JadedWriter
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I guess my problem was that I just left the thing at +6 and the enemies just caught up health wise.
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Yahar'gul, Unseen Racetrack
5 mad dashes, all treasure grabbed, lit the lamp under the laser monster, went to Cainhurst to play a real level. I'll come back to fight One Reborn once I get respectable damage gems.
PeskyToaster
Member
Yeah the first part of Yaraghul is annoying. At least the boss is easy with some strategic thinking.
JadedWriter
Member
It's just a tutorial for the more difficult chalice dungeons actually. Oddly enough the only thing that can trip me up is running to the lamp under the laser monster since I always fuck it up and eat a laser hit. Once you know where the bell maidens are it's not too bad.
Well obviously anything after Rom will have too much health against +6 weapon.
You can pretty easily avoid the laser by sticking to the left side of the stairs and waiting it to go by. The laser seems to always go certain way so you that you can learn the safe spots.
I totally did not understand the messages in this level until about 30 mins of hitting my head against it. "Ignoring is effective." TRUTH. God.
FataIChoice
Member
The weirdest part of Yhargul is the teleporting bath thing. IT IS NEVER USED ANYWHERE ELSE!
Orochinagis
Member
go pick everything you can get the hell out of there, the bag guys drop twin blood for upgrades
Thats where the sense of danger of being kidnapped disappears
Orochinagis
Member
Bosses gotta hit all day, all day
Warp to Cathedral Ward lamp. As you're walking away from the lamp to leave the Cathedral there's a squarish door to the right: a short hallway and an elevator. There's a tower to climb and then around back of it on one levels there's a place to fall down.
opticalmace
Member
Man,
is a bit of a slog. I've opened up the shortcut to
but now I have to clear out all the crap on the way to the boss.
I also killed
.
And should I be spoiler tagging these things?
forgotten woods
the clinic
I also killed
iosefka (sp)
And should I be spoiler tagging these things?
I walk into this thread and....
first comment on the page is too true...
Anyways, I'm stuck in that same area. I ran out of Blood Vials for the fist time in the game and farming for them is getting way too tedious. Tell me some hack strats to get easy Blood Vials GAF please.
first comment on the page is too true...
Anyways, I'm stuck in that same area. I ran out of Blood Vials for the fist time in the game and farming for them is getting way too tedious. Tell me some hack strats to get easy Blood Vials GAF please.
opticalmace
Member
Where are you farming for them?
If you go from central yarnham, down left into the dark house, up to the bridge to kill the wolves and onward to the great bridge lamp I think you get 10+ vials in maybe 2 minutes-ish? The wolves I believe drop 2-3 each. And there are some random yarnham folk along that route.
I'm sure there are better places, but I've done it a few times when I needed to.
Yeah I did this route when I was still in Yarnham. Pretty sure all of the bigger enemies in Yarnham drop blood vials or bullets.
Or else just do a chalice dungeon and use your echoes to buy vials from the bath buddies. Really just go to the hardest place you have access to, repeatedly kill the three or four enemies closest to the lamp, and then go buy vials: they're pretty cheap.
opticalmace
Member
holy fuck shadow of yharnam.
did it first try but omg used almost every vial and 2 fire papers.
my hearttttttt. fuuuuu.
did it first try but omg used almost every vial and 2 fire papers.
my hearttttttt. fuuuuu.
Orochinagis
Member
I let the three alive on the last phase, scary stuff
It's easiest to leave the sword only guy for last and go for the caster first. The sword guy is easily parriable.
opticalmace
Member
Yeah I didn't really know what I was walking into. Oh man.
So what's easier to do next, Byrgenwerth or Cainhurst?
I ran out of Blood Vials in Nightmare Frontier, and I farmed the Giants in Cathedral Ward to get a fair few Vials. There's one on the way up to the Grand Cathedral, two in the graveyard, and another two further down the stairwell and at the dead end. They drop up to 4 Vials each, and I spent all the Blood Echoes I made from those runs on Vials as well.
