As a passionate Elden Ring player with over 500 hours across 5 playthroughs, I‘ve mastered and experimented with every sorcery and incantation there is. I‘ve disintegrated hordes of enemies with blistering magics and torn through mighty demigods with absolute destruction.
Through extensive firsthand experience, I‘ve curated my personal list of the 10 definitively best Elden Ring spells for obliterating all who stand before you.
These aren‘t just spells that look cool or do decent damage. The sorceries and incantations below represent the pinnacle of magical power within the Lands Between. We‘re talking about cosmic devastation on a scale previously unknown to mere Tarnished like you and I.
Mastering these fantastical Elden Ring spells took hours of dedicated research and experimentation on my part. But now I can shred foes from unlimited range withpinpoint archery, wipe crowds in seconds using targeted homing bombards, and decimate towering legendary foes with raw primordial energy fueled by 80 Intelligence and a blasphemous hunger for runes.
I don‘t expect all readers to comprehend and appreciate the esoteric intricacies of Elden Ring‘s most advanced spellcraft. But whether you‘re some backwater sellsword with a plain Longsword, or a nascent astrologer beginning to probe the arcane unknown, or even an experienced battlemage hungering to take your eldritch mastery to new heights, insight awaits within this guide!
Below I‘ve compiled my picks for the definitively most OP and straight up broken spells that Elden Ring has to offer. I‘ll also share detailed insights on what makes each one uniquely devastating, where to find them, and what attribute requirements you‘ll need to unleash their metaphysical madness yourself.
So grab your staff of choice, gulp down some cerulean flasks, and get ready to mimic the mystical abilities of queen sorcerers and the legendary dragon lords themselves! Here are my top 10 best spells for obliterating all of existence in Elden Ring:
1. Comet Azur
Location: Reward for freeing Primeval Sorcerer Azur in Mt. Gelmir
Requirements: 60 Intelligence, 24 Mind, 24 Dexterity
FP Cost: 40
Without question, Comet Azur is the single most ludicrously powerful sorcery ever witnessed by my tarnished eyes. This cosmic abomination of a spell unleashes a beam so catastrophically devastating that it is known to tear holes in reality itself!
Once unlocked from Azur and boosted by sufficient Intelligence, Mind, and Dexterity, Comet Azur can and WILL delete any boss or enemy in your path in mere seconds. I‘m talking instant disintegration of even the mightiest legendary foes—we‘re talking annihilating the likes of Maliketh in 2 shots!
- Casting this fat glowing beam of pure annihilation also completely roots you in place for its entire duration. But that balances out the whole instantly deleting health bars gimmick.
- You‘ll need another summon to keep enemies immobilized within Azur‘s death ray. But once locked in, their total cellular deconstruction is inevitable.
- Upgrading your staff especially helps further boost Comet‘s planetary-level damage. I recommend Carian Regal Scepter or Lusat‘s.
- Chugging infinite FP Physick helps sustain the laser longer. But I‘ve also spec‘d 80+ Intelligence alongside 30+ Mind to keep the beam blasting away!
If the concepts of "overpowered" or "easy mode" remotely interest you, then seizing Comet Azur moves you infinitely closer to understanding Elden Ring‘s gameplay limitations…or lack thereof!
2. Stars of Ruin
Location: Purchased from Sorceress Sellen after giving her Stars of Ruin scroll
Requirements: 28 Intelligence, 22 Dexterity
FP Cost: 14
For sniping agile foes at range using tracking and barrage tactics, no Elden Ring spell compares to the relentless aggression of Stars of Ruin. This iconic homing missile salvo is infamous amongst veterans for its capacity to lock onto any target and pummel them with endless chaser projectiles.
Upon casting, Stars instantly discharges up to 20 mini-comet missiles that will track and pester any enemy you target, even around corners and through cover. Each comet deals moderate magic damage, but altogether, Stars tears through health bars with alarming speed augmented by solid range.
Crucially, if ANY of your comets miss their mark, Stars will replenish them and add additional projectiles onto the target! This ensures no enemy, however evasive, escapes the merciless pummeling. Only eliminating Stars‘ caster halts this nightmarish cascade of endless magical bombardment!
Bosses, strong enemies, and even sly invaders stand little chance as dozens of blows batter them in rapid succession. Only flaw is its substantial FP cost, heavily draining your Cerulean stocks if spammed absent abundant Mind investment!
3. Founding Rain of Stars
Location: Treasure reward in underground areas of Limgrave
Requirements: 38 Intelligence
FP Cost: 14
The exceptional tracking and range of Founding Rain of Stars cements it as arguably the ultimate crowd control spell in Elden Ring for demolishing groups. Founding manifests a transient night sky amongst the clouds, soon raining down a virtual avalanche of heavy falling stars upon absolutely everything hostiles in an immense area beneath the conjured cosmos.
