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So what's the deal with chalice dungeons? I'm not clear if I have to complete this first one to move on with the game or not. Can I leave and come back to my last lamp, or will I have to do the whole thing again? I'm running low on Vials, and enemies here don't drop many. I also want to do something other than the Watchdog for a bit.
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Mar 18, 2017 16:12
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FactsAreUseless posted:So what's the deal with chalice dungeons? I'm not clear if I have to complete this first one to move on with the game or not. Can I leave and come back to my last lamp, or will I have to do the whole thing again? I'm running low on Vials, and enemies here don't drop many. I also want to do something other than the Watchdog for a bit. They are entirely optional. They have nothing whatsoever to do with game progression. As long as you don't delete the chalice, if you leave and come back you can select from the lanterns you unlocked.
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Mar 18, 2017 16:14
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Chalice enemies start giving a lot more blood echoes as you get further in, so you can start buying shitloads of vials by the time youre up to the Loran chalice
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Mar 18, 2017 16:20
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FactsAreUseless posted:So what's the deal with chalice dungeons? I'm not clear if I have to complete this first one to move on with the game or not. Can I leave and come back to my last lamp, or will I have to do the whole thing again? I'm running low on Vials, and enemies here don't drop many. I also want to do something other than the Watchdog for a bit. They're 100% optional, there's a cool boss and achievement for beating the last one, and there's some enemy/boss types that don't show up anywhere else, but they can be kind of a slog to marathon through so just do them when you feel like it
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Mar 18, 2017 16:21
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Well poo poo, I'm going to go do that. I've tied like 10 times in a row to the Watchdog's stupid charge attacks, and while I'm sure that it's the Bloodborne version of the Chrysalis I'd still like to do something else.
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Mar 18, 2017 16:33
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The watchdog is probably the consensus biggest roadblock but not that watchdog
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Mar 18, 2017 16:36
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In Training posted:The watchdog is probably the consensus biggest roadblock but not that watchdog
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Mar 18, 2017 16:37
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Also the chalice dungeons are kind of a fun parallel thing during NG/NG+ but you can also use them to make endless randomly generated content tuned for like max level characters which is cool. Over the summer I spent a long time playing a bunch with one character just so I could get 99 arcane for the hell of it
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Mar 18, 2017 16:37
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There should have been a lot more variety in the chalice environments, imho. Spending hours wandering through cramped dungeons sounds bad to me compared to the insane settings and views of the main game
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Mar 18, 2017 16:49
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HolePisser1982 posted:There should have been a lot more variety in the chalice environments, imho. Spending hours wandering through cramped dungeons sounds bad to me compared to the insane settings and views of the main game Either this or they should have just taken all the best parts and bosses from the chalices and made a new regular game area. They could've put the entrance in Ebreitas' cave or something and it would lead underground into a cool labyrinth city.
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Mar 18, 2017 18:25
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I like the idea of chalices but it really doesn't hold up compared to all the well-designed stuff outside. It's cool if you just want more game though I guess.
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Mar 18, 2017 18:26
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Yeah I'm not gonna say they're incredible but after I beat the game like 9 times it became a cool side project after 150 hours in the game
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Mar 18, 2017 18:28
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It makes you appreciate how good these games are with encounter and level design
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Mar 18, 2017 18:31
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chalice dungeons are awesome because theyre just bonus content for people who jerk off to the distilled gameplay of bloodborne like myself
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Mar 18, 2017 20:45
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i like having chalices as a way to break the game up a little bit when you're stuck or don't feel like doing something at the moment. i also just generally like the encounters and bosses, even if the environments and loot aren't spectacular.
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Mar 18, 2017 20:49
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Regy Rusty posted:They are entirely optional. They have nothing whatsoever to do with game progression. As long as you don't delete the chalice, if you leave and come back you can select from the lanterns you unlocked. Yeah also worth noting that chalice dungeon difficulty doesn't scale across multiple playthroughs and your progress is preserved in NG+. But I don't recommend putting the early ones off until then because they'll be really boring at that point with rewards that are useless at your level. Just sorta tackle them alongside the main game imo
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Mar 19, 2017 00:57
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imo, the reason to do them is to get more boss fights, which are really the main draw of BB. at least for me. the chalices have some interesting variations on bosses that you don't get in the main game.
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Mar 19, 2017 01:00
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I just like how Bloodborne gives you a lot of options to do other stuff if you're stuck on something, but I didn't want to leave and lose all my progress.
