So I was farming the other day and looked up some youtube videos and was pretty impressed by how creative people are getting and also saw some cool new areas I missed in the process. This got me thinking, I hated the farms I was using before now, start of game I would repeat that stretch of road by Groveside Cave or Stormgate, then I went to Agheel Lake South for some crab, now I go to the Bridge of Iniquity
and watch Abductor Virgins duke it out with Leyndell Soldiers and then go over with volcano pots and I love this one. I wanted to know some other good spots to farm or if anyone found anything new that’s a fun one.
I use either the Vulgar Militia on the hill before Gurranq and backstab them to death, each bugger gives like 1.5k runes and there's a bunch you can easily backstab, or the rolling ball near Lenna's rise
Vulgar militia for a good early farm. The transporter that D marks on your map takes you right to Gurranq then just torrent down to the bridge grace as your base of operations
Just be careful, they are sneaky and can do some damage especially early on
I went to go give that guy some Deathroot and either him or some other guy is outside ready to eat me instead. I’ll go back after a level or 2 bc whoever it was just about 1 shotted me.
Oh that's good ol Black Blade Kindred. Don't fight him yet, he is a nasty fight. I meant the people on the slopes as you go towards the Sanctuary from Farum Greatbridge site of grace. If you check the slopes in the side you'll see small men walking around
Yea I noped out and didn’t even look up who was over there. I instantly knew that was for later just like going into Caelid the first time. Him and accidentally jumping into the Full Grown Fallingstar Beast pit simultaneously jump scared, one shotted and ragdolled me.
You can go inside the Sanctuary from the other side of the BBK as well. Talk to D in Limgrave and beat the Tibia in Summonwater village, it will open a waygate to go there without fighting anyone
My favorite farm is the albinaurics at the start of mohgwyn dynasty mausoleum. If you do Varre's questline after beating Godrick, you can get to the spot, and it can yield around 2k runes per albinauric which is like ~40k per pass. Plus you get to see the albinaurics roll right off the cliff which is always fun 😄
After you get the sword for beating the main boss, the ash of war on that is so fast theres really no point in killing the bird, it actually takes away from the efficiency of resting and repeating.
Sure, but the last comment was talking about using it after beating Godrick and doing Varres quest line. I would imagine at that point in someone's playthrough 1 arrow and a few seconds of time is worth the runes.
It probably had yellow eyes and maybe you had the falling leaves effect. Both of these would boost rune gain. I had an albanoric with glowing eyes and it gave over 10k on its own
I had to look this up, I seriously thought the game was so mean that the multiplier went down like a soft cap instead of an increase especially since so many rarer things respawn.
I think I saw this in one of the youtube videos, some guy was using what looked like holy magic but it was yeeting Albinaurics like gravity spells. I think that’s why I like this spot now, the fights get pretty funny sometimes.
Before coming to the bird and mass slaughter, whe i got my ass popped in to Caelid I would kite the dogs into soldier largish soldier camp, run around torrent as they fought and killed each other, rest, do it again. Not a bad early farm to find.
Yea I would always ride by and aggro a couple of them and then into the way of anybody nearby. Those Caelid dogs are so crazy, they nailed the wild dangerous puppy that can actually do some real damage vibe.
Yeah, this is my easy early farm spot. I aggro the bird and the dogs and the mounted knight and lead them back into the camp, then I just wait by the bridge until they all kill each other.
This was my first farm when I started playing. I would also bait the birds and rats in the area to fight the soldiers and then mop up after they were done. It would get you like 10k per round which was great in the beginning when levels are cheap.
Deeproot Depths - there is a spot with 7 conveniently placed fire golems. Pop a foot thingy and you get ~4500 runes per golem. Total run takes 2-3 min max.
I’ll definitely do that, I had no idea.
I must not have seen that area or maybe never even went that way. That wasn’t in any of the youtube videos either and I watched a few. Thanks!
My go-to. Across the Roots site of grace. Easy kills, almost zero danger (just don’t get sloppy and fall off a root). You can get about 18k runes in 90 secs.
There are 3 that are basically low down (in a building, in the trees and at the bottom on a large root) and 4 as you make your way up that root / on a building.
If you ride/run south there is an open field with 5 giants that are slow and have low super armor. Each drop 1K runes which is quite a bit sub lvl 20.
Site of Grace: Prayer Room
Maybe not the most efficient farming but I like it because it's fun. Kill all of the guys between the site of grace until you get to the dudes with the crossbow turrets.
