Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand combat - How to Build a Frost Monk Build (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

A cold Palm Blast build utilizing level 24 Dry Leaf Arts with Cold affinity focuses on frostbite buildup, fast staggering, and heavy damage boosted by Golden Vow, the Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear, the Strength-knot Crystal Tear, and talismans such as Godfrey Icon, Alexander Shard, Axe Talisman, and Ritual Sword Talisman.

The build showcases charged Palm Blast strikes dealing around 4,800 to nearly 5,000 damage, punch combos, and heavy kicks to stagger and apply frostbite against knights, archers, and tall red enemies, with testing also yielding looted greaves that replace Maliketh's leggings and highlighting the site as an effective smithing stone farm.

Cold Palm Blast build setup, equipment, talismans, and buffs for Dry Leaf Arts.

Combat performance, combos, damage output, and hyper-armor charging against various enemies.

Armor acquisition and smithing stone farming during testing encounters.

Testing the Dry Leaf Arts build against knights, archers, and red enemies.

Replacing Maliketh's leggings with newly looted enemy greaves during combat testing.

Whether the Axe Talisman boosts Palm Blast or solely improves heavy attacks is unconfirmed.

An enemy managed to interrupt a Palm Blast charge, an occurrence regarded as unusual.