ELDEN RING: How to Craft an Overpowered Dexterity Build 1.10!

Hey all. This is my crafting build video for dexterity! This goes over how to make strong and overpowered builds for dexterity! This one was a ton of fun to do, as Dexterity is a favorite of mine. I hope this video is helpful in making and crafting your own dexterity builds!
Timestamps:
Opening/Intro 00:00
Soft Caps/How Dexterity Works 01:43
Building With Keen Affinity 02:02
Building With Bloodflame Blade 04:45
Building With the Hand of Malenia 07:18
Building With Lightning Affinity 10:42
Cool Weapons in Keen/Lightning 14:38
Best Talismans 15:08
Breaking Down the Bolt of Gransax 15:28
Ending ❤️ 17:13
Crafting Builds Part 1 (Faith):
• How to Craft an Overpo...
Crafting Builds Part 2 (Arcane):
• Elden Ring: How to Cra...
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[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@Caal3]

Bolt of gransax and thunderbolt ash trivialise most bosses, lightning curved swords cover the rest.

[@raytitone1583]

I absolutely love these builds! This helps shine light on what to build around stacking buffs, you make great guides!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@shannonhazelrigg7041]

This was so helpful when going from int to dex. Much appreciated.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@Higurashi21]

I love your guides, you working on the Top Strenth Builds & How to Build too? Missing These.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thanks! And yep within the next 1-2 weeks both those should be out. 🤘

[@rainsback24]

Fantastic! Better and better. Thank you.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@kuraikage15]

Thank you for this! Amazing builds

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🙏 🤘

[@coolfish167]

legend, alway making new builds and helping players out. Thanks for your vids.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@maui_gaming7035]

Thank you for another great video! It really helped. I tried other builds but always find myself coming back to dexterity.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Awesome! Also my DLC build is tomorrow btw, should be a good build to try for everyone!🤘

[@maui_gaming7035]

@@TheKingofRedLightning That’s cool! I subscribed and will be looking forward to it :)

[@salty8049]

I love your content, Keep it up!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@svge3]

All of your videos are amazing! Keep it up 👊🏾

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@cantseechit]

great video. lots of info without the video feeling clunky. this helped me alot

[@JayNotion]

Stumbled across your channel and as a massive ER fan this is reigniting my passion to go back to the game ahead of the DLC. Love your effort and commitment to a game that is top of my list 😜👍🏻

[@Slykillful]

Is there a good farming spot for the bandit curved sword?

[@JayNotion]

@@Slykillful there is a sage cave in Mt.Gelmir and behind some illusionary walls there are some skeleton enemies, most of which use the weapon. Pop a gold pickled fowl foot and you should have them in no time 👍🏻

[@brandonmcvey8733]

@@JayNotion you would want to pop a silver pickled fowl foot for increased item discovery. The gold pickled foot increases number of runes dropped.

[@JayNotion]

@@brandonmcvey8733 yep you're correct thanks for correcting 😁👍🏻

[@funkyskibo]

Excellent job on this video. You are getting really good at making these videos. Keep up the great work.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@SkyM271]

Thank you ! Love your vids !

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@martinburke7267]

Love your videos you always have great information to share. Any ideas on a dual hand axe build? Maybe the Highland or something small... Great work 👍

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Highland axe with braggarts roar can be really good. And thanks! 🤘

[@JavilianFangz]

Dude... Awesome video man

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🙏 🤘

[@Coralviner]

Thank u love your guides !❤

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@BoxingChilli]

I have been duel wielding hand of Melina’s and it’s been awesome. Would recommend using two of them

[@anabanana9582]

These builds work great, i've tried 3 of them and my favorite is bloodfame nagakiba

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you & mine too! 🤘

[@funkyskibo]

Also, thank you for helping the Animals by doing the fundraiser on your latest videos. You da man! You are quickly becoming my favorite and most watched KZbin content creator. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@k.w.2275]

You and Fextra have the best build videos. Can't wait for the str one. BTW, any ideas for a curved sword guard counter build?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thanks! 🤘 I’m going to make one soon since it’s been requested a lot, but I have to look into it since I don’t use guard counters that much.

[@k.w.2275]

@TheKingofRedLightning for sure man. There's a guide video for you, various guard counters. As someone who watches damn near every ER build video on youtube, I can tell you there aren't many unless Fextralife does it as part of theirs.

