Best Elden Ring Rivers of Blood Build Patch 1.06

Best Elden Ring Rivers of Blood Build Patch 1.06 - Is Rivers of Blood Still OP?

8/16/2022 4:23:30 PM

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In this guide, we are going to show you if the infamous rivers of blood currently nerfed in patch 1.06, is still op or is it just completely mediocre and nerfed to the ground, we compare the patch 1.06 vs 1.05 rivers of blood. PvP players are rejoicing about this change but PvE players are not sure about it. Is it still good, is it real bad, should I use it or get another weapon. We also list the armor, talismans, incantations, stats for the Rivers of Blood build in Elden Ring.

Best Elden Ring Rivers of Blood 1.06 Build Guide - Rivers of Blood 1.06 vs 1.05

Rivers of Blood Before Patch 1.06

There was much divided opinions about reverse of blood, some people loved it because the skill was really powerful with the bleed build before the nerf and some people hated it because the high damage and quick successful combo topped with the long reach of its skill. On pve, it was very viable to use, it really could make your life easier in the lens between depending only on the use of one skill that was core spiller. It wasn't boring at all but it might be for others because to really shine with this weapon, your best option is to repeat the use of the skill over and over.

Rivers of Blood Nerf in Patch 1.06

With patch 1.6, the damage and bleed buildup of the river's blood skill called corpse piler was reduced when hit with blood attack and also slightly reduced when hitting with the blade. So let's see how it compares with the previous patch.

Rivers of Blood Damage Nerf Patch 1.05 vs 1.06

On patch 1.05, using the corpse filer against the big white dragon, doing only one hit of the skill button aka the two slashes, it does from 656 to 683. When the bleep procs and doing a full combo, it does 19193 to 19308 to 19330. Now in patch 1.06, doing only one hit of the skill button, it does 446 379 379 again and 509, it's really low compared to the high 600 on the prior patch and when bleed procs and doing a full combo, it does 18501 and 18810. Taking more hits to be able to pop that big damage that bleed build are known for. So really what hurts is the slow blood build up because although there's a difference in the high damage, it's still high, just have to connect more hits to build it up and that can be a problem with boss fights if any.

Different example on a regular mob in patch 1.05, the t-rex dog goes down in the full sexy combo with a total of 7568 damage and now in patch 1.06, the same mob goes down barely in the full six hit combo with a total of 6491. So the nerf is noticeable, these numbers were taken with the same build, it may vary from yours but the result of the nerf should represent the same.

Rivers of Blood Location, Stats, Usage

Rivers of blood katana is obtainable at late game in the east part of mountain tops of the giants in the church of opposed. When you kill the invader bloody finger okina, it does physical and fire damage. It can be infused by ashes of war or enchanted, it causes by the fall 50 bloodlust buildup but on a max level with this arcane build, we have it at 78, a scale's b with dexterity and d with arcane and e with strength and also has a minor stat requirement of 12 strength, 18 dexterity and 20 arcane. For this particular build, run with two rivers of blood, so you can get a second one on your next playthrough or have a friend drop it for you if you still want a power stance. But if you only have one, you can use a substitute katana on your off hand like the naga kiba or the oji katana or you can use it two-hand if you only have one river of blood. It does decent attack and damage even with the nerf, if you want to use jump attack, running attacks and regular combos, the reach of it is a bit short compared to other katanas. So this is where you realize that there are other better options for normal attacks. But the skill of this katana does great damage that becomes the only option to kill things faster.

Rivers of Blood Location

Rivers of Blood Skill - Corpse Piler

This skill creates a blood slash two times, you can chain up the skill up to two more times hitting the same button in mid animation. The first set does two quick slices with incredible reach and spread, the second set does three quick slices and third said a finishing slice. All of those blood slices does great damage and build up the bloodlust. A little bit slower than before because of the recent nerf and when it pops, takes a big chunk of enemies health, so the only option with this katana is using these skills most of the time and that's where the controversy was because corpse filer was really powerful and it still is has a great reach, it's fast, you can change it up for a total of six hit, add a bloodlust to it and has a low 17fp cost.

Rivers of Blood 1.06 Build - Samurai Armor - Armaments

There's a few choices in the game that you can get your hands on, you may find better looking or with better stats, so it's up to you what samurai armor you want to use.

Lance of Reed: It's comprised of the helmet chest piece gauntlets and greaves, it's full armor for a samurai class or you can buy it from a vendor next to the isolated merchant's shack side of grace in northwest part of caled called dragon barrel.
White Reed: It's comprised by the okinawa mask, chess piece gauntlets and reeves, all the pieces except the mask can be found in spirit color cave in mountain tops of the giant in a corpse in a long covered hallway where you find a lot of spare wolves.
Ronin: It's comprised of iron castle helmet, chest piece gauntlets and greaves, you can get it by completing bloody fingered hunter yura questline or killing him when he's located in summer ruins in mountain tops of the giant.

At the end of the day you can use the summer armor you like or the combination of pieces, it's really fashion souls up to this point. The rest of the armaments are a dagger to buff up with golden vowel as a war the seal is the dragon communion seal to apply the incantations flame ground strength or flame cleanse me, you can use any other seal you got because we're not using any offensive indentations that can be affected by the incantation scaling.

Rivers of Blood 1.06 Build Talismans