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I’ve noticed recently that the giant bird exploit doesn’t work 100% of the time now. Sometimes, when the bird falls, it’ll land on an invisible ledge that will cushion it’s fall for about a second or two, before falling to it’s death. Really annoying if you’re trying to farm it as fast as possible. Before, it didn’t do that. At least, not to my knowledge.

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I always wear a golden scarab. This talisman + foot allows you to get much more runes and levels. For example, I am a mage with 80 int, but with great rune and scarseal I have a greatshield, a lot of health (44), strength (32), mind (35), endurance (28) and faith (30). At the same time, I haven't even defeated Morgoth yet.

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Just go to Prayroom site of grace and kill the Lesser cleanrot knight out the southeast door.

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Fast travel to Dragon Temple Altar after defeat the Duo, go to west door, backstab a banished knight here for 3700 rune in first playthough. Only need 12s for this.

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Here is another good mid-game spot: In Deeproot Depths fast travel to "Across the Roots" Site of Grace. Now run down the root in front of you and you will encounter a Broken Statue, kill it then hop on Torrent and backtrack a bit to a higher ground turn around and jump on the side of the tower. In the next corner in front of you, you will find another Broken Statue, kill it too then hop on Torrent again and move left to find more roots, one thick and one thin. Hop on the thick one first then on the thin one from it which will take you to the top of the tower, where you will find another Broken Statue, kill it and just use your map to return to the "Across the Roots" Site of Grace, now rinse and repeat.

Each Broken Statue is worth 3517 runes for a total of 10551 and they will be unable to fight back as you will approach all 3 of them from the back. The 3rd one may try to attack you when you are running up the root to reach it, however, it's very unlikely the flames will manage reach you while riding Torrent.
Depending of what weapon you are using you may do the whole run on Torrent, however, summoning Torrent will be disabled until you run on the first root first.

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When did they nerf runes so that you lose about 35% of what you had even if you recover them after death? I died with 22 k runes but was only allowed to pick up 15... Wondering if it was a glitch I died again but was then only able to retrieve 10k... WTH?!?

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I dont know if anyone noticed this, but i have seen on Online Gameplay (group passwords) that Golden Leaves are possibly related to an play defeating a boss (great rune boss maybe) or beating the game.

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I decided to make the best rune farming for early/mid game.

Requirements:
-Killing Radahn for his Swords
-Erdtree avatar for Magic Tear
-Stonedigger for Roar Medallion
-Cleanrot Duo for Golden Scarab
-Gilika for Ritual Sword.


-Get 38 STR and as much INT as you can. INT affects the AOE of Starcaller Cry, and you need that for the Overkill bonus. Get the INT Crystal tear for it too.
-Upgrade the Swords at least to +8, but preferably to +9. Go to Stormveil Castle and get the Highland Axe.
-Get Gold-Pickled recipe from Patches. Farm foot from the penguins on the beach west of the Fourth Church of Marika, Gold Firefly from the pound southeast of Mistwood Outskirts, there are two runebears there. Rowa from running around the world.
-Set as many Group Passwords in the multiplayer manu as you can. I'm using: FEXTRA, straydmn, btf, SEEKERS, fcb.
-Do Varre's questline and get access to Moghwyn Palace, and then go to Palace Approach Ledge-Road bonfire.
-Your buffs will be Roar Medallion 1,15x and Highland Axe(in the left hand) 1,10x; for the first part of Starcaller Cry. Ritual Sword 1,10x AR. Magic-Shrouding 1,20x.

Test it out by killing one of them normally, seeing how much runes they drop. Then lure one away and use the buffed Starcaller Cry, try to not hit it with your sword as that deals a different amount from the AOE. You want the AOE to deal Overkill damage so you get the bonus.
In case it's not enough, get Flame Grant me Strenght and AOW Golden Vow. Or do the Seluvis quest up until the Magic Scorpion.

When you get enough DMG, he Overkill gives 1,20x; use Golden Scarab 1,20x , Gold-Pickled Foot 1,30x; and the frequently Group Password gives 1,05x.
The Golden Eyes effect triggers everytime the area is reloaded, having 1/200 chance for an albinauric with 10x runes, there are a lot of them, so you will get a few in an hour.

This gives a average rune boost of 1,96x. And eventual 19,6x for one with Golden Eyes.

