Weltall Zero
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Those two are perhaps the two most similar weapons in the game, their folded forms are nearly identical. You'll notice that BB has less weapons but each is pretty much an unique snowflake.
Upgrading Endurance and especially Vitality is always a safe bet. The offensive stats depend on what weapons you want to use going forward, with my most recommended setups (and not coincidentally, my three characters) being Skill + Strength, Blood + Skill, or Arcane + Strength. I believe with these three you cover pretty much all weapons in the game.
This game has some seriously, seriously cool weapons, and every single of them is viable, so if you're not averse to spoilers and/or you plan on only making one character, you might want to check some videos of their movesets and see if you fall in love with any of them to plan your build in advance. I myself have recently fallen in love with the Chikage, not least of all after discovering you can interrupt its neutral transform animation with a R1 slash that comes ridiculously fast from the hilt, deals huge damage and looks frankly sweet.
Also, upgrade materials in BB are all "renewable" except for the last one. The ones used up to +3 are trivially so (buyable for 2000 blood echoes) later on, the ones to +6 reasonably so (10000), and the ones up to +9 rather hard to come by (aside from non-replenishable loot, some enemies rarely drop them and you can buy them for 30(!) insight). The one used for +10 is once a playthrough (plus one more for each max-level chalice dungeon), but by then you should have a clear idea of what you want. The DLC has some wicked cool weapons, though, so keep that in mind.
). I had summoned the NPC dude who, while being fairly useless in other attempts, managed to distract her enough that I could just lay into her with bolt paper.
