Elden Ring: Shadow of The Erdtree Best Ways to Level Up Fast Before The DLC

Finding consumable runes like Lord's Rune and Hero's Runes will definitely help you level up fast before the new edition. With these, you can earn 50k and 15-35k runes, respectively. They can be found in Lord's Rune on a corpse in front of a pillar and on the western path at Mohgwyn Dynasty Mausoleum. Additionally, if you defeat certain enemies like Erdtree Avatars in Leyndell Royal Capital and Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree, you can get a lot of runes. Here's a quick summary of the EXP boosts you can expect:

• Hero's Rune (1): 15,000
• Hero's Rune (2): 20,000
• Hero's Rune (3): 25,000
• Hero's Rune (4): 30,000
• Hero's Rune (5): 35,000
• Hero's Rune (6): 50,000

Always keep your eyes open for visual clues in Elden Ring. They will show you if there is an opportunity for extra runes around you. For example, if you see a glowing white skull somewhere, crush it. It probably contains a lot of runes. Enemies with glowing red eyes will also drop more EXP than others. Don't worry; they are not harder to defeat. Floating golden leaves are also a good indicator that enemies will drop more runes than usual.

• Red-eye enemies: 400% increase
• Leaves of the Erdtree: 17% increase
• Glowing skulls: 200 each

When you spawn at the Impassible Greatbridge Site of Grace, you will understand the actual meaning behind the word chaos. You will see knights and other hostile creatures engage in combat and fight each other every time you spawn there, which gives approximately 7,000 runes each time. You can always run around and pick weaker enemies to kill. Keep in mind that the EXP booster items like Golden Scarab will increase your gains a little bit, so don't be afraid to use everything you have to achieve your goal.

Caelid is hands-down one of the most dangerous places in Elden Ring. It is filled with deadly enemies, but you can benefit a lot from it if you want to level up fast before Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. There, you can find some of the best farm spots. Once you've discovered Lenne's Rise in Caelid, ride on over with Torrent downhill toward the Eastern side of the map. Of course, the death ball will try to crush you once you pass a certain point, but simply avoid it and make sure to keep your camera focused on the ball until you can no longer see it. This can give you around 2,000 runes each time you repeat the process.

In order to get the most runes out of farming, you will need to find the gold-pickled fowl foot. After you consume it, you will be getting a crazy amount of runes out of farming. You can turn 40,000 runes into 120,000 runes after equipping the Golden Scarab and consuming a gold fowl foot. This multiplier strategy can also be used when clearing out your favorite dungeons in the Lands Between.

Mohgwyn's Palace is one of the most popular places for rune farms in the form of an Albinuaric population. You will see them sitting outside of the palace on a cliffside near the Palace Approach Ledge-Road Site of Grace. You can get approximately 40,000 runes in just a few seconds with a few slashes of a blade. Additionally, you can use the occasion to prepare for the area's staple boss fight, Mohg, Lord of Blood. This is one of the requirements to gain access to the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

You have an opportunity to earn a massive EXP boost with Greyoll. First, you need to find the Fort Faroth Site of Grace in Dragonbarrow, a region in Caelid. Try to get close to Greyoll, but make sure to be on her left side and start trying to lower her health as much as you can. Once she starts to move around, ride back to the Site of Grace and rest. This will reset the dragon, so you can go back and do the same thing for more than 50,000 runes every time.

The Stormveil Castle in the region of Limgrave is full of easy pickings with arches and lumbering giants. The good thing about this place is that you can find a lot of Stormveil fighters in the Courtyard, and most of them have their backs turned to the player spawn area. Another good spot to farm early-game runes is near the Stormfront Site of Grace. There are a few giants tied to a wagon that can give you a lot of runes.