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If FromSoftware doesn't make changes to Elden Ring Nightreign's new terror on the block, the Everdark Sovereign version of Libra the madness demon, I'm going to have to buy a hat just so I can threaten to eat it in a hyperbolic wager.
Plenty of people have beaten Everdark Libra, of course, and some even claim to love the fight, though I wonder if that's the Madness buildup talking. But a huge chunk of the Nightreign community is clearly either struggling with this boss or straight-up not having a good time, and I've seen some of the best players in the Souls community beat the boss and then immediately call it bad.
Playing solo, I would generally agree with the community sentiment that Everdark Libra is annoying but manageable. In my last solo attempt, I had to chew through four summons. Adding in another player in a duo run consequently doubles the summons, but the difficulty balancing for duos is forgiving enough that it still feels reasonably doable, albeit slightly more annoying.
It's in trio play, the main mode of Nightreign, that the Everdark Libra fight really goes to hell. And if FromSoftware is going to make changes, and I'd bet my best relic that it will, it's probably going to start here.
The more goons Libra calls in, the higher your odds of getting wombo-comboed by two or more at once based on unpredictable aggro mechanics. More summons also means higher odds of facing one that has a particularly strong and disruptive loadout, like a Rain of Arrows-spamming archer. Combined with the enemy HP scaling of trios, this turns the fight into a slugfest that can feel unwinnable.
Unless everyone on your team is a Capital-G Gamer, Everdark Libra is a nightmare, and even with a good team rocking good builds, it's grueling. On top of that, the summon mechanic can actively and disproportionately punish you for picking certain Nightfarers. Guardian, widely regarded as one of the weakest characters in the game, is even weaker in a fight where picking him means the boss can summon unstoppable walls who take several times longer to kill than most summons.
Even if you can miraculously coordinate a way to kite the summons and split boss DPS – and good luck doing that with random players – between the trio scaling, the summon spam, and skewed team dynamics that push the best characters in the game even harder, I reckon Everdark Libra must be ringing some alarm bells at FromSoftware HQ. I can't imagine what the clear rate looks like compared to other bosses, but I'd bet it's low, and I can already hear the swish and crack of the nerf bat.
From our own Ali Jones: Elden Ring Nightreign finally let me get revenge against two bosses that nearly ruined my original Elden Ring playthrough, and victory has never felt sweeter
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