Don't farm. It's boring and the game has better ways to get runes. Just go explore in any random direction and don't forget to save in every site of grace you find so you can easily collect any lost runes. Don't rush to beat the next boss. The game is huge and there's plenty of places to explore, which will level you up naturally without any grind / farming.

Go to Caelid, east of Limgrave. Hop over a chasm into Dragonbarrow. Follow the coast road east (do not try to fight anything) until you eventually find a tower called Lenne's Rise. Rest at the grace there.

As you will notice approaching it, giant metal balls will spawn to try to roll over you. If you position yourself right, you can get the ball to roll off the cliff, giving you just under 2000 runes. Rest and repeat.

If this is your first playthrough you don't need to worry about farming, just doing the content will net you plenty of runes.

Check this video out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/0siIjHEFao

The boss is one of the many "night riders"

Also look up greyoll dragon, don't forget to use a golden foot for bonuses runes

Have you tried killing stuff as you progress through the game?

Pits, ENMDs, whispers and world boss all have a chance of dropping tribute of harmonies. They're pretty common if you just play the game. Once you have some go to the jeweler 3 of the same magic runes can be rerolled to rare runes. Rare runes can be rerolled to rare or legendary. Legendary can be rerolled to other legendary. Bosses also drop runes, all tributes runs drop a rune too. It's just a matter of playing the game you can get them in time.

you probably have grand gems that you don't use? they go for similar price as runes, so you can sell/trade those off.

Other than that, this season seems spread out between classes and which runes they use so actually trading legendary for other legendary works better than previous seasons imo.

Of course selling some item for big money and just purchasing runes above market rate instantly :D

I got the all the runes for the 4 mythics i wanted eventually. But ive been playing alot since season start since im on holidays. Most of mine from t4 undercity with the rune tribute. And a couple from bosses. Kept gambling at the jeweler for a some as well. Its a massive grind without trading 

Rune tribute run in undercity, bosses, wispers. Rare and blue runes from wanted mythics you can sell. Buy what u want after. For example a TON blue runes can go up to 200m each. So, don’t gamble ur runes blindly.

I’d say Lair bosses are the best rune farming in my experience. Over and over. You can either consolidate all your magic and rare runes at the jeweller (minus the ones you need to craft ofc) but by far the best way is to sell the ones you don’t need to buy the ones you do (sad but true).

I'm being insanely strict and selling anything that isn't 6*/legend/5 or more speed using the "sell selected/exclusion" settings.

Even then, if that rune's speed stat doesn't roll at least twice where I can throw blue grinds at it to make it an okay placeholder for the time being (3/4 times, optimally), it gets sold.

I'm just that sick of being outsped.

I don't know if this advice is good for you, because we are likely at different stages of the game and I'm being annoyingly strict. But there ya go.

There is no short answer. This is a very common question for this game since the beginning of time.

Without going into every specific rune set and details - look for efficiency in the runes you keep. Your efficiency baseline for early game is going to be different to mine, at late game. Get familiar with the min and max rolls (e.g. 4 to 6 for speed, 5% - 8% for HP%)

The score on the rune does help but you kinda need to roll it to +12 to really get the full picture.

Aside from efficiency, runes that get high doubles or triple rolls are gonna be useful. E.g. 24% hp (double max roll HP%) or 18 speed (double max roll speed) are definitely useful at your stage.

There are also tons of youtube videos done in the past (some are over an hour long) attempting to answer this question. You could get some insights in those videos if you have the interest.

Runes have a chance to drop during any activity. But the higher the monster is (elite, boss, etc.) the higher the chance it will drop a rune. You get more runes at higher difficulty levels.

Honestly, I have been just killing enemies outside cerrigar while doing some testing, and noticed alot of runes dropping in a fairly short period of time.

Lair Bosses like Duriel drop them often though. So joining groups via party finder just burning mats is a decent way to get a bunch too.

I think you can get Rune caches from the Lunar event. Other than that, you can try under city runs with the rune tribute, head hunts drop a good amount and T4 ladder bosses drop runes.

What about legendary Runes / does torment level matter?

World bosses, ladder bosses, and whisper caches seem to drop them most often, but they can drop pretty much anywhere, as far as I know.

if you hold on to the earth runes from the quest, are they able to be duplicated? was always curious about that, but didn't know there was duplication til later in the game

You do not find them you go to the giant village and enchant the tools in the center of the village giving the giant artifacts or fossils

Collect artifact and minerals, the stuff you get from coffers or ores, and take them with the items to enchant use the totem in the giants village as you do to enchant and use the artifact and/or minerals as fuel

Artifacts, gems, and fossils can all be used for enchanting. I don't think you ever find any actual runes afterwards.

The best way for farming runes is that rune Tribute in Undercity. For getting runes, trading is probably the best. Since you can often trade the runes you get for the runes you need.

Bosses.

Send me your tag. I’ll give you all you need to craft your mythic

Where do you get the tributes, anywhere in particular?

This was an issue last season and devs annoounced a higher rune drop frequency this season.Unfortunately they cant math.

Your best bet for a starless is to just craft mythic caches and do whispers for the mythic tribute offering.

There's the bird one from the ridge by lake of blood that nets around 17.5k a pop and easy to get a couple million in an hour. I got bored of it in about 15 minutes and just decided to play. Currently around level 167.

Kill that Mog guy with the exploit and rune boosters. It’s like 650,000 runes instantly.

Keep exploring and kill as much enemies as you can. If you dont feel confident go to a grace next to a tough enemy and practice on them.

Where are you in the game? I know a good early spot

Early game - killing the vulgar militia in dragonbarrow (accessed through the portal behind third church of marika)

Later game - killing the big blood chicken thing near Mogh

Bro, Just use the primeval halls for runes Like, just use 60 battle skip tickets on any element halls per week can give upto 6 guaranteed runes and if luck assures,gives upto extra 3 to 5 runes ,but not the specific rune you need (I too use this strategy bro) This is for efficient rune gathering for f2p players If you can ,gather as many battle skip ticket and start grinding at any hall in primeval hall

This is the only efficient method for rune gathering, Others are events which gmcan give runes for tokens but for all months ,this is best

Best rune farm will always be the frog bois on the palace appraoch ledge road in mohgs area. It's 50k runes for like 10 seconds of combat. Until dlc maybe.

You could repeatedly parkour up that one cliff in Mohgwyn Palace and jump off the map and spam attack while falling infinitely on your horse and then get like hundreds of thousands of runes instantly.

But it's only effective once you practice and master the horse parkour a few times.

I think this is still a thing... You'll probably see messages by the tree and on this cliffs. Follow the blood stains up the cliff and off the edge. Once you jump off, keep attacking until you get the runes and then teleport back quickly once you get them. (Otherwise u die from falling too far)

Through Varre's quest you can get to Mohgwyn Palace very early (whatever level it takes for you to beat Margit and Godrick).

From Palace Approach grace, shooting the bird nets 11k runes (more if you're using rune buffs, and double in NG+). It's more effective than farming the frog bois, at least until you get Sacred Relic (Waves of Gold will melt them all with a single button press, but you have to meet the faith requirement to use it).

But nothing beats item duplication. You can spend an afternoon with a friend (or using a second console by yourself like I do) and duplicate a Lord's Rune until you max out your inventory and sort chest.

Depends how far in the game you are. I go to the Prayer Room grace in the tree at the top of the map. Kill all thr soldiers. Easy money.