get the Saintsbridge Site of Grace after. You should also go to the broken cart near the Bridge of Sacrifice in the Weeping Peninsula and grab the Spiked Mace for a strike damage weapon. Circle back to the Castleward Tunnel and challenge Margit to unlock the Roundtable and buy the Flame Sling, then jump off the balcony and go right to pick up the Cipher Pata. You'll probably die, so spend your runes on arrows or whatnot first. Buy the Longsword from the Roundtable, or the Broadsword from the Coastal Nomadic Merchant. Be sure and get the Shortbow and some arrows from the Coastal Nomadic Merchant as well. Next, you take the hidden path off the bridge with the palm reader to get around Stormveil Castle, and fall down the gravestones on near the Lake-Facing Cliffs, and then past Liurnia Highway South to get to the Purified Ruins. Roll thru some boards on the floor to get to a chest that holds the Two Fingers Heirloom talisman for a 5 level bump to your Faith. Then go back to Saintsbridge and head across. I recommend buying the Bandit Mask from the merchant across the bridge. Keep going east to the Summonwater Village Outskirts, grab the Green Turtle Talisman on the other side of the village, then drop down the cliff to get the Ash of War: Sacred Blade.
That's all you need for this build, I recommend buying the Bandit Mask from the merchant across the Saintsbridge, and then the Knight's Set for the other slots. You can stay at Medium Load when you equip the Longsword, Beast Crest Heater Shield, Finger Seal, Bandit Mask, Knight Armor, Chain Gauntlets, and Chain Leggings without putting anything into Endurance, so it's only a couple of levels to get to the full Knight Set if you want to use it.
Equip one of the sacred Ash of War to your blade for now, and you can do solid melee or throw fireballs at bosses until they croak. Expand your faith build with whatever entertaining spells you come across.
Pump Faith as much as possible while squeezing in a few levels of Vitality and Endurance until you can equip the Cipher Pata, and you'll start hitting like a truck!
Zealous Fury Templar Build
Balanced Greatsword build that turns into a well-rounded dual Greatsword zealous knight
- Class: Confessor
- Flask Spread: 80% HP
- Early Weapons: Sacred Claymore and Brass Shield, Finger Seal
- Mid to late-game Weapons: Blasphemous Blade and Inseparable Sword
- Armor: Anything in Mid-roll, Confessor set until altered Mausoleum Knight Armor with hood or no helm.
- Talisman Recommendation: Radagon's Scarseal until Soreseal, Erdtree's Favor or Green Turtle Talisman, Claw Talisman once you swap to dual Greatswords.
- Primary Stats: Faith / Vigor
- Secondary Stats: Mind / Endurance
- Skills: Golden Vow early for Sacred scaling, Taker's Flame once you have Blasphemous Blade
- Spells: Lightning Spear, Black Flame, Frenzied Burst
Early one you will want to farm for a Brass Shield and the Golden Vow ashes. You will want to target medium rolls throughout this build, start with raising Vigor to 15 then STR to 16 and DEX to 13 for the Claymore, this weapon offers slashes and stabs. Make your way south to Castle Morne to obtain the Claymore. From here you can play sword and shield or talisman and shield with the early incantations, use Golden Vow to buff, you heal to heal and fire spells for damage. By level 40 you should have about 20 Vigor, 14 Mind, 14 Endurance and 24 Faith and can level as you choose, want more hp, then go Vigor, more FP go Mind, need more stam (use the turtle talisman) or equip load go Endurance and when those feel good go Faith for damage. Try to level faith 2 or 3 to 1 on the other states with a goal of 45 Faith by level 70. Sword and Shield with incantations will carry you quite well into the later game where you want to target the Blasphemous Blade as early as you can. While I waited for this point to begin dual-wielding Greatswords you can choose to forgo the shield and do so sooner. Obtain the Claw Talisman and prioritize jumping L1 attacks for massive damage and poise damage. With high Faith you have options for Holy and Fire damage on your swords as well as lightning, fire, holy primary incantations, a large variety of buffs, magic, ice, rot dragon incantations, poison and bleed incantations and so much more.
Elden Ring Cheese Slicer Build
Description
- Class: Confessor or Wretch
- Flask Spread: As you need, you can sustain most boss fights with just 2 mana flasks at 26 focus
- Weapon: Black Knife, Maliketh's Black Blade, Serpent Bow(Serpent Arrow), Black Knife Tiche Ashes
- Shield: Any but try Kite Shield
- Armor: Any but you might like Black Knife Set or Maliketh's Set
- Talisman Recommendation: Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Shard of Alexander, Crucible Feather Talisman, Radagon Icon
- Primary Stats: 40 vitality, 26 focus, 12 dex, 8 str, 18 faith, 16 arcane
- Secondary Stats: 17 arcane, 46 faith, 34 strength
- Skills:
- Spells: Swarm of flies, frozen lightning spear, pest threads, scarlet aeonia, poison mist, bloodboon, bloodflame talons, Black Blade
The HP reduction effect and the %HP burn of black knife, malikeths black blade and the black blade incantation do not stack with the same source however it does stack with other sources such as other weapon arts and the incantation as well as stacking with your spirit summon's inflicted effect so you can use either Mimic Tear or Black Knife Tiche(way better than mimic in my opinion). This effect really melts bosses HP and even moreso when stacking multiple effects, taking down bosses is easy just like cutting through cheese. Swarm of flies is a highly recommended additional pick as it will allow you to quickly delete a bosses hp with the blood loss effect, its useful on tanky bosses like Fire Giant to quickly end the second phase( I save it until second phase ), keep in mind a lot of bosses are immune to effects like poison, rot, frostbite and bleed so they aren't always that useful. When you unlock the Black Blade incantation you can use it in conjunction with the black knife weapon art have double DOT effect and Black Blade has slightly better range than Black Knife. While Maliketh;s Black Blade is powerful and awesome, its weapon art is hard to get off so its a situational weapon.
Getting Black Knife and Tiche early:
These assassins are really annoying but can be cheesed with meagre stats and gear. They are very vulnerable to stagger and being stun locked, they get stuck behind ledges(such as the rocks that are around the areas of both fights) and if you get them in a corner(cliffs they can fall off counts as part of a corner as they wont fall off) they will be basically stuck because they always dash back/to the sides and will also be stunlocked by you hitting them. I suggest using a weapon with good range and stagger, the way I did it wasn't the best but it worked, I used a pike upgraded with stone bought with bell bearings and baited the assasin to be on the low side of the ledge, then poked until they escaped then baited them back there.
