What boss did you have most problems with?
I was fighting Chalice Dungeon Rom at level 45 and took me a while. Actual Rom was so easy after that.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>321186657
Took out every old hunters boss except Kos (two shots for him) in one shot, but that was not due to skill. I had 50 vit and burned through a minimum of 18 vials on all of them excluding living failures, which was pitifully easy.
Boss I had to have the most trouble with? Defiled Amy, without a doubt. Too much of an endurance match, too many one shot deaths even with high vit and hp runes.
>>321186657
Honestly, Cleric Beast. I had no idea he was optional and I didn't get gud yet, so it was a painful experience
Defiled hotdog.
Learning to fight him effectively was fun as hell, though.
>>321186767
I had more problems with normal Rom
In fact it was the boss I had most problems with anyway
>>321187026
Ironically, Chalice Amy was a cakewalk for me thanks to BT build with Simons Bowblade
>>321187026
>people dumping all points into Vitality
I get it, it's effective, but it's so fucking boring.
>>321186657
Only Laurence, spent a day+ on him, maybe cause I was on ng+++, he has a shit tonne of hp & kills you in 2-3 hits. Surprisingly enought it only took me 3 tries on Orphan.
>>321187335
>dumping all points into vit
I was BL120 on NG+, boss. I'd have to be a fool not to put points into vit.
first hunter boss (what was he called?) and gerhrman
starting DLC and ledwig seems a fuckup for the stupid lock-on so dunno so far about it
>>321187464
She still freaks me out.
Papa G and Amelia, but that was early enough that I hadn't adjusted to the playstyle yet. After that it was challenging, but very fun. Rarely died more than once, if at all. But...Logarius. Fuck that guy. I got a round of applause after drunkenly beating him by the skin of my teeth when a bunch of friends were over
Playing it again on a new character for the Old Hunters was a good time, nothing was too awful.
Laurence, the First Vicar. Not sure why, but he just gives me some seriously problems despite being a Cleric Beast->Queelag ripoff essentially.
>currently fighting witch
>yeah this isn't too bad
>second health bar appears
>>321186657
Bloodstarved Beast always gives me the most trouble.
Double scythe Undead Giant in random CRF Illhyl. Only dungeon I had to reset.
Fuck that shit.
I stopped playing at the big slug which had unavoidable damage attacks. Most of the bosses were bullshit artificial difficulty that played on the LEL SO HARD meme. But mandatory damage in a souls game is bullshit
I want to play BB but I can't possibly justify spending 400 jewros on a console + game + online. Fuck.
Is it realistic to hope for a price drop within the next couple of years? Maybe PS4 will get more games that I want to play as well in that time.
Is the holy blade good? I'm getting by with it but I feel there could be better weapons. I'm at the witch boss right now.
probably rom on my first playthrough
haven't bothered with chalices, they're unbelievably boring
>>321188080
Literally the easiest boss I've ever fought in a videogame. I have no idea how people have trouble with it.
This isn't me going gitgud either, I'm fucking terrible at Bloodborne. BSB took me like 10 tries.
>>321188191
Ebrietas? What's giving you trouble?
>>321188249
Yep, it's one of the better weapons
there are weapons that do more damage and have better reach et cetera but holy blade is bretty gud
>>321186657
Last boss and the old gas can.
Didnt play dlc though
>>321186657shadows
because i had fucking 7 vit
>>321188231
Price has already dropped. There won't be another for a few years.
At this point it's not worth it at all; pretty much every other ps4 exclusive is trash. Shame because Bloodborne is an amazing game.
Laurence and Orphan of Kos. I felt really satisfied after finally beating them.
>>321186657
Ebrietas
The counter damage on the charge attack always killed me in 1 hit on my first playthrough
No other boss really posed too many problems for me, Orphan of Kos gave my 10 vit character some trouble but I've learnt to fight it flawlessly, like every other boss
>>321188239
>That face
Thats not a crow
Thats an imposter
>>321188271
not him but last time i tried killing her , she used some kind of homing attack and that usually killed me , dunno if i killed her yet in NG+
>>321188191
>b-bullshit artificial difficulty
That's one way to declare yourself as a terrible player.
>>321188440
Well, this is just sad. And since it's Sony, there is no way the game is going to be ported to other platforms. Oh well, I guess I'll just hope that DS3 will be good.
>>321188231
>Is it realistic to hope for a price drop within the next couple of years?
Of course. Remember, consoles only ever go down in price but up in value.
>>321188231
I don't currently have PS+ and I can play online on both Bloodborne & Dark Souls 2, dont worry about membership to play it online.
I can also see why you wouldn't want to drop 350+ Euros on a console for one game so that's totally up to you.
>>321188239
Did she get skull fucked?
