Clearing Nightmare 70 on Moon Knight unlocks the Midnight Mercenary title, the headline cosmetic from the Blood Hunt PvE event that NetEase shipped on April 23, 2026 alongside the Season 7.5 mid-patch. Blood Hunt remains live through July 30, 2026 and continues to run in parallel with the Season 8 Sins of Alchemax launch on May 15, 2026, so the Nightmare 70 title window is still open. The difficulty ladder caps at Nightmare 120. The build below scales past 70 with the right Arcana and Scroll rolls.
The build, gear, Arcana, and per-boss tactics break down below in the order the run unfolds.
The whole melee build hangs off the gold talent tree. Lock the eight traits below; do not spend points on Fist of Konchu or Moon God's Chosen, both of which lean ranged-Ankh and break the Eclipse Explosion loop.
This is the verbatim trait list from the Fandomwire melee Moon Knight reference; same allocation every successful Nightmare 70 build runs.
Four gear slots define the build. The exclusive piece is the one most blog write-ups miss.
Bank uru between runs. A full stack of 10 crafts at Level 60 costs around 200,000 uru per the community Hawkezy build video. The math discourages crafting smaller batches because you lose roll diversity on partial stacks. Identify your weakest slot first (usually the gauntlets if you're climbing) and prioritize that slot's full-stack craft.
What earlier guides called "Tactical Purchases" are in fact Offensive Arcana cards: the deck system Blood Hunt uses for in-run buffs. Slot the four below in this priority order; defensive Arcana goes in the slots not used by offensive picks.
Defensive: Iron Body and Indomitable for the Capwolf Phase 2 pin and the Dracula Blood Sacrifice ramp. Both reduce or convert the burst phases that wipe melee builds caught flat-footed.
Arcane Realm Scrolls layer on top: Scroll of Conquest (+125% total damage at 5/5) and Scroll of Immortality (+750 HP at 5/5) are non-negotiable. Scroll of Blessing and Scroll of Midas round out the long-run rolls.
Blood Hunt's four bosses are Capwolf, Ratatoskr, Dracula, and Kingpin. The two that gate a solo Nightmare 70 clear are Capwolf and Dracula; the other two are mechanical knowledge checks that the melee build handles cleanly with full Lunar Tide uptime.
Capwolf marks one player as Prey. Solo, that's always you. He follows up with a dashing pounce; if it misses, he immediately launches a second pounce. Dodge both pounces in sequence and Capwolf self-staggers into a brief stun window, the cleanest DPS opening in Phase 1. Stack Eclipse Explosions during the stun and reset Lunar Tide.
Phase 2 layers on a channeled blink-pin that is a hard DPS check. Interrupt the channel by breaking line of sight behind a pillar, or eat the pin and survive with a stacked Iron Body Arcana plus Moonlight Healing. Capwolf also heals off the Prey in Phase 2, which means tank-and-spank loses the run faster than you can recover.
Dracula is the final encounter and the actual filter for the title. Every hit you take ramps a Blood Sacrifice meter; his drain cast converts your stacks into his healing. Moonlight Healing offsets a portion of the meter ramp, which is one of the reasons the melee build out-clears the ranged Ankh kit.
His Floating Swords phase is a check on AoE clearance. Destroy at least five swords during the untargetable window to force him back to ground state. Full Moon Spin with Overlapping Shadows + Domino clears five swords inside one detonation cycle when timed off a Lunar Tide pull.
Phase 4 is where the run is won. Two Sunlight Crystals spawn at his throne; break them to open sunlight zones. Standing inside a sunlight zone makes Moon Knight invincible and lets him stun Dracula on touch. The optimization community guides flag: Dracula entering a sunlight zone himself is an instant kill. Position the Eclipse Explosion knockback so his lunge pulls him into a sunlight ring; the run ends mid-cast.
Movement and grappling-hook positioning are the two skills that scale invisibly with player practice. Look straight at the ground and fire the grappling hook to launch yourself vertically. The move acts as an ejector seat for breaking AoE telegraphs, and it costs nothing in the build budget.
Two stat habits to keep on every gear roll: chase cooldown reduction toward 40% (the breakpoint that doubles Lunar Tide uptime across Phase 2 channels) and prioritize Block plus Block Reduction on Runic Armor for the chip damage on the long Dracula phases.
For boss attack rotation, the cycle is: punch sequence to maintain Fist of Eclipse marks, Full Moon Spin to detonate, hop with grapple to break the next telegraph, recast Lunar Tide on internal cooldown. The build does not require fancy tech. It requires the rotation never breaking.
Yes. Season 8 Sins of Alchemax launched on May 15, 2026 with Devil Dinosaur, the Project: Heroic Age battle pass, and the Alchemax Headquarters Doom Match map dropping May 28. Blood Hunt continues to run in parallel through July 30, 2026, with the full Nightmare ladder and Midnight Mercenary title intact.
The title requires a Nightmare 70 clear on Moon Knight. Solo is the verified route every community guide uses because the Prey mechanic, Floating Swords AoE check, and Sunlight Crystal positioning all favor a single coordinated player over a group. Duo and trio clears have been reported but are not the recommended path for the title farm.
Two reasons. First, Capwolf Phase 2's channeled pin is a hard DPS check that ranged Ankh damage cannot meet inside the channel window. Second, Dracula's Sunlight Crystal phase rewards Eclipse Explosion burst over sustained Ankh damage. The Gauntlets of Thoth exclusive item only triggers off Fist of Eclipse hits, which closes the door on the ranged path entirely.
Slot Boss Hunter and Close Quarters first. They carry the boss damage column. Layer Lethal Strike and Deep Freeze for the second offensive pair. Defensive picks are Iron Body and Indomitable to survive the Capwolf pin and the Dracula drain ramp. For Scrolls, get Conquest and Immortality to 5/5 before touching Blessing or Midas.
Nightmare difficulty caps at Nightmare 120. The reward track ends there. Nightmare 70 is only the threshold for the Midnight Mercenary title. The leaderboard push lives in the 100-to-120 band. The same build, with optimized Arcana scrolls and a 6/6 Gauntlets of Thoth, scales cleanly to the cap.
No. The Season 8 patch notes shipped PvP and battle-pass content; Blood Hunt mechanics, trait costs, and gear rolls are unchanged from the April 23 launch. The Nightmare 70 path on Moon Knight remains exactly as documented here.
