Elden Ring Nightreign Deep of Night Best Relics Tier List & Spreadsheet

In the Deep of Night mode of Elden Ring Nightreign, there are plenty of new relic perks that can be equipped to strengthen your character. Which Deep Relics are more powerful? This article will update a Deep of Night Relic tier list to pick up the best relic effects in Nightreign and a complete cheat sheet/spreadsheet with all information.

Elden Ring Nightreign Deep of Night Best Relics Tier List

Deep of Night Relics in Elden Ring Nightreign provide players with a variety of passive bonuses that can improve both offense and defense during combat. When you get a Deep Relic, its effects are randomly assigned, so you might find one that’s tailored to a specific character or one that grants general buffs like increased critical damage, better stamina recovery, or damage reduction. These Depth relics come in different rarities: the simplest Delicate relics offer one effect, Polished relics give two effects, and the rare Grand relics carry three bonuses. Some relics are unique and can only be used by certain Nightfarers, also known as character-specific perks.

S Tier Nightreign Deep of Night Relics

S Tier Deep of Night relics are the ones that really make a difference in your game. They often give you big boosts to damage or defense, work well in most fights, and help you stay alive longer. These perks usually fit many playstyles and can stack with other strong perks, which makes your Nightfarers stronger.

• Improved Guard Counters +1/2

This relic perk is especially strong for the Guardian class. The +2 version can boost damage from guard counters by 26%, and if you stack multiple of these perks, the damage increases a lot. It works really well with affinity damage reduction for a very solid build.

• Improved Physical Damage Negation +1/2

Since most enemies deal physical damage, this perk is very important for surviving. It’s reliable and makes a big difference in fights.

• Improved Affinity Damage Negation +0/1/2

This relic helps block damage from various elements and attack types. It’s often better than choosing resistances to only one element and is great for tanky builds like the Guardian.

• Art Gauge Charged from Successful Guarding +1

This one lets you fill your ultimate art gauge when you block attacks, which is really useful if you prefer playing defensively.

• Art Gauge Fills Moderately Upon Critical Hit +1

If your build focuses on critical hits, this relic helps you get your ultimate art back faster after landing those critical strikes.

• Defeating Enemies Fills More of the Art Gauge +1

Killing enemies gives you more ultimate art charge, so you can use your powerful abilities more often. This is very helpful for sustained fights.

• Attack Power Up When Facing Poison/Scarlet Rot/Frostbite-afflicted Enemy +1/2

This perk boosts your damage against enemies affected by poison, rot, or frostbite. The boost can be really high, up to 40%.

• Physical Attack Up +3/4

Boosting physical attack is a straightforward way to increase your damage, and it benefits almost any melee build.

• Improved Affinity Attack Power +0/1/2

This perk increases damage from affinity-based attacks, including weapons and spells.

• [Element] Attack Up +3/4

If your build focuses on a certain element, this perk raises that element’s damage significantly.

• Partial HP Restoration Upon Post-Damage Attacks +1/2

This is one of the best relics for staying alive. It heals you a bit after you take damage, which helps you avoid using healing items all the time.

A Tier Nightreign Deep of Night Relics

A Tier relics offer solid benefits but tends to be more situational or smaller in effect. They can help you out in certain builds or when combined with other perks, but on their own, they don’t change the game as much. Some increase your stats after you clear certain areas or boost your magic or stamina a bit. They’re useful if you find them alongside stronger perks, but you probably wouldn’t build your whole character around them.

• Arcane Increased for Each Great Enemy Defeated at a Ruin

You gain some extra Arcane after clearing ruins. It’s useful but limited because not many weapons scale with Arcane damage.

• Max Stamina Increased for Each Great Enemy Defeated at a Great Encampment

This gives you a small stamina boost, which helps if your build uses stamina a lot, but the increase is modest.

• Runes and Item Discovery Increased for Each Great Enemy Defeated at a Fort

You get a slight boost to runes and item drop rates. It’s helpful but not game-changing.

• Max HP Increased for Each Great Enemy Defeated at a Great Church

Clearing Great Churches gives you extra health. This is good for tanky builds, but it depends on luck to find and clear these places.

• Increased Maximum Stamina

A general stamina boost that’s good if your character uses stamina a lot, but it comes with some drawbacks that might cancel out the benefit.

• Physical Attack Power Increases After Using Grease Items +1/2

Using grease items temporarily raises your physical damage by 20%. It’s a solid boost but requires you to use consumables frequently.

• Improved Sorceries/Incantations +0/1/2

This boosts magic damage by up to 10%. It’s a good option if you don’t have access to affinity attack power.

• Improved [Element] Damage Negation +1/2

Elemental resistances are helpful but not as flexible as affinity damage negation.

• Improved Flask HP Restoration

Makes your healing flasks heal more, which helps you stay in the fight longer, although it’s not as strong as increasing your max HP.

B Tier Nightreign Deep of Night Relics

B Tier relics usually provide minor or very specific bonuses that don’t impact your overall performance much. Some only help with consumables you might rarely use, or they rely on conditions that don’t come up often. Others offer small healing or resistance boosts that might help a little but aren’t worth focusing on. These are generally more of a filler until you find better perks to use.

• Improved [Consumable] Damage +1/2

Increases the damage of items like throwing knives and pots, but since you can only carry a few and they don’t do much damage anyway, this perk isn’t very useful.

• HP Restored When Using Medicinal Boluses +1

Restores about 80 HP when you use boluses, but since you can only carry a few, it’s not a very impactful perk.

• [Item] in Possession at Start of Expedition

Starts you off with a specific consumable item. This is of limited value since you usually want to save these items for tough fights.

• HP Restoration Upon Thrusting Counterattack +1

Restores a small amount of HP after a successful thrusting counterattack, but those counterattacks don’t happen often enough for this to matter much.

• Sleep/Madness in Vicinity Improves Attack Power +0/+1

Gives you a damage boost if you or nearby enemies are affected by sleep or madness. This is risky and hard to rely on.

• Improved [Status] Resistance +1/2

Slightly improves resistance to status effects. Sometimes useful if combined with curses, but usually not very effective on its own.

Nightreign Deep of Night Relics Spreadsheet/Cheat Sheet