What Level is Elden Beast in Elden Ring?

As an experienced Elden Ring player and content creator, I recommend being at least level 120 with a +22 weapon before taking on the Elden Beast. This mysterious, ethereal creature is the ultimate challenge standing between you and becoming the Elden Lord.

At lower levels, the beast‘s devastating holy attacks and massive health bar will overwhelm most players. Based on community data, level 120+ gives you the vigor, damage, and tools needed to finally triumph. This guide dives deep into everything you need to know to prepare for this epic final confrontation.

Resistances and Weaknesses of the Elden Beast

I‘ll start by analyzing what makes the Elden Beast so difficult to take down:

• Highly Resistant: All status effects like bleed, frost, rot, poison, sleep have no effect whatsoever. The beast shrugs them off. Don‘t waste time or equipment slots investing in these.
• Heals from Holy Damage: Dealing holy damage actually heals the Elden Beast rather than hurts it. A holy knight build won‘t work here.
• Susceptible to Physical Damage: Your best damage type is physical, particularly thrusting weapons to hit its midsection weak point.
• Vulnerable to % Damage: Skills and spells that deal percentage health damage over time, like Black Flame, are especially powerful against the Elden Beast‘s massive HP pool.

So in summary – drop your bleed builds, leave the sacred seals behind, and lean heavily into physical weapons and percentage-damaging skills for this fight.

Elden Ring Level Cap – How High Can You Go?

Now that we know our enemy, what level should you actually be for this epic showdown? Let‘s analyze the level cap in Elden Ring first.

With 8 stats capped at 99 each, the maximum level you can reach in Elden Ring is 713.

Reaching the soft caps on damage stats like 60 strength or 80 dexterity is more realistic. Getting Vigor to 60 is also advised to give you a health bar that isn‘t one-shotted.

So while 713 is the hard cap, a level between 120-200 is recommended to challenge the strongest bosses.

Hardest Elden Ring Bosses Attempted by Players

To understand how the Elden Beast compares difficulty-wise with other notorious bosses, let‘s analyze community attempt data:

As you can see, Malenia is considered the overall hardest boss, with her Waterfowl Dance attack slaying players left and right. Godskin Duo and Radagon also posed quite the challenge.

But the Elden Beast still racks up 134 million attempts – illustrating how only the best make it to the final boss, yet very few manage to win in this climatic showdown.

So what equipment and stats do you need to stand a chance?

Weapons – Black Flame and Frostdraw Hallmark

Let‘s start with offense – which weapons have players used to finally triumph over the Elden Beast?

Black Flame is universally praised in this fight, especially if you have high Faith. The percentage-damage ticks away steadily at the Elden Beast‘s enormous health bar. Chase it down and keep reapplying! Some dedicated players will respec to 80+ faith just to unleash ungodly Black Flame damage.

Victor‘s Frostdraw Hallmark is another powerful option, with its Frost accumulation able to proc despite the boss‘s status resistances. The area damage helps track the teleporting Elden Beast too.

Melee players have success powerstancing colossal weapons like giant crushers to poise break or using thrusting spears against the Beast‘s midsection weak point when openings allow.

No matter your build – stacking holy defense is critical to survival.

Armor – Best Holy Damage Negation

The Elden Beast loves peppering the arena with homing holy energy attacks. Getting hit by these glowing projectiles will chunk your health badly.

Veteran players highly recommend the Crucible Tree armor set. With high holy damage negation across all pieces, this plant-like equipment will block a decent portion of the barrage.

Tree Sentinel armor, Godrick Soldier armor, and Eccentric‘s armor also have solid holy resistance if you miss the Crucible Tree set.

An even heavier option is the full Bullgoat set – providing immunity to getting staggered at the cost of less damage negation.

Summons – Mimic Tear Overtakes All Comers

For players struggling mightily against the Elden Beast, summoning tanks or damage dealers can help ease the burden. And there‘s no better summon than our old frenemy…Mimic Tear!

This consumable summon clones your entire build and loadout to double your damage output. Seeing two Black Flames or Frostdraw attacks bombard the Elden Beast cuts the fight‘s duration in half. Even just pulling aggro momentarily offers massive breathing room.

No other spirit really competes here damage-wise, though the sturdiness of Omenkiller Rollo or Kristoff can allow them to survive for long stretches if your mimic keeps dying. Their tankiness and Frost attacks offer support.

Some risky players forego any summons and opt for the damage boost of Mimic Veil instead!

Status Effects – Scarlet Rot Excels

While the Elden Beast shrugs off bleed, frost, poison, and other status alignments – it remains susceptible to the ever-popular Scarlet Rot.

Proc‘ing rot then evading and keeping distance is a highly effective (if cheesy) tactic. Ekzykes‘s Decay on dragon breaths melts health bars when your rot takes hold.

Pest Threads is another scarlet rot inducing incantation that can pace well with the Beast‘s movement patterns if you have enough Dex and Arcane. Just re-cast periodically and watch those health ticks!

Now that we‘ve covered boss fighting recommendations – let‘s analyze the Elden Beast itself in a bit more philosophical depth.

Origins of the Elden Beast Explained

• The Elden Beast is a godlike cosmic entity that came to the Lands Between alongside the Greater Will.
• It brought the Elden Ring and established the Golden Order and guidance of Grace.
• Queen Marika and King Consort Radagon are both children of a single god – spiritual medium to the Greater Will.
• Radagon tried to repair the Elden Ring when it shattered, for which his motives remain unclear.

I have some interesting theories about why Radagon opposes our player tarnished trying to repair the Ring and whether the shattering was part of some grand plan from Marika herself.

But the key takeaway is that the Elden Beast is an alien visitor aligning the game world to the will of mysterious outer gods. Only by besting this angelic leviathan can we forge our own path forward as the Elden Lord.

So prepare your holy shields, frost drawstrings, Mimic summon chants, and scarlet bullets – glory awaits!

Let me know if this guide helps you finally conquer Elden Ring‘s ultimate test. What strategies worked best in your victorious run? What mysteries remain about Marika, Radagon, and the Elden Beast‘s true motives?

Praise the tarnished!