Here’s an updated 2024 version of this build for the DLC! - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldKWddqbp9KVZHU.htmlsi=HrQKDK00fE3AQYF5

the level brackets breakdown is why i now watch all your builds. 10/10

I can’t believe I forgot to talk about the Vykes Dragonbolt Incantation! This is one of the best! It will cause your weapon and body to be covered in red lightning adding about 250 extra lighting damage stacked on top of your physical attack power! ⚡️

Wow this is this first video where a KZfaqr actually takes his time and show you the build from lvl 50 to 250.. Great video man. Sub most definitely earned.

Gravel Stone seal - bonus 20% to lightning incantations. Much better for your 150 version. Especially seeing as erdtree doesn't out scale the other seals until 80 faith. :) nice video mate. Enjoy your content!

You should definitely offhand the Gravel Stone Seal when casting lightning incantations. Even if it's not upgraded at all, just holding it in the offhand while casting with your other seal boosts those lightning incantations by another 20%

This was precisely the type of build I've been looking for! Thanks for the video 🙂

Dude, the attribute builds at different levels has been MAJORLY helpful. Thanks!

2 years later and this build still holds up crazy

It also pairs very nicely with the black knife armor set, although I keep the Raiden helm

Again awesome guide, just 1 thing which I noticed while watching this: Keep in mind that flame, grant me strength will only increase the damage you do with physical attacks (bolt of gransax non ashe of war attacks, uchigatanas). Still a really strong incantation in this build, but I know that there are definitely some people who leave out the uchigatanas because they just use bolt of gransax for the ashe of war, so keep in mind: Only use Flame, Grant Me Strength if you go in for melee with physical attacks. But again, awesome guide, just like the Int/Strength Build with the Dark Moon Greatsword!

I'm new to Elden Ring, and I always come to your channel for information. You've helped me enjoy this game so much that I just wanted to stop by and say thank you very much, man. You're awesome! 🙏

I suggest using the highest incant scaling seal in this case erdtree seal for casting the incations but still hold the gravel stone seal in the other hand for additional damage boost.

Don’t sleep on the other 2 lightning spells. They can cause very high damage in close range. The one that has the double spear hits with both spears and residual lightning on the ground. The single one will knock back enemies with the exception of bosses/mini bosses

Godfrey Icon would be really good with this build, I think. Ancient Lightning Spear and a ton of the lightning incantations benefit from it

I love the faith dex build its so much fun. I personally use a ton of different weapons in this build so I raised my strength in order to use those different weapon. Aside that it was pretty much the same as yours :)

Btw, there is no reason to start as Warrior with this build as you did in the tutorial, Vagabond is best for min maxing since it has the least combined stat total of arcane and intelligence (the two stats that aren’t used in this build) the total is 16 while warrior has 19, 3 wasted levels there with the same lvl total

Getting back into Elden ring and was trying to find the Best build for my new character and this definitely is the one I’m doing! Can’t wait to try it!

I've now reached the Mountaintop of the Giants area and was thinking of doing a respec from my Greatsword/Clawmark seal build and try something like this. It just looks cool as hell. Also, a good thing about it is that you can change your BoG to Godslayer GS if you want, scales with Dex/Fth as well. These 2 weapons are visually some of my favourites

I just started playing Elden Ring recently "I know I'm late, as always" but I'm shocked on how many build varieties there is. I went in expecting to pick a class and be that for the rest of the game! but it turns out the class you pick only determines your early game than you have absolute freedom to pick and choose. Love it!

Just watching this now I’m starting elden ring as a brand new player this is definitely the build I want. I’ve been doing my research to decide which one I want this is definitely it

One of the sickest, most cool looking builds I’ve ever seen! I’m halfway through my first play through as a Moonveil mage but I’ve gotta try this build on my next play though!

I love Faith Builds more than any other type because there are so many ways to build your character. A Strength/Faith would be great with Blasphemous Blade and Fire Incantations. I have a Faith/Dexterity build with two Sacred Relic Swords, Tree Sentinel Shield, two Marika's Hammers, Leyndell Armor, Erdtree Seal and I use holy buff type Incantations. He is a Holy Paladin type, and I didn't give him a name, I just name my builds and his is Sacred Justice. Hand of the Erdtree had too many characters lol. I also use the Holy Cracked Crystal Tear to up my Holy Damage. My Astrologer Pure Intelligence Wizard is named Cosmic Alchemist and my Arcane/Dexterity guy is Mohgwyn's Wrath for now. I really like your build here, the build has a solid Identity and I really like that aspect to building out a character. My Quality Vagabond still needs a name, it's my favorite so I just use my PSN for its name at the moment.

