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>>14214238

>>14214293

PFFFFFT HHHAHAHAHAHA

>>14214293

>Essentials

>>14214303

anon i'm also in the same boat with you here. My first build is a strength build who for some reason looks vaguely jewish with some points put into Arcane to be able to use the items. It went pretty well, since i used the Kirkhammer. For Bloodtinge / Arcane builds, then you better wait for fucking end-game since that's where you get the weapons for those builds.Already made 2 chars for said build tbh, and i've put extra work to making them look extra-qttfw max chest slider is c-cupOh well, you can't have everything

>Best weapons

I've heard that Ludwig's Holy Blade is good for any builds, and so far they're right. It has a nice moveset, nice damage, pretty good scaling with STR/DEX and ARC if infused (Bloodgems).

>>14214293

Is this from cuckchan?

>>14214293

clearly this is bait

right?

>>14215081

>>14215057

i was one of the assholes that abused these exploits to death.

remember how flat damage gems worked on the rifle spear? if you had a gem that did +2 fire, it would add +2 fire damage per pellet. it was just cruel. and hit harder than a level10 memeblade.

if someone invaded, i would have a cannon in one hand, the sword/pistol in the other, and bone ash at the ready. they'd bow, id shoot them with my sword pistol and stun them, then hit them with the cannon. no survivors.

the game had so many ways to abuse people.

>>14214910

>>14214500

Is the Pizza cutter worth it? Is it a straight upgrade compared to the saw cleaver?

>>14215113

It has E scaling in Bloodtinge which means that its pretty much fuckn useless if you want to scale with it

>>14215051

Jesus that sounds terrible

I fucking hate Chalice dungeons, unfortunately its the only place where i can grind blood echoes / blood gems efficiently

>>14214229

>how do you deal with finishing the utter slog that are Chalice Dungeons?

By not finishing them. I liked them at first, but after 4-5 I couldn't bring myself to do any more and stopped. Cool idea and all, but they get old after a few. And the hardest shit that would justify farming the best gems is in the CDs anyway, so you're just slogging through shit you don't like to do more shit you probably won't like.

>>14214229

>Anyone still playing this single player game?

Already 100%'d it and beat it several times.

>>14219332

Yeah just got it

Its so fucking great

>>14220069

Nigger, if a console is memed as to having only 1 worthy exclusive to the point that its called the platform to play said game, you know that its worth it. >>14220129 thhis anon here is right for the most part but he forgets about how actually great the PvE was, even if it gets kinda old on the second run. It also has neat visual details that will please nitpicky nerds like i do.

Hell, i could say that the whole game is a visual feast even if its limited by it console.

>>14220236

Looks like i was late to the part I got the game at 20% off and its GOTY edition so i don't have to download the thing through PSN

No biggie, atleast PvP isn't the main focus here, and boy does it shows. Thank fucking GOD Hunter NPC encounters only last once. The fucker that wrecked Eileen is the worst fucking offender.

Seriously, fuck that guy.

>>14225233

I restarted with the axe. I'm enjoying this game much better now.

Do the werewolves on the bridge respawn after you kill them? Also how the fuck do you kill them and that one bardiche asshole?

>>14225233

>>14225242

>>14225242

>9000 insight

>>14229602

>>14229720

>Yes. Both of them.

Fuck. I was hoping they were going to be like the oni in Nioh, especially since the one in the clinic didn't respawn.

>>14229720

>because there will be more of these as average mobs

I suspected that and that's why I wanted to practice on him. I started trying to fight him after I was having a problem with Cleric Beast using the whip and I figured if I couldn't beat him then I couldn't beat CB either. Then I just said fuck it and restarted with the hunter's axe and beat CB in one go without much trouble.

I'm guessing that pig in the sewer is going to be a huge pain in the ass too. I saw it but I elected not to aggro it.

>>14229621

That's the stuff.

>>14229720

>Martyr Logarius

I still feel shame knowing that i can only beat this bastard by abusing parries, no matter the build i decide to use against him.

>>14226620

>muh 30fps

Blow it out your ass, there's no point in fucking whining about things we already fucking know. It would be better if we get 60fps it without having to buy the goy version of the bloodborne-box but that's console kikery for you

>>14225242

>was going to as for bloodborne version of the happy dogger

>got it without asking

Thank you kind anon

>>14214229

>I just want those blood gems

Then you really need to go all the way through. It's only cursed depth 5 gems that are worth the trouble.

>>14214303

>Arcane

Kos Parasite. A very fun and unique weapon. ARC barely gets diminishing returns so you can keep pumping on it and this weapon has no requirements outside of ARC.

If you want to compliment ARC with other stats, I'd say what will give you the most bang for your buck will be a Fire Saw Cleaver and a Bolt Ludwig's; these will stack two attributes against a respective enemy type - fire and serrated against beasts; bolt and thrust against kin.

Moonlight Great Sword is also super fun, arguably the best in the series. I'd recommend something like 30 STR-50 ARC for it.

>Bloodtinge

Chikage, Bow Blade and Reiterpallasch if complimented with Skill. Bloodletter if equally split with STR.

Evelyn for both.

>>14229851

>I'm guessing that pig in the sewer is going to be a huge pain in the ass too. I saw it but I elected not to aggro it.

You can sneak up on that particular one but, rule of thumb, even if a feral feminist is looking at you, just charge past it and do a back visceral. Pigs always do a loud squeal when they notice you, they don't immediately attack.

>>14229882

Ditto. I can now beat him with little trouble at around Lv40 but in my first play through, he beat my ass so hard, I let the fight on hold until end NG (Lv60).

Occasionally. I recently got back into Warhammer 40k so I made a character based on Konrad Curze of the Night Lords. Wish you could alter the height of your character but if you shrink the head and bulk up the rest of the dude, it kinda looks like a space marine on a primative world. Yharnam is alot like Nostramo might be like. Just gotta find pair of Lightning Claws.

>>14231184

Pic related is probably the closest you'll get, if you bring bolt paper with you constantly.

Don't do what I did.

Don't, on your first play ever, pump arcane alone to 70 before touching any other stat.

I melted the great white bitch in fourty seconds flat, but holy fuck was the rest of the journey impossible until I got the Executioner's Gauntlets & the Tiny Tonitrus.

>>14214247

>>14231594

Getting oneshot by Rom wasn't very thrilling. I didn't start blowing out assholes again until the One Reborn.

Just saying to any anons jumping in, arcane on the second playthrough.

I think I know what I'm doing when I pick it up again, tho.

>>14214964

>>14231766

Picking over SanadSK's cut content videos, the more I see here, the more it seems that Bloodborne was at once meant to be a more on-the-nose Demon's Souls successor (beyond just reusing the line 'umbasa') and was never initially intended to be as description-reliant or ambiguous; there was a great deal more dialogue with perfect, unambiguous clarity, and plenty of characters had different roles. Of all people, Micolash was going to be younger, mild-mannered, and a hub NPC in Oedon Chapel, for example. The Cleric Beast at the bridge was one Mozgus-looking Father Norbert rather than an unknown. Ebrietas is mentioned by name in the Blood Ministers' dialogue, and for that matter the Blood Minister doesn't end up beast chow, he survives all the way through your transfusion, alludes to your nightmare and sets you on your way; killing him is what brings up the mention of Ebrietas. And a rather peculiar bit of dialogue from the distinctly non-dead Byrgenwerth watchman- he has quite a lot of dialogue, in fact- with multiple variations, addressing you as his first visitor in some time. A year. A decade. Two decades. A half-century. A full century. It reeks of Dark Souls 2 and its long-cut time traveling, the rump of which manifested in the ashen mist-unlocked giants' dreams. And another bit from the Suspicious Man, who originally would've given explicit and helpful direction while lambasting you as 'frailminded infected' and 'not normal no matter how much you pretend to be,' in exchange for blood. And rather than Paleblood, one originally searched for Sages' Blood, which was referenced in one of the earliest leaks.

