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Elden RingFlying MantisBuild

Jumping attack focused build with wide sweeps applying bleed and frostbite.

• Class:Vagabond
• Flask Spread:1 FP, rest HP
• Weapon:Grave Scythein main hand,Scythein off-hand
• Armor:White Mask,Raptor's Black Feathers, heaviest armour that lets you medium-roll.
• Primary Stats:Vigor,Endurance&Dexterity.
• Secondary Stats:Faith
• Spells:Black Flame Blade
• Skills: Ash of War: Chilling MistwithKeen affinityon main hand,Ash of War: Hoarfrost Stompwith Frost affinity on offhand.
• Spirit Ashes:Spirit Jellyfish Ashesuntil you getStormhawk Deenh
• Talismans:Claw Talisman. Others to taste:Radagon's Soreseal,Erdtree's Favor,Lord of Blood's Exultation,Green Turtle Talisman,Bull-Goat's Talisman. If a more dodge focused build is desired, useGreat-Jar's ArsenalandCrucible Feather Talismanand get your weight down low enough to fast-roll.

Main method of attacking is the mid-air L1, which does a wide sweep with both scythes in a large arc, dealing both huge upfront damage and applying both frostbite and bleed. Chilling Mist doubles frost outpit, once frostbite is applied, switch to your sacred seal to cast Black Flame Blade, then jump back in and to reset the frostbite bar, doing additional health % damage from the Black Flame DoT. No block option, so stay mobile.Malenia's Great Runecan further aid your staying power, allowing you to play even more aggressively and take fewer breaks to heal. If you prefer, once you get a second scythe from NG+ or a friend dropping one for you, you can replace thegrave scythe and drop the faith aspect entirely, just using firebombs to reset frost, and putAsh of War: Bloodhound's Stepas your main weapon art, setting the affinity to either frost or bleed according to your preference once you have the appropriate whetblades.

Elden Ring Cipher Build

Cypher is an extremely easy medium build to use, collect, and adjust to your liking.

• Class: Prophet
• Flask Spread: Adjustable. Take more Red when you are focusing on melee and more blue when you are focusing on holy.
• Standard Weapons: Cipher Pata, Coded Sword, Godslayer's Seal
• Early Game Weapons: Longsword, Broadsword, Short Spear, Shortbow
• Shield: Beast Crest Heater Shield initially, any other low strength shield you prefer later, based on boss/area progression.
• Armor: Whatever's in fashion or has the resistances you need for progression. Keep your weight to medium.
• Talismans: Two Fingers Heirloom, any other useful talisman. The Green Turtle Talisman is always nice.
• Primary Stats: Faith
• Secondary Stats:
  15 Vigor
  15+ Mind as needed for FP
  10+ Endurance as needed for the armor set you prefer.
  12 Strength (Just add your first level here to gain access to a good number of weapons and shields)
  10 Dexterity (Prophet Initial)
  7 Intelligence (Prophet Initial)
  30+ Faith (minimum)
  10 Arcane (Prophet Initial)

Startup: You can grab all this stuff without killing a single boss. First get the horse, snag theLimgravemap, and get the seed en route to get the Beast Crest Heater Shield, pop up on top of the cliff and grab Ash of War: Golden Vow, then get the Saintsbridge Site of Grace after. You should also go to the broken cart near the Bridge of Sacrifice in theWeeping Peninsulaand grab the Spiked Mace for a strike damage weapon. Circle back to the Castleward Tunnel and challengeMargitto unlock the Roundtable and buy the Flame Sling, then jump off the balcony and go right to pick up the Cipher Pata. You'll probably die, so spend your runes on arrows or whatnot first. Buy the Longsword from the Roundtable, or the Broadsword from the Coastal Nomadic Merchant. Be sure and get the Shortbow and some arrows from the Coastal Nomadic Merchant as well. Next, you take the hidden path off the bridge with the palm reader to get around Stormveil Castle, and fall down the gravestones on near the Lake-Facing Cliffs, and then past Liurnia Highway South to get to the Purified Ruins. Roll thru some boards on the floor to get to a chest that holds the Two Fingers Heirloom talisman for a 5 level bump to your Faith. Then go back to Saintsbridge and head across. I recommend buying the Bandit Mask from the merchant across the bridge. Keep going east to the Summonwater Village Outskirts, grab theGreen Turtle Talismanon the other side of the village, then drop down the cliff to get the Ash of War: Sacred Blade.

