Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - Stat Soft Caps Guide

Stat Soft Caps Guide for  Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (SotET)

What are stat soft caps in Elden Ring?

In Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (SotET), your character grows stronger by leveling up and allocating points to any of their 8 major stats (Vigor, Mind, Endurance, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Faith, and Arcane).

Upon reaching very high levels for any specific stat, the bonuses gained for the parameters they affect start to go down. The specific value (or values) at which a stat begins to undergo significant diminishing returns for them to be worth the investment in runes is called the stat soft cap.

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Knowing stat soft cups is essential for optimizing your character’s build as you would not want to waste stat points on attributes that do not give you any reasonable benefit after reaching certain values.

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Stat Caps for Each Stat

Below is a table summarizing all soft caps or the point where the stat investment starts to decline from the optimal. Most stats have at least two soft cap stages that reduce the bonuses applied to parameters they affect while stats that affect weapon and magic damage scaling usually have three stages.

Stat Hard Caps

All stats stop increasing at 99.

Stat hard caps are the absolute limit of each stat to provide any increase to a character’s different parameters. This value ceiling is essentially where stats cannot be increased anymore and is at a value of 99 (maximum value in-game).

Can You Respec Stats?

You can reset your stats after clearing the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

Fortunately, it is possible to reallocate your stat points if you mess up once you have cleared the Academy of Raya Lucaria story dungeon. Note that this requires you to have defeated Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon who will offer the stat respec service afterwards.

Requires Larval Tear to respec.

Reallocating your stats requires one (1) Larval Tear, a rare consumable found throughout the game. Because of this, be sure to plan out your stats carefully to avoid having to waste Larval Tears as much as possible.

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