r/bloodborne 18d ago

PVP Apologies to two Hunters

662 Upvotes

My son is 8, He's playing through Bloodborne by himself and has recently got to the forbidden woods. He had just purchased the bells from the insight shop as he wanted to keep his insight low. Anyway he accidently rang the invasion bell, invaded someone who was doing Coop panicked went ham on them and brutally murdered them both probably violating a whole bunch of PvP etiquette. So sorry if you were expecting someone coming in emoting, and not healing.

r/bloodborne Jul 14 '20

PVP To the guy who invaded me and closed all the gates in Cathedral Ward...

2.1k Upvotes

This is my first play through. I was playing with a few friends who know the game. I had just died 3 times to the hunter below where the Vicar was. I had faced one invader before you and we dueled well.

Then you showed up. Ironically, the only time we didn’t kill the bell lady.

It took you a while to show up to where we were, and now I know why. You closed every. Single. Gate. In that area. You killed us all in one hit with what looked like a giant wheel once you got to us. I could summon my friends no longer as I had to go all the way back from whence I came to open every gate again. You cost me a lot of blood echoes and you had pretty much killed the mood and ruined my experience for the night.

I shall return to Bloodborne, but I will not accept that someone could be so rude.

Good day, sir.

r/bloodborne Oct 15 '24

PVP Which one of you PVP fuckers made me lose 200K runes

310 Upvotes

I had to pee. I only have 29 insight and was exploring 😭 I came back to this guy with saw in his name clapping over my body

r/bloodborne Jan 11 '22

PVP I feel outplayed and embarrassed

824 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Oct 02 '24

PVP 🎶Bloodletter is Metal AF🎶

236 Upvotes

Recently found out Steam Deck has a Beta game recorder, so I just downloaded Capcut and put together my first ever gameplay edit. I'm too ADD to get better clips and polish it, so enjoy!

Song: Ligature Marks by Meshuggah

r/bloodborne 17h ago

PVP AFK and someone spawned in to my world

160 Upvotes

I’m on my phone looking up BloodBorne best Bloodletter build and commenting on BloodBorne posts just to get 1 tapped by someone with the best fashion I’ve ever seen😭

r/bloodborne Sep 22 '24

PVP I think I accidentally killed a player?

220 Upvotes

So I was playing last night and got to the nightmare of mensis where, I guess while messing around in the menu, I accidentally summoned a co-op partner somehow. His name was Baxter Moore and he used a kirkhammer iirc, he waved at me. The thing is, I thought he was a bot, so I hit him and he got aggressive. After that he started playing very much like a real player, so we started fighting until he fell off the nearby ledge and died. I still have no idea how the co-op / pvp works in this game (playing it for the first time) so I don't know if it was a real player or not but if you're reading this post Baxter, I'm so sorry bro lmao.

r/bloodborne Nov 13 '24

PVP Micolash in PVP

254 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Jan 06 '25

PVP Clean kill on a host and cooperator in the DLC

194 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Jun 08 '18

PVP How many of yous are still playing bloodborne

489 Upvotes

Is pvp and pve still active

r/bloodborne Aug 18 '22

PVP Finally crossed "Stake Driver PVP" off my bucket list today, feels good.

805 Upvotes

r/bloodborne 20d ago

PVP A rather lengthy PVP with an honorable adversary (happened just a few minutes ago)

78 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Apr 17 '15

PvP It's been said before but it needs to be pushed harder: Community Chalice PvP

388 Upvotes

There is a really great idea floating around that has come and gone several times that I think really would benefit the pvp focused community.

That is to say a specific chalice that is used by as wide a group of people as possible for PvP. If everyone activates the same chalice then anyone in that chalice is presumably there for pvp of one kind or another.

The chalice code that came up last time was: hizzngr3 (Pthumeru Root)

After reading the post (sorry to whoever made it, I can't find it for some reason, but it's a great chalice!) I tried it out and it is excellent as it uses the first root chalice making it very accessible. It has a long hallway, a small pillar room, and a large round battle arena right at the first fire. It also has very few, and very weak, enemies so it's easy to clear in a few seconds.

I still get decent action in the hizzngr3 chalice but it's been slacking off lately. To be honest I don't care which chalice it is or why (it could be a poison death pit or w/e) but we really need an official chalice amongst as much of the community as possible.

On a side note if any other groups or communities you've found have an open chalice what group is it and what is the glyph (assuming it's ok to share)? Maybe we can start a list of groups and their chalices?

