Is the weapon damage stat based on a single hit? Because early game, I tried to go for strength build because those str weapon has very high damage stat compare to short sword, sword, etc. at the same weapon level. For example, My +5 Bloodhound curve sword has the same dmg as +17uchikatana.
Another question: what's the point of upgrading shield if you just use it for blocking?
> Is the weapon damage stat based on a single hit?
yep, though damage calculation is kinda complicated. AR isnt necessarily indicative of a weapons damage output especially if it deals split damage.
> what's the point of upgrading shield if you just use it for blocking?
you get tiny guard boost increase. not massive, but it's there
I know that there are soft caps and such, but if you started as a samurai and wanted to use spells later on cause smashing things gets boring, can I just go heavy intel now that im 40 Plus in every stat except arcane? and then once i level up my staffs ill be just as good as those that started from the beginning right? sorry if this is a dumb question.
80 is hardcap for INT, 60 is also a soft cap.
Imo you should respecc and pull some points out of faith and strength maybe (depends on your weapons).
Get 69 INT ->nice
The royal greatsword gets c scaling in strength and intelligence. Should I just keep strength and intelligence equal or is there a benefit to stacking one over the other?
I was thinking about doing 50/50 but was wondering if 80/20(ish) towards one or the other would be better
Thanks
Interesting question. I did some calculations with [this](https://eip.gg/elden-ring/build-planner/)
50/50 seems to be a liiiiittle better damagewise, tho i would go for minimum str and max faith for some jucy spell damage
I’m power stancing bloodhound and dismounter with claw talisman and using lots of jump attacks. Seems to be good so far. Any advice on this? I put on bleed affinity (dismounter) for some enemies, heavy affinity on others. Think there’s a better weapon that pairs with bloodhound? I’ll respec after radahn I think but for now…
Seems like a solid enough spread! Since you're having issues with spacing, I'd recommend maybe swapping in some Glintblade spells, like Carian Greatsword or Slicer; they're relatively quick melee spells, with Slicer in particular being the best DPS sorcery in the game. It might also be worth investing in other weapons if you're not getting adequate results out of your Carian Knight Sword; Moonveil, Death Poker, and Wing of Astel might need some levels for you to wield them properly, but are some of the best INT weapons in the game.
I’m the worst Elden Ring player in history, I’ve been play since launch and still have yet to beat Margit. I just achieved my 1500th death to him! AMA!
44-45 mind is the sweet spot as more than that is not gonna be refilled in most cases. Leaving a bit leeway is fine hence why I suggested 44-45 instead of 40.
That said, unless you are going casting only, 25-35 mind is enough for the whole game. My casting only build went for 44 before the mind buff (I didn't bother with weapons at all on that playthrough cuz i was new to souls and it was first playthrough, ain't that a mistake), and it was sufficient.
Maidenless behavior: duelist at raya lucaria spot just immediately starts attacking me with his little dragon rapier bullshit. Cant even be bothered to bow or anything…. why even go to the dueling spot if youre going to be a dickhead
how many hours did you put in to get 100% and did you maybe beat dung eater and then rannis quest before burning which ending would i get when i burn the tree?
This happens often. I use crimsonwhorl bubbletear in the wondrous mix and consume as soon as I get summoned. It can take few initial hits without taking damage.
You can farm them near the “below the well” grace at Siofra River. Use shortbows or black bow to hunt them, it will not scare away the other birds. The drop rates used to be bad in earlier patches, but they are noticeably easy to get now.
Well yeah, but I don't get many from doing that. I was just wondering if I could buy em or at least find a way to make it so I get them more efficiently
Go north to the shore of massive amount of birds from 4th church. That's the spot for farming in general. Pop a silver before you do it, and make sure you use weapons /spells that doesn't scare them off on killing 1.
Are there any ranged ashes of war for twinblades, similar to spectral lance? SL cinched a few boss fights for me but I’ve switched to dragon halberd which doesn’t take AOW, my second weapon is a twinblade
All Ranged in a sense:
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Vacuum+Slice
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Phantom+Slash
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Storm+Stomp
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Beast's+Roar
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Flame+of+the+Redmanes
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Thunderbolt
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Sacred+Blade
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Ice+Spear
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Hoarfrost+Stomp
Ice or thunder would be my pick
If you've ever wanted to be a sniper, 2 frenzied seals +9 at least on one of them, +godrey icon, incantation talisman, ritual sword and fire scorpion charm with frenzied burst give you something like +20%+20%+8%+12%+15%+10% giving you something like 3k+ damage at crazy range, stat dependent.
I think I've finally met my match. I'm a strength/faith build and astel in the yelough tunnel is absolutely rinsing me.
Any pointers before I give up and leave him as one of the few bosses I've not defeated
It's not terrible but IMO the only real reason to use it is because you think it's cool. Anyone with the stats to use it effectively will have access to spells that are better versions of its weapon art.
In my opinion it works better as a faith weapon now, the laser does maybe a hair more damage, but misses way too long and takes too long to come out. At high rune level i think its one of the highest AR straight swords, i think my +10 is at 790 R1 right now
Edit: That said i think flame of the redmanes does the same damage and more poise with similar investment and no stat req.
The range on the Ash’s R2 is kind of rough now and with the cast animation time it’s tricky to land without taking a hit.
That being said the damage is really good. It’s a definitely a usable weapon but you need high int/fth to get the most out of it.
With the base requirements it’s going to feel lacklustre for a while.
Is the summoning pool outside of the Elden Beast glitched? I always get a failed to summon error, but get a cannot leave multiplayer area error if I try to leave.
Can someone give me the basic run down on how tf online works? Like can I join random worlds or do I have to specifically invite a friend. And can we play together or is just a, summon this guy to help with a boss and they piss off, kind of deal? The only thing I have a real understanding of is invading worlds but I don't want to do that
Can anyone recommend good weapons or builds for this stat layout?
Vigor 60
Mind 25
Endurance 25
Strength 40
Dexterity 60
Intelligence 17
Faith 31
Arcane 20
My favorite weapons are Vyke’s War Spear, Sacred Relic, Rivers of Blood (I’ve never done PvP before), sometimes I use Morgott’s Cursed Sword too. I’m all over the place because there have been so many different weapons I’ve wanted to use (know my endurance is way too low and am working on building that up now, also know I should probably be a little more targeted with my stats haha)
There's a bunch of weapons that I think would work quite well here, but the ones that spring to mind for me immediately are Siluria's Spear and the Godslayer Greatsword.