[@zacharybrowning4918]

The pace is better on your latest videos. Taking the time to scroll down and equip each item/spell actually helps to lock it into memory for me. That is a meaningful improvement on your videos and I appreciate it. Thanks!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Awesome, glad to hear it! 🤘

[@Neversosa]

nice builds thank you

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@crystalsko]

Matt, I love you videos. Great work!!! on all of them. 2 things.... 1. Clean up your Talisman inventory! You only need one of each. 2. Don't apologize for the pace at which you speak and present the information, do your thing and be you. I have a rewind button. Lots of love man!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Haha thanks, appreciate it! 🙏 🤘

[@michaels1532]

Hey I just wanna say after finding your account I’ve been binging you hard, you’re one of the only streamers who still puts out great Elden ring content in 2024 I know you haven’t gotten the recognition you deserve yet but just want you to know you have supporters who really support your videos

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🙏 it’ll pick up during DLC I’m sure can’t wait 🤘

[@Josh-dr9db]

Best Elden build vids on the net mate.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🙏 🤘

[@craigmitivier637]

Can you do a dex dagger build guide? Like is it better for keen or is it based off the type of dagger?

[@jaydaniel4666]

great vid!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@konradmaliszewski5115]

Good tutorial thanks

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@dobermanfreak2a112]

We need Arcane/faith hybrid my man!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Hard to do at RL 150, but it would be cool. 🤘

[@bradr2891]

love your vids!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@bradr2891]

yw, keep it up. can't wait to see your build videos for DLC!@@TheKingofRedLightning

[@juncho1977]

Thumbs up Matt!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@CharlesBurleigh]

I just started a Samurai Dex playthrough to take into DLC. I want to run Katanas with Blood Flame, so this guide is just what I was looking for! Is there a good guide for Yura's quest? I don't want to kill him. 😂

[@matti_6499]

love to watch the videos

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@ghurabadota886]

Good vid man

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@only_omarii]

great content

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@syt3189]

Best elden ring build KZbinr in my opinion

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘

[@billfeli6393]

I just wanted to ask to whoever used any of the builds here. Is the game still relatively hard for you or are you op

[@lukasfrantzke]

What do you recommend if you don't get milicent's prosthesis on your first run through?

[@Soulofagreathero]

Nice vid man

[@Soulofagreathero]

I believe it’s pronounced 8:19 arrow-madick 😂 not aroma-tick but love the vid

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🙏 and I know I’ll correct it for the next build 🤘

[@ItzPiolin]

Your videos are amazing and really helpful, but is a nagakiba with a uchigatana with cold affinity on it a decent dex build?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you! 🤘 and yep it is. Scales well with Dex in cold affinity too.

[@renebareno]

nice

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

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[@vinny4534]

Hello, I am a big fan of the Nagakiba sword, I’m glad it was included in the builds. May I ask, what ashes of war did you use on it? Very informative by the way, I only just re-started playing Elder Ring so I’m a bit rusty with everything😂.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Double slash, spinning weapon & sword dance are best. 🤘

[@vinny4534]

@@TheKingofRedLightning Top lad👍🏼

[@craigmitivier637]

Have you ever used daggers? Small hit box but successive multi hits are extremely powerful

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Yep I’m not a fan of the small hitboxes. I miss a fair bit lol

[@michaels1532]

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[@cityzq8278]

Your build ideas are very similar to mine, I'll check out the other videos too!

[@cityzq8278]

The only difference is I don't use a lot of buffs because I like just dancing with the bosses on my dex builds

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Nice! 🤘 yeah I mainly do late game NG+7 builds at 150. Buffs help speed things up sometimes lol

[@cityzq8278]

@@TheKingofRedLightning oh yeah that makes sense, I don't play a lot in Ng+, most if not all my builds are on ng

[@bheem1033]

What’s a good starting weapon for dex build and a good weapon to seek next

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Starting? Go Samurai. Uchigatana & Nagakiba. Double slash is good early, I have a guide coming out this weekend for an early game Samurai. Later on, the Guardian Swordspear is crazy good too. 🤘

[@silverthunder7122]

I’m glad he went over how to get all of these and in what order for the people that don’t know which is why they came here🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@aymanaltmeme3921]

Again very nice video bro Please check sellen dagger kris i see its really good also a int builds And if you can bring best builds for pvp that will be great Keep up the good work and greets from iraq👍🏻

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thank you 🙏 I covered glintstone Kris in my chargeable builds from a week or two ago, it’s very good! 🤘

[@waltermercado9152]

Im coming back to Elden Ring to prep for the dlc. Is double uchigatana +25 with seppuku still viable? How does it compare to the current meta? I haven't played the game since beating it at launch 2 years ago. Thanks.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Seppuku is still broken on anything. It’s best on curved swords & twinblades though.

