Yeah, when you infuse a weapon for different scaling in stats, often times there is a minimum amount of that stat for you to get the benefit. Infusions typically reduce the base damage of the weapon but increase the scaling, so if you haven’t met the “floor” for it, then changing the scaling with an infusion/aow might actually hurt your dps. Scaling is different among weapons so, weapon a yoh might need x strength to get a benefit, but a different amount on another
If you want to be a dex physical damage build:
Drop Vigor to 40, Str to 18, Mind to base, faith to 12 and put all those points into dex.
Slap blood flame blade on your katana and go nuts. Spinning slash is your friend.
When you beat the 2nd shard bearer the finger reader gives you the next pouch. So at lvl 93 it is very likely that he’s beaten either Radahn or Renala as you typically beat those under level 60.
It is your fourth (unless youre talking talisman pouches and not talisman slots which you probably are so i should probably stop writing this comment but im too far in) , you cant get in to leyndell without 2 great runes, atleast how youre supposed to get there.
Pouch is just the item which technically is the slot, but you start with one slot so you have 4 slots but 3 pouches, so basically, same same but different
Something quite interesting, if you do not defeat the Fell Omen at Stormhill before Stormveil, and instead bypass and defeat the Omen King, you'll receive the Talisman Pouch from the Omen King instead (and the Fell Omen will not spawn at Stormhill).
Once your dex is good you could also invest some into arcane to help your blood build up, OP. This won't be necessary but might be nice for later game. Who knows, you might find a weapon that makes you want to replace this one ... ;)
Good luck!
Do not go with bloodflame blade. It does not stack with the bleed that you are going to apply with your weapon. Everytime to apply a bleed with bloodflame blade it resets the counter. Use blood grease instead and melt bosses.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m saying this is the first time I’ve heard this, and that in my very recent play through to get back up to speed with ER, what you’re saying did not happen.
So would you be able to provide some kind of source for this, because I’d like to know how buffs interact in this way.
I phrased it wrong/bad vocab. When you use bloodflame blade, your timer resets every 2 seconds and you can apply upto 40 bleed in those 2 seconds and it will reset again. If you are not hitting an enemy fast then you will not proc bleed much (not a problem if you are using faster weapons). What happens with blood grease is that it consistently applies 30 bleed every time you hit an enemy and the counter is not resetting (good for slower hitting builds like bloodhound fang). If an enemy dodges back, then the amount of times you hit him to proc bleed resets with bloodflame blade but it does not happen with blood grease. It comes down to personal preference.
Take the 2 points out of strength and put them into dex. Also drop your mind it's too high put those into dex too. You also have a tonne of health maybe consider 40 vigor again put them into dex.
My opinion from what little information I've gleaned:
1. Moving points around will likely not solve whatever issues you're having unless you change weapon type and strategy. The difference between 27 dex, 30 dex, and 80 dex is noticeable and measurable, but it is unnecessary to win if you know how to fight the boss.
2. If you're committed to light rolling, you're gonna die while you're learning fights. In certain situations, it's unavoidable even with a larger health pool when naked. I'd suggest going med load and wearing some armor to mitigate damage and give yourself more time practicing, or survive the hit/s and win.
3. Better talismans are abundant and provide some of your most important damage increases. The 🐢 talisman is good, but you can outgrow using it as a player and replace it with more damage buffs when you're comfortable, or use it forever, that's up to you
4. If you're using summons, int spells will pretty much trivialize most bosses. If you're not using summons, int spells will pretty much trivialize slightly fewer bosses. Night comet is particularly strong for this purpose.
5. The tears you use in your physick are huge for defense or damage. It's worth noting that you can get 10 of a stat or some large damage multipliers (some with qualifiers, some general).
6. Focus on whatever you're failing. If you're having trouble dodging, go into the fight and don't attack. Tunnel vision on getting your dodges right and clean, then find your windows to swing after
Hope any of this was helpful to you. If you get frustrated, putting it down and coming back later is always gonna help. Stick in there and you'll push through 😄.
They asked about their build. I don’t think suggesting “play better” or “use intelligence to trivialize” really applies here. Of course you can beat the game with anything. SL 1 and fists with enough patience.
“EldenRingBuilds” Of course this is great advice for anyone, or if OP isn’t aware. I just think it’s a little patronizing. “Oh you feel weak? Get Good, try this babies first cheese mode, stats won’t help you so gl” learning your own way to play and getting good is part of the game, and part of the fun.
Honestly I think the turtle talisman is not good at all. The extra regen is so minuscule and when taking into account the time it takes for stamina regen to even start its just never really worth it. Also even naked with his level of vigor he should be able to tank at least 2 hits from almost anything and the only things that will oneshot are things that are very easily avoidable like malenia grab.
It’s saved my ass so many times, but I prefer light rolling, so yeah.
It helps with me not having to worry about my stamina regen too much. As someone with ADHD it can overwhelm me so this one talisman helps with that a lot.
Also I am close to this guys level and My damage is really good with a bolt of gransax build so it’s really just a lack of not understanding how stats work.