The most efficient way is to get behind the albinauric sitting in the middle if the road and using the two parts of the Starcaller, careful with the red albinauric on the left Then walk forward a little until the two red albinaurics aggro at you and do the two parts of Starcaller again. Back to the grace and repeat.

It averages 50k runes per run, 109k per minute, and over 7million per hour.

You can probably do the same with Sacred Relic sword after beating the game, but better.

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Je confirme pour le palais de Mogwin. La où il y a les albinauric, c’est 30s de récolte montre en main, si vous utilisez l’épée de La bête d’Elden. Le tout pour un total de 58000 runes environ. Et en News game +1, c’est 100 000 runes. Personnellement, c’est les meilleurs spot que j’ai trouvé à ce jour.

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How do you use runes

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Apologies if this is a bit redundant, but one efficient farming method is located in Moghwyn's Palace. Located near the Palace Approach SOG, is a large group of Albinaurics. I've found that rather than killing one by one, you could potentially use Starcaller Cry and make the process much faster. I've not tested it with a Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, but with the Gold Scarab equipped they drop around 2452 Runes consistently. Do be wary of the red variants though, they're pretty annoying. Hope this helps.

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I’ve noticed you get a rune buff after waiting at a site of grace for a certain amount of time, but I’m not seeing any mention of it anywhere.

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need rune lore

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Don't farm the frog guys, farm the bird walking across the canyon. Shoot it so it falls to its death. With rune boosts, and if the bird has golden eyes, you can get 86,000 rune per kill just on NG alone

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Um im getting less runes on j8

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If it were up to me, i'd make the item forms of runes undroppable, but i understand how that would give an additional incentive to cheat in some cases.

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My favourite farming spot is the Yelough Anix Ruins. It might not be the fastest, but the enemies are easy to take out and each run nets 60k+ runes with the Golden Scarab talisman equipped.

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Deep root Depths . You can farm three enemies near nameless eternal city Grace site for 3500 runes each.. takes less than a minute.

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Addendum to Dragonbarrow Fork Site of Grace method:
There's actually around 30~ Guardians if you go on the second slope.
Gold Scarab + Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, 1762 runes per kill, 52860 total runes in under 3 minutes
If you oneshot them and use Torrent you can easily farm all of them even faster, that's me being sloppy as hell.

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I don't want to level any more and I've already bought 999/999 of everything I can and all merchants yada yada yada...

Do I just.... suicide my runes now?
Is there nothing after xyz point?

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In the "Impassable Greatbridge" spot, you can also ride a bit north, slap the bird standing on the cliff and run away. He will chase you and get involved in the fight. Let the soldiers finish him off for additional 1500 runes.

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Level 20-45 rune farm (ideally for a Mage) - 3.5k runes per minute:

Next to Fort Faroth you can find a huge dragon. Do NOT kill it (for 50k-90k runes). Instead target one of the smaller dragons on the left side. You can kill it easily with magic (by hitting his head and knocking him out) in under 1 minute. Get 3500 runes (make sure you get it!), and then you can teleport back to Fort Faroth to reset everything.
Literally 3.5k runes per minute run. In 20-30 minutes you will get more runes than killing a big dragon.
Some notes:
- Do not kill big mama dragon as smaller dragons will no longer spawn (?)
- Do not use Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot to boost rune acquisition, as teleporting from a map will reset that boost (you have to run and sit at grace manually if you want to use it), and you can really benefit from it twice (getting 4.5k runes instead), so it's not worth it

Killing smaller dragon:
1. 3-4 spells to the face
1. a. The dragon will be knocked out
2. Drink a mana potion
3. 1 stab to the face (eye) for a critical damage
4. 2-3 spells to the face to knock him out again
5. finish with spells or again an eye poke
6. Get the runes (!)
7. Teleport back to Fort Faroth through a map

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Greyoll only drops 50k runes as of patch 1.08.

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In pretty much the beginning of the game, are there easy to find items that can be sold for a huge number of runes?

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Every single Dark Souls game chose a very distinctive neonic green color for dropped souls that was never seen anywhere else in the game. It was a great choice, since if you lost them it was fairly easy to spot exactly where, no matter the area and background.
And in Elden Ring, they're dim yellow, the same as collectibles, almost same as messages, specific crafting items and planks, and if its in a large boss room like Rykards where there are loads of lava already, you have to have the eyes of an eagle to see where they are.
I think there was simply not enough thought put into this decision. I get how green couldn't worked cause of the many vegetation in Elden Ring, but I'm sure they could've picked a better color

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In the War-Dead Catacombs head down into the first room with the npcs fighting eachother.
Kite one of the lower level sword and shield guys while the rest knock themselves to the lower level.
Kill your sword guy. He respawns in that room unarmed.
Rinse and repeat until he stops repawning then hit the grace or kite another. 2388rune per soldier.

