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Rory Norris

PSA: Every weapon you carry grants you its passive buff in Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign weapon passives: From left to right, a Raider, Recluse, and Ironeye pushing open the large door to the Nightlord boss. .

Fat rolling. It's the bane of any Souls player's existence—it's just too slow. By now, I think we've all been conditioned to avoid clogging up our equipment slots with unnecessary junk, but that's not a thing in Elden Ring Nightreign. Despite copying the same UI almost one-to-one from the base game, FromSoftware's quirky multiplayer spinoff makes some drastic changes under the hood and forgets to let you know.

Not only is equipment load no longer a thing—goodbye extra fast and slow dodge rolls, hello sweet, sweet medium—but Nightreign also introduces new loot tiers akin to a battle royale. If you're anything like me, you'd naturally assume that your goal is to just get one or two good weapons for your build, and that everything else you find of a lesser quality, or of a different weapon type, is useless. But that's not the case either:

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