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

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Gbraga said:
Because fights are so fast otherwise, and the fact that you can parry the healing animation, most people are embracing healing in PVP in this game.
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Good to know.
I read about a guy who was messaged by his opponend after the fight askingg why he used healing.
When I was invaded myself before and the guy was shooting around with a cannon i decided healing absolutely makes sense when you are facing such a cheap weapon.
 
The_Darkest_Red said:
Thanks for the tips, my friend. This sounds like a fun build, I'm looking forward to trying it out. I started as Waste of Skin yesterday and only cleared Central Yarnham so I am still a blank slate for the most part. I wanted to mess around with Arcane as well but it sounds like that would be better served for a separate build.
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Yeah, you have a ways to go. I think Arcane should probably wait, for sure.
 
Sykotik said:
I went 30 skill, so I could use the Cane until I found the Chikage. It worked out well, as the 1h of Chikage was also usable until I was able to get high enough Bloodtinge. If I were to do it again, I would try to take as little other stats as possible to maximize Bloodtinge quickly. But, I'm happy with how it turned out. I ended up at 50 Vit, 40 End, 30 Skill, 50 Blood. I've been doing chalices a lot, so I've just been putting any extra echoes into Arcane for the drop-rate buff.

The Evelyn also turned out great.
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You can use Eye runes to buff your drop rates- no need to invest in stats you wouldn't use for your build otherwise.

Also, Bloodtinge is awesome late game, but makes the early game harder due to no weapons that scale with it (except guns).
 
Bluenoser said:
You can use Eye runes to buff your drop rates- no need to invest in stats you wouldn't use for your build otherwise.

Also, Bloodtinge is awesome late game, but makes the early game harder due to no weapons that scale with it (except guns).
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Yeah, I agree, but my character is pretty much complete as far as I'm concerned. So, I roll with two eye runes, plus the extra I'm gaining from Arcane. Boosting Arcane at least feels like I'm getting something tangible, where-as if I used the points for other stats I would have gained something like 15 damage or 100 health.
 
Beat two bosses (
Paarl and Witch
) and two hunters yesterday, and unlocked three new areas. Pretty successful day after I had been stuck for a while.

Lecture Hall
and "
outside
" are up next.
 
lunlunqq said:
The cathedral katana guy is the biggest bullshit in the history of all bullshits!!! I never this much trouble with all the bosses combined. >:(
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Looking forward to spanking him non-cheese in NG+. This is going to make or break me.
Had him almost finished in NG but he then healed a lot and followed it up with a nasty railgun shot which took me from 50 % HP to 0... after 10 tries, i had to put out the cheese :(
 
Bluenoser said:
I think it's just random. If you don't completely power off your console (suspend, or leave in rest mode) it may start affecting some bosses, but not all. It happened to me with Logarius- he just kept swinging his scythe and wouldn't do anything else, so I knew I had the glitch. When I went to him on my other character it was the same thing, so I took advantage and beat him low level :)
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OK i think i got it to work, but that scythe swipe still does alot of damage. What are his weaknesses? My hits barely take anything off of his health bar.
 
Fought my first A
bhorrent
B
east
and I definitely see what all the hubbub was about. Quick attacks, jumpy, etc. It was honestly a pretty fun fight. In the end I just dodged through a lot of his attacks but mostly jumping back. I would love to go back with fully upgraded beast claws and go toe to toe with him, staying on him the entire time.
 
Still slowly making my way through this. Last night I had a great experience where I tried to warp to Odeon Tomb and was told I couldn't. Went there another way and
got murdered by a dude in gold armor that I thought was an invader.
Came back and
he was fighting with someone who turned out to be Eileen. Then she died. Then he killed me. And now I can't complete her questline, I guess.

So that was...fun.
No, it was shitty.
.
 
super-famicom said:
Always be strafing! The tell for the charge is easy to spot, and if you are strafing before hitting circle to dodge, it'll be easier for him to miss you.

edit- sorry for double post
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The charge attack wasn't the problem, it was later in the battle, getting close enough to him to actually hit him. Eventually, I got him, it was just a long fight.
 
Defiled Chalice Watchdog:

I was prepared for the worst. I entered the arena, dog spits fire, instantly charge attacks me and the fight was over in 5 seconds. Well, shit.
 
GulAtiCa said:
Say what you want about Dark Souls 2, but at least it didn't have AI glitches and so many damn bugs (at least not ones preventing you from progressing). The Elevator glitch. Enemies pushing you out of the world..
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Are you sure DS2 had no issues at this point in it's release?
 
Badenergytroll said:
OK i think i got it to work, but that scythe swipe still does alot of damage. What are his weaknesses? My hits barely take anything off of his health bar.
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Well the glitch doesn't weaken them, it just limits their move set. Once he starts swinging that scythe, that's all he will do. Just parry it over and over, and keep nailing him with visceral attacks. If you aren't good at parrying, um... not sure what other strat you can use. But he makes it very easy if you know its coming.
 
Badenergytroll said:
OK i think i got it to work, but that scythe swipe still does alot of damage. What are his weaknesses? My hits barely take anything off of his health bar.
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His scythe swipes are incredibly slow and predictable. Bait him into swinging and then parry and visceral attack him into oblivion.

Remember if he ever does the move when he thrusts his sword into the ground simply aim at it with your pistol and shoot it to avoid the AOE attack.
 
PodcastFips said:
Defiled Chalice Watchdog:

I was prepared for the worst. I entered the arena, dog spits fire, instantly charge attacks me and the fight was over in 5 seconds. Well, shit.
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Haha you weren't prepared for the worst then :)

I'm not even on that dungeon yet. I just beat U
ndead
G
iant
and made it to layer 3 of the lower chalice. Let's say I was a bit surprised by the first big room you come to. I left with my tail between my legs to progress elsewhere lol.
 
