Elden Ring: The strongest Bleed Build lets you melt bosses in seconds – Here’s how to play it

• Strength: 50
  • The soft cap is 40. Therefore, we agreed on 50, as we need to endure more in the Blood Build due to the risky attacks.
• Mind: 15
  • Mind is only important for this build in order to cast our wonders and war ashes.
• Endurance: 25
  • The soft cap for equipment load is 25. We don’t want to go into battle naked, and with this amount, we can wear armor with good balance while still wielding weapons.
• Strength: 70
  • With 70 points, you are above the second soft cap (55 points) and can deal a bit more damage. Important for wielding weapons that have a high strength scaling.
• Dexterity: 15 (20 points from the “Millicent’s Prosthesis” talisman)
  • Dexterity is set at 15 points to wield the Gargoyle Double Blade.
• Wisdom: 9
  • Not relevant for the build.
• Faith: 25
  • With 25 points in Faith, you can use two important summons that buff you: Flame, Give Me Strength! and Golden Oath. Both are worth it for our build to deal even more damage.
  • Arcane: 20
    • Arcane is at 20 points to reach the first soft cap and trigger bleed faster.

If you also want to play PvP in the long term, try to keep your character below level 150. In the community, the meta-level has settled around 125 – 150.

Because you will only encounter players with a similar level to yours in PvP, you will have a hard time finding opponents at a higher level. Since you need to reallocate all “purchased” levels when you respec, you cannot reduce this investment again – the only solution is to create a whole new character.

This Equipment Makes the Bleed Build Really Powerful

Which equipment does the build use? To make the build even stronger, you need to wear the following weapons, talismans, and armor:

• Right-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
  • Affinity: Blood
  • War Ash: Rock Blade
• Left-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
  • Affinity: Blood
  • War Ash: Rock Blade
• Left-hand weapon 2: Finger Seal (for summons)
• Head armor: White Mask
• Chest armor: Black Bird Feather
• Talisman 1: Claw Talisman
• Talisman 2: Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
• Talisman 3: Blood’s Favor
• Talisman 4: Millicent’s Prosthesis

We will now go into detail about our choice of weapons and equipment and explain why we chose them.

Overview of Weapons

Which weapons do I need? In a Bleed Build, one would expect either daggers, curved swords, or katanas, but double blades are unusual. This is understandable, but we utilize them for this build for a good reason: because of the jump attack.

When wielding two double blades in hand, you can land up to 6 hits with the light jump attack – if you have practiced the attack. For a Bleed Build, this is optimal because your status effect, in this case “bleed,” is activated faster the more hits you land.

To maximize our damage, we chose the Gargoyle Double Blades. They have the highest damage when equipped with a bloody affinity and additionally adorned with the war ash: Rock Blade.

The war ash is essential because it increases your damage by 15% and damages your opponent’s posture by 10%. It’s important that both of your weapons have the same war ashes and affinities.

Locations of Weapons and War Ashes:

• Gargoyle Double Blade
  • Location: In the Siofra Aqueduct. Defeat the two gargoyles to receive the weapon after the battle
• War Ash: Rock Blade
  • Location: At a scarab in Caelid, west of the grace “Impassable Great Bridge”

Overview of Talismans

Which talismans do I need? This Bleed Build has a special tactic for how to attack. To benefit from this, we have selected the following talismans:

• Claw Talisman
  • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
  • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
• Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
  • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
  • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
• Blood’s Favor
  • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
  • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
• Millicent’s Prosthesis
  • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
  • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

Overview of Armors

Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

• White Mask
  • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
  • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
• Black Bird Feather
  • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
  • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

• Summon: Golden Oath
• Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
• Flask of Wondrous Physick
  • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
  • Blood-boiled Aroma

Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

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How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview

