But if you want to be a melee/spellcaster hybrid—a great experience in Eleden Ring Runes Elden Ring, because there are tons of cool magical abilities—you'll want to focus your build on a weapon that has good scaling with, say, faith or intelligence. But you don't need to fret about that too much, either, thanks to Ashes of War that let you tweak the elemental affinity of most weapons.
Some examples of good hybrid builds: the Darkmoon Greatsword scales very well with intelligence, yet doesn't have a high strength or dex requirement, making it a great pick for a sorcerer. If you're more interested in incantations, the Staff of the Avatar is amazing for faith and strength scaling. You can experiment with the spells and incantations to find ones you like before arranging a whole build around one type of magic.
FromSoftware has been actively patching Elden Ring, so a few builds popular in its first two months are no longer as hot. We've Buy Eleden Ring Runes also removed one from the list altogether that was based on an exploit FromSoftware fixed. Despite some balance patches that affected status ailments like bleed, many of those skills and weapons remain very powerful, so they're still here among the best builds in Elden Ring.
