The Crystal Spear scales from strength, dexterity, and intelligence in Elden Ring. Here’s where to find it.
The key to making the perfect build in Elden Ring is prioritizing your levels into a few stats and finding the ideal weapon to multiply your damage output greatly. Some skills, such as intelligence and faith, focus more on spell-casting abilities, requiring the perfect weapons to scale from these stats properly.
Elden Ring introduces Crystal weapons, which scale off your intelligence skills. These weapons don’t require any upgrades to scale from intelligence, making them perfect early-game weapons for mage builds. Greatly focusing your levels on intelligence will have your spells and damage from this weapon doing high amounts of damage. As these weapons scale from intelligence, they also diversify your damage elements by providing magical damage along with physical for all attacks.
Where To Find The Crystal Spear
The Crystal Spear is located on the eastern side of the Lands Between within the Sellia Hideaway. To find the Sellia Hideaway, start from the Church Of The Plague site of grace. From here, head northeast until you reach closer to the cliffs. Following the cliff, you’ll find a small graveyard with a single large enemy in front of a big gravestone. From the graveyard, head directly towards the cliff from the back of the large graveyard, rolling or attacking the wall to reveal the illusionary wall and entrance to the Sellia Hideaway.
Sellia Hideaway is mostly a straight path forward from the entrance to the boss. Head through the first dark tunnel to enter a bright and open crystal cave. After this cave is another darker tunnel, opening to a second lighter crystal cave. Within this cave, follow the right wall until you come across a small alcove that is seemingly closed off. Roll into or attack the back wall to reveal the illusionary wall in this alcove. It will open to a small room with a body that can be looted to obtain the Crystal Spear.
How To Use The Crystal Spear
The Crystal Spear requires 10 strength, 16 dexterity, and 16 intelligence to wield. The Crystal Spear deals both physical pierce damage along with a small bit of magical damage. With this additional elemental damage, this spear cannot be boosted with magic items or buffs. This spear does scale a bit off your intelligence but can be upgraded to eventually scale off your Dexterity as a ‘B,’ making it an incredible option early on.
This weapon comes with the skill: Impaling Thrust and cannot be infused with an Ash Of War. This skill is great for closing the distance on enemies but does fall off later in the game. Crystal weapons such as this spear are great options early on and scale off your intelligence to a decent amount, but they also fall off later in the game. This spear is a great option to find and use early for magic builds, but it should only act as a segue into something else down the line.