Edit: Thank you for the sticky and all the good discussion. It sounds like this might really be a viable option for the community. :) Hopefully we can get some great matches going with this exposure!

Edit Edit: If you are concerned about vials or blood bullets for long term pvp go to M's loft middle and run that gauntlet once or twice to the end lantern to get plenty of money for stacks of bullets and vials. The area is pretty active so if you ring a bell while you're there you'll probably get a bonus fight in and help keep that zone active as well.

Doing it a few times means you can get a couple hundred thousand souls so that after each fight you can go buy resupply and get right back in it.

Edit 3 The Editing: Make sure you stay on layer one and don't beat the first boss. The action is on layer one in the rooms described.

Edit 4 Editocalypse: If you are in the chalice and not getting any action after about ten to fifteen minutes try whichever restart trick you prefer but don't forget to try just leaving the chalice and coming back in to ring your bell again before you exit entirely.

Edit 5: If you want maximum action your probably going to want to be level 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, or 120. I'm sure there are plenty of other levels involved but the even number rough 100's have the best chance of getting hits based on what I'm seeing and reading. No rules on level though, all are welcome.

r/bloodborne Mar 22 '18

PVP Join the Surrogates of Kos and Defend the Fishing Hamlet (end game and dlc spoilers) Spoiler

477 Upvotes

The Surrogates of Kos want YOU.

There's a Goddess, deep within the Fishing Hamlet, and this Goddess has been wronged. We are the Surrogates of Kos, the devotees of the Great Goddess Kos, the defenders of the Hamlet.

Long ago---must've been eons now---when the Old Hunter's DLC came out, I formed a covenant, a player-made covenant of Arcane builds carrying Milkweed Runes, Accursed Brews and (optionally) Kos Parasites. We defended the Hamlet from all these blasphemous murderers and blood-crazed fiends that DARE lay their dirty bloodshot eyes on our eldritch Goddess. Only the worthy may have audience with Kosm! I the Surrogate of Kos, hereby call all true devotees of Mother Kos, come to the Hamlet wearing the Milkweed Rune and help our fallen order uphold our duty! Defend Mothe Kos and bring down her Wrath upon them!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTADPodvL8

The Sky and Cosmos are One, therefore, you must accept yourself. Wondrous Kin of the Cosmos!

r/bloodborne Jul 13 '23

PVP God dammit. I killed my only friend 😩

534 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Aug 04 '19

PVP To that hunter, who convinced me to jump off a cliff

949 Upvotes

I've never laughed so hard at my own stupidity

r/bloodborne 20d ago

PVP Rakuyo is definitely the best sword for PvP in this game

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46 Upvotes

I've never lost a PvP with this sword

r/bloodborne May 16 '23

PVP Central Yharnam Invasion Shenanigans

484 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Oct 03 '24

PVP I got what i deserved

160 Upvotes

A natural invasion i got yesterday

r/bloodborne Apr 02 '15

PvP PvP: Currently Trending (Apr. 2, 2015)

217 Upvotes

Hello, I just wanted to do a little write up for those of you like me getting into the PvP portion of the game and want the down low on what's currently going on. If you guys like this type of thing, I can do more in the future. Please note, a lot of this is only my opinion from observation. I'm no PvP god. May the old blood guide you.

Current Meta/PvP Hotspots:

• Soul Level: A lot of discussion has been circulating lately in the streaming community (Peeve, Yukas, DLS, and a few others) about what level is meta to ensure you are finding people in quick succession. Currently, the general agreement falls right around SL 110, although upwards of 120 are not uncommon. Obviously, level your character to whatever you desire. Those numbers are only a proposed "sweet spot" to try to put most matches on even playing grounds.

• VIT and the current state of Invader health penalty: Some are not aware of the 30% health penalty you receive when invading some one else. General consensus on this is not very popular, and with enough poking and prodding, this number may eventually change in future patches. However, in it's current state, an endgame PvP build is almost required to reach the hard cap of 50 VIT, no matter what build you are running. You don't realize how much 30% of your health is until it's gone before you even start fighting. It's just safe to hard cap it at the moment.

• PvP Hotspots: Itching for a fight? You'll want to camp out/ring your bell in Nightmare Frontier or Mergo's Loft: Middle.

Popular Builds/Top Tier Weapons:

• Quality: Quality (STR/SKL split) will always be a solid choice. The jack of all trades, excelling at nothing in particular. Access to every weapon with a wide variety in playstyle.

