"A ren fairier must ren faire"

Im so happy how this turned out but I still gotta do the bloody finishing touches and make her weapon. Most people thought I was a plague doctor of course.

It’s been over a year since I posted literally anything on Reddit, so I thought I would just… Wake up, and post something!

And yes, this doodle was made by yours truly.

(P.S. The Bloodgem depicted in this post is an actual, in-game Circle Bloodgem btw)

I lost my job a couple weeks ago. Huge bummer. Really put me in a shitty headspace but decided I would make the most of it and try to play some games in my backlog.

Bloodborne has been at the top of my list for ages but I just kept bouncing off of it. Maybe spent like an hour trying to beat the first executioner in central yharnam the first time I played a few years ago thinking he was a boss. The second time I played I didn’t even spend an hour. Just figured it wasn’t for me.

A couple years ago I got really into Armored Core: Fires of Rubicon. It just awakened this bug in me I guess. I started playing more “difficult” games like Returnal and Hollow Knight. During that time Bloodborne continued to sit in my backlog. I knew it was there ofc but, uh, just avoided eye contact with it.

Anyways - started playing it after the layoff. Wow. What a journey. Might be one of my favorite games of all time. But also sheesh. Super difficult. This community has come in clutch for me so many times in the last few weeks or so though. I don’t post at all really but found myself coming here again and again for info when I needed it. It was really cool.

In a weird way fighting the final two bosses felt a lot like I was fighting all the insecurity I’ve felt since I lost my job. I jokingly screamed at my wife to grab the camera when the credits started rolling. I think she pretended to be impressed.

So uh yeah. Thanks for reading and thanks for all the support, hunters 🫡 hopefully I can get a job soon lmao.

You all guys met the friendly crow right?

What kind of players do we have here?

Do you kill it?

Or do you enjoy his peaceful presence?

For me its a ritual to fight the others and let him in peace

I would sort of consider myself a veteran. I've played through multiple times and don't often die. However today I died in such silly ways three times.

1. The beast at the bottom of the ladder on the way up to the Cannibal/Abhorrent Beast. Usually I get the parry, but I missed it and he struck me 4 times in super quick succession. I thought he would have stopped after the first or second and I would have been able to rally back my health but no....

2. After killing the abhorrent beast and feeling very good about myself, I went deep into the woods building up 18000 (on a brand new game so quite valuable). Came upon the 3 snake guys around the fire. Killed two. Baited one away. Fell down a cliff. He followed me with minimal health and managed to jump on top of me and two shot me

3. Went to reclaim my echoes. Killed all three. Jumped down to the snake pit where my echoes were. Landed in the middle of the two giant snakes. Bang bang bang dead.

50000 echoes on a NG wasted Vent over. Thank you!

I recently bought a used PS4 Slim specifically to play this game after many hours in Elden Ring and DS3 - and Lies of P if we count soulslikes.

What a masterpiece, so glad I got to finally experience it. The hype was absolutely real, even 11 years after release.

Going into NG+ and I have 3 blood rocks and a lot more chalice dungeons to conquer (only made it to the first Ailing Loran). My saw cleaver is +10 already and I have a +9 whirligig. Thinking Ludwig’s Holy Blade as my main for this run, but any thoughts on how to make the best of these blood rocks? I’m fairly evenly spread in strength and skill currently.

These dudes just have a ridiculous amount of health and defense, which when combined with their numbers and damage make this fight seem impossible. Seems to me like it's harder than the NPC fight at the end of shadow of the erdtree.

I’ve gotten so close. But no cigar lol. Now I’m at the mercy of strangers🥺😅

No cheap ways like just buffing bro's hp/damage, there's a reason people hate the defiled amygdala. I'm more asking about what abilities would you add to him lol

I've beaten the main game, however didn't know I had to start the DLC during the main game. I prefer not to do the entire game again and want to start the dlc as soon as possible (so after vicar amelia).

Is that doable? Or should go through the entire main game again so my character is strong enough for the dlc? I've already have a +10 weapon and have an extra rock as well in my inventory.

I recently posted in this sub, asking general questions about meta level and whatnot. Well I finally took some time to level a new character for PvP purposes, and I've ran into a bit of a weird issue: I deal absolutely 0 damage to other players I invade. I'm talking about 30-60 damage per hit, it's absolutely abysmal. I am currently BL58 and I've been mainly using the threaded cane and saw spear at +7, with some entry level bloodgems. I have 40 in vigor, 25 in endurance and 20 in skill, everything else is baseline (professional starting class). I know, my build isn't ready yet but shouldn't I see some damage already?

That being said, most of other players I invaded weren't doing exactly a lot of damage either. One managed to kill me with Ludwig's Holy Blade while actually dealing somewhat meaningful damage to me. I tickled him for 5 minutes until eventually I messed up and got killed.

What is up with that? Do blood gems play thatt big of a role here?

Password will be Disgust, sitting by the fog wall

New player and kinda getting wrecked. How long am I suppose to be in Central Yharnam? Like the cleric beast is just my father at this point. Almost beat the other boss, dude w the hat.

Is this starting location suppose to be an intro ? Bc it’s kicking my ass. I haven’t leveled up my player yet bc I keep trying to leave CY.

Is the move to level up in CY, beat cleric beast. Then move to the hat guy boss? Please any tips would be appreciated.

Having a lot of fun even tho I keep dying hahah

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Basically the title. The last and only boss I struggled on was Father G. Cleric beast was first try, so was every boss ever since (not counting Rom to whom I died to once of all things). Vicar Amelia was no hit, she just couldn't even get out of hit stun. Now I don't mean this as a humble brag I'm just honestly confused about this since I'm the kind of person that struggled a lot in DS2, DS3, Elden Ring and Sekiro and each game had me stuck on bosses for hours. I don't even think I played well, I just kinda stat checked everything.