xglaurungx88
Neo Member
I took maybe 5 tries to beat her. Ripostes actually speed up her phase changes, so I preferred to not use many when fighting her. First time fighting and entering phase 3 when the boss is still at 75% SUCKED.
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Bloodborne: The Old Hunters |OT| Old Hunters. New Tricks, Bells & Whistles.
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Orochinagis
Member
Is an unspoken rule, you either rush to the Boss fog gate if you dont want to be invaded or simply wait the invader, if the invader greets you is an honorable fight and he would possibly dont heal at all. If the invader rush at you, well, he would usually ran away and heal everytime so rush to the boss fog gate.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
I absolutely hate when someone ganks me while I'm trying to do a bow. Not cool, dude.
achromicia
Member
I can't coop atm sorry, but don't forget Parry is your best friend in this battle.
If you use password GAFHUNT (all capital) I'm ringing at the lamp before the well.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
I can join in the fun too if you guys are still working on it. Passwords negate level range requirements, right? I'm rolling a pretty high level character right now.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
Yeah, I was rummaging through my items to use one, haha. Glad to be of help.got it !thanks a lot guys
God damn.
Video of the final boss with no armor, weapon, or healing items.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YTP-Vklak
Is it truly unfair?
Just wow. Lobos is insane with this stuff. I guess he has high Skill to get most out of viscerals but still. No damage during final boss is pretty impressive.
â Narayan
Member
Beat Dark Souls 1 a couple days ago and finally started playing this. So far, I really like it. I'm proud that I didn't die on the first boss. Father Gascoigne certainly took me awhile to figure out upon reaching his final form though. Finally resorted to molotovs and that did the trick pretty well. Now I'm in Old Yharnam. God, this game's setting and atmosphere are really great.
Some DS1 spoilers regarding an encounter early on in this game:
Some DS1 spoilers regarding an encounter early on in this game:
The area where you find the top hat and hunter outfit. Upon picking the gear off of the body, a portal phenomenon starts happening. This portal looks a lot like the portal that Manus pulls you through to Oolacile in DS1. Before even playing Bloodborne, Marvelous Chester immediately reminded of it. He's gotta be from Yharnam!
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
As was mentioned in the comments, Lobos was the true boss in that fight. Poor
Orphan
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Man, helping a friend with NG+4 and those bosses do not fuck around. Even Living Failures is hard now. Their arm flailing 2-shots me, their knockdown smash almost OHKOs (kills me if I have a sliver missing), etc.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
Indeed. Started the DLC on +4. It's been a helluvah ride so far. One boss left to go.
MLHB is love. MLHB is life.
I gotta say the Whirligig Saw (or Pizza Cutter). I thought I wouldn't like it at first because of the 2 handed moveset. But I did get use to it and was able to defeat
OoK
Imperfected
Member
I'm using MLHB as my dedicated Kin Hunter (+Phys, -Beast gems), and the Whirlgig Saw as my dedicated Beast Hunter (+Phys, -Kin gems). I'm working on getting the gems together for an Uncanny Kos Parasite as a pure Arcane weapon just for putzing around, though.
thecosmicfly
Banned
Making steady progress on
. Even manage to get to the second stage! Found a tactic that I'm comfortable with even if I do keep getting rekt every hour and then; just keeping under him and destroy his stomach/legs with the Whirligig. The staggering it occasionally does leaves me enough time to score a couple more hits/time to heal for me to justify doing it, and any time I do take damage there's usually enough time to regain it back from attacking. The only times I get thrown off is when he dodges too far away and I have to get back under there. Fuuuuck his running charge and off camera leap attack though, especially the latter.
Any tips for his second form?
edit: also nice of From Software to
.
Ludwig
Any tips for his second form?
edit: also nice of From Software to
have the red corpse dude smacking the gate drop 5 blood vials every time
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
So just had the notion to buy the alternate versions of the new weapons in the CDs. Anyone know the ideal versions of each one? Vanilla, Uncanny, Lost.
Mainly been running the MLHB, Bowblade, Pizza Cutter, and wanna try the Amy Arm.
Mainly been running the MLHB, Bowblade, Pizza Cutter, and wanna try the Amy Arm.
Impulsor
Member
I was investigating this too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/35wgft/uncanny_vs_lost_weapons_explained/
I think it explains it there. Depends on what you want and what gems you have, seems that For pizza Cutter for example Normal and Uncanny are best for purely physical builds.
Here's something pretty significant, someone I know found a cheese for the
.
Pretty game breaking... Hoping the word gets out and it get's patched.
Bloodborne How to CHEESE
(glitch)
Orphan of Kos
Pretty game breaking... Hoping the word gets out and it get's patched.
Bloodborne How to CHEESE
Orphan of Kos
So what's the dealio here? I assume it's the body of
Kos
A regular hit with the Blade of Mercy after a parry seems to lock him in that animation. Doesn't work with any other weapon apparently, though it works with throwing knives and pebbles too. I'm planning on doing some testing on it when I get home today.
Always stay close to him, so his beams don't touch you. Then it's a matter of dodge his swings.
When he puts his sword on the floor, run away cause he will do an AoE attack. When he puts his sword up, go behind him and attack the shit out of him(he does a cone frontal damage).
2nd phase is way easier than first IMO.