I beat Rom yesterday, and made it through Yhar'gul today. A few frustrating deaths with Rom(fuck his spider minions), but I ended up beating him quite easily in the end.
Yhar'gul was frustrating to begin with but opening up the short-cuts made it a breeze. The boss was super-easy though. Currently rocking Ludwig's Blade +9 and have made it this far without parrying at all, just using the transformed mode of the Hunter Axe and Ludwig's Holy Blade.
william_557
Member
I can't believe this OT is still going i just beat
in my ng+ and also just found out you can get blood rocks from the insight bath for 60 insight...awesome
rom
Melchiah
Member
Going to Lecture Building would be a quicker way to get Blood Echoes for the vials. You get at least 15k echoes from the first floor in a couple of minutes, depending on how many Moon runes you have equipped.
Melchiah
Member
The price of everything increases when you level up, apart from the insight shop.
opticalmace
Member
Really? I'm going to have to try that. Thanks.
Melchiah
Member
Later on in the game the best place to farm is the second lantern in Mensis. You can
lure the pigs to attack the shadows.
Weltall Zero
Member
Those two are my vanilla farming spots. I think Lecture Building may still be the better option. What I do is equip a fire weapon that can oneshot the students (currently the Saif) and either the Chikage, Logarius Wheel, Bloodletter or Madaras Whistle. From the lantern, go into the conference hall, kill everything before they have a chance to react, then alternate between shooting and creating bullets (d-pad up) until it won't let you (fastest way to deplete your health) and take off the last bit of health with your method of choice (Chikage's strong attack seems the best one). Respawn, repeat. It's like a minute per run and well over 10k with no runes on NG, with the bonus that you'll max out on bullets too.
There's a third farming spot at the base of the research hall in the DLC after you've pretty much completed it, the crawling patients give a surprising amount of echoes and there's a ton of them. Only thing is they take more to kill and if you get surrounded and ganged upon they can destroy you instantly.
Melchiah
Member
I think that's still a slower method. The Mensis farming route grants you +90k echoes on a single run, in 3-4 minutes. Dunno how many you get without the three Moon runes. It's not as easy though, especially if many of the enemies stay alive after fighting with each other.
EDIT: As a bonus, you get a pretty good amount of Blood Vials from the enemies. I think about 8-10 per run.
JudgmentJay
Member
Isn't the trigger killing certain bosses? I don't think leveling up affects the price of things.
Melchiah
Member
Could be. I've always thought it was the levelling, but I haven't tried proceeding in the game without doing so.
Actually not entirely. They are tied to moon phases like pretty much everything else. For example you can kill VA and not touch the skull or kill Rom but not change the moon phase if so wish.
Wow this game gets really good past central yarnham. The open of this game is so bad for how good it gets. I started on the first chalice dungeon. That three boys fight on the second floor is super fun. Fat sonic rolled into the lever and fell on his back. I just walked up and killed him. I need to upload the clip. Looked hilarious.
Should I invest in arcane? I just got the old hunter bone seems like it would be useful but spending nine levels on it seems rough.
Should I invest in arcane? I just got the old hunter bone seems like it would be useful but spending nine levels on it seems rough.
ThanksVision
Member
I started playing this on December 31st, and as of right now, I only have to complete castle cainhurst and the final boss(es).
My friend and I have begun summoning because we want to mess with the chalice dungeons. Oddly enough, we can't seem to summon each other even though we were able to do it earlier in the week. The only difference is that now we are trying to summon each other from the same home network i.e. under the same roof.
Any idea why we can't seem to connect? We're following all the recommended guidelines.
My friend and I have begun summoning because we want to mess with the chalice dungeons. Oddly enough, we can't seem to summon each other even though we were able to do it earlier in the week. The only difference is that now we are trying to summon each other from the same home network i.e. under the same roof.
Any idea why we can't seem to connect? We're following all the recommended guidelines.
First time I hear someone saying that Central Yharnam is bad but Chalice Dungeons are good haha.
