Bloodborne |OT2| Praise The Moon

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cpp_is_king said:
Ending question:
Which ending is recommended for my first play through? I've heard rejecting him will get me a badge. What about true ending? I'm assuming I should go with one of those two first, but not sure which.
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If you're not planning to just cheese it and reload saves for Trophies:
I would do the True Ending first, so that the True Ending Boss is easier, then the Normal Ending on NG+, then the No-Fight Ending on NG++.
 
GulAtiCa said:
Has anyone else stopped fearing about losing a lot of Blood Echos? I've noticed that even if I lose 50k (I'm like half-way? so still a decent amount), there ends up being no worry about losing them since gaining that much back is kinda easy. One thing I don't feel with this game is the sense of "oh god I need to get my souls blood echos back!" like I felt in Dark Souls 2. In DkS2, in normal NG outside of bosses every enemy dropped a small amount of souls and never increased that much over course of game. So when I lost 50k in that game, would take a long time to get those back (not to mention stupid Soul Memory limit) in NG.

In Bloodborne, even normal enemies later in game give you so many Blood Echos, that losing a bunch and then ranking them back up is just slightly inconvenient.
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There are so many strategies for farming blood echoes that I simply shrug at losing 20k, for example.
 
killed the vicar first time
one of my summons died but the other one kicked ass
 
man this zone is awesome, such a good way to wash the taste of
yarnhal'gul
off my mouth. cashed in my 70k souls to almost get the skill soft cap (23/25) since ive been using the blade a lot lately (Ive had the str soft cap for ages now), got me some shortcuts and gonna call it here for now.

So glad this zone is good, the previous one was really bumming me out on the game (also glad to see its mostly hated by everyone lol)

Also this zone has the brightest moon ever in a videogame, good lord

edit: I keep saying "this zone" because I dont actually know the name of it lol, its after
Micolash
 
wtf ... running around aimlessly in the forest then ...
seeing something far behind in the shadow, then hearing a "boom" ... the next moment i'm catching a cannonball with my face while some scrub enemy finishes me from behind...
 
Jharp said:
Meat sack guys in Yahar'gul are pretty fucking infuriating, and the area is pretty maddening in general. This is a MASSIVE spike in difficulty from Old Yharnam.
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yeah, that's an intentional bit of survival horror to enjoy while figuring out how to get out of there. you can come back much later.
 
GulAtiCa said:
Has anyone else stopped fearing about losing a lot of Blood Echos? I've noticed that even if I lose 50k (I'm like half-way? so still a decent amount), there ends up being no worry about losing them since gaining that much back is kinda easy. One thing I don't feel with this game is the sense of "oh god I need to get my souls blood echos back!" like I felt in Dark Souls 2. In DkS2, in normal NG outside of bosses every enemy dropped a small amount of souls and never increased that much over course of game. So when I lost 50k in that game, would take a long time to get those back (not to mention stupid Soul Memory limit) in NG.

In Bloodborne, even normal enemies later in game give you so many Blood Echos, that losing a bunch and then ranking them back up is just slightly inconvenient.
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In DkS2, there was also the problem of enemies not respawning after a set time so that increased my worry of losing what I had.
 
GulAtiCa said:
Has anyone else stopped fearing about losing a lot of Blood Echos? I've noticed that even if I lose 50k (I'm like half-way? so still a decent amount), there ends up being no worry about losing them since gaining that much back is kinda easy. One thing I don't feel with this game is the sense of "oh god I need to get my souls blood echos back!" like I felt in Dark Souls 2. In DkS2, in normal NG outside of bosses every enemy dropped a small amount of souls and never increased that much over course of game. So when I lost 50k in that game, would take a long time to get those back (not to mention stupid Soul Memory limit) in NG.

In Bloodborne, even normal enemies later in game give you so many Blood Echos, that losing a bunch and then ranking them back up is just slightly inconvenient.
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Yeah, it's not a big deal. I'm running around with hundreds of thousands at this point heh (200k+ per level!). The only time I was really annoyed at losing them was when I was about to buy a 60k item from the vendor and lost 60k and then 58k to a stupid tiny cage elevator in NoM where you have to jump off halfway down for something and there's a bit of a gap. And the elevator ride is painfully slow.
 
The Cane is OP in the right hands. If you catch a lot of enemies in the right window of their animation then you can stun lock them by spamming R1 until they die. It even works on some bosses.
 
