Elden Ring‘s creators FromSoftware and Bandai Namco announced recently that the pair would be putting out an update for the game ahead of the release of Shadow of the Erdtree, and at the time, they gave players a brief overview of some of the highlights included in that update. It adds some new hairstyles for players to equip as well as some added inventory features to help categorize your soon-to-be-expanded collection of gear, but what neither party said about the update was that it’s actually much, much bigger than that. The patch notes for the free Elden Ring update released today have tons of balance changes to make note of, too, before you bring your favorite builds into Shadow of the Erdtree.
Thankfully for Shadow of the Erdtree players, most of your builds probably won’t be impacted if you’re just sticking to PvE. A bunch of PvP-exclusive balance changes were included in this update, but the ones affecting PvE gameplay were far lesser comparatively.
That said, you can check out the patch notes for the pre-Shadow of the Erdtree update below, and you can check out our review of the DLC here to get an idea of what awaits you in the Realm of Shadow.
New Inventory features:
Steam-Only New Features
Weapons adjustments
Skill adjustments
Spinning Slash
Flaming Strike
Rain of Arrows
Cursed-Blood Slash
Transient Moonlight
Lightning Storm
Spearcall Ritual
Ancient Lightning Spear
Radahn’s Rain
Spinning Weapon
Incantations adjustments
Black Flame’s Protection
Bestial Sling
Troll Knight’s Sword
Zamor Curved Sword
Forked Hatchet
Ripple Blade
Serpent-Hunter
Ripple Crescent Halberd
Albinauric Staff
Gelmir Glintstone Staff
Prince of Death’s Staff
Golden Order Seal
Clawmark Seal
Dragon Communion Seal
Kick
Storm Assault
Stormcaller
Storm Stomp
Glintblade Phalanx
Loretta’s Slash
Bloody Slash
Strong shot
Increased the speed of some attacks.
Sky Shot
Enchanted Shot
Parry
Storm Wall
Thops’s Barrier
Buckler Parry
Taker’s Flames
Removed the fire’s knocking down effect.
Moonlight Greatsword
Thundercloud Form
Magma Shower
Thunderstorm
Bubble Shower
I Command Thee, Kneel!
Bloodboon Ritual
Bear Witness!
Contagious Fury
