Forspoken: Best Nails and How to Get Them

Painting Frey’s nails in Forspoken is one way to increase your damage, magic effectiveness, and resistance. However, with more than 30 unique nail designs in the game, players have been wondering which are the best ones.

The best nails in Forspoken buff your magic damage as much as possible and can be used in most scenarios in the game.

Also, consider checking out our guide on how to get red magic in the game and the best red magic spells to maximize your damage.

In this guide, I will showcase the best nails in Forspoken and explain how to get them.

How to Paint Frey’s Nails in Forspoken

Fighting a bear-like monster in Forspoken.

To paint Frey’s nails in Forspoken and chance nail design, players will need to follow these steps:

Go to the main menu.
Navigate to the nails tab.
Select the hand you want to paint and the design you want to use.
Confirm and use the resources needed.

Keep in mind that each hand will have to get painted separately. The best part is that each hand can have a different design and thus provide a different buff.

Best Nails in Forspoken and How to Get Them

With over 30 nail designs, it’s important to find the best ones to buff your magic damage. While they are mostly situational, here are the five best nail designs in Forspoken:

5. Amped Nails

Amped nails increase Frey’s damage based on how many enemies she’s facing. The more enemies she’s fighting, the higher her damage. Additionally, this design increases Frey spell damage by 5%.

This makes it ideal for clearing out big hordes of enemies in the open world and it’s one of the best designs to have when not facing bosses.

To get the amped nails, players will need to complete the Ruins of Calme in The Untrodden Forest area of Avoalet.

4. Ignite Nails

This design allows top-level attack magic to set enemies on fire while also increasing Sila (Fire/Red) Magic spell damage by 5%.

Since Sila’s magic is the first type of magic you unlock, this design is going to be extremely useful especially early in the game.

To unlock the ignite nails, players will need to complete the Ruins of Zelenina in the Path of Glory area in Praenost.

3. Blessed Nails

Blessed nails improve critical hit rate and increase all spell damage by 2%. One of the best nails overall since you can never go wrong with these buffs.

To obtain the blessed nail design, players have to complete the Chichek Village in The Water Garden area in Avoalet.

2. Flaunt/Grit Nails

Flaunt nails increase damage dealt when your HP is high while also buffing your overall spell damage by 2%. As long as your HP is almost always full, this is an extremely useful buff.

The fault nail design can be gained by completing Fort Gabb in the Yonder Cape area in Visoria.

Alternatively, if your HP is often low, consider using the Grit design, which increases damage when your HP is low and offers +2% spell damage.

Grit can be obtained by completing the Plateau Hollow Cave in the Shepherd’s Meadow area in Visoria.

1. Lit Nails

This design makes any attacks deal more damage when Surge Magic is fully charged while also increasing spell damage overall by 2%.

This is a great buff that allows Frey to save her Surge Magic for stronger enemies while being able to take down any other enemy easily due to her increased damage.

To get the lit nails in Forspoken, players will need to complete the Zakto Village in the Tanta’s Demense area of Visoria.

Wrapping up

To summarize, these are the five best nails in Forspoken and how to get them.

Nail designs offer important buffs to your magic and can make the difference between winning and losing a fight if utilized properly.

With nail designs in mind, consider also checking out our guide on how to knock down opponents. It will be needed for some later challenges and it’s a useful mechanic to know.

What are your favorite nails in Forspoken? Are you trying to unlock all nail designs in the game? Let us know in the comments below.

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