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Elden Ring is a full-fledged role-playing game with dozens of stats that the player can manage, a large variety of gear to find, incantations, and many gameplay mechanics to master.
Leveling up is something that happens naturally in most games, but due to the difficulty of Souls games, even for mobile options, it’s always very important to keep a strict eye on your character’s levels.
Like most RPG games, Elden Ring has soft skill caps that begin to lower how much your stats are upgraded after a certain point. And then we have one final hard cap, which completely stops giving you any bonuses for leveling up.
Fortunately, there are multiple soft caps in Elden Ring since this is a game with an incredible amount of depth within its gameplay and how skills work. Most stats have a max-level cap attached to them as well.
It takes a long time to master every skill and to learn what the skill cap for certain things is – so we’re going to help you save your time by listing every Elden Ring soft and hard skill cap. Let’s get into it!
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What is a Soft Skill Cap in Elden Ring?
If you’re new to the genre, a soft skill cap is a limitation that reduces the rewards that you earn by leveling up in Elden Ring. So, for example, if you gain an additional 10HP every time you level up, it will reduce to 5 after a soft cap.
What is a Hard Skill Cap in Elden Ring?
The logic behind hard caps in Elden Ring is the same as soft caps. The only difference is that the hard cap completely stops the benefits that you receive from leveling a skill up.
Please note that the information on the gains being reduced is not detailed for every stat since the game is relatively new.
Every Soft Skill Cap in Elden Ring
These are the soft skill caps for every attribute and skill in Elden Ring and of course, information on Elden Ring hard caps is included too.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Mind Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 20 – The FP gained per level up is 6.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 50 – The FP gained per level up is 8 or 9.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 55 – The FP gain per level up is decreased from 7 to 4.
- Fourth Soft Cap: Level 60 – The FP gained per level up comes down to 2 or 3.
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Vigor Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 40 – The HP gain per level up is decreased from 26 to 13
- Second Soft Cap: Level 60 – The HP gained per level up is 5 or 6
- Third Soft Cap: The HP gained per level up is 3 or 4
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Endurance Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 12 – 1 to 2 Stamina is gained alternatively per level up.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 18 – 1 to 2 Stamina is gained alternatively per level up.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 32 – 1 to 2 Stamina is gained alternatively per each level up.
- Fourth Cap: Level 50 – Only 1 Stamina is gained per three level-ups (from 50 to 53, 53 to 56, and so on).
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Strength Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 20.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 80.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 90.
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
Elden Ring Dex Soft Caps Stats
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- First Soft Cap: Level 20.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 80.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 90.
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
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Elden Ring Soft Caps Arcane Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 20.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 80.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 90.
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Intelligence Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 20.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 80.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 90.
- Hard Cap: 99.
Elden Ring Soft Caps Faith Stats
- First Soft Cap: Level 20.
- Second Soft Cap: Level 80.
- Third Soft Cap: Level 90.
- Hard Cap: Level 99.
These are all of the soft skill caps in Elden Ring and the highest amount of leveling up that you can do for all of them is 99. Mods in the future might allow players to level up to higher stats without losing benefits, but the base game at the moment follows these statistics.
Credit: r/eldenring AshuraRC for the stats (Reddit).
And that’s a wrap on our guide for every soft, hard skill, max-level cap in Elden Ring!
We hope that you found it useful and since Elden Ring is far more forgiving than Dark Souls games in terms of Soft and Hard caps, you won’t have to worry about these things in most of your playthroughs.
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