Elden Ring Nightreign is a complex multiplayer game, but the Wylder class provides some comfort as the ideal starting character. A jack-of-all-trades nature meets a fairly straightforward set of abilities to master, which is great, since you'll have plenty to learn during the first few dozen expeditions to Limveld.

There are multiple characters to pick, and it can't be hard to decide on one in the heat of matchmaking, especially if somebody else calls dibs on your favorite. As such, being knowledgeable of the strengths and weaknesses of each will be beneficial in the short to long run. This guide covers everything you need to know about the Wylder class in Elden Ring Nightreign, from its attributes and abilities to the best relics. Be sure to also check out our look at the best Elden Ring Nightreign classes.

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• How the Wylder class works in Elden Ring Nightreign

How the Wylder class works in Elden Ring Nightreign

In Elden Ring Nightreign, the Wylder class' attributes are fairly balanced. He excels in HP and strength, and has decent dexterity and stamina. As such, he can use almost any melee weapon without faltering, with a preference for greatswords, and can also make use of bows and crossbows thanks to the dexterity stat.

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Even if you attempt to anticipate every possible fatal outcome, Elden Ring Nightreign is tough as nails. Once you've mastered the Nightreign matchmaking process, reviving your teammates and vice versa is a common scenario, and death shouldn't discourage you--this is a From Software game after all. That being said, there are situations in which the party would benefit from swiftness, to say the least.

Whether somebody is struggling with the Night's Tide or made a bad call and tried to take down a boss alone, reviving a teammate in multiplayer is a serious ordeal that can be quite time-consuming. Luckily, there are ways to speed up the process. This guide explains how to revive teammates faster in Elden Ring Nightreign, as long as you're not playing Nightreign solo and how they can return the favor.

How to revive teammates faster in Elden Ring Nightreign

Dying in souls-like games usually leads to a game over screen and instant frustration, but Nightreign tackles this differently. When someone's health drops to zero, they'll crawl on the floor for a few seconds until a timer runs out. Within that time, a teammate can attack them to deplete a gauge bar (up to three bars after repeated deaths) and get them back up. If unsuccessful, the Nightfarer dies and loses a level as well as the runes they're carrying.

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Elden Ring Nightreign has finally arrived, and the reviews indicate that developer From Software has yet another hit on its hands. If you're planning on picking up Nightreign or you have already, you're in for a completely different experience than the original Elden Ring offers. As such, you'll likely have several questions about the content in Nightreign and how to play the game in general.

Fortunately, we have published a slew of guides to help you survive in the Living Lands. From boss guides to general tips to specific gameplay content, you can find everything you're looking for below.

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• Elden Ring Nightreign guides hub
  • General guides
  Elden Ring Nightreign guides hubGeneral guides

  The guides in this section offer basic tips and answer other general questions that you might have when you first boot up Nightreign or throughout the early game.

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When you first get past the tutorial in Elden Ring Nightreign, you'll be able to challenge a single boss: the Tricephalos. This is the only boss that you can select from the Expeditions menu, regardless of whether you decide to run a solo or multiplayer expedition. If you manage to make it through your first two nights, you'll get to challenge Tricephalos, which goes by the name "Gladius, Beast of the Night" when you get to the boss arena.

If you don't want to die to Gladius and make your expedition run all for nothing, then check out our guide below for tips on how to beat the first boss in Elden Ring Nightreign.

Gladius, Beast of the Night attacks

Gladius, Beast of the Night is a three-headed dog--or Tricephalos-- with several primary attacks that you'll always need to be on the lookout for and a couple of major attacks that can decimate your entire party at any moment. It specializes in fire damage, so that's worth keeping in mind for your resistances and counters.

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Elden Ring Nightreign is full of mysteries, including a number of statues that seem to contain loot within. Attacking them with your weapons or magic has no effect, however, and there's no indication of what exactly they're hiding. Classic FromSoftware move.

There are dozens of different places to explore during expeditions, and not enough time to see everything before the Night's Tide engulfs the map. That being said, you shouldn't ignore these structures. If you're wondering how to break statues in Elden Ring Nightreign, this guide explains the process and what they're hiding inside.

How to break statues in Elden Ring Nightreign

If you spot a statue out in the wild with a glowing blue light, it means you can break it. In order to do so, you'll need to use an Ultimate Art that can alter the surrounding terrain--Raider's Totem Stela is perfect for this. Alternatively, if there's a strong enemy or a boss nearby, you can lure them to the statue and bait them into attacking it.

