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When you can't beat the game on Strength

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Instead of using magic why don't you accept that this game is not for you. And that's OK.

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I always played strength, but my astrologer character was so fun. I started and picked up the zweihander and demihuman queen staff. Put gravitas on the zwei, and carian slicer + glintstone stars + pebble were my bread and butter. This got me to late game were I added waves of darkness to zwei, spiral shard, carian piercer and loretta's greatbow to snipe.
I avoided meteorite staff and night spells since this was not my first playthrough, and those spells just make the game a breeze. Very fun times, recommend for people who want to feel like a Quincy

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So my step dad works for flipendo and he literally just confirmed the Michael Zaki kid thinks this class is for people that eat pizza with a knife and fork

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ahah gravity rock go brrr

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Good ol' casting spells at a safe distance with clever positioning, nothing beats that

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You can justify using a 10-11 dex weapon if you use a staff requiring 12 dex like the carian glintblade staff

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imagine choosing a class that can be countered by...holding right or left on the left thumb stick. What trash.

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You didn't beat the game

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I actually think astrologer is the best starting class for fth builds in pvp. Discus of Light covers for erdtree heal and combo casts into triple rings. At 137 I’m running 60 vigor, 55 fth, 30 dex and 23 int and destroying meta builds. Erdsteel dagger is so over powered, but I also play around with mace, noble estoc and glintstone Kris. That’s max cast speed, perfumes etc etc

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Nobody pay my game to complain of how I play.....

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Despite having 5 levels on a Wretch, Astrologer is even weaker in most melee stats than Wretch. So it's actually more of a flex to RL6 naked, unarmed the game with an Astrologer if you really want to be a tryhard like Mani down there.

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Verified: An astrologer can survive without level-up and Torrent by collecting all the seeds, tears, weapons of spell in Limgrave, Liurnia, Altus and Caelid. First of all, take away Radagon's soreseal.

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I'm not saying magic users are bad people. I'm just saying they aren't people

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running out of MP and blue flasks: the absolute nightmare of the kind of people who always start with this class xd

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In all honesty, i find it kinda crazy how this singular class always ends to be the most optimal long term pick for literally any possible magic build in game

Pure Int? Pure Faith? Or maybe you're planning an int/fth build? This class got you covered.

Damn, this class might be even way better than the Prophet for an endgame fth/arc build too lol

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Abandon the flesh. Become rock.

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the most boring playstyle out there

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Really wish From would just treat Staves as a weapon type instead of as a hand warmer that has only 1 functional button.

With how Staves currently are in this game, they could've made them a Tool for your hotbar and almost nothing would change in terms of Caster gameplay.

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After i play strength build and do invasion i realize how annoying i am when i was a wizard spamming spells :D, i am sorry, but the build was all about spells, if i dont use spell i have no other way to attack you

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Remember reds, wizard first, holy mission to reduce their glintstone air polution

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I always played EVERY souls games purely melee, rarely going over magic, maybe only sometimes like in DS1 doing a mixed build, so since the robes looked pretty cool i decided to be a sorcerer this time, i wanted to be a PURE sorcerer so no melee at all, and honestly? had lots of fun, maybe this build ain't for everyone but for me did it, being a wizard felt pretty cool without following any guide and going blind, overall pretty cool class to choose for the drip mostly.

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This is a great starting class for a Cold/Dex build. Not just for casting sorceries.

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Took me a while to realize that Astrologer is supposed to be a sorceress. A woman. The Astrologer robe and everything was made for a sorceress character

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SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG

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A lot of understandable hate… but just remember arcane builds are way worse. The most obnoxious L2s, all statuses at once… and staves/seal that scale absurd damage primarily off arcane AND scale status off the seal. Arcane build with poison mist on bleed cleanrot with star shower and swift pebble spam is perfectly viable at RL125… the same build would also with frenzy spells and Faith instead of int… and I’m theorizing a one shot frenzy/bleed shield bash on fingerprint shield with main hand reduvia would be OP in duels…

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If you think this is class is boring, it's because you're too stupid to understand spell combos and debuff stacking and think the entire Sorcery playstyle is literally just running away and throwing the same single blue projectile a billion times.

But do go on about how deep, complex and skill-demanding face-tanking everything with your Over-Poised Strength build is.

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Love how everyone hates mages lol

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Ew imagine CHOOSING to be a mage. Run away press L1, drink blue juice. Actual sick people out there.