Elden Ring Roundtable Assassin Build
Low-level build cosplaying as a Roundtable Assassin under orders of the Two Fingers. Lightweight and focusing on stealth and critical hits.
- Class: Confessor
- Flask Spread: Mostly HP
- Weapon: Ornamental Straight Swords (R1), Miséricorde (R2)
- Shield: Wooden Greatshield (L1), Finger Seal (L2), Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow (L3)
- Armor: Confessor Set
- Talisman Recommendation: Dagger, Assassin's Crimson & Cerulean Dagger, Arrow's Reach
- Primary Stats: Dex/Fth
- Secondary Stats: Vig/Mnd/End (18 Endurance for med. load)
- Skills: Assassin's Gambit, Poison Moth Flight
- Spells: Two Fingers Incantations, namely: Assassin's Approach, Darkness, Rejection, Shadow Bait, Lord's Aid, Lord's Heal
Start your class with the Stonesword Keys (2x) keepsakes, defeat the Grafted Scion tutorial boss for a good, fitting, easy-to-upgrade main weapon for regular engagements. Progress the game avoiding most things, pick up a somber smithing stone at the bridge, stop at the Stormhill Shack for a third Stonesword Key and Roderika, then get to the site of grace before Stormveil Castle to get access to the Roundtable Hold. Once there, use your stonesword keys to get Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow and the Assassin's Prayerbook. You now have access to everything you need to cheese a few tough fights easy with the use of scarlet rot on the crossbow, giving you access to mid-game areas. Some of the things you might want to pick up are the Wooden Greatshield & Miséricorde in Stormveil Castle, access to poison & scarlet rot options (AoW, Throwing Pots, Bolts), get the assassin's daggers (one in stormhill, one in liurnia) and pick up all the easy somber smithing stones to get strong quickly (or don't upgrade if you want to invade).
Stats at 28: 18 End, 14 Str, 16 Dex, 18 Fth
This build can easily transition into almost pure Dex, Dex/Fth paladin or even completely change to pure caster, either pure incantations or Int/Fth sorceries towards lategame with access to some weapons.
For roleplay reasons, go along with the two fingers, ignore Ranni & antagonise Varré, befriend Patches and follow his advice.
Silent Spellblade Build
A cunning Dark Moon Greatsword build for Ranni the Witch fanatics, wielding the Greatsword into Journey 2+ while cosplaying the Black Knife Assassin for stealth and/or aesthetics.
- Class: Any
- Flask Spread: Mostly FP
- Weapon: Dark Moon Greatsword, and either Staff of Loss or Carian Regal Scepter
- Armor: Black Knife Set, but swap Black Knife Greaves for Fire Prelate's Greaves, for poise
- Talisman Recommendation: Magic Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, and either Primal Glintstone Blade or Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman
- Primary Stats: Intelligence
- Secondary Stats: Strength, Vigor
- Skills: Moonlight Greatsword
- Spells: Night Comet, Glintstone Cometshard, Greatblade Phalanx, Ambush Shard, Terra Magica, Loretta's Greatbow, Ranni's Dark Moon
Being unheard and unseen makes using the Dark Moon Greatsword that much less of a hitch, plus I like how the Black Knife set looks.
Whichever staff I use is circumstantial. Staff of Loss is for the landscape; use to increase Night Comet for otherwise dodging enemies, or pile damage on bigger enemies like the ones in Caelid, combined with Greatblade Phalanx and Moonlight Greatsword, to make quicker work of them. Also for the landscape, I like using Loretta's Greatbow for more distant foes; and Unseen Form, the stealthy-spellblade themed which makes me harder to spot, even harder during the night.
For bosses, I swap out my Staff of Loss for Carian Regal Scepter, and Night Comet for Cometshard (unless they dodge like Malenia, Black Knife Assassins or Godskin Apostles), still inflicting good damage but at a lower FP cost; I swap out Loretta's Greatbow for Ranni's Dark Moon, particularly if I'm going through fog walls since none of those bosses will be far enough away to warrant Greatbow.
Beyond that, I have Ambush Shard to turtle single enemies with shields; Greatblade Phalanx speeds up poise breaks as I use Moonlight Greatsword; Unseen Form to hide in plain sight, adding to the stealthy-spellblade theming; and Terra Magica will buff my sword's skill AND any sorceries I dish out.
For the armor I'm mostly cosplaying Black Knife Assassin, but I trade the Black Knife Greaves for Fire Prelate's. This amounts to decent poise without clashing with the BKA aesthetics. But the poise matters because buffing Dark Moon Greatsword and the sorceries you cast have pretty slow animation, meaning your enemies could otherwise interrupt. And in addition to stealth without having to slow yourself with crouching, it looks cool, and the fact it's a BKA using Ranni's Sword really denotes fanatacism for the witch herself.
For the talismans: Shard of Alexander to give Moonlight Greatsword its potency; Magic Scorpion Charm to buff that even further, AND strengthen sorceries; and Godfrey Icon to finish buffing the skill, and chargeable sorceries like the comets or Loretta's Greatbow. The fourth talisman is the flex spot: I use either Primal Glintstone Blade for the landscape, I lose max. HP wearing it and my MIN is barely above 40, but staying hidden makes it that much less problematic. Otherwise, when fighting a hard-hitting enemy/boss that dodge, like flying dragons, tree avatars or tree spirits, I swap out Primal Glintstone for Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman to ensure I survive longer.
My stats so far: 55 VIG; 42 MIN; 23 END; 16 STR; 12 DEX; and 80 INT. Vigor is that high because the Black Knife cosplay + Fire Prelate Greaves aren't the heaviest armor, AND the Primal Glintstone Blade you'll be slotting reduces HP; granted it's advised to swap it for Dragoncrest Greatshield for bosses/tougher enemies like omens, but VIG should be about that high to last longer. Mind is 42; I was barely above level 160 when I started NG+, so I only had so many points to work with, but you kind of can't get enough MIN, either, because you chew through your FP using either Night Comet or Glintstone Cometshard, like on Ancient Dragons or whichever enemies are distant (inherently, or because you have to distance yourself from them), along with Greatblade Phalanx and buffing the Greatsword, both of which also cost FP. 23 Endurance let's you wear either combination of equipment, and still med-roll, plus you could use the extra max. stamina as using Greatsword, as well as your sorceries, consumes stamina rather fast. 16 Strength let's you use Dark Moon Sword's skill while one-handing it; you could two-hand it at 11 STR, but that'd be time consuming, tedious, and too many openings for enemies on your tail, like bosses. 12 Dexterity allows use of the Staff of Loss, you only need 10 to use Regal Scepter, but that'd be 2 points below the minimum for the staff that buffs Night Comet. And 80 Intelligence; while Moonlight Greatsword can already hit like a truck, you could use that much for the sorceries you utilize. And no Faith or Arcane.