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In Elden Ring Nightreign, the Night's Tide is a daunting, looming danger in Limveld. While From Software's latest might not be a battle royale, it does take a cue from the genre with a circle that gradually closes in on a specific map area.

If you're wondering about the inner workings of the Night's Tide and how it dictates the flow of every expedition, this guide covers how the Night's Tide works in Elden Ring Nightreign, as well as some tips to get around it.

How the Night's Tide in Elden Ring Nightreign works

The flow of an expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign is determined by the ever-increasing presence of the Night's Tide. In short, this is a deadly rain that gradually engulfs the map, closing in on a random area where a boss fight takes place. This happens at the end of Day 1 and Day 2--after the latter, you'll automatically move to a different area outside Limveld, where you'll do your last preparations before confronting the Night Lord chosen for the expedition.

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Shifting Earth events are a crucial feature in Elden Ring Nightreign, as the conditions imposed, as well as your party's drive to get close to them, can make or break a match if you're not careful.

If you're confused by the ominous messages on screen when you boot up the game and enter the Roundtable Hold--or the sudden environmental changes on a map--don't worry. This guide covers how Shifting Earth events work and what to expect from their presence.

What is a Shifting Earth event in Elden Ring Nightreign?

In Elden Ring Nightreign, you might spot a notification saying that the earth has shifted. Shifting Earth events are temporary changes to the Limveld map that add entirely new areas. They have a specific theme, which can involve puzzles and special enemies. Getting through these emerging regions can be hard, especially if you're trying to tackle them on the first day of an expedition, but the rewards are quite rare, which makes it worth the effort.

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Elden Ring Nightreign matchmaking isn't as simple as pressing a button and letting the game take care of everything. That's especially true if you're looking to tackle specific fights against the Night Lords, or want to play with people from other regions.

In addition to how to play solo and multiplayer, there are a few matchmaking rules that aren't explained in too much detail. If you're only getting your bearings around the game, the process might lead to some frustrations. Fear not, though, as we'll explain everything you need to know about how matchmaking works in Elden Ring Nightreign.

How Elden Ring Nightreign matchmaking works

At its core, matchmaking in Elden Ring Nightregin is fairly straightforward. Interacting with the Table of Lost Grace at the Roundtable Hold opens up the Expeditions menu. From there, you can select which boss you want to tackle and immediately start matchmaking, which will search for two other available players who are on the same hunt as you are.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's Equilibrious Beast, Libra, overwhelms with speed and ferocity, weaving multiple attack patterns together and building madness with almost every hit. Unlike some Night Lord bosses, Libra has methods of controlling most of the battle arena, even if its attention is locked to one character. Mobility and well-timed uses of ultimate abilities are key to winning this fight.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign Equilibrious Beast boss guide breaks down Libra's attacks and weaknesses, with some recommendations for the best team combinations to tackle the fight with.

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Should you make a deal with the Scale-Bearing Merchant?Pro tip: It's never worth giving up levels for a random weapon.

Whether you should make a deal with Libra depends on the offer. Some have negative effects that make the fight more challenging than it needs to be, such as giving Libra greater damage resistance or reviving the boss after defeat. Others are less problematic. When I played as the Recluse, for example, I had the choice to improve Incantation or magic power at the cost of a sorcery type I wasn't using or by giving Libra stronger spell-casting power. Just make sure to read the description so you know what you're getting.

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Runes are the key to going on successful expeditions in Elden Ring Nightreign. They are required to level up your character every time you go on a new expedition, and you can also use them to purchase useful items during your runs, such as Smithing Stones. However, despite the constant need for runes in Nightreign, your sources for getting them are pretty limited. You can kill enemies and bosses, open chests, and that's about it.

Fortunately, there are some tips and tricks that you'll want to know about Nightreign rune farming. This allows you to level up to the fullest extent for expedition boss fights and perhaps buy some crucial items before those fights.

How to get Runes in Elden Ring Nightreign

First off, let's talk about the basic process of acquiring runes in Nightreign. Like in the original Elden Ring, you acquire runes every time an enemy or boss dies. When they die, the runes are automatically added to your total stack, which you can track by looking at the top part of your screen or in your inventory.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's Recluse puts a unique spin on FromSoft's magic builds. She's a self-sufficient magic caster who can maintain her own FP without using items and whose spell choice determines what additional abilities she can use. There's an additional layer of challenge with her Magic Cocktail that relies almost entirely on random luck with item drops, though, so even with good planning and skill, you might not be able to make full use of her kit in every expedition.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign Recluse guide explains how to play Recluse and lists all her Magic Cocktail combinations. Be sure to also check out our look at the best Elden Ring Nightreign classes.