• If you want to play the best class, you should choose the Vagabond. Due to its even attribute distribution, it has the best prerequisites to build any type of build. We will now explain why our points were allocated as follows.
  • Strength: 50
    • The soft cap is 40. Therefore, we agreed on 50, as we need to endure more in the Blood Build due to the risky attacks.
  • Mind: 15
    • Mind is only important for this build in order to cast our wonders and war ashes.
  • Endurance: 25
    • The soft cap for equipment load is 25. We don’t want to go into battle naked, and with this amount, we can wear armor with good balance while still wielding weapons.
  • Strength: 70
    • With 70 points, you are above the second soft cap (55 points) and can deal a bit more damage. Important for wielding weapons that have a high strength scaling.
  • Dexterity: 15 (20 points from the “Millicent’s Prosthesis” talisman)
    • Dexterity is set at 15 points to wield the Gargoyle Double Blade.
  • Wisdom: 9
    • Not relevant for the build.
  • Faith: 25
    • With 25 points in Faith, you can use two important summons that buff you: Flame, Give Me Strength! and Golden Oath. Both are worth it for our build to deal even more damage.
    • Arcane: 20
      • Arcane is at 20 points to reach the first soft cap and trigger bleed faster.

  If you also want to play PvP in the long term, try to keep your character below level 150. In the community, the meta-level has settled around 125 – 150.

  Because you will only encounter players with a similar level to yours in PvP, you will have a hard time finding opponents at a higher level. Since you need to reallocate all “purchased” levels when you respec, you cannot reduce this investment again – the only solution is to create a whole new character.

  This Equipment Makes the Bleed Build Really Powerful

  Which equipment does the build use? To make the build even stronger, you need to wear the following weapons, talismans, and armor:

  • Right-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
    • Affinity: Blood
    • War Ash: Rock Blade
  • Left-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
    • Affinity: Blood
    • War Ash: Rock Blade
  • Left-hand weapon 2: Finger Seal (for summons)
  • Head armor: White Mask
  • Chest armor: Black Bird Feather
  • Talisman 1: Claw Talisman
  • Talisman 2: Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
  • Talisman 3: Blood’s Favor
  • Talisman 4: Millicent’s Prosthesis

  We will now go into detail about our choice of weapons and equipment and explain why we chose them.

  

  Overview of Weapons

  Which weapons do I need? In a Bleed Build, one would expect either daggers, curved swords, or katanas, but double blades are unusual. This is understandable, but we utilize them for this build for a good reason: because of the jump attack.

  When wielding two double blades in hand, you can land up to 6 hits with the light jump attack – if you have practiced the attack. For a Bleed Build, this is optimal because your status effect, in this case “bleed,” is activated faster the more hits you land.

  

  To maximize our damage, we chose the Gargoyle Double Blades. They have the highest damage when equipped with a bloody affinity and additionally adorned with the war ash: Rock Blade.

  The war ash is essential because it increases your damage by 15% and damages your opponent’s posture by 10%. It’s important that both of your weapons have the same war ashes and affinities.

  Locations of Weapons and War Ashes:

  • Gargoyle Double Blade
    • Location: In the Siofra Aqueduct. Defeat the two gargoyles to receive the weapon after the battle
  • War Ash: Rock Blade
    • Location: At a scarab in Caelid, west of the grace “Impassable Great Bridge”

  Overview of Talismans

  Which talismans do I need? This Bleed Build has a special tactic for how to attack. To benefit from this, we have selected the following talismans:

  

  • Claw Talisman
    • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
    • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
  • Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
    • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
    • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
  • Blood’s Favor
    • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
    • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
  • Millicent’s Prosthesis
    • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
    • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

  Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

  Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

  Overview of Armors

  Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

  

  

  • White Mask
    • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
    • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
  • Black Bird Feather
    • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
    • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

  Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

  Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

  What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

  • Summon: Golden Oath
  • Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
  • Flask of Wondrous Physick
    • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
    • Blood-boiled Aroma

  Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

  How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

  What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

  Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

  Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

  Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

  What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

  That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview

  • If you want to play the best class, you should choose the Vagabond. Due to its even attribute distribution, it has the best prerequisites to build any type of build. We will now explain why our points were allocated as follows.
    • Strength: 50
      • The soft cap is 40. Therefore, we agreed on 50, as we need to endure more in the Blood Build due to the risky attacks.
    • Mind: 15
      • Mind is only important for this build in order to cast our wonders and war ashes.
    • Endurance: 25
      • The soft cap for equipment load is 25. We don’t want to go into battle naked, and with this amount, we can wear armor with good balance while still wielding weapons.
    • Strength: 70
      • With 70 points, you are above the second soft cap (55 points) and can deal a bit more damage. Important for wielding weapons that have a high strength scaling.
    • Dexterity: 15 (20 points from the “Millicent’s Prosthesis” talisman)
      • Dexterity is set at 15 points to wield the Gargoyle Double Blade.
    • Wisdom: 9
      • Not relevant for the build.
    • Faith: 25
      • With 25 points in Faith, you can use two important summons that buff you: Flame, Give Me Strength! and Golden Oath. Both are worth it for our build to deal even more damage.
      • Arcane: 20
        • Arcane is at 20 points to reach the first soft cap and trigger bleed faster.

