Carian Piercer

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Spell Type Carian Sorceries
FP Cost 17 Slots Used 1
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Impales foes with magical greatsword

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Carian Piercer is a Sorcery in Elden Ring. Carian Piercer spell is cast to create an offensive magic sword that thrusts forward. Updated to Patch 1.07.

 

One of the sorceries of the Carian royal family.

Conjures a magic greatsword to impale foes.
Charging lengthens the initial step in.

This sorcery forms a counterpart to Carian Greatsword.
Highly lethal when used against single foes riding alone.

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Carian Piercer Location in Elden Ring

Carian Piercer can be found in the following location:

 

 

Elden Ring Carian Piercer Guide

  • Carian Sorcery
  • Stamina Cost: 25
  • Deals (Sorcery Scaling x 2.87) Magic Damage uncharged and (Sorcery Scaling x 3.55) when charged
  • Will knockdown enemies when fully charged.
  • Has a lingering Hitbox that is useful for roll catching.
  • Counts as 2 hits towards "Succesive Attack" Talismans. (i.e. Winged Sword Insignia, Godskin Swaddling Cloth, and Millicent's Prosthesis.)
  • Can be used in conjunction with Carian Greatsword to expand the moveset, by performing a thrust after the horizontal slash.
  • Note: As of Patch 1.07, FP cost has been reduced to 17 from 19, damage increased slightly and the stamina damage against guarding enemies has been increased. Recovery time has also been reduced.

 

 

 

Builds with Carian Piercer

 

 

 

Elden Ring Carian Piercer Notes and Tips

  • Updated to patch 1.07. See Patch Notes for details.
  • Other notes and player tips go here. 

 

Elden Ring Sorceries
Adula's Moonblade  ♦  Ambush Shard  ♦  Briars of Punishment  ♦  Briars of Sin  ♦  Cannon of Haima  ♦  Carian Greatsword  ♦  Carian Phalanx  ♦  Carian Retaliation  ♦  Carian Slicer  ♦  Collapsing Stars  ♦  Comet  ♦  Comet Azur  ♦  Crystal Barrage  ♦  Crystal Burst  ♦  Crystal Release  ♦  Crystal Torrent  ♦  Eternal Darkness  ♦  Explosive Ghostflame  ♦  Fia's Mist  ♦  Founding Rain of Stars  ♦  Freezing Mist  ♦  Frozen Armament  ♦  Gavel of Haima  ♦  Gelmir's Fury  ♦  Glintblade Phalanx  ♦  Glintstone Arc  ♦  Glintstone Cometshard  ♦  Glintstone Icecrag  ♦  Glintstone Pebble  ♦  Glintstone Stars  ♦  Gravity Well  ♦  Great Glintstone Shard  ♦  Great Oracular Bubble  ♦  Greatblade Phalanx  ♦  Loretta's Greatbow  ♦  Loretta's Mastery  ♦  Lucidity  ♦  Magic Downpour  ♦  Magic Glintblade  ♦  Magma Shot  ♦  Meteorite  ♦  Meteorite of Astel  ♦  Night Comet  ♦  Night Maiden's Mist  ♦  Night Shard  ♦  Oracle Bubbles  ♦  Rancorcall  ♦  Ranni's Dark Moon  ♦  Rennala's Full Moon  ♦  Rock Blaster  ♦  Rock Sling  ♦  Roiling Magma  ♦  Rykard's Rancor  ♦  Scholar's Armament  ♦  Scholar's Shield  ♦  Shard Spiral  ♦  Shatter Earth  ♦  Shattering Crystal  ♦  Star Shower  ♦  Starlight  ♦  Stars of Ruin  ♦  Swift Glintstone Shard  ♦  Terra Magica  ♦  Thop's Barrier  ♦  Thops's Barrier (Spell)  ♦  Tibia's Summons  ♦  Unseen Blade  ♦  Unseen Form  ♦  Zamor Ice Storm (Spell)



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    • Anonymous

      It’s hitbox is huge and lingers while having crazy range and can be held to mix up timing. Not OP like dual spears but still very good and is great for any int build. Great for spell combos and roll catching.

      • Anonymous

        This absolutely did NOT need a lingering hitbox, my god. As if a thrust with massive range, extremely quick speed and chargeability for knockdown (and stupid damage with Godfrey's icon) needed to rollcatch.

        • Anonymous

          Can someone tell me if Carian Piercer can be parried with Carian Retaliation? What if it happens when the parry is close enough to the staff itself rather than at range?

          • Anonymous

            A serious workhorse of a sorcery. I can't speak much on its use in PvP, but for PvE on my Enchanted Knight sword and staff build this spell gets so much use. Destroys NPC invaders. Comes in handy so much, great range, damage, stagger, and looks bada**. Pretty FP efficient as well for what you get, 17 FP means just under 13 uses per fully charged Cerulean Flask. Can go through several enemies if they are grouped. Enchanted Knight set with bull goat talisman gives just enough poise for me to trade with most enemies. Love love love this spell. The only downside I can think of is it isn't particulary useful for most huge bosses as they don't stagger easily so in those situations you're better off with Slicer or Adula's Moonblade for DPS. But overall, this is probably my favorite sorcery in the game.

