Bandai Namco announced a new Elden Ring patch is live and detailed what to expect in its patch notes for 1.10. The update primarily focuses on Elden Ring PvP play and balancing. There are some additional updates. Critical hits in general do more damage and are easy to recover from if you miss, for example. A few bugs were fixed. But this is more about the multiplayer elements.
All of the PvP Elden Ring updates tend to make it easier to deal more damage and mitigate endeavors to avoid or lessen damage. For example, there will be increased poise in some instances and poise damage will go up. Quick Step and Hound’s Step invulnerability doesn’t last as long. While some abilities still reduce damage when used, they won’t reduce as much as before.
Here are the full patch notes for Elden Ring 1.10 from the official site.
PvP-exclusive balance adjustments
The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.
- Increased poise damage of all weapons and some spells and incantations.
- Increased poise when attacking with some skills, spells, incantations and some types of weapon attacks that generates poise.
- Added damage reduction when performing attacks with some skills, spells and incantations and some types of weapon attacks that generates poise.
- Critical hit angles have been extended.
- Decreased the invulnerability window of the Quick Step and Hound’s Step skills.
- Decreased the damage reduction granted by some skills, incantations and items.
General balance adjustments
- Increased critical hit damage.
- Decreased recovery time after a missed critical hit.
- Increased poise damage of attacks that occur after missing a critical hit.
Bug Fixes and other changes
- Adjusted the player damage animation so that the attack direction is not unintentionally shifted when getting hit while attacking with some types of weapons that generates poise.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some spells and incantations from causing damage while under the effect of some skills and items.
- Fixed a bug that caused the effects of the Sacred Order skill to continue after switching weapons.
- Corrected some text in certain languages.
Elden Ring is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC, and patch 1.10 is live now. There’s also a tabletop game and manga based on it.
