Here some comments on what I achieved yesterday:
Deflied Chalice Bosses:
Layer 1, the Witch: should have been easy but it took me way too many tries because I was using the wrong strategy (R2 with big axe, should work in theory but it's not a good strategy in the practice). The trick was to stay away, try to bait her to do a parry-able attack and proceed to do decent damage with it, 2 Clawmark runes help a ton, as well as the rune that gives HP with a visceral attack
Layer 2, Stone Fire Dog: after 20 or so tries with the wrong summoned NPC, I changed to the NPC that is almost naked but uses a cannon, it made the boss go from 10/10 in difficulty to 4/10, the cannon stunned the beast, brought it to its knees and it was way to easy to hit the head.
Layer 3, Defiled Amygdala: surprisingly enough, I didn't need a lot of tries, less than the dog for sure. I was most likely around 128, the thing is so big, that I'd just start running around hitting body parts, at times I'd approach the head and hit it. The adrenaline started to build up when my summoned NPC died and started to circle the beast doing little but consistent damage, actually bringing the health bar down. the thing would just miss her hits with that stomp move, I'd miraculously stay alive. With just sliver of health I'd try to hit the head but it was too high and the camera was moving like crazy, I was sure I was going to die because Bloodborne is like that, it loooooves to one-hit kill you when you're about to win.
Orphan of Kos: I was dreading getting to him becuase it has the reputation of hardest and most agressive boss in the game. The later was true, the former not really. OoK is basically a Father Gascoigne in steroids, much faster and deadlier, for the most part of the fight. I approached him like the witch in layer 1 DC dungeon, bait for a parryable attack and hit hard, but alas, shit hits the fan in his last phase... I'd just move around trying to avoid the sparks and what not and managed to connect one more gun + visceral in the middle of his chaos. you see it has like 10% life and your heart starts pumping... heal, dodge, heal, dodge, all while you look for the window to hit once or twice. I think I was lucky. I was level 137, which I think is an "ok" level to beat him, at no point in the game have I felt overleveled, in fact I've felt that having high levels and stats has turned bullshit impossible fights into hard-but-fair fights. It took me no more than 10 tries. Fire Dog and Defiled Amygdala felt way harder to be honest.
as for the
Fishing Hamlet Area: thanks but no thanks, I think I am starting to get burnt out from the game, didn't like the area at all, plenty of annoying stuff there: the homing purple skull enemies, those Frenzy inducing big brain fuckers, the shark ogres, plus it looks butt ugly compared to the main locales in the game
Today I'll do the Great Isz Chalice and then the next one with the queen. After that, I am done everything I can do in the game before the
oh these are my four +10 Weapons for this playthrough (1 Blood rock from the main game, 1 from DLC, 2 bought from the messengers) pure brute strength build
Ludwig's Holy Sword
Hand Axe
Whirligig Saw (I had to for the Dungeon Blood starved beast)
Holy Moonlight Sword (for that nice distance beam)
(never saw the appeal of the thread cane, to be honest, does shit damage, not very fast..)
