Do You consider rune farms cheating?

[Etho]

Iam not talking about falling glitches. More like the dragon (to lesser extent) or Mogwyn palace bird farm.

[An Irate Walrus]

Nah. It's like any other grind; if the game allows it, it isn't cheating.

If rune farming (via legitimate means) is cheating, so is having a level 99 party in any JRPG--because you absolutely didn't do that without farming XP.

[Terribad]

No more than grinding at all is cheating. It's just a faster way to the same end.

[Norm Macdonald's Ghost]

Originally posted by Etho:

Do You consider rune farms cheating?

I consider rune farms bad for the environment. Stop killing the planet!

[Etho]

Elden Ring or the souls series (first souls game for me) seems like overleveling is still no guarantee to win if You cannot do the mechanics.

[Magic A. I.]

Originally posted by Etho:

Iam not talking about falling glitches. More like the dragon (to lesser extent) or Mogwyn palace bird farm.

I consider it work. Games are for fun, not work. So I don't do it unless I absolutely have to. When I need runes for something, I prefer to do coop. It's not as efficient, of course, but at least there's some fun in it and it's risk free.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Etho:

Iam not talking about falling glitches. More like the dragon (to lesser extent) or Mogwyn palace bird farm.

It’s not even the fastest way so I wouldn’t consider it cheating. You still need to put more work than by using coop or asking somebody to drop you an upgraded weapon.

[Fineous🔥]

Greyoll (yeah she has a name not just runedragon) rune farming was just abusing a glitch. Killing her receiving the runes and using the grace near fort Faroth asap before she banished.
Now we are talking about a dirty glitch and fixed by the looks of it (i never used it).

About the bird. No....poor thing likes to jump after you hit it for 1 damage, awfully boring farming method when you can find efficient rune farming spots like Midsommar village in Altus (crazy ladies windmill village).

[Etho]

Originally posted by 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘🔥:

Greyoll (yeah she has a name not just runedragon) rune farming was just abusing a glitch. Killing her receiving the runes and using the grace near for Faroth asap before she banished.
Now we are talking about a dirty glitch and fixed by the looks of it (i never used it).

About the bird. No....poor thing likes to jump after you hit it for 1 damage, awfully boring farming method when you can find efficient rune farming spots like Midsommar village in Altus (crazy ladies windmill village).

Iam still in early game so it seem it would be the best spot because the only danger is falling off a cliff. I think about more like a test to skill to get there. The tower of madness or the invader before getting access to church of inhibition.

[Lenox]

Definitely not cheating. I sometimes will aimlessly kill enemies if I'm on a phone call or something.

[Fineous🔥]

Originally posted by Etho:

Originally posted by 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘🔥:

Greyoll (yeah she has a name not just runedragon) rune farming was just abusing a glitch. Killing her receiving the runes and using the grace near for Faroth asap before she banished.
Now we are talking about a dirty glitch and fixed by the looks of it (i never used it).

About the bird. No....poor thing likes to jump after you hit it for 1 damage, awfully boring farming method when you can find efficient rune farming spots like Midsommar village in Altus (crazy ladies windmill village).

Iam still in early game so it seem it would be the best spot because the only danger is falling off a cliff. I think about more like a test to skill to get there. The tower of madness or the invader before getting access to church of inhibition.

Hmm make your way to Altus and try the Windmill village. They drop decent runes, die fast, lots of them and also drop rune consumables (+5 i think) with decent drop chance. You can rinse and repeat pretty fast after dealing with the 3 groups of crazy ladies.
Thats a more or less early spot and certainly less boring than the bird (lets admit it you are not supposed to be there.....if the bird had a way to get you he would peck your face sooooo damn hard your character would be deleted forever).

[Senki]

If it's in the game it's not cheating unless it wasn't intended by the devs.

The only thing that could count as cheating is abusing bugs/glitches.

[strike478]

Originally posted by Etho:

Elden Ring or the souls series (first souls game for me) seems like overleveling is still no guarantee to win if You cannot do the mechanics.

Levelig can be used to regulate difficulty. If boss is too hard you come back to him few levels later and give it another shot. Of course you can learn mechanic to perfection and beat bosses at lowest level with some unupgraded weapon if you want to.

[zab]

yes
cheating

[ZTL-Altima]

No, I consider waste of time.

[zero]

i mean its literally not cheating.

it's also not the expected way to play the game, but thats an issue for them, if this is how they prefer to play, so be it.