{"id":88394,"date":"2026-08-27T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88394"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:37:15","slug":"elden-ring-update-patch-notes-reveal-biggest-changes-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88394","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring Update Patch Notes Reveal Biggest Changes in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>FromSoftware has delivered a surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/elden-ring\">Elden Ring<\/a> update, revealing the biggest changes its critically acclaimed action-RPG has gotten in years.<\/p>\n<p>The developer caught fans off-guard with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bandainamcoent.eu\/elden-ring\/news\/elden-ring-patch-notes-version-117\">lengthy patch notes<\/a> today, detailing a list of buffs (and a few nerfs) for different weapons and playstyles across the game. It&#8217;s a major update that arrived as FromSoftware prepares for the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/elden-ring-tarnished-edition\">Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition<\/a> for Nintendo Switch 2, as well as its accompanying DLC for other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here is a laundry list of balance adjustments that get under the hood to tweak a variety of PvE and PvP tools. Based on the list of updates available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bandainamcoent.eu\/elden-ring\/elden-ring\/news?page=2\">Dark Souls developer&#8217;s website<\/a>, the last time we received patch notes of a similar length was back in October 2024, a few months after the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion released. That makes it not only one of the biggest updates the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-game-awards-2022-winners\">game-of-the-year winner<\/a> has received in years, but what could be one of its final ones, too.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"elden-ring-tarnished-edition-official-gameplay-overview-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Generally, what Elden Ring players have to look forward to is a lot of buffs. The Firespark, Lightning, Chilling, Frenzyflame, and Deadly Poison Perfume Bottles, for example, got increased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FromSoftware has delivered a surprise Elden Ring update, revealing the biggest changes its critically acclaimed action-RPG has gotten in years. The developer caught fans off-guard with lengthy patch notes today, detailing a list of buffs (and a few nerfs) for different weapons and playstyles across the game. It&#8217;s a major update that arrived as FromSoftware&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":88396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88398,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions\/88398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}