Elden Ring Nightreign Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Note that it’s possible to unlock this trophy out of order. If a friend who unlocked the ending invites you to the 8th expedition, it’s possible to unlock the ending right away as your first expedition before playing anything else.

If you completed a Remembrance (character story) there will be additional dialogue options at the final NPC which will trigger the character-specific endings and don’t unlock the trophy. However, you can still replay the Expedition. Just be sure to pick “Offer the Nighlord’s Rune” in the dialogue after the endboss.

At the Dresser buy any outfit and equip it. Initially, you only have access to outfits that cost between 14,000 – 35,000 Murk each (the permanent currency unlock from every match). Cheaper outfits for 7,500 Murk will be available after finishing all 8 Expeditions, there are a total of 5 Outfits per character.

Tip: If you don’t want to “waste” this much Murk on an Outfit, you can back up your save to PS+ Cloud (or to USB if playing PS4 version), buy the outfit to pop the trophy, redownload your save. Then you have your Murk back and can spend it on more useful things like Relics.

The highest chance to get legendaries is to go to the big castle in the middle of the map, enter the sewers through the ravine below the castle to find a miniboss in the basement. This one has a high chance to drop a legendary. If you defeat this boss a couple matches in a row you should get a legendary easily. Also the boss on the rooftop of the castle sometimes drops a legendary (can go upstairs via the central room on top of the castle, staircase is in the corner of the room).

Alternatively, on Day 2 the minibosses marked with red icons sometimes drop legendaries.

Another method is to complete the crater event for  The Crater, which awards you with a legendary upgrade for one of your armaments.

These events change the map layout slightly:

• Mountaintop spawns a frozen mountain in the north-west of the map. You must reach the top of the mountain, walk over the big hanging chains to reach the top. Interact with the chest on the mountaintop (you can run past all enemies, no need to fight bosses). This will increase resistance to frost damage and makes you deal more damage to dragons.
  
• Crater spawns a magma-filled volcano crater in the north of the map. You must drop down and defeat 2 bosses along the way, then open the chest in the area with the second boss. This will let you upgrade a weapon to legendary.
  
• Rotted Woods will spawn a purple wood in the south-east of the map that applies rot effect (gradually damages health while in the area). After rot has built up, simply continue healing yourself and rush past the enemies. You must go to the fort that will be marked with a red flag icon, there you must pick up a treasure map on the roof from the little side tower. This adds another red flag icon that points to a tree. Climb the tree and drop down to the flower on the side of the tree, interact with it. This will grant immunity to Scarlet rot.
  
• Shrouded City will spawn a city in the south-west of the map. You must reach the end of the city and defeat a boss. Then interact with the chest in the boss arena. This will give an autorevive.
  

The Crater is typically the first one you get after your first Expedition. Then it randomly cycles through the other Shifting Earth Events. Every few matches it will give a popup when you return to the Roundtable Hold that informs you of the currently active Shifting Earth (this is different for every player). If you get a Shifting Earth you already completed, you can sleep in the bed in Roundtable Hold (press Touchpad > Waiting Room). Then after you play another 3-4 Expeditions you will get a new Shifting Earth Event.

If any player in the match has a Shifting Earth event active, there’s a chance for that Shifting Earth event to appear as soon as the match starts. If all players sleep in the bed to deactivate the event, then no Shifting Earth will trigger. If everyone has a different event active, it will randomly pick one (e.g. if one player has Shrouded City and one has Crater, it will trigger one of the two).

Additionally, all Expeditions (except the first one) have a small chance to spawn a map layout with one of the four shifting earths active, even if no player has a Shifting Earth activated. The game isn’t truly procedurally generated, instead it uses a pool of 20-30 preset map layouts (different camps in different locations) which are unique to each Expedition. You can use this to your advantage by restarting the same Expedition over and over again until you get a map layout with a Shifting Earth active, however they are rarer than regular maps. Some of the Remembrance chapters (Character Stories) also force a specific shifting earth.

It’s best to spend some time leveling up before going to these events, especially for Shrouded City and Crater as they feature bosses. At the start of Day 2 you should be strong enough and should head there right away before the circle starts to shrink around the map.

Vessels allow you to equip different colors of relics to your characters.

The 8 character classes are:

1. Wylder
2. Guardian
3. Ironeye
4. Duchess
5. Raider
6. Revenant
7. Recluse
8. Executor

Some of these are significantly harder to play than others, particularly the Recluse and Revenant can be challenging. So you’ll need to practice with every class. Having a good team to carry you through Expeditions will make it easier. If you play with two good damage dealers, they will do most of the work while you can hang back and focus on supporting your team.