>>321186657
Right now? Laurence, the First Vicar. I fucking hate it. I get him down to his final phase with plenty of vials and all of my bullets after ten minutes of running around like a headless chicken and poking him in the foot with my dinky saber, and invariably he does his bullshit Dark Souls 2-esque homing crawl thing that I can't ever roll out of and I die. I think I might be able to cheese him out at the end with the bowblade, but I really have no idea how to avoid that attack.
This whole boss feels like something out of Dark Souls 2. The tracking on this asshole is unbelievable. Getting hits in before he does his stupid invincible backstep always requires dodging through his fist.
Orphan of Kos, Ludwig, and the regular Bloodletting Beast all took me 20+ tries. Somehow I had way less trouble with defiled watchdog and the headless bloodletting beast. Most of the bosses in the main game killed me one time at most
>>321186657
Maria.
>>321186824
Dodge left into his arm.
Trivialized.
>>321189507
git gud, I beat himsecondtry
In the main game? Amygdala fucked me up pretty bad in that third phase. Ebrietas was difficult as well.
In the DLC I only had a problem with Ludwig. But like most souls bosses, once you beat them and learn to fight them they're not that much of a trouble in the future.
ludwig first phase
>>321188739
>I don't currently have PS+ and I can play online on both Bloodborne & Dark Souls 2
Bullshit, I just tried doing that and it always prompts me to buy a PS+ membership.
>>321188239
Aside from the leaking pimple on her right boob and the fact that Eileen is probably in her 60s/70s, this is nice.
>>321189507
Old Hunter bone?
>>321186657
Orphan of Kos.
Jesus christ that boss was a cunt
>>321190617
>Start in online mode
>Ring beckoning/resonant
Be summoned/summon another
>???
>Profit
What the fuck are you spewing mate?
http://testing.loveisover.me/foolz/thread/15/
>>321188239
>Voluptuous Gilfs
>>321188739
How is that even possible? If you're not a member the game will tell you to buy a membership every time you try to go online. If you decline it automatically starts in offline mode.
>>321190928
not him but it does require PS+, are you joking?
I started up Bloodborne moments after getting my PS4 and and when I selected online mode it gave me a "you need PS+" message and booted me to a screen on PSN to buy it.
>>321191218
It's funny how you're typing all of this yet I'm standing outside Ludwigs arena, in online mode, with my resonant on, with no membership.
Somethings off about that, dont you think.
Shadow of Yahrnam is the only boss I summoned help for, fucking annoying as fuck dark souls 2 tier boss desu. Didn't bother with chalice dungeons.
>>321186657
Laurence, Defiled Watchdog, and Defiled Amygdala
>Early game
BSB
>Late game
Ebrietas and GehrmanI still haven't beaten Gehrman{/spoiler]
>DLC
Ludwig's first phase and Maria
>>321191439
I tried it again, it still doesn't work. I don't see why you would lie about that, though.
>Fight Boss in Souls
>One attack takes a huge chunk of my health
>If I can evade his next attack I can heal up and try again
>Fight boss in Bloodborne
>Attacks one shot me
>If they don't one shot me, they knock me down and the boss wombo combos me
>Literally no change to recover
The hard meme really ruined Blood Borne
>>321191764
Just remember to parry gehrman and you can easily do it without being hit.
>>321191439
I'd really like if you posted some proof on this. Like holy shit, I want to know how to get online without buying that stupid membership.
>>321191764
I don't understand how you can have trouble with Gehrman but not with Kos or Ludwig's second.
>>321191778
Funny you should say that, I just got out of someone else's world after we beat Ludwig, have fun not playing online though.
>>321191879
>Literally no change to recover
You know you can immediately roll when you've been knocked down, right?
I agree about the one-shots though, Bloodborne made vitality way too important, it makes level 4 runs unfun.
>>321191891
I would but my str/arc build has shit gems which means viscerals do almost no damage
Been playing my skill/arc build since which I'm doing the DLC with.I've died like 10+ times to Maria but I don't want to summon like a shitter
This is unrelated but I found a 29,5% non cursed "odd tempering damp blood gem". I don't remember where. I thought the best gems only went as far as 27% or so, and only the cursed ones ? What gives ?
Rom. Haven't played the DLC.
In the base game
BSB
In Chalice Dungeons
Defiled Watchdog
In DLC
Ludwig's first form or Orphan
>>321186657
either laurence or kos
curently kos
>>321192165
it was in a dungeon right?
what depths have you gone to?
Laurence, hands down.
>>321192168
>Kill all the spiders in the first phase
>Pop a beast blood pellet and fire or bolt paper
>Wail on her body (not face)
If you deal enough damage as she's teleporting it knocks her out of it.
Thinking about getting back into blood borne for the DLC since you can be a proper werewolf now. How long does it take to get the werewolf rune and is the designated beast weapon anygood?
>>321188549
Literally dodge.
