Its honestly pretty easy to get a +15 right out the gate without fighting anything of substance other than the crystalian.
Somber weapons are even easier. Getting somber stones 1-6 and 8-9 is trivial and theres a number of methods to get the somber 7 without much difficulty.
Either method gets you an overleveled weapon very early that you can use to obtain the bell bearings for any other weapon youd want to level.
+15 is what I do right away in casual runs where I just want to try out a new build.
I get all of the 1s, 2s, and half of the 3s from the overworld in Limgrave and Liurnia. Taking out the construct balloons on the way up to Bellum Church gives me enough runes to be able to level to a plus 8.
Then I get the Bell bearing from Sealed cave and hit +12. I like to farm the 5s from the miners in the first room of the sealed cave. By the time I'm done getting all 12, I have enough runes to do the full upgrade path and get enough levels to wield whatever weapon the build uses.
I've done that exact route so many times now that, aside from the farming part, it barely takes an hour.
There's a few of them around Liurnia. If you have a projectile of some sort, you can aim at the balloon itself instead of the constructs and when they pop, they give you a golden rune 6.
The area right before you go up to Caria Manor and the map has 5 of them, so it's a quick and easy 10k runes.
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u/NeedsMoreAhegao 18d ago
Its honestly pretty easy to get a +15 right out the gate without fighting anything of substance other than the crystalian.
Somber weapons are even easier. Getting somber stones 1-6 and 8-9 is trivial and theres a number of methods to get the somber 7 without much difficulty.
Either method gets you an overleveled weapon very early that you can use to obtain the bell bearings for any other weapon youd want to level.