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Bloodborne |OT+++| ...and so the Nightly Hunt continues

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killed it on first try, level 100. Try not to lock on and hit it's legs, maybe that helps.

Yup, slash at his legs and roll out behind him when he tries to smash you down. I thought he was only moderately difficult myself. Did it about l110 wearing the most excellent Bone Ash set for high physical def.
 
I guess I'm doing Chalice Dungeons slightly out of order, as I was able to do some depth 5 ones before a certain depth 3 or 4 dungeon where I was not expecting a brand new boss
Bloodletting Beast
. I was over leveled for this fight with 50VIT, and that definitely helped, but that was an awesome fight where I barely survived but came out on top first try.

Now I'm in the defiled dungeon and 50VIT feels like nothing. Need that 15% HP rune.
 
Spent last night getting NPC's to the church as I didn't have time to do much more. Now I have :

Crazy lady who cries in the chair
The fella who tells me I am lying all the time
Arianna
Adella

I accepted Adella's blood and refused Arianna's, so I think I am on the right track there. I am tempted to kill Adella though as I've read some places say that she can kill Arianna anyway.

Reckon it's safe to do so? I don't think she offers anything else in the way of items or lore etc.
 
I like how you can go back to other sections of the game from the lamp. I can't believe some of the parts that I have missed, like getting the
workshop tool
which I'm still working on. The level design is really good. Great work from From Software.
 
I feel like I'm missing certain pieces of armor sets that I should have.
Does G
Gehrman's set have gloves?
and is there a hood for the ashen set?
 
Church set is the best overall armor in the game, I've been saying this forever

Cainhurst is the best overall IMO, the church set is good for poison only, it has shit damage resistance.

Although I agree with #TeamFashionborne, but that's only good after the first playthrough.
 
So I've been through all the areas now...there's no area I actively dislike, but I'm curious as to how you guys would rank them.

For me it's (area spoilers below):

1. Forsaken Castle Cainhurst
2. Forbidden Woods/Byrgenwerth
3. Central Yharnam
4. Upper Cathedral Ward (Would be #1 if it was longer...damn that vibe)
5. Old Yharnam
6. Hemwick Charnel Lane
7. Nightmare of Mensis
8. Cathedral Ward
9. Nightmare Frontier
10. Lecture Building
11. Yahar'gul, Unseen Village
12. Chalices

I might say:
1. Old Yarnham - it's the most dense area I think, and doesn't rely on elevators
2. Hemwick - I mostly like it for the way it looks, but I think it's good overall
3. Central Yarnham - this is the best area in many ways, but I think it's less interesting visually than a lot of other ones and the mob type enemies aren't my favourite
4. Nightmare of Mensis - as annoying as it is, the mother brain looks cool when you light it up and seeing it in the pit is one of the better moments in the game. The actual level design is top tier too. I'd put it higher if the combat in this area was more fun.
5. Cathedral Ward - Fantastic architecture, lots of great vantage points, tons of small secrets to find (if you include the workshop area)
6. Forbidden Woods - an epic area, but the encounter design feels uninspired. Just hordes and hordes of spiders that hardly move at all.
7. Cainhurst - I like it on the outside, not so much on the inside
8. Upper Cathedral Ward - it's more of a lore area, but it's alright
9. Unseen Village - nope
10. Nightmare Frontier - I had a bad time here, with the poison, frenzy singers, 1HKO rock throwers etc. It's a bit bland too really.
 
To each his own, but I'm already close to 200 hours, & I haven't even finished the main chalice dungeons, let alone the community made ones. & the PvP is finally fun after they got rid of the lagstab from the previous games. The bloodgems also add far more variety than just re-skinned weapons that were available in the previous games.

It seems that the people that are saying Bloodborne has no replay value haven't gone deep into the game at all, Bloodborne doesn't reskin weapons for you & call it variety, it gives you blood gems that allow you to make each weapon the way you want it, the replayablity in Bloodborne is far more "hidden" & deep within the game than the previous games. Instead of giving you 7 sword with slightly different textures, it gives you one with 3 customization slots that allow you to make that sword have more functions than just 7 reskinned swords would usually do.