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Mar 19, 2017 02:01
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Originally I was gonna use my tool to roll weapons after each boss clear but then I realized it could roll weapons like BoM or the Wheel which require side quests so instead i rolled all my weapons at the start of a run so I could plan. Well here's my next playthrough unless it drives me nuts: Cleric Beast: Hunter Axe Gascogne: Saw Spear BSB: Saw Cleaver Witches: Threaded Cane Amelia: Rifle Spear Paarl: Stake Driver Shadows: Threaded Cane Rom: Stake Driver Logarius: Saw Cleaver Amygdala: Kirkhammer The One Reborn: Hunter Axe Emissary: Beast Cutter Erbietas: Saif Micolash: Beast Claw Wet Nurse: Blades of Mercy Ludwig: Amygdalan Arm Living Failures: Saif Maria: Beast Cutter Kos: Tonitrus Gehrmann: LHB Moon Presence: Logarius Wheel Getting the Claw, BoM and the Wheel all in one run is brutal. Idk how I'll handle the chalice dungeons, I think I'll roll one weapon for each layer?
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Mar 19, 2017 03:43
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that seems pretty fun, but paarl with a stake driver and amelia with a saw spear seems like a loving nightmare
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Mar 19, 2017 03:50
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Rifle spear and yeah, its gonna push me to the limits but it also means I may get to dig into this game in a way I havent probably since release. Ill also stream it, may start tonight.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:06
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Good luck, hunter
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Mar 19, 2017 05:25
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I definitely wont start tonight because im watching this Hokuto no Ken tournament until 3 AM.
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Mar 19, 2017 05:27
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I did not expect to be stuffed in a sack and brought to Pig And Dog Nightmare Zone, but hey, it's all good.
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Mar 19, 2017 15:56
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FactsAreUseless posted:I did not expect to be stuffed in a sack and brought to Pig And Dog Nightmare Zone, but hey, it's all good. Nobody expects the sackmen.
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Mar 19, 2017 16:22
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https://www.twitch.tv/in_training Im gonna stream this in a bit.
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Mar 20, 2017 00:31
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Kos with the tonitrus seems rough
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Mar 20, 2017 01:08
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I should probably actually think about my build before I start this because I'm gonna need to think about which weapons I want actually use effectively
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Mar 20, 2017 01:19
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i played through gascoigne earlier tonight, and at first it was incredibly comical retraining my hands from breath of the wild's control scheme, but once i got back into it, it was like second nature. father fartdollar went down pretty fast. i tried to record the fight, but my PS-Share thing did work for some reason.
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Mar 20, 2017 01:23
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I did the same thing earlier by trying to use R2 to dodge after playing a ton of Nier. Cleric and Gascoigne down. Cleric is a slugfest, it's got so much dang health and I almost always just skip that fight. These early fights don't really matter what the weapons are but BSB with a cleaver will be manageable. I'll probably also be getting pretty cheesy with item strats on bosses because I'll usually have really low level weapons
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Mar 20, 2017 01:29
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I'll probably pump skill for the most part do I can depend on parries for bosses like Maria, kos and logarius
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Mar 20, 2017 01:30
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i usually use the first molotovs you get on CB just because it makes the fight go quicker
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Mar 20, 2017 01:36
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BSB down. I'm dreading Amelia with the stake driver
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Mar 20, 2017 02:03
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Definitely making that thing a +4 at least.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:04
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I'll probably epically cheese the witches with the 0 insight trick.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:21
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what weapon do you have for them?
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Mar 20, 2017 02:22
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The chain hwhip. The damage output is low and I don't want to bother with the spawns but I'll give it the ol college try at least once.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:32
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In Training posted:I'll probably epically cheese the witches with the 0 insight trick. i know the shades otw to the fight only spawn with high insight but do none spawn even during it if you have zero? also i know i've mentioned it before but that's one of my favorite fights in the game just because of how it went down the first time i played it. i didn't get the gimmick and finally killed one of the witches and then the second one materialized right behind me and her health bar showed up and she backstabbed me for an instant kill. i was like 100% sure it was a scripted death because of how perfect the timing was
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Mar 20, 2017 02:32
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goferchan posted:i know the shades otw to the fight only spawn with high insight but do none spawn even during it if you have zero? also i know i've mentioned it before but that's one of my favorite fights in the game just because of how it went down the first time i played it. i didn't get the gimmick and finally killed one of the witches and then the second one materialized right behind me and her health bar showed up and she backstabbed me for an instant kill. i was like 100% sure it was a scripted death because of how perfect the timing was Lol. And yes at 0 insight there's no spawns. It requires you to leave the boss arena at least once though because you gain insight upon first encountering a boss
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I got past them one my first try although I thought I was a goner when I got snagged by a paralyzing beam. I took one attempt at Amelia and will probably make this thing a +5, the move set is stiff fighting her is gonna be rough
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