You can defeat the same Nightlord/Expedition 8 times in a row, doesn’t matter which one. We confirmed the trophy to pop when beating the first Expedition (Tricephalos) 8 times in a row with different characters. For the trophy it is important that you yourself have finished an Expedition with each character. The characters teammates use won’t count towards this progress. To keep track, write down somewhere which characters you finished an Expedition with.

It also helps if you have a relic with the effect “Increased rune acquisition for self and allies”, or find a talisman from a scarab beetle that has this effect. Then you earn more XP for the entire match. You can buy the “Grand Burning Scene” relic with this effect from Small Jar Bazaar in the hub area after having finished all 8 Expeditions. You can also get it randomly from relics you get as match rewards or by buying Scenic Flatstones from Small Jar Bazaar (can back up Save to PS+, spend all your Murk, if you don’t get it copy back save and retry).

If you’re lucky, some of the bosses will drop a buff that increases rune acquisition for the rest of the match, so you can doublestack it with the relic.

Stay close to your teammates. When someone kills an enemy, it gives XP for the entire team, but only if you’re close enough. If everyone runs off in a different direction, you’ll be too slow to clear out locations and won’t be credited the XP from faraway teammates. Focus on the boss in each location, the one with the red healthbar. These give the most XP. Having a team of damage dealers is ideal, especially Executor + Raider + Ironeye as they deal a lot of damage when using their skills together.

You start with 3 Health Flasks, so will need to find 4 Churches to get 7 Health Flasks. Interact with the altar inside the church to get +1 Health Flasks. In some matches only 3 Churches spawn, in this case restart the match until it spawns 4 Churches. Simply rush to the 4 Churches immediately at the start of the match and ignore everything else, then you can complete it easily. If the trophy doesn’t pop immediately, visit a site of grace to refill your health flasks.

The standard way of doing this is to visit the marked locations around the map, each has one boss with a red healthbar at the bottom of the screen. Defeat that boss, move on to the next location, repeat. You can also spawn bosses from gaols (the stone circles) by using a Stonesword Key (usually found in the large chest inside Forts marked on map). Defeating the mandatory bosses on Day 1 & Day 2 also counts, so you always get at least 2 guaranteed from that.

You also find plenty of bosses wandering around the map. Most of them get marked on Day 2. However, the red bosses are particularly strong and can take a while to defeat, so are better to avoid.

This is one of the trophies that is almost guaranteed to come from natural gameplay early on without worrying about it. But if you want to force it, just go from one marked camp/ruin to the next and ignore everything else.

Gaols are shown on the map as large grey circles, just like in the base game of Elden Ring. To access them, you’ll need a Stonesword Key. You can usually find these in large chests inside the Forts marked on the map (the small forts with a miniboss in them, not the big castle in the center of the map). After finishing all 8 Expeditions you can also go to Small Jar Bazaar and buy the relic “Grand Burning Scene”, it makes you start each match with a Stonesword Key in the inventory.

One method is to use all Gaols during a match and hope to find the one that counts as the “Oldest”. This can’t be seen beforehand, the “Oldest” looks the same as any other regular Gaol. If you keep using Gaols as you play through all Expeditions you may get it naturally.

There is a predictable way to trigger the Oldest Gaol, here’s how it works: each Expedition has a pool of 20-30 possible map layouts which spawn different types of camps and gaols in different locations. The game isn’t truly procedurally generated, it just picks one layout from a range of predetermined possibilities. You can use this to your advantage by restarting a specific Expedition over and over again until you get the specific map layout where the oldest gaol is confirmed to spawn. Then the location is predictable. It’s important you match the EXPEDITION + MAP LAYOUT. Since the possible map layouts are different for each expedition, you’d not get the needed map on another Expedition. It’s also important you don’t have other Shifting Earths active, you’ll want to match our example maps exactly. Note that the oldest gaols can absolutely trigger on other map layouts/expeditions too, below are just some of many map layouts where the Oldest Gaol is guaranteed to trigger, so simply restart expedition until your map matches. It’s best to check the camps in the bottom right corner to quickly compare against your game. If you get a different map, quit the expedition and retry.

