With Shadow of the Erdtree now out, i think it's appropriate to list the new spell-related talismans, not including their locations to avoid spoiling too much. 

Cerulean Seed Talisman +1: Greatly increases FP restored by Flasks of Cerulean Tears. 

Beloved Stardust: 99 virtual dexterity (a whole lotta casting speed for both sorceries and incantations) in exchange for -30% on all damage negation. 

Blessed Blue Dew Talisman: Restores 0.5 FP per second 

Outer God Heirloom: +5 Arcane

Talisman of the Dread: 14% increase to the potency of magma

Flamedrake / Spelldrake / Boltdrake Talismans +3: Boosts damage negation in their respective categories by 22%

Pearldrake Talisman +3: Boosts non-physical damage negation by 11%

Golden Braid: Boosts Holy damage negation by 22% (does not stack with Haligdrake talisman or its +1/+2 variants)

Both graven talismans, magic scorp, Godfrey icon, lusats staff (best scaling imo) and moonveil for a battlemage

There are a lot of good options. My personal favorites are (in no order):

1. Radagon Icon (casting speed)
2. Ritual Shield Talisman (Increases all resistances by quite a lot for 1 hit)
3. Stargazer Heirloom (+5 INT)
4. Graven-School Talisman (Boosts damage)
5. Great Jar's Arsenal (increase equip load)
6. Green Turtle Talisman (stamina recovery)

Marika's is good, especially for int+fth builds, but comes with downsides. Can be super useful early game for hitting casting requirements though.

Ritual Shield Talisman might be my #1 pick for most useful talisman on a mage. It lets you put less points into vigor. Increases damage negations by ~20-25% across the board when you're at full HP in light armor. That's kind of huge.

If an attack was going to do 1000 damage, now it does 750. That's like 10 levels of vigor that you can put into something else. And if you're playing low vigor, your flask heals you to full every time. So you essentially always get that negation boost unless you take chip damage. And since it's a percentage, the further you are in the game, the more stats it saves.

Should be noted though that the negation boost seems to be dependent on your base negations. If base negation is 40, it won't stack to like 65, it'll come out at more like 57. Still big gains though.

Are you a glass cannon built cause 89 int with 23 vig and 21 mind is crazy to me. I’d put some points into them and balance it out a little.

For gear it’s not too bad I personally preferred a more robust armour with the blue hood. I’d also lose the soreseal and equip the primal Glintstone blade talisman when you get it and Lusats Glintstone Staff too.

I dont like all the talismans that give a malus. I am just running with graven school until I get mass and radagon or maybe godfrey

I think it shows you know exactly what you’re doing!

I’m assuming the 40 DEX is to combine with the virtual 30 DEX from Radagon Icon for max. casting speed? If not, that’s a nice coincidence.

Also 18 FAI lets you use all the Magma sorceries, so you already have access to fire damage if you need it.

Usually by RL220, if you have been thrifty with your stat points, it’s possible to have two damage stats at 80 each. You’re halfway there with DEX, so that opens up some more options for you, like Cold, Keen, and Lightning affinity weapons.

All in all, good job! What’s on your mind for your secondary damage stat?

I’d say it’s a pretty decent build. Vigor looks good and intelligence looks good. Plus you hit the soft cap for casting speed.

If you want to then by level 220 or so you can have two primary damage stats like the other guy said. 9/10

Also don’t listen to these assholes that are being negative for no reason

>"r8 my mage build"

>it's just 80 int

Pretty good! I would pump faith to 25 for Golden Vow

I say its a great build. 9/10

Carian filigreed crest, cause the ash uses a ton of fp. You could switch this out with Dragoncrest greatshield if you feel too squishy. Alexander’s jar shard for more AOW damage. Two handed is a no brainer, especially on colossal swords. I really like retalliatory crossed tree because the crouch poke on colossal swords is the best part of the moveset, and boosting that goes a long way.

Seems fine for your level

Although I notice you're missing the best incantation in the (base) game, Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike

Is malikeths black blade good? What’s it do?

The obvious answer would be Shard of Alexander.

Shard of alexander obviously. The carian filigreed crest is good too, since the ash is pretty fp heavy. Two handed sword is always good too. Personally, i like to keep one talisman flex slot for defensive stuff. Dragoncrest greashield, crimson seed +1, two headed turtle etc

Get the intelligence tear and glint stone crown

Get more memory slots and please get vigor to 60. I have my mind at 50. I know it's kinda of high but it got me through the base game and the dlc.

