What is the best Elden Ring Nightreign Raider build? Rip and tear your way through enemies as the Raider – designed purely to crush enemies with his blistering strength and impressive health to soak up damage.
With so many Elden Ring Nightreign needs a DPS dealer to take care of business, and you could be that person with our Raider build.
Elden Ring Nightreign Raider best build
Arguably the simplest class in the roguelike game, Raider's playstyle revolves around taking all the aggression from nearby enemies, absorbing as much damage to give your teammates an opportunity to retaliate. Equipped with a greataxe, you're able to fight off enemies without being interrupted due to your high poise.
Here are Raider's base attributes:
- HP: A
- FP: D
- Stamina: A
- Strength: S
- Dexterity: C
- Intelligence: D
- Faith: D
- Arcane: C
Raider's biggest weakness is his poor mobility, and this can have a massive effect on your odds of defeating specific Nightlords depending on how much they move around. While you can utilize ranged weapons like greatbows, it's a better idea to switch to a different class entirely depending on who you're up against.
Raider best Relics
Here are the Relics you should use as Raider in Elden Ring Nightreign:
- Polished Burning Scene [Red]: Improved Critical Hits, Defeating enemies restores HP for allies but not for self.
- Night of the Beast [Green]: Stamina recovers with each successful attack +1, Starting armament deals fire damage.
- Polished Tranquil Scene [Green]: [Raider] Damage taken while using Character Skill improves attack power and stamina, Improved Giants' Flame Incantations.
The Polished Burning Scene Relic suits Raider perfectly by dealing extra damage whenever you land Critical Hits, an occurrence that happens often as the party's primary damage dealer. Since you're going to be killing the most enemies for your party, the ability to heal your allies whenever you land a fatal blow can be extremely helpful.
Again, you'll be swinging your colossal weapons frequently, so Night of the Beast suits your game plan as you can always benefit from additional stamina. The other massive benefit from this Relic gives your starting armament the ability to deal fire damage. When combined with Elden Ring Nightreign Recluse in your party, this can be devastating as she's able to utilize your fiery attacks using the Magic Cocktail mechanic. It's also powerful as a standalone effect, helping you deal extra damage with every attack.
We're going to be honest, the Polished Tranquil Scene Relic definitely isn't the best option for Raider, but its Raider-specific effect is so powerful that we had to include it. When you take damage while using Retaliate, you'll gain additional attack power and stamina, making you even more deadly than ever before.
Elden Ring Nightreign Raider abilities
Raider's abilities are the simplest out of all the classes, with Retaliate turning him into a damage sponge, and Totem Stela acting as an AoE to both deal damage while offering a form of protection. The ive ability acts as a buff to Retaliate, essentially making you unstoppable for a brief moment as you're given the opportunity to take a fatal blow.
Here are Raider's abilities:
- ive Ability – Fighter's Resolve: Raider can't be interrupted while performing Retaliate, and he can survive one fatal blow during its animation, leaving him on one HP.
- Character Skill – Retaliate: Absorb incoming damage and strike back with an attack that varies in strength depending on how much damage Raider receives.
- Ultimate Art – Totem Stela: Summon a giant tombstone that acts as a platform and produces an aura that both protects nearby allies from arrows while providing a strength buff.
Raider Fighter's Resolve
Fighter's Resolve isn't the most flashy ive ability as it only serves to make Retaliate better, but without it, Raider would be considerably weaker. The most important thing to about Fighter's Resolve is that you're able to tank a hit that would ordinarily kill you. When you fight with this knowledge, you can take advantage of situations where someone in your party needs to be the one to take away the final slither of health from a boss.
Raider Retaliate
While it's vital to the effects Fighter's Resolve offers, it doesn't make you invincible. When you use Retaliate, you need to keep an eye on your health bar before you start to absorb enemy attacks. If you activate Retaliate when you're already close to death, all it takes is one stray attack to knock you from one HP down to zero.
Retaliate is strong against large enemies with slow attacks, giving you a massive window to absorb any incoming attack they have to throw out. When you absorb enough damage, the character skill gains an additional attack as Raider performs a damaging uppercut. This can cause bosses to stagger, so be sure to take advantage of this whenever the opportunity arises.
Raider Totem Stela
Totem Stela works as both an offensive and defensive tool, allowing you to deal damage to groups of enemies while creating a platform to temporarily regroup and plan your next attack. The platform lasts for 30 seconds, giving you plenty of time to take advantage of it. It's also worth noting that if you do lose your footing and fall off, you can always climb back to avoid any nearby enemies.
When you have summoned the totem, tell your party to get close to it in order to gain the strength buff. This totem can deal damage to multiple enemies – this when you have a teammate who needs reviving as the totem can not only bring them back, but they're immediately out of harm's way on your platform. You're also protected from enemy arrows, which honestly isn't that helpful most of the time, but it's worth ing when you're up against multiple archers.
When combined with classes like Ironeye, you can both utilize the tombstone platform to get a better look at the entire battlefield. As Raider, take advantage of the height advantage by hurting enemies with a destructive plunging attack. Ironeye can use the opportunity to scope out specific enemies, or use his ultimate ability to snipe a boss from afar.
There you have it, the best Elden Ring Nightreign Raider build. With a winning build at your disposal, you're going to have so much Murk, you won't know what to do with it. Give our multiplayer game.