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I just need to know how many runes it takes just to level up my intelligence to it's max only my intelligence

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Seeing as how alot, not to say nigh every mob and lesser boss, drop so low amounts of runes its really frustrating how there are places that drop absurd amounts. Why make most of the game more or less redundant in tearms of gaining souls? Shouldnt an open world game strive to push players to Explorer every corner and feel its worth while instead of spamming OP aoe at a singel spot? The second time around it feels pretty pointless to do anything beyond the bare minimum. Just to push forward. I feel like its à lot worse than the previous games. Im really disapointed by that tbh.

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If you’re a mage, one of the best farming spots is just outside malenia arena, a graveyard with lots of prawn people. On 70-80 int it’s a one shot kill with basic shard, not sure bout fth casters but I imagine lightning spear will do the trick just fine on comparable fth level. Over 100k runes in under 3 minutes of pressing r1

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why do the people of elden ring contain runes?

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At night, some enemies eyes glow gold. They give out 3-4 times the runes.

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Ledge-Road at Mohgwyn, snipe a bird and aggro him to run down the hole. Quick easy 11,088 Runes, then rest at Grace site and repeat.

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Palace Approach Ledge-Road IS the best farming spot. Each gives 2K per and only the guards are hostile so you don't need to worry about aggro extra mobs. Also, from the Grace Site going down, there is a patrol of 4 Guards or w/e they are, and you can summarily dispatch em with a nice greatsword. Only thing to worry about is their stupid spiked cartwheel ability which can drain your health in a flash. Other than that, they're pretty harmless.

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The 2 golems guarding the grand lift of Dectus drop a consolidated 5k+ runes and are a faster rand much safer and consistent rune farm overall then either the golems in Limgrave or the poisoned guardians in dragonbarrow.

WIth 45-50 strength, a heavy GUGS and determination, axe talisman and charged attack tear, you can get behind the archer golem first and kill it with 2 charged attacks combo (first powered by determination) before it has a chance to react. This will not aggro the halbred golem. You can then hop over the stairs and do the same to the halbred golem which has more hp but will fall down for a critical after 2 charged heavy attacks connect without a chance to react and the critical will kill it. This takes less than a minute per run for 5k+ runs to and fro from the atlus plateau bonfire and they drop great arrows, smithing stones and their weapons as well. Just make sure that you start the run by first running from the bonfire and jumping across the platform or stairs of the lift and kill the archer golem first because if you attack the halbred golem first, this will aggro the archer golem but not vice versa. Running to and fro from the atlus plat bonfire is also faster than either the lift bonfire or teleporting to the atlus bonfire btw.

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NG+, sacred relic sword, and gold scarab.
wave of gold at the ledge in front of the grace, then run forward until the corpse of the first red albinauric, and wave of gold again.

90000 per 30 sec run, meaning tons of runes. TONS of runes

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Palace Approach Ledge-Road doens't need the sacred relic sword. After defeating Radahn and trading his remembrance for the Starscourge Greatsword you can level or respec to minimum requirements, upgrade the sword to +5 or above and use the full weapon art 2 times to kill (sometimes almost) all ablinaurics. Making it a midgame farming spot.

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"Once you've defeated Elden Beast, you can also use the the Sacred Relic Sword's Wave of Gold skill to kill all the nearby Albinaurics. item value icon elden ring wiki guide 18px 11,038 runes per run without killing Albinaurics." You get roughly over 60k Souls there not 11,038 runes per run. Idk why this says just 11k runes

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Also you can easily make the gold chicken foot with the recipe from patches. There’s a pond near the tower of return in the weeping peninsula with some land octopi and 11 golden fireflies. Farm the birds outside the church of dragon communion for some feet and voila

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At palace ledge approach road you can use rejection on the albinaurics to push them off the cliff (doesn’t aggro if you miss since zero damage)
The red ones can be handled the same way since they’ll often cartwheel right to the edge. Also dodge towards the ledge when they spike roll at you and they’ll fall off every time

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My idea is just use “wave of gold” weapon art on the albinaurics at mohgwhyn palace like anyone else, but before wave of gold is used I use elden stars on the bird so he’ll jump off whilst I use wave of gold

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My favourite farming route is to spam Corpse Piler at the Cleanrot knight who is right outside the Prayer Room site of grace through the wall. Low risk if you kill him before he can come inside, takes only a few seconds and gives ca. 7.5k with Gold Scarab and almost 10k with Gold Scarab plus Gold Pickled Fowl Foot every run.