Go to the twin maidens and buy the 4th pouch would be a good start

Magic scorpion charm

Put the staff of loss in your off hand to get 30% damage bonus to night comet

Among the top can be found Magic Scorpion Charm (+12% magic dmg), Primal Glintstone Blade (reduced FP costs), Ritual Sword Talisman (+10% dmg full health) or Red-Feathered Branch Sword (+20% dmg at 20% health) if you like gambling it all.
I think the Graven Mass Talisman is sadly too weak (only 8% dmg on sorceries).
The last talisman can be a stat-boosting one or anything else you'd need in some situations.

I run a faith caster so I dont know if thats what you're looking for. I run dragoncrest talisman, faithful flocks talisman, godefrey talisman I believe(the one that strengthens charged spells), and lightning scorpion charm.

I run a caster mage and solo... 38 mind, 80 int, 25 endurance the rest vigor.. other stats are base. Carian regal scepter

My go to 4 are: Radagons icon, Magic scorpion, Ritual sword and Graven mass talisman....
So that's Cast speed, and just plain damage talisman... I do not use the soreseals cause I'm already min max at that point of the game and the extra damage you take just isnt worth it...

Godfrey talisman is not good IMO as there are only a few instances where charging is somewhat beneficial.... Godfrey's icon does not affect azur comet... It can affect stars of ruin but against bosses that are super mobile, very Risky... and besides without the icon, I can already oneshot trash mobs anyways

If I want lusats, I will change the graven mass to Primal glintstone blade..

crimson amber +2 for health, graven school for damage, erdtree's favor +2 for health stamina and equip load, radagon icon for cast time. its all pretty self explanatory

I am using:

• Crimson Amber (raises HP)
• Cerulean Amber (raises FP)
• Graven-School (increases sorcery potency)
• Radagon Icon (lowers casting time)

At the very beginning I recommend dragoncrest shield for more defences, but once you get to the academy you can grab the graven school talisman and radagon’s icon. Then, try seluvis’ quest for magic scorpion and ranni’s for stargazer heirloom. At the beginning of altus there’s godfrey’s icon and in the mountaintops there’s graven mass talisman, witch stacks with graven school. Make sure u grab the int and magic physic tears and rennalla’s crown, but never go past 80 total int after buffs/bonuses

Graven Mass Talisman, Stargazers Heirloom, Radagons Icon, Magic Scorpion Charm

Graven mass talisman, radagons icon, Godfrey’s icon, and magic scorpion charm is what I would recommend.

Graven mass: increase sorcery by lot

Graven school: increase sorcery

Godfrey: increase damage of charged spell

Radagon: increase cast speed

Stargazers: increase int

Erd tree favour : increase health fp and equip load

Crepus vial: makes stealth easier

Concealing veil: makes stealth easier when crouching

Lowering defense needs to be mitigated in end game when even common mobs hit like 18 wheelers.

Magic scorpion: increase magic damage but decrease defense

Marika Soreseal: increase mind int faith arcane a lot but decrease defense

Marika scarseal: increase mind int faith a lot but decrease defense

Drgoncrest shield: increase physical defense

Pearldrake: increase non physical defense

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There is no image, so we can't tell you. Must've been some formatting issue.

Idk if you messed up the format of your post, or if it’s an issue on my end, but I don’t see any info about what your build is.

Without knowing what main stats you want to focus on, weapons, incantations, sorceries, something it is impossible to pick a direction to give advice in.

If you just want a general answer, well, I guess I’ll say:

Viridian Amber Medallion +3

Cerulean Amber Medallion +3

Crimson Amber Medallion +3

and Seal of the Erdtree +2

Whatever your build ends up being, it would be difficult to end up getting no benefit out of each of those.

Right now: The one that improves spell casting time (I think its Radagon's Icon or something like that?), Radagons Soreseal, and Marika's Scarseal.

I use cerulean amber medallion because I can never have enough FP, armament (?) talisman (the one that raises EQ load) because no endurance, and that one that boosts spells from the secret area in Raya Lucaria.

Old lord talisman

Turtle, Grave, Carrigan Filigreed

Staff only mage here.

Moon of Nokstella when exploring - +2 spell slots (I only use 1-4 spells on bosses)

Marika’s Soreseal - increases important mage attributes, free buff

Cerulean Seed Talisman - increases amount replenished by flask of cerulean tears

Graven-mass Talisman - boosts potency of sorceries. I haven’t tested it, but I believe it increases damage of spells and decreases FP consumption slightly

Note: Radagon icon is near useless. There’s a few spells that the faster speed is noticeable on, but for all of the S tier spells it’s not noticeable.

Note: if you rock a melee weapon you might require different options, but if you’re spell heavy this build is great.

Note: low-level I used stargazer-heirloom to boost intelligence (+5 int = more spell damage) but I no longer need this as I’ve reached the intelligence level cap (90)

Edit: if I’m boss fighting or mini-boss fighting I’ll swap out the cerulean seed talisman for a damage negation, and swap the moon of nokstella for something else I need (holy damage negation for example)