There are scads of more medieval-looking armor sets & non-trick weapons, suggesting the technology range was supposed to be from the 1600s onwards, and not the more narrow range of 1700-1800s. Matchlocks rub shoulders with the Brown Bess in the dummied early firearms. Sword & board figure prominently in distinctly un-Trick Weapon forms, since that is very obviously a post-prealpha development. The basic shape of things taking inspiration from both Lovecraft's C'thulhu Mythos and his Dream Cycle was all the same, but there was all manner of other interesting strange things in the mix than the binary Beast-Werewolves and Kin-Old Ones dichotomy of major enemies, which rather explains the odd man out undead in the Chalices amongst others; there's a fat pigman-beast with a mushroomy set of horns, skullfaced devils with the same aesthetic as the Watchdog of the Old Lords, or a giant talwar wielding skeleton. There's a 'Great One Beast' that looks alike to some sort of lion-wolf-dragon with possibly a Dragon God doublemouth, golden armored 'shrine knight' beasts with crescent slotted shields and great weapons, seemingly headed by a huge knight boss with a big draconic helm crest, some very Cainhurst-like iconography, and a flare-maned desiccated beasthorse.

The Moon Presence in particular had at least two iterations for its main form design, and more importantly was meant to be fought in a second, final form deep in a dummied out chalice on a great gray beach strand that looks not unalike to Kos' grave, but even moreso looks like the dwelling ground of The Old One; in this form it is a vestigial torso attached to a gigantic fleshpile with huge anemone tendrils that scrape the sky. The greater variety of creature types seems suggestive that the game was originally substantially more slanted towards the Dream Cycle in both cosmology and in the grab-bag of weird tales & venues. Beast-scourged and the Great Ones' cosmic kin could have rubbed shoulders with folkish witchcraft, ghastly knights, the infernal creations of Pthumerian rituals and the shadow dwelling devils that inspired them, with ascended beasts that emphasize & dominate the worldly in opposite polarity to the Great Ones, just as they did with the various 'unholy' tagged enemies in the Cainhurst gargoyles and Pthumerian watchers in the complete game.

I really want to pore over the early-early-early leak site from way back when it was still called Project Beast, but I just can't find it anymore or any reference to its full feature list. All I could scrounge up on short notice was this modest screencap, and incomplete text transcriptions of things like 'feeding your heart' and selection of sickness strain. Does anyone have more of an archive from that far back? This really changes a lot of things about how we conceived those leaks. If 'sages' blood' isn't a fake after all, then everything about the high-concept Beasthood mechanic being very real and unfortunately doomed could be true, too. The entire game could be a mere shell of what it was meant to be, just like all the rest.

Why must I kill the things I love?

>>14233699

excellent taste

>>14232668

No I mean literally that's how the director first encountered English. He saw the pictures but didn't yet understand the words, and so had to fill it in with his imagination.

Wish I knew where to find the interview.

Has anybody attempted a Chakan build since Bloodborne is so similar to that old Sega Genesis game from the HUB world down to it's aesthetic? I feel like this character would be very easy to replicate in BB, moreso than Dark Souls.

>>14238588

Have this for future use.

>>14214293

>deep down

>>14238661

Who Wheel in here?

Wheel Executioner hours

Why is the wheel

>the best weapon in the game

>the most fun to play with

>the best waifu

>the most pure weapon to build for

Going through NG+, Level 129, Looking for executioners or other hunters of good faith to mash and pound and ground the miserable vermin into a puddle with

THEIR INSIDES ON THE OUTSIDE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE

>>14239137

>can't master the wheel

You're in luck, I happen to be an expert on this particular subject

>what is the wheel

The wheel is designed to be slow and heavy like a great club. Just like the great clubs in any Fromsoft game, the wheel is mostly scaled with strength; this isn't the completely correct mindset to have, however. While is scales up to S in strength, it scales to C with arcane, which is nothing too small with the consideration of its transformed state. Like the Grant or any other great club wielded by the paladins of the Souls series, it scales with your faith stat, which is arcane for the time being, and when transformed there is a slight increase to the scaling therefore.

>what build to go for with the wheel

If you decide to pump strength, you will have no problems with this weapon, since it's big and heavy and deals massive points of damage with gorgeous strength scaling. However, the transformed version of the weapon allows for what most paladins in the souls series do, which is a split of faith and strength. This will give you optimal results. I haven't tested a fully upgraded wheel on my pure arcane build, and I never will probably, since 20 points of strength that late into the game is very costly and time consuming, so I would rather just continue to pump arcane for the full effect of the kos parasite. I digress.

>How to use wheel?

The wheel is not something you lug around and then toss at enemies hoping they won't jab you out of your animation, because they will, every single time, unless you get lucky and get to the super armor of the animation. The best method to killing anything is baiting out an attack, and then using spacing to determine just how fucked they are. The best strategy for the untransformed wheel is to use spacing to your advantage and play a more calm game.

>what happens when you transform it

If you transform the wheel you get to

SPIN THE WHEEL FOR THE TREASURE TO TAKE

CAREFUL MY FRIENDS OR HE'LL RATTLE AND SHAKE

This is by far the best part about this weapon. Rather than lodging it into the ground for a radial explosion, you get to power the shit out of your weapon at the price of your health being nibbled at by the souls inside your revved up wheel. By all means, swing away at anything you see to regain your health as quick as you lose it. Under 1000 health you will lose nothing for being at the lowest single rev, meaning you can cancel a quadrev into a single rev to stop the health drain from killing you or just when you're out of combat. If you want to be useful, your health will be much over 1000 by the endgame, so you won't be able to cancel with that, however the transformation attack out of the spun up version is an explosion that hits directly in your vicinity; a good flourish to killing something is to transform after the very last attack, since the close ranged nature of the weapon means you'll be right on top of whatever you're hitting and it will soak up a bit more blood to even you out.

>why would I rev just to lose health, I'm already losing so much health just playing with this weapon

Git Gud

The rev does have a great number of benefits, one of them being, I think, that the actual animation for the attacks is very very slightly faster, and if it isn't faster it feels a bit punchier.

>what are the other numbers?

