Elden Ring Bleed / Hemorrhage / Bloodloss Builds Guide

This guide will help you in making some of the best Bleed Builds in Elden Ring by outlining the best ways to stack the status effect.

By Arslan Shah

One of the most powerful status effects in Elden Ring is known as Bleed. It is capable of doing massive damage when built carefully. If you are looking for the best and most effective bleed build, you are at the right place! This guide will tell you some of the best Bleed builds in Elden Ring.

Best Bleed Builds in Elden Ring

Below are some builds where we will be focusing on things required to make the best bleed build:

Bleed Meta Build

Bleed Overpowered Build

Bleed Flame Build

Best Class for Bleed Builds

Warrior is a starting class in Elden Ring. It has high Dexterity and medium physical characteristics. We recommend this class because its main stat is Dexterity; hence, it provides better mobility and enables the user to deal with higher damages even with medium or light weapons. For every Bleed build, it is advisable to start with Warrior class.

Best Stats for Bleed Builds

For Bleed Meta build, our main focus will be on Vigor and Dexterity. You will be putting more points into the Dexterity and Vigor, and after that remaining ones can be put into the Mind and Endurance.

We will be investing more points into the Intelligence and Vigor for the Bleed Overpowered build, as these are our primary stats. Other than these, we will be investing some points into the Strength and Mind to balance this build a bit.

For the Bleed Flame build, we will be investing more points into Dexterity, and Arcane as these are our primary stats for this build.

Best Weapons for Bleed Builds in Elden Ring

When playing Meta build, your main goal is to stack bleed and ultimately cause blood loss and tons of damage. For this reason, we’ll be utilizing the Blood Uchigatana.

This weapon is not only swift but features a great move set and stacks tons of Bleed. If you’re looking to put tons of points into Dex, you can even go with the Keen Uchigatana.

The downside here is that it won’t stack as much Bleed per hit but will surely deal more damage. You can make up for the lack of bleed build-up with the incantation Bloodlfame blade.

You can use the Royal Knight Resolve to play with the Overpowered Bleed build and combine it with the Fire’s Deadly Sin. After that, when you buff yourself with Ash of War: Seppuku to increase the attack power of our weapon, the Lordsworn’s Straight Sword is buffed with Blood.

Bear in mind that this damages yourself, too, so you should be careful while using this Ash of War. Combined, all of this means you can run at enemies and cause massive bleed build-up with Fire’s Deadly Sin and your normal attacks with the Lordsworn Sword.

For playing with Bleed Flame build, the Lordsworn’s Blood Straight Sword scales well with the Dexterity, so it will be a good weapon to deal melee damage by making a slash in an upwards direction to the enemy.

Best Armor for Bleed Builds

Our Armor choice for Bleed Meta build is the Cuckoo Knight Set which boats tons of resistance. The only downside here is that the armor is plenty heavy. You can go with lighter options at the cost of less resistance or mix and match pieces that keep your weight just low enough for a fast/medium roll.

We recommend equipping any light armor like the Mushroom set or the Black Knife Set etc., in Elden Ring for the Bleed Flame build and the Bleed overpowered build. The reason being light armors provide more mobility or Dexterity and vigor, you can say. Our main focus is on Dexterity for Bleed builds. So light armors best suit our purpose.

Best Skills for Bleed Builds

For Bleed Meta build, skills like Hoarfrost Stomp and Chilling Mist will help you deal massive damage to enemies and will surely punish them for evading poorly.

For Bleed Overpowered build, we recommend Ash of War: Royal Knight Resolve and Ash of war: Seppuku as the best skills to have. You can buff yourself with Ash of war: Seppuku to increase your weapon’s power. That will help you consume more of your foe’s health even with lighter attacks with your weapon.

For playing with the Bleed Flame build, we recommend Ash of war: Seppuku as the best skill to have. You can use the Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation, and it will light up the fire on you for some time. After that, when you use the Seppuku on yourself, your Katanas will get the bleed status effect, and your Flame will also apply the Bleed.

Best Talismans for Bleed Builds

For Bleed Meta build, we recommend the Erdtree’s Favor talisman to help you in increasing your health and stamina. This will help you a lot in the fights against the enemies. We’ll be using the Redagon’s Soreseal to boost our stats; we’ll take more incoming damage, but the net gain in stats is worth it.

For Bleed Overpowered build and Bleed Flame build, we recommend Lord of Blood’s Exultation and Old Lord’s Talisman. Lord of Blood’s Exultation will increase your power during the blood loss. So, you can use the bleeding to your advantage and increase the strength of your attack.

Best Spells for Bleed Builds

The best spell to use with Bleed Overpowered build is Fire’s Deadly sin. That is because you can use the Royal Knight Resolve and combine it with the Fire’s Deadly Sin.

Afterwards, you can buff yourself with Ash of war: Seppuku to increase your weapon’s power, as said earlier. So you see, everything is interconnected.

For playing Bleed Flame build, you can use the Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation, and it will light up the fire on you for some time. After that, when you use the Seppuku on yourself, your Katanas will get the bleed status effect, and your Flame will also apply the Bleed

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Arslan Shah

Arslan Shah is junior editor at SegmentNext.com, a video games addict with more than a decade spent honing the craft. He is a roleplaying video games enthusiast and loves a good story driven RPG.