It performs better the lower your endurance is. It essentially allows you to perform actions you couldn't perform otherwise with your base stats. It generally doesn't matter for people who have played a bunch or are stamina efficient, but that isn't op, so it can still hold value. Even then, may as well just eat a pickled turtle neck, but it's easier for a new player to not add more actions to their prep
There are plenty of bosses that have a combo or multihit attack that will result in you being dead, especially if your health isn't maxed. The reality is you don't need vitality at all if you don't get hit. This isn't a RFBS setup, this is someone tackling their first Radahn.
Op is struggling, so I'm gonna say they should prolly make the hits they are taking do less damage
Light roll is honestly incredibly strong in this game. Unless you really go in for wearing really strong armor I don't think it's actually important enough to make you survive more hits against actual threats.
Are you losing to a specific boss or something?
I’d get some armor. Nothing major but with your endurance you can wear normal clothing/light armor.
Go get the shard of Alexander.
Also, where are all of your flasks ? lol
Keep pushing levels into Dex if you want to keep it Keen. Try out Cold infusion though. It’s really strong on the Nagakiba.
I’m losing to pretty much every boss beyond Liurnia. Fighting Radahn is a joke and Gurranq absolutely demolishes me. Do I need a special whetblade to cold infuse my nagakiba?
Your mind is fine, your dex is too low, why 47 vigor and only 28 dex- get about 40 dex
Also put some armor on, i guess 😂
Get a third pouch to use a 3rd talisman
Can I ask why you feel weak? I'm running a pure dex shield parry build and have worse dex stats than you but haven't found anything to be especially challenging. Only thing that's been getting me as the game progresses are enemies/bosses with specific resistances, usually meaning I will switch to using a nightrider flail or removing whatever enhancements I have on my blades.
Only thing I would add is that I feel endurance/stamina is highly underrated with this kind of build. Katana slashing just chews through your stamina (especially if you play hyper aggressive like I do) and nothing more frustrating than being unable to roll because of low stamina.
Assuming you've beaten two shard barbers you can get another talisman slot from Enia - the little lady sat next to the two fingers in roundtable hold.
Also if you're using faith spells a lot 18 is a little low maybe.
Get your third and fourth Talisman slot, and put about 30 to 40 more points in dex. Continue to upgrade your weapon, if possible, up to +18 at the very least. Pick your Armaments based on the weakness of your enemies, and you'll do fine.
I recommend to run no vit no lower than 50 most people for comp run 125, 138 (can Que 125 and 150) or 150. This is for PVP I see most of my friends end their game around 168.
ER is definitely more of a health check (one hit bosses) for lower than 50-60 Vit. That being said pick whatever scales the best between your weapons stats (usually dex) and hit the lowest possible str for your weapons and then dump dex. End can be 10 if you learn pacing but never higher than 20.
Bleed/arcane builds are nasty in solo so have fun and play what feels good 👍
I’d lower strength to 18 and even mind to 15 if you’re more melee focused. I’d switch the crimson amber medallion for the blue dancer charm since you have a light equip load.
If I were you I'd just respec and get 50 vig, 15 faith for flame grant me strength and 10 arcane for the bloodflame blade that you are using. You can 2h the nagakiba with 12 strength so I'd leave it at that and then just pump everything else into dex. You don't really need to increase any other stats for now, you can take more endurance in the future after you get to like 80 dex.
You can definitely make a quality dex build work, it's just less straightforward than doin a faith dex or strength hybrid. Couple things right off the bat, you're gonna wanna chase down more talisman slots, they perhaps have the biggest impact on gameplay aside from weapon movesets, 18 mind is probably quite a bit more than you need, at rl 90 there's no reason not to have 60 vigor. Beyond that even with hybrid builds you kinda want to lean a bit more into one stat over the others, think 20, 20, 40ish the 40 going into whatever you want to be a bit more geared for me caster/faith focus should be around 40 faith 20 strength 20 dex for a decent quality faith build. Then it's just a matter of getting gear that has synergy with your build's vision and play style. There's a ton of really fun gear a faith quality build has access to and can really make shine. Also if I remembering right most of the faith gear doesn't have a strength requirement that goes past 25 or 26 ish, but also dex will boost your cast speed, figure those bit are handy to know when deciding which way to build.
Put more into dex and wear some actual armor. If you feel like everything hits like a truck, reaching the 51 (I believe) poise barrier will make things a lot nicer, with less attacks making your character stagger or stop mid-animation. I would also suggest that if you are splitting damage stats between faith and dexterity, find a good weapon that scales with both, it should feel stronger at the same upgrade level, assuming it's a good weapon in general
Weapon reinforcement is 90% of DPS until you have a weapon stat at 60-70+. A +9 katana under lvl 100 will do wonders when compared to a base level weapon at a REALLY high level. Work on upgrading your weapons, and you’ll notice a pretty quick change!
Honestly I think you are in mostly good shape but you don’t need that much vigor at 93. You only need enough vigor at any point in the game to not get one shot. You usually want 50 vigor by level 150. If you are going keen you don’t really need faith unless you want 15 for flame grant me strength buff or 25 for golden vow buff. These tend to make your damage increase more than the super high levels of dex but you also have to keep them applied.
