If you’ve crossed the fog gates, shouted at your screen, and contemplated your life choices after a failed boss run in Elden Ring Nightreign. Congratulations, you’re now part of the madness this Soulsborne is known for. But the game has more than meets the eye as Nightreign has secrets that even veterans might not know yet. So, here are amazing tricks and secrets you need to know in Elden Ring Nightreign.
- Enemies Don’t Reset Between Days – Day One and Day Two in Nightreign don’t fully reset enemy placements. If you kill an enemy on the first day, they will still be dead on Day 2 and if you have half-health a boss during the Day 1 fight, that damage also remains the same as what you depleted before.
- Evergaol Bosses Scale – These bosses may be nightmarish, but their health is directly tied to your level. If you face them too late, they come with full HP bars. So even if you get obliterated early, engage in a fight with them. Deal as much damage as you can, leave the fight unfinished, and return the second day as their HP won’t regenerate. This becomes a tactical advantage, especially with Evergaol bosses (like the tough Godskin Duo), who scale with your level. Fight them early when they’re squishier, run away if you find it hard to beat, and come back on the second day to continue fresh but with the boss’s health bar at only half.
- Your Death Can Be Someone Else’s Power-Up – If you die in the field, your corpse might reappear in another player’s world as a glowing red shade. But interacting with your ghost drops your gear for them. Even better? Every gear item left behind gains a “Grief” quality based on your best stats. For example, “Duchess’s Grief” increases Dexterity and Intelligence. Equipping multiple of these will give the player who loots your gear a build-defining setup.
- See If Your Death Helped Someone – Visit the Roundtable Hold and find the grassy shrine with glowing signs. These let you view the gear loadouts of players who defeated Night Lords and if they used your looted grief-enhanced item, your name appears there. It rewards you with 1,000 Merc, the in-game currency to buy cosmetics and relics.
- Use Ground Items Without Opening Inventory – A small quality-of-life feature that improves combat flow: Hold your pickup button (Triangle/Y) and press the D-Pad to use an item. Crucial when surrounded and in need of the Boluses you just grabbed.
- Boluses are Broken in the Good Way – You probably ignored them thinking trash-tier items from the original Elden Ring but no more. In Nightreign, Boluses heal, regen HP over time, and permanently buff your resistance stats up to +9. So, it can make a big difference in the main Night Lords encounters if you take advantage of them such as carrying Sleep Ruins during the Libra boss fight in Frenzy Camps.
- Hurt Augur, the Fourth Night Lord – Augur is a chase-heavy boss, more frustrating than fun for many players. But if you kill the tentacles or explosive jellyfish floating around the arena, they release damaging bubbles that track and harm Augur, and that’s the smart way to deliver extra damage to the enemy.
- Sentient Pest Infection Mechanic – Third Night Lord giving you grief? When poisoned, your character becomes infected permanently by a bug and the only cure is that your co-op teammates need to attack it to remove it from your body. So you should also keep an eye on your squad in case someone needs your help to eliminate it.
- Secret Shortcut to the Central Castle Boss – This castle boss is notoriously tough, so getting there quickly is key when you’re on a good run. A rarely discussed shortcut lets you bypass a large portion of the climb—hug the left cliff path near the mid-tier tower, use a broken scaffold to reach the boss at the top.
- Sights of Grace Can Revive You – If your whole team is down and no one is around, you might find salvation at a nearby Grace. It’s a rare mechanic, but Grace can revive downed players if conditions are right.
- Relic Effects Activate on Teammates Too – Using a relic that restores HP on successive hits can trigger it by hitting downed allies. Friendly fire that heals but Dark Souls would never.
- Sell Rubbish Relics for Extra Merc – At the Relic Table, scroll to the rightmost tab where there’s an option to sell useless relics for Merc.
- Changing Stance = Parry – You might know animation when you swap stances, it’s a functional parry. Enemies hit during your stance-switch animation get staggered.
- The Symbol of Avarice is Back – You’ll get the Symbol of Avarice by making the right deal with the Scale Bearing Merchant during his event. It’s back with everything you hoped it would be such as buffed loot and XP gains. It is very helpful early on in Nightreign as it increases runes and item drops.
- The Mysterious Stone Door That Almost No One Opens – Here’s the big deep-cut: There’s a hidden stone door along a cliff in the central valley. When I tried to open this secret door, it said, “Opens only for those who wield merit.” The key to unlock this door is an item with a very low drop rate of just 0.035%. It’s called the Cord End and only drops from the crates inside Marika’s Churches. Once you obtain it, the door opens into a tunnel with three Sacrificial Twigs. Each one protects from rune/level loss on death but it’s a one-time use item and only one per team member. Maybe there’s more behind that tunnel I haven’t uncovered yet, but you might now you know its location and also how to open it.
So, that’s all in this guide about a few great secrets and tips most players might not know so far in Elden Ring: Nightreign. The game not only rewards combat skill but also knowledge, patience, and the kind of obsessive curiosity that FromSoftware fans are infamous for. Whether you’re taking down Night Lords or trying to turn your death into someone else’s salvation, there’s always something under the surface. Keep exploring, keep experimenting, and for the love of the Erdtree, eat your Boluses.
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