You're lvl 113 and have only upgraded your main weapon one time. If that's not intentional, then this is about as close to "playing the game wrong" as one can get. You could ignore all other advice and just fix that one thing and your problem will be 99% solved.
Same! Lmao
There are better ways to invest your stats and better choice in equipment but that’s not nearly as important as what the other comments have pointed out. Find a weapon or 2 that you love and max it out, there are only so many ancient stones in one playthrough and you’ll need some for staffs/seals as well so choose wisely.
Turns out I was just out of lvl 1 forge stones :x up til now I was kinda mindlessly upgrading my weapons whenever I saw I could, but since I recently changed weapons I was out of basic materials.
Easy fix. Go to limgrave tunnels and get some lvl 1 smithing stones or lvl 1 somber stones. Upgrade your weapon then get the bell bearings for somber/normal stones. Then you can buy the stones from the twin husks in the round table hold without having to farm them.
Opens picture* ok lower health, dayum 71 strenght, mby 1 or 2 less dex points , int for 2 spells sure, 71 str and 200 dmg oooooooo k.. what the fck is the weapon
Just joking, nothing wrong with French :) I think other folks summed it up nicely - upgrade weapon, remove Radagon talisman and spread some stats, you'll be fine afterwards.
A HUGE issue is having a +1 weapon. You could easily double your damage or more if you had it appropriately upgraded to your level (approximately +7 for somber weapons and +15~18 for regular weapons).
As mentioned above you get upgrade materials in mines but also smithing bell bearings. Go to the merchant in Round Table Hold and give him all your bell bearings then buy the appropriate upgrade materials. And look for the mines on your map, they are fairly noticeable.
As far as stat investment, you do have a small health pool. You could easily reduce your strength to 60 and pump the rest into health. I would also recommend reducing dexterity to the minimum required for you to wield your bow, your sword only needs 10 and there will be no noticeable change to damage output.
Edit. Just for reference for my strength builds I try to have about 45-50 vigor at your stage of the game, 55-60 end game
Strength should be anywhere from 60-80. 80 is the max as anything after is negligible returns.
Edit2. Food for thought but you could respec your intelligence and put it into health, strength, or stamina. At 22 intelligence your Scholars Armament only adds a pretty minimal amount of damage. You could get the same/better results from Fire Grease which you can craft easily, thus getting rid of the need for Scholars Armament. Plus since you have a bow you won’t need Glintstone Pebble either.
Thanks for the very useful insight. Turns out I just lacked basic forge stones from upgrading different weapons to lvl1 but I had the rest. Thanks for telling me to give my bell bearings to the merchants, def helps. I got my weapons to +20 now. My damage more than doubled, my health increased, and I instantly overcame a fight I thought I had absolutely no chance in winning.
Yup. I tried to play blind, but I just had to google where to find those Smithing Stones (3) even though I already had enough of 4, 5 and 6 to upgrade my weapon to +16
Have you tried using twin blades? I like Eleonora’s Poleblade or the Godskin Peeler. Twin blades are pretty fun and have high dps.
Rivers of Blood is still a fun weapon! If you’re set on using a bleed build, bump that arcane way up and use a head piece that buffs arcane or the White Mask. Then there are also several talismans that help bleed builds a lot
Another random note is that around 30-40 vigor/health, it becomes worth it to take off the soreseal to increase overall durability. You do have to be careful about managing your weight and dexterity to make sure you can equip everything you want, but you're at the point that the soreseal just makes things harder.
On top of the soreseal they're also taking extra damage from having no headgear of any kind. IIRC starting with DS3 you get a small multiplier to incoming damage for each empty armor slot. If you're still set on using the armour you currently have I'd reccomend slotting in something like a commoners headband, thief's mask or prophet's blindfold
I had a slightly similar problem in my first game where I got teleported into Caelid very early in the game (gee, I wonder how that happened...), and ended up with a satchel full of +4/+5 sharpening stones - but had no idea where to get lower level stones for quite a while.
So yeah, my damage was not great for the first 40 levels or so.
Thanks for the very useful advice everyone. Turns out I just lacked basic forge stones from upgrading different weapons to lvl1 but I had the rest. Thanks for telling me to give my bell bearings to the merchants, def helps. I got my weapons to +20 now. My damage more than doubled, my health increased, and I instantly overcame a fight I thought I had absolutely no chance in winning.
Good shit but I find it so funny how you typed it like it's a infomercial.
*With the simple product of a few smithing stones, my damage has doubled, my beard has grown, I fixed my marriage, and I'm not longer maidenless, buy today!*
Good answers already, just a tip for Souls games in general though: Never put points into a stat without a specific reason to; the only exception to the rule being your Health stat.
So for example here you had 26 DEX, way more than required for your gear, but aren't using a DEX weapon so you're getting essentially 0 return on your investment.
I've been playing Elden Ring for 150h and I like it but I feel like I'm struggling way more than I should. I feel like I'm not dealing nearly as much damage as I should at this stage in the game, especially compared to other players I see or tutorials I watch for stupid bosses.
"It's easy to defeat Vyke just spam him with weapon arts" yeah well sry I deal 50x less damage than you my dude so it won't work.
I like my playstyle, full strength and melee damage but with some minor sorcery for edge cases or weapon buffing. I manage to get through the game and honestly, the main bosses aren't too much of a problem, I manage. But more and more when I try to engage with side content I face a stone wall. I barely deal any damage to the Death Rite bird for example. That's a feeling I had for a while, but keep in mind I went to Caelid before going to Stormveil and sure it was tough but it was manageable. Now I feel like I'm but an ant to the enemies of the giants' peaks.
Is it just normal or am I doing something wrong with my build? I also play for the drip but usually my resistance is not where I feel like I'm struggling, but if I really need to I will change armor for a fight.
Thanks for the advice if any.
Stats seem okay. Might want to back off strength a bit and add some Vigor is you're struggling to stay alive, but my brother in christ you have a +1 weapon. You've got to upgrade that shit
Yeah, weapon upgrades matter way more than stats as far as damage is concerned. Plus, you should look into changing the affinity of your weapon. If you can make it a heavy weapon the strength scaling will shoot up and benefit you even more. However, the dexterity scaling will go away. You can always change your stats at Renalla if you like.
To put things into perspective, once you get to 80 strength, you've reached the "soft cap". Beyond that point, more strength will do next to nothing for you.
In addition, I recommend that once you've upgraded your weapon, you should consider raising Vigor, and once Vigor is 35 without the Soreseal you should probably take it off. I'm surprised your main complaint isn't being killed constantly with a mere 32 vigor and a soreseal adding 15% to the damage you take. By the end of the mountaintops I had 50 vigor and I still felt like I was being bullied.
Some side bosses pack way too much of a punch but other than that I'm not struggling too much with my vigor, but it seems it's what I should shall upgrade next, kf leveling up wasn't an every 100 years occurrence in this game. Jeez 80 000 runes it's not often that I can reach this amount.
