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You don’t need to kill blood starved beast to summon Alfred

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doggy

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Am I the only one who find it cute?
I love the way he screams (i might be a psychopath actually...)

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if you're struggling with this then try fighting it without lock-on, was getting destroyed until i stopped locking onto it and then it became so easy i thought i had glitched it or something lol

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Started my NG+ playthrough and I'm gonna kill Cleric Beast last.

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Ah yes.
Patches was right about them

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cleric beast trying to urge not to scream for 0.1 secs:

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on my first playthru i made it to cleric beast with my bare fist, i almost killed him but i died last second and i deleted the game, barbie better

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what an awesome fight! i played elden ring, dark souls, and dark souls ii before this, but none of them have the kind of exciting fast combat that bloodborne has.

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i played elden ring and dark souls 3 before bloodborne yet cannot even get 1/4 of this guys health is it intended that you first have to level up big time or what i literally cannot even slightly damage him wtf?

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Dad did not beat him and has attempted many times
Beat him on my 3rd try
I was 12
It was both of ours first souls game

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Ez win

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just mainly stayed under his ballsacks and was able to dodge most attacks

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Beat this guy first try. He was very easy after killing that fat executioner in central yharnam

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I can’t even find him I’m finding Father G before him, where the duck is that bridge?

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If The Cleric Beast ever got Married he would probaly marry Vicar Amelia

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One of my least favorite arenas in the entire franchise. So mich **** that your character and the camera gets stuck on. Great boss, awful arena

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first the boss broke my ear drums then broke me

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I was able to summon Alfred (with Old Hunter Bell) for this fight, the only other bosses I beat were Paarl, Blood Starved Beast (with Alfred summoned) and Gascoigne. His summon sign was in near the door into the dark house from the shortcut left of the Central Yharnam lamp. Dunno why he is available when you can also summon Gascoigne and the NPC is much further than the boss, might (HARD might) be lore significant.

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He/she is extremely weak to fire so use molotovs when hes low.

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this little **** is harder than guacamole due to how ****ing annoying his tacks are

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Good first tutorial boss has a easy to learn moveset. Gives a good idea of what is ahead in the game. Has a good theme to listen to when fighting it. 10 out of 10 starter boss :)

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Goat Demon?

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this boss's moveset is garbage he only has like 3 attacks

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This thing just neighed like a horse O_o

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Coomer Beast

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I saw a theory on YouTube in one of the very few lore videos I could find about the Cleric Beast, and the guy in question thinks that the Cleric Beast is actually Ludwig after succumbing to beasthood. Any evidence for that theory, or has anyone else even heard it?

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hello

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Hmm, how fascinating that his screeches sound exactly like my wife when she's on her period.

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Makes me think of a biblical goat demon, something like Baphomet. Fitting for something called a Cleric Beast.

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I found this boss harder than Gascoigne on my first run tbh

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The boss music: extremely high quality composure by talented musicians and choir. The boss it's for: EEEeeerrRReeeeeEE

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First creature you can beat with ease by hugging his but the whole fight. Theres a few bosses this tactic works on. And people said this game was challenging...

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Ah, a singer's voice. He should really sign up for the choir, he can hit every note. Best singer in yharnam and beyond, by far.

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Something I feel is overlooked is how (ignoring the CDs, because once you're done w them you don't go back) throughout the game, bosses transition from mainly beasts to mainly kin, and I found myself missing the beast bosses. This led me to actually want to play through NG+ because the bosses were so unique, as opposed to only being enticed to enter ng+ cycles for loot (looking at you, DS3). This kept me in a loop of wanting to fight the CB and Gascoigne, then wanting to fight Rom and Gehrman again. It's a way better alternative to recycling a boss midway through the game, and even when BB did that, they gave Laurence a huge array of new moves (although most of them were and still are BS)

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I wish instead of killing it immediately it would come back late game and you’d fight it in the area with the two giants and the fountain before Amelia

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I wish it had different abilities and more health between evening/midnight/blood moon, since that would inject a bit more into the gameplay experience. If there were also different rewards for fighting it at those different stages of progression through the game, it'd be an interesting balancing feature preventing it from being too easy if you fight him late-game while still giving a worthwhile reward. I shouldn't really complain, though - we got Laurence, instead.

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Can someone tell me how he is optional because the main gate requiring the emblem, is the only way I know how to get to Vicar Amelia and progress through the game.

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I was able to summon Alfred for this fight without defeating the Blood Starved Beast. His summoning bell seems to appear there after you talked to him at the Logarius statue and decide to cooperate with him, like the one in Old Yharnam.

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Since the game doesn't really tell you where you need to go, or what to do, I just ran past him on my first playthrough and only found out about him much later

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In case you wonder what this "blood sucking effect" is, it restores the armor.

