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r/bloodborne•
Issun135

Is there really no way to respec a character?

I'll admit that bloodborne was my first "souls" game and after playing for a while and taking a break somewhere in the middle of NG+ to play DS and DS2SOTFS. I learned of the soul vessel is used to respec. Going back to bloodborne and seeing a character over BL 140 without a stat over 40 made me cringe a bit. I'm only just starting to get back in to the game and was wondering if there is a similar item to the soul vessel or something.

Posted Feb 11, 2016, 12:14 PM UTC

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chudborne•

I definitely prefer no respecs. SoTFS got kind of boring with only one character that could be molded into anything whereas with Bloodborne I've found endless replayability creating new builds. Additionally, every other souls game also has no way to respec, only DkS2, which is arguably the worst of the series (in my opinion). So why not just forget about it?

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Bellowhead•

I agree. I love planning a build around a weapon/style rather than just saying "I wanna play like this now, may as well respec". I made so many interesting characters in DaS, and with DaS2 I just completed several times with the same guy. Shitty vessel.

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chudborne•

right? glad i'm not the only one. The other thing with creating new builds in bloodborne is it will expose you to different level brackets which ALSO have loads of different builds. endless fun.

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Pliskkenn•

I always made a new char for new builds. The respeccing was good because I went into the game blind and found that I could tweek slightly if I needed to for an item or style I didn't know existed when I first set out. Also means I don't have to plan religiously from the start, I can just adjust if I make a whoopsie rather than throwing 40 hours away.

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huntercommander•

Yeah, there is no way to respec.

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the_neutral_scrub•

DkS2 was the only Souls game to have that, and I'm glad they removed it (I'm pretty sure that was the dev team's idea, like many other silly choices but I digress).

I hope it doesn't return, because not having it encourages putting thought into builds and not just "oh, I can just change builds later if I mess up, no worries".

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Pliskkenn•

You realise Miyazaki liked it and is bringing it to DkS3 right?

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the_neutral_scrub•

Eh, not really bothered. I won't use it so it's whatever. As long as most of the bs is removed (enemies that eventually stop spawning, ascetics, etc) I'm okay.

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Pliskkenn•

I think he ditched both of those as well so at least you've got that!

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suspectdeviceg4•

Hmm? I smell ember. Give it right now you imbecile.

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SurrealJay•

yeah its wack

no idea why they didnt include it

"muh vision". I think they were trying to encourage higher level characters

in Japan they dont care about level caps, so I guess I DO see where they're coming from

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