Understanding Elden Ring's soft caps for every stat is crucial if you want to maximise your build's potential. With eight primary metrics (or traits) that govern all other stats, Elden Ring is a somewhat complex role-playing game. There are many "soft caps" in these numbers. Unlike hard caps, which represent the highest value you can get for a certain stat, soft caps are the level at which raising that stat becomes much less valuable. All of the soft caps for Elden Ring's stats and traits are included in this comprehensive guide, which has been updated to reflect changes in balance brought forth by the most recent Elden Ring patch.

Why Do All Stats in Elden Ring Patch 1.08 (January 2023) Have Soft Caps?

Gaining knowledge about Elden Ring skill soft caps will help you allocate your runes more wisely and strategically. Runes have a finite number of uses, thus optimising them will improve the efficiency of your building. Levelling up one stat will eventually provide lower returns than using the same rune to level up another stat. In contrast to hard caps, many games do not make apparent what a soft cap is. Elden Ring stats soft caps apply in the same way.

Fortunately, the community steps in at that point! On Reddit, diligent community members have published the stat soft cap values they've calculated! The maths was initially performed by Reddit member u/AshuraRC, and it was then revised by u/getcheddarttv. We are now aware of every skill soft cap in Edlen Ring because of them. Having saying that, each stat in Elden Ring has a soft cap shown below.

Soft Caps with Elden Ring Strength

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 55
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 80

Soft Caps Elden Ring Mind

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20 – you receive 6 FP per level
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 50 – you receive 8/9 FP per level
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 55 – FP decreases from 7 to 4 per level
• 4th Soft Cap: Level 60 – FP decreases from to 2/3 per level

Vigour Soft Caps Elden Ring

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 40 – HP gain drops from 26 to 13 per level
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 60 – HP gain drops from 13 to 5/6 per level
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 90 – HP gain drops from 5 to 3/4 per level

Soft Caps Elden Ring Endurance

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 12 – Endurance gives 1-2-1-2 Stamina alternatively
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 18 – Endurance gives 2-1-2 Stamina alternatively
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 32 – Endurance gives 1-2-1-2 Stamina alternatively
• 4th Soft Cap: Level 50 – Endurance gives 1 Stamina point per three levels

Soft Caps with Elden Ring Dexterity

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 55
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 80

Soft Caps Elden Ring Intelligence

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 55
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 80

Faith Soft Caps Elden Ring

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 55
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 80

Arcane Soft Caps Elden Ring

• 1st Soft Cap: Level 20
• 2nd Soft Cap: Level 55
• 3rd Soft Cap: Level 80

And as of January 2023 and Elden Ring patch 1.08, they are all the soft caps that are present in the game. Remember that these statistics might alter if FromSoftware makes more adjustments to the balance. We'll do our best to promptly update the article if they do alter. It should be noted that the first sorcery limit is at level 60 for Intelligence, while the second is at level 80. Additionally, Faith has two invocation caps: one at level 80 and the other at level 60. The first incantation cap in Arcane is at level 30, while the second is at level 45. Lastly, at level 99, all major stats are hardcapped.