Crafting The Perfect Build: Mastering Stats & Soft Caps in Elden Ring

I’ve spent literal days studying how stats and scalings work in this game and I’ve never once seen someone explain it as clearly as you have, things are actually making some sense

In the early levels, scaling on any weapon will be a very small % of your damage, it really only starts to pick up around +16. On the other hand, going hard on vigor early will get you huge returns. Priority early on should be enough offensive stats to equip whatever you are going to be using (using talismans to hit these numbers is also a great idea), then Vigor to 40, then going back and increasing your damage and end/mind.

Small but important note: Dexterity has a side effect that allows you to cast spells and shoot bows and arrows faster the higher it goes. Caps out at 70 where you’ll basically cast spells/incants instantly.

There is another soft cap for mind which is 38. This is the point where you have 221 mana and a fully upgraded flask gives you 220 mana. So before level 38 you get a total mana increase of the base increase + the base increase × the amount of flask you have. While after 38 your total mana pool will only go up by the base increase

Everybody focuses on the finish line, but not how they get there. Very informative video. I learned a good bit from this.

how are the only 2 videos of eldenring on your aocount the most useful guides ive seen like XD id been trying to find this shit for ages and you made it sound so simple

Completely underrated videos. I just watched both and I thought they had like hundreds of thousands of views. The pace at which you explained was great. Thanks for your work, really appreciate it!

The discovery stat isn’t as misleading as it might seem, but it may be unintuitive for somebody new to a game with a discovery type stat. Its simply showing you the total normalized drop chance of items. If an item has a 40% chance to drop, 100 discovery means the item’s drop chance isn’t affected at all. It will remain 40. It’s 100% of 40%. Not sure if it can go negative (most item discovery stats cannot) but if it COULD, then you’d see a reduction. 50 discovery would mean all your drops are cut in half so that item with a 40% chance to drop now has a 20% chance to drop. It is just as simple as said in the video- 109 discovery means you’re at 109% total normal percent or an item’s drop chance multiplied by 1.09.

My Intro to Analytics class is paying off! I can understand these stat charts perfectly! See!? College isn't useless!

This is probably THE best guide to stats in ER I have ever seen

Complete. Comprehensive. Clear and Concise. Great job buddy you’re a master of your craft ! 🙏🏽

You're really good at going in depth in your guides I can easily see your channel getting loads of success if you keep maintaining this quality and type of content.

The fact it takes 50 minutes to start understanding how a stats system works is both amazing and annoying at the same time lol

Your ability to explain everything in detail, while also being easy to follow are top notch! You deserve way more subs! Thank you for the hard work, time, and research you put in to your videos. I hope you are blessed by the algorithm! You deserve it.

This video has helped me out a ton. You explained everything very well and it easy to understand even for someone who’s only a few hours in the game to get ready for that insane looking DLC. Definitely will be coming back to this video to help on my journey to become the Elden Lord

i keep coming back to this video to look up the softcaps for any new build/ the coming levels of my current build. Thx for the extensive work with the graphs.

You have wonderful guides my friend! Accurate information, no diddling, good and clear audio coupled with concise speech, ery noice

25:38 as a fellow kind of dark mode enthusiest, you have my deepest thanks and appreciation. Thank you for bejng a shining beacon of darkness in this light mode world.

so simple and straight to the point in a cohesive manner. great video

Great explanation, thank you, there’s always something in these stat videos that I take away and appreciate, this is IMO one of the better stat videos I’ve seen recently, nice job