I’ve been enjoying a variety of Elden Ring Nightreign… and I imply rather a lot. On the time of writing, I’ve ploughed round 70 hours into chaotic Expeditions and touching Remembrance quests, experimenting with what every Nightfarer is able to and attending to know the Nightlords all too nicely.
Nonetheless, this has nothing on how a lot time I’ve spent enjoying Elden Ring. Each solo and through Seamless Co-op, I’ve sunk a whole bunch of hours into The Lands Between. In all that point, nonetheless, there’s one factor I usually uncared for and infrequently used: consumables. Cleaning Boluses, Throwing Pots, Warming Stones, and Boiled Crabs are just some of the gadgets left to waste away in my stock for the remainder of time.
Nightreign throws this stuff at you usually, and when you can forgo them for Smithing Stones and costly Physicks and nonetheless have a profitable run, these consumables – and the power-up they seem to have had in Nightreign – could make troubling fights and Nightlords that bit simpler. And who doesn’t love throwing a pot at a giant, beastly boss and watching it cancel its assault because of this, saving your teammate from nearly sure loss of life? It’s a rush!
Now, one of many first issues I buy throughout a run – after spending Runes on my first few ranges – is an Merchandise Pouch from a Service provider. Extra consumables? Sure, please. After this, it turns into a mission to choose up the entire Throwing Pots and Grease that I can that caters to our chosen Nightlord’s weak spot. Let’s not overlook Cleaning Boluses both, which when consumed, present a everlasting Resistance buff. Excellent for all these Deathblight and Poison ruins scattered round Limveld!
Let’s say I’m queued up in opposition to the massive, three-headed wolf that’s Tricephalos, who’s notably weak to Holy Harm. Not solely is my essential objective for the Expedition to discover a weapon with a Holy affinity, however to choose up and maintain tightly onto any Holy Water Pots or Holy Grease I can get my arms on, simply in case. Possibly I don’t discover a Holy weapon in time and that is all I’ve bought, or possibly one in every of my teammates is much less fortunate, so I can hand over all of my Holy Grease to them pre-Nightlord to maximise our probabilities of successful the struggle.
There’s additionally Exalted Flesh and Boiled Crab, with the previous buffing your assault and the latter buffing your bodily harm negation fairly considerably for a time. In case your pouches are empty, these by no means go amiss, particularly if the character utilizing these buff consumables occurs to have Nightlord Augur’s Relic outfitted, which causes used gadgets to confer results to close by allies. Which means while you enter a struggle or stagger a boss, one participant can pop their consumables whereas the others assault, and everybody will profit from the buff. Equally, one factor most Nightfarers can’t get sufficient of is Stamina, and what helps with this in a pinch? Pickled Turtle Neck. I can’t get sufficient of the stuff.
Final, however not least, Warming Stones and Starlight Shards. These two consumable gadgets are situational, however taking two Warming Stones right into a Nightlord struggle is rarely a waste. Given simply how enormous the arenas are, it’s usually fairly simple to throw a stone down and stand over it – regaining your HP slowly – whereas your group aggros the boss. This protects you utilizing a flask, permitting you to participate within the struggle for even longer and have a greater probability of successful.
Likewise, Starlight Shards are a must have for any class that makes use of FP (such because the Revenant), as they’ll refill an excellent portion of your FP bar immediately, not like the bottom sport, the place Starlight Shards restore FP very slowly. And that’s a working theme with Nightreign’s consumable gadgets: they’re a lot extra highly effective than they ever had been in Elden Ring or Shadow of the Erdtree, and thus, genuinely make a distinction and are extremely helpful to any Expedition. Your pouches aren’t wanted for the Spectral Seed or Spirit Summons, so go wild lining your pockets with consumable gadgets!
Throwing Pots alone can do an excellent chunk of injury to a boss, which the Duchess can then restage when you have her in your group, or you may merely use them to help with the Frost stacks or Poison build-up that your teammates are at present engaged on. Taking part in across the weaknesses of Nightlords can be very important in Nightreign, and these explicit gadgets allow you to with doing that, providing you with an additional, much-needed increase for taking these formidable opponents down on the finish of your Expeditions.
Subsequent time you see a Fireplace Pot or some Boiled Crabs, choose them up. Don’t let your consumables go to waste and don’t hesitate to change issues out of your pouches as you discover gadgets higher in your explicit Nightfarer or the Nightlord you’re coming in opposition to, you by no means know whether or not that handful of Warming Stones, stack of Starlight Shards, or these few Exalted Flesh buffs might make the distinction between successful and shedding an Expedition…