That's all you need for this build, I recommend buying the Bandit Mask from the merchant across the Saintsbridge, and then the Knight's Set for the other slots. You can stay at Medium Load when you equip the Longsword, Beast Crest Heater Shield, Finger Seal, Bandit Mask, Knight Armor, Chain Gauntlets, and Chain Leggings without putting anything into Endurance, so it's only a couple of levels to get to the full Knight Set if you want to use it.

Equip one of the sacred Ash of War to your blade for now, and you can do solid melee or throw fireballs at bosses until they croak. Expand your faith build with whatever entertaining spells you come across.

Pump Faith as much as possible while squeezing in a few levels of Vitality and Endurance until you can equip the Cipher Pata, and you'll start hitting like a truck!

Zealous Fury Templar Build

Balanced Greatsword build that turns into a well-rounded dual Greatsword zealous knight

• Class: Confessor
• Flask Spread: 80% HP
• Early Weapons: SacredClaymore and Brass Shield, Finger Seal
• Mid to late-game Weapons: Blasphemous Blade and Inseparable Sword
• Armor: Anything in Mid-roll, Confessor set until altered Mausoleum Knight Armor with hood or no helm.
• Talisman Recommendation: Radagon's Scarseal until Soreseal, Erdtree's Favor or Green Turtle Talisman, Claw Talisman once you swap to dual Greatswords.
  
• Primary Stats: Faith / Vigor
• Secondary Stats: Mind / Endurance
• Skills: Golden Vow early for Sacred scaling, Taker's Flame once you have Blasphemous Blade
• Spells: Lightning Spear, Black Flame, Frenzied Burst

Early one you will want to farm for a Brass Shield and the Golden Vow ashes. You will want to target medium rolls throughout this build, start with raising Vigor to 15 then STR to 16 and DEX to 13 for the Claymore, this weapon offers slashes and stabs. Make your way south to Castle Morne to obtain the Claymore. From here you can play sword and shield or talisman and shield with the early incantations, use Golden Vow to buff, you heal to heal and fire spells for damage. By level 40 you should have about 20 Vigor, 14 Mind, 14 Endurance and 24 Faith and can level as you choose, want more hp, then go Vigor, more FP go Mind, need more stam (use the turtle talisman) or equip load go Endurance and when those feel good go Faith for damage. Try to level faith 2 or 3 to 1 on the other states with a goal of 45 Faith by level 70. Sword and Shield with incantations will carry you quite well into the later game where you want to target the Blasphemous Blade as early as you can. While I waited for this point to begin dual-wielding Greatswords you can choose to forgo the shield and do so sooner. Obtain the Claw Talisman and prioritize jumping L1 attacks for massive damage and poise damage. With high Faith you have options for Holy and Fire damage on your swords as well as lightning, fire, holy primary incantations, a large variety of buffs, magic, ice, rot dragon incantations, poison and bleed incantations and so much more.

Elden Ring Cheese Slicer Build

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• Class: Confessor or Wretch
• Flask Spread: As you need, you can sustain most boss fights with just 2 mana flasks at 26 focus
• Weapon: Black Knife, Maliketh's Black Blade, Serpent Bow(Serpent Arrow), Black Knife Tiche Ashes
• Shield: Any but try Kite Shield
• Armor: Any but you might like Black Knife Set or Maliketh's Set
• Talisman Recommendation: Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Shard of Alexander, Crucible Feather Talisman, Radagon Icon
  
• Primary Stats: 40 vitality, 26 focus, 12 dex, 8 str, 18 faith, 16 arcane
• Secondary Stats: 17 arcane, 46 faith, 34 strength
• Skills:
• Spells: Swarm of flies, frozen lightning spear, pest threads, scarlet aeonia, poison mist, bloodboon, bloodflame talons, Black Blade

The HP reduction effect and the %HP burn of black knife, malikeths black blade and the black blade incantation do not stack with the same source however it does stack with other sources such as other weapon arts and the incantation as well as stacking with your spirit summon's inflicted effect so you can use either Mimic Tear or Black Knife Tiche(way better than mimic in my opinion). This effect really melts bosses HP and even moreso when stacking multiple effects, taking down bosses is easy just like cutting through cheese. Swarm of flies is a highly recommended additional pick as it will allow you to quickly delete a bosses hp with the blood loss effect, its useful on tanky bosses like Fire Giant to quickly end the second phase( I save it until second phase ), keep in mind a lot of bosses are immune to effects like poison, rot, frostbite and bleed so they aren't always that useful. When you unlock the Black Blade incantation you can use it in conjunction with the black knife weapon art have double DOT effect and Black Blade has slightly better range than Black Knife. While Maliketh;s Black Blade is powerful and awesome, its weapon art is hard to get off so its a situational weapon.

