Elden Ring Beginner Vagabond Class Guide: How To Build A Berserker In Elden Ring

Today we are going to be showing you berserker build in Elden Ring. This is a strength based build that uses two great swords to just slaughter everything. If you've been looking for a good strength based build in Elden Ring, then this guide is for you.

Elden Ring Beginner Vagabond Class Guide: How To Build A Berserker 

Berserker Character Creation

The two classes you can use to make this build are vagabond or hero. It doesn't really matter too much which you choose, your stat spreads are not going to be that much different, you're still going to have to put some points here and there, but you could do either of these classes. 

How To Make This Build Work

Once you begin the game, the first thing that you're going to want to do is go pick up the lord swords, this is in the gate front runes, it's in the chest there on the back of a carriage and make sure you grab the whetstone in the runess there as well down the steps that way you can put an ash of war on it if you want. Once you have that, the next thing you're going to want to pick up is the erd trees favor, this is located in french folk heroes grave which is where that gargoyle statue is right at the beginning of the game with that kind of white fog there. If you have a stone's word key if you took one as your starting gift you can go down there immediately. If you took a golden seed which is what i usually recommend taking for the extra flask you'll need to find one. These aren't hard to find they're all over the place you don't even have to kill some enemies like if you go up the hill in storm hill. There's one right next to the npc up there, you can just pick up and go in there, so that's really easy to get. You want to go down there and there's going to be an area where the ramp narrows as you're going down when you can fall off the other side to your death, if you look carefully as you approach it you can drop right over the lip there's sort of a hidden area down there if you make your way down. You'll find the arteries favor lying on the ground, it's guarded by like two really tough enemies. So i don't suggest trying to fight them, just run by them pick it up die if you have to make sure you don't have any runes on you when you go down there. And then you'll have the really good talisman that boosts your stamina, it also boosts your equipment. 

After you've gathered that, the next thing you're going to want to do is go pick up the claymore which is located in Castle Morne. This is another item that you don't even have to kill anything to get, you just go into Castle Morne and run by the enemies there by the fire thing, go into the doorway on the right side and on the left immediately through that doorway as a chest. It's got the claymore inside. So you can dual wield greatswords and you're really start packing a punch. You're going to want to get these upgraded right away. There is the statue up there on storm hill that if you get the trolls to destroy has like six upgrade materials in it and the tunnels as well have a lot of upgrade materials. So go ahead and get those if you need more because you're going to want to upgrade both of these weapons, you can farm the soldiers and the gate front runes they drop them, it's a pretty low drop rate like if you kill the whole camp you usually get about one. But that is a way you can farm some early on if you're having trouble getting them. 

There is one other item that's really good for this build, the claw talisman. This enhances your jump attacks, you do jump attacks with this build all the time, in fact, if you're not jumping attacking, you're not doing this build right, it is devastating to jump attack with two weapons. Jump attack and get the claw talisman when you can it's located in stormdale castle, it is absolutely devastating the exact location of that is located on the wiki.

Berserker Attributes

- Vigor: 20

- Mind: 10

- Endruance: 20

- Strength: 18

- Dexterity: 13

- Intelligence: 9

- Faith: 9

- Arcane: 7

In terms of strength and dexterity, you want just enough in order to meet the requirements for the claymore. You have the dexterity requirement for that and the Lordsworn’s Greatsword by default. So all you really need to do is get to 16 strength pretty quick and you'll be able to use both of these weapons at the same time. Once you've done that, pump Vigor and Endurance, get up to 15 quickly and then start cranking endurance. Endurance is not only going to give you more stamina because you're jumping around, rolling around, attacking with two huge weapons that chew up stamina, but it also increases your equip weight allowing you to use heavier armor which is going to protect you. Because this is a very aggressive build, you're going to trade damage a lot of times with this build in order to speed up fights and you want to make sure you reduce the amount of damage you take and you also want to be able to medium roll. So if you are in that heavy roll range, you're going to fat roll which isn't ideal. So make sure that you increase your endurance so that you can wear heavy armor to wield both weapons and still mid roll. Eventually you're going to want to get Vigor up to 20 and Endurance up to 20. At that point you can start cranking strength, you can change the scaling on these weapons with ashes of war in order to make heavy versions that scale better with strength than the sort of quality that they start with. So change them to heavy eventually but early on if you change them to heavy you'll actually do less damage. So there's no reason to change them to anything rather than standard at the beginning of the game.

Gameplay

So the way this build works is that when you're dual-wielding these weapons you're using the l1 button to attack with both at the same time. They attack slightly slower than you would if you hit R1. If you hit R1 you'll only swing your right-hand weapon which is a bit faster. So there are scenarios where you may want to swing faster like if you're fighting a very fast enemy. So he doesn't stagger you before you swing and that's a scenario where you might use r1. But most of the time you're going to be using l1 in order to hit with both weapons at the same time which is what really makes the damage of the spilt sync. Beyond that, jumping attacks are what make this build really work, you're going to want to jump and use l1 constantly, you can one shot many enemies by doing it. You're gonna play very aggressively with this build. 

Berserker Build Tips

You can buff your weapons with like greases. There are a lot of greases you can find all over the game and you can craft them as you pick up items, the armor cookbook one is like where the bandit mercenary camp is like by the gate front ruins, just go over to storm hill a little way, you'll find them riding around there and that allows you to craft fire grease which you can buff your weapon with to enhance your damage. Another really great thing about this build is that you have l complete freedom of ashes of war that you want to put on there, there are so many different ashes of war you can put on. Make sure you put it on your right hand weapon that way when you hit l2, you'll use it. War Cry is really good for boosting your damage, just keep in mind that if you use war Cry, you can't use fire grease and work right together, so that's a good way to boost your damage.

Lastly, this build works exceptionally well on horseback, the claymore has just a fantastic moveset on horseback, it's really easy to hit enemies, has really large hit boxes you're going to find mounted combat on horseback is very easy with this build.