Blood gems add nothing more than physical 21+% more damage 3 times. They are boring. Half the weapons in Bloodborne just plain suck, the other half are all right. There's no reason I should have been stuck with the Threaded Cane almost the entire game because there was such a lack of variety in weapons. This re-skin weapon argument is an exaggeration and an easy excuse. Hell, even Bloodborne has it, half the guns are basically the same thing or pointless to use, and then there are literally the same weapons with a different gem slot that no one is going to waste their time upgrading by grinding 16 chunks and a blood rock for.

The only replayability in this game are Chalice Dungeons, and they made a great effort preventing anyone from having any cooperative fun within them with bad design decisions and netcode the likes of Netherrealm Studios. There's also no reason to ever do Chalice Dungeons after you finish the final one because the rewards are pointless or non-existent.
 
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Hi, I've been trying to do a skill/arcane build centered on the burial blade, but i read that the arcane scale is not worth it (too low). and that I'd instead lvl str to 25?
I'm currently around lvl 66?

vit-27
end-27
str-10
skill-28
bloodtinge-5
arcane-22.

How should i procced with this build? Can anyone help?
 
Ok, need some GAF guidance. I have a few potential options as to what to do and where to go, what should I attempt next?

I'm level 33, with +4 axe and +4 Ludwigs as my main weapons, wearing a mixture of Gasgoine's Garb and charred hunter stuff.

Option 1
Try and kill Vicar Amelia

Option 2
Try and kill Dark Beast Paarl

Option 3
Head off on the path to the left of Vicar Amelia entrance, through all that grass and cave which leads to a woodland full of gun guys and see what occurs. Although large parts of me don't want to do that until I've done Vicar.

Option 4
Persevere with the Undead Giant boss in Level 1 of the first chalice dungeon. He should be easy I know, but for some reason he keeps killing me. Will there be anything worth having in there to assist with my story quest?

Option 5
None of the above, you're too low level to achieve anything, wander around and kill some dudes and buff up a bit.


Thanks
 
still no sales numbers for BB?

above me: go with option 3, youl get the
rune workshop tool
there and its not that difficult.
 
Ok, need some GAF guidance. I have a few potential options as to what to do and where to go, what should I attempt next?

I'm level 33, with +4 axe and +4 Ludwigs as my main weapons, wearing a mixture of Gasgoine's Garb and charred hunter stuff.

Option 1
Try and kill Vicar Amelia

Option 2
Try and kill Dark Beast Paarl

Option 3
Head off on the path to the left of Vicar Amelia entrance, through all that grass and cave which leads to a woodland full of gun guys and see what occurs. Although large parts of me don't want to do that until I've done Vicar.

Option 4
Persevere with the Undead Giant boss in Level 1 of the first chalice dungeon. He should be easy I know, but for some reason he keeps killing me. Will there be anything worth having in there to assist with my story quest?

Option 5
None of the above, you're too low level to achieve anything, wander around and kill some dudes and buff up a bit.


Thanks
You need to kill Vicar Amelia to progress. She was one of my toughest fights in the entire game, so I did option 3 first, which gained me some levels and made the VA fight a little easier. You're very capable of killing her at your level though. Also, perhaps you can co-op VA if she's pissing you off.
 
I dunno it's got kind of disappointing physical resist. I think the Hunter Garb and Charred Hunter Garb are overall best.
Physical resist isn't the best, but the other resistances can't be matched by any other armor set. Remember, I'm saying overall, not best for this or best for that.
 
JPN:
Week 1: Bloodborne (PS4) – 152,567
Week 2: Bloodborne (PS4) – 22,610 (175,177)

Thats all we have at this point.
Do we have the numbers for DkS and 2?
 
