# Elden Ring Patch Notes Version 1.09 - Product: Elden Ring (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elden-ring) - Vendor: FromSoftware, Inc. - Date: 2023-03-23 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1245620/view/3702561138607566278 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elden-ring/releases/2023-03-23-patch-notes-version-1.09 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Ray Tracing support has been added and can be activated in the settings menu - **changed** — The Inescapable Frenzy incantation power and grab angle have been increased in PvP - **changed** — The Lifesteal Fist skill power, range and grab angle have been increased in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the power of dual wield jumping attacks in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the damage motion of heavy and heavy running attacks of Fist and Claw weapon types in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the power of the Founding Rain of Stars spell in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the spell enhancement effect of the Terra Magica spell in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the damage and poise damage of the Wave of Gold skill when hitting an opponent over a certain distance in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the effectiveness of the Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve skills in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the effects of Contagious Fury skill of the Jellyfish Shield in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the effectiveness of the Claw Talisman in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the effectiveness of the Lord of Blood's Exultation Talisman in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the attack power buff granted by the White Mask head armor in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the jumping attack damage buff granted by the Raptor's Black Feathers armor in PvP - **changed** — Decreased the damage buff granted by Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear, and Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear when activated with the Flask of Wondrous Physick in PvP - **added** — Added an invincibility window when respawning in the colosseum - **changed** — Increased the scaling of Magic, Fire, Flame Art, Lightning, and Sacred affinities when infusing weapons with certain Ashes of War - **changed** — Increased the attribute scaling of Colossal Sword, Great Axe, Hammer, Flail, Great Hammer, and Colossal Weapon types - **changed** — Increased the speed, range and recovery time of some attacks for Great Hammer, Great Axe, Great Sword, and Curved Greatsword - **changed** — Improved Flail weapons with increased attack speed, reduced recovery time, and increased poise on two-handed attacks ##### ELDEN RING update 1.09 is now available. ##### New feature ##### Ray Tracing support has been added. Ray Tracing can be activated in the settings menu: - PS5 / XSX: Game Options → Ray Tracing - PC: Graphics → Ray Tracing Quality Please note that performance - such as frame rate and resolution - may be impacted while playing with Ray Tracing on. The minimum and recommended technical specification to use Ray Tracing can be found at the end of the patch notes. ##### PvP-exclusive balance adjustments The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play. - The Inescapable Frenzy incantation power and grab angle have been increased. - The Lifesteal Fist skill power, range and grab angle have been increased. - Decreased the power of dual wield jumping attacks. - Decreased the damage motion of heavy and heavy running attacks of Fist and Claw weapon types. - Decreased the power of the Founding Rain of Stars spell. - Decreased the spell enhancement effect of the Terra Magica spell. - Decreased the damage and poise damage of the Wave of Gold skill when hitting an opponent over a certain distance. - Decreased the effectiveness of the Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve skills. - Decreased the effects of Contagious Fury skill of the Jellyfish Shield. - Decreased the effectiveness of the Claw Talisman. - Decreased the effectiveness of the Lord of Blood’s Exultation Talisman. - Decreased the attack power buff granted by the White Mask head armor. - Decreased the jumping attack damage buff granted by the Raptor's Black Feathers armor. - Decreased the damage buff granted by Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear, and Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear when activated with the Flask of Wondrous Physick. ##### General balance adjustments - Added an invincibility window when respawning in the colosseum . - Increased the scaling of the following attributes when infusing weapons with certain Ashes of War: Magic / Fire / Flame Art / Lightning / Sacred - Increased the attribute scaling of the following weapon types: Colossal Sword / Great Axe / Hammer / Flail / Great Hammer / Colossal Weapon - Increased the speed, range and recovery time of some attacks for the following weapon types: Great Hammer / Great Axe / Great Sword / Curved Greatsword - Flail weapons changes: - Increased the speed of some attacks. - Reduced attack recovery time. - Increased poise when using two-handed attacks. - Increased running attacks speed and reduced attack recovery time for the following weapon types: Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Axe / Hammer / Halberd - Increased the first attack speed for the following weapon types: Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Whip - Increased the speed of guard counters for the following weapon types: Straight Sword / Great Sword / Colossal Sword / Great Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Axe / Great Axe / Flail / Great Hammer / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd - Reduced the attack recovery time for Whip weapons. - Increased the damage of Claw weapons. - Added Holy damage and Faith scaling to the Great Club. - Increased damage negation when blocking Holy damage and decreased damage negation when blocking damage from other affinities. - Increased the effectiveness of the Twinblade Talisman. - Slightly reduced rolling travel distance for light equipment weights. - Decreased the hitbox size for some attacks of the following weapon types: Thrusting Sword / Heavy thrusting Sword / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd ##### Ashes of War adjustments - Lifesteal Fist - Increased target grab range. - Surge of Faith - Increased projectile generation speed. - Flame Spit - Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill. - Adjusted the angle of the fireball. - Tongues of Fire - Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill. - Great Oracular Bub _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1245620/view/3702561138607566278]_