Elden Ring - How to Break the Game With Magic 

Going full mage was pain starting off until I found meteorite staff & rock sling. Then, I became the boss battle for them.

this build dodged the nerfs babyyyyyyyyy

This video totally opened the game up for me -- definitely for the better. Thank you! Having Rock Sling and the dragon rune farm early basically re-balances the game.

Some bonus advice for the abandoned cave with this build is to grab the Two Fingers Heirloom to get your faith up to 12 and get Flame, Cleanse Me to be able to heal the rot the dungeon is filled with if you're struggling to bum rush the area

Reminder that however you play/beat the game, even if it's with an OP build, is still valid. Don't let the maidenless nerds tell you otherwise.

In case you didn't know, you can dual-wield staves and get the bonuses from both. For example, use your +10 staff in one hand to use its magic scaling and keep the meteorite staff in your other hand to boost rock sling. In the same vein, you can keep a glinstone based staff in your other hand to boost the lil' swords. It's a very noticeable damage increase at basically no-cost and far far less annoying than switching to the jelly shield for that boost.

Bad news everyone, the 1.04 patch shot a crucial part of this build in the foot. The infinite fp tear now only lasts 5 seconds instead of the 10-15 it used to be, meaning comet azur can’t be used like it was before. Update: I mistakingly thought that the shortened duration was intentional, turns out that wasn’t supposed to happen. Even then, until it’s reverted this build will be much less effective. Update#2: The infinite fp tear is back to it’s full glory, everyone.

Iron Pineapple I found your channel a few days ago and I love your soulaborne content and I just wanted to thank you for teaching me this boss one shooting magic build. This made elden ring so much easier for me. And also thank you for entertaining me with such amazing and fun soulsborne content.

I like how both you and Vati are trying to break the game early XD

I like how Pineapple missed that the "redfeather" was literally the Morion blade/a version of the morion blades design, and it had rtsr effect. Cool how the devs put that back in another game. We can never truly escape clever rats + morion meta, can we?

I did not know the magic glintblade could be cast multiple times in a row. Made things so much easier for me....thanks!

This increased my enjoyment of the game exponentially. Thank you!

And people complain that there’s no easy mode.

Using the "Meme Beam" onto one of the mid-game bosses is something every person should experience at least once. It's some sweet justice.

Dude. I finally got the time to finish Elden Ring so I can finally watch all your videos on it. Stoked :D

This very was absolutely fantastic. I’m late game level 140 and didn’t even know about the comet azur. Game changing. Thank you!!

Don't worry when the rock sling doesn't make much damage on the Crystalians. You have to hit them 2-3 times before the damage gets way higher. You can also run through the whole cave to the boss mist, dodge a few casts and perhaps kill the last two guys after the wooden door to restore some health. Send in your ghost troops and kill those crystuckers ;D

I think one of the most incredible, yet underrated, parts of this video is the fact that Radhan stood still for that long in one spot. I tried this like 10 times and he always just walked to the side after .5 seconds.

One very important note, that very few people seem to know about, and could be worth restarting your game, is that you can repeatedly kill the sleeping dragon for infinite runes without killing a single boss or even enemy. 50,000 a pop right off the bat, or 70,000 with the golden scarab, which requires killing a boss. However, the foot will not work with this trick. What you need to do is get the dragon down to almost no health, then summon torrent for the last few hits so you can move quickly, as soon as the final blow is struck, you need to haul ass back to the site of grace in less than 10 seconds, immediately rest, and if done correctly, you will get all the runes and the dragon will not despawn. This is working as of January 13th, 2023. Even at the very beginning of the game you should be able to kill the dragon in about 10 minutes, worst case scenario, probably less. But lets just say 10 minutes. 10 minutes = 50,000-70,000 souls, so 50,000 -70,000 x 6 = 300,000-420,000 per hour. A bit later in the game you can spec your stats into a strong bleed build and get this down to about 2 minutes, I've been able to get 5,000,000-6,000,000 souls per hour using this trick and after some practice, I can reach the grace every time. After you get to the desired level, simply respec your stats back to your desired build. So as you can imagine, given that you can do this at most characters starting level, fighting no bosses at all, you can get to a very high level early, get strong enough to get the ability to respec early and collect bleed spells and items to hasten the process, kill the dragon over and over and reach the 125 meta in an afternoon, instead of weeks. Stock up on some tears and you can try out a bunch of different weapons and builds in a single playthrough early if you want to see what kind of character you like best and then progress your journey. I really wish I knew this my first time playing. Just be sure to back up your save before killing the dragon, so if you mess up the timing, you are not screwed. This is simple on the PC and PS (via cloud save or usb), however, Xbox users are pretty much out of luck and need to get it perfect every time unless you can close the app before auto save. Cheers.

