The threaded cane is literally the most solid overall skill weapon in the game. It isn't particularly flashy but it is just good in basically every scenario. Very solid in cane form and the whip form is there for groups or when you just need the range. In fact I deliberately avoid using it because of how good it is. It is insane you can get it at the start if the game. My friend uses it all the time though so I can never forget how good it is.

Honestly my favourite skill weapon is the Scythe. Never felt a weapon really fit me until I got it at the end of playthrough 2. There are some really great skill weapons to be found in the DLC though. The Beasthunter Said and Rakuyo have become my favourite weapons in the game. DLC is worth it for the weapons alone IMO.

Definitely do the DLC after the main story though. You'll be obliterated otherwise, and it'll ruin the main game for you which will be effortless by comparison.

 

Do not rely on the cane for range. The hitbox is finicky at best and for the most efficient ranged attack, you need to do a running attack.

Off the top of my head, I can't really think of many good skill ranged weapons that I liked other than Burial Blade (the L2 in scythe mode is godly).

I hear the bow rocks. I'm tempted to do a pure skill/BT run with chikage and it.

I'm high level atm, pretty much everything 50 with str and bt at around 25. Wish I could respec. Get rid of strength entirely and drop stam to get 50 BT

Edit: I should add that I adore the cane, but once I got blade of mercy, I didn't look back. It's a playstyle thing. If you're good at dodging, there's no better weapon to dance around enemies and go to town.

 

The bow is pretty insane. With best gems, someone was reportedly doing 1.4k per charged shot.

I had a MLGS build planned, ended up going towards 50 str 25 skl 15 arc with Whirligig. Fun times, bosses like Ebrietas died in 15 secs, Ludwig not much longer. Now that I actually have the sword, I can start leveling arc to 50...

Edit: toned the difficulty a bit in my first post XD Done with the DLC, and I actually one-shot four of the five bosses. The last one killed me once. Two came really close, but yeah. Died in three places, though - the Blacksky Eye area, got raped by the lasers, and that fucking fish giant just before the second lamp in the fishing village killed me three times u_u. And the well encounter that nets you the Rakyuo was just plain unfair and killed me twice XD But considering how I almost didn't die in the main game, in fact only one boss killed me, the dlc is still pretty hard and made me chug some vials like nothing in the main game.

By the way, the Winter Lantern (Frenzy brain women) enemies in the DLC drop cursed 22.3% atk up droplets. Really nice. There are two, right next to each other, 20 secs away from a lamp. You only get frenzied once, and there are no other enemies nearby that aggro, so there's even no need to heal or pop a sedative.

Rakuyo and Saif are both really, really good for pvp. I was supposed to get platinum on this str/arc character, but now I'm super tempted to create a skill character...

 

Yeah I've heard that Rakuyo is good for skill builds. Definitely going to go for that.

In the meantime however, time to mess with the Blades of Mercy.... I just don't like the saw weapons for some reason.

 

Eyy platinum trophy get. Kinda pissed at myself for not finishing it the first time around, but Bloodborne was a moderate disappointment (despite being a 9/10 game imo) as a Souls successor and iirc some game I wanted to play more came out, and I was just never interested again.

The game is good, really good, you just gotta appreciate it for what it is and not what it isn't. Now that the initial bitterness is over, I enjoyed another playthrough and the dlc very much. Will probably roll a second character for pvp, though idk about farming those best gems... we'll see.

The toughest enemy I faced was definitely Defiled Amygdala. I'd totally forgotten how to fight her, so it took me like 10 tries. Defiled Watchdog was next, taking me five tries. As for the rest, they all died in one or two tries. Even Headless, but I knew the strat for that.

 

My Weapon Journey ended at 2

 

My first play through I used ludwigs/Kirkhammer and the blades of mercy. The second playthrough I mained the Reiterpallasch and used the Church Pick when I needed range.

 

Hunter's Axe to Ludwig's Holy Blade was my first playthrough. Haven't done the DLC yet, but I'm tempted to pick it up and go with the Rakuyo.

 

Did you use the Shaman Bone Blade? Makes it a lot easier.

 

Real men use the chikage and holy moonlight sword

 

I wanted to use chikage! Lol, i just didn't like how it felt.

 

It has pretty unique timing, in pvp at least, same goes for HMLS. PvE wise I enjoyed the cutter but usually just rush through with a saw or whatever.

 

The Chikage is awesome, I used in my first playthrough. Paired with Evelyn you can carve though anything, and look stylish af doing it.

 

I don't remember exactly because it's been a while, but I think one of those shark things had a weapon that was parry bait. That's how I did it at least.

 

Chikage is for real men! If you have super bloodtinge build with Chikage + Evelyn, you'd kill everybody including PVP.

Not a whole lot of bosses have bloodtinge defense. The only minor issue is that your damage sucks if you're not in sheathed phase. Otherwise, go to town with the samurai sword + uber pistol damage.

Or you can go with ultra cheese. Ludwigs + Cannon fags.

Edit:

You'll need a fast hard hitting weapon if you wanna go through Chalice and finish it. I know I did. Could not hit anything with the Kirk or LHB without dying because everybody and their grandmother OHKO's you with their cursed buff area.

 

I played the whole game with the Kirkhammer through all the chalice dungeons. I switched over to the LHB in ng3 when my level was high enough that it just straight outclassed the Kirk.

 

First playthrough was pre-dlc so I used BoM/BB, BB still manages to pull me back to it every so often because it has such nice animations, especially the trick and backstep r1.
Post DLC though I've made a lot of builds and the most fun has been bt/arc with elemental saif+chikage+hmls.
Saif needs more love in this thread, it's like a love child between a saw and the burial blade.