Discover the best places to farm runes efficiently in Elden Ring and level up quickly. Maximize your rune farming experience.
In Elden Ring, leveling up your character is key to its development. Not only does a new level increase your stats and useful parameters, but it also brings you closer to the necessary values for your build, making you stronger. With the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring, leveling up is even more important, especially if you want to be well prepared for bosses and other difficulties. In this guide, we have collected the best places to farm runes in the game, which can be used at almost any point in your playthrough.
Best Places to Farm Runes Efficiently in Elden Ring
his guide is based on the original Elden Ring content and does not include locations from the expansion. Of course, Shadow of the Erdtree has its own areas where you can farm runes well and level up quickly, but they can be difficult to get to. If you need to level up quickly or just earn a lot of runes for other needs, check out our guide below.
Best place to farm runes – 40,000 runes in a few minutes
The best place to farm runes remains the location before the boss Mog Lord of Blood – Mogwin Palace. Here in just a few minutes you can get more than 40 thousand runes in an honest way, without using cheats, bugs and other glitches. Using a golden scarab will further increase the number of runes received.
Getting to this location takes a bit of effort, but you only have to do it once. After that, you can come back here at any time and reload the area to farm runes. All the enemies here cost 2000 runes each, and most of them are passive. There are a few guards to fight, but most just sit there while you walk past and kill them one by one to get your reward.
There are several ways to get to the Mogwin Palace. One of them is connected with Varre and his quests, the other is through the portal on the Giant’s Peak in the Sacred Snowfield area. The portal becomes active after killing the Blood Noble who lives nearby. More details on how to get to this location can be found in our other guide.
The actual rune farming area is located at the point marked on the map above. Head east through the forest and you’ll come to a canyon that goes south and leads to a river of blood. Follow the path up the slope, past a bunch of ragged figures sitting on the floor, and you’ll reach a place of grace. Activate it and you’re ready to start farming runes.
On the slope leading to the Place of Grace, you’ll find a group of sleeping Albinors, each worth 2,000 runes. They don’t react until you attack them, and even then, only the one you hit will wake up. There are four guards that will attack you when you get close, but their attacks are slow, easy to dodge, and can be dealt with one at a time. If you’re very low level, start by attacking them from behind to deal maximum damage, but as you level up, you’ll be able to attack them from the front. Regardless of your level, you’ll be able to earn 40,000 runes in this area every 2-3 minutes, then simply rest at the Place of Grace to reset them.
Other locations are generous with runes
There are many places in Elden Ring where you can get a significant amount of runes without much effort or time. These places depend on your progress in the main game. Below you will find a list of locations that remain generous with runes regardless of your level and are always easy to get to.
- Storm Gate Trolls (Early Game Rune Farming): This is a fairly easy, but slightly risky, quest for new players. The huge hairy trolls on the cliffs north of Storm Gate drop about 1,000 runes each. They hit hard, but move slowly. If you space them out and kill them one at a time, you can effectively farm runes to prepare for the early game bosses.
- Redmane Castle (Early/Mid Game): An easy farming spot in the southern part of the Stellar Wastes. There are gunshot knights and monster dogs fighting in front of the castle. You can just watch them kill each other, automatically getting runes. Go to the “Impassable Bridge” grace spot, then just go up the hill and watch them fight. Then you can drive by and kill the survivors, earning around 3000-7000 runes with minimal effort.
- Windmill Village (Mid/Late Game Farming): On the northern coast of the Altus Plateau is a surreal Midsummer-style village called Dominula, Windmill Village. The dancing locals only attack if you get too close, and they drop a lot of runes. There’s a boss at the top, but even before defeating him, you can earn around 7,000 runes in just a few minutes.
- Elfael, the Holy Tree’s Foothold (Late Game Farm): If you’ve unlocked the Holy Tree bonus area leading to Malenia, you’ll know that this area is quite difficult. However, if you head to the “Oratory” grace point halfway down and take the door to the north, you can run along the parapets and backstab enemies facing the sea. You can earn 2,000-3,000 runes here from each knight and foot soldier, some of whom will even blow themselves up in an attempt to stop you. You can rack up 40,000 runes or more in a few minutes. Just fight and quickly return to safety if your runes are at risk.
In conclusion, efficient rune farming is crucial in Elden Ring to level up quickly and progress through the game smoothly. By exploring the best farming locations and implementing smart strategies, you can amass a significant number of rune