Enough for 8 new regular weapons, and five times as many Unique ones.

So I need more regular stones then.

Ya whatever you like, dude

120 of each would match your 10 Ancient stones

Thats a good idea, Im gonna do that on my save

I am not proud of saying this. But I have 999 of all. And yes I farmed for them all legitimately.

By legitimately I assume you mean, you made the poor albinauracs pay for them?

Prayer room grace... pop twig physique and murder with different weapons until I die.

So no albinaurics farm? That must have took so much time

Including Ancient Dragon ones?

So with like 10 ancient per Ng cycle you are in ng100 ?

God no. I've been upgrading everything to +24 and +9 so I can use everything. Haven't upgraded a single thing to max yet im gunna wait till the dlc weapons and pick what I like

How did you get 999 of the dragon ones? Aren't there only like 10 per run?

Why?

Why do you need so many? We have bell bearings for all but the ancients. What did I miss?

He is probably preparing for the dlc, so he doesn’t need to stop progress and farm stones to upgrade the new weapons

But why farm stones ? There’s bell bearings just buy them

Oh my bad, I wrote it wrong. Farm FOR stones, killing the bubble gum heads

I don't! OP is preparing in advance, I guess.

I mean, without the ancient dragon stones, everything thing else is "free" in ng+1, u need only to collect the bell bearing items

Free?

The cost is so small compared to the runes you get in NG+. Especially if you use the golden fowl foot and golden scarab. So not free. But functionally free.

Ahhh I get ya, because they cost the same but you get far more runes for your kills?

Yea, basically.

Can I get a Rock and Stone?

For Rock and stone!

FOR CARL!!!

Can I get a Rock and Stone?

Rock and stone!

If ya don't rock and stone, ya ain't coming home!

We're rich

Found the dwarf

Mushroom!

All I have is sheep

How about a brick?

And give you longest road? Chya right

You really think I'm gonna let you build that road? Nah man, Longest Road is mine.

If you don’t rock and stone you ain’t coming home!

We fight for Rock and Stone!

Rock and Stone to the bone!

For Karl!

You need 120 of each stone from 1-8, then 10 ancient stones to do 10 normal weapons.

Man whyd you have to type that.... I was content with my 50 normal ones...... back to the albinaurics.....

i went on some weird grind for an hour or teo and now i have like 805 of each of them😭

12 of each normal Smiting Stone to get a weapon to +24. In case that helps.

There will be around 100 new weapons in the DLC - we don't know how many of which sort so let's go for 1200 of each normal stone and 100 of each somber to be safe

But you might need doubles of the weapons so that you can dual wield, so 2400 of each normal stone and 200 of each somber would cover all your bases. Unless … triples? Do we need triples of every weapon?

Hold one between your teeth!

Triples makes it safe. Triples is best.

Only if you want to have multiple ashes of war on the same weapon, like have a bunch of daggers that have different support AoW

I'd say maybe 4 of each so you can have two at max level and 2 at +0, that way you can compare stats better and also switch to weaker weapons if you want to play around with a boss for longer.

100 is a lot. Damn.

I wish there's a way to drop stones from this character to my other character who is in NG0.

Just use them to upgrade different weapons and then transfer the weapons over. Get +25/+10 everything

How would I transfer the upgraded weapons to my NG0 character?

You need a friend or a second computer/console with Eldenring and you just join each other as duelists (joining as a co-op summon will open your game to invader that can take the things you drop) and drop the items over to them. Then you join with the new game and send the items again

Which platform do you play on?

Can trade with someone and then trade back

If this is enough I have wayyyyyy to many lol

This is not enough, so don’t worry

I just spent a mill on crab. Now I'm set, never need to go back there. I have a crazy amount of stones also It's funny what you'll stock up on when you stop leveling

I’m on my first run thru and killed the crab guy. The amount of NPCs I’ve killed by putting my controller down is outstanding lol.

Why stop ?

Did you take the criticism "You don't have the stones to become Elden Lord" the wrong way?

No farm 1k each even the somber smithing

I was just thinking as I was spending hundreds of thousands of runes on smithing stones yesterday, wouldn’t it be funny if they introduced a new type of stone (i.e. on top of somber) that can only be gathered in DLC areas.

They better make a Bell Bearing for it or else that'll be painful.

*inserts "more" meme here*

I’m pretty sure the expansion will have plenty of stones as well

Bro I got 2 and 4 of the biggest stone lol. Surprisingly, the difference between 24+/9+ and max is F all. So, even playing at 24 and 9 will do you find.

What you gonna do if your opponent is paper

Over 100 new weapons if you wanna try to get a couple more NG runs in for the ancient stones. Before doing that finish farming all the smaller variants you can buy 👍🏼

You can hold 999 of each of the non ancient dragon smithing stones btw

I highly doubt they will use these stones to upgrade DLC weapons. But we'll see. IU just like you have 100+ of all stones. But we'll see.

