Charms are helpful buffs you can apply in Nightingale to assist you with specific situations. Not every Charm will be useful, but if you can foreshadow the threats you’re going to face and the environment you’re in, they’re exceptionally helpful.
The way you use Charms can be a little confusing. They go in your inventory and mostly sit until you’re ready to apply them to your gear slots. You won’t be able to use them until you progress through Nightingale, and they have a handful of requirements you need to meet. Here’s what you need to know about how to use Charms in Nightingale.
How Charms work in Nightingale
You can use Charms by right-clicking on them in your inventory and applying them to an appropriate equipment piece. They can appear as rewards for helping NPCs, completing quests, or looting them from random chests you find while exploring Nightingale.
Not every item you hold can receive a Charm, though. Only gear pieces with an uncommon rating or better rating can receive a Charm. If you’re still using the level 20 Gear Score you unlock when you create the Simple outfit, these cannot receive Charms, and you need to progress through Nightingale to unlock new crafting recipes and workbenches to make better equipment. These are similar to Infusions.
From there, when you have a Charm in your inventory, right-click it and select the “apply“ option. You can choose any gear piece to receive the Charm, so long as they’re uncommon or better quality. You can expect to find these relatively often as you play through Nightingale, and they have different attributes to them, making some better than others based on your playstyle and what you’re fighting.
Can you remove Charms in Nightingale?
Given my experience, it does not look like you can remove Charms from your equipment in Nightingale. However, you can override them, removing them from an equipment piece. If you have a Charm on your helmet, and want to apply a new one, activate the new Charm and place it on the helmet. This removes the previous Charm and gives it the new one, but you lose the old one. Thankfully, you can find them relatively frequently through completing challenges and looting the world, so you shouldn’t have too many problems finding new ones in Nightingale.
