Gold Scarab

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status effect 45 elden ring wiki guide 44px Increases  Rune acquisition by 20%

Gold Scarab is a Talisman in Elden Ring. Gold Scarab increases Rune acquisition by 20%. Players can use talismans in Elden Ring to boost a variety of Stats.

 

A talisman facsimile of a scarab, the carrier of treasures and precious things.

This golden scarab increases the amount of runes obtained from defeating enemies.

 

Gold Scarab Effect in Elden Ring

Gold Scarab increases Rune acquisition by 20%.

 

Where to find Gold Scarab in Elden Ring

 

Elden Ring Gold Scarab Notes & Tips

  • Sell value: runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 500
  • The effect stacks with the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot consumable item for a total of 56% increase.

 

Elden Ring Talismans
Ancestral Spirit's Horn  ♦  Arrow's Reach Talisman  ♦  Arrow's Sting Talisman  ♦  Arsenal Charm  ♦  Assassin's Cerulean Dagger  ♦  Assassin's Crimson Dagger  ♦  Axe Talisman  ♦  Blessed Dew Talisman  ♦  Blue Dancer Charm  ♦  Blue-Feathered Branchsword  ♦  Boltdrake Talisman  ♦  Bull-Goat's Talisman  ♦  Carian Filigreed Crest  ♦  Cerulean Amber Medallion  ♦  Cerulean Seed Talisman  ♦  Clarifying Horn Charm  ♦  Claw Talisman  ♦  Companion Jar  ♦  Concealing Veil  ♦  Crimson Amber Medallion  ♦  Crimson Seed Talisman  ♦  Crucible Knot Talisman  ♦  Crucible Scale Talisman  ♦  Curved Sword Talisman  ♦  Daedicar's Woe  ♦  Dagger Talisman  ♦  Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman  ♦  Dragoncrest Shield Talisman  ♦  Entwining Umbilical Cord  ♦  Erdtree's Favor  ♦  Fire Scorpion Charm  ♦  Flamedrake Talisman  ♦  Flock's Canvas Talisman  ♦  Furled Finger's Trick-Mirror  ♦  Godfrey Icon  ♦  Godskin Swaddling Cloth  ♦  Graven-Mass Talisman  ♦  Graven-School Talisman  ♦  Great-Jar's Arsenal  ♦  Greatshield Talisman  ♦  Green Turtle Talisman  ♦  Haligdrake Talisman  ♦  Hammer Talisman  ♦  Hosts' Trick-Mirror  ♦  Immunizing Horn Charm  ♦  Kindred of Rot's Exultation  ♦  Lance Talisman  ♦  Lightning Scorpion Charm  ♦  Longtail Cat Talisman  ♦  Lord of Blood's Exultation  ♦  Magic Scorpion Charm  ♦  Marika's Scarseal  ♦  Marika's Soreseal  ♦  Millicent's Prosthesis  ♦  Moon of Nokstella  ♦  Mottled Necklace  ♦  Old Lord's Talisman  ♦  Pearldrake Talisman  ♦  Perfumer's Talisman  ♦  Prince of Death's Cyst  ♦  Prince of Death's Pustule  ♦  Radagon's Scarseal  ♦  Radagon's Soreseal  ♦  Radagon Icon  ♦  Red-Feathered Branchsword  ♦  Ritual Shield Talisman  ♦  Ritual Sword Talisman  ♦  Roar Medallion  ♦  Rotten Winged Sword Insignia  ♦  Sacred Scorpion Charm  ♦  Sacrificial Twig  ♦  Shabriri's Woe  ♦  Shard of Alexander  ♦  Silver Scarab  ♦  Spear Talisman  ♦  Spelldrake Talisman  ♦  Stalwart Horn Charm  ♦  Starscourge Heirloom  ♦  Taker's Cameo  ♦  Twinblade Talisman  ♦  Two Fingers Heirloom  ♦  Viridian Amber Medallion  ♦  Warrior Jar Shard  ♦  Winged Sword Insignia

 




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    • Anonymous

      In my experience, grabbing this right after you finish Limgrave and consistently using Gold-Pickled Fowl Feet on Demigods, Legends, and Dragonbarrow/Lategame bosses will net you an extra 30~ish levels even if you don't grind, so you can plan on ending the game around RL180 if you hunt down every demigod. (Breaking yourself trying to get it before finishing Limgrave isn't practical since your rune gains are so low there anyway. If you skipped Limgrave entirely it would only drop your final RL by 1-3.)

