Elden Ring: Stats Explained (2024)

Elden Ring, much like its predecessors, rewards the players with currency and XP upon killing enemies, selling items, or using consumables that contain Runes within them for hundreds, even thousands of them. You will use Runes to level up the stats of your starting class, allowing you to increase your health, stamina, and magic pools, as well as equip heavier armor and weapons.

While Elden Ring does have a respeccing option, it's important that you level the stats that matter to your build first. Casters will want to level Faith or Intelligence, while greatsword-wielding warriors will want to bump their Strength stats. Let's go over how these stats work and what sort of ailments you can expect to find in the Lands Between.

Updated April 7, 2024, by Seth Parmer: With Elden Ring's expansion nearing, we have decided to revisit this guide to give a bit more love to the 'Status Effects And Ailments' section. We expanded the list of options to Cure those pesky Ailments and added an entirely new section dedicated to how you can inflict them onto enemies yourself!

Core Stats

Before we talk about what your attributes do, we must first discuss your character's core stats. You have three resources as a Tarnished: HP, FP, and Stamina.

There are three secondary stats that are quite important: Equip Load, Discovery, and Memory Slots.

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Character Attributes

Character Attributes in Elden Ring refer to the eight primary stats you will level up with Runes at various Sites of Grace found throughout The Lands Between. Each Attribute will grade a wide range of offensive and defensive skills, even passive ones that can give you the edge in battle. Attributes are the foundation of your character and allow you to fine-tune your character.

Below is a list of every Attribute in Elden Ring and their corresponding benefits.

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How To Increase Your Attributes

Attributes can be increased at any Site of Grace by spending Runes, a currency obtained by slaying enemies and breaking Golden Rune [1]. Each time you level an attribute this way, increasing your character's level again will become slightly more expensive.

Should you invest in stats you later find irrelevant for your build, you can respec your character's attributes by talking to Rennala after beating her. Each respec costs one Larval Tear, a rare resource found throughout the world and on certain tough enemies.

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Status Effects And Ailments

You will see many Status Effects and Ailments in Elden Ring as you and your opponent are capable of inflicting them on one another via special weapons and items. However, as touched on above, you can build resistance to these effects by upgrading specific skills, allowing you to endure areas or attacks for a longer duration before succumbing to them.

Below is every Status Effect and Ailment present in Elden Ring, all of which apply to Offensive and Defensive stats directly affected by Attributes and your current equipment.

Additionally, you can also apply these effects to some enemies within the Lands Between, which can come in a variety of different Incantations and Sorceries. The table below will be all the ways you can inflict these Status Effects and Ailments onto your opposition in Elden Ring!

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