Elden Ring: How to level up

Elden Ring is an absolutely massive game that could take hours and hours for you to complete so levelling up is going to be a vital part of your quest in the Lands Between; how do you do it?

As we’ve said, From Software’s latest game is a genuinely massive game that could take hundreds of hours to completely finish, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Indeed, Metacritic shows that Elden Ring has a 97 review score, which makes it the 13th-best reviewed game of all time, and the best PS5 game to come out since the system launched.

It is a staggering achievement that will have players across the world gasping at the sheer technical wizardry on show; there is simply so much to do and so much to see.

Elden Ring is a character-focused RPG and you will have to level up your character throughout your journey if you are to have any chance of becoming an Elden Lord.

It’s a vital part of your experience with the game so we’ve put together a guide on exactly how you level up in Elden Ring.

The first thing to say here is that you can’t level up until you meet a specific NPC; you have to unlock the ability to rank up.

You need to meet Melina at a site of grace, and she will grant you the ability to level up in a cutscene; you’ll be asked if you wish to accept her help, and you need to confirm that you do in order to be granted the ability.

The site of grace this usually happens at is the gatefront ruins, but the fact is that she will actually appear to you after you’ve visited your third site of grace. As we’ve said, the game’s layout and path mean that is likely to be the gatefront ruins, which are beyond the Church of Elleh, but that may not be true for every player.

Once you’ve unlocked the ability, you’ll be able to select the