Elden Ring - OVERPOWERED Arcane Bleed Build Guide [2DzRBI77xk0]

Hello, welcome back to a new Elden Ring

build video. Today I'll be showing you my

bleeding build and how to cause insane

blood loss buildup. The bleed mechanic in

Elden Ring has to be one of the most

powerful ways of fighting enemies, and

using the right combination of character

points, talismans, and ashes, we can

maximize this bleed mechanic. Okay, so

first of all, my weapon of choice has to

be dual wielding the Banished Knight's

Greatsword, and I noticed a lot of people

using katanas, dual wielding katanas for

bleed builds, but I found that with the

same setup, my greatswords do more damage

And they stagger the enemy, and they have

higher amount of blood loss buildup. And I

really wanted to do the katana way of

playing as well because katanas just look

kind of cool, but I just found the

greatswords to be more effective. I guess

you could say the katanas are faster, but

I don't really mind sacrificing a bit of

speed for extra damage. So as you can see,

I have a level 25 Banished Knight's Blood

Greatsword with a blood loss buildup of

141, which is pretty insane. And I have

a second Banished Knight's Blood

Greatsword only at level 18 because I

haven't found enough smithing stones to

upgrade it yet, but it still has a

respectable blood loss buildup of 126.

And what this means with these weapons is

that you can trigger a bleed effect

straight from the very first strike.

Usually when you're using a weapon that

has some kind of bleed effect, it'll take

quite a few hits until the bleed meter

fills up and you get that splash of red

and that bonus extra damage. And the

higher the blood loss buildup number is,

the faster you get to trigger that blood

effect. But since we have such a high

number for blood loss buildup, we actually

just trigger the blood effects straight

away from the first hit. And the way we

get to 141 blood loss buildup is basically

by getting a lot of Arcane points. So I've

put 80 points into Arcane. I found that

any more points into Arcane doesn't really

make any difference, so have Arcane at 80

max. I don't know why having loads of

Arcane seems to boost your blood loss

buildup, but by a lot, but it does. When I

had 10 Arcane, my blood loss buildup was

only about 108, and it went up to 140 when

I started putting more points into Arcane.

So it's pretty good. As for the rest of

the points, it's up to you where you put

them. You can put them into Vigor for

extra health, or maybe Strength or

Dexterity. I actually forgot to put any

points into Endurance, so don't do that.

And I think the reason why Arcane affects

it so much is because we're going to use

an Ashes of War called Sepuku. So this ash

is really good for bleeding builds because

it improves your ability to inflict blood

loss, and you can find it by going to this

frozen lake, and you've got to look for an

invisible scarab beetle that drops it.

And you'll find that the scarab beetle

patrols this area around these trees.

You'll be able to see these little

footprints going round and round. Just

stand by the tree, wait for it to come

round, and charge up some kind of heavy

attack with a polearm or do some kind of

AoE attack And you'll eventually get it.

And that's how you get the Ash of War.

It's in the very top part of the map, the

snowy bit. You can apply the buff to both

weapons when you're dual wielding. You do

this by holding Y, then pressing L trigger

to equip your left hand, and then pressing

L to apply the ash. And then holding Y,

pressing R trigger to re-equip your right

hand, and then press L again to apply the

buff. Now you really need this ash, or

maybe some kind of other blood ash to

allow your weapon to cause bleeding and

blood loss buildup. There's a few other

Blood Ashes, one's called Bloody Slash and

there's another one called Blood Tax, but

this one's the best one I think. And the

best thing about the Blood Ashes is the

fact that you can make almost any weapon

into a weapon that causes blood loss. So

you don't have to apply this to a

greatsword, you could apply it to a whole

range of weapons. I think it's mostly

swords, it doesn't seem to work on weapons

like axes or maces. And what makes this

even more deadly is when you get the Mimic

Ashes, and your Mimic Ashes also have the

blood loss buildup on his weapons. So now

you've got the two of you slashing away,

triggering all of these blood loss

attacks, and you just shred through bosses

and enemies. The damage output is just

insane, and some bosses— well, most

bosses— you can keep staggering them with

the dual-wield greatswords. Now, the most

effective playstyle I found with the

greatswords was to do a jumping attack and

bring both swords down at the same time,

and they both trigger the blood effect.

Now, as for talismans, the only talisman

that I found so far that has any kind of

effect on bleeding is the Lord of Blood

Exaltation talisman. So if there's any

kind of bleeding going on nearby, you'll

get a boost in attack power, which is

really helpful. So it's a bit of a pain

trying to get to this place. There's a

dungeon in Leyndell Capital. It's

underground in the sewers. It's called

Leyndell Catacombs. You've got to find

this well, jump down it, and then you'll

discover that there's this entire whole

area underneath the capital city region,

and there's quite a few places in this

area, and you want to go towards the

catacombs. So you have to make your way

down these sewers, and there's quite a lot

of fighting to get to the grace location.

When you get to the grace location,

you've got to head out and then go left,

and then on the right-hand side there

should be a ladder that goes down, and

then you have to go across some pipes,

drop down to where there's 2 giant

lobsters And try to just run past them

because they're a bit of a pain to try and

fight. And then there's like this broken

wall area. There's a wall that has a

broken doorway in it, and you go through

there and there's this dungeon with ghost

spectral soldiers. And you'll find a boss

called Eskar, this little goblin, and he

has 2 wolves. Quite easy to take down.

And then you get the talisman Lord of

Blood's Exaltation, which is quite a nice

talisman that makes your attack power go

up whenever there's bleeding going on,

which should be happening fairly often.

The main problem with this bleeding build

is that there are some enemies in the game

that are very resilient towards physical

damage, and some enemies don't even bleed.

You can keep attacking them and they'll

never do the blood loss effect thing. For

example, those bosses at the end of mining

dungeons that are made out of rock, they

won't take a lot of damage from bleeding

kind of builds. Builds or physical

attacks. Also, these crystal shiny things

in the Haligtree area, they're very strong

against physical attacks and bleeding,

but I was able to take them down with

enough attacks and the bleed thing

eventually triggered. So it's not

completely impossible, but maybe a magic

attack build would be more effective

against these kind of enemies. If you come

up against a boss that is really strong

against your current build, then there's

no point struggling. You might as well

just change your build to something else.

The other annoying thing is it takes quite

a lot of time to, to get the Setpuku buff

on both swords, and during this time you

can be quite vulnerable against bosses,

especially if you summon the Mimic and you

lose a load of health from the Mimic

summon, and then you lose more health from

doing Setpuku, and then you don't really

have a chance to heal back up before the

boss starts attacking you. But when you

get all the buffs on and you're ready to

go, you can do some crazy amounts of

damage. For example, on the Fire Giant,

the amount of damage I was doing to his

foot was just crazy. He didn't even last

more than a minute maybe. Plus my mimic

summon was also doing crazy amounts of

damage with his own blood attacks. So

yeah, the blood build, bleeding build's

pretty good for multiple occasions in this

game. Give it a try for yourself, see if

it helps you in any way. I found that

using bleed attacks really helped when I

got stuck on a few certain bosses. If you

have any suggestions or improvements to

this bleed build, feel free to leave a

comment. It'll be interesting if there's

better ways of doing this, but for now,

that was my way of doing it. Thanks for