      • Anonymous

        Will I get the extra runes equipping the scarab right before I'm rewarded for killing the boss? If not, would I have to do it before the final blow?

        • Anonymous

          Will I be rewarded the extra runes when I equip this right before I'm rewarded the runes by killing the boss?

          • Anonymous

            Crazy he we went from ds3 with symbol of avarice + shield of want + cssr(+3 if you really want to spice things up) for 2-2.5x souls. Now they want us to be happy with 20%, or adding in a dogshit consumable for a mere 1.6x? Ridiculous.

            • Anonymous

              sometimes the bird has glowing eyes and will drop 5x more runes, this is a random chance and can always happen

              • Anonymous

                This just happened to me at the bird farm using the Scarab. usually the bird drops 11k, with the scarab 13k. I don’t know how I’m doing it yet but on occasion the bird with drop about 66k. Anyone know what’s happening?

                • Anonymous

                  i haver earned over a million runes at the bird farm since i activated the fowl foot... is this a bug or is it a feature to this item?

                  • Anonymous

                    im pretty sure this increases the time your golden pickled fowl foot is activated. i activated it like 7 min ago and its still going as of me writing this and i just started using the golden scarab

                    • Anonymous

                      Taking the liberty ...
                      He is askng if you get more rune when you kill an invader while using this. (Google might have helped ;-) )

                      • Anonymous

                        The gold scarab is no more: now the Cleanrot Knights drop the Kindred of rot's exultation (here: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Kindred+of+Rot's+Exultation)
                        And, according to what I read in other comments, I believe that the gold scarab has been deleted from the game.

                        • Anonymous

                          Alright, show of hands, how many of you forget to take this off during a boss fight so it ends up being harder and feel dumb when you go to switch it on when it dies?

                          • Anonymous

                            Effectively, this talisman probably increase my LEVEL by about 10%, and since I play around several stats (at least 20 in everything but endurance, 30+ in 4 stats) it's the most powerful thing I've come across at the moment. Without it, I'll have been 1-shot by just about every bosses thus far (with it, I'm barely surviving with sliver of HP).

                            • Anonymous

                              Too lazy to make an account, someone who does have it, this item stacks multiplicately with the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot granting not 50% extra runes but 56%.

                              • Anonymous

                                Does this apply to runes you consume from the inventory (like Golden Rune [1-13], Hero's, Numen, Lord's, etc.), or only runes dropped from enemies/bosses killed in the world?

                                • Anonymous

                                  i wish they gave us other equipment with extra runes dropped effect from enemies just like the shield of want and mimic head from ds3

                                  • maybe not the most efficient, but noticed this while trying to farm festive hood
                                    mohg spear +7, 31 str 25 dex 27 arc with just golden scarab equipped running up and down the hill from grace to grace at dominula windmill village was incredibly fast and nets me 8k runes per run

                                    • Anonymous

                                      one of the best talisman in game, 20% additional soul mean u save 20% time on lvling. comine with golden chicken leg just before big boss death offer most return on runes. worth a perma talisman slot until additional lvl no longer have meaning(clvl 250+).

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Master the art of equipping this quickly after big boss battles and eat a gold foul foot for maximum runes.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          For anyone’s whose new to the series, when you kill a boss there is a bit of a delay for when you get the tuned, which gives you enough time to quickly equip this for free extra runes

                                          • Anonymous

                                            You can get this really early (basically at the start of the game) .Getting through the cave without scarlet rot and poison is doable and it takes some time to get the optimal path . The cleanrot knights are easy to deal one at a time use the lone wolves summons ranni gives you they will keep one of the knights occupied and will survive for a while . Pump some vig and upgrade your weapon to make it even easier.

