Elden Ring Astrologer Class Guide - How to Build a Mage (Beginner Guide)

in this video we're gonna be talking about making a mage build an elden ring at the start of the game how to get started as an age and what are the things you should do at the beginning in order to get off on the right foot i like to begin the game in elven ring as an astrologer when i'm trying to play as a mage i feel like this gives you the best toolkit you start with a staff you start with glenstone arc and glenstone pebble two spells that will hold you in good stead throughout the whole course of the game and really gives you what you need to play as a mage right out the gate by comparison prisoner just doesn't have the same spell set so it'll be a little bit longer before you can get to the same place in terms of casting although it has other advantages in other ways but if you're just trying to play as a primary mage i feel like astrologer is the way to go as far as keepsakes go i always recommend the golden seed to new players it gives you an extra flask which can be a huge advantage particularly when you're being a mage because you can put that into you know an fp flask allowing you to get more spells off it's not super important what you pick but again if you're a new player golden seed is the way to go now when talking about a mage playing a mage and elden ring is not that difficult compared to other souls games in my opinion mostly because you're able to maintain your resources so you can play primarily as a spellcaster without ever needing to melee in a lot of cases now in order to accomplish that you're going to have to set your flasks in a way that's mostly mana based meaning you're going to need the blue flasks far more than the health ones the strategy is obviously not to get hit so you shouldn't need to heal very often because you're trying to stay out of harm's way so you're gonna skew your flasks you know 90 percent to the mana side and like 10 to the health side when possible except in certain scenarios but that's basically how you want to play so that you always have enough to kill the enemies with spells one really great thing in elder ring 2 is that when you kill difficult enemies or groups of enemies you replenish a certain amount of flasks and there are also like scarabs around the landscape that you can kill that replenish flasks so this gives you even more ways to get that resource back without resting so that you always have enough fp in order to cast your spells diving into the attributes of a mage primarily you're gonna want intelligence this is what's going to increase your damage with your spells and also any weapon that you use an ash of war on that has like a magic type ash award that makes it have scaling off the intelligence stat so you're going to want to focus pretty heavily on intelligence keep in mind that spell casting also consumes stamina when you cast so it may not be a bad idea to have some endurance as well uh in my experience you don't need to go crazy with endurance you can still do just fine with low endurance but you probably want to like at least 15 or so maybe 20. and the reason for that is because you want to be able to cast spells and then you want to be able to dodge out of the way afterward if you exhaust all your stamina casting and then don't have any stamina to dodge if an enemy is aggressive you could be in a really tight spot but you don't want to spend a lot of points in endurance early on because you need to boost your damage rapidly in order to keep pace with the enemies beyond intelligence the other two attributes you should probably have some points in are vigor in order to take a hit or two you don't want to go crazy again here because again your strategy is to not get hit but putting a few points here will help you you know survive a potential one-shot all you need to do is survive the one-shot attacks as long as you have enough health to survive one shots you have enough help and then the other attribute is mind mind will allow you to cast more spells before needing to chug pots it makes your pots go further because every time you use one if you use it at the end of you know let's say you exhaust your whole fp bar then you're actually gaining more back with those spots so you definitely want to spend points in mind as well but you want to lean heavily into intelligence and then have some points and endurance figure in mind there's no like attunement attribute like there are in the souls games if you're familiar with those that allow you to slot more spells instead your memory slots will increase as you find items throughout the game so i try not to worry about memory slots and how to increase them they will increase naturally as you progress the game moving on to early mage equipment probably the biggest thing is getting yourself a better staff early on now there is one that you can get called the demigod staff for something like this that's in the weeping peninsula there's a say like field boss their mini boss i don't even think it has a health bar that you can kill pretty quickly in that area that will drop you a staff that has much better scaling than the one you begin the game with or you can find the meteorite staff which is in a runes over in caled you can check the exact location on the wiki it's called meteorite staff that has s-scaling but you can't upgrade it so it's a really good early game staff that has fantastic scaling in terms of the the damage that you deal but not being able to upgrade it it's going to be outpaced by other staves throughout the course of the game but if you're just talking about the very beginning of the game you might want to ride over there you literally don't have to kill anything you go right into the runes open the chest get it you have an s scaling staff right out the gate it's fantastic besides the staves you're going to want to get more spells obviously you're a mage uh there is a sorcerer trainer not very far into the game in limgrave and the waypoint ruins same place that it was located in the network test if you're familiar with that uh sorcerer's selling is going to sell you stuff if you defeat the boss in front of her there's actually a scroll you can get that's just a little bit south of there also that you can give to her that will increase the uh the spells that she sells very some very good spells there so make sure you pick those up if you need more spells speaking about the spells themselves uh glenstone pebble is a spell that you're going to use throughout the course of the game it's a staple it's basically like soul arrow from the the souls games it has very low cost it deals decent damage for the cost that has exceptional range tracks the target one of the things that you're gonna find out throughout the course of the game is that a lot of spells while their damage is incredibly high have very long cast times or they cost way too much fp for the damage they deal so you can actually deal the same amount or more damage with a different spell as long as you cast it a couple of times and because glenstone pebble for instance can be cast quite quickly in rapid succession it sometimes outperforms some of the strongest spells in the game but that brings up another point which is make sure that you hold down some spells a lot of spells have like bonus effects if you hold the button down or they're meant to be channeled by holding the r1 button down so make sure you do that for a lot of spells as well i also want to make a mention here for the sort of arch type spells the ones that put the daggers above your head there's a couple variations of these they're not very mana efficient the damage they deal is substantial in a lot of cases but they're not very mana efficient what i would suggest doing if you like that spell it because it's a very good spell against aggressive enemies particularly aggressive bosses is get the ashes of war glenn stone arch put that on your you know melee weapon like a cheap melee weapon or whatever and when you are fighting an aggressive boss instead of using the spell use the ash of war it is tremendously effective the damage is about the same as the spell as long as you're upgrading the sword and the cost is a fraction like we're talking like a quarter of that of the spell so you'll you'll out perform the actual spell itself with that ash of war so make sure you have that ash of war if you like that spell and use that instead those are the mage items you need early on to get off to a good start there are a lot more good mage items found in rail lucario academy but that's not something you're going to do right out of the gate so these are the things that are going to get you started on the right path as a main just a couple final tips remember that casting costs stamina even when on horseback so if you're on horseback and you're flinging away your spells and then you get in a situation where you need to boost torrent to get out of a melee attack if you have no stamina that's not gonna happen so make sure you pay attention to your stamina particularly when you're on horseback using magic so that you can boost the hell out of there if you get in a bad spot another point is that dexterity reduces cast speed i don't know what the percentages are on this i don't know how much you production you get per point spend i haven't done a lot of testing because early on in the game you want to pump intelligence in order to increase your damage you're not so worried about cast time but how much actual damage your spells are dealing but if you are playing further and further into the game as the mage you may want to look into adding some points into dexterity in order to increase your cast times and make some of these harder hitting spells more viable ones that take a little bit longer to cast and lastly i do recommend at some point getting a hundred percent physical block shield that meets your requirements uh you can look on the wiki for locations for these it's good to have in a pinch sometimes an enemy gets too close and you just can't dodge out of the way in time and it's better to absorb that blow into a shield even if it drains most of your stamina than to take a big hit so make sure you find one of these shields and keep it just in case you need it for certain scenarios that's it for a beginner mage build i hope you enjoyed if you have any questions please let me know in the comments below are you going to be playing a mage at the start of the game what build are you going to be playing let us know in the comments below [Music] me [Music] [Music]

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 24 2022