Elden Ring - How to Activate Godrick's Great Rune

When you finally get to the end of Stormveil Castle and defeat Godrick the Grafted, you're given Godrick's Great Rune. We're going to show you how to reactivate his Great Rune so you can use it for yourself throughout your journey in The Lands Between.

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Where to go to Activate Godrick's Great Rune
00:52 - Path 1: Requires Stonesword Key Shortcut
01:07 - Path 2: Dangerous Rooftop Route
03:12 - Clear the Front Gate Ballistas
03:36 - Confront (or Avoid) the Beast
03:53 - Confront the Three Golems
04:20 - Approach the Divine Tower of Limgrave
04:41 - What the Great Rune does (and How to Equip It)
05:01 - How to Use Rune Arcs (and Where To Find Them)

For our interactive map, dungeon walkthroughs and so much more, head to our guide on IGN.com.

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[smithcolin]

Start at Ramparts Tower...(skips the most important part about which path to take)...which will eventually lead you to these ballistas

[barnstar]

Anyone else feel like IGN has changed over the last couple of years? It feels like people who actually play video games work there now.

[FrodoSwaggins]

“The easier path is this way” doesn’t show how to get there from sight of grace

[libertyprime]

My favorite part of this video is when they skip certain sections and don’t mention it at all :))))

[shortbreadhead]

You do not need to go that full dangerous rooftop route, you can work your way across the roofs and drop down safely above the guys with the ballistas rather than go through the Knights and stuff. You don't even need to fight the guys on the roof before scaling the buildings as you can just jump over and they won't follow. This saves so much time, health and flasks for when you need them. You should really make a follow up to this video showing the proper route for that

[joshr]

Hate when they do that. Take this path to the right but doesn’t show where to go. Would be a 4sec clip.

[ianmrsh]

If you’ve got the speed you don’t need the long path or stonesword key. Get the npc to open the gate and sprint right, there’s a grace almost immediately

[kaizou]

The easiest way is if you exit from Rampart Tower grace, head out, to the right, run-jump to the roof across and below, and then jump on to the small stone ledge to your forward left. Hug that ledge and keep going until you finally drop to the area around 1:51 in the video

[peekingkitten]

dont forget to use rune arcs to active his bonus

[buildingscienceUS]

1:39 you can actually jump straight to this roof directly from the Rampart Tower Grace

[therealforestelf]

you have to use a Rune Arc whenever you want to get the effects of the great rune (e.g. giga Buff until you die)

[VikingFyre]

Finally! I’ve been banging my head trying to figure out where to go for this.

[Americafat]

Can you explain why you didn't to show the route not including the spawn, just you in a random location?

[Mellowmere]

You immediately lost me opon, "go to the rooftops" where? Which way? From which direction??? This is no help at all

[danielbasti]

Congratulations on making one of the most confusing “guides” I’ve ever watched

[bakesaletv]

It’s a treat to have a incredible game like this in an era of garbage like COD, 2042 and 2077

[tuantranthai]

12 Great run slots
DLCs comfirm right there

[KingCrimsonRequiem]

to anyone who is confused why they didn’t show the path the stone sword key area, it’s right next to where you go when you jump down from rampart tower, it’s right on the ground from the last jump

[FatherGoosee]

Thank you for making me guess where to go half of the time

[daltonshears]

if you keep cutting the video in key parts nobody knows where tf youre going 😊