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Bloodborne |OT| Grant them eyes
- Thread starter Cornbread78
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Another go as in you quit on it in the past or another go as in you've beaten it before?
I have quit before and it is one of my biggest gaming regrets. I want that platinum.
That's what I thought you meant. Man you're in for a treat. The reason I mention it though is that Arcane can be a little tricky for your first run. You don't get access to items you kind of need for that build until much later on unless you know what you're doing.
If you think that's how you'll have the most fun, then go for it, but personally I'd recommend against it. Same with bloodtinge. But hey man, opinions and stuff.
Starting this again, I had stopped at the part where the three
Not this time fuckers.
hunters gank you.
Not this time fuckers.
That's where I got brick walled my first play through too. Ended up dropping the game for six months before rerolling.
To this day I still can't get by them without cheesing them. Don't even know how people can.
Awesome to see so many people starting this game fresh! Almost makes me consider ps+ but .... nah.
Those three hunters along with the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst are the worst encounters in the game. Damage sponges with infinite stamina.
Honorable mention goes to the one in Byrgenwerth.
Honorable mention goes to the one in Byrgenwerth.
That feeling when you finally defeat each of the infuriating but lovable DLC bosses-
That feeling when you lose to a boss that is literally at the sliver of sudden death and you still die mid killing blow-
That feeling when you lose to a boss that is literally at the sliver of sudden death and you still die mid killing blow-
Bloody crow of Cainhurst is bs. Infinite stamina, infinite bullets, infinite items, massive life so it takes forever to kill him. Honestly a lot of the npc hunter fights weren't all that fun cause a lot of them are like this.
The Crow wasn't that hard with the Cane's whip form, but the Byrgenwerth and Research Hall hunters were a pain in the ass, largely because they used the same weapon. The latter killed me more times on NG+ than most of the bosses. Her goddamn parry & visceral combo ruined me several times.
The first time I fought the Byrgenwerth hunter I actually wondered if it had been somehow glitched because I couldn't believe that it was working as intended.
Truth.i died about five times at the most to normal bosses. Bloody Crow of Cainhurst took me 25 tries at least. Beat Orohan of Kos my second try. That fucking hunter is The Worst.
Most builds are pretty good. I like skill builds because skill scales with visceral attacks.
I'll speak no more of shark giants, their snarling haunts me.
Just finished the second run and have now seen
Intense, strange, and utterly macabre. 11/10 game, game of the generation, it's the gothic nightmare I didn't know I wanted.
Just finished the second run and have now seen
two of the three endings.
Intense, strange, and utterly macabre. 11/10 game, game of the generation, it's the gothic nightmare I didn't know I wanted.
The shark giants in the well are the reason I didn't get the Rakuyo in my first playthrough. I died to them more times than any of the bosses in the game.
The fact that you can't shoot the one hanging on the ceiling from the place where the Winter Lanterns are is even more BS.
Yeah, it only works with throwing knives. You just need to deal with them with a weapon, once they're closer to the edge. That's where the Cane's whip form comes handy once again. ;)
Skill/Bloodtinge with Chikage and the Repeating Pistol is a great skill build that focuses on doing good damage with pistols (something that you'll never do on your average, non-BT build), and you can focus on gun parrying.
This'll with with strength instead of skill for the Bloodletter if you have Old Hunters, and it will work with any weapon in the game, although these are the ones that benefit from the BT. Obviously, the transformation of both of these that scale with BT are two handed, so you can't benefit from a BT scaled weapon and the gun at the same time, but with 40/40 skill/BT, you'll be fine just using the one handed form, then transforming for the riposte.
Only read this if you want to make the shark bros a much easier ride and oh god did I wish someone told me before I died fifty times trying to get that sweet sweet weapon-
Shaman blade.
Cheesing them from the top with the cane or simon's bow blade works pretty well too.
Thanks! Father G down. Way easier this time, playing Dark Souls 3, Nioh, and The Surge before going back to this helped lol
Facing a roadblock with Father Gascoigne. Just not able to hit him, once he transforms...but cant stop trying either :)
What weapon? If you have the axe, you can hide behind gravestones to block his bullets, and you can use the extended form of the axe to hit "through" them. Cheap, but effective.
