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Carian Slicer is a Sorcery in Elden Ring. Carian Slicer creates a magical sword to perform continuous sweeping slashes.

One of the sorceries of the Carian royal family.

Conjures a magic sword and delivers a swift sweeping slash.
This sorcery can be used without delay after performing another action.

Even among the Carian sword sorceries, this is a notably effective technique.

Where to find Carian Slicer

Where to find Carian Slicer:

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Elden Ring Carian Slicer Guide

  • Carian Sorcery.
  • Stamina Cost: 12
  • Deals (Sorcery Scaling x 1.80) Magic Damage per swing and 3 Stance damage.
  • Functions mostly like a melee attack:
    • Can be parried.
    • Can perform running, jumping, rolling, and backstep attacks, where it has the same animation, but a significantly faster startup than a regular cast.
    • Can not perform ripostes or backstabs.
  • If properly optimized, this spell is one of the highest DPS outputs in the game, coming at the cost of poise damage and moveset variety. These weaknesses can be easily offset by many of the other Carian Glintsword spell attacks.
  • Has the highest Magic Damage per FP ratio out of all spells.
  • Can't be charged.
  • Can be used while riding. Unlike other spells, it will not slow down Torrent.
  • Has an accumuVal of 4 towards multi-hit boosts.
  • Carian Glintstone Staff.boosts its damage by 15%

NOTE: Patch 1.08: (PVP only) reduced damage multiplier against players (1.0 > 0.8).

Builds with Carian Slicer

Elden Ring Builds that use Carian Slicer

These 5 builds use Carian Slicer as their spell:

Build Level Stats
Freezing Battlemage 150 INT
Spellblade INT
Enchanted Knight 50 INT
Battlemage 100 INT
Warrior Wizard 150-200 INT


Aberrant Sorceries Adula's Moonblade Ambush Shard Ancient Death Rancor Blades of Stone Briars of Punishment Briars of Sin Cannon of Haima Carian Greatsword Carian Phalanx Carian Piercer Carian Retaliation Carian Slicer Carian Sorceries Cherishing Fingers Claymen Sorceries Collapsing Stars Comet Comet Azur Crystal Barrage Crystal Burst Crystal Release Crystal Torrent Crystalian Sorceries Death Sorceries Eternal Darkness Explosive Ghostflame Fia's Mist Finger Sorceries Fleeting Microcosm Founding Rain of Stars Freezing Mist Frozen Armament Full Moon Sorceries Gavel of Haima Gelmir's Fury Glintblade Phalanx Glintblade Trio Glintstone Arc Glintstone Cometshard Glintstone Icecrag Glintstone Nail Glintstone Nails Glintstone Pebble Glintstone Sorceries Glintstone Stars Gravitational Missile Gravity Sorceries Gravity Well Great Glintstone Shard Great Oracular Bubble Greatblade Phalanx Impenetrable Thorns Loretta's Greatbow Loretta's Mastery Loretta's Sorceries Lucidity Magic Downpour Magic Glintblade Magma Shot Magma Sorceries Mantle of Thorns Mass of Putrescence Meteorite Meteorite of Astel Miriam's Vanishing Night Comet Night Maiden's Mist Night Shard Night Sorceries Oracle Bubbles Primeval Sorceries Rancorcall Ranni's Dark Moon Rellana's Twin Moons Rennala's Full Moon Rings of Spectral Light Rock Blaster Rock Sling Roiling Magma Rykard's Rancor Scadutree Sorceries Scholar's Armament Scholar's Shield Shard Spiral Shatter Earth Shattering Crystal Snow Witch Sorceries Star Shower Starlight Stars of Ruin Swift Glintstone Shard Terra Magica Thops's Barrier (Spell) Tibia's Summons Unseen Blade Unseen Form Vortex of Putrescence Zamor Ice Storm (Spell)
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