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Elden Ring Nightreign - Best Nightfarer For You - ALL 8 Classes Explained & New Gameplay Guide!

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Hello and welcome back to Rage Gaming

and in a matter of days, Night Rain.

This spin-off version of Elder Ring has

the Elder Ring tag before its name, but

it's more of a roglike version of the

game. You got like a set map that

shrinks and forces you to slowly face

the hardest challenges whether you're

ready or not. And within that, we have

eight set classes at the launch of the

game to play, each with their own

skills, passives, equipment, pros and

cons, and more. So, today we're going to

cover everything we know about each and

the fact that we expect more in the

future. So, let's get started. The eight

classes of the game are known as the

night farers. Each night farer comes

with one character skill, one passive,

one ultimate art, and each of these is

based on the night farer that you're

playing. So of course, the duchess can't

be using the ultimate art of say the

guardian. On top of that, there are

other details you want to consider. So

each one has initial starting equipment

with the skin of your choosing, but we

will find more. There's going to be

varying levels of HP, FP, and stamina

per class, of course, and there will

also be different relic slot options

based on the class you're playing. Now,

despite the many class specific details

we've just mentioned, there are a few

universal details that are important to

know. Firstly, the fact that all Night

Farahers can use any weapon technically.

There's no full restriction on that.

Secondly, with all of that, we're going

to start every run at level one, no

matter the class that you pick. A quick

word on that then is that leveling is

different in Night Rain. It's heavily

simplified. Each run known as an

expedition basically resets you. So,

you're always starting each run at level

one. To gain XP, you just go kill stuff,

explore, you know, the usual classic XP

means. But when you're ready to level,

you do it as you'd expect at a bonfire

or a grace like normal. In this game,

though, you basically autole, meaning

you do not choose the stats to raise in

any specific way. It just kind of does

it for you, already decided by the class

that you picked. For main forms of

progression, those come through, say,

the NPC story lines, but importantly,

your relics and the setups that you set.

So, at the end of an expedition, you're

rewarded with the relics and currency

based on what you did and how you did.

And we can see different examples of

that here, like this polished burning

scene. It provides improved dragon cult

incantations and one extra level to

faith. So, that'd be great if you're a

faith or dragon cult user, but not

relevant if you're not. They've shown us

the relic rights menu briefly to look

at. This is found in the round table

hold, the hub of the game. As you can

see, the guardian can at least slot in

three relics from what we've been shown

so far because, you know, you have a

different tab for each class and

different relic slots based on that. But

yeah, we're looking at the guardian

night farer here on the right. Then we

have the current list of available

relics they found so far. The yellow

relic here is the polished luminous

scene providing one more endurance and

magic attack powerup. Pretty good for a

lot of classes since all are going to

benefit from a bit of endurance and that

magic attack could be relevant for a lot

of us. The next example with the grand

luminous scene, improved stone digger

sorcery, one level poise, one level of

holy attack power. You could argue that

this could be used by a caster who will

also benefit from the poise. Or maybe

someone that doesn't care about the

stone digging sorcery at all, but are

using holy attacks. And again, everyone

benefits from the poise. We get more

specific examples as we go. This one's

called the Grand Luminous scene,

providing increased duration for

character skill. Specifically though for

the guardian character skill in this

case that would be the whirlwind skill.

An AoE around the guardian dealing

damage, knocking enemies back,

deflecting arrows during its effect. So

the relic would increase the duration of

that arrow protection and even longer

time for that damage and control of the

winds. There's a cool clip here showing

that relic being used, meaning the CC of

the group of enemies goes on for longer,

giving the recluse that time to cast a

spell and blast them. So lots of relics

will have universal benefits. Some will

have specific considerations or even

ones that only work for set night

farers. For other main progression, then

there's the memory fragments. You'll

find the fragments for your own night

farer, but also other night farers found

in the round table hold when you're not

playing them, so you can have

conversations with them. This will often

provide you with side missions you might

try to complete while out on the next

expedition. And doing this kind of

stuff, you'll find the origin of each

night farer and their purpose.

Encouraging you probably to play a

variety of night farers so you can

progress all the stories. But while in

the hub, there's also the fitting

mirror. This will let you change the

cosmetic appearance of your chosen night

farer. Using this system, we see a

return of different fan favorite looks

from the different games, but just

consider it cosmetic fun. It's not too

serious, but it does seem like what your

options will be will be based on what

night farer you're looking at. So,

that's the universal stuff. Let's now

run through everything we know as a fact

for each night farer and also mention

what we don't know. First up, we have

Wilder, which is basically the Storm

Knight generic standard knight guy. He's

going to be good in general for

everything, not specifically focused on

anything for him. We know that he's got

a great sword and small shield to start

with, and his passive is sixth sense.

