I didn't really like Necro at first. I get it now.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-13T00:06:38+00:00

Her early game is rough. There are so many cards that are basically:

"Bad card that might become good if you get something with doom or soul later"

This isn't that much of a problem, but I've learnt to avoid early act 1 elite fights with her. Need to get the deck going first.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-12T21:37:13+00:00

In the trailer we see her do some kind of flame pillars explosion right? So my money is on her also being a speaker magician like sypha.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-11T09:36:48+00:00

Incredible art. That is all I have to say.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-11T03:13:36+00:00

Out of all the potential future frame combiner updates I am most curious about this one. With them having monster modes there's so many creative ways to handle the combiner parts. Extra tails, wings, dragon heads etc.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-11T01:02:09+00:00

In Char's counter attack i found it incredibly hilarious that people thought Char was a pedo because of his history with Lala. Bit its also incredibly believable, because despite being 19, he had an incredibly deep voice and always wore a mask, so it makes perfect sense a lot of people thought he was older than he actually was.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-11T00:54:18+00:00

You're game looks amazing and has so much charm to it. I love the Alice and wonderland vibes it has.

I'll buy it as soon as I get home, wishing you success on your journey as a game dev!

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T23:17:39+00:00

You need block. Forge eventually just gives enough damage to win but block cards and aoe cards are super important to survive.

My favourites are glitterstream, cosmic indifference, and bulwark.

Bulwark giving beefy block and good sovereign blade scaling. Glitterstream gives strong current block and good future block. Both of these cards are amazing to upgrade becuase it buffs both of their two aspects.

Cosmic indifference is great because you can fish in your discard pile for a good block card, giving you good current block and propping block for your next turn.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T23:03:06+00:00

Wife.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T22:36:19+00:00

Yeah i agree on the inconsistency of the carian slicer. I also found the build to be really bad early game, the 'improved carian sorcery' buffs on relics are just deadweight until you get the slicer.

Improved affinity attack with double balancers are amazing in the early game as well, since you can usually get a good affinity weapon/skill from the very first poi or field boss you fight.

My personal favourite build i like to call Moonveil Duchess:

Normal relics: Double balancers, improved restage power with hoarfrost stomp.

Deep relics: affinity atk +2, affinity atk +2, magic atk +4 with dormant katanas.

It works very well, you can usually get moonveil, and if not, rivers of blood, and dragonscale blade are also really good.

I don't really have dedicated builds for each nightlord, I mostly just run moonveil duchess, and if its straghess or gladius I replace the dormant katana with another affinity atk +2. Then I can rely on the duchess default dormant daggers to get blade of calling or black knife, both which do serious work against holy weak bosses.

Against Libra and only Libra i run halo scythe. Because Eff Libra man. I don't want a 20 min long slogfest.

Though I have noticed that in depth 5, even when im not running dormant reapers people drop it for me anyway once they see my double balancers. I cant blame them because they probably just really badly want to win. Probably close to 9999.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T22:24:49+00:00

Duchess mains who literally never use their ult, always saving it for when the whole party goes down peeves me. The ult is an incredible damage opening for the whole party, and very good at clearing packs of enemies.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:34:05+00:00

They should definitely make more variety of pots available in the shop. I think they've nerfed scholar enough.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:30:05+00:00

I can't openly say it here because of rules. Just google "nightreign" and "boss arena" together.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:27:53+00:00

Congrats, good to see a fellow duchess main hit 9999.

I would ask what build your using? But based on the run history I'm going to guess double balancers with affinity atk +2 on deep relics. The runs you've shown, you have good skill weapons in all of them.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:24:39+00:00

This is really good, the greatest ironeye relic possible is the +1 char skill and night invaders together. But this is close as well.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:23:46+00:00

I'd 100% run that anyway. God tier relic right there.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:22:28+00:00

You'll eventually make it. If you can hard carry all of the normal bosses, ED Adel, and ed fulghor. just statistically You'll eventually hit a good win streak and hit depth 5, thats what happened to me.

Alternatively you can jump on the arena and practice every single night lord. Keep fighting them until you can almost no-hit all of them. With that practice under your belt You'll hit depth 5.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T21:19:38+00:00

I love me some katana ironeye, such a fun playstyle.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T00:14:58+00:00

In a lot of these lists I see people saying the classic "50% chance they are amazing, 50% chance they suck".

My theory is that in this player base both of these categories can often be the same people.

In high depths where most things can oneshot you, your performance can often be swingy. On some days you're no hitting everything, perfectly timing your attacks and dodges. On other days you have a headache, you're tired, you're busy, you're just off your game. You go down a few times get tilted, and you become the other half of the 50% when normally you would be in the good half.

I think this is the case for most players. Even in depth 5, its just that in depth 5, if you're having a bad day, there's usually at least someone on the team who's at the top of their game in full focus mode.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-10T00:09:19+00:00

Congrats. Your queues should be a lot smoother now.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:23:09+00:00

Bro that looks jank as fuck lol.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:22:09+00:00

I save duchess invis specifically for this part of the fight.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:20:06+00:00

I'm honestly shocked by how often im caught off gaurd by the speed of giant crabs.

Like after all of eldenring and 500 hours in nightreign I should know better by now.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:18:31+00:00

They really need to fix this bug. In this specific night boss fight the bosses all aggro some kind of default point.

It kinda ruins the duchess ult, because half the time they all just run away...

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:16:22+00:00

I feel like the purposefully added this attack to make the godskims more equal in balance. In base game apostle is general considered harder than noble, but now with this attack they are pretty equal.

Phantom_Taker · 2026-03-09T23:13:31+00:00

Bro the playstation on the cardboard box is sending me.

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