Stats

Attributes

Icon	Stat	Effect	Soft/Hard cap(s)1	Effect of soft/hard cap
	Vigor	HP Petrify Resist	20/50	The amount of max HP gained is 30 per level from 1 - 20, drops to 20 per level at 21, and drops to 5 HP per level at 51.
	Endurance	Stamina Physical DEF Poise Slight HP	20	Increases max Stamina by 2 per level. Drops to 1 at level 21.
	Vitality	Equipment Load Physical DEF Poison Resist Slight HP	29/49, 70 for Equipment Load	Increases max Equip Burden by 1.5 per level. Drops to 1 at level 30, 0.5 at level 50, and 0.5 per 2 levels past 70.
	Attunement	Attunement Slots Casting Speed Extra Casts Agility Slight HP	30/75 for Slots, 94 for max casts, around 50-55 for Casting Speed with 50 FTH or INT	Increases attunement slots by 1 at 10, 13, 16, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 75. Unstated effect of Attunement is Extra Casts, which varies from magic to magic. The last additional cast for all spells is achieved at 94. Increases Casting Speed by 2 for every 2 levels until Casting Speed is 115, drops to 1 for every 2 levels afterwards until Casting Speed 126 and then one per four levels.
	Strength	Physical ATK: Strength Physical DEF Slight HP	20(25 for two-handed)/40/50 for Physical ATK: Strength	Contribution to Attack Rating gets stronger the more points you put into it. Increases total attack with STR weapons. Total Attack is multiplied by your weapon's scaling value.
	Dexterity	Physical ATK: Dexterity Poison ATK bonus Bleed ATK bonus Physical DEF Slight HP	20/40/50 for Physical ATK: Dexterity	Contribution to Attack Rating gets stronger the more points you put into it. Increases total attack with DEX weapons. Total Attack is multiplied by your weapon's scaling value.
	Adaptability	Agility Poison ATK bonus Poison resist Bleed resist Petrify resist Curse resist Poise	around 25 for Resists until resists are 140, around 35 for Agility if Attunement is around 5 28 for Agility if Attunement is 30	Agility decreases the time it takes to perform certain actions, such as drinking an Estus Flask or Rolling. It increases the frames of invincibility while rolling Increase Poise and Endurance as an additional effect.
	Intelligence	Magic ATK bonus Fire ATK bonus Dark ATK bonus Magic defense Fire defense Dark defense Casting Speed Slight HP	20/40/50 for Magic ATK bonus	Contribution to Attack Rating gets stronger the more points you put into it. Increase Dark Bonus and Fire Bonus as an additional effect.
	Faith	Fire ATK bonus Lightning ATK bonus Dark ATK bonus Bleed ATK bonus Fire defense Lightning defense Dark defense Casting Speed Slight HP	20/40/50 for Lightning ATK bonus	Contribution to Attack Rating gets stronger the more points you put into it. Increases Fire and Dark Bonus as an additional effect.
	Soul Level	N/A	N/A	Soul Level has no effect on Stats. Soul Level can be found on the top-left corner of your Player Status page.
	Soul Memory	N/A	N/A	Matchmaking is determined by Soul Memory and the item used. See Online Matchmaking for more details.
	Souls	N/A	N/A	Used to purchase levels, goods and services.

Performance

Icon	Stat	Explanation		Icon	Stat	Explanation
	HP	You die if this reaches zero.			Attack type	The types of damage inflicted by a weapon: strike, slash or thrust.
	Stamina	Actions deplete stamina, which automatically recovers.			Physical attack	The level of physical damage inflicted.
	Equipment Load	Maximum weight that can be equipped.			Magic attack	The level of magic damage inflicted.
	Attunement Slots	Max. Attunement Slots			Fire attack	The level of fire damage inflicted.
	Casting Speed	Speed at which spells can be cast.			Lightning attack	The level of lightning damage inflicted.
	Physical Attack Strength	Determines STR Scaling bonus.			Dark attack	The level of dark damage inflicted.
	Physical Attack Dexterity	Determines DEX Scaling bonus.			Poison effect	The strength of the poison effect.
	Magic Attack Bonus	Determines Magic Scaling bonus.			Bleed effect	The strength of the bleed effect.
	Fire Attack Bonus	Determines Fire Scaling bonus.			Counter strength	Level of counter-damage inflicted on attacking enemy.
	Lightning Attack Bonus	Determines Lightning Scaling bonus.			Poise damage	Strength of impact disrupting opponent's poise.
	Dark Attack Bonus	Determines Dark Scaling bonus.			Shot range	Maximum distance achieved by ranged attacks.
	Poison Attack Bonus	Determines Poison buildup speed.			Casting speed	Speed at which spells can be cast.
	Bleed Attack Bonus	Determines Bleed buildup speed.			Physical reduction	The percentage of physical damage reduced.
	Physical Defense	Reduces damage taken from physical attacks.			Magic reduction	The percentage of magic damage reduced.
	Magic Defense	Reduces damage taken from magical attacks.			Fire reduction	The percentage of fire damage reduced.
	Fire Defense	Reduces damage taken from fire attacks.			Lightning reduction	The percentage of lightning damage reduced.
	Lightning Defense	Reduces damage taken from lightning attacks.			Dark reduction	The percentage of dark damage reduced.
	Dark Defense	Reduces damage taken from dark attacks.			Poison reduction	The percentage of poison damage reduced.
	Poison Resistance	Extends poision buildup time.			Bleed reduction	The percentage of bleed damage reduced.
	Bleed Resistance	Extends bleed buildup time.			Petrify reduction	The percentage of petrify damage reduced.
	Petrify Resistance	Extends petrify buildup time.			Curse reduction	The percentage of curse damage reduced.
	Curse Resistance	Extends curse buildup time.			Stability	The stability of one's defense. Reduces consumption of stamina when taking attacks.
	Agility	Boosts ease of evasion and other actions.			Durability	At zero, items break and become ineffective.
	Poise	Boosts the ability to withstand the impact of attacks.			Weight	Weight of the item. Movement becomes sluggish if your load is too heavy.