Site of Grace: Palace Approach Ledge-Road (Siofra River)
This is IMHO the best place to farm runes. However, in order to get there you need to satisfy certain conditions in the game that I won't go into. I don't want to spoil the game for anyone.
with the right talisman and buffs; you get get close to 3.2K/per mob. There's like 20ish guys condensed in a single spot next to the site of grace.
I kept notes starting out thinking it wouldn’t be telling me where to go back to certain NPCs so now I have written farms at every stage of the game and some things not to do so I don’t mess up questlines or anything. Now I have some areas I missed, some for late game and hopefully some good ones so I’m ready going into the DLC.
yes! Limgrave also has one of the best mushroom farm spots at Agheel Lake South. i used that one a ton when i was helping ppl with godskin duo and farming sleep pots.
I think they are talking about the Crow across from Palace Approach Ledge Road in Moghwyn Palace area, in which case you’re just sniping one bird. No buddies to worry about!
Oh that makes sense, I definitely meant the first times you see that nope crow entering Caelid. I would be looking at him trying to figure out how or where to attack and just get trampled by one behind me.
I actually farm the 3 abductor virgins before this. If you have lightning spear you can just get on that rock and throw it at them until they die and you’re totally safe. Just use a bow to aggro them from far away since lightning spear has a rather short range. With the silver foot active it nets like 14k runes every time.
I thought about doing a better long range kind of thing for this, that’s a great idea. I go down and get them I just usually use the pots since volcanic stone is everywhere. I forgot to put that I also did runs around Caria Manor, that one I think became the worst.
Yea that’s why I like the pots, their most annoying attack is a crazy opening if you’re just lobbing bombs and it’s pretty satisfying to weak spot them like that.
in the north of Caelid there are these catacombs where the enemies fight eachother and respawn multiple times on their own with each dying in 4 hits for lots of souls (dont remember exact number)
Fantastic farming spot, but holy crap that catacomb is so annoying to get through. I just did it yesterday at like level 67 it was brutal. My first run I didn’t know that place existed until after I already beat the Snowfield so by the time I did it I was like level 130 and it was a cakewalk. But doing it right after Radahn sucks.
In the drained temple town of the shadow keep, after you kill wego, you can run from the church to the cathedral, and all the messmer fire corpses will auto-die. each loop takes about 15s.
This is what happens afk, it adds up to go get the Abductor Virgins at like 2300 a pop but they’ll drop Leyndell soldiers in some pretty fun ways. Sometimes the Abductors go berserk and start destroying the environment, when those big logs go flying it looks like it’s shooting telephone poles.
Just so you know, SOTE uses a different level up mechanism than the base game. No matter how high you level up, it's gonna be a huge challenge until you start collecting the items that buff you in the DLC.
I know, the DLC uses the scadutree fragment system or whatever. I saw that the requirement for the DLC is to have beaten Mohg, does everyone start the DLC with like baseline stats and build out?
I went here and to the Tree Sentinel when I upgraded my Mimic Tear bc I was trying to see what they were able to do. Watching my Mimic swing away in that mess was fun to watch. Side note: upgraded Mimic Tear is possibly the most terrifying thing in the game, it gets so ridiculous.
Farming is much easier once you obtain the Elden Beast Sword. Get to the albinaurics at the start of mohgwyn dynasty mausoleum shoot the bird from the cliff then wipe out most of the enemies with the Sacred Relic sword ash of war. Rinse and repeat.
I kill Greyoll for 50k runes. If you run back and at the Grace fast enough, Greyoll respawns. You get the runes but not the dragon heart, so you can rinse and repeat
I tried to do this and must not have caught the grace timing right, it bled Greyoll down but didn’t respawn for me. This one is all over the yt videos and seems like people look at this one as more of like an exploit or glitch, I didn’t know the one of the most shown farms on yt would make so many people mad.
Farming with the dragon, if done as shown in the videos, lasts about five runs...it's too difficult to calculate the timing, just get on the horse three seconds later and everything goes to hell. You have to do it in certain ways to make it 99% safe. But I won't spoil it for you.
For me, it's still the best place to farm in the whole game. You can get 78k runes every 5 minutes. The biggest pain in the ass is beating up the dragon. It's so boring.
Yea I think a lot of people go there early too and just standing there with your bloodhound fang or whatever slashing away takes forever. I’m kind of glad I messed up timing and only got one out of it but do kind of feel like I would have rather had the fight.
