Local alternatives to Mohgwyn rune farm

[Enderspoons]

Sure, you can just waltz on over to Mohgwyn Dynasty within the first 20 minutes of the game and powerlevel yourself beyond all belief, but suppose for a moment that some tragic accident befell Varre, or some other circumstance happened that made Moghwyn Dynasty's early entry inaccessible.

With that in mind, what other spots do people like to use for rune grinding at various places across the world?

[MULTIPASS]

The only other place I've used is the Haligtree right after the prayer room grace, but I think you're looking for something earlier in the game?

I don't know, farming runes at low level just doesn't seem like something people need. At very low level you can grab the stationary dragon in Dragonbarrow, and then a bit later I come back for the other 3 world bosses (dragon, tree avatar, and night cavalry).

[drakeef]

Hunt the ninja dudes near the beast clergyman, even without the golden scarab, they drop 1k rune a kill. More if they have glowing eyes.

[Amanita]

early game i farmed Fort Faroth in caelid. Be careful tho they do tons of damage

[Fineous🔥]

This

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Windmill+Village

The crazy ladies drop a decent amount of runes plus Golden rune consumables (5 if memory dont fail) as a common drop. The trick is to kill them fast and reset. If you have good AOE rinse and repeat.

[C1REX]

Respawning big dragon mama glitch farm is decent but the dragon needs to still be alive to do it.

[Dharc/Lyna]

If you haven't killed Greyoll yet, you can go pick up a weapon that inflicts blood loss, go kill her and while she's in the dying animation run to the nearby grace and rest there which will give you her runes but also cause her to stay spawned, so you can do it again

[purpl3 h4z3]

Originally posted by Dharc:

If you haven't killed Greyoll yet, you can go pick up a weapon that inflicts blood loss, go kill her and while she's in the dying animation run to the nearby grace and rest there which will give you her runes but also cause her to stay spawned, so you can do it again

A wild necromancer appeared

[Yard-Dog®]

You can always use the ball of death rune farm by Lenne's Rise. Will net you about 2000-3000 runes per run. Each run takes about 25 seconds or so.

[Zogtar]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Sure, you can just waltz on over to Mohgwyn Dynasty within the first 20 minutes of the game and powerlevel yourself beyond all belief, but suppose for a moment that some tragic accident befell Varre, or some other circumstance happened that made Moghwyn Dynasty's early entry inaccessible.

With that in mind, what other spots do people like to use for rune grinding at various places across the world?

Ball farm is still valid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96PB0nfGdM

[drakeef]

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

You can always use the ball of death rune farm by Lenne's Rise. Will net you about 2000-3000 runes per run. Each run takes about 25 seconds or so.

I found stealth killing the Vulgar Militia guys near the Beast Sanctum to be a bit faster overall

[Yard-Dog®]

Originally posted by drakeef:

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

You can always use the ball of death rune farm by Lenne's Rise. Will net you about 2000-3000 runes per run. Each run takes about 25 seconds or so.

I found stealth killing the Vulgar Militia guys near the Beast Sanctum to be a bit faster overall

I definitely see that as a good farm as well, but they do hit like a truck and can be a pain at low levels to those that are newer to the game(/genre). It's certainly more fun than the monotony of the ball of death method, that's for sure.

[drakeef]

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

Originally posted by drakeef:

I found stealth killing the Vulgar Militia guys near the Beast Sanctum to be a bit faster overall

I definitely see that as a good farm as well, but they do hit like a truck and can be a pain at low levels to those that are newer to the game(/genre). It's certainly more fun than the monotony of the ball of death method, that's for sure.

That would be the big thing. Once the Ball start taking several runs to just level, it gets tedious. VMs you are doing a little more to lessen the tedium. if you can keep of the stealth kill part and get a glowing eyed one with the bonus to rune gain, its a really boost.

[zmanbuilder]

If you decide you want to collect all armors and weapons, you will never be short on runes.

[Guglhupf]

Yeah like the other comments said, ball farm at Lenne's rise is really good in the early game bc it's fast and without fighting, and the Vulgar Militia south of Bestial Sanctum are also good to farm. My two favourite methods till I get to Moghwyn Palace(though I usually rush the Varee questline to get there early and just use the ball method prior to that).