Topic: Bloodborne Tavern: Impressions, Help, Discussion Board

@Jaz007 I hated that area but found the boss to be easy. I remember the first time I got to the boss I forgot to unlock a shortcut and I died, so I had to trudge all the way around to it. I remember coming later to it to find an item there and I was so overpowered that I couldn't believe it was so easy to kill all of them.
@Kidfried I'm glad you enjoy them

You could say that area was a... nightmare... * ba-dum-tshh *

I'm the same as @NecuVise and found the boss more annoying than difficult. Quite a lot of cool lore attached to him though.

@Jaz007 When you beat Rom that is a total head f moment. Absolutely blew my mind.

Defiled Amygdala is difficult not because of its mechanic or anything but because your HP is halved. I struggled so much with it and hated the game because of it. I still think it's one of the worst game designs I've seen to date to halve player's HP in an RPG game. It just goes against the very nature of RPG games.

Anyway, there is a very cheap way to defeat that boss. I'll let you @Kidfried to discover it

Oh wait you guys are on about the optional boss Amygdala? Lol I was on about the actual boss, Mirolash lol

@Kidfried Congrats then, as that was the hardest boss for me as it would just one hit me all the time.

One thing I noticed with these bosses in bloodborne and other souls games is that, depening on the playstyle and the weapon used, different bosses are difficult for different people. For example, I struggled A LOT with the blood starved beast but found the bosses in the DCL to be fair and even easy, but for some people the DLC bosses are too difficult.

@Kidfried yeah, well that was exactly my point. Defiled amygdala was so demotivating for me but I didn't struggle with the DLC bosses. What's your main weapon? I mostly played with the ludwigs blade and saw, even though I started with the axe.

I also have 50 in str and skill, not sure about stamina as I have increased it with runes. I like being aggressive and use saw clever only for bosses weak to serrated dmg. Most of the time I played with ludwigs blade.

Defiled Amygdala is a tool. In the end, I just went off and ground out some level-ups. Not just a couple of levels either, I'm talking about 30 levels. I wanted to be able to come back and absolutely destroy that tool.

I don’t think it’s a terrible boss battle, but dear gosh trying to get back to him is the problem. I went up and then back down a lift that looked like a shortcut, but I don’t know if I didn’t open it or just can’t find it, but though rock throwing yeti’s plus poison lake always get me.

@Jaz007 if you used the lift then it's there, right at the beginning to your right, obviously. Just look for it and you'll find it.

@Kidfried congrats

@NecuVise Thanks man. I found the shortcut and absolutely wrecked Agy. That was the easiest and shortest boss battle ever.

Does anyone know how to get to place where Agy grabs you? I need to go there to progress more, but I can’t remnber how after two years...
And do you do get to the the clinic (very light spoiler) from the forbidden woods or nightmare realm? I’m trying to remember that too.

@Kidfried Thanks - you guys are the best!

After God of War, I feel confident enough that I can handle this game.

@Octane Over confidence will probably be the first thing that kills you lol. Well after the first enemy that is.

@JohnnyShoulder I thought you were meant to lose that fight?

@Octane Yea, but getting cocky will see you dead at the bottom of the mud pretty fast. I rediscovered that as I died in a previous area I was over leveled for when I started playing again. Slightly embarrassingly too.

@Jaz007 Don't worry, it won't happen to me

@Kidfried So now you've completed the game, what are your top 5 bosses?

Remember those spoiler tags...

@Kidfried I've grown to hate the last but one boss fight as I've tried so many times i think I've got a bit fed up of facing him! Will have another go after I've done the dlc.

My top 5 are:
Ebreitas
One Reborn
Darkbeast Paarl
Father Gazza
Vicar Amelia

And i can't remember many of the chalice dungeons bosses either, although I've not done too many. I seem to remember a big fire dog thing being quite neat.

So, I haven’t updated for a couple weeks because I’ve been indisposed but tried to get back into B.B. this weekend. I was able to kill Amygdala with only about 3 or 4 attempts, so I thought I was ready to go back to Cainhurst, but I’m still struggling with even the opening enemies there. Those blood-sucking tick like insect things just tear me apart and there are a ton of them.

I did finally figure out that I think I have my blood gems all set up wrong on my weapons. I now have tons of gems I’ve accumulated and I started putting elemental gems on my weapons. I put fire attack on my saw Cleaver and bolt attack on my Ludwig’s Holy Blade, but as I was fighting these enemies at Cainhurst, I found that I was having to hit those stupid things like 10-12 times to get them down and I was dying a lot. So I went and changed out to just gems that increase attack % only and they go down easier now. So if someone can clarify for me, but it seems that if you put an elemental attack gem on then it seems to negate the physical attack properties of the weapon; the top line labeled attack goes blank. So it seems no matter if you have say, 2 gems that increase physical attack %, and then a fire attack gem too, the 2 gems adding physical attack % appear to be doing nothing. At least that’s what it felt like.
Anyways, I think maybe it best to have one weapon with an elemental gem and one without. Plus the Tonitrus, which gives me another elemental option in a pinch.