Rebirth or Respec in Elden Ring is a mechanic to reset your Character Stats. Respeccing in Elden Ring is often used to make drastic changes to a player's Build, reallocating attribute points to satisfy the stat requirements of new Weapons, Spells, or other such equipment. This page includes all information required for Rebirth, including prerequisites, Locations, and Items.
- See Stats for a rundown of attribute points, attack power, damage negation, and all other player stats.
- See Leveling for details on how to level, a breakdown of runes necessary per level, and more.
- See Runes for details on acquiring runes and rune acquisition boosting equipment.
Respeccing in Elden Ring
How to Respec in Elden Ring
After defeating the shardbearer, Rennala Queen of the Full Moon, of Raya Lucaria Academy, you will be able to redistribute all of your allocated attribute points in exchange for a Larval Tear.
How Respec works in Elden Ring
With the Rebirth menu, you can spend Larval Tears to clear your levels and reassign them from square one.
You must reassign all levels until you reach your present level and cannot make any attributes lower than their initial level determined by your origin.
The Larval Tear is consumed only after confirming your allocation of stats by responding "Yes" to the prompt of "Undergo rebirth?" - backing out of the menu before finishing will not expend a tear.
Where to find Larval Tears in Elden Ring
There are eighteen (18) Larval Tears to find in Elden Ring:
Limgrave [1]
- Dropped by a Lesser Runebear disguised as a lone sword-wielding Wandering Noble standing directly east of the Agheel Lake South Site of Grace. [Map Link]
- Found in the graveyard of the town, at Village of the Albinaurics. [Map Link]
- Dropped by a Grafted Scion disguised as a Giant Crayfish patrolling around the gazebo between Rose Church and Boilprawn Shack. There are four Giant Crayfish in this area, three of them are sleeping and one is patrolling. The disguised Grafted Scion is the one patrolling. Easily reached by:
- Going south from Fallen Ruins of the Lake site of grace, or
- Going northeast from Folly on the Lake site of grace, or
- Going northwest from Boilprawn Shack site of grace. [Map Link]
- Found in the graveyard east of Caria Manor after obtaining the Resurrection Painting. This area can only be reached after defeating Royal Knight Loretta. The item is found by touching a ghost sitting on a chair at the graveyard. The ghost disappears as soon as you touch it and the Larval Tear will appear on the ground along with a Juvenile Scholar Cap and Juvenile Scholar Robe. [Map Link]
- Purchased from Pidia, Carian Servant for 3000 runes (once only). He can be reached after defeating Royal Knight Loretta by dropping down the cliffs from the southeastern side of the Three Sisters sub-area onto a balcony.
Caelid [1]
- Dropped by a Troll disguised as a Wandering Noble in Caelid, by the stone coffins on the cliff south of the Caelid Highway South Site of Grace. [Map Link]
Altus Plateau [1]
- Dropped by a Lion Guardian disguised as an Wandering Noble cowering in a corner in the unnamed ruins southeast of Windmill Village. The ruins are on the clifftops, most easily reached by going north from the Rampartside Path site of grace. [Map Link]
Mt.Gelmir [1]
- Dropped by Colossal Wormface disguised as charred corpse. Due east from the Road of Iniquity grace, upon entering the ruined camp, and next to the first corpse fire will be the charred remains enemy. [Map Link]
- Dropped by a Lesser Runebear disguised as a pilgrim in the Consecrated Snowfield. The disguised pilgrim is half-buried in snow with two other pilgrims, one carrying a torch, standing around it. They are located southeast of the Inner Consecrated Snowfield site of grace, nearly on the straight-line path between the grace and the Consecrated Snowfield Catacombs.[Map Link]
Siofra River [1]
- Purchased from the Nomadic Merchant in Siofra River for 3000 Runes (once only). [Map Link]
- Found on a corpse inside the stone building southeast of the Nokron, Eternal City Site of Grace. [Map Link]
- Found on a corpse in the middle of a gazebo in Nokron, Eternal City. When approaching the corpse, slimes will fall down. [Map Link]
- Dropped by a Silver Tear disguised as a large inanimate ball in Night's Sacred Ground. [Map Link]
- Two (2) dropped by Mimic Tear when defeated. [Map Link]
- Dropped by a Silver Tear disguised as a large inanimate ball on the bridge in Nokstella, Eternal City. [Map Link]
- Dropped by a Silver Tear disguised as a large inanimate ball in the north east building after the bridge in Nokstella, Eternal City.