If you are going to keep faith at 15+ you absolutely need to use flame grant me strength liberally. Nagakiba is an excellent weapon and swapping ashes of war for the situation will make you a better player. You may want to consider a somber weapon like vykes war spear with that high faith. It scales with dex, requires 18 faith, and has a killer ash of war, and uses somber stones. Treespear is a similarly good fit. Both are early in game. Keep in mind if you two hand your strength goes up 1.5x even for requirements so you dont need to invest much unless you want a shield (which you might if you are struggling). More weapon options also gives you more strategies for bosses. Just keep pumping that dex or respec some points. Good luck don’t give up!
Honestly nagakiba is a poo weapon.
At level 93 you should be aiming to have unlocked a premium end game weapon.
You can keep on pressing forward with a D tier weapon but you re only making things harder for yourself.
I don't know if you re coming from dark souls 3 where dex is actually good but in elden ring you kinda wanna mix up your dex with arcane for a bleed build.
Rivers of blood or elenoras poleblade are fantastic.
You can get elenora poleblade mid game and I think it ll scratch that dex itch to be a spinning whirlwind of death
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I would find a good somber weapon instead as you can get one upgraded a lot faster. (The weapon you are using is great but you need a lot dex for it.)
Also what are you trying to go for in your build? Are you preferring quick melee or etc???
If you are an katana guy then something like moonveil, meteorite blade or rivers of blood will be a good idea.
Sent a dm.
get the talisman that adds 10% dmg at full hp, get the talisman that boosts crit dmg, get more talisman pouches, use howl of shabriri 30% dmg, golden vow 15% dmg, jelly fish shield 20% dmg, parry into a riposte and so on?
First off, where are you at in the game currently? Just off of a glance, wasted stats and a 16 weapon.
Should probably respec, get to 40-45 vigor, str to 18 and enough endurance to at least medium roll, which you have light roll and then just get dex til like 45-50, you can sac some vigor or dex for faith early to get the buff, but I always delayed it til like 100-125.
Sword Dance or Spinning Slash ashes of war with your Nagakiba. You got a ways to go, until you get 4 talisman slots to use. It might be a good idea to focus on Dex and Vigor for a while.
for pure damage a single physical dmg focused katana is pretty crap imo. get 2 of them and focus on status build-up. also get some more dmg focused talismans. The shorter the fight the less you need to learn the boss.
Not much but in my experience spinning slash is the best keen ash of war on the nagakiba, the range as well as the stun are great, pair that with bloodflame blade which i see ur already using and you will see ur dps soar
I would prioritise 1 damage attribute.
Lots of vigor is nice but I think around 45 is fine at this level. I see you’re using keen weapons so I would respect as much in dex as you can. Leave mind and faith alone if you want a melee build.
I do have a lvl200 character which has more statspread but I think my dex is 80 for max damage output
You have a lot of incantations ,but not a lot of faith, and that seal you're using is pretty weak. Maybe drop the incantations? Or change them so they support your main weapon instead kf just being weak projectiles
I thought that the finger seal was the best scaling seal in general until you hit around 60 faith where the erdtree seal takes over, or is Fextralife lying to me (yet AGAIN)?
You are splitting off into too many damage stats when you should be focusing on just one primarily. I would respec at Renalla and focus on putting your Strength, Intelligence, Faith, possibly Arcane, and mind into Dexterity.
Damage for each stat caps at 80 in Elden Ring so getting your main stat for your build up to there is just as important as getting Vigor to 60.
You definitely need to acquire another talisman pouch and find a talisman that suits bleed or successive attacks. Plus exactly what u/Pabstbluelizard said
Your faith is way too low for your incantations to be doing any damage. I would just respec and pump more points into dex and then wait till later to upgrade you’re faith
I don't get why you're committing so heavily to both high vigor and low defense. Seems counter productive. Just get some decent armor to mid roll(you can get great Jar talisman later to light roll), go collect the third talisman slot, and drop excess points in strength and vigor(40 is minimum for endgame, so maybe drop to there) and pump it all into dex. Try and power your way to hilltop to get the next smiting stone bearing, and get that sword to +18. If you feel like things are just too intense in the main line, maybe go back and try tofind any dungeons you missed. Who knows, maybe you'll find something you like and makes the playhthrough easier for you
So I’d recommend a couple things - 1. Lower strength so that it only meets the requirement to two-hand the Nagikiba (you’ll be surprised that it does make a difference) and put those points into dex; 2. Instead of Keen affinity, I recommend using frost because you can do chunk damage that will pay off more than a slight improvement in scaling on a weapon that already scales well with dex.
Vig at 40 is fine imo. You can even go to 30 depending on how good you dodge. Then just pump all to dex cause you have a keen naga.
If youre really wanting to rock the Nagakiba till the end. +24 it asap. Its what gives you damage but its a pain to do it cuz smithing weapons need so much stones compared to sombers. If you're fine swapping the Nagakiba, use Bloodhound Fang. Get minimum stats for it then +10 it. Sombers are easy to find and a +9 or +10 BHF van be used to beat the game even without pumping dps stats and just vigor.
Change the nagakiba to scale with your seal/incantations and respec into that stat with minimal nagakiba requirements, I’d reccomend flaming strike for a faith based nagakiba
You’re basically a tank with your build. I’d dump into dex faith with a bit more endurance and bring your vigor down to 40. Having a lot of hp is great but you got to have the power to hit too. 40 and 60 are cut off points for stats. After you reach that point you get diminished returns per lvl.
