Elden Ring Moonveil Katana Build Guide - Gear, Attributes & Tips Of Level 100 Moonveil Shinobi

Are you looking for an upgraded version of moonveil samurai build in Elden Ring? In this guide, we bring the best Elden Ring moonveil samurai build at level 100, including gear, attributes and gameplay tips. 

Elden Ring Moonveil Katana Build Guide - How To Build A Moonveil Shinobi At Level 100 

If you aren't familiar with the Elden Ring moonveil Katana build, the moonveil samurai takes advantage of the weapon art of moonveil transient moonlight. Specifically, the l2 r2 ability has huge stagger potential in order to stagger tough enemies and bosses in order to do critical strikes that we then replenish our fp cost from one of the talismans that we use. By using assassin cerulean dagger and carrian filigreed crest, we're able to reduce the cost of this ability and then refund it when using it on weaker enemies and then maintaining our fp somewhat better against tougher enemies where it requires multiple casts of transient moonlight. Now, let's check the Elden Ring best moonveil katana build at level 100.

Elden Ring Moonveil Katana Build Gear

Moonveil

In this iteration of the build, we've actually added a second katana with its own weapon art that has huge stagger potential in order to make staggering enemies even easier and to make boss fights go faster. So the moonveil katana scales with dexterity and intelligence and when you reach max upgrade, it's going to scale at b with those which is relatively good. We also use a cold-infused or magic-infused uchigatana for this build.

Cold Uchigatana

The cold-infusion of the uchigatana has b and c scaling and dexterity and intelligence which isn't quite as good as moonveil, but it's still pretty good. It allows you to set the frostbite status effect and it has bleed build up just like the moonveil katana. So when you're dual-wielding these and attacking with l1, you're going to be bleeding up the build meter a lot faster.

Glintblade Phalanx

Because you can't use the weapon art or skill of the second weapon the weapon in your off hand, when you're dual wielding two weapons at the same time. It became important to find a weapon arc that we could use that would still be effective when we swapped back to dual wielding and that's why we decided on glintblade phalanx. Glintblade phalanx, the ash of war has huge stagger potential. What's great about it is when you combine this with transient moonlight, you're basically going to get two hits of transient moonlight since it does about the same stagger damage of transient moonlight at the same time. So if something staggers in two transient moon lights it's going to go down instantly or maybe it takes three and then you only have to do one more instead of trying to get off two more before it staggers. You can cast it and it stays put when you swap back to dual wielding and it stays there for a very long time, so you can pre-cast it anytime you're going to face a tough enemy and it just stays put and it benefits you. Additionally, it's also a weapon skill, so it benefits from carrying filigree quest.

Meteorite Staff

You can use a staff in your off-hand in order to cast some spells. One of the weaknesses of this build is a range, so getting yourself something like great glintblade shard would be good or glintstone pebble or really anything with range is a good option as well. What staff you use isn't particularly important here and will be affected slightly by what spells you select.

Armor

The armor that you use for this build isn't super important as long as you can still mid-roll and using a helmet that has intelligence on it is probably a good idea. In order to increase the damage with any spells that you use and to increase the damage with both of your katanas.

Talisman

- Green turtle talisman there is because you chew through stamina with this build using transient moonlight and also attacking with dual wield. You're going to run through your stamina very fast and you want it to come back very very quickly. Particularly after you stagger an enemy because you're going to want your stamina bar to fill up very quickly, so you can go to town with dual wield attacks.

- The magic scorpion charm is there to increase your damage with magic attacks. both moonveil and the cold uchigatana or magic uchigatana are going to have significant magic damage to them so boosting. This will also increase the damage of any magic spells you use that deal magic damage as well.

- Assassin cerulean dagger will give you 15 fp back anytime you critically strike an enemy. This is after you stagger them or when you backstab them or if you parry and then repulse them. So this is very good to have for this build because you use a lot of fp with your skills. Then getting it back allows you to keep using them so that you don't have to worry so much about ft management.