>>321186657
Defiled hotdog the first time was just insane. Maybe it's cuz I had chikage but damn
>>321192334
I've done Isz, Ihyll and lower Loran.Not the root versions though, only the regular ones
>>321186657
Well, Im still stuck on blood starved beast, so I guess that one.
>>321192408
You've got to kill 2 out of the 5 DLC bosses if you know what you're doing, and the rune changes the Beast Claws moveset to actually make them great.
>>321188239
that bush
>>321186657
Ebriatas
Try as I might, I couldnt bait the headslam. It was like no matter where I stood I would get tentacle slapped or rushed. It took me a while to say fuck it and just beat its legs from behind like an olympic gymnist.
>>321192340
That fucking lava leaking out of his ass. There's nowhere to hit him.
In death, as in life, Laurence is a prick.
>>321191926
Choke on a bag of dicks.
>>321192408
You can enter the DLC after the first boss, which if you already beat or know the game, should only take you 3 hours tops. Realistically though, you do not want to enter the DLC with a new character until you're lvl 85-100, which you don't hit til near the end of the game. Outside of that, the beast rune only takes maybe 30 min. to an hour to get in the DLC.
>>321186657
Kos.
YOU
ARE NOT WANTED HERE
>>321192753
You can enter the DLC after Vicar Amelia and she isn't the first boss.
>>321192753
>Amelia
>First boss
What the fuck
>85-100
Suggested level is pretty much 65 for NG you lying sack of shit
>Beast rune takes 30 mins to an hour to get
>Killing Laurence
30 mins to an hour into the DLC
Unless you're that fucking good at the game this isn't going to happen
Stop posting
Bloody crow of cainhurst can blow me.
What's the harder NPC Hunter encounter for your first playthrough?
>The two assholes on the side of the church
>Henryk if Eileen dies
>Bloody Crow
>Yahargul Gank Squadron
Vicar Amelia until I got the hang of how you're supposed to fight bosses.
Not a boss but the huntress at Byrgenwerth was unusually difficult.
>>321193492
first playthrough I attacked Eileen as soon as I saw her and she killed me, so I didn't fight Henryk or Crow of Cainhurst. The toughest NPC hunters I faced were the Gank squad, took me awhile to figure out how to separate them.
>>321193492
>Go back to Vicar Amelia
>Two NPCs waiting for me
>Kill them both
Poor Aileen, she shouldn't have come at me like that though
>>321193492
The two cunts right after Ludwig were pretty bad as well
Ebrietas the broodwhore in Chalice dungeons
>>321192979
Wow, holy shit I fucked that up. I meant to type "third."
>>321193186
Meant to say "third." Also, why would you make everything harder by entering NG at a lower level. Better to go at it with base difficulty and a higher level.
>>321187464
Jay what the fuck is that thing, dude?
Holy shit, Jay. It's a fuckin' tuna, bro.
>>321192408
>wanting to be a warewolf
>look more like BERZERKAR from f/sn
FUCKIN FURFAGS BTFO
>>321194308
beastmen =/= furries. Specifically why I want to be a werewolf as opposed to the furry as dragon covenant we had for the pst few games
>>321192728
2bad4you then faggot, I can play online, I guess my account is "verified"
>>321194496
If you're playing it online, you have PS+
>>321186657
Ludwig. Kos and Laurence are tough, but at the very least I was able to understand their movesets after a few attempts and beat them without too much trouble. Ludwig is just so fucking random in his first form that beating him feels more like luck than skill. I only managed to solo him by using the pizza cutter.
Ludwig, Shadows of Yharnam, and Maria. Haven't really tried to beat Orphan of Kos yet.
>>321194773
I find Ludwig's first form entirely predictable after some attempts. I think his attacks are harder to predict in his second form
>>321193492
Chikage Crow
The combination of
>too much health
>too much damage
>ability to easily heal half it his health
>unlimited Quicksilver bullets
Just made it incredibly frustrating and unfun to fight
Defiled Hotdog and Defiled Amy.
I thought beating everything outside the chalice dungeons made me get good.
No. Only after so much suffering in the defiled chalice did I truly get good.
>>321193492
The answer is obviously
>Djura's ally when Djura is still alive and hostile
>>321195246
tfw they patched the chikage thing so he doesnt kill himself anymore
NG+ Micolash was a pain in the ass
>drop down for second phase
>character has that second of recovery where you can't roll
>during that time Micolash has started A Call Beyond
>instantly kills me
If with the best arcane defense it just made it so Auger of Ebrietas did 2/3 my life instead of 3/4
Rom. Low damage, divings spiders basically one-shotting me and homing energy asteroids.
>>321195463
>still managed to get him to ALMOST kill himself
>didn't stray too far, attacked him when he was walking back to his starting point
>he uses the second form
>dies midway into dodging at me
>>321194683
Except I dint because there's no PS+ sign next to my name and I've been to my active licenses and PS+ is nowhere to be found. I also don't pay a monthly subscription.