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You know how in the Hunter's Nightmare we come across another vicar praying at the elevator to the Research Hall, and off to the side is a church hunter dressed in black? That's how I interpret the relation between Vicar Amelia and the Cleric Beast. The Cleric Beast is a sort of bodyguard for Vicar Amelia and kills anyone that tries to enter the Cathedral Ward from the Great Bridge, while Amelia continues to pray at the Grand Cathedral. It isn't the exact same hunter as we meet in the Hunter's Nightmare, but an occupational successor. This would also explain why it drops the Sword Hunter badge (although the fact that it is apparently a cleric is reason enough).

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That beast is Vicar Amelia, not the Cleric Beast.

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Is it just me, or does CB resemble Manus from Dark Souls?

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This thing was the first boss I fought and I beat him like 3rd try, honestly thought it was easier to beat than Father Gascoigne

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I got this 1st try

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This is my fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MY3Wl7reIs

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Can someone help me I just can’t get it right, psn: Levijah15

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Dash and hit fight, quite easy if you attach him from his back.

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"red eyes on its horns" in proper lighting, specifically when the sun lowers after fighting Gascoigne, it's easier to see that those aren't eyes, but the broken ends of the horns themselves. Cleric beast doesn't appear to have eyes whatsoever.

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I killed this with no problem on my first try. Go all the way to the ither side of the bridge, chuck cocktails, and go for a visceral on his head while he's down.

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You don't need to kill blood starved beast to summon alfred actually

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Can't remember who but some *****ing retard said that the Cleric Beast was Ludwig. You know, it's *****ing proven he's not in Old Hunters. After being told that Ludwig wasn't Cleric Beast he then jumped to another theory saying that Brador was Ludwig. Guy was a *****ing retard. You might find him down there in the comment section somewhere.

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Pretty good fight, got a clue here in the comments and threw 10 cocktails at the dude, then whacked it with my big ass axe. No problemo. //Obamacare

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wish he was in root chalice dungeons ):

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can u parry this thing?

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IMO, the poor hunter in "Face Your Fears" is crushed by Amelia just before he almost reaches the beast skull of Laurence...The guy hunts down most Yharnamites in the streets, kills the Blood starved beast (Since he goes to the Chalice Dungeons) and finally he finds his way to the cathedral...
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Call me a pleb or something but, isnt the clearic beast look a lot like Manus, father of the Abysss???

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I created a new character yesterday after the update, and noticed in two attempts that I could only get the stun from shooting his head once, whereas before I could get it 3 times. I waited for his red glowing indicator and all that, and wasted about 15 Pistol shots to his head trying to get that second stagger, to no avail. Has anyone noticed anything similar?

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God the noises he makes just adds to the horrificness of the thing.

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so this is the first boos and I am getting my ass handed to me over and over, I'm not getting his last 20% health, I'm 5 or 6 tries in and getting stopped at the same amount heallh left on him

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Killed him yesterday in NG+, started off the fight by blasting him once with a buffed cannon (+7 and bonemarrow ash), took out about 690 health and stunned him, allowing for a visceral attack right off the bat. So you can infact stun him for a visceral. I also had 99 insight at the time.

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i was having some hard time with this boss, but he is really weak to fire, a molotov drains sometinhg up to 180 points of his life, so i farmed a little and bought 10 molotov, aimeing on the head i trew then all and easily killed this boss. after hitting 8 of my molotovs, he was with 1/4 of his life, so it was easy after that with just one blood vial. but u can use more haha. (ps. my english is not perfect, sorry for any mispelling word)

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You can summon Alfred for this fight if you have met him before defeating the boss. His messengers are near the shortcut from the Central Yharnam lamp to the boss.

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Okay, so I've been looking up on the lore a little and I was wondering: do you think the Cleric Beast is the hunter Ludwig? It's a far off assumption I suppose, but I just find it a little ... Coincidental that the badge he drops not only mentions that Ludwig was the first hunter to join the Healing Church, but that after acquiring it you can then get his gun and sword. Maybe I'm looking to much into this ... What do you think?

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First fight I had and he scared the absolute frap out of me! Beat him first try and have to say, he is pretty badass

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pfft just get the flamethrower that guy at the central Yharnham torch gives you, take 20 bullets make 5 more then spray the boss with it, create more bullets when needed, probably only need vials ot heal yourself after making bullets because he did nothing to close the distance between us. Boss doesn't hit particularly hard compared to Father Gascoine

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When I go to fight the cleric beast on the bridge where he spawns instead of him jumping on to the bridge to start the fight there are enemies at the end of the bridge with a fireball behind them. Do I need to fight father Gascoigne first or it this a glitch plz respond ASAP

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Why is NG+ soul count greater than NG3+?

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I went to fight the boss and it started to acted me all of a sudden 2 werewolf acted me as well out of no where. that was a weird bug

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Since this is an optional boss, has anyone tried to defeat it after advancing to different moon phases? If so, is there any difference?

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At the Center Yharnam lamp talk to the man in the window right next to it and get the Flamesprayer, unupgraded it will easily deal with the Cleric Beast. You may have to get some blood bullets (Up on the D-Pad) to bring him from 100% to 0% with it, but it is easily done.