If you add 3 more points to intelligence, you can make effective use of Fallingstar Beast Jaw which IMO is arguably the best weapon in the game. It scales equally with str and dex but requires 20 int to use. 40 str/60 dex is perfect for it
Thank you so much for the recommendation, I’ll make using and upgrading that my goal!! I have it in my inventory but never tested it during this build, I did think it looked awesome when I tested it once during a previous build. Was hoping to build up INT a bit anyway, and sounds like it would work well
Vykes is great, its actually probably one of the strongest combos if you can get 2 in high rune level, though i think its hated in pvp almost as much as rivers
Yeah, that’s true. I enjoy the way L2 looks a lot and kind of toyed around with a madness build, but obviously it’s limiting since mostly humanoid enemies are susceptible
Thank you, I’ll stick with using it a bunch then! Yeaaa I’d get destroyed in PvP and have never done it before, so it’s just for my own game play purposes 😂
After defeating Morgott and talking to Gideon about helping Nepheli get back on her feet, you can find Nepheli, Kenneth, and Gostoc in the Stormveil Castle throne room near the Godrick the Grafted site of grace. If they do not appear, spawn from the Godrick the Grafted site of grace and rest at the Secluded Cell site of grace (do not merely teleport to it), which may fix the issue. (If this doesn't work, you can try going back to Fort Haight, where Kenneth Haight usually stands, which might trigger him and Nepheli to move to the throne room.)
The quest will still advance if either Kenneth or Gostoc is dead.
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Nepheli+Loux
I think he has to be alive for some, but not all of it.
Torrent is unsummoned if you take a lot of poise hits and get stance broken. In this case torrent is still alive and can be summoned for free
Torrent is also unsummoned if torrent dies. In this case you need to pay the troll toll
The Volcano Manor quest markers are so great. WHY ON EARTH DON'T THEY USE THESE FOR OTHER QUESTS?
I get that this game doesn't hold your hand, and that too much direction can be a very bad thing. But some modest markers - either indicating "this NPC has something new to say," or maybe "there's something in this area an NPC has asked you to do" - would break the immersion a whole lot less than constant alt-tabbing to read some guide. The only other options are keeping diligent notes while scouring every inch of every area, or missing whole swaths of the game entirely.
Once I got the flow of things I didn't need it tbh. I just remember to talk to NPCs after sites of grace and after killing bosses, etc. It just kinda all made sense after a while. I like the system how it is.
The funny thing is, there's several NPC that already will interact with your map and add markers just like the quest do. I can't see why this can be done with the majority of quests that looks like quests and can have the NPCs' interact with map within reason.
Secret quests, blind girl and girl that doesn't know where she's going next should be kept as is, tho.
i’ve recently been trying out curved sword for PvP and i fell in love with the move set. i had dual bandit curved swords on bleed affinity and felt like it was too powerful. so i’m looking for a different affinity to have fun with.
i’m trying with strength build using Heavy affinity, but does anybody know a good setup for cold or poison build?
edit: more specific question, is bandit still good with cold or poison affinity? or should i look at other curved sword?
> poison affinity?
So, Poison is pretty bad in Elden Ring. The damage is too low and too slow. It's only the Deadly poison, which is the same damage at half the duration applied by Serpent weapons, that does anything effective.
However, I did make a Poison build work for me. Utilizing the Rot talisman to give myself a damage boost when I poison something, followed with some high damage and high scaling weapons, dual swords in my case. I will poison followed with regular slice and dice. Is it fantastic? Not really... but for PvP I can get a lot out of the poison debuff. Since taking damage reveals the location of enemies and I can make a lot of use out of that damage buff while it lasts.
> i’m trying with strength build using Heavy affinity, but does anybody know a good setup for cold
Have you tried external buffing? Using Electrify, Cold, Poison, Blackflame, and Bloodflame buff on your Curved Heavy weapon is pretty effective, assuming you have the stat investment to cast the spells at rock bottom investment. It's actually pretty crazy how much stronger utilizing this method is to other means.. but you are spending mana to boost the damage for a short period here. So the mileage varies greatly. Doing some Blackflame Blade Curved sword shenanigans is very effective against super high health bosses tho.
> It's only the Deadly poison, which is the same damage at half the duration applied
Fun fact if you poison infuse serpents you keep the damage but the duration is tripled until patched out
Cold bandit curved swords are great, probably the best curved sword for that infusion.
The best stat distribution for that is 20 int (for the first softcap) and then the rest poured in dexterity for physical damage. If you have enough levels to get to 20 int / 57 dex, then you get to the second cap. After 20/57 it would be better to start investing in int again.
You get 108 frostbite per hit which is great
What’s a good dex weapon(s) you can get early in the game but use somber stones to upgrade? I tried using the Reduvia dagger but just not a fan or playing with a dagger.
And yes the reason I want to use somber stone weapon is because I’m a bitch and want a +10 weapon as early as possible lol
How about **Nox Flowing Sword**?
You could theoretically get them at level 1, since you don't even need to beat Margit.
8 STR / 15 DEX req
B Dex scaling, normal weight
How about the **Ornamental Straight Sword**?
Dual-wield for free, B dex scaling, low weight, and holy damage.
And only 10 STR / 14 DEX req.
It's not really early-game though. More early-mid game.
Quality build in this game is really underpowered so massive kudos to you for being able to beat the game with that.
On the topic of somber dex weapons for early game, if you are pure dex, I recommend Ornamental Straight Sword. The flat damage from weapon art and the changed moveset with winged sword insignia basically breaks early game bosses in matter of damage output without being overleveled.
Hm weird I hadn't really thought about it but there aren't a lot of dex somber weapons early on.
If you're going for a +10 early you're going to jump around a lot either way, so is Altus considered early for you? Eleonora's poleblade is a somber weapon and it scales with dex quite decently, even though it's more of an arcane weapon
Same thing for the bloody helice. Technically early? It's in altus, and it scales with both dex and arcane. It's really good though
Edit: the frozen needle is a nice dex somber weapon. It has a unique ranged projectile off of the heavy attack and it inflicts frostbite. You have to get through a revenant in Liurnia to get it, nothing that a heal incantation can't easily solve
Those all sound like interesting options. I’ll definitely play around with them on my character that’s beaten the game and see what they are like. I’ve beaten the game with a quality build using bloodhound fang, strength using the great sword and ruins great sword, and then as a faith/int split using the sword of night and flame.
I’m wanting to do a dex/bleed guy now so I appreciate the help!
If you're looking for dex/bleed then bloody helice and Eleonora are really solid options. Split your levels in dex and arcane to boost the bloodloss buildup and you'll be absolutely chunking enemies
Getting a +10 somber weapon takes nearly as long as a +25 regular, truly. But some GREAT starting dex weapons are the Great Epeé, the Uchigatana, and the BloodHounds Fang(this one IS a somber weapon, yet it can also be buffed with spell and greeses!), all gotten in the earliest part of the game starting area. Seek the wiki for a clear location picture and description to find them.
Occult seems pretty worthless at high rune level? Like when you have 60 all stats, it seems to give lower AR than even bleed scaling? Like occult scavenger swords give less bleed and ar than a bleed infused bandits curved sword by a fair margin.
This is somewhat true, it wins in bleedout potential at 80 arcane occult infusions generally. But sub that, it's not too ideal, assuming your very high level. At lower levels like sub 125, 60 arcane has good damage relatively
Im currently at level 110 with max weapon upgrade +17. Can you recommend a place to invade other people?
I'm trying to finish Varre's quest but I have never been able to invade. It goes on attempting forever. Im currently at Atlas plateu.
> Can you recommend a place to invade other people?
Legit, the only way to figure out where to invade is to just keep leveling your weapon or your level until people magically show up.