>>321195712
>homing energy asteroids.
did they patch that?
because it feels like they never hit now, when you just walk sideways
I haven't tried the final bosses or the DLC bosses yet, and this is my first Souls game, so Gascoigne and Rom. Gascoigne took me a dozen tries but I pulled it off eventually, whereas Rom was such bullshit that I got two friends to help me and I don't regret it at all.
Just got to layer 3 of lower Pthumerian chalice, though. Nooooo.
Haven't had to fight any boss more than once except for the Gehrman (Fought him twice), but I haven't fought any DLC boss or the more difficult chalice versions yet.
>>321196041
>Just got to layer 3 of lower Pthumerian chalice, though. Nooooo.
Wait until you get to the hard chalices
>>321195853
Yeah I'm pretty sure they patched it. I didn't get hit at all the last time I fought Rom
Base Game:
Gerhan the Last Hunter or whatever his name is.
DLC:
I'm currently struggling on Ludwig... I am on NG+ at level 90 though. Just got him to 10% on my last attempt so I'll get him tonight.
>>321196185
The labyrinth isn't that bad, but I know this is the floor Rom is on, and I've killed literally everything else so I have to do it now.
Wait, I think I read that chalice dungeons aren't affected by NG+?
>>321196616
I'm referring to depth 4 and 5 chalices, they're much more difficult.
>>321194040
>First
>Third
>Misreading NG as NG+
Are you sure you're not dyslexic, anon?
65 is literally the level recommended by multiple guides and sources. Plus you're usually at BL60-70 by the time you reach the end of the game without grinding at any point.
>>321186657
Man, I bought a PS4 for this game back in march but I never beat it back then. I didn't want to use summons and I could just not beat Rom to save my life. I've tried so many times, I've run out of Blood Vials so fast and it was absolutely horrible. It broke me, I stopped playing. With the old hunters dlc I recently started a new and beat the game several times now, also did the chalice dungeons and got myself the platinum (I don't care about trophies). Just mentioned it because even though the game kicked me gud, it has the appeal to draw you in and make you want to kick its ass for good
>tfw blood level 180 and still getting loads of PVP and coop in real CDs and not some boring ass story dungeons
I pity the fools who limit themselves at BL98
>>321197462
>>321193492
Bloody crow
there is no other answer
>>321197690
>I don't want a build, just let me do everything!
>>321192753
>level 85
I normally rush to the DLC. The first time I went though to Ludwig I was level 20. It has hard as balls but I wanted to play around with the new weapons.
The Second time I messed around in the DLC was to get Simon's Bowblade for a SKL/BDT build. I was in my teens, I think.
>>321196567
Just beat him. Feels good man. I love bosses that feel overwhelming at first but then become manageable as you learn their movements. If Ludwig is a sign of things to come then I'm really gonna enjoy this DLC.
>>321196616
>the labyrinth isnt all that bad
Yes it is
its bad and miyazaki should feel bad
they're worse than soul memory, they're star wars prequels bad, they're so bad they're good
never could beat logarius
>>321198421
Ebrietas
>>321187464
this
never was able to beat her
gonna try her again next year when I buy the dlc and start a new game
>>321186657
I was too cheap for online and Amelia took me quite some time.
>>321187464
How do you pronounce her name, /v/?
>>321198582
no
fuck off, you only get one shot at shitposting
I can't decide whether those horned fire dogs or the old fireball hand ladies are worse, but those are easily the two worst enemies in the game.
The worst boss is definitely chalice Rom, by far. At least the other 'difficult' bosses are fun to fight - Rom is just tedious hide behind pillars and slowly chip away at the massive horde of spiders.
>>321195475
In further NG+s its impossible to survive his AoE spell and his Augur will kill you if he hits you and it registers as a counter. You just have to time when the cast activates then jump towards him.
Loran Darkbeast in Lower Loran is the absolute worst. Sheer terror. If I didn't learn about the Pungent Blood Cocktail trick then I might have been stuck forever. I fought his lower Loran version about 5 times, and I must have 400 deaths combined at them.
Not only is the Loran Darkbeast very expensive to fight since cocktails cost souls, he's also durable as fuck and has high poise break build up on all his limbs. If you run away from him you might as well be putting your head in front of a sniper's crosshairs.
>>321187868
>worst souls being an asshole
go figure
>>321199132
YOU CAN USE COCKTAIL ON THE LORAN DARKBEAST?
Amelia, then the Bloody Crow. I haven't finished the chalice dungeons yet, though.
>Bloodborne is first souls game
>cant read attacks for shit; dont bother using guns cause I can't counter smaller windows for shit
>Dump all my points into STR since most bosses will lock me down in a quick combo anyways
>base END stat feels plentiful
>go back and watch a veteran souls player play Bloodborne
>can read animations and dodge well, good at countering
>dump most of their stats in VIT and invest in END anywasy
Do the other souls games reward you for playing defensively or something? Why's everyone such a pansy?
