Elden Ring: Game Guides
How-to walkthroughs, mechanics, modes, maps, settings, and systems.
October 2026
4 posts
How to Beat Maliketh, the Black Blade in Elden Ring
Maliketh's death turns Leyndell to ash and takes the Bolt of Gransax, two armor sets and a Tarnished Pack invasion with it. Here is what to finish first, what he resists, both movesets with counters, how Destined Death eats your max HP, and where the Blasphemous Claw comes from.
Elden Ring Tarnished Pack: Every Weapon and Armor Location
Patch 1.17's notes never name the Tarnished Pack's weapons. Here are all eight armaments, the four armor sets and the three Torrent attires, where each one sits, what stands in front of it, the two invaders who carry two of the sets, and the one set you can lock yourself out of.
How to Beat Radagon and the Elden Beast in Elden Ring
Elden Ring's final boss is two resistance charts behind one fog gate, with no Site of Grace between them. Radagon has no fire negation at all; the Elden Beast blocks 40% of it and every status buildup. Here is what each half resists, the one damage type that works on both, the holy-defense stack they both punish you for skipping, and what the patches actually changed.
Elden Ring Dragon Communion: Every Spell and Heart Cost
The base game has 23 Dragon Hearts and its 13 Dragon Communion spells cost 20, but six of those hearts sit behind Ranni's questline. Here are all three altars, all 16 spells, every base-game heart, and the arithmetic for spending them.
September 2026
7 posts
Elden Ring Memory Stones: All 8 Locations and Max Slots
Every character starts with two memory slots, and Comet Azur alone needs three. Here are all eight Memory Stones, the tortoise puzzles and missable gesture that guard them, the talisman that takes you to twelve, and the spells that cost more than one slot.
Elden Ring Respec Guide: All 27 Larval Tear Locations
Every Rebirth at Rennala costs one Larval Tear, and a Journey only holds 27 of them. Here is where all 18 base-game tears and all nine Shadow of the Erdtree tears are, what the Rebirth menu will and will not let you change, and why eight of the eighteen wait behind Starscourge Radahn.
How to Beat Radahn in Elden Ring: Full Boss Guide
FromSoftware nerfed Starscourge Radahn by accident in his very first patch, then had to ship a fix just to undo it. Here is his full verified combat profile, the Radahn Festival mechanic nobody explains, and the DLC fight wearing his name that plays nothing like it.
How to Beat Mohg, Lord of Blood in Elden Ring: Full Guide
A White Mask Varré questline reward can teleport you to Mohg, Lord of Blood's fog gate straight out of Liurnia of the Lakes, hours before the game's normal pacing puts a late-game shardbearer in front of you. Here is his full verified moveset, why his own resistance data rules out the fire and frost builds his aesthetic suggests, the item built specifically to survive his Bloodboon Ritual, and the DLC access rule that still trips people up after he's already dead.
How to Beat Malenia in Elden Ring: Full Boss Guide
Bandai Namco's own anniversary infographic counted 329 million attempts against Malenia, Blade of Miquella in one year — more than any other boss the infographic broke out. The reason isn't her health bar, it's the mechanic layered on top of it: she heals off almost everything she lands. Here is her full moveset, phase by phase, the resistances that actually work, a verified damage-reduction stack, and what patches have and have not changed about the fight.
Elden Ring New Classes: Heavy Knight and Idus Knight Stats
Elden Ring had ten origins for four and a half years. Since 28 August it has twelve. Here are the exact stat lines for the Heavy Knight and the Idus Knight, how they sit against the other ten, what the Tarnished Pack costs, and the one piece of its content you can lock yourself out of.
Elden Ring Remembrance Rewards: What Each One Unlocks
Trade a Remembrance to Finger Reader Enia and she offers exactly one item, not two — pick wrong and the other is gone unless you find a Wandering Mausoleum or Duplication Coffin first. Here is every Remembrance, both of its rewards with stat requirements, the one that is secretly a three-way choice, and the item that behaves like a Remembrance but is not one.
