Just like every Souls game before, Elden Ring offers a variety of classes to choose from right at the beginning of your game. In addition to the gender selection, the robust character creator allows you to fine-tune features such as your hairstyle, face, facial hair, and even body type. However, all these features won't matter when you're running around wearing ridiculous-looking armor (hey, if it protects, the looks don't matter!).
You can spend hours creating your character, but in the end, it's the character class that matters the most. It is essential to know which character class is best suited for you. In this guide, we've listed everything you need to know about each class that may help you select your class.
Attributes
Before we get into the classes, it is best to understand what each stat refers to. It can be a bit daunting for newer players to understand what the 'Faith' stat or the 'Arcane' stats stand for. There are eight attributes, and each of these eight attributes governs your secondary stats, including HP, FP, Equipment Load, Discovery, Poise, and Stamina.
Vigor: Vigor governs your overall HP. HP refers to 'Health Points.' Vigor also provides a bit of fire resistance and a bit of immunity stats which is a defensive stat.
Mind: Mind governs your FP. FP stands for 'Focus Points.' Focus points can also be referred to as your mana points or magic points. This is what is utilized to use your magic.
Endurance: Endurance primarily governs your Stamina and affects the Robustness stat, a defensive stat.
Strength: Strength affects the attack power of heavy armaments and boosts the damage of strength-scaling armaments. It also increases your physical defense stat.
Dexterity: Dexterity affects the attack power of advanced armaments. It also helps increase the damage of dexterity-scaling armaments, helps reduce spell casting time, reduced fall damage, and makes it difficult for enemies to knock you off of your horse.
Intelligence: Intelligence governs intelligence-scaling Sorceries and improves your resistance to magic attacks. It allows you to use glinstone sorceries.
Faith: Faith allows you to perform sacred Incantations. Incantations are a type of Magic that includes a variety of spells such as healing. Faith also increases the power of faith-scaling Incantations.
Arcane: Arcane governs the Discovery stat. Discovery stats governs how likely it is for you to find items on the corpses of the defeated enemies. Arcane is sort of an all-rounder as it also affects your Vitality, Holy Defense, and even some Incantations and Sorceries.
