In this guide, we are going over the top five best bleed weapons in Elden Ring, the best of the best s tier category, out of all the builds in Elden Ring, bleed builds are probably your best option, this is because most enemies and bosses in the game have no resistance to blood loss whatsoever, after testing many bleed weapons in Elden Ring, we came to a conclusion and narrowed it down to 5 weapons that we believe are the best options.
TOP 5 Meta Bleed Weapons
This is our list for the top 5 bleed weapons in Elden Ring.
Rivers of Blood Katana
Eleonora's Poleblade
Scavengers Curved Swords
Godskin Peeler Twinblade
Mohgwyns Sacred Spear
#1 Rivers of Blood Katana
The first weapon on our list today probably one of the top three weapons in Elden Ring is the Rivers of Blood Katana, not only does this weapon have one of the most consistent, ashes of war in the game corpsepiler, but it's also one of the strongest and most reliable bleed weapons in the game, as you progress through the story and you get to the Mountaintop of the Giants, you will eventually get to an area that has a church called the Church of Repose, at this location you will be invaded by the bloody finger okina after defeating this enemy you'll be rewarded with the rivers of blood katana, the main reason this weapon is so good is the corpse piler weapon art that you are seeing in the gameplay footage, the corpse piler skill forms a blade of cursed blood for repeated interweaving successive attacks honestly for any bleed build, we highly recommend using the white mask, the reason you want to use this mask is because it slightly raises attack power when there is blood loss in the vicinity, the best talismans to use for the rivers of blood katana includes the shard of alexander which boosts the attack power of your corpse piler skill, we also have the rotten winged sword insignia which raises attack power with successive attacks, the lord of blood's exaltation blood loss in vicinity increases attack power, and last but not least, the green turtle talisman which raises stamina recovery speed, for your wondrous physick mix, we highly recommend using the flame-shrouding cracked tear which temporarily boosts fire attacks if you guys remember the rivers of blood katana also does fire damage, this pairs very well with the cerulean hidden tear which eliminates all FP consumption.
#2 Eleonora's Poleblade
The second weapon on our list is Eleonora's Poleblade, this twin blade has one of the coolest weapon arts in Elden Ring called the blood blade dance, even though this weapon doesn't have the best attribute scaling, we still believe it is one of the best bleed weapon options in Elden Ring, one of my favorite things about the blood blade dance, weapon are is the ability to create some distance after you finish your attack, this weapon allows for an extremely fast time to kill, very fast blood loss and a decent amount of range, because it is a twinblade, to get eleonora's pull blade, you need to complete bloody finger hunter euras quest line, you do have to follow a couple steps and just for the sake of time, the white mask is definitely a good option if you want more damage on your bleed builds, the shard of alexander is the first talisman we are using, this is going to boost the attack power of our skill, we have the rotten wing sword insignia which raises attack power with successive attacks, the lord of blood's exultation blood loss in the vicinity increases attack power, and last but not least, we have the green turtle talisman which raises our stamina recovery speed, for the wondrous physick mix, we recommend using the flame-shrouding cracked tear which is going to temporarily boost your fire attacks, this pairs very nicely with the cerulean hidden tear which eliminates all FP consumption.
#3 Scavengers Curved Swords
The third bleed weapon on our list is the Scavengers Curved Swords, this weapon works incredibly well for bleed builds, when you dual wield curved swords, you get an incredible moveset, and it's one of the main reasons why we love using these weapons so much, you can perform a very quick lunge attack that is difficult for your enemies to dodge, also you can stack blood loss very quickly with your jump attacks, in order to find a scavenger sword, you will need to travel to Mt Gelmir, once you reach the first Mt Gelmir campsite and you will eventually cross a stone pillar bridge, the scavenger sword will be found on a corpse at this location, if you want two scavenger swords, another player is either going to have to drop it for you or you have to get to your second playthrough and pick up another one, the absolute best ash of war to use for the scavenger sword is the bloodhound step, this is going to make you very agile and extremely deadly, we also recommend using the blood affinity to give you the most amount of blood loss possible, when you are using these scavenger swords as your weapons, we recommend using the white mask which is going to increase your attack power when blood loss is in the vicinity, we also recommend using the raptor's black feathers which is going to strengthen your jump attacks, for the talismans, we recommend using the claw talisman which is going to enhance your jump attacks even further and this is going to stack with the raptor's black feathers, we're also using the rotten wing sword insignia which is going to greatly raise the attack power with successive attacks, we also have the lord of blood's exultation blood loss in the vicinity increases our attack power, and last but not least, the green turtle talisman which is going to raise our stamina recovery speed, for your wondrous physick mix, we recommend using the greenburst crystal tear which is going to temporarily boost stamina recovery speed, this pairs very well with the thorny cracked tear which is going to temporarily boost successive attack power.
#4 Godskin Peeler Twinblade
The fourth weapon on our list is Godskin Peeler Twinblade, the reason this twin blade is so amazing for bleed builds is because it has incredible dexterity scaling and insane amounts of blood loss buildup, similar to the scavenger swords that we already went over, this weapon is also going to require a second playthrough if you want to be able to dual wield it, it is definitely worth it, these twin blades in particular are extremely reliable for bleed builds, you have incredible range very fast, melee attacks, and the most important thing obviously extremely fast blood loss buildup, the godskin peeler twinblade can be found by heading to the windmill village from the road of inquinity site of grace until you reach a village with cheerfully dancing inhabitants, this twin blade will be located at the windmill at the very top of the village, once you reach this location there will be a godskin apostle ambush boss fight, after defeating this boss, you will be rewarded with the godskin peeler twin blade, for the twinblades we recommend using the white mask for additional damage, also the raptor's black feathers work incredible with the godskin peeler twin blades, because the jump attack is extremely powerful, we're using the claw talisman to further enhance our jump attacks, the rotten winged sword insignia which is going to greatly raise attack power with successive attacks, the lord of blood's exultation blood loss in the vicinity increases our attack power, and last but not least, the green turtle talisman which raises our stamina recovery speed, for the wondrous physick mix, we recommend using the greenburst crystal tear which is going to temporarily boost stamina recovery speed, this pairs nicely with the thorny cracked tear which is going to temporarily boost successive attack power.
#5 Mohgwyns Sacred Spear
The last weapon on our list is Mohgwyns Sacred Spear, out of all the weapons on our list, this weapon has the fastest blood loss buildup in elden ring, this weapon has a unique skill called the Bloodboon Ritual, raise the sacred spear and pierce the body of the formless mother, stab up to three times creating explosions of blood with each thrust, this sacred spear works incredible against bosses, and one of the best things about this weapon, you don't even have to get close to your targets, the radius is actually really good, you can spam this attack over and over again, if you want to get your hands on this weapon you do have to fight one of the most difficult bosses in the game, mog the lord of blood, we highly recommend using an intelligence build against this boss for the absolute best results, the best talismans to use for this weapon includes the shard of alexander which is going to greatly boost the attack power of the blood boon ritual, we have the ritual sword talisman which is going to raise our attack power when hp is at maximum, the lord of blood's exultation blood loss in vicinity increases attack power, and last but not least, since you're going to leave yourself exposed when you use the weapon skill, the dragoncrest greatshield talisman is going to enormously boost our physical damage negation, for the wondrous physick mix, we recommend using the flame-shrouding cracked tear which is going to temporarily boost fire attacks, this pairs nicely with the cerulean hidden tear which eliminates all FP consumption.