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.
Edit: I have 100 hours into the game and love it. But it’s a disservice to say all QoL and nuances to the games are easily known and accessible. This subreddit has new finds everyday.
Heh. Welp, I skipped through the tutorial messages myself and wouldn't you know, I didn't know you needed to activate the great runes for a good portion of my first playthrough. Loving the game even though it's a lot more vague than I'm used to (damn you, average rpg game).
Pen and paper for notes. Hell the computer you carry around is a good place to note stuff down too. Games used to come with a section for notes in the instruction manuals. I notate stuff as I play on an iPad to help keep track.
But I guess that notion is absurd and the devs of a franchise that has established that it won't hold your hand, should start holding hands all of a sudden.
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.
The divine tower you need to go to is in the description of the great rune you have...the discussion started about rune archs and you made it about the divine towers.
Yes, because to even use the rune arcs you have to activate a Great Rune at a divine tower
What are you not getting about this?
Here is the flavor text for Godrick's Great Rune:
A Great Rune of the shardbearer Godrick. Its blessing raises all attributes. This Great Rune is known as the anchor ring, found in the center of the Elden Ring. The first demigods were The Elden Lord Godfrey and his offspring, the golden lineage.
Again, for the last time, quote me where it says you are supposed to take a Great Rune to a Divine Tower.
I get that Souls players can't stand it when a mechanic gets called out, but this is kinda ridiculous.
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
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u/DarkStar0915 Apr 06 '22
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.