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The class for the people who want to beat the game without playing the game

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Save yourself the trouble and get the Meteorite Staff early from the Caelid teleport, if you are regularly leveling your Intelligence then you'd be hard pressed to find a better staff until you can make +15 Staves.

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WE LOVE CASTING SPELLS

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SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG

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This class can use the rapier and spiked ceastus without spending any points in str or dex, both accessible very early on.
If you don't mind commiting to farming (potentially for a while), the noble's slender sword, noble's estoc and lazuli glintstone sword are all much better options that also don't require you to level up.

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There's a tome in the Astrologer's portrait FROM, where is my tome so I can smack people with it?

Give us justice for tomes!

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For the basement dwellers out here in the comment section, are we forgetting there's a whole entire gameplay loop based around MELEE magical abilities? Elden Ring is not a low fantasy game, as much as many of you want it to be, with your character only being able to swing a sword, we are playing a fantasy game and I want to do FANTASY things beyond swinging a sharp stick

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YOU SHALL NOT PASS

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This class is so much fun. You struggle a lot in the beginning but once you find the meteorite staff, it carreis you all the way to when you get enough intelligence to use Rennalla's staff, and then you are unstoppable. Even though people claim this is easy mode, it has a lot of tweaks that you need to learn, like parrying is useless, so most people stop usign shields, and become literall glass cannons. This means you have to learn to roll quickly and essentially try to approximate a no hit run, so no heavy armors, and also you need to get really good muscle memory to spell with the left and sword fight with the right. IT is very fun and once you find Comet Azur and the moons, you become a literal god slaying bosses left and right. again, it is not stupid easy, you have to learn to roll your way out of any attack becasue literally every enemy will kill you in two hits.

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To be fair I always thought a mage playthrough is the opposite of a melee, extremely tough in the beginning and progressively getting easier as you move to the endgame. You basically start out with like 10 shots worth of mana (most of which will just get blocked by knights anyway) and when you run out you're left with a build with pathetic weaponry, health and defense to carry you.
Once you manage to level your staff and get a few better spells, you'll become a literal death star, just firing lazers to melt everyone that oppose you.

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interesting how they kept the tradition of the "sorcerer class" getting less viable after each game - at ds1 the spells would drag you through the entire game, at ds2 you would eventually have to spec into some melee, at ds3 it was a half-carry at the beggining and then you would struggle like a damned soul, and finally here at Elden Ring it gets absolutely useless immediately after Rennala, being viable again only in rare ocasions, and of course in PvP before it gets nerfed yet again... i presume the next step is gonna be making every boss and enemy magic-resistant and able to perfectly dodge any attack that does not slowly seek the foe like a homing missile.

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Level strength by two levels. Get a straight sword of your choice (Lordsworn / Long / Broad) and get the Beast Crest Heatrr shield. Chuck rocks at enemies or use Sqaure Off and stagger everything to death.

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Is it just me or does this background sort of confirm that the Tarnished comes from ancient stock? Like died originally long, long ago? Other lore notes about the astrologers seem to suggest so, as being the predecessors to the sorcery academies.

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Bruh why are the weapons not here

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many ppl say this class is the easy mode, but for me its a real struggle, cuz I always played melee classes with high VIG, STR and DEX + some FAI for buffs (I also played a Confessor and a Bleed-Build, but everytime I go into the close range combat and use more health than fp flasks). I start a new char with this class a few days ago and I'm still learning how to play with range combat (and I'm in NG+3 with my main DEX/FAI char for example). I understand what ppl mean with "easy class", cuz you can kill many enemies from range, but for someone who never played a ranged class (beside a Archer in an old MMO lol), its not that easy as it seems. xD

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Hey you may not develop the most skill if you pick mage as your first starter but it doesn’t matter it’s still fun!

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is it realy easy mode

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Who cares if it’s easy mode?

Don’t people like to play overpowered characters sometimes?

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Did they do something to Mind Gain? Last Time i had to put 1 Point in Mind to cast 5 Rock Slings and now i start with 95 FP -_-

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The fashion would be so good if you didn’t have to wear the inner hood to have the coats hood up.

