Elden Ring NG+ Changes Explained: After defeating Elden Ring, you can play it once more by playing NG+ (New Game Plus). This is not a brand new feature and is available in the other Dark Souls games, Bloodborne and Sekiro.
What makes the game unique is its changes to ensure that it doesn’t become static. There are many things you can keep and a lot you cannot; the NG+ match is an excellent choice for those who plan on experiencing every ending that comes with the game.
In this guide, take a look at the New Game plus of Elden Ring and all the changes to NG+.
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All Changes in NG+ (New Game Plus) of Elden Ring
When you have defeated the final boss of Elden Ring and completed the game, you’ll have an option to begin a New Game Plus(NG+). It is possible to start the NG+ right here or begin it later on an open round table.
The reason why you may want to wait until later to take on any of the bosses you may not have encountered or complete the quests that are currently in progress. If you begin a new game and are also playing the game in Elden Ring, these changes occur.
- Things you can keep
- Things you cannot control and things that reset
- Enemy Scaling
- Rune Scaling
- Recommended Levels for difficult opponents
- New Items
Let’s look at each one of them.
Things you can keep
- Your player’s progression for your character’s level and weapons, armors, and shields. Also, all items related to magic, such as spells, incantations, sorceries, staves, seals, and staves.
- Different Items, Cookbooks, and Talismans.
- The map shows your progress in exploring.
- Boss Remembrances.
- Improvements in Flasks as well as Golden Seeds
- Any memory stones you collected.
Elden Ring NG+ Changes Explained
Things that you aren’t able to keep and things that reset
- The sites of grace. The areas of grace you came across will be restored. Therefore, if you want to access the map, you’ll need to search for these sites and then touch them.
- All the Medallions (these comprise Dectus, Rold, and the Haligtree Medallions).
- Progress on sidequests. If you’re progressing or completing a questline, it reset. One good thing to note is that you killed an NPC and then got a new interaction.
- Bell Bearings that you donated the Twin Maiden Husks.
- Great Runes.
- Any item that is crucial for the development of the story.
Elden Ring NG+ Changes Explained
Enemy Scaling
Scaled enemies appear in each new game and the enemies in Elden Ring. Unfortunately, the percentage at which they called isn’t known. This guide will be updated whenever we discover any additional information about it.
Rune Scaling
The runes you collect roughly size by 550 percent. Thank you to Fextralife for providing the details regarding this.
Recommended Levels for difficult opponents
Because the enemies are scaled, the levels recommended for tackling all enemies in the game have increased. This guide will be updated with the recommended stories as soon as we learn more about them.
New Items
Plus, there aren’t any specific items or items that you can get when playing the game for the first time. However, you can use memories to acquire different weapons or new ones that you could not get in the previous run.
This guide will provide you with a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know about New Game Plus in Elden Ring and all and changes. If you enjoy playing this game, I suggest that you read our other guides on the game in the dedicated Elden Ring section.