So the rakuyo has a C rating in arcane at 10+, is it worth anything to pump some points in arcane? right now I have 25 skill and 9 arcane.
>>321971228
No, if you are going to level arcane, don't go farther than 15 for utility tools.
>leveling arcane
>ever
>>321971315
Why not if you use arcane gems ?
>>321971462
that shit will garbage regardless. you need at least 40+
>>321971228
I'm using a +10 moonlight sword on a character where I've been dabbling into arcane. My question is; the sword has an S scaling for arcane but when I pump str it seems to increase the damage more than when I do arcane in the leveling screen. Am I reading it wrong? I have roughly 18-20 arcane and about 20-23 str at the moment (sorry I'm at work don't have exact stats). Should I pump arc or str from here?
No. Arcane does nothing if you don't slot in an elemental weapon.
Just keep leveling SKL.
However, it can be made into a decent arcane weapon.
If it doesn't have innate elemental damage, you can make it have SSS+ scaling with cold abyssal gems.
>>321971379
too hard for you?
>>321972823
It deals split physical / arcane. Transformed mode adds 1.4x arcane damage to attacks.
STR adds more because of the higher base physical damage.
It's best used with 50 str and 25 arc.
Ideally, you would go 50 str 50 skl 50 arc for full power, where it would be the strongest weapon in the game, but that'd make your character a throwaway build.
>>321972823
What blood gems do you have on your sword?
>>321973165
So for now, keep them fairly even until I got 25 arc? Thanks heaps by the way
You should really disable that chromatic aberration filter though.
>>321973713
No, the bonus from STR is far, far more than ARC. Prioritize STR to 50. ARC is honestly optional.
You may consider 50 str 25 skl 15 arc for visceral strength and old hunter's bone.
Keep an uncanny logarius wheel with flat arcane gems as a backup weapon, and you'll have a very strong and effective build for pve and pvp.
>>321972823
Trick form damage doesn't always show up in the numbers when increasing stats.
>>321973214
Sorry can't remember.
>>321971589
>arcane
>garbage
>buffed tonitrus has above S scaling with arcane
Arcane is a good stat with the right build
>>321974281
Thanks bro
2 big questions on Bloodborne from a newbie here.
Just beat gascoigne who gave me no trouble. Switched out my hunter axe now for the sword/hammer combo weapon. Is there anything better going to come anytime soon? Feel like I'm hitting for nothing!
Also-insight, what does it do?
>>321971315
the fuck? ARC scales decently well with a third of the weapons in the game.
>>321974398
You use it to summon and buy things. It also decreases your Frenzy resistance and you get it by doing just about anything in the game.
>>321974398
Grab the tonitrus. You can get it immediately and steamroll half the game with it if you dump upgrades into it.
>>321974398
wait till you meet snatchers.
>>321974398
Upgrade your weapon with Bloodstone Shards back at the Hunters Dream to get more damage out of a weapon. As for if anything better is coming, it boils down to personal preference.
Insight is consumed when you ring a bell for PvP/Co-op shenanigans. It also lets you buy stuff from a store in the Hunters Dream. Other than that, it is virtually useless.
>>321974449
You should read the OP that he's replying to.
>>321974398
There's a lot of weapons in the game, but they throw 75% of them at you in the very beginning. I'd just choose your favorite and make sure you upgrade it. You get enough upgrade stones in a normal playthrough to upgrade maybe 2 weapons to near max, with only one being max. 3 weapons if you have the DLC.
Insight is a currency you can spend at special vendors, and also to summon allies for boss fights. It's also a measurement of your ablity to "see". The only real two thresholds are 10, where you can use a vendor and some other minor stuff, and 40, where you start seeing some really weird shit.
>>321974778
It bothers me how little Insight affects the world.
Upon reaching certain thresholds, one enemy gets a whole new move, an enemy can appear in one area, and you can see an alien. They could have done so much more.
>>321974910
I definitely agree, there was a lot of potential for an increasing insanity-style meter that affected how the game is played.
I'm guessing that was originally meant to be a feature, but was cut since it involves creating a shitload of extra art assets, animations, and generally a lot more coding.
>>321975047
Sad though because this could have made it loved by everybody so much more
>>321974398
Follow up, is kirkhammer good?
>>321976416
Do you enjoy smashing things into dust with it? Then yes. All of the weapons are good and will do fine if you upgrade it's stats and master it's moveset, pick whatever you want.
My first playthrough I mained the Kirkhammer, it staggers like a motherfucker so use that to your advantage, learn to be patient with your attacks since it's slow, and learn when to just pull out the sword if you need speedier attacks. Its reach is long enough than you can power attack a lot of enemies as they rush you before they hit you, but requires some proper timing.
>>321976416
if you are str build kirkhammer actually has THE HIGHEST damage for a pure str build, and that charged R2 pretty much staggers just about everything in the game including bosses.
>>321971228
IIRC the arcane only affects buffs, why is why every weapon has arcane scaling.
Just got to Nightmare of Mensis and I think I'm done with the game.
That eye of sauron thing that gives you 100% frenzy (instadeath) is pure artificial difficulty, your frenzy bar keeps on rising even after you go back into cover. Equipping my best frenzy gear and frenzy res runes does nothing.
My only other option seems to be Martyr Logarius but he reks me every time.
Grinded to SL 100 but it makes no difference
What's the coolest vanilla weapon?
I'm using Lugid Holy Blade but it's getting boring
>>321977327
Eye only fucks you at that moment. Make a left and dash past everything you'll see and you'll get to an elevator shortcut where you'll never see the eye again unless you want to get rid of it (optional).
Logarius is easy if you just roll and remember to hit his sword when he stabs it into the ground
>grinded to 100
u fugd up
Killed everything on old yarn'um earlier today. How long until I get the fucking vampire killer?
>>321977576
le what?
>>321976416
Short answer: no
Long answer:
It is shorter in sword form than Ludwigs, and marginally slower.
It uses less stamina in hammer mode, but you must hit enemies with the actual hammer, aiming your strikes without locking on.
It is not versatile like Hunter Axe, it doesn't cheese groups and slow walking bosses like Ludwigs, all it has is crazy charged r2 damage.
Pvp with it is a joke and boils down to charged r2. Can you hit them with it? They die in one hit, great, but Boom Hammer does that even better.
>>321973898
Got used to it after a while, enjoying it at the moment
>>321977656
Le Vampire Killer, you plebsant.
>>321977790
The threaded cane? The weapon you get at the start of the game?
>>321977576
There's no Belmont whips in the game, Anon. Just the cane.
>>321977470
Coolest for me is probably the pile driver for style points but actual practicality I would go for kirk because it was my weapon of choice in my first playthough so i'm biased.
Threaded cane all the way. Blood gem to up the skill rating. 50 skill. Intentionally run around level to get mobbed so I can cut them down all at once with the long range whip attacks.
>>321977979
>>321977997
Ohhh so that's what it is. Aight faams, le upboated yur posts. Will Belmont it up later 2nite.
>>321971379
>kosm
Fucking Mensisfags shitting up the thread as per usual. Go back to Yahargul and play with bag fairies or whatever it is you creeps do, we're having a party up at the cathedral ward because we finally made contact!
SUCK IT MENSIS NERDS
I started playing a few days ago. Should I trust that shady boney fuck in Oedon Chapel who says to send people his way for safety?
>>321982060
Yes.
>>321982060
He's a cool guy.
Ehe he he he hee
>>321971379
>posts a picture of the biggest arcane user in the game
