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Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:27 am**

Jawa's ongoing Bloodborne saga has now had me impulse purchasing the Old Hunters DLC even though I have zero idea when I'd even play the game apart from looking at the character creation menu and turning it off. Your fault Jawa

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:59 am**

KjGarly wrote:Jawa's ongoing Bloodborne saga has now had me impulse purchasing the Old Hunters DLC even though I have zero idea when I'd even play the game apart from looking at the character creation menu and turning it off. Your fault Jawa

To be fair that's the default Jawa patented gaming method.

You go Jawa, you can beat the cleric beast!

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:21 am**

jawafour wrote:> Got back to the bridge
> Defeated the werewolves (using that "caught in the door" trick )
> Faced up against the Cleric Beast

A world of pain . That boss health bar is just ridiculously big. Oh, well, at least I got there . I'll take a break and then I'll fight another day.

Stick with it Jawa, you never forget your first boss victory! Not sure about Bloodborne but the first boss in all three Dark Souls games are pitched perfectly difficulty-wise. They're a challenge to newcomers but have attack patterns which are straightforward to learn, and you always feel like you're learning each attempt. Good luck man, I really hope you get through it. :-)

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 12:41 pm**

Parksey wrote:The thing I found with the CB, and other "Beast" bosses, is that you intuitively try and dodge backwards or to the side. Because they are quite big, they usually have decent reach and you still get thwacked when you come out of the dodge.

You have to learn to dodge forward, into the attacks. This often puts you right underneath them and, more often that not, you can beat the beast bosses by wailing on their legs from behind.

This is the best advice for the big bosses. Dodging gives a few frames of invulnerablily, so you can dodge forward and through boss attacks to get near enough to cause some damage. Intuitively you try and get out of the the way of attacks but that can leave you too far away to do any damage, because of the invulnerablily when dodging you can actually stay a lot closer than you might think.

Posted: **Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:26 pm**

Ad7 wrote:Here's my cleric beast fight from way back...

Ta for sharing the vid, Ad - will watch later!

Parksey wrote:...Jawa, you have opened up the shortcut from the Central Yarhnam lantern that basically leads back to the werewolf bridge right? It makes the trek back to the CB much quicker...

Yeah, I think I've been going the longer way round, Parksey; gotta check this out.

KjGarly wrote:Jawa's ongoing Bloodborne saga has now had me impulse purchasing the Old Hunters DLC...

. It's nice to hear that other Hunters are rising, Kj!

Ad7 wrote:...You go Jawa, you can beat the cleric beast!

You know, I'm wondering about re-tackling a few beasts (maybe the werewolves) and taking the collected echoes back to the 'Dream for levelling up. Maybe I'll then be a bit tougher for facing up to the Cleric Beast.

more heat than light wrote:Stick with it Jawa, you never forget your first boss victory!...

Cheers, mhtl! I feel the moment is coming when I can join the pantheon of GRcade Hunters :toot:

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sawyerpip wrote:
Parksey wrote:(Cleric Beast tactics)

This is the best advice for the big bosses...

Definitely, sawyer'. I shall look through Parksey's advice before I face up to the boss

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Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:39 pm**

Managed to get the platinum trophy for this yesterday. I'm never touching the chalice dungeons again, the defiled one in particular took the piss.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:42 pm**

Good work! I'm stuck on that defiled strawberry floating flaming dog bastard

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:55 pm**

Yeah, I think that was the most infuriating one of the lot. It was a long, drawn out fight of mostly just waiting until he does his coughing up lava attack as it's the only opportunity you have to get some free hits in. That, and praying he didn't do his one-shot stampede and pounce moves.

The boss in the layer after that isn't much easier.

Posted: **Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:54 pm**

Finally beat

Feels so good. The Flame Sprayer is pretty.... Potent.

Posted: **Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:10 am**

SugarDave wrote:Managed to get the platinum trophy for this yesterday. I'm never touching the chalice dungeons again, the defiled one in particular took the piss.

I will never utter those words.

I think I've unlocked just a single trophy. Possibly not even that! :oops:

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:55 am**

jawafour wrote:.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:35 am**

He'll have stopped and started a different game

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:38 am**

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Finally beat
Vicar Almelia

Feels so good. The Flame Sprayer is pretty.... Potent.

Congrats

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:08 pm**

Hexx wrote:He'll have stopped and ~~started~~ bought a different game

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:57 pm**

NickSCFC wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Finally beat
Vicar Almelia

Feels so good. The Flame Sprayer is pretty.... Potent.

Congrats

That genuinely gave me the fear when i saw that. I did not even realize at first that the post was aimed at me, its just so uncanny it made sense immediately. Ergh.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:43 pm**

Bloodborne is still on my playlist but I haven't had a chance to return to it so far this week :-)

. I feel confident that the cleric beast hasn't moved anywhere in my absence, though.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:04 pm**

more heat than light wrote:
jawafour wrote:> Got back to the bridge
> Defeated the werewolves (using that "caught in the door" trick )
> Faced up against the Cleric Beast

A world of pain . That boss health bar is just ridiculously big. Oh, well, at least I got there . I'll take a break and then I'll fight another day.

Stick with it Jawa, you never forget your first boss victory! Not sure about Bloodborne but the first boss in all three Dark Souls games are pitched perfectly difficulty-wise. They're a challenge to newcomers but have attack patterns which are straightforward to learn, and you always feel like you're learning each attempt. Good luck man, I really hope you get through it.

The Cleric beast is probably a little tougher than most Dark Soul's openers, it's a little further into the game.

Still not massively difficult though.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:13 pm**

The camera during the fight is as much of a boss as the boss himself.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:29 pm**

Made it through the

today. That was all sorts of terrifying. I found the

perfectly manageable however, taking them down second time without any NPC assistance. Compared to the stock enemies in the area they were something of a pushover. Which as a relief as I couldn't find anyway to quickly access a shortcut that I had unlocked near that fight. My sense of direction really sucks....

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:24 pm**

If you're doing Forbidden Woods, make sure you check out the poison swamp area. There's some good loot and a passageway leading back to Iosefka's clinic which leads onto some nice lore stuff (and eventually an important item).

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