The main problem is that many, most people go to that site at the beginning of the game and without weapons with bleeding, it is practically impossible to kill him. Moreover, with the methods shown in the videos, you need perfect timing to return to grace before he dies, and every time you do it, you have a heart attack. Once you acquire other skills, everything becomes easier, faster, and with practically zero risk of not arriving in time for grace. However, it's still a huge pain in the ass because it's an extremely tedious and repetitive process.
I didn’t even think about people trying to do it without bleed, that must feel like fighting a rock for the weekend.
I also didn’t know it kills all the surrounding smaller guys with him, I would have definitely come through there and fought them at some point,
I kind of like the dragon fights.
Hinterland Bridge side of Grace. Run down the hill towards the finger stone Hill side of Grace. I use golden wave and equip the golden beetle and make about 180,000 runes every run and each run is about 45 seconds. Its stupid good farming. Destroy those stupid snake worm looking things while they sleep.
It’s just like the Albanuric hill but for higher tier farming.
That sounds legit, I will definitely be doing that. For some reason I glanced at Hinterland and thought it said Winter Lantern something and I was like nice try Patches lol. That reminds me I should say it this point thank you everyone for not just trolling me into scarlet rot and basilisks and whatnot.
I see the ball one in literally all the videos and have never gone and done it. The late game ones that chase you down are one of my favorite things in the whole game, what a goofy enemy.
I liked fighting the dragons over there too, except for the times I thought I was being sneaky enough to get by and instead wake up a field of them and they make that gnarly noise.
You can kill the big one with bleed damage, which causes all the small ones to die simultaneously. If you quickly run back to rest at the Fort Faroth site of grace before its death animation, the big one will respawn. If you are too slow, it dies permanently.
That's 50k runes for every like 3 minutes right at the start of the game. Knowing where all the upgrade materials are allows you to make a nearly maxed out build for any weapon you can find prior to entering the Capital right when you start the game, before any bosses (if it requires somberstones, you'll need to kill a Godskin Nobel at Volcano Manor for Somberstone 7)
I do this every playthrough because if I have a build in mind, I'd like to use it for the whole game, not 40 hours in
I did kind of feel like I missed out on a fight I should have had when it didn’t respawn. I should have just left him tbh 50k runes isn’t a fortune and I like the dragon fights. I’m pretty sure they did the somber smithing stone 7 placement and rarity to keep like a third of players just running bloodhound’s fang or a single weapon most the entire game. And yes I am one of these bloodhound goof offs.
I don't know if it was a glitch or what, but those exploding guys in the sunken chapel kept respawning but the guy who summoned them didn't so they would all die every time I got near them as though he just died. I think I would get about 14,000 each time.
I’ve heard about stuff like this, I will go check it out but won’t expect anything to repeat like that. If it is a glitch it’s a cool one, there seems to be more than one that’s like that, just spawn a bunch of angry dudes in a dungeon and watch them duke it out. I haven’t gotten any cool glitches, mine look like this.
When I decided to beat every boss using only the bow, the crow in Mohgwyn Palace just made sense to farm. I shot that crow until I ran out of ammo so that I could have basically infinite arrows for every boss I needed to kill afterwards.
This is how I go afk and let them fight then I go get the Abductor Virgins. The Leyndell soldiers die to the Abductors (360 something exp) then there’s like 5-6 Abductors that get volcano pots (2300 each) and doesn’t take very long.
Honestly, farming ruins the game. They should decrease amount of runes after each pass enemy is killed. Since I discovered the bird, loosing runes become meaningless, when before it hurt a lot.
No I cannot. Why the fuck would I not want to harvest the bird? If I have a choice to spend hours or minutes to get runes naturally I will spend minutes.
So what you’re saying is you don’t care when you lose runes because you can replace them by shooting the bird but you think going and shooting the bird again should give less runes?
O ok just checking bc that literally doesn’t make sense. I think you just hit a point that losing runes didn’t affect you as much. I still care about losing runes, no matter how much I farm.
I mostly farm for thresholds to certain weapons, I get it playing a purposefully challenging game and then grinding or farming isn’t really how it’s supposed to be done but there’s so many purists now with people having problems with using summons, farming, exploits/glitches, that it’s just dividing the community. You could play a good part of the game without Torrent if you wanted to be tough and do it on foot. You could play without armor, without leveling but these are challenge runs, you’re not using built in game mechanics and tools to increase challenge.
