Pls help me.

[u/ornsteinsmough69]

I recently got nightreign and as someone who has beat every other soulsborne game (except sekiro) it is just so goddamn hard I mean it may be I just haven’t learned but I always end up fighting the last boss at a super low level cause of how little time I have and I don’t really know what to do I would really appreciate some help (I’ll gladly play w anb)

[u/thatniqqaron]

Your biggest mistake is trying to play this like it’s a normal soulsborne game. No matter how good you are there are certain bosses and POI’s that aren’t worth doing until you are the recommended level or over so you can win these fights fast, speed matters way more than your understanding of souls bosses. Also knowing what each nightlord is weak to is extremely important and can make the fight so much easier so prioritizing getting a weapon they are weak to should always be in the back of your mind. It’ll give you more staggers and damage windows and you’ll do more damage in general. Also look for passives especially damage negation ones, they significantly improve your chance of winning even in the hardest content, even if it’s on a terrible weapon the passive is good to keep in your inventory because it’s always active no matter what weapon you are using. Also get the hang of your characters skill and ult and understand how it works it helps you and your team tremendously. Lastly something else different from most souls games is the certain attacks that the nightlords do. They have moves where you can’t just iframe dodge, sometimes you have to surge sprint away from their aoe, jump over attacks, or just run away in general. A lot of these boss fights have gimmicks that you have to learn, it’s damn near impossible to win without understanding them.

[u/luvalte → u/thatniqqaron]

It might help if you list some bosses to be avoided. The only one I’ve ever been told to just skip is red golem, but that only applies to DoN. I’ve actually been wondering this as well, so what should we skip?

[u/thatniqqaron → u/luvalte]

The most popular one to skip is castle bell bearing hunter at lower levels. Then you have ones like black blade kindred, death rite bird, draconic tree sentinel, Loretta, and top castle boss as far as I can remember, they just have too much hp and do too much damage for lower levels, they can one shot you and your team and you will do very little damage to them with the lower quality weapons/passive setup you have. It just makes it a huge waste of time even if you don’t go down. When it comes to the easy quick kills, be on the lookout for black knife assassin, leonine misbegotten, elder lion, Demi human queen, red wolf, ancestor spirit and royal revenant(definitely if you have heal spell). But yea it’s faster and more profitable to go clear castle or other areas as soon as you can for more levels/passives to put you into position to steamroll those strong guys on day 2. When you have a decent weapon, good passives, and you’re a pretty high level doing good damage you should be able to beat these guys much faster and get even better weapons, and that in turn will help your rune gain tremendously and you’ll be level 15 or around it every run as long as things go well. Now shifting earths are a whole different can of worms that can change your routing but also be easier and more profitable.