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What’s in Elden Ring’s 1.03 Patch?
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Elden Ring

What’s in Elden Ring’s 1.03 Patch?

Here's a rundown of what's in Elden Ring's 1.03 patch, including new elements, bug fixes, and balance changes.
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Published: Mar 17, 2022 06:58 pm

Elden Ring has, rather unsurprisingly, become the biggest thing since sliced bread. Truly, was there ever any doubt? This game has the muscle of FromSoftware and George R.R. Martin behind. There was basically no way they were gonna mess this up. Now that the game has had a few weeks to find its footing on the top of the pedestal, the devs have gotten to work tweaking and optimizing the experience, starting with a new patch released just last night. So, what’s in Elden Ring’s 1.03 patch?

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The short version is that this patch, in addition to squashing a bunch of bugs, has added a few minor features to the game and balanced a few of its mechanics. Several NPCs have received new quest dialogue, and to help you keep track of them, a new map feature has been added that lets you track the location of any NPC you meet. For you sneaky folks, you can also now transform into more kinds of objects using the Mimic’s Veil item. 

On the balance end of things, this patch has brought a tragic nerf on two of the community’s favorite tools: the Mimic Tear Spirit Ashes, which creates a complete duplicate of your player character when summoned, and the Hoarfrost Stomp Ash of War, which has become a favorite of speedrunners for its high damage and short cast time. 

What’s in Elden Ring’s 1.03 Patch?

If you’d like more information, then here are the complete patch notes, fresh from Bandai Namco’s press release:

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 area.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented summoned NPCs from taking damage in some boss battles.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from obtaining item after boss battle.
  • Fixed a bug that causes 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 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 which causes some weapons to have incorrect scaling after strengthening.
  • Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to not use stat scaling.
  • Fixed hang-ups in certain occasions.
  • Fixed a bug which incorrectly displays multiplayer area boundary when playing online.
  • Fixed a bug that allows player to activate Erdtree Greatshield’s weapon skill without absorbing an attack using a special combination of item and incantation.
  • Fixed a bug which causes Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation to have different effect.
  • 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 Unseen Form spell.
  • Deleted the Ragged armor set from the game which was mistakenly obtainable in previous patch.
  • Fixed a bug that causes some hostile NPCs to drop Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
  • Fixed a bug that causes incorrect sound effect to play in some situations.
  • Fixed a bug which causes visual animation and hitboxes to not be displayed correctly on some maps.
  • Fixed bugs which causes incorrect visual and behavior for some enemies.
  • Fixed a bug that causes incorrect stat parameter for some armor.
  • Text fixes.
  • Other performance improvement and bug fixes.

Balance Changes

  • Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies.
  • Added Smithing Stone to some early game shop lineup.
  • 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.
  • Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage.
  • Increased FP consumption and lower duration of Ash of War, Barricade Shield.
  • Changed FP consumption timing of Ash of War, Prelate’s Charge.
  • Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern.
  • Other enemy and weapon balance changes
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Since the first time he picked up a controller as a child, Daniel has been a dyed-in-the-wool gaming fanatic, with a Steam library numbering over 600 games. His favorite pastime, aside from playing games, is doing deep dives on game wikis to learn more about their lore and characters.
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