    If you also want to play PvP in the long term, try to keep your character below level 150. In the community, the meta-level has settled around 125 – 150.

    Because you will only encounter players with a similar level to yours in PvP, you will have a hard time finding opponents at a higher level. Since you need to reallocate all “purchased” levels when you respec, you cannot reduce this investment again – the only solution is to create a whole new character.

    This Equipment Makes the Bleed Build Really Powerful

    Which equipment does the build use? To make the build even stronger, you need to wear the following weapons, talismans, and armor:

    • Right-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
      • Affinity: Blood
      • War Ash: Rock Blade
    • Left-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
      • Affinity: Blood
      • War Ash: Rock Blade
    • Left-hand weapon 2: Finger Seal (for summons)
    • Head armor: White Mask
    • Chest armor: Black Bird Feather
    • Talisman 1: Claw Talisman
    • Talisman 2: Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
    • Talisman 3: Blood’s Favor
    • Talisman 4: Millicent’s Prosthesis

    We will now go into detail about our choice of weapons and equipment and explain why we chose them.

    

    Overview of Weapons

    Which weapons do I need? In a Bleed Build, one would expect either daggers, curved swords, or katanas, but double blades are unusual. This is understandable, but we utilize them for this build for a good reason: because of the jump attack.

    When wielding two double blades in hand, you can land up to 6 hits with the light jump attack – if you have practiced the attack. For a Bleed Build, this is optimal because your status effect, in this case “bleed,” is activated faster the more hits you land.

    

    To maximize our damage, we chose the Gargoyle Double Blades. They have the highest damage when equipped with a bloody affinity and additionally adorned with the war ash: Rock Blade.

    The war ash is essential because it increases your damage by 15% and damages your opponent’s posture by 10%. It’s important that both of your weapons have the same war ashes and affinities.

    Locations of Weapons and War Ashes:

    • Gargoyle Double Blade
      • Location: In the Siofra Aqueduct. Defeat the two gargoyles to receive the weapon after the battle
    • War Ash: Rock Blade
      • Location: At a scarab in Caelid, west of the grace “Impassable Great Bridge”

    Overview of Talismans

    Which talismans do I need? This Bleed Build has a special tactic for how to attack. To benefit from this, we have selected the following talismans:

    

    • Claw Talisman
      • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
      • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
    • Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
      • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
      • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
    • Blood’s Favor
      • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
      • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
    • Millicent’s Prosthesis
      • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
      • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

    Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

    Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

    Overview of Armors

    Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

    

    

    • White Mask
      • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
      • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
    • Black Bird Feather
      • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
      • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

    Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

    Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

    What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

    • Summon: Golden Oath
    • Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
    • Flask of Wondrous Physick
      • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
      • Blood-boiled Aroma

    Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

    How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

    What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

    Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

    Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

    Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

    What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

    That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview

    Bleed Builds have always been considered powerful options for taking down bosses in Elden Ring in seconds. They cut through health bars and deal massive damage. You can find out what the currently best Bleed Build looks like and which items and attributes you need here.

    Update from January 27, 2026: We have reviewed the Bleed Build and made slight structural adjustments.

    For a Bleed Build to be truly effective, various factors come into play: Do you have enough buffs? Which weapons are you using? Does the gear synergize with the build you’ve created? Many questions that can be overwhelming at first, but we’ve sat down and figured out what makes the best Bleed Build truly powerful.

    In our research, we came across a build so powerful that you can easily obliterate bosses in the new DLC for Elden Ring. What you need for it will be explained here in detail. If you want to jump to the individual parts of our guide, you can use our directory for that.

    Attributes You Need for the Bleed Build in Elden Ring

    Why is this late-game build so strong? This build focuses primarily on strength because we’re using a weapon combination that perfectly harmonizes with the bleed status effect. It involves the weapon class of double blades.

    Points are also allocated to Faith and Arcane to activate bleed faster and buff our hero with summons. This creates a deadly combination, but that’s not all.

