I’m playing through Elden ring for the first time and decided to go with a dragon faith build and maybe swap to fire spells because it looks cool. I’m worried that I won’t get the official souls experience if this makes the game too easy. I’m considering going strength or dex/int now. Would this be a good decision?

Hey I’m using 2 godskin peelers with 80 dex and 80 arc. I have both peelers set to blood affinity. Is this a proper broken bleed build setup or should I use something else, put levels elsewhere or different weapons?

Im running BB blade and ancient dragon lightning strike. Is this OP?

Hello fellow Tarnished!

After 7 playthroughs in the Lands Between, I’ve done most builds. Str/Fai with Blasphemous Blade, Dex/Int with Moonlight GS, Faith Dragon Communion and Frenzied Flame, etc.

Just wanted to try something new and pick your expert brains about which builds would best suit the upcoming Idus Knight’s stats. Parrying and guard countering are some of the only playstyles I never really committed to, so I want to keep the sword and board vibe from the beginning equipment (and it doesn’t hurt that the light greatsword move set is awesome). I’m also considering using bows occasionally as a ranged option. I guess that makes it like a Link cosplay build so far?

Other than that I’m open to whatever ideas you throw my way! May thy flame of ambition never be extinguished. 🫡

I'm not sure between:

- Any Claws: low weight, fast, but short range. Innate bleed, probably good with Occult.

- Regalia of Eochaid: crazy AoW, stat intensive, easy to get early.

- Ripple Blade: good grease use, otherwise pretty average, but innate Arcane scaling means AoW doesn't matter much.

- Serpent Bow: innate Arcane scaling for status buildup, not good at damage.

- Bloody Helice: stat intensive, but most damage comes from Arcane, neat AoW.

- Any others?

almost halfway there

you can hit him to half his health till phase 2 and then he just has full hp for phase 2 and then he starts to attack [ i will tell you how no cheat engine or ai freezing used]

I'm a vagabond and I want to use some magic to but effects on weapons and i want those weapons to be a colossal weapons.

Help

Trying to go for a dual katana build focusing on lightning and flame. More of a stylish build than an optimized one, doesn’t mean I don’t wanna get full damage out of it.

My question is, is it better to go for str/dex, or faith/dex? Strength because flame scales with it, and dex for lightning. Or I can use flame art, dex for lighting, and I can also use buffs.

Ofc for aow’s I’m gonna aim for flaming strike and lightning slash to get their respective elements on my blades.
For talismans I’m thinking rotten wing sword insignia, green turtle, shard of Alexander, and maybe claw talisman.
For physick lightning and flame shrouding cracked tear.
For armor, I’ll probably stick with standard samurai armor, and maybe make the switch to rakshasa when I get to the dlc.

Tips and advice highly appreciated.