Nightreign DLC Beats SotE Difficulty
Summary
This extreme difficulty scaling sets a new, punishing benchmark for FromSoftware DLC, potentially alienating casual players while rewarding dedicated masochists.
- Extreme Difficulty Confirmed The Nightreign: Forsaken Hollows DLC is positioned as substantially harder than Elden Ring’s base game and the Shadow of the Erdtree (SotE) expansion 1.
- Quest Complexity Highlighted Specific guides are necessary for navigating DLC progression, such as the Scholar Remembrance questline within the Forsaken Hollows 2.
- Environmental Design The cluster focuses on punishing level layouts and complex encounters involving multiple formidable enemies simultaneously 1.
- 2 - Total number of articles covering the Nightreign difficulty surge [1, 2].
- N/A - No specific difficulty percentage increase was quantified in sources.
- N/A - No specific metric was cited for the Scholar Remembrance quest difficulty.
Key Moments
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Nightreign's Forsaken Hollows DLC makes Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree seem easy
— Article [1] -
Scholar remembrance quest walkthrough in Elden Ring Nightreign The Forsaken Hollows
— Article [2]
Different Perspectives
Supporting View
The narrative strongly suggests that Nightreign is calibrated far beyond the difficulty standard set by SotE.
Sources:
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