Best Wylder Build in Elden Ring Nightreign

Wylder is the generalist of the Elden Ring Nightreign roster. His penchant for martial weapons places him in the middle of the pack, with him being capable of wielding all sorts melee weapons as well as ranged weapons that don’t rely on magic. Wylder is perfect for beginners, and he embodies the typical Quality Build character commonly found in other Souls games.

This guide covers the best weapons, relics, and passives players can use while playing as Wylder in order to maximize their chances of success during a Nightreign Expedition. You might not be able to get a perfect build everytime, but once you know the best things you can get for Wylder, future runs should feel a lot easier.

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Best Weapons for Wylder in Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign Grafted Blade Greatsword sparring grounds

Wylder excels in upfront melee combat. He can’t spam Weapon Arts as much as Duchess, nor can he tank hits like Guardian or Raider, but he makes up for this with his expertise on almost every melee weapon available. This is mostly thanks to his high Strength and Dexterity stats as well as his generous health and stamina pools.

While playing Wylder, keep an eye out for the following:

Best Wylder Weapons in Nightreign
Any Elemental Greatsword	Any greatsword imbued with an element that your Nightlord is weak against is going to be a great weapon from start to finish. Make sure to upgrade them at a Merchant’s camp so they don’t fall off lategame.
Eleonora’s Poleblade	Wylder may not have as much Arcane as Executor, but he can still make excellent use of Eleonora’s Poleblade. It deals Fire damage with its hits, and it builds up Blood Loss too, making it great for everything in the game that isn’t immune to the latter.
Grafted Blade Greatsword	The legendary Grafted Greatsword is an excellent pick thanks to its Weapon Art: Oath of Vengeance, which temporarily increases all your attributes (and Poise). Use the Weapon Art, and go ham.
Sacred Relic Sword	This legendary weapon solves one of Wylder’s biggest weaknesses: lack of ranged options. Charged attacks with the Sacred Relic Sword launches a wave of holy energy, and its Wave of Gold Weapon Art lets Wylder take out large groups of enemies at once.
Blasphemous Blade	If you’re going for a Fire-based build, then the Blasphemous Blade is one of the best legendary weapon options you can get. It scales very well with Wylder’s stats, and it also gives him a ranged attack that’s great for fighting bosses.

Given Wylder’s A and B scaling for Strength and Dexterity respectively, he can be effective with pretty much every melee weapon, albeit with a bias towards two-handed weapons like greatswords, great hammers, and two-handed curved swords. He’ll be effective with pretty much anything that isn’t magical.

Given Wylder’s flexibility with weapons, players should be more worried about Weapon Arts and item bonuses. For Weapon Arts, keep an eye out for the following:

Lion’s Claw: Excellent mobility skill that deals good damage. It also has a high chance of staggering targets.
Vacuum Slicer: Slice the wind with your weapon and launch a damaging projectile at targets.
Corpse Wax Cutter: Same as Vacuum Slicer, but deals Fire damage.
Sacred Blade: Yet another ranged Weapon Art, but this one deals Holy damage.

Best Wylder Build Weapon Passives

Elden Ring Nightreign Weapon Passive HP Recovery

Players can store up to six weapons in their inventory, and just by having gear in your vacant slots, you’ll be able to reap the benefits of the Weapon Passives that they have. With that said, make sure to collect weapons that have passives that synergize with the build you’re going for.

The following passives are generally great for Wylder:

Improved Attack Power When Two-Handing
Improved Attack Power When Wielding Two Weapons
Improved Damage Negation At Full HP
Successive Attacks Negate Damage
Successful Guarding Ups Dmg Negation
Improved Guarding Ability
Improved Jumping Attacks
Defeating Enemies Restores HP
Taking Damage Boosts Damage Negation

Best Wylder Boss Passives

Elden Ring Nightreign Evergaol Boss reward

When you defeat bosses in Nightreign, you have a chance to get powerful passive effects. Some of these can greatly improve Wylder’s overall effectiveness, especially if it synergizes with any of the passives mentioned above. Keep an eye out for these boss passives after you beat a boss while playing as Wylder:

Successive Attacks Restore HP
Improved Dodging
Improved Flask HP Recovery
Improved Poise
Improved Stance-Breaking
Increased Rune Acquisition
Lightning upon Dodging
Periodical Giant Glintblade
Wending Grace

These are mostly self-explanatory. However, it’s worth pointing out that Wylder is very good at breaking stances, which is why we take the Improved Poise and Improved Stance-Breaking passives. This combo is especially good at rushing formidable foes/field bosses during the day.

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Best Relics for Wylder in Nightreign

There are tons of possible Relic combinations for Wylder in Nightreign, and if you want to be at your most powerful, you need to pick ones that give the best benefits. Keep an eye out for the following while on an Expedition:

Improved Greatsword Attack Power
- Increases the damage dealt by all Greatswords, including your default weapon.
Increased Rune Acquisition
- Sweet and simple boost to Rune Acquisition to speed-up the leveling process.
Stamina recovers with each successful attack
- You’ll be swinging your weapons a lot, so it’s best to have some way to better manage your stamina.
Starting Armament deals [x] damage
- Good for boosting early game damage.
[Element] Attack Power Up
- Go with whatever element you chose for the bonus above, or use whatever the Nightlord’s weakness is.
[Wylder] Follow-up attacks possible when using Character Skill (Greatsword only)
- When equipped and using a Greatsword, Wylder will perform a lunging strike (press L1/LT/LMB) after using his Skill. Temporarily adds Fire damage to your weapon. Does not work with Colossal Swords.
Changes compatible Armament’s skill to (skill) at the start of Expedition
- Anything that can give Wylder a ranged Weapon Art is good.
Wylder’s Earrings
- Regain stamina on successful attacks, Skill gains +1 Charge, and Art sets areas on fire.
- Gained by defeating the final boss.

If you don’t have any of these Relics, you can’t go wrong with ones that boost your stats. Relics that give you consumables or give bonus stats after using consumables are also great.