- Dropped by a Silver Tear disguised as a large inanimate ball after the bridge up the stairs in the immediate building after reaching the top in Nokstella, Eternal City.
Respec Location in Elden Ring
Raya Lucaria Academy is located near the center of Liurnia of the Lakes.
Prerequisite Bosses which must be defeated before being able to respec:
Great Rune of the Unborn
Great Rune of the Unborn is a Great Rune dropped by Rennala Queen of the Full Moon upon defeating her.
Unlike the other Great Runes, you do not need to restore its power at Divine Tower, nor can it be equipped and activated with a Rune Arc.
Its significance lies in its description, telling of its ability to "perfect those who have been born anew."
AnonymousI wish rebirth cost one level instead of a larval tear, because a) I don't want to be limited to a fixed number of rebirths per NG, and b) because I want to be able to go down in level without making a new file.
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Can you find more larval tears in NG+ or are you just flat limited to the 18?
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Is it true you can also change your class? Doesn't seems like it but I heard somewhere you can.
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Can u after respec continue where u are in story progress or do u have to start from beginning after respec ??
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I believe you I have the same problem, now everybody is a level 200 rivers of blood user and 99 arcane...
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There's a part of me that wishes I could de-level myself, I found out about the Mohgwyn palace rune farm and in my innocence, took it as an opportunity to level myself up to a ridiculous degree to help do more for boss fights, I'm like RL187 and wish I could de-level so that I can do matchmaking again, because I love matchmaking for boss fights and helping other players out. I liked being able to buff other players with Golden Vow and Blessing of the Erdtree to give them regen and better damage and damage negation.
Now that I know, I wish I had just respecced instead of just inflating my Strength and Faith with excessive leveling.
Even worse still, I spent around 80 hours with this character, gathering tons of incantations, tons of sorceries, weapons, armor, seals, and talismans, so now it feels like I can barely share him with anyone and now I just feel bad.
Does respeccing have any negative effects gamewise? I mean, does it cut you out of any endings or npc interactions or anything? I wasn’t going to respecc at all for fear of this, but if it doesn’t, I may consider it.
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The respec glitch is gone with patch 1.06. Does anyone know any new alternatives ?
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This has no impact on character design I hope? Got my female character perfect after 8 hours of time in the mirror in Round table. Will this absolve sins?
- Anonymous
SO...I'm a L186 and decided to respec; only I freed the sorcerer chick who apparently took Rennala's place and doesn't respec?
So what do I do now?
- Anonymous
Hold the alabama country music lads
"rebirth" ?
By rennala?
Does that mean im ranni's sibling now ?
- Anonymous
if you ALT+F4 and hit "Yes" to undergo rebirth at the EXACT same time, it doesn't use a larval tear but rebirths you anyways just like ALT+F4ing Rosaria in DS3.
This is very unreliable, annoying to do, and has to be frame perfect I think.
This has worked for me as of 1.04.1
Anybody else losing attribute points after rebirth? I respec’d 4 times, playing around with some different builds and have somehow lost 20 attribute points in the process. I hope they provide a fix for this..
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is it safe to back up your save data before respec ? I want to test different builds but I'm a bit concerned if by testing, doing rollbacks and stuff will get me flagged.
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Something to note that's not listed in the wiki - if you rebirth a few times (i think 5 or more times), Rennala's lines change to thank you for being rebirthed time and time again. If you attempt to respec again immediately, without leaving the menu, you will be able to respec again without using another larval tear.
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When respeccing, can you change your character's name and appearance too, or just stats?
- Anonymous
> Kill Deacons of the Deep Electric Boogaloo, receive rebirths - Hmmmm
- Anonymous
Those 8 points would cost well over 1mill runes to get back. Nice
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After about 10-12 rebirths, Renalla charges you runes instead of tears
- Anonymous
Does rebirthing reset your level points as your class lvl 0? Or for example will it go to wretch lvl 0 even though you’re another class? i.e. vagabond.
