Elden Ring: Every Class Ranked Hardest To Easiest
So if you don’t know which Elden Ring class to pick but are interested in making things at least slightly easier on yourself, here’s a rough look at how every class in the game stacks up in terms of overall difficulty.
10. Wretch
The Wretch is Elden Ring’s version of the Deprived class from Dark Souls, which is really just another way of saying that this is the class that starts at the lowest overall level with no real statistical advantages to speak of. Even worse, their lone piece of starting equipment is a somewhat pathetic club that will likely need to be replaced fairly early on.
While this is objectively the hardest starting class in the game, the design of the Wretch really highlights why it’s so difficult to simply use the word “worst” when describing any Elden Ring class. For a certain kind of player, the Wretch will be an ideal starting class simply because they’re something of a blank slate. They have no real strengths in the same way that other classes do, but their even stat distribution means that you’re able to grow them in whatever way you see fit (so long as you’re willing to view them as a project).
It’s almost impossible to recommend the Wretch to new players or anyone looking to make things slightly easier on themselves, but this class is much more than the joke it is sometimes made out to be.
9. Bandit
The Bandit is a somewhat odd Elden Ring class. They’re obviously meant to be the game’s premiere stealth class (which essentially means that they’ll eventually rely on bows, daggers, light shields, and, yes, sneaking), but they also start with the highest base Arcane rating of all the Elden Ring classes (14), which means that they’re more likely to find loot on fallen foes and resist certain effects.
On the one hand, Elden Ring’s new sneaking abilities make “stealth builds” more viable than they’ve necessarily been in some other Soulsborne games. Indeed, the open-world sections of the game offer plenty of opportunities to sneak up on enemies or even just pick them off from a distance with a little help from your bow. Their higher Discovery rate also means that they’re better able to utilize the game’s crafting and upgrade systems.
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