            • Anonymous

              Carian piercer more like carian poiser literally one of the most insane spells for comboing in PVE knocks over everyone and their mother when charged and gives more than enough time to recover and cast something different

              • Anonymous

                PvP is just unplayable when this is used in every other duel. Borderline unreactable, way to high damage and almost undodgable when you manage to predict it.

                • Anonymous

                  What were they thinking when they made this spell? Close to unreactable, three-shots even when uncharged, and it is also has a lingering hitbox for some reason?

                  • Anonymous

                    This spell when charged can knock Malenia straight onto her ass when she's doing her slow walk towards you and It also has enough range to hit her when you're outside of her bubble during her last waterfowl dance attack which will also knock her over. On top of all this it does very respectable damage, still you gotta be careful when using it against her as she has many moves that have hyper armor, for example her kick.

                    • Anonymous

                      This can cheese practically any enemy that doesn't have constant hyper armor (Royal Revenants, for example). When charged, it can also hitstun Crucible Knights. Currently doing an int build and I'm honestly surprised how broken these 'melee' spells are

                      • Anonymous

                        I just started pvping as a caster and this spell is honestly all i need. Im glad i didn't grind ranni for adulas

                        • Anonymous

                          from buffed this way too much. i can do 1400 damage on an uncharged cast and when charged upwards of 2000. no amount of vigor can save you from this spell.

                          • Anonymous

                            I think this is objectively the best sorcery in the game for both PvP and PvE. You can charge it, it knocks enemies over, comes out pretty wuickly, is also boosted by spear talisman. I think this is the best especially in skilled hands

                            • Anonymous

                              Carian Piercer is highly effective against foes your own size that aren't smart enough to dodge out of the way. You can cast this repeatedly for as long as your stamina bar can bear to give, knocking down a target over and over.
                              If you run clear out of stamina, comboing Carian Piercer into itself becomes a lot more unstable. You have a very tight window of execution, and the spell will miss if the enemy pre-emptively uses a move that causes it to fly out of the way.
                              — Courh the Explorer

                              • Anonymous

                                Fully charged Carian Piercer + Lusat Glintstone Staff + Carian Glintstone Staff (offhand) + Graven Mass Talisman + Magic Scorpion Charm + Godfrey Icon + Ritual Sword Talisman + Terra Magica

                                • Anonymous

                                  Did this get nerfed? I've been trying to use this for nearly two hours now and the knockdowns and stuns are just about nowhere near worth it compared to comprabable spells like meteor for spells cruicible for incantations.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    just here to complain that as much as i LOVE this sorcery, the recovery time is absolute aids. for example: if you hit melenia with this and she has hyper armor you get stuck watching her be about to smack you and then smack you for 3/4 of a second as you try to dodge and don't move because recovery time.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      Anti River of blood.
                                      Use it charged while Rob is doing his thing and then follow up with pebble when rob is knocked down for extra disrespect

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Excellent spell, a must have for any caster for the times when you can't get away from things. The range is pretty good, and even if it doesn't hit that hard, it interrupts enemies' casts. Since it is quick to get off, it can easily stun-lock them repeatedly until they're dead.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          I wondered where this spell was. I blasted through this place as those big hands were no joke. I now know they hate fire though, so will just have to craft some fire pots and drag myself back again.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Carian Shishkebab is The Spell for those pesky a) NPC's for its innate knockdown on full charge, b) even peskier shield+spear "pro pvp players" for yknow it still knocks down and makes the shield arm hurt by poise and stamina damage, and c) having a barbecue party at Farum Azula with a lot of half-breed meat on an icy dragon head shishkebab

                                            • In PVE this spell has no purpose. Less range than Adula’s, marginally more damage (but no doublehit or ailment), less horizontal reach. This really needs a gimmick, maybe make it multihit, or improve poise break, or just plain make it deal more damage. It has such a cool animation, shame there’s no reason to use it.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Good for stunlockimg, for example against Alecto or Crystalians. The damage is very good with respect to FP cost. Cand be spammed for stunlocking strong foes. Strongly recommended against bosses.

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Ironically, this is more of a surgical weapon than a powerhouse. The DPS relative to FP cost is low, and it doesn't have the ability to deal followup attacks like its Carian cousins. However it does have considerable forward range, and a good bit of burst damage. It is deal for taking out singular enemies that rush into you head on, as you can start casting it from beyond their melee range and often kill them in 1 hit. In a narrow corridor you can skewer many enemies at once. The large range also makes it a good horseback jousting weapon for hit and run attacks.

                                                  The low dps and bad FP efficiencies however means this is not an ideal "boss killer" spell. Use the Carian Slicer for that.

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    This spell is incredibly good in PvP and PvE. This isn't listed anywhere, but charging this spell up raises the range and recovery frames, aswell as the damage. Charging can also make people roll early on accident, leading to quick roll-catches. Very very good for punishing aggressive opponents.

                                                    • This spell is pretty underrated, very few enemies are able to defend against it and the majority of those will all fall onto the ground allowing you to setup a charged attack.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Of note is the fact that in addition to increasing the forward range via a step-in animation, charging the Carian Piercer increases it's damage. Although if that slight increase is worth the extra charge time is worthy of debate.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Big damage and charging this spell all the way sends most enemies flying just like a greatsword's thrust, and it's equally easy to keep enemies on the ground with repeated full charges.

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