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Has anyone noticed that the Cleric beast seems to resemble that of a Wendigo? If you look at a illustrated description of the wendigo the Cleric Beast seems to hit some to most of the features

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so i found out by complete accident that if you have the cathedral ward unlocked before fighting the cleric beast that you can't summon Father whatshisface instead you summon Alfred. but he literally does nothing during the boss fight except follow you around which is pretty useless if Alfred has the boss aggro. so it basically becomes a 1v1 anyway since Alfred literally doesn't attack a single time or even target the cleric beast

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If you neglect to fight the Beast, can you encounter him later in the Cathedral Ward? Specifically, on the balcony from which he drops into the arena (with the Ball and Chain Church Giant)? I'd guess not, but does anyone know for sure? Don't feel like starting a new file to find out.

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Someone really needs to edit this and remove the part saying its Ludwig since we now know what we know with the DLC.

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We all know that the Cleric Beast drops from the Cathedral Ward, so why can't you see it there? It would be cool if you could fight it there instead or something, or even be able to see it on top of a building.

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Anybody notice its arms? at all? looks like the cleric beast was once an avid beast claw user.

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SPOILERS: Laurence is the cleric beast.

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Excuse me, but I've done that on NG+ with a Repeater Pistol.

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He most certainly can be parried as long as your bloodtinge isn't too low. Just did 2 fights and was able to stagger him with just one shot everytime

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I absolutely can't stand this fight on NG+, or any other boss on NG+ for that matter. It's not because it's hard. I've only died to this boss once in the whole game when I first fought it. The reason is because of how long it takes to kill this thing. I think it took around 15 minutes with a 10+ Threaded Cane and a 9+ Warped Twinblades.. It's neither challenging or interesting, it's merely boring. On NG I think this is a pretty good opening fight to the game though the arena's a bit small and the dumb thing kept walking into the bridge walls. I think they should have either given it new moves and/or increased its health and made its attacks do more damage. As it stands, it seems to have about three times the health it had on NG.

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My first video on Bloodborne it might help you, if you want check it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksj2lVPDbX4

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So.....it turns out that Ludwig is not the cleric beast, and he even appears as a boss in the upcoming DLC, albeit as a monster.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JXyiJ3NZhQ The Video is from NG+ but you can still kill him using Gascoigne to keep the heat off you when healing or attacking him on NG. I would say this boss is easy on NG+ plus even when I was level 80 and using the burial blade +10 fire infused.

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Ok, so, not only did someone get rid of alot of the indented bullets I used to try and make points easier to read, it looks like there's some sort of fight that broke out in the revisions tab. Also, I cannot edit anything anymore.

What in the world happened while I was gone?

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When I first got this game I tried a more defensive hit and run approach but that was way more time consuming and only ended up getting me killed most of the times. Now when I restarted the game with a new character I was more on the offense. Got up next to him and stuck to his legs while swinging away with the saw cleaver like there was no tomorrow. The only times I stepped away briefly was to refill health and stamina.

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The item descriptions you read indicate that the Cleric Beast was the current captain of the church hunters. But I'm rather sad that we never learned his name like we did fighting Laurence in the dlc.

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Balls... I need to change the bit about Gascoigne not taking up a summon slot, because that was changed in the League patch. Both him and Alfred were changed to Old Hunters, which do use a summon slot, and their signs disappear after you have two summons and having one prevents you from having more than one human player.

And every *****ing time I correct this, someone comes by and changes it back. And now the page is locked. >_>

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It says the Cleric Beast is past a score of wolf beasts. A score is 20....

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he bite me

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I don't think they grow in size as they eat people like wendigos do. Amelia instantly went from a small human lady directly to an enormous beast right in front of our eyes.

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i just got bloodborne a few days ago and have been having a pretty good time learning the game (it's hard but that's the fun part) i beat the cleric beast 1st with i would venture to say half a pixel of health left and no blood vials afterwards i felt like my heart was about to burst out my chest and ***** slap me :p onto the next boss :)

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The Cleric Beast is, in my opinion, the best created boss that From Software put into Bloodborne. It's difficult enough that most new players will get slaughtered repeatedly, and yet smart observers will figure out its weaknesses quickly enough (hint, one of its arms is longer than the other, and it's no surprise that the longer one performs deadlier attacks). That's why I'm glad they created another one in the DLC, granted it's more vicious and you can't use fire extremely well against it this time around.

I should mention that the DLC patches changed up quite a few things however regarding the summons. I know that Father Gascoigne can't be summoned in his original spot and is now found near the fountain, which IMO is a far better location since it helps new players out with take down the creatures of the bridge while also wearing down Father Gascoigne and making him less useful against the Cleric Beast. Also, I don't know if Alfred can still be summoned, that I still have to test out, so for now I left that part out until it can be re-verified.

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Does Vicar Amelia fall under the cleric beast category?

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