Runes in Elden Ring, analogous to the Souls of previous FromSoftware titles, act as the player's EXP and currency for Merchants. You will drop any runes in your possession at the site of your death. If you die again before reclaiming those runes, they will be lost forever. The compass at the top of the screen indicates the direction of the lost runes.
- See Leveling for details on how to level up, a breakdown of runes necessary per level, and more.
- See Stats for a rundown of attribute points, attack power, damage negation, and all other player stats.
- See Rebirth for details on how to reallocate (respec) assigned attribute points.
How to Obtain Runes in Elden Ring
Enemies are the main source of runes. Defeating the inhabitants of the Lands Between will award you both runes and Items.
Occasionally enemies have golden glowing eyes, indicating that they will drop five times their usual amount of runes.
Bosses are a substantial source of runes. Conquering the strongest of foes merits a bounty of runes.
Remembrances drop from certain bosses upon defeat which can be consumed for runes or exchanged for powerful items.
During Multiplayer Co-op, the Host receives 75% of the boss's rune reward and Cooperators receive 25%
Golden Rune Consumables are a reliable source of runes. Like all items, they are not lost on death so you can store them up and use them when you need a few more runes.
Player-vs-Player rewards runes after either a successful invasion or defense against fellow Tarnished.
How to Use Runes in Elden Ring
Leveling: Available at any site of grace after meeting Melina, players can spend runes to increase their stats.
Players have an opportunity to reallocate attribute points later through Rebirth.
Merchants: Runes can buy a variety of Items, Weapons, and other goods from the more sociable denizens of the Lands Between.
Occasionally, merchants offer certain items with an unlimited stock, accommodating even the greatest of spending sprees.
Rune-Granting Consumables in Elden Ring
The following Consumables grant a fixed number of Runes upon use:
Shadow of the Erdtree
- Broken Rune-
500 - Shadow Realm Rune [1] 7500
- Shadow Realm Rune [2] 10000
- Shadow Realm Rune [3] 12500
- Shadow Realm Rune [4] 15000
- Shadow Realm Rune [5] 17500
- Shadow Realm Rune [6] 22500
- Shadow Realm Rune [7] 30000
- Leda's Rune 40000
- Rune of an Unsung Hero 50000
- Marika's Rune 80000
Elden Ring
- Lands Between Rune - 3000
- Golden Rune [1] - 200
- Golden Rune [2] - 400
- Golden Rune [3] - 800
- Golden Rune [4] - 1.200
- Golden Rune [5] - 1.600
- Golden Rune [6] - 2.000
- Golden Rune [7] - 2.500
- Golden Rune [8] - 3.000
- Golden Rune [9] - 3.800
- Golden Rune [10] - 5.000
- Golden Rune [11] - 6.250
- Golden Rune [12] - 7.500
- Golden Rune [13] - 10.000
- Numen's Rune - 12.500
- Hero's Rune [1] - 15.000
- Hero's Rune [2] - 20.000
- Hero's Rune [3] - 25.000
- Hero's Rune [4] - 30.000
- Hero's Rune [5] - 35.000
- Lord's Rune - 50.000
- Remembrances - Can be consumed for Runes or exchanged to unlock their powers
Boosting Rune Acquisition in Elden Ring
Equipment and Consumables:
- Festive Grease - 25 runes on hit, unaffected by other boosts
- Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot - Increases rune acquisition by 30% for 3 minutes
- Gold Scarab - Increases rune acquisition by 20% while equipped
- Golden Horn Tender - Increases run acquisition by 40% for 3 minutes
Celebrant Weapons: Weapons which grant runes on-hit (unaffected by acquisition boosts):
- Celebrant's Skull - 20
- Celebrant's Cleaver - 10
- Celebrant's Sickle - 10
- Celebrant's Rib-Rake - 10
Multiplayer: When a player you share a Group Password with accomplishes a major feat, you receive a 5% increase to rune acquisition for five minutes. Below are the possible accompanying messages:
- "Someone in the [1-5] group has defeated a Shardbearer"
- "Someone in the [1-5] group has become a Lord"
- "Someone in the [1-5] group has become the Elden Lord"
Overkill exists as it did in previous titles. If the first strike to an enemy deals over 150% of its max HP, it gives 20% more runes.