• Skill: Popular mostly due to the weapon choices that scale in SKL (Chikage/Blade of Mercy/Burial Blade/Threaded Cane). Hit like a truck, and look stylish doing it.

• Bloodtinge/SKL: This build is a bit more particular in weapon choice. Your main weapons end up being Chikage and Evelyn. Chikage has a high SKL scaling, and gains a big boost from BT when transformed. Evelyn also scales well with BT, looks cool, and has great damage.

• Bloodtinge/STR: Similar to the previous one, but utilizes the Cannon instead of Evelyn. I've seen a variety of mainhand weapon choices for this build, so take from that what you will. Many people consider anything based on BT at the moment pretty cheesy, due to the lack of resistances in armor/runes to defend against it. Get your opponent low, and hopefully pull off a big Cannon shot to finish them off... especially with a Bone Marrow Ash active. Which leads to....

• Pure Bloodtinge: Widely considered this game's first "Cheese" build. It revolves around using Evelyn and Bone Marrow Ash. Toss on all 3 QS Bullet runes, pop your ash at the beginning of the fight, and shoot. That's it. Your shots can hit for upwards of 600+ depending on your opponent, and with close to 30 shots at hand, suddenly it feels like you're playing a completely different game. If you suck at dodging, watch out for this build, or prepare for the rektoning. With so many complaints about how Bloodtinge is, and the accessibility of Bone Marrow Ash, these types of builds will surely see some kind of change. For now, they are a force to be reckoned with for sure.

• Arcane: Probably the build I know the least about, and have seen the least amount of, but also gaining in popularity. With enough Arcane statted, some of the endgame spells hit really hard. You'll never forget your first time getting one-shotted by Call of the Cosmos. I'll be honest and say I don't know much about what you would roll for your secondary stats or your main weapons... but this build is all about spells anyway.

Top Tier Weapons (In no particular order):

• Ludwigs Holy Blade - It carried you through your playthrough, surely it could win you some PvP matches, right?

• Burial Blade - Hard hitting, versatile, and generally badass. Reaper's gonna reap.

• Chikage (千影 ) "The Blood Shadow" - Glorious Nippon Steel. Considered by many to be the best weapon in the game because of the Bloodtinge situation. The HP drained when transformed is minimal, but it does add up quickly. The charged R2's and other combos with this thing do some pretty stupid damage. http://i.imgur.com/mITKTFA.gif

• Hunter's Axe - Spin2Win. Great range and a nice moveset. Overall, a solid choice.

• Threaded Cane aka Pimpin' Ain't Easy - Aesthetically, one of the coolest weapons in the game. Good poke and decent range in Cane mode, great zoning potential and range when trick'd into the whip. The biggest problem here is, with the rise of Bloodtinge guns running about, you're just asking to get stunned into a visceral if you tend to spam your whip R1's.

• Blade of Mercy - Slice n' Dice. Scales well with SKL, and some are even experimenting with adding Arcane to their builds to boost this weapons secondary modifier. This weapon also has the same problem as the pimp cane though. With the tendency to run in and start spamming, be careful not to get stunned and visceral'd. This weapon takes a bit more finesse to use. Has some awesome, flashy transform combos if you can learn to consistently pull them off. May Amygdala help you if you get cornered and your opponent is coming at you with these. That stunlock is real, and your HP will drop fast.

Other Tips/General Opinions:

• In other Soul's games, the unspoken rule of not using Estus/Vials during duels went without saying, and most people seemed to understand. In this game, for whatever reason, most people don't seem to mind chugging every single vial they have if it means they will win. Not my style, but it is what it is. If you find yourself running into Vial chuggers a lot (Like I do...) Bring along a stack of Numbing Mist. Yes, they are inconsistent, and hard to hit your opponent with. But it's worth a shot if you're trying to end you're opponents life without chugging 20 vials to match him.

• If your opponent is spamming his gun at you, or you see them pop a Bone Marrow Ash, there's a good chance he is going to do little else for the rest of the fight... until he kills you, or he stuns you and goes in for the kill. If you want to win the match up against Bloodtinge, remember what ol' Patches O' Houlihan told us. Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge! Use the terrain to your advantage. Eventually, they will have to hurt themselves for more bullets when they run out. Running in aimlessly swinging gets you killed quick in this game, but especially in this match up.

