FromSoftware’s new Elden Ring patch (version 1.07) adds separate damage scaling for PvP, making it easier for the developer to balance weapons, spells, skills, and incantations for players in single-player and competitive multiplayer.
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FromSoftware released a new update for Elden Ring on Thursday that brings sweeping balance changes and adjustments to the open-world role-playing game. The most noteworthy update will have a major (apparently healthy) impact on the game’s balance between its player-vs-player and player-vs-environment components.
Patch 1.07 for Elden Ring adds separate damage scaling for PvP, meaning the way weapons, spells, shields, and other aspects of combat can be balanced to accommodate those in single-player and cooperative gameplay separately from those who engage with its competitive multiplayer. Previously, FromSoftware attempted to balance weapons, skills, spells, and incantations in a holistic fashion.
While Elden Ring’s new update extensively rebalances many of the game’s weapons and techniques, only a fraction of Thursday’s tweaks affect PvP. These include a number of incantations and Ashes of War that have had their power reduced, and improved poise damage for all weapons’ normal attacks in player-vs-player battles.
Also noteworthy is an across-the-board boost to poise in all armor. That change should make it easier for Elden Ring players to wear more diverse (and fashionable) sets of armor while exploring the Lands Between.
Read on for the full extensive — nearly 4,000 words — patch notes for Elden Ring’s 1.07 update.
Added separate damage scaling for PvP.
The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.
The adjustments in this section affect both PvE and PvP aspects of the game.
Glintstone Pebble / Shard Spiral
Lightning Spear / Flame Sling
Rejection / Wrath of Gold / Black Flame
Crystal Burst / Triple Rings of Light
Assassin’s Approach / Law of Causality
Glintstone Icecrag / Freezing Mist / Frozen Armament
Poison Mist / Poison Armament
Glintstone Arc / Glintblade Phalanx / Carian Phalanx / Greatblade Phalanx / Magic Downpour / Loretta’s Greatbow / Loretta’s Mastery / Rennala’s Full Moon / Ranni’s Dark Moon / Ambush Shard / Night Shard / Unseen Blade / Roiling Magma / Rykard’s Rancor / Darkness / Elden Stars / Lightning Strike / Lansseax’s Glaive / Death Lightning / Giantsflame Take Thee / Bloodflame Talons / Unendurable Frenzy / Greyoll’s Roar
Glintstone Stars / Magma Shot / Bloodboon
Aspects of the Crucible: Tail / Aspects of the Crucible: Horn / Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Spear / Fortissax’s Lightning Spear / Flame, Fall Upon Them
Glintstone Cometshard / Comet / Cannon of Haima / Carian Greatsword
Rancorcall / Ancient Death Rancor
Briars of Sin / Briars of Punishment
Gavel of Haima
Shatter Earth
Rock Blaster
Starlight
Stars of Ruin
Founding Rain of Stars
Magic Glintblade
Carian Piercer
Adula’s Moonblade
Gelmir’s Fury
Zamor Ice Storm
Shattering Crystal
Crystal Release
Oracle Bubbles
Great Oracular Bubble
Explosive Ghostflame
Tibia’s Summons
Discus of Light
Radagon’s Rings of Light
Frozen Lightning Spear
Flame of the Fell God
Whirl, O Flame!
Burn, O Flame!
Scouring Black Flame
Noble Presence
Beast Claw
Gurranq’s Beast Claw
Stone of Gurranq
Scarlet Aeonia
Frenzied Burst
Howl of Shabriri
Inescapable Frenzy
Dragonclaw
Dragonmaw
Black Blade
Bestial Sling
Rotten Breath / Ekzykes’s Decay
Glintstone Pebble / Surge of Faith / Gold Breaker / Regal Beastclaw / Nebula / Sacred Phalanx
Sword Dance / Vow of the Indomitable / Eochaid’s Dancing Blade
Sacred Order / Shared Order / Soul Stifler / Knowledge Above All / Barricade Shield
Taker’s Flames / Miquella’s Ring of Light
Prayerful Strike / Great-Serpent Hunt
Wild Strikes / Spinning Strikes
Ground Slam / Golden Slam / Erdtree Slam
Stamp (Upward Cut) / Stamp (Sweep)
Impaling Thrust
Piercing Fang
Spinning Slash
Charge Forth
Blood Tax
Repeating Thrust
Giant Hunt
Loretta’s Slash
Poison Moth Flight
Stormcaller
Sacred Blade
Bloody Slash
Lifesteal Fist
Eruption
Gravitas
Storm Blade
Flaming Strike
Lightning Slash
Vacuum Slice
Sacred Ring of Light
Blood Blade
Phantom Slash
Spectral Lance
Chilling Mist
Poisonous Mist
Shield Bash
Enchanted Shot
Kick
Cragblade
War Cry
Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Katana / Axe / Hammer / Flail / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd / Reaper / Fist (one-handed) / Claw (one-handed)
Troll’s Roar
Braggart’s Roar
Endure
Holy Ground
Raptor of the Mists
Flame Spit
Tongues of Fire
Great Oracular Bubble
Viper Bite
Moonlight Greatsword
Siluria’s Woe
Reduvia Blood Blade
Glintstone Dart
Night-and-Flame Stance
Ruinous Ghostflame
Spearcall Ritual
Wolf’s Assault
Thundercloud Form
Regal Roar
Blade of Death
Destined Death
Alabaster Lords’ Pull
Onyx Lords’ Repulsion
Oath of Vengeance
Ice Lightning Sword
Claw Flick
Golden Tempering
Last Rites
Unblockable Blade
Loretta’s Slash (Loretta’s War Sickle Ash of War)
Corpse Wax Cutter
Zamor Ice Storm
Dynast’s Finesse
Death Flare
Magma Guillotine
Corpse Piler
Bloodblade Dance
Devourer of Worlds
Familial Rancor
Rosus’s Summons
Thunderstorm
Unblockable Blade
Ordovis’s Vortex
Barbaric Roar
Shield Crash
Seppuku
Bloodboon Ritual
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