Thanks for showing us 50 - 250 dude you got my sub

I recently bought elden ring and was looking for some fun build, you're the first one who showed me step by step what do i need with all items in description, thank you man, you made my game better

I know it's and old video(still 1.10 though, I believe?), but I feel like it should be pointed out that your 50-150 stat distribution never has strength at 20, which is a requirement for Bolt of Gransax. Just in case anyone out there leveling up a new character for the DLC(or new player or bored and trying it out) is intrigued by this build like I was - you're gonna want to grab 5 points from other stats and throw them into strength. Otherwise you'll be forced to 2 hand. Thanks for video :)

The Nokstella Monks and Swoedstress has a farmable outfit that is kinda Raiden-ish, would look sweet with the Hat you're using now.

Thanks for this video! Now after 105hrs, lvl 171 i finally reach this Build. It was very cool to build and play up till this now! I will upload a short video about my build and credit with a thanks to you in my description! Now iam prepared for the dlc.

Also a good weapon with this build would be placidusax’s cragblade

Been watching ur vids sense Division 2, I just respec my bleed build to ancient lightning a week ago and had no idea what Vykes dragbolt incant was.

Now, I'm not using bolt of gransax, not because it's not good, it's insanely good. I'm not running it because my basic lightning spear does nearly the same dmg as seen by gransax in this video. I just have 0 in dex because the firm 0.13 second cast time improvement from 99 dex plus radagon is a hard joke. But Im quite confident that if I brought faith and arcane to 99 then I'll have more dmg with basic lightning spear than the bolt of gransax. We are talking about 3,000 plus damage quickly cast spears that are a must dodge/block or die lol I was inspired by this video so I had to come back to it. I'm using dragon communion seal and a gravel stone in the off hand for the buff, then I keep both incant talismans for the 4% and 8% buffs. The rest is irrelevant

Sweet! I was trying to get to that weapon but the enemies from across the way kept shooting me with arrows. I’ll have to go back.

Hi first Time on the channel and very much inspired by the build as well as by the quality of the video. You just gain 1 new subscriber from Spain

Showcase that shows a level 200+ char. I can literally make any character build broken at 200 lol… Somehow the “recommended” level 100 stats given still don’t meet the requirements for bolt of gransax either, which is half the entirety of the showcase :p.

Bravo sir, another creative build with fun game play. Looking to try a lighting faith build on my next respec so this is perfect!

Sick build! Just a note though, it sounds like your mic is peaking at different points in the video. Your gain might be set too high when you're recording audio. Cool vid!

is the dragonscale blade a good choice in this build? build looks amazing!

Any reason why your not using the dragon cult seal. When I went full lightning I used both seals. I used both dex and strength weapons but found that I enjoyed just using the lightning and if I needed to use a weapon it was the weapon you’re using. Had a great time with that build.

Great video , already loved the int strength build . Time to try out this one . It seems even more fun

This is the build I use to help my friends in co-op. Basically one shots all invaders.

Using this as a base for my "ky kiske" (guilty gear character) build 🎉 thanks for the brackets

@ColdBwoyy what is the starting class for this build? It's a really amazing build it gives me an idea for my elden ring run

If anyone is still watching this a year later and has a hard time killing the knight, managing distance using a spear with impaling thrust makes it really easy to kill no matter the lvl lol

Hey you had the same idea as me! I love wearing that head piece cuz it makes you feel like you're a living lightning rod

Awesome guide. Great breakdown and walkthrough, alongside wonderful gameplay. 😁👍

Awesome guide as always cold can’t wait to try this out keep up the hard work is much appreciated and always look forward to ur vids and builds 👍

Build looks SO lit man! I''m a Eldren King noob, I was playing a pure INT mage but got bored with the gameplay and switched out to to a faith/dex build. Seems like I made the right choice, so much options compared to an INT mage. I'm level 30, what would you recommend focussing on? I might level mind up a bit as the lightning spears are taking a lot of mp

for me, instead of green turtle talisman i use godfrey icon to boost the damage of bolt of granssax ash of war and some of the incantations

Could you use the nagakiba for more range on your weapon instead of the uchigatana? Or will the uchigatana inflict more damage?

Lightning incantations are so cool but they have such specific and few optimization options that you run by the same spear/thrust sword weapon builds in Coop/PVP over and over again. And there are not enough weapons with AoE options that scale with faith. Katanas are cool, but they would hit harder with some optional faith scaling. I was playing a faith/strength build and ran on similar limitations. Using Malikeths Black Blade with some hard hitting lightning incantations felt certainly more rewarding than using the katanas, but at the same time, you‘re stuck with destined death. And using another Colossal Sword like Greatsword feels underwhelming towards endgame, cause you‘re missing out on faith scaling and lightning infusions that only scale with dex. Kinda frustrating. Hope the DLC gives us some nice new options.

Dude this Raiden homage was awesome keep it up man 💯💪🏾👍🏾

Thanks so much for this build!

