
However, it’s also supposed to enhance the power of weapons and abilities that scale with the Arcane stat. While it seems like most of those weapons were never meant to be as powerful as they were, I hope FromSoftware finds a way to make Strength builds feel more viable than they currently do.Įlden Ring‘s Arcane state primarily determines your Discovery rating as well as your resistances to Holy and Death effects. Simply put, this is a big nerf to most Strength builds and other builds that relied on Heavy affinity weapons. I haven’t seen a full list of weapons affected by this change, but it seems that most weapons with the “Heavy” affinity (and some others that primarily scale with Strength) have been impacted by this change.

As such, it seems that the total attack power for several upgraded weapons has been reduced across the board. However, it seems that the bug wasn’t affecting the total damage for those fully-upgraded weapons but was rather causing the previous upgrade levels to be stronger than intended. Many suspected that was the result of a bug, and it turns out that’s true. Prior to this latest update, some Elden Ring players noticed that some of their fully-upgraded weapons were actually weaker than they were at the previous upgrade level. Elden Ring Update 1.03 Hidden Changes: Many Heavy and Strength-Based Weapons Are Now “Weaker” Thanks to a Bug Fix If you find a consistent drop spot for the Battle Hammer, be sure to let us know.

I’ve heard some players report that they were able to acquire it from random mobs, but I haven’t found a consistent location for it quite yet.

Anyone who already beat that boss will find that those ashes have been added to the inventory.Īs for the Battle Hammer you previously got for beating that boss…well, it’s not clear what happened to that. Elden Ring Update 1.03 Hidden Changes: Banished Knight Engvall’s Spirit Ashes Can Now Be Found in Murkwater Catacombsįor reasons that I can’t quite explain, it seems that you’re able to acquire Banished Knight Engavall’s Spirit Ashes by beating the boss in Murkwater Catacombs. So, if you haven’t already gone out of your way to find those Bell Bearings that allow you to purchase Smithing Stones from Twin Maiden Husks, now is the time to do so. I haven’t been able to confirm the exact price difference for every item quite yet, but most of the ones I’ve tested so far appear to be about 4X cheaper than they were before. One thing that the patch notes don’t mention, though, is that the Smithing Stones you buy from Twin Maiden Husks in Roundtable Hold are now much cheaper.