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A decent alternative option to the Waves of Gold for farming the Albinaurics is Radagon's Rings of Light; with ~300 scaling and the Godfrey Icon + Sacred Scorpion Charm, it will 1shot them when they don't have their shields up, and only takes two fully charged casts to take out most of them. Faster than dealing with that bird.

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Knights Calvary glitch does NOT work after patch 1.04

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Don't kill greyoll! Use greyolls dragons to farm runes!

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70k every 10 minutes clearing most enemies around the Prayer Room (with Golden Scarab) --don't miss the smaller rooms along the path. An added bonus--these soldiers drop 6/7/8 Smithing Stones as well.

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I was farming the giant bird in Moghwyn, and the runes turned red. Is that new, or something I should be worried about?

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For farming runes, I found using the small Golden effigy is effective. Of course, that is dependent on whether the group kills the boss, but the open area for just running around is pretty big, so a group of three can clear Limgrave, for example, relatively quick. The best part is, clients have zero risk to losing runes when they die. It may not be as efficient, but it can definitely break up the monotony and tedium of running back and forth from the same grace. Invasions are more likely to occur, but that isn't entirely a bad thing, considering most enemies should be dead by then and you can pick your battlefield.

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I keep greyoll alive to farm his dragons for 4k a piece, kill 4 get 16 go to faroth camp, rinse and repeat

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In the early game section for rune farming, if anyone is having trouble farming the golems on the bridge, you can get the archer to shoot the halberd golems and it almost always poise breaks them

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I like to farm two broken statues in Deeproot Depths. Spawn in Across The Roots bonfire, run down the branch a bit to kill the first broken statue. The second one is on a ledge on your left, kill it with ranged and run back to bonfire. Total ~8.000 per run. I made around 70.000 runes in three minutes with the chicken foot item. I used the Stone of Gurranq incantation, took 3 casts on each and the casts chain nicely.

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No way... I walked into Mohgwyn Dynasty up to the red albinaurics near the Midpoint site of grace and FIVE of them had yellow rune eyes........ I fell off the cliff.

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What I do is go to the prayer room grace in haligtree, and I kill the cleanrot knight outside it, and then I make a run through the enemies until you can jump to the roof with the soldier and the scarab on it, and the cleanrot that’s inside the room behind the soldier will jump onto the beam and sometimes fall to its death. With the gold scarab talisman, I usually get anywhere between 70k-100k and up. Haven’t tried it with the gold pickled foot yet.

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why is there still nothing here about the falling leaves buff?

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How do you get from 154,016 runes per 100 seconds to 9,240,960 runes per hour? That math doesn't check out at all.

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I wanna ask a question. Has anyone noticed that you get some bonus rune acquisition status effect during night time when there are golden petals around in the air?. If so then by how much?.

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Did a bit of testing an i found the Relic sword give more rune when you kill an enemy im ng+5 with a regular with golden scarab give me 5887 but with the relic sword it gives me 7064

so like this, Any regular weapon (wIth golden scarab=5887, without =4906) Relic Sword (with golden scarab=7064, without =5887) so im very sure relic sword was made just for this spot lmao

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The Fort Faroth dragon can actually be farmed at starting level. Get a bleed weapon, run your butt out there. Radagon's Soreseal is in the Fort to help you equip your weapon. Then hack away at the side of the dragon. When he gets low (or just start that way), get on your horse to finish it off. When the dragon does a huge twitch (not the roar one), book it to the Grace. If you make it in time, you'll get the runes, but the dragon won't be dead.

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add in overkill to this page. Overkill has been confirmed many times to be around ~ 20%

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We're two months out from launch, when is this page going to be properly updated? If you're gonna force other wikis out, keep this place constantly updated or don't do it at all.

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"this dragon gives a quest" why is this here?

