A billion Runes and 300 chicken feet couldn't satisfy this Elden Ring player, so they are still farming
Like the game worlds FromSoftware creates, the Elden Ring community is full of eccentrics. There are level one diehards who take pride in beating the game without leveling up, no-hit challenge runners who will restart their entire playthrough if they so much as stub their toe, speedrunners using absurd glitches to defy space and time, and streamers beating the game with anything but an actual controller. Then there are the grinders, arguably the most deranged of the lot. Grinders conquer Souls games through sheer repetition, turning their characters into demigods not by acquiring story MacGuffins but by stuffing them with so much XP that they become functionally invincible, over-leveled to the point of deification. Demons run when a grinder goes to war.
One such grinder recently appeared on the Elden Ring subreddit. A few days ago, brave Tarnished VahnNoaGala (opens in new tab) shared an impressive achievement: hitting the 999,999,999 Rune cap through the sheer force of farm. A billion Runes. A billion Runes. I don't know if I've accumulated a billion Runes and Souls combined across the entire FromSoftware library, and I've been here since the three-four Black Phantom Soulsucker farm in Demon's Souls.
Elden Ring has been out for a year, so VahnNoaGala certainly isn't the first person to amass a billion Runes – they're still only level 639 of 713, and we've seen plenty of maxed players before – but I've never seen someone hit the Rune cap without actually spending any of them. I was intrigued by their tenaciousness, so I flagged them down to talk about The Grind.
Responses were edited for clarity and length.
GamesRadar+: What made you want to grind out and save up a billion Runes at once?
VahnNoagala: I've always
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