Each plunging star packs huge damage, and together, they stack intense damage across whoever and whatever lies below. Most regular enemies perish instantly under the sheer magical bombardment. Furthermore, the vast coverage combined with aerial bombardment makes dodging nearly impossible!
Founding also uniquely staggers most survivors of the initial blows, allowing you to quickly clean them up with melee strikes or another deadly sorcery. This also creates opportunities to use items or simply observe the spell‘s awesome visual splendor! Big downside is hefty FP expense for somewhat situational use though.
But for crowd crushing, nothing compares to conjuring the heavens themselves to aid you in utterly crushing dozens of foes simultaneously! It may cost me half my FP flask, but blasting an entire stadium of threats to oblivion with Founding never gets remotely old!
4. Collapsing Stars
Location: Treasure reward in Limgrave underground
Requirements: 23 Intelligence, 19 Dexterity
FP Cost: 17
Favoring aggressive melee-range spells instead of long-distance nukes? Then the overpowered gravity magic of Collapsing Stars belongs in your arsenal!
This wicked sorcery manifests an orb of condensed gravitational energy before you, soon violently imploding. This localized singularity explosion damages, pulls, and vacuum seals any adjacent enemies helplessly within range of its event horizon-like area of effect.
Faster foes often evade the orb‘s initial materialization. But Collapsing‘s generous proximity trigger radius gives you ample leeway to ambush advancing enemies, rooting them in place prime for critical hits with melee combos supplementing your cosmic magic arena.
And because Collapsing concentrates its gravitational potency upward AND outward, you can catch leaping or flying enemies to drag them crashing back down to earth! This creative utility makes Collapsing uniquely useful against certain bosses and angels! Talk about useful niche applications leveraging the fundamental forces of reality!
5. Ancient Death Rancor
Location: Treasure reward in Limgrave underground zones
Requirements: 16 Intelligence, 16 Faith, 16 Arcane
FP Cost: 14
Veteran sorcerers speak in hushed whispers of a dreadful triple-attuned glintstone incantation from aeons past with a will and hunger all its own…the forbidden Ancient Death Rancor.
Barely understood by even the most elite academies, this abominable spell manifests an immaterial skull of ancient crystal which shrieks for the blood of life itself, flying towards the largest accumulation of vital essence nearby (usually groups or bosses).
Once the ancient rancor skull selects a target, it shrieks with debilitating audio bursts during transit, heavily slowing movement while repeatedly savaging them with damaging crystal shrapnel bursting from within.
Few creatures, no matter their domain of origin, can withstand Death Rancor‘s multi-pronged paranormal assault. And casting again redirects the skull to attack refreshed targets, enabling serious damage potential across multiple enemies.
However, for all its lethality, commanding forces as ephemeral and sinister as damned ancient souls does incur substantial risk I‘ve learned! Still, effectively weaponizing the miasmata between planes of existence itself makes for phenomenally satisfying and powerful magic!
6. Inescapable Frenzy
Location: Purchased from Hyetta in Liurnia
Requirements: 36 Intelligence, 24 Faith
FP Cost: 26
Most sorceries rely on direct physical damage to destroy enemies. But the mind arts also hold deadly potential, something Inescapable Frenzy actualizes with shocking trauma, inducing hallucinatory madness out of thin air to decompose minds and topple figures of authority!
By simply gesturing and invoking this forbidden triple-attuned glintstone spell, Inescapable projects a cursed seals that appears under targets, soon erupting into beams of pure mental hacking agony. Anyone lacking the insight to dispel this accursed cipher is soon felled as surging psychic backlash boils their brains.
Few large enemies and bosses can fully protect their subconscious from Inescapable Frenzy‘s penetrating mental barrage. Even holy figures and great rune wielders quickly turn to whimpering, babbling buffoons clutching their heads in anguish against this devilish mind magic!
Admittedly this profane sorcery mirrors the minds-rending Truth granted by the Three Fingers. And repeated castings have been known to induce mild emotional instability and hallucinations. But when I absolutely MUST turn foes into drooling vegetables or stop a god‘s heart with naught but my twisted thoughts, Inescapable Frenzy gets the job done!
7. Ekzykes‘s Decay
Location: Dragon Cathedral in Caelid
Requirements: 27 Faith, 15 Arcane
FP Cost: 32
Fanatical dragon cultists are known to obsess over rot, poison, bloodloss – any method of sacrificial mortification really! But none have weaponized sacred necrosis quite like Ekzyke‘s Decay.
