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Bloodborne Build: The Occultist

  • Member
    September 1, 2016

    The Occultist is easily the most fun I've had in Bloodborne. You get to step back from the literal bloodbath that is normal Bloodborne combat, and use artifacts of great power to smite foes from a distance. 

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    The Occultist

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    The Basics

    Origin: Cruel Fate. The Occultist went through abhorent, harrowing misery ever since he was a child. The torment he faced every day would send even the greatest men to suicide. He was kidnapped at a young age, kept as a slave in the basement of the house of a monster. His captor had a fetish for inflicting sufferance, watching a helpless soul squirm under his might. The local authority eventually arrested and crucified the destroyer of innocence, but alas, the damage was already done to the Occultist.

    Long story short, the Occultist eventually learned of the Old Ones, through a wise librarian... he had found his purpose.

    Right Hand: Ludwig's Holy Blade, Tonitrus, and the Holy Moonlight Sword. Ludwig's Holy Blade is one of the best Arcane weapons in the game. Slap a fire rune on there and you are good. The Tonitrus is a bit more situational. Due to its' lesser damage output and shorter range compared to LHB, it is best used against enemies that are weak to lightning (basically anything that looks like it's from outer space).

    The reason I made this build in the first place is so I could use Holy Moonlight Sword. It is a very fun weapon, and gives you another projectile to work with. In the end, the two slots I put in my right hand are Tonitrus and HMS. The lightning is really good in certain situations, and HMS is all-around effective. I eventually want to get my hands on the Kos Parasite, but I just can't beat the Orphan (I have been stuck on him for months, on two characters, no less).

    Left Hand: Torch, Flame Sprayer, Loch Shield. The torch is really only useful early game against beasts. It isn't practical late game. The same can be said about the Flame Sprayer. I really wanted to make it work, because I had seen other people make it work, but I never found a use for it. I think I will eventually upgrade it to +9, but I'm not sure. Loch Shield is for fashion, because shields in this game aren't very good.   

    Apparel: Really doesn't matter. I like the Mensis cage or anything that covers the entire face. The Charred Hunter set with the Blindfold Cap is what I have been rocking, and it looks pretty sweet.

    Hunter Tools: Augur of Ebrietas, Executioner's Gloves. AoE is your main spell. It can parry, it can backstab, and it does 300-500 damage all for the cost of one bullet. Also, it knocks back or staggers enemies. At 50 Arcane, it is easily the best tool. You have to be relatively close for it to damage, though.

    Executioner's Gloves is good because it gives you a ranged attack with insane tracking, but don't expect great damage from it unless you get to around 70 Arcane. In fact, I've noticed that it does less damage to AoE, but it costs two more bullets.

    The best projectile you have in your arsenal, though, is the Holy Moonlight Sword R2. It does comparable damage to Augur of Ebrietas, and only costs one Quicksilver Bullet. It has no tracking, so it can be good to master aiming it without locking on (I have yet to accomplish this).

    You can use the other Hunter Tools, and I do suggest that you at least experiment with all of them. The most effective ones, in my experience, however, are the ones that I mentioned above.

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    Level 85 Stats

    Vitality: 32, Endurance: 20, Strength: 16, Skill: 12, Bloodtinge: 5, Arcane: 50

    I decided to go for more Vit, but the more Arcane you have the better. Scaling for Hunter Tools gets insane with like 70 Arcane and above, but 50 Arcane is optimal for HMS. It's up to you. Strength and Skill are 16 and 12 to reach the stats needed for HMS. 20 Endurance just for more dodging and swinging. Bloodtinge is left alone, we aren't using guns.

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    Gameplay

    Ludwig's with a fire rune carried me through the early game. Switch to Tonitrus when fighting Kin (aliens), and you are good to go. One thing I haven't mentioned up above is Molotov Cocktails. These things destroy werewolves and other beasts. They even scale, so they are useful all the way through the game.

    I eventually started using Augur of Ebrietas at around 30 Arcane, and it can carry you from there. It is really fun parrying someone with a tentacle explosion, or at least sending them flying. Exec. Gloves are decent for chipping away at bosses or healthy enemies from a distance. 

    Once you get your HMS, your projectile game will be magical. A fully charged power attack from the HMS is very powerful.

