In 2024, there are several powerful and effective death builds in Elden Ring that can help you overcome challenging encounters and defeat tough enemies. These builds focus on maximizing damage output and survivability, allowing you to dominate the game.

Best Equipment & Gameplay of Elden Ring Death Build

Focus on quick, successive hits to stack bleed effects rapidly. Use your spells or incantations to inflict status effects or control the battlefield, and use your mobility to evade attacks and retaliate swiftly.

• -Weapon: Rosus'Axe

• -Staves: Prince of Death's Staff

• -Armor: Commoner's Headband Altered, Night's Cavalry Armor, Lionel's Gauntlets, Night's Cavalry Greaves

• -Talismans: Dragon Crest Greatshield Talisman, Godfrey Icon, Magic Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander

• -Spells: Golden Vow, Flame Grant Me Strength, Rancorcall, Ancient Death Rancor, Explosive Ghost Flame, Tibia Sunmmons

• -Flasks: Magic Shrouding Cracked Tear, Opaline Hardtear

2024 Elden Ring TOP 5 Death Builds

Keep in mind these are just a sampling - there are many viable ways to build around the death status effect and maximize its damage output. Choosing weapons, spells, and incantations you enjoy will help make any build more effective.

- Bleed Build: Focus on arcane and Dexterity stats to maximize bleed power. Weapons like Rivers of Blood and Eleonora's Poleblade are top options. Armor that boosts blood loss buildup is helpful.

- Death's Poker Build: Use the Death's Poker unique incantation scaling weapon. Level faith to maximize its death and black flame damage. Pair it with other death and rot incantations for area control.

- Deathblade Build: Prioritize dexterity and arcane stats. Use dual curved swords like the Deathblades. Their standard attacks inflict blood loss while skills inflict death status. Rot grease adds more pressure.

- Death Sorcery Build: Focus on intelligence and mind. Spam death and death blade sorceries from a safe distance. Moonveil katana works well as a backup weapon for its scaling damage and skills. The staff of Loss boosts death sorceries.

- Death's Quicken Build: Stack faith and dexterity. Use the Deaths Poker weapon skill which inflicts death buildup instantly. Combine with other fast death incantations and weapons to chunk bosses quickly. Good stat scaling on this build too.

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