The Duchess Guide Of All Time (Everyone Else Is Wrong)

This is a comprehensive guide discussing the best tips & tricks to play Elden Ring: Nightreign's Duchess. Everything from stats to skills to recommended relic builds, her best weapon classes, sorceries, and how to maximize her two signature playstyles.
I cover a lot, and it's still probably not even half of what a full-scale "guide" could contain, but to my knowledge, it's the longest one anyone's made so far.

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⏱️ - - - TIMESTAMPS - - - ⏱️
00:00 - Begin!

Clearing Misinformation
01:54 - Clearing Misinformation - Two Main Playstyles
04:21 - Clearing Misinformation - Daggers
05:48 - Clearing Misinformation - Attack Chains
06:50 - Clearing Misinformation - Backstepping & Parrying

Relics - Limited/Niche
09:01 - Improved Dagger Attack Power
10:15 - Silence Footsteps After Backstabs
12:03 - Dexterity & Intelligence
12:54 - Critical Hits Earn Runes
13:26 - Blessed Iron Coin (Full Relic)

Relics - Satisfactory
14:19 - Ultimate Art Gauge
14:58 - Magic Attack Power Up
16:11 - Improved Sorcery Subtypes
16:57 - Max FP / Attack Power Up With +3 Staves / Daggers
18:41 - Night / Dark Night of the Miasma (Full Relics)
19:54 - Improved Restage Attack Power
20:57 - Successive Dagger Chain Event Reprisal

Relics - Meta
22:12 - Stamina Recovery Upon Landing Attacks
23:49 - Defeating Enemies Fills the Art Gauge
24:46 - Night / Dark Night of the Baron (Full Relics)
26:22 - Dark Night of the Wise & Old Pocketwatch (Full Relics)
26:56 - Character Skill Cooldown

Relics - Cheat Engine
27:39 - Defeating enemies during Art ups Attack Power
31:17 - Trash-collecting Tips!

33:33 - Building for Sorceries
39:08 - Building for Stealth / Critical Attacks

46:11 - Restaging & You!
49:53 - Intense ability theorycrafting, like really intense
51:22 - The Finale (of the video)

LINKS:
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