Erdtree's Favor is the "I'm wearing Great-Jar's Arsenal and I'm STILL too fat" talisman

Ironjar Aromatic for maximum effect. Sure, you can't run and are immediately over-encumbered, but that's a small price to pay for insane physical damage negation and near infinite poise.

Shard of Alexander. Ashes of War are so powerful in Elden Ring having a 15% damage buff to them is nuts

Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman. I can wear more fashion without sacrificing my damage negation too much

Dragoncrest Talisman, Full Bull-Goats, Opaline Hardtear, Winged Crystal Tear, boiled crab, put as few pointing into Endurance as possible, pump Vigor.

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Become, UNKILLABLE (to physical)

Never considered those combos!

Gonna be sacrificing some power but my build will still be literal drip.

Pyro/Bleed build. Flame incantations and briar spells with hoslow whips.

Replace it with Crimson Ember Medalion +2 for PvP

I hate the gold scarab ring.

Because I cannot bring myself to ever take it off. I have memorized the quickest route to it. As soon as I start a run, I must have it. Whenever I kill something and think "nice, a bunch of runes" there is this rotten little voice in the back of my head squealing "could have been more tho" and the only way to silence it is to sacrifice one talisman slot forever. Doesn't matter if its a greatrune bearer or a limgrave sheep. Doesn't matter if my build is long finished. Every kill without it makes me physically cringe. My greed has forever doomed me to only play with a maximum of 3 talisman slots.

I have cursed myself.

Cerulean Assassin's dagger. Get this:

You equip this bad boy with any weapon that has Flame of the Redmanes and you essentially broke the game. Almost every fight turns into spams flame, breaks poise, gets crit and regens spent FP from it because of the talisman.

Bonus points if you also equip that one you get from Iji which lowers FP costs.

Dragoncrest Shield Talisman/Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman.

I use them on almost every build. Just makes me feel safe.

The gold hand i forgor the name of it but i remember it is from milicent questline bad ending imo one of the bests dex build talisman

Green turtle. I can't stand playing with default stamina anymore.

Alexander's shard! :D

For melee only you cant go wrong with the talisman that boosts jump attack damage

Millicents prosthesis,Dragoncrest Greatshield talisman are fairly good ones

Erdtree's favor, great jar talisman, the +5 str or dex talismans, radagon's soreseal, turtle stamina talisman are all good options

Axe Talisman: increases charged attack damage. I use it for my strength build

Filigreed Crest is good on bosses, but that one accessory that drops from regal ancestor spirit is 100 times better for exploration. I can maximize Hp flasks so anything that out damages the blade gets healed away

Greatjar's arsenal. Colossal Sword weight + leveling DEX and STR means you'll be starved for endurance.

Claw, axe, spear or curved sword talisman depending if you use jump attacks, fully charged attacks, pokes or guard counters the most.

Turtle. Stamina cost of colossal swords are colossal too.

Just a PSA for anyone that might not know, the shield gives 3 stamina a sec (7.4% increase), while the talisman gives 8 a sec (17.7% increase.) They also stack if you'd like!

I run pure faith builds for a lot of Co-op and I absolutely always have my 10 slots full, Stuff like Buffs, Heals, Defensive Spells etc alone take up half my slots and I use the other 5 for offensive Incantations.

As a caster I have tried the moon talisman from nokron. It's not really worth it...

Then I recommend Claw talisman (increases jump attack damage) and the green turtle talisman (increases stamina recovery speed).

There's like 70 sorceries and 100 incantations in the game. You can't imagine using 5 of them? What spells are you using now?

You'll probably want to swap that for a weapon with a damaging weapon art eventually. Grafted has great damage, but it's also the shortest weapon of its type.

If you're using the weapon-skill a lot, Shard of Alexander and Carian filigreed crest are very good.

Try Dragoncrest Greatshield instead of Radagon's Soreseal and Turtle instead of the Heirloom

Edit: Statwise, go something like 60 Vig, 20 Mind, 40 End, 80 Str, 12 Dex, 10 Int, 25 Faith, 45 Arc

25 Faith for FGMS and Golden Vow ofc and then if you have extra dump it into Arcane

You should have dropped the Soreseal about 130 levels ago, to be honest. Absolutely zero reason to use it on a 200+ Build.

Same goes for the Starscourge Heirloom. You should have hit 80 in STR by Level 175-180, if you want to one-hand your weapon. Or invest more into ARC for the bleed buildup softcap plus stronger Dragon Communion Seal incant scaling.

