Elden Ring Nightreign Guide | How To Get Overpowered Early

Before starting a new expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, you should know a few things that can make your playthroughs much easier. 

Choosing the Right Relics

Before going for your next expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, ensure you have at least one of those relics that alter the status effect of your primary armament. Bleed, or frost relics, are perfect because they provide additional buildup and greatly enhance damage from the moment you spawn. 

If you lack them, attempt to get them at the Jar Bazaar by buying Scenic Flat Stones for 600 Merc points each. These provide random relics; you can even use the save-scumming strategy—save your game and repeat the process until you get the desired status effect relics.

Day One Priorities

When you start the expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, visit at least one or two churches on the first day. Every church will provide an additional healing potion that can help you in critical fights. Limit yourself to boss fights and avoid wasting time on unnecessary mobs.

If you are not playing solo, traveling together makes these battles easy to win, and killing bosses within the same castles or ruins gives thousands of XP, about as much as clearing multiple regular enemies. Bosses also drop dormant powers, buffing and providing better equipment than your initial gear.

Observe the status effect symbols above enemy positions. Killing a boss at those spots will drop an elementarily affine weapon. You would receive a gun with the same type of damage, i.e., fire or holy damage symbols. 

This is important because each third-day boss has an elemental weakness noted on the expedition screen before you engage them. Carrying an attack to hit this vulnerability (fire, holy, or madness) will significantly boost your damage and success.

Weapons with a red hand icon on their passives must never be put away in Elden Ring Nightreign. These bonuses are active just by having them in your secondary hand. 

For instance, if a weapon has the "Storm of Red Lightning" effect, having it slotted into your off-hand triggers the bonus, even when dual-wielding your primary weapon. Many strong effects, like healing on hits or proc on random spells, can be activated this way without actively using the gun.

Always visit at least one mine during your run in Elden Ring Nightreign. Defeating the boss inside rewards with a Smithing Stone (Level 2), upgrading a rare weapon to epic rank. If your dormant power drops are not good, upgrade your starting or looted weapons for a significant damage boost.

Day Two Strategy

Head to the massive central castle on the map for a quick power upgrade in Elden Ring Nightreign. This location is filled with bosses—three or four trolls, one in the sewers and another on the roof. They all drop dormant powers, and the sewer chest rewards another one for a total of seven in minutes. 

The castle also provides a merchant where you can purchase a Smithing Stone (Level 1) for 6.5k Merc points to get your starting weapon leveled up early. Combine this with a mine's Level 2 stone for an epic-level weapon. Also, complete one or two other churches on Day 2 for additional healing potions.

Shifting Earth Events

By your second expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, new maps could have Shifting Earth events—lava craters, frost mountaintops, rotted woods, or shrouded cities. Each has a different buff represented by a large red icon:

Crater upgrades your weapon to legendary. 

Frost Mountaintop boosts Frost resistance and inflicts bonus damage to dragons.

Scarlet Forest negates Scarlet's rot, increases max HP, and offers a temporary HP regeneration when attacking after taking damage.

Shrouded City offers one free revive in battle.

Waiting in the waiting room cycles through the Shifting Earth event, where you can choose specific bonuses.

Complete Character Stories

Each of the eight characters in Elden Ring Nightreign also has a journal progression associated with their journal in the Roundtable Hold. Completion of remembrances unlocks new locations and rewards, such as improved chalices for relic pairings. 

Quests typically align with Limgrave missions, which are indicated by individual icons (such as finding whetstones or killing specific targets).

You can also unlock hidden classes in Elden Ring Nightreign.

The Duchess is unlocked when you find an Old Pocket Watch during an expedition and give it to the hooded lady at the Roundtable Hold.

To unlock the Revenant, you have to unlock the Duchess first. Then, buy the Bismerched Frame for 1,500 Merc points from the Jar Bazaar. Then, you must approach the new ghost in the Roundtable Hold and kill the Revenant and her minions to unlock the class.

By following these strategies, you'll maximize your strength, survivability, and chances of victory in Elden Ring Nightreign expeditions.

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