Elden Ring Mage Build Guide (Level 100) - Talisman, Stats, Equipment, Gameplay Tips Of Crystal Mage Build

In this Elden Ring guide, we are going to be showing you crystal mage build. This is an updated version of the Sorcerer build for level 100 and is updated for the changes in patch 1.03. So if you've been wondering what to do with that build, read on to find out. We list the equipment, talisman, attributes and gameplay tips of level 100 crystal mage build in Elden Ring.

Elden Ring Mage Build Guide (Level 100) - Talisman, Stats, Equipment, Gameplay Tips Of Crystal Mage Build

The staff that you're going to use is a huge part of playing a mage and there are various points in the game where different staffs outperform others. However, you don't generally have infinite upgrade materials until end of the game, so picking the right one is important. We recommend using the Lusat’s Glintstone Staff, Academy Glinstone Staff, Carrion Regal Staff and the Crystal Staff. Now, this guide covers the best Elden Ring crystal staff build for upgrading your Sorcerer build. 

Best Equipment & Armor For Crystal Mage Build Level 100

- Imp Head (Cat)

- Battlemage Robe

- Battlemage Manchettes

- Battlemage Legwraps 

As far as your armor goes, you absolutely want to use the heaviest you can use in steel medium roll which isn't going to be very heavy with this build because we don't have any points in endurance. But you're going to want to get as much protection as you can as far as your head goes. You're going to want to use something that increases your intelligence because you need to hit 52 intelligence in order to use the combat spell for this build, which means you're going to have to put something here. Be careful if you get something that lowers your hp, you're going to be in bad shape because your vitality or your vigor is already a little bit on the low side.

Best Talismans For Crystal Mage Build

- Ritual Sword Talisman: This just gives you an extra 10% damage while your health is full this applies to all your spells which is great. So you want to try and keep your health full when you can.

- Magic Scorpion Charm: It is going to buff the damage of all your spells by about 10%, but it's going to reduce your resistances making you a little bit squishier.

- Dragoncrest Sield Talisman +1: It’s there in order to give you more protection, you have almost no physical protection if you don't use this. It was too squishy, if you want maximum damage, you can replace this with something like raven school talisman to increase your sorcery damage. But the little extra protection is great and it allows you to get away with light armor and still gain some decent physical protection.

- Godfrey Icon: It increases the damage of your charged spells by about 15%. There are a lot of charged spells in this build, so you take advantage of that all the time.

Best Spell Skills For Level 100 Crystal Mage Build

- Glenstone Pebble: It's very mana efficient, you don't need it all the time but sometimes you need to pick off some weaker enemies and using 7fp to do it instead of 12 or 15 or 19. It's just a good way to conserve fp,  as your mind gets higher and higher this will become less of an issue but it's good to have at this point in the game.

- Swift Glenstone Shard: It casts faster has very short range and as a pure mage, stay as far away from enemies as possible.

- Great Glenstone Shard: This was buffed in 1.03 and making the speed of it faster and the distance further which was a big improvement because it was almost unusable the way it was.

- Comet: It’s like the king of these sort of projectile spells, it's why we need 52 intelligence in order to use this spell, it deals very good damage, has a very good range and you can charge it for even further range and to make it deal more damage and pierce enemies. However, it's not extremely mana efficient, so you only want to use it when you need to shell out a lot of damage in a hurry or when you're trying to pick something off, that's kind of far away glenstone pebble, just won't cut it.

- Glinstone Cometshard: It is much more fp efficient than comet. The damage between Glinstone Cometshard and great Glindstone shard is similar, it's a little bit more for Glinstone Comet Shard. 

- Terra Magica: It's not something you'll use very often, you'll use it probably most in co-op situations or where you're setting yourself up to go through a boss fight or maybe an area where you have to range down a lot of enemies in a particular time. But it does have its uses and it increases your magic damage by 35% for 30 seconds.

