Elden Ring Nightreign 5 Rune Farming Locations: How To Complete The Upgrade In The Early Game?
Posted: Jun 03, 2025 Views: 88
Elden Ring’s spin-off game Elden Ring Nightreign caused a wave of heated discussion and attention when it debuted at The Game Awards 2024 last year. This year, it finally officially met you on May 30.
Nightreign is the prequel of the original in terms of plot. As for the specific gameplay, while using some of the original mechanics and systems, it emphasizes the importance of team cooperation in the form of a battle royale (you can also choose to play alone).
If you want to unlock more late-stage content or the final boss battle in the game, you need to accumulate resources such as runes or flasks by completing various battles. Or you can directly obtain Elden Ring Nightreign Boosting service to save time and energy.
However, in order to ensure that you can successfully complete basic tasks to complete the weapon and character upgrade, you need to understand the preliminary knowledge of rune farming. Based on this, I will introduce you to the 5 best rune farming locations in Elden Ring Nightreign.
1. Small Encampments
This is more of a general term for initial enemies than a location. When you enter Limveld with your new character, you will immediately find groups of initial enemies, and the places where they gather usually provide you with resources.
It is estimated that the number of runes provided by all the initial encampments in Nightreign is about 3600+. Don’t think that this number seems like a lot. In fact, these runes can only support you to level 2. Runes are one of the top consumables in the game.
2. Great Churches
If you think it is easier to clear all the initial encampments first, you can also go directly to the nearest Great Church after completing the first encampment. The building will be marked on the map with a triangle icon.
Compared with the encampments, the enemy types brought by Great Churches are not fixed, but killing small bosses who have golems or Oracle Envoys can obtain more runes (about 9300+), enough to get you to level 3. However, these bosses are more difficult than regular wild bosses.
3. Forts
If you have completed most of Great Churches or want to continue challenging yourself, you can find Forts and clear them through the “small castle on the top of the cliff” icon on the map.
The difficulty of regular enemies and bosses in Forts is not much higher than that in Great Churches, unless you encounter a golem or a mage boss. After defeating them, you are expected to have the opportunity to obtain about 15,000+ runes through Forts exploration.
In fact, the real special thing about Forts is that you may also unlock chests in them in addition to exploration. They can bring you advanced gear to help you cope with more difficult challenges later.
4. Evergaols
After reaching level 4 by clearing the first few locations, you can go to Evergaols to continue farming. This type of location is marked with a brown circle on the map, and mainly provides you with runes through regional bosses, which can bring up to 20,000+ runes.
However, the tricky thing is that on the one hand, fighting this boss requires you to obtain an additional Stonesword Key to summon it, and on the other hand, it is more difficult than Great Churches or Forts boss. Luckily, Nightreign prioritizes teamwork!
5. Main Encampments
If you have completed Evergaols or have been unable to obtain Stonesword Key, you can try to find Main Encampments to continue the challenge. Their icon on the map is a group of tents.
However, it should be noted that the enemies in this area are not only more in total and boss numbers, but their skills are also more complex and difficult to deal with. Therefore, if your character level is below 5, it is best not to try it easily, otherwise you may be surrounded by enemies.
Although the runes obtained by defeating a single boss in Main Encampments are 14,000 to 17,000, which is not as many as Evergaols boss, they do not need to be summoned additionally, and completing Main Encampments before going to Ruins will not be affected by the latter.
Best Farming Plan
The conventional rune farming plan for the early game is to clear these 5 locations in the above order and obtain all the runes in them. But if you want to further improve the acquisition efficiency, you need to utilize the help of special gains.
When exploring Limveld, you’ll notice that there are sometimes glowing areas on the map. Finding them and entering them will heal you or grant you various buffs, such as increasing the number of runes you get for a period of time.
These buffs are usually found in low-lying areas near the castle, where you’ll see small trees with yellow fireflies growing on them. Entering the corresponding area grants you a buff. Other ways to get more runes in a short period include:
- Getting the consumable item Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot from corpses or chests.
- Obtaining the relevant passive effects from bosses or Gold Scarab talismans.
However, since both of these methods are random, and runes are an essential resource for completing your early upgrades, it is still recommended that you utilize finding yellow fireflies as your primary source of rune buffs.
Hopefully, this guide will help you get enough runes in Elden Ring Nightreign as soon as possible to complete your character or weapon upgrades, so that you can unlock and kill your first final boss! Good luck!
