Elden Ring Best Builds (After 1.04 Patch)
So you might want to get creative with your stats/equipment and be prepared for various situations you can come across during both PvE and PvP situations.
Elden Ring builds focus on the various combinations of stats, weapons, armor and other items to help players achieve their goals through battle and exploration. Each build is different and can be used in both PvE or PvP. Below are the recommended builds for players to use.
ELDEN RING Builds for PvE and PvP
- Bleed Build (Patch 1.04): Dexterity - Arcane Build for PvP and PvE Situations
- Sleep Build for PvP (After Patch 1.04)
- DPS Paladin Build: Incantation-oriented DPS Paladin build
- Astrologer Build: STR and INT focused Astrologer build
- Vagabond Build: Vagabond build keeping it almost fully melee
- Archer Build: A ranged build with dex-based archery
At the beginning, all classes start with different armors, weapons, stats and abilities. However, this does not exactly determine how your character's build will shape later on. Souls games give us a great flexibility to get creative and play around with our characters. We're guessing we might as well see an option to reset our attributes/stats via a covenant (most likely).
Elden Ring Bleed Build for both PvP and PvE (Patch 1.04)
So, what I have seen from my own experience is that you could deal up to 5K - 6K deal in 2 combos with fully buffed. This build will deal enormous damage to anyone in PvP - if not, will instantly kill them if you could inflict blood loss in one shot. This build also works wonders in PvE against many bosses. You can devastate enemies who are weak to bleed damage within seconds. I managed to finish Maliketh's second phase in 7 seconds with this build.
- Class: Doesn't really matter as it's an end-game build
- Flasks: 2 FP / 12 HP
- Weapon: Two Bandit's Curved Sword (with Blood affinity Seppuku Ash of War applied)
- Shield: None
- Armor: White Mask (for 10% increased damage when blood loss is inflicted nearby), rest of the pieces should allow you to mid-roll
- Primary Stats: Dexterity and Arcane (50 Dex - 50 Arcane)
- Secondary Stats: Vigor and Endurance (40 Vigor - 30 Endurance)
- Talismans: Lord of Blood's Exultation (for 20% increased damage when blood loss is inflicted on enemy), Claw Talisman (for better jumping attacks) and Radagon's Soreseal
- Ash of War: x2 Seppuku applied to both weapons (Adds 30 flat Attack Power and 84 Bleed Buildup without Arcane scaling on the weapon. This scales to 118 Bleed Buildup with 80 Arcane using a Blood weapon.)
- Skills: None
- Spells: None
Elden Ring Sleep Build (After Patch 1.04)
Almost every enemy is vulnerable to Sleep status effect. You can make the most out of this build by distributing your stats cleverly. Here are the best stats for a sleep build.
- Class: Confessor
- Flasks: 4 FP / 10 HP
- Weapon: 2x The Sword of St. Trina - Causes Sleep Buildup (66)
- Shield: None
- Armor: Anything that enables you to mid-roll.
- Primary Stats: Faith and Intelligence (80 Faith - 50 Intelligence min.)
- Secondary Stats: Vigor and Dexterity (49 Vigor - 50 Dexterity)
- Talismans: Two Finges Heirloom, Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom
- Weapon Skills: Mist of Slumber (It releases a purple mist forward to the enemies and put them to sleep.)
- Spells: None
DPS Paladin (Confessor Build)
DPS Paladin Build in Elden Ring uses a combination of Weapons and Incantations to deal damage and heal others. Players with this build are able to stay alive even when others wouldn't.
- Class: Confessor
- Flasks: 2 FP / 12 HP
- Weapon: Any one-handed weapon
- Shield: Brass Shield
- Armor: Crucible Set (but you should be able to mid-roll)
- Primary Stats: Strength and Faith (40-30)
- Secondary Stats: Vigor and Endurance (40-35)
- Skills: Holy Ground
- Spells: Heal Beast Claw, Feast Upon Flame
Build is simple. You will cast Holy Ground to heal yourself (and your allies, if you play co-op), then you'll use the weapon to attack and shield to block. If you're not an Enchanted Knight, the Leather Shield is your best option. Not bad for over 90% physical absorbtion.