And for the Wondrous Physick, I'd mix in Greenburst Crystal Tear, and 1 of 2 others. The Greenburst is needed to accelerate stamina recovery, and you do use up stamina when casting sorceries, even more when using the Greatsword's skill. In the other slot, you could mix in Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear to buff your magic even further. HOWEVER, if you feel you're damaging enemies/bosses just fine without it, then I'd instead slot Cerulean Hidden Tear to temporarily save FP when buffing Greatsword, and going in guns-blazing with sorceries. You inflict profound damage with the greatsword, and the sorceries I use here, but the choice is completely yours, as is with whichever sorceries you find more strategically efficient.
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Anonymous
Elden Knight Build (Rune Level 500):
Armor:
Knight armor recommended. Ensure mid rolling capability.
Weapons:
Right Hand 1: Heavy or Blood Broadsword - Storm Blade
Right Hand 2: Cold or Heavy Bastard Sword or Iron Greatsword - Giant Hunt recommended.
Left Hand 1: Brass Shield or Banished Knight Shield
Left Hand 2: Any weightless seal (Erdtree Seal, Frenzied Flame Seal, Golden Order Seal, Dragon Communion Seal).
Talisman:
Dragoncrest Greatshield / Carian Filigreed Crest / Shard of Alexander / Curved Sword Talisman
Spell:
Bestial Vitality
Wondrous Physic:
Greenspill Crystal Tear (+15% stamina) for 3 min.
Greenburst Crystal Tear (increases stamina regen) for 3 min. You can swap for Crimsonburst Crystal Tear if preferred (Heals 7 HP per second for 3 minutes, total: 1,260 HP).
Stats:
Vigor: 80
Mind: 40
Endurance: 80
Strength: 80
Dexterity: 80
Intelligence: 40
Faith: 60
Arcane: 40
- Anonymous
Hey guys little note, if your "Build" is at level 350+, its not a build anymore. A build requires you to specifically build around something, not be able to do everything well.
- Anonymous
"Ogrim, Half-Wolf"
RL150
Class: Prophet
Vigor: 48 (1860 HP)
Mind: 30 (173 FP)
Endurance: 18 (121 ST)
Strength: 50
Dexterity: 16
Intelligence: 7
Faith: 50
Arcane: 10
Armor: Black Wolf Mask, Kaiden Armor, Raging Wolf Gauntlets, Raging Wolf Greaves
RH: Heavy Omen Cleaver (AoW: Vacuum Slice) - AR 690 two-handed, Cinquedea - 468 AR
LH: Clawmark Seal - Incant Scaling 285 (additional +10% boost to bestial incants)
Talismans: Erdtree's Favor +2, Radagon Icon, Crimson Amber Medallion +2, Green Turtle Talisman
Physick: Opaline Hardtear, Greenburst Tear
Great Rune: Radahn
Incants:
Bestial Sling, Beast Claw, Stone of Gurranq, Gurranq's Beast Claw, Bestial Constitution, Vyke's Dragonbolt, Ancient Dragon's Lightning Spear, Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike, Black Blade
Bestial Sling comes out fast and combos seemlessly into Beast Claw, making for a unique one-two I've found success with in duels
Stone of Gurranq provides cheap and insane ranged DPS and can be cast repeatedly, keep in though mind they are fairly easy to dodge in PvP
Gurranq's Beast Claw makes for superb FP efficient crowd control, has a slow wind-up so requires good timing and spacing
Bestial Constitution is for getting rid of all that annoying bleed and frostbite build-up you'll encounter especially in PvP
Vacuum Slice makes for a powerful ranged attack that is especially reliable for hitting airborne enemies (also gives off a sweet Inuyasha vibe as a bonus)
The Cinquedea dagger can be switched to if you're looking for more mobility and want a further boost your bestial spells thanks to its innate effect
Vyke's Dragonbolt adds a ton of additional lighting damage to your Omen Cleaver and can be thought of as a sort of "second phase" (just watch out for incoming lighting damage)
A.D's Lightning Strike is a bit FP expensive but incredibly busted especially when charged, can kill most bosses in just a few charged casts
A.D's Lightning Spear packs a good punch at close range and has good hyperarmor during its wind-up
Black Blade can be thought of a sort of "ultimate attack" for the build, its powerful and saps your opponent's max health for a bit and is extra powerful point-blank
Since I am a huge nerd and enjoy roleplaying as characters of my own making I had a lot of fun with this one. Think of him like an old disciple of the Farum Azula beastmen being versed in their bestial incantations as well as those of the ancient dragon cult they worshipped, and became so affluent Maliketh himself took him on and gave him a small vestige of Destined Death to wield as his own.
Anyway it's one of the the coolest most funs build I've come up with so if anyone tries it I hope you enjoy!
- Anonymous
My personal favorite for PvE:
"Golden Pursuer"
RL150 - Strength/Faith
Class: Prophet
Vigor: 55 (2037 HP)
Mind: 27 (158 FP)
Endurance: 40 (156 ST)
Strength: 30
Dexterity: 10
Intelligence: 7
Faith: 50
Arcane: 10
Armor: Tree Sentinel Set
RH: Troll's Golden Sword (Sacred-infused) + AoW: Golden Land
LH: Erdtree Greatshield, Erdtree Seal (it's weightless and the incant scaling is good enough, plus it fits w/ the Erdtree theme)
Talismans: Erdtree's Favor +2, Great-Jar's Arsenal, Crimson Amber Medallion +2, Green Turtle Talisman
Physick: Holy-Shrouded Cracked & Greenburst tears
Spirit Ash: Mausoleum Soldiers (they can teleport and pull aggro very well, plus you feel like the commander of a small army)
Great Rune: Radahn
Incants: Elden Stars, Wrath of Gold, Golden Vow, Protection of the Erdtree, Blessing of the Erdtree, Erdtree Heal
Erdtree Greatshield provides a very effective counter against many elemental spells, skills and incantations and provides 100% physical block. Timing Golden Retaliation is tricky to get used to but is absurdly effective once mastered. Make sure it's +10 for maximum damage
AoW: Golden Land has absurd hyper armor and all parts of it hit like a TRUCK, and it can potentially hit up to 9 times (once from the ground thrust, once from the explosion, once from the follow-up attack and then six from each dart). The darts are fast and REALLY long-ranged, making it amazing for sniping. Honestly one of the strongest weapon skills in the entire game for it being so absurdly cheap to cast. *** Fun fact: if you push on the left analog stick while casting (like you're trying to move forward) it'll actually reduce the skill's cooldown for some reason, allowing you to cast it even faster in succession
Elden Stars I typically only use for fighting off invaders; by itself it's meh but when combined with Golden Land you can create an on-demand bullet hell that will always result in your enemy chugging through their flasks and making for a much easier kill. Cast Golden Land for cover and then immediately cast Elden Stars, once it's up you can then re-cast Golden Land in succession and have the invader panic-rolling 'til the cows come home. It's hilarious and surprisingly effective (also be ready for plenty of hatemail.. lol)
Wrath of Gold is not as powerful as Golden Land and is more FP expensive, but it comes out much faster and can be charged. Niche but a good addition to your mix-ups.
