Elden Ring patch 1.10 was released not long ago. Although it looks short, it actually has quite a lot of changes for PVP. Therefore, here I will introduce the weakening and changes in this patch for PVP.

PVP Damage Adjustment

Let’s start with PVP exclusive adjustments. They have increased poise damage for all weapons in the new patch. And the damage of certain spells and spells in PVP has also been increased. Here is the relevant damage data table so that we can compare poise damage in patch 1.09 and 1.10.

Overall, poise damage increases a lot, but there is no simple pattern of increase. However, aside from outliers like Daggers, you’ll find that the first attack of a weapon’s light attack chain tends to have a higher poise damage gain than subsequent attacks.

I’m guessing the devs did this to make it easier for certain weapons to combine to hit 2 after hitting 1, but not combining to hit 3 after hitting 2.

Thrusting Swords

For example, let’s look at Thrusting Swords. Two-Hand Thrusting Swords R1 do 140.4 damage. Even enemies with a full Bull-Goat Set equipped with Bull-Goat’s Talisman will be stunned if the enemy does not have Hyper Armor.

However, that doesn’t mean passive poise is useless right now. Because if you don’t have enough poise damage, you’ll be in trouble again on the second hit.

This change makes the active Hyper Armor stronger. Though Thrusting Swords isn’t even a weapon class with high poise damage. But it also makes a strong power combo with decent range and speed but not high poise damage deadlier.

Power Stance Spears & Straight Swords

Normal L1 attacks from Power Stance Spears deal 150 damage. Even if you were to replace this move with Hyper Armor, you’d still take a lot of damage and counter damage.

Power Stance Straight Swords is very strong, and it’s long because it’s involved. This setup now also deals over 150 damage. However, the two weapons can still be swapped without passive poise. Because they can’t hold the poise in most attacks and out speed you.

Hyper Armor

Technically, with Hyper Armor, you can move on to the next attack while enemies stagger. Only time will tell how this change in poise will play out.

As for Spells and Incantations, not all poise values change. And most of these changes don’t make much sense. As they appear to be changes made only to compensate for the addition of Hyper Armor.

Poise Changes

Next, patch 1.10 also adds poise when players attack with certain skills, spells and incantations, and weapon types that generate poise. They also added damage reduction to these actions. And those moves are the ones that give you Hyper Armor.

Luckily, I have a way to simplify how much Hyper Armor bonus is given. I’ll use this Two-Hand Hammers movement group as an example. You can see that there are 2 new entries: unk1 and Final Damage Rate.

Let’s first talk about unk1, a PVP-only Hyper Armor multiplier. What unk1 actually does is reduce poise damage from PVP sources by 50%. This means that Hyper Armor is double for all damage.

What’s more, reducing incoming poise damage also means that the higher your base poise, the more poise you get. The logic here is easy to understand. Because reducing incoming poise damage means you have twice the base poise in Hyper Armor frame.

Next, Final Damage Rate is the damage reduction given when you have Hyper Armor. In my Hammers example, 0.925 means you do 7.5% less damage.

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While Endure, Stamp and Reaper weapon classes have more poise damage resistance. While Endure and Stamp already have damage reduction due to their effects, these Hyper Armors don’t get the damage reduction benefit. There are also some weapon arts with Hyper Armor that don’t have a reduced buff for taking damage.

Of all weapon classes, only two Colossal Weapons classes have base Hyper Armor damage reduced by 17.5%. The rest of the weapon art entries here look like slow but powerful skills. So thematically and practically, I believe it’s very effective. Everything else gets 7.5% damage reduction, which includes all other weapon types, spells and incantations, and weapon arts.

Key Attack Angles Extended For PVP

Also, the critical attack angle for PVP has been extended. Critical angle increased from 120 to 135 degrees. You don’t actually have a longer Backstab distance, but you have an easier Backstab Fish. I’m sure any Backstab fan who’s done PVP after the patch can feel it.

Next, they also have Quickstep and Bloodhound’s Step in PVP. But their movement distance is still longer than dodge. Unlike the dodge roll, these two actions have a directional bias, meaning they have different frames depending on which direction you dodge.

Weakened Damage Reduction

Finally, the only change to the last PVP is that they reduced the damage reduction of some skills and consumables. This also means you’ll probably need to invest more Elden Ring Runes in this. Note that you can also get 5% off with the code “CSCCA” at IGGM.com.

For weapon art changes, the only thing that changes is that Oath of Vengeance. It now has a 20% PVP damage reduction instead of 40%. Weaker barriers in PVP nerfed from 35% to 10%.

Also, Protection of the Erdtree currently grants you a 30% negation of all elemental damage, but also modifies it to 10% for PVP damage.

For bigger obstacles, it was nerfed from 60% to 20%. Especially against magic damage. Since the Intelligence build doesn’t really have much element selection, the nerf definitely makes sense.

As for Black Flame’s Protection, nothing has changed. I’m guessing it’s because it’s a little different from the other, bigger obstacles, and it also dents your health. As for consumables, they reduced these to 10% in PVP.

These are the changes to this PVP content I learned about in Elden Ring patch 1.10. Hope this description can help you to be more clear about the damage mechanism in the new patch. Anyway, see you in the game.