This in the network test was basically a

death prevention, allowing you to ignore

death at least once in your expedition,

which certainly seems relevant and again

great for learning the game. In the

network test, this would actually reset

if you used a grace. So yeah, absolutely

fantastic. The skill is clawshot, a

unique and cool grapple effect that

allows you to pull enemies towards you,

but also pull yourself around, seemingly

not just to targets, but around the map

in general. Great for traversal. This

will allow you to really close the gaps

or pull out specific enemies, ones that

are pesky, like a ranger or caster or

something. Should be really useful.

Lastly, we have the ultimate, the

onslaught stake. This ridiculous shot

from the hand crossbow that launches

this massive explosion in a single big

hit. It must be done like a shotgun up

close. You also have protection during

the animation, so you could even use it

to evade a big attack by timing it

correctly, which is quite exciting.

Right. Next up, we have the guardian,

that birdman knight that you've seen

throughout all of the footage. He is the

tank essentially with the biggest health

pool in the game, as well as other

benefits like damage resistance. So, if

you want to be tanky, this is the guy.

He comes with a halbird, but also

importantly that great shield to hide

behind and reduce damage. His passive is

steel guard, which allows you to kind of

hunker down using a guard effect that's

noticeably stronger than a regular

guard. It reminds me in Monster Hunter

of say the power guard when using the

lance and its huge shield. You can move

around while it's active, but only

minimally. For the character skill, as

we discussed earlier, it is whirlwind

that causes that AoE around you of the

wind that does deflect arrows, dealing

ticks of damage and also slightly

controlling enemies by knocking them

about. Weaker enemies will be fully CCd

by this, and if you increase its

duration through relics, it can be very

effective. There's also one that you can

charge up to make last longer and deal

more damage, which is good to know. The

ultimate skill for the guardian is the

incredible wings of salvation, allowing

you to leap up high and fly for a moment

to dive down and slam down. It actually

gives you a defensive buff, and those

allies that are in that circle of AoE

will also benefit from it. And in the

game overview trailer that they

released, they said it's great for

reviving your team if they're down in a

tough moment. All right, next up we have

the Iron Eye, the archer or Ranger type,

which is going to be abusing the

weaknesses of the targets. We do not

know everything about this yet. We've

only had recent reveals of it. So, while

we don't know the starting gear, you can

expect that it's going to have access to

different bows and arrows and ammo types

because of it. We do know the passive

though, eagle-eye. Simply put, this will

increase the amount of items that

enemies drop, which is going to be great

to have in the team. For the skill

marking, we learned more about that

recently, where basically it's reducing

the targets poise, making them much more

susceptible to basic hits, meaning

they're going to be attackable for free

quite easily. And we've seen how this

builds up enough stagger to get a proper

knockdown and then critical hit as a

follow-up. Finally, the ultimate skill

is single shot. They describe it as a

supersonic arrow that will pierce

through any target. Seemingly, it just

won't stop going. Great for AoE or just

a really big hit with some careful

positioning. Next up, we have the

Duchess, a Lady Maria looking character,

there's basically the rogue of the game

with lower health, but a lot more

agility to it. Starting with a dagger

and effect, shield grease. You'll have

three of these as a consumable that will

boost your guarding and just damage

negation for a survivability tool.

Anyway, her passive is magnificent pose.

We see this through the movement of the

class where she's instead of rolling

around doing flips and side steps,

dodging quickly again like she's from

Bloodborne. It's a particularly good

dodge that has fast speed to it and

increased eye frames. To my

understanding, her skill though is

restage where basically you do an attack

and then repeat that attack suddenly by

using this skill. The specific

information on this is that you deal

damage and then repeat that damage

within the last few seconds on use of

restage. So, in the last few seconds,

you and your team have hit something

really hard, you repeat that again. So,

the timing of that seems important. The

ultimate skill is finale, though, which

is essentially a stealth AOE that

affects you and your allies. It's got a

very cool animation, but I will be

interested to see how this truly works.

You get a period of stealth, a pretty

decent amount of time. Enemies will

completely lose sight of you, allowing

you to back up, heal, maybe sort out the

dire situation you're in, completely

evade an encounter, or set up an ambush.

There certainly will be uses for it, but

you'll need to use it at the right time.

All right, next up we have the recently

revealed raider, the Viking type that is

built like a brick wall. We don't know a

ton about the equipment that you're

going to get, but I would fully expect

some sort of big blunt weapon as we've

seen. So, if you like big weapons, this

is the one for you. What we do know is

it comes with the fighter's resolve

passive. It means that he basically

isn't going to flinch when you take a

minor attack from a basic enemy and

leads into retaliate. the idea that it

cannot be knocked down while using its

retaliate skill. So retaliate is

basically you do this punch that's

ridiculously strong and stronger if

you've taken a hit during it. You

basically got hyper armor during it. So

you use it intentionally take a hit and

then retaliate with this ridiculous hit.

