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Elden Ring Nightreign Balancers: Weakness and Strategy
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The Balancers punish squads that try to brute-force them. The fight opens up entirely once you bring the right status effect.
The Elden Ring Nightreign Balancers are a Forsaken Hollows boss that reads as a damage check and is really a status check.
The weakness that decides the fight
Sleep. The Balancers are vulnerable to it, and applying it is what turns a chaotic fight into a manageable one. Two ways to bring it:
- Sword of St. Trina — the guaranteed sleep weapon in Nightreign. If it shows up in a run, someone should take it.
- Sleep Pots — craftable and reliable, and the fallback when the sword does not appear.
What else lands
- Strike damage is the damage type to build around.
- Powerful AOE matters because of how the fight spreads out.
- Parries work, if your squad has someone comfortable with them.
Class notes
Executor has a hard time here. His kit is built around deflecting single attacks, and this fight does not cooperate with that. He becomes viable if the run hands him a sleep weapon — otherwise he is the character most likely to be caught out.
The practical plan
Assign the sleep source to one player rather than hoping the whole squad brings pots. Sleep, burst with strike damage during the window, disengage, repeat. Squads that lose to the Balancers usually lost because nobody was carrying the answer.