Elden Ring: Dominating Bosses with the Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike Build

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Why Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike?

This build leverages the incredible damage potential of Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike, allowing you to stack multiple damage buffs and regularly hit for close to 10,000 damage per bolt. While there's some RNG involved in the positioning and spread of the bolts, consistently hitting two or more bolts per cast can turn any large enemy into paste within seconds. With just two or three casts, you can obliterate any boss in the game.

Essential Components for the Build

Weapons and Seals

1. Gravel Stone Seal: In both hands, this boosts Ancient Dragon Cult-type incantations by 15%. While only the seal you cast with contributes to incant scaling, both provide the buff, and their effects stack multiplicatively.

2. Madness Hand: Boosts all damage by 7.5% for 30 seconds after applying madness. Obtainable from the NPC in the Abyssal Woods Region.

3. Poisoned Hand Fist Weapon: Provides a 7.5% damage boost when you or a nearby enemy are inflicted with poison or rot. Found in the northwest side of the Well Depth area within Bellat Tower.

4. Deadly Poison Perfume Bottle: This weapon applies deadly poison to you and nearby enemies, essential for triggering your buffs. Purchased from TOA at the opening area of the DLC.

5. Endure Dagger: Equip any 1.5 weight dagger with the Endure Ash of War. This helps you create openings to cast your spells at full power.

Armor and Talismans

· Priestess Heart: Use this while naked to enter Dragon Priestess form, which provides a 20% boost to all Dragon Cult incantations for 60 seconds.

· Godfrey Icon Talisman: Boosts charged spell damage by 15%.

· Lightning Scorpion Charm: Increases lightning damage by 12% at the cost of reduced damage negation.

· Kindred of Rot's Exultation: Boosts all damage by 20% for 20 seconds after a nearby poison or rot effect.

· Aged One's Exultation: Increases all damage by 20% for 30 seconds after a madness proc nearby.

Flask and Physic

· Lightning Shrouding Cracked Tear: Boosts lightning damage by 20% for 3 minutes.

· Bloodsucking Tear: Adds 20% bonus to all damage for 3 minutes at the cost of constant health drain. Use this situationally, depending on the boss fight.

Spells

· Golden Vow: Provides a 15% boost to all damage and a 10% boost to damage negation for 80 seconds.

· Blessing of the Erdtree: Grants health regeneration to counteract health drain effects.

· Howl of Shabriri: Boosts all damage by 25% for 40 seconds, at the cost of lowering damage negation. Repeated casts can induce madness for further damage boosts.

· Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike: The core spell for this build, dealing massive damage when charged.

Attributes and Stats

· Vigor: 60 points to avoid being squashed.

· Faith: 80 points for optimal scaling.

· Mind and Endurance: Split remaining points to balance stamina and FP.

The Full Buff Cycle

1. Pre-Buffing:

· Cast Golden Vow.

· Cast Blessing of the Erdtree.

· Apply Dragon Priestess form twice for the 20% Dragon Cult buff.

· Use Howl of Shabriri with the Madness Hand until you are low on mana.

· Drink your FP flask and Wondrous Physic.

· Proc madness with Howl of Shabriri.

· Swap to the Poisoned Hand and apply deadly poison using the Deadly Poison Perfume Bottle.

· Swap to the Endure Dagger and drink a health flask.

2. Entering the Boss Fight:

· Use Endure to create an opening.

· Swap to dual Gravel Stone Seals.

· Cast Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike, fully charged.

Final Tips

· Learn enemy movements to optimize the RNG of lightning bolt hits.

· Use uncharged Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike if a full charge is not feasible.

· Practice the buff cycle to ensure smooth transitions and maximize damage.

· With this setup, you'll be able to dispatch even the toughest bosses with ease.

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