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The best items in Elden Ring Nightreign include greases, boluses, and Starlight Shards. See which items you should always look out for and what they do here!
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Best Items to Use in Elden Ring Nightreign
| Item | Rating |
|---|---|
| Wending Grace | ★★★★★ |
| Warming Stone | ★★★★★ |
| Stonesword Key | ★★★★★ |
| FP and Stamina Regen Items ・Starlight Shards ・Pickled Turtle Neck |
★★★★ |
| Throwable Bombs and Pots ・Damage Throwing Pots ・Gravity Stone Chunk and Fan |
★★★★ |
| Smithing Stones | ★★★ |
| Tools | ★★★ |
| Fowl Feet | ★★★ |
| DMG Negation and Bonus DMG ・Boiled Crab or Prawn ・Exalted Flesh |
★★★ |
| Greases | ★★★ |
| Boluses | ★★ |
| Crystal Tears | ★★ |
| Throwing Knives and Lure Pots ・Throwing Knives and Darts ・Lure Pots |
★ |
Get a Wending Grace for a Free Revive
One of the best items you can get in Nightreign is the Wending Grace. As long as you have it in your inventory (or as a Dormant Power), you'll get a free revive if the whole team goes down.
Naturally, it's more effective if everyone on the team has one, but it can come in clutch during some of the longer boss fights in the game, especially when you have the boss down to a sliver of HP where one player alive makes all the difference.
Use Warming Stones to Heal During the Final Boss Fight
A lot of the Nightlord fights are endurance battles and you'll sometimes find you and your team running out of flasks midway through them. To better manage your flask economy, make sure to bring along multiple Warming Stones for a quick passive healing session.
Remember, their effects can stack, which means 2 dropped Warming Stones will heal you much quicker, even when starting from low HP. You can even stack them with the Holy Ground weapon skill to save on stones as needed.
The reason these work is mostly because the Nightlord fights, as you'll quickly learn to realize, is all about managing boss aggro. As long as someone is tanking aggro, the others will be free to use the slow but steady healing aura of these stones to full effect.
Stonesword Keys Can Open Evergaols for Extra Runes and Damage
Out of all the items available before the final boss, nothing is more important than the Stonesword Key. These items are a ticket to easy runes since they open Evergaols that usually have bosses that are easy to beat.
When paired a relic that has the effect "Attack power permanently increased for each evergaol prisoner defeated", they skyrocket in importance since this attack power buff persists until the end of the expedition.
Get FP or Stamina Regen Depending on Your Build
Starlight Shards or Pickled Turtle Necks are must-haves when you enter the final fight of the expedition.
Starlight Shards allow you to replenish your FP, making them essential for players who are running spellcasting setups or weapons that want to spam their weapon skills. Make sure to get some if you lean towards either playstyle.
Pickled Turtle Necks boost Stamina regen, making them game changers for characters that block (like Guardian) or those that swing around Colossals (like Raider). 2 of these should be enough so you can get comfortable at the start of a boss fight.
Throwing Pots and Gravity Stones Can Deal Decent Damage
 Fire Pot
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 Magic Pot
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 Lightning Pot
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 Poison Pot
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 Rot Pot
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 Swarm Pot
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 Freezing Pot
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 Gravity Stone Fan
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 Gravity Stone Chunk
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Speed is key in Nightreign, especially during Days 1 and 2. To speed up POI clearing and boss takedowns, additional damage in the form of the different Throwing Pots and Gravity Stone Chunks / Fans can make all the difference.
If you're playing as the Scholar, these become even more important since the potency of the items increases as you use more of them. This makes for amazing early game damage with little to no rune investment on your end.
Do note that the Throwing Pots mentioned here are the ones that do damage. Pots that lure enemies aren't that good, unfortunately.
Smithing Stones Can Be Used to Upgrade Weapons
 Smithing Stone 1
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 Smithing Stone 2
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While they are quite easy to get, Smithing Stones aren't really that good unless you get really good weapons drops during your run. Remember, a mediocre weapon will still be pretty bad even at +2.