Beast Claw can be used to attack enemies from mid-range while distancing yourselves and have a space to breathe. You can also use Heal Incantation for healing if necessary. This allows you to stack your FP flasks, without the need for healing ones.
You should ensure you have enough Endurance for Mid-Roll in Crucible Set. Then pump Faith and Mind to do more damage with Beast Claw, and healing with Heal. Mind will increase your FP pool so that you can cast more spells. Dexterity can only be used to increase casting speed and melee damage and should be considered last.
STR & INT Knight (Astrologer Build)
This build employs a combination of Spells and melee combat to defeat foes from any distance. The build is focused on two good ranged Spells as well as a few good Weapon Skills. This Build is for you if you enjoy magic but also like melee combat.
- Class: Astrologer
- Flask Spread: 3 FP / 11 HP
- Weapon: Any one-handed weapon
- Shield: Carian Glintstone Shield
- Armor: Crucible Set
- Primary Stats: Strength and Intelligence
- Secondary Stats: Mind and Dexterity
- Skills: Carian Glintsword, Glintsword Arch
- Spells: Glintstone Stars, Glintstone Ark, Carian Piercer
This build allows you to approach more dangerous enemies with Glintstone Stars or thin them using Glintstone Stars before moving in close for melee fighting. You can also use Carian Piercer and Carian Glintsword to deal amazing damage instead of melee attacks.
Glintstone Arc can be used on large numbers of enemies to save you from having to do it one at a time. Glintstone Arc can also be utilized if you want to PvP or are dealing with very difficult enemies.
Barbarian (Vagabond Build)
Barbarian build combines two Greatswords with Powerstance to deal extremely devastating damage to enemies. They hit them with both Greatswords and Powerstance during every attack. This melee build is extremely offensive and focuses less on defence.
- Class: Vagabond
- Flasks: 0 FP / 14 HP
- Weapon: 2 Bastard Sword
- Shield: None
- Armor: Crucible Set
- Primary Stats: Strength and Vigor
- Secondary Stats: None
- Skills: Anything goes well
- Spells: None
This build requires dual-wielding two Bastard Swords. You will use your L1 for extremely high damage to enemies. The Crucible Set will provide the best protection. Thanks to having very high Strength and Vigor, you should also be able to survive multiple hits and mid-roll even if you miss your dodges.
Skills you choose for this build does not really matter, however Thunderbolt can give you some range, but it will reduce the Strength Scaling for one Bastard Sword.
Archer (Samurai Build)
Although archer builds are more difficult to master, they are still very useful for those who are experienced. To play an archer build, you'll need the Shortbow from the Church of Elleh Merchant.
- Class: Samurai
- Flasks: 4 FP / 10 HP
- Weapon: Any melee weapon & Shortbow
- Shield: Not necessary
- Armor: Swordsman Set
- Primary Stats: Mind and Dexterity
- Secondary Stats: Strength and Vigor
- Skills: Firing Position
- Spells: None
This build is based on the use of your Bow to attack enemies from range - and hoping that melee combat won't be necessary. To ensure that every arrow does the maximum damage, you will use your skill Firing Position as often as possible. Regular R1 attacks are only used when you don't have much time.
To maximize your damage, you will need to increase Dexterity or you'll quickly fall behind. You'll also need to purchase a lot of arrows at the Church of Elleh merchant or learn how to make them using Cookbooks found around the map. This will allow you to craft various types of arrows, and increase your damage.
Mind will increase your overall FP, which will allow you to use Firing Position more often. Strength will slightly increase damage, while also giving you the ability to wear better armor if needed. If you die often, cranking Vigor could be a nice option to increase your HP.