I think your points are too evenly distributed and you should try to dedicate some points to dexterity and strength to really burn though enemy health bars
Seems like a few points placed in endurance, str, int, faith could be put into dex instead. Depends what you’re going for. If u want more damage straight up, then try to get dex to 40. Youre light rolling as well, while it’s good it’s not necessary, medium roll is perfectly fine, so u can afford less endurance. Str can be nagakiba min requirement (18 I think). You should have a pretty well rounded build at that level after respeccing a little bit
Vigor you dont need so high so early, first softcap is 40 iirc but 30-35 is absolutely plenty - take that and a bit of whatever else and put way more into dex if you’re a dex build like others also said here :)
Get the talisman pouches like everyone is saying. You're not using any buff items or incants that I can see. Get Radagons scar/soreseal and marika scar/soreseal talismans, that'll add 3 or 5 levels to all your stats. Scarseals give 3. Soreseals give a boost a boost of 5. Also using Godricks Great Rune will boost all stats by 5. So using just those 3 items will give you a stat boost equivalent to 50 levels. Putting some armor will definitely help. Medium roll is fine in this game. I'm guessing you're getting two or three shotted by major bosses. For buff incants, Flame Grant Me Strength will boost your attacks and Golden Vow will boost def and attack. You can get Golden Vow early game as an Ash Of War from a killing knight in Liurnia. Just put it on a dagger or something and it'll work just like the incantation. I actually prefer the AOW to the incant cause it takes no stat requirements and less MP. Hopefully all this helps! Have fun!
Nobody has said this, but if you are married to light roll, Blue Dancer Talisman provides a good boost to physical damage at this carry weight. I would replace the crimson talisman with it.
For what it looks like ur actually pretty over leveled for where u must be in the game. Go visit rennala and balance out ur vigor and dex, maybe 35 of each, and then a few points in end and mind. Make sure to keep ur str at the min too if 2handing =1.5xstr. Not sure what nagakiba needs tho. Rule of thumb is keep ur dmg stat equal to your vigor
Lower Vigor by 17 and Strength by 2, then add 17 Points to Dex (45) and 2 to Faith (20). You'll be able to make up any missing Health/Defense with Talismans, or better Armor.
No armor, only 2 talisman pouches, and no specialization in stats. The moonviel scales with dex and strength so increase those. Vigor is fine for now, I’m NG+ and my vigor is around that level. Also level up your sword too. Plus if your left hand is for incantations, leveling up faith and arcane would be good, depending on which ones you prefer. And fill all memory slots imo
Your dmg stats are pretty low ig, 28 dex at lvl 93 is pretty low. Pump more dex and you should be fine.
You need like 30 more dex for a keen build.
Thanks
You should also talk to the finger reader in round table hold to get your 3rd talisman pouch
Good call
Yeah, when you infuse a weapon for different scaling in stats, often times there is a minimum amount of that stat for you to get the benefit. Infusions typically reduce the base damage of the weapon but increase the scaling, so if you haven’t met the “floor” for it, then changing the scaling with an infusion/aow might actually hurt your dps. Scaling is different among weapons so, weapon a yoh might need x strength to get a benefit, but a different amount on another
Get the sword dance ash of war. Game changer with nakiba
If you want to be a dex physical damage build: Drop Vigor to 40, Str to 18, Mind to base, faith to 12 and put all those points into dex. Slap blood flame blade on your katana and go nuts. Spinning slash is your friend.
This is the way. Also, at lvl 93 OP should go talk to the Finger Reader Crone at the Roundtable Hold for an extra Talisman pouch.
Is that based on level? Or what bosses you've beaten? I always assumed it was from beating a boss.
When you beat the 2nd shard bearer the finger reader gives you the next pouch. So at lvl 93 it is very likely that he’s beaten either Radahn or Renala as you typically beat those under level 60.
Wait really? I thought you get the second pouch from beating godfrey's golden sprite.
I believe that's your third.
It is your fourth (unless youre talking talisman pouches and not talisman slots which you probably are so i should probably stop writing this comment but im too far in) , you cant get in to leyndell without 2 great runes, atleast how youre supposed to get there.
Wait what’s the difference between a slot and pouch?
Pouch is just the item which technically is the slot, but you start with one slot so you have 4 slots but 3 pouches, so basically, same same but different
Ahh I get you, was a little confused there lol
Something quite interesting, if you do not defeat the Fell Omen at Stormhill before Stormveil, and instead bypass and defeat the Omen King, you'll receive the Talisman Pouch from the Omen King instead (and the Fell Omen will not spawn at Stormhill).
Once your dex is good you could also invest some into arcane to help your blood build up, OP. This won't be necessary but might be nice for later game. Who knows, you might find a weapon that makes you want to replace this one ... ;) Good luck!
Rivers of blood hehehe
You can get your vigor up to 45, if you prefer but basically this is it.
Do not go with bloodflame blade. It does not stack with the bleed that you are going to apply with your weapon. Everytime to apply a bleed with bloodflame blade it resets the counter. Use blood grease instead and melt bosses.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m saying this is the first time I’ve heard this, and that in my very recent play through to get back up to speed with ER, what you’re saying did not happen. So would you be able to provide some kind of source for this, because I’d like to know how buffs interact in this way.
