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Elden Ring Nightreign
Sentient Pest (Gnoster, Wisdom of Night) Weakness and How to Beat
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Gnoster, Wisdom of Night, also known as Sentient Pest, is a boss in Elden Ring Nightreign. Learn how to unlock and defeat Sentient Pest and its Everdark Sovereign version, as well as best combat tips and weaknesses for Gnoster, Wisdom of Night and Animus.
Gnoster, Wisdom of Night Weakness
Weak to Fire Damage
Fire damage is effective against Gnoster, look for Fire weapons by clearing Strongholds marked with the fire icon on the days before fighting Gnoster. Fire damage leaves a damage-over-time effect on the Moth.
Still Effective on Everdark Sovereign
Fire damage is still important in this fight as it still applies a damage-over-time effect on the Moth in the new phase. Not only that, but it also deals damage to Animus when it possesses the Moth.
How to Beat Gnoster, Wisdom of Night
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| Scorpion Tips | Final Phase | |
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General Combat Tips for Gnoster, Wisdom of Night
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Bring Neutralizing Boluses Against Poison
Gnoster uses attacks that can poison the player, so before you face him on the third day, make sure to stock up on Neutralizing Boluses. These are essential to alleviating poison build up and curing poison during the battle.
Split Up the Moth and Scorpion
Gnoster starts the fight as two separate beings, a Moth and a Scorpion. Split your team into two to fight them separately away from each other.
If your team composition is two melee and one ranged, the two melee attackers should focus on the scorpion while the lone ranged attacker should distract the moth.
If your team composition instead has two ranged attackers, both should attack the Moth while the remaining melee attacker focuses on distracting the scorpion.
Fights Together at Half HP
When Gnoster is at about 50% HP, the Moth and Scorpion starts fighting together as one. After merging, Gnoster will charge at a targeted player indicated by a red mark on their character.
As soon as you see them start to merge, get as far away as you can from the boss and prepare to dodge sideways if you are targeted by its charge.
Combat Tips for the Moth
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Prepare to Dodge When it Soars Into The Sky
When the Moth starts flying up into the sky and charges up a sorcery barrage, prepare to dodge when it fires to avoid damage.
Get Out of the Poison Mist Immediately
The Moth can spread poisonous mist in an area in front of it by flapping its wings. If you're targeted by this move, dodge roll immediately out of the mist to avoid getting poisoned.
Watch Out for the Grabs
If you see the Moth start fluttering its wings to the left and then to the right, it will lunge towards you and attempt to grab you for an attack.
Be sure to watch out for this move specifically as it can be hard to react to compared to its other attacks.
Combat Tips for the Scorpion
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Watch the Sand to Dodge the Burrow Attack
The Scorpion has a move where it dives into the ground before emerging onto a targeted player to hit them. When he does this, spread out away from your team and watch the ground for any movement.
If you're the target, sand will start to roll up from under you. Time your dodge a bit after you see the rolling sand to avoid the burrowing attack from underground.
Use Forward Dodges Into the Scorpion
Most of the Scorpion's slam attacks are aimed directly in front of it. You should be able to dodge roll forward into the Scorpion to get under it and avoid the attack completely if you see it getting ready to slam.
Anticipate the Stomps When Next to the Legs
If you're attacking the Scorpion right next to the legs, it will respond with a stomping attack where it raises its legs to hit the ground. Anticipate this and avoid getting locked into long animations preventing you from dodging.
Combat Tips for Gnoster Final Phase
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Run Away from the Pillar of Light
After both the Moth and Scorpion start fighting together, their ranged attacks are indicated by a pillar of light where it shoots a laser from the sky that follows you.
Stay on the move and roll away from the pillar of light if it gets too close.
Dodge Sideways When It Charges At You
Gnoster will charge at a player at regular intervals once they fight together as one. To dodge this, repeatedly roll sideways to get out of its path.
Gnoster will usually do this charge around three times before switching to another attack so be sure to look out for consecutive charges.
Combat Tips for Sentient Pest Hard Mode
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Gnoster Splits Into Numerous HP Bars
After initially beating Gnoster, there will be a short animation where a fiery-looking creature will emerge from the moth. This creature, Animus, will then revive the dead bosses. Unlike the initial fight, however, each of the three bosses will have a separate HP bar.
The red creature is Animus, and is the main boss you have to defeat. The moth is Gnoster, while the scorpion is Faurtis. This is an important mechanic, as defeating either Gnoster and Faurtis will make Animus revive them at around 40% HP.
Additionally, whenever Animus revives Gnoster or Faurtis, it will take a huge amount of damage, as if transferring its HP to the defeated boss. This will be the main way of defeating Animus. Killing Animus will immediately kill both Gnoster and Faurtis.
Fire Damage is Still Important
As mentioned above, Fire damage is still important in this fight as it still applies a burn that deals damage over time to Gnoster. This is especially helpful when Animus possesses Gnoster, as the burn deals damage to both of them.
