Elden Ring: Nightreign’s endgame has changed. Collecting the rare Sovereign Sigils for easier access to potential upcoming content is the chase. With the resource so rare and valuable, what are the best items to spend Sovereign Sigils on, though? We’ll tell you everything here today.
The best items to buy with Sovereign Sigils
To start collecting Sovereign Sigils, you must first beat at least one Everdark Sovereign Expedition. Your first victory will reward 25 Sigils. Future wins only provide five or, if you’re lucky, seven Sigils, making them incredibly valuable, especially if you have trouble with the Sovereign fights.
Of all the choices you have to buy for Sigils at the Collector Signpost, only six are worth your time as of the release of the enhanced Adel fight. Specifically, they are:
Three specific Relics
You can buy up to 13 different three-effect Relics at the Collector Signpost, but most are best only on specific Nightfarers or are more niche in their function. The following three are more general or, in the case of the first, nearing broken status.
Of these three Relics, the Luminous Scene is the most universally useful, given how quickly you can rack up attack power and high-quality loot drops from evergaols. The other two are somewhat more specific, catering either to melee or spellcasting classes, but are still not exclusively useful.
The Relic Rite Urn that best complements your current best Relic set
Farming Relics is core to progression in Nightreign alongside optimal Expedition routing and, of course, learning what it takes to beat each Nightlord. You’ll also want a sizeable collection of Relic Urns, Goblets, and Grails to slot your Relics into, and you can spend four Sovereign Sigils to buy unique Urns found nowhere else in the game.
The one you want will vary based on which Nightfarer you’re playing, but the best choice enables you to use your most effective Relics in new ways. In my case, Duchess’ Urn with two red and one green slot is probably one of the best options I could pick. It allows me to equip the Burning Scene above, another strong red Relic, and Duchess’ final Remembrance Relic (or any other green one that improves the build I want to focus on).
Which you choose for your Duchess — or Wylder, Raider, Revenant, or whomever else — will heavily depend on the quality of your various Relics. I do only suggest buying one or two Urns to start out with, as four Sigils is a fairly hefty price. Stick to the character you’re most comfortable using against the current Everdark Sovereign, then expand your collection as you build up a bank of Sigils.
Either the Rotted Woods or Noklateo Shifting Earth events
Of the four Shifting Earth events, the Rotted Woods and Noklateo are the best, and activating them only costs a single Sovereign Sigil at the Collector Signpost.
The Rotten Woods is the easiest of the four, and offers nearly a dozen Formidable Great Enemies once you collect the reward. The Rotted Woods reward is also a nice boost to your maximum HP, with the possibility of refunding HP if you land an attack shortly after taking damage.
Noklateo is a more complicated area to navigate, and the boss guarding the reward is far tougher than simply navigating the Rotted Woods to reach the upgrade. However, a one-time, full-party revive that temporarily empowers the entire team can save an otherwise doomed run. If you and your teammates can hold onto it until late into a fight with the Nightlord, even better.
The Crater and Mountaintop Shifting Earth rewards are far more situational, as both assume you have a weapon to maximize their effects. Sure, having a free Legendary-grade weapon is great, but there’s no guarantee you’ll actually get one you want to use during a run. And the Mountaintop’s upgrade is all about Frostbite, making it all but useless if you don’t find any Frost weapons or aren’t fighting Caligo on the Fissure in the Fog Expedition.
That one skin you really like but don’t have the Murk for
The last and least important use of Sovereign Sigils is the “easier” purchase of character skins for your Nightfarers. I don’t recommend spending 20 Sigils on the Darkness skins, but once you unlock the Dark Souls legacy skins, each of which goes for only five Sigils, pick the couple you like most and splurge. Provided you have the currency to spend, of course.
You might also consider saving your Sigils if additional skins are released as Nightreign’s lifecycle continues. There are many more iconic characters and armor sets FromSoftware could bring forward, and not having to farm Murk for some of them could save you a bunch of time and suffering if the Skins get more and more expensive.
That’s especially true if you don’t plan to play Nightreign exclusively deeper into its post-launch period. Building up a bank of Murk big enough to buy every skin is tough as it is. New skins with even higher prices would make things rougher still.
Those are the best current options for spending your Sovereign Sigils in Elden Ring: Nightreign, whether you just beat your first Everdark Sovereign or you’re a grizzled veteran. At a certain point, you’ll have enough to buy everything; that’s true for the rest of the vendors as well.
For much more on FromSoftware’s latest experiment, check out our Elden Ring: Nightreign page.