The first chalice golem boss. Mainly because you need to abuse the fuck out of multi dodges to get in and I got by playing like it was Dark Souls until then.
>>321199073
>fireball ladies
Just parry her to death. If she tries to use fire just rush to her and while taking advantage of i-frame and spam those R1
>fire dogs
Bait his its bite attack and use a weapon that have a vertical attack to reach its head to stagger it easier.
Turn off lock on so you don't fuck up dodging its one shot charging attack.
>>321199132
the "trick" to loran darkbeast is to play unlocked, roll under him, hit him once and roll between his back legs immediately to dodge the aoe. Rinse and repeat. You'll have to occasionally heal if you get caught off guard by a random swipe but it's by far the easiest method I found after 10+ attempts. It helps to keep rolling away from him until you see him slowly walking towards you. that's your cue to run under him
I really need to play this, but there is practically no justifiable reason for me to buy a PS4, and it's sad.
Dark 3 is coming to PC, everything else comes to PC, why even bother?
Maybe one day. Maybe I can get my buddy to buy it and then just borrow his PS4.
>>321199497
High vit and end are the best for first playthroughs in souls, traditionally. It lets you learn boss patterns instead of trying to bruteforce them with damage. That said, end is super uneccessary in bloodborne, people only levelled it since it was practically the most important stat in previous souls.
>>321199497
Are you complaining that people can read attacks better than you? The fuck is wrong with you?
>>321199295
Yes. It opens him up.
The hint was at the name. Loran Dark"beast".
Be warned though. He will use the distance pounce attacks randomly. You don't want to get caught in it. Better to use the cocktail as just a true distraction while you pop in a healing vial.
I guess this is how you can genuinely max out your HP without getting hit by stray lightning.
Apparently its what seems to happen when beasts age for so long that the bone that produces blood, turns back to bone, and that bone produces electricity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHraNq--JL4
>>321199646
For this to work you have to believe the Loran Darkbeast will use his same combo over and over. And this just isn't the case. You really have to whittle down his legs and reset his lightning buff. Also not all weapons have a Ludwig R2 (vertical swing, can be chained after roll).
Ludwig.
His second phase was easier somehow.
>>321199604
Wow, I guess I should have been more specific because those were neither of the two enemies I was referring to. I was talking about the normal enemy horned fire dogs that come with the Bone Ash ladies. And the fireball ladies are the ones that look like the chapel dweller and hold a disembodied hand and chaingun fireball at you.
>>321199747
>(you)
>reading comprehension
The question was asking why people who can avoid damage well invest in VIT and END
>>321199935
In my experience it doesn't matter what attacks the darkbeast uses. First bait him into doing the attack where he walks towards you and swipes, which he does very often. Then roll under him and hack away at any part of his body that your weapon can reach, his head, legs, torso, whatever. Then he will either try to get away from you, do a backwards swipe, or the aoe attack. in all of these cases you'll get by if you roll away from him as soon as the attack begins. Then you just repeat the process. it's not foolproof and you'll get hit sometimes since it's easy to mistime it but it works
>>321199497
vitality is the only defense in bloodborne
and enemies are much faster so it's harder to completely avoid attacks like in dark souls
>>321199132
I have beaten dark beast loran on cursed root chalice ng ++++. He is kind of tough
>>321199132
I fought him in a place with holes on the stage
sp if you are not carfull you fall when you dodge plus half health from cursed offering
>>321199497
END is the most useful stat in Dark Souls, period. A lot of people assume it's just as useful in BB.
I just defeated the boss in the cathedral and now I'm stuck. Do I go through the forest?
I feel like a peasent. Only have my cane +3, saw spear +1 and blunderbuss +2. Should I go back and kill the machine gunner for his weapon or should I wait? I heard he can become a friendly
>>321199497
played demon, ds1+2 and bloodborne.
i am able to dodge, i know a lot of the pattern but fucking shit, i never pushed vit.
thats one reason why BB was very hard for me.
i hate people here tell ing you to push vit to come along with the game, because its not the way i want to play this game. i critizies the knockdown and oneshot situation a lot but all the player ot there sticking to guides and wikis, even in the first run, are sucking cocks.
>>321198582
In the future, keep in mind that anybody who was already in the thread and anyone with 4chanx will see the post you deleted. When you make an ass out of yourself like hat, deleting the post and resubmitting only makes it worse.
>>321201309
>only has +3 weapons
Go left from the Grand Cathedral and into Hemwick before you head into the Forbidden Forest. You'll find a lot of useful upgrade materials there. You can probably get your weapon(s) to +6. The boss is really easy there, too, so you can pick up plenty of echoes as well.
