Stats in Elden Ring refer to various properties that govern your character's strengths and weaknesses, as well as how they are affected by interactions in and out of combat. There are 8 main Stats in Elden Ring, as well as several dozen secondary stats which all contribute to your character's growth and effectiveness in various situations. Stats are affected by a number of things and can be modified by your Level, Equipment, and any active buffs and effects.
Within the Status Menu, you can check your level, attributes, base stats, and more. The information shown here also reflects changes to your attack, defense, and resistances bestowed by armaments and armor that you have equipped.
- See Leveling for details on how to level, a breakdown of runes necessary per level, and more.
- See Runes for details on acquiring runes and rune acquisition boosting equipment.
- See Rebirth for details on how to reallocate (respec) assigned attribute points.
How do you increase Stats in Elden Ring?
The primary method of increasing your stats is by Leveling Up. Near the beginning of the game and shortly after meeting Melina for the first time, you will unlock the ability to Level Up by spending Runes acquired by defeating enemies.
Elden Ring features 8 Main Stats (also referred to as Attributes). These are your Vigor, Mind, Endurance, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Faith and Arcane. Each one of these main Stats governs your secondary stats such as HP, FP, Stamina and Equipment Load. Players can spend Runes at a Site of Grace to increase their main stats, effectively increasing their character Level, as well as improving their secondary stats.
Stats are also affected by your current Equipment and any active buffs obtained through Magic or Items. Combining these aspects is key to character progression and creating effective builds in Elden Ring.
Can you respec your Stats in Elden Ring?
After completing Raya Lucaria Academy, you will be able to reset point allocations and redistribute all of your earned Stat points however you wish in exchange for a Larval Tear, a rare item obtained through various means. You would most likely be over level 50 by the point you get to this, so your early build is quite important as you cannot change it: see our Elden Ring Builds page for ideas on how to make a good character.
This is commonly known as 'Respeccing' and is a system that caters to players' needs for customization and trying out other builds without having to restart the game over.
For more information please visit our Rebirth Page.
Elden Ring Stats
Level
A cumulative figure that represents overall attribute strength.
You can level up using runes.
Runes Held
Total runes in possession. Upon dying, you will drop any runes in your possession at the site of your death.
Runes Needed
Number of runes required to raise a level.
When you Level Up, you can choose an attribute to increase.
Main Character Attributes
This section lists all of your character's Main Stats, also referred to as Attributes. These Stats govern all other secondary Stats and can be increased by spending acquired Runes on them using the Level Up menu at any Site of Grace, once the feature is unlocked.
At certain points when leveling an Attribute to higher values, you will start getting diminishing returns. i.e. the benefit you gain from leveling that Stat is less significant than before. The values at which these diminishing returns begin are referred to as soft-caps or breakpoints. You can find the soft-cap of each Attribute listed below. Note that some stats actually grant accelerating returns at lower levels: for example, Vigor's HP gain per level increases from levels 1-40, but decreases after level 40.
The hard-cap for all Stats is 99: you are unable to level a Stat past that level, and it is not possible to exceed 99 through equipment or buffs. (An exception is that your effective Strength can be increased past 99 by two-handing.)
Below is a quick reference table for all Main Stat Soft Cap values when leveling:
| Stat | Soft Cap | Change in gains at soft-cap |
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| Vigor | 40/60 | up to +48 / +26 to +13 / +6 to +3 HP |
| Mind | 50/60 | up to +7 / +6 to +4 / +3 to +2 FP |
| Endurance (Stamina) | 15/30/50 | +1.79 / +1.67 / +1.25 / +0.31 |
| Endurance (Equip Load) | 25/60 | +1.6 / +1.0 to +1.5 / +1.0 to +1.1 |
| Strength | 18/50/60/80 | Depends on weapon |
| Dexterity | 18/50/60/80 | Depends on weapon |
| Intelligence (Attack Rating) | 20/50/80 | Depends on weapon |
| Intelligence (Sorcery Scaling) | 60/80 | Depends on sorcery |
| Faith (Attack Rating) | 20/50/80 | Depends on weapon |
| Faith (Incantation Scaling) | 60/80 | Depends on incantation |
| Arcane (Attack Rating) | 20/60/80 | Depends on weapon |
| Arcane (Status Scaling) | 40/45/60 | Depends on weapon |
| Strength/Dexterity/Arcane (Incantation Scaling) | 30/45 | Depends on incantation |
Offensive Stats
Offensive Stats provide useful information on the current offensive stats of the player character.
