Mastering The Spellblade Build In Elden Ring: A Comprehensive Guide

In the captivating world of Elden Ring, players have the exciting opportunity to blend two powerful combat styles—magic and melee—to create a versatile Spellblade build. This guide explores the intricacies of crafting a formidable Spellblade, highlighting essential strategies, character creation tips, optimal stat distribution, and the best gear choices available. Whether you're a seasoned player or new to the game, you'll find valuable insights to enhance your gameplay experience.

As you embark on your journey, consider the advantages of combining magical prowess with physical attacks. The Spellblade build allows players to use spells to bolster their melee strikes, resulting in a devastating combination that can take down even the toughest foes. With the right approach, this build can seamlessly adapt to various combat scenarios, making it a favorite among players who enjoy tactical gameplay.

Let’s delve into the key aspects of creating your Spellblade build, starting with character creation and moving through to gear selection and strategies for maximizing your effectiveness in battle. This guide will equip you with the knowledge needed to master the Spellblade and dominate the challenges that lie ahead.

In Elden Ring, there are endless opportunities to marry a range-based magic build with a melee build. Playing a Spellblade is one such method. By combining magic and melee, and focusing on using spells to enhance your physical attacks (quite similarly to our Paladin build), you can create something truly devastating in the endgame build. This build is good for players who enjoy the versatility of being ranged and melee at the same time, as well as enjoy approaching combat with tactics in mind. Let’s get into it.

Character Creation

To get us closer to our endgame stats, I recommend picking either Prisoner or Astrologer for this build. Of course, you can always respec later, so if you want to pick something that’s a bit tanky for an easier beginning to the game, you can do that just as well.

Stat Distribution

For this build, I don’t recommend putting any points in Faith or Arcane at all. Unless you need it to use specific spells or items, it will not do much for you. Our target level lands quite high, so this build will keep you busy for a while. Keep in mind, if you feel more confident with combat, you can probably drop some of those points in Vigor. Vigor only matters if you get hit, after all. Otherwise, our primary states are Intelligence and Strength, as those will be our damage-dealing attributes with the gear we will be choosing.

Endgame Gear

Weapons

This build is highly flexible, so you can pick whatever weapon you feel most comfortable with. However, for our purposes, we preferred a heavier sword like the Claymore. The Claymore’s thrusting attack is just very nice for stance breaking in general, and this weapon is good all game long. However, if you prefer a faster weapon, you could go for something like the Moonveil (you’ll want more dexterity for this, though), which scales well with intelligence, or the Carian Knight’s Sword. Pick what you are most comfortable with.