>>321200390
I tried that. Maybe he was nerfed recently if you aren't caught in the blast anymore just by rolling. When I fought it in the older patches, I had to sprint at max speed to evade his explosion. But if I make the mistake and turns out he's using the small scale explosion, he has enough time to swipe-dodge at me and that just feels insulting. It wasn't very fun.
At times I can evade his lightning blasts, and sometimes the blasts catch me either way or a defense move by the Darkbeast catches me. At some point in the fight I'd use up 20 vials and end up running across the room clockwise. And like a cat it just toys with me sending the little balls of lightning jolts before pouncing at me. But that's when the AI is feeling nice.
There are times when it just leaps across the room, again and again with its jump attack. Running away is just prolonging the inevitable.
>>321201330
Pumping HP if you're getting one shotted often seems natural to me, not something you'd only realize with a guide. Also, vigor was not a useless stat in DaS2 either
>>321201309
>+3
The forest is your next area, but you should probably do Hemwick first. Bang a right as you leave the Grand Cathedral.
>>321200007
Probably just planning for the future. Stats cap quickly, and you'll hit a point long before the end of the game where (especially) health and endurance are the only things worth much of anything.
VIT was usually a bad stat in the Souls games, because most boss attacks are capped to a % of your total life and they like to do big hits that immediately knock you on your ass allowing you to get up blocking and reset. In Bloodborne, bosses like to do smaller-hit semi-combos hoping for you to dodge badly trying to get away and eat counterhits, and have little concern for trampling you to death on the ground. By default you stock 8 full life bars of healing items on you, and in addition to that the game has an entire mechanic about restoring lost health from hits. The game is designed more around you trading hits and taking damage here and there and getting more health has a lot more value in that environment. Bosses can actually one-shot you, where they rarely could in Souls games, and you can potentially get enough health to avoid them where the mechanics worked against you previously.
Meanwhile, the value of endurance has plummeted compared to Souls games because you have no shield. If you have to dodge more than a couple times you're probably just panicing and are going to die from it, so it's only really valuable for extra hits but most bosses jump away or do something to avoid you just wailing on them forever. Still, it at least has some value when you get those opportunities, where boosting your damage stat past 50 has almost none.
>>321201529
>>321201593
Alright lads thanks. Is that the cave? Also I only have the hunters gear. Can I upgrade it or get better gear or what?
Ludwig was a huge pain in the ass. I haven't played the game since it first came out and was at the beginning of a NG+. I rushed to The Old Hunters and was really under leveled for that fight.
this enemy is even worse than any boss
>>321201705
Gear's not important, and yes it's through the cave.
>>321201531
I don't think he was nerfed. I know what you're talking about with being caught by the aoe even by rolling away, that happened to me too. You have to roll between his hind legs, away from him at full speed to avoid it and the timing is kind of tricky. Once you get it down, though, the boss will not be as problematic anymore. Every attack of his can be dodged the same way, by just rolling away from him as much as you can at the right time. It makes the fight simpler because you can concentrate on two tasks : rolling away from him, and rolling under him when there's an opening
>>321201705
Yeah. The cave will open up into a small woods-y area with a bunch of gunmen.
As far as your gear goes, there's no upgrading for it. All the clothing in this game is good, so just wear whatever suits your taste.
At your point in the game, you should be able to buy the Yharnam Hunter set from the little bath shop in the hunter's dream.
>>321186657
The hardest boss in the game is the Anchor Giant in the well of the Fishing Hamlet.
FUCK.
can I get some lore on the doll? What's confirmed about her?I want to fuck her.
Are there any "a doll is fine too." images?
>>321202091
SAY IT WITH ME
>SHAMAN
>BONE
>BLADE
>>321202271
>What's confirmed about her?
she loves you
>>321202271
>can I get some lore on the doll? What's confirmed about her?
Gehrman made her based on his daughterfu who went a little off her rocker.
Not counting Chalice Dungeons, it was this faggot and the Shadow of Yharnam
>>321202513
>>321202091
fire also works well
molotovs and fire paper
>>321187464
Ebrietas is a cute. A CUTE!
Do you think we'll ever get a Souls game with polished combat?
90% of your parries in Bloodborne are just guesses because of the half-second delay and there was also a chance of the bullet going right over their shoulder if they got close.
>>321201859
that's not the fatty roller
>>321202271
The Doll was created by Gehrman in place of his waifu, Lady Maria, after she either died or left the hunters.
>>321202613
No, no, waifu.
>>321192753
>except you're wrong
asshole
>>321202730
>there was also a chance of the bullet going right over their shoulder if they got close.
Use the Blunderbuss
Alternatively git gud
>>321202613
I'm fairly certain she killed herself out of guilt.
