Elden Ring: PVP Builds Guide
Elden Ring has a rich and varied world that is more than willing to bop you on the bonce and send you back to Grace. Under the hood, however, is the dark, dank world of PVP. A place where players go to test their mettle, troll those in need, and harvest Rune Arcs like no tomorrow.
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As of writing, there is no dedicated PVP area or zone in Elden Ring, but that hasn’t stopped people from setting up fight clubs and cordoning off large areas of Elden Ring’s world for duels. If honorable combat is not your thing, then you could always Invade some and get a taste of the dark side.
A PVP build in Elden Ring is a build designed to kill another player as quickly and efficiently as possible. They use the best weapons, armors, spells, and talismans. Not only that but their stats are tuned to perfection to balance kill potential and survivability.
PVP in Elden Ring, despite being quite rudimentary on the surface, is a game in and of itself. Dabbling in PVP risks falling into hundreds of hours of intense battling, theory crafting, and number crunching.
Do be aware that Elden Ring, like any online game, receives regular patches and balance updates, so what was good one day, could be less good the next.
There are two ways players can access the PVP in Elden Ring - Invasion and Duelling.
Invasion is the hardest form of PVP a PVPer can partake in. You will be summoned to another player's world - often a world with one or more allied Phantoms - and are tasked with killing the host. Winning a 3v1 encounter is not exactly easy, but the reward for succeeding is great. Runes and Rune Arcs await skilled Invaders.
Oh, and sometimes more Phantoms will be summoned automatically called Hunters. Invasions
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