How Attribute Scaling Works in Elden Ring 

You’re the first video that explained this not only correctly but in a manner that everyone could understand and you kept in under 7 minutes… thank you

S tier video. No bs, straight to the point, and very informative

People underestimate how much leveling your weapon helps early game. For every 5 levels you give your character you should give your weapon at least one.

This is a fantastic video! I've been looking for a clear explanation for how all this works and you nailed it. Thanks so much for the help.

There are also Weapons you can‘t change with Ashes of war. Unique Weapons like St.Trina‘s Sword and Boss Weapons like Godrick‘s Axe for example.

Important to note, each letter represents a range of values so the difference between a letter can theoretically be as low as less than 1% yet the same letter can differ around the 10-15% area. Of course, afaik there is no way to know the exact value of the scaling atm. Edit: AR calculators show the scaling values, and you can guess the scaling value based on what upgrade level a weapon changes letters which is easy to find on the wiki.

Good intro for beginners but there's quite a bit omitted about the nuance of base damage VS scaling. Long story short, some weapons are good for low level cause base damage is high and scaling is low. Some high scaling weapons aren't great at low levels because the base damage tends to be low and they expect crazy high levels to reap benefits. So often weapons with d/e scaling can outperform A/B scaling if you haven't speced much into that stat. Next lesson, so at what point does a high base damage weapon with low scaling start to lose to a high scaling low base damage weapon? Depends, but this is where soft caps and stat tables come in.

Blood hound gang 😂

I just finished my first playthrough, and this is the first video I've seen that explained these mechanics in an easy-to-understand manner. Well done.

I thing i feel people never bring up is that there are multiple wet stones that will allow you to add any affinity you want on every ash of war. For example, with the black wet stone, you can turn every ash of war into occult affinity, giving the weapon bleed and S scaling in arcane. There is a stone for every affinity type, so if you collect them all, you can literally make any weapon any affinity you want with any ash of war you want. Certain weapons perform stronger with certain affinities, but the option is yours.

Thank you!! I’ve been jumping around from video to video, everyone’s scripts feel the same way the stat pages look. Yours is very clear

in all my years of playing souls and Sekiro this is the first video I've seen that has explained it for people without sounding confusing cos you clearly understand it yourself rather than guessing your way through a video. well done

Straight and to the point I knew all of this but having a video to send to my friends who just started helps me and them!! This is worth a like and sub!!

really good guide for someone new to souls content! been playing since dks1 and this makes scaling so easy to comprehend i honestly wish i had something like this in the early days. good stuff!

Thank you so much. I'm new to Dark souls games and I just got Elden Ring like 3 days ago. I have no idea how this formula worked. You definitely helped me to understand it. Now that I know, it definitely seems fairly simple. So again thank you.

I just learnt more in 6min 31sec than what I learnt in 631 other Elden Ring videos. Great explanation, great video!

I thought I knew it all so I didn't know that I needed this video. Thank you, this is the best explanation I've found so far! Great work!

This was super helpful! Always wondered what those numbers and ashes of war meant

4:29 It doesn't matter whether we make sure to check the stats before applying any Ashes of War because applying an AoW is never permanent. So many new players to Elden Ring refuse to add Ashes of War to their weapons because they don't want to make a poor choice and fear that it's permanent. Add whatever AoW you'd like because it's very easy to just switch them out whenever you'd like. Experimenting with them is going to help you out way more than being afraid to add an AoW to your weapon out of fear that you chose one that sucks or doesn't match your style.

Love the way you made this quick and very easy to understand, I’ve been trying to explain to a friend how the scaling works and you put it together so easy to understand 🔥🤣

Just now saw this vid. Thanks so much! Been looking forever for explanations on these things and no one has come close to anything that makes sense.

