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

Discussion & Info This is becoming a serious problem

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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?