What is the Best Starting class in Elden Ring? #eldenring #eldenringbuilds #eldenringreview

Here is IN MY OPINION the best starting class in Elden Ring.

[igormussororo]

The absolute best is definitely the wretch... U get a mace with roar and are left alone in the world... What else would one ask for?

[mukymakazuki]

For the people that chose the "wrong" start. You can become whatever you want later in the game. Dont stress yourself and have fun.

[raulduke]

Lets be honest, it doesnt matter whon you started with, its what you do with the character

[Dayton_M]

I honestly enjoyed the Prisoner quite a bit. I've always liked being able to do hybrid classes in games like Elden Ring.

[preknopreguntesporqueminom]

Confessor. Nice stat spread, good starting weapon, 100% physical reduction shield, useful spells, amazing drip.

Of course, it depends on what you want to focus on and the build you're looking for (among many other factors) but I think that The Confessor is somewhat underrated

[Fayrinn_]

Confessor is the best because it gives you an additional broadsword (highest DPS infusible straightsword), which means you can dual wield them without NG+

[johnmcdoesntexist]

“Drip is the most important”
Hence why I chose prisoner for my first run, bosses are lucky there isn’t a charisma stat because one look at that helmet and they would be gone.

[LJK]

Hot take: the Warrior is extremely good. Powerstanced curved swords have arguably the best moveset in the whole game, and you get them right away. Also the fit is pretty tough

[thatlittlemonstrosity]

samurai for easy start
vagabond for flexibility
wretch if you know what you’re doing
the rest is if you already decided on a specific play style in which case you don’t really need any advice for starting class

[MichaelFowler-bufd]

Samurai is the only class I would attempt a starting equipment run. In fact that sounds fun, I think I will attempt this.

[subpar_username]

Wretch gets to have the most fun. Just about any piece of equipment you find at the start is an upgrade, so it’s more exciting.

[DarkSeraph]

Vagabond has the most rounded stats to br whatever you want

[PabloEskimofo]

I did samurai my first couple playthroughs and have moved onto Warrior now. I’ve begun to enjoy guard counters and parrying quite a lot, never was good at it until I tried more often thanks to the new physick from the DLC

[jvbdhpl]

Even though I agree with the statement, I feel like vagabond or warrior are better for the weapons they do get (they don’t get bleed but they get mutiple) meaning you have some great armor (vagabond) or one of the best builds (jump attacks with the dual curved swords) the bleed argument for the uchi is not relevant since you can get either an uchigatana (or Nagakiba if you are a monster and kill Yura), bleed can be accessed with just bloody slash from the Godrick knight from a nearby fort (I forgot the name of the fort).

Vagabond is a great introduction to multiple weapons and warrior is a great starting class for dps and optimization (and the drip is underrated).

Correct me if I’m wrong and I’m sorry if I made a mistake writing about the vagabond or warrior class.

Edit: and the drip from the samurai is not that far since you can get it from a merchant in dragonbarrow.

[filingram]

Hero then you rush the large club. Ungabunga till the credits roll.

[ryynerwicked]

The samurai is cool an all but that wretch tho ... thats where its at!!

[springbonneh]

I mean, I for one chose prophet and I absolutely love it.

You start with an enemy melter, and the most faith out of all the starting classes, meaning you have a head start in incantations. Additionally, you also start with an incantation that two shots revenants and the undead. To be fair, confessor also has it, but hey, it’s my first run.

[autumn.raider]

Forgot to mention that it also has the best armor setup. While vagabonds armor is better in stats, samurai gets more endurance and the armor is lighter which means you get to midroll with all of the equipment

[jacobtridef]

Best one, is whichever one has the closest stat allocation for the build/weapon you’re trying to run tbh

[joshuahusher]

Samurai is the hest class because you have early game bleed plus you can power stance with the other Uchigatana you get in one of thr catacombs and it has arrows which make it very very easy to beat the grafted scion even a beginner can do it