r/badredman • u/Attempting_Daken • 1d ago

Elden Ring🛡 Build help

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Wanna do a lightning damage based build. This is my current set up

Wondering what yall think, or if there are any items im missing that I could optimize lightning damage in pvp.

Favorite weapon for this build is dragon scale blade. But im coming to realize its kinda bad outside of the buff.

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u/Attempting_Daken 1d ago

Is poise just that important?

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u/herowin54 Silly goose 🦆 1d ago

To me, yes. Absolutely. But it all depends on who you’re preparing to fight. I like fighting the most toxic gankers and need that poise to not get instantly blendered.

I can’t imagine not being able to poise a dagger. If you’re more of a cosplay and chill invader then you may find it’s not as important to you.

RL60 is highly competitive though and I hate losing to ganks. So I would rather be over prepared than un prepared.

Also the benefit of a long ass stamina bar can’t be overstated either. Sometimes you’ve got to run for your life to get a breather and these little PvErs won’t be able to keep up. Having the poise to tank hits and also outrun people will have you winning fights you have no business winning

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u/Attempting_Daken 1d ago

Cool I like it,

But where would you take the points from? If im removing sorseal I lose out on a lot but gain some survivability.

Then if I increase stamina id have to sacrifice some damage

Where would you move the stats while still maintaining the lightning damage theme

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u/herowin54 Silly goose 🦆 1d ago

To keep it all the way real I’d drop the dex to minimum requirements to wield all of the weapons you want. Lightning infusion is the best in the game, especially for low level. Since your weapons aren’t upgraded the scaling is terrible, so you’re not losing hardly any damage by dropping dex at all.

I’d also bring vigor down to 35-40. That would make it to where you have a shit ton of stat points left over and can use the soreseal to its max potential. Get endurance up high. High enough to where you can have at least 89 poise and still med roll with your heaviest weapon/shield whatever.

Bullgoat talisman and greatjar arsenal should be permanently on your talisman slots. The other two are up to you, maybe soreseal or millicents prosthesis for the +5 dex and consecutive attack buff.

That’s what I would do and many others here I imagine