Elden Ring 1.08 Best Builds - Top 5 Best Faith, Dex, Int, Str, Arcane Bleed Builds in Elden Ring 1.08 Patch

With the 1.08 patch released in Elden Ring, there is big weapon nerfs, poise changes, new balance buffs rolled out that will definitely affect the game and possibly even your gameplay. It's time to reset your build to be meta in the new patch. In this guide, let's focus on the new Best Elden Ring 1.08 Builds!

Elden Ring 1.08 Best Builds - Top 5 Faith, Dex, Int, Str, Arcane Bleed Builds in Elden Ring 1.08 Patch

We finally got a DLC and free update 1.08, that opened the Colosseums, added different PVP  game modes, rebalanced some weapons, and introduced some new content. So in this guide, we will consider all these factors and bring you the most powerful builds in Elend Ring 1.08 patch, which can not only hit bosses in PvE but also be invincible in PvP Arana. Let's dive into it now!

Top 1 - Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike Build (Best Faith Build)

Build Setup (150 Level)

Stats

- Vigor: 40

- Mind: 24

- Endurance: 22

- Strength: 20

- Dexterity: 20

- Intelligence: 9

- Faith: 80

- Arcane: 14

Equipment

- Weapon: Golden Order Seal+10 (Right Hand), Weathered Blood Straight Sword+2 (Right Hand), Jellyfish Shield (Left Hand)

- Armor: Mushroom Crown

- Talisman: Lightning Scorpion Charm, Godfrey Icon, Red-Feathered Branchsword, Kindred of Rot's Rexultation

- Flask: Lightning Shrouding Cracked Tear, Opaline Bubbletear

- Consumable Items: Petid Pot, Neutralizing Boluses, Spectral Steed Whistle

The ultimate PVE build in Elden Ring certainly the best faith build is the Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike one-shot build, that is the build where you can just obliterate pretty much all of the main bosses in the game with ADLs now. This build is fantastic as you can tell there we one-shot radon on max scaling.

Top 2 - Lusat's Glintstone Staff Build (Best Int Build)

Build Setup

Stats

- Level:151

- Vigor: 10

- Mind: 26

- Endurance: 22

- Strength: 12

- Dexterity: 60

- Intelligence: 80

- Faith: 10

- Arcane: 10

Equipment

- Weapons: Lusat's Glintstone Staff + 25(Left Hand), Carian Glintstone Staff +25 (Right Hand), Cold Scripture Wooden Shield +25 (Right Hand), Lightning Caestus ( Golden Vow )

- Armor: Twinsage Glinstone Crown / Battlemage Manchettes / Battlemage Legwraps

- Talismans: Red-Feathered Branchsword, Magic Scorpion Charm, Graven-Mass Talisman, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia

- Flasks: Cerulean Hidden Tear, Greenburst Crystal Tear, Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

This is an overpowered sorcery build in the 1.08 patch, that uses Lusat's Glintstone Staff as main weapon - supposedly the best staff in the game with the highest Sorcery scaling. Assuming Intelligence is the sole damage-based statistic you are investing in, it will outpace all other staves in the game in terms of damage. Lusat's Glintstone Staff comes with high raw damage output, Invest some points into Mind and boost your FP, then you will be dealing substantially more damage. This is without a doubt the still very strong Int Build in 1.08.

Top 3 - Lightning Poison Hybrid Build (Best Dexterity Build)

Build Setup

Stats

- Level: 100

- Vigor: 50

- Mind: 10

- Endurance: 30

- Strength: 19

- Dexterity: 45

- Intelligence: 9

- Faith: 9

- Arcane: 7

Equipment

- Weapons: Lightning Zweihander +20 (Right Hand), Lightning Nagakiba+20 (Right Hand), Coil Shield +25 Left Hand)

- Armor: Mushroom Crown / Tree Sentinel Armor / Crucible Gauntlets / Crucible Greaves