    What is bleed damage and why is it so good?

    Weapons like Bloody Streams cause passive blood loss with each attack. If you hit an opponent often enough within a certain timeframe, the opponent will immediately suffer massive bleed damage. You can recognize successful bleed damage not only by the opponent suddenly losing a large portion of their health but also by a big splatter of blood.

    How many hits you need and how long that timeframe is depends on the specific opponent’s resistances. Most enemies in the game, even the largest and hardest bosses, can suffer bleed damage.

    Items from the late game also come into play, driving the damage to the max. The build uses the strongest double blades, as well as talismans and armor that buff you with every instance of bleed damage.

    This build thus relies on a storm of incredibly fast attacks and a constant back and forth between the powerful bleed damage and the resulting DPS boosts.

    How do I level up best for this build? As with our overall best build, we recommend the necessary attribute points to get the most out of your build. Here, too, we pay attention to the “soft caps” to avoid leveling any stat beyond its value.

    Note that this is a Level 150 build. You can reallocate your attributes with respec if you want to try the build.

    

    • Claw Talisman
      • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
      • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
    • Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
      • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
      • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
    • Blood’s Favor
      • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
      • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
    • Millicent’s Prosthesis
      • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
      • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

    Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

    Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

    Overview of Armors

    Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

    

    

    • White Mask
      • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
      • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
    • Black Bird Feather
      • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
      • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

    Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

    Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

    What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

    • Summon: Golden Oath
    • Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
    • Flask of Wondrous Physick
      • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
      • Blood-boiled Aroma

    Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

    How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

    What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

    Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

    Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

    Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

    What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

    That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview

    • If you want to play the best class, you should choose the Vagabond. Due to its even attribute distribution, it has the best prerequisites to build any type of build. We will now explain why our points were allocated as follows.
      • Strength: 50
        • The soft cap is 40. Therefore, we agreed on 50, as we need to endure more in the Blood Build due to the risky attacks.
      • Mind: 15
        • Mind is only important for this build in order to cast our wonders and war ashes.
      • Endurance: 25
        • The soft cap for equipment load is 25. We don’t want to go into battle naked, and with this amount, we can wear armor with good balance while still wielding weapons.
      • Strength: 70
        • With 70 points, you are above the second soft cap (55 points) and can deal a bit more damage. Important for wielding weapons that have a high strength scaling.
      • Dexterity: 15 (20 points from the “Millicent’s Prosthesis” talisman)
        • Dexterity is set at 15 points to wield the Gargoyle Double Blade.
      • Wisdom: 9
        • Not relevant for the build.
      • Faith: 25
        • With 25 points in Faith, you can use two important summons that buff you: Flame, Give Me Strength! and Golden Oath. Both are worth it for our build to deal even more damage.
        • Arcane: 20
          • Arcane is at 20 points to reach the first soft cap and trigger bleed faster.

      If you also want to play PvP in the long term, try to keep your character below level 150. In the community, the meta-level has settled around 125 – 150.

      Because you will only encounter players with a similar level to yours in PvP, you will have a hard time finding opponents at a higher level. Since you need to reallocate all “purchased” levels when you respec, you cannot reduce this investment again – the only solution is to create a whole new character.

      This Equipment Makes the Bleed Build Really Powerful

      Which equipment does the build use? To make the build even stronger, you need to wear the following weapons, talismans, and armor:

      • Right-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
        • Affinity: Blood
        • War Ash: Rock Blade
      • Left-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
        • Affinity: Blood
        • War Ash: Rock Blade
      • Left-hand weapon 2: Finger Seal (for summons)
      • Head armor: White Mask
      • Chest armor: Black Bird Feather
      • Talisman 1: Claw Talisman
      • Talisman 2: Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
      • Talisman 3: Blood’s Favor
      • Talisman 4: Millicent’s Prosthesis

      We will now go into detail about our choice of weapons and equipment and explain why we chose them.

      

      Overview of Weapons

      Which weapons do I need? In a Bleed Build, one would expect either daggers, curved swords, or katanas, but double blades are unusual. This is understandable, but we utilize them for this build for a good reason: because of the jump attack.

      When wielding two double blades in hand, you can land up to 6 hits with the light jump attack – if you have practiced the attack. For a Bleed Build, this is optimal because your status effect, in this case “bleed,” is activated faster the more hits you land.