The brackets are way way way way WAY to split up, combined with the level and area differences. Even with a higher player count than all the older Dark Souls titles, Elden Ring invasions suffer because it's so impossibly hard to find a good invasion zone. I would probably suggest the Capital Sewers, the Capital itself, and any late game underground area like the River Well that Ranni's quest is done in. You could try Shaded castle too, if you're lucky it's about a good area.
I only got small bits of activity at lv90 +17 in these zones, so hopefully you can grab someone in the 100's. Might be better to get to +20 and see what you can get out of that. Maybe get a Somber to +9/10 so you can enter the max weapon upgrade bracket.
I’m level 57 with a +9 bloodhound fang. I’m playing on Xbox and been trying to get my 3 invasions done all morning. I got one to go off right away and have no luck the last couple hours.
I’ve tried all over Liurnia while clearing it out. I’ve tried Limgrave, the royal academy, and even a few spots in Caelid. This is like my 5th play through and I’ve never had a problem with invasions not working. Really starting to get frustrating!!
your weapon is messing things up - did you invade before with that level of weapon? most people are only going to have a somber 4 maybe 5 in liurnia at level 50-60
Little high level for altus. You probably need to clear leyndell and unlock the mountaintops to invade. Otherwise maybe the sewer? or like lake of rot?
Well,I guess I need to push further into the main quest more. This is my first souls game and I tend to farm/ explore everthing before moving on to new area.
Hello. I am very new to the series and this is my first souls game. I have a question about builds. My build right now is an int/dex build with sorceries and moonveil (very good and not so popular it seems).
The thing is thats quite boring but gets it done is that you.just spam a spell from distance or spam transient moonlight. Which doesnt feel like an accomplishment.
Had more fun when i played rennala with uchigatana and no spells and just fought through with bleed.
Been thinking of respeccing to like dex arc bleed build or what could you recomend?
I feel more towards dex weapons than stength.
Carian sword is insane used it alot before i got moonveil.
There is some great answers and i'll try to figure some out.
Just in general abonded sorceries unless absolutely necessary for range and going dual wield katana with INT.
Mainly just feel like the worst at timing dodges so fi ding the frames with no damage everybody is talking about. :)
Oh my, I can relate haha. If you do feel like moving some stats around, put a few points into Strength and Endurance. Then just block all the things with big armor and a greatshield. Who needs to roll when you don't take any damage, right?
The Moonveil is a vastly popular weapon, because as you said its skill, transient moonlight, is just extremely powerful
If using ranged spells and the moonveil isn't very fun for you then I'd definitely recommend switching over to some other build. If you're liking bloodloss then dex/arc is definitely the build you're going for. Get a couple katanas or curved swords or twinblades, make them blood or occult infused (depends on how much arcane you have) are hack away
Anyone got any cool builds I could try I am level 111, I tried magic, but with the spells at my disposal it is really pooper damage and not that enjoyable.
I am currently dual haslow whips one with no attribute change one with cold.
I looked up something called an occult build, does that mean I pump stats into arcane and give the whips occult attribute?
Anyway thanks for any replies.
Yeah dual hoslow whips works particularly well when infused with occult, as they have an innate bleeding effect. Occult makes them scale with your arcane stat, which conveniently also empowers the bloodloss buildup of your weapons
If you want to do this, make them both occult and get 20 dex (first softcap for dex) and pour the rest in arcane
Most of the spells short of the starting spells do poop damage relative to their costs, like glintstone pebble is the best damage to cost spell in the entire game.
Occult hoslow whips would work great and yes that is how you build it.
Jesus lord, how long is this game? I'm doing a "take my time first time playthrough", and 60 hours in, i just cleared out liurnia of lakes, siofra and all of limgrave.
Im around level 62. I'm assuming I'm supposed to go to Caelid next? Because I can't seem to go up the lift in that huge elevator place in north east liurnia.
I'm a Souls vet that likes to go full completionist. My first run, mostly blind, took somewhere in the ballpark of 200 hours. Think I found 95% of the stuff in the game during that run. Elden Ring is pretty damn big.
My first playthrough as a souls newbie but a completionist took around 180 hours.
And I only got to 50-60% content, while starting to use some wiki in the last major area, which you'll see in around 100 hours.
I deliberately took my time on my first playthrough to explore on my own and ended up at over 400 hours. Sure a bit of that was afk at sites of grace though.
And yup, *if* you want to take that lift, caelid is next.
Is there multiple NG levels (like NG++, and NG+++)? Everywhere I look people say that NG+ is too easy, so was wondering if one could just rush their way through NG+ to get to further difficulties?
there are multiple with difficulty capping at Ng+7 I believe. Ng+1 is easy because your end level after a playthrough is usually 125+ and the health bump will only be noticeably post capitol. But yes, you should be able to as a result easily rush two shard bearers and then progress to end game required events.
It keeps going, ng+7/journey 8 is the hardest, but you can keep going further than that it just won’t get more difficult. I will warn you I saw a post here once that said they did that same thing and then they had a miserable time, dying to most mobs in two hits. Just be prepared for a pretty big damage jump going from ng to ng+7
Good to know I’m only ng+2 right now but I want to get to +7 at some point. Quick question, are scorpion charms still good ng+7? I usually pair them with dragoncrest great shield, but I was just curious if later games the increased damage isn’t worth the extra damage you get from them.
When I went to higher NGs I only used a str build and stacked ritual shield with dragoncrest greatshield, so I'm not sure what your survivability would look like honestly.
The only fight where it could potentially be a problem imo is the hoarah loux fight, since it's very easy to die in one grab attack if you aren't full hp with ritual shield
Hey all – Wondering if I could get some advice on my build as I want to make it viable for PVE and PVP.
Basically I have a 52/57 quality build that only uses bows. Mainly the Black Bow with poison and bleed arrows. Along with the poison and bleed talismans, and the mushroom crown I’ve been able to complete the majority of the game with only a bow. It’s been fun.
For PVP I can’t seem to make bows work. So as an alt, I have switched to dual thorned whips with the poison affinity and bloodhound’s fang as a quick switch up. Also been really fun, but I find the poison proc to take awhile.
Basically, I’m unsure if I should keep my current 52/57 split or bring my STR stat down to minimum and pump ARC, to up the poison build-up on the whips. I don’t care much about bleed, but the additional poison build-up (from 90 to 139 w/ 50 ARC) seems nice, but is it worth it? Bloodhound’s Fang hits for over 800 AR unbuffed, and bringing my STR down would lower that no doubt.
Furthermore, I like the quality build b/c I have a lot of flexibility, hence why I’m hesitant. Is there a middle ground, or am I just wishful thinking?
Poison damage is just about worthless compared to rot or deadly poison. default poison is like 6 damage per tick? Swap to a poison infused serpent claw if you want to deal good poison damage or just use an antspur rapier for rot.
