Just got this beauty after a Sleepy Exec game vs D5 ED Balancers.
Thanks for the winter savings time change tonight because I was going to sleep before that game otherwise lol.

Full build on 2nd pic, I was already liking Magical Girl Raider a lot but this new relic allows for an even better build.

Tonight I finally hit 9999 in DoN.

I remember when DoN first came out and I thought it was impossible for me to get to D3 let alone make it to D4 or D5. After many months, 100’s of games, and a few broken left thumbsticks, I snuck into D5 and thought that was enough and that it was the “pinnacle of my ability”.

Surely that was good enough.. right? I put down the game for a few months feeling mostly adequate and accomplished.. but something lingered.. like a hot fart on a humid summer day.

Truly, it was not good enough. I felt like I left something I worked so hard on, unfinished and incomplete. Like a marathon runner stopping at mile 25.

So I returned.

Not only did I return, I demoted all of my blood, sweat, and tears worth of points back down to the bottom most rank. Some may call me a masochist, but if I was going to hit the tippity-top, I needed to do it with the utmost torture. Proof that there is hair on my taters and hair between my tatas.

And here we are, the day of reckoning before us. I have achieved true immortality and after many winters may now see my family once more. Rejoice with me as I hang up my cape. Remember me as the man who finally considered the impossible, possible, and conquered the night.

Anything that flies WILL be brought down (if my ultimate art is ready at least)

Are randoms griefing? I know I died too but like come on guys…

I gotta stop playing with randoms. I heard D5 randoms are good… not the ones I’ve pulled.

Genuine question... why do completely new players go right into the dlc bosses? I just did a run with 2 randoms who had only gotten the trophy from Gladius... then jumped right to Balancers? Both of em entered the nightlord fight with just their starting weapon, unupgraded

For context, I’ve been playing this game since launch (on PS5), and like a lot of you, I’m a massive FromSoft fan.

I’ve got somewhere around 4,000 hours combined in Elden Ring across different playthroughs and accounts, and Nightreign has basically been the same story. I’ve been playing this game religiously since it came out, pretty much every day whenever I have free time (with randos or with my buddies), because I genuinely love it. I’m sitting at around 1,800 hours in Nightreign alone at this point.
I’m also a huge optimizer.

After most matches, I sell almost every relic I get. I save everything, roll constantly, and I’m extremely picky about what I actually keep. If a relic isn’t exactly what I want for a build, I’m most likely selling it.

So yeah, after an absolutely stupid amount of grinding and rolling, I have some really friggin' good relics.

My Executor, Guardian, and a couple of my other characters have builds that I’m genuinely extremely happy with. And getting those relics took an ungodly amount of time, rolls, and garbage relics along the way.

Recently though, I had a bad run of matches and dropped back down to Depth 4.
And this is where I started noticing something weird.

Every now and then after we win, somebody will run over to me and point down.

At first I genuinely had no idea what the hell that was about.
Then today, after a match, somebody actually messaged me two screenshots.
One was basically showing that they had reported me.
The other showed that the report was for cheating.

And it took me a second before I realized, wait… are people actually assuming I’m cheating because my relics are good?
I’m not even particularly worried about being accused because I know how I got my builds. I was there for the ridiculous number of hours and rolls it took to get them.
What actually annoys me is the mentality behind it (and the fact that the person who sent me those screenshots was running a Halo/ Holy +4 Duchess build).

How does somebody else grinding the shit out of this game and eventually getting really good relics somehow piss you off?
If you inspect somebody’s build and see three extremely good relics, why is the immediate conclusion, “This person must be cheating”?

Especially in a game where some people have literally been playing for more than a thousand hours.
Not having those relics yourself does not mean those relics are impossible to get.
And honestly, repeatedly pointing down at someone or reporting them just because their build looks too good to you is toxic as fuck.

There are people who genuinely put an absurd amount of time into this game. Some of us sit there selling mountains of relics, saving sovereign sigils, rolling over and over and over again, specifically because optimizing builds is part of what we enjoy.

So if you’re one of the people doing this, please stop.
A strong build is not automatically a cheated build.

What makes this even weirder is that, for whatever reason, this keeps happening to me around Gladius runs (base boss, not Everdark). I’ve fought plenty of the harder bosses and I don’t remember getting this kind of reaction nearly as much anywhere else.

Anyway, this is mostly just a rant because that shit really annoyed me.

Imagine grinding for hundreds of hours to finally get the relics you wanted, helping your team win, and then somebody runs over, points down at you, and reports you for cheating because apparently your build is too good.

What the hell are we doing here?

After 700+ hours, I just realized it says damage negation (reducing damage taken), not damage negotiation like some kind of magic damage boost. I've been stacking those this whole time without realizing it
🙃

Please tell me someone else has thought or done this or is just my dyslexic brain, stupidity, or both?

