In this Elden Ring guide, we dive into the changes to the meta builds and sort out the new best builds after the 1.07 patch!

Top 5 Best Elden Ring 1.07 Builds

With patch 1.07, massive changes involved in the Ashes of War, Spells, and Weapons rolled out in Elden Ring, so many builds have been affected in one way or another whether they've been improved or decreased.  You might wonder which builds become the strongest one-shot bosses in the game after the 1.07 patch. So we have the answer for you!

Top 1 - Maliketh's Black Blade Build

This is New Game+ Build focuses on using Maliketh's Black Blade's armor and the black blad incantation:

1.07 Build Setup

Character Stats

• Vigor: 45

• Mind: 22

• Endurance: 33

• Strength: 45

• Dexterity: 12

• Intelligence: 16

• Faith: 46

• Arcane: 9

Weapon

• Right Hand: Maliketh's Black Blade

• Left Hand:  Godslayer's Seal+25

Armor

• Head: Maliketh's Helm

• Chest: Maliketh's Armor

• Arms: Raya Lucarian Gauntlets

• Legs: Maliketh's Greaves

Talisman

• Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Shard of Alexander

• Claw Talisman

• Sacred Scorpion Charm

Spells

• Golden Vow

• Blessing of the Erdtree

• Black Blade

• Walking Mausoleum

• Remembrance of the Black Blade

Flask of Wondrous Physick

• Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Cerulean Hidden Tear

• Greenburst Crystal Tear

Great Runes

• Godrick's Great Rune

• Malenia's Great Rune

The first notable change for this build is that the Black Blade incantation is stamina consumption reduced it has improved, turning performance and shortened recovery time allowing you to aim it a little bit better, the sword and wave attacks have been changed so that they hit at the same time, and the attack power stamina attack power employs damage if each part have been decreased and it's decreased the number of times the wave part hits large enemies so it's not going to like pass through them and hit them multiple times. So it's been buffed in some ways and nerfed in others, generally speaking, you should get similar performance, it should be easier to use this but it probably won't be as strong when it lands as it would have been before. 

Additionally, Destined Death which is the weapon skill of Maliketh's Black Blade has had its motion speed increase which means it should fire off faster. It took forever and the duration of the effect that reduces the maximum HP should be increased, this is the same with the blade of death, so it should be easier to take the Black Blade incantation and Destined Death and stack these HP reduction things. Because if you didn't know you can have two of these as enemies if you get them up at the same time, their Max health will be reduced by 20 percent, and then when those debuffs expire their health will not go back up. So you want to make sure you trigger them both at the same time if possible otherwise you'll have 10% it'll wear off and then you hit with the other one and it'll have 10% which will do nothing. 

Another remarkable change with this build is that Malacath's armor set has had its poise increased from 40 to 51 which is kind of the breakpoint for regular attacks, so you should be able to pull these through regular attacks with this build making it even more deadly than it was before.

Top 2 - Best Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike Build

This one-shot lightning build is one of the ultimate best PVE builds in Elden Ring, using Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike. 

1.07 Build Setup

Character Stats

• Vigor: 45

• Mind: 33

• Endurance: 25

• Strength: 20

• Dexterity: 45

• Intelligence: 99

• Faith: 99

• Arcane: 14

Weapon

• Right Hand: Golden Order Seal+10, Weathered Blood Straight Sword with Seppuku Ash of War

• Left Hand:  Jellyfish Shield

Armor

• Head: Mushroom Crown

Talisman

• Godfrey Icon

• Lightning Scorpion Charm

• Kindred of Rot's Exultation

• Red-Feathered Branchsword

Spells

• Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike

• Howl of Shabriri

Flask of Wondrous Physick

• Lightning-Shrouding Craked Tear

• Opaline Bubbletear

Great Runes

• Fetid Pot

• Neutralizing Boluses

Since it doesn't seem like they nerfed or buffed Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike in the 1.07 patch, Howl of Shabriri's last 30 seasons instead of 20 makes this build more overpowered. Making Howl of Shabriri last 30 seconds instead of 20 is actually excellent news for those that like the ancient dragon lightning strike One-Shot build as well as many of the other magic and incantation things you can do in the game including physical buffs because it now allows it to last 10 seconds longer which gives you a significantly bigger window now. There's another advantage we noticed: if you're at high HP and you may be at high HP when you're trying to low proc for these builds Seppuku now does more damage, you can actually get your HP down faster now with the chunk that it takes since seppuku was nerfed in this patch - there's less bleed and it does more damage upon activation, so that's a plus two and it helps in addition to the house to bribery buff on the duration.

Top 3 - Soul Samurai Build (Best 1.07 Dex/Int Katana Build)

This is a dexterity intelligence build that focuses on the use of using a Katana in this case the Nagakiaba as well as using some magic spells. 