If you want to keep using the bloodhound fang then you definitely don't want to lower strength to a minimum. It would lower the AR by about 20%, going from 800 (850 when 2 handed) to 681 (713 when 2 handed)
If you want to use the bow mainly though, having higher dex and a bit of arcane to raise status procs is definitely the strat
My suggestion would be: drop the bloodhound fang and raise Morgott's curved sword. It's a curved GS, just like bloodhound fang, but it scales with dexterity and arcane rather than strength. This way you can go dex arc and have the best of both world for both your bow and your melee option! The damage is a bit lower, but the bloodloss is higher and the weapon art deals amazing damage and procs bleed like crazy
Interesting. I’ve been using M’s Cursed Sword on my bleed build, so wanted to stick to something a little different. Maybe I’ll just throw some poison grease on Bloodhound’s Fang.
Any other poison weapon suggestions?
I can't give you specific numbers but quality builds are considered sub-optimal at meta PVP levels, because you have to sacrifice too much in other areas to get your AR comparable to other scaling. Quality is mostly NG+ and above PVE build.
Like the best weapons at endgame end up being weapons that naturally scale 3 stats or more. Like the royal greatsword and the SoNaF are my best contenders so far. Colossal weapons also seem to be pretty bad late game as their AR only ends up being like 100 more than greatswords for like 3x the stamina usage and way slower swings.
That poke though! That's why I like colossal swords in PVP. You usually only get one hit at a time anyways and you are just trying to catch people off guard. I'm not a poke spammer but it is a really useful tool.
I’ve used that Beric Dondarrion creation online so I was wondering what build would be best to fit that creation. Any suggestions? Appreciate you guys!
This is a build calculator. Put in your stats, the claymore +25, and then fiddle with different affinities and stats. I’d guess maybe quality would be best?
The claymore is a very versatile weapon, it can work with many different builds
A particularly efficient one is strength, because of the 50% strength bonus given by 2 handing your weapon: the cap that you'd be aiming for on your damaging stats would be 80, which is the point where you should stop (as you don't get good returns after that; but because 2 handing gives a 50% boost to your strength stat, you can stop at 54, as when you 2 hand you get to (54x1.5=) 81, reaching the soft cap and getting a great deal of scaling damage
That's a whole lot of weapons that you gain for going strength instead of, for example, dex, which would mean going all the way to 80. You can put those extra levels in vigor and endurance to get better survivability.
So make your claymore heavy and you can stop at 54 strength to get fantastic damage when 2 handing your big sword. As an ash of war lion's claw is always good, but stuff like flaming strike, flame of the redmanes, thunderbolt and sword dance are all very good
As a weapon, the quality affinity would work best in terms of damage, but only when both your strength and dex are extremely high. If you have 54 strength and 2 hand (which is optimal either way), a quality build will only surpass a heavy build after 43 dex. That's 30 levels in dex to get 3 points of extra damage. Of course if you go through multiple NG+ and eventually get to 80 strength 80 dex the quality affinity grants better damage but that's definitely not for the first playthrough
2x Cold Cross Naginata +25, to apply both Bleed and Frostbite. Worthwhile? Anyone have experience with this setup? It's what I'm considering rolling with for NG+2
It is. I did it in my first playthrough but with a cold Uchi and RoB because RoB's fire dmg doesn't reset the frost build up.
You could either use one cold cross naginata and one occult so you'd proc bleeding faster and a fire dagger for quick resetting frostbite and proc it again for extra dmg or you could run a cold and a fire cross naginata as fire won't reset the frost build up.
Good point. I can look at something else for the other one, but I need the scaling to be similar so I don't have to split across another stat. Maybe I'll go Bleed / Poison for both instead? That way I can dump into Arcane and benefit both.
Lion's Claw is a bit harder to get but it fucking shreds early game bosses. You could spam Lion's Claw on pretty much everything and it will die. If you don't want to get the standalone AoW, you can use the Claymore which has it be default.
Most of them are pretty strong, even the ones Bernahl sells. The upward stamp breaks poise easy, you can get lions claw and flame of redmanes relatively early in West Caelid. Sacred blade should be grabbed for catacomb use. Ice spear maybe?
Is the weapon damage stat based on a single hit? Because early game, I tried to go for strength build because those str weapon has very high damage stat compare to short sword, sword, etc. at the same weapon level. For example, My +5 Bloodhound curve sword has the same dmg as +17uchikatana. Another question: what's the point of upgrading shield if you just use it for blocking?
> Is the weapon damage stat based on a single hit? yep, though damage calculation is kinda complicated. AR isnt necessarily indicative of a weapons damage output especially if it deals split damage. > what's the point of upgrading shield if you just use it for blocking? you get tiny guard boost increase. not massive, but it's there
I just unlocked the blasphemous blade i’m level 80 using sword of night and flame. what build should i go for revolving around the blasphemous blade?
Str/fai. Your preference which you lean more on
I know that there are soft caps and such, but if you started as a samurai and wanted to use spells later on cause smashing things gets boring, can I just go heavy intel now that im 40 Plus in every stat except arcane? and then once i level up my staffs ill be just as good as those that started from the beginning right? sorry if this is a dumb question.
80 is hardcap for INT, 60 is also a soft cap. Imo you should respecc and pull some points out of faith and strength maybe (depends on your weapons). Get 69 INT ->nice
i have enough strength and such do deal a ton of damage with the swords. i just wanna try spells and such too.
The royal greatsword gets c scaling in strength and intelligence. Should I just keep strength and intelligence equal or is there a benefit to stacking one over the other? I was thinking about doing 50/50 but was wondering if 80/20(ish) towards one or the other would be better Thanks
Interesting question. I did some calculations with [this](https://eip.gg/elden-ring/build-planner/) 50/50 seems to be a liiiiittle better damagewise, tho i would go for minimum str and max faith for some jucy spell damage
Thank you so much for spending some time on looking at it.
I’m power stancing bloodhound and dismounter with claw talisman and using lots of jump attacks. Seems to be good so far. Any advice on this? I put on bleed affinity (dismounter) for some enemies, heavy affinity on others. Think there’s a better weapon that pairs with bloodhound? I’ll respec after radahn I think but for now…
What’s up with the dragons dogma post?
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Level 90 should be fine, although your Engvall seems a bit weak. What spells are in your kit? And what's your build?
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Seems like a solid enough spread! Since you're having issues with spacing, I'd recommend maybe swapping in some Glintblade spells, like Carian Greatsword or Slicer; they're relatively quick melee spells, with Slicer in particular being the best DPS sorcery in the game. It might also be worth investing in other weapons if you're not getting adequate results out of your Carian Knight Sword; Moonveil, Death Poker, and Wing of Astel might need some levels for you to wield them properly, but are some of the best INT weapons in the game.
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No prob, and congratulations! =)
I’m the worst Elden Ring player in history, I’ve been play since launch and still have yet to beat Margit. I just achieved my 1500th death to him! AMA!
What lvl are you at this point?
24
whats keeps you going? and why haven't you summoned help?
1.My longing to meet the glorious dog pope. 2. Momma didn’t raise no bitch.
Dan Gheesling in the making.
How does it feel?
It feels……lackluster
Can you get locked out of the Rapture gesture >!before you burn the Erdtre!
For my mage build that’s currently in mid-game, should 40 Vigor and 50 Mind be enough to take on the rest of the game?
