Shattering Crystal

Type

Sorcery

FP cost

21

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

30

Additional stamina cost

8

Hold action

Charge

Damage types

magic

Requires

38Int

Spell school

Crystalian sorceries

Sorcery of the mysterious Crystalians.

Creates a mass of crystal, then shatters it in a forward burst.

Charging enhances potency.

The Crystalians are inorganic beings, yet they live. They cleave close to the ideals of the primeval current, and as such, they are revered guests of the sorcerers.

Church of the Cuckoo upper balcony

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Debate Parlor

Before you go

• Defeat the Red Wolf of Radagon to reach the academy courtyard.

1. For your first visit, start at Debate Parlor and enter the courtyard. Go left up the broken stone slope and the stairs past the sorcerers. Jump over the left railing, climb the lower stairway, then jump the next left railing onto the roofs.
2. Follow the roofs south past two marionettes and climb the ladder. Cross the high walkway past the flying marionettes and sorcerer, then follow the ledge around the right side of the tower and drop onto the next roof.
3. Keep descending the roofs toward the marionette archers. Use the lower ledge beside their tower, then follow it around to the ladder facing the large Church of the Cuckoo roof. Jump across to that roof instead of climbing the ladder.
4. Enter an open church window onto the rafters. Drop onto the lower beam and the chandelier carrying the spare Academy Glintstone Key, then onto the upper walkway. Do not drop all the way to the floor.
5. Clear the enemies on the upper walkways and kick down the ladder to the main church. This gives you a short return route from Church of the Cuckoo for later attempts.
6. After lowering the ladder, turn north and follow the upper passage to the corpse with Shattering Crystal. You do not need the High Page's staff room, Rennala or Thops's quest for this pickup.

Notes

• Requires 38 Intelligence, a glintstone staff and one memory slot. Costs 21 FP for either a normal or charged cast.
• Deals Magic damage using the casting staff's Sorcery Scaling. The shards do not deal physical damage merely because they look solid.
• Crystal Staff and Rotten Crystal Staff each give a 10% bonus while held in an active hand. Two active copies multiply to 21%; the rotten staff does not add Scarlet Rot to this spell.
• Creates a crystal in front of you and bursts it into a spread of shards. At close range, a large target can be struck by more of that spread; from farther away, much of it can pass beside a smaller enemy.
• Hold the cast to charge it for more damage. The charged cast can benefit from Godfrey Icon, but the windup still leaves you open if you start too close to an attacking enemy.
• Its name is similar to Crystal Burst, but it is a separate Crystalian sorcery with a different requirement and staff-bonus group.
• The corpse is on the upper church walkway. The nearby blue crystal crab gives Twinsage Glintstone Crown and the guarded corridor leads to Azur's staff; those are separate rewards.