Blood gems add nothing more than physical 21+% more damage 3 times. They are boring. Half the weapons in Bloodborne just plain suck, the other half are all right. There's no reason I should have been stuck with the Threaded Cane almost the entire game because there was such a lack of variety in weapons. This re-skin weapon argument is an exaggeration and an easy excuse. Hell, even Bloodborne has it, half the guns are basically the same thing or pointless to use, and then there are literally the same weapons with a different gem slot that no one is going to waste their time upgrading by grinding 16 chunks and a blood rock for.

The only replayability in this game are Chalice Dungeons, and they made a great effort preventing anyone from having any cooperative fun within them with bad design decisions and netcode the likes of Netherrealm Studios. There's also no reason to ever do Chalice Dungeons after you finish the final one because the rewards are pointless or non-existent.

- Slow poison bloodgems.
- Rapid poison bloodgems.
- Fire bloodgems.
- Bolt bloodgems.
- Vs kin damage increase (useful against
aliens
.
- vs beasts increase.
- health regen, useful for chikage builds.
- arcane gems, essential for arcane builds

Those are just off the top of my head, & none of them are useless, the poison bloodgems are great for PvP, just because you didn't use them doesn't mean they don't provide variety, it just means you didn't use them.

& not a single weapon "plain sucks", there is a viable build for almost every single weapon in the game. I didn't do a bloodtinge build yet so I can't comment on the guns from experience.

No offense to you personally, but from your post, it seems that you used just one build & then made a judgment without trying anything else, I haven't even done every possible build in the game & there's already more variety than the Souls games.
 
Option 3
Head off on the path to the left of Vicar Amelia entrance, through all that grass and cave which leads to a woodland full of gun guys and see what occurs. Although large parts of me don't want to do that until I've done Vicar.

Thanks

I vote for this one. I actually did Amelia before this and found her to be one of the easiest bosses of the game for me, but option 3 is also suitably easier and the gains will help you exponentially after finishing this area. I probably did all of this about your level if not lower so I wouldn't worry about that.
 
Oh my word the Witch of Hemwick was so easy. Like ridiculously easy. I was getting my ass kicked in that area as I stumbled upon it by accident and ended up killing her first try.
 
- Slow poison bloodgems.
- Rapid poison bloodgems.
- Fire bloodgems.
- Bolt bloodgems.
- Vs kin damage increase (useful against
aliens
.
- vs beasts increase.
- health regen, useful for chikage builds.
- arcane gems, essential for arcane builds

Those are just off the top of my head, & none of them are useless, the poison bloodgems are great for PvP, just because you didn't use them doesn't mean they don't provide variety, it just means you didn't use them.

& not a single weapon "plain sucks", there is a viable build for almost every single weapon in the game. I didn't do a bloodtinge build yet so I can't comment on the guns from experience.

All of those gems are useless and no one uses them. I've done a lot of PvP and no one uses those. Physical gems outperform all of those with some exceptions that add both physical and bolt/arcane/fire. Arcane builds? You mean like using a weapon that has some arcane scaling on top of physical? Because trying to use those arcane items will get you bopped like
Micolash
. No one is going to be caught dead using health regen gems over high physical on a Chikage.

Rifle Spear, Reiterpallasch, Saw Spear, Stake Driver, I've never seen anyone use these, and for good reason, they just blow. Tonitrus is useful, but boring. I kinda like the wheel but it's not really that clever or unique.
 
Here's what I've done so far)
- Cleric Beast
- Gascoigne
- Vicar Amelia
- Witchy
- BSB
- explored lots of the unseen city, but didn't find anything except the way back

Anyone care to give me a bit of guidance? I'm not sure where to go next.
 
Well I got only 2 weapons left to grab in Chalice Dungeons.
- Lost
Rifle Spear
-
Logarius'
Lost
Wheel

But there's a lot of runes I still need to get. However, I'll try and get every one I know exist and then I think just wait for the guide to know exactly every last variant.
I also need an
Old Great One
Coldblood, never found one yet in Chalice Dungeons.