Yes, using axe. Thanks, will put aside my ego/honor and will try this trick to defeat him :)
Using it transforms him quickly though and its his 2nd phase where I'm struggling.
Don't use it in his first phase. Use it to finish him off on his second phase.
Thanks. Tried that too, guess there is some time lag between using the box and its impact on him. Sometimes, he is vulnerable with an animation where he is holding his head and sometimes he just keeps on hitting me. Will check again. Thinking of leveling up also before facing him again. Currently at level 14. Will increase damage stat.
Have you upgraded your weapon? That will have a bigger impact on your damage output than leveling up.
The bipedal wolfmen above the sewers area drop bloodshards so you can be at +3 before any boss.
The bipedal wolfmen above the sewers area drop bloodshards so you can be at +3 before any boss.
Use molotovs once he transforms, fire does extra damage to beasts. You can run upstairs, throw one when he comes up, run down from the back, and repeat.
This tactic may be considered cheap but this is how I beat him. I use the stairs and kite him up, when he rounds the corner, use the spin attack of the axe to hit him. Then hop down using the roof and repeat.
I loved the cane/whip so my only real build throughout my 2 playthroughs was a skill build until I started farming the shit out of echoes in the chalice dungeons (one in particular) and just started building up all my stats. I did play around with all of the arcane items and came to love a few, but they only really shone for me after I dumped a crazy amount of echoes into arcane due to their scaling, so I couldn't personally imagine running it as my main build from the beginning.
Cheap? CHEAP? Did you kill your opponent and not lose your echoes? Then as far as I'm concerned it's fair play ;)
My second BL4 attempt comes to a gracious submission at Ludwig. I'm actually having fun fighting him, but I know I don't have the staying power to learn the fight to this degree, so I'll admit defeat before it stops being fun. I can get him to 60-70% HP almost every time, so I'm sure I could reach the second phase, but I just don't have the patience long-term. I made it to Wet Nurse in the main game which is where I gave up on my first BL4 run too (which was also my first plathrough), not that Wet Nurse is hard, I only tried once but I moved on to DLC + optional areas.
I guess I'm just filling in time before Sekiro....
I guess I'm just filling in time before Sekiro....
The final run of
Ludwig, Maria, Laurence, Kos, Gherman, Moon Presence
Really everything after ROM makes me warm and tingly inside in all the right ways. Grant me eyes indeed!
I've been going through my FROM Backlog before Sekiro and noticed that I've yet to play The Old Hunters DLC. I haven't played since a few months after launch and my character is in NG+ at Blood Level 80. Will I get curbstomped in the DLC? Should I replay most of the game in NG+ or restart the whole thing?
I have beaten every Souls game other than II, and the DLC for this and III.
I have beaten every Souls game other than II, and the DLC for this and III.
If you're rusty you'll find Old Hunters difficult in NG+, but you absolutely must play it. If you're prepared to replay most of the game anyway you might as well restart and try a new build.
I'm definitely rusty which is why I had considered playing through the whole thing in NG+, restarting from scratch might be the best course at this point. I have a hard time going back to games DLC's after extended periods of time unless they are relatively simple like The Witcher 3. Although at this point I've played so many Souls games that my aptitude comes back pretty fast..
I'd restart - you can blitz through start of Bloodborne pretty quickly and it will help refresh everything. Old Hunters is great but I'd put the bosses as around Martyr Logarius hard.
Fully expecting someone to point out how they did Martyr on their first try now!
Fully expecting someone to point out how they did Martyr on their first try now!
I did Logarius on my fi..... j/k! As if!
Have to agree to start a new character, everthing in the DLC hits like a truck even on NG. But it's arguably the best of the Soulsborne franchise, it's a must :)
Have to agree to start a new character, everthing in the DLC hits like a truck even on NG. But it's arguably the best of the Soulsborne franchise, it's a must :)
Level 80 is what the official guide recommends for the DLC on NG. It'll be much harder on NG+. I tried it at lvl.60, but it was too hard for me, so I returned to it after I was at 90. Since you've already beaten the game, reaching that point, and the excellent Blood Echoes farming ground after Micolash, shouldn't take that long.