Elden Ring: All Daggers Ranked

Crystal Knife : While it can boast impressive base stats, the Crystal Knife has relatively poor scaling that sets it back. However, it is one of the few options for a dagger player looking to explore an Intelligence-based bu


While the basic Dagger can be used as an excellent weapon for a challenge run through Elden Ring , the unique daggers found throughout the game can be exceptionally powerful. In general, like swords, katanas, and other blades, daggers often apply a Bleed status to enemies—an extremely strong status effect in Elden Ring . This means that despite their limitations, daggers tend to be a high-damage, high-mobility choice that rewards players' skills even more than other opti

Investing in Arcane is not recommended for this build as it will not increase your ability to deal Bleed buildup. Moonveil has a relatively low 50 Bleed damage with each hit, but it does not scale with Arcane and cannot be infused to have Arcane scaling, so increasing this stat will not affect Moonveil's Bleed.


Updated August 6, 2024, by Hamza Haq: All FromSoftware games eventually turn into a tug-of-war between the developers making their bosses harder and harder and the players trying to break the game with overpowered weapons and cheese strategies. Anything truly broken is patched out of the game within a month or so, but balancing is tricky, and there is no way to completely get rid of every overengineered strategy there is. With the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, a ton of new weapons , spells, ashes of war, and other items have upended the status quo into something completely fresh once again. And with that come new ways to cheese bos


Glintstone Kris : The Glintstone Kris grants players an interesting ability called "Glintstone Dart," but as far as a Sorcery spell in Elden Ring , it's fairly underwhelming. It may be useful in the early game, but any player building Intelligence will quickly find a better alternat

The confrontation with Yura (as well as Nerijust) will be a tough fight, especially if you're under-leveled, but thankfully like most NPC encounters in Elden Ring , both of these fighters can be easily stun-locked or staggered. You'll also probably want to touch the Grace inside Murkwater Cave before starting this fight (which houses the Patches questline ) for an easy respawn area in case Yura wipes the floor with you.


Despite being an optional boss, most Elden Ring players will cross paths with Commander O'Neil and his archers, either by accident or while following Millicent's quest line. When encountered in early to mid-game, he can pose quite the challenge. As an overworld boss, though, he can be led away from the battle arena straight into the Scarlet Rot-ridden swampla


This particular strategy was discovered by a popular Souls- focused YouTuber, Iron Pineapple . It can be seen Going in Eldenringportal.com action here . All one has to do to kill the Draconic Sentinel is to stealthily position oneself behind the boss, and continuously cast Poison Mist at him . This spell will not aggravate the Sentinel, all the while dealing steady poison damage. The only drawback of this approach is that it can take as long as 15 minutes to kill him, due to Poison Mist's low damage st


For a faster clearing operation, summon some Spirits and charge at these heathens. Players don't even need to fight the Pumpkin Head as he's too far away to join. Killing those Misbegotten enemies over and over again in an epic AI battle is always a fun spectacle and an enjoyable Rune farming met


Bloodstained Dagger : A great no-nonsense choice. Since it's a basic weapon, it can be upgraded to +25 with regular Smithing Stones , but unlike the basic Dagger, it passively applies Bleed. Not only that, but when combined with another Ash of War, the Bloodstained Dagger can apply multiple status effe


The main philosophy behind cheesing bosses in Elden Ring is to use the environment, items, and sometimes even the boss's own attack moves to the player's advantage. A lot of the time, these tactics go beyond what the developers intended, and making the Fire Giant fall to his death from a tiny height is definitely not something FromSoftware wanted players to

Elden Ring stands out from many modern RPGs for its utter embrace of player freedom. Its open world is dense, vast, and unexplained, which gives players a real sense of adventure and progression as they learn the language of the game. One aspect of player freedom Elden Ring excels at is build variety.


Speaking of more trolls, Stormhill is a lovely area full of those walking behemoths. One area, specifically south of Warmaster's Shack, has five of these trolls standing near a cliff . They're also evenly spaced out so players don't need to fight multiple trolls all at the same time — though doing that is faster but risk


Runes replace the Souls and Blood Echoes FromSoftware veterans are familiar with . It works near-identically, meaning that players should invest their Runes wisely instead of getting greedy and hoarding as much of this valuable resource as possible. So, it's only a given that players who lose their hard-earned Runes will be quite peeved by this developm