Best Astrologer sword

[msy]

One of the videos I watched told me where to get the best sword for the Astrologer and it is located in Carria Manor. It did drop but before I could pick it up, I died. Will I get a second chance or is that weapon lost to me now?

[Holografix]

fyi:

that sword in Carian Manor is not the best Astrologer Sword. There's another that's better.

[msy]

The sword in there is the Lazuli Glintstone Sword which can also cast pebbles as you use it. The sword it is compared to is the Carian Knight's Sword which will not level as great, so that would be my second choice if the Lazuli sword is lost to me. Is there another sword better than either of these?

[Climhazzard]

Caria manor? I know the sword of night and flame is there, and though it's very good it's stat requirements mean it's far from the best option for an astrologer. There's also the troll knight's sword, but I doubt that's good for an astrologer either, considering it's strength requirement.

If you mean something like the Lazuli glintstone sword, as mentioned above, you get it by farming the Lazuli glintstone sorcerers, a few of which can be found at the Caria manor. The drop rate is ass though, but just keep killing them and sooner or later you'll get it. It's a decent choice.

Carian knight sword is an option, though I'd pass since the weapon art is terrible.

Sword of saint trina has intelligence scaling, though it starts at E, so I can't imagine it's ever that good for intelligence builds.

Honestly for a pure intelligence build astrologer Carian slicer will blow all that stuff out of the water in terms of effectiveness. However I do have a couple of favorites...

FIrst: the Wing of Astel. Requires 19 dex but that's fine as it gives you casting speed, which astrologers want anyways. It has a unique heavy attack for curved swords, and it's a cool one, also the ash of war completely wrecks large bosses. It might be difficult to find on your first playthrough, so you might want to look up it's location on the wiki.

Second: the Moonveil katana. Pretty much all the intelligence builds are using this thing, and for good reason. It's ash of war is very fast and effective. You get it from the Magma Wyrm boss found in Gael Tunnel - Caelid. It requires 18 dex.

Also, you don't lose anything but runes from dying. So if you did get a sword drop you should still have it in your inventory.

[msy]

I did not get to pick it up. I saw the icon showing an item I could pick up but before I clicked on it, I died. I just hope the game does not decide I blew my only chance and it is gone. I will look into your other suggestions. The Lazuli sword was liked by the video author because the starting stats for Astrologer are good enough to start with.

[Climhazzard]

Originally posted by msy:

I did not get to pick it up. I saw the icon showing an item I could pick up but before I clicked on it, I died. I just hope the game does not decide I blew my only chance and it is gone. I will look into your other suggestions. The Lazuli sword was liked by the video author because the starting stats for Astrologer are good enough to start with.

You lost whatever it was then. If it was a was of those lazuli sorcerers, rest easy knowing that the chances of it actually being the lazuli sword instead of some random crap, are actually pretty low. I had to kill 150 of those guys to get the lazuli sword on my first run.

[GrandTickler]

wing of astel is love, wing of astel is life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JhmR1yU2PQ

[Δ︎MΞ︎NTIH ✬]

I farmed the sword last night, about 20-25 tries later I finally dropped it.
My advice is to stay in the door & kill all 3 sorcerers before you try to pick it up. The bigger enemy is rather slow when he first starts moving, so you'll have plenty of time to grab the sword & teleport into saftey or run back to the lost grace :)

& i think you can still drop the sword, afterall it's not in your collection as you never picked it up.

[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

wing of astel is love, wing of astel is life

I was about to suggest the Wing myself~ it's extremely solid as an int scaling weapon with a completely free short ranged projectile attached to its power attack. straight-up, if you don't have something else in mind, the Wing of Astel is probably the best Int based weapon available and I'd recommend any mage rushes the thing if it didn't require killing Radahn to get without trading or glitches.

[msy]

Update- The sword dropped my first try last night. I was afraid I had lost it because I spent over an hour the other night. But I have it now.