How Should You Build The Warrior Class

With a huge selection of wildly customizable classes to pick from, Elden Ring stays true to the Dark Souls formula. The game makes sure to leave plenty of room for experimentation with its classes, ensuring that players of preferences can still have a good time.

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Unfortunately, this also means that there is a lot to unpack. It can often feel daunting to know how to build your class for peak efficiency. Anyway, to make this easier for you, this guide will tell you how to most effectively build the Warrior in Elden Ring.

Base Stats

The Warrior is an all-around rock star when it comes to his base stats. While Dexterity is the obvious strong suit here, the Warrior’s high Endurance, Mind, and Vigor are also some real forces to be reckoned with.

That being said, the Warrior has some clearly poor Faith and Arcane stats, but the truth is they don’t exactly benefit him anyway.

Starter Loadout

Luckily for us, the starting gear for the Warrior can be rather exceptional. The two scimitars they come equipped with pair perfectly with their naturally high dexterity, and the warrior armor set isn’t half bad. Of course, there are also plenty of early-game armors that are generally a better option.

Most players are better off just unequipping the starting shield immediately upon starting the game. That’s not to say that the Retrieved Wooden Shield isn’t useful; it just doesn’t fit with the Warrior’s play style in most cases.

Important Gear

Immediately after entering Limgrave, players should head west to the vendor along the west coast. Here, you can purchase a shortbow, which will work perfectly with the Warrior’s dexterity. Just be sure to get a crafting book for those arrows.

Players should make an attempt to reach the Warmaster’s Shack northeast of the starting area. Here, players will have a large variety of Ashes of War for purchase. While there is not a single bad option for sale, the recommended choice is the Storm Blade, which will work wonders when used with dual scimitars.

Perhaps the best early-game dexterity weapon is the Bloodhound’s Fang, an absolutely deadly curved sword that is great for players who don’t want to dual-wield. However, players are going to have to defeat a real doozy of a boss. It can be found south of Limgrave, located on the map above.

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Leveling Up

A great rule of thumb for leveling up in Elden Ring is to keep your levels ratios consistent with how they began. It sounds confusing, but in the case of the Warrior, this would mean to keep on pumping points into Dexterity.

Be sure to spend the first few points on Vigor because, as the Warrior, you will be taking significantly more hits than most classes. Also, remember that you should never spend points on Faith. If you desperately want to run magic as the Warrior, then Intelligence-based spells are a much better way to go.

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How To Play As The Warrior

The Warrior is a difficult class to play due to the close-and-personal nature of their play style. Most Dexterity-based weapons scale based off of consecutive hits, meaning many players get greedy for damage and end up paying for it.

Try to make a conscious decision not to spam the attack button when taking on tough enemies. Go in, get some damage off, and retreat.

As the Warrior, you are going to need to master dodging. Because of this, it is vital to keep your equipment load low. Preferably in the light stage. Try to figure out which direction to roll based off of the enemy’s attack. If the enemy has a weapon with huge reach, dodge-roll into them. Vice versa if they are using a short-range weapon such as a dagger.

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