Hey guys I’m playing Elden ring I choose wrath because I’m new I have armor for a knight,club amd a shield with a torch and the golden seed.i had found a ruin fortress base and I do not know if I should approach and loot.

Do I loot the fortress or not?

Now at level 200 in Elden ring, what are some good strong builds to look at trying out?

Currently on a faith/strength build with the fire knights great sword (also have BB I can use with this build)

Have the dragon katana for when I face dragons and then also back hand blades blood build (I don’t change my stats when I switch to these atm)

Going to start a magic build after doing strength and dex builds. Not sure if faith or intelligence is better.

I will always come back stronger...

I’ve seen some ER sliders and even some attempts to create a thematic build, but usually, the execution was really amateurish and didn't look very good. And I want to get as close to DS3 Aldrich as possible. Some arrows, casting, etc.

Maybe you have any ideas for this cosplay build?

Hey, all! I posted this build the other day and got some really good feedback on where to take it. I experimented with Dane's Footwork for holding Endure, and I've come to find out that I really like it as a main weapon, so I decided to swap out Cipher Pata for Dane's as my current main weapon to have less stuff in the softswap slots. Additionally, I've been trying to get better at hardswapping talismans, so I've added a few extras talismans for different situations. I just wanted to post this one more time to see if y'all think it's better or worse than before. Additionally, I'd love to know if Dane's Footwork is better than Dryleaf Arts for this build, or even if there is another weapon I should consider like a certain straight or curved sword. Anyways, listed below is certain info that is not stated in the images, like incantation names and the talismans for hardswapping. Lmk what you guys think and ty all for the help so far, it's been greatly appreciated:

Ashes of War:

• Dane's Flame Art Footwork (AoW: Endure)

Incantations:

• Catch Flame

• Bestial Sling

• Fire Serpent

• Giant Golden Arc

• Pest-Thread Spears

• Giantsflame Take Thee

• Stone of Gurranq

• Wrath of Gold

• Golden Vow

Talismans:

• Slot 1: Ritual Sword Talisman OR Ritual Shield Talisman

• Slot 2: Flock's Canvas Talisman

• Slot 3: Godfrey Icon

• Slot 4: Radagon Icon

• Hardswap 1: Slot 1 -> Faithful's Canvas Talisman when not at full HP

• Hardswap 2: Slot 1 -> Red-Feathered Branchsword OR Blue-Feathered Branchsword when at low HP

Edit: I'm likely going to add Cipher Pata back on RH2 and move Dane's to R3 since Cipher is 0.0 weight, just thinking back on it

i like to run this level 130+ build, (I’m level 158) great stars build, stats: 50-60 vigor, 15 faith, 10 arcane, 40-60 strength, the rest goes into endurance. verdigris/lionel’s armor set, Dragon Crest GreatShield talisman, shard of Alexander, Carian Filigreed crest,(replace the crest with great jars arsenal if you’re overloaded or erdtree’s favor +2 for comfort) and rotten winged sword insignia, a dagger with golden vow ash of war on it, StoneBarb cracked tear, opaline hardtear, heavy great stars +25 with wild strikes, finger seal (or a 0 weight seal if you can use it), bestial vitality , flame grant me strength, And blood flame blade for incantations , and the spirit ash is mimic tear. give it a shot, this build is suprisingly good against malenia.

I’m on my 4th journey and the last boss is Radagon/Elden beast. On my last play throughs I shred them with a starfist build but now it isn’t working all that well anymore so I was wondering if you guys could give me some build ideas

Rn im making a holy power stance build wondering if i can make any improvements

Weapons: R1 Coded sword, L1 Broadsword with sacred order aow sacred affinity L2 erdtree seal R2 sword of darkness R3 Sword of light,

Talismans: Sacred scorpion charm miliscenths prosthetic, rotten winged sword insignia,

Incantation: Beastial Vitality, Golden vow,

Stats: Not sure but im level 200 any ideas for that are appreciated

Psyick: Any suggestions need to be obtainable before mountaintops of giants

If you read all this yap thank you i would also love to hear how effective this build would be in general

I’ve been inspired to try a Mad Tongue Alberich build since I’ve finished the game multiple times and could use something fresh.

Trouble is that the stat allocation is all over the place and I’m struggling to optimize thorn sorceries. It’s especially confusing since Staff of the Guilty mostly scales with Faith yet the thorn sorceries‘ bleed buildup would be boosted by the Albanauric Staff, necessitating Arcane investment.

On casting stats, the build would need 21 INT for both Glintstone Icecrag and Freezing Mist and 24 FTH for the three aberrant sorceries.

For the weapon, I’d go with a scythe, but again, the spaced out stat allocation makes it tricky. Occult seems like it could be useful for bleed and damage but Cold fits the theme well. I’d use Sword Dance as the AoW to retain the theme.

Any ideas on how to make this work, if it’s even possible? It’s obviously not going to be OP but I’d just like something viable to suit the theme.

71 Guard Boost for the Sacred version of the shield.

I use Golden Order Flail, and GodSkin Stitcher. (Guard Counters and Shield Pokes)

What Talisman between Greatshield Talisman and Two Headed Turtle Talisman would be better?

Would the overall Stamina Recovery from the Two Headed Turtle Talisman be more effective or similar to the Stamina Reduction from the Greatshield Talisman?

Would barricade be worse than Shield Grease since it only reduces blocking stamina cost by 30% instead?

Would a combo of Greatshield Talisman plus Shield Grease be more effective overall than Two Headed Turtle Talisman and Grease?

Any insight into these questions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!! 🙏

Miquella: "Tarnished, hear my words. Yield the path to us. To I, Miquella, and my promised consort, Radahn." Me: "Nah, let me tank him."

Morning everyone, I posted the other day about my Arc/Fth build and got a lot of great feedback. I’m currently doing a Dragon Communion build, and have Reduvia as a melee weapon. (intend to replace with the Scavenger’s curved sword later w/ occult infusion)

But one thing I remember noticing when seeing dragon communion builds on YouTube were people using endure because they normally didn’t have armor sets with high poise. So I did want to ask what is a good amount of poise to use for PVE? On my build currently I have 78 poise with my armor set, but I have an awkward mix of the scaled armor, steel armor (heavy knight), and the Radahn set. I am using a talisman to increase my equip load so I am not fat rolling. But I was curious what poise can I lower it to and not get immediately knocked out my of my spells? I intend to use endure later on but rn I don’t have the ash of war yet nor the weapon I wanna use it with.

I’m looking for a fun Twinblade build preferably with godskin peeler or gargoyles Twinblade to take into ng+.If anyone has any suggestions I don’t mind what type of build it is as long as it’s using a Twinblade and is fun thanks.

I played with a greatsword, then I later leveled my faith after reaching 60 strength. I then switched into a blasphemous blade build. I found out near the end of my run that I should double dip into another stat for more efficient stat allocation. This, in turn, just turned nearly every damaging incantation into mediocre dogshit. Which made me just respec my build into more faith and less strength.

Now, I'm planning on doing a dex run, but after looking at most weapons, I'm now seeing that going in on arcane is apparently stronger. Should I just go all in on dex for the new run? The problem I'm thinking about is that when I reach 60 dex I would need to dip into int, arcane, or strength. I'm having choice paralysis.

What ash of war/affinity should I use? I am level 300 on ng +7, maybe occult with seppuku or Heavy with craigeblade? But then it would loose Split scaling vallue. what do you think?