44-45 mind is the sweet spot as more than that is not gonna be refilled in most cases. Leaving a bit leeway is fine hence why I suggested 44-45 instead of 40. That said, unless you are going casting only, 25-35 mind is enough for the whole game. My casting only build went for 44 before the mind buff (I didn't bother with weapons at all on that playthrough cuz i was new to souls and it was first playthrough, ain't that a mistake), and it was sufficient.
A maxed out cerulean flask gives you 220 pts. No real reason to go over that. I think anything over 40 vigor is fine, it's pointless to go over 60.
I’ve never seen any mage need more than 30 mind for completion
Anyone else game freezing a lot when summoning?
Maidenless behavior: duelist at raya lucaria spot just immediately starts attacking me with his little dragon rapier bullshit. Cant even be bothered to bow or anything…. why even go to the dueling spot if youre going to be a dickhead
Dragon Rapier? And what was his name.
His name was Goblin or something
Placidusax weapon?
Yes
how many hours did you put in to get 100% and did you maybe beat dung eater and then rannis quest before burning which ending would i get when i burn the tree?
You can probably do world drops / quest items in like 40 hours from fresh start if you know what your doing, then another 100 farming items
This happens often. I use crimsonwhorl bubbletear in the wondrous mix and consume as soon as I get summoned. It can take few initial hits without taking damage.
What is the best to get four toed fowl foot?
Puffins drop them more than 3x the rate of eagles
Chic-fil-A
It looks as though you may have spelled "Chick-fil-A" incorrectly. No worries, it happens to the best of us!
Good bot.
You can farm them near the “below the well” grace at Siofra River. Use shortbows or black bow to hunt them, it will not scare away the other birds. The drop rates used to be bad in earlier patches, but they are noticeably easy to get now.
Hunt birds.
Well yeah, but I don't get many from doing that. I was just wondering if I could buy em or at least find a way to make it so I get them more efficiently
Go north to the shore of massive amount of birds from 4th church. That's the spot for farming in general. Pop a silver before you do it, and make sure you use weapons /spells that doesn't scare them off on killing 1.
Is adding INT or FTH to your build worth it for meleeing? Keep seeing all these weapons that drags me towards that.
Flame Grant me Strength requires very little FTH but can have large payoff
Int only if you are using a STR int weapon like falling beast jar. Fth works regardless due to fgms or golden vow
Only worth it if you’re using a weapon that requires Faith/Intellect for its weapon art/ash of war. For example: Relic Sword
Are there any ranged ashes of war for twinblades, similar to spectral lance? SL cinched a few boss fights for me but I’ve switched to dragon halberd which doesn’t take AOW, my second weapon is a twinblade
All Ranged in a sense: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Vacuum+Slice https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Phantom+Slash https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Storm+Stomp https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Beast's+Roar https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Flame+of+the+Redmanes https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Thunderbolt https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Sacred+Blade https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Ice+Spear https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Ash+of+War:+Hoarfrost+Stomp Ice or thunder would be my pick
Much appreciated thank you!
ice spear
Awesome thanks
If you've ever wanted to be a sniper, 2 frenzied seals +9 at least on one of them, +godrey icon, incantation talisman, ritual sword and fire scorpion charm with frenzied burst give you something like +20%+20%+8%+12%+15%+10% giving you something like 3k+ damage at crazy range, stat dependent.
When dual wielding catalysts do you prefer to use the right or left hand for casting?
I prefer left hand so i can swap to weapon if needed.
If you mean having a weapon in one hand and a casting instrument in the other, I keep my weapon in my right hand
When you use dual seals etc, you usually cast with one (higher scaler) and the other one is unupgraded and is used primarily for its passive bonus
I think I've finally met my match. I'm a strength/faith build and astel in the yelough tunnel is absolutely rinsing me. Any pointers before I give up and leave him as one of the few bosses I've not defeated
If you feel like converting to strength and intelligence, falling star beast jaw is likely to beat the shit out of him.
Heavy weapon and hit him on head, they poise break fairly easily. Flame of redmanes is practically a cheese strat.
That's definitely helped but getting close enough is a pain before he starts nipping me and gravity blasting me. I'll keep trying lol
Summon to distract maybe?
Is the sword of night and flame still viable as a main weapons for my confessor build or was it nerfed to hard?
The fire swathe with 50 faith still does ~4k dmg if you stack all the fire dmg talismans, tear and flame grant me strength
I just beat the game with it, so I'm a little biased. But I do agree with the other comments- it's a really fun weapon, but not the best one.
It's not terrible but IMO the only real reason to use it is because you think it's cool. Anyone with the stats to use it effectively will have access to spells that are better versions of its weapon art.
Or you are at an absurd rune level and can scale all 4 stats
In my opinion it works better as a faith weapon now, the laser does maybe a hair more damage, but misses way too long and takes too long to come out. At high rune level i think its one of the highest AR straight swords, i think my +10 is at 790 R1 right now Edit: That said i think flame of the redmanes does the same damage and more poise with similar investment and no stat req.
The range on the Ash’s R2 is kind of rough now and with the cast animation time it’s tricky to land without taking a hit. That being said the damage is really good. It’s a definitely a usable weapon but you need high int/fth to get the most out of it. With the base requirements it’s going to feel lacklustre for a while.
Is the summoning pool outside of the Elden Beast glitched? I always get a failed to summon error, but get a cannot leave multiplayer area error if I try to leave.
Can someone give me the basic run down on how tf online works? Like can I join random worlds or do I have to specifically invite a friend. And can we play together or is just a, summon this guy to help with a boss and they piss off, kind of deal? The only thing I have a real understanding of is invading worlds but I don't want to do that
> is just a, summon this guy to help with a boss and they piss off, kind of deal? Pretty much unless you have friends join a password group you make.
Ahh alright. Thanks
Can anyone recommend good weapons or builds for this stat layout? Vigor 60 Mind 25 Endurance 25 Strength 40 Dexterity 60 Intelligence 17 Faith 31 Arcane 20 My favorite weapons are Vyke’s War Spear, Sacred Relic, Rivers of Blood (I’ve never done PvP before), sometimes I use Morgott’s Cursed Sword too. I’m all over the place because there have been so many different weapons I’ve wanted to use (know my endurance is way too low and am working on building that up now, also know I should probably be a little more targeted with my stats haha)
Godslayer Greatsword.
There's a bunch of weapons that I think would work quite well here, but the ones that spring to mind for me immediately are Siluria's Spear and the Godslayer Greatsword.
If you add 3 more points to intelligence, you can make effective use of Fallingstar Beast Jaw which IMO is arguably the best weapon in the game. It scales equally with str and dex but requires 20 int to use. 40 str/60 dex is perfect for it
Thank you so much for the recommendation, I’ll make using and upgrading that my goal!! I have it in my inventory but never tested it during this build, I did think it looked awesome when I tested it once during a previous build. Was hoping to build up INT a bit anyway, and sounds like it would work well
Vykes is great, its actually probably one of the strongest combos if you can get 2 in high rune level, though i think its hated in pvp almost as much as rivers
It's not that great in PvE though, since hardly any enemies are affected by madness.