Physical Attack Damage
Displays the default standard damage of the equipment, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Magic Attack Damage
Displays the default magical damage of the equipment or spell, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Fire Attack Damage
Displays the default fire damage of the equipment, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Lightning Attack Damage
Displays the default lightning damage of the equipment, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Holy Attack Damage
Displays the default holy damage of the equipment, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Critical Attack Damage
Displays the default critical damage of the equipment, and how much bonus damage you are gaining from the stats bonuses.
Sorcery Scaling
The degree to which sorceries increase in power.
Incant Scaling
The degree to which incantations increase in power.
General Stats
General Stats provide useful information on the current state of the player character.
HP
Hit Points. If reduced to 0, you die.
Replenish it by drinking from the Flask of Crimson Tears, casting certain Incantations, or resting at a Site of Grace.
FP
Focus Points. This is the energy consumed to use Sorceries, Incantations, and Skills.
Replenish it by drinking from the Flask of Cerulean Tears or resting at Site of Grace.
Stamina
Required for various actions.
Depletes when certain actions are taken, but recovers automatically.
Equip Load
Total weight of equipped armaments and Armor. Movement slows as load increases. The rightmost number is the maximum weight that can be equipped; exceed it and movement slows dramatically.
Poise
The degree to which you can resist collapsing under enemy attacks.
Discovery
Governs likelihood of finding items on the corpses of defeated foes.
Memory Slots
The number of slots available for memorizing Sorceries and Incantations.
Attribute Scaling Information
Int
The degree to which this armament's power or passive effects scale with Intelligence.
Defense Stats
Defense Stats for Elden Ring provide useful information on the current defenses of the player character.
Immunity
Your resistance to Poisons and Scarlet Rot. The higher the number, the less susceptible you are to poison and rot. Governed by your attributes, as well as armor and any additional effects.
Robustness
Your resistance to Hemorrhage and Frostbite. The higher the number, the lower your susceptibility. Governed by your attributes, as well as protective gear and any additional effects.
Focus
Your resistance to Sleep and bouts of Madness. The higher the number, the lower your susceptibility. Governed by your attributes, as well as protective gear and any additional effects.
Vitality
Your resistance to Instant Death. The higher the number, the lower your susceptibility. Governed by your attributes, as well as defensive gear and any additional effects.
Physical Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Standard Physical Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
VS Strike Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Striking Physical Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
VS Slash Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Slashing Physical Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
VS Pierce Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Piercing Physical Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
Magic Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Magical Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
Fire Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Fire Elemental Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
Lightning Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Lightning Elemental Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
Holy Defense
Your defensive power and damage negation against Holy Elemental Attacks. The former is calculated via attributes, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and any additional effects.
Equipment Stats
Weapons and Armor Stats provide useful information about the benefits provided by the equipment.
Weight
Weight of the equipment.
VS Strike Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Striking Physical Damage is negated.
VS Slash Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Slashing Physical Damage is negated.
VS Pierce Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Piercing Physical Damage is negated.
Magic Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Magic Damage is negated.
Fire Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Fire Damage is negated.
Lightning Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Lightning Damage is negated.
Holy Damage Negation
The degree to which incoming Holy Damage is negated.
Casting breakpoint for dex is 70 to not need the casting speed staff or talisman.
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What stat reduces your backswing/after cast/action recovery time? Like after you use a skill or heavy attack, how much time less before another action can be performed
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Any idea how much Health you get per Arcane point and what are the soft caps there? And same question for intelligence and magic resistance.
ps. I really like how they have made most stats multipurpose and apart from faith no stat is total waste on any build. Sadly Faith does nothing if you do not plan to use incantations or weapons with Faith requirement. Would be nice to have some other secondary effect tied to it too, eg. Elemental Resistance increase or extra focus points (less than mind).
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can someone explain to me what defense does because I know the numbers on the right of the menu are negations but what is defense
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Does anyone know what weapons/sorceries/incantations have the greatest requirement for each stat?
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As someone who doesn’t really like strength, I really want strength to become insanely strong in the dlc or future games. Mostly because there is a subsection of strength builds who complain about everything all the time since ds1 poise was removed (and honestly they complained a lot even back in ds1), and if strength is undeniably the best stat I’d like to see what they’d complain about.
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Do attack buffs still increase your damage if you have max damage stats
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you guys keep talking about soft caps but when i go over 80 (up to 99), damage definitely does increase for things like str and dex. slower, yes, but it goes steadily up. so an S scaling weapon for strength gives demonstrably more damage at 99 than 80. soooooo there's no cap in reality...
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What’s your method for leveling your character up quickly early game?
