Elden Ring players are reverse farming AFK PvPers

pcgamer.com:

Usually, if you want to farm for runes to level up in Elden Ring(opens in new tab), you go wipe out a dozen enemies over and over until you're satisfied. It turns out, this is too much for some players who'd rather not have to press any buttons to get runes. These players are squatting in impossible-to-reach spots in the world and luring invaders in for easy runes while they're alt-tabbed or completely AFK.

It's a lousy rune farm compared to ones that don't waste other people's time(opens in new tab). AFK rune farmers use Torrent to jump to places that you can't get to on foot (usually in Limgrave), and then using the Taunter's Tongue to bring in enemy players. Nobody can use the horse in multiplayer, so the enemy invaders can't reach the AFK rune farmer by normal means. These players are betting on the PvP invader's confusion or frustration to get a reward.

If invaders don't use the Finger Severer (which also rewards a small amount of runes to the host) to escape the AFK host's world and instead jump off a cliff and die, the camper gets an amount of runes based on the enemy player's level. And they get more runes if they use the White Cipher Ring to summon in ally players to defeat invaders for them.

A seemingly growing problem in #ELDENRING is AFK rune farmers. Hopefully @fromsoftware_sp and @BandaiNamcoUS can fix the issue of using a Taunter's Tongue in areas reachable only by Torrent soon because the longer it goes on the less many will care about fairness. pic.twitter.com/PL9hrQHRLmApril 4, 2022

This ongoing exploit has rallied clever Elden Ring players to start devising ways to 'reverse farm' the AFK rune farmers. Popular methods include ranged weapons like the Jar Cannon(opens in new tab) to kill or knock the AFK