Just came across this after watching about 6 others and still no further forward until now you explained it great easy to follow and understand well worth a subscribe

Great video dude. I’m level 155 and 200+ hours in and only now looking up how the scaling works. 😂

Great video and thank you for not adding filler to get to the 8 min mark for more ad revenue. Very dense, useful video! (Dense meaning no filler, the entire video is useful)

Seems like every custom Ash of War isn’t worth it for my builds. It looks like they always lower the attack power so I always just use “standard”. Maybe I’m still missing something

Thank you man, I remember when people making gaming tip vids were actually about the tip not just another video with filler. Very helpful dude appreciate you

At this time you have 14k+ subscribers glad to see you’ve grown so much! Congrats!!

informative and concise video, i was always confused about what happens when there are multiple scaling factors

Thanks for the breakdown. I’ve never truly understood the scaling until now.

THANK YOU. Best video I’ve seen on this subject.

I already knew all this since i am soulsborne veteran but since i didnt see anyone else post video like this and explaining like you did you have my sub. Cheers and keep up the good work

Great video. Congrats on going from 2k to 14k subs!

Seriously the BEST video I've seen on attribute scaling. Thank you.

one of the best guiding videos i've ever seen , keep up the work mate

Finally beat the game and figured I should learn what those number mean... Little late, but your video was gold. Appreciated bro, been confusing 😅

Great video I was interested to see more of a detailed breakdown of specifically the rate at which things increase depending on the letter grade which thinking about it seems like a little bit of a more complex video but I’m sure there’s a hard-core fan out there dedicated enough to figure it out thanks for helping the people

Simple and concise for a complicated game. Thank you for helping me through my first "Souls Game" experience 🙏🏾

Good job mate. Clear and simplified

This was very helpful, I thank you for putting this out. I’m new to this series, and to have an informative video like this is amazing! xoxox ❤

I’ve been wondering about scaling but I had no idea your ashes of war affect it too! Thanks so much!! 👍

i feel so fuckin dumb not figuring this out by myself

Thank you! I didn't understand this at all, but now my trek through should be a bit easier! Subscribed.

Excellent delivery. Subscribed.

This makes so much sense now! Thanks for the video! I'm on journey 4 and never learned about the grading system, just been killing haha

Great video man. There’s no clarification for this in game but I thought that’s what it was as far as the scaling number but thank you for the clarity 🙌🏻

Wow! Wow wow wow! I have been playing for about 4 days now and this is my first from software game and I have no idea what I've been doing. I have been watching RU-vid videos everyday to try to learn what stats and scaling is but I have been struggling. This is the first video that took the time and explained it in a way that I could understand! I am so excited to start playing again and start looking over my ashes of war and weapons

Great Video! Helped me understand the concept better 👍

Thanks for the expalnation. I never understood scaling until now.

Thanks.. best tutorial ever.. I say all around everything in 7 minutes.. seriously really appreciate that..

Don't just pay attention to scaling, base attack rating is also important. A weapon could have B scaling but do less damage when upgraded than a D scaling weapon that has a greater base AR.

So helpfull. I like how u did it a newish character that dident have all the whet blades and fancy weapons to make it more tailored to people just starting coz obviously you understand the more experienced players will already understand this kind of stuff. Thanks bro good guide

After 80 hours of gameplay I finally understand this thank you soo much! Fab video dude!!

Holy crap. This just changed everything for me. Thank you. Sucks being a noob sometimes but yea thankfully folks like you exist.

Totally thought that all the affinities from the Ashes of War were added. Didn’t realize I had to choose. Great vid! Thank you!

Thank you for explaining this!

This is the first video that I think I FINALLY understand how it works and what I'm looking at

Very helpful. I just started playing Elden ring explained alot 🤝

Wow thank you so much.. i was kinda on the right track in my understanding but, you explained it very well.. thank you

I learned alot more then just about scaling. Great video

Finally no bs, no crap. Straight to point. Thanx

Excellent and clear video. Harder to find than you think.

Enjoyed the video, you made all that shit easy to understand. Kind of had the gist of it but I appreciate the solid clarification 👍 you earned yourself a sub today

Thanks for explaining scaling in a nice way so a noob like me can understand. I was clueless about it before now and never thought to check until now.