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After finally doing a magic run (always done melee in From games), now I understand why people say "you didn't beat it". Good lord this is easy mode. The hardest part was actually forcing myself to use the magic because it was so boring. I don't know how you people find this fun but I'm happy that you're happy

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ah the perfect class for an old man build

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Best starting class for clerics apparently lol I guess it makes sense a cleric be more intelligent than most other builds and be happy to use sorceries if they’re not heretical. A lot of the sorceries synergize very well with golden order incantations and provide solid covering fire to cast elden stars or heals in pvp. Anyways pick astrologer if you need dex or prophet if you need no dex at all. If you need sword night/flame then go astrologer.

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Sorcery is back after the disaster in DS3.

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the only reason people pick this class is so that they don't have to farm the shield. MF's drop rate is low af.

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You didn't beat it.

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anyone know why i cannot select memorize glintstone pebble and the carian slicer at the same time? It seems to always keep arc memorized regardless.

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You didn't beat the game.

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easiest class to master. low mobility, high nuke capabilities.

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night sorcerer is overpowered imo. this build requires learning mid range attacks and bloodhound stepping. no dodging needed. this build is also a stamina hog and requires management. 1 spell spam. melted malenia, astel void, all capital of ash and elden throne. do not need spirit ash with malenia.

stats:
40 vigor. will have less than 1450hp due to primal glinestone blade
40 mind
30 endurance
81 intelligence
no points in anything else and didnt need to level more

spells:
night comet

weapons:
staff of loss +25
starter weapon non upgraded with bloodhound step

talismans:
carian filigreed crest
primal glinstone blade
graven-school talisman
graven-mass talisman

crystal tears:
cerulean hidden tear
magic shrouding cracked tear

armor:
raging wolf set adjusted
used starting armor until received raging wolf

spirit ash:
black knife tiche max
did not use spirit ash until recieved tiche
needs a serious nerf

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Late game sorcerer build?

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Play this class because I love magic fantasy .... and it a easy to play class what a win.

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I feel like the community gives a lot of attention to feet while it sleeps on big noses.

Cus damn that Astro girl's nose is purely divine. Truly a fitting nose for a queen.

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Why is the base DEX for Astrologer 12???

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it's not 'soul lvl' anymore at least it shouldn't be on the wiki at least. It should be rune level.

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Ok, after having tested both an Astrologer and a Prophet, Astrologer is miles ahead in the early game and I could see why it's recommended for beginners. For one, Glintstone Pebble and Arc are amazing skills to start out with compared to a long animation Heal, and while catch flame is quick and decent, you have to be in close range to use it. That's more useful for a Confessor but not so much the very frail Prophet. Both schools also have great spells you can find early game, but besides Lightning Spear (amazing incantation), I found the incantations have really long animations overall. It makes it so Black Flame and Flame Sling may have trouble hitting their target. I frequently just had it flying over an enemy that was charging at me and it missed.


So overall, I find Incantations a lot more fun to use, but Astrologers are just miles ahead of the Prophet in the early game. So any beginners to mages, Astrologer is the way to go.

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class?

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Only played From's Sekiro and finished it. I don't have experience with any prior soulsbornes but I too much want to play Elden Ring. Saw some videos and guides but am still confused about starting class. Want a built which will be good for both Magic and Melee. Should I start with this class or any different suggestions?

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Whats the name of that bow spell and that big AOE bomb spell hes useing in the video?

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The Astrologer starts with two great early game spells in Glintstone Pebble for ranged single target removal and Glintstone Arc for crowd control. These two spells are efficient FP wise and are better than some of the more advanced spells in the game.

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So if i want a hybrid build of dex/int, should i pick this over prisoner?
Moonlight greatsword is waiting lol

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Why does it say Astrologer starts with "summon Alex's mom" sorcery lmao

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I was really excited when I saw the book on this class artwork, thinking we would get them as casting weapons, but MF starts with a staff... Oof

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Easy mode?

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> Surprisingly, the Astrologer is less stat-efficient than the Prisoner on pretty much any build that invests in Intelligence.

Literally false lmao. Unless you want the increased strength + dex from prisoner you are wasting way more stats PLUS a higher starting level. What idiot wrote this

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Kriemhild, Daughter of Crystal? Is that you?

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I was not sure if i wanted a faith build or a intel build for my first playthrough but this class confirm that i want to play intel now ! :D

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The spells it starts with would be a nice addition...

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Doing first run with this class for the fashion.

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The stars say you're ****ing dead.

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Not my fault i ganked you, im a scorpio.

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I'm pretty sure I'm going to start with this class or Vagabond, they both look epic - As does Prisoner

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I have no idea what this class is but the name alone is going to give me a hype aneurysm

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