Elden Ring: Weapon Scaling Explained
Before its release, Elden Ring was being touted as FromSoftware's most accessible game yet, and to a certain extent, this is pretty true. The ability to summon players and spirits, Stakes of Marika acting as boss checkpoints, and a non-linear structure allowing newcomers to take on challenges only when ready all help to make this a great entry-level Souls-like, but the game doesn't tell new players everything.
Though the game's brief tutorial will teach a player the basic controls, it does little in the way of explaining some of the game's more complex mechanics. Power stances, and equipment loads, for example, are barely even mentioned. While players can get through quite a bit of Elden Ring without knowing its more complex mechanics, weapon scaling is a feature that is vital to Elden Ring's mid-late game.
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When it comes to taking on Elden Ring's tougher bosses, weapon scaling can play a massive part in how much damage a player is outputting. Put simply, most weapons scale based on a specific attribute, meaning that the more points that are put into that attribute, the stronger the weapon becomes.
To use a specific example, the Short Sword has a physical attack power of 102 but also has an additional number following a "+" symbol. The «102» marks the weapon's base damage, a stat that can only be increased by upgrading the weapon via Smithing Stones at a Blacksmith. However, the additional damage stat of the Short Sword is increased via weapon scaling.
When looking at the inventory menu, a weapon's scaling stats can be found underneath the Attack Power section, in a space marked «Attribute Scaling.» For the Short Sword, this section says that the weapon has Strength scaling in class
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