Golden Vow and Protection of the Erdtree provide an even further boost to your already absurd offensive and defensive stats. Blessing of the Erdtree is great for preserving crimson flasks and increasing your survivability in dungeons or when fighting the tougher endgame bosses. Erdtree Heal is mostly a last resort when you're out of crimson flasks, or if you want to heal your Spirit Ashes.
I recommend this build to any and all who can get down with feeling like an unstoppable golden-bullet-hell-spartan-juggernaut-battle-commander. It is so much fun.
- Anonymous
Nice work. I'm new at the Dark Souls series, and this info will help with ER. Class info very good.
- Anonymous
Generic Knight:
- Armor:
Knight armor recommended. But you can go with any as long as you are mid rolling.
- Weapons:
Right hand 1: Heavy (A) or Blood (B) Broadsword - Storm Blade
Right Hand 2: Cold (B) or Heavy (A) Bastard Sword or Iron Greatsword - Giant Hunt recommended.
Left hand 1: Brass Shield or Banished Knight Shield (the difference is almost non existent stats wise, so pick the one you think look best).
Left hand 2: Any weightless seal (Erdtree seal, Frenzied flame seal, Golden order seal, Dragon Communion seal).
- Talisman:
Dragoncrest greatshield / Carian Filigreed Crest / Shard of Alexander / Curved Sword Talisman (or your choice if you don't use guard counter)
- Spell:
Bestial Vitality
- Wondrous Physic:
Greenspill Crystal Tear (+15% stamina) for 3 min.
Greenburst Crystal Tear (increase stamina regen) for 3 min. You can swap any for Crimsonburst Crystal Tear if you prefer (Heals 7 HP per second for 3 minutes, total:1,260 HP).
Stats as Vagabond with Knight armor and broadsword + bastard would be:
Vigor: 60
Mind: 24
Endurance: 24
Strenght: 80
Dex: 13
Intelligence: 9
Faith: 12
Arcane: 7
- Jenigma
- Anonymous
i find this nice, people sharing their builds and playstyles for different people to test it, but i prefer to just roam around with max softcap stats, its kinda better since i have no need to respec for specific builds, just change gear.
- Anonymous
Godzilla Build!
Rules:
1. Only use big strength-based weapons, but nothing that deals damage beyond physical damage and fire damage. Weapons that deal magic, lightning, holy, poison, etc cannot be used.
2. Can only use Dragon incantations, two of the three Crucible incantations, and healing/buff incantations. Other incantations are off-limits.
3. Can’t use magic since leveling Intelligence is not needed for this build.
4. Have to use the Glintstone Dragon breath incantations as often as possible since Godzilla’s atomic breath is usually blue. Can use the fire breath on bosses who are highly resistant to magic (i.e. Rennala) and/or very weak to fire (i.e. Radagon).
Class: Confessor or Vagabond (depends on whether you want to focus on Strength first or Faith, I suppose)
Flask Spread: 50/50 or 60/40 (healing/fp). It all depends on how you want to play but you’ll need some of both.
Early Game Weapon(s): Zweihander (easiest Strength weapon to obtain early without fighting a boss and without having to put in a bunch of levels beforehand to use it) and/or Magma Wyrm’s Scalesword
Mid-Game Weapon(s): Greatsword and/or Grafted Blade Greatsword
Late Game Weapon (s): Axe of Godfrey
Shield: Whatever suits you
Armor: Strong, durable, tanky armor types (i.e. Radahn’s Armor Set, Beast Champion Set, Kaiden Set, Scaled Set, etc.)
Spells: Greyoll’s Roar, Glintstone Breath and/or Smarag’s Glintstone Breath, Dragonmaw, Dragonclaw, Dragonfire, Aspects of the Crucible: Breath, Aspects of the Crucible: Tail, Wrath of Gold or Rejection (since Godzilla does, at times, uses something that’s like a shockwave emanating from his body)
Spells that provide healing (i.e. Lord’s Heal), additional damage negation (i.e. Lightning Fortification), and buffs (i.e. Flame, Grant Me Strength) are allowed.
Sacred Seal: Whatever you prefer
Talismans: Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Bull-Goat’s Talisman, Arsenal Charm, Hammer Talisman, Faithful’s & Flock’s Canvas Talismans, Roar Medallion, Green Turtle Talisman, and whatever else you’d like to use
Crystal Tears: Opaline Bubbletear, Crimsonburst Crystal Tear, Leaden Hardtear, Greenburst Crystal Tear, Stonebarb Tear, Cerulean Hidden Tear
Ashes of War: Beast’s Roar, Earthshaker, Royal Knight’s Resolve, Endure
Spirit Ashes: Warhawk until you get Stormhawk Deenh (Rodan), Bloodhound Knight Floh (Anguirus), Man-Serpent (Manda), Perfumer Tricia (seriously, the closest match to Mothra I can think of)
Primary Stats: Strength and Faith
Secondary Stats: Endurance and Vigor
At the end of NG, here are suggested levels for each attribute (of course, it all depends on how you want to level up):
Vigor: 50-60
Mind: 30-35
Endurance: 30-35
Strength: 50-60
Dexterity: 18
Intelligence: irrelevant to this build
Faith: 30-35
Arcane: 20
- Anonymous
Good o' Pure Strength
Class: Hero
Level: 37~117
Flasks: HP only
Weapon: Serpent-Hunter
Talismans: Axe Talisman
Stats: 40/60 Vigor, 20/55/80 Strength
For normal enemies, spam R1 and running R2.
