Weapons in Elden Ring are directly affected by stats the player chooses to invest in and gain certain bonuses depending on that stat. Read on to learn how Stat Scaling works and how to get Scaling Bonuses!

How Does Stat Scaling Work?

Weapons Scale with your Stats

Every weapon in the game will have specific stats that it will scale with and its effectiveness is dependent on those specific stats. A weapon that primarily scales with strength will be more effective and deal more bonus damage the more you invest in that stat.

Another example is if a player has a much higher Intelligence stat than Strength, using a Colossal Sword is out of the picture and Staves would be a more ideal weapon to use since the amount of bonus Magic damage you can deal is dependent on the Intelligence stat.

Invest in the Right Stats

There are a total of 5 stats that you can level up that will affect your weapon's proficieny, these stats are Strength, Dexterity, Faith, Intelilligence, and Arcane. Making sure beforehand what build you want to do and which starting class to pick can greatly help you in choosing the right stats to level up.

Can you Respec in Elden Ring?

Yes, you can respec and revert back to your base stats after defeating Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon. She will become an NPC and you can choose to accept her offer of Rebirth, accepting this offer will now have respec available.

How to Respec Guide

How to Receive Scaling Bonuses

Enhance Weapons

Upgrading your weapons at Smithing Tables or Blacksmiths can also enhance its scaling, for example a base weapon with D Strength scaling can be upgraded to C after enhancement.

How to Upgrade Weapons

Customize your Weapon's Affinity

Equipping Ashes of War and depending on the Whetblade you have can allow you to change your weapon's affinity to even further increase the scaling bonus you can receive.

For example the Iron Whetblade can give you the Heavy affinity to enhance your weapon's Strength scaling and decreasing the others, while the Keen affinity will enhance the Dexterity scaling.

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike	Slash	Pierce
Magic	Fire	Holy	Lightning

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost	Scarlet Rot
Sleep	Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types