Thankyou for this, I have looked at many guides and this is my favourite

Man this reminds me of the first time I discovered you could get the Lightning Spear in the original Dark Souls super early in the game. I had so much fun just 3-4 shotting most early game bosses.

I remember wanting to use this spell in DS3 but got disappointed with the spell's performance. I'm glad the ER's reincarnation of Soul Stream is actually viable!

just started playing weeks ago. i certainly don't have the patience to do all the challenges but its awesome watching these videos. Please make more!

Thanks for this, I can't wait to get some of this stuff to make myself even more powerful.

Just a quick tip, the dragon takes a while to die, so you can actually use the foot immediately after you kill him and still get the bonus souls.

If you want the melee equivalent of this build, go North-West of the "Fallen Ruins of the Lake" grace in Liurnia Lake and find the chest that contains the Icerind Hatchet. To use it, level up to 16 DEX (or start as Warrior), two hand it, and spam the Hoarfrost Stomp skill, which will shred almost every boss in the game with minimal investment. Have fun!

Cheers homie!!! Thanks for this video it was a fantastic addition to my turkey melt

Found this vid a week ago, and finally got to @6:35 tonight. So worth it.

some players have found out that while the buff from ash of war: determination is running, which usually buffs your next melee attack damage for 50 or 60%, it also boosts your spells, but doesn't vanish for the whole duration (10 or 15 seconds) as long as you don't melee attack, so you can buff your sorcery damage even more.

I can’t believe I’ve played a Mage this entire time and I didn’t realize that the No FP flask charge could make comet go forever

Iron Pineapple, that you so much for this build with your video and a weeks time I was able to one shot both Radahn and Margit 👍

The dragon levelling trick is easily boosted by the scarab but also try to kill it while there are Erdtree leaves falling: it further boosts your rune amount. The scarab is easy to get, since you just need a knife to sidestep through the rot in that dungeon, and the bosses can't properly hit your wolf summons, so it can be easy.

U can do 80% more dmg by equipping staff in left hand. Any melee in right and using royal knight resolve AOW. 60% if u use determined. Lasts a full 10 secs for spells. Only lasts one hit on melee tho…. Anyhoo. An easy 80% more dmg at all times is OP

"There's something really satisfying about the process of bringing a build like this together, and seeing the work pay off" this was exactly my sentiment when I came across the blasphemous blade (around level 75/80) after pumping up Faith and Strength all game 💯

Another spell called night maiden's mist also melts boss health bars. You can cheese the black flame kindred outside the bestial sanctum for another 80K souls using night maiden's mist. Works well on the crystallian boss in the abandoned cave too, you just gotta kite the spear guy into the mist

For the bosses it works on, it still works a wonder. Just not every boss is compatible with the strategy, but if you are strong enough to do the build (+ the extra steps) you should have a good time killing anything anyway. Good build, still up to date, highly recommend!

This is my first Fromsoft game, started as a wretch with intent to be a spell caster of some sort, stumbled into meteor staff and rock sling early. Absolutely hilarious.

