Explaining Elden Ring's Misleading Damage Calculation System

📜 - - - DESCRIPTION - - - 📜 A somewhat deep dive into Elden Ring's damage calculation system and how it misleads certain builds into investing in the wrong stats. Also some general speculation about how NG cycles affect damage and defenses. You ever wondered why weapons like Loretta’s War Sickle and the Crystal Knife hand out paper-cut adjacent damage all the way up to the endgame, but suddenly start performing miles above most other options a couple new game plus iterations later? Have you ever asked someone online why you can’t get any power out of your holy paladin build and they just belch out words like “split damage” and “flat defense” at you without any further elaboration because they heard a youtuber say it once? Subscribe to my editor: @AuramAlexander ⚙️ - - - ARMOR MODS - - - ⚙️ → TES: IV Iron Maiden by Tchjay92: → Bloodborne Fem Knight Set by Ifrit: → Bloodborne Lady Maria Set by ICathal: ✅ - - - ADDITIONAL RESOURCES - - - ✅ → DSMapStudio : ⏱️ - - - TIMESTAMPS - - - ⏱️ 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - Damage Types 02:26 - Flat Defenses & You 08:28 - Motion Values 17:14 - NG F***s Up Everything 22:17 - Area Scaling 27:25 - Damage Negation 30:03 - Outro elden ring build guide, elden ring top builds, elden ring build calculator, elden ring damage explained, damage types, damage negation, elden ring scaling explained, highest damage possible, elden ring damage guide