Which defensive stat, % reduction or flat reduction, comes into play first?
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Does applying stat increasing talismans alter level ranges for invading?
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Does Dexterity also reduce Incantation cast speed or is that just for spells
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This has contradictory information on it. It says the Faith damage scaling is 20/55/80 in the first section and then it says it's 20/50/80 in the table.
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Stamina Regen should be mentioned here as a stat. With some information about how it actually works. For example: is it the same on heavy and light equip load?
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Feels to me like this game is designed to be played with either Dex or Strength and one out of Intelligence, Faith and Arcane. Quality infusion especially feels awful and going pure melee is just frustrating for many late game boss fights. Not saying this is bad or anything, just an observation.
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Do stats round up? say if you want to use the night rider glaive at 26 strength requirement and you invest 17 points of strength and two hand, would the game round up the 25.5 strength to 26?
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so does arcane amps status buildup also with the bolts and arrows ? and the instant death ?
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I leveled mind and stamina and did a quality build and my numbers look like garbage compared to a focused build I’m seeing now.
Their hp is twice mine, and their damage output is nearly twice mine. Is there a way for a quality build to not be so much less than pure str/dex?
And especially the not having double hp is really the downside. Makes it so much easier to escape death.
Bit disappointed that leveling things for a good time now makes the game a lot tougher, now I need to take the time to get a ton of runes to get my levels up instead of progress through the game
Lesson learned. Just optimize your stats and get the talismans you need. I think I missed over half the game progressing so far by the way. Lots of stuff out of the way, and stuff pretty well hidden. Bit of an odd game lol. But I haven’t played other big world rpgs
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Dumb stats again. Equip load gives so much, it should be its own stat instead of all melee chars getting it for free with stamina on Endurance. Cast speed should be on Mind instead of Dex. Arcane should just be Luck, and contribute to almost nothing in sorcery/incantation. Uninteruptability for archery/weapon skills should require Mind, since casters are getting screwed with stupid high stamina costs on spells that already cost FP. TL;DR: Melee builds should require much more stat investment to do everything with one build, while casting builds shouldn't require every stat in the game in order to accomplish anything.
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Hi, I don't know if I'm at the right place to ask this, but I'm just wondering somthing about my current lvl and how far, I think, I'm in the game.
Does it sound odd to be 140 while doind Consecrated Snowfields? (Montaintop is done, Fire Giant felled)
Ths is my second Fromsoft game (DS3 before that) and I know it's different from the others.
Is my lvl coherent with my progression or did I do something wrong?
Thanks a lot to this really helpful website and community!
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defensiv stats are non existent in pvp...thats why everything is a oneshot
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Sometimes red crayons taste blue but yellow is nothing like grape bananas
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My character is currently around 22-25 across all stats (Bar faith and Arcane which are way lower) I am trying to keep them all at a similar level.. Am I best changing my methods? I have a lot of weapons that require 35+ strength and feel like I'm missing out.. equally I have a lot of incantations (rotten breath is one) that I'm not making use of.. It just feels like I could be missing out.. in terms of progress I have followed the user guides on here a lot and am just entering Nokron. I am new to From Software games hence this might seem like a daft question. Just after some advice from the community
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Says under endurance maximum equip load is at lv 60 this is incorrect your equip load increases all the way to 99 at 160 equip load
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Lmao they said this game was too hard?
Tbh once you've beat the story once it seems easy from there learn the boss and your own build or keep dying its that simple.
There's no way Endurance Stamina Soft cap is 55. From 30 or so you get 1, 2, 1, 2 and later 1, 0, 1 or something iirc. It's just that bad. You get severe Diminishing returns from 25 Endurance. So why does it say 55?
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Godricks Great Rune - +5 in every attribute - 45 levels
Grafted Greatsword Ash - +5 in every attribute - 45 levels
Radagon's Scarseal - +5 in vig/stam/str/dex - 20 levels
Radahn's seal, Prosthesis seal - +5 in str/dex - 10 levels
There we got, 120 free levels, you are now insanely tanky at level 1 wretch because of the passive defense stats you're going to get from all these levels.
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Once again the stats are way to handholdy, expecting the player to do the correct amount of chores in order to progress. Three different stats for melee, then three different stats for magic which might have worked if their extra effects were stronger or more impact full to game play. You still have to do a lot of dumping to health and carry weight if you don't want to play 100% perfect 100% of the time. resistances are spreed amount across 5 stats, so good luck not finding a few mobs that won't nuke you if you don't player a generalist of 100% perfect 100% of the time. Wanna use skills and magics, gotta dump into mana in conjunction with almost mandatory health and the damage flavor skills. If they really wanted me to try different builds they why did they hold my hand and put a list of chores in the other.
