Elden Ring: Stats Explained

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• Core Stats

• Character Attributes

• How To Increase Your Attributes

• Status Effects And Ailments

Elden Ring, much like its predecessors, rewards the players with currency and XP upon killing enemies, selling items, or using consumables that contain Runes within them for hundreds, even thousands of them. You will use Runes to level up the stats of your starting class, allowing you to increase your health, stamina, and magic pools, as well as equip heavier armor and weapons.

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Core Stats

Before we talk about what your attributes do, we must first discuss your character's core stats. You have three resources as a Tarnished: HP, FP, and Stamina.

HP

Your effective health pool. If this drops to zero, you die and drop all of your current Runes—Elden Ring's currency—at your corpse's location.

FP

Your mana bar, allowing you to use Ashes of War, cast spells, and summon spirits.

Stamina

allows you to roll, attack, and block damage with your shield. Stamina replenishes over time, while FP and HP do not.

There are three secondary stats that are quite important: Equip Load, Discovery, and Memory Slots.

Equip Load

How much you can currently equip on your character while remaining nimble. Reaching an Equip Load at 70% or lower allows you to quickly roll. Over 70% will cause you to "fat roll," making it harder to avoid attacks. Should you reach over 100%, you won't be able to roll at all.

Discovery

How likely enemies will drop items when they die. You can increase this through certain items and by raising your Arcane attribute.

Memory Slots

How many spell slots your character has. Unlike past Soulsborne titles, your spell slot limit is no longer tied to an attribute. You'll find Memory Stones throughout your journey that will increase this stat.

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Character Attributes

Character Attributes in Elden Ring refer to the eight primary stats you will level up with Runes at variousSites of Grace found throughout The Lands Between. Each Attribute will grade a wide range of offensive and defensive skills, even passive ones that can give you the edge in battle. Attributes are the foundation of your character and allow you to fine-tune your character.

Below is a list of every Attribute in Elden Ring and their corresponding benefits.

Attribute

Effects

Vigor

• Increases HP
• Increases Fire and Poison Resistance
• Increases Immunity

Mind

• Increases FP
• Increases Focus Resistance

Endurance

• Increases Stamina
• Increases Robustness
• Increases Equip Load

Strength

• Increases Physical Defense
• Increases Physical Damage

Dexterity

• Increases Physical Damage
• Shortens Casting Time
• Softens Fall Damage

Intelligence

• Provides access to more Sorceries
• Increases Magic Damage
• Increases Magic Defense

Faith

• Provides access to more Incantations
• Increases Magic Damage

Arcane

• Increases item Discovery
• Increases Death and Holy Resistance
• Allows use of certain Sorceries and Incantations

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How To Increase Your Attributes

Attributes can be increased at any Site of Grace by spending Runes, a currency obtained by slaying enemies and breaking Golden Rune [1]. Each time you level an attribute this way, increasing your character's level again will become slightly more expensive.

Additionally, some talismans in Elden Ring will increase your character's stats while equipped.

Should you invest in stats you later find irrelevant for your build, you can respec your character's attributes by talking to Rennala after beating her. Each respec costs one Larval Tear, a rare resource found throughout the world and on certain tough enemies.

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Status Effects And Ailments

You will see many Status Effects and Ailments in Elden Ring as you and your opponent are capable of inflicting them on one another via special weapons and items. However, as touched on above, you can build resistance to these effects by upgrading specific skills, allowing you to endure areas or attacks for a longer duration before succumbing to them.

Below is every Status Effect and Ailment present in Elden Ring, all of which apply to Offensive and Defensive stats directly affected by Attributes and your current equipment.

Status Effect

Description

Stat Mitigation

Cure

Frostbite

Lowers its target's Stamina Recovery and Damage Absorption.

Robustness via Endurance Attribute

Bestial Constitution

Fire's Deadly Sin

Flame, Cleanse Me

Thawfrost Boluses

Speckled Hardtear

Hemorrhage

Slowly builds a hemorrhage on the target, exploding when full, causing significant damage.

Robustness via Endurance Attribute

Bestial Constitution

Lord's Aid

Speckled Hardtear

Stanching Boluses

Deathblight

Immediately kills the target via rapid application of the effect.

Death via Arcane Attribute

Law of Regression

Order Healing

Rejuvenating Boluses

Speckled Hardtear

Madness

Lowers its target's FP, damaging them in the process.

Focus via Mind Attribute

Clarifying Boluses

Lucidity

Poison

Slowly damages its target over a long period.

Immunity via Vigor Attribute

Cure Poison

Flame, Cleanse Me

Law of Regression

Lord's Aid

Neutralizing Boluses

Speckled Hardtear

Scarlet Rot

Take continuous damage over time.

Immunity via Vigor Attribute

Flame, Cleanse Me

Law of Regression

Preserving Boluses

Speckled Hardtear

Sleep

Makes its target unconscious.

Focus via Mind Attribute

Law of Regression

Lord's Aid

Lucidity

Speckled Hardtear

Stimulating Boluses

Additionally, you can also apply these effects to some enemies within the Lands Between, which can come in a variety of different Incantations and Sorceries. The table below will be all the ways you can inflict these Status Effects and Ailments onto your opposition in Elden Ring!

Status Effect

How To Apply

Type

Frostbite

Adula's Mooblade

Sorcery

Borealis's Mist

Incantation

Dragonice

Incantation

Explosive Ghostflame

Sorcery

Freezing Mist

Sorcery

Frozen Armament

Sorcery

Frozen Lightning Spear

Incantation

Glintstone Icecrag

Sorcery

Ranni's Dark Moon

Sorcery

Hemorrhage

Bloodboon

Incantation

Bloodflame Blade

Incantation

Bloodflame Talons

Incantation

Briars of Punishment

Sorcery

Briars of Sin

Sorcery

Swarm of Flies

Incantation

Deathblight

Fia's Mist

Sorcery

Death Lightning

Incantation

Madness

Frenzied Burst

Incantation

Howl of Shabriri

Incantation

Inescapable Frenzy

Incantation

The Flame of Frenzy

Incantation

Uncendurable Frenzy

Incantation

Poison

Poison Armament

Incantation

Poison Mist

Incantation

Scarlet Rot

Ekzyke's Decay

Incantation

Rotten Breath

Incantation

Scarlet Aeonia

Incantation

Sleep

N/A

N/A

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