Selecting the right talisman can strengthen your build greatly in Elden Ring, once you are ready to equip some talismans on your character, which one is the best to use? Below we’ll present the top 7 Elden Ring best talismans and locations, as well as the effective method to get them quickly. 

Elden Ring Best Talismans - Top 7 Elden Ring Talismans & Locations for Different Builds

Talismans in Elden Ring are accessories that can be equipped to gain boosts on your skills and stats, and to improve your offensive or defensive effects. Talismans may be dropped from bosses or enemies in different locations in the game, or purchased from Merchants using currencies such as Elden Ring runes. What are the best talismans for mages and melees? Let’s take a look at some of the best talismans for Elden Ring by KhrazeGaming, including powerful legendary talismans, melee talismans, etc., as well as how to get them. 

1. Radagon's Soreseal

One of the best options in terms of pure stats for Elden Ring melee classes and casters or hybrids is Radagon's Soreseal, which can be acquired the earliest and it's probably the best early legendary talisman, giving you five whole points into vigor, endurance, strength, and dexterity respectively. It's actually quite an early acquisition from Fort Faroth, which can be found on a corpse by dropping down the opening from the roof and exploring the wooden walkways. When you see the oversized rat, simply jump down and you should be able to get the Radagon's Soreseal. This is one of the best talismans for melee in Elden Ring. 

2. Marika's Soreseal

When it comes to the best talisman for a mage or a hybrid, you can miss Marika's Soreseal, which increases mind, intelligence, and arcane by +5 each, this is something that you can obtain when you reach Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree. You have to navigate those vines, make your way downward, defeat an annoying boss and then reach all the way to the Prayer Room, which is actually needed for a different side quest. From that point, simply go through the outer wall, take it to the right side, make your way to the ground floor using the nearby platforms, once you are over there, just navigate into the backside until you see a fog room, then when you are inside of it, you’ll get the legendary Soreseal. 

3. Taker’s Cameo

It restores a pretty significant of your HP upon killing one enemy, but that quickly becomes insane if you take out even a small group of enemies, literally giving you a full HP bar back in just a handful of kills with a proper build. To acquire it, in the first place you need to complete a portion of the Volcano Manor questline until you reach the third one with the Red Letter, which will bring you to the Mountaintops of the Giants, then you have to kill the enemy that gives you a really awesome item set, once you are done with that and you go back at the Manor, interact with the main lady over there will automatically reward you the Taker’s Cameo. Having it and Blasphemous Blade is an amazing combination that casts a lot of spells in a high area and takes down many enemies at the same time. 

4. Rotten Winged Sword Insignia

It’s actually earned if you completed the questline for Millicent and helped her in the final battle, this one greatly raises attack power with successive attacks. It takes about three hits to proc it, if you wear a sword or any main weapon, the third hit activates giving you a roughly 6 to 6.5% damage increase per each stack onwards, now this effect lasts only for a few seconds, after which it quickly falls off the stack by stack back to zero, so you will need to actually have a fast build for this, preferably making use of double wielding to make the most out of it, something like dual daggers, that is just fast-paced, because if you go with a slow weapon, you're simply not going to make the most out of it, but during this questline, you can actually get two more very powerful talismans, they are Millicent’s Prosthesis and Flock’s Canvas Talisman.

5. Millicent’s Prosthesis

Millicent’s Prosthesis also provides more damage once you do more and more hits, but on top of that, it boosts dexterity by 5, so it would be an amazing dexterity item. Normally, to get this in the first place, you have to pick the option where you fight Millicent, instead of assisting her and you have to defeat her, then grab it from the ground. 

6. Flock’s Canvas Talisman

Once you helped Millicent and killed her, and then got her Prosthesis, there is one more talisman called Flock’s Canvas Talisman, which offers a huge boost to your incantation damage. What you have to do after doing all of this is head back to that Gowry's Shack and just kill that NPC over there, if you did everything right, he should immediately die, dropping his Bell Bearing and Flock's Canvas Talisman. 

7. Shard of Alexander

The last powerful talisman is the Shard of Alexander, it greatly boosts the attack power of skills. Shard of Alexander drops from Iron Fist Alexander that you can find in Northern Stormhill after completing his questline. 

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