How does stat scaling work? I've got a Threaded Cane +8 with E/A/C scaling. My stat screen says its Physical ATK is 141+138, which is 279. I've also got Ludwig's Holy Blade +7, whose stats scale at B/B/B. I have 20 STR, 32 SKL, and 8 ARC. Since the Holy Blade shows a higher attack value, I would expect it to do more damage, but the Threaded Cane consistently hits for more. Anyone know why?
 
Nearing BSB... I'm afraid
 
Rhaknar said:
man this zone is awesome, such a good way to wash the taste of
yarnhal'gul
off my mouth. cashed in my 70k souls to almost get the skill soft cap (23/25) since ive been using the blade a lot lately (Ive had the str soft cap for ages now), got me some shortcuts and gonna call it here for now.

So glad this zone is good, the previous one was really bumming me out on the game (also glad to see its mostly hated by everyone lol)

Also this zone has the brightest moon ever in a videogame, good lord

edit: I keep saying "this zone" because I dont actually know the name of it lol, its after
Micolash
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I really wish people would stop saying there's a level 25 soft cap, because there's really not. It's a very, very minor decrease in gains and you still get a shitload of stats from 26-50. Post 50 is a *real* soft cap (not a hard cap, a hard cap means you don't get anymore gains, period) with a severe drop in stat gains.
 
Phionoxx said:
Yeah, there is a decent run in a late game area. U
pper
C
athedral
.
Start at the lamp, go left up the stairs past the slug guys, kill the dude with the scythe, kill the guy in the room on the left, go out in the hallway and kill the blue-eyed werewolf (can cheese him by luring him back to the doorway, and attack him from there).

Then go out to the main area, quickly run down the stairs in a circle and bait the 3 blue-eyed werewolves to follow you back to that doorway you came from. Can also cheese these werewolves from attacking beyond the doorway. Kill those 3, run downstairs and lure the 4th one and kill it. With 200+ item discovery, they usually are decent about dropping 1 blood chunk per run, plus blood shards or twin blood stones.

If you want to farm for echos too, you can also backstop / visceral attack the squid head guys in the area too with minimal risk if you do it right, and they drop a decent amount of echos. All in all, you can do the whole run in less than 10 minutes and about 22K echos (if you have the Moon rune equipped, I have the Eye rune equipped too for additional Item Discovery). Then to finish it up I leave one of the slug guys by the lamp at the entrance alive, and I run back and let him kill me via Frenzy so that I respawn at the lamp and the enemies are reset and kill the slug to get your echos back, without having to warp out to Hunters Dream.
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Thank you I'll use this as my last resort after trying all options. Also, using Bold Hunters mask is a cheap way to respawn enemies. I have 95 of those and is better than going to hunters dream and back.
 
This thread moves fast as shit, so I'm fully expecting to get looked over, but it's okay. I'd rather not make a new thread.

I'm brand new to From Software's Action RPGs. Tried Demon Souls for about an hour and quit. Never touched anything else. (Funny enough, I own Demon Souls and Dark Souls 1 & 2. Can never turn down free stuff.)

I bought Bloodborne because Target had that deal with it and I had a gift card that put the price of it at $8 total out of pocket. Not bad.

My first experience? Death. Death all around, as far as the blood will run. So, I scrapped that character and made a new one. I'm learning, I think. I've read the OP and I've taken advice from here and there about the game and how it's supposed to go.

My question is, do I spend my Blood Echoes on the clothing at the Bath Messenger? Or do I wait until I have my first Insight Point and then speak to the Doll?
 
Here I was, on my dandy own way to possibly uncovering the 4th boss when I run into a special kind of enemy that has that effect seen on bosses where he glows bloodred.

Next thing I know,
I'm dead and in prison

Nice detour.
 
ok so fuck that fucking hunter that does nothing but shoot you
took me about 10 vials to be able to take that cunt down
 
NeoGiff said:
Does anyone know the significance of setting this... thing on fire in Old Yharnam?

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You can drop off a ledge after climbing the first ladder to the gatling gun guy and go inside the church onto some rafters. From there, you can attack a rope holding up oil or something, and it falls down setting this horrifying thing ablaze.

Has it been confirmed to have an effect on B
lood-Starved Beast
, for example?
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Got jealous and decided to do it myself! It's beautiful but terrifying at the same time :_:

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Starting NG+! Going to use the hunters axe the whole time i think, after using the saw cleaver the whole time in my first play through.
 
