Top 5 Best Faith Builds in Elden Ring 2023 - Most Powerful Faith Builds & Weapons Patch 1.08

In Elden Ring, a faith build is likely to be a good choice for players who enjoy using magic and want to deal damage from a distance. There were a lot of good faith builds last year that helped players win a lot of, and now is time to consider the best faith build to use 2023. Check today’s guide, we break down 5 powerful faith builds in Elden Ring patch 1.08 for 2023. These are extremely fun to use.

Top 5 Best Faith Builds in Elden Ring (2023) - Most Powerful Faith Builds & Weapons Patch 1.08 

To start a faith build, you will want to allocate points to the faith stat during character creation or level up. Faith-based characters can use miracles, which are powerful spells that can be used for both offensive and defensive purposes. You can obtain miracles by finding and purchasing them from various NPC vendors throughout the game world. In addition to using miracles, faith builds can also benefit from using lightning-based weapons. These weapons deal extra damage based on the wielder's faith stat, and can be upgraded with the lightning infusion at blacksmiths.

So what are the best builds for faith in Elden Ring? What are best weapons for faith builds in Elden Ring? Here is a list of 5 recommended powerful faith builds to use in Elden Ring after patch 1.08 2023, including everything to get you started, stats, equipment, weapons, talismans, and items to use. 

#1  Elden Ring 1.08 Best Faith Build for 2023 - Ancient Dragon’s Lightning Strike 

Ancient Dragon’s Lightning Strike is one of the most powerful incantations in the game, it can one shot the majority of bosses in Elden Ring. If you're ever looking for an easy mode, this is definitely easy mode, it's incredibly powerful and after some buffs you can absolutely destroy the majority of bosses. 

Best weapons for faith build 1.08: 

Gravel Stone Seal+25, 

Warhawk’s Blood Talon+24.

Best equipment for faith build 1.08: 

Jellyfish Shield

Black Dumpling

Mushroom Crown

Godfrey Icon

Best talismans for faith build: 

Godfrey Icon

Lightning Scorpion Charm

Red Feathered Brandchsword

Kindred of Rot’s Exultation

Stats: 

The main stat we want to focus on for Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike is faith, there's nothing else that works with it, Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike scales fully with faith, so at that point where you can get faith to 80, you're going to be absolutely destroying bosses with this. All the other stats are really up to you, you need 20 strength to use the Jellyfish Shield, you can also run Gravel Stone Seal but it's 5% less damage. For the rest stats, 50 vigor, 21 mind, 20 endurance, 20 dexterity, 11 arcane, 7 intelligence.

#2 Best 1.08 Faith Build for Elden Ring 2023 - Envoy’s Longhorn 

It is a fantastic faith-based weapon that could destroy a lot of bosses in Elden Ring, particularly larger targets while doing posture damage and immense holy damage. The envoys longhorn is incredibly powerful and very strong and when you use it on larger targets particularly, it completely shreds them, it turns it into complete easy mode and it works on most bosses in Elden Ring. 

Best weapons for faith build: 

Envoy’s Long Horn

Giant’s Seal

Equipment: 

Envoy Crown

Talismans: 

Ritual Sword Talisman

Shard of Alexander

Sacred Sorpion Charm

Dragoncrest Shield Talisman

Stats: 

Vigor: 50 

Mind: 23

Endurance: 23

Strength: 23 

Dexterity: 12

Intelligence: 7 

Faith: 80 

Arcane: 11 

#3 PvE Faith Build in Elden Ring 2023 - Blasphemous Blade

This is one of the most reliable and powerful PvE weapons in Elden Ring. If you combine this with the Sword of Milos, you get the debuff from that and then you can also get back FP and HP with the passives on both weapons and do massive damage with the Blasphemous Blade, one of the best fire weapons in the game, one of the most reliable weapons that heals you every time you use the Ash of War. Blasphemous Blade can be used for pretty much every boss, if you've never tried it, pick up the Blasphemous Blade, it is one of the best weapon for Faith builds.

Equipment for Blasphemous Blade Build:

Sword of Milos

Gravel Stone Seal

Shard of Alexander

Ritual Sword Talisman

Fire Scorpion Charm

Dragoncrest Shield Talisman

Flask of Wondrous Physick

Stats: 

Vigor: 50

Mind: 24

Endurance: 30

Strength: 23

Dexterity: 19

Intelligence: 7

Faith: 65

Arcane: 11

#4 Top Faith Build in Elden Ring Patch 1.08 - All Fire

This build is absolutely awesome, for the Magma Blades, they also scale the Ash of War is almost entirely faith, if you're going to use it for the physical portion of the weapon just by itself it's going to scale with strength. But for the Ash of War, it's probably 90% or more faith. So once again you want to go with that high faith stat, get that pool of lava and a lot of damage out of them. Then you get to use incantations like Burn, O Flame which is fantastic with just a couple of simple buffs you can absolutely shred enemies and bosses with Millennia can absolutely be destroyed by it.

Weapons: 

Magma Blade

Giant’s Seal

Equipment: 

Fire Monk Hook

Fire Monk Armor

Fire Monk Greaves

Fire Monk Gauntlets

Talismans: 

Fire Scorpion Charm

Shard of Alexander

Dragoncrest Shield Talisman

Ritual Sword Talisman 

Stats:

Vigor: 45 

Mind: 23 

Endurance: 18 

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 9 

Faith: 80 

Arcane: 14 

#5 Elden Ring Best Faith Build 2023 - Black Knife/Black Flame

This is another holy faith build, Black Blade and Black Knife do stack in terms of percentage damage which makes them incredibly powerful. The Black Knife’s Ash of War scales almost purely with faith and since the Black Blades and incantation, it makes very easy as far as the stats go for this to just go high faith again. 

Weapons: Black Knife, Erdtree Seal

Helm: Maliketh’s Helm

Best armor for faith build Elden Ring: Malikeths Armor

Best talismans: Shard of Alexander, Scared Scorpion Charm, Ritual Sword Talisman, Dragoncrest Shield Talisman

Stats: 50 vigor, 25 mind, 22 endurance, 16 strength, 15 dexterity, 10 intelligence, 80 faith, 11 arcane

Are Faith Builds Good in Elden Ring?

Yes, they are, and people like to use faith builds. Faith builds often focus on using miracles, which are spells that draw power from a higher power, such as a deity or divine force. These spells can range from healing abilities to offensive spells that deal damage to enemies. In some games, faith builds can be particularly strong in providing support to allies, as they may have access to spells that can heal or buff other players.