If you don't grind, (and you probably don't need to), you should expect to be around level 150 by the time you beat the game if you're doing most of the side content. Most of your levels are behind you at this point. However, your strength is barely benefitting you at all because of your unupgraded sword. By now a non-unique weapon should be about +20. Weapon scaling isn't just a matter of your stat and the letter grade. It scales relative to the base damage of the weapon, which can only be increased by upgrading it.
Check the mines around the world. They are on the map as a dark circle with an orange ring around them. Smithing stones and somber smithing stones are what you are looking for. You can also find the miners bell bearings to be able to buy stones from the twin maiden husks in the round table. Normal weapons go to +25 and somber weapons go to +10
Okay, this is a niche suggestion (especially because you said you got past your hurdle by upgrading your weapon and pumping your health), AND I totally respect fashion souls, but…
Maybe put on a helmet. While it isn’t always relevant, head shots technically matter (there’s a crucible knight talisman that reduces damage from headshots). If you find yourself struggling again, especially against an enemy who seems to be launching attacks that might hit your head, any helmet should significantly protect you, even if its stats are garbage.
Step 1) Remove Soreseal Taisman. (Not worth the DEF debuff at this level)
Step 2) Upgrade your weapon. Like.. a lot.
Step 3) Stop putting points into Force. (STR in English)
You can realistically stop at 50 and two handing it will put you at roughly the stat cap.
But without resetting your stats, just start dumping points into Vigor so you don’t get one shot by late game mobs.
Espadon de gargouille… je préfère de loin le jeu en anglais XD
D’ailleurs tu peux améliorer les armes et esprits, va voir le vieux forgeron à la table ronde et la petite fille en face, ils ça devrait t’aider pas mal car une arme+1 ne vaut pas grand chose surtout que tu as les 4 poches de talismans donc tu es déjà assez loin…
Ps les armes peuvent aller jusqu’à +25 de mémoire sauf les légendaires qui nécessite moin d’anélioration
D’ailleurs les stats ont un soft lock donc à partir de 50/60 ça ne sers plus à grand chose de les améliorer, autant mettre ces runes ailleurs qu’en force maintenant
Dex pourrait être pas mal vu l’arme que tu utilise ou si tu utilises des sorts régulièrement, int
Steam est en Anglais et Windows est en anglais mais le jeu s'est installé en Français et y'a aucune option pour changer la langue :(
Oui en fait j'améliorai mes armes et tout déjà mais un peu à l'aveugle j'avais pas fait gaffe que pour celle ci il me manquait juste des pierres de forge de base, parce-que j'avais tout le reste déjà lol... +20 maintenant
Just came to say that I love how "arcane" became "ésotérisme" in French. I really think this would sound cooler in English if it was "esoterism" or something of the sort, even more because the game has the Astrologer class.
Level your vigor. Your vigor should always be on par with your main damaging stat. Once you level your vigor, the game will become a lot easier! Good luck fellow tarnished!
I like to focus on just 2-3 attributes. I recently played through with a strength/dex/vigor build and beat every boss in the game. I put a little into endurance to get some stronger armor but ignored pretty much every other attribute. Also upgrading your weapons is huge.
Why is your weapon still at +1? You’re past 100 levels you should have been done with or very close to being done with the game, your weapons scaling is so low at +1 that those 71 points aren’t being used effectively. Getting this weapon to +7 at least asap and your damage should start popping off considerably. Also I’m not sure why you have random points dumped into Dex when you’re using a strength weapon that only needs 10 dex which you’ll have at base, don’t waste levels on stats you aren’t using,
Last thing, the weapons have a soft and hard cap at roughly 60 and 80 so unless you’re going to 80 don’t bother taking it past 60, some more points in endurance for greater stamina better armour and equip load will be helpful, more vigor also wouldn’t hurt
Level up your weapon to +10 and vigor to 60, no need to have so much str because you get the max out of it when 2 handing at 66 str. Take off soreseal, it’s way past useful at this point
I recommend not using those spells u have slotted with such low intelligence, they will hardly do any damage, and take up time that u could be using with bow or other melee attacks.
there's little point to using low level magic - incantations are another story since there are many more utility spells that don't require scaling, or that scale mostly off arcane.
Some scaling incantations like rotten breath or poison mist can be effective with low faith, but it doesn't work that way with sorcieries - all sorceries are trash with low intellect
you don't have a helmet - I'm pretty sure that means u are going to take 1-shot level headshot damage, but I can't remember how headshot damage is based. I get why u are doing it, because ur weight is at 69%, but u def need a helmet - consider arsenel or erdtrees favor talismans
Get rid of Crimson Seed Talisman, it's trash - at least, there are way better alternatives
That strength talisman is typically very good, but considering u have very high strength already, u are better off substituting a different talisman. google "elden ring softcaps" - typically u would use that talisman to "meet" the softcap, not go past it
Soreseal is very good, but consider taking it off when u are struggling to survive.
Take the staff off of your char to reduce weight. that shield is very good but are u actively guarding with it, or are u mainly two handing your sword? and if u are just looking to parry than consider a small shield such as the buckler
You have too much str, which is kinda ok if you use your weapon one hand. You also have too much of the stats you don't use, such as int. Your dex should be at the minimum required to use your equipments since you're going a full str build
[Soldjars of Fortune](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Soldjars+of+Fortune+Ashes), they're the small exploding jars. They're funny little fellows. They do a ton of damage, but they can hurt you as well so be careful using them.
I would replace the soreseal. They're great early game but when you get to enemies that sometimes deal 1k damage, the damage received bonus hurts crazy bad.
Looks like you got it figured out, weapon leveling is a big help.
Also maybe level up Endurance if you want more stamina, it will help with that big sword.
A +1 weapon is the biggest issue here.Just pick which weapon ur gonna go for and upgrade it to the max (u should have a lot of smithing stones that far into the game) and for some more rarer smithing stones just look em up on yt or something
Your weapon might not be upgraded enough, so maybe that’s the problem. But you’re not playing it wrong, there’s no way to play this game wrong. There is one way to play, and that is to have fun.
I'm not sure what force is, but you probably don't need 71 points in it. Most stats have a major soft cap around 60. Also, your espadon is only +1. Should be nearly maxed by now.
My French is bad but if I’m reading everything correctly you’re actually a little overleveled for where you are (I assume that’s Castle Sol? I can’t tell for sure). You need to upgrade your sword, and I would assume the rest of your equipment, otherwise you should be fine.
If you are going for strength only respec to make strength 80 for the hard cap, and upgrade your weapon which is level 1. And use melee focused talisman same for the physic. If possible go for a weapon with good strength scaling if upgraded to +10 it should be S. if all these are applied you have a kick ass build that will wipe bosses on the first run
And have atleast 40 vigor end game requires 60. PVP requires how much you can put out
47 Vigor will allow you to get the most out of your flasks once they're fully upgraded (two sips will heal you nearly every time).