[@ethanharms5209]

I saw you did not really cover stats too much and were using GV with lower faith. You prefer going up to 25 or using maybe the AoW on a light off hand? Great video!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thanks! And base faith is 15, 25 with the faith tear. The incantation is stronger & double the length of the ash. So I prefer the incantation for sure. Stats & soft caps are in the video too 👍

[@ethanharms5209]

Ah okay you had the tear in the whole time got it@@TheKingofRedLightning

[@Dreamer1422]

Damn, that lighting curved swords build is better than scavenger seppuku build

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Haha it’s good but I think bleed is probably still more OP lol

[@Zackologic]

Would it be a waste of stats to go 60/60 Dex/Faith with the Lightning Affinity build? I'm currently running a Dex/Faith build using a Nagakiba with Vykes Dragonbolt/Electrify Weapon (and sometimes Bolt of Gransax), but I really like the moveset of curved swords and this build looks fun, but I'm not sure if I should respec some Faith levels into Dex or just try these weapons with 60/60 Dex/Faith?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

60 dex & faith could make for a fun and good build. Imo you should be fine for sure 👍

[@Zackologic]

@@TheKingofRedLightning Thanks! Do you think the curved swords would be better with Electrify Armament on a 60/60 build (and use the ash of war for something else), or is it better to stick with Lightning Slash?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

@@Zackologic lightning slash if you want to use it on both. Since the faith buffs like lightning & Bloodflame can only be applied to one weapon.

[@madxxl8090]

About the 20% flame damage. Can the spear be used with bloodflame blade? To make use of the flame damage for radagon

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Bloodflame blade has a small amount of fire damage. So it wouldn’t increase it much. It also works best on weapons with innate bleed (Nagakiba, Grave Scythe, etc) since it only gets 40 flat bleed. Radagon is also immune to bleed lol so a pure fire build would be better. Blasphemous blade’s ash can take him down very fast.

[@christianlukandwa7219]

How are you able to use golden vow without 25 faith. I have the same stats but I can't use it

[@JavilianFangz]

How do u find the passives on the armor... You said the raptor armor boosts jump attacks

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

You mostly have to look them up/google them for exact amounts. Otherwise it’s based off the item description but those can be vague.

[@evano8312]

Do you have a health regents build?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Not one recently. But it’s on my list to do soon. 🤘

[@kenshin391]

If your over level 150 what should you put the rest of your rune's into?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Depends how high of a level you are. Get Dexterity to 80. If you get faith to 33 you can use howl of Shabriri which is 5% more than FGMS (and lasts longer too). 60 vigor, probably 25 mind & getting to 25-30 endurance would be good. If eventually you get to level 250+ you can put a lot of weapons in quality, and invest in both strength in Dex for more AR. 🤘

[@rush4495]

What order should I level up the stats?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Vigor & endurance first with minimum weapon requirements. Then go for Dexterity. 🤘

[@ArmorPlz]

Did they patch the the off hand receiving the lighting ash of war cuz it’s not working for me

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

You have to 2 hand the off hand one, activate it then go back to powerstancing.

[@AntonioGarcia-ev9ly]

Do you need to upgrade your Arcane for the blood build?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Nope. Keen is dexterity. And bloodflame blade is a flat 40 bleed.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

I beat Radagon, Elden Beast, and Malenia for the first time yesterday by applying Black Blade then just spamming Taker's Flames with my Mimic Tear out. Brute-forced it.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Nice! 🤘

[@lunarbound9975]

How have I never seen that done before @ 1:20 ? What is that, a Nagakiba w/ Bloodflame Blade and … can only think of a sorcery that spins like that, not an Ash. Holy hell I’m trying that out.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Yep you can! It’s spinning weapon ash of war. You get it from Rogier in Stormveil castle.

[@Toast-zh9tj]

Daggers when D:

[@GuardianMCXI]

How are you able to cats golden vow without 25 faith?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

faith tear. 10 levels for 3 minutes. 🤘

[@AIdxw]

What is in your memorie slots on the last one??

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Probably Golden Vow, & FGMS or Howl. Those are all I really use for Dex builds.

[@AIdxw]

@@TheKingofRedLightning what is FGMS?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

@@AIdxw flame grant me strength.

