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Darth Walrus posted:ARC/SKL works with the Blades of Mercy and the Burial Blade. I can see BOMs and an Augur being a fearsome combo, especially since Arcane gives you the reach that your melee weapons lack. This is basically what I did as soon as I could get Blades of Mercy (Yes I murdered Aileen like a shitpiece). Then I got Burial Blade and holy poo poo between the phenomenal moveset on that thing and the arcane tools I was dunking whatever I ran into. Granted, this wasn't until the endgame, but I felt very rewarded with the end product. Just required a fair bit more work to get it to, well, work.
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Digirat posted:Arcane scaling gives you a negligible part of the damage on blade of mercy and burial blade. It's a tiny bonus which will be nice if you're building for arcane tools anyway, but skill is going to give you the great majority of your damage and until you get a lot of skill you're going to be far better off converting an all physical weapon into an element weapon. Yeah you're definitely right. I just chose to be difficult and stuck with the Blades of Mercy before moving onto the Burial Blade. Also, I'm gonna spend the night getting crunk and doing chalice dungeon stuff, but I'm feeling like engaging in some jolly co-op if anyone needs help with anything or just wants to pal around. Add me as RayjenkinsSA or post I guess. Edit: Don't expect help now, but still add me and ask whenever. A FESTIVE SKELETON fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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Oct 8, 2017 23:17
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tweet my meat posted:So what kind of Arc investment do I need for the hunter tools to be worth it as a side thing? Fair warning that if you actually want damaging arcane tools to be useful, you'll need to invest heavily. It's not uncommon to max it out to 99 if you're going for damage, but this is totally worth it since arcane is unique in that the scaling can INCREASE when you're 80+ deep into it. Take a look at this to get a better idea of what I mean: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XYzO2js7ggvPEg8125SIKDo6anvqirI2Dxj2JvYR0uM/edit#gid=809286738
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Oct 9, 2017 00:45
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drrockso20 posted:Worth mentioning that both the gloves and augur will clown over a lot of bosses and NPC Hunters Cause their AI can't handle it To add, if it's humanoid, you can probably safely knock it on it's rear end with augur. If it's big, you can likely still stagger it and give it pause, buying you time.
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Oct 9, 2017 01:08
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Hey if I wanna grab the beast claws to rip and tear, should I just go SKL/STR?
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tweet my meat posted:Nope, first try yet again on BSB, also on undead giant. Stayed up close and never left. Please help me thread I'm too good at the game. Yeah to be fair, the whip + fire is a powerful combo early on, since you're using serration and fire against beasts. Your skill does 100% play a part though, since I decided to start a new character with the axe and blunderbuss and at this point I clown on anything that isn't post-Byrgenwerth.
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Oct 10, 2017 01:33
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tweet my meat posted:I used the hunter axe last playthrough, and as much as I love that thing, the cane's won me over as my favorite starter weapon with its fantastic cane moveset for single combat and the amazing whip moveset which is perfect for groups, beasts, and big bosses. It's probably the roughest start of the three choices, but god drat it gets going quick. The cleaver is still for nerds. Word. Get the Augur immediately to get a taste of a powerful and useful tool.
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CodfishCartographer posted:You could, but they get more out of strength so if you wanna dump into that it'd be fine. The fastest way to get the claws is to kill Amelia, unlock hunter's nightmare and beat Amygdala, and rush through Pthumeru and central Pthumeru to unlock lower Pthumeru. To unlock ailing Loran you need 4 cold blood flowerbuds, which you can find in hunter's nightmare, and 9 Ritual Blood (4)s, which you can farm from the bag men in the first layer of lower Pthumeru. Once you farm all that, you can rush to get the claws from Ailing Loran. Excellent advice. So should I cap STR at 50 and go from there, while increasing END and VIT?
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Oct 10, 2017 04:13
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Any nerds willing to help me out in Ailing Loran layer 1? Just need to kill Beast-Possessed Soul so I can get to these damned claws. I'm level 41 at the moment. PW is lljk. Oh also I'm RayjenkinsSA. Edit: Nevermind got it myself. Just needed to not suck. A FESTIVE SKELETON fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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CodfishCartographer posted:Still need help? Hah nah I got it, but it figures that my edit was just 1 minute after your post. I just decided to be patient and not get annihilated by his flurry of attacks and parry him like 20 times to death.
