Elden Ring Nightreign‘s The Forsaken Hollows DLC introduces a new Shifting Earth event titled The Great Hollow, and it has certainly made things a lot more difficult.
The new event introduces a crystal curse modifier across the base game. This modifier slashes your pool of health by half in specific areas, which isn’t ideal. This curse becomes a bigger headache when you’re trying to farm resources.
Thankfully, you can remove the curse by completing The Great Hollow event, and this guide will list all the steps.
Elden Ring Nightreign The Great Hollow event walkthrough
Your main objective is to find four blue crystals located all around the map. Their exact locations, as per my understanding, are random (and so is the timing of their spawn). Whenever you find one while roadming in an area, you’ll have to smash them to advance your progress of lifting the curse. They will look exactly like the one in the following image.
When you get close to a crystal, you’ll have the option to interact with it. Choose this to break the crystal. When you break one, you’ll get a message that the Great Crystal is cracking. To shatter the Great Crystal, you’ll have to interact with and destroy four smaller Blue Crystals.
In my experience, you’ll always find the smaller crystals on the first day itself. Try to smash all four on the first day, but use day two to complete the task (of destroying all four). Both the locations and spawn rates of these crystals are entirely random.
Once four smaller crystals are shattered, head to the Great Crystal in the center of the map. You can locate it with the help of a red flag marker on the map (same as any Shifting Earth event). When you reach there, you’ll be able to grab the buff offered by the shattered Great Crystal.
Gaining the buff will end the crystal curse, and you’ll also gain an increased art charge rate after using all your flasks. Once complete, you’ll be able to enjoy full HP at every location. If you’re a beginner, you’ll need to complete a few extra steps to gain access to all the contents of the DLC. This guide will help you unlock the new two Nightfarers, along with starting The Forsaken Hollows DLC.