Pretty much all of your talismans should be swapped for specific damage dealing ones. Bull Goat does nothing without a helmet and already decent armor. The additional damage recieved outweighs the stat boost of soreseal at this point. The other two are pretty much strictly early game.
my main advise for you would be that you REALLY need to level up your weapons, having a +1 Greatsword at level 113 is like going to a gunfight with a freaking nailgun lol, you'll be doing less than ideal damage to mostly anyone in the high level areas.
I don’t want to seem rude but beyond the non upgraded gear, your build seems very all over the place. I would recommend focusing on strength and vigor via respecing as you seem to me to be focused on melee, ditch your bow and staff and change your shield to a strength only medium shield. I would also recommend maybe finding different talismans, ditch the strength increasing one you have enough strength as is and having that is very not useful and maybe get something like an aresenal charm etc. You could also try a poise build and equipped some heavier armour (bull goat, Crucible, Tree sentinel, Lionel), especially with the bull goat talisman, and getting a larger shield if your okay with being slow, along with this increase your endurance. I use erdtree’s favour +2 in a lot of my characters because it’s just an in general talisman, you could use that instead of the curelean seed as it will serve you more use. Also organise your quick select and potientally focusing on upgrading a spirit of your chosing (which will probably be useful) and ditch the other spirits. That should hopefully allow you to play a more stream lined and powerful build, as a lot of your stuff isn’t really aiding your character. Hope this helps
Dude yeah idk how your build is even optimized this bad, the games been out like a year 😅
I'd rebuild big time, get your vigor to 60, upgrade your weapon for now instead of dumping points into strength.
Right now you have a sword that scales well with your stats, except it's not upgraded at all, so it's not actually scaling well at all yet you basically have high strength that is meaningless. Strength doesn't make you do more damage in itself, it lets strength affinity weapons benefit more from the scaling. Hitting hard with a cardboard sword won't do any damage no matter how hard you swing it.
Upgrading the weapon allows it to have higher scaling so it can actually benefit from having high stats. Early game you wanna increase your damage by upgrading with smithing stones, basically all points into vig until it's at least 60. Any other points spent before that should basically just to be hitting minimum requirements for whatever weapons/spells you want to use.
Having a few points in faith to be able to use golden vow goes a long way no matter what build you're using
Your strength shouldn't go over 66 unless you are one handing a weapon usually that's because when you two hand a weapon or item at 1.5 x your strength meaning that you're 66 becomes a 99 when two handed
Edit: you should upgrade your weapon the max upgrade is 25 by the way you can also give it different scaling with ashes of war as long as you use a "wet blade" you need the iron wet blade for heavy scaling it increases your strength scaling you could also go with fire scaling
Get more endurance to swing your weapon and roll more, pick one weapon so you can equip better armor and a shield that blocks 100 physical (I’d recommend the brass shield) and try 2 handing your weapon
Also, you might want to invest more into Vigeur. 40 is the minimum you'll want for not getting killed in one hit from bosses later in the game, and 60 is a pretty standard amount for newer players who want more wiggle room. Generally you won't need as much of the other stats, only enough to reach the minimum recommended stat for the weapon you want to use. A majority of the weapon's damage will still come from upgrading it.
Yes. You do. There are level caps in the stats, there is a certain point where you are better investing in other things. Strenght I think is capped at 55 and then at 80, so if you are not going up to 80 you are wasting points. Same for your endurance, capped at 30 and 50. Also, using magic with only 22 INT? i hope is just for utility… (which i assume it is, like a quick spam/interrupt attack)
Edit: lol I didn’t even notice the un-upgraded weapon… so yeah… def playing wrong but at level 113 it feels like it’s on purpose and then tis post is clickbait
More endurance, having better armor goes a long way, the simple fact that you don't have any headgear means you're taking WAY more damage than you normally would, consider buying the greathelm from the nomadic merchant at the triangular fork in southern caelid.
You haven't upgraded your main weapon and your health is kinda low for your level. Also I'm pretty sure you've gone past the hard cap for strength so some of those levels give you almost nothing in return.
As people have pointed out, your weapon is not upgraded. Aditionally, the soreseal is probably hurting you more than its helping.
It makes you take 15% more damage, for some stat points that usually arent worth it at your level. I would also get my vigor to at least 40, probably closer to 50 or even 60. Your stats arent super optimal, you have a bunch of points im faith and arcane (the bottom 2 attributes) that you arent using for anything. Additionally, two handing a weapon increases your strength by 50%, so if you two hand your greatsword, you only need 54 strength to reach the hardcap of 80 strength, and you only need 66 strength to reach maxcap of 99. You’re also missing a helmet which is a bit of a defense loss.
Upgrade your weapon at the round table hold using smithing stones. Upgrading your weapon increases the damage dealt, right now, you can see that your weapon only has 140+93 damage. This will improve substantially as you upgrade it.
I think the biggest issue outside of weapon level is 71 strength.
The hard cap might be 99 but every stat has a soft cap too. I don’t know strengths soft cap exactly but over it makes the levels do almost nothing, if not nothing. 71 is definitely higher then that soft cap and it’s making it harder to bump up other stats now.
I would respec at Rennala to fix this.
level up that weapon. go change your stats and get more vigor, jesus christ. Even if you absolutely want 70 strength you can just raise that with talisman/ mixed physique
Dex would’ve been at 65 and then put the extra points on vigor to have more HP.
And as someone else said here, upgrade your main weapon further, max it if you dare to have it be your go-to for the game.
just take advantage of all the functions in the game, i made the mistake of trying to play a certain way but in reality you need to change your strat from time to time.
There’s no wrong but I’d suggest you upgrade your weapon unless your doing some sort of challenge. Try cleaning up you inventory. Remove anything you don’t need immediately. Also determine what type of character your actually trying to play and upgrade your stats only for that. I think your playing some sort of knight, spellblade so focus on dex, and int. really depends on what you want to play. Pure strength upgrade endurance and strength, paladin- strength and faith, samurai- dex.
The weapon isn't upgraded enough, you need to bring it around plus 15 for your level.
You might want to use a heavy ash of war to improve the scaling and get more power from the weapon.
Your magic power is too low so put some more points in it; you're at 22 with intelligence so you can use more and better sorceries than those two so go buy some if you don't have them.
You need better armor so try new pieces together and look at your stats.
Speaking of sorceries you need a more appropriate magic staff, so equip one that powers up your most used sorceries.
Stop investing in strength for now because it won't help you anymore.
Your talisman slots are full of random ones, you need to use those more useful to compensate your weaknesses.
Equip less items in your slot items, you don't need so many of them or you'll have problems finding what you need in a critical situation.
I'd say these are the main things you can do to improve your character
bro it’s your weapon level. if you want the game to be easier level up your weapons. you’re a chad for getting that far on your first time with a level 1 weapon tho
It's more that you put all your points into Focus and barely anything into Intelligence.
If you want more spell damage you need intelligence.
Focus is for more ap and spell slots only.
Rebirth and drop your 20 points of strength into vigor, get 50hp/50 strength. And upgrade your weapon, should be a +9/10 at this point. Don't have to change it, but probably should. It's not a good option.