>>321186657
chalice Bloodletting Beast>Ebrietas>Laurcence>Ludwig>Logarius>rest
>>321202796
Fuck that guy in the defiled chalice. Harder than the watchdog
>>321202796
fatty roller is also a kuck
>>321201859
is that the sanic cunt who rushes to you from across a room in 0.5 second and wombocombos to death
>>321189507
For him, I found that not locking on in his first phase makes the fight much easier, then locking on when he crawls around. I attacked the left side of him (if hes facing you) and he just ends up spinning around in circles while you wail on him. Good luck anon, he was a bitch for me.
>>321192080Just fucking summon, playing with people is fun and if you've wasted this much time you might as well just cheese it.
only defiled amygdala. and maybe the dog before it also, but he took like 5 tries. amygdala for some reason took me days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-XxpW4jn-A
>>321202814
Gehrman died before Maria did.
>summon people for defiled amy
>they die during the first minute just making it harder for me
>>321203567
Yup , extremely creepy and fast
also he one shots you with the dash attack which is fast as the speed of sound
>>321203728
just go under her tale once she rips all its arms off, she literally cannot hit you.
>>321203648
How do you know that? Gehrman is an old man, while Maria is a young woman.
>>321203843
defiled amy?
which one is that?
>>321203989
this, her chalice version it halfs your health.
>>321203728
Just whack at the legs after the arms come off
It takes FOREVER to get its health down, but it's also pretty safe. Maybe even pop a beast blood pellet
In the research hall in the DLC
Is there a way to help the monster thing find her eye that she apparently lost in a puddle
I feel sorry for her
>>321204104
Ah you mean amygdala
Yeah she is a bitch but you can easily beat her with the bow !
Or some executioner hand
If you are skill built, burial blade works fine
>>321203905
'cause the doll constantly visits Gehrman's grave in the dream as a hint that Maria did the same thing.
Plip plop plip plop
Splish splash splish splash
>>321203728
>get summoned for defiled amygdildo
>get to phase 2
>host is fighting him like it's phase 1 arm chopping time
>constantly walk behind boss and emote and spin in circles to try and tell the host to come over to me
>somehow he's some kind of iframe pro and he manages to survive longer than I thought he would
>host gets one shot by a leap when the boss has ~5% health
Monsoon from metal gear rising
>>321204427
Don't you have a high chance of triggering the leap if you get between her legs ? because dodging these leaps constantly is bullshit
>>321204194
Yea, you can help bykilling her
>>321204565
I don't even know why I laughed
>>321203728
>getting invaded and wrecked CONSTANTLY in Fishing Hamlet
>all the same guy
>summon help for Kos
>it's him
>he blood bullets himself down to 10% HP, gets smacked once and dies
Th-Thanks
>>321204325
No, that's Maria's grave. Like I said: Gehrman is an old man in the dream, which suggests he lived to old age. While Maria is still young, suggesting she died early. By suicide, suggested by the blood trails on her corpse.
>>321186657
Blood Starved Beast was an absolute bitch
>>321204614
once she leaps just stand there, she always misses, literally beginners trap.
>>321204614
if you stand behind amygdala between one of the legs and the tail and stand perfectly still when amy leaps you never get hit
when the boss lands the head dips to the ground for a brief couple seconds and you can get some hits in on the head
>>321191467
Shadow of Yharnam was easy as fuck. The only bosses that gave me trouble were Gehrmann, Ebrietas, and Logarius until I found out you can parry him to death.
I'm really good at this game. I love to coop Maria in other people's games because I love hearing her scream.
I'm doing it right now.
>>321190459
>Ayyymugdoolas fucking third phase
"I AM NOW JUST GOING TO THROW MY BODY ONTO YOU :DDD"
fuck
>The Church Doctors with the frenzy crosses
why the fuck do they even have crosses they worship eldritch abominations
fucking reeeeee
Ebrietas and Amelia always fuck my shit up.
>>321205330
What do you think the church worships? It's not fucking Jesus.
In the main game I didn't get stuck on anything for very long, but Amygdala was probably the toughest.
In The Old Hunters it was definitely Ludwig, because I started the DLC too early so I did really low damage to him and he could one-shot me with most of his attacks. I think Orphan of Kos is harder overall, but I was much better prepared when I fought him so it only took three or four attempts.
In the chalice dungeons Defiled Amygdala made me want to kill someone. And I fucking hate the headless Bloodletting Beast from the Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice because it should be really easy when you look at its moveset, but it'sartificiallydifficult because the camera completely shits the bed when you go close to it.
So how do people deal with Blood Starved Beast? Without summoning like 4 dudes to help kill him? I feel like there's nothing really to learn. The chapel is so dark when he spazzes out and lunges off into the darkness I cant see what he's revving up, and while almost all his shit has a tell, so many of them look similar. I tried the flamesprayer, and that was a total waste of bullets, and im almost out of insight.
Is there a way to get more?
>>321206502
It's absolutely piss easy once you learn the moveset.
>>321206502
>Blood Starved Beast?
