Elden Ring: 8 BEST Builds [700+ Hours Experience]

For a Dexterity and Intelligence build in Elden Ring, focus on the following character attributes:

• Increase Dexterity to 20 levels for improved weapon damage.
• Raise Intelligence to 50-60 levels to enhance spell effectiveness.

Secondary attributes:

• Invest around 30 levels in Mind for faster spell casting.
• Allocate 25-30 levels to Vigor for increased health.
• Put 15-20 levels into Endurance for better stamina.

Avoid leveling stamina, faith, and arcane. If you need more runes, why not read the Best Elden Ring Rune Farming Spots guide?

Creating a Faith and Strength build is challenging and ideal for Soulsborne veterans. However, it’s tough in the early game, requiring grinding to acquire the best lightning and holy spells.

You’ll need to defeat dragons for a Dragon Heart item and buy dragon spells, which demand at least 20 Arcane levels.

• With this Faith and Arcane build, you’ll excel at ranged damage, prioritizing ranged playstyle over melee.
• Aim for Faith at 50, Arcane at 30-40, and Mind at 30 levels.
• Stock up on Golden Seeds and Sacred Tears for your flasks.

For secondary attributes, I invested in Vigor (25-30), Endurance (15-20), and Dexterity (20) to reduce casting time.

My next favorite build is the pure sorcery or pure intelligence build. The Comet Azur build is a prime example of this approach, capitalizing on magic’s effectiveness against nearly 80% of the game’s bosses.

• Invest heavily in intelligence, aiming for at least 60 levels, and bolster Mind to 30-35 levels. This maximizes your sorcery’s potential.
• Focus on secondary attributes such as Vigor (30), Stamina (15), and Dexterity (20) to reduce spell-casting times.
• Ignore Faith and Arcane for this sorcery-focused build.

Utilize a staff as your primary weapon, with the option to wield a secondary weapon for lesser foes, although it becomes less necessary in the mid to late game.

The pure lightning attacks caster build in Elden Ring offers versatility and powerful ranged and AoE damage. You can use lightning incantations, thunderbolts, and lightning spells to deal with enemies and bosses effectively.

• To excel in this build, prioritize Faith at 60 and Mind at 30-35.
• Vigor should be raised to 30, and Endurance and Dexterity can be kept at 15-20 levels.
• Avoid investing in Strength and Arcane, except for keeping Strength at a minimum of 15.

Strength and Faith are primary attributes if making a Darth Maul build is your focus in the game.

One of the writers here at eXputer has already curated an Elden Ring Darth Maul build guide, which lists how to collect gear, weapons, incantation, and other necessary items required to make Darth Maul build in the game. This is one of my personal favorite builds, thanks to it having no downsides.

The best strength build should be the one that can give you high survivability in the Elden Ring by rocking the heaviest armor pieces, shields, and weapons. Using a strength build has less to do with dealing with the highest DPS and more with making the boss feel worthless and challenging to kill you. After all, any tarnished one who equips heavy armor, shield, and weapon will be a menace to look at.

The Elden Ring Greatsword build is the closest and most accurate description of the ultimate Strength build in the game. You can get a decent armor set and an amazing greatsword at the very start of the game. 

Bandit build in Elden Ring can be easily made further into archery or bleed build as well. This starting class mainly focuses on dexterity and strength and that is why has the perfect balance between approaching enemies from range using arrows or up close and personal using melee weapons.

The primary character attributes for this playstyle or build are Dex and STR, because the ranged damage from bows, and crossbows scale excellent as you level up Dexterity and strength levels. You may check Elden Ring Bow Build as well.

• The Bandit starting class is the perfect character you should start Elden Ring if you want to create an archery-focused build from early on.
• You should keep Strength up to 45 and Dexterity to 35-45 for an effective archery build in the game.

Armor Set

You can pick any armor set you want while rocking the archery build. However, for the Bleed build in Elden Ring, I’d recommend picking the Royal Remains armor set, as it looks cool while rocking the bleed build in the game.

Other than that, if you’re going for the archery bandit build in Elden Ring, then I’d recommend going with the White Reed Set with Okina Mask as a headpiece. 

The vampire build has a heavy focus on draining the enemy’s health upon killing them hence the term vampire.

This is not an official build as no item or weapon you equip while rocking this build comes with the term “vampire”. However, the name just fits right since your lowly tarnished character can suck enemies’ health after killing them.

One of my fellow writers has also curated a mid-to-late game Elden Ring Vampire build that entails the best weapons, talismans, and armor sets. It also focuses on how to get each of the items to make the perfect vampire build in the game.

To make this build you’d need to reach and access mid-to-late game content. Killing the Rykard boss would be the start since you need that great rune to get a weapon that drains the enemy’s health.