Discover everything you need to know about the 10 best beginner tips for Elden Ring Nightreign DLC, The Forsaken Hollows.
Elden Ring Nightreign DLC The Forsaken Hollows brings new challenges for all players, so learning the best strategies is crucial in every aspect. Use the “Sparring Grounds” to try out different Nightfarers, weapons, and skills without risk. You can set skill/ultimate gauges to unlimited and test parries, dodges, and blocking. Always carry at least one ranged weapon in the party. Prioritize relics with team-wide or passive bonuses and manage your time & loot.
Night bosses like Demon Prince, Lord of Blood, Knight Artorias, and Divine Beast Dancing Lion in this DLC are harder to tackle, but using the right strategy can let you take them out. Churches can give extra flask charges. Consumables like weapon greases, buff items, or healing aids can tilt odds in your favor, especially during boss fights. After an expedition, return to the hub Roundtable Hold and talk to every NPC to gain new relics, gear, or unlock extra content.
For more information on Elden Ring Nightreign The Forsaken Hollows DLC, check out its official Steam page here.
Table of contents
1. Choose Undertaker Nightfarer
This is the kind of character that is perfect for you guys who just want to hit things really hard while also having a little flavor of magic. If you check her stats, you’ll see that while she has no S-level scaling in any statistic, she does have an A in both Strength and Faith, as well as a B for HP, making her more durable than some when getting into melee range.
While all the other stats are C or below. This is really useful to know when it comes to magic because things like staffs, you’re going to be a little bit more underpowered. Her passive ability is Confluence, and this allows you to activate your ultimate arts ability within a small window once one of your teammates activates theirs. Your ability will flash purple, and this is your trigger to use it before the window ends. Her second ability is trance.
Once activated, you will see that the Undertaker also becomes ghostly with an ethereal cloak. Doing this has multiple benefits and is essentially the bread and butter of playing this character. Her running speed will become sprinting without consuming stamina, saving this for attacks, her dodge will become a dodge step, and her toughness and combo power will increase.
2. Learn Your Character
There is a training area in Round Table Hold that allows you to learn the moves of characters, practice with different weapons and skills, and sort of refresh your memory. If you’re coming from Elden Ring and you haven’t played Elder Ring in a long time, you might recognize some of these things, but other things you won’t.
As you make your way through the game, you have limited time to look at what you’re picking up. So, it’s a great way to like learn the character skills before you go out on the landscape and are not trying to figure it all out on the fly. You can do this in Round Table Hole and spend time there to become more proficient with the characters, skills, spells, etc.
There is now a feature that will allow you to teleport anywhere in the Round Table Hold. If you bring up the menu and you pick a location on the menu, you can go anywhere you want.
3. Nightreign Matchmaking
When you first look at the matchmaking screen, it can be a bit overwhelming. The first thing is you need to decide whether you want cross-region matchmaking on or off. This can affect your ping since it’s P2P. Depending on whether you’re okay with higher ping or not, you may want to turn this on or off. This is in your options.
This isn’t in the matchmaking screen. But I highly recommend that if you’re playing, you probably turn this off unless you’re playing with a friend from a different region. This is because this game is heavily affected by ping, and it can be very hard to dodge, parry timings, and block.
4. Know Your Map
As you actually load into the game, the first thing you’re going to notice is the map. You can actually turn on a detailed view of this map. You can toggle back and forth to kind of see where things are on the map. But learning how to read this map is a huge part of Elden Ring Nightreign.
There are various spawn points that you’re going to spawn into, depending on what boss you’re facing and some randomized elements. You should be overall familiar with the general layout of the map, as this does not change a whole lot.
Certain things will move around like runes, and structures like forts and stuff will move around. However, the general layout of the map will more or less be the same, like from its topography and stuff like that.
You can look at the elemental icons on structures, and they will show you what sort of weaponry you’ll get from those places. For instance, if you go somewhere with a fire icon and you defeat the boss there, you’ll likely get at least one fire weapon.
