Elden Ring All Stats Explained
Vigor
When you increase your character's vigor, it increases your character's Hit-Point, Fire and Poison Resistance, Immunity. No matter what build you are playing with, increasing your character's HP will always work for you. As you progress through the game, you will notice that the enemies start to deal more damage. You need to upgrade your HP from some stage of the game.
Mind
When you increase your character's mind stat, your FP bar increases. FP is an important stat for players playing a magic character. You need high FP to cast some spells. FP is also used for Ashes of War and summon spirits. Although the mind stat is not the priority of every player, it is indispensable for players with a magic-based game style.
Endurance
Endurance is a stat that increases your character's stamina. Stamina is used in many actions such as somersaulting, jumping, attacking, casting spells, blocking with a shield, ashes of war during battle. Unlike HP and FP, stamina regenerates over time without the need for potions. Endurance also increases your character's physical defense and robustness.
Strenght
Strength is a critical stat for players who like to use heavy weapons, aiming to inflict physical damage. Increases the damage your character deals with by physical attacks. In order to use heavy, powerful, and slow weapons such as Axe and Great sword, you need strength points according to the weapon.
Dexterity
Dexterity is a stat designed for players who want to use agile weapons like katanas that aim to inflict physical damage. Upgrading Dexterity increases your character's physical damage, reduces casting time and fall damage. Some of the light, sharp and fast weapons such as the katana and dagger require you to have a certain amount of Dexterity stats.
Intelligence
Intelligence is the most important stat that players with magic-based characters should develop. Each intelligence point increases your character's magic damage and magic defense. If you want your character to do more damage with spells, you need to increase this stat. Your character needs certain intelligence points to use some spells and wands.
Faith
All spells in the Incantations area of Elden Ring are used with the Faith stat. Faith stat will increase your character's magic damage. Also, some weapons in Elden Ring require certain faith stats.
Arcane
In order to use all weapons and spells that look interesting in the game, have different characteristics, and are associated with blood, you need to increase the Arcane stat. The higher your Arcane stat, the higher your enemies' item drop rate will be.
It's important to know what stat you'll need when deciding how you play in Elden Ring. After a certain stage of the game, you have the chance to redistribute your stats. However, if you do not want to have difficulty in the game until that stage, you need to learn the functions of the stats.