Elden Ring Weapon Calculator – AR Damage & Scaling Calculator

⚔ ELDEN RING WEAPON CALCULATOR

Elden Ring Weapon Calculator

Calculate weapon Attack Rating, scaling bonuses, and stat requirements to optimise your Tarnished build.

⚔ Weapon Damage Calculator

Select Weapon Category

⚔Straight Sword

🗡Greatsword

⚔Katana

⚒Colossal Weapon

⚡Spear/Lance

🏹Bow

Your Character Stats

💪Strength

🤸Dexterity

✨Intelligence

🙏Faith

🎵Arcane

💗Two-Handing?

Weapon Properties

BASE PHYSICAL DAMAGE

SCALING GRADES

MIN STAT REQUIREMENTS

Min STR

Min DEX

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Total Attack Rating (AR)

–Base Dmg

–STR Bonus

–DEX Bonus

–INT Bonus

–FAI Bonus

STAT REQUIREMENT CHECK

Elden Ring Scaling & AR Guide

In Elden Ring, a weapon’s Attack Rating (AR) is the sum of its base damage and all scaling bonuses from your character’s attributes. Understanding scaling grades and soft caps is essential for maximising your weapon’s output.

Scaling Grade	Multiplier	Description
S	1.25×	Exceptional scaling — very few weapons
A	1.00×	Strong scaling — dedicated stat builds
B	0.80×	Good scaling — versatile builds
C	0.65×	Moderate scaling — split builds
D	0.45×	Minor scaling — mostly base damage
E	0.20×	Negligible scaling

Soft Caps Explained

Every scaling stat has soft caps — points where additional investment provides diminishing returns. Strength and Dexterity have soft caps at approximately 20 and 55. Intelligence and Faith soft-cap around 45 and 60. Investing heavily beyond these points provides minimal AR gain per level.

“Seek the scaling that matches your calling, Tarnished. A sorcerer who swings an axe earns but half the power of one who brandishes a staff.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

The most efficient weapon for S-tier scaling depends on your build: Rivers of Blood and Nagakiba for Arcane bleed builds, Dark Moon Greatsword for INT builds (S scaling), Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear for Arcane faith builds, and Malenia’s blade for pure DEX. For STR, Greatsword and Starscourge Greatsword excel.

Two-handing multiplies your effective Strength by 1.5 for the purpose of meeting stat requirements and calculating STR scaling bonuses. If your Strength is 40, two-handing makes you count as having 60 STR for scaling. This significantly increases AR on STR-scaling weapons and allows you to use heavier weapons with lower STR investment.

Using a weapon without meeting its stat requirements (not counting towards two-hand) results in a major damage penalty — approximately 40% damage reduction. All scaling bonuses are also lost. Additionally, some animations become much slower. Always check minimum requirements before investing in a weapon’s upgrade path.