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tweet my meat posted:Aren't blue eyed werewolves supposed to drop chunks? I'm 7 runs deep at upper cathedral ward with 308 discovery and haven't got any drops better than twin shards. You're not going to start seeing chunks until Cainhurst friend. A FESTIVE SKELETON fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 01:29
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tweet my meat posted:So what's the Iron Keep bridge or the Pontiff's courtyard of Bloodborne? Is there a particular spot everyone goes to pvp? Nightmare Frontier mostly.
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Couple questions, since I'm considering just buying a PS4 pro and giving my PS4 slim to my brother: 1: I can just re-download Bloodborne onto the PS4 pro since I bought it on my PS account I assume? 2: My saves aren't cloud based are they? Will I need to start from scratch? Could I just plug in an external drive and transfer the save?
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Nov 7, 2017 01:13
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celeryman posted:Beat the orphan of kos. Once again, it was a whirlygig user who just stun locked that fucc boi and his meat yo-yo. Random thought: Have you tried to follow through with a fully charged R2? When you perform a full R2, just hitting R2 again. You might already know this but I didn't get that immediately so I just wanna make this a PSA just in case. A FESTIVE SKELETON fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 05:42
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Edmond Dantes posted:Is there any reason to upgrade guns further than +1 unless I'm drowning in shards? Ben Nerevarine posted:If you're SKL/BLT a fully upgraded gun can do really respectable damage. My +9 Evelyn with 50 BLT hits for >200 a shot. To add, if you don't care about bullet efficiency, the repeating pistol will really gently caress poo poo up.
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big cummers ONLY posted:Thanks Rayjenkins. Those fights were fun as hell. Yeah, sorry I blew it the first couple times. been a while since I've fought Ludwig. STR/ARC is pretty drat good for helping though.
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melodicwaffle posted:shame that alfred turned out to be kind of a psychopath, holy poo poo that scene with anna was brutal Context is important here. Do you understand the scope of the events?
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Jan 24, 2018 04:28
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JBP posted:Holy moonlight sword is awesome. Boom hammer might get a bit boring due to its moveset being limited, whirligig is good times forever if you enjoy it (most do). Seconding the Holy Moonlight Sword. It's so goddamn good and versatile and it has the best bullet/damage economy spell in the game.
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Hey is an arcane Rakuyo any good? What version should I grab?
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Actually having a lot of fun with a BLT/ARC using a Simon’s Bowblade and then Bloodletter I rushed as soon as I could. Thanks to the false depth and T3 rune dungeons, I was able to get enough resources to take on all the DLC bosses except OoK, and I haven’t even killed Rom yet. It’s fun helping people in low level dungeons wearing a bunch of DLC gear and having the milkweed rune on haha.
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May 3, 2018 15:21
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Drunken Baker posted:You fool! You imbecile! Treat him more like a dark souls boss, since he’s a big boy. Give him one smack, maybe two max if your weapon is fast enough, then dodge away. Also, a bit of fire always helps, from fire paper and molotovs. And if you like giants, you’re gonna love some of the other variants. 
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U-DO Burger posted:
Some weapons are easier to do that with I feel. Oddly enough, of all the loving weapons, I found that a transformed bloodletter made me go ultra-instinct mode on the motherfucker, and I've fought him with way faster weapons before.
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...! posted:There are two versions of Bloodletting Beast: one with a head and one without a head (much harder) and they behave a bit differently and have a few different attacks. Try that strategy against the headless version and let us know how it goes. it works? 
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f#a# posted:Just wanted to post in here that after about 500 shared hours between all the Dark Souls games, I finally caved and bought a PS4+Bloodborne. Somehow I have avoided almost all spoilers aside from pre-release footage and hearing about a sack dude that transports you. Be prepared to sink more hours into this than every other Dark Souls combined. It'll happen to you too! 
