Elden Ring: Nightreign just got a big balance patch, and even if you're not someone who's great at parsing patch notes, you might want to tune into this one, because basically every character that's been widely regarded as terrible for months now got a big buff.
Patch 1.03.2 is simply billed as "Balance Adjustments and Feature Updates" but includes a very, very long list of Nightfarer, Relic, Equipment, Sorcery, Incantations, and other adjustments that should prove a major boon especially to a few Nightfarers that desperately needed some love: Raider, Guardian, Executor, and Revenant.
We've shared the patch notes below, but here's a quick summary for each of these four characters. Guardian, whose role is generally to "tank" bosses, guard hits, and keep enemy attention so their teammates can wail on them, got a buff to damage negation and to his Guard Boost ability. Raider, a big slow heavy attacker, has historically been a little too slow in attacking to be really viable, so he got a big boost to attack speed. Revenant, historically just weak all around if very fun to play, got a big attack power boost to her summoned spirits. And Executor, a speedy melee attacker who plays a bit like Wolf in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, got buffs to seemingly everything: damage, stamina, damage negation, and more.
The community, especially those who like to main those four Nightfarers, are especially thrilled. Several of these guys, especially Raider and Revenant, have been struggling for a while now, and their weaknesses were becoming even more evident next to the two newly-added Nightfarers in the Forsaken Hollows DLC.
Those aren't the only changes, just the biggest character-related ones. There have been a ton of tweaks and bug fixes to everything from how many of certain items can be bought in shops to how much FP certain spells cost to cast. There were also, quietly, 30 new weapon ID slots added to the game, as someone has pointed out, though it's unclear what those are for or even if they'll ever be used.
Nightreign players are still going strong almost a year after the game first came out, with a new DLC having dropped in December adding a new map, two new Nightfarers, new bosses, and more. There's also a challenge mode called Deep of Night that some players are still delving into to push their skills as far as possible.
Elden ring Nightreign update 1.03.2 patch notes:
Balance Adjustments and Feature Updates
Nightfarers Adjustments
Duchess
Guardian
Raider
Revenant
Executor
Scholar
Undertaker
Relic Adjustments
*This addresses an intended bug where the increased effect of the "Improved ●● Attack Power" and "Improved Attack Power with 3+ ●● Equipped" Relic Effects in Patch 1.03 were mistakenly applied to the bow weapon category.
Adjustments to Equipment, Sorceries, and Incantations
Field Adjustments
Other adjustments
*This adjustment applies to Expeditions when matched only with players who also own the DLC.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
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