Elden Ring: Best Weapons and Items After Update 1.06

However, Executioner’s Greataxe might finally be worth all of that trouble. Much like the Omen Cleaver, Executioner’s Greataxe boasts incredibly high base damage, scales very well with Strength, and can be imbued with numerous Ashes of War (as well as enhanced by magical buffs). It’s just a powerhouse of a weapon that happens to be significantly more versatile than it sometimes gets credit for. 

If you’re looking to try a Strength-based build in order to take full advantage of Eden Ring’s 1.06 buffs, I highly recommend spending a little time farming this rare weapon. It’s an outright powerful option that arguably reaches its full potential when paired with a powerful Ash of War like Quickstep or Flaming Strike. 

Great Stars

On its own, Great Stars is a powerful Great Hammer that boasts respectable base stats and a nice Bleed effect. It can also be infused with a variety of Ashes of War, which (as noted above) tends to be a plus. Best of all, this is one of the few weapons in Elden Ring that restores health upon each successful hit regardless of your specific stats. Overall, it’s just a really good weapon

However, the real reason that I’m recommending this weapon now is that Elden Ring’s 1.06 update actually makes it possible to acquire two Great Stars in a single playthrough. Granted, you’ll need to beat a tricky new NPC in order to acquire a second Great Stars weapon, but the effort is most certainly worth the payoff.

Try not to be surprised, but it turns out that wielding two powerful weapons that regularly restore a respectable portion of your health is about twice as good as weilding one. I’m not sure if dual-weilding Great Stars is a viable PvP option at the moment, but I can tell you that this is an ideal PvE weapon for Strength-based builds. 

Opaline Hardtear

One of the best parts of any Elden Ring patch is learning which items/interactions/quests weren’t actually working as intended in the previous versions of the game. Well, thanks to Elden Ring’s 1.06 update, we now know that Opaline’s Hardtear (a Crystal Tear that was supposed to temporarily boost all damage negation when consumed) didn’t actually boost all damage negation. It turns out that it previously only boosted non-physical damage negation. 

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