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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last weekend I went and saw Buddy The whole ride home and the following day I couldn’t shut up talking to my wife, who goes by Chuckles on the interwebs, about it She saw it with me and I don’t think Buddy had the same impact for her as me lol

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Bigger Star Biggie Huge Built to Flood Arcade Bonfire

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New #nightreign carrying sorceries build for a slicer/piercer duchess with imbued bleed and chilling mist skill for double status for early game damage Damage late game gets reasonably crazy

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Magic scholar build focused around the wraith calling bell. Rolled base relic slot 2 today and had gotten base game relic slot 3 earlier this week #nightreign #scholar

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

ArcRaider cosplaying as a valiant gargoyle in nightreign. Slowly becoming my new favorite way to play Raider. Mainly because a fully charged r2 will proc SAND and dmg neg on charge and it helps Raider has the poise to pull it off

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Listening to the Bruce Springsteen album Born In The U.S.A. to have a pop culture history lesson concerning the neo-liberal deterioration of this country #4thOfJuly

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

unexplained elements of fromsoftware games, despite the dark fantasy settings, always have an edge of cosmic horror acting the in the background of all machinations transpiring. Some games, namely bloodborne and Elden ring, make these eldritch forces incredibly present #fromsoftware #cosmichorror

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

When you steel guard through an ED Maris 🌊 in depth 5 with guardian and survive #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My current scholar relic setup in #nightreign Recently discovered that the tandem of scholar and iron eye is absolutely 🐐 when both have defeating enemies charges ult +0 and +1. You go to a POI and basically ult and then ult again. The early game into late game steamrolls

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Reached 200 win streak in d5 #nightreign 170 more to surpass the highest streak I know of 😂

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Last 100 wins at d5 in #nightreign of a current 150 game win streak

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Made it happen. 100 game win streak at D5, trios, no quit outs. Played primarily Raider and Duchess with an occasional Guardian; nightfarer selection and relic loadout was nightlord dependent. Final match ended up being normal bug on a great hollows map #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Depth 5 exclusive, no quit out, trios only, streak ended last night at 70 wins in a row #nightreign #eldenring #eldenringnightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Finally hit the 50 game win streak, exclusively in D5, no quit outs, playing primarily Raider and Duchess #duchess #raider #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Tanking Artorias’s grab with Raider in D5. The amount of yellow damage done is virtually none #nightreign #raider

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My Raider relics primary loadout I’ve been using in d5 #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Did get a normal Adel and an ED gladius amid the DLC content #nightreign #balancers #dreglord #raider

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It’s completely broken. Heolstor aka everdark wylder, didn’t even get his first nuke off the fight went that fast #nightreign #haloslop #L2spam

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sacred seal duchess build with frenzy flame and fire attack on the relics goes hard. Add the stacks of passives and god tier talisman drops from throughout the run and animus never made it out of faurtis 🐞. Our pot scholar went hard too (depth 5) #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Dmg negation passives and talisman for facetanking Mohg in depth 5; it ended up being normal balancers #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In depths, crater doesn’t allow you to upgrade red weapons, which is fine. What it should do is remove the negative passive #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Yeah. The run was kind of goated. Had a 40 charge, a 60 successive, a 32 full, and a 36 n 28 taking dmg. Pair that with the +2 post dmg negation and you can stand and trade with virtually any enemy Raider get chowed upon in depth 5 #nightreign and surviving

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

12281 damage from a mark, parry n reposte, and two shattering crystal casts. Overdamage is a real thing. Gaols work. Night invaders work. Shattering crystal works #nightreign less likely works. Oh yea, this is d5 too

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

think my new favorite trio in d5 #nightreign is max hp colossal Raider tank, claw melee iron eye w/ mark n status, and me rocking dps duchess Load max hp Raider up w taking dmg dmg neg, charge attack dmg neg, and successive dmg neg w bloodborne rally +2 and he rules, retaliating blow for blow

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

D5 ED Balancer win. No downs. No flasks used Here is how to do it Run away. Have two less likelys. Have someone who can parry. Rinse and repeat. Make sure to overdamage during the crit and once the balancer is falling before running again

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Don’t use periodical glintblades against ED balancers #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ED Balancers benefits from a wylder who can parry and is running a crit build. Yeah, two less likely’s make it a gimme, but one can suffice. Whoever the dps is, recluse/duchess/revenant needs to know they can cast multiple times to over damage. Like 3 shattering crystals. Easy 6k+ dps #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Using VC via discord for #nightreign completely validates the evergaol meta as being superior to balancers for a team wide damage buff on all attacks, not L2 spam n rng Evergaol meta is reliant on a nightreign specific skill set to pull off: deliberate routing w fast n efficient clears