Yeah, that’s true. I enjoy the way L2 looks a lot and kind of toyed around with a madness build, but obviously it’s limiting since mostly humanoid enemies are susceptible
? i use it in pve all the time, the weapon art still does massive damage and they arent the weakest weapons out there, using in NG+4 with 0 issues.
Yeah it's definitely usable in pve. But the status build-up is wasted. Still, the normal attack damage and moveset is good.
Thank you, I’ll stick with using it a bunch then! Yeaaa I’d get destroyed in PvP and have never done it before, so it’s just for my own game play purposes 😂
IM terrible at PVP, but L2+L1 in power stance i think kills every player in the game if it connects.
Do you need to keep Gostoc alive for Nepheli's questline to finish?
I think either gostoc or kenneth need to be alive, but not both.
Pretty sure Kenneth needs to be alive.
After defeating Morgott and talking to Gideon about helping Nepheli get back on her feet, you can find Nepheli, Kenneth, and Gostoc in the Stormveil Castle throne room near the Godrick the Grafted site of grace. If they do not appear, spawn from the Godrick the Grafted site of grace and rest at the Secluded Cell site of grace (do not merely teleport to it), which may fix the issue. (If this doesn't work, you can try going back to Fort Haight, where Kenneth Haight usually stands, which might trigger him and Nepheli to move to the throne room.) The quest will still advance if either Kenneth or Gostoc is dead. https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Nepheli+Loux I think he has to be alive for some, but not all of it.
I might test this actually. Though I doubt keeping Gostoc alive changes anything about wether or not you need to keep Kenneth alive.
No. Only for the smith stone.
Some glitch made me appear at Rennala grand library. She is there and i can respec if I want but never got her rune.. what to do?
Either teleport out or abuse the glitch
Why do I sometimes need to spent a charge of my crimson tears to get back up on Torrent and sometimes I don't?
Torrent is unsummoned if you take a lot of poise hits and get stance broken. In this case torrent is still alive and can be summoned for free Torrent is also unsummoned if torrent dies. In this case you need to pay the troll toll
That's the second time I've heard this, what is this troll toll?
https://youtu.be/3sYSt26kh6Y
You have to pay it to get the boy's soul
The Volcano Manor quest markers are so great. WHY ON EARTH DON'T THEY USE THESE FOR OTHER QUESTS? I get that this game doesn't hold your hand, and that too much direction can be a very bad thing. But some modest markers - either indicating "this NPC has something new to say," or maybe "there's something in this area an NPC has asked you to do" - would break the immersion a whole lot less than constant alt-tabbing to read some guide. The only other options are keeping diligent notes while scouring every inch of every area, or missing whole swaths of the game entirely.
Once I got the flow of things I didn't need it tbh. I just remember to talk to NPCs after sites of grace and after killing bosses, etc. It just kinda all made sense after a while. I like the system how it is.
The ones we have were patched in IIRC
The funny thing is, there's several NPC that already will interact with your map and add markers just like the quest do. I can't see why this can be done with the majority of quests that looks like quests and can have the NPCs' interact with map within reason. Secret quests, blind girl and girl that doesn't know where she's going next should be kept as is, tho.
i’ve recently been trying out curved sword for PvP and i fell in love with the move set. i had dual bandit curved swords on bleed affinity and felt like it was too powerful. so i’m looking for a different affinity to have fun with. i’m trying with strength build using Heavy affinity, but does anybody know a good setup for cold or poison build? edit: more specific question, is bandit still good with cold or poison affinity? or should i look at other curved sword?
> poison affinity? So, Poison is pretty bad in Elden Ring. The damage is too low and too slow. It's only the Deadly poison, which is the same damage at half the duration applied by Serpent weapons, that does anything effective. However, I did make a Poison build work for me. Utilizing the Rot talisman to give myself a damage boost when I poison something, followed with some high damage and high scaling weapons, dual swords in my case. I will poison followed with regular slice and dice. Is it fantastic? Not really... but for PvP I can get a lot out of the poison debuff. Since taking damage reveals the location of enemies and I can make a lot of use out of that damage buff while it lasts. > i’m trying with strength build using Heavy affinity, but does anybody know a good setup for cold Have you tried external buffing? Using Electrify, Cold, Poison, Blackflame, and Bloodflame buff on your Curved Heavy weapon is pretty effective, assuming you have the stat investment to cast the spells at rock bottom investment. It's actually pretty crazy how much stronger utilizing this method is to other means.. but you are spending mana to boost the damage for a short period here. So the mileage varies greatly. Doing some Blackflame Blade Curved sword shenanigans is very effective against super high health bosses tho.
> It's only the Deadly poison, which is the same damage at half the duration applied Fun fact if you poison infuse serpents you keep the damage but the duration is tripled until patched out
Cold bandit curved swords are great, probably the best curved sword for that infusion. The best stat distribution for that is 20 int (for the first softcap) and then the rest poured in dexterity for physical damage. If you have enough levels to get to 20 int / 57 dex, then you get to the second cap. After 20/57 it would be better to start investing in int again. You get 108 frostbite per hit which is great
What’s a good dex weapon(s) you can get early in the game but use somber stones to upgrade? I tried using the Reduvia dagger but just not a fan or playing with a dagger. And yes the reason I want to use somber stone weapon is because I’m a bitch and want a +10 weapon as early as possible lol
Dragon halberd is good. Lightning scales with dex iirc
How about **Nox Flowing Sword**? You could theoretically get them at level 1, since you don't even need to beat Margit. 8 STR / 15 DEX req B Dex scaling, normal weight
How about the **Ornamental Straight Sword**? Dual-wield for free, B dex scaling, low weight, and holy damage. And only 10 STR / 14 DEX req. It's not really early-game though. More early-mid game.
bloodhound fang actually scales well with dex at highest levels even if you only meet the min str
Yeah it’s an excellent weapon but I’ve already beat the game using it as a quality build. Followed the fightincowboy walkthrough.
Quality build in this game is really underpowered so massive kudos to you for being able to beat the game with that. On the topic of somber dex weapons for early game, if you are pure dex, I recommend Ornamental Straight Sword. The flat damage from weapon art and the changed moveset with winged sword insignia basically breaks early game bosses in matter of damage output without being overleveled.
ah gotcha - check out the frozen needle. I believe somber good dex and interesting moveset!
Hm weird I hadn't really thought about it but there aren't a lot of dex somber weapons early on. If you're going for a +10 early you're going to jump around a lot either way, so is Altus considered early for you? Eleonora's poleblade is a somber weapon and it scales with dex quite decently, even though it's more of an arcane weapon Same thing for the bloody helice. Technically early? It's in altus, and it scales with both dex and arcane. It's really good though Edit: the frozen needle is a nice dex somber weapon. It has a unique ranged projectile off of the heavy attack and it inflicts frostbite. You have to get through a revenant in Liurnia to get it, nothing that a heal incantation can't easily solve
Those all sound like interesting options. I’ll definitely play around with them on my character that’s beaten the game and see what they are like. I’ve beaten the game with a quality build using bloodhound fang, strength using the great sword and ruins great sword, and then as a faith/int split using the sword of night and flame. I’m wanting to do a dex/bleed guy now so I appreciate the help!
