Comet Azur is one of the most powerful spells in Elden Ring. This sorcery lets you fire a projectile that rips through your enemies and defeats most bosses in seconds. However, to achieve this damage output, you must cater your entire build around this one spell, which can often make you less effective during non-boss encounters.
In this guide, we’ll be looking at a Comet Azur Build in Elden Ring that maximizes the damage output of the Comet Azur spell and lets you excel in nearly enemy encounters in the game. The latter is achieved without compromising on the former.
Elden Ring Comet Azur Build Overview
- Class: Astrologer
- Flask Spread: FP favoring
- Stats: Intelligence, Vigor, Mind (primary), Strength, and Faith (secondary)
- Weapons: Lusat’s Glinstone Staff and Death’s Poker
- Shield: Jellyfish Shield
- Ash of War: Ghostflame Ignition and Contagious Fury
- Sorceries: Comet Azur, Stars of Ruin and Magic Glintblade
- Incantations: Golden Vow and Howl of Shabriri
- Spirit Summons: Mimic Tear, Spirit Jellyfish, Lhutel the Headless, or Lone Wolf Ashes
- Armor: Azur’s Glintstone Set
- Flask of Wondrous Physick: Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear and Cerulean Hidden Tear
- Talisman: Godfrey Icon, Graven-Mass Talisman, Graven School Talisman, Ritual Sword Talisman
Best Stats Choices
Since this is a late-game NG+ build, we’ll jump straight to the stats at level 150. While you can achieve this build by using a fresh character, we highly recommend getting a larval tear and resetting your stats once you hit level 150 to attain the build.
Stats at level 150
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Faith | 25 |
| Mind | 31 |
| Dexterity | 17 |
| Strength | 20 |
| Endurance | 26 |
| Vigor | 41 |
| Intelligence | 60 |
| Arcane | 9 |
Best Weapons for Comet Azur Build
Your main weapon for the Comet Azur build will be Lusat’s Glinstone Staff. It scales primarily with Intelligence and is perfect for Comet Azur as it reduces the casting time of that sorcery by giving you 40 added Dexterity.
You can find this weapon in Sellia, Town of Sorcery. It is inside a chest near the Nox Swordstress and Nox Priest boss arena.
While Comet Azure (coupled with the rest of the build) will be enough to take down most bosses, you can use minor sorceries and Death’s Poker as a secondary weapon for smaller Skirmishes. Death’s Poker also scales with Intelligence (and Dexterity) and is a good backup option. You can find this weapon to the south of Aeronia Swamp Bank.
Shields aren’t required for this build, but the Jellyfish shield grants you a powerful buff through its Ash of War that you can use to increase your damage output. This shield requires 20 Strength and 14 dexterity and can be found north of the Foot of the Four Belfries Site of Grace in Liurnia of the Lakes.
Best Ashes of War Picks
For your main weapon, Lusat’s Glinstone Staff, no Ashes of War are required as your spells do enough damage on their own. We’ll stick to their default Ashes of War for the Death’s Poker and the Jellyfish Shield.
Death’s Poker comes with Ghostflame Ignition, which sets the ground in front of you on fire, dealing AOE damage along a narrow but elongated AOE. This Ash of War scales with Intelligence, perfectly complementing our Comet Azur build.
The Jellyfish shield, on the other hand, comes equipped with the Contagious Fury Ash of War. When activated, this skill increases your overall damage output by 12.5% for 30 seconds, offering a good buff before you cast Comet Azur.
Best Spells
Comet Azur is the main sorcery for this build. Still, given that you’ll come across smaller enemies from time to time, we recommend adding at least two more spells to your arsenal to perform in all scenarios. The following spells all work with Glinstone Staffs:
- Comet Azur: The main sorcery of this build, Comet Azur fires a long projectile that rips through your enemies, dealing immense amounts of damage in seconds. It can be acquired from Primeval Sorcerer Azur in Mount Gelmir.
- Stars of Ruin: This sorcery fires 12 stars that seek out your enemies, dealing great damage.
- Magic Glintblade: Lastly, the Magic Glintblade forms a magic dagger that, like Stars of Ruin, automatically seeks out enemies.
Best Incantations
Incantations are optional for this build, but they may be worth looking into if you want some extra damage output. Note that you’ll need an appropriate Sacred Seal to cast these incantations. The best Incantations to use with this build are:
- Golden Vow: Golden Vow increases your damage output by +15% for 80 seconds
- Howl of Shabriri: Howl of Shabriri, on the other hand, increases your damage output by +25% but increases the damage taken by the same amount. This buff only lasts 40 seconds and also inflicts madness on the user.
Best Spirit Summons Picks
The type of Spirit Summons you use doesn’t significantly affect the outcome of this build, and the one you select boils down to your preference. Below, we’ve listed four summonses that you should consider for this build
- Dung Eater Puppet: The Dung Eater Puppet is a tanky single-unit summon that deals bleed damage to enemies. His large health pool makes him a worthy addition to your arsenal.
- Mimic Tear: The Mimic Tear summons a replica of your build that fights alongside you, in essence, this allows you to double down on your damage output.
- Lhutel the Headless: Lhutel the Headless is a tank that works slowly, with harder-hitting attacks and a huge health pool that makes him perfect for tanking enemy attacks while you use your sorceries.
- Spirit Jellyfish: The Spirit Jellyfish tends to move around much more, which is perfect for distraction. It inflicts the poison status effect on your enemies, giving you a slight head-up during most combat situations.
Best Armor Choices
The best armor for the Comet Azur build is Azur’s Glintstone Set. Not only does this armor set provide you with great damage protection but its head armor also specifically buffs the Comet Azur sorcery.
Azur’s Glintstone Crown increases the damage of Comet Azur by +15% while raising the cost of all sorceries by the same amount. Once you complete the Sorceress Sellen’s Questline in Elden Ring, you can find this set.
| Stats | Azur’s Glinstone Set |
|---|---|
| Damage Negation | |
| Physical | 13.6 |
| Physical (Strike) | 12.6 |
| Physical (Slash) | 9.7 |
| Physical (Pierce) | 10.9 |
| Magic | 29.2 |
| Fire | 24.6 |
| Lightning | 25.2 |
| Holy | 26.5 |
| Resistance | |
| Immunity | 109 |
| Robustness | 63 |
| Focus | 204 |
| Vitality | 186 |
| Poise | 21 |
Best Flask of Wondrous Physick for Comet Azur Build
The Flask of Wondrous Physick allows you to use two temporary buffs in a single-use Flask. For the Comet Azur Build, we recommend the following:
- Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear: The Magic Shrouding Cracked Tear boosts magic attacks by +20% for three minutes.
- Cerulean Hidden Tear: This tear eliminates FP cost for all spells for 15 seconds. This is especially useful if your Mind stat is on the lower side.
Best Talismans
Talisman allows you to buff your builds in several ways. There are a total of four Talisman slots that you can unlock and use. For the Comet Azur build, these are the best Talisman:
- Godfrey Icon: Godfrey Icon raises the power of charged spells by +15%
- Graven-Mass Talisman: This Talisman raises the powers of sorceries by +8%.
- Graven-School Talisman: Graven-School Talisman raises the powers of sorceries by +4%.
- Ritual Sword Talisman: This Talisman raises attack power by +10% when your health is full.
