Vigor: 40/60 Mind: 20/50 Endurance: 18/32/50 Strength: 55/70 Dexterity: 55/70 Intelligence: 55/70 Faith: 55/70 Arcane: 55/70 For the damge stats its how you want it or scale with weapons, but 55/70 is good

It feels extremely weird to refer to a point before a ramp up as a soft cap. A soft cap implies diminishing returns past that point, not increasing returns.

For dedicated spell casters, 40 Mind may as well be the “soft cap”. That’s 220 FP, equal to a max upgraded blue flask. Anything more is a one time bonus of FP per sitting at Grace. Maybe 45, just because you rarely drain yourself down to 0, but any more is a waste of the blue flask’s potential.

Dex is important for spellcasters too! Around every 20 Dex or so there is a noticeable decrease in your casting speed. This applies to sorceries and incantations (as well as melee as well ofc).

Seeking a light equipment mode may be preferential to medium depending on your attack style. A light load not only increases the distance and I-frames of a roll, but also increases walk/run movement speed. An excellent advantage to have when running around in PVP

I've dipped my feet into From Soft's souls games and I never took the time to learn this stuff. Now that I have been hooked into Elden Ring for over 100 hours, I've learned the stats pretty well. I've just been going along and placing points into the correlating stats that line up with the gear that I want. My only issue is when i find a cool weapon that needs STR AND FAI and I'm like... faithfully bankrupt as i stare down level up costs around 160k lol. No battle-mage today.

I personally don't recommend going much past 40 mind, mainly because of the limit of how much a flask can refill. From my experience, 45-50 is the sweet spot for FP bar to tear restoration for mages.

Also one thing with strength you never mentioned that is also in Dark souls, two-handing a weapon gives you a 1.5x boost to your strength which is why if you have 12 and need 18 to wield a weapon, you can only wield it properly by two handing. 12 x 1.5 = 18, so when putting this into consideration (which by the way the boost is only with strength) if you know you are going to just be running around two handing a big ass weapon then you really only need 66 strength, because when you two hand its the equivalent to 99 strength, and you cant go further than that if you raise your strength past that and two hand it. Edit: Yeah nevermind this game added that you can go further than 99, up to a theoretical 148.5 when two handing

This was really helpful, I've been messing around with builds (I made that dual wield colossal weapon with greatshield as backup) it was incredibly fun but I had no idea about where diminishing returns started this will help a great deal when starting my new characters

Hmm strange, back in DS3 we used to call the first fall off in stats as the softcap, and the second fall of as hardcap as everything beyond that didn’t make a lot of sense leveling. I mean, it’s pretty clear that you can’t go beyond 99, so that way it was easier to differentiate between those two caps, instead of calling it Softcap 1 or 2.

This is the most helpful video on elden ring I've found so far, and the only one thats compelled me to like & subscribe.

One more thing I would like to add - there is very important faith spell that can cure rot & poison at same time, and it needs 12 faith to use. For this reason I like to have at least 12 faith as poison and rot buildup in this game is waaay too annoying :P

great video. I think doing one for lower levels, ie a guide for how to level up over the course of a normal play through would help a lot of players. Most of the time when people are asking about their stat distributions I see them at levels 40-60, and sometimes up to 90. By the time someone gets to the 120+ range they've usually got a handle on this stuff.

As a fan of your paladins channel and someone upset with the 3 substandard stat explanation vids i just watched, running into you was a treat.

The best part about Elden Ring is, if you have Radagon scarseal + Marika scarseal + Godrick great rune at level 1, you would be at level 81 just form the stat boost. Also including the other talismans in the game you can round up to level 91

This is the first best elden ring video I have come across that explains everything about stats. And I have been looking up videos since launch date. Thank you so much for this. Hope to see future videos for Elden Ring Builds or Guides.