For bosses, try to dodge and then spam full charged R2.
- Anonymous
Betrayed Sentinel
Class: Confessor and Prisoner/Astrologer
Level required: 350 or more
Stats:
Vigor:80
Mind:60
Endurance:60
Strength:50
Dexterity:50
Intelligence:80
Faith:80
Arcane:45
Weapon: Golden Halberd, Prince of Death staff and Golden Order Seal
Shield: Erdtree Greatshield
Spell: All Frenzied Flame, Ancient Death Rancor,
Armor: Erdtree Sentinel set
Talismans: Bull Goat, Green Turtle, Great Jar and Erdtrees Favor
Primary stats: Vigor
Secondary: Strength
Flask: 8 Health, 6 MP
Physick: Leaden Hardtear and Opeline Hardtear
- Anonymous
Magic knight dark dragonic spellcaster samurai
class: any
level required: 470? even more if u want idk
Stats:
vigor 60 mind:50 endurance:50 the rest stats 80 (even more if u want idk)
weapon: everything cool
spells: Everything cool
Armor: fashion
Skills: u must be cool
Shield: learn to dodge, but it it's cool equip a shield
talisman: idk, something that can help u
description: have fun
Death Knight Lord
Description: This strong class build will get you through the fight. Planning is critical to winning any fight if possible. High Magic attacks is a base form but the mighty swings of a sword will do well for you in close combat.
Class: Any
Flask Spread: Roughly 50|50 or 60|40
Weapon: Helphen's Steeple (R1) (ALT Night and Flame (R1) Golden Order Seal (R2) (Cold) Grave Scythe (R3) PRINCE OF DEATH'S STAFF (L2)
Shield: (Magic) Eclipse Crest GreatShield (L1)
Armor: Night's Cavlery Set
Talisman Recommendation: (T1) Graven-School Talisman or Great Arsenal (T2) Graven-Mass Talisman (T3) Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman (T4) Bull-Goat's Talisman (Bonus) Shard of Alexander
Primary Stats: Intellect, Stamina, and Faith
Secondary Stats: Strength, Health, Dexterity, and Mind
Skills: Spinning Slash on Sycthe
Spells: Golden Vow, Terra Magica, Rancorcall, Ancient Death Rancor, Explosive Ghostflame, (Optional) Glintstone Icerag, and (Optional) Zamor Ice Storm
Description of how to use this build:
To use this build you are wanting to build as much frost as possible to proc the FROSTBITE debuff. Frost I think is underrated and is used in this build. Also, flame damage output is sprinkled in a bit too. The point of the build is really driving for the quick and easy kill so sweat is not needed.
CLOSE_COMBAT
The Greatshield is magic instead of a different trait so that you can absorb magic easier and not take super effects by it. Also, the Night's armor is for the Death Knight Lord look going on. HELPHEN STEEPLE is a great weapon for this build because of the RUINOUS GHOSTFLAME Skill added to it to give the bonus effects of fire and Ice buildup. As previously stated you want to build as much frost to get FROSTBITE. If you want to have a bit more speed TWO-HAND (COLD) GRAVE SCYTHE with the skill to get fast damage and fast build-ups. The bonus of the (COLD) GRAVE SCYTHE is that it also does BLEED build-up so you can get dual bouns damage output of that. To truly benefit the build's power with the skills then use the SHARD OF ALEXANDER. To boost your power more then use the GOLDEN SEAL with GOLDEN VOW to help the duration of extended attack damage and pump out good numbers. (Disclaimer: all the numbers may vary depending on the level of your weapons and seals.)
RANGE_COMBAT
If you're into the more distant combat then the PRINCE OF DEATH'S STAFF is a great fit for the spells used. The PRINCE OF DEATH'S STAFF boosts the death spells of this build and boosts the numbers of the spells then stacking both the GRAVEN-SCHOOL and GRAVEN-MASS TALISMANS will really be your friend in this form of combat. The most CRUCIAL part of this build is to use TERRA MAGICA because this really boots the spell damage. I believe activating this once while standing in it when a spell hits will give a small increase of spell damage for a short duration to help win the fight (does stack with the GRAVEN TALISMANS.) to use the spells accordingly; RANCORCALL for lesser enemies, ANCIENT DEATH RANCOR for bosses or bigger enemies, EXPLOSIVE GHOSTFLAME is used for the big AOE for groups of enemies, and the same goes for the ZAMOR ICE STORM. For easy stuns when the enemies are doing a power attack or skill then GLINTSTONE ICERAG will be useful for that. (Don't rely on GLINSTONE ICERAG for damage).
- Anonymous
Stick Hero
Weapon: Club
Armor: Crimson/Navy Hood
Ash of War: Sacred Blade
- Anonymous
Bestial Knight
Strength faith build that uses claymore and lions claw to deal high damage whilat using bestial incantations as support
Class: vagabond, hero
Flask Spread: 60% HP 40% FP
Weapon: Claymore, bestial seal
Shield: None
Armor: Any armour that gives you at least 51 poise as well as allowing to medium roll
Talisman Recommendation: Erdtrees favour
Primary Stats: Strength, Vigor
Secondary Stats: Endurance, Mind
Skills: Lions claw
Spells: Most bestial incants, prioritise bestial vitality and bestial claws/gurranqs claws
Use bestial vitality to heal yourself over time, then two hand your claymore, focusing on jump attacks and Lions Claw uses. The bestial seal and Claymore scale with strength, meaning you can power up both with only one stat. Bestial claw and Gurranqs claw are for AoE attacks on larger groups of enemies that would otherwise overwhelm you
- Anonymous
weapon sorcerer: class: astrologer
weapon: carian knight's sword
offhand: lusat's/regal staff
armor: carian knight's set.
talismans: magic scorpion charm, graven mass talisman. dragoncrest greatshield and shard of alexander
primary stats: strength, intelligence, mind, vigor
skills: Carian Grandeur
spells: Carian greatsword, Carian slicer, Carian phalanx, Carian piercer, Gavel of Haima, loretta's greatbow/mastery, adula's moonblade.
this was one of my favorite builds i made.