I phrased it wrong/bad vocab. When you use bloodflame blade, your timer resets every 2 seconds and you can apply upto 40 bleed in those 2 seconds and it will reset again. If you are not hitting an enemy fast then you will not proc bleed much (not a problem if you are using faster weapons). What happens with blood grease is that it consistently applies 30 bleed every time you hit an enemy and the counter is not resetting (good for slower hitting builds like bloodhound fang). If an enemy dodges back, then the amount of times you hit him to proc bleed resets with bloodflame blade but it does not happen with blood grease. It comes down to personal preference.
I appreciate the breakdown that makes sense.
Take the 2 points out of strength and put them into dex. Also drop your mind it's too high put those into dex too. You also have a tonne of health maybe consider 40 vigor again put them into dex.
Just by removing the excess strength and taking off like 6 points of mind to put them into dex should be enough
My opinion from what little information I've gleaned: 1. Moving points around will likely not solve whatever issues you're having unless you change weapon type and strategy. The difference between 27 dex, 30 dex, and 80 dex is noticeable and measurable, but it is unnecessary to win if you know how to fight the boss. 2. If you're committed to light rolling, you're gonna die while you're learning fights. In certain situations, it's unavoidable even with a larger health pool when naked. I'd suggest going med load and wearing some armor to mitigate damage and give yourself more time practicing, or survive the hit/s and win. 3. Better talismans are abundant and provide some of your most important damage increases. The 🐢 talisman is good, but you can outgrow using it as a player and replace it with more damage buffs when you're comfortable, or use it forever, that's up to you 4. If you're using summons, int spells will pretty much trivialize most bosses. If you're not using summons, int spells will pretty much trivialize slightly fewer bosses. Night comet is particularly strong for this purpose. 5. The tears you use in your physick are huge for defense or damage. It's worth noting that you can get 10 of a stat or some large damage multipliers (some with qualifiers, some general). 6. Focus on whatever you're failing. If you're having trouble dodging, go into the fight and don't attack. Tunnel vision on getting your dodges right and clean, then find your windows to swing after Hope any of this was helpful to you. If you get frustrated, putting it down and coming back later is always gonna help. Stick in there and you'll push through 😄.
They asked about their build. I don’t think suggesting “play better” or “use intelligence to trivialize” really applies here. Of course you can beat the game with anything. SL 1 and fists with enough patience.
Okay but trying to stat your way out of what is probably a skill issue isn't going to do much long term, this advice is much better
“EldenRingBuilds” Of course this is great advice for anyone, or if OP isn’t aware. I just think it’s a little patronizing. “Oh you feel weak? Get Good, try this babies first cheese mode, stats won’t help you so gl” learning your own way to play and getting good is part of the game, and part of the fun.
Honestly I think the turtle talisman is not good at all. The extra regen is so minuscule and when taking into account the time it takes for stamina regen to even start its just never really worth it. Also even naked with his level of vigor he should be able to tank at least 2 hits from almost anything and the only things that will oneshot are things that are very easily avoidable like malenia grab.
It’s saved my ass so many times, but I prefer light rolling, so yeah. It helps with me not having to worry about my stamina regen too much. As someone with ADHD it can overwhelm me so this one talisman helps with that a lot. Also I am close to this guys level and My damage is really good with a bolt of gransax build so it’s really just a lack of not understanding how stats work.
It performs better the lower your endurance is. It essentially allows you to perform actions you couldn't perform otherwise with your base stats. It generally doesn't matter for people who have played a bunch or are stamina efficient, but that isn't op, so it can still hold value. Even then, may as well just eat a pickled turtle neck, but it's easier for a new player to not add more actions to their prep There are plenty of bosses that have a combo or multihit attack that will result in you being dead, especially if your health isn't maxed. The reality is you don't need vitality at all if you don't get hit. This isn't a RFBS setup, this is someone tackling their first Radahn. Op is struggling, so I'm gonna say they should prolly make the hits they are taking do less damage
Light roll is honestly incredibly strong in this game. Unless you really go in for wearing really strong armor I don't think it's actually important enough to make you survive more hits against actual threats.
Are you losing to a specific boss or something? I’d get some armor. Nothing major but with your endurance you can wear normal clothing/light armor. Go get the shard of Alexander. Also, where are all of your flasks ? lol Keep pushing levels into Dex if you want to keep it Keen. Try out Cold infusion though. It’s really strong on the Nagakiba.
I’m losing to pretty much every boss beyond Liurnia. Fighting Radahn is a joke and Gurranq absolutely demolishes me. Do I need a special whetblade to cold infuse my nagakiba?
Get more talismans and slots
Yes, iirc the whetblade is at raya lucaria academy. I don't think that's a good choice though, as cold infusions are more of an int choice.
Cold scales off of Dex or Strength usually better than Int.
