Are you ready to become a dragon in the Elden Ring? In the Shadow of the Erdtree, we got an amount of new dragon-themed items including a whole pair of genuine transformations and a couple of remembrance-level dragon communion incantations. In this Shadow of the Erdtree Dragon build guide, we’re going to show you the top 3 best Dragon builds, including their stats, gear, talisman, and wondrous physick.

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Best Dragon Builds & Weapon Combos

1) Elden Ring DLC Best Dragonslayer Build

This Dragonslayer build specializes and focuses on slaying dragons but is also extremely effective against other bosses and enemies in the game. Using the Dragon-Hunter’s Great Katana which is a hybrid somewhere between a katana and a curved greatsword. It does 100% physical damage, and it has quality scaling, meaning that it scales with strength and dexterity. This weapon also has blood loss buildup 55. You're going to trigger blood loss sometimes but it's very rare and isn't something that you should focus on. The weapon skill of this weapon Dragonwound Slash leaps you into the air and does a powerful slash that does 100% physical damage. If you charge it by holding the button down, it'll do even more damage and will also fire out a projectile that goes a decent distance and this is what makes this weapon. This is a hyper aggressive build, you want to try and kill things before they kill you that's the general theme of this best Elden Ring DLC Dragon Slayer build particularly dragons and such.

Attributes

Vigor - 50

Mind - 30

Endurance - 25

Strength - 25

Dexterity - 50

Intelligence - 50

Faith - 7

Arcane - 9

Gear

Weapon - Dragon-Hunter’s Great Katana (Dual Wielding)

Helm - Rakshasa Helm

Armor - Rakshasa Armor

Gloves - Rakshasa Gauntlets

Boots - Rakshasa Greaves

Talisman

Shard of Alexander

Godfrey Icon

Two-handed Sword Talisman

Two-headed Turtle Talisman

Wondrous Physick

Opaline Hardtear

Greenburst Crystal Tear

2) Elden Ring DLC Best Dragon Incantation Build

This time we're taking Bayle's Flame Lightning claw smash and pushing it to the absolute most reasonable maximum that a normal player would do. We're not hot swapping on madness gear. The goal of this best SOTE dragon build is to build around the Flame Lightning incantation, the new claw skill. Because it is both new and exceedingly cool but this turns out to be an extremely strong build all around for specifically the purposes of using Dragon Communion spells in general. You can also use things like Greyoll's Roar to reduce enemies' damage and defense which is a reverse Golden Vow that you apply as a debuff. you can also use Dragonclaw and Dragonmaw at nearly peak potency as well for those spells within this build too. Overall, this is a beautiful all-around Dragon Incantation build for Elden Ring DLC that can do thousands and thousands of damage per hit.

Attributes

Vigor - 60

Mind - 32

Endurance - 11

Strength - 14

Dexterity - 13

Intelligence - 9

Faith - 30

Arcane - 60

Spells

Bayle’s Flame Lightning

Dragonclaw

Dragonmaw

Gear

Right Hand Weapon - Dragon Communion Seal, Occult Miséricorde

Armor - Rock Heart (Consumable)

Talisman

Flock’s Canvas Talisman

Faithful’s Canvas Talisman

Lightning Scorpion Charm

Dragoncrest Greatshield

Wonderous Flask

Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear

Bloodsucking Cracked Tear

3) Elden Ring DLC Best Lightning Dragon Build

This best Elden Ring DLC Dragon Faith build can do 18,500 damage which is crazy. This build utilizes the Dragon Stones, this one specifically boosts Dragon Cults incantations, and the bulk of these Elden Ring items are lightning-based. We are using two Gravel Stone seals because they both boost Dragon Colt incantations so you need two. For our armor piece, we're using the Priestess Hear, this is going to turn you into the dragon form and is necessary for the builds. Using Golden Vow and Flame, Grant me Strength, that's going to be your main damage and it does a lot more damage on enemies that are large because obviously, every single lightning bolt is going to hit. On smaller enemies, you're getting a lot of your damage from Knight's Lightning Spear. Even our Knight’s Lightning Spear is doing over 5,000 per hit and that's incredible. Other than that, if you're trying to kill trash mobs, you can use the Euporia.

Attributes

Vigor - 65

Mind - 45

Endurance - 36

Strength - 16

Dexterity - 19

Intelligence - 19

Faith - 75

Arcane - 14

Gear

Right Hand Weapon - Gravel Stone Seal, Euporia

Left Hand Weapon - Gravel Stone Seal

Armor - Priestess Heart

Talisman

Flock’s Canvas Talisman

Ritual Sword Talisman

Lightning Scorpion Charm

Wonderous Flask

Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear

Faith-knot Crystal Tear

Incantation

Golden Vow

Flame, Grant me Strength

Lightning Spear

Knight’s Lightning Spear

Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike

Honed Bolt