That Cerulean tear you get in Mt Gelmir can also be used to summon anybody you want without ever investing in magic

This guide and build is very good thanks. I finally got the basic completion of it and it’s awesome. I’m at that point in the guide wear you add the jelly fish shield. Spectacular. I’m going further with getting the crystal armor, and on and on til power up this build no more. Lol 😂

I wish this video was done in a slower, more useful 'walkthrough' style, but thanks! I can't wait to rock this.

Maybe a little late, but was going to say, that if you're up for the challenge, in Caelid, down either of the two paths that lead away from the Minor Erdtree in Dragonbarrow, you'll find a ton of the guardian enemies. They drop about 11-13 hundred runes a piece and are usually all stacked up with one another. I found this was a good place to quickly grind out runes early in the game.

man this is a great video, but it would be amazing if you could record 5 secs showing the precise location of each of the item on the map

I have finally finished my journey to get this spell. Thanks heaps

Thank you. I've been running a sorcery build and it's been great for the entire game except for the literal Elden Beast because it has so many resistances and nullifications.

The Flail should be a contended for earliest bleed weapon, since it can be found in one of the caravans at the gatefront ruins

Been casually enjoying this build for a while now and I must say, it's glorious.

Great build, thx a lot! It carried me whole game, no jokes! I'm hoping for similarly easy build for melee)

I want to say that there is a spell that is likr comet azur but with less range but a fatest hitbox that is called meteorite of astel if you have lusat +10 right hand and météorite staff left hand you can have the power of lusat with the 30% damage boost on gravity spell so it deal more damage than comet azur and it deal it with physical damage so against boss like elden beast or rennala with a really high magic resist this spell will be your best friend.

You can get another like 60k+ runes at the same time as the sleeping dragon kill by going at night to the small bridge parallel to the large bridge with a dragon on it and just riding past the night's cavalry and up the hill to the right follow the road. Be careful not to get killed by the poison or the mobs but the nights cavalry should just die. You'll get the bloodhound ash of war aswell

Graven-mass talisman is twice as strong as graven school talisman and its effect stacks with it. Magic scorpion charm is even stronger and *also* stacks. Sadly magic scorpion charm is very missable as you need to do Seluvis’s quest which you can’t do if you’ve progressed too far down Ranni’s questline.

Fun fact, for the elder sleeping dragon, sprint to the nearest site of grace close to the fort nearby on horseback and rest at it immediately after killing it to collect the runes without actually causing it to fully be despawned, rinse, repeat, easy 70 levels in just 1-2 hours

Doing this, plus fully upgraded mimic tear is ultra OP!

This build got me through to the snowy region and beyond, thank iron p! I’ve never played these type of games because I don’t understand the mechanics of it but watching your vids and paying attention a little more lol made this super fun!

It's so cool seeing this as my build is just big sword. Dope that there are so many different ways to play. Now I gotta go get that jellyfish shield for my build!

Dude, gonna do this RIGHT NOW! Thanks a lot!

thank you, this is exactly what i was looking for

On your way to kill the dragon, there's a tower with a memory stone you can grab. You just need to jump up with the spirit well. (After crossing the bridge with the little dragon, just past the minor erdtree guardian, on the left cliffs y'all should see a tower. There's a spirit well behind it. If you get killed by an angry chicken you went the wrong way.)

Honestly great magic build and guide - was a blast to test. You're the man when it comes to this kinda stuff, Iron Pineapple. If I could give constructive criticism to your guide,I think you should've elaborated on the points taken to get to these locations though using the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc waypoints ingame rather than just directly cutting and teleporting to said areas (Fastforward X## would work nice). Most of it was self explanatory so there was no need and the cuts were fine, but some of it is a little confusing. Even for a souls veteran like myself especially navigating around Volcano Manor was a nightmare looking for something very particular when you're unfamiliar with the zone entirely and also without a map until reaching near the destination. Just soooooo many elevations.

just made this broken build, thanks for sharing it's hilarious how quickly it burns down bosses.

