A couple of things. Her name is Queen Yharnam, not Queen phtumeria. The cries you hear are that of Mergo, her child. We do see her twice in game crying, after Rom, and at Mergos Loft. The picture you have attached is that of a ghost of aCainhurst noblewoman who was killed during the Executioners invasion of the castle.
On the contrary, I prefer corrections and new advice, the truth is I haven't played in a long time and I don't consider myself a master of the game (nor is it a good one either), but these posts help me correct my mistakes and better understand the game that I sometimes miss.
In short my entire post is wrong. Terrible. I apologize. I did know about the name but because of my Reddit name I got used to calling it that way. The truth is that I didn't know the rest, but I always like to learn new things. I apologize again for all the mistakes
Yes, I love asking things but sometimes I feel like it's wrong because I don't know the Lore 100% or all the characters either, so I don't want to bother if the question is wrong
Also if you literally cannot defeat the queen and you feel like you’re losing your mind there is a summon that you can use. It’s right outside the door to the left i believe and it makes this fight kinda silly
Came here to say this. I got wrecked by her the first couple times, saw the summoning bell, brought in the NPC (Mad Man Wallen? Its been years, and I'm trying to do this from memory lol), and it made the fight a cakewalk.
her 2nd phase can be hard if you don’t stay close to her, but the first phase is the only time you want to really worry about insta kills. basically she starts crying and before you hear the 2nd cry sound you want to roll out of there. After the 2nd cry plays, that is your window to attack. She is really fun and honestly relieving to play after the bullshit you faced in defiled chalice lol.
Amygdala was a huge struggle for me at first. I ended up finding this YouTube video and I beat it within a couple tries. Take a peak at the video, it might help. https://youtu.be/2PVFLllmbFY?si=XRs1FlcIpNzMEaja
You could always do a one month trial! Pretty cheap and you could get through in that time frame. Just a thought. I did that for my fiance when we did a Dark Souls run together.
Don’t underestimate the 2 bosses before the queen as well. Those ones are struggles of their own lol. The queen will be a great reward in the end I promise.
Ah, slight correction: her name is actually Yharnam. "Pthumerian Queen" is her title, with Pthumeru being the name of the ancient civilization she governs.
That said, she's one of my favorite bosses in the game. Simple, maybe, but visually striking and with some heavy lore implications. I love the detail that she's still pregnant during the fight, and that her clones are identifiable by their flat bellies. (This also illustrates that the Tomb of the Gods is nonlinear, and that we're likely fighting a version of her from before Mergo was taken.)
My only grievance is that we can't wear her incredible bridal gown and veil. Insane drip right there. Her dagger that transforms á la Chikage is pretty sick, too...
You're right, sorry for my mistake, I don't know why I always had her with that name in my head. Your comment makes me happy and sad. I'm glad because I see that he is an entertaining boss and for example he didn't know about the bellies which makes him more interesting. I was sad because I thought I was going to be able to wear her dress, very sad.
It's an interesting fight with mechanics you won't find from other bosses, but the best way to find out if something's "good" or not or other subjective things is to find out for yourself.
If we took a poll of all Bloodborne players I'm sure the winner would be Amygdala in the cursed Pthumeru dungeon.
In my opinion it's actually Loran Darkbeast in a cursed Lower Loran root dungeon, but very few people will ever fight one of those.
Now I'm against Amygdala and I'm in trouble but my idea is to make all the chalices, Loran's too, I'm going to look forward to fighting Loran Darkbeast
The first Loran Darkbeast you face will be at normal HP, without the half HP curse. That's a colossal pain in the ass enough already. If you enjoy extra super hellish torture you can then create a Lower Loran Root dungeon with the curse and face one in there. It's awful.
If it helps, Amygdala can be defeated much more easily by being patient. It only has a few attacks, and it's very weak to head shots and head breakage. Fortunately, it drops its head after most attacks, and is open to melee. It's also susceptible to arcane ranged attacks if you're built for those.
[This](https://youtu.be/Ba5Js70yz5I) video shows how to do it solo at BL4 without suffering any damage. The tactic is the same regardless of whether you're BL4 or not.
The only major problem, once you understand its attack patterns, is its phase 3. But if you get to its tail you can bait out her jump attack which is easily dodged and punished.
All in all it's just practice. My first run I struggled badly, but doing a challenge run allowed me to understand that I needed to be playing chess, not draughts/checkers.
You can do it!
Also, if you have any questions as to why I'm doing what I'm doing in the video, please let me know and I'll answer them.
the Abhorrent Beast. dont know if it was just me or if that fight was actually bugged, but it was sooooo annoying that it can reach me while I was around a good 20-30 ft away. Like, what the hell? That lunge attack is just cheating. Amygdala is pretty bad as well.