The number for the physical damage decreases by 30%, your scaling will go up by a bit it's letters so I don't really know by how much it changes, the arcane damage number will double, add 20 damage to that, and above all that you get an extra percent for your revs (10 for one, 20 for two, 40 for 3, and a max of 60% for 4 revs). Effectively, when I use this weapon transformed, for 50 strength and 40 arcane, I have an attack value that is 100 points less than when it is untransformed before the arcane modifier increase again, the numbers aren't listed for me there And when I add in the extra for being completely revved up I still lack about 15 points in AR, however for the sake of faster attacks, and for the fact that some things are actually weaker to arcane than physical and vice versa, there are reasons to use both forms of this weapon. On top of that, the moveset is just killer

>enemy attacks

>back dash into a lunging wheel thrust

>circle dodge around to rev twice

>smack with a two hit combo before doing a transform explosion for stun

>tap the heavy attack to smack the rest of his health off

Cycling between revs and transformed wheels is the key to success on top of spacing yourself out and deciding to lunge in around the enemy to strike from the side. Wheel is really fun once you start playing with it a lot.

Pizza-cutter is love

Pizza-cutter is life

Played most of the game cosplaying as Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit untill I got the Pyramid Head cosplay set.

>>14232668

>>14232496

8/10 post anon

But i'll be really honest, i prefer the release version's story of Bloodborne instead of what the leak suggested. Just like some anons here have said, its better to have leave some vaguely described backstory just so the we can let our autism do the rest.

One example i like about Bloodborne's lore is about they handled Yharnam's average citizen itself. Almost everyone in Yharnam is delirous, and hostile to foreigners. However its even worse in the current event that are unfolding since the plague of beasts have started to infect the huntsmen themselves. The ones that are nice or amicable towards foreigners are 'outsiders' in a sense (e.g Young Yharnam girl, Iosefka (the real one), and Arianna) or dregs of the Yharnam society (Oedon Chapel Dweller, Suspicious beggar, the druggie old woman). It gives a subtle hint that the blood of the healing church have already begun to influence them to discriminate towards those of not the same kin.

On the topic of Covenants, i think it was a really interesting concept to explore. Covenants in Dark Souls 2 onwards are no longer seen as 'factions' to invest yourself in, rather as some sort of a bonus content to get additional items and access multiplayer content. The leaked version sounds like a real covenant to be binded with, no longer a club that you could drop-out anytime you want.

>The suits cutting away additional content

This is nothing new, you should be glad that Sony had already let Miyazaki had the game (a finished product to most, but a plump shell to some of us)

>>14239330

>mfw stunlocking those mongrels in chalice dungeons

>mfw stunlocking NPC hunters

Very nice

>>14239275

>the wheel

So its not a meme weapon?

I always thought that way since its so goofy looking, but holy shit i think i'll try this out when i do my arcane build someday.

>Buffs

Is it like the Tonitrus? Does the buffs lasts more that one swing?

shit wrong pic

Well whatever

>>14239129

>ancient familty of fancy knights with a castle, plate armour and lots of swords and guns

>get utterly shitter-shattered by a bunch of crazy boys in robes, carrying a fucking wheel and wearing jello molds on their heads

Damn, Vileshitters BTFO by Wheelbros.

>>14239708

>wearing jello molds on their heads

I guess that's no more ridiculous saying

>these dudes go into battle wearing shit you use to clean the floors

>>14239650

Fuck, right in the feels.

She got porked and her sister jumped to he death afterwards on my first play.

>>14239275

Or you could just say

>spam revved dodge attack

That thing tracks like a magnet, is absurdly fast and has lingering hitboxes.

Scrub tactics aside, it's my favorite weapon as well. It's really good at disciplining the player to bide their time in a game that seems to want to you to be on full rushdown mode 24/7.

I mostly use it for the STR (only Kirkhammer has higher AR IIRC) but made one for my ARC-STR character with Nourishing gems though didn't use it much. I'm kinda autistic about wanting each character to have his own weapons.

>>14239639

>it's sad that you can't use an even slightly similar weapon in any other game

I tried a right hand Bonewheel shield in DaS3 but it's not nearly the same thing. Wish that thing had a unique right hand move set instead of the usual shield bashes.

>>14239644

Kiryu dies at the end of Yakuza 6.

>tfw no Cainhurst-Pthumeru DLC with more Vileblood and Executioner stuff

I keep imagining a iron maiden as a new Executioner weapon. You lug that thing around with a chain around the maiden's neck and swing it around for blunt. The tricked mode opens it and it's like a shield/battering ram that deals thrust damage with the spikes.

>>14215051

As a man who plays souls games upgrading nothing but damage stats until hitting the soft cap before getting health, let me explain chalice dungeons. Root dungeons are the randomized ones which contain loot, while there's a series of main dungeons that give you access to lower depths. You do chalice dungeons for three things; gems, weapons, and blood rocks. Chalice dungeons do not scale with NG+, instead having 5 levels of difficulty or depth, and have three basic varieties; Pthumeru, Loran, and Isz, which each have a single blood rock as loot from root depth 5 dungeons. Weapon variations that have different gem slots can be looted from root versions of dungeons. Other than bosses encountered, the big difference is that each dungeon tends to drop a specific shape of blood gem. Pthumeru has the basic radial type that most weapons have two slots for, waning from Loran, and triangle from Isz. There is a sequence of dungeons with static bosses and drops that go through all five depths and give you the root chalices for each depth from boss drops along the way. Most of the chalice dungeons can be done immediately upon beating the blood letting beast until you complete the lower Pthumeru chalice, at which point you need to defeat Amygdala in the main game and go through the Loran chalice which also has the beast claw as a weapon in a bonus area until you get a couple bastards of Loran for the cursed chalice, and after completing that you need to be almost at endgame to collect the materials for the final main chalice, which also require you to either go through the second Loran chalice or the Isz chalice for two of the red jellies, the Isz chalice gotten from Ebrietas. Don't forget to make contact with the eye brain for the tier 3 echo rune before killing it for its component. TL; DR, just play through the dungeons until you don't have a ritual component, go do an area or dungeon to get it, rinse and repeat until you're level 120 with 7 vitality.

There's also the hintertomb chalices. Fuck hintertomb, it doesn't go to depth 5 and thus has shittier gems.

>>14214293

>Naughty Dog games

>Infamous

good list dumbell

>>14214229

>Chalice Dungeons

>utter slog

its not really that bad anon, in fact I find them actually fun you just need to git gud. **I actually suggest you look up a guide for the most optimized route just to cut down on the tedium*

>>14229621

>>14229878

really activates my almonds

>>14242022

they are great idea but where poorly implemented by being half-measured. The Boss fights are great but their needed to be more cosmetics variation and set pieces to cut down on the redundancy. It could have easy been fixed by reskinning a few areas but the fact that they almost all look identical only reinforces the tedium. And I don't mean how Hintertomb was a slightly Purple version of Pthumeru or having Loran being the Orange version. If each type of dungeon had more a distinct characteristic and their was a bit more variance in the aesthetic of each individual type it would have been awesome. In fact its a bit of a shame that it was mismanaged because I would love to see the idea iterated and improved in future games, but due to its unpopularity will likely end up in the dust bin.

>>14242605

I'm starting to see some Ico/SotC parallels. Mother, sister, wife. She is the archetype of femininity, details decided by passive acceptance.

I want an octo-dad meets Overlord set in partly rebuilt Yharnum sequel now. I want to see a Soul's game about the breaking of the wheel rather than spinning. Bloodborne, if one gets the tinfoil out, is just a timeskip of DSIII and that can be just a timeskip of Demons' Souls after the fog rolled over everything.