- Anonymous
Class: any
Flask Spread: mostly hp, little fp
Weapon: Marias executioners sword, dragon communion seal
Shield: any
Armor: any with med roll
Talisman Recommendation: rotten winged sword insignia, godskin swaddling cloth, dragoncrest greatshield, great jars arsenal
Primary Stats: vigor, arcane
Secondary Stats: faith, mind
Skills: Eochaids dancing blade
Spells: dragonmaw, rot breath, frost breath, magic breath,
USE THE WEAPON SKILL THEN USE A INCANT
- Anonymous
gotta say I don't see the point of following builds for pve. There's no real bad build in pve and even if you don't like what you have the game gives you alot of opportunities to respec. As long as you level relevant stats and keep up with upgrades you'll likely end up with something functional. The game's much more fun when you allow yourself to experiment and try different gear/spells/strategies.
- Anonymous
ELDEN RING:
Viking Build SL150 (Done w/Prophet)
Stats:
60 Vigor, 24 Mind, 30 Endurance, 12 Strength, 60 Dexterity, (X) Intelligence, 26 Faith, (X) Arcane
"(X) Meaning you don't need it pretty much, in case you want to go for Optimal SL"
Flask Spread: Mostly HP
Gear:
ARMOR
Early on you can go for Kaiden Armor (torso, gloves, boots), or buy the Scale Armor (torso, gloves, boots) from "Castle Morne Rampart Grace"
End Game switch to Elden Lord Armor (torso (altered - without cape), gloves, boots)
WEAPONS
Highland Axe (with Beast's Roar AoF) + Large Leather Shield (Golden Parry AoF or No Skill - your pick) - As your main go to.
Black Bow (recommended) or any other ranged option (bow/crossbow) + Finger Seal - For range, picking aggro and buffs.
TALISMANS (Recommendation)
Warrior Jar Shard (Early on, if you want to kill Alexander) otherwise get the late-game Shard of Alexander
Roar Medallion
Taker's Cameo (for passive HP recovery)
Ritual Sword Talisman (sinergy w/Taker's Cameo)
SPELLS (Full support - buff/heal)
Golden Vow, Flame Grant Me Strength, Flame Cleanse Me, Bestial Vitality or Blessing's Boon, Lord's Heal (if necessary), Barrier Of Gold.
HOW TO USE:
Not a lot to say about gameplay. You have both close-range and range option, be it with the Black Bow or Beast's Roar which covers a good distance and deals very solid damage with the talismans.
While fighting bosses you can time out attack opportunities to hit with the Roar, with Black Knife Assassins for instance, when they leap back to get safe distance from you - punish with AoF.
Overall a solid build.
- Anonymous
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The First Hunter
Class: Any
Flask Spread: Mostly HP
Weapon: Bloody Grave Scythe+25, Pulley Crossbow+10 with explosive bolts
Shield:None
Armor: Aristocrat hat, Raptor's Black Feathers, Travellers Gloves, and Bandit Boots
Talisman Recommendation: Assassins Crimson Dagger, Godskin Swaddling Cloth, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Shard of Alexander
Primary Stats: Arcane and Vigor
Secondary Stats: Dex and Strength
Skills: Blade Dance
Spells: None
When in close quarters combat, use blade dance to quickly cause bleed and do massive amounts of damage in a small AOE around you, and while far away, spam the crossbow for another small AOE from the explosions of the explosive bolts. The bleed is also very good for Malenia, Blade of Miquella, Malenia, Blade of Miquella, Malenia, Blade of Miquella, Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
- Anonymous
rageplay build (if you dont wanna think about the mechanics and just want easy mode)
dual RoB katanas max both out, max out arch and dex.
use the twinblade talisman , stamina recovery and rest your choice.
then spam the ability and win every pve fight like its easy
- Anonymous
Godslayer Lord Build
Starting class: Doesn't matter.
Level: 100 and Up. Put half of points into faith and evenly spread the rest around into Vigor, Endurance, and Mind, while also meeting the base attribute requirements for the Godskin Peeler.
Godskin Peeler+25 with Godslayer's Seal+25, Commander's Standard+10 in offhand. Incantations of Black Flame, Black Flame Ritual, Golden Vow, and Lord's Divine Fortification. Talisman's of Flock's Canvas, Shard of Alexander, Haligdrake Talisman +2, and Radagon Icon.
This build shatters final boss.
Steps on how to use:
1. Before entering boss arena. apply all buffs from CS, GV, and LDF.
2. Keep distance from Radagon while throwing Black Flame when an opening presents itself. Do not try using Godskin Peeler's weapon art. It takes too long and is a big opening for the boss to use the instadeath grab attack.
3. Once Radagon is defeated, reactivate as many buffs as you can in the brief moment between Radagon's death and the cutscene.
4. Run behind Elden Beast while it's doing it's Holy Fire attack. The boss with always start off with this. Using the Godskin Peeler's weapon take out quite literally a fifth of the bosses total heath bar. After doing this observe what the boss's actions. If it runs but comes back around in a wide, circular fashion, its doing a melee attack which you will need to dodge. If the boss is staying still but its fluttering its wings which will start glowing, run as far away from Elden Beast while dodging the entire way. If the boss is spinning in a shorter circle, run. You will soon see a giant purple and gold fireball engulf the Elden Beast and anything along with it. Anyone with a vigor less than 40 will be killed if they fail to dodge this. If the boss rears up and cuts itself and releases a glowing around that is being orbited by several other, small orbs, we sadly cannot give any advice on further action. Elden stars is near unavoidable and is a twenty second vigor check which ends in an explosion. The boss also does not stop any other attacks during Elden Stars.
5. Keep chasing the boss as it runs away. Get under the boss (if possible) and cast either Black Flame Ritual or Black Flame Tornado. Repeat this until boss is down to around a third of its health. Play it safe and spam uncharged black flame from a distance. The reason its uncharged is because the boss can hand out several lethal attacks in the time it takes the charged fireball to leave your hand.
6. T-Bag on the bosses head as it falls lifeless before you.
- Anonymous
[Lv100 Faith Build sword only] Knight of Hell and Heaven
A knight with 4 mystic sword, bearing the power of both Holy and Blasphemy.
Technically a NG+ build, but you can have a friend drop the weapons for you or using mod to get those.
Starting class: Confessor
Weapon:
- Main hand: Sacred Relic Sword, Banished Knight Sword with Sacred Blade (or any other weapon with Sacred Blade, if you don't have enough equip load)
- Off hand: Blasphemous Blade, Sword of Milos
Armor: Anything looks cool enough for you. Can use Haligtree Helm or Haligtree Knight Helm to get +2 Faith.
