There's something of value there if you can bring what you found. Chalice dungeons are absolutely worth a once through too for weapons, items, unique encounters and just la joie de exploration, imo.

mrsmr2 wrote:

Do you mean:

Spoiler:

the well in the Fishing Hamlet?

I sneaked around and found nothing in there other than death.

It's possibly even more difficult than any of the bosses. Camera issues again, of course.

And while early bosses have been easy this time, the easy ones are now proving hard. Just died to SoY. Sword dude gains a quarter length of arena attack that I hadn't seen before and it was hitting me regularly. So he dies first next time.

I'm enjoying the chalice dungeons - giving me that Bitterblack Isle vibe from Dragon's Dogma.

Initially thought these might be too easy as they don't scale with NG+. Needn't have worried as depth 4 cursed one is killing me a lot.

Good job Nina. I'm struggling with the one in the Chalice Dungeon.

Do you not have PS+? Could’ve just saved to cloud, see and ending, then download save and do the alternate ending. That’s what I did.

Rom 3rd generation down. Next up - fun with The One who should have stayed a concept drawing.

Are NG+ quick to get through? Or am I just playing this really slow?

Just killed so that's a little bit closer to the true end. Felt really weird to do this.

Had a talk with the whore as well, she's not feeling too hot. Big thing outside of the Cathedral Ward that I can see now explains the blue burst I saw everytime I walked past.

Went to the Castle, they spend quite a bit of time to make animations for that, pretty cool.

Poison question, is it ever gonna be easier to explore the poison lakes? I have two now that I haven't fully explored yet (why does it limit your movement too, is it muddy poison? Looks like they did the same in Sekiro what I saw from B playing). I guess with more health and strength it's quicker to kill things recklessly, but it's there gonna be anything with better poison resistance than the white church set?

NG+ was quick for me as I didn’t bother with the optional bosses after VA. Although I did check how to get final boss and collect the few items and weapons I’d missed on 1st run through.

NG++ even quicker so far as only doing required bosses.

For NG I explored and took my time.

For the poison i equip the best poison resist armour I have and leg it, using antidotes to heal when sensible.

Oh yeah, those things outside the castle are really tough. Inside isn’t as bad.

I use axe thrust on those things - sprint and l1 (then hop back).

mrsmr2 wrote:

Oh yeah, those things outside the castle are really tough. Inside isn’t as bad.

Could have at least warned me about the gargoyles jumping me! Scared me good! I've activated the elevator, you were right about the rest. I've avoided most of the fleas and have found some things inside.

Haven't upgraded the axe at all, the two weapons I currently carry are the Holy Blade and the Tonitrus.

B also said the weeping women inside sound like our roommate when he's in vr chat, and now I can't unhear that. It's true though.

Yeah I checked the altar before I called it a day for the morning session. Looks like I have both rapid and slow poison runes. Only had the rapid before. And the lakes do slow poison.

4th Chalice done. Had to read some threads on how to kill it.

But now I don't have the materials to create the 5th. If I hadn't rushed through the last playthrough I would have the end game location available to get them.

Bah.

Platinum done.

110:57:30 time with this character, level 170.

Just final boss of dlc and all dlc weapons trophies left to get. As I'm in NG+++ I shan't be tackling the dlc bosses. That will be for another playthrough.