One thing, you put Arcane down as a spellcaster stat but for the most part its far more of a bleed/poision scaling stat. It's a perquisite to use certain incantations and sorceries, however, except for the dragon communion casting tool it doesn't actually scale with any casting tools efficiently nor really have its own devoted casting spells, its kinda like when certain staves require strength to equip but for the spells themselves. Damage-wise it scales usually from weapons devoted to bleed or poison build up and it increases the build-up of the status effects. That is why the dragon communion scales off arcane as a large amount of them are status-effect based and the tool actually increases the build up of status effects caused by incantations more than usual (I think potentially ignoring madness but not tested to be certain). So really its the stat you want to pump up alongside the other relevant stat to your weapons/build. If you're doing a dagger-bleed build then your probably going to want to focus arcane and dex pretty equally for example. It's also worth noting that as a stat its pretty inconsistent and either feels broken or useless due to the inherent nature of different status effects being resisted/immune by different bosses and enemies. Especially rough during the early levels where your more reliant on the procs for your damage.

Nice vid, very helpful. I will note that being light most likely helps you to jump further. There were a couple of jumps I could not make while medium but easily cleared with light equip load.

That was.... incredibly useful. Thank you! After sinking 60 into Int I was wondering what the diminishing returns were. I play an Astrologer and have been focused almost exclusively on Int followed by Mind at about a 3:1 ratio. I really appreciate your video, I learned a lot! I must say, Elden Ring is a really weird game, it's quite odd to see a stat have diminishing returns, then increasing returns, then more diminishing returns. In academia we have a term for that... "What were the Devs smoking?"

Yo this was super helpful 👌 you broke it down precisely and i love the spread sheet. I didnt know soft caps were a thing but in this game i had a gut feeling that i was getting less as i was maxing stats

Absolute best guide about this I’ve found, because you actually explain how that translates to decisions beyond just going, “these are the soft caps, whatever the hell that means” (I now understand what that means, thanks to this video!)

Softcap Vigor can make you get oneshot from bosses. So, 50 Vig is recommended.

I'm one week into the journey and I'm in endless love with a video game again, joy. This is the video ive been looking for, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

The spreadsheet being in dark more alone earned a like and a sub. More people should do this.

Light can definitely make a difference. I was having so much trouble of Morgott, with every single attack of his either one-hitting me, or stun locking me and killing me on a follow up attack, I threw off my pointless armor in a fit of rage and killed him in one naked attempt.

For those watching In 2024 light roll is worth it now

i knew bits and pieces of this but its great to see it all explained out in an easy to understand manner, much obliged o7

This is my first time playing a fromsoft game so thank you so much for this explanation!

I can't explain how unfathomably helpful this video is. You go through each stat in such crisp, clear, 4K detail...It's incredibly appreciated! Thank you so much! I've been dumping levels into Dex as I figured...More points is more good. May need to reconsider.

You’re correct in assuming that the equip load affects your i frames. With a faster roll you get more invincibility frames during the roll, although not necessary it is helpful if you don’t run a shield or heavy armor. You can easily get a light equip load with 40+ endurance as long as you stick with lighter gear, maybe some heavier pieces, but you just have to find a good mix that you can stand to look at. Currently I run the cleanrot greaves and gloves with Alberans cloak and the noble mask doing a int/faith build with a staff and talisman in each hand

I’m only 20 seconds in and I hit that sub button. Your vibe and humor are immaculate and I love you!!!

To the point, great explanations and details. Subscribed

Best video I’ve seen on the subject. Informative and entertaining. Subscribed. 💪🏼

Vigor - 60 Mind - 55 Endurance - 50 Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence,Faith, Arcane - Shape to what best fits your play style / build.

This was the best video about soft medium or hard caps I've ever seen!

I appreciate your work! Very helpful and great stuff!