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Since the cap of strenght and dexterity seems to be 80, for a quality build how much difference there Is from 40/40
55/55 and 80/80?
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Does Defese (flat reduction) apply to pvp? Cause it seem it'd make split weapons uber nerfed. Like a if opponent has 150 defence on phys and fire, a weapon with 250 fire and 350 phys damage would deal 300 when a 500 phys weapon would deal 350. A 600 AR weapon would deal quite a bit less than a 500 AR weapon? Unless it's reduced or disabled in PVP, it seems like it'd really make split weapons bad.
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Does Arcane have any affect on the build up speed or damage of things like Poison and Bleed? Or is what you see what you get for the value in the weapon's stats?
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I created an excel sheet for what portion of the attacker's damage is dealt based on the attacks damage against the defense of the one taking the hit using Dark Souls 3's formulae. I don't expect this formulae to have changed much from DS3 to Elden Ring. In fact, I somewhat expect it might be exactly the same, this would be easy to test but I'll leave it up to someone else to do the testing.
The formulae for damage in from games given attack and defense have always had people complaining they're too difficult to understand. I figured having charts that you could compare the attack and defense values against would simplify things.
This information is especially important for people who want to know how much is really gained or lost by having split damage vs pure damage. Since split damage separates your damage into two lower damage values that compared against 2 different defense values.
Here is my excel sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hBR1WNACVMhpOeEOcBQKK-rsIcnjL8sGU-6s9V8WiCc/edit?usp=sharing
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I don't know when but armor caps were lifted a lot. I stacked 77% negation and it still works, so try it out for a tank build :)
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And they allhave stupid caps on them so look that up on a better site.
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Me and my friend have the exact same stats but our level is different why would that be? We have no equipment effecting our stats either
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Those soft caps are not correct you can get a massive boost to hp leveling vigor over 40. The soft cap is 60. Soft cap for strength and dex is 60. Int and faith is 80.
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I'm trying to figure out what the STA under Attack Power for weapnons means. I'm guessing it's either how much Stamina it drains when using it, how much Stamina it takes away from the enemy when they try to block, or how much Stagger it does to enemies before putting them off-balance. Can anyone clarify please?
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In Dark souls 2 if you´re running a hex build you need to reach the same level in INT/FAITH, e.g. 40/40, to do max damage (39/40 don´t do as much damage, the gap is bigger). Does this mechanic exist in Elden Ring??
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Im running a Str/Faith build is it worth investing in dex for cast speed on invocations? If so how much minimum ?
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Anyone know what weapons can achieve S scaling for Dex and/or Arcane?
If you toggle r3 on the ps5 controller you can check to see what stats are doing to your currently equipped load out, in case you didn’t know.
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Hi! I can’t find this anywhere on the web. I’m looking for a sample level 100 build, what might one look like? I’m a new player and am at level 70. I feel bricked like I can’t get passed Radahn. I fear I’ve botched all my stats. I did two respecs but things still seem wrong. Can someone help?
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I am kinda glad that there really isn’t any throwaway stats. Everything is viable in some way. Even the stat governing item discovery has its uses elsewhere as many spells and weapons have arcane scaling. Having equip load and stamana be under the same stat makes for slightly less tedious leveling.
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Does defense only have percent based defense now? I am not sure if split damage still gives less damage as other souls games
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Vigor have two softcaps, actually, at 40 you start getting about half hp per point, and at 60 it really drops, much like in other dark souls games.
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Apparently, the weather system affects your defenses (10.0+-)
E.G if you get wet from the rain, it will raise your fire defense and lower lightning defense.
The note about Endurance soft caps at 40 is totally incorrect according to the data from Luca which shows that the soft cap for stamina is 50 endurance and for carry capacity the soft cap is 60. There is no significant change in the amount gained per endurance at 40.
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i dead ass refuse melina in my 1st 4hrs playthrough Wretch Class... expecting for more more risk/more reward etc. wtf self
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Str, Dex, etc. seem to have a soft cap at 60, and then a very harsh cap at 80.
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Guy below me is wrong for Endurance and not completely accurate for Vigor,
Soft cap for Vigor is 40 then 60.
Soft cap for Endurance is 50 for stamina and 60 for equip load.