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I've noticed that if you stand by a site of grace for a good while, you'll get the golden fowl foot buff. It wears off extremely fast but the duration seems to extend if you stay there longer. Doubt it's worth standing idle for so long but I guess if you have to go do something it's a nice little bonus

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I've noticed that if you stand by a site of grace for a good while, you'll get the golden fowl foot buff. It wears off extremely fast but the duration seems to extend if you stay there longer. Doubt it's worth standing idle for so long but I guess if you have to go do something it's a nice little bonus

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Does anyone know if runes are affected by leveling up? When I first got to the Moghwyn farming spot in my current run (NG+1), I was getting about 4,500 per Alburnaic killed, but after going up about ten or so levels, it jumped to 4,900.

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who added the rumor of a quest? that dragon is always hostile and its death unlocks its roar for the dragon church

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What about the Palace Approach Ledge-Road farm? It is one of, if not the best mid-game and even late-game farming spots. In this spot, there are a lot of enemies that drop around 2000 runes each.

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Something I found out (and later confirmed from other Google sources) back stab kills give you extra runes as well. Not sure on the percentage of the boost but it was significant enough for me to notice.

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At mohgwgwyn palace near the birds if you double jump up the rocks you can walk to the edge of a cliff, double jump off the clif then spam r1 and you will fall through the map for about a minute then as soon as you get 2k runes go to the map then return to the nearby site if grace you will get around 120,000 runes. It’s a glitch and it works. Look it up on YouTube for the exact location.

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Another great place to farm is Deeproot Depths at "across the roots grace". Spawn at grace run southwest on the root and kill the 2 gargoyles from behind (they don't fight back) for a base 3500 runes ea up to 5400 ea with pickled foul foot+ golden scarab . 4-5 runs can easily be done in a minute. This is a magic preferred method and there are also several other gargoyles perched around the area. But I find it most efficient to just kill the 2 then rest at the same grace and repeat.

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Regarding the bird-shooting method at Palace Approach Ledge-Road: So from what I can tell the bird's behavior has changed a little since the most recent patch (1.04), seems to often stop short of the ledge before falling off, although not perfectly since it is still possible to make him fall. I might be wrong about this, but it seems like I can still get him to reliably fall off the edge if I run away from him as he's reacting to my shot. So I release the arrow, and while it is still in flight I run/roll away from the edge of the cliff where I took the shot, stopping right around where the grace site is, maybe a little past. More often than not, this seems to result in him running off the edge as intended. Also, and again this is speculation based on some experimentation, it seems to work better if I wait until he turns and is walking away from me when I release the arrow. Not sure if it is because he can't "see" me, or if it is based on the distance away from the player, or what... would be curious how this farm spot is working for other players?

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My favourite spot for early rune and smithing stones farming(mostly tier 4 but also 3 & 2) is the Gael tunnel.
Really fast route with plenty of enemies mostly unware of you.
Melee isn't recommended though since many of them throw explosives. Better to snipe them with magic for that unware attack bonus.
Best option for melee characters is the Ice Spear skill, it will one shot everything(with a decently upgraded spear/halbard) and also destroy the boss in this tunnel.
Ice spear is a bit of a hassle to get for a lvl 10-15 character though since you need to kill a knight cavalry in a forest so dark you can barely see where you are.
Another option is the Flame of the redmanes skill, which by coincident(?) is just a stone's throw away south of Gael tunnel.
Just spam it to quickly dispose of all enemies, beware the miners with backpacks that will explode though.
Ideally you also want every kill to be overkills for that 20% extra runes, easily done with icespear. With Flame of the redmanes the miners will mostly be overkills but not the Radahn soldiers. So either go for backstabs or even better one cast of redmanes for stance break followed up by a riposte for a guaranteed overkill.
My route goes like this...
Start from the front entrance grace(not the back entrance near the boss)
Pop Physick flask, int and/or dex tear when using icespear or str tear for Flames of the redmanes.
Take out the Radahn soldier to the right, next the miner down the ramp. Ice spear has weird tracking on enemies below you and may shoot straight forward so learn the optimal spot for casting it. The projectile also starts from a low point so stand near edges or the projectile will hit the edge. The animation will not move you character forward so don't fear falling down.
Next the two resting soldiers in front of you. The baby octopus further ahead is optional and not really a threat.
Turn left and go for the soldier and two miners resting down the slope.
Turn around and take out the two working miners under the ramp.
Then, further in under the ramp take out the two miners and the soldier standing next to them.
Do this quickly since even further back there is a resting soldier that will sound the horn and the miners can get nasty if not killed before he sounds the alarm.
So kill them fast with ice spear or simply walk up and cast redmanes to dispose of all three at once. The soldier may not die if your weapon level(skill damage) isn't that high yet, but one of the miners will explode and take care of that.
Then dispose of the alarm soldier while he is honking his horn, don't worry, no one around anymore to hear his alarm.
Now you can either stop here and return to the grace and reset or turn around and proceed further in(towards the back entrance).
In that case, first take out the soldier standing by the wooden platform(next to the ladder).
Drop down, turn around and quickly take out the soldier resting which will try to sound the alarm and finally the miner on the opposite side.
If you have killed the area boss you can simply teleport back to the grace, if not it will be faster to just skip the three last enemies. You have to do this full route if you want to exit the mine of course.
In the beginning you can also go into the tunnel behind the baby octopus. Do this once at least for some smithing materials and the cross naginata spear. Beware the giant octopus. Ice spear or redmanes will make short work of him though.
Another easy farming tunnel is the sealed tunnel, just go for the miners(and the ambushing militia) in the first chamber after the bell bearing chest.
You will get smithing stones tier 5 here.
Finally, I know you get 20% extra runes on overkills but lately i've started wondering if overkills also increase the drop rate.
Haven't got any proof of this and it may be that the gael and sealed tunnels have an unusually high drop rate but with a low arcane of 9 and no chicken feets to boost discovery after my last farming session which i think was around one hour i walked out with 25 tier 4 smithing runes and enough brass shields, lordsworn swords and Radahn armor to start an armory shop, plus exploding stones and enough cracked crystals to last me a life time.
Think i'm gonna start keeping track of the drop rates with and without overkills and see if the statistics confirm my suspicions.

