One of the few weapons with four required stats, the Gazing Finger is a great Colossal weapon for bonking enemies on the head to delete them from existence in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Players can get this weapon from the Remembrance of the Mother of Fingers. When properly utilizied, players will be breaking stances and crushing their enemies left and right.
As a colossal weapon, it deals a significant amount of poise damage, and the weapon art gives the player decent hyper armor, making it a good choice for staggering bosses. Moreover, it has a powerful ash of war that players can use to their advantage quite easily.
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Stat Spread To Optimize Gazing Finger in SOTE
This colossal weapon scales primarily with Strength, as all good bonk sticks do, but it also scales with Intelligence and Faith. The Faith aspect effects only the weapon art, while Strength and Intelligence increase the damage dealt by the player during normal and strong attacks.
To maximize the damage output of the weapon, you will need to decide whether you will be spamming the strong attack or the weapon skill. If you decide to go skill spam, investing in faith as the primary stat is the best option. However, strong attacks scale almost entirely off of Strength. Intelligence only increases the damage marginally and can be mostly ignored after meeting the 20 point requirement. Here is what your stats should look at level 150.
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Vigor |
40 |
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Min |
22 |
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Endurance |
30 |
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Strength |
60 |
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Dexterity |
9 |
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Intelligence |
20 |
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Faith |
40 |
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Arcane |
7 |
As you level up more, bring Vigor to 60, Endurance to 40, and your primary scaling stat to 80.
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Best Talismans for Gazing Finger in the Elden Ring DLC
As a verifiable sledgehammer, the Gazing Finger is very easy to optimize your build for. Maximize your damage, and don't think about anything else. If you're planning to focus your efforts on optimizing the weapon skill: Kowtower's Resentment, these four should be your talismans of choice:
Two-Headed Turtle Talisman: Increases stamina regeneration
Carian Filigreed Crest: Decreases FP consumed by skills
Godfrey Icon: Increases damage dealt by charged skills and spells
Sacred Scorpion Charm: Increases the damage of Holy attacks but decreases damage negation
Shard of Alexander doesn't buff the shock wave that emanates from the weapon skill, making it almost useless for Gazing Finger.
If you want to focus on the physical side of things and deal as much damage as possible without using the skill, here's what you need:
Two-Headed Turtle Talisman: Increases stamina regeneration.
Two-Handed Sword Talisman: Increases damage from two-handing a weapon
Claw Talisman: Increases damage dealt by jump attacks
Blade of Mercy: Increases damage after dealing critical hits
Optimizing your build for the ash of war will be more effective for pure damage, but it will result in less staggers. The physical side of the weapon does good posture damage, but isn't the best in dealing overall high damage.
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Best Wondrous Physik Tears for Gazing Finger
Holy Skill Mixture
Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear: Increases holy damage
Cerulean-Sapping Cracked Tear: Restores FP on successful attacks for 45 seconds
Physical Attack Mixture
Spiked Cracked Tear: Increases attack power of charged attacks (Doesn't work on spells or skills)
Stonebarb Cracked Tear: Increases likelihood of breaking enemy stance.
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Spell Choices for the Gazing Finger
Since players have 20 Int in this build, they will have a much wider choice of spells they can equip. It ultimately depends on the player's choice, though spells aren't a requirement for this build since it covers both AoE and single target damage quite well. It also deals good damage over range, making it an ideal all-rounder build.
The Golden Vow incantation is recommended since it is one of the best buffing spells in the game. Other than that, players can use any spell that they think is viable. If players increase their Int to 25, they can also equip the Staff of the Great Beyond, which can be used to cast both incantations and sorceries.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Released
- June 21, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Base Game
- Elden Ring
- Developer(s)
- FromSoftware
- Publisher(s)
- Bandai Namco Entertainment, FromSoftware
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
