What is lightning damage good against Elden ring?

Lightning Damage is often effective against heavily armored enemies, dragons and other draconic or serpentine creatures. Most enemies that utilize Lightning Damage will often (but not always) have high resistance or immunity to Lightning Damage.
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What does lightning damage scale off Elden Ring?

Lightning infused weapons scale with dexterity. If you want lightning damage that scales with faith, use the electrify armament incant, or vyke's dragonbolt if you don't mind becoming weaker to lightning damage. Originally posted by 2001 Space Oddity: Lightning infused weapons scale with dexterity.
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Is fire or lightning better in Elden Ring?

As a pure faith build, even with the seal that boosts lightning damage, catch flame, the first fire spell you get, does more damage than lightning spear.
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Are lightning spells good in Elden Ring?

These incantations tend to have elemental effects, such as fire, ice, or lightning. Lightning incantations, also known as Dragon Cult incantations, make up some of the best spells in Elden Ring, and they're the focus of this Elden Ring Faith build.
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What is the best lightning damage negation in Elden Ring?

Here are some of the best Elden Ring shields that negate lightning damage.
  • 8 Spiralhorn Shield.
  • 7 Beastman's Jar Shield.
  • 6 Candletree Wooden Shield.
  • 5 Marred Wooden Shield.
  • 4 One-Eyed Shield.
  • 3 Visage Shield.
  • 2 Dragonclaw Shield.
  • 1 Fingerprint Stone Shield.
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Elden Ring All Elemental Damage Types Explained & Best Uses For Magic, Fire, Lightning & Holy

What does lightning scale with?

Lightning weapons scale their lightning damage with dexterity and their physical damage with str/dex - if you want a str/fai weapon then you're better off opting for Flame Art or Holy, since their secondary damage types will scale from faith.
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What is the best armor against lightning in Elden Ring?

1 Bull-Goat Set

Statistically, this is the best armor set in Elden Ring. It's also the heaviest, which is a fair tradeoff for something so defensively whole. This armor set has the highest Poise value in the game as well as the best physical damage mitigation. It also has the best lightning resistance out of all armor.
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What weapon throws lightning in Elden Ring?

The Bolt of Gransax Default Weapon Skill is Ancient Lightning Spear: Imbue the armament with the ancient dragons' red lightning, then throw it as a spear. Can be charged to increase its power.
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Does lightning count as magic damage Elden Ring?

Magic Damage is elemental damage that falls outside of Fire Damage, Lightning Damage and Holy Damage types. Magic Damage is often effective against most enemies with high Physical resistance or are heavily armored.
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What is the most powerful damage type in Elden Ring?

Piercing damage reigns supreme as the most effective damage type in Elden Ring. The top five weapon options for piercing damage are among the best in the game, offering a range of weapon classes and exceptional movesets.
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Can you beat Elden Ring with a torch?

One Elden Ring player recently managed to beat the entire game using just a torch. Even though Elden Ring is considered to be more approachable than FromSoftware's other titles, it's still an extremely hard game, as fans are likely to die several times over the course of their playthroughs.
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Do lightning incantations scale with dex?

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. Lightning incantations scale with faith, but lightning ashes of war scale with dexterity.
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Is lightning damage good?

Lightning Damage is often effective against heavily armored enemies, dragons and other draconic or serpentine creatures. Most enemies that utilize Lightning Damage will often (but not always) have high resistance or immunity to Lightning Damage.
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Does intelligence increase ash of war damage?

You can choose to replace just the Weapon Skill, or you can also choose to adjust it's attribute scaling. This can make the weapon more effective if your character has higher Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, or Faith - or give your weapon the ability to deal magical or elemental damage.
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Does rain increase lightning damage in Elden Ring?

If it's raining fire spells do less damage, while lightning spells do more.
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Is the Dragon scale blade good?

What makes the Dragonscale Blade exceptional is its rarity as one of only two weapons, the other being the Dragon Halberd, capable of dealing both Lightning damage and causing Frost. Although the Dragonscale Blade doesn't possess the almighty Bleed build-up, it compensates by inflicting both Lightning and Frost.
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What is the best Ash of War?

Elden Ring: 15 Best Ashes Of War, Ranked
  • 8 Carian Greatsword.
  • 7 Seppuku.
  • 6 Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker.
  • 5 The Glintblade Phalanx.
  • 4 Thunderbolt.
  • 3 Gravitas.
  • 2 Carian Grandeur.
  • 1 Bloody Slash.
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What is the best Dex weapon in Elden Ring?

The Bloodhound Claw, Nagakiba, and Black Knife are some of the best Dex weapons in Elden Ring, each with unique skills and powerful abilities. Other notable Dex weapons include the Bloodhound's Fang, Reduvia Dagger, Godskin Peeler, and Vyke's War Spear, each offering distinct advantages and playstyles for Dex builds.
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What Talisman is best for lightning in Elden Ring?

The Boltdrake Talisman is one of the Talisman items in Elden Ring that can bolster lightning damage negation when worn. It has three variants, including Boltdrake Talisman +1, and Boltdrake Talisman +2.
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Does increasing faith increase lightning damage?

Lightning damage on weapons doesn't scale with any of your stats in DS1. Faith will boost the damage on your miracles, though.
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How do you infuse a weapon with lightning Elden Ring?

Lightning infusions scales off DEX, so find a weapon you like and slap a lightning attribute and an ash of war you like on it and you're good. You can use any standard weapon for any attribute, just some will scale differently. Incantations scale off faith.
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What does red lightning do in Elden Ring?

Elden Ring Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike Guide

This incantation can deal extreme amounts of damage against large enemies (dragons, giants, etc.) as each bolt counts as a hit and deals its own damage. Can be also useful against smaller targets or in PvP, but caution and precise position is required.
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Is holy damage worth it in Elden ring?

Holy Damage is often effective against Undead creatures and "unholy living enemies" and ineffective against Shardbearers and creatures considered Holy. Most Shields can be upgraded via the Sacred Upgrade Path in order to imbue them with Holy Damage properties.
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Where is the lightning spear Elden ring?

The Lightning Spear is obtained by getting the Dragon Cult Prayerbook from the lone Leyndell Knight patrolling East Liurnia south of the Artist's Shack, as shown above. It can then be given to either Brother Corhyn or Miriel, Pastor of Vows, and bought for 6,000 Runes.
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