August 2026
6 posts
Elden Ring Endings: All 6, and What Locks You Out
Elden Ring has six endings and exactly one of them asks nothing of you. The other five are the tail ends of questlines you have to start hours earlier, one of them cannot be collected until after you have burned the Erdtree, and one of them quietly deletes the other five the moment you touch it. Here is the whole dependency map.
Elden Ring Equip Load: Roll Breakpoints and Real I-Frames
The difference between 69.9% and 70.0% equip load is one tenth of a percentage point, and it doubles your roll recovery. Here are the exact breakpoints, the i-frame numbers behind each roll type, and how much Endurance each armor budget actually costs.
Elden Ring Multiplayer Guide: The Matchmaking Math Behind Every Summon Sign
Your summon sign is invisible to most of the players who would happily help you, and the reason is two formulas the game never prints. Here is the co-op level band, the weapon-upgrade table that remembers every weapon you have ever touched, and what bringing a phantom really costs.
Elden Ring Flask Guide: Golden Seeds and Sacred Tears
There are exactly 12 Sacred Tears in the Lands Between and the flask caps at +12, so every single one is load-bearing. Here is the full healing table, the Golden Seed cost curve, and the point where more upgrades stop being worth the detour.
Elden Ring Scadutree Fragments: The Real Numbers and the Blessing Level You Actually Need
Half of Shadow of the Erdtree's difficulty complaints were a stat problem, not a skill problem. Here is the full Scadutree Blessing table after patch 1.12.2, where every one of the 50 fragments lives, and the level where the curve quietly stops paying you.
Elden Ring Great Runes Guide: What Each One Actually Does (and When to Burn a Rune Arc)
Morgott's Great Rune raises your maximum HP by 25% until you die, and most players never switch it on. Here is how the three-step Great Rune system actually works, the verified numbers behind all seven runes, and why hoarding Rune Arcs is the real mistake.
July 2026
7 posts
Elden Ring Wondrous Physick Guide: Every Crystal Tear, Ranked by Its Real Numbers
Most Tarnished mix one Crimson Crystal Tear into the Flask of Wondrous Physick and never open the menu again. Here are the real percentages behind all 32 tears, the combos actually worth running, and why the Cerulean Hidden Tear and Deflecting Hardtear break the game open.
Elden Ring Talismans Guide: Which Ones Actually Deserve a Slot
Four slots, four Talisman Pouches you cannot miss, and about a hundred candidates. This is the honest read on which Elden Ring talismans move real numbers, which ones are traps, and how the Soreseal math actually breaks down at level 40 versus level 120.
Elden Ring Spirit Ashes Guide: The Summons Worth Upgrading
You get ten grades of glovewort and about forty summons to spend them on, and most of that list is filler. Here is what each tier of spirit ash actually does for you, why Mimic Tear behaves the way it does, and which ones deserve a +10.
Elden Ring Status Effects Guide: Bleed, Frostbite, Scarlet Rot and More
Status effects are the fastest damage in Elden Ring and the game explains almost none of the math. Here is what each proc actually does, why bleed and frostbite outclass poison, and the four hidden stats deciding whether you survive a swamp.
Elden Ring Ashes of War Guide: Affinities, Whetblades, and the Ashes Worth Farming
There are 91 Ashes of War in the base game and thirteen affinities to bolt onto them, and the game explains almost none of it. Here is the system, the five Whetblade locations, and the short list of Ashes that are actually worth a detour.
Elden Ring Boss Order: The Critical Path Ranked by Level
Elden Ring is open-world, but its ending runs through a fixed spine of required bosses. Here is that spine in order, which of the big fights you can skip, and the level you actually want before each wall.
Elden Ring Early Game Route: A Smarter First 10 Hours
Most first playthroughs stall at Margit because the player walked straight there. Here is the Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula route that gets you flasks, spirit summons, upgrade materials and a real weapon first — with the numbers behind why it works.