Bringing the Good Ol DSII Gaming Poke into Elden Ring. The hardest part of the build is farming the cleanrot knights in Caelid Inner Aeonia for the weapon itself, but everything else is completely doable.
I placed the talisman’s in the order I think you should use them. All of them are completely easy to get, and the 4th can be interchanged. If you are confident with the game then I would highly suggest taking off the fashion and going blue dancer to really boost that AR, or if you like the fashion then just go Dragoncrest for some damage negation. Another option is just putting on axe talisman and going for a more poise break style.
The fashion is optional, and if you have something you like better then you can 100000% take some strength points for more endurance to wear something even heavier. I just chose this fashion because it’s my favorite look in the game, it’s something you can get really early and it’s got really decent stats.
This is at 150, but could easily be shifted around to fully optimize for all the buffs available in the game by taking some strength and investing in faith for buffing spells, absolutely! I think as long as you keep around 65 strength then you’ll be completely happy with the damage as you’ll trade that raw damage for the buffs. I tried to make it really simple and easy with no need for a heavy buff routine. If you plan to go for something closer to 125, then I would suggest just putting your strength down to about 70 and you’ll still be completely good.
I can’t add it on the display but Thorny Cracked + Stonebarb/Greenspill is a great combo. If you aren’t interested in going to mountaintops for thorny then just stonebarb + greenspill will definitely work no problem, again just depends on ease.
I wish you luck out there Tarnished.
