How to Level Up Faster in Elden Ring

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Elden Ring has launched and veteran Dark Souls players are clamoring to level and advance through the story. However, with the huge amount of players, there are also many newcomers who may not be familiar with previous Dark Souls and Bloodborne common practices. It can be a bit overwhelming on just how to efficiently level up without wasting time.

Elden Ring uses runes, a similar system to souls and blood echoes from other FromSoftware games. They are both used as experience and as a currency to purchase goods from merchants. When players want to level, they must sit at a Site of Grace and speak with Melina to trade in runes. However, if players die their runes will be left behind on their corpse. If one perishes again, all previous runes will be lost forever.

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Leveling spots will only last so long before the amount of earned runes does not outweigh the effort. At that point, players should continue on with the main Elden Ring storyline. However, the same farming tactics of helping or harming other players will always apply through all of Elden Ring.

Before heading out to level in Elden Ring, it is a good idea to collect a few items to boost or otherwise improve rune collecting. All of these are consumable, making their use limited but balanced. Some of the better items include:

Using online modes is the best means of collecting runes in Elden Ring. When visiting a new world, the host’s reaming bosses and other enemies will be farmable for additional runes. There are two main items used, the Small Golden Effigy and Tranished’s Furled Finger, both gained near the start of the game. The former is typically used in the open world, where players can get summoned all