MMOexp: The Ash of War doesn't matter a whole lot from AventurineLe's blog
Having the highest guard boost of 86 at max level, just means it's going to Elden Ring Runes consume less stamina when we are blocking hits with it. Now the defensive stats on it are also phenomenal fully blocking physical hits and heavily reducing the damage of Elemental attacks, hence we don't need to roll out of the way for a majority of the attacks thrown at us because it'll either be heavily reduced or just have no effect at all.Furthermore, the Ash of War doesn't matter a whole lot yet, we do prefer to use No Skill just so we don't have to two-hand our spear in any given situation when we want to use that Ash of War instead.
We still need something for the offensive part of this build and what we found to be the best option is the Cross-Naginata. Hence with the Cross-Naginata, we're going to be using the Occult variation because this makes the weapons physical damage skill with Arcane while increasing the passive bleed build up and the Ash of Wars bleed buildup. It just benefits this weapon in so many ways.
On top of the weapon having good damage and bleed build-up, it works astonishingly well with shields allowing us to poke at enemies while being fully protected from the front, so it only makes sense to use the spear Talisman that increases the damage of thrusting weapons when counter-attacking, the exact meaning of this Talisman isn't increased damage when you counter-attack using the heavy input but rather when you poke at an enemy while they're attacking you at the same time. Basically, when you trade hits with an enemy while you're blocking, you're going to Elden Ring Items for sale do more damage.
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