- Talismans: Kindred of Rot's Exultation, Crimson Amber Medallion, Great-Jar's Arsenal, Bull-Goat's Talisman

- Flasks: Lightning Shrouding Cracked Tear, Crimson Bubbletear

- Other Consumable Items: Poisonbone Dart, Freezing Pot, Roped Volcano Pot, Poisoned Stone Clump

This poison and lightning dexterity build involves a couple of different weapons. Due to the variety of weapons, we're using the moveset is going to vary quite a bit, but the main strategy here is going to be to get an orally poison proc with the Coil Shield.  If somebody rolls twice, you're frequently going to be able to grab that poison proc on the second roll, so if they're very close to you and roll once that can indicate to you that you can start the Coil Shield wind up and if they roll a second time oftentimes it'll catch them, out of that second roll if they're not too far away.  As for the rest of the weapons we're going to be trying to get that poison proc early and then start using you Crouch pokes are going to be strong - they just got buffed in patch 1.08, so they're a little bit faster now. 

Top 4 - Blood Iron Greatsword Build (Best Bleed Arcane Build)

Build Setup

Stats (150 Level)

- Vigor: 60

- Mind: 9

- Endurance: 36

- Strength: 29

- Dexterity: 20

- Intelligence: 7

- Faith: 8

- Arcane: 80

Equipment

- Weapon: Blood Iron Greatsword +25 (Right Hand), Ash of War: Lion's Claw (Right Hand), Bloody Basteard Sword + 25 (Left Hand), Ash of War: Spectral Lance (Left Hand)

- Armor: White Mask / Raptor's Black Feathers / Radahn's Gauntlets / Radahn's Creaves

- Talisman: Radagon's Soreseal, Lord of Blood's Exultation, Claw Talisman, Shard of Alexander

- Flask: Strength-Knot Crystal Tear, Opaline Hardtear

- Consumable Items: Bloodboil Aromatic

This is one of the best bleed builds you can use for patch 1.08, now with the latest update bleed builds all around have taken a massive nerf with their total damage and the amount of bleed you can build up on an enemy. However with the way, we modified this setup, it'll still proc a bleed build up with one to three hits, throw out tons of damage, and plow through the most difficult bosses easily. We're going to be using the iron Greatsword with the bleed Affinity placed on it because they have the most bleed build and the best physical damage scaling all while being able to place the Ash of War Seppuku on, even though we're not going to use Seppuku on this exact one. For comparison with the Bloody Lance, Blood Godskin Stitcher, and Beastman's Cleaver, they all have the same bleed build yet the Greatsword has a higher base Dam damage and better scaling for strength which is just going to give us a secondary stat to level up for even more physical damage.

Top 5 - Dragon King's Cragblade Build (Best Strength Build)

Build Setup

Stats (150 Level)

- Vigor: 40

- Mind: 15

- Endurance: 50

- Strength: 75

- Dexterity: 14

- Intelligence: 10

- Faith: 15

- Arcane: 10

Equipment

- Weapon: Griant-Crusher +25 (Right Hand), Ash of War: Cragblade (Right Hand), Commander's Standard +10 (Right Hand), Dragon Communion Seal + 10 (Left Hand)

- Armor: Duelist Helm / Raptor's Black Feathers / Blackflame Monk Gauntlets / Blackflame Monk Greaves

- Talisman: Ritual Sword Talisman, Claw Talisman, Eredtree's Favor, Great-Jar's Arsenal

- Flask: Strength-Knot Crystal Tear, Opaline Hardtear

- Consumable Items: Rebirth

- Incantations: Flame, Grant Me Strength

This is the best strength build that becomes overpowered and destroys any boss with ease in the 1.08 path, as we use one of the most powerful Ashes of war in the game - Cragblade! If you want a meta strength build that can absolutely bully every boss, this is one of the very best options.  This build makes you a posture-breaking monster in Elden Ring 1.08 patch and takes down other players in the colosseum PvP arena easily.