Elden Ring: 10 Best Sorceries and Where to Find Them (2024)

With a total of 70 sorceries available in Elden Ring, anyone looking to destroy with a mage build has plenty to choose from. This article is here to help. While there are tons of powerful options, this is our top 10 picks for the best early and late-game sorceries in Elden Ring, as well as where you can find them!

10. Great Oracular Bubble

Its slow speed makes it virtually undodgable by most enemies. It also makes an extremely powerful fight opener against bulky enemies, as you can cast 2-3 bubbles before even entering combat.

Requires: Intelligence: 25, Arcane: 18

Where to find Great Oracular Bubble: Worshippers' Woods, Site of Grace (Teardrop Scarab in a room with claymen)

9. Night Maiden's Mist

This may be one of the most underrated sorceries in all of Elden Ring. Night Maiden's Mist casts out a ghostly cloud that deals continuous damage to any enemy caught within the fog. Slower-moving enemies are especially vulnerable to this, including some bosses that can be manipulated into standing in the mist, their health rapidly bleeding every moment they linger.

Just beware! Night Maiden's Mist can damage allies, too, yourself included.

Requires: Intelligence: 14

Where to find Night Maiden's Mist: Purchase from Gowry for 5,000 Runes after completing his quests.

8. Meteorite of Astel

When it comes to raw unbridled damage, it's hard to compete with the Meteorite of Astel. Meteorite hits also stagger most targets. The drawback? To channel the max value out of this sorcery, you must stand still to continue the cast to completion, meaning you'd better bring down your target fast or avoid this sorcery altogether.

Requires: Intelligence: 55

Where to find Meteorite of Astel: Consecrated Snowfield; dropped by Astel, Stars of Darkness in the Yelough Anix Tunnel

7. Magic Glintblade

With a low FP cost, you can afford to spam this ability as a max-range opener in challenging fights. This ability also follows an arcing projectile path, meaning it can be abused to strike enemies that are sheltered behind cover such as low walls and barricades.

Requires: Intelligence: 14

Where to find Magic Glintblade: Purchase from Miriel, Paster of Vows for 3,000 Runes. 

6. Carian Piercer

The sorcery, Carian Piercer, is exploited for its devastating power against lone enemies. With an FP cost of only 17, and the ability to knockdown enemies when fully charged. It's worth noting that Carian Piercer, in spite of its name and thrusting animation, does not count as piercing damage, meaning it is unaffected by enemies toting high amounts of Pierce Defense.

Requires: Intelligence: 27

Where to find Carian Piercer: Caria Manor; dropped by a Teardrop Scarab in a spot behind the gardens.

5. Rock Sling

A simple and reliable physical damage sorcery. Rock Sling can also be acquired relatively early, with only an 18 Intelligence requirement and an FP cost of 18. Rock Sling does tote a rather bizarre projectile path, causing your conjured rocks to swerve horizontally as they fly, but this is a minor quirk to overcome for such a dependable sorcery.

Requires: Intelligence: 18

Where to find Rock Sling: A chest in a cellar north of the Street of Sages Ruins.

4. Carian Slicer

The crazy-fast attack speed of Carian Slicer coupled with its minuscule FP cost of 4 make this sorcery an instant must-have. It's also compatible with every single magic buff you can think of, and can be further boosted by Carian Glintstone Staff. Easily the most efficient and powerful melee sorcery in Elden Ring.

Requires: Intelligence: 14

Where to find Carian Slicer: Give the 'Royal House Scroll' to Miriel, Sorceress Sellen, or Preceptor Seluvis to purchase Carian Slicer for 1,500 Runes.

3. Shard Spiral

This spell pierces enemies, persists for 4 seconds, and can deal up to 14 instances of damage. Each individual damage tick deals 92 magic damage, giving Shard Spiral a base potential damage of up to 1,288. Against any boss too slow to evade the Shard Spiral beam, this sorcery is immensely powerful.

Requires: Intelligence: 27

Where to find Shard Spiral: Purchase from Sorceress Sellen for 8,000 Runes after progressing through her quests and choosing to side with her.

2. Glintstone Pebble

Well, well, well. The Glintstone Pebble, despite being a starter sorcery for the Astrologer class, pewpews its way all the way up to second in our list.

Sometimes, it's the simple sorceries that can be relied upon to get things done. Glintstone Pebble checks in with an FP cost of only 7, and its damage scales so well with Intelligence that it remains a sorcery worth casting long into your Elden Ring journies.

Requires: Intelligence: 10

Where to find Glintstone Pebble: Purchase from Sorceress Sellen or Thops, or even the Twin Maiden Husks after giving them Thops's Bell Beearing, for 1,000 Runes.

1. Glintstone Arc

A nudge ahead of the Pebble, we're finishing our list with the most accessible (and spammable) AoE sorcery in the game, Glintstone Arc.

With an FP cost of just 9 and early availability at a reasonable rune price, Glintstone Arc has come in clutch for countless sorcerers as their bread-and-butter horde-clearing tool. Maximize this sorcery's impact by getting a feel for the Arc's conal width and range, and you'll be sending entire packs of enemies to the dumpster.

Requires: Intelligence: 13

Where to find Glintstone Arc: Purchase from Sorceress Sellen or Thops, or even the Twin Maiden Husks after giving them Thops's Bell Beearing, for 1,500 Runes.