The main way to level up Elden Ring - killing enemies and getting runes from their corpses. New levels will improve the characteristics of the character and get new abilities. This guide tells you how to open the ability to level up, what the process of strengthening looks like and what stats are better to pump for effective development.
How to unlock a level up in Elden Ring
In Elden Ring, you cannot immediately upgrade your character. First you need to visit a few Places of Grace - progress save points, made in the form of shining bonfires of golden energy. When visiting the third Place of Grace, the player will encounter Melinaprompting you to open a level up.
Her offer cannot be permanently refused, she will always appear in the following places of Grace and give the same choice. Game progress impossible without improving performance, and already the first boss will simply crush a weak character.
After accumulating enough runes, you can go to any Place of Grace and talk to Melina to level up. After pumping, the player will be able to spend attribute points on different characteristics, optimizing your hero for your fighting style. For higher levels you need many runes - the required amount is shown in the character menu.
The best place to level experience in Elden Ring
To speed up the “course of the young” fighter and quickly go from the greenhorn to the thunderstorm of all the monsters of the Interearth, follow the third temple of Marika in the Graveyard. Having reached the indicated place, you will need to find a reservoir (go around the ruins). 
Hidden behind the bushes is a age that can be detected by a bluish glow. Enter the portal to move to another zone.
Before you will be an impressive monster, but it is not necessary to engage in a fight with him, you can quickly ride past on a horse. Continue down the hill towards the bridge, where you can open the Place of Grace.
You will have to farm small mobs. Drops from each 1000 runes, from bosses 2000 runes. Given the low speed of the enemy, it is possible to sneak up from behind for a backstab to significantly reduce HP.
Life hack for easy farming experience
For the most dexterous and lazy, there is a way to simplify pumping. Get on your horse and from the Place of Grace indicated above, move to the left until you by the bridge. Along the way, activate the next Place of Grace. Follow the road leading under the bridge.
Next, find a trap ball that acts like a homing missile. It will immediately "fly" towards the player, so your task is to dodge in time, using the acceleration on the horse, so that the ball breaks (for this it is better to climb along the cliff, not the cliff).
If everything is fine with the reaction, then for these manipulations you can get 1900 runes. To gain experience, you need to be as close as possible to the ball in order to count its killing. And so it is possible in a circle: rest by the fire, reload, move to the trap again, and repeat until you get bored.
Characteristics in Elden Ring
Each time a player levels up, they make a difficult choice: which 8 game characteristics raise? Each has its own purpose, and effective combinations will allow you to customize your personal fighting style and create a powerful character.
The game has the following features:
- life force;
- Fortitude;
- Agility;
- Strength;
- Vera;
- Wisdom;
- Intelligence;
- Witchcraft.
Resistance - the most important attribute for the early game, increasing the stamina and defense of the character. It is necessary for carrying out attacks, evasions, blocking and fast running. A very important stat for pumping at the first levels in order to quickly increase your striking power.
Life force increases your maximum health. Also a useful attribute for the initial buildup - the more life, the easier it is to survive a collision with strong enemies. Also increases resistance to poison and fire attacks.
Agility allows you to effectively use light weapons with fast attacks. Increasing agility increases the damage of such weapons, speeds up casting spells, reduces damage taken from falls, and improves the character's overall mobility.
Force - an attribute for using heavy weapons. Increases attack damage with large melee weapons and increases its penetrating power.
Vera enhances Holy Spells and improves the use of magic items. The stat increase increases the magic damage from combat spells and special weapons, depending on the Faith score.
Intelligence increases mana (MP), shown as a blue bar on the game screen. The attribute will be very important for characters with a battlemage specialization who rely on spells in combat.
Wisdom helps in using magic through flint stone. Increases magic damage from combat spells and magical weapons. Also increases enemy magic resistance.
Witchcraft increases the chance of finding valuable items. Increases resistance to death curses and certain spells.
What stats are better to pump in Elden Ring
Each characteristic in its own way affects the development of the game character. You should plan on pumping based on your ideas about the ideal hero - for a melee fighter, it’s better to pump indicators Strength, Stamina and Agility, and the mage character will be strengthened by Wisdom, Intelligence and Faith.
Strength and Agility directly related to the use of weapons. Attributes increase the damage and impact performance of melee weapons, effectively combined with upgrades through blacksmith stones. It is better to focus on one type of weapon and pump one attribute for its maximum enhancement.
Resistance important for any warrior, allowing for combinations of powerful attacks and quick dodges.
Life force needed by any character - an increase in maximum health is useful for warriors and mages.
Faith and Wisdom increase magical damage from spells and weapons. But one leveling up of an attribute is not enough for the effective use of magic in battle - you need to get comfortable with focusing and learn how to always hit the enemy.
Intelligence increases the amount of mana for casting spells. The main attribute for magical spellcasters.
Witchcraft increases the chance of finding items on corpses. Least Important stat for most players - gives little advantage in the early game and battles with enemies.
For beginner players, it is better to focus on pumping a specific combat style - physical or magical. Trying to mix both fighting styles will result in understated stats and low effectiveness in combat. The Warrior Mage specialization is for confident players who are ready to take on the challenge of fighting powerful enemies.
How to level up in co-op
You can also collect runes in multiplayer mode. By helping other players through the game, you can get additional runes for each killed enemy. Most come from killing bosses. It is worth ing that the death of the master of the world or assistant make it impossible receive RUNES.
From PvP battles not much use in of rune mining. For the killed players will give the same number of runes as for ordinary monsters in their world. You must always be careful - invading someone else's game, you can stumble upon ambush of several players and die yourself.
Useful tips for pumping
- After character death, the collected runes remain on his body - they can be taken back by with his body. But upon repeated death, all past runes will disappear.
- Better to use special items, which increase rune drops from slain enemies. They will be an excellent in the accelerated leveling of the character.
- If you can’t defeat the boss yourself, you can call for help player from another world. It is easier to fight together, and the number of runes does not decrease.
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