Elden Ring Patch 1.17 Adds New Classes, Weapons & More

Elden Ring Patch 1.17 is finally here. After months of anticipation, the brand-new Tarnished Pack is bringing some new customization, starting classes, and, surprisingly, a handful of weapons.

New Life in the Lands Between

The Tarnished Pack for Elden Ring might be the final piece of content FromSoftware is giving their masterpiece, but that hasn’t lessened the hype behind it. Players new and old are rushing back to the Lands Between once more over a mere 5$ DLC. Goes to show you how much folks love FromSoftware titles.

But on to the big parts. The Tarnished Pack surprisingly brought a handful of new additions that no one saw coming. Beyond the two new classes, their starting armor, weapons, and Torrent skins, this DLC adds even more weapons and a few new NPC invasions.

Here is everything in the Tarnished Pack for Elden Ring:

• Idus Knight and Heavy Knight as new starting classes
• Brand new weapons that can be purchased from merchants or found in the Lands Between.
• Three types of Spectral Steed Attire that change the appearance of Torrent:
  – Tree Sentinel Spectral Steed Attire: Found in Stormveil Castle.
  – Silver of Caria Spectral Steed Attire: Found in Liurnia of the Lakes.
  – Funereal Night Spectral Steed Attire: Found in Altus Plateau.
• An NPC invasion event in Caelid.
• An NPC invasion event in Leyndell, Royal Capital (not the Ashen Capital).

This DLC also brings a possible final round of balance changes to a handful of weapons, skills, parry performance, sorceries, and incantations.

Weapons

• Smithscript Dagger / Rellana’s Twin Blades
  → Increased critical hit power.
  
• Smithscript Axe / Smithscript Spear / Spear of the Impaler
  → Reduced the stamina consumption of weapon-throwing attacks.
  → Increased the power of weapon-throwing attacks.
  
• Carian Sorcery Sword
  → Changed Intelligence scaling so that it now increases the attack power of all damage types.
  
• Smithscript Greathammer
  → Increased the power of weapon-throwing attacks.
  
• Golem Fist
  → Increased the range of the fist-launching heavy attack.
  
• Firespark Perfume Bottle / Lightning Perfume Bottle / Chilling Perfume Bottle / Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle / Deadly Poison Perfume Bottle
  → Increased attack power.
  
• Lordsworn’s Shield / Briar Greatshield / Spiked Palisade Shield / Icon Shield / Golden Beast Crest Shield / Manor Towershield / Crossed-Tree Towershield / Inverted Hawk Towershield / Dragon Towershield / Distinguished Greatshield / Gilded Greatshield / Black Steel Greatshield / Ant’s Skull Plate / Erdtree Greatshield
  → Increased guard boost.
  → Reduced weight.
  
• Wooden Greatshield / Cuckoo Greatshield / Redmane Greatshield / Golden Greatshield / Crucible Hornshield / Dragonclaw Shield / Eclipse Crest Greatshield / Jellyfish Shield / One-Eyed Shield
  → Increased guard boost.
  
• Haligtree Crest Greatshield
  → Reduced weight.
  
• Rakshasa’s Great Katana
  → Increased the time before an attack can be performed with a right-hand weapon immediately after attacking with this weapon equipped in the left hand.

Skills

• Parry
  → Improved parry performance.
  → Reduced the time before various actions can be performed after activation when used with Daggers, Curved Swords, or Small Shields.
  
• Storm Wall
  → Changed the skill so that it no longer consumes FP when used.
  → Improved parry performance.
  
• Thops’s Barrier
  → Improved parry performance.

Sorceries

• Founding Rain of Stars
  → Increased power.
  
• Carian Retaliation
  → Increased power.
  
• Meteorite
  → Reduced casting time.
  
• Meteorite of Astel
  → Reduced casting time.
  
• Gravitational Missile
  → Changed the spell so that the gravity projectile does not explode immediately upon striking terrain such as the ground or a wall.

Incantations

• Feather of the Divine Bird
  → Increased power.
  
• O, Flame!
  → Expanded attack range.
  
• Rain of Fire
  → Increased power.

PvP-Exclusive Balance Adjustments

Weapons

• Rakshasa’s Great Katana
  → Increased damage taken from attacks by other players while attacking.

Incantations

• Rugalea’s Roar
  → Reduced power against other players.
  
• Rotten Breath / Ekzykes’s Decay
  → Reduced the amount of time other player characters are unable to move from hit reactions when struck by these incantations.