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Recluse abilities and starting armamentsThe Recluse is the only character who can recover FP.

The Recluse's kit is, unsurprisingly, built around magic and absorbing elemental affinities to cast stronger spells. Magic Cocktail is the most important part of the Recluse's skillset, as it restores her FP and gives her access to a broad variety of offensive and support spells, from fiery explosions to auras that raise everyone's maximum HP.

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Unlocking Elden Ring Nightreign's rise towers requires you to find a crest, but Nightreign isn't in a hurry to show you what those crests look like or how to break them. It's worth fitting at least one rise into your expeditions when you can, though. Unlocking their barrier gives you easy, boss-free access to a potentially rare armament for your collection.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign crest guide explains how to find and unlock the crest and what types of obstacles you might find along the way.

How to find and break a crestThe most common crest type is under a shrub or in the tower's small pond.

Rises are the towers marked on Nightreign's map, and each expedition's layout has at least two. These are usually near the edge of the map, though, so you'll want to access them early on the first or second night, before the rain circle starts to close in. (We've got a dedicated guide on where to go first in Nightreign to help you out.) Each rise's second floor is blocked by a magical obstruction with a message that tells you to find a crest.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's Smithing Stones are what you need to upgrade weapons, the same as in Elden Ring but as we mentioned in our Nightreign tips guide, finding these items works a bit differently than you might be used to. Basic stones come from a few locations, but stones for stronger weapons only have a specific area where they drop. There's also no upgrade stone higher than Smithing Stone 2. You just need a lot of them to max out a weapon's potential.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign Smithing Stone guide explains how to upgrade weapons and where to find both types of Smithing Stone. We've also got a guide on where to go first.

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• Where to find Smithing Stones in Nightreign

Where to find Smithing Stones in NightreignMerchants set up shop across Limveld.

Basic Smithing Stones, the brown-ish colored ones, have a moderate chance of dropping from enemies or popping out of a chest, though you can also spend 6,000 Runes to buy one from a merchant. Merchants are dotted around the map, usually near the castle and at a handful of camps. Use the "overview" option when your map is out to see specific locations. The hooded person icon indicates a merchant's location.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's Revenant is the last class you unlock and one of the most challenging to learn. She's a magic specialist with no way to regularly cast magic, an arcane character who doesn't handle dexterity-scaling weapons like katanas well, and a summons character who can, in the right circumstances, carry your team in close combat. There's a lot to contend with when you're using the Revenant, though with some careful selection, you can make her a potent fighter even without the ideal build.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign Revenant guide explains how to unlock the Revenant, how her abilities work, and which weapons and magic you should try to find for her. Be sure to also check out our look at the best Elden Ring Nightreign classes.

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• How to unlock the Revenant

How to unlock the RevenantKeep completing expeditions, and the Revenant will eventually turn up in the Hold.

The Revenant becomes available sometime after defeating your first Night Lord and unlocking the Duchess. The actual timing seems random, but if you keep completing expeditions--solo or in multiplayer, ending in success or failure--she'll eventually turn up in Roundtable Hold. Check the map after each expedition. When you see an exclamation mark outside the main hall, that'll be the Revenant.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's Incantations and magic don't usually drop the way normal weapons and items do. Spells almost always come from fixed locations and are much less likely to drop from bosses and lesser enemies, so if you're running a Recluse, Revenant, or even Duchess, making it a point to visit these locations before the third night is essential.

This Elden Ring Nightreign guide explains where to find Incantations, seals, magic, and staves, and why it's often best to take what you find even if the spells aren't that great.

Where to find Incantations and sealsA comparatively weak boss is always in the chamber opposite this shrine.

Incantations are equally as rare and only have three fixed places, one of which isn't even marked on the map with an icon. Incantations are guaranteed to drop in the hidden shrine under cathedrals, though not every cathedral has one. In our experience, only the ones with fire monks or ghostly soldiers have underground chambers. Cathedrals with a golem inside or a squad of Oracle Envoys usually have nothing underneath, but there will be a corner on the ground floor with a small shrine that contains seals.

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There are a few different ways you can customize your character during an expedition in Elden Ring Nightreign, but there's only one method to use while you're at the Roundtable Hold. Relics are the primary form of build customization when you're gearing up for an expedition, and they allow you to bestow certain abilities and buffs onto your character. However, Relics aren't fully explained when you start up Nightreign. Even after you get into the basics of them, there are still some tidbits you need to know to take full advantage of them.