On the main content side, I'm on NG+ and I think there's only 2 things I need to get to have "everything" at least one time:
-
Deep Respect
gesture from
Annalise
.
-
White
Messenger Ribbon from
the little girl's sister

NG+ is so much more easier than Depth 5 Chalice Dungeons though, I'm wrecking the "main" bosses.
 
I am mainly searching for the cursed bloodgems with like 20 % atk up and 3 % stamina cost up/ or lower weapon durability.

Tier 5 dungeons bosses can drop rarity 20 gems ("abyssal") that can go way higher than that without the negative effects. My best one is +23% physical, +18 ATK, -3.1% stamina cost. I think it is possible to get the same effects twice or even three times since I have a rank (6)/19 triangular gem with +28.5% physical and nothing else. Usually they have 2 different effects on them.
 
Here's what I've done so far)
- Cleric Beast
- Gascoigne
- Vicar Amelia
- Witchy
- BSB
- explored lots of the unseen city, but didn't find anything except the way back

Anyone care to give me a bit of guidance? I'm not sure where to go next.

There is a door where you asked for a password. After you killed Amelia, the cutscene reveals the passwort, so you can now enter. When you go all the way down from Amelia to the central plaza where the two giants are, on the right side there's a path which leads to the door.
 
All of those gems are useless and no one uses them. I've done a lot of PvP and no one uses those. Physical gems outperform all of those with some exceptions that add both physical and bolt/arcane/fire. Arcane builds? You mean like using a weapon that has some arcane scaling on top of physical? Because trying to use those arcane items will get you bopped like
Micolash
. No one is going to be caught dead using health regen gems over high physical on a Chikage.

You're just projecting your experience on the entire game, my rapid poison BoM has had people running away in PvP because they came unprepared (I got this idea from Peeve so I can't take credit for that). & yes it sometimes outperforms physical gems in the right circumstances if you're using higher level poison gems, the elemental gems also do great damage against enemies with a weakness to fire or bolt.

Rifle Spear, Reiterpallasch, Saw Spear, Stake Driver, I've never seen anyone use these, and for good reason, they just blow. Tonitrus is useful, but boring. I kinda like the wheel but it's not really that clever or unique.

Funny, ENB is doing a playthrough right now & the rifle spear & Saw Spear are two of his favorite weapons, plenty of people have used the Stake driver in this very thread although I haven't used it personally, the Reiterpallasch is a great weapon (have you even used it?), & I can't believe someone said the Tonirus is a bad weapon? Are you serious?

I'm sorry, but it looks like you haven't played much of the game at all, you just played a skill cane build & called it a day.
 
Here's what I've done so far)
- Cleric Beast
- Gascoigne
- Vicar Amelia
- Witchy
- BSB
- explored lots of the unseen city, but didn't find anything except the way back

Anyone care to give me a bit of guidance? I'm not sure where to go next.

Might lead you to the right path:
From Grand Cathedral go down the stairs to the graveyard where there is 2 giant priests sleeping, behind the one on right there is a way that should take you forward in the game.
edit: Thread moves so fast, same tip as Kenzodielocke.
 
Im ashamed to say i had the most trouble with that bloody witch lol
Ha, I just forced that Bastard into a corner and mashed R1. Never had time to coat the sword with fire. Tried the animation all the time but she failed due to my mashing. Good stuff!
dog and amygdala were harder but doable. Patience was key
 
Just beat D
ark Beast Paarl
on my NG+ run. I struggled a bit with him this time. On my original play through I beat him on my first attempt.
 
I am really stuck on Ebreitas, I can get her to about half health but by that point I have used up all my blood vials.

I can't avoid the charge attack consistently enough and staying in close I still get hit fair bit.

I have tried summoning people but there is no one around that area at all I have waited for up to 30 minutes with my bell rung and nothing happens.

Anyone else not able to summon there? am I just pish?
 
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