Elden Ring Nightreign has a lot of rogue-like elements that can make every run feel slightly different than others. While a lot of the things on the map change locations, there are a few that stay the same.

No matter the layout of your map for an expedition, you'll want to quickly and efficiently farm runes to make sure you and your party levels up enough to take on the Nightbosses and Nightlord. Here are some of the most efficient places to farm runes on any run.

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Best Rune Farming Locations On Day One In Elden Ring Nightreign

The best places to get runes early on are any Evergaol, as long as you have a Stonesword key to open it up. These bosses scale to your current level and will never pose too much of a challenge if you're playing with three players. Evergaols have the potential to drop additional runes from the boss cache, along with dropping a permanent buff to your Rune Acquisition for the rest of the expedition.

You'll also see world locations in a blue circle, indicating stronger enemies than usual. These can still be completed on the first day, just a few levels in.

Aside from Evergaols, on day one, you'll want to clear out a few of the world locations, along with taking out the boss. As you get to about level six, you'll want to start running past most of the basic enemies in these areas and head straight to the boss to get more runes and the cache they drop.

Another great location to farm runes is the central castle, which never moves locations. The only random element for this location is the enemies within, and you'll want to find the Crucible Knights as they drop over 10,000 runes a piece. In the river of the central castle will also be trees that boost Rune Acquisition for a short time, which can further boost the effectiveness of this location.

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Best Run Farming Locations On Day Two In Elden Ring Nightreign

Depending on how much time you had on day one, the start of day two is a great time to go back and clear out the central castle if you didn't have the time or the enemies felt too strong. Any world locations you go to on day two will be filled with mobs that aren't worth your time, so just run past them and clear out only bosses or larger enemies that will drop a cache.

The most important places to go on the second day are the Shifting World events. These offer not only powerful enemies and bosses, but potential Powers which provide permanent buffs for yourself and your party. World Events are very difficult to clear, filled with powerful enemies, so you'll want to go there only on the second day and sometime after level eight or nine at least.

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Elden Ring Nightreign
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May 30, 2025
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From Software
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