[@AIdxw]

@@TheKingofRedLightning thankyou! Amazing video

[@liamcage7208]

I'm on my second play through after a year away from the game. I love the Samurai and the Dex build but I want to make sure I get the most out of it. I'm not doing NG+ yet as I made so many mistakes on the first play through I want to have a cleaner character build. This video helped a lot (plus its recent not filled with 2 year old info before all the patches and nerfs). thanks

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Awesome! 🤘

[@mangowett9967]

Donated!!

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Awesome! Thank you 🙏

[@johnpearson81]

Chef Kevin?

[@FlyingFox86]

The one thing that annoys me about dexterity is the fact that you get no advantage from two handing. That means that a lot of dex weapons are still better with a heavy infusion if you plan on two handing them.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

It depends on how the weapon scales. After 80 strength you don’t get many more points. So if you can get to 70-80 Dex you’re good. Between 80-99 is negligible returns.

[@FlyingFox86]

@@TheKingofRedLightning This answer sounded familiar, so I checked and it turns out I made a comment like this before on one of your videos 😄. You're right that it depends on how your weapon scales. The ones that scale extremely well with dex are indeed better off with keen scaling, even when two-handing. Prime example being the guardian swordspear. But my point was that a lot of weapons that have better scaling on keen vs heavy, still do better with heavy infusion because of the two-handing buff to strength. The soft cap for str is 80, but you can reach it with str 54. Like twinblades and katana's for example.

[@toddccrawford]

AIR-O-MAT-ICK

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Yep I realized that after I posted it, my bad.

[@EvolMisterNice]

Hi, the video Is very detailed but i do not understand how you managed to cast a 25 Faith spell while having only 15 Faith on your build.

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Thanks! Faith tear. 10 levels for 3 minutes. 🤘

[@jaiir3203]

Why do you always use faith knot on your physik

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

I use a lot of buffs, they’re helpful esp on NG+7. Base Faith is 15-23. The 10 levels lets me use Golden Vow & Howl or FGMS.

[@davidnistor8586]

Can someone explain me how he got 60 vigor, 70 dex and the other stats? I mean he only is lvl 150… Sry, I’m new to the game

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Faith tear for buffs, so it adds up to 160 with the tear. Base level is 10 in each stat.

[@diogodelta01]

golden vow and flame grant me strength do stack! blood boil doesnt stack with flame grant me strength though

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

Yep that info is in there. 1 body buff & 1 aura buff you can stack.

[@mikezigma]

i thought you could only shackle once?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

You can use it twice during the fight, but only in phase 1. They also carry over to NG+.

[@mikezigma]

@@TheKingofRedLightning oh damn ok, yeah i used it once and then just hoped for the best after that lol

[@joofmagoof2841]

I'm thinking dexterity

[@user-kx7el2ns2c]

yo bro can you make a tutorial?

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

A tutorial for what specifically? This is one for building/crafting. I also have early game guides on my channel too.

[@user-kx7el2ns2c]

@@TheKingofRedLightning the build

[@Thanksdunky]

Ar-uh-mat-it*

[@benzost920]

Don't level DEX! It upsets Giant Dad and Glaive Master Hodir.

[@user-od3ke2xq4u]

This build is complete shit... I got more damage out of my eleonora's polearm without any use of tears.

[@michaelmiller7353]

These kinds of videos are only marginally helpful. You show us a NG+ build. I’m on my first play through. My character isn’t god level yet. I have 2 talisman slots and less than half of the spells. This is less of a “how to build” video and more of a “ how to tweak your god level character” video

[@TheKingofRedLightning]

This is for people that have some experience with elden ring already. Early game there’s not as much you can do with builds. Based on the good feedback I’ve gotten on these, it’s helped a lot of players.

[@Boogie_night]

Then get better

[@michaelmiller7353]

Just looking for a “build” where should I be at level 50? 100? Etc. not a matter of getting better. It’s an understanding of the skill points, actually building the character. Not just gear.

[@paulcashion8049]

Your first order of business should be getting your talisman slots and spell slots. From there you figure out what weapon type you want to run. Go get the weapon you want. Follow a guide. Then see what talismans compliment that weapon. Go get those. If your on your first playthrough you should be doing that. You won't get to experiment with a lot until you've beat the game. Enjoy that first go through it. There's nothing like it. NG+ is where you try all the new builds with all the weapons and stuff you've collected. After you beat Raya Luc you can respec.

[@craigmitivier637]

If you're looking for a guide to actually start the game there are many. The whole idea of a game like this though is to learn the mechanics and timing of the game. There's a huge gap between players just starting out with gifted stuff and players who actually played the game.