Elden Ring Guides
Starting routes, progression and the decisions that shape a run.
Academy Glintstone Key
Read the gate clue, ride past Glintstone Dragon Smarag for the key, and enter Raya Lucaria without an unnecessary dragon fight.
Read guideBoss Order
A sensible Elden Ring boss order for the main fights, and which bosses you can skip entirely.
Read guideExploration
Open the map, choose a Site of Grace you have already visited, and travel there once you are out of combat and out of a boss arena.
Read guideFlask Upgrades
Use Golden Seeds and Sacred Tears in the right order, then make the Flask of Wondrous Physick serve one job.
Read guideGame Progress Route
A region-by-region Elden Ring progress route, and how to tell when you are under-levelled for an area.
Read guideGetting Started
Use Sites of Grace, Torrent, and a flexible Limgrave route to find your footing in the Lands Between.
Read guideGodrick the Grafted
Reach Godrick prepared, read his axe strings, and use the dragon-arm phase without giving up safe healing windows.
Read guideGreat Runes and Remembrances
Know the difference between restoring a Great Rune, activating it, and choosing a Remembrance reward.
Read guideFirst Limgrave Route
Pick up the tools that make Limgrave easier before making Stormveil your first wall.
Read guideMalenia
Read Waterfowl Dance, use the ranged escape sequence, and recognise the safe opening after Scarlet Aeonia.
Read guideMargit Strategy
Beat Margit by recognising the delayed swings, saving stamina, and turning short recoveries into clean damage.
Read guideNew Player Help
What to do in your first hours of Elden Ring, and the habits that make the rest of the game easier.
Read guideQuick Items and Crafting
Set the pouch around reactions you need quickly, then craft only supplies that solve a real route problem.
Read guideRed Wolf of Radagon
Beat the Red Wolf by closing the gap after its glintblades, avoiding bite strings, and keeping enough stamina for its fast resets.
Read guideRennala Strategy
Break Rennala's classroom shield quickly, then manage the second phase without chasing every summon.
Read guideCharacter
Reach Raya Lucaria Academy, defeat its boss, then spend a Larval Tear to reassign every point you have earned.
Read guideEnter Shadow of the Erdtree
Check the two required bosses, enter through Mohg's cocoon, unlock return travel, and use the first Scadutree Fragments and Revered Spirit Ash.
Read guideSpirit Ashes and Summoning
Use the Spirit Calling Bell where it is allowed, then choose an ash for the job the fight needs.
Read guideStarscourge Radahn
Use the Festival's summon signs, survive Radahn's opening arrows, and handle his meteor return without losing the fight to panic.
Read guideExploration
Rest at the first Site of Grace outside the tutorial and accept the accord to receive the Spectral Steed Whistle.
Read guideTrophy & Achievement Guide
How the Elden Ring achievement list is structured, which trophies are missable, and what to watch for.
Read guideWalkthrough
A goal-by-goal route through Elden Ring, from the first Great Rune to the Erdtree.
Read guide