Elden Ring Build Guide: Bleed
There’s no wrong way of playing Elden Ring. Just about any weapon, build, and playstyle can be used to get through the Lands Between. That being said, there is one build archetype that is more right than most - the Bleed build. One could say it is the least wrong way to play.
Related: Elden Ring Build Guide: Strength
Bleed builds combine the raw damage of a good weapon, the beefy stats of a great character, and the ludicrous amounts of percentage damage that Bloodloss inflicts. When it comes to damage per second, very few builds can compete with Bleed, and the ones that can lack the versatility a sharp sword brings.
Bleed builds are designed to kill an opponent as quickly as possible, no matter their health, through the use of Blood Loss. You go in, you hit an enemy enough times to fill an invisible bar, and then suddenly - boom. Your opponent explodes in a shower of blood, they take massive percentage damage, and they are staggered letting you do it all over again.
Not every enemy can be bled, but the ones that can will be dead before they can react to your presence.
The first thing to note is that we have pumped out Vigor to 60. This will give us a healthy health pool that will give us more opportunities to deal damage since we won’t be dead. Vigor, unlike many other Soulsborne games, is vitally important in practically every build you will make. 60 is the hard cap, and we want to hit it.
Next, we have Arcane, which is 45, which is around the soft cap for Bleed build-up. Not only will this make our Bleed weapons more damaging in terms of raw damage, but it will also make them much more effective at nailing those juicy Bleed procs. You could push some extra points into Arcane if you want, however, Dexterity could be a
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