Elden Ring Build Guide: Scarlet Rot

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Elden Ring is jam-packed with unique weapons that allow players to experiment with just about any play style imaginable. Even status ailments like Scarlet Rot can be turned into lethal builds capable of killing everything from basic enemies to late-game bosses. It’s time to harness your inner Malenia and nuke Caelid all over again.

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Scarlet Rot builds by themselves are deadly enough, but thankfully, there are plenty of ways of building them to cover all manner of situations. Just because you are planning on giving enemies the Rot, doesn’t mean you can’t cause severe hemorrhaging or Frostbite at the same time.

Scarlet Rot builds are all about infecting enemies with the potent damage over time debuff, Scarlet Rot. Scarlet Rot is like Poison but on steroids. It will rapidly burn through an enemy's health pool, and providing you don’t die before it burns them away, you should be able to tackle the vast majority of Elden Ring’s challenges.

Because we are trying to kill enemies with damage over time, we need plenty of HP to soak up damage whilst we wait for them to die. This is all fine and dandy since we can just pump our Vigor to 60 and wait out the timer.

The core of this build is Arcane, which we have pumped to 60(ish). This will make everything from Bleed to Scarlet Rot more effective. It will also make our Arcane scaling weapons and spells much more effective. This is the most important stat for this build.

Whilst not as important as Arcane, Faith will be required to make this build click. We have pushed Faith to 15 to give us access to Rot Breath, among other things. This is one of the strongest Incantations in the game, and it primarily scales on Arcane but requires a small