If you managed to get your hands on a Great Rune and don’t know where or how to use it, here’s a full breakdown of what steps you need to take in Elden Ring.
Elden Ring is not part of the mainline Souls games, but in almost every way it is a spiritual successor to those titles. The combat is a more polished, expanded, and satisfying version of the formula FromSoftware has been iterating on ever since Demon’s Souls, only now set in a new setting with a fully open-world environment to explore. Another element that Souls fans will immediately recognize is the way the game presents — or more accurately obfuscates — certain information. Story and lore are the primary examples of this, and it remains true in Elden Ring, but there are still mechanics and items that go with almost no explanation. Great Runes are the primary culprit every player will eventually encounter. Great Runes are key items that you will come across as you follow the main path of Elden Ring, and are required for doing certain things, as well as have other uses for your character. However, the game itself never tells you any of the different ways you can use them, let alone what you need to do in order to even have the option to use them. Even then, the process is, in typical FromSoftware fashion, nearly impossible to figure out on your own. If you managed to get your hands on a Great Rune and don’t know how to use it, here’s a full guide on what you need to do in Elden Ring. Without spoiling too much, Great Runes are one of the two new prizes you get for beating the final bosses of Elden Ring’s main dungeons. In lore, they’re the pieces of the titular Elden Ring, and there are six you can collect. The first you are going to encounter will be Godric’s Great Rune after completing Stormveil Castle.
