Summary
- Selling excess crafting materials and unusable weapons can help players earn Runes in Elden Ring to upgrade gear more effectively.
- Players should prioritize selling duplicate gear and unused Remembrances to merchants for a significant amount of Runes in the game.
- Golden Runes should be sold to merchants in bulk to save time and efficiently generate Runes without the need for individual consumption.
Elden Ring is an expansive and sprawling open world that rewards risk-taking by offering players rare crafting materials, level upgrade items, and enemy item drops. Often this may lead to a cluttered inventory, underutilized resources, or both.
Elden Ring: 14 Items You Should Buy Immediately From Merchants
Having the best tools for the job is essential to one's survival in Elden Ring. These items should be purchased immediately from merchants.
Coming to players’ rescue are a host of merchants stationed at many points in the Lands Between. Although selling some types of items will come intuitively to players, others may not be straightforward given the scope and sheer complexity of item management in a deep RPG like Elden Ring. The following examples are valuable suggestions for selling particular resources to merchants from which players can benefit the most.
Updated on Jul 15th, 2024, by Waseem Muhammad: With the release of Shadow of the Erdtree, countless items, armor sets, and weapons have been added to the game. These items are scattered throughout the Realm of Shadow, waiting for players to explore every cave and corner and eventually find them. As Runes are the main currency in the game and farming can be a bit tedious, selling items that players do not need comes in handy. This update adds new entries from the DLC that players can sell quite early on. It is important to note that selling these items is not necessary, but players can do so if they are low on Runes.
10 Crafting Materials (Shadow Of The Erdtree)
More Can Always Be Crafted If There Is A Need
The Crafting system in Elden Ring allows players to use multiple crafting components to make an item that can be useful in boss fights or to help in exploration. These crafting materials are items that can be picked up throughout the Realm of Shadow or acquired by defeating various types of enemies and even non-hostile NPCs and fauna. With the addition of the new Bell-Bearings, a lot of players can sell crafting materials they do not need at the time and buy them again later when they're needed.
Materials such as Furnace Visage, for example, can be found after defeating Furnace Golems, or looting the areas where dead Furnace Golems are located. These can be used to craft Hefty Furnace Pot, but if the player does not need to use the Pots, then they can sell these Visages for a few Runes.
9 Shadow Realm Runes (Shadow Of The Erdtree)
Selling These Runes Is Faster
![Shadow Realm Rune [4] in Shadow of the Erdtree](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/shadow-realm-rune-4-in-shadow-of-the-erdtree.jpg?q=49&fit=crop&w=500&dpr=2)
A lot of new Runes have been added to the DLC, known as Shadow Realm Runes. These can be acquired from various locations and most often give more Runes than most of the ones in the base game. As Elden Ring does not allow the player to sell different Shadow Realm Runes at the same time, it can take a few minutes to sell everything. However, there is a faster way, and that is selling these runes to any Vendor in the DLC or the base game.
As there are tons of new weapons in the DLC, most of which can be acquired pretty early on, the need for Runes arises when one must upgrade them.
8 Excessive Armor Sets & Weapons (Shadow Of The Erdtree)
It's Better To Clear Out The Inventory
Apart from the weapons and armor sets that can be looted from chests and traded in exchange for Remembrances, there are also those that can be farmed by defeating enemies in the DLC. Some of the enemies in the Realm of Shadow, like the Fire Knights and the Messmer Soldiers, have a chance of dropping pieces of their armor sets, as well as the variety of weapons they carry around.
When defeating countless numbers of these enemies, whether it is to farm their items or simply to make the path to progress easier, players will be able to get their hands on a bunch of duplicate armor sets and weapons. As there is no use in having multiple of these items taking up inventory slots, it is best to sell them. Discarding them is also an option, but acquiring even a small amount of Runes can help upgrade new Spirit Ashes or weapons, and is better than losing them for nothing.
7 Rowa Raisin
Food For Torrent But Runes For Tarnished
Rowa Raisin is a consumable not for the player but for the trusty steed Torrent. It is a healable item that restores quite a lot of Torrent's health if there is ever a need to do so. However, this does not mean that it is a useful item. Most of the time, players will not get hit on the horse, making the use of this consumable impractical.
Rowa Raisin can be crafted using Rowa Fruit, which can be found almost anywhere in The Lands Between. This means that players will have huge amounts of the item if they scavenge and loot a lot. The item, in general, does not sell for a lot of Runes but can still be a great help early on in the game when aiming for those level-up requirements.
