Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign’s Augur boss fight is more like a raid out of an MMO than one of Elden Ring’s usual boss fights. Augur doesn’t do much, but it does command almost complete control of the battlefield. Good placement, smart timing of your ultimate skills, and the right combinations of the best classes are more important in this battle than any other.

Our Elden Ring Nightreign Augur guide breaks down Augur’s attacks, how to counter them, the creature’s weaknesses, and the best party combinations for taking it down.

Augur attacks and counters

These egg-like jellyfish follow you and explode.

The Augur uses just three attack types with a few variations, though they often string these moves together in a way that’s difficult to safely avoid. Augur behaves more aggressively during its second phase. It uses wave attacks more frequently, spawns jellyfish almost constantly, and creates an exploding egg that can wipe out the party if you don’t deal with it quickly. It also moves more quickly, though that’s only a problem for melee characters.

Jellyfish

• Augur produces a cluster of jellyfish-like blobs that follow you around and explode after a few seconds
• Stay on the move, and dodge away when the blobs start to explode

Tentacle spawn

• Augur raises tentacles out of the ground across the arena, and these will slam into you if you get too close
• Dodge forward or sideways to avoid the tentacle slam

Wave attack

• Augur uses the length of its body to send a wave of water toward you
• Keep your distance from the boss so you have more time to dodge. When the wave approaches, dodge into it. Dodging backwards puts you in its path, and sideways rolls sometimes still get you caught

Not a healthy situation to be in.

Exploding sleep egg

• Augur only uses this after its HP drops below the halfway mark. While flying and creating regular jellyfish bubbles, Augur will randomly spawn a larger, shining bubble.
• Attack it as soon as you can. If it touches the ground, it explodes, dealing damage and causing sleep buildup

Spinning wave attack

• Augur dives forward and rotates its body, sending a larger wave of damaging water toward you
• Same as with the regular wave attack

Sleep wave

• Augur stops flying and remains in one place, building sleep energy across the entire arena. If it continues uninterrupted, your sleep meter maxes out, you take damage, and you remain immobilized for several seconds while Augur follows up with wave attacks
• When Augur stops moving, rush toward it and attack in unison. Use ultimate arts if they’re available

How to counter sleep in Augur boss fight

Here’s the fun thing about sleep in Nightreign, and by “fun” I mean “potentially ruinous.” You can’t counter sleep. Or if you can, the means elude us. The only way to counter Augur’s wave of sleep is to rush them and attack hard and fast enough to interrupt them before the party falls asleep and takes damage.

Even close-range magic struggles to hit its mark in this fight.

How to beat Augur as a melee character

You kinda don’t beat Augur as a melee character, or not easily at least. You’ll have to target Augur’s tentacles to deal minor damage and wait for the brief window after Augur’s wave attacks to deal damage. This is definitely a fight for ranged attackers or weapons, unless you have a lot of patience.

Augur weaknesses

Clear out tentacles in your immediate area to damage Augur and keep yourself safe.

Augur is weak to lightning, as the boss info panel says before you set out on an expedition, and that seems to be its only noteworthy weakness. The beast may be vulnerable to other status ailments, though since most of your damage is almost always going to come from ranged attacks–which usually don’t have bleed or other ailment-causing effects associated with them–it’s difficult to tell. Your best bet is to just use your most powerful weapon and land as many hits as possible, regardless of affinity.

Best team combinations for Augur

Augur almost never moves within melee fighting range, which makes this battle a struggle for Wylders, Guardians, Raiders, and Executors. These classes can still be useful for quickly stopping Augur’s sleep wave attack, and they can cause small amounts of damage by defeating tentacles. However, this is really a battle for ranged characters, so ideally, you’d want Ironeyes or a mix of Ironeyes and Recluses.

The Revenant is occasionally useful as well, as her summoned spirits can make short work of Augur’s tentacles. However, unless you’ve built her for magic and have plenty of crystal shards or find her a strong bow, there’s not much else she can offer during this battle.

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