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This is a full necromancer themed build for elden ring, aimed to give you the feeling of summoning spirits and those who live in death to aid you in thy quest in the lands between. We have a larg amount of area of effect skills that can easily clean mobs as well as apply frostbite, as well as longe range stagging spells for those bosses that are more mobile and you need to keep away from you. We also have a shield to deal with pressure and a barrier spell to counter long ranged foes. Overall i tried to give this build a little of everything without leaving the theme.


This character can be of any appearance as mages come from various sizes and forms.


In this build we will be using a lot of mana all the time so most of our flasks will be blue, i like to work with 3 - 7 in the mid game. But at latter stages when we have enought mind we can change this proportion a little, from 30%-70 to 40%-60% not much but gives us a little more flexibility.




Altough this is a death build we will mainly use INT so we can have this build ready at level 150 instead of 200. Because of that we will only put necessary points in faith and use the prince of death staff as a off-hand weapon instead of our main weapon.

We will start with the astrologer class to have instat access to staffs and better stats for our porpurse and at level 150 we hope to have this stats:

For our spells we will be using primarily death sorceries but i also added some frost spells so that we can combo frostbite and some utilities that may aid us more survivability. Also I really tried to use Tibia Summons but this spell just don't work, too long cast time, most time it misses and doesn't deal enought damage to ustify using it, it is a shame because it really looked good.



UPDATE: I added some new spells in the next session that can increase this build potential, at the end of the session will be the spells that i used to finish DLC and platinum the game.

There are some spell alternatives that can work great with this build or some spell that give buffs and more.


The first alternative set of spells is the change from Frost to Aberrant, it fits very well with macabre and non conventional schools of sorceries and gives you access to bloodloss. This set of spell were the ones i used to finish the DLC the games turn into easy mode if you use then. Have in mind that both this sorceries are not optimized in this build as we are leveling up INT and not arcane the bloodloss buildup and damage will not be as efficient as in a arcane build but still hit hard.


This are some spells that are very handy and can be used to maximize the DMG output of your build or give some extra utility. To use some of this spells you will have to add or a seal or the fingermother staff, with no need to update the weapon since the buffs are fixed values.

This build will work with 1 main staff and shield, as well as a offhand main "meele" weapon and a buff staff. So basically will change our weapons as the battle goes and it's moments, more of this will be explained in Combat session of this guide.

For talismans we are focusing basicaly on MAGIC damage increase, the only utility talisman is the moon of nookstela for more spells available.





We will use Staff + shield whenever possible and change to Staff _ staff if in a good spot, change it to perfume bottle+shield if pressured. Should go as follow:

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For clothes there is no clothes that directly increase our damge or defense, but we should aim to go for something darker and robes. I personaly use Lord of blood robes(altered) as follows:



Here is my character fashion choices:

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This one actually boost our frost spells.

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We will go about some usual situations that can happen in combat and what i think is the best solution to those. Remember if you are runing buffs apply then before entering the boss arena.


This is the best case scenario, change to Staff(prince of death)+ Staff(Carian regal) to get the most damage available. Buff yourself with terra magica and spam Ancient death rancor. This spell already deal a lot of damage with the boots will be a truck hiting the enemies with the additional benefit of having stagger potential.


Almost the same as before change to Staff(prince of death)+ Staff(Carian regal) to get the most damage available. Buff yourself with terra magica and spam Rings of spectral light, They are cheaper and have more range than Ancient death rancor so ideal to small enemies.


Almost the same as before change to Staff(prince of death)+ Staff(Carian regal) to get the most damage available. Buff yourself with terra magica and charge cast Mass of Putrescence, this will sure clear most if not all the enemies in front of you.


You will go with shild + Staff(carian regal) make sure to be always alert for incoming atacks and to raise your shield if necessary. You will try to circle the enemy while casting, charged if possible, Rykard's Rancor, Big enemies will get full damage from this spell allowing you to deal 10k damage in no second if you can cast 4 times and all those hit.


You will go with shild + Staff(carian regal) make sure to be always alert for incoming atacks and to raise your shield if necessary. You will try gain distance from the enemy running and will cast one of the follow: Explosive ghostflame, this will launch the enemy far, Zamor ice storm, will leave a area behind you dealing frostbite and slowing the enemy or Vortex of Putrescence will be the faster cast and will elave a frostbite hight damage area behind.


You will go with shild + Staff(carian regal) make sure to be always alert for incoming atacks and to raise your shield if necessary. You will try gain distance from the enemy while casting Glinststone Icecrag with enought procs the enemy will receive frostbite and be stagged creating a opening for better spells.


You will go with shild + Chilling perfume bottle make sure to be always alert for incoming atacks and to raise your shield if necessary. You will try gain distance from the enemy running and auto atacking whenever possible, THe objective here is to stay alive and look for a oportunity to increase distance to close or medium range so we can cast any of our reactive spells.