Elden Ring Nightreign - Raider Class Hands-On Impressions - IGN First

One of the large things astir Elden Ring has ever been the diverseness of playstyles it enables, and 1 of my favourite playstyles is loading up connected Strength, grabbing the largest limb I tin find, and crushing foes with posture-breaking jumping attacks and charged-up dense strikes. If that’s you too, past let maine to present you to the Raider successful Nightreign (see the video below).

While the Guardian — the different large burly people with tons of wellness and an affinity for large weapons — is much focused connected defence with a shield arsenic a starter limb and an eventual quality that tin mitigate harm for the full enactment for an extended play of time, the Raider is designed arsenic an implicit violative powerhouse.

The astir important quality of the Raider is Retaliate, which initially whitethorn not look similar a precise beardown accomplishment connected its ain — it’s conscionable 2 stomps that woody a spot of carnal and poise damage. But the existent magic is that acknowledgment to the Raider’s passive, helium cannot beryllium knocked down portion doing Retaliate. This means that the Raider fundamentally has a escaped damage-soaking method that volition fto you wholly armor done beauteous overmuch immoderate force oregon brag attack, with the added bonus of that anemic 2nd stomp getting replaced by an highly almighty punch that volition stagger adjacent the largest enemies, if you negociate to sorb an onslaught that would’ve done a important magnitude of damage.

Then determination is the Raider’s ultimate, Totem Stela, which has him slamming the crushed and causing a ample totem to erupt, dealing large harm to thing astir it. Like each of the different Ultimates successful Nightreign, this is an incredibly almighty method that tin change the tide of a fight. Not lone does it woody large damage, but the totem is climbable, giving some you and your teammates either a harmless spot to laic low, oregon a vantage constituent to hit. In summation to that, it also gives everyone a harm buff arsenic well, meaning it's 1 of the archetypal ults you’ll privation to coordinate utilizing truthful that the remainder of the squad tin payment from it.

The Raider starts with the Raider’s Greavtaxe, which is simply a beauteous coagulated starting limb that deals immoderate occurrence harm and has the “Endure” accomplishment affixed to it, which fundamentally gives you different mode to sorb and powerfulness done force attacks successful lawsuit Retaliate is connected cooldown. Still, you’ll decidedly privation to find a amended limb arsenic the nights get closer, and ample strength-scaling weapons are decidedly the Raider’s go-to benignant of weapon.

Of each the classes I’ve played successful Nightreign, the Raider is decidedly the 1 that I’ve had the astir amusive with. It’s the 1 that is astir well-suited for one-on-one battles, which is due due to the fact that its Remembrances (we’ll speech astir those aboriginal connected successful the month) person you warring successful one-on-one brag fights successful a benignant of gladiatorial arena, which is simply a bully alteration of pace.

That's each for our hands-on impressions of Nightreign's classes, but enactment tuned each passim the period successful extent looks astatine the mechanics of Nightreign, on with interviews with the developers, and much arsenic IGN First continues on.

Mitchell Saltzman is an editorial shaper astatine IGN. You tin find him connected twitter @JurassicRabbit