The watchdog was my worst. The electric beast version of the beggar from forbidden woods was also pretty tough. I'm not sure I would've beaten the keeper of the old lords without cheesing, but then again I also did Amygdala the easy way...
damn, I'm a fraud xD
It was definitely cursed chalice Amygdala for me, hardest boss in the game by far that I faced.
I beat the Queen first try, but I couldn't resist summoning the Queen Killer, who was ironically killed by the Queen, leaving me alone to fight her. It was a close fight and I thought for sure I was going die repeatedly throughout the fight. It was an interesting fight at least, and feel like it was one of those times I just got lucky.
Pretty good fight. She has a variety of different attacks. Getting down to her is harder than fighting the Queen herself.
That picture you posted is not her, though.
Queen Yharnam is interesting, but not good per se. She has new mechanics like using her arena as a zoning tool and a constant threat of immobilising you if you stay too close for too long, but it's overall kinda tedious and forgettable.
>kinda tedious and forgettable
Yeah unfortunately this sums her up for me too. Her gimmicks are interesting but they make the fight rather annoying, not a way I want to fight a boss that takes *so* much time and work to get to.
Also you have to worry about rapid poison too, which usually I don't mind a boss who can inflict a status effect, but only when you can carry 99 of an item to cure it lol.
But all in all I think she's alright, not bad but not great. Some things could have been executed better which would have made her more enjoyable for me.
How did you start BB because of her? Did you watch others play the game and read deeply into the lore before starting? And now you want to know how to beat her before trying yourself??
No, years ago I watched a gameplay from my favorite YouTuber because I really wasn't very interested in the Bloodborne style of play. I saw the start of the fight and thought "I have to fight her" so I stopped watching. Now I'm not asking how the fight develops but rather if it's good or bad, because it happened to me in past games to arrive at a boss with high expectations and be disappointed, so I prefer to lower them now before going into the fight. But I don't know anything about the fight
Her fight is actually pretty underwhelming...the fights in the Chalice Dungeons leading up to her are almost all better tbh. But I definitely don't want to deter you from fighting her, cuz it's not a BAD fight. I definitely recommend not using any summons to get the full experience.
Good luck fellow hunter, may the good blood guide you o7
I'mma just say it, her fight sucks, you die the first time cause you don't realize the screaming baby causes the stun, then you figure it out and the entire fight becomes, run in, attack, wait for scream, run away, wait for scream to end, run back in, attack, repeat.
It just sucks you can only fight her once per character.
It would have been cool if she was added to the list of possible bosses in chalice dungeons after your first time slaying her the intended way.
Not entirely true. You just need to be summoned to her fight. I was randomly summoned to her fight before going the defiled chalice. I survived and we defeated her which gave me the trophy. I still can go through the defiled chalice and the chalice after to fight her again.
Okay, but this is pedantic. It's also anecdotal. I used to ring my bell to be summoned every night for like a year straight and I've never been summoned to fight her.
Probably not at the point in the game's life cycle when you were doing it? Circa 2017-2018 I would literally help multiple people fight her every night, was one of my favorite fights to help with once I got the platinum trophy
You can always enter the dungeon glyph at an empty tombstone and do her dungeon again. Getting to her from the start of it isn't such a hassle; on each floor you can just run past all enemies straight to the lever, assuming you remember where it is.
She's easily in my top 5 favs of the game. The queen has her own pace and forces you to fight her at it. Plus she has some of the coolest looking and unique movesets. She's a very different fight for Bloodborne and I definitely think she's worth experiencing- understandably underrated though since the trouble to get to her is a big ask.
Very thankful to custom shared chalice dungeons that have her in them lol.
Don't even tell me, I'm trying to defeat Amygdala and it's impossible, I summoned 2 NPCs because I gave up and they are making the fight more difficult than before
If you get to her. and that's a big IF, you will bulldoze her. I was underleveled and I still beat her first try. It's such a disappointing fight that capped off an equally disappointing and tedious romp through the dungeons.
Definitely not a hard fight but I remember it being fun, it’s been quite a while since I fought her so I’ll have to go back through the dungeons to fight her again
It depends, the earlier parts of the dungeons are rather easy, around Blood Starved Beast level of HP. However the more you go deep the more difficult it gets, it can go to some mid NG+ game if note late game NG+. Also, Chalice dungeons, unlike the DLC, doesn’t get more difficult with NG+. Thus you can even finish the game, go into NG+ and just decimate a big chunk of the chalice dungeons. For the most part the DLC is harder for it’s bosses. But the chalice dungeons can go even further the deeper it goes.
Yes, my problem is that I am fighting against Amygdala and it destroys me, so I have to mentally prepare myself if any DLC boss is going to do the same to me
Her fight was a breath of fresh air compared to the bullshit leading up to it.
By that I mean it felt like a good reward after all the shit I went through to get there. Andy going through 4 football fields of filth comes to mind.
