Do incantations use faith or arcane?

While Elden Ring sorceries are almost always dependent on your character's Intelligence stat, all of the game's incantations require Faith, though some will also need Arcane or Intelligence as well.
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Do incantations scale off faith or arcane?

Unless you have a spell tool that has unique scaling, sorceries scale with intelligence, and incantations scale with faith. There are fire sorceries (int), and fire incantations (faith), but unless you use a spell tool that has unique scaling, the general scaling rule applies.
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Does arcane help with incantations?

For example leveling up your arcane stat and improving your dragon communion seal (with somber smithing stones) will increase your incantation scaling which in turn will increase your spell damage.
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Does faith increase incantation power?

Faith primarily affects a player's ability to cast Incantations, as well as equipping the weapons required to cast them. It is one of the 8 Main Attributes that players can spend Runes on to level up, increasing the Stat's effectiveness and influencing their relative secondary stats.
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What incantation requires the most faith?

Faith affects an Elden Ring player's ability to cast incantations, but also to equip some great weapons, and these are some of the game's best.
  • 6 Lansseax's Glaive.
  • 5 Flame Of The Fell God.
  • 4 Erdtree Heal.
  • 3 Fortissax's Lightning Spear.
  • 2 Death Lightning.
  • 1 Elden Stars.
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Elden Ring: Sorceries vs. Incantations - The Ultimate Debate

What stat makes your incantations stronger?

Intelligence: Increases effectiveness of Sorcery spells and similar magics. Faith: Increases effectiveness of Incantation spells and similar magics.
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What boosts incantation damage?

Incant Scaling can also be increased by upgrading the sacred seals. Incant Scaling only affects the damage or healing of the incantations cast by the seal, and has no effect on the duration of buffs or other incantations. Incantations which heal over time do not benefit from Incant Scaling.
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What is the best weapon for faith incantations in Elden Ring?

Elden Ring's best Faith weapons have received a shakeup with the newly introduced options added – hunt them down as soon as you can.
  • 8 Cipher Pata. ...
  • 7 Coded Sword. ...
  • 6 Envoy's Long Horn. ...
  • 5 Barbed Staff-Spear. ...
  • 4 Sacred Relic Sword. ...
  • 3 Blasphemous Blade. ...
  • 2 Maliketh's Black Blade. ...
  • 1 Sword of Night And Flame.
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Are incantations stronger than sorceries?

The offensive power of sorceries makes them more useful overall across both PvE and PvP, and since sorcery spells can be cast faster, sorcery casters don't have to worry about being damaged while using magic as much as incantation users do (note that Dexterity makes you cast both types of magic faster).
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What is the arcane cap for incantations?

Arcane armaments: usually level 20, 60, and 80. Arcane buildup: usually level 40 and 60. Arcane incantations: soft caps at level 30 and 45.
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What class is best for incantations?

Prophet. Starting incantations: Beast Claw, Heal, Oh Flame! Boasting the highest base Faith stat in the game, Prophets therefore start with the best grasp of Incantations.
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What is the best seal in Elden Ring?

Though it starts at a paltry 60 Incantation scaling stat, one that only goes up to around 240 at +10, its Faith scaling is what raises the Erdtree Seal to be the best Sacred Seal in Elden Ring. It begins S scaling with Faith starting at just +5, though it can't be found until relatively deep into the game.
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Does arcane affect bleed incantations?

Arcane WILL affect bleed buildup if the weapon has arcane scaling, or is given arcane scaling through Ash of War affinities.
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Does arcane buff incantations?

These attributes are rarely useful as Holy Damage isn't particularly common and only a few enemies and weapons are capable of afflicting the player with the horrifying Death Blight status effect. Arcane also helps with scaling a number of different sorceries and incantations, which makes it vital for some players.
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What does faith do in arcane?

Faith js associated with elements like fire, rot and lightning (but notably not ice, which is more on Int). Meanwhile Arcane is associated with dragon transformation, thorn sorceries, and also powerd up blood and poison (especially bleed).
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Does faith make incantations stronger?

3) Faith and sometimes other stats will affect the "Incant Scaling". This is the base value used by the game to apply multipliers to how strong an incantations damage will be.
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Do you need faith for incantations in Elden Ring?

While Elden Ring sorceries are almost always dependent on your character's Intelligence stat, all of the game's incantations require Faith, though some will also need Arcane or Intelligence as well.
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What stat makes incantations stronger?

The stat you actually need to boost is "Sorcery/Incantation Scaling" found on the equipment you're using to cast the spell. Different equipment scales with different stats.
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What makes incantations faster?

A legendary talisman depicting the Elden Lord Radagon. Shortens the casting time of sorceries and incantations. As the husband of Rennala of Caria, the red-haired Radagon studied sorcery, and as the husband of Queen Marika, he studied incantations.
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What seal has the highest scaling in Elden Ring?

For pure Faith casters, the Erdtree Seal is easily the best seal in Elden Ring, offering excellent Faith scaling and a variety of top-tier healing incantations that benefit from its instant casting.
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Is 30 faith enough in Elden Ring?

There's tiers of breakdowns for sure. But I'd say if you want absolute physical protection, you need 30 Faith. If you want a hybrid between tank and damage and team buffing and mass elemental resists, you need 25 Faith. If you want just some melee damage buffs, you need 15 Faith minimum.
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Are sorceries stronger than incantations?

Sorceries generally hit harder and from a greater range and speed. Incantations have buffs, weapons enchants, heals, etc. They also have some good offensive spells as well and can do serious damage.
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What is the most important stat in Elden Ring?

For this build, Strength and Dexterity are the most important stats and you want to raise them equally. Splitting most of your points into the two stats related to physical damage instead of focusing on only one might seem a less optimal strategy since Strength and Dexterity-focused builds are also pretty good.
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