Elden Ring patch 1.03 busts your build

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Elden Ring has got its first significant shakeup thanks to patch 1.03. Alongside some neat new additions and performance-boosting fixes, you’ve got some pretty sweeping balance changes. Essentially, your build might be busted if you’ve been using one of Elden Ring’s better weapons or items.

The update decreases Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp’s damage and increases cast time, which certainly dents a few popular Elden Ring speedrun strategies. FromSoftware has also fixed a bug with Ash of War, Determination, and Royale Knight’s Resolve that applied damage buffs to other weapons without those skills. Sword of Night and Flame’s weapon skill has also been lowered, which affects damage.

The Elden Ring team has also shrunk the damage spirit summons do when the Mimic Tear Item is used and changed their overall behaviour. There are “other enemy and weapon balance changes”, too, though FromSoftware hasn’t listed them. Looking on Reddit, a few players report that the Moonveil Katana has been cut down to size.

It’s not all bad news, though. The latest Elden Ring patch adds the ability to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter them, which is handy. There’s also a new NPC called Jar-Bairn and more quest phases for Diallos, Nepheli Loux, Kenneth Haight, and Gatekeeper Gostoc.

Bug Fixed

Balance Changes

For more of the best Elden Ring builds that haven’t been broken by the patch, you can follow that link.

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