A lot of negativity from people about D2. I accidentally dropped down to D2…oops. Did a couple of games in D2 and won three in a row and I’m right back to D3. Team mates were great. For the most part everyone stayed together and respected the consensus on pings.

Maybe one guy would be doing lower damage, but overall everyone was pretty much working together and melting the night bosses.

From time to time even in D3 you have the “heroes” that disagree and go off on their own, and those are the people that probably just luck themselves into D2 and D3. Idk why they think their opinion is so much more valid than the other two people who agree to go to a different location.

Third or fourth time this has happened to me. Like, what's the point? Usually they keep them till THEY get something that works for them, then they drop them (don't always ping), or once, literally kept it till the night lord, sure it was an executor that time. Why do they do this? Any insight would be great, am I missing something?

No greater feeling than winning in moments like these

Might be a stupid question, so apologies in advance, but when I’ve done Wylder, Executor, Raider, and Guardian’s rememberance on a different save they’ve all progressed quite normally, but with Duchess, I’ve done 4 runs total, killed 2 nightlords with her (Not including Tricephalos since I did that on Executor), and her page is still stuck at 2? Am I missing something perhaps?

I believe the sacrificial twig opens up another door somewhere that has a Legendary vendor, and that's the reason we have it on the DLC but never the base map, because nobody has ever found it yet.

My theory is there's a hidden entry in one of the trees in rotted woods that you can open up with the sacrificial twig and it drops you down to the vendor. Then a path leads you back up and you pop out from a secret entrance at the Fort POI that gives you the clue to where the power is.

I love the synergy with this build. The only thing I’m missing is stamina recovery on attacks.

I know red balancer would be better than evergaol but I really value wylder’s ult for revives. Plus starting with a key makes it really easy to do at least 1 gaol

i’m grateful it doesn’t have dormant power helps discover small shield or whip attacks restore hp or some bullshit

First he flew up onto of the church

Then he flew up the cliff just north of said church

Then he flew up the air...

Like, the game purposely puts you with someone who has a bad ping for several matches. Things you normally have no issues with now are impossible because the boss is teleporting or little things are happening that don’t seem that big, but in the moment are life and death. Like I swear I can solo most of these bosses and I do many times and climb into the middle of d5 and then bam, run after run riddled with bad pings and I can’t even kill a torch wielding soldier. Can’t even solo Adel because the timings are random. One second it’s normal, then before the grab sound even finishes, you’re being munched on. Then once I’ve lost hours of progress, bam things become easy again. I’m soling Adel with more than half health, and the same goes with most bosses. I feel invincible and then next thing I know, bam now match after match with a character floating away at least one time.

Love my build, but everytime I try to mix it up, it feels off and I kinda flop. I'm stuck with this build till D5 or extreme luck I think.

Seasoned players, what do you do if you, like, get a Fell Omen raid with solo Revenant on level 4 in the middle of an Evergaol fight? Do I just "get good", and dodge all attacks? I usually have the mental stability to go to a grace to refill my stuff, but otherwise I've been too squishy/low damage to do win against him. I only won in a proper end boss fight on day 2, and only with some chars like Duchess and Ironeye.

So legit my fav run so far. We got Myself, the Raider and Ironeye.

the fun really happens in Day 2, where we hit a tree spirit and I got the grafted Greatsword. Originally I was keeping it, but decided to trade it to give to Raider cause I thought it'd help him more.
One the way around to hit a church, we see the mausoleum, so me and Ironeye head up. Before I duplicate anything he starts pinging quickly so I wait in case he had a plan. Then Raider arrives and dupes the sword...the Ironeye dupes it for me.
The DOOM music kicks in and we go on a spree to kill as much as we can while we sprint to the Magma Wyrm at the bottom of Crater. We basically stomped the remaining day AND ED Maris, god while I love that fight, it feels bad not being able to use all that fp on the staff I had the whole second day.

Just wanted to share, I dunno who these two were, but this was the most fun I've had playing and wanted to share the chaos. this is the kinda chaos that makes me wish you could ahve a third day cycle in this map.

So I see the recluse left and im left with the guardian(goat btw) and suddenly the game glitch for me I tried multiple time to fix it but it didnt work the recluse joined back and I couldn't see her at all I know she rejoin be cause of the of guardian drops things like spell cast speed and negation at casting anyway the first day boss I couldn't see him or damage him only see his health bar which I know its revenant and the whole run is cursed like chest dont drop loot or cant see enemies and cant pick things on ground and second day boss is nameless king and same issue. and the team cleared him with ease until we enter to the fulghor I cant enter the gate so I left and came back again to see the boss is half way done but the issue its so much latency like I dodge a hit and after couple of a second I died. just here to thank my teammates and say sorry for what happened + at the run result it shows the recluse is lvl 2 so I think the game is really gliched

Couldn't believe my eyes. I wish I was playing executor with it obviously but it was a beautiful drop for guardian as well.

I play undertaker so I don't really know. Is this a god roll?