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Hello guys! I doing now the bird farm with bow and arrow. But for some reason I get less runes than expected. I mean in the videos wich in YouTube about this farm they get much more runes than I get. Golden Scarab and Goled foot activated for me also. I know there is a chance to get more runes if the target spawns with glowing eyes but I speaking about overall. I get 11 to 13k they get 18k to 20k per run. Iam currently level 119 in the video they are level 200+ is that mean something?

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Using Golden Vow Incantation also adds another 10% runes...
Together with scarab and gold fowl foot I'm on +9500 runes per albinuric on NG+6 @ Palace approach ledge road...

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Lvl 283 need 734.028 runes for next, its unlimited ? lvl 500 you need 10.000.000 for runes, or runes needed have limit ? Im curious to see how many runes you need for all stats lvl 99

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Wait I found some mechanics that Runes that drops from death is not fully recovered it's somehow decreases everytime you recover it

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best rune farm in the game is easily at the palace approach ledge road. you unlock it by starting varres quest and using the medallion he gives you after getting the maidens blood. theres a bird you can shoot with a bow from the grace point that aggros and falls of the edge for 11k runes every ~7 seconds, goes up to 17.2k/bird with scarab and gold fowl foot on

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albanurics in mohgwyn palace give 6009 runes on ng+ 6 with the gold scarab equipped

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Anyone know why sometimes enemies drop 5x runes?

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Really quick way to farm runes:
Go to Deeproot Depths' "Across the Roots" Grace. Take a step forward, lock onto the Broken Gargoyle ahead of you, and blast it a few times with Frenzied Burst. Because you are right next to Grace you can immediately rest and shoot again. With the rune talisman and the gold fowl foot I'm getting 5486 runes with every 2 shots of Frenzied Burst. This is on NG.

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Anyone know is there any overkill bonus rune mechanic in Elden Ring?
I know Dark Souls does give you extra souls when you deal x1.5 damge to enemies maximum health but I am not sure about Elden Ring

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from testing the albanurics from Mohgwyn's Palace, it seems that the rune gain doubles from NG to NG+1, from ~2.2k per enemy to ~4.4k per enemy, with gold scarab. However, the rune gain from NG+1 to NG+2 seems to be quite a bit less - 5.3k per kill, with gold scarab. Haven't tried beyond that, but it'd be nice to have some data on how much the rune increase is across increasing NG+.

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Ez runes
Choose samurai for sword that bleeds
Ride horse to greyol and kill as he doesn't aggro at all, 75000

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I just found an accidental "farm" glitch and haven't seen it mentioned. Do the early dragon blood loss farm but as soon as you see the death animation start, run to the Grace next to you (On Torrent) and immediately rest. you'll get the runes for the kills and the dragons will still be there if you were fast enough. Not the most efficient one but it does work if you want ~97k runes (With golden fowl foot) every couple of minutes and haven't already done it. Just did it twice with a fresh character.