6 Duplicate Gear
Extra Armor Pieces Or Weapons Are Always Useless
This one is a no-brainer. Multiple copies of a weapon or armor piece serve no purpose or use in the game except for being sold for Runes currency. It can be argued that some dual-wielded weapons like Katanas and Whips, which require players to have a duplicate weapon of the same type equipped in their other hand, are an exception to the given rule of selling.
It should be noted, however, that paired weapons, like Claws and 
Starscourge Greatsword, will automatically spawn a second copy of the weapon in the other hand when pressing the ability button. So in this case, a duplicated weapon is of no use and can be sold safely to the merchant. Similarly, almost all unnecessary armor pieces can be sold to merchants except for quest-specific ones, particularly the 
Twinned Armor during D’s questline which involves Fia.
5 Remembrances
Offers A Tremendous Amount Of Runes When Sold
Whenever players bring down a boss enemy, they are rewarded with special souls called Remembrance. These are specific to the bosses defeated and can be sold at merchants for a great deal of Runes, each one netting between 20,000 to 50,000 Runes. Alternatively, Remembrances can be traded at Finger Reader Enia to obtain the respective powers of the boss. These are either a weapon or a sorcery ability but not both as players must make a choice between the two.
A useful approach is to duplicate the remembrance by seeking walking buildings with bell structures on them, known in-game as Wandering Mausoleums. Each one of these seven will allow players to duplicate the Remembrance giving them the option to obtain both powers through trading, selling for a whopping profit, or something in between. In any case, boss Remembrances are key items that are worth selling to merchants for Runes-heaven!
4 Unusable Weapons
Weapons Not Related To One's Build Can Be Used As Runes
Another class of items that would be obvious selling options at merchants are unusable or unwieldable weapons. These refer to weapons that have requirements that do not align with the player's current attribute stats. As a result, players can either hold onto them long-term when considering respec of stats, or they can earn some quick Runes by the good old tradition of selling.
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Unusable weapons will differ widely for each player based on their playstyle and build. Players opting for a sorcery-focused build will naturally lean more towards attributes of intelligence and arcane, and as a result, they may sell unusable weapons such as those with high strength or dexterity stat requirements.
3 Excess Ashes Of War
Better To Use A Few Ashes of War And Sell The Rest
There is a staggering number of Ashes of War abilities in Elden Ring, a total of 91! Each armament, whether it’s a weapon or shield, has one slot for Ashes of War, with special armaments having their unique slots locked in. This means that at any given point of the game, players will have more Ash of War abilities than needed.
Different scenarios and situations will require slotting these Ashes of War abilities in and out. From raining arrows from above to unleashing an agonizingly loud beast roar to committing seppuku for increased bleed damage output, players should not shy away from experimenting with the many unique animations and effects these special abilities follow. After players have made the choice to retain a few, they can sell the unused or uninteresting Ashes of War abilities to merchants for a quick and easy route to obtaining Runes.
2 Excess Enhancement Items
Unwanted Upgrade Materials Are Free Runes
Not too different from the previous entry, just like how certain Ashes of War items will become obsolete and lose relevance for the player’s decisions in different situations, the same applies to bolstering materials and crafting ingredients. For upgrading weapons, shields, and Ashes of War, items such as Smithing Stones, Somber Smithing Stones, Grave Gloveworts, and Ghost Gloveworts will be required depending on the rank and uniqueness of the item. Upon reaching an upgrade level, bolstering materials below that level can be sold. For instance, once all armaments in the player’s inventory have been upgraded to +7, any Smithing Stones ranked 7 or below can be sold to merchants.
Similarly, for crafting materials that will be utilized to make ammunition and consumables, excess ones can be sold. Due to the sheer amount of crafting resources that players can gather from the environment, a huge unwanted stock of them can be sold at merchants for a good price.
1 Golden Runes
Better To Sell Them And Save Time Than Individually Use Them
Finally, Golden Runes, as counterintuitive as it may sound, can be sold to merchants instead of being consumed on the spot to generate Runes for the player. The obvious question arises of why players need to go through the additional step of selling when they can just navigate to the inventory menu and click the corresponding button to consume the Runes.
The best answers are sometimes also the simplest, which in this case, it’s just to save time. Golden Runes in Elden Ring can only be consumed one at a time, followed by a noticeably long animation upon each use. Opening the menu at the merchant, however, simplifies this to a mere bulk-select option. This would allow players to sell all Golden Runes in their inventory at once with no loss in the amount of Runes generated.
Elden Ring
- Released
- February 25, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- From Software
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