- Anonymous
You can respec after defeating the Third Story Line Boss: Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon. Speak to her after the battle and select "Rebirth". It requires the larvel tears item. You DO NOT have to beat the final boss.
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I've managed to collect 18 tears on my first playthrough. So there at least 3 more for sure (if not more). Don't remember from where though.
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WARNING: Rebirthing is currently bugged and you may lose attribute points in the process.
I took screenshots from before and after and i lost 2 attribute points due to rebirth. No equipment had been unequipped and reequipped. No buffs had been used.
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Can you respec after you defeat the final boss in your first playthrough and before you start your second one? Or do you need to go and defeat Rennala in your second journey before you get a chance to respec after the final boss of journey 1?
- Anonymous
Can you respec after you defeat the final boss in your first playthrough and before you start your second one? Or do you need to go and defeat Rennala in your second journey before you get a chance to respec after the final boss of journey 1?
- Anonymous
Can you respec after you defeat the final boss in your first playthrough and before you start your second one? Or do you need to go and defeat Rennala in your second journey before you get a chance to respec after the final boss of journey 1?
- Anonymous
when you respec does it reset you at level one or the base stats of your class?
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Is it 100% known if the Rosaria bug works or not on all platforms? Just tried it and im thinking it might've worked (im on Xbox1) but i just wanted to make sure.
- Anonymous
When the respec is locked behind the very content you want to respec for.
- Anonymous
Are we SURE Rennala won't sluggify our characters for respeccing them? Like really REALLY sure?
- Anonymous
Are 15 Larval Tears in ng+ again? This would mean that you can respec 15 times per run. A lot! In DS3 it was 5 times I think.
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Anyone know if Larval Tear allows you to change base class? My current base class in not optimal for my build.
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Don't forget to mention helping Sorceress Sellen removes the ability to respec.
- Anonymous
Where one trully starts playing. You know the game you know what you want youre not forced to stick with your early choices anymore.
- Anonymous
It seems you can do the same as DS3.
If you alt+f4 just after confirming the rebirth, the larval tear won't be consumed but the rebirth will be done
- Anonymous
I am going to respec my weak af STR character to a Moonveil or Bleed Build.
- Anonymous
It is possible to farm Larval Tears off of the sentient boulders in Nokstella, the Eternal City. They have a fairly high dropchance too.
You can get the Larval Tears from the big killable spheres in places like Nokstella and Nokron, and if you're a co-op player you can get them as well. You might even be able to farm them this way. We killed the same sphere a second time after host died, and while they didn't get another tear, I did.
- Anonymous
You can get one from a surprise ambush from a bear after killing an undead with sword east of Agheel Lake South waygate. He is supervising a group of slaves against a wall by the road.
- Anonymous
"You would most likely be over level 50 by the point you get to this"
Wait... I tought this was the second dungeon... I was like 30 when I killed the queen
- Anonymous
You can get one from a runebear that spawned after killing an undead with sword east of Agheel Lake South waygate
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If anybody is wondering, there is a larval tear you can buy from siofra river's merchant.
- Anonymous
Idk what happened, but after I rebirthed the first time and then went back to change it to its original I came up short…
- Anonymous
Looks like the Ds3 exploit of ALT+F4 after finishing the rebirth no longer works, now it consumes the item but stats remain as they were.
Rip Larval Tears :(
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You Cana Lao get one early game, go to south lake rune(forgot the name of lake) and you will see the caravan, ignore it and start going up the mountain, you will see a lone skeleton,kill it. Then a big bear will appear, kill the bear, then boom. Larval tear
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in Lake of Liurnia there is a small ruin with several giant lobsters sleeping around it, one of which, after dying, transforms into a grafted scion
- Anonymous
this should be available from the start or at least very early in the game. its dumb and annoying to have such a basic feature so late in the game.
- Anonymous
ughh I hate that I chose astrologer now im stuck with a high int stat no matter if I try to repec
- Anonymous
Is there a cap of 5 rebirths per NG like in dark souls 3, or is it unlimited?
- Anonymous
Is it like dark souls 3 in that you can only set stats as low as they are in the base starting class?
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Hopefully there will be a way to respec infinitely, just like force quitting the game in DS3
- Anonymous
Are only two Larva Tear per new game? can i only reset my character twice per new game?
great but why it is locked behind one of the hardest bosses??
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