Bloodborne starting class guide - Which is right for you?

Beautiful, exciting and very confusing. That's what Bloodborne is when you first start out. With nine wildly different starting classes to choose from, all favouring different play-styles and weapons, which should you pick?

[LeoKRogue]

Having a "respectable pedigree" *DOES* mean something. It means that your Blood / Genes are really "pure" or whatever, which is why it's got the highest Bloodtinge out of every other Origin. In the Japanese version of Bloodborne, "Bloodtinge" is actually "Blood Purity." It represents the Damage that you will do with Quicksilver Bullets as the Hunter must mix their own blood with the mercury that the bullets are forged from.

[bountyhunter]

Anyone else here after beating Elden Ring and looking to play the other Souls games.

[projectorgaming]

I always preferred a strength build first. Once you learn to use that axe the game becomes somewhat easy. At least a whole lot more easy than doing a skill build first.

[pickletoy]

Damn this vid came out 6 years ago and I'm watching it now

[GeneralGuitFiddle]

They're not mentioning that any of the arcane-heavy origins will allow you to do more damage via torch and molotovs. Also more souls/blood per enemy kill. If you use your fire-based consumables and torch wisely the early game isn't that hard. Even less so if you are also pumping Strength. Once I got to the Tonitrus in my arcane build, I was very happy with the damage.

[trafficcone]

oh God, the Lone Survivor apparently comes from the Fishing Hamlet! how haven't the lore channels picked up on this

[MrSticksASMR]

"It's for experts" he says about Waste of Skin. First time I picked up the game, that's what I went with. And now I'm on new game + as an overpowered monster.

[munital]

waste of skin in my opinion is the best one, the beginning is really easy since you don't have a boss like in dark souls 3. so you can easily start off having 15-16 in one of your preferred stats. you start with 9-10 on every stat except 7 on bloodtinge which is a really good start for everything, nothing more boring then having to level up something from lvl 6 when you have spent more then 10 h already

[BlueKyuubi]

I'm going to use the Kirkhammer and Ludwig's Blade so I'm going with Violent past. In 5 levels, I'll have STR at 16, SKILL at 12, VIT at 14, and END at 12 which rivals/is better than the Lone Survivor class even with 5 levels on it. Just put 2 more into SKILL later on before you get Ludwig's Holy Blade. There you go anyone who wants to use this starting build.

[chrisvisser-fee]

I never found the Deprived class very difficult. You level up so fast that it only takes an hour or two to get to the starting level. I used the class on my first playthrough.

[dexter_yours_truly]

Bloodborne player since 2018.
Best build for new players is strength because easy to make, farm and progress.
Later on in bloodborne experience? Pvp? Still strength. And arcane.

[wannabkain]

I chose cruel fate this time, I probably should have watched this first but actually got further than last time I played :) so sticking with it.

[quilava]

This is my first Souls game
I picked cruel fate
*DAMMIT*

[SONoOFoLIQUID]

unfortunately these are inaccurate descriptions of the stats and what they influence

[jordan]

Terrible description of arcane but I appreciate this is very old..

[marvcastle]

I really like to play with cruel fate :0 It also has the highest Drop Rate Chance and his skills are pretty Okeh

[davidbowie-sama-senpai-sen]

I chose based on Blood Echoes and don't regret it atall. I picked the second highest because he had both good stats and good echoes

[vintagegameroom]

I'm off to get this game today :) Thanks guys :)

[wwar]

I've yet to play this game but my ex bought it for me recently, so I'm excited to start it.
I'm glad I found this video because when I played the original dark souls I had to try and test every build until I knew what path I preferred, I honestly don't want to have to do that again with Bloodborne. as fun as it was I just don't have that much free time to experiment in that way.
thanks for upload guys 🤘
I'm currently contemplating the waste of skin one because that was my favorite choice on dark souls, a plank and a plank haha. awesome game DS, I hope this is too.

[Drakon_Minaka]

I picked waste of skin and honestly, my run so far has been much more successful than my milquetoast run.