Board 8 > So I am about to start Bloodborne

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I'll tell you that there is no interaction you get later on if you choose to ignore him entirely. I think he'll disappear eventually if you never talk to him, but you did that so you can decide whenever I'm pretty sure.
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also ALIENS

... man its easy to get lost in here
loving ludwigs blade more and more though

anyway, whats the next best stat to enhance, vitality and strength getting high enough I think
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If you're gonna stay on the Ludwig train, Dexterity. It benefits from STR and DEX equally.
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There are a lot of weapons that benefit from both strength and dexterity, only slightly favoring one. There's no way to reset your stats in bloodborne, so you'd have to come to grips with having 'wasted' levels should you want to use one of the few weapons that don't scale off both stats.
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And by dexterity they mean skill, but yeah level that up along with strength to get the most out of the holy blade
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Beat the Shadows of Yharnam (in one try)
another tense-quickonyourfeet kinda fight
killed the mage first, then the guy who decided to put his sword on fire, and finally the guy with a bad case of snakes
Ludwigs blade helped a little once it was just one guy, but I preferred Cleaving for the trio/duo
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also I reached Byrgenwerth
after getting a heartattack from one of the ugliest monsters yet (Garden of Eyes they are called I see, and thats a good name for them)
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Shadows in one try... were you just fucking with us bro, you are Bloodborne god.
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Shadows is easy. So is the alien. The king dude is a bitch. He will kill you a lot.
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having good weapons probably helps

inversely
fuck this fucking asshole in this lunarium building with his fucking snakes, fucking spells and fucking cane
I was getting so impatient I just decided to use the summon in the room, because jesus

...in hindsight I could have lured him outside for more open space, but still

also bugs, great

I also checked out the Lecture Building, I did know how to get there at least, and opened a path to Nightmare Frontier
also know one of the nearest bosses is Rom and I know what its death will do, but I dont want to start the bloodmoon phase just yet
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I felt like Dark Souls 3 was much harder than Bloodborne in terms of killing bosses. I one shot I think just 1 boss in DS3. I think like 4 or 5 in BB.
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Yea I actually killed Shadows in one try my first playthrough too, maybe it was just luck though.
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I definitely one shot more bosses in DS3 myself. I think Shadows were one of the many I came close to, but then still took a dozen more attempts.
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I killed shadows in one try on my first play through, but on subsequent runs I've had more trouble. Same as Amelia.
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realized I missed a pathway back at the woods, explored that and came across the most unfun of caves
poison maggot infested giant pool
I think I got every item in there and waded through towards a gate I didnt even realize I hadnt opened yet in central Yharnam
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Yessssss

Keep exploring around there, where you opened the gate
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You've almost reached the True Bloodborne.
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fair warning
I do know I shouldnt anger the doctorlady to get the 'best ending'
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Technically you can still do that and get that ending. In fact you get a version of a rune only if you do fight her now. (You still get other tiers from different places.)

There is something else you can permanently miss, though. If you miss both that and this, then you're locked out.
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Yeah, there are 4 items in the game for the true ending, of which you only need to consume 3.
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I figured
anyway I explored as much as she let me, and she locked the doors again
and she still's pretending she's helping these people after I saw a few of her 'patients' already (poor poor cannibal)

next I finished exploring the hyperbolic gaol (screw spelling that correctly) and battled Darkbeast Paarl
he killed me the first time, was letting him control the flow of the fight too much and acted a little too timid
second round I repeated my clericbeast/vicar strategy of ramming my swords down their throat
I even managed to stagger him and visceral him twice, somehow.. I didnt plan on that

its dead now, time to see if Durja still hates me
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he doesnt, yay
will kill him later

now though, to go into the frontier of nightmares
freaky place, even for this game
guess I am dreaming again? because its not nighttime here (then again it wasnt nighttime in Old yharnam either)
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A nightmare is a sort of dream, sure
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Shadows are one of my favorite bosses, I always have a great time fighting them

You are definitely not bad at video games

Oh oh, I assume you got a certain item from the clinic, a summons. That leads to the best area of the game that people mentioned earlier
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oh
thought that was a spell
will try that out later
kinda have a score to settle with these giant funny guys (dropping a rock out of nowhere, that was new for the first two times)
also another poison lake, woooo
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I killed Shadows on my first try too. That said htaeD is clearly really really good at this game so it's just one more evidence of it.
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well I am good when I am using good upgraded weapons I feel like
but eh the tools are available
my deathcounter is pretty high at least

anyway i think I checked every part of the Nightmare besides the boss arena
dont know if I missed something back where someone (its that guy from Dark souls right?) pushed me off the cliff
probably the guy behind the door in the lecture building (another odd location, I keep hearing monsters that arent there)

well one last thing to try, off to cainhurst
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Yeah that's Patches. He's a worldhopper.
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also I should probably lower my Insight
Frenzy is the worst
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I think that changing your gear and equipping a frenzy defense rune will have more of an impact but I'm not sure.