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Level 319 is the first to cost more than one million of souls - more precisely, 1001600.

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The old mechanic of "Overkill" is present in Elden Ring. If you deal more damage than the enemy's total HP in one hit (about x1.5 or x2) you receive bonus rune.

Tested against the white Albinauric in Mohg Palace with gold scarab talisman in NG+. Receive ~4900 runes with no overkill and ~5600 with overkill.

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going from 272 to 273 is 662,930 runes

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Mohgwyn farm spot (albinauric + crow) in ng+6 + fowl foot and scarab = 170k per run. Pretty useless to me since i need 10 times that to level up once lol

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it seems overkill damage grants 20% more runes from kills. I've been doing a lot of testing at the Palace Approach Ledge-Road

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I’m convinced that only about 50% of this entire wiki is accurate and the rest is just braindead bullshit. Like bro did you even play the game? Are you high? It doesn’t take 6,000 runes to get to level 9.

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What has happened to me? When I recover my runes, it doesn't give back the full amount I had when I died. This occurred after being transported to the Sellia Crystal cave.

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So... what even ARE runes?

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In about 20 seconds at mohgwyn palace "palace approach ledge road" using sacred Relic Sword special ability I get around 124k with gold scarab and gold fowl foot this is ng+ 1

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Cap is 999,999,999. Someone down in the comments on this page asked. Couldn't find them, not gonna dig.

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Mohgwyn palace, Palace Approach Ledge-Road grace: With decent aoe weapon (im using starscourge greatswords wa) you can run to the packs right next to grace and clear them in roughly 30s, netting about 70k runes without buffs (golden scarab talisman etc). I personally dont clear the patrolling pack a bit further down since it's extra time. Most efficient farming place i've found so far, though its a bit dependent on weapons used, the starscourge gs absolutely obliterates trashmobs in a single rotation of wa, allowing for a fast clear.

The Grand cloister is decent earlier choice as someone commented before, albeit a lot slower.

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i get around 34k by killing everyone in less than 1min at Dynasty Mausoleum Midpoint grace in Mohgwyn Palace

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Anyone know the max amount you can hold at a time?

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Site of Graces: Grand Cloister in the Lake of Rot Area.
As a Mage with 70 INT who 2-3 Shots them I got 18.940 Souls from 10 LESSER KINDRED OF ROT (PESTS) (The Bugs with the Glefe) Enemies in less then 1 Minute/Min and Half. You need to stay max range as magician so they won't running away or casting their arrows

They drop 1579 Runes + Talisman (Gold Scarab) 30% = 1894 Runes * 10 = 18.940
There is also 11 one but he's so far away that it would take more than a minute.

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I have consistentlynoticed that when I die and then get my runes back, I receive a smaller amount to which I had dropped upon killed. The difference seems to be small (22k to 17k, for example). Anyone else noticed this? Does it have anything to do with acquiring dragon communion spells? I don't remember stuff like these happening in the early game.

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Do runes dropped from enemies go down as you level? When I first started, I killed a knight and got roughly 1800 runes from it. But when I leveled up a few times, suddenly it only dropped about 300. I didn't have anything equipped, and wasn't using a gold foot.

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Looking at the information about the required runes above, I discovered the following:

The data for SL (or RL/Rune Level) 166-168 is pretty weird. Those three levels propably have a mistake, if we assume there's again a formula that defines how many runes one needs to level up.
I estimated them to the following:
RL 166: 195.232
RL 167: 198.046
RL 168: 200.886

The formula I got using numerical approximation is
f(x) = 0.02x³ + 3.12x² + 111.784x - 787, (rounded down)
which holds again only for levels >=12 (in DS3 it was for >=13).
So f(x) are the required souls needed for the Level-up to Level x.
This is pretty close to the formula in DS3 btw.

For Levels 12-205 (all the currently available ones), the biggest error that occurs is 1 rune, even when the numbers get to >300k per level up. I'm not counting the levels 166-168, since they're too far off the maths.

I got this formula using interpolation (I thought it's safe to assume that the formula is pretty similar to DS3, hence a degree 3 polynomial) and the data from above, but i estimated the values for the levels 166-168, otherwise the result could've been a bit off)

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