Elden Ring Patch Notes Update: Patch notes for Elden Ring 1.03: Balance tweaks, new NPC features, and more. Elden Ring version 1.03 has been released across all platforms by Bandai Namco, and it adds new NPC-related features, rebalances various equipment, and fixes over a dozen issues. After a two-week hiatus, the Elden Ring 1.03 patch has arrived, bringing with it a slew of new features and enhancements.
Thanks to a new feature that saves NPC positions on the map, questlines should be easier to track than ever before. In addition, certain characters have additional phases in their journeys. Furthermore, the Elden Ring update 1.03 update addresses a variety of gameplay bugs while also improving overall performance. Furthermore, a large number of weapons, armor sets, and sorceries have all been rebalanced. A variety of NPC modifications are the highlight of the new Elden Ring 1.03 release. First and foremost, an entirely new function has been added that allows you to label an NPC on your map in far greater detail than previously.
The names of new characters will now be recorded on the map to assist you to recall where specific NPCs are situated. Diallo, Nepheli Loux, Kenneth Haight, and Gatekeeper Gostoc are just a few of the NPCs who have “new quest stages” to look out for. This should make progressing through Elden Ring’s separate narratives a lot easier. Fans of the always-entertaining Mimic’s Veil item will be pleased to learn that this update also increased the variety of objects that can be imitated.
Changes to the balance in version 1.03
One of the first big balancing modifications in Elden Ring came with the 1.03 release. Everything has been altered to some degree, from key Ashes of War to diverse Spirit Summons. The Mimic Tear Spirit Ash, which generates an exact clone of your character to aid you in the fight, has been nerfed, maybe most notably. Other AI summons could soon emerge to the top of Elden Ring’s meta, thanks to “reduced damage” and a shift in behavior.
Patch notes for the Elden Ring release 1.03
Elden Ring’s big 1.03 update contains more verified changes and more content than many users expected to see in the patch notes, but it’s the update’s hidden (or “secret”) changes that are now receiving a lot of 3s. While it’s not uncommon for a major update to include a few changes that aren’t listed in the official patch notes, it’s always fun to try to figure out whether those changes were planned or were simply the consequence of a bug. Most of the time, there’s a good mix of both. While it’s unclear how many of these modifications were intended to be included in the game in the first place, here’s a list of everything we’ve discovered so far in Elden Ring’s 1.03 update.
Twin Maiden Husks’ Smithing Stones Are Now Significantly Cheaper
Smithing Stones are now easier to obtain on early enemies and can even be purchased from some early game merchants, according to Elden Ring’s version 1.03 patch notes. It turns out that both of these statements are correct. Most of the Nomadic Merchants you meet early on now have a limited supply of Smithing Stones in their inventory, and it’s much simpler to get Smithing Stones as drops from early adversaries. I’m not sure what the new drop rate is, but it’s a significant difference.
Elden Ring Patch Notes Update
However, the patch notes fail to indicate that the Smithing Stones purchased from Twin Maiden Husks in Roundtable Hold are now significantly cheaper. I haven’t been able to confirm the precise price difference for each item yet, but the majority of the items I’ve tested so far appear to be roughly 4X cheaper than they were previously. So, if you haven’t already gone to great lengths to locate the Bell Bearings that will allow you to acquire Smithing Stones from Twin Maiden Husks, now is the time to do so. Elden Ring 1.03 is now available for download and installation for everyone playing online, as announced by From Software earlier today.
The whole Elden Ring update 1.03 patch notes are available below, courtesy of Bandai Namco:
Additional Elements Added
- Added a function to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter that NPC.
- Added NPC Jar-Bairn.
- Added new quest phases for the following NPCs: Diallos/ Nepheli Loux/ Kenneth Haight/ Gatekeeper Gostoc.
- Added some summonable NPCs in multiple situations.
- Increased the number of patterns of objects player can imitate when using Mimic’s Veil.
- Added night background music for some open field areas
Balance Changes
- Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies.
- Added Smithing Stone to some early game shop line up.
- Increased shield’s effectiveness.
- Increased the damage for all offensive cracked pot items.
- Increased the damage for the following items: Spark Aromatic/Poison Spraymist.
- Increased the effect duration for the following items: Uplifting Aromatic/ Ironjar Aromatic.
- Increased HP healing for Torrent when using the following items: Rowa Raisin/ Sweet Raisin/ Frozen Raisin
- Reduced FP consumption and increased the damage of the following sorceries: Glintstone Cometshard/ Comet/ Night Comet
- Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Gravity Well/ Collapsing Stars/ Crystal Barrage
- Decreased FP consumption of the following sorceries: Star Shower/ Rock Blaster/ Gavel of Haima/ Founding Rain of Stars/ Stars of Ruin/Greatblade Phalanx/Magic Downpour/ Loretta’s Greatbow/ Loretta’s Mastery/ Carian Greatsword/ Carian Piercer/ Shard Spiral
- Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard
- Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp’s damage and increase cast time.
- Increased Ash of War, Bloody Slash’s self-inflict damage while slightly lowering the damage and increasing the cast time.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented summoned NPCs from taking damage in some boss battles.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the player from obtaining items after the boss battle.
- Fixed a bug that causes the dialogue to be skipped when talking to NPCs and using custom key configurations.
- Fixed a bug that causes the player to freeze when riding.
- Fixed a bug that causes arcane to scale incorrectly for some weapons.
- In a situation where the player cannot obtain more than 2 talisman pouches, added talisman pouch to Twin Maiden Husks shop line up.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the user from warping to sites of grace from the map at the end of the game.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the player from moving to the next area after the battle with the Fire Giant.
- Fixed a bug that causes some weapons to have incorrect scaling after strengthening.
- Fixed a bug that causes some weapons to not use stat scaling.
- Fixed hang-ups on certain occasions.
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly displays multiplayer area boundary when playing online.
- Fixed a bug that allows players to activate Erdtree Greatshield’s weapon skill without absorbing an attack using a special combination of item and incantation.
- Fixed a bug that causes Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation to have different effects.
- Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination, and Royal Knight’s Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill.
- Adjusted the visual effect of the Unseen Form spell.
- Deleted the Ragged armor set from the game which was mistakenly obtainable in the previous patch.
- Fixed a bug that causes some hostile NPCs to drop Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
