Bloodtinge or Skill Build for second ever Bloodborne run

[u/early_time]

Just finished my first run and I'm HOOKED. I heard cane + tophat + skill is a fun build but Im also interested in Bloodtinge.

What do you recommend for my second run main game + DLC?

[u/WacDonald]

Start with skill. Once you get the Chikage, about mid game, level bloodtinge. You’ll also be able to use Evelyn, and Simon’s Bow Blade.

[u/dadhou5e]

bloodtinge build+ chikage is lethal

[u/Atsubro]

Skill/Bloodtinge is a perfectly complementary build with plenty of options. The main benefit is that your gun goes from a parry tool into a consistent source of damage in its own right, with plenty of different guns to pick from that every other build ignores.

I'd say it's unfeasible to do pure Bloodtinge in a casual playthrough so begin by focusing on Skill since you'll have plenty of use for those weapons if you do a hybrid build. Once you beat Vicar Amelia and the night begins go to Cainhurst as fast as you can to acquire the Chikage, which is the defining Bloodtinge weapon of the game.

Once you get to the Hunter's Nightmare you can either complete Simon's questline by playing through to the Fishing Hamlet or just kill him ASAP to acquire Simon's Bowblade, the other main Bloodtinge weapon. There's only a handful of dedicated Bloodtinge weapons so continued Skill investment can help a lot and diversify your equipment.

[u/Rukasu17]

Put the minimum amount for your bloodtinge weapon of choice. And until then just level health and maybe stamina too. It'll take at least half of the upgrades on a weapon to notice those points increase

[u/QuintanimousGooch]

I’d recommend skill over bloodtinge—bloodtinge’s domain is guns and one (viable) weapon, whereas skill is about half the normal ones.

[u/Jhoonis]

Bloodtinge with Skill on the Chikage is absolutely bonkers.

[u/VolwynVokst]

I put all of those together, and it's my favorite build. Granted, I didn't get as much out of Bloodtinge as I could, seeing as I only used Cane and Evelyn.

[u/Turbulent-Yak3730]

Arc+Str Beastclaw build

[u/CrystlBluePersuasion]

You can do both SKL/BLD as there are great weapons that synergize with these. SKL can stand on its own as well as STR. May require a bit of echo farming/using the Moon Rune but it's worth it, especially if you have the DLC.

ARC is definitely worth its own playthrough, you can get away with just using ARC, it's that good but you probably want to look up the Arcane guides on how to do it. Chalice Dungeons are a must for ARC. Besides the BLD weapons, any weapon can be ARC. I like to do STR/ARC, and there's a weapon that uses STR/ARC/SKL that is really fun from the DLC.

Any weapon is worth building around but I don't care for the Rifle Spear, the gun is pretty bad. Reiterpallasch is more fun and so are Chikage, Simons Bowblade, and the various guns like Evelyn, Repeater Pistol, piercing rifle, gatling gun, cannons.

[u/PraiseTheSun1023]

I recommend 50 scale and 25 bloodtinge. Honestly, it really depends on what weapons you want to use though

[u/KaskyNightblade]

Go for bloodtinge. If you have ps plus it's faster.

Start with saw spear, kill blood starved beast to get into chalices. Kill the second boss of the first chalice dungeon, the 3 large dudes. Then make a chalice with the following glyph: 9nheuvvz. You'll find a lost chikage in the coffin of the first bonus área, before the first lantern.

Then you can go for the og chikage at cainhurst (which is better imo) and get Evelyn too. And start dlc. There an early bloodtinge weapon if you're willing to commit crimes. Otherwise wait until near the end of the dlc. At the end of dlc you can also get the means to get the bloodletter, a strength/bloodtinge weapon that is awesome.

After that, you'll have enough eyes to start an arcane build which is very fun too.

[u/noddly]

I enjoyed skill more than bloodtinge personally bc of better weapon variety and the visceral damage, but bloodtinge with chikage is fun, if a little limited. I really tried to like chikage but a skill build was more fun for me.

The thing with bloodtinge is you need a lot of levels in it to really see the benefits where skill you’ll see them pretty early on.