-Carian filigreed crest reduces the cost of your weapon skills by 25%. This affects transient moonlight and it affects glintblade phalanx and it also affects mighty shot if you're using that on a bow or enchanted shot. If you're using those three skills that are going to reduce the cost of all of them. As you approach level 150 for this build, you'll probably pull out carian filigreed crest and replace it with alexander shard to increase the damage of all three of these abilities when you have more mind and fp where fp isn't as much of an issue.

Spell

The spells that you use for this Elden Ring moonveil shinobi build aren't super important. You can go with terra magic in here because you can drop it on the ground and it'll stay there for 30 seconds boosting your magic damage by 35%. This includes what you'll do with melee or spells, so it's great to put down if you're going to be fighting in a certain area like in the middle of a boss arena and you can stagger a boss inside of it. So when you go into doing that dual-wield combo, if you're standing on top of it, you're going to be absolutely shredding them. It's not something you use all the time but it's still good to have regardless.

Elden Ring Moonveil Katana Build Attributes

Vigor - 40

Mind - 26  

Endurance - 20  

Strength - 12

Dexterity - 18

Intelligence - 40

Faith - 14   

Arcane - 9

The vigor is there to help keep you alive, you're not going to be wearing the heaviest armor in the world with this build and you're also going to trade blows and you're going to gamble a lot trying to get off those l2 r2 attacks. Because getting that stagger even if you get hit in the middle of it is still worth it. 26 mind is there to give you a decent fp pool, you will get fp back from the assassin cerulean dagger. However you definitely want an fp pool there, so when you're in boss fights, you don't have to worry about running out of fp really quickly. 20 endurance is there not for equip load. You need stamina for this build, stamina is one of the major issues with this build. 12 strength is there to meet the minimum requirements for weapons. 18 points of dexterity are the minimum requirement for moonveil. Intelligence is at 40 because we could spare at this point, this increases the damage with both your katanas and spell damage. Faith and arcane are both completely irrelevant for this build.

Elden Ring Moonveil Katana Build Gameplay Tips

Typically the way this build works is you're going to be running around the landscape attacking with your dual wield attacks and you're going to be throwing up glintblade phalanx and attacking with transient moonlight on more difficult enemies. Or you're just going to be using transient moonlight on enemies that are close to you in order to stagger them or interrupt their attacks as necessary. Get in those critical attacks to restore your fp so that you can keep using them when necessary. When you stagger a boss with this build instead of instantly going in for the critical strike to get fp back. You can go ham with dual-wheeled attacks in order to not only build up the bleed bar but also to set the frostbite status effect ripping off even more health and debuffing the enemy even more. 

You can generally deal way more damage doing this than doing a critical attack. In some cases, if you're very astute and you get your timing well, you can actually do quite a bit of damage and then pull off a critical attack as well. You shouldn’t worry so much about the critical attacks on bosses, because you'll simply outperform the damage doing dual wield attacks as fast as you can and this is one of the reasons we have the green turtle talisman for this build because you're usually going to be very low on stamina when an enemy or a boss gets staggered and you want it to replenish while they're like sort of falling down so that when you get up to them you can start swinging and you don't have to wait for your stamina to regenerate very long.

If you're using a bow, you can pick enemies off at range or you can use great glintstone shard to do this. If you can't reach enemies, it's a great backup when you need a little bit of range maybe to thin things out. And you can use the l2 r1 ability of moonveil as well in order to aoe enemies down at pretty good range.

Conclusions

When you go into a boss fight or a tough enemy, you want to use your flask of wondrous physick and you want to use the magic shrouding cracked tear in order to increase your magic damage for a few minutes. As well as the stonebarb cracked here which increases your poise damage for a very short amount of time. This will help you stagger bosses very quickly and will make these boss fights go really fast. When you throw up the glintblade phalanx and then you use transient moonlight a lot of times with this up, you can just stagger them. As soon as you walk in the door, then you can get your combo off back away, throw up glintblade phalanx again, repeat this combo and the fight will be over in 20 seconds left. a lot of the time making this extremely powerful. If you need to buy Elden Ring runes for sale, goldkk.com is a professional game currency store you can trust.