Fulghor Expedition Guardian Build

In this Elden Ring build guide, we’ll cover the best equipment for taking on Fulghor as the Guardian.

Fulghor is a fast, relentless boss with powerful charge attacks and wide-area swings, often followed by delayed holy explosions. Due to the sheer impact of his combos, stacking physical and holy resistance is crucial. 

While it might seem less critical to stack resistances due to your constant use of a shield, stamina depletion is a real threat in this fight. Once your stamina breaks, you’re vulnerable to follow-up hits, which can happen quickly if you’re not managing your guard properly. Moreover, because Guardian has the highest base HP, resistances scale more effectively, granting him more effective health than any other Nightfarer.

Although Fulghor is pretty tough, he’s vulnerable to lightning, so finding a weapon that can capitalize on this weakness will help to deal more meaningful damage throughout the fight.

Your job is to stay close and soak aggro to protect your team. Fulghor’s damage output can drain your stamina quickly, so practice lowering your guard between hits and only blocking with Steel Guard active to maximize stamina regen.

Day 1

Guardian boasts the highest health pool in the game, so don’t be afraid to get in close and keep pressure on the enemy. That said, sticking with your team early on is still crucial. Going down too soon wastes valuable time and throws off your route. A clean and efficient Day 1 can make or break your run.

Your main goal at the start is to level up as much as possible and visit every church you pass to upgrade your flask charges.

Take a quick look at your map and scout for areas that drop weapons or seals with lightning, frost, rot, bleed, or poison affinities. 

Steer clear of holy camps. Fulghor shrugs off holy damage, so it won’t help here.

Once you’ve secured a decent weapon and hit at least level 4, make your way to the central castle. Start in the basement—it only has one boss, and clearing it rewards you with both a boss drop and a guaranteed talisman from the chest beyond. If you’ve got time, level at a nearby grace and continue clearing the upper levels to farm more runes.

Whenever you find a weapon with a solid passive, equip it immediately. To save time, grab everything in sight and sort through it on the move between farming spots.

Day 2

By now, you should be well-equipped and levelled enough to take on the tougher parts of Limveld.

If a Shifting Earth is active, make that your priority. These areas consistently drop high-value loot and have enough enemies to get you to around level 15 if you clear efficiently. If there’s a field boss on the way, it’s worth taking the detour; you could gain a major damage upgrade.

No Shifting Earth? Then, shift focus to field bosses. These now begin spawning regularly and offer some of the best loot and rune rewards available outside of the Night Boss.

If you haven’t already, this is also the perfect time to clear the central castle. The basement and rooftop bosses aren’t scaled too high, and with your current build, you should be able to handle them without much trouble.

Finally, once you’ve taken down the Night Boss, consider sticking around nearby locations to keep levelling if needed. Zone damage is minimal at this stage, and you should have a decent amount of flasks and graces nearby to farm a bit more and gain an extra level or more flasks.

Day 3

Once you’re here, check the merchant and see if he has any rare loot like Wending Graces. If not, prioritize using any extra runes to level and then purchase any consumables you may need. Make sure to discard any unused upgrade materials or keys. You won’t be able to use them in the final fight, so it’s better to stock up on consumables you’ll actually need.

BUY Warming Stone!!! 

These are great for the Guardian as you won’t be moving around as much while you block the boss so you will get more value out of the healing. If you have a Revenant and some extra runes, get them some starlight shards, as this will significantly increase their FP pool for the fight.

• Stay close to the boss to keep their attention off your teammates, but always watch your endurance. Getting staggered from losing all of your stamina will likely get you killed. Blocking slows stamina regen, so try to only raise your guard during actual attacks, and use Steel Guard to boost your block efficiency.
• As for your Ultimate Art: Wings of Salvation, don’t waste it on damage unless absolutely necessary. Its true value is the full revive, even for teammates at 3 bars. If both allies are down, try to lure them near each other so you can get a double revive with one cast.