Mmoexp Elden Ring Items: Starting it off with the katanas to use

[Rozemondbell]

1. Stats & Starting Class

It’s recommended to put most of your points into Elden Ring Items Arcane to increase your damage, bleed buildup, and Ash of War damage, then you could put points into dexterity as that will increase basic attack damage on both of Katanas, you don’t need to put any levels into mind. Then the starting character for this Katana build, you’ll want to use Hero or Samurai since that comes with some items used in this build.

- Vigor 50

- Mind 9

- Endurance 12

- Strength 18

- Dexterity 50

- Intelligence 7

- Faith 8

- Arcane 80

2. Build Setup, Weapons, Ash of War, Talismans & More Items

Offhand

Starting it off with the katanas to use, the best one we can use in our offhand is the Nagakiba, regarding the affinity to place on it, the cold version and the bleed version both work amazingly well. With either one, you’ll have a good amount of buildup, 105 for frost and 115 for blood loss. It's still going to take quite a few hits for us to proc either one of those effects, this is where the Ash of War Repeating Thrust comes into play. Then the difference between the two is very subtle and mainly depends on what kind of playstyle you like to use, with the cool affinity placed on it after we proc a freeze build-up, it takes a chunk of the target's health away, not as much as bleed though and makes that enemy take 20 increased damage for 30 seconds.

We have another weapon that can do a lot more damage with the bleed affinity, we can proc a blood loss with the same amount of attacks since they have roughly the same build up, the activation of it does more damage while giving us a 30 damage bonus for 20 seconds, it sounds like a no-brainer going with the bleed option, however, the weapon in our main hand can also proc a blood loss very quickly, getting us the same buff. The bleed Affinity gives us a 30 attack boost much sooner with more initial damage whereas the cold Affinity gives everyone 20 percent increased power, and lasts 10 seconds longer, all while being able to stock the 30 boosts on top for a total of 50 increased damage.

Furthermore that 30 damage buff actually comes from two other Elden Ring items we use, the White Mask giving us a 10 increased attack power whenever a blood loss happens near us and the Lord of Blood’s Exultation doing the exact same thing with a 20 buff instead, both lasting for 20 seconds. The benefit is that you can use the cold variation when dealing with enemies immune to bleed builds and Elden Ring Items the same can be said for enemies resistant to freeze buildups.