Passive effect items are some of the most desired items inElden Ring. This is in large part because, as the name suggests, they only have to be equipped in order for you to benefit from them. As things like melee weapons alter your play style quite significantly, they are not considered passive items.
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Items such as shields, talismans, and full armor sets are easier to fit into anyone’s build, they can be considered passive. While Talismans are by far the best item in the game for significant passive boosts, that doesn’t mean there aren’t a handful of other items that can’t offer you comparable benefits.
10Queen’s Crescent Crown
One of the earliest armor items in the game that offers you a nice stat boost. By equipping the headpiece, not only are you given magic resistances but your intelligence stat is boosted by three levels, making it perfect for magic builds.
The Queen’s Crescent Crown is one of the armor items that become available after defeatingRennala, Queen of the Full Moonin the Raya Lucaria Academy. After finishing the boss, her armor set will be available for purchase from Finger Reader Enia at the Roundtable Hold for 7,000 runes.
9Great-Jar’s Arsenal
Equip loads in Elden Ring can make a major difference in how you decide to build your character. Wanting to run a heavy armor and heavy melee weapon character may seem like a great idea for the high defense and damage output, but the weakened movement speed and dodge roll make it far more difficult to utilize effectively.
With the Great-Jar’s Arsenal talisman, your max equip load jumps almost 20%. This makes heavier weapons far more viable than without it. The Great-Jar’s Arsenal can be found after defeating the three NPC duelists in Dragonbarrow near the top of Caelid.
8Viridian Amber Medallion / Green Turtle Talisman / Great Turtle Shell
These two talismans and one shield offer the best benefits for improving your stamina without leveling in Elden Ring. The Viridian Amber Medallion and Green Turtle Talisman both increase your maximum stamina and stamina recovery rate respectively. The Great Turtle Shell shield, on the other hand, boosts your recovery rate total by 8 percent.
These are best for extremist builds, like an incredibly heavy weapon that eats up a lot of stamina per attack, or a light rapid weapon like a dagger that you want to spam as best you can.
7Cerulean Amber Medallion / Cerulean Seed Talisman
TheCerulean Amber Medallionand Cerulean Seed Talisman both raise your maximum FP and the amount you gain from drinking from the Flask of Cerulean Tears. While exceptional in their own right, both of these items are really only useful for outright magic builds.
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Even if you use a spirit ash or weapon art that requires FP, you likely won’t use them enough in a single fight to need more than one or two flasks, limiting these two’s usefulness. The Cerulean Amber Medallion can be found in the Lakeside Crystal Cave, while the Cerluean Seed Talisman is found in theCarian Study Hall.
6Raptor’s Black Feathers
While there are a handful of armor sets in Elden Ring that offer some decent passive bonuses, one of the best comes from theRaptor’s Black Feathers, which is just a chest piece out of a bigger set. The chest piece alone will bump your jump attack damage by 10%.
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Jump attacks are great for countering shielded enemies, and are good safe attacks that allow you to cover a wide distance more quickly than a standard light or heavy attack. The Raptor’s Black Feathers can be found in the Sage’s Cave in the Atlus Plateau, past an illusory wall.
5Erdtree’s Favor
While items that focus specifically on health and damage boosts are ideal, the Erdtree’s Favor’ biggest benefit is its increase of multiple key stats. It raises your max health, stamina, and equip load by about 3% in its base form, and between 5 and 8 percent in its +2 variation later on.
TheErdtree’s Favoris most useful when you need just a slight boost in equip load to fit your current build, but can also benefit from an HP and stamina increase where more equip load focuses talismans are not necessary.
4Crimson Amber Medallion / Crimson Seed Talisman / Icon Shield
While FP-focused items are only fully utilized in magic builds, HP-focused items are always useful. The Crimson Amber Medallion and Crimson Seed Talisman are staple medallions that boost your max HP and the health gained from drinking the Flask of Crimson Tears. You should find one fairly early on, with the base version of the medallion being purchased from a merchant in the Weeping Peninsula, and the talisman much later in the Atlus Plateau in the Sainted Hero’s Grave.
The Icon Shield also offers a decent health recovery bonus when equipped, adding 3hp per second. Sadly it just barely lacks full physical damage negation, meaning it’s better stashed in builds where a shield is not needed.
3Millicent’s Prosthesis
One of the best passive boosts in Elden Ring can only be found by killing a tragic and beloved NPC questline. Millicent’s Prosthesis not only boosts your dexterity by five levels, but also increases your damage rate by a percentage on successive hits landed on an enemy, starting at 4 percent at the lowest, and capping out at 11 percent.
Millicent’s Prosthesis can only be obtained by killing Millicent in the Windmill Heights Site of Grace, although you may want to wait until a new game plus in order to finish her questline first.
2Radagon’s Soreseal
The Radagon’s Soreseal is a key talisman that many players run for immediately before doing anything else in a new game. While you do have to travel quite a way before you are properly leveled to do so, by running to Fort Faroth in Caelid, traversing a vertically designed area can net you the Radagon’s Soreseal, which boosts vigor, endurance, strength, and dexterity by five levels.
It does have the downside of increasing damage taken by 15%, but the big increase to health and damage in the way of twenty free levels worth of boosts gained, it more than offsets it until late game.
1Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman
The Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman offers a staggering bonus of reducing all physical damage taken by twenty percent. Many major enemies in the game deal various types of damage that are not covered by the talisman, but there are such a major amount that do, it makes taking this off almost a non-starter.
Its only downside is how late it can be obtained, which is after entering Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree, in one of the latest dungeons in the entire game. Malenia’s boss fight is followed not too shortly after, which is almost certainly not a coincidence from a game design standpoint.
