ELDEN RING

General stability and quality-of-life improvements with minor balance and audio tweaks.

More aggressive poise interactions and easier crits, but reduced safety from dodging and damage reduction.

Several powerful Ashes of War have been nerfed in damage and efficiency.

Significant buffs to cost, power, and usability.

Consumables are more effective and upgrade materials are more accessible.

Overall stronger hits and better reliability, despite a slight PvP animation nerf.

Massive survivability and power boost for almost all spirit summons.

Better usability and speed, but lower raw damage and poise damage.

Better circling and light-load distance, but reduced spam effectiveness.

Massive across-the-board buffs to casting speed and recovery, making magic more responsive.

Massive buff to sorcery efficiency and damage across the board.

Faster, longer-reaching, and harder-hitting attacks.

Easier to trigger and more powerful luster effect.

Better accuracy and tracking, but significantly lower damage and bleed potential.

Critical hits are more rewarding and less punishing when missed.

Faster general attacks and better recovery, but weaker utility in crouching/rolling moves.

Improved speed and stagger potential across the category.

Better range for poking, but less impact per hit.

Overall damage and bleed potential reduced.

Significantly faster and harder hitting, reducing the clunkiness of ultra-heavy weapons.

Many skills are now faster and more fluid, with several gaining animation cancels.

Better damage and more reliable hit registration.

Damage output is now consistent and correctly scaled for heavy attacks.

Better stagger potential in PvP and improved PvE charge attacks.

Damage normalized; fixed a critical bug preventing damage in some scenarios.

Scaling and status buildup corrected to intended levels.

Better damage mitigation throughout the expansion, especially in the early stages and at max level.

Nerfed for general use and spamming, but buffed for light-roll builds.

No longer hurts allies, but some attack motions are slightly weaker.

Better early game resources, but harder to recover from madness.

Throwing attacks now correctly benefit from the Smithing Talisman.

Overall easier encounter with lower damage and better visual clarity.

NPC damage normalized.

Summoned spirits now correctly benefit from their intended blessings.

Better range, but corrected over-tuned affinity scaling.

Better range, but corrected over-tuned affinity scaling.

Fixed a bug that previously nullified damage.

Faith scaling now functions as intended.

Bite attack is now fairer and spawn logic is consistent.

Removed an infinite attack power scaling exploit.

Higher general damage but weaker heavy attacks in PvP.

Now viable for Faith-based builds.

Faster startup and much better versatility via cancels.

Higher base damage for a fundamental spell.

Harder to hit targets due to reduced tracking.

Significant QoL improvement for New Game Plus players.

More reliable targeting and faster recovery.

Faster recovery after use.

Faster recovery after use.

Improved accuracy for the weapon skill.

Jump attacks now benefit from Claw Talisman.

Restored intended duration for FP regeneration.

Direct damage buff.

Reduced efficiency in applying status effects via spells.

Boss attacks are now more powerful as intended.

Removed a lethal environmental bug near Bestial Sanctum.

Endure is now functional again, providing its intended defensive utility.

Reduced overall effectiveness and changed AI of the Mimic Tear.

Shields are stronger and weapon/armor scaling is now correct.

Corrected teleportation logic to prevent players from being sent to wrong locations.