Elden Ring offers players an expansive world to explore and dangerous foes to conquer. As an astrologer, you rely primarily on spells and incantations rather than brute strength weapons. Choosing the right armor is crucial to complement your build‘s strengths while covering its weaknesses.
After testing all armor sets in the game, I‘ve compiled the top 10 best suited for astrologer character builds. I evaluated each based on weight, damage negation across types, and useful effects that boost an astrologer‘s power.
How I Evaluated Armor for Astrologers
As a veteran Elden Ring player with over 500 hours invested across multiple playthroughs, I understand the needs of a squishy sorcerer. Survival requires balancing damage negation and equipment load to maximize mobility.
For astrologers, magic damage negation is the top priority followed by other types. Useful bonuses that boost spell power or sorcery effectiveness take priority over raw defense stats. Based on these criteria, I rated armor sets on:
- Weight – Lighter is better to enable fast dodging
- Magic Damage Negation – Crucial for surviving spells from enemies
- Effectiveness With Spells – Boosts to sorceries and spell damage help greatly
- Other Damage Negation – Good to have but not as important
With these factors determining an armor set‘s usefulness for astrologers, I finalized my list of the definitive best options in Elden Ring.
10 Best Armor Sets for Astrologers
1. Snow Witch Set
The Snow Witch set is the archetypical battle garb for a powerful sorcerer. With a tall white hat and flowing blue robe, this armor set screams magic prowess. Beyond its great looks, the snow witch pieces offer solid magic damage negation paired with a unique effect.
Key Stats:
- 10.4 Weight
- 25 Magic Damage Negation
- Helmet Boosts Cold Sorceries By 10%
Despite its light weight, the snow witch set holds its own defensively. The helmet is the star providing a nice damage boost to cold sorceries. Overall an excellent set with fashionable looks to match the perks.
Location: Can be purchased from Enia at Roundtable Hold after defeating Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon boss.
2. Battlemage Set
This heavy armor set worn by battled-hardened mage warriors provides the highest magic damage negation in Elden Ring. The bulky plates protect without sacrificing mobility terribly thanks to modest weight.
Key Stats:
- 20.8 Weight
- 37 Magic Damage Negation
- Balanced Physical Defense
Battlemage offers the best magic defense on top of great physical while not overburdening your load. The defensiveCoverage allows room for error during intense encounters.
Location: Dropped by Knight Bernahl in Farum Azula after defeating the Dragonlord Placidusax boss.
3. Radahn‘s Lion Armor
This rugged set once worn by Starscourge Radahn excels in both magic and physical damage negation. Supporting great defenses is very reasonable weight that maintains astrologer mobility.
Key Stats:
- 15.8 Weight
- 32 Magic Damage Negation
- 36 Physical Damage Negation
With the best combined physical and magical defenses, Radahn‘s set is extremely balanced. You can survive both enemy sorceries and melee strikes thanks to great coverage.
Location: Dropped by Starscourge Radahn in Redmane Castle, Caelid after defeating him.
4. Gelmir Knight Set
Worn by the ember-kissed Knights of Gelmir, this fiery set enhances fire sorceries while providing solid defenses. The gold highlights and etched leather offer a brilliant look befitting a master sorcerer.
Key Stats:
- 16.1 Weight
- 27 Magic Damage Negation
- +8% Fire Sorcery Damage
While slightly heavier, the Gelmir Knight armor excels at protecting against magical attacks. Coupled with the fire sorcery boost, it empowers pyromancer astrologers greatly.
Location: Dropped by the Gelmir Knight enemies wielding flails throughout Mount Gelmir.
5. Queen‘s Crescent Crown
This beautiful silver diadem channels the cosmic powers of the moon greatly empowering moon sorceries. With solid defensive coverage too, this crown suits evasive mages excellently.
Key Stats:
- 3.8 Weight
- 20 Magic Damage Negation
- +30% Moon Sorcery Damage
Despite weighing almost nothing, the Queen‘s Crescent Crown still provides good magical protections. But its true power lies in the sizable 30% moon sorcery damage increase.
Location: Dropped by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon after defeating her boss fight at Raya Lucaria Academy.
6. Aristocrat Hat
This fancy cattle keeps the sun out of your eyes and boosts potent sorceries by a whopping 35%. It also weighs next to nothing making it fantastic for agile spell-slingers.
Key Stats:
- 0.7 Weight
- 5 Magic Damage Negation
- +35% Sorcery Damage
While offering almost no protection, the Aristocrat Hat‘s immense 35% sorcery damage boost outweighs this weakness. Highly mobile mages can avoid hits while dishing out super charged spells.
Location: Dropped by Treasure Chest Mimic enemies at Leyndell Royal Capital.
7. Spellblade Set
These robes and garments worn by apprentice sorcerers enhance frost and magic weapons. With solid defensive stats too, the set empowers battle mage playstyles greatly.
Key Stats:
- 8.6 Weight
- 27.6 Magic Damage Negation
- +2% Magic & Frost Weapon Damage
Despite being lighter, the Spellblade set still provides excellent magical protections. Paired with the magic/frost boost, it aids battlemage and frost sorcerers greatly.
Location: Found on corpses in Raya Lucaria Academy.
8. Depraved Perfumer Set
These robes once worn by perfumers who perfected the art of using scent in combat do more than look and smell nice. They also enhance poison sorceries which suit certain astrologer builds.
Key Stats:
- 9 Weight
- 24 Magic Damage Negation
- Enhances Poison Sorceries
While lacking in magical defenses compared to heavier sets, these robes provide good poison synergy for toxic mages. Having gear boost your playstyle matters more than all out defense.
Location: Dropped by Depraved Perfumer Invader Nerijus at Altus Plateau.
9. Festive Hood & Robe
Available only during holiday seasons, this jolly red and white outfit enhances all non-physical damage by 5%. The defense trade-off is worth it for the universal damage buff.
Key Stats:
- 5.4 Weight
- 8 Magic Damage Negation
- +5% Non-Physical Damage
It‘s hard to beat a global 5% magic damage increase that stacks with other gear. The holiday outfit may not stop blows but makes delivering them much easier.
Location: Given as holiday gifts from Santa Kalé at the Church of Elleh.
10. Ragged Hat
Nothing conveys mystical wisdom like a tattered hat. But this ragged headpiece is more than meets the eye, boosting magical skill by a whopping 15 levels. Its dirt cheap cost makes it a no brainer for all mages.
Key Stats:
- 0.5 Weight
- 2 Magic Damage Negation
- +15 Magic Skill Levels
Despite minimal protections, a 15 level magic skill boost for 1,000 runes is an astrologer‘s dream. More spells equates to greater damage potential.
Location: Sold by Merchant Kalé‘s at Church of Elleh.
Final Thoughts on Best Astrologer Armor
Elden Ring offers no shortage of armor sets to discover across the Lands Between. But the ones listed above stand tall as prime choices for astrologer builds. Maximize magic damage, spell boosts, and damage negation with these excellent armors.
Now you can better survive enemy sorceries while dishing out even more devastating spells yourself. Wearing the right protective gear ensures your astrologer will triumph over any foe.
What armor sets worked best for your astrologer build in Elden Ring? Share your top picks in the comments!