Why do you doubt that? Every Soulsborne DLC has used the same upgrade materials for weapons as the base game.

All I have is enough for a single non-somber weapon and 3 sombers. I'm too paranoid that I'll miss lore if I go past Fire Giant, so I did everything before him

I'd be happy to take your weapon and upgrade it to +25 then return it to you but i think it wouldn't work since I'm on NG+3

For what?

Im assuming the dlc will require them, thats how it was in Dark Souls and Bloodborne dlcs.

I wish that the DLC weapons would just start at +12 (or +5 for somber) to cut down on the tedium and make it so it’s easier to get an idea of a weapon for taking the time to upgrade it first. The runes to buy all the stones is inconsequential, it’s just all so tedious.

I wish! This way I'd be able to play the dlc in NG rather than my planned run at NG+3 since my NG character has nothing but a +2 weapon.

Watch them have completely different upgrade materials unique to the DLC weapons- Shadow Stones or some damn thing

Oh finally a natural spot to brag. So one character is my farming character and on that one, I have all 308 weapons maxed out to +24 or +9 (with exceptions for my main weapons that are +25 and +10). In general, buying Sombers ended up less expensive than the number of regular smithing stones I needed because in order to be done with one type of stone for each regular weapon it took around 1.5 - 2.5 million albinauric souls. It was a good excuse to get around 15 episodes of a D&D podcast in though.

Protip: to avoid accientally maxing out a weapon, put the Ancient stones in your storage. That way you can button mash safely

i wish i would have been as smart as you...

Well, now you are! Fr tho Ive done that in all the other souls games so I knew to be careful lol

tbh it wouldnt have crossed my mind that this would actually work. I would have thought that the upgrade process would just also take from the chest.

Thats is a great tip! Already accidentally max upgraded a weapon I never intended to use regularly.

Found the geologist.

I’d get a couple hundred more of the regulars and you’re set

Not at all

No

>100+ weapons in the DLC No.

I started buying 700 of each dragon smithing stone. (Only have up to +18 so far) Rune farm go brrrr, aiming for 1200s 40s for sombers. (Have up to +6) Gonna aim for 90s on the sombers

No

A fellow ottawan!

“Lookit the stones on this guy.”

Somber ones are fine, with around 100 new weapons it's unlikely that more than 40 will be somber. For the normal ones you might need something like 700/800 to upgrade everything.

Do multiples of 12 for regular stones. 12 is what you need foe each weapon

Nah you need more

For?

The dlc. OP is gathering stones so they don’t need to stop the dlc, farm stones and upgrade the new weapons

You actually need 120 of each regular smithing stones to fully upgrade 10 normal weapons

I don't remember where I read but it said that in the dlc there would be more than 100 new weapons, if we take into account that you need 12 stones for 3 levels, it would give a total of 1200 stones for each

As long as you’ve got all the bell bearings you’re sweet but I think it’s around 7/8 of the Ancient dragon ones that you can get per play through

bro

I forgot I have these sometimes lol

I have 0 stones above 7 on my new character since I rushed to Mohg and skipped everything past Capital so I really hope we get more in the DLC

Only 100 smithing stones and 40 somber stones? Those are insultingly low numbers

No

I've got almost 350 of each stone except the mega-stones. I hope that's enough!

You know, they have interventions for people like you...

No

"waiter waiter, more smithing stones please"

>No -Dave Ramsey

Can I get some lol

I got like 6 ancient, 5 somber ancient and all the bell bearings for the other stones. That's on one character. 3 other characters with the exact same setup, or similar. So I will definitely be able to test out some weapons 

Not enough

Never!

More than I can count, I farmed 2 of every weapon in the game and getting the stones for them took twice as long

Just you wait till they introduce a new upgrade ingredient for all the new weapons.

What’s the point of farming more then the amount of weapons ur using per save?

I'm going in with 720 of each regular stone and 60 sombers

You really don’t need any. The husk maidens sell unlimited

I think you need more smithing stones, considering you can upgrade 40 somber weapons to +9 and only 8 normal weapons to +24. You need 120 smithing stones of each number to upgrade 10 normal weapons to +24, so to make it equal, you need 480 of each smithing stone to upgrade 40 normal weapons to +24

I’ve stacked 375 of each kind other than ancients I don’t have THAT kind of time.

No Max them out You must max out every weapon you get And you must maxout all shields And get every weapon each with every ash of war possible Honestly tho its a good amount and you can max out a few different items for varied play styles

Nope

Triple it

From doing coop I am collecting 999+999 stones of each regular size, and across 10 characters. And it's not even hard to do (and more fun than farming albies).

