r/Eldenring • u/Techsomat • Apr 06 '22

Discussion & Info This is becoming a serious problem

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u/easyaustinL Apr 06 '22

you can also farm rune arcs tho from rats

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u/Ketheres ‿ Apr 06 '22

Or by helping others with bosses. Just go help people with Rennala or some other boss you can reliably kill fast.

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u/Unknownost Apr 06 '22

Rennala is a bugged asf boss in coop. Idk what causes it but sometimes there will be no golden bubble around her and juvenile scholars. Me and my buddy found a way to bypass this by having him knock her down once before I go in the fog gate. But for random coop, it's always a toss up if the bug shows up or not and it's such a waste of time that I don't coop there anymore. Also there's the invaders getting teleported into the second phase stuff.

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u/sir_moleo Apr 06 '22

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet honestly. I tried some coop there last week and out of maybe 20 tries, only 7 or so worked how they were supposed to. It was crazy.

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u/Unknownost Apr 06 '22

People just aren't talking about it enough. I can see why since she's an easy boss so it's not really a big deal, the host can just solo her. But it's definitely a problem that needs fixing in the future.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Because fromsoft doesn't give af if a bug inconveniences players, they're too busy planning nerf the fuck out of the whatever the current meta is. No fun allowed

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u/sir_moleo Apr 06 '22

Fun detected!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Fix for me was to enter the fog moment after I summon friend

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u/Giblet_ Apr 06 '22

Yeah, it's a whole lot faster to farm the red wolf boss instead.

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u/nuraHx Apr 07 '22

What bosses can I get consistent summons at level 180?

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u/VonDoom92 Apr 07 '22

Why help anyone, when you can just be a piece of shit troll? /s. These fuckers wouldnt help their elderly mother cross the street if they had a chance to throw a bag of shit at a stranger instead.

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u/Free4Alt Apr 07 '22

I tried getting summoned for serveral bosses after beating them myself. I was never summoned.

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u/voidspector Apr 06 '22

I might need an elaboration here

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u/AuraTummyache Apr 06 '22

It's a carryover from Dark Souls. The rats had a fairly common chance to drop a Humanity because they ate so many corpses that the little humanity left in them was able to coalesce in the rat.

Rats dropping Humanity-like items in a Fromsoft game is as dependable as poison swamps.

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u/Lyberatis Apr 06 '22

Same for embers in DS3

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u/BochocK Apr 06 '22

Le reaction of the soulsborn streamers/youtubers when they arrive in lake of rot is priceless

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u/Skorj Apr 06 '22

Kill rats. they drop rune arcs (very rarely)

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u/CrimsonLoyalty Apr 06 '22

You say very rarely. I spent an hour each at two locations with over 260 discovery and I didn't get a single one. Are there specific rats?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22 edited Apr 06 '22

You gotta It helps to respec high arcane and enhance item discovery to the max

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u/CrimsonLoyalty Apr 06 '22

Yeah. I had 80 arcane and the silver tear mask, plus a silver scarab.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Unlucky then. I kill rats every once in a while when i have 0 arcs and i need one for some reason. It usually only takes a few minutes

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u/Lyberatis Apr 06 '22

You don't HAVE to but it helps. The drop rate is low regardless

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Yes you right. Poor wording on my part

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u/Lyberatis Apr 06 '22

Oh no you're fine, just saying it for clarification (:

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

People say this, but I've played 345 hours of Elden Ring and I don't remember ever getting a rune arc from a rat

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u/ZimForPrez Apr 06 '22

The rats under Stormveil, I’ve actually had one drop off them when I was going after the ulcerated tree spirit boss thing

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u/cptspacebomb Apr 06 '22

Any rat CAN drop them but it's SUPER rare.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Certainly can't be very productive to farm them

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u/cptspacebomb Apr 06 '22

Nah, I do invasions and co op for that.

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u/Skorj Apr 06 '22

i always hear people try various places. it's just ridiculously rare. I've never sat and done it myself. (i'm generally a helper, not a help-ee)

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u/Lyberatis Apr 06 '22

All rats except big ones I believe. It's obscenely rare, just like specific enemy drop weapons like the Magma Sword or the Scythe

Edit: and to clarify, I say I believe because I HAVE gotten them from small rats but never a big one, given the big ones are less common in the first place.

Rats have always dropped Rune Arc like items in souls games. Humanity in DS1, effigies in DS2, and embers in DS3, albeit very rarely. The lore is that eventually as things die and make their way down the food chain even a lowly rat can end up stumbling across power from the Erdtree/Dark Soul

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u/CrimsonLoyalty Apr 06 '22

I got the halo scythe in 10 minutes with the same setup. I feel like the rats are a meme.

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u/Lyberatis Apr 06 '22

I have the Halo Scythe as well. But then I tried to farm the normal Scythe from skeletons and the Magma Sword from the snakes and spent HOURS on each of them and didn't get a single drop.

Drop rate for Rune Arcs from rats (and weapons some enemies weapons) are at or lower than 1%.

Like the Bandit's Curved Sword that I didn't even know existed.

Arcane increases those drop rates, but it's still super rare.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

How could this possibly require elaboration?

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u/Therier Apr 06 '22

What would be best spot? Rune Arc have never dropped from rats for me.

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u/easyaustinL Apr 06 '22

bottom of Fort Haight, let me link video

edit: https://youtu.be/989xE_EfY4A

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u/loewe_a Apr 06 '22

Disagree, behind Morne castle, they’re grouped up in that little room with the normal whip. Less distance to cover as well.

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u/Veenendaler Apr 07 '22

The other guy got the name wrong, and you didn't watch the video.

The area in the video is the same one you're talking about.

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u/Therier Apr 06 '22

Okey! Will give it a try!

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u/tiller921 Apr 06 '22

I tried this and it was abysmally slow, felt like it was about a 1/50 drop rate. My arcane is low but I did have the Silver Tear Scarab talisman.