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Guard counter Guardian is legit against depth 4/5 Artorias and AoW Guardian does well enough against Greg Doesn’t do slicer Duchess damage but it sure lets our girl cook by holding onto aggro #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Shoutout to Gwyn, Doris, and Roberto (and probably others) who went thru the forsaken hollows over and over again to pinpoint seal and stave checks in the castles. Think this is an ongoing project too, but it is super solid docs.google.com/document/d/1... #nightreign #forsakenhollows

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Seals and Staves

Hello friends, welcome to what may or may not be a comprehensive list of seal and stave drop locations in the new Nightreign DLC map. It’s really not that bad, I promise! The Revenants are starving, a...

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Duchess Greg n Artorias tip: u can run attack power up when defeating enemies on ult use (include defeating enemies increases ult charge too) for both fights, when artorias lands and kills the hollows and Greg does meatball mountain, each instance creates a moment for a monster dps buff #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

the ice storm during the Caligo raid will not hit you if you are flying on a bird On the ground, take cover against a wall, mountainside, or some large structure #nightreign #caligo #forsakenhollows

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

ED balancers strat: prioritize a less likely on your highest dps teammates. Then the tank will be targeted (wylder/guardian/executor). Run away to 7 o’clock to isolate, as the balancer heat seeks the tank, the other two melt the HP, basically one shot n done. Rinse n repeat. Works in d5 #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Carian piercer is mauls Dreglord Got him D5 today and achieved victory. Piercer does nice stance damage and Greg’s clear windows to cast and charge allow for yellow chunks to be dealt Word to the wise, don’t run towers in depths, castles are squishier w more dormants #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

First time running into Balancers in D5. Harmonica is chill. But the Lord of Blood got absolutely zilch in the chill department. That guys wide swinging hitboxes are an issue, for now. More runs and it’ll become as easy as Nameless King #nightreign #balancers #harmonia

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sooo… There is a Caligo Forsaken Hollows seed in DoN where the night 2 bosses are Dancer into Nameless King Y’all know the FromSoft team was giggling like school kids making that decision We won at depth 5 but heck that was a sweat #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Me and the discord homies just did 3 DoN 5 runs Team comp: iron eye, recluse n duchess Happy to report the evergaol+invader meta is OP Heolstor dead before he went in the air to nuke again Adel dead in 40 seconds ED Libra (no boss info!) slain. When u dont know, less likely always 😉 (we had 2)

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Beating an everdark boss in #nightreign with scholar and undertaker, each separately, will make three more relics available for purchase at the collector signboard. So me and the pals slapped on the balancers relic and took down ED auger with all that skill attack power buff

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My buddy got an awesome view of me playing Duchess dodging Dancer’s spin-to-win attack at depth 5 #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Damage negation at low hp Raider against Libra got a 48% to drop from Astel in nok and then my vc teammates duped it for me. Used a briar spell before the boss. Also had a taking damage boost damage negation with the vykes. Here are a portion of the results #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Is that the skill or the ultimate?! #nightreign Because if you can coordinate that with an iron eye ult, just envisioning the type of numbers that can be dealt to the Daryl adula’s and beastly brigade gaols, let alone how it can trivialize the condemned in Ed Libra youtu.be/vIUORnIS_ug?...

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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN The Forsaken Hollows | Scholar Character Trailer

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes, I managed to get both the blasphemous and the moonlight to drop in a single run #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

One of the biggest reasons I got to d5 and 9999 came from joining this #nightreign discord community discord.gg/2Dr3EPknz Anyone who wants to be around people really in to nightreign, and pretty darn good at the game, this is the place

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Clearing 6 evergaols, both invader camp POIs, and the demon’s curse buff leads to some insane damage at depth 5 Video is from the iron eye perspective, but I’m the duchess with a lot of the slicing chunking yellows with my trusty wylder partner

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Want to have better staves drop at forts for early game? Better bows from the tower racks? Horde silver pickle foots and pop them before opening. Helps increase the blue instead of the white Simple n easy way to get early game rolling #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When fighting Gnoster, everdark or normal, it is paramount that people on the team don’t have less likely to be targeted on, especially the nightfarer (most likely iron eye) on moth duty. You can get away with one player (recluse or duchess) having it if they are damaging faurtis #nightreign

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Earnest_Knuckle @earnest-knuckle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Fighting Sentient Pest or Caligo in DoN in Nightreign? Put a dormant power helps discover great hammers on a nightfarer and drastically increase your odds of a Candlestand dropping; believe it is 1 of 3 purples in the category #nightreign #eldenring #nightfarer #fromsoft #caligo #gnoster

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