Best Builds for Elden Ring Shadow of Erdtree

With the release of the long-awaited expansion for Elden Ring, players are once again ready to explore the vast and mysterious world with new builds and strategies. The DLC brings not only new challenges and enemies but also new types of weapons, armor, and spells that can significantly enhance your combat abilities. In this guide, we will look at some of the best builds to try in Shadow of the Erdtree.

Any builds in the game can be centered around specific weapons, player behavior models, or specific attributes. Let's look at some builds based on equipment and attributes.

This build is incredibly effective to use, especially when fighting hordes of enemies, as you will deal powerful area fire damage.

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This build uses a light two-handed sword that scales with dexterity, dealing good damage and allowing you to break enemy poise.

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The Ash of War on this weapon is very convenient to use, as it does not require much mana and allows frequent use without problems.

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This build focuses on Faith and Wisdom to maximize the effectiveness of Ashes of War.

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This incredibly beautiful sword is not only fun to use but also very powerful.

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Wisdom builds have it all: range, damage, and stun. There are three options to implement a wisdom build: pure wisdom and transition to the Mage path, or using the Carian Royal Scepter, which is complemented by strength or dexterity.

You can build a pure mage in various ways, paying more attention to the Great Glintstone Shard, but it also has one of the highest burst damage rates in the game compared to Azur's Comet. The main way to implement the build is to set up a stun before launching Azur's Comet. Fortunately, users have two best abilities for this:

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Strength builds are also some of the strongest in the game, and in this build, we have one of the strongest Ashes of War, Ash of War: Lion's Claw, which deals massive stance damage if you use something like great hammers or colossal weapons. This build can be used from the very beginning of the game and is extremely effective.

You also get some hyper armor when using the Ash of War, which prevents you from being staggered by anything except grabs. Very few skills in the game can interrupt you from using it. However, you can take damage while using the ash, so you need to be careful.

As for other abilities, we have around 25 points in faith, so you can use Flame, Grant Me Strength and Golden Vow. As for armor and talismans, we will need the Omensmirk Mask to increase strength and the Raptor's Black Feathers armor to increase jump attack damage.

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One of the most devastating bleed options in the game. Apply bleed with quick attacks from the Scavenger's Curved Sword, enhanced by talismans and armor. When the bleed procs, enemies take massive damage. Use craftable items or weapon skills to enhance the bleed effect.

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A dexterity build allows you to use all the best dexterity weapons in the game, and it even has a ranged option with the Bolt of Gransax, whose skill is applied quite quickly and requires little energy. You can use the Bloodhound's Fang, which has a high scaling coefficient from start to finish of the game. Another option is the Nagakiba, which deals tons of damage with very strong bleed.

As for items, you can use the Okina Mask for additional dexterity or the White Mask if you want to increase damage when inflicting bleed. Also, the Raptor's Black Feathers plus the Claw Talisman if you are performing jump attacks, such as using a curved sword with two bands or dual twinblades. Also, using Lord of Blood's Exultation and Shard of Alexander, you can also use the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia.

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This build is entirely focused on faith, and one of the best weapons is the Blasphemous Blade. Specifically, because the Taker's Flame skill lasts a very long time and allows you to almost completely ignore health loss if there are many enemies in front of you.

Additionally, it is worth using an armor set with the Ruler's Mask. The build with this weapon has a wide range of combinations due to the following features:

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These builds will help you tackle many challenging trials in the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. Whether you prefer melee combat, magic, or fire attacks, you will find a build that suits you.