- Shattering Crystal: This is sort of the shotgun spell, it hits in a big aoe in front of you, it's really good against big enemies and it's good in groups too like if you're trying to range down a group of enemies has quite a good spread, so it's a good aoe ability and you don't have too many aoe spells with this build. So you'll definitely want to use this when you're aoe.

- Crystal Torrent: Crystal torrent is your channel ability that just shreds, it works really well in co-op situations or situations where you have time to prepare before a boss like out on the field, or maybe right when you walk through a boss fog while it's walking toward you.

- Rock Sling: This is our one physical damage spell, it's great for situations where something is magic resistant and it also does very good stagger damage. So if you have an enemy that you can lock onto the head of this will knock them down very quickly like dragons or something like that, or a golem if you can lock onto their ankles that's their weak spot it'll knock them down. So make sure when you know that you can lock on to like a head or a weak spot of an enemy that you're using this ability to knock things down.

- Roiling Magma: It is a fire spell that flings a projectile that deals decent fire damage. It's really for bosses that are magic resistant, you don't want to get into a boss fight and just be completely useless, so you're going to use this against the er tree type enemies. One particular interesting thing about this is if you hit the ground instead of the target, it'll put like a projectile thing down there that like times and then explodes and puts magma all over the ground and enemies seem to be lured towards it. So when you're using it, generally it's not can't always be helped, but you want to try and aim for the grout if you can.

Stats & Attributes For Crystal Mage Build Elden Ring

• Vigor: 27 - As you improve this build and you go higher and higher towards 150, you're gonna want to get this up to at least 40 or 50. It's basically as much points as you could put here, you could probably pull some out of mind if you want and put them there if you feel like you're getting one shot. But if you do that, you're gonna have fp issues.So that's why we put the dragon crest talisman in there to help give you some resistances so that you don't die as easily.

• Mind: 35 - In order to cast spells at will as you get spells that are stronger and better they cast more fp and you're going to want to be able to use them and not worry about your f people. 35 mind is a really good spot, you have lots of people cast with and because you're gonna have more blue flasks than red ones, you shouldn't have any fp issues at all.

• Endurance: 10 - Have more not only for casting stamina, but equip load so that you can have better armor.

• Strength: 20 - It’s able to meet the requirements of the jellyfish shield.

• Dexterity: 14 - You can use radagon's source seal here if you want to sacrifice a bit of damage on your character in order to get your vigor and your endurance up a bit in order to meet those points for strength and dexterity without having to invest points here, that might free up some more points to dump into vigor if you want or put into intelligence.

• Intelligence: 52 - In order to meet the requirements for comet, it'll also increase your spell damage a lot.

• Faith: 14 - It needs to be at least 12 for a roiling magma for this build, it doesn't need to be any higher than that. So if you have a different class, you'll actually have a couple more points there that you can put into bigger.

• Arcane: 9 - Arcane is completely irrelevant for this build.

Gameplay Tips For Crystal Mage Build Elden Ring

One thing you could do as well if you don't like using the jellyfish shield is that instead of putting points into strength and dexterity, you could put them into faith in order to get golden vowel, you don't even have to upgrade a seal in order to cast this because it doesn't affect the damage or the damage mitigation. So that's a way to get 15 more damage and some protection. It'll be a little bit less damage than the jellyfish shield, but you'll have to buff less often and you won't have to carry that shield around which would be freeing up some equip weight. So if you'd rather do that, then swap out the jellyfish shield, grab a seal instead and put some points into faith. That will also give you access to some spells that require faith and intelligence.

One last tip for building a crystal mage at level 100 in Elden Ring is you're going to want to make sure to pop your flask of wonders physique before fighting a boss or a tough enemy, and you're going to make sure you have the magic shrouding tier in there and cerulean hidden tier. This is going to increase your magic damage by 30% for three minutes which is great and it'll also eliminate all fp consumption for 10 seconds. So get your buffs up, walk through the fog, pop this potion and then use crystal torrent to nuke bosses because it consumes no fp for 10 seconds and you can just hold it down that whole time as long as you have an opening.