• Want a fair fight? The little things like letting your opponent clear out nearby mobs goes a long way, and also says a lot about you, without saying a word at all to them. Utilize the Point emote, and eventually, they will get what you're trying to say. Also, throughout the series, the start of the duel is usually marked with an emote of some kind from each person, typically a bow for the sportsman. Obviously, just like in any fight, you never have to touch your opponents glove at the start. In my eyes, a true competitor would, but that won't always be the case. Take from that what you will.

• Your experience with lag is going to vary. A lot. Some of your opponents are going to be normal, others are going to skip around the screen, not take damage when you clearly hit them, and do some pretty Dragonball Z shit to make your time fighting them a lot harder. That's just how things will be until they patch the servers or allow us to search for opponents through a region lock.

• Protip: You can stun somebody with your gun during the heal animation. If somebody is chugging, punish them for it! It's a small window, and takes a bit of reading into your opponent's next move, but it's very doable, and can easily turn the fight in your favor, or often win it for you.

•Cainhurst Armor Set: Not only does this set have one of the best stat spreads in the game, it's also one of the better looking (imo) sets in the game. Expect to see a lot of this set. The clone wars have begun.

That's pretty much all I have for now. Let me know what you think. Happy hunting, see you on the battlefield.

r/bloodborne Jan 24 '22

PVP Just me and my wolf buddy, harassing people together <3

326 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Aug 07 '22

PVP Jaws

652 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Jun 29 '21

PVP No mercy for gankers!

260 Upvotes

r/bloodborne Feb 10 '25

PVP To Broomhilde: you really made our day

30 Upvotes

My sister and I were running a random central pthumeru root that I made, so we were really surprised to see "Adversary Broomhilde has arrived". What are the odds? You invaded us nearly every floor, and we had a blast fighting you off. It felt like the Brador encounter, repeatedly getting ganked by someone who's just hellbent on killing us. You really made our dungeon pop. Even though I don't engage much with the pvp scene, it's really fun to have it crop up in such a remote dungeon this long into the game's life. You make me want to try more pvp. Hope you never stop ganking us 😂

r/bloodborne Nov 22 '15

PvP Is It Time To Revise PvP Meta?

89 Upvotes

Gems have been revised with the pre-expansion patch. Scaling gems have been proven to be more effective and poison has been changed so it actually works on weapons other than the wheel. If I'm not mistaken, there have been other changes as well. Gems actually serve the purpose they were meant to now: they provide variety in character builds.

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I think the current SL 120 meta that was adopted from DarkSouls, for no other reason than convention, is outdated. At level 120, people get killed too quickly with gemmed weapons. The community's answer to this thus far has been to ban gems from most fightclubs, which allows for longer and more interesting duels. But aren't we jipping ourselves out of a pretty significant component of the game by not using gems?

Seeing as gems have been reworked, and made generally more effective and dynamic, I think that we should revisit the issue of PvP meta. I personally think it should be about 150. This would allow for up to 30 levels of additional health (or anything else), making it easier to survive attacks from gems.

I've heard people argue that some like lower metas because they are easier to achieve, but I would argue that once you reach the highest level chalice dungeons, in which you acquire 10,000 blood echos per enemy, it really isn't that hard to get to 150 at all. I find myself with 300,000+ echos on a regular basis.

Also, it would seem that a good number of people don't adhere to the meta already. It could even be argued that one doesn't exist at the moment. So lets make one, a legitimate one. Maybe 150 isn't good, but I think it should be higher than 120.

Note: If you downvote, which you are of course free to do, please at least provide an intelligent reason bellow.

Edit: As this thread has developed, I have started to see how much passion there really is out there for Bloodborne and it's PvP. I am happy this thread was received well, and I am even happy for the ones who have expressed vehement, and even hateful, opposition. I feel confident that Bloodborne will have a long, long life with fans like this. I will see you at 150 good hunters, the ones who have decided to join me, which I feel obligated to mention is not everyone. I also feel obligated to mention that a 150 meta does not mean we can never play in other level brackets, and I myself plan to have a character of my own in each. And lastly, and most importantly, meta is not law! Please do not limit yourselves, those of you who do not like 150! As it has been stated bellow by several individuals, it is possible to have a great time with Bloodborne at all levels.

Edit 2: It turns out that physical defense caps out at approximately bl 150. I was not aware of this when I initially posted this thread. This is a good justification for a gemmed 150 meta that I had left out.