Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess Class Guide

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In Elden Ring Nightreign, The Duchess is among the eight playable character classes; however, she won’t be accessible from the outset when you begin the game. To use her in your adventures, you’ll first need to accomplish a particular task and unlock her as a playable character.

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  • How to unlock the Duchess in Elden Ring Nightreign
  • Duchess class overview in Elden Ring Nightreign
    • Passive Ability: Magnificent Pose
    • Character Skill: Restage
    • Ultimate Art: Finale
  • Best Relics for the Duchess in Elden Ring Nightreign
    • Old Pocketwatch
    • Golden Dew

How to unlock the Duchess in Elden Ring Nightreign

To get started with the class, it’s crucial to understand the process of releasing (or unlocking) the Duchess character first.

To open the Duchess, you need to conquer the first expedition boss, Tricephalos, in Nightreign initially. This is the principal boss you can challenge following the tutorial completion, and you can initiate the battle against this boss by engaging with the central table at Roundtable Hold.

Once you successfully conquer the Tricephalos boss, you’ll be awarded an “Antique Pocket Watch” – a memento of your completed expedition. This Antique Pocket Watch can be employed at the Relic Rites station within the Roundtable Hold. For now, though, refrain from making plans with this Antique Pocket Watch, as it serves as the key to unlocking the Duchess class.

Using the antique pocket watch in your possession, make your way to converse with the lady dressed in white who initially greeted you upon entering Roundtable Hold. In this conversation, she’ll request that you return her antique pocket watch, as it originally belonged to her. You have the option to either give her the pocket watch or choose to retain it yourself.

In this scenario, you’ve decided to give the antique pocketwatch to the woman. This action leads her to place more trust in you, prompting her to unveil her real identity. It turns out she is none other than the Duchess herself! Upon handing over the watch, she undergoes a transformation into the Duchess. In Elden Ring Nightreign, this means you now have direct access to the Duchess, and as a reward for your actions, you get to keep the Old Pocketwatch as a valuable relic that can be utilized in the game.

Duchess class overview in Elden Ring Nightreign

In the realm of Nightreign, the Duchess stands apart from other classes due to her exceptional skills in swift combat, characterized by rapid strikes and agile maneuvers. However, this speediness comes at a cost, as she possesses less HP compared to others. To minimize taking too much damage, it’s wise to employ your movement abilities to dodge in and out of skirmishes. The Duchess starts off with a dagger that strikes incredibly fast, but its impact per hit isn’t extremely powerful.

Here are all of the Duchess’s abilities in Nightreign:

Passive Ability: Magnificent Pose

  • Attack and dodge optimally, dodging repeatedly when necessary.

With enhanced agility, the Duchess can evade repeatedly, providing ample opportunity for minimal damage absorption.

Character Skill: Restage

  • Stage reprisal of recent occurrences to damage nearby foes.

As a gamer, I’d say: The Restage skill is quite handy for the Duchess character. It allows me to dish out damage without getting too close to the action. Essentially, after I’ve made my move against an enemy, I can summon a spectral version of myself to reenact those same actions, dealing damage from a safe distance.

Ultimate Art: Finale

  • Obscure self and surrounding allies to hide from foes.

This “assassin-like” ability is something the Duchess possesses, allowing her to escape danger, move stealthily around opponents, or divert a boss’s hostility towards another character. The Finale skill additionally shrouds nearby allies, so it’s crucial to take their placement into account before activating it.

Best Relics for the Duchess in Elden Ring Nightreign

After discussing the process for activating the Duchess and her various abilities, let’s proceed to customize her class by selecting appropriate Relics next.

Initially, it’s advisable to visit the Small Jar Marketplace and buy the Duchess’ Goblet for 1,200 Murk. This acquisition grants you a fresh collection of Relic Rites with two orange spaces and one green space. You already possess the Duchess’ Urn (two red slots and one blue slot), but by switching to the Duchess’ Goblet, you can utilize more powerful relics. Over time, you can even advance to the Duchess’ Chalice.

Old Pocketwatch

By chance, one of these Artifacts turns out to be an antique pocket watch, specially designed for the Duchess. This particular pocket watch, known as the Green Relic Rite, has a unique property: it restores FP after multiple attacks and increases Dexterity by 3, which is her primary statistic.

After repeated assaults, the FP restoration method works ideally for the Duchess as she’s able to launch numerous attacks with her standard dagger and swift weapons discovered on expeditions.

Golden Dew

To ensure the Duchess is properly outfitted with another artifact, consider the Golden Dew, a vibrant orange Relic Rite. This can seamlessly align next to the Old Pocketwatch. The Golden Dew’s power becomes accessible through the Duchess’ Remembrance quest in Nightreign. For the Duchess exclusively, it enhances Character Skill Attack Power and amplifies the attack power of Affinity Attacks you add.

As the Duchess, when using the Goblet, you have the option to fill the third Relic slot with other relics you’ve earned during gameplay. To maximize your Dexterity-based attacks, focus on enhancing the power of your dagger attacks and securing bonuses for swift strikes.

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2025-05-30 19:10