Talisman: Radagon Soreseal, Warrior Jar Shard/Shard of Alexander, Carian Filigreed Crest, Ancestor Spirit Horn, Sacred/Fire Scorpion Charm, Two Finger Heirloom
So technically we'll use the art of Relic Sword to clear any creep nearby, which has an absurb range and nearly undodgeable for mobs, while the sword on the offhand will regen HP/FP for us. If the enemy get close, or you run out of FP, or there're just 1-2 of them so it isn't worth using Relic Sword, just jump attack with 2 greatsword - which already has really high dmg and stagger. When fighting boss or enemy with holy resistance, switch the Blasphemous Blade to your main hand and you can do both melee and range with the weapon art (or just have a lot of FP flask and spam Taker's Flame for HP regen). The sword with Sacred Blade is for air attack (both Wave of Gold and Taker's Flame can just move on the ground) or fighting undead (Wave of Gold doesn't keep them from reviving). Yes you can just use an incantation or crossbow, I just want to use 4 sword. Also since both of our main swords use somber smithing stone, have a normal weapon to use normal smithing stones is good. I use a greatsword so I can powerstance it too (just in case) and also to be fit with the theme, but you can use literally anything.
You don't need too much poise or protection, since most of the time you'll stay out of melee range, and when you're in that range most enemis would be constantly stagger by jump attack. Should choose something light, since 3 greatswords will take a lot of equip load. For the talisman, you'll normally use Radagon Soreseal, Ancestor Spirit Horn, Carian Filigreed Crest and Shard of Alexander while moving around, so you don't need to worry about FP consumtion. In boss fight you change Ancestor Spirit Horn to Fire Scorpion Charm or Two Finger Heirloom to increase damage. You can also take out Carian Filigreed Crest to use both of them if you have enough FP flask.
Stats : 40 vigor, 20 mind, 35 endurance, 17 strength, 19 dexterity, 9 intelligence, 30 faith, 9 arcane
- Anonymous
lvl 20 katana build
start as vagabond, run thru the game at lvl 20 only leveling Vigor to 22 and dex to 17. grab the wakizashi, Nagakiba from killing Yura, and Radagon's Soreseal. Only upgrade these to +3, or +5 if you wanna fight people who upgraded their weapons more aka not invade unupgraded +0 weapon players. Grab Land of Reeds armor from the isolated merchant in dragonbarrow
- Anonymous
Faith / Strength build (level 150)
Talismans: Erdtree favor +2, Dragoncrest Greatshield talisman, Great-jars arsenal, and Radagon's sore seal.
stats : 40 vigor, 15 mind, 40 endurance, 55 strength, 25 dexterity, 10 intelligence, 45 faith, 15 arcane.
my weapons are the colossal greatsword, great stars, and blasphemous blade and for the seal i use the erdtree seal.
my armor is the black hood and the rest is night's cavalry set.
note: this was a respec that i really liked, so you might not be able to perfectly replicate my stats. my starting class is the warrior.
- Anonymous
Off-brand lvl 20 Sun bro build
Class: Prophet
Flask Spread: 1 hp 6 fp (14 flasks recommended)
Weapon: Golden Order Great Sword +1, Gravel Stone Talisman +3
Shield: Scorpion Kite Shield +3
Armor: Radiant Gold Mask, Leyndell Knight Armor (altered), Leyndell Knight Gauntlets, Leyndell Soldier Greaves
Talisman Recommendation: Req. talisman - Radagon's Soreseal, Two Fingers Heirloom, Arsenal Charm +1. Old Lord's recommended
Primary Stats: Fth - 23, Dex - 16.
Secondary Stats: Dont touch any other stats as you need to stay at lvl 20.
Skills: None, but Faith-Knot Crystal Tear required for last 2 spells, Cerulean Hidden Tear Also recommended for them but not required.
Spells: Lightning Spear, Honed bolt, Lightning Strike, Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike, Heal, Lord's Heal, Blessing's Bloom, Golden Vow, Blessing of the Erdtree, Protection of the Erdtree. (can technically use any spell with 38 fth req or less but these seem to work the best)
Its extremely recommended that you get the Golden Order Totality gesture. Also when getting items be aware of weapon level matchmaking, so basically get a good spirit ash to +10 asap to carry you through bosses. I wrong warped to Nokron, got fingerslayer blade for ranni, then got black knife tiche as there's all the glovewort you need on the way to get it, and I needed the mimic helm for the arc to use swarm of flies and rot breath to kill most bosses. You will need to grind for the armor. Kill morgott then stake of markia skip to consecrated snowfield for sword & silver scarab farming talisman.
This build is for helping new players in Limgrave and Stormveil castle. Ancient Dragons Lightning Strike will melt bosses especially when charged faster than anything ive ever seen so its recommended to avoid using it unless needed as it will 1 shot early optional bosses and 3-4 shot margit which isn't fun for the host. Use psysick flask then use the last 3 spells before going into a bossfight to get around 30% damage negation, 15% damage buff, and very high hp Regen for low levels to help keep the host alive. Use blessings bloom for a weaker hp Regen without needing to use the psysick flask. The whole point of this build is to keep everyone alive, Not to dump truck all the enemies/bosses for the host like a lot of twink co-op builds are played.
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These Builds are all useless cuz none of them tell you what level you should be or stat spread
- Anonymous
ELDEN RING: Snowballing Mage
A high-damage mage with melee options, comes online right away with meteroite staff and rock sling then scales out and snowballs.
Class: Prisoner (Bestoc)
Flask Spread: 60-80% ashen
Weapon: Estoc, later Moonlight Greatsword and/or Godskin Stitcher. Comet Azur w/
Shield: None
Armor: Anything as long as you're on med roll and have low poise. (you don't want high poise on a mage build or you'll end up getting wombo'd instead of pancake iframes)
Talisman Recommendation: Green Turtle, Radagon Icon, Moon of Nokstella, Primal Glintstone Blade
Primary Stats: INT, MIND, HP
Secondary Stats: END, STR, DEX
Skills: Cold Estoc with Freezing Mist WA
Spells: Pebble and Rocksling, going into Meteor-type spells and finally cold spells
Description of how to use this build:
This is a bit of clutch build but very effective. You need to be comfortable kiting and defending with iframes, however you will do eye-watering amounts of damage at all stages of the game, even one-shotting raid bosses such as field dragons or legacy rememberances.
First we use the vanilla estoc and glintstone shard to get through to church of elleh and get torrent. Then take torrent around the back of Stormveil (past the Finger Reader.) And rest at the first fire to get Roundtable Hold. Spend up and get ready to die.