SheHateMe said:
This thread moves fast as shit, so I'm fully expecting to get looked over, but it's okay. I'd rather not make a new thread.

I'm brand new to From Software's Action RPGs. Tried Demon Souls for about an hour and quit. Never touched anything else. (Funny enough, I own Demon Souls and Dark Souls 1 & 2. Can never turn down free stuff.)

I bought Bloodborne because Target had that deal with it and I had a gift card that put the price of it at $8 total out of pocket. Not bad.

My first experience? Death. Death all around, as far as the blood will run. So, I scrapped that character and made a new one. I'm learning, I think. I've read the OP and I've taken advice from here and there about the game and how it's supposed to go.

My question is, do I spend my Blood Echoes on the clothing at the Bath Messenger? Or do I wait until I have my first Insight Point and then speak to the Doll?
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I would buy that armor if you're dying frequently, I did at that stage. It's a nice bump up for defense and anything to have you play better and build confidence early is worth it. You'll get plenty of echoes over time.
 
GulAtiCa said:
Has anyone else stopped fearing about losing a lot of Blood Echos? I've noticed that even if I lose 50k (I'm like half-way? so still a decent amount), there ends up being no worry about losing them since gaining that much back is kinda easy. One thing I don't feel with this game is the sense of "oh god I need to get my souls blood echos back!" like I felt in Dark Souls 2. In DkS2, in normal NG outside of bosses every enemy dropped a small amount of souls and never increased that much over course of game. So when I lost 50k in that game, would take a long time to get those back (not to mention stupid Soul Memory limit) in NG.

In Bloodborne, even normal enemies later in game give you so many Blood Echos, that losing a bunch and then ranking them back up is just slightly inconvenient.
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If I'm progressing and have a lot of echoes and I'm not sure if I'm close to a shortcut or I suspect something dangerous coming then I just teleport back, level up, and then run through everything up to the point I were.
 
Jharp said:
I'm level 30 with a hunter axe +3 and a hunter blunderbuss +2. Makes sense that it's meant to be escaped and taken on later, since
I was forced here after dying to the meat sack dude outside the cathedral ward
. So if they're going for a whole prison break sort of thing, that's actually kind of cool. I got to the lantern above the jail cells in the main church area with two meat sack dudes, but not sure where to go from there. I suppose I'll just keep exploring.

Where's the armor set you're talking about?
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http://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Yahar'gul+Set

Looks awesome.
 
SheHateMe said:
This thread moves fast as shit, so I'm fully expecting to get looked over, but it's okay. I'd rather not make a new thread.

I'm brand new to From Software's Action RPGs. Tried Demon Souls for about an hour and quit. Never touched anything else. (Funny enough, I own Demon Souls and Dark Souls 1 & 2. Can never turn down free stuff.)

I bought Bloodborne because Target had that deal with it and I had a gift card that put the price of it at $8 total out of pocket. Not bad.

My first experience? Death. Death all around, as far as the blood will run. So, I scrapped that character and made a new one. I'm learning, I think. I've read the OP and I've taken advice from here and there about the game and how it's supposed to go.

My question is, do I spend my Blood Echoes on the clothing at the Bath Messenger? Or do I wait until I have my first Insight Point and then speak to the Doll?
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How did you get Dark Souls 1 and 2 for free!

I sadly had to sell my Dark Souls but want to go back to compare the combat. Though I do have DeS. Still havent touched DaS II and am very discouraged from it by reading impressions on here about level design, boss fights, etc. But I will undoubtedly jump on that when the price hits the $20 range

As for your question: dont worry about stuff until you get to the first boss. You probably will be buying things like health, but just get to the first boss and eventually beat it. Make sure you explore levels to find shortcuts to make it easier to run to bosses if you get impatient (you dont always have to kill enemies if you can outrun them).
 
Finished it, 35 hours.
Beat Gerhrman first try, was still a tough and great fight. Moon Presence was a pushover

Overall, loved the game. The art style, atmosphere, level and monster design are some of the best I've ever seen, and the game remains consistent in its quality throughout.

Criticisms are mainly on the performance and I felt that most of the bosses were pretty easy.
Ebrietas
was the only boss that kicked my ass and took more than 3-4 attempts.

Didn't touch Chalice Dungeons much, only did 3 of them. Will focus on them more in NG+, which I will start right now!
 
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