Top Elden Ring Nightreign Undertaker Character Build Guide

The Undertaker class in Elden Ring Nightreign offers a unique blend of strength and faith, showcasing formidable combat skills with hammers. Despite her unassuming appearance, she excels as a melee fighter and harnesses some of the game’s most powerful Incantations due to her impressive stat scaling. The Undertaker also boasts exceptional mobility and utility, making her an asset in combat. However, mastering this class requires an effective build and a clear understanding of her abilities. Below, we present a comprehensive build that capitalizes on the Undertaker’s strengths.

Undertaker Abilities Overview

Elden Ring Nightreign Undertaker Enhanced Trance active — Active State of Enhanced Trance for the Undertaker

Class Ability	Trance: Increases damage output, attack speed, defense, and running speed. Changes dodge roll into a dodge step. Enhanced Trance: When the Ultimate Art Gauge is fully charged, holding the ability button improves Trance effects significantly, allowing automatic dodging of attacks during activation.
Ultimate Art	Loathsome Hex: A swift move towards a target delivering substantial damage.
Passive	Confluence: Allies’ use of their Ultimate Art grants you a temporary free use of your own Ultimate.
Weapon Preference	Hammers: The Undertaker utilizes a distinct moveset tailored for one-handed hammers.
Stat Scaling	Strength: A Dexterity: D Intelligence: D Faith: A Arcane: C

One of the standout features of the Undertaker is her Confluence passive ability. Whenever an ally—or even an enemy—executes their Ultimate, it triggers a brief window where you can unleash your own Ultimate Art without cost. Be proactive after triggering Confluence; utilize Loathsome Hex or Enhanced Trance to maximize your damage potential.

In challenging encounters, prioritizing Enhanced Trance is typically advantageous. While it consumes your Ultimate charge, the high frequency of Ultimate uses in these demanding situations often mitigates concerns about ability management.

Useful Tips for Undertaker Abilities

Landing four hits during Trance activates a damage boost, with hits on multiple enemies counting towards this.
Loathsome Hex is excellent for interrupting bosses, giving you a tactical edge.
Utilizing Trance restores your stamina completely, allowing for relentless assaults.

Optimal Use of Enhanced Trance and Loathsome Hex

The Undertaker’s flexible playstyle in using Ultimate Art opens various strategic choices during combat. Based on our gameplay experience, Enhanced Trance tends to provide greater benefits against formidable opponents, including bosses and large groups of enemies. In contrast, Loathsome Hex serves as a powerful strike or a means to revive fallen teammates.

We recommend focusing on Enhanced Trance while leveraging Loathsome Hex strategically through the free charges provided by Confluence. However, if you find allies frequently falling or recognize opportunities to disrupt a boss’s attack pattern, shift your focus to using Loathsome Hex instead.

Top Weapons for the Undertaker Class

Elden Ring Nightreign Undertaker with Marika's Hammer — Undertaker wielding Marika’s Hammer

Selecting hammers for the Undertaker class is crucial for enhancing combat effectiveness:

The Undertaker’s quick hammer moveset features broad sweeps and powerful vertical strikes, ideal for crowd control.
Hammers have strong scaling with both Strength and Faith, maximizing damage output.

Marika’s Hammer is the premier legendary weapon for the Undertaker, providing excellent scaling in both Strength and Faith. Its ability to deal significant Holy damage, particularly when paired with its Ash of War, makes it a top choice against foes resistant to Holy attacks, such as Gladius/Tricephalos.

For players unable to obtain Marika’s Hammer, the default Undertaker’s Hammer is a robust alternative, especially when fully upgraded. This weapon complements various Relic Rites, enhancing build flexibility.

Given the swift attack speed of the Undertaker, she serves as an excellent candidate for status-inflicting builds.

Optimal Relic Rites for the Undertaker

Elden Ring Nightreign Great Red Bear Boss — Great Red Bear Boss Encounter

There are several effective setups for Relic Rites that can enhance the Undertaker’s performance. We highlight two configurations focused on boosting personal combat and one aimed at supporting Incantations.

Due to the unpredictable nature of Relics in Nightreign, we will outline the stats rather than specific Relics when applicable.

Status Hammer Build

Night of Dregs (Red)
Dark Night of Miasma (Green)
Night of the Wise

This build employs three Relics sourced from Nightlords, including the Dreglord and Everdark Caligo.This combo enables your Undertaker’s Hammer to inflict Scarlet Rot, Frostbite, and Poison with each strike, enhancing effectiveness against most enemies. You may opt for other Relics offering similar effects, but these specific Nightlord relics confer additional benefits, such as:

HP recovery when near enemies suffering from Scarlet Rot.
Improved physical damage negation.
Increased attack strength when near enemies afflicted by Scarlet Rot and Poison.

Undertaker’s specialized hammer skills synergize excellently with status builds, especially when benefitting from the attack speed buff granted by Trance.

Trance Spam Build

Elden Ring Nightreign Undertaker unique relic effects — Unique Effects of Undertaker’s Relics

[Undertaker] Executing Art Readies Character Skill
Stamina recovers with each successful hit
Strength +3

This build focuses on maximizing the uptime of Trance. By equipping a Relic that resets its cooldown upon using your Ultimate Art, you can achieve consecutive uses of Trance, effectively extending its benefits in combat.

Although it’s challenging to maintain Enhanced Trance due to its consumption of the Ultimate Art gauge, timing your Confluence triggers alongside Trance activations can increase its cast frequency.

With on-hit stamina recovery incorporated into this strategy, you’ll maintain aggression without exhausting your stamina, enabling seamless combos while benefiting from the interruptive capabilities of Loathsome Hex.

Incantation Build

Leather Monocle Case
Dark Night of the Wise
Will of the Balancers

The Leather Monocle Case rewards players who complete the Undertaker’s Remembrance quest, enhancing the duration of spells while boosting physical attack damage, particularly when buffed by an Incantation.

Dark Night of the Wise, which players obtain by defeating the Everdark Sentient Pest in Nightreign, significantly increases FP and restores FP on consecutive hits.Will of the Balancers improves melee attack power while continuously regenerating FP.

This configuration empowers you to utilize Incantations liberally while reinforcing your attack power. We recommend focusing on self-buffing Incantations, such as Golden Vow, though offensive spells like Order’s Blade remain effective as well. Ensure you equip a solid Seal to complement this build’s efficacy.

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