Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows Guide | How to Play Scholar

When you take on the role of the Scholar Nightfarer, you enter an expedition as a support unit that relies on Arcane. The character’s condition causes rapid aging, and this affects attribute growth, but the S-scaling in Arcane supports a playstyle centered on status buildup and item use. 

Because Blood Loss works with Arcane scaling, using a thrusting sword that causes this effect gives you a solid start to every expedition. You should keep your distance, help your teammates, and create opportunities by building status and using consumables in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

Weapon and Abilities

Your weapon of choice is the Thrusting Sword, as it works with Arcane-based Blood Loss.

Your Skill, Analyse, lets you observe a target through a monocle. This produces lingering spirit symbols that influence buffs or debuffs. 

You can examine yourself or an enemy, which exposes you for a short time. Once the analysis is complete, you can place buffs or debuffs on several targets, so apply it to more than one whenever possible.

Your Passive Ability, Bagcraft, expands your inventory limits and raises item levels through use. Each consumed item upgrades all items of the same type for the remainder of the run. These upgrades occur twice per item type. For instance, using a Fire Pot twice raises all Pot-type items to level 2.

Your Ultimate Art, Communion, releases pages from a forbidden tome. These pages link enemies into a thread. When damage is applied to one threaded target, all linked enemies receive the same damage, and any linked allies recover health.

Your stat spread contains lower scaling in Dexterity, Faith, and Intelligence, all at C-level, and Strength at D-level. HP, FP, and Stamina rise at B-scaling and give you room for support actions during longer encounters.

Use the Scholar

You play a character who helps a group by giving them status boosts, consumables, and Analyse effects in fights. Items affect expeditions, and Bagcraft makes you use them a lot.

You should avoid confrontation in the same way a Revenant or Recluse would avoid pressure. Remaining at a distance lets you maintain buffs, debuffs, and status effects without drawing attention.

Bagcraft changes how you manage items. You begin each expedition with larger item stacks, such as four Fire Pots instead of two. Using consumables early upgrades the entire item type, and upgrading them twice gives them more potent or additional effects for the rest of the run. 

This encourages you to apply status buildup through consumables while attacking from range with a status-focused weapon.

Arcane increases item discovery, so you gather more consumables than most Nightfarers. This works well with Ironeye, whose passive improves item discovery for the entire team. Together, you create consistent supply flows for consumables throughout an expedition.

You stay distant during boss encounters and use upgraded consumables or status buildup to contribute damage. Against groups, Communion becomes essential in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

By threading several enemies, your teammates can damage them together while allies gain healing through the thread. Solo encounters offer fewer ways to apply your kit, so you rely more heavily on consumables during these fights.

The Scholar does not perform well in solo expeditions. Other Nightfarers deliver steady damage without relying on external support. Your performance rises when you stand beside allies who benefit from buffs, debuffs, and Communion. 

Encounters involving enemy groups or Nightlords that summon additional targets give you more opportunities to support through repeated status buildup.

Best Teammates for Scholar

You work well with Ironeye, whose Eagle Eye Ability creates more item opportunities. This ensures you always have consumables available for Bagcraft upgrades and status support. Because both of you fight at range, you should bring a melee Nightfarer such as Raider or Wylder to hold aggression away from the backline.

The Duchess also fits into your team structure. Her Restage Ability repeats the previous few seconds of status buildup or damage in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

This supports your approach to consistent status application. Her Finale Ultimate Art creates invisibility for her and her allies, which helps you avoid attention while you apply Analyse effects.

Nightfarers with multi-target tools also pair well with you. Recluse with Magic Cocktail or Guardian with Whirlwind helps you use Analyse and Communion across several targets. Threading enemies with Communion, then following it with their multi-target action, clearing enemy groups while healing any allies within the thread.

Best Relics and Passives

Several Relics and passive effects from Limveld provide reliable support for the Scholar and help with upcoming Nightlord encounters in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

The Night of the Wise Relic raises Maximum FP, causes your starting armament to inflict Poison, and increases attack power when Poison or Rot is nearby. You obtain this Relic by defeating the Sentient Pest.

The Night of the Fathom Relic increases Maximum HP, allows your Flask to heal nearby allies, and makes items apply effects to teammates around you. This Relic comes from defeating Augur.

A Scholar-exclusive Relic effect grants allies targeted by your Skill a boost to their attack power, adding to the existing benefits of Analyse.

Other passive effects support your run. Some armaments begin with Poison or Blood Loss from the start of an expedition. Attack power increases when you face Poison- or Rot-affected enemies in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

Your Flask can transfer healing to allies. Items can share their effects with allies nearby when consumed, which works with your upgraded consumables.

Relics can also raise Arcane by three points or give you a selected consumable at the start of an expedition, allowing early Bagcraft upgrades. Some weapons increase attack power when Blood Loss, Poison, or Rot is present nearby.

Improved physical damage negation gives you more room to survive, and effects that make you less likely to be targeted support you while you cast Analyse in Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows.

Weapons found in Limveld may also inflict Blood Loss, Poison, or Rot on hit, which supports your Arcane-focused playstyle.

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