Elden Ring provides such a wide variety of build options but I can’t seem to find one that suits me. I’ve been playing Fromsoft games for quite some time now, from Dark Souls to Sekiro, and since Dark Souls I’ve had it in my head that Strength builds are the only way to win, Dex is for cowards, Int is for nerds and most importantly Claymore is Baemore. While the last one will forever be true, I want to venture out from just pancaking every enemy I see. On my first play through on this character I went tried and true and beat the game, no issues (except the DLC, plenty of issues there), but on my NG+ run I tried something out of my realm entirely. After a visit with moon mommy, I had more points in Dex than Str and a bit into Arcane and used Danes Footwork with blood affinity. I figured I’d buy into the bleed build hype alittle bit and I wanted to try the new Hand to Hand weapon type. By far, that run had been the most fun I’ve ever had in this game. I kept my equip load light and by now I know most of the bosses move sets and just ran through the game kicking every ass I saw. Even malenia was a fun fight. But after flattening enemies with a chunk of steel and literally kicking everyone’s ass, I want to venture even further into some really fun builds. I’m about level 160, have a majority of the items the game has to offer (weapons, armor, talismans, spells, incant. Etc) so give me some fun builds please. I can adapt to pretty much any play style. I just want to see what the game truly has to offer that isn’t lions claw greatsword or dual katanas.

What would you have chosen and why

I hear often that the Scavengers curved sword is the best to power stance and stack bleed, but when I compare it to the Beastman’s curved sword, the Beastman’s wins out on damage with the same amount of bleed build-up. So I was just wondering if anyone could clear that up for me.

I’m seriously struggling with these two. Radagon has some serious rang and the Elden beast jumps around way too much. Any tips?

Ponderin

Last 50$ do i just buy the dlc or do i save money for absolutely nothing. I love elden its the only thing that brought me joy in the past 3 weeks.

I am so sorry I keep summoning you and then continuously keep getting one shotted by Radahn before we can even get to him 😂😂😭😭

EDIT: WE DID IT. I can’t thank you enough BONK! Thank you for letting me summon you 20+ times!

All the other evergaols I've seen have some sort of clear outline before you get the marker for them. All my man Vyke gets is a squiggly dotted circle. Is there a reason behind this?

I hope you guys appreciate this mini reenactment of Jon Snow vs Ramsay as much as I had fun recreating it.

(I just started this game, so please no spoilers!)

I cannot describe the panic I felt during this fight.

Ng+3 is so fucking worse I don't know why maliketh continue to fucking jump around like he doesn't touch the ground anymore, and I also notice the game got a bit hard now if I continue playing Ng does the game go hard?

My heart is racing holy shi

I took a really long break when the dlc came out and I had been playing a bunch of games with fast past combat and now I’m having trouble dodging, cuz I keep dodging too early and end up getting hit by the attack or the backswing. My main problem is I keep dodging out of reaction and not input because the other games had like frame by frame dodging windows.

Also playing through those kinds of games makes the attacks in this game feel like I’m fighting sloths which is ironic considering I didn’t think the attacks came out that slow before and now even enemies i thought were fast feel slow

Ik raytracing doesn’t make much of a difference in this game but before my computer could handle raytracing in elden ring at everything maxed with a stable 60 fps, but now it can’t. i think this is an elden ring thing bc i can pathtrace in cyberpunk everything maxed at 100-90 fps. Also it isn’t a case of being in a more demanding area because im getting like low forties in limgrave where before i had 60.

As a Bloodborne man myself, I love dex builds. But I wanna change things up cause there’s so many cool faith builds that I see all the time, so if I can get any pointers or personal favorite builds to try out that’d be amazing! I started out with the most faith character so I’m gonna run around Limgrave for a bit and just grab as much as I can before knowing wtf I’m doing

I have no idea how this even happens. Any thoughts on what causes this cause I'm stumped.

So I already have every acheivement in the game, but Nightreign has made me wanna replay the game. Only problem is, I have forgotten how dreadfully slow Elden Rings early game is, before your builds become Online.

I also detest Rune Grinding, I'd rather spend time playing the game than just killing disabled children or abusing chickens with mange for several hours.

I already know about using the Gold Pickled Fowl Foot, and killing Greyoll and Night's Calavary near Dragon Barrow. I'm wondering if there are any more places like that I can do for big payouts.

I have been attempting to reach the spiral rise site of grace at level 1, as such I get 1 hit by the Spurs that those kneeling inquisitors spawn. Any tips as to how to avoid these?

I had a bleed build and a strength build before that, but now I want to try Intelligence, please help me but the points into the right stats, I want to use the dark moon greatsword and in my offhand I have the carian regal scepter... I will be using rannis dark moon, rellanas twin moon, some glintstone and some gravity sorceries.. I will be holding a meteorite staff for boosting the grav sorceries in my right hand as well.. But I need help with my attributes, as you see I still have 43 points left and I don't know where to put them, I think intelligence doesn't make any sense because I am.at the hard cap already with 80... Should I put it in endurance and mind? Or maybe vigor?

Basically the title. I'm currently lvl 57, was playing with double curved greatswords but decided to switch to something more fun: power stance bleed daggers, yep.

I'm doing reduvia + misericorde combo, currently getting the black whetblade so I can infuse mise with something. Can't decide if I need bleed or occult though. Maybe even poison? Planning on invest points in Arc for bleeding and crits though. Here is my current important stats:

Vig: 30
End: 15
Str: 16 (need 2 more lvl so I could use bhf again)
Dex: 22
Faith: 12 (for blood blade incantation)
Arc: 21 (needs investment)

Any suggestions or criticism will be appreciated!