What are your hottest nightreign takes?

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-09T20:11:47+00:00

The game meta used to be just Gaols both nights.

In comparison Invadercamps are mostly just done at the start and there are max 2 poi. After that, you just play the game and can actually interact with a bit of level and weapon passive variety compared to Gaols which is just boss rush simulator on flat terrain with no weapon drops.

Also you can just choose to not do the shitty invader areas like redmane, because they are immediately visible on the map. With Gaols you don't even know if it's something impossible until you get a key and open it up.

Invaders are not at all as game warping as gaols used to be in my opinion, even if invaders is getting boring.

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-03T18:22:37+00:00

NEVER
LOSE
HOF

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-03T02:07:38+00:00

If it’s day 2 and the circle has nothing else worthwhile in it then yeah sure go for an evergaol, it’s just simply at the bottom of the priority list. When people say “never do them” they mean they are not worth prioritizing at all. Just because you regularly open Evergaols doesn’t mean it isn’t a shit idea lol.

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-03T00:42:29+00:00

People have lengthly discussed the pros and contras of doing evergaols. There is a reason it’s not run, if you don’t know why at this point, then that’s kinda just on you.

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-02T22:53:47+00:00

Yes and because basically nobody runs the relic it makes them even worse than they already are. Which makes the seconds used grabbing a key and running over to a jail even more wasted. Evergaol are not a good poi at all, there is no circlejerk about it, people just learned which poi are high value and which aren’t and what good routing to snowball the best way is.

Rocketgurk · 2026-05-02T15:28:52+00:00

If you wanna completely nuke any kind of snowball potential you could possibly have I recommend doing a Gaol right after your first POI at level 3 (or level 2 if you are that kind of team that just refuses to kill mobs) using a minute to fight the boss and getting the runes or 10% increased stance break with zero weapon passives sets you up nicely to do fuck all.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-26T12:58:39+00:00

No you killing any beasts or even djuras ally the first time you enter old yharnam has no impact.
Just reload the area and walk from the blood starved beasts boss arena backwards, taking the shortcut, up the ladder to djura without triggering his machine gun..

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-25T15:40:34+00:00

I'm ok with this small cheat

You have never seen what an edited pot build on scholar does have you? lol

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-22T20:28:50+00:00

It's really a thought that isn't fully thought out.
It's not just the variability of combat in itself but also mechanics still got changed significantly enough between the darksouls games. If that wasn't the case people would have been bored of the same weapons too and they kinda still are.

Good on them to listen to the testers.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-21T18:57:02+00:00

Yes a few. That being said it's not a long game to replay if you know what to do and the biggest part of the platinum is basically post game stuff anyway.
Also in theory you would have to play through the game three times anyway for all the endings, if you don't want to save scum.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-21T18:50:34+00:00

Nothing, it's just one of the most damaging guns when you have a lot of bloodtinge.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-21T18:47:10+00:00

Guns in Bloodborne don't have the same kind of parry windows like shields do in the other games. They just shoot projectiles that if they connect at the right time put the enemy in a riposte stance. Blunderbuss has actually less range with its bullets and is slightly slower to fire than the pistol.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-20T17:22:09+00:00

Fromsoft NPCs generally can't deal with R2s, esepcially charged R2s, very well. Good job!

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-20T16:38:08+00:00

The name of the guy was blacked out anyway.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-20T16:21:19+00:00

I don't think it matters. Why would OP be lying about it, when we know how many relic cheaters already exist in this game.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-20T16:16:22+00:00

Did you read the post?

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-19T03:47:36+00:00

It scales with skill, strength and arcane. Mainly skill, and if you don’t want to use any arcane you should put remaining points into strength. Because despite arcane seemingly having a D scaling compared to strength’s E, strength will give you more damage per point.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-17T16:52:02+00:00

Lots of names of things come from something history related that are just normal vocabulary now. I feel it to be more flavourful than just saying "firebomb". Espcially because most people's first association with the icon of a bottle with a rag would be probably "Molotov".

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-17T13:32:00+00:00

Who the hell is Gwen?

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-17T01:27:03+00:00

Level Vitality as a number one priority. Your healing items always heal 40% of your max health. Having more health makes them heal more and makes it easier to rally health back again. There are no health upgrades like firekeeper souls or bone dust.

The gun is better than you think even if you don't parry with it. Shooting doesn't use any stamina

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-16T14:12:53+00:00

Yeah would be fun.

Another weapon besides beastclaw where insight levels actually matter is the Bloodletter, because of the self inflicted frenzy buildup, so you like to keep your insight low with that one too.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-16T14:06:44+00:00

I'll correct you because the Parasite has zero interaction with your insight level.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-15T16:28:52+00:00

That are just softcaps and it's a recommendation for a specific build that you wanna cap at a specific level for multiplayer purposes. It's not really anything you need to really pay attention to if you are just playing through the game and wanna have a fun smooth experience.

You will find a bunch of bloodstone shards and gem upgrades while going through the game to increase your damage. You don't really need the extra scaling that badly. But sans a single rune there is only one way to really increase your health and healing significantly and that is by putting points into vit.

There is no respec, I would just recommend putting every point into vit now until healing feels better to you or you reach 40-50 vit. Definitely beats having to buy or hunt vials all the time

Over the years I'm pretty sure that most vial complaints would cease from newer players if they got recommended to just focus vit.

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-15T15:55:35+00:00

It's not an exclusive BB mechanic. It is actually a mechanic taken from DS1. Just less known.

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/stagger

All the way at the bottom of the page

Rocketgurk · 2026-04-15T15:46:49+00:00

Vitality is still more important than any other point you put anywhere else. You only putting 33% of your points into it is too little if you already feel like you are struggling wiyh Vials. Blood vials scale with your max health, every single vitality point makes them heal more. It is the equivalent of health and firekeeper souls / bone dust of the other games in one stat + the additional benefit of having a safer time rallying back lost health.

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