Head to the ruins in the south of the starting lake area, sneak down the stairs and open the chest. This will deposit you in an area you're way underleveled for so don't try to engage. Sprint out of the first area and go right, and down. This will lead you to the swamps. Thankfully we can trivialize the toxin by riding torrent. Head for the southeast, right through the swamp until you come to "Street of Sages Ruins". We want two things here : the meteorite staff, and the rock sling spell. Both are lightly guarded by annoying mages but if you aren't afraid to die (that's why we spent up already) it's easy to get them.
And right away we have an S scaling staff and a sorcery perfect for killing big hitbox bosses. You can kill any boss on the first few continents pretty easily now. Use a summon (spirit, NPC, friend), have them pull aggro and if you aggressively level int and hit with sling you will be wrecking everything until Altus Plateau. Just use glintstone sorceries to deal with mobs, phalanx and estoc for scrappy encounters or PvP.
Head to Waypoints Ruins in Limgrave, and kill the Pumpkin Head for access to a sorcery shop. If you don't want to deal with this lady's questlines just give any scrolls you find to the turtle in church of vows - he won't move.
Next, rush Liurnia. Find an island in the lake, east of the academy in the swamp. It'll have a big dragon there. Swoop the key and ride out, he'll never catch up to you. Now clear Liurnia as normal walkthroughs. At this point you should have a very healthy mid-late game mage in less than 10-15 hours playtime and the whole world is your oyster with all the high level stuff you got from Liurnia. (Meteor, Caria Scepter, etc.). Follow the lake north until it comes to a tunnel, and you can backdoor Altus Plateau. The big thing we want here is the hidden body spell which will make you nigh invisible in PvE and trivialize many late-game encounters. So we'll need to complete the Mirage Rise puzzle.
Then clear Caria Manor, and start doing Ranni's questline. There shouldn't be any big difficulty spikes here, just run through Lake of Rot when it comes up. Just rely on heavy heavy damage and forget about survivability - this is a win big or go home type of build. Once you get the Cerulean Tear and Comet Azur you can wombo them to open up boss fights doing 20k+ in one cast, either getting interrupted or if well executed ending fights before they even start. Bear in mind the elements as well, sorcery is much more diverse - if something doesn't take magic damage, it'll probably take physical damage from grav, frost will proc on a lot of things now.
Hopefully this primer helps someone get their mage build running. Once you've done those things it's really downhill and building it is very intuitive as you get more spells and memory slots. Just remember to min-max and go full ham with INT/MND or the build won't work, you can't dilute it successfully unless you have a lot of experience. And rely more on stealth and tanks until you get comfortable iFraming attacks and managing stealth.
- Anonymous
Pure PvE Battlemage Build
- This build is mostly a mono-skill-build to have the easiest and most effective time against minibosses / bosses and normal enemies.
Class: Prisoner / Astrologer / Samurai / Vagabond
Flask Spread: 8 HP / 6 FP
Weapon: Moonveil, Uchigatana or Nagakiba
Shield: Lusat's Glintstone Staff, Dragon Communion Seal
Armor: Choose the best Mid-Roll Armor with a headgear that boosts one of your primary stats, skills or spells.
Talisman Recommendation: Radagon's Soreseal, Marika's Soreseal, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Erdtree's Favor
Primary Stats: Int, Vig
Secondary Stats: Dex, Mind
Skills: Transient Moonlight, Flame of the Redmane
Sorcery Spells: Azur Comet, Rock Sling, Glintstone Pebbles
Incantation Spells: Flame, heal me!, Fortification spells (Fire, Magic, etc.)
Physick: Cerulean Hidden Tear, Opaline Bubbletear
Great Rune: Godrick
Against normal enemies just spam Transient Moonlight or Flame of the Redmane to quickly stagger and kill them. Rock Sling has also an amazing stagger potential.
Against Minibosses and Bosses use the Physick, buff yourself with Fortification spells if needed, summon your Mimic Tear Ash and start casting Azur Comet. Sometimes bosses are a little bit more mobile, in which you don't hit them with Azur Comet, so in this case kite them a little bit and stagger them to death with your weapon arts.
Both Soreseals grants you 40 additional stats, the same goes with Godrick's Great Rune. So with everything in count every stat will be increased by 10, which means you are basically 80 levels above your current level! The Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman helps negating the malus of both soreseals, while the Erdtree's Favor gives you a little bit of everything (HP, Stamina, Equip Load).
This build will get a lot of hate, but it IS the easiest and most effective PvE build currently in the game. So I just wanted to share with you my knowledge and experience after almost 150 hours of Elden Ring.
Cheers!
- Anonymous
I'm looking to do more of a Dragon knight build which I describe as someone who uses the dragon incantations and is pretty well armored with a faith scaling sword or scythe. I can't really find anything online about it and need some help getting started. I found a beginner's guide, but it was only up to about level 25. I'm looking for something a little more to the early-mid to mid game. If anyone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it.
- Anonymous
50 int, 20 dex, 40 vigor, R hand Moonveil, L hand Frost Uchigatana with the frost stomp ash of war. You'll annihilate everything
- Anonymous
Might use that Zealous Fury build for a bit, but I'm personally not that big on dual greatswords. Just looks weird to me personally. But everything else sounds like a good time for my faith/greatsword character.
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ultra gratesword, blood flame, and grant methy flame and you got oyur guts build
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If they put the bonefist from DS2 into this game im literally going to nut so hard i'll burst my ballsack
- Anonymous
I’m gonna bust so hard if Elden ring has player vs Elden ring
Elden Knight Build (Rune Level 500):
Armor:
Knight armor recommended. Ensure mid rolling capability.
Weapons:
Right Hand 1: Heavy or Blood Broadsword - Storm Blade
Right Hand 2: Cold or Heavy Bastard Sword or Iron Greatsword - Giant Hunt recommended.
Left Hand 1: Brass Shield or Banished Knight Shield
Left Hand 2: Any weightless seal (Erdtree Seal, Frenzied Flame Seal, Golden Order Seal, Dragon Communion Seal).
Talisman:
Dragoncrest Greatshield / Carian Filigreed Crest / Shard of Alexander / Curved Sword Talisman
Spell:
Bestial Vitality
Wondrous Physic:
Greenspill Crystal Tear (+15% stamina) for 3 min.
Greenburst Crystal Tear (increases stamina regen) for 3 min. You can swap for Crimsonburst Crystal Tear if preferred (Heals 7 HP per second for 3 minutes, total: 1,260 HP).
Stats:
Vigor: 80
Mind: 40
Endurance: 80
Strength: 80
Dexterity: 80
Intelligence: 40
Faith: 60
Arcane: 40
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