5. Stay With Your Team
Try and stay in a group when possible. Things always go better in a group in this DLC expansion. I highly recommend not starting the game in solo mode. In the multiplayer menu, you can actually go down to the bottom and change it to single player if you want.
You won’t have to wait for a group to do this. But the game, in my opinion, is not super well-balanced for single players. There are some good players out there who won’t have trouble.
6. Use the Relics
As you run in this game, whether you succeed or fail in your run at tackling a night lord, you will gain relics. You can equip these in a round hole on your characters. They have different character color slots each, indicating that they can use different types of relics in those slots.
They can give you more stats, which can boost the damage that you do. You can also gain more FP or more stamina, or they can make it so your starting weapon has like poison or bleed on it, or starts with fire, or that certain abilities for certain characters are stronger.
There are a lot of different effects, and how you get stronger in this game is by going on runs, whether you succeed or fail, getting more relics, and improving your character through this. These are highly randomized, so you might get really strong ones or really weak ones, or you might get them for characters that you’re not playing. Leather Monocle Case, The Will of the Balancers, and The Night of Dregs are the best Relics to use in this DLC because they improve your damage-dealing capability in combat.
7. Avoid Easy Enemies
Another really good tip is that you should probably avoid easy enemies whenever possible. Clearing a couple of enemies really quickly can wipe them out and get you a level or two. Or in instances when you can use like Guardians Ultimate or Iron Eyes Ultimate to just wipe out a bunch of easy enemies quickly.
That can be a great source of experience, or maybe some dropped items if you have Iron Eye in your group. You can save yourself a lot of time, allowing you to get to more bosses, more forts, more locations.
This will give you more XP and better rewards by skipping enemies that you see unless you can kill them quickly. So, try not to take on easy enemies unless you need like just a little bit more XP to level up, or you can just wipe them out quickly. Otherwise, you spend a lot of time fighting them, and you don’t get as much reward as you would from fighting bosses.
8. Bleed, Poison, and Scarlet Rot are the King
Bleed, poison, and scarlet rock are absolutely king in this game. I highly recommend trying to get some of these weapons as quickly as you can. You can again use the map to see these icons in order to go to these locations.
It’s very important to get these because a lot of times during boss fights, you simply don’t have a lot of windows to attack. So, poison and scarlet rot can keep kicking away at the health of a boss while you stay safe and aren’t trying to be super aggressive.
Bosses like Balancers and Dreglord have higher resistance in this game than they do in Elden Ring. It’s to account for the fact that you’re going to be playing in a group most of the time. When multiple people are trying to apply poison or multiple people are trying to apply bleed or scarlet rod, you trigger them much more often.
9. Party Composition
Party composition is important in this game, and using characters that have synergy and using characters that are not all melee. For instance, if you have a whole melee group, it can be very difficult sometimes.
This is not like it’s impossible to do with an all-man group, but if you’re just starting, what can happen is if you’re fighting a boss that has a lot of AoEs, which definitely happens with some of the night lords, and you all get AoE simultaneously, and you all go down. Even if like you haven’t gone down the whole time, it can be a wipe for you there.
Having at least one ranged character can help you get reses on characters that are meleeing and maybe even two ranged characters if you’re just starting, depending on what characters you’re playing with. You definitely want to try and have a good balance of characters.
Learning what other characters’ skills are can be very valuable. Like, if you know that Reclus’s ability makes it so that you heal and replenish FP when you attack targets that are marked, then you can take advantage of that when you see it going off.
10. Use the Talismans
Talismans drop from scarabs, which you can usually find in the landscape or in forest areas, but also from the main keep in the very center of the map. There’s a chest there that will always give you one of three choices of a talisman. It’s really good to get there at some point before the end of your second day. So, make that a priority for you at some point.
This can be really helpful because there is really no other way to get talismans other than from merchants sometimes, and those aren’t reliable. So, these are the most reliable ways to get them. These can make all the difference sometimes. Sometimes they do nothing for you.
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