A weird thing happened while playing with the cross naginata spear, normally the cool moves sitcom when you're doing Powers dancing attacks, but with this weapon, it's the opposite the cool moveset is done with the light and strong attack, while we change our build in the middle of our playthrough to experience all that the naginata had to offer, apart from his power. We will show you those two different and powerful builds so that you can pick one depending on your preference and start using this super powerful spear now.

Elden Ring Best Cross Naginata Builds

First thing let's check the cross knocking that out - a spear that scales with the string and the sturdy and has 50% blood loss by default and it has one-of-a-kind movement compared to other Spears. Damage wise at max level, it has the second play on physical damage and range-wise it has a four spot among other Spears, having very long reach if you only play with short to mid-range weapons. While power sensing, the move sets are pretty basic impaling thrusts or pokes, so you don't have that slash attack benefit that lets you land hits if the enemy is not just in front of you, but using light attacks, does a pretty good combo with one over her slash, one poke, one side slash, and a final thrust.

You can get the Cross Naginata early in the game inside Gael Tunnel in Cael, from the side of Grace you can walk this way to a cavern with a giant land octopus and the Nagina is in a course behind it.

Armor: Maliketh's Set & Raptor's Black Feather

The armor that we are running on both builds is Maliketh's Set just for fashion, changing the chest piece with the Raptor's Black Feathers to increase jump attacks

Best Cross Naginata Build 1

Weapon

• Main Hand: Occult Cross Naginata+25 with Bloodhound Step Ash of War

• Left Hand: Main Hand: Occult Cross Naginata with Seppuku Ash of War

So the first build that decided to go with is a power sensing naginara meta bleed build with both Spears with the cold affinity and running Bloodhound step on the main hand to get to the range to do a new jump attack or power sensing combo, and Seppuku on the other hand to increase attack power 

Talisman

• Lord of Blood's Exultation will increase attack power by 20% for 20 seconds when blood loss occurs in the vicinity 

• Radagon's Soreseal will increase Vigor endurance strength and dexterity by five and increase damage sticking by 15%

• Green Turtle Talisman will raise stamina recovery speed by 8 per second

• Claw Talisman will increase jump attacks by 15%

Physique Flask

• Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear will  increase dexterity by 10 for 3 minutes

• Thorny Cracked Tear will increase attack power depending on the number of attacks you land by 3 minutes, so every three attacks you activate a tear, and those tears are 9%, 13%, and 20%.

Main Attributes for Level 200 (Arcane & Dexterity)

For a level 200 character, you need to have the points like this:

• Vigor: 60

• Mind: 25

• Endurance: 29

• Strength: 16

• Dexterity: 45

• Intelligence: 9

• Faith: 15

• Arcane: 80

So this build being a matter of bleed build is very powerful and the bleed burst damage is great, we highly recommend it to finish your playthrough with but mid-game.

Best Cross Naginata Build 2

Weapon

• Main Hand: Cold Cross-Naginata+25 with Ice Spear Ash of War

• Left Hand: Blood Cross-Naginata+25 with Seppuku Ash of War

We decided to change it up to be able to use a cool light attack moves, now power sensing two naginatas with an intelligent 630 build, focusing on Frost and bleed buildup with magic. The main hand running with Cold Cross-Naginata getting 105 Frost buildup and 45 blood loss build up with the Ice spear Ash of war that casts a mid to long-range magic Missile that hits for a ton. You can use it with mobs or with bosses even, we prefer to use it as a finisher or when we are at a reach with the spear. On the Left hand, running with Blood Cross-Naginata and with Seppuku to have more attack power

Talisman

• Lord of Blood Exaltation

• Shard of Alexander will increase attack by order of skills specifically the ice spear Ash of War by 15%

• Green Turtle Talisman

• Claw Talisman

Physique Flask

• Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear will  increase dexterity by 10 for 3 minutes

• Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear will increase magic attacks by 20% for three minutes specifically the ice spear Ash of War

Main Attributes for Level 200 (Intelligence & Dexterity)

For a level 200 character you need to have the points like this:

• Vigor: 60

• Mind: 28

• Endurance: 25

• Strength: 16

• Dexterity: 45

• Intelligence: 80

• Faith: 15

• Arcane: 10

So with both build you can definitely finish your next playthrough, one with the meta bleed build that destroys everything in fewer hits possible because of the bleed burst damage, and the other one still powerful with a frost bleed and magic combination using the naginata's cool move sets to make your playthrough more fun and less repetitive, and that's what you should be looking for while doing NG plus. Let's try different builds and different weapons that completely change your play style while still feeling powerful to enjoy the game until a DLC comes in the near future.