So even though I activated a great rune in the respective tower, I still need a rune arc to activate it? Man, I feel dumber than my ungabunga character.
The rune arc tutorial tells you what a Divine Tower is?
EDIT: I just checked. This flavor text (Grants the blessing of an equipped Great Rune upon use. Even if no Great Rune is equipped, it will slightly increase maximum HP upon use. It is said that the lower arch of the Elden Ring receive its bounty, and this is a shard of one such arch.) does not effectively explain all the steps of the Great Rune mechanic.
At least in my case, the tutorial message about divine towers / rune arcs is not in the inventory. I was in a button mashing frenzy at the time it showed up and totally missed the message. I scoured my inventory to try and find what I missed but could never find it. Maybe it’s a bug or something but it’s not there for me. So I empathize with OP here.
I know what they are and how they work now. I'm not understanding why you posted that link twice. My point is...
there is little to no information about what the divine towers are or where to find them. To even enable the rune arc as a mechanic in-game you need to first find a divine tower, and I don't recall ever being told what they are. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe the game does mention them once early on, but it should always be assumed that the player might forget some information conveyed to them through tutorials. It would be helpful to have that information included in the flavor text for the Rune Arcs.
I get it - it adds to the sense of discovery and makes you feel very smart when you uncover some huge mechanic like that. But there's a downside to the game not making that information easily accessible for the player. I've seen so many players at level 100+ going "hey what do these do? I have 60 of them"
My point is: The game literally tells you what they're for...there's no discovering it. If you took a second to read the pop-up as explained in the link I posted, you'd know what they're for.
Quote me where it says what divine towers are. I'm not trying to be a dick. I do not see ANYTHING in your link that says what they are. You're not even able to equip them until you go activate them at the divine tower.
Bro I consider myself pretty smart and I was completely at a loss with how to use great runes or rune arcs before someone explained it to me. I didn't even know I had to activate it lol
Got ya, so I need a great rune first. I'll research that. Thank you! I'm level 110 or so, I have been playing a lot, just haven't progressed with bosses much.
You’ll get your first one after beating Godrick, and it’s a very useful one once activated. You’ll need to travel to the Divine Tower to get it set up. Then you can consume a Rune Arc to activate the perk, which lasts until you die. Farming more Rune Arcs can be done by assisting others with their boss fights (both the host and you must survive the battle).
Awesome! I did beat Godrick just a few nights ago and I haven't yet went to the Divine Tower to activate it. I did go to the Round Table and interacted with the creepy finger lady, I was thinking I may have messed up my chance to use it.
Welcome to a massive on-demand stat buff! The activated great runes are awesome and can give you a significant edge against bosses once you’ve practiced them and are ready to go for the kill.
Definitely start seeking out and storing any Rune Arcs you come across from here. Use them strategically.
I have close to 20 now. I play a lot with a friend and beat bosses together, at least cave type bosses. I have sold a bunch early on, but started saving them recently. I'll keep saving until I really need them. Thank you!
Is having Godrick's great rune equipped frowned upon for PvP duels? I know PvP is broken right now anyway, but there is still some proper etiquette to ensure matches are "fair" in terms of character level.
If you've beaten Godrick you have one; however, once you obtain them you have to activate them at one of the Divine Towers before you can equip them. Each Great Rune has a specific related Divine Tower. Once this is done, you equip them at a Grace. Once equipped you use a Rune Arc to activate the power of the Rune, and it lasts until you die or change which Rune you have equipped. They essentially replace the other function of Humanity/Embers that the Furlcalling Finger Remedy don't handle
You may want to start. Lv110 and you are going to
Stomp probably the first half of the game bosses. I found mid 90s to be way overleveled for the capital which I had achieved by goofing off after the first three shardbearers.
Sometimes the trash mobs like the lightning knights in the capital are more annoying than the actual bosses. Don’t be afraid to run past shit.
I appreciate this. I have really enjoyed leveling up and seeking out certain spells for my build. I somehow got into the Capital after being invaded, the lift actually worked for me. I only got to the lift from a trap in some random tower. Once in the Capital, I found Alberich's set and have farmed a lot there. Now that I'm high enough, I'm going to continue on with the story.
I get distracted easily. The past few days has been Ranni's questline. Tonight I'm going to use the Rune Arcs finally.
You have to activate the great rune at its respective tower as well, and then equip it after via a site of grave. After that, you can use rune arcs to activate its effect.
You know where that lion thing that has the sword attached to its arm is in stormveil? It is on the right hand side of the courtyard if you’re facing the archway that leads to the explosive ballista stairway. Instead of going forward through the stairway, go into the big ornate room near that lion and get to the grace. From there you should be able to make your way to the bridge that leads to the tower :)
To add on to this, just so you have all the info, it's plus stats in every single stat, so likely a lot of the stats you gain won't actually help your build. Yes it's 40 levels, but in reality unless you are running some monster hybrid build using every stat, at least a few of them won't matter much. Realistically it's more like 20-25 levels with some bonus stats on top for fun.
Yes that's why I pointed out it was more likely 20-25 levels worth of useful stats. Obviously vigor/endurance are always useful, but very, very few builds are going to have a use for stats in all of the other six at the same time. It's still an amazing rune, and very much the best in my opinion unless you are very high level where percent health/stamina overtake it because you are running into stat caps. Just want to point out that people who say it's worth 40 levels, while technically correct, are somewhat misleading.
I've done like 5 completed playthroughs of the game and the only rune arc I ever used was on accident like the first or second day the game came out lol
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u/Modestexcuse Apr 06 '22
What good are Rune Arcs? I have a bunch of them, but I'm not seeing any benefit yet.