Stepping into the shifting lands of Limveld with your two best Nightfarer buddies should feel thrilling—not like a chaotic scramble for survival. Yet many squads in Elden Ring: Nightreign hit a brutal wall early on. It’s not because they can’t dodge, parry, or punish. It’s because they aren’t building intentionally.
Nightreign’s toughest challenges—especially Nightlords—aren’t designed for three lone wolves. They’re designed for coordinated loadouts, built through the game’s new co-op backbone: the Relic System.
If you’ve been equipping whatever semi-decent relic drops into your bag, you’re unintentionally handicapping your entire squad. The true power spike comes from treating relics like custom presets, planning your team’s roles, and syncing your builds before you even step through the fog.
This guide explains exactly how to do that—turning random relics into a deadly, coordinated formula your squad will feel immediately.
⭐ What the Relic System Actually Is (and Why It Replaces Traditional Builds)
Relics are the backbone of long-term progression in Nightreign. They are permanent, equippable items that grant powerful passive effects every time your squad begins an expedition—effectively your “build identity” in co-op.
But the real twist is in how they’re equipped.
🔶 Color-Coded Relic Slots
Each Nightfarer has three relic slots, and each slot has a fixed color:
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Red
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Yellow
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Blue
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Green
A relic can only be equipped into a slot of the same color. This ruleset prevents you from stacking multiple high-impact relics unless your slot configuration allows it.
🔷 Enter Vessels: Your Customizable Loadout Frames
Your slots aren’t fixed forever. You can replace them using Vessels such as Goblets or Grails purchased from the Small Jar Bazaar. Each Vessel comes with a different slot layout, allowing you to tailor your relic colors to your intended build.
This combination—relic effects + vessel slot choices—is what creates your “preset” loadouts. Nightreign doesn’t have a preset-saving button, but Vessels are your presets.
Switching Vessels between expeditions = switching builds instantly.
🎯 How to Build Effective Presets: Assigning Squad Roles
To stop playing randomly and start optimizing, your squad needs defined roles. Each role benefits from specific relic types, slot colors, and synergies.
Here’s the breakdown:
| Squad Role | Primary Focus | Relic Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Tank (Guardian, Raider) | Survivability & Aggro | Knight of the Fathom (heal team), increased negation, guard counter boosts |
| Damage Dealer (Executor, Wylder) | Burst & sustained DPS | Dark Night of the Beast (damage buffs), physical/magic boosts, crit enhancers |
| Support (Recluse, Scholar) | Team utility & buffs | Spirit Shelter Grail, cooldown reduction, flask duration, aura buffs |
Every role becomes dramatically stronger when your relic setup is built intentionally, not randomly.
🔥 Advanced Synergy: Turning 3 Players Into 1 Powerhouse
This is where elite squads separate themselves from casual ones.
1. Stacking Identical Relics for Massive Gains
Certain relics scale exponentially with more users.
Example:
Knight of the Fathom on all three players → one flask heal triggers a full- squad AOE heal three times over.
This dramatically increases party survivability—especially in Nightlord fights.
2. Covering Slot Color Limitations
Since relics depend on matching-color slots, your group should coordinate:
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Which relics are absolutely essential?
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Which Nightfarer has Vessels compatible with those relics?
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Who adjusts their Vessel to cover missing colors?
This prevents situations where “the best relic for our comp” sits unusable in someone’s inventory.
3. Unique Remembrance Relics
Nightfarer-exclusive relics are obtained from each character’s Remembrance questline and often pair perfectly with their moveset.
Your core relics should prioritize:
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Your unique Remembrance relic
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One synergy relic
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One stat/utility relic that complements your role
This creates clean, consistent loadouts instead of messy, mismatched relic piles.
🧭 Your 5-Step Squad Optimization Blueprint
Here’s your practical preparation cycle before every expedition:
1️⃣ Define Your Squad Roles
Decide who plays:
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Tank
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Damage
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Support
Pick what fits playstyle—not just meta trends.
2️⃣ Select your Core Relics
Choose the 1–2 essential relics per role—usually:
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Your Remembrance relic
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Your synergy relic (Tank heal aura, DPS buff, Support utility)
These define your role identity.
3️⃣ Acquire Correct Vessels
Buy/select Vessels that match the colors required for your core relics.
If your DPS needs a Red slot for their key relic, they must have a Vessel that enables it.
4️⃣ Fill Remaining Slots
Use leftover slot colors to add:
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Stat boosters (Vigor, Str, Dex, Mind)
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Flask upgrades
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Cooldown reduction
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Secondary synergistic relics
This is where you fine-tune.
5️⃣ Communicate, Finalize, Adapt
Before starting the expedition:
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Share your loadouts quickly
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Adjust relics based on which Nightlord you’re facing
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Equip damage-type boosters tailored to boss weaknesses
This 30 seconds of communication wins hours of progress.
🛡️ Why This System Matters
Mastering relics is what separates:
A squad that survives,
from
A squad that dominates.
It turns Nightreign’s toughest co-op challenges into strategic puzzles solved through preparation, not panic. By treating relics as loadouts, choosing Vessels intentionally, and syncing roles with your team, you effectively merge three players into one coordinated engine of destruction.
Equip smart. Build intentionally. Step into the night not as individuals—but as a unified force built to conquer.
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