Elden Ring Nightreign has loads of laborious boss fights. The Nightlords, that are your closing challenges after reaching Day Three, are among the many hardest. Fortunately, there are some which can be simpler than others.
On one of many missions, Augur, your goal is the Maris, Fathom of Night time. This amorphous blue monster is definitely straightforward in comparison with the opposite Nightlords because it doesn’t appear to assault fairly often. The soundtrack throughout the combat is also surprisingly calm too.
Preparation
Preparation isn’t as important for this Nightlord as it’s for others, however make sure to take a ranged character.. Maris floats round within the air, typically making it laborious to succeed in. Ironeye or Recluse can be efficient right here. Nonetheless, Maris isn’t often too far out of attain, so melee lessons received’t be ignored of the motion.
Whereas unconfirmed, Maris appears extra inclined to lightning injury, which might make sense given it’s a water elemental being. Whereas traversing Limveld, prioritize camps which have the lightning icon so you’ll be able to doubtlessly safe a corresponding elemental weapon.
Methods for preventing Magis
Maris will often begin off with two fundamental assaults. It fires off round 5 slow-moving bubbles that hone in in your place and finally explode for the primary assault. The second assault is a straightforward tidal wave that covers a small space. Each are straightforward to dodge. For the previous, simply keep away from the bubbles and don’t be round after they blow up. For the latter, simply dodge by means of the wave or dash out of the wave to your aspect.
Maris has two different bigger assaults. One sees it spin round, making a whirlpool round it. This one often solely hits if you happen to’re in shut vary; if you happen to’re utilizing a ranged character like Ironeye, you shouldn’t have any drawback avoiding it. Should you’re up shut, simply dodge by means of it.
Maris will cost you for the opposite assault. This one is definitely telegraphed: You’ll be able to see Maris winding up by doing a flip or two within the air earlier than coming again down. It’s straightforward to dodge this one.
Ultimately, the battlefield will glow extra blue, and Maris will begin summoning tentacles to assault you if you happen to get too shut. They’re caught within the space they sprouted, so it’s straightforward to keep away from them. Throughout this section, Maris can begin dropping those self same sluggish shifting explosive bubbles, besides there’s like 10 of them now. Use the identical technique as final time: Simply keep away from them.
One of many final assaults is when it flies excessive within the air and lays an egg that slowly descends onto the sphere. To be trustworthy, I don’t know what occurs if the assault is allowed to finish as a result of my teammates at all times managed to shoot it down earlier than it was in a position to do something. You should not have any hassle stopping that.
Maris shouldn’t be very aggressive and its assaults are most likely the simplest to study and keep away from out of the entire Nightlords within the sport. Simply be affected person and it’ll finally go down.
Elden Ring Nightreign is obtainable now on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and Home windows PCs.