This dreadful dragon incantation spews a wave of disease so virulent that all but the most stalwart creatures wither down to fleshless husks! By chanting the accursed name of Ekzyke the rotted wyrm, Decay rapidly accelerates decomposition, causing health bars to steadily plummet as targets literally melt away in seconds!
Few can withstand Decay‘s somatic devastation. And repeated applications stack increasing damage, decaying victims down to pitiful corpses! Only direct holy healing somewhat slows down the relentless consumption rotting them from within.
Best application is blasting my foes once with Decay, running away as they perish from guaranteed toxicity, then repeating the vile process! Even holy ground can‘t protect sacred beasts or legendary warriors from my repugnant death magicks fueled by heinous Drake and Frenzied Flame sorcery alike!
8. Gurranq‘s Beast Claw
Location: Leyndell Catacombs in Mountaintops of the Giants
Requirements: 24 Strength, 24 Dexterity, 24 Faith
FP Cost: 30
I‘ll diverge from magics to highlight this grotesquely empowering forbidden shapechanging incantation – Gurranq‘s Beast Claw!
A rare Dragon Cult gestural ritual, Beast Claw invokes the blessing of Farum Azula‘s treacherous Beast clergyman Gurranq, reshaping your right arm into the gigantic clawed limb of a spectral weretiger! This will replace your regular right-handed attacks with utterly savage mauling swipes from the conjured primal beast claw.
Each gouging slash unleashes raw bleeding energy, causing hemorrhaging lacerations with immense damage and staggering knockback unmatched by standard melee moves. And activating Claw‘s weapon skill performs an overhead leap slam that crushes foes beneath its crushing weight!
I admit shapeshifting body parts via taboo blood rituals borders on heresy. But ripping enemies apart literally by hand generates a uniquely visceral thrill – especially once I tear bosses to shreds with my transmogrified monster arm! Why depend on mere weapons when I can manifest entire appendages from sacred terror beasts at will instead!
9. Pest Threads
Location: Mt. Gelmir
Requirements: 30 Intelligence, 30 Arcane
FP Cost: 17
Many sorceries rely on brute magical force to destroy enemies. But inspired by my forays into occult dragon arts, I‘ve learned insidious affliction can prove equally powerful!
Pest Threads demonstrates this with a cultivation of infection so deadly, all touched by its parasitic swarm soon fester with fatal disease!
By discharging a spreading cloud of seething scarlet rot corpuscles using this newfangled glintstone sorcery, Pest rapidly decomposes every enemy ensnared within. Their rune-imbued vitality matters not, as their very flesh and bones erode into mulch!
Most large creatures require multiple Pest casts to fully capitulate to its ravenous necrosis. But consecutive applications quickly stack damage. And smaller enemies caught within suffer near instant demise!
Best of all, Pest costs very little FP relative to Decay and Ekzykes! I now effortlessly blanket entire crowds and boss arenas with infectious death clouds certain to inflict pandemics of unprecedented virulence!
10. Crucible Feather Talisman
Location: Swordstress puppet in Auriza Hero‘s Grave
Requirements: 15 Strength, 12 Dexterity, 22 Faith
FP Cost: 10
Lastly, I wanted to highlight an unusual incantation that unlocks new traversal options through sacred armaments – the Crucible Feather Talisman!
This ancient incantation invokes Erdtree Crucible Knights‘ feathers as wings manifest upon your back. Activating the Feather Talisman then enables you levitate freely through the air so long as you have FP remaining!
While limited flight capbilities may sound novel rather than directly combat applicable, lifted movement introduces exciting new ambush and evasion opportunities against enemies of all kinds! Float out of reach of melee attacks while raining spells upon stuck foes below for example. Or aerially dodge and weave past ranged attacks impossible normally.
And although FP drains rapidly while airborne, even brief levitation grants chances to reposition for instant plunging attacks with additional gravity damage! I‘ve definitely shocked my share of bloody Finger invaders by suddenly taking to the skies and blasting them with Carian magic they struggle to pierce midair!
So there you have it – my picks for the definitively TOP 10 most overpowered and game-breaking spells that Elden Ring has to offer! From planetary-level beams to inducing curses that rapidly melt flesh from bone, this lineup represents the pinnacle of magical might and domination!
I‘d love to hear if readers have discovered or specialized in any obscure sorceries or incantations I may have overlooked in my spiritual journeys across the Lands Between! Please share any phenomenally powerful abilities not profiled above so we can further push the boundaries of mystical destruction!
And whether my spell selections resonate or you crave new ones to uncover yourself, I hope all prospective students of sorcery may slowly ascend theAUCdrAS towards true high wizardry in time exploring Elden Ring‘s dark wonders!
