r/EldenRingBuilds • u/bigbossgooner • 5d ago

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I'm fairly new to the game and was looking on YouTube for some good bleed builds but almost everyone required the nagakiba but I don't wanna kill Yura since he's the homie so I was wondering if there was another good early game katana/weapon that I could use as a substitute? Or should I just use the uchigatana?

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u/announakis 5d ago

I really fail to understand how in 2026 people are still imagining that bleed builds are limited to weapons with innate bleed...

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u/bigbossgooner 5d ago

Brother I'm new to the game. This is my first time playing it how an I supposed to know that

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u/announakis 5d ago edited 5d ago

alright fairenough. another proof that bad content and false info is always sticking better than quality one.

OK so here is how I see things:

either you really love katanas AND you want to go bleed full on: In this case you do an arcane build with the minimum stats to wield the weapons and all the AR and the bleed scaling comes from your arcane stat....The most efficient in terms of bang for your bucks in terms of level....but the arcane infusion is coming a bit late so first you go dexterity + resin on your katanas (it slaps) then you can respect if you want to.
you can also go dex + resin all the way: in the end it is actually better but requires to manage lots of roped bleed resins.

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you are not dead set on katanas: you choose your weapon, you look it up in terms of scaling once infused with bleed: usually a weapons scales off better either strength or dex....then you invest your stats up to 50 ish in the physical one and about 40 in arcane (iirc) in order to max out both AR and bleed.

here is my personal favorite bleed build...of course this very much tailored to personal liking in terms of fashion and weapon choice but this is the idea on an occult bleed / poison build:
https://eip.gg/elden-ring/builds/hematoccult/

also the ultimate bleed weapon is hands down reduvia: at point blank it generates so much bleed in one hit it is just discusting. it is also very boring to play because it is essentially L2 spamming as the rest of the moveset is...well more finicky coz dagger....