Getting Black Knife and Tiche early:

These assassins are really annoying but can be cheesed with meagre stats and gear. They are very vulnerable to stagger and being stun locked, they get stuck behind ledges(such as the rocks that are around the areas of both fights) and if you get them in a corner(cliffs they can fall off counts as part of a corner as they wont fall off) they will be basically stuck because they always dash back/to the sides and will also be stunlocked by you hitting them. I suggest using a weapon with good range and stagger, the way I did it wasn't the best but it worked, I used a pike upgraded with stone bought with bell bearings and baited the assasin to be on the low side of the ledge, then poked until they escaped then baited them back there.

Elden Ring Roundtable Assassin Build

Low-level build cosplaying as a Roundtable Assassin under orders of the Two Fingers. Lightweight and focusing on stealth and critical hits.

• Class: Confessor
• Flask Spread: Mostly HP
• Weapon: Ornamental Straight Swords(R1), Miséricorde (R2)
• Shield: Wooden Greatshield (L1), Finger Seal (L2), Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow (L3)
• Armor: Confessor Set
• Talisman Recommendation: Dagger, Assassin's Crimson & Cerulean Dagger, Arrow's Reach
• Primary Stats: Dex/Fth
• Secondary Stats: Vig/Mnd/End (18 Endurance for med. load)
• Skills: Assassin's Gambit, Poison Moth Flight
• Spells: Two Fingers Incantations, namely: Assassin's Approach, Darkness, Rejection,Shadow Bait, Lord's Aid, Lord's Heal

Start your class with the StoneswordKeys (2x) keepsakes, defeat the Grafted Scion tutorial boss for a good, fitting, easy-to-upgrade main weapon for regular engagements. Progress the game avoiding most things, pick up a somber smithing stone at the bridge, stop at the Stormhill Shackfor a third Stonesword Key and Roderika, then get to the site of grace before Stormveil Castle to get access to the Roundtable Hold. Once there, use your stonesword keys to getCrepus's Black-Key Crossbowand the Assassin's Prayerbook. You now have access to everything you need to cheese a few tough fights easy with the use of scarlet rot on the crossbow, giving you access to mid-game areas. Some of the things you might want to pick up are the Wooden Greatshield & Miséricorde in Stormveil Castle, access to poison & scarlet rot options (AoW, Throwing Pots, Bolts), get the assassin's daggers (one in stormhill, one in liurnia) and pick up all the easy somber smithing stones to get strong quickly (or don't upgrade if you want to invade).

Stats at 28: 18 End, 14 Str, 16 Dex, 18 Fth

This build can easily transition into almost pure Dex, Dex/Fth paladin or even completely change to pure caster, either pure incantations or Int/Fth sorceries towards lategame with access to some weapons.

For roleplay reasons, go along with the two fingers,ignore Ranni & antagonise Varré, befriend Patches and follow his advice.

Silent Spellblade Build

A cunning Dark Moon Greatsword build for Ranni the Witch fanatics, wielding the Greatsword into Journey 2+ while cosplaying the Black Knife Assassin for stealth and/or aesthetics.

• Class: Any
• Flask Spread: Mostly FP
• Weapon: Dark Moon Greatsword, and either Staff of Loss or Carian Regal Scepter
• Armor: Black Knife Set, but swap Black Knife Greaves for Fire Prelate's Greaves, for poise
• Talisman Recommendation: Magic Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, and either Primal Glintstone Blade or Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman
• Primary Stats: Intelligence
• Secondary Stats: Strength, Vigor
• Skills: Moonlight Greatsword
• Spells: Night Comet, Glintstone Cometshard, Greatblade Phalanx, Ambush Shard, Terra Magica, Loretta's Greatbow, Ranni's Dark Moon

Being unheard and unseen makes using the Dark Moon Greatsword that much less of a hitch, plus I like how the Black Knife set looks.