Golden Leaves will occasionally shower from the Erdtree, increasing rune acquisition by 5% as long as the leaves are falling.
Preventing Rune Loss: While not "boosting" rune acquisition, you can save your runes using the following.
- Sacrificial Twig - Instead of losing your runes when you die, you will lose the Sacrificial Twig
- Twiggy Cracked Tear - Briefly stops rune loss on death (takes precedence over Sacrificial Twig when active)
Farming Spots
How to efficiently farm runes is an ever-evolving topic in Elden Ring that highly depends on the player's preferred method of farming, access to areas of the game world, and current player strength. Contributions are not only welcomed, but encouraged. It is recommended that players who want to farm runes obtain the Golden Scarab talisman as early as possible, as it increases runes reward by 20%. In order to further increase rune rewards, it is possible in the late game to efficiently farm for Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, to increase rune rewards by a further 30%, for a total increase of 56%.
Early Game (1 - 35):
- In Gatefront Ruins: Farm the enemies in the ruins. Use Spirit Ashes to clear out the encampment more quickly. 1,224 per run if the Godrick Knight is killed. [Map Link]
- Outside the Third Church of Marika Grace, there is a single Troll which serves as an easy target. Use Spirit Ashes (e.g. Godrick Soldier Ashes) and consider a weapon with Hemorrhage. Return to the nearby grace and repeat. 1,000 per run
- In Liurnia: Look for a nearby battle between spectral soldiers and giants and collect the runes once the battle has ended. 1,000 per run
- By Limgrave Tower Bridge Site of Grace: After defeating Margit The Fell Omen, farm the three Golems along the bridge. 3,117 per run. [Map Link]
- Impassable Greatbridge Site of Grace: If you run past enemies on Torrent, you can get to this midgame location very early. Two groups of enemies are fighting one another next to this Site of Grace, and if you jump onto the cliff to the west, stand back, and let them kill each other. Each run takes a few minutes but is both low-risk and low-effort. About 4,000 per run. [Map Link]
Mid Game (35 - 75):
- By Lenne's Rise: Go down the slope. A ball will spawn and try to smash you, but you can turn right, dodge the ball, and let it fall down the cliff. Continue down the path a short way for another identical ball, just under an overhanging tree. One run takes around 30 seconds and doesn't require any fighting. Make sure the ball goes off the side of the cliff and is close enough that you get the runes. 3,904 per run. [Map Link]
- From the Across the Roots grace in Deeproot Depths, go down the roots to the south-west. There will be up to 6 Broken Statues which can easily be killed from behind. Take out the first three at the tower left of the grace. Another one on the tower right - ignore the frogs. Then down the root from the grace and another on the left from the grace behind buildings, nearby where the map can be found. 21.102 per run
Late Game (75+):
- By Dragonbarrow Fork Site of Grace: Go up the slope and fight 16 poisoned Guardians. These have 983 HP so this farming spot requires a high damage output. 18,122 per run. [Map Link]
- By Lower Capital Church Site of Grace: Kill the Omenkiller right outside, then run straight down into the sewers, turn left and then right ignoring the Rats and Lesser Fingercreepers along the way, and kill the Broken Statue at the end. Takes about 30 seconds. About 5,000 per run. [Map Link]
- By Palace Approach Ledge-Road Site of Grace: Stand on the cliffside and shoot the large bird at the other end. The arrow should hit the bird when it shows its back to the player. It will run towards the player and fall off the cliff. A run takes 15 to 20 seconds once you find the perfect spot to stand. Once you've defeated Elden Beast, you can also use the Sacred Relic Sword's Wave of Gold skill to kill all the nearby Albinaurics. 11,038 runes per run without killing Albinaurics. [Map Link]. This spot is accessible in the mid-game (after beating Godrick the Grafted) by doing White-Mask Varre's quest and obtaining the Pureblood Knight's Medal. Killing the Albinaurics using a single Wave of Gold rewards about 32,000 runes from the right spot. Note that it is very advantageous to quickly go into NG+ in order to farm runes, as the reward received from enemies is doubled, making farming far more efficient.