If some confirmation to continuity was given, even an ambiguous nod, there would be lore scouring and timelines out the ass. There isn't anything that strictly forbids it. Summary of how it might work:

God makes man, souls, and demons. Demons strip man of their souls. Greyness engulfs existence, only the land of giants of the broken archstone keeps the fog at bay. Man finds the souls, uses to conquer giants and purge dragons, but the power is woefully finite as no new bright souls may be created.

In a gambit Gwyn links the waning of the light soul to the waxing of the darksouls, and the same between the life soul of the witches of the death soul of Nito. Queue DS1-3.

By the time of Bloodborne the Painted World of Ash is all that remains. What little soul power remains from Demons' Souls era is entirely within the blood al'a Watchers of the Abyss. It is the Age of Deep Waters as per the Way of White's horrible premonition. Seath is still kickin it in his shattered crystalline form, as he is truly immortal, lending his guidance in the form of Moonlight.

Dusk herself mentions how magic seems to work different from her era to the 'modern' of the player's, despite the relative closeness in time, so the soul arts/sorcery being radically different might have to do with world tendency?

It's interesting at least.

>>14243710

Cursed gems give better stat/attack increases than regular gems, which is why they come with drawbacks. As long as you repair your weapon every time you go back to the dream you shouldn't notice your durability running out, even with a durability decrease gem. Stuff like

>less damage against BEASTS

>less damage against KIN

is great if you're not fighting against those types, and since you can get duplicate wheels in the uncanny and lost variants in the dungeons you can have two wheels with different gems for when you encounter one or the other.

>I want to be as strong as I possibly can be

Then go through the chalice dungeons, because the very top tier gems can only be found at depth 5 cursed, rotted, and foetid dungeons. There's lists of codes online, some of which should still work, which you can input while making a root dungeon, which can reliably get you the best gems/weapon variants/blood rock.

>>14233699

I feel you

>>14243551

For arcane gems go to the Ize root chalice dungeon, the best ones are dropped by emissaries and great ones; if you want cursed gems which are way better you'll need to offer a few bastards of loran to get the fetid ritual

For blunt gems you'll need to kill those fat guys in the pthumeru area, some other guys drop them but I can only remember those at the moment

Hope this helps you enjoy the best weapon in the game

>>14243879

The chalice shit is easy, all you need to know is that you'll need to clear the pre made dungeons in order to get the root chalice version of the dungeon that you are currently exploring; once you cleared all of the pre made dungeons you can start the root ones which are randomly generated, before placing the chalice in the dream you can offer special objects to curse the dungeon, these curses increase the droprate of cursed gems but also make cut your HP in half.

If I remember correctly fetid offerings require two bastards of loran and their drawback is cutting your HP in half

The other offerings are sage's wrists and red jelly which spawn witches (who can summon minions) and buff enemies nearby

Try to have a high arcane stat to increase drop chances

>>14243943

>TORposter

>>14238661

>>14244380

Already done

>>14244398

That's beyond my fetishes, hell no

Assuming sony doesn't renew the contract,how long before the exclusivity runs out (like dead rising had) and it could be ported to PC?

>>14244471

>black

>on a Victorian setting

Kek, I still remember Tumblrites/SJWs bitching LOTR was raycist

>>14244428

That's not Helen Mirren my basketball colored friend

>>14244500 (checked)

>Kek

first off, why are you avatar fagging as an old woman? Second why are you using stale outdated lingo?

>>14244523

>newfag is shocked old outdated meme is old and outdated

jej

>>14244524

>FBI

you can't fool me! clearly you are really CIA

>>14244529

I never claimed that. You jumped to conclusion.

Look at me, I'm an oldfag now too.

Someone's gotta do a Billy Mays build.

>>14243551

>good arcane or blunt bloodgems?

Neither of those but the town slut of chalice dungeons - pwmf22gu - has the easiest cursed gems to farm which boost physical by 25-27% with the odds of getting some 30% blunt ones. And right at the start of layer 2, you can get 19% nourishing gems which boost both damage types from a a gargoyle.

Arcane gems are definitely the trickier ones to get but I remember going to a layer 1 Isz chalice and killing those pyro werewolves over and over for them. You can 9000 Insight autismo and clear entire dungeons, culminating against Ebby-chan or Rom the Retarded Spider for a chance at a gem but I'll stick to layer 1 farming; it's not 3-5% that will make much of a difference.

Shameless necrobump

>Grinding through Cursed Pthumerian Labyrinth

>Getting my arse kicked by the fire watchdog for about a dozen times

>Finally decide to summon an NPC since i'm a fuckin scrub

>decide to summon 「ＫＩＬＬＥＲ ＱＵＥＥＮ」since the prospector is an useless babbys summon

>came into my world naked, with only the Gold Pyramid as his only article of clothing

>wields the Fucking Wheel with a Fucking Cannon

>Traverse the fog wall

>「ＫＩＬＬＥＲ ＱＵＥＥＮ」 staggers the boss within 30 seconds of entering

>we ended the fight 3 mins later

Wheelbros are best bros

>>14248335

The doll's clap is what sold it

isnt this from the webm thread?

>>14248342

The doll is for cuddlin' not for hittin', you beastly cur

>>14251531

Yes. For the dregs, equip the Corruption rune and kill a couple of NPC enemy Hunters like the two in the Frontier, Djura's apprentice or the Choir scholar in Byrgenwerth.

For the vermin, hunter enemies in the first area of the DLC drop them; you need 5 IIRC.

I'm not going to lie: most of my post-game playing was helping other hunters bully Maria.

>>14251811

The most focused build is likely STR-BT because there's only one weapon for that - Bloodletter. Pure ARC for space broccoli is very fun too. DEXfags will have the time of their lives with Blade of Mercy, Rakuyo, a fun and viable whip and the most fun reaper in the series. Chicago, Bowblade and Ritterschnitzel+Evelyn for BT-SKL. Or, if you want to stay with your build, Pizza Cutter and Kirk are great STR weapons.

Honestly, there's no such thing as a bad weapon in this game; I thought the Steak Diner was it but then I learned to use it and it become one of my favorites, its only flaw is that you can't duel wield them.

>>14251916

I'm trying to make viable BLT-ARC build right now. I don't want to go beyond BL100 so can't hit hardcap on either stat or level up END (compensated with runes) but Everlyn + bolt saw spear or Chikage + AoE | EG looked so cancerous combo.

Anyone experimented with unorthodox build like this? I think SKL+ARC build is horribly underrated too just because the only split dmg weapon for that build has so shitty raw damage it just aint worth it to level up ARC beyond hunter tool's requirement.

>>14253175

>BLT-ARC

The Reiterpallasch might be decent. It's got a B scaling in ARC, despite being a BT weapon. You could it use to parry and then hit a staggered foe with a Bone Ash Evelyn shot.

>SKL+ARC

Might work but you gotta make your own toys like a Arcane Saif and a Bolt Pick; they're both B SKL and C Arc.

This game really needs a respec option. Even now, I'd still take it and go squeeze some more life out of my builds. I already ran the dungeons too many times to optimize my weapons plus farming the rocks; that's the crap I don't want to go through again.

