How to respec your character in Elden Ring

Reallocate your character’s attributes without starting again.

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If you haven’t learned how to respec your character in Elden Ring yet, you should really give it a shot. Respeccing is an easy, relatively low-cost way to completely reallocate all of your stats, letting you transform from a dextrous weakling to a beefy barbarian with a single menu. The feature has existed in previous Souls games, but it’s been a somewhat confusing process in the past.

Thankfully, Elden Ring’s respec is pretty simple, and utilizing it becomes more important as you face some of the late-gameElden Ring bosses. Or you might want to respec just to try out any number of the cool weapons or armor sets you find littered throughout the Lands Between. In this Elden Ring respec guide, I’ll explain how to do it, and where to find the item you need.

How to respec in Elden Ring

To unlock the ability to respec, there are two things you need to do:

After you defeat Rennala you’ll be able to interact with her and choose the “rebirth” option. This is where the Larval Tear comes in, and you’ll pay one of these items each time you want to reallocate. Luckily there’s no shortage. You just need to know where to look.

When should you respec in Elden Ring?

Allocating upgrade points in Elden Ring is a pretty major decision, because whatever you decide to focus on, you really should specialize in something. The way that armor and weapons scale means that your points are best spent on the one or two stats that compliment them. That said, priorities can quickly shift when you find a cool new weapon or encounter an impossibly hard boss. Here are a few scenarios where it makes sense to respec:

When you find a really cool weapon that you can’t use…This is a great use of a Larval Tear, but you should make sure that youreallylike the weapon first. I spent my first 30 hours pouring everything I had into Vigor and scaling my two Uchigatanas with Dexterity. Then I found the Moonveil Katana, which requires a whopping 23 Intelligence to even use. After mulling it over and watching some gameplay with it, I decided it was worth cashing in the tear.

When a hard boss fight calls for different stats…Elden Ring makes it pretty easy to choose whatever armor/weapon you like best a develop a build for it, but sometimes a boss fight will just completely counter it. If you primarly swing a fire sword, it won’t do you much good against the Volcano Manor’s God-Devouring Serpent, for example.

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An earlier fight that you should look out for is Starscourge Radahn in Caelid. It’s one of the first major skill checks of the game, and going into it with a mediocre health pool puts you at risk of dying to a single attack. We recommend havingat least 30 Vigorby the time you fight him, and if you don’t, then it might be time to cash in a Larval Tear.

Elden Ring Larval Tears: Where to find them

The easiest place to get a Larval Tear early on is in theVillage of the Albanauricsin the south of Liurnia, in a big cave set into the lake cliffside. Head in here and up into the village itself. Once you’ve passed Nepheli, you should come to a place with lots of enemies located around some stone sarcophagi. The tear is lootable on a body there.

Later in the game, you start finding more of them by defeating some well-hidden enemies, buying them from merchants, or destroying a few particularly annoying sentient boulders.

Here’s a (likely incomplete) list of Larval Tears we’ve found and more discovered by theFextralife Elden Ring wiki:

Limgrave, Liurnia, and Caelid Larval Tears

Underground Larval Tears

Later game Larval Tears

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