Confirmed Oldest Gaol Map Layout #1 – Expedition 1: Tricephalos

Confirmed Oldest Gaol Map Layout #2 – Expedition 6: Darkdrift Knight

Confirmed Oldest Gaol Map Layout #3 – Expedition 8: Night Aspect

If you find a legendary item (even higher rarity), it also counts toward the requirement. Don’t equip a Stonesword Key in the item slot, it doesn’t count for the trophy and might cause the trophy to not unlock. You can find purple items in various ways: from Sorcerer’s Rise as loot drops, or by buying them from merchants. Purple weapons can come from any source, mainly as rewards from bosses and from the red corpses of fallen players.

If playing in a team, you can have other players drop you their purple items too. Likewise, you can drop your full inventory of purple gear to other players, then everyone can trade the trophy to each other. With random teammates this would be hard to coordinate, so it’s better to play with a dedicated team and focus specifically on this. Then you can communicate who got purple loot and give it all to one player.

Fell Omen Raid Location – during Expedition #3: Sentient Pest – spawns on Day 1 shortly after the first circle closes, roughly 15 minutes into the match – he doesn’t have a fixed location and will drop in wherever you are (restart this same Expedition until you get this same map layout):

Fell Omen Raid: When you get the Fell Omen raid, the Fell Omen boss will appear close to you. Once Fell Omen shows up, you have only a short time to defeat it. If you take too long to defeat it, Fell Omen will flee and give you a negative buff that causes you to take increased damage for the rest of the run. Also, the raid immediately fails if you die during the fight.

Even if you just play the game normally without matching maps, odds are high you’ll complete a few of the raid trophies naturally while playing through all expeditions.

Sentient Pest Raid Location – during Expedition #4: Augur – On Day 1 during first circle closing (restart this same Expedition until you get this same map layout):

Sentient Pest Raid: When you get the Sentient Pest raid, flying insects spawn everywhere, forming a tornado that attacks you. Each hit causes you to lose a whole level. When the raid begins, it’s important to dodge the attacks. At the same time, keep looking up at the sky. The insects always fly toward the boss, so watch their direction closely and follow the insects. Once you get close, you need to kill the moth miniboss. This not only helps you earn the trophy but also lets you regain the levels you lost.

Even if you just play the game normally without matching maps, odds are high you’ll complete a few of the raid trophies naturally while playing through all expeditions.

Augur Raid Location – during Expedition #3: Sentient Pest – on Day 2 (restart this same Expedition until you get this same map layout):

Augur Raid: When you get the Augur raid, a large blue bubble will appear. Normally, the bubble pulls you into the boss fight automatically. If your co-op partners are too far away, they have to enter the bubble which is marked on the map as a red area. The Augur raid is one of the easier ones, since Augur doesn’t really pose much of a threat during the raid itself. To get the trophy, you have to defeat Augur inside the bubble. Just be aware that this raid can also trigger once the zone starts shrinking. If you die, the raid fails.

Even if you just play the game normally without matching maps, odds are high you’ll complete a few of the raid trophies naturally while playing through all expeditions.

Equilibrious Beast Raid Location – during Expedition #8: Night Aspect – on Day 2 (restart this same Expedition until you get this same map layout):

Equilibrious Beast Raid: When you get the Equilibrious Beast raid, you’ll be hit with a debuff. This curse cuts your health in half. To break the curse, you need to find the special merchant that appears during the event. The merchant’s location is marked on the map by a red highlight when it spawns. You’ll have to pay a large amount of runes to lift the curse, the exact price depends on how late into the match it is (ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 runes). Only one player in the group needs to pay. Once the payment is made, everyone will receive the trophy. After that, you can also buy additional buffs from the special merchant if you like. DON’T attack the merchant as it will trigger a boss fight and doesn’t give the trophy that way.

Even if you just play the game normally without matching maps, odds are high you’ll complete a few of the raid trophies naturally while playing through all expeditions.

Simply back up your Save to PS+ Cloud after each successful Expedition (or to USB if playing PS4 version). If you fail an Expedition, download your save from the Cloud. Since all progress is stored on your local save and not through online servers, this works to reset your progress to the last successfully finished Expedition and erases the failed attempt. Just remember to do it after every failed Expedition until you get this trophy.

Playing with randoms through matchmaking makes this extremely daunting because you are reliant on their skill level. If you get matched with bad players or quitters they will drag you down with them. It’s better to have a dedicated group of skilled players for this. You can set a multiplayer password to always be matched to your group, or use the friend invite function.

Remember that it won’t count if repeating the same Expedition 3 times in a row. The trophy is specifically for 3 different ones, which makes it even harder since you need to adjust to the different boss movesets. If you work on it from the start, you can do it while playing through all 8 Expeditions without needing to replay anything later.