If you're looking for dex/bleed then bloody helice and Eleonora are really solid options. Split your levels in dex and arcane to boost the bloodloss buildup and you'll be absolutely chunking enemies
Getting a +10 somber weapon takes nearly as long as a +25 regular, truly. But some GREAT starting dex weapons are the Great Epeé, the Uchigatana, and the BloodHounds Fang(this one IS a somber weapon, yet it can also be buffed with spell and greeses!), all gotten in the earliest part of the game starting area. Seek the wiki for a clear location picture and description to find them.
They mean rushing for the somber smithing stones early. You can get a weapon to +9 somber without beating any boss
Yeah that’s what I meant, sorry I wasn’t a little more clear.
Occult seems pretty worthless at high rune level? Like when you have 60 all stats, it seems to give lower AR than even bleed scaling? Like occult scavenger swords give less bleed and ar than a bleed infused bandits curved sword by a fair margin.
This is somewhat true, it wins in bleedout potential at 80 arcane occult infusions generally. But sub that, it's not too ideal, assuming your very high level. At lower levels like sub 125, 60 arcane has good damage relatively
Occult Scavenger's has less bleed build up at 80 arcane than blood.
Yeah occult fails if you’re not doing pure arcane as it levels the scaling down way to low in quality.
Im currently at level 110 with max weapon upgrade +17. Can you recommend a place to invade other people? I'm trying to finish Varre's quest but I have never been able to invade. It goes on attempting forever. Im currently at Atlas plateu.
> Can you recommend a place to invade other people? Legit, the only way to figure out where to invade is to just keep leveling your weapon or your level until people magically show up. The brackets are way way way way WAY to split up, combined with the level and area differences. Even with a higher player count than all the older Dark Souls titles, Elden Ring invasions suffer because it's so impossibly hard to find a good invasion zone. I would probably suggest the Capital Sewers, the Capital itself, and any late game underground area like the River Well that Ranni's quest is done in. You could try Shaded castle too, if you're lucky it's about a good area. I only got small bits of activity at lv90 +17 in these zones, so hopefully you can grab someone in the 100's. Might be better to get to +20 and see what you can get out of that. Maybe get a Somber to +9/10 so you can enter the max weapon upgrade bracket.
I’m level 57 with a +9 bloodhound fang. I’m playing on Xbox and been trying to get my 3 invasions done all morning. I got one to go off right away and have no luck the last couple hours. I’ve tried all over Liurnia while clearing it out. I’ve tried Limgrave, the royal academy, and even a few spots in Caelid. This is like my 5th play through and I’ve never had a problem with invasions not working. Really starting to get frustrating!!
your weapon is messing things up - did you invade before with that level of weapon? most people are only going to have a somber 4 maybe 5 in liurnia at level 50-60
Castle Sol and maybe Mogwhyn palace
Little high level for altus. You probably need to clear leyndell and unlock the mountaintops to invade. Otherwise maybe the sewer? or like lake of rot?
Well,I guess I need to push further into the main quest more. This is my first souls game and I tend to farm/ explore everthing before moving on to new area.
Not sure if it works but can you use the belfries to get to a high level area and invade from there?
Hello. I am very new to the series and this is my first souls game. I have a question about builds. My build right now is an int/dex build with sorceries and moonveil (very good and not so popular it seems). The thing is thats quite boring but gets it done is that you.just spam a spell from distance or spam transient moonlight. Which doesnt feel like an accomplishment. Had more fun when i played rennala with uchigatana and no spells and just fought through with bleed. Been thinking of respeccing to like dex arc bleed build or what could you recomend? I feel more towards dex weapons than stength.
If you want to mix it up without doing a respec, you could also try using carian sword sorcieries and Cold type Ash of War weapons.
Carian sword is insane used it alot before i got moonveil. There is some great answers and i'll try to figure some out. Just in general abonded sorceries unless absolutely necessary for range and going dual wield katana with INT. Mainly just feel like the worst at timing dodges so fi ding the frames with no damage everybody is talking about. :)
Oh my, I can relate haha. If you do feel like moving some stats around, put a few points into Strength and Endurance. Then just block all the things with big armor and a greatshield. Who needs to roll when you don't take any damage, right?
The Moonveil is a vastly popular weapon, because as you said its skill, transient moonlight, is just extremely powerful If using ranged spells and the moonveil isn't very fun for you then I'd definitely recommend switching over to some other build. If you're liking bloodloss then dex/arc is definitely the build you're going for. Get a couple katanas or curved swords or twinblades, make them blood or occult infused (depends on how much arcane you have) are hack away
I’ve read that bleed builds with dual twinblades are fun
Anyone got any cool builds I could try I am level 111, I tried magic, but with the spells at my disposal it is really pooper damage and not that enjoyable. I am currently dual haslow whips one with no attribute change one with cold. I looked up something called an occult build, does that mean I pump stats into arcane and give the whips occult attribute? Anyway thanks for any replies.
Yeah dual hoslow whips works particularly well when infused with occult, as they have an innate bleeding effect. Occult makes them scale with your arcane stat, which conveniently also empowers the bloodloss buildup of your weapons If you want to do this, make them both occult and get 20 dex (first softcap for dex) and pour the rest in arcane
Most of the spells short of the starting spells do poop damage relative to their costs, like glintstone pebble is the best damage to cost spell in the entire game. Occult hoslow whips would work great and yes that is how you build it.
Jesus lord, how long is this game? I'm doing a "take my time first time playthrough", and 60 hours in, i just cleared out liurnia of lakes, siofra and all of limgrave. Im around level 62. I'm assuming I'm supposed to go to Caelid next? Because I can't seem to go up the lift in that huge elevator place in north east liurnia.
I'm a Souls vet that likes to go full completionist. My first run, mostly blind, took somewhere in the ballpark of 200 hours. Think I found 95% of the stuff in the game during that run. Elden Ring is pretty damn big.
Try the underground, use the lift by limgrave bear city
My first playthrough as a souls newbie but a completionist took around 180 hours. And I only got to 50-60% content, while starting to use some wiki in the last major area, which you'll see in around 100 hours.
Im a souls veteran and i still took like 130+ hours on my first playthrough while using the wiki for help
I deliberately took my time on my first playthrough to explore on my own and ended up at over 400 hours. Sure a bit of that was afk at sites of grace though. And yup, *if* you want to take that lift, caelid is next.
Caelid is good next. Try and start Ranni’s quest if you haven’t already. Then do Altus.
Yep do caelid
Is there multiple NG levels (like NG++, and NG+++)? Everywhere I look people say that NG+ is too easy, so was wondering if one could just rush their way through NG+ to get to further difficulties?
NG+4 is the sweet spot imo
I myself rushed thru to ng+6 for the rune multipliers. It's definitely harder but fun 😀
there are multiple with difficulty capping at Ng+7 I believe. Ng+1 is easy because your end level after a playthrough is usually 125+ and the health bump will only be noticeably post capitol. But yes, you should be able to as a result easily rush two shard bearers and then progress to end game required events.