Of the two, the Smithing Stone 2 is the most important to get, if only so that you have the option to +2 a blue weapon if you find yourself with limited options after Night 2.
Tools Can be Used to Deal Additional Damage
Tools like the Wraith Calling Bell or the Omen Bairn can be used to deal additional damage, especially against Night 1 bosses. However, due to the fact that you have to go out of your way to no-name POIs to get them, they aren't usually worth it unless you get them early.
While it is true that they can deal a ton of damage when spammed (like the low FP cost Wraith Calling Bell), you won't usually have a need for them if you and your team are getting enough levels before Nights 1 and 2.
Fowl Feet Can be Used to Boost Rune Drops and Item Discovery
 Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot
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 Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot
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The Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot and the Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot can be used to boost rune drops and raise item discovery, respectively. However, since their durations are limited, they're best used only during Days 1 and 2.
During Night 1 and 2 boss fights (especially if your team isn't well coordinated), you're better off bringing along regen items like Warming Stones or damage items like Throwing Pots.
Damage Negation and Damage Boost Items are Optional
 Exalted Flesh
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 Boiled Prawn
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 Boiled Crab
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Damage negation and damage boosting consumables like Boiled Crab or Exalted Flesh are lower on this list since they have better alternatives from Dormant Power drops.
While they can be clutch during the early game, ideally, you'll want to bring along regen items for the final fight rather than temporary damage negation or extra damage.
Grease Items Offer Affinity Damage on a Budget
 Fire Grease
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 Magic Grease
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 Lightning Grease
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 Holy Grease
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 Poison Grease
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 Rot Grease
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 Blood Grease
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 Freezing Grease
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 Dragonwound Grease
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Grease items, when used, can grant temporary affinity damage or status effect buildup. While good on paper, the biggest downsides to them are that they last only a short duration and that they only stack up to a max of 2.
For bosses that are weak to a certain damage type, you're better off securing a weapon that deals that damage type rather than stockpiling greases for the final fight. These items also get powercrept once you get the Night of the Lord relic.
Boluses Relieve Status Buildup and Boost Resistances
 Neutralizing Boluses
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 Preserving Boluses
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 Stanching Boluses
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 Stimulating Boluses
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 Clarifying Boluses
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 Rejuvinating Boluses
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Boluses alleviate status effect buildup when used, making them useful to bring along for certain boss fights (like when facing bosses like the Dreglord or the Lord of Blood).
Additionally, when consumed, they also permanently increase your resistance to the status effect (by a small amount) and gradually restore health.
Status Resistance Persists for the Remainder of the Run
Whenever you find boluses, consume them directly from the ground as the status resistance persists until the end of your run! Boluses can stack up to a maximum of 10 times, which you can see via your status screen.
Crystal Tears are Only Useful During the Final Boss
Since Crystal Tears are a one-time use item, they are only ever useful during the fight against the expedition's Nightlord. Outside of this scenario, they're just inventory hogs, especially since their effects are highly situational.
During the final day (right before the last boss), make sure you only buy them if you have a surplus of runes. Otherwise, the priority will always be Levels > Regen Items (Warming Stones / Starlight Shards) > Crystal Tears.
Throwing Knives and Lure Pots are Only Good During Day 1
 Alluring Pot
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 Beastlure Pot
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 Throwing Dagger
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Unfortunately, both of these item types have very limited uses and, even in Day 1, they aren't exactly a priorty. They're good to have when you don't have any items yet, just make sure to use them as often as possible so that you can replace them with better items during the run.
However, do note that some of the status buildup ones can be quite decent. Bringing along a stack of Kukri or Poisonbone Darts can be useful, especially against bosses that don't really dodge.
How to Get Items in Elden Ring Nightreign
Loot from Chests
It is possible to get consumable items whenever you open chests, so make sure to open every chest you find.
Inside Destructible Objects
Barrels and crates are scattered throughout Limveld, and can be destroyed by attacking, surge sprinting, or rolling into them. Consumable items will usually drop whenever you destroy barrels and crates, so make it a habit to destroy them on sight.
Dropped by Enemies
Enemies can also drop consumables when defeated, so keep an eye out whenever you defeat mobs.
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