Blunderbuss or Pistol? Or Ludwig's Rifle?

Does the Blunderbuss have a better chance of knocking them back if your parry isn't successful? I use the pistol and it does not seem like it's worth the risk because of you miss your parry, it's open season on your ass.
 
taybul said:
Fought my first A
bhorrent
B
east
and I definitely see what all the hubbub was about. Quick attacks, jumpy, etc. It was honestly a pretty fun fight. In the end I just dodged through a lot of his attacks but mostly jumping back. I would love to go back with fully upgraded beast claws and go toe to toe with him, staying on him the entire time.
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His attacks will eventually kill you if you go toe to toe with him.
 
So, I finally got all my Bloodborne set:

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Pretty happy with that!
 
Bluenoser said:
If you're referring to
Ebreitas: Daughter of Cosmos
, it has nothing to do with a covenant, and be prepared to fight one of the hardest bosses in the main game,
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Found her one of the easiest. Ludwig in one hand mode with a fire paper just stunlocks it to death. Finished it off with the cannon lol

Anyway he's talking about the thing asleep behind her. No clue what it does. No response and attacking it does nothing.
 
I'm stuck at ML. I've a few successful attempts where at the end I stupidly fell off the roof close to killing him. I've had some weak moments where I tried to summon help but luckily the games crappy MM system failed me and spared me the shame.
 
th4tguy said:
I'm stuck at ML. I've a few successful attempts where at the end I stupidly fell off the roof close to killing him. I've had some weak moments where I tried to summon help but luckily the games crappy MM system failed me and spared me the shame.
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I can help you if you need. What lvl? And, password?
 
Footos22 said:
Found her one of the easiest. Ludwig in one hand mode with a fire paper just stunlocks it to death. Finished it off with the cannon lol

Anyway he's talking about the thing asleep behind her. No clue what it does. No response and attacking it does nothing.
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Wow! I've tried about 10 times and even at level 80 with ludwig +9 I had difficulty beating her.

You can use a certain item at this alter from an npc's quest line to do a certain thing (sorry to be vague, don't wanna spoil it)

Spoilers below on the item and location. Click at own risk:

It's the queens flesh from castle cainhurst after Alfred smushes her ass. If you use it there she comes back to life.
 
Donos said:
Looking forward to spanking him non-cheese in NG+. This is going to make or break me.
Had him almost finished in NG but he then healed a lot and followed it up with a nasty railgun shot which took me from 50 % HP to 0... after 10 tries, i had to put out the cheese :(
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A single strike from the kanata is 50% of my HP gone. A shot from his gun takes 75% of my HP. It's just outrageous! I managed to get his HP down to just a sliver that one time and he freaking gun parried and one-shoted me with riposte... I'm surprised that I could control myself and didn't break the TV after that.
 
Footos22 said:
Found her one of the easiest. Ludwig in one hand mode with a fire paper just stunlocks it to death. Finished it off with the cannon lol

Anyway he's talking about the thing asleep behind her. No clue what it does. No response and attacking it does nothing.
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I one shotted her using these methods, too. I was worried about the difficulty, but I had no issues with her
 
Footos22 said:
Found her one of the easiest. Ludwig in one hand mode with a fire paper just stunlocks it to death. Finished it off with the cannon lol

Anyway he's talking about the thing asleep behind her. No clue what it does. No response and attacking it does nothing.
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Drewfonse said:
I one shotted her using these methods, too. I was worried about the difficulty, but I had no issues with her
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That's what I tried. And she wiped her ass with my corpse afterwards.. In my honest opinion, think you guys might have gotten the easy version that is glitched. Cause she isn't that easy, and she doesn't stunlock easily either. Nor can you stay behind her. She is constantly turning and doing big AoE attacks with her arms.
 
Thinking back, I think I got a glitched A
mygdala
boss fight. As my 1st time against her was really easy in main game. I just hit her head with my Ludwig's L2 attack to stunlock and visceral attack over and over. Never really got hit. Didn't do much to me or try to attack me much. So I def think I had a glitched boss fight.

The co-op fights against that boss was tougher and did all sorts of attacks I never saw. And Defiled version of course was completely destroying me and couldn't do what I did originally (granted, that was a tougher boss fight in general.)
 
Just out of curiosity. What's your favorite boss battle in the game, Gaf?

I really like Mergo's Wet Nurse, but my favorite is Gascoigne, as it feels like a pvp duel.
 
Hmm. Really liked M
icolash, Host of the Nightmare
and Y
harnam, Pthumerian Queen
boss fights. Mainly cause they were so different from others. Too bad they were kinda easy.
 
Caderfix said:
Just out of curiosity. What's your favorite boss battle in the game, Gaf?

I really like Mergo's Wet Nurse, but my favorite is Gascoigne, as it feels like a pvp duel.
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Gherman
. I don't parry, so it was a pretty intense fight, trading blows staying quick on my feet, just generally a boss fight with an awesome feel. One of the few boss fights in the game that felt like the boss itself was quick enough to match the speed boost that Bloodbourne gives to players over the souls games.
 
My fav is Father G too and that douchebag with a gattling gun at the roof.. fight vs a hunter is always something i look forward to. Really one of the things that separates it from other Souls games.
 
Yesterday I have been killed at the hut in Hemwick and lost a lot of souls. Today I cleared the area but my souls are gone. There even was no enemy with them - what happend?
 
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