Imperfected
Member
For most weapons, you want two Radial and one Triangle gem slot if possible, because those are by far the easiest to farm excellent gems for. The only real exceptions are if you want to do unusual builds (Bolt/Fire, maybe), and Bloodtinge weapons.
So, the MLHB and Whirligig, for example, are basically in their optimal state out of the gate. The Kos Parasite you might want to get the Uncanny version of, conversely.
Impulsor
Member
I can't stop using my LHS even after trying out the MLHS. Isn't scaling better in the LHS?
LHS do scale better if you purely use STR and SKL yeah. You need STR, SKL, and ARC for the MLHS. That's why the MLHS requires more of a "high" level build.
Impulsor
Member
But arcane only affects the ranged attacks in the MLHS doesn't it? In every weapon really, it only affects them when you use fire or bolt paper or use the phantasm shell.
So yeah.
Imperfected
Member
The "ranged" attacks with MLHS are also melee attacks. If the physical swing that launches the energy wave hits the enemy it stacks the damage together into some disgustingly chunky hits.
Granted, most of the time I'm using it untransformed anyway, but if I want it transformed I really, really want the MLHS version, not the Ludwig's.
Impulsor
Member
Oh, cool yeah, so basicly using L2 or R2 pretty much guarantee uber damage if you are at melee range. right?
Imperfected
Member
The charged L2 hits like a truck and launches things like pool balls, yeah. The charged R2's not quite as satisfying, but it's still nice.
I pretty much only transform it if I want to use the charged moves, or maybe if I want a little extra range for some of the bosses with goofy hitboxes.
Impulsor
Member
I'm planning on using that for the Defiled Chalice dungeon, that one where you have half hp and stamina. For the platinum.
Apart of what Imperfected said, Arcane do also add damage to regular R1, but way lower than STR or SKL. But considering SKL scale is C (instead of B like Ludwigs) you need atleast 25 in ARC too for everything, I would say.
It's true that where the MLHS shines is when you hit the two R2 combo with both the sword and the beam. I do around 3K damage with that combo and I don't even have the best nourishing gems.
Really? No shit, Pimmsy's been using the Blade of Mercy but hasn't been able to land a parry on him yet. That'd be a really useful tip for her (and it'd make for an anticlimactic fight, but she's been banging her head against this fight for days now).
Imperfected
Member
I can imagine the transformed attacks would be really, really useful on Amygdala, yeah.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
Pure physical is better with LHB, but since I've hit the hard caps on STR, SKL, and almost there on ARC the damage output is substantially higher with MLHB for me. Also, R1 attacks in the transformed state (as well as base state to a lesser extent) do dual damage. All I know is I can 3-shot the sack guys in Depth 5 FRC chalices with mine transformed and it's only +9 with average nourishing gems on it.
Besides that, I like that MLHB transformed allows for parrying unlike LHB.
MLHS hits like a truck at 50/50 strength/arcane
Yes it's my higher build guy and its slow as hell but it does something like 812 damage right now ?
Pure damage isn't everything though my rakuoyo is my lowest damage weapon outta 3 characters (615), but the speed on it allows it to keep up.
Why do I just wanna keep playing , I've already beaten the game like 8 times , and just want to help people co op bosses. Its so cool when somowone says theyve spent days on a boss and summoned other people that died and you roll in and take it out with them first try. That and you can still get killed at any boss if you get greedy going for 6k combos or don't dodge at the right time
Yes it's my higher build guy and its slow as hell but it does something like 812 damage right now ?
Pure damage isn't everything though my rakuoyo is my lowest damage weapon outta 3 characters (615), but the speed on it allows it to keep up.
Why do I just wanna keep playing , I've already beaten the game like 8 times , and just want to help people co op bosses. Its so cool when somowone says theyve spent days on a boss and summoned other people that died and you roll in and take it out with them first try. That and you can still get killed at any boss if you get greedy going for 6k combos or don't dodge at the right time
Orphan of Kos
That is one ugly baby.
Almost tempting to use this, lol. But I refuse to even summon for boss fights, no way will I cheese like that.
But man, this game has issues with slopes and uneven ground.
Akiyama_AE
Member
said this before I'll say it again the crows are loud as fuck
Yeah they're really annoying. I also don't know why the normal ones sound like dogs.
I was invaded the 2nd time ever in Mergo's Loft while I was going past it in new game +. Now I've never done Bloodborne PVP so when this person. who had a very PVP-ey name that I can remember, started doing these bows I just put the pizza cutter +10 into his face and that was that. Guess that was a faux pas in hindsight.
xglaurungx88
Neo Member
Been farming blood gems in the chalices this evening. Which would be better for MLHB: nourishing gems to up both phys and arcane or focusing on the +27.2% phys gems?
I've been using 2 nourishing gems so far. Switched out one for a +27.2%, but I was kind of sad to see my arcane damage drop so much
I've been using 2 nourishing gems so far. Switched out one for a +27.2%, but I was kind of sad to see my arcane damage drop so much
Akiyama_AE
Member
casually walking around hears AW AW AW !
It's an outdated rule from Dark Souls. I'm pro-vials in PVP because
a) Invaders have a natural health disadvantage
b) You can riposte people as they try to heal
thefatness16
Banned
I really like the Amygdalan Arm and Simon's Bowblade.