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soft caps for points so someone to put in
vigor-40
mind-55/60
endurance-40
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The format you guys chose to present this to people is terrible
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I wonder what the Meta will look like. Since weapons upgrade to +25 it seems the game is a lot longer than previous titles. I think the new Meta will be at a higher level. 120 will be mid-game level maybe
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Has no one realized:
Endurance used to give physical defense, now it gives equip load.
Strength used to give equip load, now it gives physical defense.
They swapped it around.
Logically speaking and by definition of the words; it made more sense before, since to endure is to take more punishment and still last, and to have more strength would mean you'd be able to lift heavier things. But I'm assuming they changed it for balancing purposes. I hope the physical defense actually means something though, so strength isn't as weak as people make it out to be. Also with the change people seem to be getting flashbacks from DS1 with the full Havel Dex/End/Magic builds.
In DS3 Vitality gave physical defense, but it didn't feel very noticeable to me, it was primarily used for equip load. I'm honestly glad they essentially merged vitality in with the other stats.
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What does the -(* *) numbers mean next to the fp cost in the equipment menu? Same with the attack power 117+ 14 where are these numbers drawing from?
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It's possible that Strength and Endurance can both effect Equipment Load at different rates (probably Strength moreso than Endurance), but it's too early to tell.
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So equip load is tied to endurance now. It would be cool to add some extra casting poise for str to balance dex. This solution would make fai\int + str builds more viable.
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This is not saying that equipment load is tied to the strength stat lol. It says very clearly that equipment load is tied to endurance. "Attribute required to wield heavy armaments" means it's a stat requirement... for heavy things... ie FGS, LKGS... ie anything that would get a heavy infusion in DS3.
Just to let you all know, that due to new infomation from the outlets that have had hands-on gameplay with the final build of the game, have stated that (Stat:Strength) no longer raises maximum equipment load, that is now moved over to (Stat:Endurance).
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I feel as if focus should be the one increasing cast speed. Just thjnk about it for a second. It makes so much more sense.
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I think connecting STR and Equip Load is perfectly logical. I am saying this even as a DEX build fan... :) It's logical and simple. Also, DEX users should be fast and agile, and not taking heavy hits.
Connecting casting speed to DEX is less obvious, but also a good idea. Casting speed is more important if you are a battle mage, ready to go into close combat if necessary. If you would fight from afar as a mage, you can probably do it with less speed anyway.
I can't wait for this game to come out, and the metagame to start forming, and the discussion about builds to come to life. :)
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Everyones complaining that equip load is part of strength since.. Most dex weapons in the past 4 or 5 games don't also scale with strength...
People would rather put points in a equip load stat than get extra damage with it on dex builds lmao
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I am OK with equip load on Strength. But pure strength builds will automatically benefit from heavy armor, but pure dexterity builds will not have anything so essencial for face to face combat.
Casting time in dex sounds like total mistake for me and other stats probably will not help in combat as much as heavy armor resistances. But we will se what real numbers will say :)
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Wait, so your telling me I don't have to invest heavily in a stat to increase my carry weight AND wear 3 rings to do my guts cosplay build in Elden Ring? :O
..Couldn't do it in Bloodborne though.. but surely Fourm won't troll us.
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Ah yes resistance to death, the higher the number the lower your susceptibility to die
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Every PvP game available on console is dead or dying because the industry listens to people who don't like PvP. This game can't come soon enough.
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The RPG side of this game is potentially better than any pther from game ever made, or just worse than ds3..
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Having equip load scale with STR will change the game in probably the most positively out of all the attribute changes. Im super interested in how Arcane shapes up to int and faith. Im guess it's a magical item type stat, which is why discovery is tied to it? Might make item/consumable builds viable.
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I think it would be more interesting when Arcane increases the damage of weapon arts, ashes of war and spirit summons. Otherwise it is outclassed by any other stat.
I think arcane also scales with your summons it makes them stronger
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Equipment Load should be on Endurance, not Strength. Some people like heavier Dexterity builds.
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Don't know how pure dex builds are going to keep up with strengh. They should make dex give you better i-frames
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It should have been obvious Mind was to be the casting speed stat. Why would they make the same mistake again and put it on Dexterity? It's the only thing I disliked of all this Elden Ring information. It feels like they're dragging an awful mistake from DS1 for tradition's sake.
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Not sure how i feel about strength governing Equip Load. :/
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How do multiple damage types factor in for weapons?
For example, I found this to be strange yet somehow the norm:
-without infusions, my sword has a base physical damage of 120
-with a magic infusion, my sword has a base physical damage of 80 and a base magic damage of 80.
Isn't that just busted if it's 80+80 vs 120 with D scalings all around? The 2 80s can't just plainly stack do they?
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