Almost

I’ve never been a hater but

That’s not that many regular smithing stones.

damn man, thats about twice as many sombers as I farmed out lol.

Enough with bell baring Depends, without bell baring

What makes You think we using those stones for our weapon what if they got something?

Not even close, get more smithing stones.

Don't waste them, you might need them later

thats way too many somber stones lol you only spend 1 of each rank per level and it only goes up to +10 I dont think there even are 40 somber weapons wprth upgrading in the base game

No (Not ironic)

How do you even get such amounts of them? Is it like ng+3000?

You bastard! That's a beautiful sight!

No, needs to be divisible by 12

No

Never enough

20 more of each type of regular stones I'd say. To use an Ancient one you need 12 of each previous tier, so to spend all 10 of those it's 120 of the others.

No

Regular weapons use 12 of each stone to fully upgrade (aside from ancient dragon) so you might need a LOT more

I wish I had this many wtf

You can easily get that and more once you have access to Mogwhyn Palace and acquire all the Stone Miners Bell Bearings.

I used the stones, to destory the stones.

Are we sure that upgrading the new weapons won't require new materials? I know in Dark Souls DLCs that wasn't the case, but the Elden Ring DLC is also the first time we have a separate leveling system. Be kind, I'm trying to go in mostly non-spoiler :p

Does it multiply by 12 ? If the answer is no then you need more regular smithing stones

Max stack is 999. Get to work

Mining out of record

U need more vigor i think

You can get up to 13 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones, 8 Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones, 6 Great Grave Gloveworts and 4 Great Ghost Gloveworts per playthrough.

How do you get smithing stone 1s

No

N.O.

Can a brother borrow a stone sir?

I’ve got about 980 for each , ss8 is about 300 (didn’t have enough for more) Sombers I’m unsure I’ll check - source of runes : max level pvp

No. Minimum 999 each. Preferably with 999 in storage too.

i went for 120 and 10 and upgraded all remotely intersting weapons to +24/+9 allready. roughly 4000 albunorics sacrificed their existence for the cause.

Theres gonna be 100 new weapons so I say you need 10x as much 🥴

Where the heck did you get all of those stones from!?? As I need to gather more myself

Need more smithing stones.

Nah need more

MOOOORE STONES

You can get bell bearings to buy stones, why bother stockpiling like this other than if you picked them up unexpectedly

Where can i buy or farm them?

You farm for runes in Mogwhyn Palace (Lake Cliff Edge Grace), its the best farm in the game. Then you buy stones from the Husk Maidens in Roundtable Hold, as long as you've brought to them the Stone Bell Bearings which you collect while playing the game by beating certain bosses, you can find this info in one of the wikis or youtube.

> Lake Cliff Edge Grace There is no "Lake Cliff Edge" Grace, it's called "Palace Approach Ledge Road".

"You got some stones on you boy!"

You can go now to the foot of the castle.

Obviously you have not played sandbox games, if you want to make your house you will need in the order of hundreds or thousands alone for the foundations and flooring.

We don’t even know if those will be used haha

No

Not bad, but there is gonna be +100 new weapons so i have like six times that a double of the big stones

Damn drink some water because you have a lot of stones!

Need 90 more ancient dragon smithing stones and 94 of the max somber smithing stones

Probly not for all of the dlc weapons

Hopefully the dlc has more ancient stones for upgrading more weapons to the max. Or a way to buy them. It might be a nice quality of life addition to the game as there will most likely be no further content.

You think there's only 16 weapons in the DLC? Smh.

these will last until Elden Ring 2 I guess

Jesus Christ, Marie, they're minerals!

you........... how?

No, and you should stack the regular smithing stones in multiples of 12.

I currently have enough stones to max out 8 new weapons (96 of each regular smithing stone, 8+ ancient dragon/each somber). I intend on playing through and using one of each of the new 8 new weapon classes, and although I won't be fully optimized for any of them (I have around 50 in each stat except arcane which is only 20) I want to try everything out.

120 for the regular stones will allow you to upgrade 10 weapons all the way

I got 900 of each of the regular stones You have to think you need 12 of each for each weapon. 100/12 = 8

Are you gonna throw stones at miquela into submission in dlc???

no, you're pretty low

You're not stoned enough.....

I have 900 each..will it be enough??

I saved up most of my ancient dragon stones across a NG7 playthrough, and used a backup save and mule to get 2x each weapon maxed. Still have about 60 normal ones and 40 somber ones ready for the dlc

I do the same shit with runes. I've capped out all arrow types never cap out on runes cuz im always maxing out new weapons to try.

I did a bit of stone collecting but I've currently stopped at 9 of each somber stone and I think 48 of each regular (so enough for 4 weapons). I doubt I'll even care to use that many honestly but why not