Attack Animus While They Are Reviving
Normally, Animus will be flying around the arena, and will be hard to reach with attacks. This changes, however, when Animus flies down to revive either Gnoster or Faurtis when they are defeated. While reviving, Animus will be stuck in an animation, leaving it vulnerable to attack.
You can take this time to deal damage to Animus until it revives and possesses whoever just died. Once the dead boss has been revived, however, run away immediately.
Focus On Unempowered Enemy
When Animus revives Gnoster or Faurtis, they also get possesed and empowered, making them hit harder, have different attacks, and take less damage. As such, it is ideal to focus on the unempowered enemy as they will be easier to kill.
Ideally, you will have one Nightfarer keeping the empowered boss distracted, while the other two defeat the weaker boss. Once the weaker boss gets defeated, you can start attacking the empowered boss until Animus ends possession.
Watch For Animus Ending Possession
After around a minute and a half, whoever Animus is possessing will perform a powerful attack that can easily knock you down. Gnoster will shoot multiple magical shots from the sky, while Faurtis will perform multiple AoE attacks around it. Once they finish performing said attacks, they will be staggered, and Animus will fly out and end the possession.
Attack the possessed boss after they perform the powerful attack, as they will be left vulnerable for a while. Additionally, if the other boss is already dead, Animus will immediately move to revive them, making it open to more attacks.
Sentient Pest Locust Swarm Raid Guide
Avoid the Locust Swarm
A plague of locusts event will randomly occur in an expedition where a swarm of locusts will follow players. The swarm will periodically explode and absorb a level from players caught in the explosion.
If this event occurs in your run, we recommend you split up and run in different directions from each other to avoid the plague of locust explosions from overlapping.
The Locust Swarm Can Absorb Multiple Levels
The locust swarm can absorb multiple levels if you get caught in an explosion multiple times, so make sure to split up and run away from the swarm once the event begins.
Follow the Locust Swarm to the Sentient Pest
When a locust swarm successfully steals a level from one player, the swarms will start flying away to return to the Sentient Pest. To find the enemy who is stealing runes, you'll need to look at the sky and follow the plague of locusts.
Eventually, the swarm will congregate near a glowing orb which will turn into the Moth part of the Sentient Pest.
Unlike the boss fight, it remains stationary on the ground and is not as durable. The locust swarms surrounding it will still explode and damage players, so keep a healthy distance and quickly defeat the Moth to retrieve your levels.
How to Unlock Gnoster, Wisdom of Night
Unlocked After Beating Gladius
Gnoster, Wisdom of Night is one of the Nightlords you'll be able to face after defeating Gladius in the Tricephalos expedition. As a Nightlord, Gnoster is fought on the third day of the Sentient Pest expedition.
Gladius Weakness and How to Beat
Everdark Sovereign Not Available
The Everdark Sovereign of Sentient Pest is not currently live. It may return in the future, but unlocking it requires defeating the regular version of the boss at least once.
Everdark Sovereign: Hard Mode Rewards
Gnoster, Wisdom of Night Rewards
Night of the Wise
 Night of the Wise
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 Increased Maximum FP Starting armament inflicts poisonPoison and Rot in Vicinity Increases Attack Power |
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Defeating Sentient Pest unlocks the Night of the Wise relic.
How to Get Night of the Wise
Dark Night of the Wise
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Dark Night of the Wise
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Color | Green |
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| Size | Large | |
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Increased Maximum FP FP Restoration upon Successive AttacksMax FP permanently increased after releasing Sorcerer's Rise mechanism |
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Upon defeating the Everdark Sovereign version of Gnoster, you will unlock the Dark Night of the Wise relic for purchase at the Collector Signboard for 12 Sovereign Sigils.
How to Get Dark Night of the Wise
Elden Ring Nightreign Related Guides
List of All Forsaken Hollows Bosses
| Nightlords | |||||
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 Balancers |
 Dreglord |
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| Night Bosses | |||||
| Knight Artorias | Divine Beast Dancing Lion | Demon Prince | |||
| Mohg, Lord of Blood | Curseblade and Divine Beast Warrior | Death Knights | |||
| Great Red Bear | - | - | |||
The Forsaken Hollows DLC Guide
List of All Nightlords
| Nightlords | ||
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 Gladius, Beast of Night |
 Gnoster, Wisdom of Night |
 Adel, Baron of Night |
 Fulghor, Champion of Nightglow |
 Maris, Fathom of Night |
 Libra, Creature of Night |
 Caligo, Miasma of Night |
 Heolstor the Nightlord |
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List of All Night Bosses
List of All World Bosses
List of Special Bosses
| Special Bosses | ||
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| Night Idol | Tutorial Boss | Onestrike Gladiator |
| Blinding Elder Lion | White Horn | - |
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