You Need To Increase Your Vigor | Elden Ring

"Youre not a glass cannon, youre just glass." a great quote

Remember, you do zero DPS if you're dead or too busy healing. Get biggor, level some vigor.

I never pump vigor because I always tell myself that “I just won’t get hit, I know the attack patterns”. And, this is usually how it goes, up until Margit.

My brother is level 73 and has never once put levels into his vigor stat. He gets one-shot by everything and he thoroughly enjoys it. I bow when I enter his presence now.

"Doing something like that isnt going to make you a glass cannon, it's just gonna make you glass" Well put! Couldnt have said it better myself!

My advice is to level vigor at least as much as your flask can heal for. You leave soooooooo much healing on the table when you always overheal, and you'll hit that point very quickly without vigor upgrades.

I didn’t know how stats and scaling worked at the beginning so I thought if I had the minimum stats I needed for my weapon, that was good enough. Started as vagabond and leveled almost nothing but vigor until 52 vigor. Actually an accidental good choice for a big noob like me.

My general method on deciding when to level vigor was to watch how much my flask was healing. If I'm over-healing, I'm losing that much potential health multiplied by the number of flasks I had. So taking that into account, leveling vigor increases your health by far more than the numbers show.

"Doing something like that isn't gonna make you glass cannon, its just gonna make you glass". Lmao loved this line with reference to the 20hp melee builds xD

Ratatosker: “You should really level up vigor” Strength Builds: “This man speaks the truth”

My rule for Dark Souls & Elden Ring has always been to have my health bar = to twice my HP flask. This rule has served me well for a decade.

i’m fighting this optional boss that’s quintessential to Ranni’s quest line at around 17 vigor using radagon’s scarseal and i must say, i did this to myself.

I'm level 141 with the cap of 60 on vigor and you really need it for the later bosses where they can 3 to 5 tap you in a combo.

My golden rule with every first run of a new soulsborne game: Always get yourself a good HP-pillow. I can do the crazy glasscannon stuff in later runs, when I know the game. In Elden Ring, my first character was a mage, and yet I still had the golden rule of administering at least every third skill point into vigor, until I hit 40 vigor. This also allowed me to play a magic knight, but without shield, wich was awesome.

As a Sorcerer in this game: I got my Vigor to 35 before bringing my Int up to 70. It's just enough that USUALLY I don't get one shot, and 70 Int is a MASSIVE power spike.

I've platinumed the game and have done up to NG+4, and in this new run I started I immediately beelined it to Greyoll and the nearby Night Cavalry with a gold-pickled fowl foot for each for the express purpose of getting the early 30-40 levels so that I could get Vigor up. I got it right up to around 30 right away before even doing Stormveil with the intent to get it up to 40 and stop right around there before even leveling anything else to improve my damage. Even though I'm fully-familiar with what to expect at this point and dare I say it, pretty skilled with my extensive history with FromSoft games, having that health buffer is extremely beneficial because unforeseen things will happen and mistakes will be made.

I learned how important vigor was when i fought radahn at 20 vigor. You get one shot by every move at 20 vigor. I spent the next 10 levels on vigor, came back to radahn, and beat him second try.

You're totally right. I was level 40 with only 14 vigor and after I saw my level 20 sister surviving hits like nothing, I realized I could make the game more playable with vigor. In fact, it made it way more enjoyable to go up against bosses. More time to learn patterns, less of a chance of losing thousands of runes with no way to get them back, etc.

I am level 42 and I just worked this out on my own. I was raising stats in order to use the cool weapons I found. I got a flail that needs 24 dex and a scythe that needs 24 faith. As I was going for dex/faith, it made sense to me to raise those stats to 24. I also raised endurance to 15 and strength to 16 (to use a shield I found). I did not completely neglect vigor, but it is only 18. What made me realize I had made a mistake was the ulcerated tree spirit boss, the one you can find relatively early in the game. I found I could do decent damage to it, and get it below half health, but every hit it did to me was more than half my health. So, to beat it, I had to basically go most of the fight not taking hits - and I am not that good (plus the fight is very random). I realized that if I had a bit more health, I would have beaten this boss already. My low health was making it so I could not afford to make any mistakes. I was also aware that my flasks were +5, and they could heal my entire health bar. It occured to me that the minimum amount of health should be at least more than what my flasks can heal, since otherwise my flask is partially wasted.

Quick tip : Every time you up anything else than vigor, the next lvl needs to be vigor