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    Conclusion

    This build is a nice change of pace from normal Bloodborne combat. Augur of Ebrietas is insanely fun. The animation, the sound, the damage, the bullet cost, the utility. It is just that good. One shotting a werewolf (maybe that's a little too far) or melting Papa G with Molotov Cocktails is very fun as well. 

    The Holy Moonlight Sword is also a really fun weapon. It's one handed and two handed R2's are amazing. It's range and damage are sweet. The animations are probably some of the best for any weapon (Amygdala's Arm is great, too). 

    Overall, the Occultist has been the most fun I've had in Bloodborne. But in a game as frustrating as Bloodborne, is that really saying much? 

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  • Member
    September 2, 2016
    Arcane seems like such a cool stat, I really wanted to buy bloodborne ever since I saw an arcanist guide on youtube. I just love how it turns magic around into more of a toolkit, which extends to consumables and other items. No A Call Beyond? That spell looked awesome, and from youtube videos it seems to melt some of the hardest bosses in the game at high arcane stats. Great build!
  • Member
    September 2, 2016
    I would have used A Call Beyond, but I haven't found it yet. I guess I need to look up its' location and then try it out. One reason I wasn't interested in it was because it does better with a lot of Arcane. I have currently halted leveling on this character because I have been trying to beat the final DLC boss. Lvl 87 ATM. Thanks, Raid.
  • December 1, 2016

    Man, I should start playing Bloodborne again.

  • Member
    December 1, 2016
    Have you ever beaten the Orphan of Kos, Veloth? I got really close on my Str/Skl build recently, but I have been stuck on it forever.
  • December 2, 2016

    Very nice Gollum.  My first and favorite play-thru of Bloodborne was a Skl/Arc build using the Threaded Cane and the Tonitrus, loved it. 

    I don't like A Call Beyond, it's not that useful in my opinion.  Costs a ton of bullets to use and it never seems to connect.  I only used it agaist the Bloodletting Beast (hardest boss IMO) other than that I stuck with Augur and Tiny Tonitrus.

    Man I really shold bite the bullet and get the DLC.  I've avoided it thus far because I hated the DLC for DS1 and DS2.  Would you recommend it?

     

  • December 2, 2016

    Nah I've not even got that far in it tbh

  • Member
    December 2, 2016

    Vargr White-Tree said:

    Very nice Gollum.  My first and favorite play-thru of Bloodborne was a Skl/Arc build using the Threaded Cane and the Tonitrus, loved it. 

    I don't like A Call Beyond, it's not that useful in my opinion.  Costs a ton of bullets to use and it never seems to connect.  I only used it agaist the Bloodletting Beast (hardest boss IMO) other than that I stuck with Augur and Tiny Tonitrus.

    Man I really shold bite the bullet and get the DLC.  I've avoided it thus far because I hated the DLC for DS1 and DS2.  Would you recommend it?

     

    It would feel wrong to recommend it without knowing what it was you didn't like about the other DLCs; I haven't played the DS1 DLC, but the BB DLC is better than the DS2 DLCs.

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  • December 3, 2016

    they just felt trollish like the devs were more focused on it being difficult at the cost of balance, like it was a challenge/hard mode. I guess DS1 wasn't that bad, I beat it but I had to create a new character since the dlc was crafted to screw sorcerers. DS2 was more symptomatic of the game as a whole, for everything they did right there was two they did wrong I gave up on trying to beat them since they just weren't fun.  Honestly I know I'll end up buying it I loved everything about BB a and can't imagine them mucking it up. 

  • Member
    December 3, 2016

    Vargr White-Tree said:

    they just felt trollish like the devs were more focused on it being difficult at the cost of balance, like it was a challenge/hard mode. I guess DS1 wasn't that bad, I beat it but I had to create a new character since the dlc was crafted to screw sorcerers. DS2 was more symptomatic of the game as a whole, for everything they did right there was two they did wrong I gave up on trying to beat them since they just weren't fun.  Honestly I know I'll end up buying it I loved everything about BB a and can't imagine them mucking it up. 

    Overall, I do like the BB DLC more than DS2s'. It adds so many weapons that I could almost reccomend it off of that. The first and the last boss are really difficult (I still haven't beaten the last boss), but none of the areas feel cheap and against the player except for one or two small parts near the end. You'll like it.