>>14253240

I could be wrong but wasn't physical stat scaling of non-split damage weapons gets nullified? Like bolt saif won't benefit from SKL/STR unlike burial blade/blade of mercy.

Also I didn't know Reiterpallasch have descent scaling. Thanks for pointing that out. Should I get nourishing gem to optimize both BLT/elemental damage output?

>>14253364

You might be right. I'm probably thinking of split-damage weapons like the Moonlight Sword, Boomhauer, Tonitrus and Wheel I used with my ARC build, I got Nourishing gems on those (and a side of full physical gems just for Laurence and the Orphan, those fuckin' assholes). For my other weapons, yeah, they're fully elemental - Fire Cleaver, Bolt Ludwig's and Arcane Saif.

IIRC the pallasch's BT scaling only applies to the gun form, like with the Rifle Spear (ditto with Chikage and Bloodletter). I'd say it depends on what you want to do with it; if the gun form is for damage or a stagger tool. If you go full bolt though, that's two damage types Kin are weak against.

>>14253240

>Respeccing builds

Same here, i hate grinding through dungeons farming rocks. If they don't let you re-allocate points, atleast put some kind of storage that is shared by all characters in your profile or some shit. I mean goddamn, just give the players more fucking leeway to improve the replay value of the game.

>>14251858

The pic 2 and 5 seems to be made by the same person

>>14251531

Blood dregs are farmable Madman's Knowledge tbhq. Just kill any NPC / Hunters that you meet and you pretty much get 1 ready-to-use insight

>>14253354

Yeah, Bloodborne does felt incomplete despite how meaty the single-player was. The covenants are one such example of being reduced to a wearable item that you could change at will anytime inside the hub-level.

>Firearms

It's viable if you put points into BLTatleast 50, farm the right gems in the Chalice Dungeons which you might have to search for, and use the right weapon to maximize the damagei.e: Repeating Pistol, Evelyn andSimon's Bowblade.

In other words, its too fucking-time consuming just to give your ranged weapon do a decent amount of damage. Or you could just forgo making a Bloodtinge build altogether and use the cannon(s) and the gatling gun for fun.

>>14267857

Boosts AT for guns and the BT half of BT weapons. It's just that, for weapons, the full BT boost gems aren't worth having over Tempered or Nourishing gems.

>>14267952

A Bone Ash Evelyn shot at 50 BT can do a shitload of damage; it's the baby mode for Amygdala and Ebrietas. Kin are overall weak to blood damage. Chikage and Bowblade are strong weapons, the Chikage is basically the Chaos Blade when transformed while the Bowblade is a strong SKL weapon by itself with the arrows being its BT portion (quick and strong, they're a good alternative for when you're out of Bone Ash).

If you go STR-BT for the one weapon available for it - the Bloodletter - you get a weapon that is very strong in both forms which IMHO is made for equal investment in STR and BT.

Anyway, the closest to a gunslinger is the already mentioned Evelyn (or other gun of choice)+tricked Reiterpallasch combo and stack +bullet runes. That's the closest to dual wielding handguns.

I think the only thing that's really not worth it in this game are Poison/Bleed builds. Part of my never ever dream patch.

>viable Poison/Bleed

>respec

>player activity icons

>immediate access to all dungeons after clearing them with one character

>auto-refill for consumables

>multiplayer messages overlapping menus

>vial/bullet refill as a successful co-op session reward

>Cainhurst DLC

I knew I was forgetting something - covenants. Two that IMHO might be interesting adds:

>PvP covenant

Besides the oath rune, this might use a special bell. Basically, something to invite a adversary and him not suffer the 30% penalty.

>area defense covenant

I think Byrgenwerth would serve for this given it's a small area that can be mopped pretty quickly. Protecting Rom could be the lore excuse.

>>14214293

Disgaea 5 is now also on Nintendo Switch

>>14214293

>eight exclusives

>>14271906

SKL and BLT has a great deal of synergy with alot of weapons scaling with both of those stats. Also since SKL is pretty much DEX in BB and as we all know, DEX-fags are the worst kind of fags in Souls games. For the DLC weapons, fuck the Rakuyo, the church pick is probably the best SKL weapon to genocide Kins with, and The Bowblade is good for punishing scrubby healers. The Blades of Mercy is good if you want to pretend its DS3 use the rally mechanic to its fullest and kill people / beasts by death of a thousand cuts.

Did i forget something? Oh yeah, there’s that midget Burial Blade but whatever.

>>14272370

Honestly, there’s no ‘recommended’ weapons to fight logarius with since he doesn’t take extra damage against thrust / blunt or elementals. Parrying is your best friend here but it’s important to note that you have to hit him enough in his sword explosion phase or he won’t be parryable, oh and always go for backstabs in his first phase. Kinda easy if you can telegraph his attacks, disable his sword rain spell (hint: you can auto-aim the sword that’s casting the spell, use your gun rather than try to get close and break it with your trick weapon) and use those towers for cover (bear in mind that it doesn’t block the swirly skellie AoE attack)

>>14272723

What the fuck are you waiting for nigger? The DLC is really great and exists as a neat little prequel episode to the main game. Too bad there’s no more planned DLCs like it. I was really hoping for a Cainhurst / Executioners DLC like these anons

>>14268068

>>14240568

once did.

>>14269366

Now that you mention that, it would be interesting to have a mass team battle of Vilebloods and Executioners in that area. Executioners would probably need something given Vilebloods would have home turf privileges.

>>14271906

Both of those weapons are good SKL choices, though the Bowblade doubles as a BT weapon. There's also the Rakuyo and Church Pick to take in consideration. If you're not aware, visceral damage scales with SKL so Clawmark runes are very useful and you can stack them too.

>>14272370

As already mentioned, parries are your best friend. Don't forget to get a back visceral on him when he's going to phase 2, otherwise he'll get buffed.

Meanwhile, started toying with the idea of a Bowblade build. Want to keep it equally parted given its two S scaling but it's kinda tricky.

>>14272945

No, the beasthunter’s saif is the midget burial blade not the ayy lmao skeleton arm one

>>14272945

I thought the gatling gun and church cannon also scales off BLT / STR, then again the gatling gun is usualy overshadowed by the church cannon so whatever

>>14272885

Focus on the Bloodtinge first imo, the transform attack of the bowblade is really quick and can catch people off-guard. Its non-transformed trickform is adequate but unreliable when its up against better, longer-ranged trick weapons

What will you expect from the upcoming tie-in comic /v/?

>>14281838

>she

???

>>14289000

A repeat of the DaS3 one. Inaccurate and hilariously bad.

>>14289085

I just remember this one

>>14289085

They didn't even try to make the sun look the same.

>>14289085

Why is his sun crest so angry? Do you disown the sun instead of praising it? Also, that chick's boobplate is way too low. It looks as if her tits are right above her belly button.

>>14289000

>What will you expect from the upcoming tie-in comic /v/?

OHNO.WAV

>>14290727

>Why is his sun crest so angry?

He finished praising all the suns.

>>14289085

What the fuck am i looking at here?

>>14289094

This comic is ok, i mean there's nothing remarkable about it but its not bad either

>>14293249

>What the fuck am i looking at here?

The time for jolly cooperation is over.

>>14293332

This + the porkers for vial grinding. Also, you can sic the shadows on the pigs for extra amusement. In NG, it's 30K per run IIRC.