      

      To maximize our damage, we chose the Gargoyle Double Blades. They have the highest damage when equipped with a bloody affinity and additionally adorned with the war ash: Rock Blade.

      The war ash is essential because it increases your damage by 15% and damages your opponent’s posture by 10%. It’s important that both of your weapons have the same war ashes and affinities.

      Locations of Weapons and War Ashes:

      • Gargoyle Double Blade
        • Location: In the Siofra Aqueduct. Defeat the two gargoyles to receive the weapon after the battle
      • War Ash: Rock Blade
        • Location: At a scarab in Caelid, west of the grace “Impassable Great Bridge”

      Overview of Talismans

      Which talismans do I need? This Bleed Build has a special tactic for how to attack. To benefit from this, we have selected the following talismans:

      

      • Claw Talisman
        • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
        • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
      • Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
        • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
        • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
      • Blood’s Favor
        • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
        • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
      • Millicent’s Prosthesis
        • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
        • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

      Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

      Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

      Overview of Armors

      Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

      

      

      • White Mask
        • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
        • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
      • Black Bird Feather
        • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
        • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

      Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

      Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

      What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

      • Summon: Golden Oath
      • Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
      • Flask of Wondrous Physick
        • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
        • Blood-boiled Aroma

      Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

      How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

      What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

      Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

      Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

      Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

      What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

      That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview

      • If you want to play the best class, you should choose the Vagabond. Due to its even attribute distribution, it has the best prerequisites to build any type of build. We will now explain why our points were allocated as follows.
        • Strength: 50
          • The soft cap is 40. Therefore, we agreed on 50, as we need to endure more in the Blood Build due to the risky attacks.
        • Mind: 15
          • Mind is only important for this build in order to cast our wonders and war ashes.
        • Endurance: 25
          • The soft cap for equipment load is 25. We don’t want to go into battle naked, and with this amount, we can wear armor with good balance while still wielding weapons.
        • Strength: 70
          • With 70 points, you are above the second soft cap (55 points) and can deal a bit more damage. Important for wielding weapons that have a high strength scaling.
        • Dexterity: 15 (20 points from the “Millicent’s Prosthesis” talisman)
          • Dexterity is set at 15 points to wield the Gargoyle Double Blade.
        • Wisdom: 9
          • Not relevant for the build.
        • Faith: 25
          • With 25 points in Faith, you can use two important summons that buff you: Flame, Give Me Strength! and Golden Oath. Both are worth it for our build to deal even more damage.
          • Arcane: 20
            • Arcane is at 20 points to reach the first soft cap and trigger bleed faster.

        If you also want to play PvP in the long term, try to keep your character below level 150. In the community, the meta-level has settled around 125 – 150.

        Because you will only encounter players with a similar level to yours in PvP, you will have a hard time finding opponents at a higher level. Since you need to reallocate all “purchased” levels when you respec, you cannot reduce this investment again – the only solution is to create a whole new character.

        This Equipment Makes the Bleed Build Really Powerful

        Which equipment does the build use? To make the build even stronger, you need to wear the following weapons, talismans, and armor:

        • Right-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
          • Affinity: Blood
          • War Ash: Rock Blade
        • Left-hand weapon 1: Gargoyle Double Blade +25
          • Affinity: Blood
          • War Ash: Rock Blade
        • Left-hand weapon 2: Finger Seal (for summons)
        • Head armor: White Mask
        • Chest armor: Black Bird Feather
        • Talisman 1: Claw Talisman
        • Talisman 2: Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
        • Talisman 3: Blood’s Favor
        • Talisman 4: Millicent’s Prosthesis

        We will now go into detail about our choice of weapons and equipment and explain why we chose them.

        

        Overview of Weapons

        Which weapons do I need? In a Bleed Build, one would expect either daggers, curved swords, or katanas, but double blades are unusual. This is understandable, but we utilize them for this build for a good reason: because of the jump attack.

        When wielding two double blades in hand, you can land up to 6 hits with the light jump attack – if you have practiced the attack. For a Bleed Build, this is optimal because your status effect, in this case “bleed,” is activated faster the more hits you land.

        

        To maximize our damage, we chose the Gargoyle Double Blades. They have the highest damage when equipped with a bloody affinity and additionally adorned with the war ash: Rock Blade.

