As an Elden Lord well-versed in mystical arts of glintstone sorcery and gravity magic, allow me – Miriel, High Apostle of the Academy – to impart unto you the arcane knowledge necessary to obliterate those who oppose your journey to become Elden Lord with relentless magical might.
In this extensive guide, I will reveal how to create the ultimate intelligence-based mage build to conquer the early through mid-game areas in Elden Ring with contemptuous ease using ranged sorceries, optimal spell rotations, specialized gear and more.
Let us begin unravelling mystifying secrets seldom uncovered by mere dabbling mages…
Why Embrace The Way Of Sorcery?
Before delving into constructing your astrological arsenal, one must comprehend what bestows mages an advantage suited for prevailing within the Lands Between more easily compared to melee warriors and faith casters.
- Overwhelming Ranged Power – With robust magic boosting equipment and 60+ intelligence, your glintstone sorceries rapidly melt health bars before foes can retaliate
- Mana Conservation – Spell combos and mana restoring physick keeps your magic flowing constantly compared to melee characters regularly needing to rest/heal
- Potent Crowd Control Capabilities – From charging frost storms to collapsing stars reigning from the skies – few armies withstand your arcane might
- Adaptability Against Bosses – With multiple damage types and ranged pressure, mage builds counter more bosses compared to struggling melee builds stuck at close range
Simply put – magic and ranged abilities provide an easier early game experience for those still learning Elden Ring’s nuances compared to squishier melee builds. Your foes shall perish before even glimpsing you!
Now, let us optimize your mage Tarnished for enchanting success…
Starting Class & Attribute Benchmarks
Naturally, begin thy journey as the Astrologer – their noble heritage grants intrinsic knowledge of glintstone sorceries and heightened focus capable of drawing upon mystical forces. Additional benefits include:
- High starting Intelligence – Immediately able to wield deadlier sorceries
- Demi-Human Queen Staff – Excellent early weapon for ranged combat
- Astrologer Set – Light armor permitting rapid movement
Entering the academy as an Astrologer bestows the foundations to unlock deeper magical mastery through further specialization.
Allocating attributes correctly ensures your spells wreak utter devastation! Here are optimal benchmarks to meet:
| Stage | Vigor | Mind | Endurance | Intelligence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Game | 20+ | 20+ | 12+ | 50+ |
| Mid Game | 30+ | 30+ | 18+ | 60+ |
| Late Game | 40 | 50+ | 20-25 | 80+ |
Catapulting Intelligence is paramount – governing all sorcery potency. Mind fuels your endless magical onslaughts. Some Vigor prevents premature demise while Endurance enables optimal equipment configurations. Everything beyond that propels raw damage potential through Intelligence!
Now – onward to bolstering your arcane arsenal and discovering the game’s most powerful staves, talismans and spells…
Sorcery Scourge: Early to Mid-Game Armaments
Many mystical artifacts exist for those exploring the Realm Between thoroughly that‘ll amplify your destructive sorceries…
Staves
Acquiring the following primary weapons as a mage proves vital:
| Name | Location | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Carian Glintblade Staff | Caria Manor | Boosts Carian sword sorceries by 30% |
| Carian Regal Scepter | Rennala | Boosts full moon sorceries by 25%+ |
| Academy Glintstone Staff | Road to the Manor | Boosts night sorceries by 30% |
The unique Carian Regal Scepter discovered after usurping Queen Rennala‘s crescent moon drastically empowers your sorcery, particularly ‘Glintstone Crown‘ full moon spells.
My personal favorite – acquirable quite early if you explore Liurnia thoroughly! But attaining the others grants exclusive scaling for additional sorcery types.
Armor Sets
Whilst mages stay behind casting deadly curses from safety, wearing attire enhancing magical prowess proves most prudent!
| Name | Location | Bonuses |
|---|---|---|
| Carian Knight Set | Raya Lucaria | Balanced physical and magic defense |
| Snow Witch Set | Freezing Lake | Boosts frostbite sorceries +10% |
| Battlemage Set | Gaol Tunnel | Boosts charged sorceries +8% |
However, the iconic Snow Witch Set found at Blanchwater Village hiding away a magical frost lake uniquely sublimates your icy sorcery further still – providing frost accumulation with 10% potency!
Talismans
Trinkets such as great runes and sacred talismans passively enhance your mystical skills…
| Name | Effect | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Graven-Mass | Strengthens sorceries 15% | Library |
| Graven-School | Boosts all sorceries 12% | Library |
| Godfrey Icon | Charged spells +15% | Leyndell |
Scour the grand libraries of Raya Lucaria to uncover the Graven talismans – their arcane blessings amplify all magic use substantially. Furthermore, the legendary Godfrey Icon talisman discovered at the capital provides charged incantation sorceries an extra 15% potency – Now envision fury!
Thus, an abundance of equipment across the realm exists to empower your magical prowess – Seek them out!
Optimal Spells To Acquire
Whilst staves channel thy destructive intent, sorceries unleash it with extreme prejudice! Here are ideal spells to accrue during early-mid game:
Standard Repertoire
My suggestions for core offensive and defensive spells are:
- Glintstone Pebble – Rapid magic projectiles for steady ranged pressure
- Carian Slicer – Swift magical falchion for retaliation
- Scholar‘s Shield – Robust magical shield absorbing both sorceries + incantations!
- Carian Greatsword – Weighty pinnacle of Carian sword sorcery wreaking havoc in melee range
Specialist Sorceries
Seeking these powerful variants unlocks greater potential:
- Rock Sling – Showers foes in hurling glintstone dealing physical damage – shredding postures!