>>14272859

I made that wallpaper and some kike down scaled it, og image for proof.

>>14295157

It's called faggot can't into square pixels.

>>14295157

>I'm beginning to enjoy the chalice dungeons more than the main game.

I'm going out on a limb here and take it you either started doing the dungeons somewhat recently or only have one character.

>Why did people dislike them again?

You get nothing worthwhile until the Loran dungeons.

The much advertised variety is bs; you'll see the same set pieces repeated over and over again.

Don't seem properly balanced and you get retarded shit like the infinite ammo zero start up OHKO fireball tossers, maidens that summon 3 enemies at a time, spiders that can home in on your position from anywhere in the level, the Descendant with his magic blades that phase through walls and feels like playing a retard with a turbo pad etc.

If you start a new character and want to optimize your weapons, well, get ready to do all that shit again.

>>14294394

Hey bruv, i just found it on the wallpaper thread a few weeks back. The OG image is good but the somewhat shitty downsized image gave it a little bit of more contrast that made save-worthy (for me atleast)

>>14295923

>>14295157

Believe me anon, you’ll get tired from dungeon farming by the time you get on the Lower Pthumerian Chalice. Then the other chalices put some shitty instagram filters onto the dungeons in an half-assed effort to pull a wool over your eyes. As this anon said, >>14295239 you won’t get anything of value from depth < 5 dungeons. I will say that the Ailing Loran chalice has a really good farming spot that lets you have 60k echoes per run if you use the Heir rune along with the Moon rune and the Blood Rapture rune (for blood bullets). I always grind my characters there

>Bell-ringing bitches

>not being any worse compared to Yah’argul’s Bell Bitches

Confirmed for not yet delving unto Depth 4 and above Chalice Dungeons, i swear when you see those red spiders coming, you’ll know why that you should hate these bitches. The thing i also hate about the spiders that these bitches spawned from their decrepit lives is that they do a deceptively high damage with very little wind-up speed, that little swipe can took off a quarter of your health and it tracks like a fucking GPS even while rolling I always use the Madara’s Whistle when im up killing those dusty, ugly hags. There’s a certain satisfaction of killing an malignant tumor with a goddamn blood-snake

>>14295923

>And somehow they're still not as bad as the ones in Unseen Village.

We'll resume this talk once you experience 9 spiders all craving a piece of your Hunter ass.

>>14299350

>tracks like a fucking GPS

I remember one time I lit the lantern at the start of a dungeon then went afk for a bit and when I came back, I saw my character with zero echoes and my bloodstain just there. Sat around to see what happened, lo and behold, those cunts came from the other end of the dungeon right into the very start of the level.

>beat Ludwig in 3 tries

>took 30 to get to him because of all of the fucking NPC hunters

What level are you suppose to take on Hunter's Nightmare anyway?

>>14299751

>We'll resume this talk once you experience 9 spiders all craving a piece of your Hunter ass.

Oh yeah that was bullshit certainly but I'm still not sure if it was worse than that giant coven or respawing witches in Yar'ghul with the hidden chime maiden and having to dodge Amygalda lasers in the midst of all of that.

>>14300397

>What level are you suppose to take on Hunter's Nightmare anyway?

I usually go right before the Wet Nurse at Lv60 and from that build up to 70 or just go in at Lv70, my usual NG cap for these games.

Ludwig beat my ass like a ginger stepchild, I don't recall ever getting a stomping that bad. The next two went much smoother so I thought the worst was behind. How wrong I was. How very very wrong.

Keep your Flamefuckers, Manus, Midirs and Nameless Kangs. Nothing comes close to the Orphan and Lawrence as far as I'm concerned.

>Yar'ghul with the hidden chime maiden

Just rush her. On subsequent runs, it won't be a problem while in the dungeons, even if you know exactly where they are, it's still a pain in the ass.

I caved in and started a fresh new journey through Yharnam, rekindling my love for the Threaded Cane (fuck the haters, this thing is good and sexy as fuck); will move to Reiterpallasch (a weapon I've always neglected) and eventually to the Bowblade, accompanied with Repeating Pistol, the one gun I never use.

Tried making a Cainhurstian and ended up with smug edgy Elsa. Character creator will always be the hardest boss in the series.

post hoontas

>>14304541

The perspective’s kind of fucked, but yeah.

I made this guy for my second playthrough, Skill/Bloodtinge. Used the Saw Spear and the Repeating Pistol for most of the early game, leveled up to the Chikage and Evelyn after Cainhurst. This was a picture I took early on. I went through most of the rest of the game in the Knight’s set as not only is it top fashion, but it made him look like a battle butler out of some anime and I enjoyed that.

>>14295169

spoiler this please.

>>14304778

I still wonder if this is his waifu now.

>>14304716

>photo

This might be a stupid question but why not use the system's screenshot feature?

>sideburns

Always triggers me how they don't properly connect to the hair line. Gotta pick a long hair style to disguise that. Same thing in DaS3.

>Knight's set

Another pet peeve of mine is that ponytail not changing the color to match the player's.

I'll take the opportunity to bitch a bit about the game's graphics, namely its incapacity to show objects, enemies etc at certain distances. Pic2 is near the doggo cages and looking at the place where Eileen is. Doesn't show her nor the breakables in the area. From the bridge leading to Gascoigne, you can see Old Yharnam below, particularly the boss area and the path leading to it; that lacking detail is understandable but I still think the bit with Eileen's egregious.

Bonus hoontas (STR, STR+BT and BT-SKL).

>>14306765

on what? The Threaded Cane? Well, for starters it's not a DPS monster like the Whirligig Saw, but its more of a clipping weapon that has very wide range and a cheeky hitbox. It's more suited for crowd-control and as a soft 'cheese' weapon to beat bosses that are aggresive and hard to hit but don't have the moveset to punish you (i.e: Watchdogs of the Old Lords, Darkbeast Paarl)

>>14304716

>Taking a screenshot with a goddamn phone

Wew lad, vid related

>>14305666

>first pic

HOW DO YOU EVEN WEAR THOSE 'CLOTHES' IN THE FIRST PLACE.

FUCKING FASHION DESIGNER IS SWEAR

>third pic

add a glasses onto that guy and you pretty much have a Ben 'Organ Grinder' Garrison

>fifth pic

Wow she actually looks like a stren mother tbh

Why do I have to hurt best girl to get the Isz chalice? Why is there no Cosmic Princess Guard covenant in BB?

>>14310476

>Add respec, assholes!

The only completely unforgivable thing about Bloodborne. Nioh spoiled me on respecing.

>>14311693

>The only completely unforgivable thing about Bloodborne.

A lot of people are pissed at this but as anyone asked From about it, through twatter or something? Maybe someone did and Miyazaki told them to fuck off but I'm curious. Again, even if the game's 3 years old, I'd still welcome it.

>>14316332

Reminder that if you pick up the lump of flesh for anything other than a trophy of the victory over vilebloods you are a monster who deserves to be broken upon the wheel.

>>14316332

Would have been interesting if there were a bit more development to that, maybe a Vileblood resurgence secret ending or something. Oaths/Covenants could all use more padding, it saddens me that Valtr croaks after just five vermin while Hoontas and Executioners have nothing. Would have been nice if Executioners could learn the gesture Alfred does after killing Annalise by getting some Vileblood kills.