Better talismans would be: Two-Handed Sword Talisman and Two-Headed Turtle / Green Turtle Talisman.

Edited to add: I took a closer look at your build, not just your talismans. Do you have DLC access?

Freyja’s Greatsword, in your offhand, gives a passive boost to any Redmane ashes of war, of which Lion’s Claw is one. If you changed your entire set to the Scaled Set, you’d still have high poise + good defenses, but be able to save points in Endurance.

Let’s say you started as Vagabond, and you’re at Level 212. You could have:

VIG 60 MIND 20 END 56 STR 63 DEX base 13 (or lower; you only need 12 anyway) INT base FAI 25 ARC 45

Right-hand: your Greatsword; Left-hand 1: Freyja’s Greatsword; Left-hand 2: Dragon Communion Seal (306 incant scaling).

Armor: Entire Scaled Set.

You can still two-hand your colossal sword. As long as Freyja’s Greatsword remains in the offhand slot, you get the boost to Lion’s Claw.

Soreseal and heirloom past level 200??

Level 200 with the soreseal is wild

Youre level 200+, my brother in christ why do you have a soreseal on

It depends on what type of str build you’re using, which weapon/ash of war.

There are some universally good talismans regardless of build, like erdtree’s favor, green turtle, ritual sword/shield.

And then you get into the details of what your build is trying to accomplish. For str you could go for powerstace jump attacks on halberds/greatswords, in which case you can use Claw Talisman. You can do a charged attack build with Giant’s Crusher and Determination/Royal Knight’s resolve, where Axe Talisman would be great. You can do Lion’s Claw/Giant Hunt on Guts Greatsword where Warrior Jar Shard is good. For the flex slot/s, it really depends on your weapon of choice

Erdtree's Favor, dragoncrest Greatshield, axe talismans, claw talismans. Charged or jump attacks, trade with enemies.

There is no “best”, but if you’re using heavy and slow weapons you’re probably going to end up trading blows with enemies you can’t easily 1-shot. So the good defensive talismans are always a good pick if that’s the case. Specifically the great jar’s arsenal to be able to carry heavier armor and keep a good roll, or the dragoncrest greatshield talisman for a huge boost to physical damage reduction.

Personally though, I’m a big fan of the axe talisman for most strength weapons. As long as the charge doesn’t take too long on the weapon, charged attacks are usually your best option for slower weapons.

Use the two-handed sword talisman for +15% normal and heavy attack dmg (doesnt affect the skills DMG sadly)

Spear Talisman for more thrust damage, Carian Filigreed Crest for less FP use, Two Handed Talisman for more damage while two handing, and Shard of Alexander (pretty much on every single build of mine lol). Two Headed Turtle is also good if you feel like you are running out of stamina too quickly.

I can never go without the green turtle talisman. Quicker stamina regen just fits my playstyle and the talisman always has a tangible effect in combat. I always ran the chloranthy ring in the dark souls trilogy, as well as the hunter rune in bloodborne.

Mine is Arrow's Reach. I'm playing a samurai/mage and have meteorite staff with the Rock Sling sorcery. Rock Sling is one of only a few spells affected by Arrows Reach. I can start flinging rocks from about twice the distance of other spells.

Rotten wing sword insignia just because it’s pretty compatible with many different weapons, one of which I learned most recently was Maria’s executioner sword AoW. You can also stack its effect with millicent’s prosthesis and the cracked tear so you can get some pretty insane damage numbers with minimal effort.

Bull-Goat.

If you have Poise then you're either ugly or you're wearing Bull-Goat Talisman.

dragoncrest greatshield just the best physical dmg defense buff talisman in the game.

I think the only talisman I consistently wear almost the time is one of the Dragoncrest talismans -- the only time it ever gets switched out is PvP in favor of Bullgoat.

Shard of Alexander is basically a staple on any playthrough.

I love weapon arts, I have a hard time not using shard of Alexander.

Plus the sentimental value of it- you didn’t go in his pot, but a piece of him is literally always with you, lending you his (and radahns) power.

Erdtree favor+2

Radagon Soreseal + Dragoncrest Shield is a great early game combo

Erdtree Favor is an all-rounder that I almost never take off on STR/DEX/Quality builds

Radagon Icon for casters

Green Turtle is the best filler

Can't go wrong with Winged Sword/Millicent Prosthesis on things like Twinblades and Wild Strikes and etc

Claw Talisman for unga bunga

Great Jarsenal as needed

I'd definitely use Shard of Alexander/Filigreed Crest more if I was spamming a strong AoW, but that's often not my style