Become an UNSTOPPABLE Nightfarer | Routing Strategies For ANY Run | Elden Ring

How many runs did it take you to best your first nightlord? Who's been your favourite so far?

EDIT: Adding a clarification here regarding the giant castle. My point in the video against hitting the castle day 1 is more pertaining to killing the sewer boss and top of the castle boss and the randoms who insist on fighting them when we're level 3-5. While it's doable and you get a giant reward for it it's absolutely impractical, especially if you get bad RNG and it rolls an awful boss like bell bearing who will easily 1 shot anyone under lvl 7 and is tanky af. Realistically you're going to have to zoom around the map to grab flasks no matter what so you're better off doing that while you're lower level and can effectively clear the regular points of interest. Being level 10+ clearing those camps isn't going to be much faster than being level 5 but being level 10 when you actually invest time in going to the castle is SIGNIFICANTLY more efficient. You can absolutely hit the castle on the first night even at level 5 but you need to have a team you can trust and play coordinated and probably only kill non sewer/rooftop enemies. With randoms it's too much of a dice roll usually. Also, if you don't fully clear the castle on day 1 then you waste precious traversal time going back there again to clear the sewer and top castle boss that you likely skipped. It's just way simpler and more consistent to save that for night 2, it's more than easy enough to hit lvl 9-10 without going there on night 1. Also, sites of grace aren't going to spawn unless you've killed those bosses so you have to leave the castle to hit the outer perimeter graces to level up during this process which wastes even more time. I've always had a much easier time hitting lvl 15 by NOT hitting the castle on night 1. Anecdotal yes, but I definitely feel the consistency of holding off on it until later. Happy to have people challenge this perspective! 🙂

I have a question, why do u not lock and manually aim? Like in 8:45

Some decent advice in this video:
– prioritise first camp
– prioritise outer ring churches
– prioritise affinity camps (though not essential)
– Level 3 for evergaols
– Level thresholds for field bosses

Some terrible advice in this video:
– Clear out mobs at camps rather than just go straight for bosses
– Don't hit castle day 1
– Commit a full day for the castle

You should skip mobs and just go for bosses in camps.
You should absolutely hit castle day 1 (though may miss top boss).
Castle should not take even one ring close.

Lvl 5 at bottom castle boss is very standard in my runs and I’ve defeated all the bosses except the new one with this strat

Great video!

Google "nightreign timer" – it even has audio cues

Your castle tip is so wrong it’s not even funny dude…… you mean to tell me you can’t kill banished knights or trolls before lvl 10? Stop making content then if you’re THAT bad at the game.

I'm usually lvl 11 at night 1

small bit of info on your starting drop: there is actually one location that you can drop on that will never get you enough runes to get that 2nd level which would be the churches as they have like 2 – 3 rats but in exchange you start off with an extra flask rather than a level

If you're low on time(ie in the storm) and the boss is low on health, poison can be a life saver(if you're okay with just the runes on night 2) get them down to like 10% hit em with poison and run tf away

Pro tip: stop pinging multiple places

Who fucking cares?

I have an additional tip, i find myself doing evergaol as soon as i hit lv 2. Sometimes you end up lvl 4 or 6 as soon as minute 2 in the game. It smooths the following fights since you are a lot stronger to take on elemental camps or low tier field bosses. Doing this i find myself consistently ending day one 10-11 even with randoms.