Fastest way to get levels in the beginning?

[Goldoni]

Just got into Limgrave, share your knowledge.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Goldoni:

smh why you're telling me endgame stuff, i'm still stuck with marget or whatever he's called

i said until you get to the bird farm the best way is killing bosses. thats not late game stuff thats basic logical method to playing this game.
grinding runes in this game is a huge waste of time.

[An Irate Walrus]

Not early game, but once you've downed Radahn, War Dead Catacombs is a solid spot, provided you can find somewhere to hide.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von An Irate Walrus:

Not early game, but once you've downed Radahn, War Dead Catacombs is a solid spot, provided you can find somewhere to hide.

Is that where the npc's basically killed eachother off? Heard they patched that so they only do like 1/4 of their damage to eachother.

[An Irate Walrus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Havik:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von An Irate Walrus:

Not early game, but once you've downed Radahn, War Dead Catacombs is a solid spot, provided you can find somewhere to hide.

Is that where the npc's basically killed eachother off? Heard they patched that so they only do like 1/4 of their damage to eachother.

The damage output is reasonable enough that you can park in a corner (the spot with three gargoyles seems to work well), do something else for half an hour, and get a solid return.

Bird farm is awesome up to about 140 or so; then it gets incredibly tedious.

[justfaded]

Go to the church near mistwood. There's a portal that takes you to bestial sanctum. You can farm there to like 30 vigor.

Or you can go straight to godrick and then open up the bird farm.

[Tom]

Beast sanctum is a good place to farm. The little guys there drop 1k runes each and are not too hard to kill. You can find a portal for it by following Ds questline in limgrave. Or you can walk there traveling through caelid, on your horse nothing will bother you. Its the northern most area in caelid. You'll pass by dragonbarrow too. The big dragon there just sits there, the smaller ones guard her but if you get to her tail then nothing will bother you. As others have said she drops a ton of runes on death especially with a gold foot, bleed makes it go faster.

[mayhem523]

Bleed mace/golden fowl foot/sleeping dragon will you get you 90k runes I believe, I just did this recently with my new playthrough. Definitely the fastest way to level up a new character. Then you can ride around and grab some sacred seeds/tears for more/stronger potions, and grab a few weapons and talismans that don't require combat.

Basically ride your horse past enemies (or use teleporters for shortcuts) and sneak the loot out from under their nose. When you feel you're strong enough, start taking on the open world bosses and dungeons in the starting area and work your way up to stormveil castle.

[Sabaithal]

- Get a weapon with bleed, make sure you have the stat requirements or this won't work
- Go east until you reach the third(?) church of marika in east limgrave
- After lighting the grace, exit the church and head slightly north into the dense brush in the water
- You will find a portal there, use it
- Light the grace inside the sanctuary, then head back out and use torrent to reach the lower bridge. Cross it and light the grace.
- Take the next few windsprings (or whatever they are called) up and continue until you see a big immobile dragon.
- Hit the dragon's tail with a bleed weapon until it dies. It drops something like 66,000 runes, which is a nice way to get a few levels early on. One time only though, but its still worth doing since you don't have to fight anything to get here.

[SHOCKNUTZ]

best way if you're a new player is to take out the gatefront camp, use bonfire and repeat. this way you accumulate souls and get good practice in with whatever spec you're playing.

start off with the guy closest to the fire, learn to dance around him, block, dodge whatever. then move on to multiple enemies at once.

[Clail]

Levels really don't matter..

[SnakeshyperTTV/Kick]

Caelid at Fort Faroth and Lenne's rise.

[mayhem523]

If you use the golden fowl foot item you get 30% more runes from the dragon, that's why my number is higher than others for that. Also just fyi the reason everyone saying to use bleed weapon is because the dragon has so much health you'll be there all day whacking it with a normal weapon. When bleed triggers it does 10% of their health in damage so it's the fastest way to get it done. I don't think anyone ever explained that.

[жэф]

Very first thing I do on new characters is follow the main road (the one guarded by Tree Sentinel in the very beginning of the game right after the tutorial cave) all the way to the opposite end of the map so I can collect as many seeds as possible to upgrade the flask. Having a ton of healing on hand makes the game infinitely easier.

2nd thing I do is go to the Divine Tower of Caelid (i think that's what it's called, can't recall at the moment) on the far eastern end of the map, close to where all the dragons are. If you climb to the very top of the tower (you can do this by scaling the tower on the outside of it, you might need to use your horse in some spots for long jumps), there's a Grace at the tip-top. Right next to this grace is a descending staircase that leads to 2 human soldier mobs guarding a door on a catwalk. Killing them both nets like 3-4k souls IIRC (it's been a couple months since I've done this so I can't remember exact number) and takes only a minute or two. It's especially easy for casters to kill these guys (I was a Prisoner class equipped with a staff I found in the red swamp area and just used 8mp missile spell on them repeatedly). Then just run right back up the stairs and sit at the Grace, rinse and repeat. I was like lvl 20 when I started this, and I stayed there until level 70-something, and I did it all in an extended play session in one day. I think it took like 5 or 6 hours total if I remember right. I just remember it doesn't take long at all.

I haven't played the game since Christmas so I can't remember exact numbers, but it's my favorite place to farm for new characters. After I'm done at the tower I just move to the Dragonbarrow area I think it's called where there's like 6+ dragons next to the big dying red dragon near Fort Farro or w/e it's called (eastern part of the map) above the red swamp area. Those dragon's give like 4K souls each IIRC, and they're right next to a Grace site in front of the fort so farming them is very fast and efficient once you get a good gameplay/kill loop going with your class. You'll need 1000+ HP to survive a single hit from the dragons so make sure you build up your health, or make sure you've got Sekiro-level dodge skills on lock. Also, you can kill the dying red dragon to get a bunch of souls and some dragon hearts and unlock some sick skills at the dragon altars.

[Leziropav]

there are 5 giants south of shack with ashwar NPC seller, the attack pattern is not too hard to dodge

[Holmgäng]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Goldoni:

Just got into Limgrave, share your knowledge.

Have a someone drop you runes or inject them yourself