Sleeping mother dragon

[Brightness]

does the glitch of killing it and running back to the grace still work?

[Mimic]

Was that a thing?

[Imperator Ricardo]

This should still be working. Although i would rather recommend going to farm the Albinaurics in at the Palace Approach Ledge-Road at the Mohgwyn Dynasty Mausoleum. Its simply more efficient than bashing a giant dragon with a lot of resistances for 5 minutes to gain 80k souls.

[[AJSA]MeloDeath]

last time i tried it didnt work.. mabye my timing was wrong who knows.

[Greywander]

Yes, it still works. I usually finish her off with poison so I can be standing next to the grace when she dies, but I've seen clips of people killing her with bleed and running back before the death animation finishes, so the timing seems pretty generous.

If you've beaten Godrick then you can do Varre's questline to get early access to Mohgwyn Palace. I usually shoot the bird and get it to run off the cliff, seems like it's faster and more efficient than killing the albinaurics. You need the Sacred Relic Sword to make farming the albinaurics efficient, and you have to beat the game to get that.

@Mimic, yes, if you rest at the grace while Greyoll is in her death animation, you'll get the runes but she'll come back to life. This allows you to kill her over and over again for easy runes. Since she has so much HP, you really need something that does damage based on a percentage. Bleed, poison, scarlet rot, frostbite, black flame, and so on. There's several different bleed weapons you can obtain early on (such as the Flail or Morning Star), and there's a poison ash of war in the Swamp of Aeonia.

You can start farming runes within minutes of starting a new game, and there's zero risk of dying. I usually kill Greyoll a few times before tackling Stormveil, and once I've beaten Godrick I'll move my rune farming to Mohgwyn Palace.