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arcane is a weird stat! it makes arcane weapons more effective & interacts with items in a way that stats donāt in other soulses.
itās fun because nearly every enemy/boss has some kind of huge elemental weakness. you can convert most weapons to fire, lightning, or arcane (magic damage) weapons with gems, and their stat scaling will switch to pure arcane instead of strength/skill, so you have tons of flexibility when it comes to how you wanna fight stuff. you also get to use hunterās tools, which all have awkward animations (because youāre tapping into Eldritch Powers you probably shouldnāt be) and only situationally useful, but theyāre very useful in those situations! one of them lets you manifest tentacles from the palm of your hand. you can eventually level strength a bit, get the moonlight sword and shoot big lasers everywhere (also, its transform attack causes a giant explosion) or turn yourself into a glowing tentacled broccoli alien and spit Old One Goo while you slither around.
this reddit thread goes into the nuts and bolts, but the short starting guide is: pick the cleaver and get it to +3. thereās a guaranteed waning fire gem you can find in the cathedral ward & it wonāt fit in any other early weapon. this thing will wreck beasts as theyāre weak to serrated & fire damage, and will keep being useful til the end of the game if you want it to. ignore guns & equip the hunterās torch (it scales on arcane, inexplicably) & flamesprayer (itās really good for the first half, especially when you buff it with bone marrow ash)
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yeah I loved how only in an arcane build could you get like functional projectiles again, and only fairly late
Bloodborne stats generally arenāt super interesting but arcane makes a lot of edge cases pretty cool
it is fully useless if you donāt figure out elemental weapons fairly early on but hey
I should play Bloodborne again, I havenāt come too close to replaying a lot of games from that approximate era yet but itās as exciting as any of them and itās coming due
The Tonitrus build is a lot of fun. But yeah, you canāt really do an Arcane build without doing research, for better or worse. Mostly because to really make it work you have to find stuff and finding that stuff is hidden all over the place.
i canāt imagine bloodborne pvp is very active now but the aforementioned broccoli alien form is the most fun iāve had with it in any souls game
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oh god this just hit me all of a sudden
the icon for pebbles shows they have a kind of circular groove on them
and you always find several of them dropped by the eye-scooping witches
are they actually petrified eyeballs?? i am fucking tripping here i swear
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Yep, thatās basically it. I think thatās also why the crows drop them. Thereās also a fairly large number of characters in the game that have had their eyes removed, in order to āsee with eyes on the insideā and so forth
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This theory is widely accepted
oh ok, thanks a lot wikia
still love that this game is continuing to freak me out on new levels, years down the line
edit: also, the idea of becoming literally petrified due to glimpsing the unknowable is pretty great and thematically on point.
iām just in awe that the horror in bloodborne pervades the world to such a degree that the semblances of normality it does have are ultimately just a thin tale woven over the surface. like a last ditch effort to retain sanity.
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The crows have eyes!
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Gustave DorĆ© was already mentioned much earlier in here, but this pieceās mood hit me strongly just now
the children seem almost statuelike
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Been playing through Bloodborne again to help a friend on his first hunt. My new characterās ~Lv 40 and my old ng+++ near 160, but I think one of the last patches let you password co-op regardless of level difference anyways. With some sort of stat average balance.
If you wanna join up, weāre just after beating Vicar Amelia and likely doing Hemwick Charnel Lane or Forbidden Woods a late evening this week. Iām down for joining fresh starts too.
Maybe I would actually play this game if I had a dedicated coop partner 
I think thereās a few sections that must be done solo, far as I can recall small brief exceptions. Getting to the point where you can join/summon takes a small bit of prep work.
If you decide to create a character and Seek Paleblood, let me know so we can coordinate some ringing of bells. Can do 3 in total, sometimes 1 slot occupied by a summonable npc.
Iām currently helping a friend with bloodborne.
One example is thst you canāt summon in the cathedral ward until all 3 gates are open.
Unseen village is unpleasant for coop.
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I have a question! I have been playing this game for a few weeks and I really liked it! Now I have the chance to kill the final two bosses, or keep going through the DLC.
Is the dlc worth it? I have killed Ludwig and gone to the Research Facilities, but now it seems less interesting.
Should i skip the rest of the dlc and just finish the game, or is it going to be interesting again?