Been looking for someone to broadly and simply and definitely lay this out for me man thank you!!! Seems like information that would have been out there but most are just like “idk man whatever feels good stat wise to you do that”

Good stuff. Love the commentary. You’ve earned yourself another subscriber. Thank you, sir.

much love for the video this helped me a lot with leveling up

Awesome video as always

For mind its a bit weird to call it soft "caps" when its actually ramping up at those points you mention. Its like inverse soft caps.

Where are those spreadsheets for strength on down? They were helpful and you just stopped. What the heck

This was super helpful. Thank you!

I Appreciate the Video G, Real Simple to Understand. God Bless you now!

I always add a little to arcane coz it increases item find, and that makes the game a lot more fun 😊

It would have been really cool to see graphs of stat value in relation to stat number.

amazing how there arent more videos on this… thank you sir

This was an awesome explanation, thank you!

Thank you. Finally someone who makes a proper video about softcaps

Elden Ring is my first Souls/From Software game and while I absolutely love it, I needed explanations on hard and soft caps. Thanks for clearing that up, I still feel a bit like a baby lost in the woods with this game but still chugging along and loving it.

Thank you! This video was so helpful!

Thanks! This answered a lot of my questions and confirmed my suspicions about the the rewards of leveling up stats. Hard spreadsheet data FTW

The dodge distance does increase under light load. You can equip less weapons to achieve it. However dodge forward and back seem to be unchanged. I have noticed dodging hits seems to be more forgiving.

So... from what I understand about the term "soft cap" is that it represents a decision point with logical reasons for stopping there (diminished returns), when you also have the option to continue. In that line of reasoning, there is no such thing as a "soft cap" if the stat jumps UP, only if it jumps DOWN in value. I've heard people call spots where stats increase dramatically as "soft bottoms" or "soft starts" because usually you might put points into a stat kind of slowly, maybe just focusing what's needed for a spell or piece of gear, but then when you're close to the soft start, you START pumping that stat up hard because the value is too good to put anywhere else (depending on build).

Massive Thank you for this video now my battles been so much better defo Appreciate this video thank you again💯💯

Awesome info! I can go back to this when I need reminding ^-^

Im 28 hours into my first playthrough, love the game & this has really helped me to understand, thanks man 👌👌

I would say bring scaling stats to 70. There is plenty of gear that boosts stats and 70 seems a good margin of 10 for not going over 80

Great work, thank you! Liked and subbed

Great video man. thank you. helped me a lot.

Thank you for this! This is my first souls game. I’ve been playing since launch, put 140+ hours and I’ve been wondering how to lvl my character. This was very helpful 😀👍

For caps I've always explained soft cap as being less give, hard cap being much less, and full cap being the max a stat will give changes of any kind

That was a great video!

I just finished my soul level 1 run, this video helped me so much, thank you.

This is one of the best tutorials Ive seen. Everything done perfectly. Thank you.

For the roll the difference are the recovery time , even at heavy roll you have the exact Iframe as light , just your recovery time is higher so you will get bubish 90% of the time at medium roll the recovery is the same as the light , at light roll your backstep has less recovery than medium. Also the distance of your roll are longer than medium . So i resume : - Heavy : less distance, same Iframe , higher recovery time -Medium : normal distance , same Iframe , normal recovery time -Light : Higher distance, same Iframe, normal recovery time, backstep has less recovery time then medium Hope it's useful

This is an incredibly useful video, thank you

This is VERY helpful! Great job!

Great video! By the way, you mentioned that you use talismans to help reach the soft cap, however just so you know the soft caps don’t apply to the levels the talismans give you, at least in my testing.

pro tip. if you're using the talisman radagon/marika sorecscal that give you +5 into stats, be mindful that you could be wasting 20 levels into stats. for example, if you want to get vigor at level 40 and that's it, the radagon sorescal give +5 into vigor. so keep vigor at 35 and give 5 levels elsewhere.

Definitely needed this info. Mostly just grinded for mind and int so far, with a few passing points spent in vigor, just bc I was shooting for Azurs comet. This will save me from myself down the line lol.