        The war ash is essential because it increases your damage by 15% and damages your opponent’s posture by 10%. It’s important that both of your weapons have the same war ashes and affinities.

        Locations of Weapons and War Ashes:

        • Gargoyle Double Blade
          • Location: In the Siofra Aqueduct. Defeat the two gargoyles to receive the weapon after the battle
        • War Ash: Rock Blade
          • Location: At a scarab in Caelid, west of the grace “Impassable Great Bridge”

        Overview of Talismans

        Which talismans do I need? This Bleed Build has a special tactic for how to attack. To benefit from this, we have selected the following talismans:

        

        • Claw Talisman
          • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 15%.
          • Location: You can find it in Stormveil Castle on the rooftops. Use the grace “Wall Tower” and jump north-west to the far-off roof. Try to find your way up until you find a ladder. You will find the talisman on a corpse at the highest point of the tower.
        • Rotting Winged Sword Insignia
          • Effect: Significantly increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 6%, 8%, and 13% depending on intensity.
          • Location: You receive it after helping Millicent in her battle against her sisters.
        • Blood’s Favor
          • Effect: Increases your damage by 20% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
          • Location: You can find it in the underground reservoir of shame beneath Leyndell. Defeat the enemy “Esgar, Priest of Blood” to obtain it.
        • Millicent’s Prosthesis
          • Effect: Increases your Dexterity by 5 points. Increases the strength of your attack series. Has three tiers, which increase your attacks’ damage by 4%, 6%, and 11% depending on intensity.
          • Location: Defeat Millicent during her quest after receiving the Golden Prosthesis.

        Why these talismans? This Bleed Build is all about fast attacks and bleeding. Since we attack while jumping, the Claw Talisman is perfectly suited. With the Sword Insignia and the Prosthesis, we increase our damage through the attack series generated by our six hits from the jump attack.

        Blood’s Favor is there to give us a significant damage buff when our opponent starts to bleed. These are many buffs from our talismans alone, but we can go even further with our armor.

        Overview of Armors

        Which armors do I need? To further increase our damage, there are two armor pieces that fit perfectly:

        

        

        • White Mask
          • Effect: Increases your damage by 10% for 20 seconds if someone nearby has suffered blood loss.
          • Location: Defeat one of the field surgeons who haunt you as intruders near the Mohgwyn Palace.
        • Black Bird Feather
          • Effect: Increases the damage of your jump attacks by 10%.
          • Location: Located southeast of Mt. Gelmir in the cave of the sage behind an illusory wall.

        Why these armors? Both items fit perfectly into the synergies of the talismans and the gameplay style of jump attacks, ensuring that your damage is further increased.

        Important Items for Optimizing the Bleed Build

        What else can I use? To further increase damage, it’s advisable to consume various buffs and items to become even stronger. The following are recommended:

        • Summon: Golden Oath
        • Summon: Flame, Give Me Strength!
        • Flask of Wondrous Physick
          • Strength-knot Crystal Tear
          • Blood-boiled Aroma

        Now we will briefly explain how to play the build.

        How to Play the Bleed Build Correctly

        What do I need to do? Before each fight, buff yourself first with your two summons. After buffing, drink a Flask of Heavens Tear and use your left double blade in both hands.

        Now buff this weapon with your Rock Blade talent. Then take both weapons in each hand again and buff your right double blade with Rock Blade. Finally, you can consume your items like Blood-boiled Aroma, Cooked Crab, or Flask of Wondrous Physick.

        Enter the fight and always try to perform a light jump attack when attacking.

        Once you reach the first blood loss, your damage numbers will soar towards 10,000 points – and beyond. It’s just a matter of time until the boss or enemy is processed into a red puddle. However, be mindful of your stamina during attacks, otherwise, you may not be able to evade in an emergency.

        What do I do against bosses that are immune to bleeding? The only weakness of the build is the fact that you cannot generate bleed against opponents that do not have flesh. For this reason, you should swap out your “Blood’s Favor” talisman and replace it with the “Ritual Shield Talisman”. This way, you at least deal more damage without the bleeding effect.

        That was all the important information about the build. Do you also enjoy playing with bleed or do you prefer other affinities like poison? Let us know in the comments how you found this build. You can find all our guides here: Elden Ring: All Guides, Beginner Tips, and Builds in Overview