                                            • i noticed if you use shard of alexander and ritual sword talisman and then use a gold pickled fowl foot it increases its effectiveness. On journey 6 palace ledge farm kill with no talisman is:
                                              5008 xp
                                              with shard of alexander and RST: 6010 xp
                                              with shard of alexander, RST and gold scarab: 7212 xp
                                              with above talismans and gold pickled fowl foot : 9375 xp

                                              • Anonymous

                                                I've done some testing on how it specifically stacks with the gold-pickled Fowl foot:

                                                Killing one non hostile albinauric near the grace: Palace Approach Ledge Road with no rune boosting effects gave me 2453 Runes
                                                This means that with the Gold Scarab, it should be 2943; this was indeed the case.
                                                In the next run I added the gold pickled fowl foot, the result was 3826 runes per kill.
                                                We know that 2453*1.5 = 2679.5 so this suggests the buffs stack multiplicatively, and the math for that checks out:

                                                (2453*1.2)*1.3 = 3826.68, upon testing: killing one neutral albinauric with both buffs active gave me 3826 Runes.

                                                Conclusion: Rune acquisition buffs stack multiplicatively, and Rune gain is rounded down to whole numbers

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  My golden scarab has disappeared from my inventory after the last update. Has this happened to any of you?

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    I got this buff by interacting with the first merchant, I sold 1.8k in golden runes, then talked to him and then entered the purchase window and was contemplating what to spend my 3.8k total on, and as I'm waiting in the purchase window I got the buff. It maybe to do with talking to him after having purchased the crafting kit and other things and having left and then talking to him again? I'm not sure, but I'm sure someone can figure it out from that.. I have it recorded even lol...

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Anyone know if there is more items that increase rune gain? I only know the talisman and the Gold Pickled-Fowl Foot.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        For the people here that are willing to go through the pain of Abandonded Cave and fighting the Cleanrot Knights - there's a teardrop Scarab somewhere in Caelid that drops the Flame of Redmane Ash of War, which basically sends a wall of flame. Useful against the Knights, just pop it on a Broadsword, upgrade it, use spirits and yer good to go.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          For the people here that are willing to go through the pain of Abandonded Cave and fighting the Cleanrot Knights - there's a teardrop Scarab somewhere in Caelid that drops the Flame of Redmane Ash of War, which basically sends a wall of flame. Useful against the Knights, just pop it on a Broadsword, upgrade it, use spirits and yer good to go.

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            The item also takes a certain amount of time to take effect, so you can't just equip it at the end of a boss fight to get the extra souls.

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              Gold used to be for item drops and silver for souls, and now it's the other way around.

                                                              Somehow it took me a long time to realize this. I never looked at the item description until I realized like several hours later that I was farming for an armor set wearing a rune boosting talisman lol

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Any way to get this without going to the bullshit cave where there's no statue of marika at a gank boss you have to fight while rotting?

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  might be a dumb question, but does it increase boss runes gained? story bosses? open world bosses? dungeon bosses?

                                                                  i tested it with putrid avatar, didnt seem to give me more but im still curious if i should use it for higher gains

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    might be a dumb question, but does it increase boss runes gained? story bosses? open world bosses? dungeon bosses?

                                                                    i tested it with putrid avatar, didnt seem to give me more but im still curious if i should use it for higher gains

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      might be a dumb question, but does it increase boss runes gained? story bosses? open world bosses? dungeon bosses?

                                                                      i tested it with putrid avatar, didnt seem to give me more but im still curious if i should use it for higher gains

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        Anyone else annoyed they made gold increase runes and silver increase drop rate? I mean I guess it kinda makes sense, but it was also the other way around for the entirety of Dark Souls. I keep getting them mixed up now.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          "approximately 20%"
                                                                          well i tested it on an enemy that gives 23 souls and with the talisman gives 27. so thats 20%.

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            fire slugs near lava in volcano manor drops me less souls with this equipped. 185 normally, 184 with scarab equipped. might be a bug, gonna test on some more mobs

                                                                            • Just in case anybody unaware. You dont have to wear this whole boss fight. Deliver killing blow to boss => ASAP open gear screen and equip this talisman => receive bonus runes. Works since DS 1.

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                Fire slugs in Volcano Manor drop reduced runes. 185 without talisman equipped, 184 with. Maybe a bug, because other enemies in the area drop increased runes.

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