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Are the other BoW armors coming back? Jolly, undead, festive etc

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The challenge boss is True Horror Nightbane. In classic Nightbane style, he has a basic Darkness attack, an attack with a hit of Void that heals him some, and two SP skills that can be Fire (inflicts Burn) or Darkness (inflicts Daze) seemingly at random. He has various immunities, high BtH, and more importantly, a hard damage cap based on his maximum HP, which varies within a range. HP is usually mid-6,000s and damage cap is usually a bit above 150. The recommended strategy is to sit in FD paladin armor with the armament's shield, the sacred weapon of your choice, and Daimyo guest plus a HP healing pet. You shouldn't have much difficulty. The non-challenge version should be much easier, with the only possible twist being the Fire skill if you aren't sitting in Paladin. The reward for beating the challenge boss is a title, Bane of the Night, and the normal quest reward is a misc item called Unbounded Revelation that provides multiplicative fire damage reduction and a boost to either END, DEX, and CHA or END, STR, and INT, which you can toggle between. At 150 it's 50% fire reduction and +50 to all stats boosted for 97 SP a turn.