One of the two new characters, Undertaker focuses on Strength and Faith, and she can be a really strong Nightfarer in Elden Ring: Nightreign. The expansion The Forsaken Hollows featured an abbess who is distinguished for her capability to deal significant damage continuously and her dodging abilities.
If you purchased the expansion, you first need to defeat the first boss of the game to unlock Undertaker. Once you have done that, it’s time to start checking what she does, weapons, and relics. Here you’ll find everything you need to know to start playing as Undertaker in Elden Ring: Nightreign.
Undertaker’s Skills Overview
Undertaker’s passive ability is Confluence, and it’s perhaps the best part of the character. Every time one of the players in your party activates their Ultimate Art, you’ll have a few seconds to activate your own, regardless of how filled the gauge is. You’ll see the indicator glowing pink.
Since your Ultimate Art can stagger and interrupt most enemies’ attacks (including moves from bosses!) for a second, you should wait three seconds to activate it if you’re using your passive. The thing is, most of the other classes’ Ultimate Arts already stagger bosses, so if you activate this one right away, you won’t stagger anyone. But if you wait a little bit, it will work.
Her Character Skill is Trance, and it will buff your character with increased Defense, Poise, and movement. You’ll basically start running without the need to sprint and waste extra Stamina. If you attack an enemy many times in a row, you’ll get an Attack buff. Also, your roll turns into a quick step, and if you dodge enemy attacks at the right moment, you’ll be in an advantageous position.
You can activate this at once or charge it, which will change the duration of the buff. You can move, run, and dodge while charging Trance, so it’s always recommended to use the charged version of the skill.
Something special about Undertaker is that she can use her Ultimate Art to enhance her skill. Once the former’s gauge is full, don’t use it; activate Trance, and the duration of the buff will be increased, with increased Attack Power. Now you also automatically dodge attacks while the enhanced Trance is on.
Finally, Undertaker’s Ultimate Art, Loathsome Hex, sends her flying against the locked-on enemy, dealing damage to everything she touches on the way, ending in a direct impact that has a bit of AoE range. This doesn’t deal big damage, but it’s great for interrupting enemies’ attacks, and you can perform up to three in a row thanks to your passive and depending on your allies’ timing.
While Loathsome Hex lets you fly a long distance, please note that it has a limited range, and it will stop before reaching the enemy if it passes the limit.
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The Best Weapons For Undertaker
Thanks to Undertaker’s Faith scaling and being encouraged to quick attacks, you’ll want to prioritize short-range melee weapons that don’t take too much time to be used. For example, Marika’s Hammer is the best Legendary weapon (and perhaps the best weapon, period) that you can get: quick blows, and it has Holy.
Another Holy weapon is the rare Gargoyle’s Black Axe. However, if you have issues finding any of these weapons, any weapon that scales with Strength will be good enough, and there are a bunch of them: hammers, axes, and other big melee weapons. You won’t be as quick as possible with heavy gear, but as long as you deal good damage, you’ll be good to go.
The Best Relics For Undertaker
There aren’t many secrets here: the relics that you can unlock for Undertaker during her quest are really, really good. Both the Leather Monocle Case, which buffs her Physical Attack, and the Glass Necklace, which gives Attack Power boost, increases the charge of the Ultimate Art, and it buffs Attack Power after using the Ultimate.
From the new bosses, you’ll want to focus on The Balancers’ relic. This one boosts the melee Attack Power and the Skill Attack Power of Undertaker. If you get to defeat the alternative version of Weapon-Bequeathed Harmonia, you can also use its relic, The Will of Balance, which is similar to the original one, but you can stack the buffs.
Then, you can complete your loadout with a variety of more regular relics, depending on which vessel you’re using. For example, the Grand Tranquil Scene specific to this character gives you a boost to Strength and Faith and buffs your attacks after completing combos. It is sold by the Small Jar Bazaar for 1,000 Murk.
I recommend using the Soot-Covered Undertaker’s Urn, which has one blue and two red slots. It’s perfect for the two Balancers relics. You can find it for four Sovereign Sigils at the Collector Signboard.
Tips For Playing As Undertaker
While Undertaker deals good damage from the get-go, like most characters, she starts with very low health. Two blows from the recommended starting areas, and you’re down. Use Trance as soon as possible to make you dodge easier and have more armor.
This character won’t become a tank at higher levels by any means, but thanks to Trance, you’ll be able to last a few hits while fighting deadlier enemies.
Following the previous tip, keep in mind that this character’s Skill and Ultimate Art charge pretty quickly. It’s expected that you use your abilities all the time, especially if you have relics that affect your Attack Power or your healing after using them. You shouldn’t leave Loathsome Hex only for bosses; it’s really effective for groups of regular enemies.
You can also use your UA to heal fallen allies faster!
If you play with friends and you communicate via voice chat, you can ask them to let you know when they have their UAs ready, so you can chain your own Ultimate Art multiple times. Just be sure that you’re not using any spell or incantation that takes too much time to activate, because you’ll lose the time you have to use your passive.
Speaking of which, while using some spells can be useful (especially all the ones with Holy), I recommend focusing on melee weapons, as they will be your most important equipment.
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