/bbg/ - Bloodborne General

>run a visceral rune setup
>summon just mashes R1 on the enemies I parry
I just want to have fun. Don't make me use the meta meta.

Holy shit, it actually works.

>tfw my life is shit and I don't even have time to play Bloodborne
>haven't even tried an ARC build yet

>missed the opportunity for a visceral attack

fuck off luci

>doing a visceral
>as an arc build
>for no damage
>and ruining the cycle

>for no damage
>and ruining the cycle

dont reply to that faggy webm, luci posting without trip again

>replying to luci with trip off
>ever
seriously his webms are so obvious even when he posts without his trip

Sorry, I have all tripfags filtered, so I'm not accustomed to their style of posting as much as to identify them.

all amygdala webms posted early in a thread are luci whether or not he has his trip on

Well fuck, since you guys liked it so much

how do you filter tripfags?

/^!/

I like this meem
I'm going to make my own Amy cheese webbum

and then it wont matter if luci posts his gay webms because everyone else will be aswell. not a bad idea user

>off in the distant future, five threads from now
>Every single post has an amy jump cheese webm attached

kek

>60% V.atk damage
>co-op partner just procs backstabs with simon's bowblade

>4500+ damage v.atks

>tfw fight orphan of kos co-op with someone from /bbg/
>was spamming arrows at kos
>all the potential backstabs and viscerals i had ruined
>felt bad after realizing what i had done

Well, he still took double damage from those R1 swings, so those staggers weren't completely wasted.

The second part of Ludwig's boss theme is hype as FUCK. I wish this boss would slow the fuck down a bit so you could actually enjoy the song.

>Try PvP for the first time in Mergo middle
>Literally everyone I've seen is shooting their gun every other second and one hitting me with the riposte when it eventually lands

Seriously what do, One guy literally will not attack and just spams the gun every time I try and close the gap

For some reason I absolutely do not remember any boss themes from BB.
DS3 had Abyss Watchers, Pontiff, Yhorm.
DS2 I think had a few generic tracks that played on more than one boss, like the Ruin Sentinels, but at least I actually remember hearing it.
And in DS1 pretty much every boss had a memorable tune.
But in BB it's all just some epic orchestral pieces mixed with giant beast screeching.

Parry baiting with trick attacks, pretty much. A lot of style-swaps have hyper armor, like the burial blade or ludwig's sword, and are extremely hard to parry unless they've just autistically memorized every single moveset.

try listening to them on their own. they're mostly all great

Get close, dodge behind/to the side of them, and mix up between a roll R1 and a delayed R1 (or R2 or trick attack, depending on your weapon) as a roll punish.

That's why PvP in this game is such a clusterfuck. At least his gun is just fishing for parries, some people just kill you outright with their sidearm. Just wait for your first encounter with cannon + bone ash faggots, or pure bloodtinge evelyns.

They probably are, but that's not the same, as walking into the boss arena in DS1 and immediately getting anxiousness instilled into you, not only the boss' threatening presence, but the music as well.

>their build is different from mine
>therefore they're are faggots and are playing the game wrong

Keep dodging until they run out of bullets

I've played through all the Dark Souls games multiple times but I can't remember a single one of the themes you mentioned. A number of BB's stand out to me though. Guess it's just taste.

Oh would you look at that, we found one.

Sorry you have shit taste user

One person you always lose in pvp to?

>3v1's who have members that just spam the blunderbuss
>shoot all three of them to death in return

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea how anyone could fight Ludwig and not remember his fantastic music for both his stages, especially the start of the bombastic second track after his mid-fight cutscene plays.
I feel like the music of Bloodborne is very fitting too. Ebrietas' song also really stands out to me because of the lower toned trumpet that plays in early stages that really makes it sound like its straight out of a space opera

no u

If I go down the elevator that leads to motherbrain as an invader and black crystal out can the host summon the elevator back up?