I love this game. It's like a million different games in one. I've never played something that had this crazy range of options for how to play..it's just so well done. There's obviously room for improvement - nothing is ever perfect. However, this game is nothing less than a masterpiece.

Nice video, thanks for breaking down the basics for me! Q: @1:16 When exactly does that "plus damage" (to the right of the weapon's base damage) come in to play? is it randomly applied to enemies as you attack w/ your weapon? Or maybe when charging up a strong attack? Or at the end of a chain attack/combo? so in this example, it would be 222+117=339 total damage

Tbh I love that you can respec basically all you want. There’s a ball you can farm from unlimited tears. I’ve stopped at 150 as I’m seeing a bunch of people fighting if 150 or 125 is “meta”. Personally 150 feels good and you got some kinda flexibility to really dial in so many different builds. I switched to a int/dex for the moonviel and was having fun with it but got boring super quick and I much prefer the incantations in the game over sorcerery so I’ve been messing around and tryna come up with a faith bleed build (I don’t got everything like I’m missing hella tailsmen and tears for my flask and armour pieces so I can’t really perfect it rn but I’m tryna do a bleed build as I liked that but I want incantations so I’m tryna figure out my own Arc/fai build with how all the weapons I want to use are I can’t seem to get a B or even a C in Arc scaling so I gotta some how figure out a viable Dex/Faith/Arc Build and at 125 that’s just not possible but 150 I think I can make it work. Ik what min stats I needed for everything except endurance (so I may be wasting a few points and I wouldn’t know) but i gotta test the one with min dex before I change it. Maybe I’m just trippin over a D arc scaling for now (lvl 12 or 4 weapons)

Great great video! It helps a lot

Thanks this video was a big help.

This video helped me TREMENDOUSLY!!

Great video, actually learned something

VERY helpful guide! Thank you! 🖖😀

Good job. Super helpful! Thank you!

You explained it perfectly thank you very much.

Best explanation yet! Thanks man

Thank you this was very helpful

Duuuude thank youuu super good explanation! Really annoys me that almost nothing is explained in the game...Some people say " yeah its a souls game its suppose to be like that" but I say its just annoying af...If you implement so much weird stuff in a game, find a way to make it easy to understand!

Jan 2023 and just bought on PC and this info was handy. Now i just need to find the video that shows how to actually (what key) attach/assign spells to weapons, access pouches, etc. not sure why my learning curve has been so high with this game but it’s fun so far

This was very helpful, thank you.

This really helps man thanks!

Yup well last poster. Very well and clearly explained. Excellent stuff.

Note that the actual scaling value is a number behind the scenes. Its put into an S,A,B,C,D value for your convenience and to let the game have a few secrets. You can verify this without hacking because the equip and upgrade screens will have the letters turn blue or red sometimes but the letter will stay the same.

Great video, to the point and very informative thank you

Thank you very much for such a well explained video. I shared this with my friends as well. You got my sub 👍🏼. Will be looking forward to your videos sir 🍻

Thanks, great explanation video!

Man, i have beaten all souls games with no knowledge about all this.... I have wasted my time... thanks for such good explanation

Liked and subscribed ! Thank you 🙏

Thank god for this! I now understand how this all works. Thanks!

Thank you for such a helpful video!

Thank goodness for your explanation.

Very helpful. Thanks so much

Great video nice and simply explained

Extremely helpful, subbed

Very helpful! thank you very much

Quite an eloquent & concise class on attributes. Hopefully I get an A+ upon entering my next combat adventure. CHEERS!

Great video, very informative.

Best explanation so far. Wish I could have watched this day 1.

What's the point of leveling a shield?

If an ash of war sais that I will do Physical and Magical Damage... Will the magical damage also apply on normal hits? Or is it only when using the ash of war skill? For example there is this holy slash ash of war which will send a light wave forward and after that the weapon will glow with holy power... Is the holy damage only then applying or is that damage always there... but after using the skill there is even more" holy damage wiich is not mentioned in the stats?

I think I knew this. But thanks for sharing. I needed to know I wasn't alone.

subbed, very informative, thanks c: