Best Weapons For A Strength Faith Build In Elden Ring

Summary

• Elden Ring offers diverse and powerful weapon options to cater to any playstyle, from mages to traditional knights.
• Combining build types can lead to versatile and powerful characters, especially with weapons that benefit from multiple stat modifiers.
• Exciting and unique weapons like Envoy’s Long Horn and Sword of Light/Darkness provide players with varied and dynamic combat options.

When it comes to build diversity and variety, Elden Ring has no shortage of powerful and fun options for players to choose from to suit any playstyle. Mages have a bountiful list of staffs and wands to choose from, and any traditional knight will be spoiled for choice with the long list of swords and other weapons available.

Combining build types can be incredibly useful, especially when specific weapons enjoy the benefit of multiple stat modifiers. A paladin-style build that focuses on healing with incantations and dishing out heavy strength-based damage can be incredibly versatile and powerful when taking on basic camps of enemies and destroying some of the hardest bosses in the game with little to no trouble.

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Ordovis’s Greatsword

Straight From The Crucible

• Requirements: 25 Str, 13 Dex, 15 Faith
• Skill: Ordovis’s Vortex
• Dropped by Crucible Knight Ordovis at Auriza Hero’s Grave. Full guide.
• Base Game

Ordovis’s Greatsword

is an absolute machine. The power comes from the incredible skill that charges up and then slams down in a burst of holy light, great for taking down groups of foes all at once. The scaling, with both faith and strength, allows the player to dish out some significant holy damage when starting into faith, while still dealing significant harm to those with resistances.

Players can pick up this mighty weapon after just a few bosses, allowing it to be carried through the mid-game, all the way to the core of the Erdtree. And when combined with some incantations, which any good faith user will be equipping anyway, the damage output can be insane while maintaining a high health pool with some good healing spells alongside it.

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Erdtree Seal

A Paladin’s Best Friend

• Requirements: 40 Faith
• No Skill
• Found near the Omenkiller enemy below the Prison Town Church site of grace. Full Guide.
• Base Game

While the strength component of a build is incredibly important, a good sacred seal pairing is just as important. The Erdtree Seal

is the best option for a pure faith-based build and when combined with a powerful physical damage weapon, the buffs and damage output is nearly unmatched.

Found near Volcano Manor, it’s worth taking the short detour to acquire it as it scales incredibly well with faith and provides some of the best possible healing outputs of any of the seals. Using it in conjunction with a suitable weapon that also scaled with faith like the Blasphemous Blade, also found in Volcano Manor, turns the player into a mighty fighter of holy proportions.

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Ornamental Straight Sword

Two Is Better Than One

• Requirements: 10 Str, 14 Dex
• Skill: Golden Tempering
• Dropped from the Grafted Scion at the Chapel of Anticipation, accessed by using the waygate at the Four Belfries.
• Base Game

One of the first weapons the player will see in the whole game, the Ornamental Straight Sword

is wielded by the very first enemy encountered. The cool part about this weapon is the built-in dual-wield function when two-handing it. Rather than needing to go find a second version or have a friend drop it, the player can experiment with the combos and damage output of the double sword moveset.

On top of this, the skill empowers the sword with holy power, turning the heavy attack into a crazy combo chain that shreds through anything unfortunate enough to get in its way. The holy damage and decent strength scaling make it a great choice for players starting into both faith and strength, and early access makes it a great choice to take on an entire playthrough.

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Miquellan Knight’s Sword

The Sword With No Master

• Requirements: 11 Str, 11 Dex, 16 Faith
• Skill: Sacred Blade
• Found atop a bell tower in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree. Full Guide.
• Base Game

Swinging a sword around is one thing when taking on opponents at close range, but sometimes it’s nice to have a ranged option to snipe archers or oncoming enemies from afar. Thankfully, the Miquellan Knight’s Sword

is great at both, having a skill that fires a deadly blast at range, dealing significant holy damage to quell the evils of the world.

The triple scaling of strength, dexterity, and faith gives players the option to go full-on into the paladin fantasy or spread their skill points thinner for a more rounded build. If they choose the former however, the payoff is immense, as at high faith, the enemies can barely get close before being shot down by the devastating sacred blade that fires from the weapon.

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Envoy’s Long Horn

Gentle Notes With A Deadly Song

• Requirements: 23 Str, 11 Dex, 18 Faith
• Skill: Bubble Shower
• Dropped by the large oracle envoy, in Leyndell, Royal Capital. Full Guide.
• Base Game

One of the more peculiar weapons in Elden Ring, the Envoy’s Long Horn

is exactly what it says on the tin. A musical instrument turned bludgeoning great hammer that deals physical damage thanks to the strength scaling and a devastating moveset.

The best part is the player’s ability to actually play the horn, blowing out a spray of golden bubbles that, though beautiful, are incredibly deadly if touched by any unsuspecting enemies. It is a great skill for taking down larger enemies that will soak up every last burst from the horn, particularly bosses such as Placidusax.

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Golden Halberd

Shining Bright Right From The Start

• Requirements: 30 Str, 14 Dex, 12 Faith
• Skill: Golden Vow
• Dropped from the Tree Sentinel in Limgrave. Full Guide.
• Base Game

The Tree Sentinel serves as the first major roadblock for so many players. Some choose to stay around and tough it out right from the get-go, and others return later to enact their revenge. He is a powerful foe indeed early on and his weaponry is no push-over either. The Golden Halberd

is a potent weapon that can be picked up early and provides a great buff for co-op or solo when taking on tougher battles.

One of the best use cases for the halberd is powerstancing with a second one. Holding two giant golden poles and sprinting forth with a sizable damage buff turns any fight into a cakewalk. The ability to jump, attack, and slam with consistent and devastating blows makes the strength and faith builds feel completely overpowered in just a few levels.

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Sword Of Light/Darkness

Two Sides Of The Same Coin

• Requirements: 14 Str, 11 Dex, 24 Faith
• Skill: Light/Darkness
• Requires the Stone-Sheathed Sword to be raised at specific locations. Full Guide.
• DLC

Shadow of the Erdtree introduced many new and exciting weapons and builds to try, but none of them come close to the uniqueness and wow factor of the Sword of Darkness and Light. The player can choose to pick up either and swap back to the other form at any point, upon returning to specific parts of the map, using the initial Stone-Sheathed Sword to conjure forth the power of darkness and a beacon of light.

Both have the same scaling and requirements and give a great incentive to stat into faith to boost the immense power of their respective skills, summoning either a burst of light beams or a shroud of darkness to destroy enemies in a huge area. Each provides a slightly different approach and distinct use-case so it is down to the player to decide whether they are a warrior of light or a bringer of the dark.

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Blasphemous Blade

Gruesome And Glorious

• Requirements: 22 Str, 15 Dex, 21 Faith
• Skill: Taker’s Flames
• Can be acquired from the Remembrance of the Blasphemous by trading with Enia. Full Guide.
• Base Game

Tucked away in the depths of Volcano Manor lies Rykard, the slithering lord of Blasphemy, and after defeating him in cinematic fashion, the player can pick up this incredible weapon that hits like a truck and comes with a passive healing ability that allows players to keep the aggression going when taking on swarms of enemies.

It feels amazing to wield, swinging around a wriggling, fiery blade of destructive power that is perfect for players who want to focus on strength while having all the benefits of a faith build. To cap it all off, the skill Taker’s Flames unleashes a giant line of fire ahead of the player that decimates anything in its path and maintains the healing capabilities of the blade itself. Healing and fire all wrapped into one make this the pinnacle of aggressive paladin combat.