Elden Ring DLC Comes With a Ton of Balance Updates, Bug Fixes, and New Hairstyles

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Elden Ring's free Colosseum Update has arrived alongside a ton of balance changes, bug fixes, and even new hairstyles for the game's character creation.

Outlined in a Bandai Namco blog post, Elden Ring Version 1.08 is headlined by the PvP centric DLC announced yesterday but also serves as a fairly large patch for the game.

Five new hairstyles have been added (which can be viewed below thanks to Reddit user Katherine P), which are available when creating a character initially or later by using the Round Table Hold Clouded Mirror Stand.

Balance updates have been broken down into two categories: general adjustments and PvP exclusive changes. The general changes include fairly significant changes to the speed, distance, and recovery time of some attacks when using daggers, axes, and hammers, and when dual-wielding flails.

The speed of two-handing a Twinblade weapon has been increased, however, alongside the speed of using Reaper, Fist, and Claw weapons. A full list of the general changes can be found below.

PvP only changes - which as the name suggests will only take effect when fighting another player - include the reduction of power of weapons including straight swords, thrusting swords, curved swords, axes, spears, twinblade swords, and katanas. Again, the full list of changes can be found below.

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments

General balance adjustments

Bug Fixes

In our 10/10 review of the game, IGN said: "Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path."

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