1.07 Build Setup

Character Status

• Vigor: 50

• Mind: 30

• Endurance: 20

• Strength: 18

• Dexterity: 47

• Intelligence: 60

• Faith: 7

• Arcane: 9

Weapon

• Right Hand: Ken Nagakiba+25 with Double Slash Ash of War

• Left Hand: Academy Glintstone Staff

Armor

• Head: Black Knife Hood

• Chest: Blue Silver Mail Armor

• Arms: Black Knife Gauntlets

• Legs: Black Knife Greaves

Talisman

• Shard of Alexander

• Magic Scorpion Charm

• Millicent's Prosthesis

• Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

Spells

• Greatblade Phalanx

• Scholar's Armement

• Freezing Mist

• Terra Magica

• Founding Rain of Stars

• Loretta's Greatbow

• Carian Retaliation

• Unseen Form

Flask of Wondrous Physick

• Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Greenburst Crystal Tear

Great Runes

• Godrick's Great Rune

The only changes to this build come in the form of the Spells. Greatblade Phalanx has had its FP cost reduced. Founding Rain of Stars has had its FP cost reduced as well as, the speed at which the rain begins after you cast the spells, so this should trigger faster and the range which you can cast this is also longer making that more effective as well. Loretta's great bows had its FP cost reduced and freezing Mist has had its frostbite build up status effect increase, so this should be more effective as well. So really this whole build just got a huge buff, making it even more deadly.

Top 4 - Golden Sword Sage Build

This is an OP NG+ sword sage build using Golden Order Incantations:

1.07 Build Setup

Character Status

• Vigor: 50

• Mind: 33

• Endurance: 27

• Strength: 12

• Dexterity: 12

• Intelligence: 45

• Faith: 50

• Arcane: 9

Weapon

• Right Hand: Coded Sword+10 

• Left Hand: Sword of Night and Flame, Golden Order Seal+10

Armor

• Head: Radiant Gold Mark

• Chest: Veteran's Armor

• Arms: Veteran's Gauntlets

• Legs: Veteran's Greaves

Talisman

• Shard of Alexander

• Ritual Sword Talisman

• Ritual Shield Talisman

• Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

Spells

• Gold VoW

• Elden Stars

• Litany of Proper Death

• Discus of Light

• Triple Rings of Light

• Radagon's Ring of Light

• Carian Retaliation

• Unseen Form

Flask of Wondrous Physick

• Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Faith-Knot Crystal Tear

Great Runes

• Godrick's Great Rune

A lot has changed with the Golden Sword Sage Build. First up, Triple Rings of Light has had its cast speed increase, so it's going to be easier to cast this spell. Discus of Light pretty much the bread and butter spell of this builds had its FP cost reduced in stamina consumption reduced making it easier to change spam, it's increased the range speed and duration of the Halo as well as its cast speed, so you should be able to sling these a lot faster making it even better. Radagon's Rings of Light has had its FP consumption cost reduced and its recovery time reduced, this is great because sometimes you need to cast it back to back to wipe out a pack of enemies making that easier to do and it was very expensive FPY so that's a good change as well. Additionally, the FP cost of Eldon Stars has been reduced, so that should be less expensive to cast as well. There are some changes to the weapons as well, the unblockable blade ability of coated sword has its FP cost reduced and its movement speed increased meaning it's going to be easier to use this ability and you're going to be able to use it more air efficiently since it'll be less expensive. And when you are using sort of Knight in Flame for this build, the Knight and Flame stance has had its attack power increased, it's had attack direction adjustments making it easier to aim up and down, this is a big problem with the Knight Comet beam of it. It's added damage detection to the weapon part of this ability meaning that like if you swing your sword for the Fire part where you thrust your sword for night comet if you connect with the enemy with the sword that will actually deal its own separate damage as well increasing the damage of this from Point Blank Range. 

Top 5 - Carian Cavelier Build

This is a build where we use Loretta's War Sickle, this Ash of War specifically has been buffed. 

1.07 Build Setup

Character Stats

• Vigor: 50

• Mind: 20

• Endurance: 30

• Strength: 44

• Dexterity: 59

• Intelligence: 21

• Faith: 7

• Arcane: 9

Weapon

• Right Hand: Loretta's War Sickle+10 with Loretta's Slash Ash of War

• Left Hand: Staff of Loss

Armor

• Head: Royal Knight Helm

• Chest: Royal Knight Armor

• Arms: Royal Knight Gauntlets

• Legs: Royal Knight Greaves

Talisman

• Bull-Goat's Talisman

• Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Rotten Winged Sword Insignia

• Millicent's Prosthesis

Spells

• Freezing Mist

Flask of Wondrous Physick

• Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear

• Greenburst Crystal Tear

Great Runes

• Godrick's Great Rune

• Malenia's Great Rune

Loretta's Slash through this version, its attack power has been increased which is great because it wasn't on par with a regular version, the damage of the first attack has been increased and its overall Poise damage been increased, making this build much better than it was before. Additionally, the Poise of the Royal Knight set has been increased from 51 to 53, this doesn't change a whole lot with this build, you could pull out the Bull-Goat's Talisman if you want, you have enough Poise as it is. So you could put something else there like Ritual Sword Talisman for instance to give you more damage when you're at full health or you could put any other Talisman there that you won't like the Green Turtle Talisman to give you faster stamina recovery would also not be a bad choice. Additionally, Freezing Mist has a better build up so that's going to be more effective when you cast them the beginning of boss fights, so you shouldn't have to wait as long for that frostbite status effect to kick in and enemies to be debuffed.

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