Arcane is a fun stat. It increases your Discovery, Holy Defense, Vitality, and Sorceries and Incantations. Arcane also has some really fun weapons that are all very unique. Here are our Elden Ring top 3 arcane builds for you to try.
Elden Ring 3 BEST Arcane Builds Guide
Here are my top 3 arcane builds for you to try: Sacred Shield Build, Dragon Priest build, Pole Dancer build.
#1 Sacred Shield Build
We'll start out with the sacred shield now, this build focuses on Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear and the unique Bloodboon Ritual skill, this weapon does physical and fire damage and blood loss build up, so all the things that we really like with arcane builds, the White Mask will give you extra damage when blood loss is around you, so we're also wearing that as well as having a little bit of investment into faith mainly so that we can have flame grant us strength because that buffs physical and fire damage which are the two main types of damage that this weapon does, your primary attack will be just holding your shield up and poking with the spear, because it's a piercing weapon, you can hold your guard while poking with the spear, so you'll use that pretty much most of the general enemies that you see especially when you're just fighting one-on-one, you'll just keep your shield up and poke away and then in situations where there's AOE or maybe a boss or something, you will use the blood boom ritual for the massive AOE attack that it does that it causes explosions of blood, you can increase the damage you do with this with shard of alexander even reduced the cost of it with carry and filler green quest, but there's plenty of flexibility in putting this build together.
Sacred Shield Build Attributes
Vigor: 45
Mind: 30
Endurance: 50
Strength: 30
Dexterity: 14
Intelligence: 14
Faith: 15
Arcane: 57
Sacred Shield Gear Build
Weapon: Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear
Sacred Seal: Dragon Communion Seal
Helmet: Crucible Tree Helm
Armor: Crucible Tree Armor
Gauntlets: Crucible Gauntlets
Greaves: Crucible Greaves
Talismans:
Lord of Blood's Exultation
Fire Scorpion Charm
Shard of Alexander
Curved Sword Talisman
Tools:
Flask of Crimson Tears
Flask of Cerulean Tears
Flask of Wondrous Physick
#2 Dragon Priest Build
Dragon Priest Attributes
Vigor: 40
Mind: 45
Endurance: 30
Strength: 12
Dexterity: 20
Intelligence: 14
Faith: 36
Arcane: 64
Dragon Priest Gear Build
Weapon: Poison Antspur Rapier
Sacred Seal: Dragon Communion Seal
Helm: Mushroom Crown
Armor: Malformed Dragon Armor
Gauntlets: Malformed Dragon Gauntlets
Graves: Malformed Dragon Greaves
Talisman:
Kindred of Rot's Exultation
Lord of Blood's Exultation
Faithful's Canvas Talisman
Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman
Tools:
Flask of Crimson Tears
Flask of Cerulean Tears
Flask of Wondrous Physick
Spells:
Agheel's Flame
Smarag's Glintstone Breath
Ekxyke's Decay
#3 Pole Dancer Build
Pole Dancer Attributes
Vigor: 42
Mind: 30
Endurance: 42
Strength: 12
Dexterity: 51
Intelligence: 14
Faith: 36
Arcane: 55
Pole Dancer Gear Build
Weapon:
Eleonora's Poleblade
Bloody Twinblade
Sacred Seal: Dragon Communion Seal
Helm: White Mask
Talisman:
Lord of Blood's Exultation
Rotten Winged Sword Insignia
Fire Scorpion Charm
Shard of Alexander
Tools:
Flask of Crimson Tears
Flask of Cerulean Tears
Flask of Wondrous Physick