>>14321734

May the good blood guide your way.

Meanwhile, doing the last stretch of Mensis, spent enough time to get reacquainted with all the things I love about the game but also the ones I loathe. Rom is pretty much the Midir or BB, more of a chore than a actual fight, two eternities and a half running circles killing dust mites praying one doesn't one shot in the back or that the space burrito won't drop glaciers on you every 5 seconds. This game has a big issue with RNG, the difficulty of some bosses feels entirely tied to the number of times they're willing to do their token bullshit move - Logarius' off screen jump, Ebrietas' charge, Rom's everything etc. Enemies sometimes go into zero cooldown loops like the fireball hunchbacks in the dungeons or the Brain Suckers binding spell which they'll literally do 20+ times in a row where all you'll see is their fingers going back and forth. Just had the mispleasure of fighting Rom in the dungeon where it's several times more aggressive, it spams the meteor rain so much, it will start it before the previous is over.

Also, yeah, dungeons already making me want to cry. Only 5 more to go!

Pardon the rant.

>>14323531

You learn the roar gesture while talking to Alfred in that bit but I wish we had this too. It was great that BB introduced static gestures like sit but would be nice to have more. Besides, this would feel pretty good when you kill a boss and that blood downpour comes.

Pizza cutter is great for tearing up assholes. I just wish I could tease more damage out of the Moonlight sword though. I'm 41 arcane and the sword is +9 and while it's pretty good it's just not as destructive as I feel that it should be.

>>14323839

I imagine the memelords would treat it as such, as what happened with "Welcome" in DaS2. Incidentally, BB might be the one with the least cunty gestures besides a Shhh or sarcastic Approval. From wanted people to play nice.

>>14323885

Pardon for this but…

WUT GEMS U GOT BITHC?

I use the MLS with a 50 ARC/30 STR build, have +19% Nourishing gems on it and it's pretty solid. The only thing that makes it look like crap is the Orphan and Laurence because if you're not full physical, you're just tickling them.

>>14323972

and same VAs

>>14324033

For those two I've farmed Tempering gems and only use the sword's standard form.

As for the gems, I got them in the already mentioned pwmf22gu - arguably the most visited dungeon, it's for farming +25-27% Tempering gems at the layer 1 boss but right at the start of layer 2 there's a gargoyle who drops those Nourishing gems. There are better Nourishing gems (I think the top is +23%) but require going through whole dungeons and duke it out with Amygdala or something. I'm not THAT autistic.

I'm trying to get dungeons over with atm. At Lv60 doing Isz and I'll save Cursed Pthumeru, Lower Loran and the last Pthumeru until the build's done or something.

I forgot Ailing Loran is the Spiderpalooza. Opened a door and had over 10 of them all trying to squeeze through, I shit you not.

>>14322896

I feel you man, most of the bosses that are considered good has workarounds for their most bullshit moves. For example, the Loran Darkbeast (an easier boss compared to the abhorrent beast) will charge its Lightning Blast every 5 seconds in its second form, but it always almost OHKO you. The catch is that you could *dodge* the blast by timing the exact moment it blows out its Lightning Blast, giving you enough time to deal 3-5 swings onto its legs, and if you manage to deal enough damage onto its legs without giving it enough time to recover, you can pretty much stunlock the fucker into visceral status. Its workarounds like it that made bosses in Bloodborne bearable, since if not then you pretty much have fights felt like Rom, the bullshit spider boss. Hell, and that's not even accounting for the design of the bosses that made it distinguishable from the other bosses.

Also, let's talk about the Orphan. I think its the best boss (difficulty-wise) in Bloodborne, mainly because it perfectly balances its moves with its telegraph and having a special moveset that punishes players for backing away from the Orphan. It encourages aggression since the Orphan can be staggered with enough hits and also being parryable, it puts you into the offense else you'll be facing attrition due to the Orphan's long-range, high-damage attacks. Overall, making the fight a very difficult, but 'fair' one indeed.

>>14323972

I like that ARC has no soft-cap, but goddamn just let me respec so i can enjoy the Kos Parasite with its full ARC glory

>>14323972

>>14324025

Yeah but Alfred died for a dead cause (RIP) while Solaire is just there so he can meet the sun at its fullest all the while helping people along the way. Its like comparing a rhodesian veteran with a fun-loving guy

>>14324545

>most of the bosses that are considered good has workarounds for their most bullshit moves

The character being very mobile does help, yes. Meanwhile this kinda crap made its way to DaS3 and you get bosses doing anime flips and zig zags while the player character will feel like driving a tank in comparison.

>Loran Camerabeast

The blast isn't so much my problem but rather keeping up with it, it's ludicrous to be fighting a monster that size of a bus and have no clue where it is. It's got a move where it 180ºs the camera and overall, the camera doesn't show it entirely. The Bloodletting Beast is similar, it's not too hard - I just fight it locked off and whack the leg - but I'm just doing my thing and I've no idea what it's doing. Miyazaki will say it adds to the challenge but enemies who rely on going off screen to hit you is a pet peeve of mine; a jump or something with a tell is perfectly fine (Ludwig has both) but sometimes it looks like they just go camp in the sky waiting for you to press a button.

>let's talk about the Orphan

<mfw

I can't fault his design as a boss because for the most part, it's my fault for not fixing the mistakes he's deliberately designed to push - back evades, vialing in his face, etc - but he just pushes my buttons look nobody else. It's the fuckin' screaming, oh god the screaming! First time I beat him, I had the sound muted, that's how bad it got. Then again, that first time was NG+++ with a Skill build. Second time with my STR build, I fucked him uphill both ways in the snow with the Pizza Cutter.

Incidentally, dunno how you folks play the game but I got the sfx at half volume.

>fair fight

When you get around his bs, mostly. But with co-op, he's a russian roulette. I tried helping some people with him and it's a matter of him not blowing a placentanade load in your face or using some sort of hit stagger lag magic to do the lightning attack twice in a row (saw him do this a few times, he uses his own hitstun to do the move twice).

Side note, finished Isz after a very frustrating layer 3 and I'm going with a SKL-BT build which is baby mode and Bone Ash'd shots the P2W. Again, Ebrietas' charge is fuckin' retarded

>try to dodge but get scrapped in the leg by a tentacle - OHKO

>stand still and let her run you over - lose two third of HP

I get that it's likely counter damage but it looks really stupid.

>>14214229

Orphan is ridiculously difficult for me. I think it isn't his move set that gets me, it's how padded his HP is compared to other bosses. It's like they took an already hard boss and went, 'you know what? Let's double his HP for the hell of it' so I can reliably get him to about 2/3 dead before just getting smoked myself.

The DLC in general is tough, Luddy took about two dozen tries before I got it figured out.

>>14327902

Good to hear. It's probably the hardest weapon for use for me - with my Bloodletter build, I forced myself to use it and the Stake Driver as secondaries just to get the hang of them, not entirely successful with the Beast Cutter.

>old hunter's set looks better than any regular hunter's set

I'd say that honor goes to the female Yharnam set.

>executioner set

My favorite set in the whole series. It just looks comfy as fuck.

