Elden Ring Nightreign: Forsaken Hollow The expansion pack adds two new expeditions to the game, one of which involves an all-out war against the Balancer. This new powerful enemy, or should I say opponent? This is tricky, as you'll be dealing with multiple mini-bosses who share a health bar.
While having the best build and team composition is important, one of Balancer's biggest weaknesses is sleep-infused weapons. Using sleep-based weapons during boss fights triggers a unique mechanic that makes the fight much more manageable. Here's how to find sleep weapons in Elden Ring Nightreign. This will allow you to properly target Balancer's weaknesses.
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How to get a sleep weapon for the balancer's weakness in Elden Ring Nightreign
Players can easily obtain sleeping status effect weapons. Elden Ring Nightlane By visiting landmarks in “Sleep” status icon (eyes closed).
All landmarks have random status effect loot, so You can rejoin the raid multiple times Until you finally come across one or two locations with the sleep status effect symbol. This will increase your chances of obtaining a Sleep Weapon that can be used against the Balancer's weaknesses.
Once you reach one of the landmarks that offer sleep loot, you can defeat enemies, loot corpses, and destroy chests to obtain sleep-based weapons and equipment. However, your best chance of getting a high-tier weapon that puts enemies to sleep is Defeating the boss of a specific landmark.
After defeating the boss, you will get an effective weapon with decent stats and passive skills. Gives sleep effect to enemies, especially Balancer.Because that is a weakness.
In addition to weapons with sleep-inducing passives, players can also find Soporific Grease, which temporarily adds the Sleep status effect to their current weapon. This is especially useful if you want to temporarily apply the Sleep effect to your current weapon during combat.
In addition to using weapons to induce a sleeping state in Balancer, Elden Ring NightlaneYou can also try Using throwable objects such as sleeping pots. Just throw it into the balancer and the Sleep status effect will instantly accumulate, giving you a huge advantage in boss fights.
Players should also visit merchants that spawn at various locations throughout the map to see if they offer weapons with the Sleep passive ability or consumable/throwable weapons with that status effect.
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December 4, 2025
- ESRB
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17+ / blood, violence
