How To Increase FP In Elden Ring [Talismans & Gear]

Increase your FP so that you can continue using magic, incantations & weapon arts in Elden Ring.

Aside from HP and Stamina, players should know how to increase FP in Elden Ring. That is because it features a Focus Point (FP) meter mainly used for casting spells and performing Ashes of War, so learning how to increase it can be imperative. The overall usage of this blue meter usually depends on your build. However, you’ll often be depleting this resource when using Ashes of War, which most builds utilize.

Key Takeaways
  • Increase FP by leveling up the Mind attribute.
  • Equip talismans for specific effects:
    • Cerulean Amber Medallion: Raises Max FP.
    • Primal Glintstone Blade: Reduces Sorcery FP consumption and lowers maximum HP.
    • Carian Filigreed Crest: Reduces skill FP consumption.
    • Marika’s Soreseal: Raises Mind, Faith, Intelligence, and Arcane.
    • Assassin’s Cerulean Dagger: Critical hits restore FP.
    • Ancestral Spirit’s Horn: Killing enemies restores FP.
  • Certain helms provide similar benefits to talismans.
  • Amplify FP replenishment with items:
    • Strengthen Cerulean Tear Flasks.
    • Mix FP-based Crystal Tears into a Flask of Wondrous Physick.
    • Use consumables like Starlight Shards and Rune Arcs.

Leveling Up The Mind Stat

Mind is one of the eight attributes you can level up in Elden Ring. And just like how Vigor and Endurance boost HP and Stamina, respectively, this attribute raises your maximum FP. You can level up your Mind with runes while resting at any Site of Grace. 

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Leveling up the Mind attribute (Image Credit Copyright: eXputer)

These are the steps I took in order to Level up the Mind Stat:

    • Initially, you’ll notice slight incremental improvements when leveling up Mind up till Level 20.
    • Once you hit Level 20, any further level-ups up to Level 60 will drastically increase your FP meter.
    • After that, however, you’ll reach the stat’s soft cap and gain much smaller benefits for each level up, making the upgrade seem pointless.
    • This mechanic ensures that you don’t dump your runes into a single stat.
    • Therefore, once you reach Level 60 on Mind, it’s better to avoid boosting it any further and instead spend your levels elsewhere.
Important: Every attribute in Elden Ring has a different soft cap. You can tell when you reach it once you start noticing less progress to the stat you’re leveling up.

Using FP-Focused Talismans

Aside from leveling up with runes, you can discover and equip talismans that raise maximum FP or lower FP usage in Elden Ring. Either way, these minor add-ons become much more useful towards the late-game phase since their effects are influential regardless of in-game progression. A few talismans like these include:

Cerulean Amber Medallion

  • If you’re wondering how to increase FP in Elden Ring with a single talisman, it doesn’t get simpler than this.
  • The Cerulean Amber Medallion is an early-game talisman that boosts your maximum FP by up to 11%.
  • You can also find its upgraded variants in Elden Ring that raise your FP meter by a higher percentage.
  • It’s worth noting that once you equip this talisman, remember to rest at a Site of Grace to receive that additional FP.
The Cerulean Amber Medallion talisman (Image Credits: eXputer)

Primal Glintstone Blade

  • By reducing your maximum HP by 15%, the Primal Glintstone Blade makes spells consume 25% less FP.
  • Since you reduce your overall FP consumption, you can drastically boost the number of spells you can perform without replenishing the meter with a Flask or item.
  • As such, this is the ideal talisman for Faith or Intelligence builds that regularly use Sorceries and Incantations.
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The Primal Glintstone Blade (Image Source: eXputer)

Carian Filigreed Crest

  • Acting similarly to the previous talisman, the Carian Filigreed Crest reduces the FP consumption of skills by 25%.
  • However, unlike the Glintstone Blade, this talisman does not have any drawbacks, making it an easier sell.
  • Instead of Faith and Intelligence users, the Filigreed Crest is more suited to melee builds that frequently use Ashes of War during combat.
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The Carian Filigreed Crest talisman (Screenshot by eXputer)