These people do notice that you're health is barely depleting and you're nowhere near close enough to start attacking, thus making a parry impossible, right?
I just don't understand the mentality of shitters

Yes, a second one comes up, when you use it.

>Just spent entire evening rekting and getting rekt by Lofties with my freshly bluntfarmed Boom Hammer while listening to Vader, Bolt Thrower, and Carly Rae Jepsen

good monday

This weapon is a lot of fun. Hyper armoring through a Saif lunge then delaying an R1 to catch their roll for a fat 1.1k is bliss.

so I just pushed in the vicar's shit, is there any reason not to shift times yet? I've already
>helped eileen with henryk
>cleared out old yharnam
>cleared out gaol
>killed paarl
>said hi to djura
>sent all the survivors to odeon
>fucked up the hemwick witches
wanna make sure I don't miss stuff

Nah, you're good to go.

thanks
alright time to change time

For future reference the sunset to night time shift changes almost nothing and all that stuff you did could still be done after the shift (with the exception of Eileen, you want to make sure you always kill Henryk before you enter the Forbidden Woods but you can still time shift before then)

>Kill a crossbow mummy
>drops a poorman gem
Any difference between these and the ones the ghost ladies drop?

crossbow mummies drop regularly rolled primary + secondary, ghosts roll small primary + big secondary.

H-he's fast!

Anyone notice how similar Amygdala and Gehrman's theme is?

Yup. I've mentioned it before but nobody seemed to care.

alright, next run then, thanks

>Rom's meteors actually miss you if you just stand still

She's actually trying to hit the ghost behind you

I think as soon as I platinum I'm gonna make a new character that's arc. Hunter tools look so much fun

>celestial ayymissary does a little dance to buff his little ayys
Neat
Kinda wonder if pinwheel did anything cool if you didn't kill him in ten seconds

Whoops didn't mean to quote

what is the best emote, and why is it shhh

I completely forgot about the DLC as I went and plowed Gerhman and Moon presence, what would be the recommended lvl to tackle it on NG+ ? I don't want to roll a new dude for it.

>not conviction

Endgame content doesn't get NG+ multipliers as big as the early game, you could probably just go there as soon as you kill Amelia.

Chalice Knights drop regular gems, Poormans is just a rare effect, if it was the one guarding the lever in Lower Pthumeru layer 1, he once dropped me an Arcane gem, Watchers can drop it as well at higher % values, it's just really rare.

Ghost gems are also random, Tempering, Adept, Heavy, Striking etc... but the secondary effect is ALWAYS 25-27% ATK up at low HP. When combined with the primary effect (9.1% physical, higher for Adept, Striking and very rarely Poormans) it totals up to the highest damage increase possible. Three 12.5% +27% gems would increase a 100 AR weapon to 100 * 1.125 * 1.27 * 1.125 * 1.27 * 1.115 * 1.27 = 289.

A +10 Stake Driver with a 50/50 build has 335 damage, multiplying that by 2.89 equals 968 AR, and a charge attack deals 3.55x AR which is 2904. And a maxed Beasthood bar is x1.7 which is 4937.

Which would deal 4483 damage on anything with less than 600ish Blunt defense. This damage could maybe be further increased by using a Heavy Abyysal instead of one Poormans gem, but I don't have the scaling info on my phone. Plus it would further increase by hitting an enemies weakspot (eg Amy's head). Or a crippled body part, which I think is 1.5x, but I'm not sure.

>PS+ trial ends in three days
Should I renew it? Paying for such baseline features as multiplayer is deeply revolting for me as a PC gamer primarily, and simply as a human bean.

>die like a bitch to chalice bribri's charge
>Damian runs over to my corpse and uses choir bell

Why do you think Damian wants to kill Eribritas?

It makes sense that a Mensis scholar would kill Rom, she's hiding the ritual and stopping the blood moon from descending. But why Eribritas? Do they just hate the Choir that much?