Whichever staff I use is circ*mstantial. Staff of Loss is for the landscape; use to increase Night Comet for otherwise dodging enemies, or pile damage on bigger enemies like the ones in Caelid, combined with Greatblade Phalanx and Moonlight Greatsword, to make quicker work of them. Also for the landscape, I like using Loretta's Greatbow for more distant foes; and Unseen Form, the stealthy-spellblade themed which makes me harder to spot, even harder during the night.

For bosses, I swap out my Staff of Loss for Carian Regal Scepter, and Night Comet for Cometshard (unless they dodge like Malenia, Black Knife Assassins or Godskin Apostles), still inflicting good damage but at a lower FP cost; I swap out Loretta's Greatbow for Ranni's Dark Moon, particularly if I'm going through fog walls since none of those bosses will be far enough away to warrant Greatbow.

Beyond that, I have Ambush Shard to turtle single enemies with shields; Greatblade Phalanx speeds up poise breaks as I use Moonlight Greatsword; Unseen Form to hide in plain sight, adding to the stealthy-spellblade theming; and Terra Magica will buff my sword's skill AND any sorceries I dish out.

For the armor I'm mostly cosplaying Black Knife Assassin, but I trade the Black Knife Greaves for Fire Prelate's. This amounts to decent poise without clashing with the BKA aesthetics. But the poise matters because buffing Dark Moon Greatsword and the sorceries you cast have pretty slow animation, meaning your enemies could otherwise interrupt. And in addition to stealth without having to slow yourself with crouching, it looks cool, and the fact it's a BKA using Ranni's Sword really denotes fanatacism for the witch herself.

For the talismans: Shard of Alexander to give Moonlight Greatsword its potency; Magic Scorpion Charm to buff that even further, AND strengthen sorceries; and Godfrey Icon to finish buffing the skill, and chargeable sorceries like the comets or Loretta's Greatbow. The fourth talisman is the flex spot: I use either Primal Glintstone Blade for the landscape, I lose max. HP wearing it and my MIN is barely above 40, but staying hidden makes it that much less problematic. Otherwise, when fighting a hard-hitting enemy/boss that dodge, like flying dragons, tree avatars or tree spirits, I swap out Primal Glintstone for Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman to ensure I survive longer.

My stats so far: 55 VIG; 42 MIN; 23 END; 16 STR; 12 DEX; and 80 INT. Vigor is that high because the Black Knife cosplay + Fire Prelate Greaves aren't the heaviest armor, AND the Primal Glintstone Blade you'll be slotting reduces HP; granted it's advised to swap it for Dragoncrest Greatshield for bosses/tougher enemies like omens, but VIG should be about that high to last longer. Mind is 42; I was barely above level 160 when I started NG+, so I only had so many points to work with, but you kind of can't get enough MIN, either, because you chew through your FP using either Night Comet or Glintstone Cometshard, like on Ancient Dragons or whichever enemies are distant (inherently, or because you have to distance yourself from them), along with Greatblade Phalanx and buffing the Greatsword, both of which also cost FP. 23 Endurance let's you wear either combination of equipment, and still med-roll, plus you could use the extra max. stamina as using Greatsword, as well as your sorceries, consumes stamina rather fast. 16 Strength let's you use Dark Moon Sword's skill while one-handing it; you could two-hand it at 11 STR, but that'd be time consuming, tedious, and too many openings for enemies on your tail, like bosses. 12 Dexterity allows use of the Staff of Loss, you only need 10 to use Regal Scepter, but that'd be 2 points below the minimum for the staff that buffs Night Comet. And 80 Intelligence; while Moonlight Greatsword can already hit like a truck, you could use that much for the sorceries you utilize. And no Faith or Arcane.

And for the Wondrous Physick, I'd mix in Greenburst Crystal Tear, and 1 of 2 others. The Greenburst is needed to accelerate stamina recovery, and you do use up stamina when casting sorceries, even more when using the Greatsword's skill. In the other slot, you could mix in Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear to buff your magic even further. HOWEVER, if you feel you're damaging enemies/bosses just fine without it, then I'd instead slot Cerulean Hidden Tear to temporarily save FP when buffing Greatsword, and going in guns-blazing with sorceries. You inflict profound damage with the greatsword, and the sorceries I use here, but the choice is completely yours, as is with whichever sorceries you find more strategically efficient.

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