Diminishing Returns

For each consecutive investment in stat, you receive a smaller benefit. Most stats provide a constant benefit until they've reached certain amount (referred to as a soft cap); See the table above for details on each stat.

Note: Enemies do not scale based on your Soul Level. Leveling up will not make enemies harder; only joining certain covenants, using a Bonfire Ascetic, or completing the game and entering successive levels of NG+ will make the enemies harder. By the same token, your character will never grow weaker with additional investment in a stat, it will simply gain a smaller benefit.

Notes

• The soft cap for dark damage is at 30 Intelligence and 30 Faith.

• The soft cap for fire damage is at 60 of combined Intelligence and Faith. Example: 40 Intelligence and 20 Faith or 30 Intelligence and 30 Faith reaches the soft cap for fire damage.

• Agility is increased by Attunement and Adaptability, but Adaptability has a three times higher influence. Therefore you may want to level up Adaptability to your personal optimum of Agility, which is always depending on your level in Attunement. The softcap for Agility is 110, the hardcap 120. There is no difference between the number of invincibility frames for 105 and 110 Agility.

• All resistances increased by Adaptability are increased by other stats at one third of the rate.

• There are two hidden stats:
  • Luck, or Item Discovery, that controls drop rates of items via defeating enemies and can be increased with certain equipment. See its page for details.
  • Critical Damage Modifier, which controls the extra damage done by critical attacks such as backstab and riposte.

Items that affect stats

Item	Stat Change	Additional Effects
Head Armor
Archdrake Helm	+1 INT
Black Hollow Mage Hood	+1 INT
Black Hood	+2 INT, +2 FTH	+11% Casting Speed
Cale's Helm	+1 END, +1 DEX
Chaos Hood	+3 INT	+5% Casting Speed
Crown of the Sunken King	+1 END, +1 STR, +1 DEX, +1 INT, +1 FTH, -1 VGR, -1 VIT	Vendrick's Blessing
Dark Mask	+1 INT, +1 FTH
Desert Sorceress Hood	+3 INT
Dragon Sage Hood	+1 INT, +1 FTH
Hexer's Hood	+1 INT, +1 FTH	+10% Casts (rounds up)
Insolent Helm	+2 FTH
King's Crown	+3 INT, +3 FTH	Vendrick's Blessing
Leydia Black Hood	+1 INT, +1 FTH
Moon Butterfly Hat	+1 INT	Poisonous Aura
Moon Hat	+2 INT
Priestess Headpiece	+1 FTH
Saint's Hood	+1 FTH	~+1 Cast per spell
Velstadt's Helm	+1 END, +1 VIT
Vengarl's Helm	+2 VIT
Warlock Mask	+2 INT	Increases souls acquired +2.5%
White Hollow Mage Hood	+1 INT
White Priest Headpiece	+1 FTH
Leg Armor
Flower Skirt	+2 VGR, +1 END
Weapons
Handmaid's Ladle	+2 ADP, +1 END, +1 VIT, -1 DEX
Work Hook	+5 DEX, -3 ADP
Shields
Vessel Shield	+1 VGR, +1 END, +4 STR, +4 DEX, +1 ADP, +1 INT, +1 FTH	Spell Parry
Chimes
Chime of Screams	+ FTH depending on base values	Extremely Slow Cast Speed
Rings
Dexterity Ring	+5 DEX
Strength Ring	+5 STR
Simpleton's Ring	+5 ADP
Ring of the Embedded	+ VGR, END, VIT depending on base values	Increases damage taken by 8%
Ring of Knowledge	+5 INT
Ring of Prayer	+5 FTH
Consumables
Blackweed Balm	+5 INT	Lasts 45s
Goldenfruit Balm	+5 FTH	Lasts 45s
Old Growth Balm	+5 STR	Lasts 45s
Vine Balm	+5 DEX	Lasts 45s

Footnotes

1. Leveling the stat over the Soft Cap is not recommended due to diminishing returns. Leveling over the Hard Cap has no effect.