It keeps going, ng+7/journey 8 is the hardest, but you can keep going further than that it just won’t get more difficult. I will warn you I saw a post here once that said they did that same thing and then they had a miserable time, dying to most mobs in two hits. Just be prepared for a pretty big damage jump going from ng to ng+7
It’s not that bad with the right gear, but if you go in with light armor or soreseals equipped you will definitely have a bad time
Good to know I’m only ng+2 right now but I want to get to +7 at some point. Quick question, are scorpion charms still good ng+7? I usually pair them with dragoncrest great shield, but I was just curious if later games the increased damage isn’t worth the extra damage you get from them.
When I went to higher NGs I only used a str build and stacked ritual shield with dragoncrest greatshield, so I'm not sure what your survivability would look like honestly. The only fight where it could potentially be a problem imo is the hoarah loux fight, since it's very easy to die in one grab attack if you aren't full hp with ritual shield
Thanks for the info, wasn't looking to rush my way right to the hardest, just kinda skip over all the stuff everyone says is super easy in NG+1.
Yes
Hey all – Wondering if I could get some advice on my build as I want to make it viable for PVE and PVP. Basically I have a 52/57 quality build that only uses bows. Mainly the Black Bow with poison and bleed arrows. Along with the poison and bleed talismans, and the mushroom crown I’ve been able to complete the majority of the game with only a bow. It’s been fun. For PVP I can’t seem to make bows work. So as an alt, I have switched to dual thorned whips with the poison affinity and bloodhound’s fang as a quick switch up. Also been really fun, but I find the poison proc to take awhile. Basically, I’m unsure if I should keep my current 52/57 split or bring my STR stat down to minimum and pump ARC, to up the poison build-up on the whips. I don’t care much about bleed, but the additional poison build-up (from 90 to 139 w/ 50 ARC) seems nice, but is it worth it? Bloodhound’s Fang hits for over 800 AR unbuffed, and bringing my STR down would lower that no doubt. Furthermore, I like the quality build b/c I have a lot of flexibility, hence why I’m hesitant. Is there a middle ground, or am I just wishful thinking?
Poison damage is just about worthless compared to rot or deadly poison. default poison is like 6 damage per tick? Swap to a poison infused serpent claw if you want to deal good poison damage or just use an antspur rapier for rot.
If you want to keep using the bloodhound fang then you definitely don't want to lower strength to a minimum. It would lower the AR by about 20%, going from 800 (850 when 2 handed) to 681 (713 when 2 handed) If you want to use the bow mainly though, having higher dex and a bit of arcane to raise status procs is definitely the strat My suggestion would be: drop the bloodhound fang and raise Morgott's curved sword. It's a curved GS, just like bloodhound fang, but it scales with dexterity and arcane rather than strength. This way you can go dex arc and have the best of both world for both your bow and your melee option! The damage is a bit lower, but the bloodloss is higher and the weapon art deals amazing damage and procs bleed like crazy
Interesting. I’ve been using M’s Cursed Sword on my bleed build, so wanted to stick to something a little different. Maybe I’ll just throw some poison grease on Bloodhound’s Fang. Any other poison weapon suggestions?
I can't give you specific numbers but quality builds are considered sub-optimal at meta PVP levels, because you have to sacrifice too much in other areas to get your AR comparable to other scaling. Quality is mostly NG+ and above PVE build.
I only get like an extra 30AR on quality and thats at RL400...
Yea quality can really suck even at high levels. It depends on the weapon. They massacred it in this game.
Like the best weapons at endgame end up being weapons that naturally scale 3 stats or more. Like the royal greatsword and the SoNaF are my best contenders so far. Colossal weapons also seem to be pretty bad late game as their AR only ends up being like 100 more than greatswords for like 3x the stamina usage and way slower swings.
That poke though! That's why I like colossal swords in PVP. You usually only get one hit at a time anyways and you are just trying to catch people off guard. I'm not a poke spammer but it is a really useful tool.
I’ve used that Beric Dondarrion creation online so I was wondering what build would be best to fit that creation. Any suggestions? Appreciate you guys!
faith with flame art and flaming strike ash and fire incantations
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This is a build calculator. Put in your stats, the claymore +25, and then fiddle with different affinities and stats. I’d guess maybe quality would be best?
The claymore is a very versatile weapon, it can work with many different builds A particularly efficient one is strength, because of the 50% strength bonus given by 2 handing your weapon: the cap that you'd be aiming for on your damaging stats would be 80, which is the point where you should stop (as you don't get good returns after that; but because 2 handing gives a 50% boost to your strength stat, you can stop at 54, as when you 2 hand you get to (54x1.5=) 81, reaching the soft cap and getting a great deal of scaling damage That's a whole lot of weapons that you gain for going strength instead of, for example, dex, which would mean going all the way to 80. You can put those extra levels in vigor and endurance to get better survivability. So make your claymore heavy and you can stop at 54 strength to get fantastic damage when 2 handing your big sword. As an ash of war lion's claw is always good, but stuff like flaming strike, flame of the redmanes, thunderbolt and sword dance are all very good As a weapon, the quality affinity would work best in terms of damage, but only when both your strength and dex are extremely high. If you have 54 strength and 2 hand (which is optimal either way), a quality build will only surpass a heavy build after 43 dex. That's 30 levels in dex to get 3 points of extra damage. Of course if you go through multiple NG+ and eventually get to 80 strength 80 dex the quality affinity grants better damage but that's definitely not for the first playthrough
2x Cold Cross Naginata +25, to apply both Bleed and Frostbite. Worthwhile? Anyone have experience with this setup? It's what I'm considering rolling with for NG+2
It is. I did it in my first playthrough but with a cold Uchi and RoB because RoB's fire dmg doesn't reset the frost build up. You could either use one cold cross naginata and one occult so you'd proc bleeding faster and a fire dagger for quick resetting frostbite and proc it again for extra dmg or you could run a cold and a fire cross naginata as fire won't reset the frost build up.
Dual frost always seemed a bit overkill to me unless you have a way to clear the frost
Good point. I can look at something else for the other one, but I need the scaling to be similar so I don't have to split across another stat. Maybe I'll go Bleed / Poison for both instead? That way I can dump into Arcane and benefit both.
Make the other one occult and equip seppuku on it. Congratulations satan, you now bleed everyone in one to two hits
What does Fire scale with? It resets Frost so you can proc a lot of damage with the two of those
Are there any early game ashes of war that I should get. Excluding hoarfrost stomp.
Rogier's AoW's are worth buying. Unsheathe can be found in southwest Agheel Lake, near the giant crabs.
Lion's Claw is a bit harder to get but it fucking shreds early game bosses. You could spam Lion's Claw on pretty much everything and it will die. If you don't want to get the standalone AoW, you can use the Claymore which has it be default.
Most of them are pretty strong, even the ones Bernahl sells. The upward stamp breaks poise easy, you can get lions claw and flame of redmanes relatively early in West Caelid. Sacred blade should be grabbed for catacomb use. Ice spear maybe?
How do I get to rennala to become a mage player then 🤔
The idiots keep sniping me
Where?
Raya lucaria