Elden Ring Nightreign Participant Takes a Harm-Stacking Weapon To Its Highest Heights, Earlier than It All Comes Crashing Down

Elden Ring Nightreign is stuffed with wonderful loot for Nightfarers to wield, in your expedition to take down the Nightlords. However how wonderful can it get? Nicely, one participant who discovered a uncommon weapon and determined to seek out out has gone viral for constructing their blade up into the last word Nightlord-slaying machine — solely to see it additionally then in the end tumble again right down to nothing.

All of this facilities on Japanese YouTuber mintius (through Automaton Media), who acquired the Marais Executioner Sword, a weapon that raises assault energy upon defeating enemies — however normally solely by a specific amount.

On condition that Nightreign normally has deadlines, because of its encroaching storm, this sword’s energy would not usually have the possibility to snowball too far uncontrolled, regardless of being a robust weapon. However Mintius managed to get the fitting mixture of enemy and encounter spawns to scale it so far as it could go, after which even additional.

Per Automaton’s translation, Mintius hunted mobs within the Wormface encounter for “about an hour” with the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what would occur. Their assault energy hit a harm cap at 9,999 after defeating 725 enemies, with the final harm worth he noticed as 63,375. After defeating the 727th enemy, although, Mintius was “immediately unable to deal any harm in any respect,” and bought killed.

「マレー家の執行剣」で1時間ほどミミズ顔の雑魚を狩り続けて検証727体の敵を撃破して攻撃力は9999で余裕のカンスト最後にステータスから確認したマレー家の執行剣の表示攻撃力は63375725体目を撃破したところで、突如として全ての敵へ一切ダメージを与えられない状態になり死亡した pic.twitter.com/q95neZfdu3

— 負けミン mintius (@amabamamabam1) June 24, 2025

The going concept is that Mintius hit an “overflow,” and immediately went from hitting the harm ceiling to scraping the harm ground. Very like the web tall-tale about Gandhi in Civilization, hitting the upper-limit could have precipitated Mintius to wrap again round to the decrease.

Mintius is outwardly going to proceed testing the Marais Executioner Sword, to see what sort of limits and bounds exist on it, in addition to the unbelievable harm potential behind it. They apparently wish to strive doing a plunging assault on a Flame Chariot, simply to see what sort of harm numbers it could put up. It would most likely get wild.

For the common Elden Ring Nightreign participant, perhaps take this as an indication to not get too grasping in farming up that Marais Executioner Sword whenever you discover it. Or at the least, do not spend an hour doing so. It definitely looks like an excellent weapon, however it appears to be like like there’s some hubris to be present in attempting to take it to its highest heights.

We’ve bought loads of Nightreign suggestions and tips that can assist you take down all of the eight Nightlord Bosses, and for those who’re questioning how you can unlock the 2 locked Nightfarer Lessons, take a look at Methods to Unlock the Revenant and Methods to Unlock the Duchess, plus Methods to Change Characters.

Eric is a contract author for IGN.