The ruins greatsword is one of the coolest and most unique Elden Ring weapon concepts in Elden ring, it reaches some of the highest attack rating deals, some of the highest damage and has an amazing reach thanks to its Elden Ring weapon skill, but none of these aspects is what makes the Elden ring weapon truly special, it's actually how its damage scales with the primary stats listed on it.
Best Elden Ring Weapon - Best Pure STR End Game Weapon S Tier Greatsword
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - Strength and Dexterity
To truly maximize its damage potential, now the general rule of Elden ring when it comes to Elden Ring weapon scaling is that whenever there is a hybrid Elden ring weapon that lists two separate attributes for example one in the melee category, like strength and dexterity.
Another one in the magical category like faith and intelligence, usually, each one of these affects different aspects of that Elden Ring weapon, for example in the case of this one strength would be the component that affects the melee damage of the weapon, so direct blows with the Elden ring weapon itself, meanwhile, the magical component or intelligence would buff the Elden ring weapons skill and that's the norm with most of the weapons in Elden ring.
Something like the falling star beast Jaw obviously deals a lot more damage with its Elden Ring weapon special, if you invest a lot more points into intelligence and there are many other faith equivalents as well in the case of the ruins greatsword, on the other hand, this is not what happens, you might be surprised to find out that this is way purer strength-oriented than you were initially led to believe.
50 STR 50 INT
Initially thought that a 50-point distribution into strength and intelligence would be the well-optimized way of playing and it deals some pretty respectable damage, especially with the Elden Ring weapon skill 1700 plus almost 1800 against these mobs, but watch what happens.
84 STR 16 INT
Only keep intelligence to 16 to meet the minimum requirements and pour everything into strength over 80. In this case, as you can see there's a huge benefit of over 250 points for the Elden Ring weapon art itself which is completely different than any other Elden Ring weapon.
99 STR
Actually, to see exactly what happens, if push all of that intelligence to 99 and surprise, it still did not even begin to get close to having those 80 points into strength, so at the end of the day, what this means is that the ruins greatsword is actually way better when you get maximum points into strength and completely avoid any intelligence as they are just wasteful on anything over 16 which again is the minimal, you need to even use the Elden Ring weapon special.
Now you might be tempted to believe that's because of the descaling it has in intelligence, but it's not really true, because there are plenty of other Elden Ring weapons out there with a similar scaling in that magical stat that still gets major benefits in the Elden Ring weapon art damage from just investing into that which is again, totally not the case with the ruins greatsword, in fact, there's very little upside to even buffing your magical damage with this build right here.
There are barely a few points that you get compared to just straight up having a lot more strength and points towards that so looking at right here, probably the best all-around Elden Ring weapon for pure strength builds, not only do you get it super early pretty much at the radon festival, you also get that max rank scaling with strength at level 10.
It also gets extremely high damage since the AR is some of the highest of all colossal Elden ring weapons and of course, you get the range spell on it that doesn't even scale with intelligence, so you literally don't have to waste any points into that past the 16, you need to wield it in the first place, here are some of the other items that using with this build, obviously since a high-strength warrior kind of build.
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - Resistances and toys
A lot of points into resistances and toys, so went with a skilled armor, but if you get more endurance, you can obviously go for something heavier like the veterans, so that's a matter of options when it comes to the talismans, the only pure damaged one is the shard of Alexander.
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - Star scorch heirloom
That 15 or so additional damage for Elden Ring weapon skills when it comes to the second one with the star scorch heirloom, technically be speaking increases the magical damage of the weapon well, the reason is that even though the magical scorpion charm does increase the damage, it's barely half even less than that compared to just having those extra five points from the star scorch heirloom which is why just went with a lot more strength.
As much strength as possible with this build is pretty much key, so if you can go to 99. when it comes to some of the others went with the earth tree favor, this just raises maximum hp stamina and equip load.
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - The great jar arsenal
Finally of course, with the great jar arsenal, so that wield those armor stats, this is going to be a pretty heavy build, you will need quite a lot of, not going to use any source seals simply, because there's gonna be too much resistance penalties when using that at this level and if you even couple it, with like the blood will aromatic, you will literally go below zero, so like minus ten per cent which is definitely not desirable like this, you get about 30 resistance into almost everything, so it's definitely helpful since in this case.
The attribute distribution here is how it looks at 130, as it is simply because a lot more points into mind to cast six straight-up weapon skills, but you don't need it that much now when it comes to movement, it's actually quite amazing, it borrows most of what makes colossal greatswords amazing, it's dodging R1 is also a poke.
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - Attack patterns
This makes it quite amazing against bosses that you can stay close to and predict their attack patterns like, for example, Radagon or Melania in both of these situations, if you stay close and follow with dodges and R1S, you're usually going to just stun them in about like four or five of these, unless you also get to jump attack, and then do it even faster, it's definitely satisfying in both of these situations and the poke also comes out quickly, you also have the charging r2 which also makes this best Elden ring weapon quite unique,
Elden Ring Weapons S Tier Greatsword - Unleash spikes
You can pretty much unleash spikes from the ground with a similar gravity spell that further stuns enemies, if you want to do something like that now even though this is gravity damage, it's not going to get the benefit from some of the other gravity-related spells which would normally give you a twenty per cent damage increase against targets like astral, for example, it's no longer the case. This is even gravity damage, technically speaking, it's still physical damage, you're just erupting the ground enemy's feet. That's what counts it as physical damage, obviously if you're going against targets that tend to spam attacks a lot, and they are a bit frailer like some of the regular enemies, you can always use the weapon as a shield which is both amazing at parrying blocking and just following up with a repost.
The ruins greatsword is one of the best all-arounders in Elden ring, it totally has pretty much everything going for it the max scaling the high ar the fact that it deals range damage with no intelligence or faith distribution and the fact that it's literally one of the best in a pure strength kit is what just puts it in the got here category.
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