- By Prayer Room Site of Grace: Head out the northern opening to clear out several easy knights around the wall. Fast travel back to Prayer Room before reaching the room toward the bottom with the two larger and more difficult knights. Over 30,000 per run. [Map Link]
Rune "Bounties"
These locations or enemies yield an abundance of runes with minimal investment but can only be collected once.
- 75.000 by Fort Faroth: Kill Elder Dragon Greyoll just to the west. She can't defend herself if you attack her tail, and a Hemorrhage weapon can whittle down her substantial health bar even at a very low level. [Map Link]
- 45.000 by Lenne's Rise: Head north at night and let the Night's Cavalry notice you. Run up the slope, turn left, and keep going: the boss will die somehow on its way back to its original location. This has been patched in 1.08. It is still possible by getting the rider stuck between the bridge and the northwestern root, then shooting it from the southwestern end of the bridge.
Runes Notes & Tips
- You can hold at most 999,999,999 at one time.
- Golden Runes are included in Player Trade.
- Unless explicitly stated, rune acquisition boosts stack multiplicatively.
AnonymousWhy does nobody talk about the trolls in deeproot depths 1200ish hp and 4.2k runes with golden beetle they can't fight back if you spawn at across the roots grace I think it's quite nice
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There's a new way to unload mohgwyn palace to get all enemies to fall to death (including mohg if done properly)
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The best late game farm (before the albinuric farm) for Sorcerers is ruins of Zamor.
The weapon of choice is night comet (important as the NPCs cannot dodge it)
And you will need Staff of loss in the off hand for the dmg boost
There are 8 mobs with very little travel between and they give 6k+ each (with golden scarab).
The trick is to nuke them at a distance as they slowly walk towards you.
Drink to full each time one is down.
Dont let them get close to you as there is a reason they are worth 6k a pop.
Gives a bit over 48k for 2-3mins (depending on your dps) and is a nice change of pace and scenery from most other farms.
- Anonymous
easy early game runes(if you count going into altus for a weapon early) is:
1. get poison mist incantation and faith talisman if needed
2. acess altus and reach the windmill village
3. put all flask into cerulean tears and run behind the godskin noble and quit the game.
4. after getting back in, wait for him to stop moving and then poison him to death for a easy, if not boring, kill
5. get dex physick and radagon soreseal to wield the twinblade
6. get near greyoll's tail and spam the aow for a fast kill, and as soon as it dies, rush for the nearby site of grace and rest
way better than using a bleed weapon imo
- Anonymous
Big decayed gargoyle things in Deeproot Depths. Prefferably on the way back down from Across the Roots grace. If you manage to kill all of them it should net about 20,000 runes in 3 minutes, or about 35000 runes with scarab and pickled foot. They'll respawn on rest. They just sit there and can't really move. So long as you get behind them there is no fighting going on. With the scarab and a few pickled chicken feet, thats an easy extra level in 10, 15 minutes
- Anonymous
Impassable Greatbridge: Easily closer to 6000 if you go lure in a few more enemies from the area into the battle. Ride here on Torrent as early in the game as you can.
- Anonymous
The Spectral Lance AoW can also be used for the bird, and I find the Starscourge Greatsword quite effective before getting the Sacred Relic Sword.
- Anonymous
Prayer room actually get's more like 60-70k if you use the charm to get more runes and farm the cleanrot knights too near the golden rune (10) and smithing stone (7) and go towards Triple Rings of Light (post erdtree) after.
- Anonymous
Good farms for DLC near "Hinterland Bridge" (Lampreys) and "Fingerstone Hill" (a literal family of hands - How could you! MONSTER!), but those enemies are a bit ****y if you're not careful. These also already require going through the Shadow Keep, so beating Rellana and going round through Bonny Village and breaking Miquella's Charm near Metyr's Cathedral, then getting through the Shadow Keep and out to the Peninsula shaped awfully like a horse's willy. You need to visit Metyr for the Gesture too.
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You can actually respawn greyoll if you rest at the near site of grace before his death animation finishes
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The by some distance earliest and best rune farm from earliest game to mid game is to use the teleporter behind Marika's 3rd Church (where you get the wonderous physiks flask) which will take you to Greyolls barrow.
