Blood-starved Beast Trophy in Bloodborne

  • Blood-starved Beast

     

    Defeat Blood-starved Beast.

    How to unlock Blood-starved Beast

    Optional boss

    Suggested Level Range: 30-40
    Damage Types: Thrust, Slow Poison, Fast Poison
    Drops: Chalice of Pthumeru - unlocks Chalice Dungeon Depth 1, area Pthumeru. This is the first item required to start progressing towards Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen.

    The Blood-starved Beast will be either the third or fourth boss you face in the game, depending on the route that you take. It is located at the very bottom of Old Yharnam which is through the housing section of the Cathedral Ward. If you do not wish to fight this boss until later on in the game you can purchase the Hunter Chief Emblem for 10,000 in Hunter’s Dream, then proceed to either Vicar Amelia or the Witch of Hemwick instead.

    Killing him early on in the game will allow you to take the back route to Vicar Amelia located underneath the Healing Church Workshop. This will save you 10,000 echoes as well as open up an important area filled with valuable loot, among other trophy related things.

    After defeating the beast you will also receive the Chalice of Pthumeru and an item of the same name. It enables you to begin chalice dungeons if you have the right ritual materials and is the catalyst for the Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen.

    Below you can find a video showing how to kill the beast followed by a walkthrough of the method used, as well as a breakdown of the boss' abilities.


    The Blood-starved Beast can prove rather challenging due to its quick attack speeds, poison, and plentiful health. The keys to victory are being bringing ten Antidotes, stacking Slow and Fast Poison Res, using a long reaching weapon, and playing very aggressively in the first phase but slow and safe in phase 2 and 3.

    The beast has only a few attacks but they are all pretty strong and will result in instant poison during the second half of the fight. It also has a combo chain that can quite easily take you from 100% to 0% before you can get up, if you aren’t able to dodge before the fourth hit or get stuck somehow. Every telegraph involves it lifting either one hand or both hands, so just watch its hands.

    You should also use the pillars and the altar at the back of the room to dodge, setup counter attacks, and buy yourself time to heal or use antidotes.

    Phase 1
    During phase 1 it does nothing besides lunge attacks, a quick swipe, and a four hit combo. the four hit combo is the dangerous thing and this will persist throughout the entire fight. It’s the number one ability you absolutely MUST dodge for two reason. The first of which is it can almost instantly kill you and the second is because it is the best time to go on the offensive.

    Walk just in then out of melee range but not too far from it, because if you go very far it will do a huge lunge that makes life difficult. Dodge its random single swipes and do quick combos. If it lifts both front arms it is doing a long combo that you must dodge. The first and second swings of this attack will track you so be sure to dodge at least twice in a row before countering. Once it hit 60% phase 2 begins.

    Phase 2
    The beast will now have green gas coming out of it and every attack it lands will instantly poison you. It is also much faster now and will more frequently unleash its 4 hit combo. You will need to be quick about using fleeing and using antidotes and blood vials. Always use an antidote before the blood vial and run away if you are low. Just dodge its combo twice and you should be able to push it to phase 3 at 30%.

    Phase 3
    Now the beast will ramp up the noxious gas so that it creates a poisonous aura around him. Because of this you won’t be able to get close enough to bait out a combo so you should move to the back of the room, just around the altar. Either circle the altar itself or the pillars beside it to create room for a combo and avoid the gas. Hit and run as much as you can and don’t be afraid to let the poison meter fill during your combos, since you can always run out after to use an antidote, but you can’t substitute good damage.

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  • Blood-starved Beast Boss Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlYaKqovEY
  • Here's my attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F97b_Q4GLU Feel free to comment, share, subscribe, like, or dislike if you feel like it. Thanks.

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