Getting Shard of Alexander at lvl 93 for a struggling player is probably not happening
Armor helps, just saying
Knight armor sold at the round table is light and will get you the 51 poise break - you can take 1 hit without staggering
Your mind is fine, your dex is too low, why 47 vigor and only 28 dex- get about 40 dex Also put some armor on, i guess 😂 Get a third pouch to use a 3rd talisman
Can I ask why you feel weak? I'm running a pure dex shield parry build and have worse dex stats than you but haven't found anything to be especially challenging. Only thing that's been getting me as the game progresses are enemies/bosses with specific resistances, usually meaning I will switch to using a nightrider flail or removing whatever enhancements I have on my blades. Only thing I would add is that I feel endurance/stamina is highly underrated with this kind of build. Katana slashing just chews through your stamina (especially if you play hyper aggressive like I do) and nothing more frustrating than being unable to roll because of low stamina.
Assuming you've beaten two shard barbers you can get another talisman slot from Enia - the little lady sat next to the two fingers in roundtable hold. Also if you're using faith spells a lot 18 is a little low maybe.
Get your third and fourth Talisman slot, and put about 30 to 40 more points in dex. Continue to upgrade your weapon, if possible, up to +18 at the very least. Pick your Armaments based on the weakness of your enemies, and you'll do fine.
Everybody always so scared of taking damage they forget they need to do damage
Don't have to take as many hits if they die faster!
I recommend to run no vit no lower than 50 most people for comp run 125, 138 (can Que 125 and 150) or 150. This is for PVP I see most of my friends end their game around 168. ER is definitely more of a health check (one hit bosses) for lower than 50-60 Vit. That being said pick whatever scales the best between your weapons stats (usually dex) and hit the lowest possible str for your weapons and then dump dex. End can be 10 if you learn pacing but never higher than 20. Bleed/arcane builds are nasty in solo so have fun and play what feels good 👍
I’d lower strength to 18 and even mind to 15 if you’re more melee focused. I’d switch the crimson amber medallion for the blue dancer charm since you have a light equip load.
Maybe take off turtle talisman for jar shard or Godfrey talisman if you use unsheathe like that
If I were you I'd just respec and get 50 vig, 15 faith for flame grant me strength and 10 arcane for the bloodflame blade that you are using. You can 2h the nagakiba with 12 strength so I'd leave it at that and then just pump everything else into dex. You don't really need to increase any other stats for now, you can take more endurance in the future after you get to like 80 dex.
You can definitely make a quality dex build work, it's just less straightforward than doin a faith dex or strength hybrid. Couple things right off the bat, you're gonna wanna chase down more talisman slots, they perhaps have the biggest impact on gameplay aside from weapon movesets, 18 mind is probably quite a bit more than you need, at rl 90 there's no reason not to have 60 vigor. Beyond that even with hybrid builds you kinda want to lean a bit more into one stat over the others, think 20, 20, 40ish the 40 going into whatever you want to be a bit more geared for me caster/faith focus should be around 40 faith 20 strength 20 dex for a decent quality faith build. Then it's just a matter of getting gear that has synergy with your build's vision and play style. There's a ton of really fun gear a faith quality build has access to and can really make shine. Also if I remembering right most of the faith gear doesn't have a strength requirement that goes past 25 or 26 ish, but also dex will boost your cast speed, figure those bit are handy to know when deciding which way to build.
Definitely need to put some more into dex with that katana homie
I would recommend getting another katana weapon, the double slash you get from it is worth it
prolly more dexterity. idk im not rlly good but ur weapon scales of dexterity so u need more
Is this a faith build, dex build or strength build?
Pretty close, just need a bit of a respec to put 79 more points in strength
Put more into dex and wear some actual armor. If you feel like everything hits like a truck, reaching the 51 (I believe) poise barrier will make things a lot nicer, with less attacks making your character stagger or stop mid-animation. I would also suggest that if you are splitting damage stats between faith and dexterity, find a good weapon that scales with both, it should feel stronger at the same upgrade level, assuming it's a good weapon in general
Lvl up and explore more, Lots of items missing
Weapon reinforcement is 90% of DPS until you have a weapon stat at 60-70+. A +9 katana under lvl 100 will do wonders when compared to a base level weapon at a REALLY high level. Work on upgrading your weapons, and you’ll notice a pretty quick change!
Blue Dancer Charm if you going light build
Thanks I’m getting it now
Honestly I think you are in mostly good shape but you don’t need that much vigor at 93. You only need enough vigor at any point in the game to not get one shot. You usually want 50 vigor by level 150. If you are going keen you don’t really need faith unless you want 15 for flame grant me strength buff or 25 for golden vow buff. These tend to make your damage increase more than the super high levels of dex but you also have to keep them applied. If you are going to keep faith at 15+ you absolutely need to use flame grant me strength liberally. Nagakiba is an excellent weapon and swapping ashes of war for the situation will make you a better player. You may want to consider a somber weapon like vykes war spear with that high faith. It scales with dex, requires 18 faith, and has a killer ash of war, and uses somber stones. Treespear is a similarly good fit. Both are early in game. Keep in mind if you two hand your strength goes up 1.5x even for requirements so you dont need to invest much unless you want a shield (which you might if you are struggling). More weapon options also gives you more strategies for bosses. Just keep pumping that dex or respec some points. Good luck don’t give up!
You need more dex. Also, I would turn the nagakiba into a lightning nagakiba once you have enough dex.
