Golden Rune - Elden Ring Guide - IGN (2024)

FAQs

What is the best way to use Golden Runes in Elden Ring? ›

Golden Runes are excellent when you're looking to quickly level up or purchase items from a merchant. Simply opening them from the inventory and selecting “use” will consume the Golden Rune, awarding you the Runes. Alternatively, you can just sell them to a merchant for the same number of Runes.

Level Rune Cost Calculation in Elden Ring

The highest level possible is a grand total of 713, achievable when all eight attributes are capped at 99 points. This would require 1,692,566,842 Runes in total.

There is only one tier of Lord's Rune, and it gives 50,000 Runes when used or sold. Other tiers of Runes can also be found in some of the most difficult areas of The Lands Between, and include Hero's Rune, Golden Rune, and Numen's Rune.

Using up your Golden Runes is a nice way to level up fast, since you're gaining a bunch of runes all at once. If you don't cash them in, Golden Runes stay with you even if you die, almost like a backup wallet of runes that you haven't “spent” yet.

Better To Sell Them And Save Time Than Individually Use Them

Golden Runes in Elden Ring can only be consumed one at a time, followed by a noticeably long animation upon each use. Opening the menu at the merchant, however, simplifies this to a mere bulk-select option.

150 has been agreed on in general because it means you have enough points to create a build, like a dex or quality build, but don't have so many . The highest level players can get in Elden Ring is 713, and that means players will need to farm well over 1 billion runes.

While there is a “hard cap” maximum level of 99 in Elden Ring that all of the eight main stats can be increased up to, there are also “soft cap” levels at which the Attributes begin to advance with diminished returns at different rates.

A hybrid Dexterity and Intelligence build is arguably one of the strongest builds in all of Elden Ring since you get access to the power of sorcery and the physical damage of Dexterity, as well as the benefit of having a very fast casting speed as well.

Where is the Whetstone knife? ›

Whetstone Knife is found in the southeastern area of Gatefront Ruins. To be more precise, players will have to visit the Limgrave area, just east of the Gatefront Site of Grace, to locate the Whetstone knife. In Gatefront Ruins, they will find an underground path.

The most commonly preferred one is Blacksmith Hewg, as people tend to love this guy (even though his Quest Line is incomplete). Once the player is at their NPC of choice, they should go to their Sell Menu and scroll down to the section where Golden Runes are.

Many major bosses in Elden Ring drop Great Runes, mythical artefacts that can be attached to your character for potential, if limited, buffs. Once you have one restored, you can head to any Site of Grace and use the "Great Runes" menu option to effectively equip it into the Great Rune slot.