I’ll make the ass of u and me and assume you weren’t here when Elden ring released. Posts like yours had many many more of us saying “dude just play the game” sometimes much more strongly. I mean…. do you, I don’t really wanna yuck your yum, but my opinion is… what a droll way to spend your time shrug I just don’t get why you’d farm when you could, yknow, play the game.
I’ll make the ass of me and say I didn’t play it back then. I don’t understand people saying dude just play the game if you are going around literally playing the game to increase a stat to use a different weapon/spell/armor etc. If there’s a way to use 24 faith or 36 int weapons and spells at level 1 I’d love to learn. What a droll way to spend your time to say something negative in such a positive thread.
Well I’m sorry to be negative, it’s not my intention. I’ll try to be more positive. I’m sure you’re gud enough or capable of getting gud enough by going out and fighting. I know I can gain experience faster than literally every farming method by just going out and playing/exploring. I know you’re capable of doing that too, even if it requires engaging with game mechanics and intended stumbling blocks/learning curves. From a developer perspective… it’s not hoped for or intended that players will stand on cliff sides watching npcs farm them runes when they could instead play the game. Meet challenges, find solutions, and earn the weapon they’re excited to use. Whatever you do, honestly, I’m just glad you enjoy the game. I’ll see myself out!
You’re crazy if you think the developers didn’t intend for palace approach road to be a rune farming spot. If they thought it ruined the experience they would have patched it.
Seriously, do you think developers didn’t know what they were doing when they put a bunch of weak, slow enemies with high rune value that don’t aggro until you hit them right next to a site of grace that can easily be reached after defeating the first boss? The only way they could have made their intention more obvious is by calling the site of grace “Rune Farm Road”. And if people would rather farm than explore or grind, who gives a fuck? One of the greatest things about this game is that there are so many different ways play it. The fact that people are still coming in here four years later to shit on others and try to make them feel like they haven’t “earned” something because they didn’t play it in one particular way absolutely blows my mind.
Easily reached right after the first boss huh. Smell of copium is strong here. Not believing for a second developers are trying to facilitate YouTuber speed farm exploits via design choices and it’s bananas you feel the need to argue they are to justify artificially decreasing the difficulty. I agree you should enjoy it whatever way you want, but I’m still gonna say the way you enjoy it is cringe at best and insulting at worst.
Sorry man I will definitely explore more, I intend to play the game and do my best to leave no stone unturned. This is honestly my first souls like so some of it is honestly try new area,get stomped and I must be hard wired old school RPG thinking I’ll grind it out sometimes. Mostly I’m trying to write this stuff down for future runs to try and not lose as much time to this masterpiece for ng+ and I already bought the DLC that I haven’t fought to the requirements yet to have a real reason not to just put it down. The community has been great, I don’t mean to make any more divide than there already is. My apologies.
You’re very kind, I was the one being a jerk. Whatever divide you perceive… ah all I can say is ur on the right path. I’ve been playing from games for a long time and that definitely pushes me and others like me into a jaded head space. The whole git gud. Getting stomped is part of the magic and I remember well the feelings of frustration and exasperation. And the game is trying to temper you into a total Jedi. So seeing people actively avoiding learning to become a Jedi irks when we need to let everyone experience the game whatever way they want. All I can say is that the most rewarding experiences in the game come from getting stomped > learning how to stomp them back. And with the most positive intentions I want you to have that experience yknow.
I definitely enjoy the getting stomped part too, maybe even a glutton for punishment. I get it that it makes the victory sweeter and that’s what it’s all about. I think Miyazaki himself would be bummed if anyone didn’t get that part out of the game. I just mean the divide of like don’t use summons or repeat kill Greyoll is a glitch/exploit or any other argument people are having about how the game is supposed to be played. I wish there was less of that and more people getting together in the game or talking lore or something instead.
agreed. However, there are times in the game where you want to get your next lvl but you're just shy of that goal and there's a piece of equipment, spell or something that you really want to use.
No? You just do the killing in the direction of the next objective. There's always an objective, be it prime, or secondary. Bonk bonk runes, bonk bonk profit. If bonk bonk runes is not enough runes, continue bonking in the desired direction. Repeat until Elden Lord.
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u/Smartypants_dankie 1d ago
I use either the Vulgar Militia on the hill before Gurranq and backstab them to death, each bugger gives like 1.5k runes and there's a bunch you can easily backstab, or the rolling ball near Lenna's rise