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The video provides an in-depth guide to the top dexterity builds for various stages in Elden Ring, detailing strategies for early through late game and New Game Plus. It emphasizes the unique benefits of dexterity builds, particularly in combination with intelligence for spellblade setups. Key builds include:
1. **Noble Swordsman:** An early game build using straight swords and the Square Off skill for breaking enemy stances.
2. **Supreme Samurai and Thundering Sword Spear:** Early game setups with a focus on precise, high-damage attacks using the Nagakiba sword and the Guardian Sword spear respectively.
3. **Thunderbolt and Blood Hound:** Flexible builds leveraging ranged attacks and high mobility with weapons like the Blood Hound Fang.
4. **Lightning Dragon:** A level 150 build using the Bolt of Gransax for physical and lightning damage.
5. **Golden Champion and Black Knife Assassin:** Advanced melee builds utilizing unique weapon skills for versatile and rapid attacks.
6. **Black Flame Bushido:** Combines dexterity and faith for enhanced damage output through black flame spells.
7. **Serpent Samurai and Waterfowl Warrior:** New Game Plus builds focusing on poison and high-damage weapon skills like the Serpent Bone Blade and Hand of Malenia Katana.
8. **Soul Samurai and Scarlet Spear:** Dexterity and intelligence hybrids optimized for both melee and sorcery damage, alongside status effects like Scarlet Rot.
9. **Vamper Knight:** A tanky build focusing on health regeneration through high vigor and weapons like the Butchering Knife.
Overall, the video provides detailed strategies to optimize dexterity builds for various combat scenarios in Elden Ring, concluding with a promise of future content focused on dagger builds.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, the creator discusses the top 15 dexterity builds for Elden Ring, segmented by game progress (early, mid, late, and New Game Plus). Dexterity builds are highlighted as being in a unique position because of differing strength scaling mechanics when two-handing weapons. The video notes that while specific dexterity-scaling weapons exist, they are fewer compared to strength-scaling ones, and dexterity especially benefits spellblade-type builds combining dex and intelligence.
The first build covered is the “Noble Swordsman” for early game (level 50), focusing on using straight swords (Noble Slender Sword or Lord Sword) with the Square Off weapon skill to break enemy stances and execute critical strikes. This method is effective for quickly defeating bosses by breaking their stance in two hits.
Next, the “Supreme Samurai” build is introduced, another early game dexterity-focused setup utilizing the Nagakiba sword, set to Keen scaling, for a similarly strategic approach. This build leverages the class’s versatility to focus on precise, high-damage attacks.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker details several weapon builds in a game, focusing mainly on dexterity-based configurations. They describe the “noble swordsman” build, which leverages unath R2 for stance breaking bosses, and bleed buildup for significant damage, enhanced with additional buffs like blood grease, fire, or lightning. The “Magus” build combines dexterity and intelligence with a high critical rating rapier and the ashore glimp blade failinks for quickly staggering enemies and performing critical strikes. The use of Assassin Cillian dagger enables frequent weapon skill usage without FP management issues. Finally, the “Thundering sword Spear” build utilizes the Guardian Sword spear and the ash of War Thunderbolt, optimizing dexterity scaling for high attack speed and damage output.
00:06:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker outlines several character builds and strategies for a game.
1. **Thunderbolt Build**: This build allows players to eliminate enemies from long range without engaging in melee, using Thunderbolt. For melee combat, equipping a jellyfish shield boosts damage. As stats improve, adding abilities like Flame Grammy Strength and Electrify Armament can further increase damage.
2. **Storm Blade Build**: Suitable from early game, this build pairs a greatsword with the Storm Blade Ash of War, recently buffed to cause both blade and projectile damage. The tactic involves using the L2 press for fast attacks that deal significant damage at range.
3. **Blood Hound Build**: Usable from early game, this build leverages the Blood Hound Fang and its skill, Blood Hound’s Finesse, for high mobility and decent damage. The weapon also has a native bleed buildup, which can be augmented with various buffs for enhanced damage.
4. **Lightning Dragon Build**: For level 150, it uses the Bolt of Gransax weapon, dealing physical and lightning damage. Its Ancient Lightning Spear skill can be charged for extra damage and long range. The strategy revolves around using a great shield to block and counter while dealing lightning damage.
These builds provide flexible combat strategies suitable for various stages of the game.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on discussing different level 150 builds for the game. The first build mentioned is the “Golden Champion” build, which uses the ornamental straight sword that players can obtain early by defeating the grafted Cion boss – a challenging feat for new characters. This weapon allows versatile combat styles, including dual-wielding and single-handing with significant damage potential when buffed.
Next is the “Black Knife Assassin” build, which utilizes dual Ur steel daggers scaling with dexterity and faith for high physical damage, complemented with the black knife’s weapon skill for strategic attacks. This build emphasizes rapid attacks and agility, using skills like Quick Step or Bloodhound Step.
The final build discussed is the “Black Flame Bushido” build, an advancement of the Supreme Samurai build, combining dexterity with significant faith investment. This hybrid build enhances damage output via black flame spells, making it more versatile than the purely dexterity-focused Supreme Samurai.
00:12:00
In this segment, the video discusses three specific builds for advanced gameplay.
1. **Serpent Samurai Build (Level 150)**: This build uses the Serpent Bone Blade, which builds up deadly poison instead of bleed. The poison acts faster but does less damage than regular poison. It incorporates the blade’s unique charged R2 attack for triggering damage-boosting effects and uses items like Mushroom Crown to further enhance damage, focusing on a distinctive poison samurai playstyle.
2. **Waterfowl Warrior Build (New Game Plus)**: Utilizing the Hand of Malenia Katana, this build aims to maximize the weapon’s skill, Waterfowl Dance, which hits repeatedly but doesn’t generate much bleed. Instead, it focuses on increasing damage output through effects like Winged Sword Insignia and boosting stamina and poise to manage the skill’s high stamina consumption and long wind-up time.
3. **Soul Samurai Build (New Game Plus)**: A dexterity and intelligence hybrid build, it uses the Nagakiba enhanced with Scholar’s Armament to deal significant melee and sorcery damage. High dexterity and intelligence are required to maximize both physical attacks and spell casting, making this an effective but attribute-intensive build for advanced stages.
4. **Scarlet Spear Build (New Game Plus)**: This spear build uses dual Rotten Crystal Spears to inflict the Scarlet Rot status. Obtained late in the game, this build focuses on rapid L1 attacks to apply Scarlet Rot quickly, enhancing status effect damage.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the content focuses on strategies for boosting attack power in New Game Plus, highlighting the efficacy of Scarlet Rot and related equipment like Kindred Rot’s Exultation and the Mushroom Crown. It also mentions using the Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent’s Prosthesis, and the Spear Talisman to enhance rapid attacks. The segment then introduces the “Vamper Knight build,” which emphasizes high Vigor and weapons like the Butchering Knife to regain health per hit, making the player very tanky and hard to kill by consistently restoring health. This marks the conclusion of the video on the best dexterity builds in Elden Ring, with a promise of upcoming content on dagger builds.