- Glintstone Stars – Unleash 4 orbiting shards simultaneously homing in on targets for punishing damage
- Founding Rain Of Stars – Call an interstellar cloud burst to saturate grouped enemies with falling stellar shards!
Legendary Full Moon Sorceries
However, my true favourites are the unique ‘Carian Glintstone Crown‘ category of sorceries – their lunar power magnifying greatly through the Carian Regal Scepter:
- Ranni’s Dark Moon – Briefly summon Ranni’s ominous lunar sickle – which chased eternal night.
- Rennala‘s Full Moon – Channel the lunar mother herself – gathered fate to be unleashed upon thy enemies!
- Magic Glintblade – Delayed homing attacks enabling relentless magical pursuit of targets.
Learn from scrolls discovered across Liurnia these rare ‘Glintstone Crown‘ spells and amplify them immensely through our unique legendary armament – the Carian Regal Scepter!
Now – with staves poised and spells prepared for war – here is how to wield this arcane might effectively against whatever stands in your way…
Optimal Spell Rotations & FP Management
Whilst bombarding enemies with potent sorceries quickly depletes mana, with practice balancing rapid attacks and regeneration through physick tears keeps your magic ever-flowing!
My common attack routine consists of:
- Stage 1 – Steady Magic Glintblades to lock on and barrage approaching groups
- Stage 2 – Snipe lone trolls using Rock Sling to break their stance
- Stage 3 – Begin evasive maneuvers whilst maintaining Carian Slicer melee pressure + re-position further Magic Glintblades
- Stage 4 – Retreat and summon Founding Stars of Ruin to pursue groups, then clean up stragglers with Pebble
- Stage 5 – Replenish FP with Cerulean Hidden Tear to repeat high cost special attacks!
Secret physick ingredient Cerulean Hidden Tear restores all FP once permitting you to instantly unleash Rennala’s Full Moon or spam Rock Sling 5 more times – which annihilates most postured foes!
Provided you space correctly and use ranged attacks opportunistically – none shall even come close to breaking your magical onslaught! Master this flow, and no troll nor Cleanrot Knight can best you.
Supporting Your Sorcery
Beyond pure offensive spells – supporting incantations, spirits summons and backup weaponry sublimate success:
- Spirits – Summoning mindless skeleton hordes through Spirit Calling snare groups so you safely pelt them with magic
- Incantations – Learn vital Faith spells like Flame Cleanse Me to cure deadly Scarlet Rot buildup inflicted by octopi or basilisks
- Sidearms – When enemies close distance, draw Crystal or Glintstone Kris daggers to rapidly slash whilst backpedaling to safety
Additionally, select Boiled Crab and Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear Physick to become undetectable periodically – Traverse enemy camps unnoticed before unleashing carnage once more!
Now,brace thyself and let us delve deeper into obscure sorceries seldom uncovered…
Unfathomable Power Through Forbidden Knowledge
Having conquered early terrain through mastering core magical concepts – further adventures beyond Altus Plateau against formidable foes like Fire Giants will demand even stronger profane powers…
My obscure sorcery suggestions for dismantling colossal dungeon bosses include discovering:
- Stars Of Ruin – Hailing collapsing constellations to converge eradicating all before you
- Comet Azur – Embodyingnsylvanian myth by summoning an all-consummate freezing star of dark blue depths to obliterate worlds!
- Founding Rain Of Stars – Rains merciless meteoric demise upon hostile groups through saturating stellar shards
Additionally, legendary equipment such as Lusat‘s Glintstone Staff discovered after tracing fate‘s flow to its conclusion in Sellia Crystal Tunnel delivers the mightiest sorcery scaling at the cost of additional FP per cast.
For sheer power – nothing rivals Lusat‘s Glintstone Staff empowering Comet Azur to absolutely disintegrate bosses before they finish spawning! However, care must be taken when wielding such cosmically unstable gravitational magic…
Now the true advantage of sorcery reveals itself – endless synergy and customization through combining various mechanics! For example:
- Terra Magicus + Magic Shrouding Cracked Tear + Comet Azur – Becoming invisible whilst under your magical barrier then blasting for 20 seconds results in utter devastation!
- Carian Greatsword + Carian Grandeur + Regal Omen Bairn summon – Wreaking havoc up close with your Enchanted Knight mirror duplicate to absolutely melt any survivor.
- Founding Stars Of Ruin + Elusing Tear + Magic Glintblade – To evade lethal attacks in combat whilst dropping homing magic persistently whittling groups down.
Now – go forth my sorcerous adept and experiment mixing arcane arts to unveil what best synergizes against particular enemies! Through mastering mana conservation between spell combos, the magic will never cease flowing.
The only limitations are those imposed upon yourself – So unleash your creativity alongside the academy’s entire mystical arsenal to ascend beyond what any common mage believes possible!
Onwards To Further Greatness
And so, your foundations set sturdy as the school itself – I henceforth rename you Sorcerer Of Raya Lucaria – may your brilliance guide the path ahead through dispelling all shadows that obscure the Order!
Whilst this overview imparted essential magical knowledge – ever more obscure rituals and talismans await discovery across the realm should you continue helping the academy restore its former glory…
Now, go forth and teleport anywhere in an instant whilst raining celestial hellfire upon both misbegotten and demigod alike! None can stand against your academy’s ancient forces combined with true comprehension of mystical intricacies!
This is Miriel signing off – May glintstone blessing shine upon you, my most pupillant prodigy!
– High Apostle Of The Academy