There is a site of grace inside the building but that is not important, instead avoid aggroing the big gargoyle by moving to the sides and then down the road (there is also a golden seed along the way) until you see a bridge, grace next to it.
From there you kill the vulgar militia mobs that stand spread out over the whole area. It is 1000-1100 runes each and can be done by a sorcerer at starting level and gear (not sure at which point melee can do it).
There are 4 in the area west of the grace, 3 up the road towards the gargoyle, 5 to the right, 5 to the left. They stand with huge distances between them and can be fought solo.
The distance between them means it involves a bit of travel but equally makes it very safe to do.
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when I searched up this page there was a picture of a raccoon right by this page wtf
- Anonymous
Needs a little more testing, but i think there's a potentially better zone for rune farming in the dlc, specifically in the hinterlands. From the bridge site of grace to the next there are like 18 lamprey enemies asleep, wich gives 3600 runes. The thing is, these enemies are so absurdly weak to holy damage that wave of gold with scadutree blessing at 20 can reach almost 4000 damage, wich exceeds their hp pool and triggers the overkill mechanic, boosting the runes up to 4100-ish.
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I wish they added an armor piece that boosts rune acquisition.
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Ive personally found if youre killing the blistered crow at palace ledge, use spectral lance. The range and tracking make it almost impossible to miss unless you hit that stupid tree
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The new Festive Grease will make it so weapon attacks grant you 25 runes for every hit. Such a paltry amount that it's virtually useless, I tend to find.
On the bright side, there is a new farming location that potentially rivals the Palace Approach Ledge-Road, with a massive herd of fingercreepers just a few steps away from the Fingercreeper Hill site of grace that grants nearly 40,000 runes per go, and is very quick too if you've got your trusty Sacred Relic Sword to wave them all away.
— Courh the Explorer
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Good evening, Elden Ring DLC community. I found a Shadow Realm rune that gives 100,000 runes but unfortunately I don't remember where. Does anyone know where this rune can be found? I don't remember where I got it from. (It's not a boss rune)
- Anonymous
Super early game method: kill the tibia mariner in limgrave and let D mark your map for the teleport to the bestial sanctum. Activate the grace, sneak around the blackflame kindred so you don't aggro it and backstab the vulgar militia. Each one of these little shts grants 1000-ish runes.
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Find a host with Max Level Phantom early game, murder the Max Level guy with your (name your cheesy early weapon), get 350.000 rune, pretend u cant kill the host, let him summon the Max guy again, murder the guy again, kill the Max guy once should be enough to buy from every shop in Limgrave and get yourself ready, if u get more than 1 kill, even better!
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You can actually farm Elder Grang Greyoll as many times as you'd like; if you hop on torrent after Greyoll ******es and use the Site of Grace then you will still receive ruins but the dragon will still be alive.
I've found a good early game spot for rune farming is Laskyar ruins. It gives me 1584 runes every 30 seconds before any rune bonuses (I timed it, your time will vary based on how long it takes to load)
What you need is:
the Heal Spell and any sacred seal (can buy both at Roundtable)
12 faith (can be met on any character with either faith-knot tear or two-fingers heirloom + (simple) commoner's garb)
Either enough fp to cast heal 3x in a row (96 fp / 84 fp with incantation scarab, requires 16 and 12 mind respectively) or enough for 2x and a cerulean flask (this will slow you down but can be done on any character by default)
Spawn from the Laskyar Ruins grace, mount torrent and run west-northwest towards a breakable fallen branch. Shortly after you break the branch, two wraith callers will spawn, so cast heal to kill them both before they attack. Be careful not to go too far and spawn a third wraith-caller further west. If you don't have 64 fp left (56 with incantation scarab) drink a blue flask. Then run towards the place the royal revenant (the massive one) spawns. As soon as it starts spawning cast heal and as soon as the first cast gets off start the second one. While this is happening constantly have torrent walk towards the royal revenant. If this is done correctly, both the royal revenant and the nearby wraith caller will die without a chance to attack you, and you will be 1584 runes richer. Check if the Royal Revenant dropped a sacrificial twig (3% drop rate) and fast travel back to Laskyar Ruins grace to start over.
You may want to fiddle with the timing of heal casts and your exact positioning to optimize your runs, but this should be a good general guide.
