You Should Know How Status Effects Work
These are all status effects: From poison to rot, Elden Ring has several status effects that can be dangerous to you or that you can use in combat.
There are a total of 7 different variants:
- Poison: If you are poisoned, you will take continuous damage.
- Scarlet Rot: If you are afflicted by the red rot, you will take continuous damage.
- Bleed: When bleeding occurs, you will take immediate large damage, the amount of which depends on your maximum HP.
- Frost: When frost affects you, you take damage and freeze for a while. During this time, you suffer increased damage from other sources.
- Sleep: This condition causes you to become drowsy. Weaker characters may even fall completely asleep.
- Madness: If you are afflicted by madness, you will go insane and lose a large amount of HP and FP.
- Deathblight: Here, a meter fills up. If it is full, you die instantly.
As soon as one of these effects takes hold of you, you will see a meter filling up. This indicates how long your resistances will last until the effect activates.
Your resistances are determined by your equipment and your arcane attribute. To free yourself from a status effect, you can find or craft some items in the game world. There are also invocations that can relieve you of status effects.
Pay Attention to the Weight of Your Equipment
In Elden Ring, the weight you carry determines how quickly you move and has a massive influence on gameplay.
- Each piece of armor and each weapon has its own weight.
- The higher your stamina, the more weight you can carry.
- Once the weight of your items exceeds 70% of your carry capacity, you are under “heavy load” and will move significantly slower.
- You can even carry so much heavy equipment that you can hardly move at all.
In combat, this can make the difference between life and death. You are not only faster under medium load, your stamina regenerates significantly faster as well.
Especially with light load, a playstyle based on evasive maneuvers becomes significantly easier. Your rolls are executed faster, and you can attack again sooner. In return, you are significantly more vulnerable with light armor, and with fewer weapons in the active selection, you are also less versatile in combat.
Ashes of War Can Significantly Enhance Your Weapons Arsenal
What is an Ash of War? These are essentially detached weapon skills that you can attach to various weapons. You can find these ashes of war in the open game world or even transfer them from newly found weapons to others.
- There are dozens in the game, and each Ash brings a different effect.
- Some are powerful attack combos, while others cause an element or status enhancement.
- Others even have built-in ranged attacks, and others have only minimal effects like a kick.
However, there are also categories of ashes of war, and many are specialized for certain weapon classes. For example, a specific ash can only be equipped on daggers and short swords, while others can only be equipped on greatswords and maces.
Through the ashes of war, you can also change which attribute scalings your weapons utilize. A heavy falchion, for example, scales better with the strength attribute than a falchion without this adjustment.
The menu for the ashes of war can be accessed at any site of grace:
These were our 12 tips and tricks for starting in Elden Ring. Did they help you? Do you have any additional tips that were useful for you and that should be included in this list?
Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments. We will continue to expand this article with more tips in the future. All guides, tips, and recommendations from the MeinMMO editorial team can be found in this article: Elden Ring: All Our Guides, Beginner Tips and Builds at a Glance