Old Hunter Bone is good tool to have and unless you want to really min-max your build the investment is worth it.
JudgmentJay
Member
Ah, right. I always spend my VA blood echos on blood vials before using the skull just to make sure I'm fully stocked for the rest of the game.
I imagine the learning curve can probably sour Central Yharnam for some.
FixatedMouth
Neo Member
Yup I'm stuck there now and fuck that place. Lit the lamp but these garbage beasts keep one shotting me. Don't know what they are but they look like a bunch of boxes stuck together. Not sure where to go
Linkstrikesback
Member
It's actually to do with your progression through the story/bosses rather than your level, I think. Checking.
edit: dur, already beaten.
That's one of the required areas unfortunately. There's a boss there you need to beat.
If you can find the
Upper catherdral ward
Ebritias and Celestial Emissary
Ruuuuuude.
Would have bought a lot more Blood Vials before sticking in my three levels to fight Father Ga-whatever if I had been paying attention to the prices after Cleric Beast. I know there's a number of routes for grinding them, but purchasing just saves time.
Dammit this is a pain. Where are all the re-summoner bell ringing witches in Yahar'gul, Unseen Village?
The first witch is in the building guarded by one of those giant spiders. The second witch is in the connecting building right after. Then there are 2 platforms full of old ladies with pitchforks that keep respawning. The second platform also has that laser emitting spider making a ruckus too. Where is the witch that respawns the enemies on those 2 platforms?
The first witch is in the building guarded by one of those giant spiders. The second witch is in the connecting building right after. Then there are 2 platforms full of old ladies with pitchforks that keep respawning. The second platform also has that laser emitting spider making a ruckus too. Where is the witch that respawns the enemies on those 2 platforms?
opticalmace
Member
wow fuck rom.
so should you take the time to kill all the individual spiders in each phase?
i killed all the little ones and then i thought "ha, gonna wreck her".... and then
fack.
so should you take the time to kill all the individual spiders in each phase?
i killed all the little ones and then i thought "ha, gonna wreck her".... and then
she teleported and respawned them. and started using magic.
Toytown Assassin
Member
Orochinagis
Member
It depends, if you want to play save then yes, kill the little ones first and focus Rom, when Rom tries to teleport, you can hit her non stop and stop her teleport. Giving you more time to hit her.
Or you can go to the offensive and rush to Rom aggroing the little spiders in one side, run to the other side and hit her, in that case you may be able to drain like half of her health with a good, upgraded weapon like the tronitus or a weapon with lightning resine
opticalmace
Member
Thanks, I took the spiders one by one and eventually it worked out. I hated the long range magic thing, the short range one was okay.
Now I'm trying to do the final hunter at the grand cathedral (Eileen's quest thing). Any tips? I'll have to farm some vials first, ended up with only 10 after fighting rom.
JudgmentJay
Member
If you want to cheese him a bit, drag him to the bottom of the stairs. He leashes there, so you can get some free hits in from time to time. It's still a hard fight though in that he can 1 or 2-shot you at any moment. Definitely worth killing though.
Orochinagis
Member
Yes, the Hunter cant move well on the stairs so you can stun him on the wall, becareful of his weapon.
Or play agressive by not giving him any window to attack, stay close to him and he usually will backstep and try to shoot, move to your left side and chase him
Or play agressive by not giving him any window to attack, stay close to him and he usually will backstep and try to shoot, move to your left side and chase him
I cheesed him yesterday by luring him back to the stairs and just backing off every time he charges. Eventually he will transform his Chikage which slowly drains his HP. He will attack a few times then slowly start backing off.
What I did was to slowly follow him at the same pace he was walking at and he won't transform the weapon back and he just keeps draining HP, then I went in for the kill when he was down to 1/4 health. He will use Blood Vials at the start though, you just need to be patient.
Also, I just made it to Mensis. Would now be a good time to back out and do the DLC? From what I've heard it's better to do it in NG instead of NG+? I'm level 80 right now.
Orochinagis
Member
Yep. be sure to have a +9 weapon ready