At the very least, you should be using your insight to buy the clothes.
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Gascoigne and Henryk gear ftw. Always my most used.
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I did switch to Henryks gear because of Darkbeast Paarl and his lightning
but I hear even 25 insight isnt really needed
I just wanted to see the Amygdalas
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I think at 60 you can see eyeballs on the little lamps that the dudes in the cathedral ward hold.
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You can also hear a baby crying periodically at 60.

I wouldn't worry too much about your insight, frenzy will suck no matter what. The best way to deal with the lanterns (the big brain bitches) is to just parry them, since the invincibility frames during your riposte will negate the damage from the frenzy burst.

Parrying them is tricky though, and you'll most certainly die if you miss your shot. But taking the time to learn their parry window (don't shoot when they open their arms, wait a second until they're almost upon you) will save you a lot of headache.
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Hmmm I never risked the parry with them. Always just approached with caution, then while making sure my health was topped off, I'd charge in and wail on em. I'd have to tank the frenzy but I could usually kill them before they got their attack off.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Hmmm I never risked the parry with them. Always just approached with caution, then while making sure my health was topped off, I'd charge in and wail on em. I'd have to tank the frenzy but I could usually kill them before they got their attack off.

Also my strategy
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yeah their grab has a slow wind up time. if you have enough DPS you can put them down before they grab you. this almost always gives you time to take a sedative before the frenzy meter finishes filling up. and even if it doesn't you haven't taken any damage yet so it just sets you to whatever small % health, with the lantern dead.
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I always just found it easier to parry them, then you don't even have to use a sedative because you won't take damage from frenzy.

It's not difficult to learn, they only have the one attack
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The parry strat for the brains can actually backfire on success if you have too much frenzy resistance because you'll finish the animation before it ticks.

Peace___Frog posted...

I think at 60 you can see eyeballs on the little lamps that the dudes in the cathedral ward hold.

This only takes 15 (and it adds new attacks). Might become more pronounced, though.
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just a small bump
I didnt get to play much today

explored a bit of cainhurst
I hate fleas, I hate ticks... i hate these.... things
feel bad about killing servants, until they pull out the knives
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The bloodsuckers are the worst, I just always run past them. Even at a higher level, they're tough to kill. Not really worth it either.
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My most hated enemies are easily - EASILY - the stupid parasitic worms in Cainhurst and the cave leading up to the clinic.

They're the only enemies that are really no fun to fight.
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whew
went back to the nightmare frontier to clear that loose end
Amygdala was more of a pain than I expected
First I thought to go for the legs, but those werent his weak points, targeting the arms with cleavers normal form didnt hit a lot and attacking with ludwigs blade was too slow. Camera didnt help often either
I realized I had to switch up tactics and moved to using the extended saw cleaver form (I mean i could have upgraded other weapons, but that'd take too long)
He still got me about 4 times,
once because I wasnt used to his attacks
once because I was too slow to avoid his jumps each time and didnt realize the sweetspot was not directly underneath him.
Once because I under-estimated the damage of his headbutt and forgot to heal before the boss
And once because I misjudged where its lasers explosions would head
5th time was the charm, and hitting its head enough let me do a visceral. doing enough damage to shorten the phase where he attacks me with his own arm (geez)

One more boss down
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inversely Rom went down without too much suffering
he got me once with a meteorstorm out of nowhere from his .. well.. abdomen
doesnt look like much of a spider either, his divebombing minions do though and they hit hard, the second time I died because one of the webbed me up for the other attackers
third time I killed Rom, shouldnt have spent so much time and bladeswinging on the respawning flunkies
even then one last divebomber killed me before Rom's death animation finished

still, time for a bloodmoon

and this new area
not a fan
bloody bell maidens
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The L2 on Ludwigs can actually hit Amygdala in the head basically whenever as opposed to most weapons which can't, so it's actually really good if you figure out to use it that way.
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it did do that yes
but I didnt trust my aim and speed that well
also my stamina

also I say it again screw bell maidens
and screw that one hag who refuses to get out of my way on the amygdala laser stairway
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Did you figure out how to reach the bell bitch before the stairway? I ask because there's an important item near there.
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bell before stairway?
I got a rune, a helmet, a tiny tonitrus and some stuff
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htaeD posted...

bloody bell maidens

Yes
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The laser stairway in particular. It's by the Tiny Tonitrus, but in the cage so you have to find another way in.
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