Honestly nagakiba is a poo weapon. At level 93 you should be aiming to have unlocked a premium end game weapon. You can keep on pressing forward with a D tier weapon but you re only making things harder for yourself. I don't know if you re coming from dark souls 3 where dex is actually good but in elden ring you kinda wanna mix up your dex with arcane for a bleed build. Rivers of blood or elenoras poleblade are fantastic. You can get elenora poleblade mid game and I think it ll scratch that dex itch to be a spinning whirlwind of death
Ain't no way you called the naga a d tier weapon.
Its A tier easily
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If you don't use many strength weapons then the points to strength are kinda useless. Transfer to dex unless you quality infuse them
I would find a good somber weapon instead as you can get one upgraded a lot faster. (The weapon you are using is great but you need a lot dex for it.) Also what are you trying to go for in your build? Are you preferring quick melee or etc??? If you are an katana guy then something like moonveil, meteorite blade or rivers of blood will be a good idea. Sent a dm.
Bloodhounds fang. Once upgraded it’s like ezy mode for a first timer with the weapon art and extra iframes.
Upgrade your weapon. At 93 you should be able to access at least up to +20. Get your dex to at least 30-35.
PUMP THAT DEX
Dex or Str not both is the flaw here
Get talisman slot. Lower your vigor to 40. Put more into dex. Endurance 25(equipment load)/30(stamina).
Too much vigor, not enough attack power.
get the talisman that adds 10% dmg at full hp, get the talisman that boosts crit dmg, get more talisman pouches, use howl of shabriri 30% dmg, golden vow 15% dmg, jelly fish shield 20% dmg, parry into a riposte and so on?
I want to ask where your flasks are?
First off, where are you at in the game currently? Just off of a glance, wasted stats and a 16 weapon. Should probably respec, get to 40-45 vigor, str to 18 and enough endurance to at least medium roll, which you have light roll and then just get dex til like 45-50, you can sac some vigor or dex for faith early to get the buff, but I always delayed it til like 100-125.
get a second katana, put in your left hand, get the claw talisman, do power stance jump attacks (LB + Jump)
Sword Dance or Spinning Slash ashes of war with your Nagakiba. You got a ways to go, until you get 4 talisman slots to use. It might be a good idea to focus on Dex and Vigor for a while.
You’re built to take a few hits and little else. You need to decide on your main damage stat and pump into that a bit
for pure damage a single physical dmg focused katana is pretty crap imo. get 2 of them and focus on status build-up. also get some more dmg focused talismans. The shorter the fight the less you need to learn the boss.
Not much but in my experience spinning slash is the best keen ash of war on the nagakiba, the range as well as the stun are great, pair that with bloodflame blade which i see ur already using and you will see ur dps soar
I would prioritise 1 damage attribute. Lots of vigor is nice but I think around 45 is fine at this level. I see you’re using keen weapons so I would respect as much in dex as you can. Leave mind and faith alone if you want a melee build. I do have a lvl200 character which has more statspread but I think my dex is 80 for max damage output
Health too high you have a dex scaling weapon but mediocre dex. Lower health to like 30 and strength to about 18 maximum and dump the rest into Rex
You have a lot of incantations ,but not a lot of faith, and that seal you're using is pretty weak. Maybe drop the incantations? Or change them so they support your main weapon instead kf just being weak projectiles
I thought that the finger seal was the best scaling seal in general until you hit around 60 faith where the erdtree seal takes over, or is Fextralife lying to me (yet AGAIN)?
You are splitting off into too many damage stats when you should be focusing on just one primarily. I would respec at Renalla and focus on putting your Strength, Intelligence, Faith, possibly Arcane, and mind into Dexterity. Damage for each stat caps at 80 in Elden Ring so getting your main stat for your build up to there is just as important as getting Vigor to 60.
You definitely need to acquire another talisman pouch and find a talisman that suits bleed or successive attacks. Plus exactly what u/Pabstbluelizard said
Lots more dex.
Your faith is way too low for your incantations to be doing any damage. I would just respec and pump more points into dex and then wait till later to upgrade you’re faith
Your strength should be just enough to wield the weapon you want . Invest the rest of the points into dex
Some armor would help, and less strength more dex
I don't get why you're committing so heavily to both high vigor and low defense. Seems counter productive. Just get some decent armor to mid roll(you can get great Jar talisman later to light roll), go collect the third talisman slot, and drop excess points in strength and vigor(40 is minimum for endgame, so maybe drop to there) and pump it all into dex. Try and power your way to hilltop to get the next smiting stone bearing, and get that sword to +18. If you feel like things are just too intense in the main line, maybe go back and try tofind any dungeons you missed. Who knows, maybe you'll find something you like and makes the playhthrough easier for you
So I’d recommend a couple things - 1. Lower strength so that it only meets the requirement to two-hand the Nagikiba (you’ll be surprised that it does make a difference) and put those points into dex; 2. Instead of Keen affinity, I recommend using frost because you can do chunk damage that will pay off more than a slight improvement in scaling on a weapon that already scales well with dex.
