Most Overpowered Sorceries In Elden Ring

April 29, 2024

Highlights

Elden Ring offers players a variety of playstyles with weapon choices like swords, magic spells, and incantations for combat options.
Sorceries in Elden Ring can deal massive damage with fast-cast spells, while incantations offer utilities like healing and debuffs.
Overpowered sorceries like Night Comet, Ancient Death Rancor, and Cannon of Haima provide players with powerful tools to defeat enemies.

Elden Ring provides players with a variety of options when it comes to choosing a playstyle for their playthrough, be it using various weapons like Swords, Katanas, and Greatswords for closed-quarter combat or using magic and spells for ranged combat. Fromsoft’s open-world title features plenty of different ways for players to stay engaged. When it comes to magic in Elden Ring, the game offers two ways for the players to make use of it, one in the form of Sorceries and the other being Incantations. Incantations provide a wide array of utilities from healing to debuffs and offense, and it takes time to cast them; Sorceries are hard-hitting magic spells that can be cast at a great speed.

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Sorceries in Elden Ring often rely on the intelligence stat, and with it, players can unleash spells that can summon meteors or fire a projectile from a railgun. Sorceries allow for all kinds of spells and can deal drastic damage to enemies, even going as far as eradicating them in one shot, and Elden Ring has plenty of overpowered sorceries for players to make use of. Though there are many powerful sorceries available in the game, the most overpowered sorceries in Elden Ring can transform the tarnished into an archwizard. When used correctly, it’s hard to deny how broken some of them are.

10 Night Comet

Fire A Semi-Invisible Comet

Night Comet spell location in Elden Ring

FP Cost: 21
Requirements: Intelligence – 38
Location: Sellia, Town of Sorcery

Magic is all about imagination and what can be conjured with it, and it is safe to say that summoning a celestial comet is a nigh impossible feat. Night Comet is a type of sorcery that creates a semi-invisible comet that can be launched from a great distance and cause immense damage.

Night comet is a spell that provides damage without sacrificing the ability to move, making it a great spell to cast in battle. Sorceries in Elden Ring have their niche and a standard way of using them, but Night Comet allows the player to dive straight into combat and unleash semi-invisible spells one after another to obliterate the enemy.

9 Meteorite Of Astel

Summon Meteorites From The Void

Elden Ring player casting Meteorite of Astel

FP Cost: 60 (12)
Requirements: Intelligence – 55
Location: Consecrated Snowfield

Summoning meteorites from the void looks as majestic in the game as it sounds, and Elden Ring has one such spell. Meteorite of Astel is an insane AoE sorcery spell in Elden Ring that wreaks uncontrollable destruction on enemies. Causing pure destruction with the lethal meteorites bombing down on enemies with great force, Meteorite of Astel is a sorcery that completely overpowers the enemies.

While the raw damage of the spell in numbers is impressive, Meteorites of Astel has its shortcomings in battle with its ability to hit consistently, and while the spell can stagger enemies, it is inefficient for anything other than large bosses and an army of enemies.

8 Comet Azur

Celestial Power In A Staff

FP Cost: 40 (10)
Requirements: Intelligence – 60
Location: Hermit Village in Mt. Gelmir

Another Celestial Spell on the list is Comet Azur, an overpowered spell in Elden Ring that can annihilate plenty of powerful foes in one fell swoop. Made by Azur, a primeval sorcerer in Elden Ring, Comet Azur creates a comet that deals lots of damage from a good distance. Comet Azur is an explosive spell capable of defeating even bosses in one shot if done right, but the spells lack mobility, which can restrict it.

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The spell is only useful in a situation where enemies aren’t moving or have low agility, or else it becomes hard to land. Once dodged, the spell creates a window of opportunity for enemies to attack, which brings a major downside to Comet Azur. However, even with the disadvantages, Comet Azur is an overpowered spell in Elden Ring with enough destructing powers to shake the enemies and stars alike.

7 Carian Slicer

A Swift Magical Sword

FP Cost: 4
Requirements: Intelligence – 14
Location: Purchase it from either Miriel Pastor of Vows, Sorceress Sellen, or Preceptor Seluvis.

Magic and Sorcery have always been about long-ranged fights with overpowered spells being slow to cast or having less accuracy in combat. Carian Slicer is a spell that contradicts it all. It is a spell that allows sorcerers to fight in melee combat.

One of the sorceries from the regal household of Carians, Carian Slicer allows mages to wield a magical sword to fight against enemies with sweeping slashes. Carian Slicer comes with an astonishingly low FP cost followed by low stat requirements. It can be used in combat in almost every way possible while running, rolling, jumping, riding, and even when performing backstab attacks. Carian Slicer, if used properly, can also dish out some of the highest damage in the game, setting it leagues apart from other sorceries in Elden Ring.

