Top 5 DLC Builds You Need To Try Now! (NO SPOILERS) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

PVE ONLY. Best builds to use for the DLC or the base game. Elden Ring Patch 1.12. Amazing Strength, Dexterity, Faith, Intelligence, Arcane builds.

INTRO 0:00
STRENGTH 0:44
DEXTERITY 4:52
FAITH 8:35
INTELLIGENCE 11:54
ARCANE 15:01
COOL BOSS STRAT 18:25
NEXT VIDEO? 19:01

[LunarValkyria]

props for an arcane build that doesn't revolve around bleed.

[griegomas]

Youwy living and breathing the DLC right now.

[gabrielhaering]

That last build is unexpectedly strong. I tried it and besides being really fun it does incredible damage. Thanks for the great build!

[HAVIN_aBLAST]

For the milady, i actually went with a black flame blade build. The milady just felt like the perfect weapon for black flame blade for a couple of reasons:
- The one handed moveset is very fast and has insane range, especially tap R2 lunges really far forward with a double swipe
- since black flame doesn't stack but only reset on each hit, the speed of the milady is the perfect middle ground for black flame
- the flowing combo structure of the weapon ensures that you can maximize every second of the short black flame buff duration.
- As Youwy said, wing stance r1 can combo into another r1 or r2, making it just super optimal for hiting black flame

Edit: for those interested in the build
rune lvl 150 build

Vigor: 45
Mind: 28
Endurance: 32
Strength: 12
Dex: 53 (58 with Millicent's prosthesis)
Int: 7
Faith: 42
Arcane: 10

Right hand 1: keen Milady with wing stance
Right hand 2: black knife
Left hand 1: godslayer seal

Talismans: old lord's, two headed turtle, Millicent's prosthesis, erdtree favor+2

Armor: godskin apostle set with high page clothes (altered) for the drip

Spells: black flame blade (ofc) and a bunch more buffs (golden vow, blessing of the erdtree, other defense buffs) to make use of old lord's talisman.

With this build, you will have enough fp and stamina to keep buffing, attacking and dodging without having to worry about any of those running out. With the armor you also get the benefit of light roll and the 3 godskin pieces buffing the black flame.

Personal recommendation: i'm only making a light roll low vigor build to experiment with stuff i haven't played with before and to allow for high faith to try out new incants i'll find in the dlc. If you're only interested in the life drain property of black flame, i recommend only getting to 17 faith (25 if you want to use golden vow) and getting at least 60 vigor. With the high endurance you'll also be able to optimise for really high poise armors if you don't mind medium rolling

[theycallmesquishyyy]

small correction, the two-handed-Sword Talisman only effects Guard counters, light, jump and heavy attacks. It doesn't effect things that are based on base AR alone such as crits and skills. This is important to note as guard counter builds often rely on criting, especially with elemental damage weapons, so no it isn't increasing your crit damage either, (this is why lightning typically has a higher crit damage than any other infusion)

[benro]

Smithscript shield is such a goated backup weapon on strength build. Who needs mages when youve got a perfectly good projectile right there?

[FMOptimist]

of all things I love about new dlc weapons/ashes I think poison builds being extremely viable now is easily the most hype

[ngrey]

Great, gonna try doing whole playthrough with Milady now. I’d like to see top 10 or 25 best weapons (preferably of the dlc)

[axelviskaren]

Top 10 or 25 best new weapons would be very appreciated

[buddhajew]

It’s nice to not be clickbaited and have info thoroughly explained ! Subbed

[jstar]

Milady really works on any build, it has good scalings across the board. Obviously keen is going to work best, but it's not lacking in any department

[Berserker]

Thanks Youwy. Don't need to watch any other Elden Ring content creators when you provide all the information I need and then some. <3

[Zihq]

I went for a blood milady, just seemed the logical thing to do. Got like 55 dex 50 arc and blood doesn't have much less dmg than keen, but gets 110 bleed, so it procs constantly with the fast hits. Absolutely one of my favorite weapons of all time, the moveset is just beautiful.

[bradencosier]

Those Faith and Arcane builds look like heaps of fun. Not just a powerful build, but built around a unique mechanic.

I'm currently running something similar to the Dexterity build

[Dishstony]

One other note for the poison build: you can carry the deadly poison perfume bottle and use it to proc your poison damage buffs at the start of the fight. The aow on it procs poison on you, so you can do it then take a bolus right before going into a fight for a whole lot of damage boosts right out the gate.

[benro]

With blade of mercy and 2h talisman, any sort of jump attack or charge attack build works even better than before on a strength build now

[mattgreen]

That faith build is awesome. I didn't know about the unique guard counter on that mace.

[fugonee]

Bro the wing stance just gives you so much aura

[madengineerkyouma]

A good arcane build I've been trying is Occult Beast Claws with Dragon Claw/Dragon Maw and the Rock Heart, using the consecutive hits talismans and blue dancer charm. The strategy is to build up consecutive attack buffs with the Beast Claws ash of war and then use the physical Dragon incantations for massive damage.

[hereticFox]

The hand to hand weapons, well dryleaf arts at least, feel super strong to me even better then fist weapons