After 1.03, Rivers of Blood in Elden Ring is still powerful. How to use this overpowered weapon? Follow us to go through a level 125 Elden Ring Rivers of Blood Bleed build works for both PvE and PvP, with details covering starting class, stats, weapons, armors, seals, incantations, talismans, flasks, and more. 

Best Elden Ring Rivers of Blood Bleed Build 1.03 (PvP & PvE)

This is an Elden Ring Arcane Prophet PvP build at level 125 built by PWARGaming, focuses on the Rivers of Blood Katana, and also incorporates key Faith incantations to make it even more deadly in PvP and extra tools to make up for its slight weakness in PvE. 

Build Starting Class and Stats

The Prophet level is 125, you can use Bandit or Confessor as their level is 126. You can just lower the arcane a bit, but this is with everything off, which for duels, you should not use Elden Ring runes if you are hosting. The play style of the build is ranged, 21 Mind allows you to do two Rivers, 27 endurance enables you to wear River, Rapier, and Dragon seal, or adjust two curve swords. The primary attributes are vigor and arcane. 

- Vigor: 50

- Mind: 21

- Endurance: 27

- Strength: 12

- Dexterity: 13

- Intelligence: 7

- Faith: 16

- Arcane: 58

Best Weapons

1. Rivers of Blood

Rivers of Blood is a Katana in Elden Ring and a good weapon for mid-range combat, it can inflict both Slash and Pierce attacks. Its main identity is Ash of War Corpse Piler, a three-part skill that does multiple slashes. What makes this so potent is its range able to reach really far from the user and hit things in a cone shape in front of you, you can change the attack in any direction in the middle of each attack, which makes it super hard to roll around. In addition, the passive effect of being able to bleed especially paired with a high Arcane stat, will increase the rate of blood loss, then lead you to kill the enemy with one shot if you proc to bleed after the first two swings, as the bleed proc will stun the player and then allow your followup swings to land. Rivers of Blood is a late-game weapon by the NPC Bloody Finger Okina.

2. Flame Art Rapier 

Rapier is fast for any Bloodhound steppers or runners that they could run up on a river’s main, for PvP, you can want to use Bloodhound's Step on it as well as bleed scaling to better dodge spell spammers, but for PvE, you can slap Flame of the Redmanes on them which is the best posture-breaking skill in the game. 

3. Scavenger’s Occult Curved Sword and Scavenger’s Flame Art Curved Sword

The next two weapons are Scavenger Curved Swords, this is a backup in case what happens to Rivers of Blood, these actually out DPS Rivers against enemies that don’t move much. 

Best Seal and Incantations

For the best Seal for this Rivers of Blood build in Elden Ring, you’ll want Dragon Communion Seal, it can scale faith incantations off Arcane, and you can do some decent damage with them. As for Incantations or Spells, you're going to want Flame, Grant Me Strength, Swarm of Flies, Catch Flame, and Dragonfire. The Flame, Grant Me Strength gives +20% physical and fire attack power in PvE and +15% in PvP, it boosts the River’s damage by a lot and also boosts Flame Art Curved Sword against the Elden Beast. 

- Seal: Dragon Communion Seal

- Incantations: Flame, Grant Me Strength, Swarm of Flies, Catch Flame, and Dragonfire

Best Armor

Head: White Mask

Chest: Beast Champion Armor (Altered) 

Arms: Veteran’s Gauntlets

Legs: Veteran’s Greaves

Best Talismans

- Shard of Alexander

- Rotten Winged Sword Insignia

- Millicent’s Prosthesis

- Lord of Blood’s Exultation

Flask and Spirits

The flask should be Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear and Thorny Cracked Tear for even further consecutive attack boosts which stack with the talismans. And Crimson Bubbletea is a must-have key item for most PvP builds, you can go with Opaline for spirits mimic.  

- Flask: Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear & Thorny Cracked Tear

- Crystal Tear: Crimson Bubbletear, Opaline Bubbletear

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