I'm still in the dungeons, against my better judgment tried to do Lower Loran at Lv60. Can't beat the Camerabeast so I'm leaving that for later. Started Cursed Pthumeru because I'm apparently a sucker for punishment. Honestly, I just want this chalice shit done asap. Reminds me of the WoW South Park episode, after all that grinding to kill the overleveled troll and they go "finally, we can play the game" or something to that effect.

>>14328020

The only armor set more comfy than the executioner set is the archdrake set from DS2, such a shame to see that set in the worst game in the franchise.

Anyway, war pajamas are best pajamas

>>14326564

<It's the fuckin' screaming, oh god the screaming!

This boss uses psychological warfare too lol

Imagine what would have been if instead of wasting time making chalice dungeons they had put that time and effort into the actual game and really flushed it out.

I get why they did what they did but it still drives me crazy that it appears so much effort went into something the vast majority of players, myself included, don't give a shit about.

>>14330742

As is you'll probably get best out of a Moonlight Sword with Nourishing gems and maybe a Evelyn but prepare to be melting through your bullet supplies. And if you can still level up, more VIT would be welcome (if possible, take it to 35 and compliment it with a +15% HP rune); this is the glass cannon game but avoid the goomba HP meta.

>>14332122

I'd like to see some areas expanded with a few more bosses and weapons. Central Yharnam, Upper Cathedral Ward and Cainhurst come to mind, particularly the later, as it feels you only get the tourist route version of it.

A random thought that crossed my mind - imagine a Yahar'gul snatcher or Fauxefka henchman covenant where your mission is to gather bodies/test subjects. How could it work in a way that is fun and unique?

>>14332954

>>14332556

A Powder Kegs covenant where you help Djura defend the beasts of Old Yharnam against hunters would be pretty great too.

>>14337321

Those stats are very similar to those of my first character where I've at least 16 levels wasted. ARC is either go full or just enough for a non-damage tool like the Roar or Quickstep while a SKL build will only need 10 STR (for the Rakuyo).

>Bowblade

You'll still get some good mileage out of the sword form given its S scaling but the bow form will be just for dicking around, yeah. If you can pump about 20 more levels into BT, it might be somewhat feasible but that might be a lot and with that HP, you'll be getting one-shot by almost everything in the late chalice dungeons and the DLC.

I'm making a Bowblade build atm. Pic related is what I'm aiming for.

>SKL and ARC

Blade of Mercy and Burial Blade both have split damage though the ARC part is very negligible, they might as well just be SKL weapons.

Just finished the DLC and almost all of the dungeons (something I never did in a NG run), got my ass kicked so hard by the Orphan and Laurence, I went to do the last dungeon instead then found myself stuck on four walls - Loran Camerabeast, headless Bloodletting Beast, Laurence and the Orphan. Basically, the four biggest cunts in the game. I confess those first three make me go full DSP.

What the hell is the One Reborn anyway?

>>14337321

>stake driver

Doesn't it scale about as well with skill as it does with strength?

>>14337730

>Will that have to be completely from scratch?

Yes, plain and simple. Hence the cries for a respec feature.

>how does one even go about making a full arcane build for things like the Kos parasite?

If you want a dedicated build, gotta make due until end game with the starting weapons. It isn't too bad, a Fire Saw Cleaver and Bolt Cane will serve you well, though the Orphan and Laurence will give you a lot of problem. That build might be something like:

VIT - 50

END - 16

STR - 10

SKL - 9

BT - 5

ARC - 80

>>14339643

>What the hell is the One Reborn anyway?

My personal theory is that its a very botched attempt to incarnate Oedon or Mergo in a physical body.

Anyway, I'm rushing dungeons for runes and rocks atm. Gonna leave you some glyphs in case you're interested.

>PTHUMERU IHYLL

9vb3tzza - Clockwise Rune (+15% HP) in layer 1

jrwffkyp - Blood Rock in layer 1

>LOWER LORAN

gz9mmj7y - Clawmark (+30% visceral damage) in layer 1

5vbj9dnk - Blood Rock and Anti-Clockwise (+20% stamina)

>>14340245

>Can you get lost and uncanny weapons from random Root Chalices?

The messenger merchants in Pthumeru Ihyll (the last dungeon) sell all versions of every weapon.

>>14339915

>LOWER LORAN

gz9mmj7y - Clawmark (+30% visceral damage) in layer 1

5vbj9dnk - Blood Rock and Anti-Clockwise (+20% stamina)

Disregard gz9mmj7y because 5vbj9dnk has Clawmark in L1, Beast in L2 and Anti-Clockwise in L3. The rock is in L1 as well. Furthermore, it's a chalice without offerings so the difficulty isn't amped and the bosses are fairly simple (pyro wolf, Keeper and Abhorrent Beast).

I take back everything I said about the whip. It's pretty damn good after all.

>>14342521

Valtr's like "…and I'll have those beasts picking up cotton just as Oedon made then for!"

Constable furfag devouring Jesus isn't to be trifled with.

>>14342733

>The only disadvantage is that the whip form doesn't have a charge attack

It does make up for it by being able to cheese enemies through walls in ridiculous distances, my personal favorite being killing two Brainsuckers in Upper Ward behind a closed door.

My run is being enlightening too, sticking to the Reiterpallasch and Bowblade, been learning all sorts of interesting things about. The transformed pallasch isn't just good for the gun but its R1 is straight sword hell instead of thrusts while the charged attack is fast enough to be chained on some enemies like the Nightmare Executioners and feral feminists. The bow has a very interesting combo transformation attack, particularly the sword to bow attack that makes you do a backstep and shoot a arrow which is really useful to score some extra damage in some bosses that retaliate quickly like the Abhorrent Beast.

Overall, it's a thing I love about BB - a entire weapon's move set feels useful.

>>14344582

The crowd control is great though. At the start of the game, you can school those mobs like there's no tomorrow and the cane will keep the ooga booga wolfman stunlocked for as long as you have stamina. Might not be perfect but it's by far the best a whip weapon has ever been in the extended series.

>>14345597

>If I could just find a skill scaling weapon with a crescent slot

Burial Blade and Blade of Mercy. Alternatively, if you can, look up a dungeon that has a merchant selling all weapon versions or make your way to Pthumeru Ihyll which is pre-set so no online needed.

Done getting runes and I'm moving to the meat of the dungeons - cursed gems. A few more glyphs if anyone's interested:

>ISZ

kwcwckhw - Great Lake (+5% DEF for all attributes) in L1 and Deep Sea (+300 Frenzy resistance) in L3

ghgvhb2d - +25-27% physical (sometimes Arcane) triangular gems from the L1 boss, the Fatty Boombalatty squad

>LOWER LORAN

4ykw9skf - +26-28% BT gun gems from the L1 boss, Bloodstarved Beast

>>14345597

>If I could just find a skill scaling weapon with a crescent slot for a bolt gem for dealing with ayy lmaos and squid then I would be set for this run

You could reach the bath messengers in the chalice dungeon and buy an uncanny church pick, that is one of the best skill weapons that doesn't need bloodtinge, it deals serrated and righteous damage while also having a good moveset for the transformed version. I've recently started an arcane build using that weapon and it performs pretty good, the only downside is that the moveset for the regular form is kind of shit