Demon’s Souls PS5 brings back memories for Soulsborne veteran players. However, to have a thrilling gameplay experience, you need to use builds that match your playstyle. But before we begin, know that every build comes with flaws. Therefore, focus on leveling up your character level and weapons to minimize the risks.
If you’re looking for top builds in Demon’s Souls Remake, this build gives you the best options with detailed information and basic stats allocation.
5. Maximum Meat Cleaver Build
| Class | Royalty |
| Soul Level | 125 |
| Vitality | 50 |
| Intelligence | 14 |
| Endurance | 18 |
| Strength | 26 |
| Dexterity | 30 |
| Magic | 30 |
| Faith | 30 |
| Luck | 7 |
This build setup maximizes damage output by hitting the softcap for all relevant stats. With a light weapon, you can get 700+AR, but it uses stamina to inflict damage.
The build uses a two-handed weapon with Meat Cleaver and Insanity Catalyst in the primary slot and Talisman of Beasts and Iron Knuckles in the secondary slot. The rings used are Cling and Foe’s Rings.
While the build boosts the player’s HP to 1500 in body form and 1050 in soul form but at the cost of 106 stamina, therefore, it is mandatory to have stamina management to play properly and get high damage from hard-hitting weapons.
| Physical Defense, Blunt, Slash, Pierce | 208, 218, 206, 206 |
| Magic Defense | 199 |
| Fire Defense | 166 |
4. Ultimate Mage Build
| Class | Royalty |
| Soul Level | 125 |
| Vitality | 40 |
| Intelligence | 40 |
| Endurance | 30 |
| Strength | 14 |
| Dexterity | 12 |
| Magic | 50 |
| Faith | 12 |
| Luck | 7 |
The ultimate mage builds the most powerful build in Demon’s Soul Remake. With a large health pool of 1325, your character relies a little on stamina. The mage build uses physical, magic, and fire defenses while resisting bleed, poison, and plague.
Like the above loadout, this build also uses dual-handed weapons, Kilij and Rune Shield as primary and Insanity Catalyst and Kris Blade as secondary. Moreover, the rings used are Ring of Magical Sharpness and Cling Ring.
One cool fact about this build is that it does not require any spells, yet it easily takes out waves of enemies.
| Physical Defense, Blunt, Slash, Pierce | 217, 217, 231, 217 |
| Magic Defense | 116 |
| Fire Defense | 224 |
3. Invader Killer Build
| Class | Temple Knight |
| Soul Level | 37 |
| Vitality | 25 |
| Intelligence | 15 |
| Endurance | 20 |
| Strength | 14 |
| Dexterity | 14 |
| Magic | 6 |
| Faith | 16 |
| Luck | 7 |
The Invader killer build is to take down the invaders in complete stealth mode using a cloak to stay hidden. This temple knight class build has 938 body form and 656 soul form HP. With this loadout, your character resists all incoming damage, inflicting bleed, poison, and plague.
Moving to the dual-wielded weapons, the character equips War Pick and Spiked Shield as primary weapons and Secret Dagger and Talisman of Beasts as secondary. The rings to use are the Cling Ring and Graverobber’s Ring.
| Physical Defense, Blunt, Slash, Pierce | 143, 143, 151, 143 |
| Magic Defense | 116 |
| Fire Defense | 136 |
2. PvE Tank Build
| Class | Knight |
| Soul Level | 125 |
| Vitality | 50 |
| Intelligence | 18 |
| Endurance | 73 |
| Strength | 26 |
| Dexterity | 10 |
| Magic | 10 |
| Faith | 11 |
| Luck | 7 |
The knight class can give you great tank builds with a great health pool. One such build is the PVE tank build that has ranged attacks with 1500 body form HP. This character makes you invincible against bleed, poison, and plague resistance.
This build uses the Ring of Great Strength and Cling Ring with Short Spear and Large Brushwood Shield as primary weapon and defense, while Silver Catalyst and Heavy Crossbow are the equipment in the secondary slot.
Using this build gives you tanky characters that easily take down anything in their path.
| Physical Defense, Blunt, Slash, Pierce | 255, 255, 278, 255 |
| Magic Defense | 180 |
| Fire Defense | 254 |
1. Mercury Estoc Build
| Class | Temple Knight |
| Soul Level | 40 |
| Vitality | 25 |
| Intelligence | 8 |
| Endurance | 20 |
| Strength | 16 |
| Dexterity | 25 |
| Magic | 6 |
| Faith | 13 |
| Luck | 7 |
Demon’s Souls Remake has all kinds of enemies, and the worst are magic ones. To stand a solid chance against these enemies and their damage, we recommend going for the mercury estoc build. The best part about this build is the mercury estoc, which is a strong defense shield that protects the player from enemy damage.
With such a solid advantage, the only drawback is low HP, which requires an effective stamina management strategy. Moving to the rings, go for Cling Ring and Regenerator’s Ring. For the primary weapon and shield, choose Estoc and Dark Silver Shield, and the secondary slot is equipped with Heavy Crossbow and Parrying Dagger.
| Physical Defense, Blunt, Slash, Pierce | 142 142 142 142 |
| Magic Defense | 132 |
| Fire Defense | 144 |
