Version 1.17 Patch Notes

FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have officially deployed Patch 1.17 for ELDEN RING. This update delivers crucial gameplay tuning, comprehensive balance adjustments, and foundational support for the forthcoming Tarnished Pack DLC, slated for global release on Friday, August 28, 2026.

Please ensure your game client is fully updated before launching online sessions.

Major Additions: “Tarnished Pack” DLC

Players who acquire the “Tarnished Pack” will unlock access to the following gameplay features and content additions:

• New Starting Classes: Added the Idus Knight and Heavy Knight archetypes to the character creation roster.
  • Note: Equipment sets corresponding to these archetypes can also be acquired through exploration or purchased directly from nomadic merchants across the Lands Between.
• Expanded Arsenal: Introduced brand-new weapons discoverable in the open world or available via merchant inventories.
• Torrent Customization (Spectral Steed Attire): Added three distinct aesthetic armors for your mount:
  • Tree Sentinel Spectral Steed Attire: Located within Stormveil Castle.
  • Silver of Caria Spectral Steed Attire: Discovered in Liurnia of the Lakes.
  • Funereal Night Spectral Steed Attire: Hidden across the Altus Plateau.
  • Note: Acquiring any steed barding unlocks the mount customization option at all Sites of Grace.
• Hostile NPC Invasions:
  • Integrated a new adversarial NPC encounter in the wilds of Caelid.
  • Integrated a new adversarial NPC encounter within Leyndell, Royal Capital (Unavailable once the city transitions to Leyndell, Ashen Capital).

General Balance Adjustments

Selected ground loot and rewards obtained from formidable adversaries within the Realm of Shadow have been upgraded to higher-tier items and rarer treasures. (Previously acquired items will remain unchanged.)

Weapon Adjustments

• Smithscript Dagger & Rellana’s Twin Blades: Increased critical strike damage multiplier.
• Smithscript Axe, Smithscript Spear & Spear of the Impaler: Reduced stamina depletion on thrown attacks while substantially boosting projectile damage.
• Carian Sorcery Sword: Revised Intelligence scaling to enhance attack power across all associated damage affinities.
• Smithscript Greathammer: Increased output on thrown attacks.
• Golem Fist: Extended the effective forward reach of heavy projectile strikes.
• Perfume Bottles (Firespark, Lightning, Chilling, Frenzyflame, Deadly Poison): Scaled up overall baseline damage output.
• Greatshields (Weight Reductions & Stability Buffs):
  • Lordsworn’s Shield, Briar Greatshield, Spiked Palisade Shield, Icon Shield, Golden Beast Crest Shield, Manor Towershield, Crossed-Tree Towershield, Inverted Hawk Towershield, Dragon Towershield, Distinguished Greatshield, Gilded Greatshield, Black Steel Greatshield, Ant’s Skull Plate, and Erdtree Greatshield: Increased Guard Boost and decreased overall equipment load/weight.
  • Wooden Greatshield, Cuckoo Greatshield, Redmane Greatshield, Golden Greatshield, Crucible Hornshield, Dragonclaw Shield, Eclipse Crest Greatshield, Jellyfish Shield, and One-Eyed Shield: Enhanced Guard Boost values.
  • Haligtree Crest Greatshield: Reduced weight value.
• Rakshasa’s Great Katana: Increased the recovery window before a right-hand weapon can execute an attack following an off-hand swing with this weapon.

Weapon Skills (Ashes of War)

• Parry: Broadened parry deflection frames and decreased recovery animation lag when utilizing Daggers, Curved Swords, or Small Shields.
• Storm Wall: Removed FP consumption entirely and refined defensive parry reliability.
• Thops’s Barrier: Improved reactive parry window and effectiveness against incoming threats.

Sorceries & Incantations

• Founding Rain of Stars: Increased spell potency and damage output.
• Carian Retaliation: Amplified offensive projectile damage.
• Meteorite & Meteorite of Astel: Decreased startup casting animations.
• Gravitational Missile: Modified trajectory logic to prevent premature detonation upon making contact with terrain and obstacles.
• Feather of the Divine Bird & Rain of Fire: Scaled up overall attack power.
• O, Flame!: Expanded the effective hit radius of the eruption.

PvP-Exclusive Balance Adjustments

• Rakshasa’s Great Katana: Heightened incoming damage penalty when struck by rival players during hyper-armor attack animations.
• Rugalea’s Roar: Scaled back outgoing damage performance against other players.
• Rotten Breath & Ekzykes’s Decay: Reduced the hit-stun duration imposed on opposing Tarnished.

Bug Fixes & Technical Improvements

• Resolved an issue causing critical attacks performed with Great Katanas to deliver lower-than-intended damage against oversized targets.
• Corrected a bug that permitted jumping heavy attacks from Great Katanas to be erroneously parried.

PC-Specific Fixes

• Fixed a camera malfunction that locked mouse orientation during NPC conversations while using keyboard and mouse inputs.
• Resolved an error in the System Menu where executing a reset inside “Keyboard/Mouse Settings” failed to revert bindings to default values.

Following this update, the version metrics displayed at the bottom right of the main menu will read:

App Ver. 1.17
Regulation Ver. 1.17

Installing this update is mandatory to access online multiplayer features. We appreciate your enduring passion and dedication to ELDEN RING.

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