Elden Ring 1.07 New Best Lighting Faith Guardian Build Guide (Weapon, Talismans, Spells, Stats, Gameplat Tips)

With the huge changes in patch 1.07, a lot of very overpowered builds are now no longer viable, so in this guide, we bring you an alternative and you'll be very pleased to know that the majority of this Lightning Guardian build can be picked up quite early on in-game. In fact, the main component of the weapon itself can be farmed as early as Leonia maybe even earlier, so let's dive into the Lightning Guardian build setup.

Weapons for The Best Lighting Guardian Build in 1.07

Right Hand: Guardian's Keen Swordspear+25

This is primarily a dexterity-based build that leans into Faith quite heavily as well just for utility and versatility, and it is all based around the Guardian Sword spear. This is an often slept-on weapon that is insanely powerful, especially with the Keen Affinity applied, as even though it says it only has a scaling in dexterity, it has quite possibly the best dexterity scaling in the game. With well over 800 base attack rating at 99 decks, and close to that even at around 50 decks, this build is then further enhanced with the introduction of Faith, as it allows you to use some incredible Buffs such as Vike's Dragon Bolt and the Golden Vow, and both of these Buffs can be used in tandem meaning every single slash will deal upwards of 1200 damage. This sword spear has a very unique moveset which is in fact only shared with Loretta's War Sickle for a halberd, its attacks are surprisingly fast meaning your damage per second is absolutely insane. 

Ashes of War

Where it really shines with the weapon itself is there are two Ashes of War we would recommend with this weapon:

Sword Dance

You can get Ash of War  very early on in the game, and it inherently provides that Keen Affinity that you want for this weapon and it will really maximize the damage potential of your sword spear, as the Ash of War reads you can quickly close in to perform a series of spinning upward slashes and then follow up with an additional input to finish with a downward slash foreign

Piercing Fang 

However later in the game, you want to move to our second recommendation - Piercing Fang.  The Ash of War has recently had a huge buff as part of patch 1.07, many ashes of war and spells have had big buffs but Piercing Fang got one of the biggest Buffs, so there has never been a better time than now to use it, and of course, make sure you're using the Keen Affinity to get the absolute most damage out of this weapon.

Right-Hand Weapon: Brass Sheild

you could farm for two of them and dual wield them if you just want the absolute maximum amount of damage output from this weapon, though we advise having a shield making the most of the Guard counter and including that tankiness and that survivability into this monster of a build, because then you are insanely deadly at range, insanely deadly up close and also crazy tanky with some very powerful guard counters, so you really do have all bases covered. Brass Sheild is a fairly light medium shield with 100 physical resistance and it drops really easily from basically any Godric Soldier brought-out limb grave.

Character Stats for The Best Lighting Guardian Build in 1.07

Vigor: 60

Mind: 40

Endurance: 40

Strength: 27

Dexterity: 75

Intelligence: 19

Faith: 48

Arcane: 24

We recommend getting to at least 52 dexterity as quick as possible able because that's when the second soft cap comes into play and each level starts to be less effective than the last, but it will continue to increase in damage all the way up to 99, should you want to Max it out. Then we recommend getting at least 25 Faith, so you can use both Vyke's Dragonbolt and the Golden Vow, and then pump the rest of your points into Vigor, Endurance and Mind as you see fit to give you more survivability and wield heavier Shields, and heavier armor sets, and of course cast more spells without running out of mana.

Talismans for The Best Lighting Guardian Build in 1.07

The only two stats you need are Dexterity and Faith, so you could swap both of these Heirloom talismans and combine with Erdtree's Favor and the one increase your guard counters:

• Fingers Heirloom which -  Increases your total Faith by 5 points

• Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom - Increases your total Dexterity by 5 points

• Erdtree's Favor - plus one just so we have a bit more Health stamina and equip load

• The final one is pretty interchangeable but we would recommend increasing your guard counters because guard counters especially with this build should not be slept on they are so insanely powerful in Elden ring.

Spells for The Best Lighting Guardian Build in 1.07

We're then combining that with Faith, so we can use an insane amount of awesome spells:

• Frenzy Burst

• Black Flame

• Stone of Gurranq

• Gurranq's Beast Claw

• Lightning Spear

• Frozen Lightning Spear

• Lannseax's Glaive

• Lightning Strike

You can use a variety like going through different schools of magic trying out Frenzy Burst, Black Flame, and even the best deal incantations that you get from Stone of Gurranq and Gurranq's Beast Claw. 

However, to keep in line with the role-play of the lightning guardian, we are going to be sticking purely with lightning spells. Talking of lightning spells, there is a surprising amount of them throughout the game. You can get some of the more simple yet still very effective ones very early on such as the standard Lightning Spear. As you're progressing through, you'll come across the Frozen Lightning Spear, Landsax's Glaive, Lightning Strike, and a few others that we are not wielding here because they have crazy high Faith requirements, but ut you can seriously have some fun with the versatility of this build.