Great video I had a sense that it was something like this but you made it understandable

a fully upgraded flask of cerulean tears recovers exactly a full FP bar at 40 Mind, so my personal recommendation for a caster is a minimum of 41

Good to know I just would like to know all the soft and hard caps for: *Str/Dex/Int/Fth/Arc*. Keep going bro.

Lmao you did a great job narrating this it was pretty funny and very informative. Good video👌🏻

Great video bro, really helped 🙏🏾

The second soft cap for mind isn’t at 50, i think you got stuck on 50 some how. But the soft cap is 55 because it kept going up until 55, not 50. Actually mind doesn’t soft cap at all until 55, at 20 you get even more points so it’s not a cap.

For dedicated spell casters, you can't ignore Dexterity, as that can boost your ability to spam spells, depending on which spells you are using.

another thing to consider when using points in mind is your flasks when maxed out recover 220 mind. so unless you really min max with the spells you have you’ll like be wasting either mana flasks or both going above that if you don’t get full use of ur bar.

Excellent explanation, great video...subbed

About to finish my first ever scrolls game without any specific build mostly equal across all stats, best game i have ever played, refusing to kill last boss out of fear of the game ending, thank you elden ring

Can you make a video explaining how important the stats under the body section are? Like robustness, vitality, etc.? No one has a video on this. What number should we focus on?

Gr8 video kami. Keep making videos. Keep going and You'll hit gold pretty soon. It's a numbers game...

Thanks bro very helpful I was hoping you'd put up an intelligent's spreadsheet for all of us spell casters. Again great vid thanks.

light equip make ur dodge longer, it's pretty useful in some bossfights cuz u are able to space more easly

The biggest issue with 12 str being a good place to stop for sorcery/spell casting builds is Darkmoon Greatsword is just so good you'll want to invest 4 more points into strength for that lol.

Great explanation, and harious as well!

Awesome vid. Thanks for the help.

There should be a link in the game to this video. Heck, even Fromsoft should pay you. Excellent work!

In light roll it is far easier to evade fast swings such as from Malenia. You do NOT want to fat-roll or mid roll against her unless you have some kind of secret strategy up your sleeve that I don't know about. As long as you're wearing something in each armor slot, the damage from being hit isn't even that bad, especially if you have talismans that increase your damage resistance.

This was extremly helpfull and really usefull Thank you Great video

I've got the hang of this already but this is very valuable information that worth knowing even for people who've already beat the game

Hi! I don't think sorceries scale with the weapong scaling. The weapon scaling is only applied for attacks from that weapon, not the sorceries that come out of it. The thing that scales the sorceries on the weapons (staves in this case) is "Sorcery Scaling" (Right below critical). I have to test this, but I'm pretty sure staves with the same Sorcery Scaling, do the same damage for the same sorcery, because this damage is indepent of whatever it is on the "Attribute Scaling" window.

Here's something to consider about how much mind to get. You're at the boss fog ready to go in. You buff yourself by casting golden vow then flame give me strength (or whatever buffs you have). You enter the boss room. You then try to summon your ash summons. You have 1/3 FP left, but it's not enough to summon. So you drink a potion. You just wasted 1/3 of your FP. Ideally, you buff and summon, then drink the FP potion.

Thx brother! Broke that down perfectly for me.

Very helpful and well done! Thanks a lot.

20 points in faith are a requirement because one incantation called " Flame Cleanse Me" requires 12 Faith, its very helpful since it removes rot and poison. Also 25 faith points are required for casting "Golden Vow", which really gives a very nice buff to dmg and resistance, however +5 faith can be easily achieved by Marikas Sorseal which increases mind, intelligence, faith, and arcane by +5 each :)

There's a talisman that reduces your damage based on your carry weight so being in the light range and equipping that talisman will probably give you more damage than being in the medium range

Great work 👏🏻thank you mate

This was exceptionally informative! Thanks!