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Nov 22, 2018 00:00
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TexMexFoodbaby posted:Anyone else still salty that the fist of gratia doesn’t actually put the enemy in a parry state? I mean get why they didn’t but I still hate it.
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Jan 1, 2019 06:12
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I need to finish my beast claw playthrough. If I recall, I kinda got stonewalled at Lawrence trying to kill him at a frankly stupid low level.
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One of my favorite runs I did was a BLT/ARC run. I put just enough STR/SKL to use the chikage and the bloodletter, then pumped up BLT to 50, soft capped vitality and pushed my ARC up as high as I could. I think I got up into the 80s. I also invested some into endurance, it’s great for the bloodletter’s repeated downward smashing combo. I did this before the hacked chalices so I rushed the chikage, then got the bloodletter way earlier than I should. It was actually a really fun build for co-op and PvP, since you got the sick blood damage and the utility of strong arcane tools. Nothing quite like a powerful augur parry followed up with a devastating bloodletter combo. Oh, and the transformed L2 is a neat trick as well, just make sure you don’t overdo it lest you lose yourself to the frenzy!
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Jan 8, 2019 17:00
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Bloodborne is the best dark souls game.
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Ulio posted:Loving this thus far, only complaint is although I love the look of Yharnam, all of it looks samey which makes it hard to remember locations. I guess I will get used to it with time. Don't worry, you'll quickly encounter some fantastic set pieces.
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Jan 13, 2019 23:09
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And of course, you're lacking in that peculiar Yharnam madness.
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So I'm having a blast with the beast claw, and I'm intending to go quality since it's the last build for me to try. I was looking at the stake driver as a secondary and it's apparently a fantastic quality weapon, my question is whether I should use a regular or a lost/uncanny? Edit: Actually, what other quality weapons are worth checking out? A FESTIVE SKELETON fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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Jan 20, 2019 23:58
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Oscar Wild posted:Unless you invest in bloodtinge, don't upgrade the guns. It's definitely a luxury thing, I don't really bother until I'm pretty much done upgrading most everything else I want to use on non-BLT builds.
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Jan 25, 2019 01:42
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thumper57 posted:The most important newbie tip is upgrade your gun until you can use the teardrop, then don't use HMS because it sucks. 
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bows1 posted:wow Im in Old Yharnam right now and the dude in the tower I hit once and he fell off the building never to be seen again. I hope I don't miss an item cause of that. Close out the game and reopen it, the item should be where he was originally.
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Jan 26, 2019 01:52
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I used to hate abhorrent beast, but once I got a good feel for his moves, it's like a dance of death. Quickstep-attacks are your friend, just can't get greedy.
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I think I want to take one of my characters and go into a forever-new game cycle with them. I have pretty much every conceivable combo of stats per character, what should I go with?
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Paracelsus posted:Spears with the partizan moveset are fun in DS2. Also Santier's Spear, Pate's, Yorgh's, Dragonslayer. Thrusting weapons in general were strong and fun in DS2. Man Yorgh’s spear owned, between its 1H and 2H movesets it was basically the Swiss Army knife of DS2. I’d trick people up in PvP all the time, but my favorite part was I’d wear the vanquisher’s seal and then go 1H but I’d just deck them in the face for the kill instead of using the spear. 
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The Chikage is great, but I feel like people sleep on the bloodletter, probably one of my favorite weapons in the game. Great range and a cool move set, and it’s simply a 1 time health investment to switch to transformed mode which can be virtually negated if you connect with a transforming L1.
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Regy Rusty posted:I'd love to do a bloodletter run but it's past 3 dlc bosses which limits how much I could use it. Perfectly fair, I rushed mine right after getting the Chikage, and it was a bit of a bitch to do. But hey, there’s always NG+ 
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Bust Rodd posted:Doesn’t bloodletter scale with bloodtinged and it’s true form anyway so you don’t really need strength? I used bloodletter in my Chikage run and it was absolutely disgusting how much damage it did and I had the bare minimum amount of strength yeah the transformed only benefits from BLT. I only use the transformed version on my ARC/BLT unless I need to gat something with a repeating pistol, otherwise it’s big fuckin blood maces and eldritch lovecraftian magic 
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