6 Rock Sling

Shoot Rocks From Earth To Enemies

FP Cost: 18
Requirements: Intelligence – 18
Location: North of the Street of Sages Ruins

Overpowered sorceries often allude to spells performing things on a grand level, such as summoning meteorites and comets, casting fireballs, and conjuring blizzards, but throwing rocks will not always be the kind of magic that pops off as something overwhelming. Rock Sling is a spell available since the early game that launches rocks as projectiles from the ground onto enemies nearby.

Rock Sling, with its low FP cost paired with a good cast speed, good tracking mechanism, and near-inescapable attack, makes it one of the best PvE spells in Elden Ring. The spell is also useful against enemies with high magic negation, as it deals physical damage, making it ideal to use against a variety of enemies.

5 Ancient Death Rancor

Summon Vengeful Spirits

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FP Cost: 21
Requirements: Intelligence – 34 / Faith – 24
Location: Liurnia of the Lakes

Malenia is considered to be the strongest enemy in Elden Ring and arguably in any Fromsoft game, and testing sorceries against the strongest of the strong is a good way to determine which ones are broken. Among all sorceries, Ancient Death Rancor is an overpowered one that can even defeat the Blade of Miquella without any problems.

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One of the death sorceries, Ancient Death Rancor, needs a lot of investment in its build before it can be used, but all the effort spent is worth it. The spell summons a hoard of rancorous spirits ready to track and devour their prey. The only drawback with the spell is that its true potential shines only in the later portion of the game, but it’s still incredibly overpowered.

4 Cannon Of Haima

Throw An Explosive Fireball

cannon of haima being used in elden ring

FP Cost: 36
Requirements: Intelligence – 25
Location: Top of Converted Fringe Tower

Cannon of Haima is a Glintstone Sorcery and a pretty powerful one with the potential to deal even more damage when charged. It is an AoE spell that fires projectiles at enemies. The spell has a large AoE and range, making combat against enemies viable from a distance with higher accuracy.

With the ability to reach opponents from a far distance, Cannon of Haima is an appropriate spell to make preemptive strikes or set up an ambush on a group. Cannon of Haima can be used in multiple ways, be it hitting enemies on the other side of the wall or knocking foes off of a cliff with the impact. With its low stat requirement, fireball size, and attack range, Cannon of Haima is truly a top-tier sorcery spell in-Elden Ring.

3 Loretta’s Greatbow

Magical Arrows Shot From Afar

FP Cost: 24
Requirements: Intelligence – 26
Location: Caria Manor

‘One who strikes first can control the momentum of the battle,’ and no other spell can outshine Loretta’s Greatbow when it comes to dealing the preemptive strike. The spell can be launched from a great distance without the enemy getting a chance to know what hit them.

Loretta’s Greatbow additionally can be used to deal even greater damage when charged. The magical arrow explodes on contact, which also provides some relief on the accuracy part. Loretta’s Greatbow might not be an overkilling spell that can one-shot bosses, but what truly makes it overpowered is the damage it offers and the impressive range it provides.

2 Zamor Ice Storm

Summon A Blizzard

FP Cost: 17
Requirements: Intelligence – 36
Location: Zamor Ruins in the Mountaintops of the Giants

Wielding the ice sorcery of the town of Zamor, Zamor Ice Storm is a powerful spell in Elden Ring. Not confusing the spell with the skill of the same name, Zamor Ice Storm provides players with the ability to conjure a tornado with the help of a staff.

Zamor Ice Storm deals frostbite damage, which further reduces the target’s damage absorption. The spell also has one other use, where it can deflect some projectiles, turning the icy storm into a fortress of sorts, too.

1 Great Oracular Bubble

Fires A Lethal Bubble

Player using Great Oracular Bubble on an enemy invader in Elden Ring — Joshua Leeds

FP Cost: 16
Requirements: Intelligence – 25 / Arcane – 18
Location: Worshippers’ Woods site of grace in Siofra River

There is a lot going on for sorceries in Elden Ring, and there can be various reasons for a spell to be overpowered. Great Oracular Bubble is one such spell in the game. While it might not be able to kill enemies in a single attack, Great Orcacular Bubble compensates for this drawback with decent damage provided at a low FP cost.

Great Oracular Bubble produces a small bubble projectile that advances until it explodes. The cherry on top is that the damage dealt by the spell is in a small AoE. It can be used against enemies while moving, providing excellent mobility, and with buffed tracking and attack power, Great Oracular Bubble deals more damage with better accuracy, making it an incredibly useful and overpowered spell in Elden Ring.