Elden Ring: Best Keepsakes To Pick During Character Creation
Elden Ring is a game designed with a focus on player choice, and that begins during character creation. While you have no shortage of options available to you for crafting the perfect visual representation of yourself, that's not the only decision you'll have to make, as you'll also need to decide which Keepsake you'd like to start the game with.
Keepsakes are the equivalent of Gifts from the Dark Souls series, providing you with an item (or stack of items) to take with you at the beginning of your journey. Some of them can be extremely valuable, while others are considerably less so. You can also opt not to take a Keepsake at all if you want to be hardcore, but for everyone else, here's the lowdown on your options and which ones are worth consideration.
This Keepsake is likely the best choice for most players, as it grants you increased HP right out the gate. You'll likely find better and more versatile talismans a few hours into the game, but being able to take an extra hit without dying can prove immensely helpful in the opening hours.
This rune can be used to grant you a decent amount of runes to spend on leveling or items at the beginning of the game. While more runes are always nice to have, simply killing enemies will earn you plenty of them early anyways, making this Keepsake a fairly poor choice for most players.
Golden Seeds are used to permanently upgrade the number of charges in your healing flask by resting at a Site of Grace and applying them. You'll get a lot of these through exploration throughout your adventure, but this is one of the best Keepsakes because more survivability is always welcome.
These Spirit Ashes can be used after obtaining the Spirit Casting Bell, providing you with spectral allies to
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