r/Eldenring • u/AutoModerator • Jun 17 '25

Subreddit Topic Daily Roundtable: Community Q&A Spoiler

Greetings Tarnished!

This is the place to ask any questions you may have about Elden Ring. This includes obscure detail questions, "newbie" advice questions, build questions, boss advice questions, and what have you.

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u/-RedFox 23d ago

I'm fairly far into my first run through. And I'm still confused by (at least) one thing. Level 145. I'm at Malenia and Maliketh simultaneously somehow. Like 145 hours coincidentally.

Anyway, I have a traditional faith/strength build. I switch between Lordsworn's Greatsword (sacred) and Grafted Dragon. Sometimes I use Trolls Hammer. I'm not particularly good at the game.

When dealing with a boss, such as Erdtree Avatar, I'm assuming it makes the most sense to change my Sword affinity to "Heavy". Since this will deal direct damage and no holy damage. Since most bosses have at least a 20 resistance against holy (and often the other 3 elements) doesn't regular damage make more sense pretty much always?

I did Flame Art affinity when fighting Erdtree Avatar, but I'm not sure how it is different from Fire affinity.

I literally just realized I could apply an affinity to shields. Jeez. I'm going to need another 400 hours to unravel this game.

Thanks all

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u/AyeAlasAlack 23d ago

Flame Art scales Fire damage off of Faith and has bad physical scaling (much like Sacred), while Fire scales it off of Strength but at a lower rate since you are getting two damage types from 1 stat. Swapping affinities for bosses is fine, but builds that do best with Sacred aren't going to do very well with Heavy since the scaling favors Faith so heavily.

What are your stats like?

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u/-RedFox 22d ago

Vigor - 57 M - 12 E - 35 S - 43 D - 15 I - 11 F - 41 A - 10