Holding your weapon with one hand and using a shield that's boring! Try this two-hand and power stance builds dual wield two weapons, they are deleting enemies in seconds in Elden Ring now!

Elden Ring Dual Wield Builds - Two-Hand & Power Stance

Elden Ring gives you plenty of options when it comes to how you use your weapons and equipment, for example instead of walking around with that traditional old sword and shield combination, you can two-hand your weapon to increase your damage output. 

How To Dual Wield in Elden Ring?

To do this press and hold the Y or Triangle button and then tap the Left or Right bumper or L1 and R1 button, and you'll now be two handing the weapon that's in your left or right hand. You can two-hand just about anything, from swords to axes to staffs to even a shield for some reason, doing so increases the damage that you deal with that weapon, it also opens up new offensive move combos. 

If you have a weapon that has a strength requirement that's just a bit beyond your current level, you could two-handed to get a slight boost in your strength and that may be enough to let you use it effectively. The only downside is that you won't be able to use a shield when you two hand a weapon, so you better get good at dodge rolling. 

How To Power Stance in Elden Ring?

The other alternative way of wielding your gear is to equip two weapons of the same type in each hand, this is called power stancing. 

Power Stancing opens up new powerful combos by pressing the Left bumper or L1 buttons you can use daggers, swords, and great swords. The only downside is that just like two-handing, you won't have much in the way of defensive options other than dodge rolling unless you decide to power stance two shields which you could do although that's ridiculous.

There you go, two-handing and power stancing are just two different ways you can use your favorite weapons that are much more interesting than just one-handing and lugging around his shield unless of course, you're really good at parrying. 

Top 5 Best Dual Wield Builds (PvE & Pvp) in Elden Ring

In this case, here we show you the best dual wield power stance build in terms of different weapon types:

• 1. Elden Ring Best Dual Wield Katana Builds

This dual wield build is as good as it gets, especially with these two katanas together, we're going to be going for huge amounts of damage output quick attacks ranged attacks against PvP or PvE, bosses, enemies, whatever you're going for. This is the most versatile build that you can probably do in the game at the moment when it comes to everything put together that's magic quick attacks, ranged attacks, and huge amounts of blood loss damage as well. 

Build Setup (Gear & Stats)

Weapons: Moonveil (Right Hand), Meteoric Ore Blade (Right Hand)

Talismans: Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom, Taker's Cameo, Gold Scarab, Erdtree's Favor

Stats (100 Level): 30 Vigor, 26 Mind, 31 Endurance, 23 Strength, 28 Dexterity, 25 Intelligence, 25 Faith, 8 Arcane

• 2. Elden Ring Best Dual Wield Staff Build

Dual wield casting is a very effective technique to increase the damage of most of your spells, it does not matter if you're a sorcerer a priest, or something else in between. So when you build a spellcaster, we suggest you always use dual-wield casting. One of the staff that you have equipped, usually the main hand, acts as the caster Catalyst, while the one that is equipped to your Off-Hand acts as the damage buffing element. Depending on the staff and type of spells you use, damage can increase as little as 10% and as much as 69%. You can cast the spell with your best or strongest staff while holding the boosting staff in your off-hand. That way, you get more Scaling on the cast on top of the damage boost. This maximizes the damage potential of all your castings. Furthermore, you can stack two of the same Boosting Staffs together, this grants you an even bigger damage boost. Here we set up the dual staff pure sorcery build is both powerful for PvE and PvP invasions.

Build Setup (Gear & Stats)

Weapons:  Carian Glinstone Staff+25 (Right Hand),  Carian Regal Scepter+10 (Right Hand), Magic Misericorde+25 (Right Hand), Azur's Glinstone Staff+10 (Left Hand), Buckler+25 (Left Hand)

Armor: Bandit Mask, Ronin's Armor, Lusat's Manchettes, Page Trousers

Talismans: Shard of Alexander, Graven-Mass Talisman, Codfrey Icon, Radagon Icon

Stats (125 Level): 60 Vigor, 28 Mind, 9 Endurance, 10 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 80 Intelligence, 7 Faith, 9 Arcane

Incantations: Carian Slicer, Carian Piercer, Carian Greatsword, Swift Glinstone Shard

• 3. Elden Ring Best Dual Wield Greatsword Build

If you want the best DPS you take two curved swords collect some bleed and consecutive attacks boost talismans and jump in front of the boss for a second or two; or if you want to tunkhold the damage while wielding an arsenal of the size of a small aircraft carrier, you'll level up Faith and Strength, don't forget to summon a spirit to make the gameplay itself. This insanely overpowered dual greatsword build is built up with Godslayer's Greatswords and Royal Knight's Resolve Ash of War, offering the max damage to one hit any boss in Elden Ring now!

Build Setup (Gear & Stats)

Weapons:  Godslayer's Greatsword (Right Hand),  Godslayer's Greatsword (Right Hand)

Ash of War: Royal Knight's Resolve

Talismans: Lord of Blood's Exultation, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Claw Talisman Great-Jar's Arsenal

Stats (250 Level): 51 Vigor, 30 Mind, 38 Endurance, 50 Strength, 52 Dexterity, 60 Intelligence, 42 Faith, 32 Arcane

• 4. Elden Ring Best Dual Wield Dagger Build

Intuitively, you would think that two-handing daggers aren’t great, but it actually has a decent moveset. The powerstanced moveset of daggers got buffed to be quicker while the status effect application of powerstancing got nerfed in general. Here we show the best post patch 1.09 faith dual dagger build in Elden ring, this is a very flexible build you can either spam non-stop up close attacks or abuse a deadly range Ash of War, both probably almost instantaneously.  This build not only can clear late-game bosses in seconds but also deletes granks in 1v3 PvP invasions!

Build Setup (Gear & Stats)

Weapons:  Flame Art Erdsteel Dagger+25 (Right Hand),  Flame Art Erdsteel Dagger+25 (Left Hand), Erdtree Seal+10 (Left Hand)

Armor: Ruler's Mask, Tree Sentinel Armor, Bull-Goat Gauntlets, Bull-Goat Greaves

Talismans: Millicent's Prosthesis, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Bull-Goat Talisman, Great-Jar's Arsenal

Stats (125 Level): 60 Vigor, 17 Mind, 21 Endurance, 11 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 7 Intelligence, 81 Faith, 10 Arcane

• 5. Elden Ring Best Dual Wield Spear Build

Dual spears are also still overpowered in PvE boss deletes and PvP invasions after the 1.09 patches in Elden Ring. Why are dual Spears so good? Essentially the first thing is thrusting counterattacks, if someone is swinging and you hit them with a thrust, it does massive extra damage, and with two thrusting weapons, it's even worse. On top of that, you have the extremely fast running attacks with no recovery and you can just dance outside of people's range and then go in real quick and hit them for big damage then back out and repeat, they can basically out space everything. What's more, they have a great Phantom range. Here we show a magic knight dual spear build set up with Clayman's Magic Harpoons power stance. 

Build Setup (Gear & Stats)

Weapons:  Clayman's Magic Harpoon+20 (Right Hand),  Clayman's Magic Harpoon+20 (Left Hand), Carian Glinstone Staff+20 (Left Hand), Carian Knight's Magic Shield (Left Hand)

Armor: Greathelm, Royal Knight Armor, Veteran's Gauntlets, Scaled Greaves

Talismans: Great-Jar's Arsenal, Shard of Alexandar, Radagon Icon, Bull-Goat's Talisman

Stats (100 Level): 50 Vigor, 25 Mind, 25 Endurance, 12 Strength, 14 Dexterity, 40 Intelligence, 6 Faith, 9 Arcane