It's a video game. It's purpose is for you to have a good time 😆 that's all. As long you're having fun that's all that matters regardless of what fuckin redditers think.
Honestly OP, kudos to you for not giving up on the game and recognizing that something was wrong. All too many people would have just put the game down and given up there.
Okay, so you are making a strength build. This means you absolutely want a maximally upgraded strength weapon.
My suggestion would be to get your gargoyle great sword smithed up as much as you can, drop the bow (you do not need it always equipped) wear a helmet and armor that gives you more poise, and possibly drop the staff though it seems like spellcasting could be a minor secondary skill for your character.
If you do drop the staff I would respec all your points in intelligence into Vigor for more health. Try to get vigor to 40 or 45
Your build doesn’t really make sense at all. You need to pick a direction for your build to go in and do that. I do not see any point to this build, it’s seems like you chose items are individually strong and then used those together, but you’re not creating a cohesive set up. At least not that I can see. I would really suggest looking at your current stats, or even respecing, and then remaking your build. And also watching tutorials on YouTube about how to make good builds in Elden ring. It’s really easy once you understand what you’re supposed to be doing.
Upgrade weapon, put some more points into vigor. Also, try not to spread your stats out too much, otherwise you get several mediocre stats instead of a couple of very effective stats.
If you are at the end of the game, I recommend against Radagon Soreseal since it increases damage taken. Good for early game, but you're level 113 now.
1: Upgrade your weapon. Stats will only scale your damage so much, your weapon needs to be strong to keep up with late game enemies too.
2: Use weapons that scale with your stat of choice. You have 71 in strength, it would be wise to use a greatsword/heavy weapon to get the most damage possible out of a weapon. You can always reallocate your stats as you see fit as well by going to rennala.
3: You have too much in strength. Most stats cap out at around 40, so it would be wise to take 31 off of strength and put it into another stat like vigor.
4: Too much going in in your build. Using sorceries and a weapon + shield seems good, but all it does is stretch your attributes too thin, and at the point of the game you are in, you are going to struggle alot more than if you focused on one thing. If you wanna do sorceries, then upgrade your catalyst and spells and focus your stats into intelligence. If you wanna do melee, then upgrade a good strength weapon and keep the shield. Of course, you can do both at the same time, but the stats should reflect that. A sorcery + melee build isn’t gonna do too well if you are capped on strength and have little in vigor and intelligence.
Your first 2 talismans aren't helping you. Radagon's soreseal makes you take more damage and the starscourge emblem is pointless with that much strength
Upgrading your main weapon will be a massive upgrade. If you can get rid of the scar/sore seals then you will take less damage as well. But your levels don’t look overtly wrong and I can’t tell but are you heavy rolling? I can’t do math or speak the language so that I am not sure but doesn’t seem like you would be based on levels.
In this game weapon level gives more dmg than stats. There's a reason lvl 1 runs uses an upgraded Serpent Hunter. Stats help but only if you upgraded your weapon as it increases scaling.
You're lvl 113 and have only upgraded your main weapon one time. If that's not intentional, then this is about as close to "playing the game wrong" as one can get. You could ignore all other advice and just fix that one thing and your problem will be 99% solved.
Oonga Boonga build with a rolled up newspaper.
Laughed aloud to this. Thank you
Same! Lmao There are better ways to invest your stats and better choice in equipment but that’s not nearly as important as what the other comments have pointed out. Find a weapon or 2 that you love and max it out, there are only so many ancient stones in one playthrough and you’ll need some for staffs/seals as well so choose wisely.
Hell you are fine to beat the game with a +24/+9, the difference isn’t that big
Dangerous for a fly, not so dangerous for a dragon god
Turns out I was just out of lvl 1 forge stones :x up til now I was kinda mindlessly upgrading my weapons whenever I saw I could, but since I recently changed weapons I was out of basic materials.
Lmao no wonder you felt something was off. With that problem solved, your HP is a bit low but you already know that from the other comments.
Easy fix. Go to limgrave tunnels and get some lvl 1 smithing stones or lvl 1 somber stones. Upgrade your weapon then get the bell bearings for somber/normal stones. Then you can buy the stones from the twin husks in the round table hold without having to farm them.
Yup, exactly what I did, +20 weapon now!
now you're playing a completely different game! a fun one (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
Get the somber and normal bell bearings, infinite smithing stones
Opens picture* ok lower health, dayum 71 strenght, mby 1 or 2 less dex points , int for 2 spells sure, 71 str and 200 dmg oooooooo k.. what the fck is the weapon
Also looks like they might be in the capital of ash from the look of the stairs but it could also just be they only just entered leyendel
Yeah but also his vigueur est trop low
First off, your game is in French. /j
Couldn't find a way to put it in English sadly
Just joking, nothing wrong with French :) I think other folks summed it up nicely - upgrade weapon, remove Radagon talisman and spread some stats, you'll be fine afterwards.
I like my radagon talisman though
You take more damage with it equipped. Its amazing early game but not worth it by endgame.
Those free levels come with a steep price
You have to change your system language
A HUGE issue is having a +1 weapon. You could easily double your damage or more if you had it appropriately upgraded to your level (approximately +7 for somber weapons and +15~18 for regular weapons). As mentioned above you get upgrade materials in mines but also smithing bell bearings. Go to the merchant in Round Table Hold and give him all your bell bearings then buy the appropriate upgrade materials. And look for the mines on your map, they are fairly noticeable. As far as stat investment, you do have a small health pool. You could easily reduce your strength to 60 and pump the rest into health. I would also recommend reducing dexterity to the minimum required for you to wield your bow, your sword only needs 10 and there will be no noticeable change to damage output. Edit. Just for reference for my strength builds I try to have about 45-50 vigor at your stage of the game, 55-60 end game Strength should be anywhere from 60-80. 80 is the max as anything after is negligible returns. Edit2. Food for thought but you could respec your intelligence and put it into health, strength, or stamina. At 22 intelligence your Scholars Armament only adds a pretty minimal amount of damage. You could get the same/better results from Fire Grease which you can craft easily, thus getting rid of the need for Scholars Armament. Plus since you have a bow you won’t need Glintstone Pebble either.
Thanks for the very useful insight. Turns out I just lacked basic forge stones from upgrading different weapons to lvl1 but I had the rest. Thanks for telling me to give my bell bearings to the merchants, def helps. I got my weapons to +20 now. My damage more than doubled, my health increased, and I instantly overcame a fight I thought I had absolutely no chance in winning.
Yup. I tried to play blind, but I just had to google where to find those Smithing Stones (3) even though I already had enough of 4, 5 and 6 to upgrade my weapon to +16
Do certain weapons only.go to plus 10?
Standard weapons go to +25, and most magic(?) weapons go to +10
Okay makes sense, I'm using rivers of blood now and maxed it +ten but my bow is +19
Any weapon that uses somber smithing stones only goes to plus ten. Standard smithing stone weapons go to +25.