If you wanna really cheese bosses, I have fun using the Dark Moon spell in Ranni's questline. It is so fun to use, I just turn in to a ball and the bosses take a lot of damage from cold and magic damage.

Love how your production quality just keeps improving! Also this video has helped real the deal for me. I *like* games with mechanics I can fiddle around with. Additionally it looks like one of those games were exploration and environmental storytelling figures strongly, which I love. :)

I have this build on my first character, and I find the bosses that aren't staggerable with the comet azure spell are *not* a pushover. If they dodge out of the way, you can only hope it did enough damage for you to finish them off with another lol. Still I love this build, it is very strong once you set it up.

I actually completed all the main bosses with a melee build and decided to respec to a magic build later on so this is pretty useful for me

You can use Radagons Icon aswell! It gives u 30 dex, which makes ur spells cast way faster! Heres the guide to find it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HxCDKJDrp7A.html

It's a fun trick when it works. One thing I'll say is that relying on this too much is great way to get stuck with bosses that just sidestep it,stagger you out of casting it with ranged attack of their own or just have too much hp and walk through it. Again, it's really damn fun for like 70% of the game,but after it stops working I failed to find use for the spell outside of this wombo combo. It's damage is actually pretty bad in terms of FP to Damage ratio,like you'll actually deal more damage and safer by spamming that frostbolt spell,which also causes frostbite.

There’s more to this : Use determination ash on your right hand weapon and cast with you off hand Boom ! 50% boost during 10s to your spells

for the big dragon, if you get on torrent to finish it off, you can sprint back to the grace and sit down as the dragon dies. you get the runes and the dragon resets, so you can keep farming him. its better later game, but its good to reset and keep him alive, while still getting the runes

Dude your a total boss I salute your gaming skills 10/10 for this video

Pretty good build and I’ve been grinding, but I feel A LOT of crucial information was glossed over, especially with the cave and trying to obtain that scarab (which I’m having difficulty doing due to scarlet rot). Other than that pretty fun to use and it’s essentially a glass cannon lol

One other thing that seems like it beats out the Jellyfish Shield-you can put the Determination or Royal Knight's Resolve ash of war on an off-hand melee weapon. Not sure if it's a bug, but the damage increase applies to sorceries/incantations as well, and isn't even consumed unless you hit with the melee weapon (lasts 10 seconds).

I was actually planning to go for a Mage build for my next playthrough - this video inspired me to pursue it. And for everyone out there who doesn't want to hunt for all the required equipment for the build in this video right from the start: Farm some runes, get your stats up, use Meteorite Staff & Rock Sling for a while and then get the Sword of Night and Flame - it gives you Comet Azur right from the get-go. This made my Mage build lots of fun so far, without feeling too OP.

I’m not gonna do this strat rn SS I’m on my first playthrough, but I am SO trying this later on.

There’s a weapon you get from commander O’Neil called the commanders standard that can also give you and your allies a attack boost with this item you can basically negate multiplayer damage reduction

This is amazing as a first time Fromsoft game player with disabilities. I've been doing sorcery and am excited to try this!

I know I’m late to the party but imo the ritual sword talisman works much better for this build. I’m playing a mage with 9 vigor so I get one shot by everything at this point in the game. Ritual sword talisman boosts attack at full hp for those of you wondering and it works great cuz I’m either at full hp or dead

I lucked out by starting with a faith build, although I started using magic first but as soon as I discovered better faith magic I decided to dual class it and it was a nightmare maxing both stats but I did it and had tons of fun

My experience with this build: it's really tough to actually setup the one shot on some foes, the build itself tends to be very squishy until higher levels, and your quality of life outside of boss fights depends heavily on picking up good side spells like you showed in the video. Those other two spells, especially rock sling, are a big deal for exactly the reasons shown. For me personally, a faith build with blasphemous blade, erdtree blessing, lord's heal, and the mimic summon is more powerful and diverse, able to take on more targets more easily. But I would say this build is one of the easiest ways to cheese the first half of the game until you get up to the point that you're ready to go after blasphemous blade and the mimic summon.