Marika’s Soreseal

  • Marika’s Sorseal is one of the best talismans in Elden Ring that raises your Mind, Faith, Intelligence, and Arcane by 5 levels each.
  • Whilst the Soreseal also increases the damage you take from enemies, it’s fairly unnoticeable and hardly a major drawback.
  • Not only does this talisman lift your maximum FP, but it also boosts the potency of your Incantations and Sorceries, making each chunk of FP consumption much more meaningful.
  • Other than that, raising the Arcane stat strengthens the Ashes of War for Arcane Weapons, like the Corpse Piler on Rivers of Blood.
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The Marika’s Soreseal talisman (Image by eXputer)

Assassin’s Cerulean Dagger

  • The Cerulean Dagger is an offense-based talisman that restores 15 FP after landing a critical attack, so you’re constantly increasing your FP usage by regaining it with these attacks.
  • You can perform a critical hit by either backstabbing an enemy from behind or attacking them immediately after a successful parry, also known as a riposte.
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The Assassin’s Cerulean Dagger talisman (Screenshot Grab: eXputer)
Important: You can only perform parries with a Small or Medium Shield, which has the Parry skill equipped.

Ancestral Spirit’s Horn

  • The Ancestral Spirit’s Horn is another offense-based talisman that 3 FP upon defeating enemies.
  • Although it gives a considerably smaller return than the Cerulean Dagger, the Spirit’s Horn is a better choice when surrounded by a horde of enemies, so you’ll have a consistent supply of FP as you’re killing them.
  • This is also the only talisman on this list that’s a Remembrance Weapon obtained after defeating the Regal Ancestor Spirit.
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The Ancestral Spirit Horn talisman (Image by eXputer)

Wearing Gear That Enhances FP

Apart from talismans, there are also several Helms in Elden Ring that increase FP usage. However, most of these headpieces either give a negligible improvement or come with an additional drawback. Fortunately, you have several options to choose from, which include:

  1. Navy Hood: Increases Mind by 1.
  2. Cerulean Tear Scarab: Increases recovery from the Flask of Cerulean Tears by 10% but increases damage taken.
  3. Ash-of-War Scarab: Reduces FP consumption of skills by 15% but also increases damage taken.
  4. Preceptor’s Big Hat: Increases Mind by three but also diminishes your maximum stamina by 10%.
  5. Glintstone Scarab: Trims down FP cost of sorceries by 15% but increases damage taken by 5%.
  6. Incantation Scarab: Decreases Incantations’ FP cost by 15% but also increases damage taken by 5%.
FP-enhancing Helms (Image Credit Copyright: eXputer)

Boosting FP Replenishment

If you’ve collected all the above gear and still looking for more ways how to increase FP in Elden Ring, you should consider amplifying your FP-replenishing items. The most common means of refilling your FP are by either using Flasks or using certain consumables.

By raising their potency, you can squeeze the maximum possible FP from these flasks and consumables, thus increasing your overall mana usage in Elden Ring.

Flask Of Cerulean Tears

The Cerulean Tear Flask is one of the starting items you receive that restores FP. This, alongside the Flask of Crimson Tears, automatically replenish once you rest at a Site of Grace and can be used several times, unlike FP-restoring items in Elden Ring. 

