Maxroll's Elden Ring Nightreign Guides and Database

Elden Ring Nightreign is upon us! Time to take your Nightfarer and acceptable retired into Limveld successful hopes of defeating the Nightlord earlier you’re mislaid to the rains. We’ve teamed up with Maxroll to bring you a assortment of guides to assistance you get started, present you to each of the Nightfarers and assistance you navigate the dangers of Limveld.

Getting Started successful Nightreign

Maxroll’s Nightreign beginner's usher goes implicit everything you request to get started: an instauration to each of the 8 playable characters, an mentation of the game's cardinal hub, nagivating Limveld, the basics of combat, and however to grip the Nightlords, earlier wrapping everything up with a spot of accusation connected Nightreign's metaprogression systems.

Maxroll Nightreign Character Guides

Learn much astir each of the game’s Nightfarers, however their skills work, and immoderate further accusation astir each of their unsocial playstyles.

Wylder

Wylder is simply a well-rounded character, suitable for beginners. His Sixth Sense passive allows you to cheat decease and enactment up done 1 lawsuit of fatal damage. As a generalist, helium doesn't excel with immoderate circumstantial weapons, but tin usage astir martial armaments. His favourite limb is the Greatsword.

Wylder Character Guide

Guardian

The Guardian is Nightreign's vessel class. He's astir comfy wielding a ample shield and a limb that tin beryllium utilized portion guarding, specified arsenic a Halberd, Rapier, oregon Hand Crossbow. The Guardian deals little harm than the different Nightfarers, but has immense durability and aggregate ways to disrupt foes.

Guardian Character Guide

Ironeye

Ironeye is the bow specialist, though his precocious Dexterity makes him proficient with a assortment of different melee weapons specified arsenic daggers and curved swords. Unfortunately, his debased durability makes him a mediocre prime arsenic a front-line fighter, truthful usage melee weapons with caution. Overall, his abilities are elemental to use, making him an fantabulous prime for beginners.

Ironeye Character Guide

Duchess

The Duchess is simply a dagger-wielding Nightfarer who excels astatine evasive enactment to weave successful and retired of combat. Her starting limb comes with a potent quality skill, enchanting your leaf with the Magic affinity for other damage. In addition, she tin adeptly wield Glintstone Sorceries owed to her precocious intelligence, and she has decent Faith scaling for Incantations arsenic well. For the Duchess, look retired for weapons with the Magic oregon Frost Affinity, and those that tin trigger statuses similar Frostbite oregon Blood Loss.

Duchess Character Guide

Raider

The Raider has precocious Strength and uses large/colossal weapons to smash his foes. While helium tin usage a assortment of martial armaments well, his FP is highly low, making it hard to usage limb skills. The Raider's inherent durability makes him hard to stagger, helping him guarantee that his blows connect.

Raider Character Guide

Revenant

The Revenant is simply a enactment class, though her precocious Faith allows her to usage violative Incantations with ease. However, her quality to woody harm is constricted arsenic she has nary method of FP recovery. Her passive quality summons the shades of foes to combat astatine your side, distracting enemies and dealing damage.

Revenant Character Guide

Recluse

A spellcaster adept who tin usage her quality accomplishment to reconstruct FP, the Recluse excels astatine unleashing devastation from afar. Her stats favour Sorceries and Incantations, but she tin usage Magic, Frost, Fire, Holy, and Lightning affinity weapons. This quality is simply a spot much hard to play arsenic you don't person arsenic galore antiaircraft options, and request to negociate FP successful summation to your Health and Stamina. However, if you bash everything correctly, she deals important damage.

Recluse Character Guide

Executor

The Executor excels successful azygous combat. He has precocious Dexterity and Arcane, giving him entree to a bulk of the game's smaller weapons. Look retired for Katanas successful particular, arsenic these standard disconnected of Dexterity portion besides triggering the Blood Loss presumption to enemies. Position cautiously due to the fact that the Executor has debased durability.

Executor Character Guide

Nightreign Map Guides

The Limveld representation is teeming with points of involvement to explore. Maxroll’s Limveld Map & Key Locations usher teaches you astir the assorted encounters, what mob types to expect, and the rewards you tin gain for clearing them.

As you explore, you'll brushwood random events known arsenic Raid Events which often impact warring a challenging foe. If you wide the raid, you gain a invaluable Power for the remainder of your run; larn much with Maxroll’s Raid Events guide.

Defeating Nightlords unlocks Shifting Earth events. Each of these events transforms a quadrant of the representation into a unsocial zone, often filled with tons of bosses to combat - and akin to Raid Events, they grant a peculiar powerfulness erstwhile cleared. Learn much with Maxroll’s Shifting Earth lawsuit guide.

Nightreign Resources

Explore Roundtable Hold, Nightreign’s main hub area. Here, you tin power your characters, execute Relic Rites to hole for the adjacent expedition, trial things successful the Sparring ground, work up connected the crippled with the Visual Codex, research your character’s communicative astatine the Journal, and acceptable retired from the Table of Lost Grace to bash conflict against a Nightlord. Learn astir each this successful Maxroll's Roundtable Hold guide.

Relics and Vessels are portion of Nightreign’s metaprogression system. At the extremity of each run, you gain Relics and Murk, which you tin walk astatine the Small Jar Bazaar. Some Relics person random affixes that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium useful, whereas others (often earned done quality quests oregon by defeating bosses) person fixed stats and are rather powerful. As you advancement successful the game, you besides unlock further Vessels, letting you equip a antithetic Relic operation connected your Nightfarer. Learn much astir this strategy with Maxroll’s Relics and Vessels guide.

Many of the Sorceries and Incantations successful Nightreign beryllium to a circumstantial Spell School. The Spell School determines which modifiers buff your spells - for example, a Glintstone Sorcery won't payment from bonuses to Godslayer Incantations. This isn't precise intelligibly explained, though, truthful if you’re funny connected however to buff your Spells, cheque retired Maxroll’s Sorcery and Incantation School Guide.

Maxroll's Nightreign Database

Browse Maxroll’s Elden Ring Nightreign Database to larn much astir the Weapons, skills, spells, Relics, Vessels, Relic modifiers, Talismans, passive traits, and Nightfarers disposable successful the game. Each point has a leafage with expanded tooltip information, which you tin usage to observe hidden secrets astir Nightreign’s weapons (or conscionable look for amusive lore tidbits).

• Armaments see Daggers, Swords, Thrusting Swords, Curved Swords, Axes, Hammers, Spears, Halberds, Staves, Seals, Fist Weapons, Bows, Crossbows, and off-hand items.
• Then you person Skills, limb arts that devour FP to trigger further effects.
• Sorceries and Incantations connection buffs, healing, and ways to unleash devastation connected your foes.
• Vessels and Relics are Nightreign's metaprogression systems.
• Talismans, recovered during your run, springiness your Nightfarer a tiny bonus.
• Weapon Passives and Passive Character Traits relation likewise to boons successful astir roguelikes, adding impermanent powerfulness during a run.

Written by IGN Staff with assistance from Maxroll.