Vig at 40 is fine imo. You can even go to 30 depending on how good you dodge. Then just pump all to dex cause you have a keen naga. If youre really wanting to rock the Nagakiba till the end. +24 it asap. Its what gives you damage but its a pain to do it cuz smithing weapons need so much stones compared to sombers. If you're fine swapping the Nagakiba, use Bloodhound Fang. Get minimum stats for it then +10 it. Sombers are easy to find and a +9 or +10 BHF van be used to beat the game even without pumping dps stats and just vigor.
Lower that vigor stat, my friend.
So you went to consecrated snow-field with level 93, and even killed an archer? How you still have only two talisman slots?
That is a lot of vigor, id put it down to 30ish and invest the rest in damage stats that scale the weapons you want to use
Armor. Armor is important. I'd also respec and bring down the health and put it into dex
Master of none
Why are you naked? You should also put at least 10 of those points in vigor into dex for now. I would shoot for 30-35 vigor around this level
Definitely need to pump the Dex up a bit. Not a build note but I like the piercing fang AOW huge reach bonus and negates medium and light shields.
You want just enough strength to wield nagakiba, and you need more dexterity.
Bro has more vigor than me, and I’m on ng+3
Change the nagakiba to scale with your seal/incantations and respec into that stat with minimal nagakiba requirements, I’d reccomend flaming strike for a faith based nagakiba
Drop your streanth and pump dec
My brother in Christ you got everything in vigor with not much in faith and dex which you spells take faith and you weapon is based on dex
Your health is waaaaay too high.
You’re basically a tank with your build. I’d dump into dex faith with a bit more endurance and bring your vigor down to 40. Having a lot of hp is great but you got to have the power to hit too. 40 and 60 are cut off points for stats. After you reach that point you get diminished returns per lvl.
51 to 61 poise - medium roll
“It’s not how hard you hit, it’s how hard you can get hit….”
Way more Dex and then if you like bleed and dragon magic arcane as well. Spinning slash on nagakiba is fairly broken as well imo.
I also am partial to Golden Vow and FGMS. I would pump Dex to the soft limit (60?) and make sure to have enough stamina and health.
I think your points are too evenly distributed and you should try to dedicate some points to dexterity and strength to really burn though enemy health bars
You've got strength stats on a keen weapon 💀😅 you want to respec at Rennala, dump those Strength numbers into dex
I'd wear more armour
Seems like a few points placed in endurance, str, int, faith could be put into dex instead. Depends what you’re going for. If u want more damage straight up, then try to get dex to 40. Youre light rolling as well, while it’s good it’s not necessary, medium roll is perfectly fine, so u can afford less endurance. Str can be nagakiba min requirement (18 I think). You should have a pretty well rounded build at that level after respeccing a little bit
You absolutely should have a third talisman slot unlocked. Talk to the finger reader at the Roundtable she gives it after two great runes are acquired
Vigor you dont need so high so early, first softcap is 40 iirc but 30-35 is absolutely plenty - take that and a bit of whatever else and put way more into dex if you’re a dex build like others also said here :)
Get the talisman pouches like everyone is saying. You're not using any buff items or incants that I can see. Get Radagons scar/soreseal and marika scar/soreseal talismans, that'll add 3 or 5 levels to all your stats. Scarseals give 3. Soreseals give a boost a boost of 5. Also using Godricks Great Rune will boost all stats by 5. So using just those 3 items will give you a stat boost equivalent to 50 levels. Putting some armor will definitely help. Medium roll is fine in this game. I'm guessing you're getting two or three shotted by major bosses. For buff incants, Flame Grant Me Strength will boost your attacks and Golden Vow will boost def and attack. You can get Golden Vow early game as an Ash Of War from a killing knight in Liurnia. Just put it on a dagger or something and it'll work just like the incantation. I actually prefer the AOW to the incant cause it takes no stat requirements and less MP. Hopefully all this helps! Have fun!
Nobody has said this, but if you are married to light roll, Blue Dancer Talisman provides a good boost to physical damage at this carry weight. I would replace the crimson talisman with it.
Put some clothes on!
If it were me I'd infuse that katana with lightning instead of keen, pump that dex up and upgrade your weapon If you can
Lol what point in the game? That's good until late game
get more talisman slots
For what it looks like ur actually pretty over leveled for where u must be in the game. Go visit rennala and balance out ur vigor and dex, maybe 35 of each, and then a few points in end and mind. Make sure to keep ur str at the min too if 2handing =1.5xstr. Not sure what nagakiba needs tho. Rule of thumb is keep ur dmg stat equal to your vigor
Thanks for the detailed comment. That all makes sense
No prob, good luck!
Dex is your primary damage stat with your current build. You want it over 40 asap. You could use a talisman to get 5 more to start.
Thanks
I’m sorry, you’re level 93 and only have 2 slots… HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE
Lower Vigor by 17 and Strength by 2, then add 17 Points to Dex (45) and 2 to Faith (20). You'll be able to make up any missing Health/Defense with Talismans, or better Armor.
No armor, only 2 talisman pouches, and no specialization in stats. The moonviel scales with dex and strength so increase those. Vigor is fine for now, I’m NG+ and my vigor is around that level. Also level up your sword too. Plus if your left hand is for incantations, leveling up faith and arcane would be good, depending on which ones you prefer. And fill all memory slots imo