Best Build For Wing Of Astel

Elden Ring is full of some amazing weapons that have some insane weapon skills. Wing of Astel is a Curved Sword, which already has an amazing move set, combined with the fact that Wing of Astel has some amazing ranged attacks and area of effect damage, it is an amazing weapon.

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Wing of Astel is an Intelligence-focused weapon and is capable of dealing ranged projectile damage without consuming any FP. It also comes with the weapon Skill: Nebula, which creates a wide arc of exploding magic in front of the caster.

Updated by Mehrdad Khayyat on May 13, 2024: Added a video to help with navigation for players looking to obtain the weapon without following Runni’s questline.

Elden Ring

Released: February 25, 2022

Where To Find Wing Of Astel

Making it to Nokstella is easier by following Runni’s questline, but if you want a direct and quick path, then you should get ready to defeat three bosses: General Radahn, Mimic Tear, and Double Gargoyles. The video above shows the path to Nokstella City and eventually the Wing of Astel, starting from Nokron City, a location that unlocks in Limgrave after defeating General Radahn. You can check out our guide for Ghostflame Torch if you want to know how to reach Nokron City.

Wing of Astel is a world-drop weapon that drops from a small chest present at the top of the ruins in southern Uhl Palace Ruins. It can only be reached if you have access to the Northern Section of Ainsel River, by following the river east from northern Uhl Palace Ruins.

From the Nokstella, Eternal City or Ainsel River Main Site of Grace, look at the waterfall in between these two locations. Go through the main gate south of the Ainsel River Main and step into the watery path until you reach a crossroad. Turn left and get past the ant with a circular head. Now turn right when you are out of the cave, hug the right wall, and drop safely down the ledges and up the path where the chest is located on the walkway behind the Malformed Star enemy.

Wing Of Astel Overview

Wing of Astel is a Curved Sword and comes equipped with the move set of a standard Curved Sword. The strong attack of Wing of Astel creates a magical ranged attack while charging the strong attack performs the ranged attack twice.

Wing of Astel has great crowd control potential thanks to its Skill: Nebula. Upon activating it, it releases a wide arc of purple mist in front of the user, which explodes after a while dealing a considerable amount of Magic damage. It also deals high damage to poise.

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Stat Requirement & Scaling

Wing of Astel is a Dexterity and Intelligence-based weapon similar to incredibly strong weapons like Moonlight Greatsword and Moonveil. Wing of Astel requires 17 Dexterity points as well as 20 Intelligence points to equip.

Wing of Astel has a scaling with Strength as well but it is not significant. Initially, it starts with a D scaling in Dexterity and Intelligence, as well as an E-scaling in Strength. Upon maximum upgrades, this scaling can reach a C-scaling with Dexterity and B with Intelligence.

Wing of Astel	Physical Damage	Magic Damage	Strength Scaling	Dexterity Scaling	Intelligence Scaling
Standard	65	78	E	D	D
Standard+1	74	89	E	D	D
Standard+2	83	100	E	D	C
Standard+3	93	111	E	D	C
Standard+4	102	123	E	D	C
Standard+5	112	134	E	C	C
Standard+6	121	145	E	C	C
Standard+7	130	157	E	C	C
Standard+8	140	168	E	C	B
Standard+9	149	179	E	C	B
Standard+10	159	191	E	C	B

Stats to Focus

First Priority: Intelligence and Dexterity
Second Priority: Endurance and Vigor

Since Wing of Astel scales primarily with Intelligence and Dexterity, the best option is to focus on Intelligence first as it will increase the Magic damage this weapon deals. Dexterity should come next as it will increase the Physical damage of this weapon.

This weapon consumes a low FP of 20. Hence you can work well with a focusing Mind stat. However, since it is a Dexterity weapon you can focus on Endurance for higher Stamina as well as Vigor for higher health

Synergetic Weapons & Spells

Wing of Astel works well on their own but we can improve the lethality of the build by dual-wielding Curved whether it may be another Wing of Astel or any other Curved Sword with a powerful Skill.

Shields are also a viable option and you should go for those that give higher Physical Damage Negation. Since we are already focusing on Intelligence we can make use of Sorceries for this Build. Staff like Carian Glintblade Staff works well and you can use any Sorcery you want as you will have enough points in Intelligence already to have access to every Sorcery.

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Synergetic Talisman

The Talisman for this build focuses on those that either increase the Magic damage of our weapon or help us regenerate FP points.

Shard of Alexander is a great Talisman that increases the damage of our weapons skills by a flat 15 percent.
Carian Filigreed Crest lowers the FP consumed by skills which will allow us to take advantage of Nebula even more.
Magic Scorpion Charm boosts our Magic damage by 12 percent, this will increase the damage of both our charged attacks as well as weapon Skill.
Erdtree’ Favor is a neutral Talisman which will raise our maximum HP, stamina, and Equip Load. This works great as Wing of Astel is a Dexterity-based weapon.

Great Physick Synergy

Stonebarb Cracked Tear increases the chances of our attacks breaking enemies’ stances. Since this weapon is already great at breaking enemy stances, this Tear will allow us to stagger and perform Critical attacks on enemies with extreme ease.

Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear temporarily boosts Magic attacks which in Wing of Astel’s case increase the damage of both our Charged attacks as well as our Weapon Skill. Both of these Tears will result in a Physick that synergizes extremely well with Wing of Astel in any combat-based scenario.