And it's not random placement either (it rarely is), because Damo is the only story-mode NPC who also appears in dungeons and it's to kill Eribritas.

Maybe the church split because of disagreements on what great ones guidance to follow. Mensis obviously worships Amydala's, who are refered to as "false gods" in the guide, which is also a term you can put in messages. There's probably a bunch of Lore Miyazaki thinks is obvious but it's just not shown in any concrete way.

Would a LHB be good while i go through a arcane build? I never used it and it has the same gem slots as the saw spear.

I used it, and it's as good as any other weapon. Because until FRC dungeons your best gems would likely be a radial nourishing and a droplet arcane from Mergo's Loft. And until then you'll be just using some shitty fire gems.

Could Gehrman possibly be scared deep down?

>Oh, Laurence… Master Willem… Somebody help me…
>Unshackle me please, anybody…
>I’ve had enough of this dream.. The night blocks all sight…
>Oh, somebody please… (cries)

>amygdala is the fear part of the brain
>wet nurse is wielding siderite blades and protecting a child
>orphan looks like gehrman and is mad as fuck
>each nightmare boss represents an aspect of gehrman; his fear, his desire to help others, and his bitter anger
SOMEONE CALL VAATI

Pls respond. Can I possibly do root chalice dungeons offline? Won't I just run out of ritual materials and insight real soon, when I have to pay for every new dungeon?

you can't glyph search so it'll be a drag doing FRCs without ps+

If you go into NG+ you'll be able to purchase all Chalice materials offline via Blood Echoes and Insight. You WILL have to do some farming from time to time, but if you keep farming chalices open for obtaining annoying materials you'll be fine. Not having PS+ will not bar you from making Root Chalices, as those are not an online-only thing. You'll only miss out on making freebies and sharing/joining Roots.

You can get free 2 days if you make a new profile with a new psn, just use a throw away email for that. That works up to 10 times I think. After that you have to buy ps+. I always finished my builds until it comes to farming chalice gems during the week, got my 2 days during weekend so I could farm gems, fight in the fightclub and fucked around with co-op and PvP in memesis. You can do that until your free 2 day trials are used up and think about buying JewS+ later.

>all Chalice materials offline via Blood Echoes
You sure? I need to check that. Buying them for insight could be a problem, but you get a ton of echoes in the dungeons, and enemies respawn.

Honestly, I don't care much about the best gems or pvp. I just want to explore the new labyrinths.

100% sure. I made a character specifically for spelunking and took him into NG+ so I could gather all materials.
The only things you can't buy in NG are Bastards of Loran and...Ritual Blood 5, I believe. Since you'll need plenty of those Bastards for CRF spelunking, you can imagine how annoying it would be to farm them instead of just buying them.

You can get mats from the baths. Also most dungeons more or less pay for themselves because you'll find some mats in the dungeon.

loran darkbeast is complete and utter bullshit.
>fuckton of health
>extremely long range
>super high damage
>camera constantly fucks you over while fighting him
>massive high damaging aoe attacks that have little charge time
>fps drops down to 10 since he gives of so many particle effects
I've never seen a shittier boss, literally Das2 tier

Forgot to say, does anyone want to help me kill this bitch?

What level are you?
That's the last boss I wanna be downscaled against

109, ringing now, pass is bbg

How does downscaling work?
Does your health get divided by a certain value?
Does your character actually regresses in levels, subtracting points from the attributes you increased in reverse?
Do you just get assigned certain pre-determined values for what the devs thought would be appropriate on that level?

Ringalinging

My BB dreams are always about Amelia for some reason.
>tfw laying in bed and suddenly start hearing her screams

>ywn know how she smells like
Feelsbadman

Didn't think I was that close, ringing again

Whoops forgot to turn off torrents
That was a helluva ride

>tfw PvP would be better if guns had to be manually reloaded after every shot
>would actually make the repeater make sense