You can see exactly how to use Relics in Elden Ring Nightreign in the guide below.

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• How to get Relics in Elden Ring Nightreign

How to get Relics in Elden Ring Nightreign

For starters, Relics can only be accessed and equipped at the Roundtable Hold in Nightreign. To find the spot to equip Relics, go to the central part of the Roundtable Hold and look around at the circular walls for a carved-out area with blue candles. Approach this area, interact with the altar that's there by choosing to "Perform Relic Rites," and you'll bring up the Relics menu.

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Healing is one of the most important elements of Elden Ring Nightreign. You need to ensure you're staying healthy all throughout a run so you have the best possible chance of surviving the nights and making it to the next day to square off against the boss you're hunting. However, by default in Elden Ring Nightreign, you're only given three Healing Flask Charges, which are enough for the early stages of an expedition, but not nearly enough for the final battle.

To ensure you have the most Healing Flasks possible in Nightreign, check out the guide below to see how to get more of them, and check out our roundup of Nightreign tips to help you get started.

How to get more Healing Flask Charges in Elden Ring Nightreign

Fortunately, there are a couple of concrete ways to increase your flask charges, and neither is overly difficult.

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Elden Ring Nightreign is designed as a three-player co-op journey that aims to challenge players' combat abilities, having them work together to bring down tough bosses and explore a shifting map. While you can play Nightreign as a solo player, the game is focused on pairing you with two other players for you all to fight and explore together. Fortunately, both the single-player and multiplayer functions in Elden Ring Nightreign are easy to use, allowing you to minimize your time between expeditions into the Living Lands.

Below, we'll show you everything you need to know about how to start expeditions and how to set up both single-player and co-op multiplayer runs in Elden Ring Nightreign, as well as the lack of proper cross-play support.

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How to start expeditions in Elden Ring Nightreign

First and foremost, let's go over how to actually get into expeditions once you're past the tutorial of the game that occurs within the first 10 or so minutes.

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Deep Rock Galactic celebrated its 5-year anniversary in May 2025. Below, we look at how it has maintained its identity as one of the best co-op shooters around.

Before any round of Deep Rock Galactic, my friends and I have a little ritual. We'll pile into the bar at HQ and order a drink. Sometimes, it'll be Deep Rock's equivalent of a seasonal draft--complete with buffs that'll carry over into the next few expeditions--but other times it's just a brew with a silly effect, like a drink that'll freeze the player or shrink them. We'll hoist our mugs into the air, shout, "Rock and stone," and then chug our virtual ale of choice. Shortly thereafter, one of us moseys over to the jukebox and drops a coin in. Before I know it, one of us is twirling like a ballerina while the other twerks adjacent to them. Someone else is doing the robot or some move reminiscent of Gangnam Style. Everything's alright.

For this reason, and countless others, I feel it's about time we talk about Deep Rock Galactic in the same vein as the greats. Since it's 1.0 launch five years ago, the cooperative shooter has proven time and time again that it is more than just another novel (yet niche) take on the formula once perfected by titles like Left 4 Dead. It has instead carved out a unique and approachable vision of what this kind of game can be, filling titanic shoes and all the while paving a brighter and more inclusive road forward. That's especially difficult given the obnoxiously dark tunnels under Hoxxes IV in which Deep Rock Galactic takes place. But by sticking to its guns and never kowtowing to the pressure of chasing trends like countless other live-service titles around it, Deep Rock Galactic has succeeded where many have failed, and stands to continue longer than many of its contemporaries.

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Nvidia's GeForce Now app lets players stream games to devices to take advantage of Nvidia's powerful cloud hardware, but Steam Deck users have historically had to jump through some hoops to get it working. Today, Nvidia finally launched a native GeForce Now app for the Steam Deck.

In a press release marking the app's launch, Nvidia highlighted that GeForce Now lets Steam Deck players take advantage of much more powerful hardware and more advanced technical features than can run locally on the handheld. Nvidia also states that GeForce Now lets you play games at up to 4K/60FPS if you connect the Steam Deck to a TV.

Perhaps its most impactful feature is that GeForce Now enables you to play games that are nearly (or completely) impossible to play, either due to performance issues, lack of support, or incompatibilities with Steam Deck's Linux-based operating system. Destiny 2, for instance, is blocked from running locally on Steam Deck (unless you go through the process of installing Windows), but I confirmed that it is now playable through the native GeForce Now app.

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