Here's what you do senpai
>Get a +3 saw cleaver/spear
>Enter the boss fight
>Strafe to her left at all times and mash r1 when she swings over your head constantly
There you go, you did it champ.
>>321206502
pungent blood cocktails and fire paper
>>321186657
BSB
Rom (first time)
Logarius
Ebrietas
Laurence
Orphan
Defiled Hotdog
Defiled Amygdala
These are the only bosses that should give you significant trouble.
>>321206684
>>321206719
Fair enough. If the run to the fog gate wasnt so tedious I probably would have just ground my face off on learning his shit more.
is trying to parry him even worth it?
>>321207082
BSB, Rom, Laurence, Logarius and Ebrietas are piss easy compared to Ludwig or Loran Darkbeast. Rom in particular is just easy in general
>>321207217
you opened the shortcut right?
>>321207217
>is trying to parry him even worth it?
Not really, parrying is time spent not mashing R1, which is more effective on BSB.
>>321199497
VIT is just the first stat you really pump in a Souls game to get it out of the way.
I always pump VIT to 20 first, then END to 20, then my main damage stat to 20, then back to VIT until 30 etc etc.
Scaling damage doesn't come into play until above 20 so there's not much point worrying about it until later in the game.
>>321207659
I usually go
1vit
1end
2 of my primary stat
>>321207725
That shit just irks my autism, gotta get my numbers nice and even.
>>321207463
Is there more than one? I got the ladder right below where I killed Minigun Peterson open so I dont have to go through the whole cathedral.
>>321199497
Here's what you do to get gud.
From the second you start the game, pump all points into your preferred damage stat. When you have skill, there's no reason to ever put points into VIT, it's a safety net for shitters.
>>321208014
there's another one
where the wolf busts through the door, there's a staircase up
>>321207217
Parry him in the first phase if you want, just get up in his face and wait for him to do the overhead slash.
He's much harder to parry in phase 2 and 3.
Orphan of Kos by far. Only beat him once and haven't been able to beat him again.
Vicar Amelia is the boss I've had the most problems with for some reason.
Blood starved beast I took on my first try, but on subsequent runs he has been a bit of a hassle.
>>321199497
Endurance was incredibly necessary in every other Souls game, to the point where most people would just put enough points into the damage stats to use their weapon of choice, then pump everything into Endurance until it hit 40. It's less necessary in Bloodborne because there's no blocking, and stamina use on dodging and most weapons is very low. It's still pretty critical for people using heavier Strength weapons, but other people don't need it as much.
I tend to leave Vitality for last as a rule because it's not really that necessary until things start to OHKO you without it, but some people like it because it lets them play a bit safer and learn boss patterns without worrying about getting shitstomped in a couple of attacks.
>>321208538
>He's much harder to parry in phase 2 and 3.
That's when he starts his combos which you can parry him out of. If anything it's easier in the later phases.
logarius, ebrietas, ludwig, laurence
>>321186657
Blood-starved Beast
Amelia
Gehrman
AH, KOS
>>321202630
Isn't he just the Cleric on fire?
>>321210582
Yeah it's not like they gave him a new moveset and a whole 2nd phase
Play the game or watch a video before you sound a like a tool
>>321210582
He has a couple similarities but overall he's a completely different fight. And once you break his legs all bets are off.
Personally I didn't find Laurence very difficult though. As far as The Old Hunters goes he's harder than Maria and Living Failures but a lot easier than Ludwig or Orphan of Kos.
>>321186824
0 poison resistance. 1 knife to poison him.
toss a knife. run. rinse and repeat
>>321211136
I took me 3 tries to beat Ludwig, 1 for Failures and Maria, and 7-8 for Orphan
I'm on Laurence attempt 20 and still can't fucking beat him. I only got to the 2nd phase once and he fukt me in the asshole so fast I didn't get to see all the moves
>>321186657
Defiled Erbritas
Took me at least a 100 tries.
>>321211629
In the first phase you can pretty much just fight him like a 'roided out Cleric Beast. His combos are different but the basic tactic of "stick really close to him and dodge into his attacks" still works, and it's easy to get behind him during/after certain attacks (especially the ones where he slams the ground with his big arm, like the fire AoE) for some safe damage. Just resist the urge to dodge away from him when he's doing a combo, and don't get hit by aforementioned attacks where he slams the ground with his big arm, because they'll probably kill you.
His second phase is a bit of a mess. It's really dangerous to be in front of him because he has a lot of sweep attacks that are hard to dodge, and he has that one move where he alternates slamming the ground with each arm as he moves forward that just never fucking ends and can easily kill you, and being behind him is no longer safe because of the lava blood. However his sides are reasonably safe, and some of his attacks (like when he vomits lava everywhere) leave him wide open for easy damage. Don't be afraid to step into the lava behind/beside him a bit if it'll let you get a hit off or dodge another attack, as it doesn't do much damage even on NG+ as long as you get out quickly.
