Most difficult build?

[waterdaca]

What is the most difficult build in this game on your opinion?

Maybe dagger/parry game with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bow?

And what is your opinion?

[Sato]

I don't think there is a difficult build, any build can be optimised, it's just that some are more effective, bows and crossbows being the least.

[nfinite.recursion]

The one you're worst with.

/thread

[Silverlight]

Fist only no leveling.

[Dollmaker]

Besides obvious no weapons/fist only, probably consumables only, bow only also comes to mind.

[Silverlight]

A build where you avoid ash of war and armor and just use a single knife with nothing special about it would probably be pretty hard.

Maybe even more than bow because no range cheese.

[Hemlock]

A build based in aberrant sorceries. They scale like ass, force you to use the whole Alberich set and they are overall terrible.....wait...you dont know about what im talking about? Here.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Aberrant+Sorceries

But yeah....the int bleed build is just a lousy meme (for now).

I was about to say oracular bubbles but damn....they are funny as hell and do massive damage if you manage to chain 3 of them.

[Yal]

I would probably say shield only, >100% equip load is the hardest thing you can subject yourself to... shields have less range than fists, and being unable to move faster than slow-walk will make it an utter pain to get into attack range. They're surprisingly good at poisebreaks (and even can guardcounter!) but you can't do finishers with them to capitalize on it.

[Xenobunny]

MY BROTHER IN PAIN AND SUFFERING. LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE "wonderful" WORLD OF NECROMANCY! Go directly to the Plateau and slightly north of Lux ruins there is one of those boat ladies. She's easy to kill if you just joust at her from horseback and run from the big summon.
She drops an "AMAZING" ability called tibia summons. Use this to become a real, no bars held, totally not crap, necromancer. From there you can also use the other TOTALLY NOT CRAP death magic spells and really get a feel for a truly fulfilling character build.
Also the stat requirement is the same for sword of night and flame... which you can use to stab yourself and commit die when you are ready to reset your stats.

[The Icecream Snowman]

Level 1
Bull Goat Armour
No weapons
Daedicar's Woe
Shabriri's Woe
Two scorpion charms
No consumables
No summons
No horse
No levelling

[Despiser]

Late game sorcery is rather impotent, but I don’t see the logic in equipping gear to be ineffective when there are so many amazing weapons so I respect after the midpoint.

[Grey Mauser]

Originally posted by Hemlock:

A build based in aberrant sorceries. They scale like ass, force you to use the whole Alberich set and they are overall terrible.....wait...you dont know about what im talking about? Here.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Aberrant+Sorceries

But yeah....the int bleed build is just a lousy meme (for now).

I was about to say oracular bubbles but damn....they are funny as hell and do massive damage if you manage to chain 3 of them.

Aberrant sorceries are not even INT spells, they're FAI spells despite being sorceries. So you either have to have a Thorn Staff as a FAI build to use them or be an INT build and put a lot (like 20 if you are astrologer/prisoner) of points into a stat that will never be useful to you at that amount for anything other than 2 of the (probably) worst sorceries in the game, which makes them even more of a joke than how you made them look in your comment.

[Hemlock]

Originally posted by Grey Mauser:

Originally posted by Hemlock:

A build based in aberrant sorceries. They scale like ass, force you to use the whole Alberich set and they are overall terrible.....wait...you dont know about what im talking about? Here.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Aberrant+Sorceries

But yeah....the int bleed build is just a lousy meme (for now).

I was about to say oracular bubbles but damn....they are funny as hell and do massive damage if you manage to chain 3 of them.

Aberrant sorceries are not even INT spells, they're FAI spells despite being sorceries. So you either have to have a Thorn Staff as a FAI build to use them or be an INT build and put a lot (like 20 if you are astrologer/prisoner) of points into a stat that will never be useful to you at that amount for anything other than 2 of the (probably) worst sorceries in the game, which makes them even more of a joke than how you made them look in your comment.

Hehe, we both forgot to mention the HP costs of both spells. They suck that much....you also have to pay 50 HP each cast.

As a level 713 with a pair of every item in the game i cant find any way to make them useful. And i am the guy who usually says every single <whatever> as a certain use if you have some imagination....not aberrant sorceries, they absolutely suck even after some big buffs.

[zab]

caestus with holy damage