Elden Ring: Best Weapons For Intelligence & Faith Builds

Like in previous FromSoftware RPGs such as and, magic in the world of can be divided into two rough categories — academic Sorceries powered by the spellcaster's Intelligence and deity-invoking Incantations powered by the spellcaster's faith. Players who want to be able to cast both Sorceries and Incantations will need to heavily upgrade their character's Intelligence and Faith attributes at the expense of the Strength and Dexterity attributes that empower attacks from most melees or ranged weapons.

Four attributes can influence the damage a character does in FromSoftware's open-world RPG. For melee there are Strength and Dexterity. The Intelligence attribute is generally used to boost the power of Glintstone Sorceries, a magical art capable of manifesting crystals, meteorites, ice, solid light, gravity, and other cosmic phenomena. Finally, the Faith attribute, in most cases, influences the strength of Incantations, the magic of healing miracles and elemental attacks derived from the power of divine entities such as dragons, giants, Outer Gods, or the potentially parasitic Erdtree of seen from nearly every location in the map.

Technically, there is only one weapon in the base game that can scale with both Intelligence and Faith — 's Sword of Night and Flame, a Legendary Armament found in the Caria Manor dungeons within the Liurnia of the Lakes region. This ornate straight sword weapon, said to have been forged by astrologers who lived in the mountains alongside giants, scales well off of both Intelligence and Faith and has a special Skill called Night-and-Flame Stance where characters can fire off either a broad blast of crimson flame or a blue beam of cosmic light.

You can check the best base game weapons for mixed Intelligence and Faith builds in the table below:

Best Weapons For Int/Fai Builds In Elden Ring (Base Game)

Name

Category

Straight Sword

Spear

Dagger

Sacred Seal

Glintstone Staff

Glintstone Staff

Sacred Seal

The Clayman's Harpoon, a spear