Damn you missed out. Rivers of Blood is still pretty good, but it was amazing on launch. I think it was nerfed more than once
Any other weapon that is as fast ,but with greater damage you'd suggest. Mainly wanting to stick to 1 handed swords.
Have you tried using twin blades? I like Eleonora’s Poleblade or the Godskin Peeler. Twin blades are pretty fun and have high dps. Rivers of Blood is still a fun weapon! If you’re set on using a bleed build, bump that arcane way up and use a head piece that buffs arcane or the White Mask. Then there are also several talismans that help bleed builds a lot
Thank you.
Another random note is that around 30-40 vigor/health, it becomes worth it to take off the soreseal to increase overall durability. You do have to be careful about managing your weight and dexterity to make sure you can equip everything you want, but you're at the point that the soreseal just makes things harder.
On top of the soreseal they're also taking extra damage from having no headgear of any kind. IIRC starting with DS3 you get a small multiplier to incoming damage for each empty armor slot. If you're still set on using the armour you currently have I'd reccomend slotting in something like a commoners headband, thief's mask or prophet's blindfold
The extra penalty is only a thing in ds3 I think. In er you only lose what protection the armor would give you.
Yup, same thing happened to me, I used the meteorite staff so I didn't worry about upgrading the staff but ended up I'm Leyndell with a +7
I had a slightly similar problem in my first game where I got teleported into Caelid very early in the game (gee, I wonder how that happened...), and ended up with a satchel full of +4/+5 sharpening stones - but had no idea where to get lower level stones for quite a while. So yeah, my damage was not great for the first 40 levels or so.
There’s no wrong way to pl… oh
\+1 weapon is that bad lol...
Upgrading your weapons will fix like 95% of all your problems. Do that and you should have a MUCH better time.
You have 71 invested into Force, so the first thing you should do, is get a lightsaber, for that is the weapon of a Jedi.
An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.
Age of More Civilized ending when
When I first zoomed in I saw that and thought this was a parody post. Then saw the +1 weapon and knew it had to be a parody post. It is not :(
I think the lightsaber actually scales with foi.
Thanks for the very useful advice everyone. Turns out I just lacked basic forge stones from upgrading different weapons to lvl1 but I had the rest. Thanks for telling me to give my bell bearings to the merchants, def helps. I got my weapons to +20 now. My damage more than doubled, my health increased, and I instantly overcame a fight I thought I had absolutely no chance in winning.
Well fought, tarnished. Don’t you dare go hollow.
W. Also an honorable mention is your stat investment. You could easily take some out of strength and throw it into vigor
Good shit but I find it so funny how you typed it like it's a infomercial. *With the simple product of a few smithing stones, my damage has doubled, my beard has grown, I fixed my marriage, and I'm not longer maidenless, buy today!*
I'm also no longer Maidenless, what a coincidence!
Good answers already, just a tip for Souls games in general though: Never put points into a stat without a specific reason to; the only exception to the rule being your Health stat. So for example here you had 26 DEX, way more than required for your gear, but aren't using a DEX weapon so you're getting essentially 0 return on your investment.
That's a remnant of when I was using a more ambivalent build in early game, now it makes more sense to respec indeed and that's what I did.
Fellas, say it with me: #Level vigor
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I've been playing Elden Ring for 150h and I like it but I feel like I'm struggling way more than I should. I feel like I'm not dealing nearly as much damage as I should at this stage in the game, especially compared to other players I see or tutorials I watch for stupid bosses. "It's easy to defeat Vyke just spam him with weapon arts" yeah well sry I deal 50x less damage than you my dude so it won't work. I like my playstyle, full strength and melee damage but with some minor sorcery for edge cases or weapon buffing. I manage to get through the game and honestly, the main bosses aren't too much of a problem, I manage. But more and more when I try to engage with side content I face a stone wall. I barely deal any damage to the Death Rite bird for example. That's a feeling I had for a while, but keep in mind I went to Caelid before going to Stormveil and sure it was tough but it was manageable. Now I feel like I'm but an ant to the enemies of the giants' peaks. Is it just normal or am I doing something wrong with my build? I also play for the drip but usually my resistance is not where I feel like I'm struggling, but if I really need to I will change armor for a fight. Thanks for the advice if any.
Stats seem okay. Might want to back off strength a bit and add some Vigor is you're struggling to stay alive, but my brother in christ you have a +1 weapon. You've got to upgrade that shit
Okay thanks. Well I try to but it seems I don't have the materials, which I don't understand cause I'm quite the scavenger
Yeah, weapon upgrades matter way more than stats as far as damage is concerned. Plus, you should look into changing the affinity of your weapon. If you can make it a heavy weapon the strength scaling will shoot up and benefit you even more. However, the dexterity scaling will go away. You can always change your stats at Renalla if you like. To put things into perspective, once you get to 80 strength, you've reached the "soft cap". Beyond that point, more strength will do next to nothing for you. In addition, I recommend that once you've upgraded your weapon, you should consider raising Vigor, and once Vigor is 35 without the Soreseal you should probably take it off. I'm surprised your main complaint isn't being killed constantly with a mere 32 vigor and a soreseal adding 15% to the damage you take. By the end of the mountaintops I had 50 vigor and I still felt like I was being bullied.
Some side bosses pack way too much of a punch but other than that I'm not struggling too much with my vigor, but it seems it's what I should shall upgrade next, kf leveling up wasn't an every 100 years occurrence in this game. Jeez 80 000 runes it's not often that I can reach this amount.
If you don't grind, (and you probably don't need to), you should expect to be around level 150 by the time you beat the game if you're doing most of the side content. Most of your levels are behind you at this point. However, your strength is barely benefitting you at all because of your unupgraded sword. By now a non-unique weapon should be about +20. Weapon scaling isn't just a matter of your stat and the letter grade. It scales relative to the base damage of the weapon, which can only be increased by upgrading it.
Good to know thanks
Check the mines around the world. They are on the map as a dark circle with an orange ring around them. Smithing stones and somber smithing stones are what you are looking for. You can also find the miners bell bearings to be able to buy stones from the twin maiden husks in the round table. Normal weapons go to +25 and somber weapons go to +10
Okay, this is a niche suggestion (especially because you said you got past your hurdle by upgrading your weapon and pumping your health), AND I totally respect fashion souls, but… Maybe put on a helmet. While it isn’t always relevant, head shots technically matter (there’s a crucible knight talisman that reduces damage from headshots). If you find yourself struggling again, especially against an enemy who seems to be launching attacks that might hit your head, any helmet should significantly protect you, even if its stats are garbage.
I will put some points from strength to vigor, bringing vigour up to 40 at least
Step 1) Remove Soreseal Taisman. (Not worth the DEF debuff at this level) Step 2) Upgrade your weapon. Like.. a lot. Step 3) Stop putting points into Force. (STR in English) You can realistically stop at 50 and two handing it will put you at roughly the stat cap. But without resetting your stats, just start dumping points into Vigor so you don’t get one shot by late game mobs.
