So, Bloodborne is out, and I'm very engaged by the title. It proved to be a neat challenge and a fun game, with a great, if hard, gameplay and a beautiful setting. I love demon/monster hunting, after all :) .Among the various tips and advices you can give/find about this game, I learned that one of the most important is to level up your character. I was quite lucky in finding an incredible Blood Echoes farming location early in the game, and this made a big portion of Bloodborne incredibly easy after just an hour or so of farming. So I'm here to share this trick with you. As mentioned, the best about this farming spot is that you can reach it very soon: Just after you defeat Vicar Amelia (she can be your 3rd boss, after Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne) you can travel to the Forbidden Woods, which is the first step to discover the Lecture Building. I don't exactly remember when and how I reached the location, as it was mostly a matter of luck and risk, but I made my best to rebuild the steps to get there, and here they are:
Step 1) Go to Forbidden Woods and follow the path of the bridge (beware the trap), until you reach a group of enemies near a campfire. Kill or rush beyond them and go left, following the path throught a flowered camp with a ruined house to its right (with an enemy inside it). Go ahead and pass a low gate that bring you to a big group of houses, like a small town. You should reach another house with a red lantern and some cages near it (with caged or free dogs, depending on how deep are you in the game). Speak to the person inside and you'll receive an item you need to reach the Lecture Building (Beast's Roar?).
Step 2) Go to the Grand Cathedral lamp and exit down the first ramp of stairs. Looking at the Grand Cathedral entrance, follow the right path, which bring you to an area where you need to fight (or avoid) two hunters (one of them wield a Tonitrus). From there, the path continue down (there are other enemies along the road: kill or avoid them), to a large area with a couple of big guys and an edifice at it's end. Inside the edifice there is a giant monster hanging from the cieling (the monster is incorporeal until you reach a given point of the story), and a door (closed in the beginning of the game: it will automatically open as you progress into the story). When you try to open the door (or if you pass through it while it's open), a warp/portal-like effect will appear: you must do your best to get caught by that distortion. The creature will take you in it's hand, squeeze you, give you Frenzy and say something, before throwing you to the Lecture Building (it will kill you, if you don't have the item recovered from the Forbidden Woods; note that you are automatically teleported in the above mentioned area after you kill Rom, The Vacuous Spider).
Step 3) Activate the lantern and clear all this floor by opening all the door and exploring all of it's parts. When you're done, you can go back to the Hunter's Dream and start farming the location shown in the video (see below), for a neat amount of 702 x 16 Blood Echoes each run (which takes 2-3 minutes). One of the best things is that the load time for this location is pretty short, as it is small!
Here follow a couple of videos that explains both how to reach the location and how to farm it:
Video 1 - How to reach Lecture Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRpandCc3Bs (exactly at 4:48, the guy reach the Lecture Building lamp)
Video 2 - How to farm Lecture Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icj6T9Ez0A0
Hope this can help some of you in not succumbing to frustration for such a demanding title ;).
Good hunt, out there.
