Want to know more about the best quests in Elden Ring? Like any good RPG game, Elden Ring is filled with quests, but there’s no in-game journal to keep track of all your conversations with NPCs. Unless you keep track of every NPC you interact with, there’s a chance you’re going to miss out on lengthy quest lines featuring interesting stories and high quality rewards.
There’s a lot of key items on the map like Golden Seeds and cookbooks which can be collected at any point, however, some of the best Elden Ring quests are only active for a short period of time. You have to be careful not to skip through important parts in each quest chain accidentally. For example, if you start a quest and end up fighting against one of the Elden Ring bosses without completing a step in the chain, you may automatically fail the quest.
To make matters worse, you can accidentally destroy an entire quest line without realising if you manage to kill an NPC. Most NPCs usually aren’t aggressive right away, but they can look threatening. In a game where everything is ready to kill you, we completely understand if you fight first and ask questions later. Here’s everything you need to know about quests in Elden Ring, including what the best rewards are, how to seek forgiveness, and more – but be warned, there are Elden Ring quest spoilers ahead.
The best Elden Ring quests are:
Here are the rewards for completing Roderika’s quest in Elden Ring:
Roderika is one of the first NPCs you’re likely to encounter in Limgrave – she can be found at Stormhill Shack lying beside a painting. If you speak to her multiple times, she rewards you with the Sitting Sideways gesture and the Spirit Jellyfish Ashes. Roderika asks you to deliver a message to the chrysalids at Stormveil Castle. When you get to the castle, the Chrysalids’ Memento can be found on top of a pile of corpses.
Here are the rewards for completing Patches’ quest in Elden Ring:
Make your way to the Murkwater Cave – be prepared to fight Bloody Finger Nerijus to enter the cave. Once you’re inside, you should find a chest completely uncontested. Open it to claim Cloth Garb and Cloth Trousers, prompting Patches to fight you for stealing his ‘treasure’. When Patches loses three quarters of his health, he begs for forgiveness. You have the option to kill him, but you should keep him alive to receive the Grovel For Mercy gesture and a Golden Rune [1].
Here are the rewards for completing Nepheli Loux’s quest in Elden Ring:
While the Arsenal Charm is one of the best Elden Ring talismans, the main reason you want to complete this quest is to grab an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. These materials are vital for upgrading equipment to its maximum level. This quest is tricky to finish as there are several ways you can fail. The three key things to remember are that Nepheli must survive every boss fight she joins, you should not give Nepheli the Seluvis’ potion, and you shouldn’t defeat Maliketh, the Black Blade in the Crumbling Farum Azula until you complete this questline. Any of these will prematurely end this quest.
Here are the rewards for completing Sellen’s quest in Elden Ring:
After you beat the Mad Pumpkinhead in the Waypoint Ruins, open the door to find Sorceress Sellen. She’ll offer to teach you magic, so accept her offer to begin this questline. Buying magic spells will give you more dialogue.
Here are the rewards for completing Ranni’s quest in Elden Ring:
The Dark Moon Greatsword is the best weapon for intelligence-based Elden Ring builds, but unlocking it requires a lot of work. At the beginning of the game, you should run into Renna at the Church of Elleh where she rewards you with a Spirit Calling Bell and Lone Wolf Ashes.
Here are the rewards for completing Fia’s quest in Elden Ring:
Fia’s quest chain is intertwined with Ranni’s quest, so we recommend you try to complete both of them at the same time. A new dialogue option appears with Fia once you have reached Altus Plateau, allowing you to talk to her in secret. She wants to return the Weathered Dagger to its rightful owner, you have to find out who the weapon belongs to. Speak to D at the Roundtable and he will take ownership of the dagger.
Did you accidentally kill a crucial NPC during your adventures? There’s a way to bring dead NPCs back to life, though it’s going to cost you. If certain NPCs aren’t appearing when they should be, travel to the Church of Vows. Here you atone for your sins at the statue of Lady Rennala – interact with her statue and select the ‘Atone’ option. If you haven’t done anything wrong, a prompt appears with the following message: you don’t need absolution.