Dude the fact that you reached level 113 with a +1 weapon is insane, lot of skill
Eh dawg. I'm sure you get Vigor checked at every possible moment with only 31 Vigor. Bump that up to 60 and not get 1 shot. Easy.
Espadon de gargouille… je préfère de loin le jeu en anglais XD D’ailleurs tu peux améliorer les armes et esprits, va voir le vieux forgeron à la table ronde et la petite fille en face, ils ça devrait t’aider pas mal car une arme+1 ne vaut pas grand chose surtout que tu as les 4 poches de talismans donc tu es déjà assez loin… Ps les armes peuvent aller jusqu’à +25 de mémoire sauf les légendaires qui nécessite moin d’anélioration
D’ailleurs les stats ont un soft lock donc à partir de 50/60 ça ne sers plus à grand chose de les améliorer, autant mettre ces runes ailleurs qu’en force maintenant Dex pourrait être pas mal vu l’arme que tu utilise ou si tu utilises des sorts régulièrement, int
Steam est en Anglais et Windows est en anglais mais le jeu s'est installé en Français et y'a aucune option pour changer la langue :( Oui en fait j'améliorai mes armes et tout déjà mais un peu à l'aveugle j'avais pas fait gaffe que pour celle ci il me manquait juste des pierres de forge de base, parce-que j'avais tout le reste déjà lol... +20 maintenant
Just came to say that I love how "arcane" became "ésotérisme" in French. I really think this would sound cooler in English if it was "esoterism" or something of the sort, even more because the game has the Astrologer class.
Level your vigor. Your vigor should always be on par with your main damaging stat. Once you level your vigor, the game will become a lot easier! Good luck fellow tarnished!
No, there is no inherently "wrong way" to play the game. Altho i would suggest upgrading your weapon. It will boost your damage output immensly.
I'd drop at least 11 points of strength, maybe 16, and redistribute to your vigor. Upgrade your sword and give it a heavy infusion.
I like to focus on just 2-3 attributes. I recently played through with a strength/dex/vigor build and beat every boss in the game. I put a little into endurance to get some stronger armor but ignored pretty much every other attribute. Also upgrading your weapons is huge.
Get that vig up to 50
Remove some force and put it somewhere else
VIGGGGORRRRR
71 strength with a +1 weapon 💀
Why is your weapon still at +1? You’re past 100 levels you should have been done with or very close to being done with the game, your weapons scaling is so low at +1 that those 71 points aren’t being used effectively. Getting this weapon to +7 at least asap and your damage should start popping off considerably. Also I’m not sure why you have random points dumped into Dex when you’re using a strength weapon that only needs 10 dex which you’ll have at base, don’t waste levels on stats you aren’t using, Last thing, the weapons have a soft and hard cap at roughly 60 and 80 so unless you’re going to 80 don’t bother taking it past 60, some more points in endurance for greater stamina better armour and equip load will be helpful, more vigor also wouldn’t hurt
+1 weapon . Get that bitch upgraded pronto .
Have you ever heard of smithing stones
The fact that you made it that far with a +1 weapons is mind blowing. Hats off.
Level up your weapon to +10 and vigor to 60, no need to have so much str because you get the max out of it when 2 handing at 66 str. Take off soreseal, it’s way past useful at this point
Are you a Jedi? That's a lot of force.
I recommend not using those spells u have slotted with such low intelligence, they will hardly do any damage, and take up time that u could be using with bow or other melee attacks. there's little point to using low level magic - incantations are another story since there are many more utility spells that don't require scaling, or that scale mostly off arcane. Some scaling incantations like rotten breath or poison mist can be effective with low faith, but it doesn't work that way with sorcieries - all sorceries are trash with low intellect you don't have a helmet - I'm pretty sure that means u are going to take 1-shot level headshot damage, but I can't remember how headshot damage is based. I get why u are doing it, because ur weight is at 69%, but u def need a helmet - consider arsenel or erdtrees favor talismans Get rid of Crimson Seed Talisman, it's trash - at least, there are way better alternatives That strength talisman is typically very good, but considering u have very high strength already, u are better off substituting a different talisman. google "elden ring softcaps" - typically u would use that talisman to "meet" the softcap, not go past it Soreseal is very good, but consider taking it off when u are struggling to survive. Take the staff off of your char to reduce weight. that shield is very good but are u actively guarding with it, or are u mainly two handing your sword? and if u are just looking to parry than consider a small shield such as the buckler
bros got a jedi build with 71 Force
You're not upgrading your weapons. You need smithing stones to upgrade your weapons -- un-upgraded weapons do far, far kess damage
Nah, you're just French.
If I remember right past 60 skills don’t scale as efficiently so I’d respec and allocate the 11 extra points somewhere else
You have too much str, which is kinda ok if you use your weapon one hand. You also have too much of the stats you don't use, such as int. Your dex should be at the minimum required to use your equipments since you're going a full str build
Please do upgrade your weapons as soon as you can, you should be hitting more than double that amount!
BRO WHERE IS YOUR VIGOR
for the love of god level your sword up
Blud killed the game with a +1 up to that point, imagine with a +25 💀💀
I mean your playing it in French if you were wondering
my dude you only have a +1 upgrade weapon. you will do like 5x more damage with a max upgrade weapon
the area you are in is also very difficult. at high levels, half the time I use the golden effigy I end up there. the other half I end up at Melania
Living the fact that strength translates to Force
What’s the summon that looks like two jars?!
[Soldjars of Fortune](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Soldjars+of+Fortune+Ashes), they're the small exploding jars. They're funny little fellows. They do a ton of damage, but they can hurt you as well so be careful using them.
When I was level 30 my Uchigatana was already at +6 so that‘s the issue you‘re having.
Vigor is important if you get hit
Yes. Go Dex
I would replace the soreseal. They're great early game but when you get to enemies that sometimes deal 1k damage, the damage received bonus hurts crazy bad.
Yes you are. The fuck are you doing
Bruh lol, level up your weapons
Would help to understand what everything means, first thing I’d recommend you do is change the language to English so you know what stuff means. /s
I couldn't tell you, I just jump around whipping things in the dick until they die.
Your strength is 71. The soft cap is 50. Reset it back down and invest in vigor and dex if that is your build
Vigor is too high. Lower all the way down and put the extra points into strength. Don't need health if you never get hit.
Looks like you got it figured out, weapon leveling is a big help. Also maybe level up Endurance if you want more stamina, it will help with that big sword.
A +1 weapon is the biggest issue here.Just pick which weapon ur gonna go for and upgrade it to the max (u should have a lot of smithing stones that far into the game) and for some more rarer smithing stones just look em up on yt or something
Your weapon might not be upgraded enough, so maybe that’s the problem. But you’re not playing it wrong, there’s no way to play this game wrong. There is one way to play, and that is to have fun.
I'm not sure what force is, but you probably don't need 71 points in it. Most stats have a major soft cap around 60. Also, your espadon is only +1. Should be nearly maxed by now.
Go ahead and message me if you need any help with specifics. I'm always down to help.