Even against a massive enemy, it builds

up a massive amount of stagger. So

you're essentially going to try to parry

with the initial effect of this skill to

get the big retaliation off. I would

view it if you played Monster Hunter as

almost like using the shoulder tackle of

the great sword. He has quite a weird

ultimate skill, Totem Stellar, which

generates this big gravestone that takes

up a physical space in the world,

meaning you can hide behind projectiles,

magic attacks, archery shots, using it

as cover. And with the movement system

of Night Rain allowing you to climb

terrain like this, you and your allies

can climb up top and get a quite clever

vantage point. You could use this, as we

see here, with the iron eye to get up

high and have some free shooting because

the melee enemies just can't reach you.

It does deal damage on summon though,

and the idea is it's going to boost your

allies and give you like some sort of

benefit. We don't know the exact value

of it. Does seem useful if you can be

creative with it, though. All right, for

the last class we know a lot about, we

have the recluse, which was playable in

the network test, so we know a lot about

it. So, if you want to use sorcery and

magic, this is the one for you. It has

the highest FP count out of all the

classes, and will maintain that as you

level it up. But in exchange, you'll

have the lowest health pool. So, you got

to be careful. Anyway, it starts with a

staff so that you're able to cast

spells. Obviously, the basic spells that

we started with in the network test was

the classic pebble shot, a quick small

glintstone hit, and glintstone arc,

which is kind of a nice basic AoE

shotgun hit. The passive is called

elemental defense. It lets you see

elemental residue, and it ties into your

skill, magic cocktail. The idea is that

your allies have elemental attributes,

and so do the enemies. and you're going

to collect that and turn it into

something. We know from the network test

that this can involve magic, fire,

lightning, and holy effects. And on

every fourth cast of this, it did

something particularly special based on

the combination of elements that you

were collecting. So, this could just be

a damaging spell, movement, as we've

seen, or it could just straight up give

you a buff. Examples that we saw during

the network test were the summoning of

wisps, fire AoE, the blood hound step,

which is cool. AoE freeze during of

which you encase yourself in ice, that's

what we see in the footage here,

becoming immune to damage. There is

magic fire breath, a way to generate

infinite FP, classic carry and slash

attacks, and quite a few more.

Thankfully, the ultimate skill for

recluse is a lot simpler. It's soul

blood song. You're basically just

marking a target with this glyph. And

those affected by that glyph as they

take damage from you or allies, you get

a little bit of healing as well as FP,

which is very important. This is going

to be great like in the midstage of a

fight, especially a boss fight to give

your allies some easy life steal, but

also to recover your FP so you can keep

casting. It does have a longer animation

and not infinite range, so you will need

to time it correctly. But during the

network test, it did have some

protection during it, so we'll see how

that works out in live. Right. All

right, for the final two, we don't know

a lot about them, unfortunately. Here's

what we do know. This armored knight

that uses a katana is the executive,

able to use their big blade in one or

two hands and has this heavy focus on

parrying as a concept. It very much

feels like the class inspired from Searo

where we have the Duchess as the

Bloodborne character. So, we see these

clips of perfect parry timing at the

last moment. In SEO, you were basically

hitting L1, the block button, to parry

right as you're about to be hit, and

then you'd repeatedly do that to destroy

the enemy's poise. I could expect then a

system of that nature based on what

they've shown us. But for the moment,

they've barely shown anything other than

the fact that it seems to be able to

buff up its weapon and holy damage and

use holy arcs, a semi-ranged ability

because of that. For this class though,

we did just get a new character trailer.

So, it shows us some new stuff we've not

seen before, highlighting the fact that

that holy blade seems to be generated as

you land those perfect parries like the

Searo style parry. Then, unleashed when

charged up enough. The other absolutely

insane unexpected thing is probably the

ultimate art, which turns it into a

giant beast. It's been shown to do basic

combos and a big slam and one charged up

attack that seems to have a holy blade

that thrusts forward. People are

commenting on the reveal calling it the

Crucible Wolf transformation, and I

think that's probably right. Lastly, we

have the Revenant, of which we know very

little about. There's people saying that

it's going to be one that's tying into

the spirit ash mechanics of Elder Ring.

So, basically, it's your summoner class,

but we've not seen any direct examples.

What we have seen is it's using some

sort of scythe. It looks like the halo

scythe with familiar holy arcs during a

brief moment. So, you can of course

fight directly, too. But the skills and

powers of this one is very much unknown

and we do think it's going to be your

summoner class for the moment. In

regards to the future of the game and

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