Greetings, Tarnished! While everyone knows about Rivers of Blood and the Moonveil, the Lands Between hide countless treasures that often go unnoticed. We’ve ventured deep into forgotten caves and abandoned castles to bring you 20 hidden gems that could transform your journey.
From obscure yet powerful weapons to game-changing talismans, overlooked armor sets, and life-saving consumables you might have stashed away – we have found them all.
And for those seeking to unlock their full potential, we’ve also uncovered reliable strategies for farming Rune Arcs, turning you into the Elden Lord you were meant to be.
20 Underrated or Overlooked Items
These items can provide significant advantages when incorporated into specific builds or strategies, making them valuable additions to a player’s arsenal.
- Dragonscale Blade: This katana infuses both lightning and frost damage, dealing 60 points of frost buildup and 160 points of lightning damage per hit.
- Glinstone Kris: A powerful dagger that can cast Glinstone Dart for only 6 FP, making it an excellent secondary weapon for battle mage builds.
- Stormhawk Axe: An effective weapon against smaller enemies, dealing significant poise damage, as it features a Thunderstorm skill that creates a lightning storm.
- Death Ritual Spear: A heavy intelligence-based weapon dealing both physical and magic damage with a unique Ash of War that covers a large area, making it ideal for larger enemies.
- Erdtree Greatshield: A powerful greatshield dropped by a Tree Sentinel Duo in the Altus Plateau, featuring a unique Golden Retaliation skill that can dispel sorceries and incantations.
- Eclipse Shotel: A legendary curved sword that deals physical and holy damage, requires 30 Faith, 25 Dexterity, and 10 Strength to wield, and features a unique Death Flare skill that can inflict the death ailment on enemies.
- Great Jar’s Arsenal: A talisman that significantly increases equip load, allowing for more flexibility in armor and weapon choices.
- Bull-Goat’s Talisman: Increases poise, which can be crucial in certain builds and combat situations.
- Silver Tear Mask: This helm increases Arcane by 8, significantly boosting item discovery and making farming more efficient.
- Fire Knight Helm: It provides a mini version of the Erdtree’s Favor talisman effect, increasing max health by 2%, max stamina by 5%, and equip load by 4%.
- Death Mask Helm: This unique helm reduces the FP cost of spirit summons, making it valuable for builds that rely on spirit ashes.
- Greaves from the Divine Bird Warrior set: These leg pieces increase the damage of all kick attacks, making them perfect for certain hand-to-hand weapons.
- Blue Silver Set: While difficult to farm, this set is visually striking and offers good defensive stats for its weight.
- Sword Spear: A powerful halberd-type weapon dropped by Erdtree Guardians, scaling primarily with Strength and Dexterity, featuring a Spinning Slash skill as a unique moveset.
- Volcano Pots: Can be thrown to create a lingering area of fire damage, dealing continuous damage up to 10 times per pot, and are easily crafted using 2 Volcanic Stones and 1 Empty Cracked Pot from the Nomadic Warrior’s Cookbook 20 found on Mt. Gelmir.
- Sleep Pots: Crafted using the Fevor’s Cookbook 1 found in Limgrave, these pots can trivialize certain boss fights, such as the Godskin Duo.
- Crystal Darts: Effective against construct enemies like Golems and Imps, these can “mind control” certain foes, making them fight on your behalf.
- Gravity Stone Fans: These can be purchased infinitely once you obtain the Gravity Bell Bearing and use 13 FP to emit a fan-shaped gravitational shockwave, dealing strike-type damage and are particularly effective at stunning groups of weaker enemies like imps, soldiers, and wolves.
- Spark Aromatic: Found in the Perfumer’s Cookbook 1 at the Perfumer’s Ruins, this consumable creates a wide arc of sparks that explode, dealing fire damage to multiple enemies.
- Uplifting Aromatic: Another item from the Perfumer’s Cookbook 1, this aromatic is considered one of the best in the game, as it temporarily boosts the player’s stamina recovery speed, making it especially useful for prolonged engagements or when facing tough enemies.
To maximize the effectiveness of the above consumables, consider for example using talismans like the Companion Jar (increases throwing pot potency by 20%) and wearing the Jar helm for additional power.
Rune Arc Farming
Many Tarnished overlook a crucial secret: Rune Arcs can be farmed indefinitely. Here are the prime locations throughout the Lands Between where you can stock up on these powerful fragments of the Elden Ring.
Watch out for Giant Rats – These enemies have a small chance to drop Rune Arcs. Effective farming spots include:
- Earthbore Cave in the Weeping Peninsula, which has 7 small Giant Rats and 1 large Giant Rat.
- Ailing Village/Callu Baptismal Church in the Weeping Peninsula.
- Underground Rivers and Tunnels.
- Castle Morne: At the “Beside the Rampart Gaol” site of grace, you can find 4 rats nearby, making it an efficient farming location.
Church of Dragon Communion: While not for direct Rune Arc farming, this location is excellent for gathering ingredients to craft Silver-Pickled Fowl Feet, which increase item discovery and improve Rune Arc drop rates.
To increase your chances of obtaining Rune Arcs:
- Raise your Arcane stat.
- Use Silver-Pickled Fowl Feet to boost item discovery.
- Equip items that increase item discovery, such as the Silver Scarab talisman or Silver Tear Mask.
With these methods, you should average a couple of Rune Arcs per hour, even with low discovery rates.
May these overlooked treasures serve you well, brave Tarnished. Whether you’re facing Malenia for the hundredth time or just starting your journey, remember: sometimes the most powerful tools are hiding in plain sight. Until our paths cross again at the next Site of Grace…
Rise now, ye Tarnished!
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