Only thing that sucks about lightning builds is nearly everything good is locked behind Leyndell

Need an updated version for dlc 🙏🏽

W video your one of the only people that include stats for different levels

Me personally I would’ve replaced turtle talisman for Godfrey’s icon so my charged spells do more damage

Honestly this build is amazing. Definitely using it on my next play through. A little confusing with the incantations though but that’ll be fine

I would recommend instead of putting bloodhounds step on your uchigatanas, you could put on a bleed ash of war. Or keep the base ash of war, or even go with an ash of war like thunderbolt, it fits the lightning build. It’s nothing against bloodhounds step, but it was also recently nerfed. One last thing, you don’t need an ash of war on both uchigatanas, you need it on just one

I just wanted to ask what do I use in the early to mid game only because lots of weapons require strength

I was kinda feeling like I wanted to go this route on my confessor. Beautiful guide. How about a dragon build?

Awesome raiden idea! Actually came to this vid for tips on my scorpion build haha

This is lowkey making me get rid of my arcane incantation since I use a mix of lightning and dragon incants but it’s weak against some enemies

Great video! I'm using this build for my first playthrough! I did have a question, though. The Bolt of Gran requires 20 str and 40 dex to use, but at level 150, you have str set at 15. Am I missing something that makes up the other 5 points? Keep making these great videos!

What were some of the go to weapons used while working towards that Bolt of Gransax? I have been using Winged Scythe + 10 for a while now, but the further I go, the weaker it feels.

Instead of ancient dragons lightning try Death Lightning, its a faster and higher damage version with death blight

Hi I have a question! You list this same build in your S tier faith builds video. Which should I use since there are differences between them. Also, whenever I equip bloodhounds step on my uchigatanas it only gets B tier dex scaling. Is there a reason for this? Thanks love the videos they’re super helpful.

Bro this shit looks so cool 😭

Amazing video, thank you!

I'm currently using a hybrid lightning and ice build and the result is excellent.

in case anyone is as late as i am and wants the exact build, he used a warrior

Why that seal tho ? When gravelstone seal gives you more scaling and damage ?

another good one, good shit my man

This build is fire! It actually helped me kill Maliketh! Thank you Edit: I nixed the lighting spear and put a thunderbolt on my regular katana that I maxed out, so if I have slightly weaker enemies I just zap them a small area.

DISCLAIMER you mentioned that it’s in the ashen capital but it’s not you can ONLY get the bolt of gransax before farum azula

I just got done making a majority of the build and it\s really amazing! only need ancient dragon\s lightning strike which I sadly can\t get yet left.

The dragon scale katana has a special ash of war that can coat it in frost lightning so I was wondering if it could be good to use for this build

im lvl 100, last boss killed was Radhan. What kind of gear should I use? great video!

FYI, i would use the gravelstone seal. It boosts dragoncult incantations

Thank you so much for this video! I just beat the game on my first playthrough last night! I used ur video to help me out because I'm doing a lightning build as well. I modified it a little bit to fit how I play but still thank you!!!

I grinded for 4 hours to get all of this you showed for 400 damage with incantations with 60 faith...😢😢

Fun build, but I like to run the lightning incantations with the Blasphemous blade to maximize ranged and melee damage. Faith not adding to your weapon damage is no bueno

Man crazy build Looks so badass! Just started playing the Game few days ago and randomly came across your vid, exactly what i was Lookimg for 😍 WhatsApp incantations and weapon do you recommend before Getting all the magic and stuff you Need? Especially for early game?

What ash of war do you put on the second uchi? Or do you have bloodhound step on both and then keen? If you're dual wielding then it will use the second uchi's ash I think.

This build looks sick 🌩 god

How are you fitting those stats under lvl150? I can't make those fit in less than 152 on MugenMonkey build calculator.

You’re sleeping on the Cragblade from Placidusax, that weapon art rekts

Interesting idea: if you don't care about the thematic stuff, put a bit more into strength (sacrificing a bit of dex) and use fire damage as well as not many bosses resist fire and lighting at the same time. Edit: this only works on higher than 150 builds

Does flame grant me strength and vykes dragonbolt stack ? They are both body buffs

Why do you say at lvl 150 you need only 15 str when the weapon requires 20 str to wield?

Bare in mind you can only get the bolt of gransax before killing maliketh in the capital

I have a question: if this weapon has no faith scaling, why is it recommended for a faith build?

He sold it to me so fast

I’m starting the game now for the first time would like to go with this build. Which character I start with

I am.working towards this now ! I am putting step on my uchi keen is +364 but quality is 458

Thank you soooo much do you have any tips for Gold Godfrey❤

Great video! Definitely gonna use it as inspiration for a new build 😊 But some people, myself included, get triggered by “obviously”, it’s not always so obvious and you use it every other sentence. Otherwise, keep up the good work!

What's the requirements for these items and armor. I just started. What bosses should I beat before getting these weapons/incantations

Why not strength 20 at 150?

me as level 30 with 29 faith seeing the stats i should have at level 50: 👹

so, what weapon do you use before you can use Bolt?