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The Flask of Cerulean Tears (Image Credit Copyright: eXputer)
    • One way to increase the number of uses of your Flasks is by collecting Golden Seeds scattered across the map.
    • These Seeds can be found either alongside the translucent golden trees or after killing an Ulcerated Tree Spirit.
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Golden Seed near the small gold tree (Screenshot Captured by eXputer)
    • Once you find a Golden Seed, rest at any Site of Grace and go to the Flasks tab.
    • Here, you’ll see the “Add charge to Flask” option that’ll turn the seed into a Sacred Flask.
    • Besides this, you can go to the “Increased amount replenished by flasks” in the menu and use Sacred Tears to increase FP restoration by Cerulean Tear Flasks.
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Sacred Tear at Bellum Church (Image Credit Copyright: eXputer)
    • You can also allocate flask charges between your Crimson Tear and Cerulean Tear Flasks.
    • This mechanic lets you decide whether you want to prioritize resupplying HP or FP.
    • To gather more FP flask uses, head back into the Flask menu and select the “Allot Flask Charges” option.
    • This option will let you transform Crimson Tear Flasks into Cerulean Tear Flasks and vice versa.
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Allocating Flask Charges at the Roundtable Hold (Image by eXputer)

Flask Of Wondrous Physick

  • The Flask of Wondrous Physick, initially discovered at the Third Church of Marika in Limgrave, is a less usable but much more customizable Sacred Flask that you can use to increase FP usage.
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Flask of Wondrous Physick (Image taken by eXputer)
  • Despite a one-time use, it’s considerably more effective than a regular Crimson Tear or Cerulean Tear Flask.
  • The Flask is essentially a combination of 2 Crystal Tears that each has a unique item effect.
  • As such, you can mix the Wondrous Physick with one or two FP-focused Crystal Tears.
  • There are 2 Crystal Tears that primarily boost FP, which include:
    1. Cerulean Crystal Tear: Restores half of maximum FP.
    2. Cerulean Hidden Tear: Temporarily eliminates all FP consumption when using spells and Ashes of War.
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Cerulean Hidden Tear and Cerulean Crystal Tear (Screenshot Captured by eXputer)
Important: You can find 2 Cerulean Crystal Tears and mix them together in the Wondrous Physick to completely replenish your FP after using it.

Starlight Shards

  • Starlight Shards are consumable items that gradually restore FP.
  • Their effect lasts for 60 seconds, and they restore 2 points of FP each second.
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Starlight Shards (Image Source: eXputer)
    • You can primarily find these shards in most of the early-game and mid-game areas, including Limgrave, Liurnia, Caelid, and Mount Gelmir.
    • You can also trade them for Spirit Ashes with Preceptor Seluvis at Seluvis’s Rise in northern Liurnia.

Rune Arcs

  • Rune Arcs is another consumable that can increase FP usage in a unique way.
  • Once used, they immediately activate the ability of your current-equipped Great Rune.
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Rune Arc (Screenshot by eXputer)
    • Great Runes are rare items dropped by Shardbearers, including Godrick the Grafted, Renalla of the Full Moon, Morgott the Omen King, Starscourge Radahn, Praetor Rykard, Mohg Lord of Blood, and Malenia.
    • Each of these shards possesses a unique ability that can be used after equipping them at a Site of Grace and using a Rune Arc to hone their ability.
    • The shard you’re looking for is Godrick’s Great Rune which raises all your attributes, including Mind, which will increase your maximum FP.
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Godrick’s Great Rune (Image Credits: eXputer)
    • After defeating Godrick, head to the Divine Tower of Limgrave located east of Stormveil Castle to activate his Great Rune.
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Summit of the Divine Tower of Limgrave (Screenshot Grab: eXputer)
Important: You can collect Rune Arcs by looking in chests and random locations, killing certain bosses, or defeating an invader or host when playing co-op. Later, you can purchase them for 4000 Runes from the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold.

That wraps up our guide on increasing FP in Elden Ring with stats, talismans, and other items. As mentioned, if you frequently use spells or weapon skills, this might be the most common gauge you use in Elden Ring.

Remember to test out and expend your tanky FP meter by equipping the ideal Elden Ring Mage Build. If you instead want to raise more important attributes like FP, here’s a guide on increasing Equip Load in Elden Ring. Also, consider reading up on How To Summon Spirits to further strengthen your build in unique aspects.

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