Thanks to developer FromSoftware, Elden Ring has received quite a major update today. Patch 1.04 is now live on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It brings a ton of balancing changes to weapons, skills, spells, and incantations.
One cool thing that this patch does is it brings separate damage scaling for PvP, which won’t take effect in single-player or cooperative mode.
In PvP mode, the power of Ashes of War has been lowered across the board, minding a few exceptions. Except for long-ranged weapons and skills, the poise damage of every weapon’s normal attack has been improved.
The highlights of the patch are mentioned below.
- Increased stamina attack power in PvP for all attacks against guarded foes, except for long-ranged weapons.
- The power of the following incantations in PvP has been decreased:
- Dragonfire / Agheel's Flame / Glintstone Breath / Smarag's Glintstone Breath / Rotten Breath / Ekzykes's Decay / Dragonice / Borealis's Mist / Unendurable Frenzy
- Increased poise damage when using two-handed normal attacks.
- Increased the speed of some Colossal Sword attacks.
- The speed and hit detection of Colossal Sword crouching and rolling attacks have been decreased.
- Increased the speed of some Colossal Weapon attacks.
- Decreased recovery time for Colossal Swords and Colossal Weapons, except for jump attacks, dual wielded attacks, and attacks while riding.
- Increased poise damage of Hammers, Great Hammers and some Colossal Weapons.
- Increased guard penetration for the following weapons:
- Celebrant's Sickle / Nox Flowing Sword / Shotel / Eclipse Shotel / Vulgar Militia Shotel / Scythe / Grave Scythe / Halo Scythe / Winged Scythe
- The poise rating of some attacks has been increased for the following weapons:
- Greatswords / Colossal Swords / Curved Greatswords / Greataxes / Great Hammers / Great Spears / Halberds
- With some exceptions, poise of all armor has been increased.
- The effects of the Greatshield Talisman and Hammer Talisman have been increased.
- Some effects of the spell Scholar's Shield, the Barricade Shield skill and the Shield Grease item have been adjusted as follows.
- The effects on shields with low guard boost have been adjusted upward.
- The effects on shields with high guard boost have been adjusted downward.
- The guard strength of the Fingerprint Stone Shield has been decreased.
- Decreased the status buildup done by dual wielded weapons.
The above highlights are only a small part of the update. You can check out the official website to read the complete patch notes.
