Elden Ring Vagabond Build Guide – The Best Vagabond Builds

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You’ve started a new Elden Ring save. You’ve been sent far from your home. Maybe you’re a traitor, maybe you’re part of a long-lost kingdom. Whoever you once were, now you’re a Vagabond. If you want to survive The Lands Between, you’re going to need to know a few things about this build.

Your Vagabond comes clad in heavy armor with a badly beaten shield. You may immediately notice that your roll speed is quite slow from the encumbrance. You can mitigate that by pumping points into your endurance, which we recommend you do anyway since you’re going to be tanking a lot of hits with our shield in this build. Your character is going to be baiting out openings with their shield, delivering guard counters, and landing heavy attacks to stagger enemies, so endurance is going to be the MVP for this run.

Lots of strength and vitality will make for a powerful Vagabond. We recommend a few points in faith for this build as well. You’ll gain access to some strikingly potent tools with 12 faith like the Golden Halberd and the Bloodflame Blade incantation.

The Vagabond starts with a halberd, a longsword, and a shield with 100% damage reduction. This loadout in some form or another is going to carry you through the game. Taking down the Tree Sentinel early on and topping off your faith to the minimum requirement gives your Vagabond a massive damage boost in the early game. The Golden Halberd will most likely become your favored weapon; its damage output is respectable while the range, attack speed, and stagger damage will give you an edge in boss battles. 

In the mid to late game, you’re going to start coming across more enemies with resistance to your holy damage, by the time you reach the Altus plateau we