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Elden Ring’s economy is, shall we say, a little unbalanced. While being a merchant in the Lands Between is technically viable, it’s far more profitable to kill a bunch of people and rifle through their pockets for their precious runes. Still, while you’re in your looting frenzy, you’ll probably pick up an item or twenty, some of which are more useful than others.
Selling these items won’t net you much, just a couple hundred runes at best, but if you despise a cluttered inventory, it’s a good idea to visit a merchant to offload your excess baggage. Every rune counts, especially early on in the game, when almost everything can stomp the life out of you. You’ve got to hustle if you want to be Elden Lord.
10 Ruin Fragment
When you first emerge into the Lands Between, one of the first things you’ll notice are the ruins that litter Limgrave. Scattered wall pieces lie waiting for exploration, and the small stones that glint across their surface will entice even the wariest traveler. Are they, like so many small items in Soulsborne games, a secret to the world’s lore? What lies hidden in these enigmatic items?
Not much, unfortunately. They do hold hints about a temple that fell from the sky in their item description, but they aren’t particularly useful, except to make Rainbow Stones. Handing them over to a merchant will net you a modest amount of runes, though, which could prove useful early on in the game.
9 Grace Mimic
At first blush, Grace Mimics seem like they could be incredibly useful. Create your own site of grace that will lead you in the right way? Awesome!
Except this fake site of grace doesn’t do much. You can’t rest at it, its fetid ray points off in a seemingly random direction, and it’s virtually useless in PvP, though that seems to be its intended purpose. The fact that Patches sells them shows you all you need to know. They’re joke items that are, at best, good to troll your friends. They’ll only sell for ten runes, but it’s better to have some cash than have these cluttering your inventory.
8 Low-Level Smithing Stones
Though you’ll want to hang onto them early on in the game, you’ll soon get a sack full of smithing stones at level one or two. And while these can be incredibly useful if you want to see how a new weapon stacks up against your current main, they’re extremely easy to find. Just pop into a cave, and they’re practically lying on the floor.
Since first-level smithing stones are virtually an unlimited resource, they’re an excellent item to pawn off if you’re looking for a few runes. Just don’t hand off anything with “somber” or “ancient dragon” in their names. You can only find a few of these rare stones, and they’re worth a lot more than their selling price.
7 Beast Blood
Elden Ring’s crafting system can be hit or miss, depending on what kind of person you are. On one hand, some items you can make are incredibly useful. On the other hand, the game’s combat is based around pattern memorization and fast reflexes, and you might just neglect your consumables in favor of just learning how to dodge better.
This is what makes Beast Blood such a good item to sell. As a crafting material, it’s fairly common, and the items you can create with it aren’t particularly intuitive to use. At 50 runes, they won’t net you much, but that’s better than lugging around a bunch of literal blood that you’re not going to use.
6 Staff Of The Guilty
In a game full of weird weapons, the Staff of the Guilty is one of the strangest, and that’s not because of its looks. It’s a staff used to cast sorceries, which, by and large, require high intelligence to unlock. But, the Staff of the Guilty doesn’t scale with intelligence. Instead, it scales with faith, effectively making it useless to most magic users.
While some niche builds might find the staff useful, it will remain merely an oddity for most. Why let it crowd out more useful staves? Give it to a merchant for 100 runes, and have them deal with it.
5 Festering Bloody Finger
Whether or not you sell the Festering Bloody Fingers you pick up on your jaunt in the Lands Between depends entirely on whether you like PvP. Bloody Fingers will allow you to invade another player’s world when they’re playing co-op, letting you face off against your fellow Tarnished. But, if you don’t plan on fighting others, they’ll just sit there, rotting in your inventory.
What’s more, working through White Mask Varre’s questline will give you an infinitely better way to invade: the Bloody Finger. Unlike their festering cousins, the Bloody Finger lets you attack other players as much as you want to without being consumed. This quickly makes the Festering Bloody Finger redundant, but hey, at least you can throw them at a merchant for 100 runes.
4 Warhawk’s Talon
Though you probably wouldn’t guess it from the number of times they shanked you trying to sneak into Stormveil Castle, the Warhawk’s Talon isn’t a particularly good weapon. It has decent dex scaling and high crit, but it’s not enough for most players to even give up their starting weapon.
Weirdly enough, though, the Warhawk’s Talon sells for a full 200 runes, about the same as a first-tier Golden Rune. It’s not enough to prompt you to farm the bloodthirsty birds, but early on in the game, when every rune counts, it’s not a bad idea to hawk one at a merchant if you’ve got the chance.
3 Frenzyflame Stone
Whether or not you sell your glut of Frenzyflame Stones depends entirely on the path you’re taking as you battle your way to the Elden Throne. If you’ve decided to try and get the worst possible ending by becoming Lord of the Frenzied Flame, good news! The Frenzyflame Stone will heal you at a decent rate of 35 HP per second.
Anyone else, though, will want to avoid Frenzyflame Stones at all costs. To anyone who hasn’t made a pact with the Three Fingers, using a Frenzyflame Stone only inflicts madness and gives no positive status effects. However, Frenzyflame Stones do sell for a modest 100 runes, so there’s no harm in picking a few up when you have the chance.
2 Weathered Straight Sword
Take a look in any Elden Ring player’s inventory, and you’ll soon realize that every single Tarnished is a walking armory. Magic wands, hand ballistae, and knives that constantly weep blood somehow all fit into what looks like a relatively small satchel. However, the weapon you’ll probably find the most is Weathered Straight Swords.
These are the swords wielded by Commoners, some of the weakest enemies in the game. The swords have little practical value, but since Commoners are easy to kill with a swipe or two, you’ll probably find yourself with an armful of them before too long. They also sell for 100 runes, which is a fantastic price for minimal effort, especially early in the game.
1 Rickety Shield
Basically, a board held together by duct tape and hope; the rickety shield is probably the worst in the game. It can only absorb about fifty percent of damage when you first get it and upgrading it doesn’t help much. The in-game description says that “This piece of scrap isn’t worth the effort of equipping.” Using one is like trying to block a sword with your arm.
Yet somehow, every merchant in the game will hand over 100 runes for this piece of crap. It also drops off of demi-humans, the easily killable early-game enemies populating Limgrave’s cave systems. You can easily pick up half a dozen or so without trying, and offloading them to Kale will put you significantly closer to an early game level.
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