Worth noting, varre's quest can be done after godrick and lets you get to +10 (as well as opens up the best rune farm) and you can grab mimic tear, throw on the permanant aggro talisman, summon the mimic, then take off the talisman and have an aggro holding beast so you can comet azure uninterrupted.

I did this build as well, eventually I got my hands on two staffs of loss and dual wielding them actually helps with average enemies you come across. Right now my character is at about level 160 and I unfortunately haven't beaten the game yet, just waiting for DLC to come out to get back into it

"i recommend you get the golden scarab talisman" >is in what may as well be the hardest dungeon in the game if you're super low level and going to 1shot all the bosses later on

I've never done a magic build in a souls game so I was excited to do one here and I haven't been disappointed! I've been doing a naked glass cannon run so pretty much everything one shots me but I have these crazy strong magics at the same time though it's tough to just cheese most stuff (at least in my experience) cause a lot of the enemies themselves have powerful ranged attacks. I was worried this would feel like big DS3 but the magic has really helped set this game apart in to it's own unique souls combat experience all these years later. For everybody who's been here since the beginning I've been saying this is like our Endgame moment.

This build is tremendously powerfull but, you need a perfect situation to break the boss in one hit, they don't always move as you need and many times they hit you cutting off the spell.This spell don't track and you can't move when cast it. In any case amazing amazing, good job man.

Hey Man Just started playing last week and was super worried bc I have limited dexterity in my fingers. My son sent me this after going through it last night. Gonna hit this hard when I login tonight. Cheers

You could probably do this same build with Dragonfire by doing Auriza’s Hero Grave and Agheel early, though that’s probably a lot harder

It'd be cool to see you go over the miracles in Elden Ring! I've had a ton of fun with a faith build, especially the godslayer and madness incantations

I've been going mage knight this whole time and never found rock sling or meteorite staff. Can't wait to try this

Yoo the backtrack music is fire 🔥

Thank you Iron Pineapple

This video is incredibly helpful, I thank you for putting the effort in to make this❤️

The ritual sword talisman boosts your attack by 10% when your health is full. It's not as much as the branchsword, but it's less risky

i made nearly all steps i'm lvl 61 and clapped the first boss with one azur comet and it felt so good😁 ty for this awesome help!

😂 you let's just all appreciate this dudes videos because coming from a video editor myself I know these videos take a decent amount of time to make.

I just bought the game and I'm definitely trying this out. I've always had a soft spot for magic powers. 😁

Man, magic has been so much fun in this game! It's super rough early on, especially if you don't use guides for your first playthrough, but it's so much fun to whack bosses with all manner of crazy projectiles. Especially if you lean a bit into faith for the SoN&F, and can access the dragon breath spells to absolutely annihilate groups. Say what you will about it being easy mode, but all these "anime bullshit" builds are some of the most fun I've had in a Souls game in a long time.

Beautiful can't wait to try it

Magic Scorpion Charm would also be a nice addition to this build when fighting bosses or just when you don't need 20% more runes. An extra 12% magic damage which multiplicatively increases your damage the magic-cracked tear. Granted you are doing hella damage, a little more never hurt ;)

I hope you understand just HOW MANY extra steps there are between getting Azur's beam and getting his garb, not to mention how much spelunking is required to actually get Lusat's Glintstone Staff to ACTUALLY BE stronger than the meteorite staff. The brief aside you felt like skipping has been longer than everything leading up to it, and I'm not even done.

@Iron Pineapple: There's another late-game Meteorite spell that works as the perfect addition for fast-moving bosses or hordes of enemies, I think it's "Meteorite of Astel". Distortion used a similar tactic to the one shown in your great and very entertaining video in his first playthrough to defeat even late-game bosses with that spell! :D

Thank you iron pineapple:)

Dark Bead: Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of my power