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The giant bird in mohgwyn’s palace is a lot easier to kill with glintstone scrap than with a bow
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Can someone explain how the ball trap by Lennes rise is 3904 per run? What’s the calculation from the base 1952??
- Anonymous
why is there a ****ing rune tax when I die
I died with just over 5000 and got 3000 back
- Anonymous
I just clear the upper level of War-Dead Catacombs, nets me around 50k runes and is a fun way to farm, even at high level, one or two mistakes gets you killed :p But once you know your way around on the upper level, it goes pretty well.
- Anonymous
All the rune farming spots have been patched so now for new players its just a farm simm.
- Anonymous
Miquella's Haligtree is a pretty fun spot near endgame. The enemies give 1-3k runes each and are pretty easy to kill. I just slap on the Gold Scarab, eat a Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot and go on a murder spree. The bird and the albinaurics get boring real quick.
- Anonymous
I'd assume that most people reading the comments at this point are pretty new to the game and maybe quite frustrated. Many of the rune-farming spots are almost certainly intentional (The Palace Ledge Approach site, for instance, even has a little rock shelf with a completely random stone in the middle that lines up as the ideal spot for using Wave of Gold.) Elden Ring may not have an easy mode but does give you a lot of opportunities to get through it without too much grief. In essence, many of these locations are features rather than bugs and you shouldn't feel too bad utilizing them. At very least they work as a way to round out a level so you aren't worried about lost runes going into the next fight. If you end up doing a NG+ you'll probably find that there are bosses you really want to challenge again with new load-outs or by just fighting them honestly rather than overpowering or straight-up cheesing them. Learning boss move-sets and how to parry/dodge is an integral part of the game and there is a real sense of achievement when you can solo a boss that used to give you fits. As an aside for new players, it's also good to remember that you can generally just run past normal enemies if you know where you're going. You don't always have to fight every pack of stone imps or whatever on the way to where you want to go. In addition, farming can help you enjoy the game more when you realize that a couple of minutes of it can equate to all the runes you gained and lost in one dungeon or another. For some people there is a stolid purity to souls games, but after all aren't well all tarnished?
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A good early - mid game farming method is spawning at the Warmaster's Shack Grace, and there is a spawn of 5 trolls right next to it. It takes like 2 minutes at most, and each troll gives 1000 Runes, so that is like 150K runes per hour without Scarab or Foot
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an amazing farm is in the beastial church, which you can get to quite early game by doing the shortcut. The entire area up to down the bridge with the dragon is infested with vulgar militia men, who are mostly completly isolated and quite oblivious. Making them easy to backstab or just 1 v 1 even early game, and they pop 1040 runes each, as long as you stay away from the 3 groups that are in the corners of the area. They are all a bit spaced out tho, but its definetly worth the run.
if you can clear groups of them easily, you can easily get 40 k per run, granted its not a QUICK run by any means (since its a big area), it its a safe and chill route
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The midgame farming doesn't work work anymore, the balls won't give runes.
Here to add a farming spot I have been using a lots lately, the Temple Quarter site of grace near Raya Lucaria Academy. There are a bunch of big Land Octopuses there, each gives 500 runes, they're easy to kill, just 1 charged heavy and their stance is broken, now just go in and critical hit them, do that 2 times and they're dead. And even if you mess up and die, just get on Torrent and run over to take back the runes.
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On lev ~130 (strength build), from the Inner Consecrated Snowfield site, i noticed it's quite easy to take out the caravan. 2 Page's, couple of foot soldiers and 2 trolls give around 35k runes (each troll is ~7k alone, and they don't even defend too much). Then you can swoop through the 5 wolves to the north (1700 each) + 3 additional to the right around the tree, at this point they should be one-shot. Each run like this takes about 1-2min and yields around 45k, with rune-saving tear it's completely safe. I upped 10 levels in less than 1hr there.
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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.
- Anonymous
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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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.
- Anonymous
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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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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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.
- Anonymous
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.
- Anonymous
Deep root Depths . You can farm three enemies near nameless eternal city Grace site for 3500 runes each.. takes less than a minute.
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.
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?
- Anonymous
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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
whats the second to best farming spot after mohgwyn palace? i wanna be quirky and different
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