What attribute makes you move faster in Elden Ring?

Dexterity. Dexterity, or DEX, functions in an almost similar way to Strength as a modifier and requirement for some weapons, but focuses more on speed. So some faster weapons, or ranged weapons, will do more damage with a higher DEX, or even require a minimum DEX level to use. It also slightly speeds up spell casting.
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What increases your speed in Elden Ring?

Players can roll faster by ensuring their equipment load is under 30; they can reduce equipment load by equipping lighter shields, weapons, and armor. Players can also get rid of all armor to roll faster in the game. Players who can't do without armor must increase their Endurance skill rating.
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Does dexterity increase speed in Elden Ring?

There is no way to increase attack speed. Dex does however increase spell cast times. Damage depends on the scaling and affinity of the weapon. certain weapons benefit from both dex and str, which means they scale better with stats.
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What does Dexterity do in Elden Ring?

Dexterity is one of the main attribute stats in Elden Ring. Attribute required to wield advanced armaments. Also boosts attack power of dexterity-scaling armaments, reduces casting time of spells, softens fall damage, and makes it harder to be knocked off your horse.
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Does weight affect run speed in Elden Ring?

Each Item or piece of equipment has a Weight value that can be checked from your inventory. The sum of Weight of all the carried items, affects your movement speed.
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Is it better to upgrade strength or dexterity in Elden Ring?

Depends on the weapon, for the most part. There isn't even a definitive scaling path within weapon classes and all stat paths can be very effective on the right weapons. However, Quality (str+dex) typically doesn't have the same returns as investing in one skill, but there are exceptions.
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Is strength or dexterity more important in Elden Ring?

At the beginning when you don't know what weapon you will be settling on or you are undecided it is always typically going to be better to level dex a bit before Str. You can get the Str bonus from 2 handing to make up a bit when you are lacking to meet a req for a weapon you might want to experiment with.
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What does arcane do?

Arcane is your primary way of increasing your Discovery stat. The higher your character's Discovery the higher the chance items will drop from enemies, including making rare drops less rare.
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Why am i walking slow in Elden Ring?

Why is my character moving slowly even without walk mode being toggled? This can occur when an enemy uses a slowdown effect on your character, and the effect fails to wear off at the end of its countdown timer. This can also occur if caps lock is active in which case pressing the caps loc button will remove the effect.
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What is the fastest cast speed in Elden Ring?

70 dexterity is the max cast speed, but you can offhand the Azur's Glintstone staff for +40 virtual dex and equip Radagon Icon talisman for +30 virtual dex to reach that cap without investing any levels into it.
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Which character makes Elden Ring easiest?

The Vagabond is a very beginner-friendly, basic Elden Ring class that can be specialized for Strength or Dexterity to craft strong and relatively simple melee builds.
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What is the best Dex weapon in Elden Ring?

Uchigatana. The Uchigatana is one of many excellent katana options for a Dexterity build and only requires common Smithing Stones to upgrade. If you're looking for the perfect dex starting weapon, the Uchigatana is very accessible and even comes with the Samurai starting class.
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What's the best staff in Elden Ring?

Every Stave In Elden Ring, Ranked
  • 8 Crystal Staff. Stat. ...
  • 7 Prince Of Death's Staff. Stat. ...
  • 6 Azur's Glintstone Staff. Stat. ...
  • 5 Meteorite Staff. Stat. Requirement. ...
  • 4 Carian Glintstone Staff. Stat. Requirement. ...
  • 3 Staff Of Loss. Stat. Requirement. ...
  • 2 Carian Regal Scepter. Stat. Requirement. ...
  • 1 Lusat's Glintstone Staff. Stat. Requirement.
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How high should dexterity be Elden Ring?

Dexterity Build Stats To Aim For

As a Dexterity user, you will want to hit the hard cap for Dexterity pretty quickly; aim for 80, then stop.
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What is the best strength level in Elden Ring?

Since you are mostly focusing on pure Strength with very little - if any - investment in other areas, you want to pump Strength to 80. 80 is the hard cap for Strength, and you want to reach it fairly quickly. That's not to say you want to neglect your other stats, however.
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Is vagabond strength or dexterity?

Strength is definitely the most important stat to increase for a Vagabond build in Elden Ring, however, as the better shields have higher strength stats as their main prerequisite to use them.
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What's the difference between strength and Dex?

Strength is how much you can lift, how hard you can hit, etc. Dexterity is how well you can dodge and balance, plus your fine motor skills like picking locks or aiming a bow and arrow or throwing knife.
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Does Endurance increase your weight in Elden Ring?

Elden Ring Endurance Stat General Information

Another influence of Endurance is on the Equip Load Stat. A player's Equip Load is the sum of the weight of all their currently equipped armaments, armor, and other equipment. Raising the Endurance stat also raises your Maximum Equip Load.
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What is the max weight load in Elden Ring?

This means the highest load you can carry while still maintaining the fastest rolls is 61.4. This can be temporarily increased even further to 925.3 when drinking a Flask of Wondrous Physick with a Winged Crystal Tear.
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Does arcane increase bleed?

Arcane just increases the amount of bleed buildup per hit. If you don't use Arcane, it means it takes more hits to proc bleed. Of course, instead of putting points into Arcane, you could use Blood Grease or Bloodflame Blade on the weapon.
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What is the best character base for the Dex build in Elden Ring?

The best way to create a Dexterity character is to select either the Samurai or Vagabond class since they start with great Dexterity compared to other Elden Ring classes.
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Does dexterity increase casting speed?

Dexterity also affects the cast speed of Sorceries and Incantations. Every point in Dexterity increases the cast speed slightly.
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