One shot bosses has just become a lot easier after the new update, a lot of the very strong spells that were amazing in the previous updates became even stronger or are much easier to deploy after 1.04. In today's guide, we are going to focus over a full lightning spell casting build that deals very high damage and it's much harder to interrupt compared to before 1.04. We are going to cover the talismans, armors, and weapons of the highest damage faith build after patch 1.04 in Elden Ring.

Elden Ring 1.04 Faith Build Guide - Ultimate One Shot God of Lighting End Game Build 

Use all of the dragon cult incantations which have received major buffs after 1.04. They have seen their stamina and fp cause decreased major speed buffs decrease in recovery time and the biggest of them all the huge buffs to the hyper armor which means it's very difficult to get interrupted after 1.04. Specifically, we’ll make heavy use of the ancient dragon lightning strike and spear 46 lightning spear and the lance x glaive and to that, we're also going to add the honed bolt and the lightning strike against trash mobs. Against bosses, make use of that flame grammy strength, the golden vow and also make use of the lightning stride to buff up your damage and the lining damage to insane levels. Between this, the seals, the talismans and everything that the build has going on for it including the high levels of faith, you will deal upwards to 26, 27 sometimes even in 30k with a well-placed ancient dragon lightning strike. This is what you're going to aim for if you have the opening or if you can position yourself properly or if you can provide the boss with some distraction like a mimic tier or some other summon. Let's get straight into all the details about Elden Ring ultimate one shot god of lighting end game build.

Main Weapons

This build makes use of two of them at the same time are going to be the Gravel stone Seals, they already provide a great boost to dragon cult incantation damage. So this was already great even compared to something like the high scaling eardtree seal that has a higher incantation scaling at this level of arcane. But even so, in practical terms it won't deal as much damage as the gravel stone, but you can combine two gravel stones at the same time, one in the left hand and one in the right hand. And even if one of them is not fully upgraded, you can use the other one which is fully upgraded and get both of the boost to that dragon cult incantation damage. To the point that the damages, you can see increased from 2065 to 2300 plus with these two equipped at the same time. So that's totally worth exploring. 

Armors

- Crucible Gauntlets

- Crucible Greaves

- Crucible Axe Armor

- Haligtree Knight Helm

- Haligtree Knight Helm

- Scaled Greaves

- Scaled Gauntlets

- Scaled Armor

Making use of the crucible armor set for only one reason, it gives you a nice protection, it doesn't wait too much and it gives you a nice rating in poise at about 56 with the full set. So you can tank the damage a bit more during the middle of the cast animations, you can get interrupted that easily but you can get damaged and you will want to tank that in case the enemies get close by the time you unleash the spells. Also switched the head gear with a Haligtree helmet for the two points into faith extra, but you can go with something else. And if you want an alternative that looks a bit better maybe the scaled armor can definitely work, it just has one more point into equip load compared to the Crucible Axe, but you do lose a bit on the physical damage resistance which you make up with the magical damage resistance, so it depends on which enemies you fight against.

Talismans

Lightning Scorpion Charm

Flock’s Canvas Talisman

Marika’s Soreseal

Ritual Sword Talisman

Godfrey Icon

Choose Lightning Scorpion charm for 10 additional lighting damage and the Flock’s Canvas talisman, 15 more to incantation damage, from this point on it's a matter of options so you can either go with Marika’s Soreseal for some additional points but if you're already close to 80 in faith, Ritual Sword talisman is going to give you way more in terms of damage. In this case, you can climb like whole 400 points of damage with the ritual sword talisman instead, but the drawback is that if you get hit or if you're not at full hp, you don't get to benefit from the increase to attack power. A final talisman option would be the Godfrey Icon which enhances the charged spells. So in this case, that would be the ancient dragon lightning strike. If you rely on that most of the time and if you want the highest damage, you will want to couple this with this setup as it gives you about 15 extra damage on top of everything that you have.

Honed Bolt Buffed 

In terms of the trash mobs, you don't want to use high damaging high fp cost spells because that's just the waste, which is where the honed bolt comes into play, it's part of the same dragon cult incantation category and it's been majorly buffed in the new update. As in it's much spammier than before, the cast speed on it has been increased and the recovery time on this has been decreased, so you can literally deal thousands of damage before the enemy even gets a chance to react or get close to you. having a very long reach on it means you can take down enemies from very far away and usually the ai takes a very long time to even detect that. Most important though, it only cost about 12 fps, so it's the perfect kind of like buffer to use in between these major boss fights. Alternatively, you can also make use of the lightning spear, it's a great option, this didn't receive any buffs but that's because it was already great. If you fully charge this up, you can also interrupt enemies or stop them from running, so it's definitely a nice option but it does cost a lot more mana to cast. 

How To Find These items In The First Place?

Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike & Spear Location

You will want to get ancient dragon lightning strike and spears. So these are super easy to get from the Dragon Cult Prayerbook that you can find in Crumbling Farum Azula right by some of enemies in the middle of the room. You can trade this in back at Corhyn at Roundtable Hold and you can immediately buy these for about 10k runes. 

Lansseax’s Glaive

For the Lansseax’s Glaive, you can get this quite early in Altus Plateau in the second encounter against ancient dragon Lansseax at the Rampartside Path and just go up these hills once you defeat him this is going to drop that incantation and you can go ahead and use it right away.

Fortissax's Lightning Spear Fia's Questline Location

This is basically going to be your second highest damage ability in this build. It's amazing, it got a buff as well and even more so it's much harder to interrupt compared to the ancient dragon lightning strike. So to get this, you have to almost complete the entirety of Fortissax's quest line. So she has to leave the round table hold and head over to the deep root depths. Before you head over there, you must complete the Divine Tower of Liurnia, so make sure you've done that, go at the top and get the curse mark of death since this is going to progress you through her final part of the quest. From this point on, you will want to make your way towards those deep root depths especially to the Prince of Death Throne. You will have to fight with about five or four champions. Once you've done that and reload at that side of grace, go ahead and talk to her and talk to her and consume all of the dialogue options until you have the option to give her the curse mark of death. From this point on, just go through all the dialogues reset add a set of grace and eventually you should see her resting or sleeping by the vine or tree. It is point at which you can interact with her and then enter her dream where you will have to fight 40 sacks the ancient dragon and this is basically how you also get the remembrance that you can then trade for that for the sex lightning spear.

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