How to play the Samurai in Elden Ring – Best Strategies and Weapons

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The Samurai is a versatile class geared towards melee, ranged battle, and can also utilize magic well enough. The Samurai starts at level 9, which is a bit higher than other classes, and has above average Vigor, Strength, Endurance, Mind, along with high Dexterity. It comess with the Uchigatana, the Longbow, some arrows, and the Red Thorn Roundshield. The Samurai focuses on speed and range, so unless you’re adamant about blocking, the shield is unnecessary.

Despite seeming like a non-magic class, FP will play a factor as the Samurai if you choose to stick with the Longbow. Having distance between you and the enemy is never bad, and the Longbow has a powerful Art of War with the Mighty Shot. The Mighty Show is an attack that takes a little longer to wind up, but deals a significant amount more damage than a regular bow attack. The only problem is that it consumes FP, so if you want to continuously fire off Mighty Shot, you’ll need to raise your FP or allocate your flasks to regain lost Focus Points.

At the beginning of the game you may have issues with running out of arrows, but they are easy enough to farm. First, go to the Church of Elleh, which the game will naturally guide you to at the start of the game, and talk to the merchant there. Buy the crafting kit and the recipe books for arrows and attacking any sheep around Limgrave to get their bones required for the recipe. Later in the game, you can simply buy arrows with the abundance of runes you’ll have.

The Uchigatana is your starting melee weapon, and as far as starter equipment goes, it’s quite good. It has a great piercing dash heavy attack, and the basic attacks can be pulled off in quick succession. The Uchigatana is the main reason you’d want to get rid of