Tu vas bien. Continuez à essayer et vous gagnerez. Aussi, honte à vous d'utiliser le français. Je ne sais pas lire le français.
Wow je savais pas qu’on pouvait mettre le jeu en français hahaha
Please level up vigor to at least 40 if not 50. Your blood pressure will drop back down to normal so quick...
Fuck what they’re saying ab small hp. If you don’t get hit, you don’t have a problem -- Int main
The relatively low vigor is kind of a problem. If you're good enough, vigor is just to prevent you from accidentally getting one-shot
My French is bad but if I’m reading everything correctly you’re actually a little overleveled for where you are (I assume that’s Castle Sol? I can’t tell for sure). You need to upgrade your sword, and I would assume the rest of your equipment, otherwise you should be fine.
If you are going for strength only respec to make strength 80 for the hard cap, and upgrade your weapon which is level 1. And use melee focused talisman same for the physic. If possible go for a weapon with good strength scaling if upgraded to +10 it should be S. if all these are applied you have a kick ass build that will wipe bosses on the first run And have atleast 40 vigor end game requires 60. PVP requires how much you can put out
More Vigueur
Weapons shit. Respec vigor to 40. Upgrade weapon.
47 Vigor will allow you to get the most out of your flasks once they're fully upgraded (two sips will heal you nearly every time). Pretty much all of your talismans should be swapped for specific damage dealing ones. Bull Goat does nothing without a helmet and already decent armor. The additional damage recieved outweighs the stat boost of soreseal at this point. The other two are pretty much strictly early game.
my main advise for you would be that you REALLY need to level up your weapons, having a +1 Greatsword at level 113 is like going to a gunfight with a freaking nailgun lol, you'll be doing less than ideal damage to mostly anyone in the high level areas.
I don’t want to seem rude but beyond the non upgraded gear, your build seems very all over the place. I would recommend focusing on strength and vigor via respecing as you seem to me to be focused on melee, ditch your bow and staff and change your shield to a strength only medium shield. I would also recommend maybe finding different talismans, ditch the strength increasing one you have enough strength as is and having that is very not useful and maybe get something like an aresenal charm etc. You could also try a poise build and equipped some heavier armour (bull goat, Crucible, Tree sentinel, Lionel), especially with the bull goat talisman, and getting a larger shield if your okay with being slow, along with this increase your endurance. I use erdtree’s favour +2 in a lot of my characters because it’s just an in general talisman, you could use that instead of the curelean seed as it will serve you more use. Also organise your quick select and potientally focusing on upgrading a spirit of your chosing (which will probably be useful) and ditch the other spirits. That should hopefully allow you to play a more stream lined and powerful build, as a lot of your stuff isn’t really aiding your character. Hope this helps
Your high enough level to beat the game, just take it easy and don't get to angry
Dude yeah idk how your build is even optimized this bad, the games been out like a year 😅 I'd rebuild big time, get your vigor to 60, upgrade your weapon for now instead of dumping points into strength. Right now you have a sword that scales well with your stats, except it's not upgraded at all, so it's not actually scaling well at all yet you basically have high strength that is meaningless. Strength doesn't make you do more damage in itself, it lets strength affinity weapons benefit more from the scaling. Hitting hard with a cardboard sword won't do any damage no matter how hard you swing it. Upgrading the weapon allows it to have higher scaling so it can actually benefit from having high stats. Early game you wanna increase your damage by upgrading with smithing stones, basically all points into vig until it's at least 60. Any other points spent before that should basically just to be hitting minimum requirements for whatever weapons/spells you want to use. Having a few points in faith to be able to use golden vow goes a long way no matter what build you're using
Your strength shouldn't go over 66 unless you are one handing a weapon usually that's because when you two hand a weapon or item at 1.5 x your strength meaning that you're 66 becomes a 99 when two handed Edit: you should upgrade your weapon the max upgrade is 25 by the way you can also give it different scaling with ashes of war as long as you use a "wet blade" you need the iron wet blade for heavy scaling it increases your strength scaling you could also go with fire scaling
Get more endurance to swing your weapon and roll more, pick one weapon so you can equip better armor and a shield that blocks 100 physical (I’d recommend the brass shield) and try 2 handing your weapon
Dude you can level stuff other than strength up vigor helps
With strength like that, find the Giant Crusher hammer, upgrade it as high as possible. It'll solve the rest of the problems in no time
Nah he’ll leave it at lvl 1 lol
Also, you might want to invest more into Vigeur. 40 is the minimum you'll want for not getting killed in one hit from bosses later in the game, and 60 is a pretty standard amount for newer players who want more wiggle room. Generally you won't need as much of the other stats, only enough to reach the minimum recommended stat for the weapon you want to use. A majority of the weapon's damage will still come from upgrading it.
Yes. You do. There are level caps in the stats, there is a certain point where you are better investing in other things. Strenght I think is capped at 55 and then at 80, so if you are not going up to 80 you are wasting points. Same for your endurance, capped at 30 and 50. Also, using magic with only 22 INT? i hope is just for utility… (which i assume it is, like a quick spam/interrupt attack) Edit: lol I didn’t even notice the un-upgraded weapon… so yeah… def playing wrong but at level 113 it feels like it’s on purpose and then tis post is clickbait
More endurance, having better armor goes a long way, the simple fact that you don't have any headgear means you're taking WAY more damage than you normally would, consider buying the greathelm from the nomadic merchant at the triangular fork in southern caelid.
Tout le monde te l’a dit, ameliore ton arme
Too much vigor man
You haven't upgraded your main weapon and your health is kinda low for your level. Also I'm pretty sure you've gone past the hard cap for strength so some of those levels give you almost nothing in return.
As people have pointed out, your weapon is not upgraded. Aditionally, the soreseal is probably hurting you more than its helping. It makes you take 15% more damage, for some stat points that usually arent worth it at your level. I would also get my vigor to at least 40, probably closer to 50 or even 60. Your stats arent super optimal, you have a bunch of points im faith and arcane (the bottom 2 attributes) that you arent using for anything. Additionally, two handing a weapon increases your strength by 50%, so if you two hand your greatsword, you only need 54 strength to reach the hardcap of 80 strength, and you only need 66 strength to reach maxcap of 99. You’re also missing a helmet which is a bit of a defense loss.
Pretty sure these kinds of posts are now just rage bait.
Is this bait?
Upgrade your weapon at the round table hold using smithing stones. Upgrading your weapon increases the damage dealt, right now, you can see that your weapon only has 140+93 damage. This will improve substantially as you upgrade it.
Lol how you only upgrade your weapon once
What the fuck is this glass cannon build? Invest in vigor you will get 1 shoted by everything as you progress with this pitiful amount of vigor.
It reminds me of when I finished the game with only the basic katana holding it with one hand
I think the biggest issue outside of weapon level is 71 strength. The hard cap might be 99 but every stat has a soft cap too. I don’t know strengths soft cap exactly but over it makes the levels do almost nothing, if not nothing. 71 is definitely higher then that soft cap and it’s making it harder to bump up other stats now. I would respec at Rennala to fix this.
level up that weapon. go change your stats and get more vigor, jesus christ. Even if you absolutely want 70 strength you can just raise that with talisman/ mixed physique
Gosh French is so pretty,,,,, but ngl lost me at FOI LMAO
Vigor is too high
Dex would’ve been at 65 and then put the extra points on vigor to have more HP. And as someone else said here, upgrade your main weapon further, max it if you dare to have it be your go-to for the game.
just take advantage of all the functions in the game, i made the mistake of trying to play a certain way but in reality you need to change your strat from time to time.
There’s no wrong but I’d suggest you upgrade your weapon unless your doing some sort of challenge. Try cleaning up you inventory. Remove anything you don’t need immediately. Also determine what type of character your actually trying to play and upgrade your stats only for that. I think your playing some sort of knight, spellblade so focus on dex, and int. really depends on what you want to play. Pure strength upgrade endurance and strength, paladin- strength and faith, samurai- dex.
The problem here is you put 71 points in force when that’s not even what the miracle is called anymore.
Being level 113 while only having a +1 weapon is pretty rough, to be honest.
The weapon isn't upgraded enough, you need to bring it around plus 15 for your level. You might want to use a heavy ash of war to improve the scaling and get more power from the weapon. Your magic power is too low so put some more points in it; you're at 22 with intelligence so you can use more and better sorceries than those two so go buy some if you don't have them. You need better armor so try new pieces together and look at your stats. Speaking of sorceries you need a more appropriate magic staff, so equip one that powers up your most used sorceries. Stop investing in strength for now because it won't help you anymore. Your talisman slots are full of random ones, you need to use those more useful to compensate your weaknesses. Equip less items in your slot items, you don't need so many of them or you'll have problems finding what you need in a critical situation. I'd say these are the main things you can do to improve your character
71 strength with a +1 weapon must feel like getting tickled by the Incredible Hulk
bro it’s your weapon level. if you want the game to be easier level up your weapons. you’re a chad for getting that far on your first time with a level 1 weapon tho
It's more that you put all your points into Focus and barely anything into Intelligence. If you want more spell damage you need intelligence. Focus is for more ap and spell slots only.
If it works, your not wrong.
Marika's tits...
First mistake is playing it in some frog o lala language. You also need a lot more “Vigueur”.
Rebirth and drop your 20 points of strength into vigor, get 50hp/50 strength. And upgrade your weapon, should be a +9/10 at this point. Don't have to change it, but probably should. It's not a good option.
You're inventory is so disorganized imma pretend like I didn't see this post
I officially want Arcane to be renamed "Exoterism"
If you want it to be easier level vigor
Ésotérisme LOL. I love it, better than arcane. And, for the question: PLEASE UPGRADE YOUR WEAPONS.
oh god its a french quick burn it before it lays eggs
I duped enough golden runes for my friend to get to level 250 and he still struggled to beat the game, so don't feel too bad
It's a video game. It's purpose is for you to have a good time 😆 that's all. As long you're having fun that's all that matters regardless of what fuckin redditers think.
Mike Tyson hitting someone with a feather
You could do with some optimization, and level up your damn weapon all the way, but this isnt the worst ive seen on here tbh
The problem is that you're playing the french version of the game. Change to english and everything will be easier.
Honestly OP, kudos to you for not giving up on the game and recognizing that something was wrong. All too many people would have just put the game down and given up there.
Level up your weapon to +24 ASAP and remove your left talisman on the first slot. Also level up Vigor more, at least if you're dying to 2 or 3 hits.
Okay, so you are making a strength build. This means you absolutely want a maximally upgraded strength weapon. My suggestion would be to get your gargoyle great sword smithed up as much as you can, drop the bow (you do not need it always equipped) wear a helmet and armor that gives you more poise, and possibly drop the staff though it seems like spellcasting could be a minor secondary skill for your character. If you do drop the staff I would respec all your points in intelligence into Vigor for more health. Try to get vigor to 40 or 45
Upgrade weapon, and throw more into vigor. You need health homey.
Your build doesn’t really make sense at all. You need to pick a direction for your build to go in and do that. I do not see any point to this build, it’s seems like you chose items are individually strong and then used those together, but you’re not creating a cohesive set up. At least not that I can see. I would really suggest looking at your current stats, or even respecing, and then remaking your build. And also watching tutorials on YouTube about how to make good builds in Elden ring. It’s really easy once you understand what you’re supposed to be doing.
Upgrade weapon, put some more points into vigor. Also, try not to spread your stats out too much, otherwise you get several mediocre stats instead of a couple of very effective stats. If you are at the end of the game, I recommend against Radagon Soreseal since it increases damage taken. Good for early game, but you're level 113 now.
Yes
Points are evenly distributed would be a downside. Usually you’d put points into just the main stats that you’re going to be using
no dex, no magic, just straight gas
Bruh what are you even building lol
The game doesn't exactly explain well stuff tbh
1: Upgrade your weapon. Stats will only scale your damage so much, your weapon needs to be strong to keep up with late game enemies too. 2: Use weapons that scale with your stat of choice. You have 71 in strength, it would be wise to use a greatsword/heavy weapon to get the most damage possible out of a weapon. You can always reallocate your stats as you see fit as well by going to rennala. 3: You have too much in strength. Most stats cap out at around 40, so it would be wise to take 31 off of strength and put it into another stat like vigor. 4: Too much going in in your build. Using sorceries and a weapon + shield seems good, but all it does is stretch your attributes too thin, and at the point of the game you are in, you are going to struggle alot more than if you focused on one thing. If you wanna do sorceries, then upgrade your catalyst and spells and focus your stats into intelligence. If you wanna do melee, then upgrade a good strength weapon and keep the shield. Of course, you can do both at the same time, but the stats should reflect that. A sorcery + melee build isn’t gonna do too well if you are capped on strength and have little in vigor and intelligence.
Your first 2 talismans aren't helping you. Radagon's soreseal makes you take more damage and the starscourge emblem is pointless with that much strength
Upgrade weapons, maybe find something that scales better with strength/force?
RL113 and you have two spells equipped?
Yes. You're playing wrong. Upgrade your weapons.
Upgrading your main weapon will be a massive upgrade. If you can get rid of the scar/sore seals then you will take less damage as well. But your levels don’t look overtly wrong and I can’t tell but are you heavy rolling? I can’t do math or speak the language so that I am not sure but doesn’t seem like you would be based on levels.
Troll
You are playing a pure strength build and you're not using a weapon that is solidly capitalizing on that.
In this game weapon level gives more dmg than stats. There's a reason lvl 1 runs uses an upgraded Serpent Hunter. Stats help but only if you upgraded your weapon as it increases scaling.
There is no way..
Level up your weapons. Get blue juice. Use Ashes Of War on your weapons. Use talismans that make sense.
What the fuck
Please level up that weapon its my 2nd favorite in the game but all weapons are useless without any upgrade stones also maybe put some armor on