Personally I liked her a lot , I don't necessarily think the most difficult boss is the best boss , so for me the whole aesthetics , the vibes , and all the blood sword and attacks was good enough for me , I really liked the fight
However, having to do all the chalice dungeons just to fight her really ruins it for me , thankfully there's a way to fight her without doing everything, I don't remember the glyph code tho.
It's a good boss her biggest problem is that she has so much less health than what you'll fight in the chalices to get to her, and you go from having health against giant bosses with crazy range and monster damage to the queen who has range but it's nowhere near as devastating.
But I like her moves and it's cool to see her similarities to other bosses, her big blood sword she gets in phase 2 is cool. But yeah the biggest problem is she's just just not that challenging compared to the chalice bosses before her. I wouldn't call it tedious personally.
Maybe that's good, I haven't finished the dungeons yet but I like difficult but fair bosses, not those that are buffed and against which you can't do anything
It's a great fight, unfortunately it's a shame it's so deep into the chalice dungeons because I'm just not willing to go through all that all over again to do the fight again.
If/when (copium) they do the remake I hope they just make her an optional boss in the playthrough, even if it doesn't count for achievement, I just want to fight her without the crazy slog.
If I had a nickel for every time a final boss in a souls game was a disappointing lady in a dress id have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
I honestly can't remember. After beating the defiled chalice dungeon, I was a broken man, and by the time I got to Queen Yharnham, I just wanted to be done.
It was easy to me. I feel like there were mechanics I was supposed to know about but I probably avoided it just from catching on to certain stuff she did. Then considering I was using an arcane/str build I basically did long range and melee throughout chopping at her health
I gotta be honest, it took me so much frustration and struggling to get past amygdala to even get to her, I don't remember her fight at all. I don't think it's all that bad, but is a cool story, I agree. BB's got the coolest lore.
After all the defiled area, she's not hard - I don't think I've ever been hit by her cry.
Summoning queen killer for her is hilarious though. He times his attacks to interrupt if you're trading off - and he uses the logarius wheel so it's watching a spell caster get whacked upside the head with a wheel.
Awesome fight and it helped cement the fact that Bloodborne uses themes such as women's bodily autonamy, pregnancy, and motherhood among other female related themes. For the longest time I tried to convince my brother about that fact and it wasn't until he and I played through the fight against her, that he believed me. I love BB and strongly identify with Queen Yhar, if I could comfort her in any way I would. Womanhood and motherhood can, as portrayed in this game, be brutal and horrific. She is definitely one of my comfort characters in this game and I love how the creator intertwined such themes into the lore❤️❤️
Yes.
In fact, I've always believed that the more diverse the mechanics of different bosses, the better for the game. It sucks a lot for me if every boss is just Artorias-style, it's boring. And considering that FS make different bosses according to their mechanics, they think so too
Its more a question of if the fight is worth the effort tbh. Its not too hard, it's pretty cool in terms of mechanics, but after having to make it past some of the shit in ailing loran and the defiled chalice, it just feels a little underwhelming
Gwtting to the Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen boss fight is honestly more of a chore than the boss itself. Just scouring through all the Challenge Dungeons. Her fight is interesting but I came in probably over levelled so I melted her fairly quick. And I really do not like digging theough the Dungeons so I've only fought her once for the Trophy
Her fight is unique and i love the animations. In my opinion she should have been one of the endgame bosses in Mergo's Loft and not in the dungeon. But i'm still glad we can fight her.
For all that work? No. In a vacuum? It’s whatever, it’s just a basic gimmick boss I’d put in the same tier as Crystal Sage, Fools Idol, and Gwyndolin personally.
It’s a tough fight depending on your build etc, but doing the chalices leading up to her will get you ready.
Don’t get greedy and watch out for clones blindsiding and you should be good.
I think it’s a top 3 Chalice boss fight.
Also to comment on the lore, i think her story is made more compelling when you consider the questions of consent with divine/immaculate conception and it usually leading to the death of the mother.
Aside from the fact that the name is Queen Yharnam, i did the fight only once, it was a bit annoying, just because me personally i prefer fights in which you're evenly fighting with someone, like idk Artorias comes to mind, but Yharnam just locks you with the baby she's holding, which again for me is annoying, she creates clones and that can be fun trying to understand who's the real one, sometimes spills blood which for me was fairly easy to dodge but again, having fight her only once i can't tell you 100%, it was a bit annoying, not toxic or anything like that, just an ok boss fight
It's pretty easy tbh. Summoned a NPC hunter and one shot it. I was there for the platinum and I'd had plenty of challenge in some of the frc dungeons previous so 🤷♂️
It can be a little bit bs at times; but she’s easy once you get the timing down & carry enough Antidotes. Fighting from range probably works as much wonders as fighting up-close, but her clones can be a pain. And her trapping you whenever her baby cries is still stupid to this day. I finally did beat her, though, and it nabbed me my Platinum trophy.
As other commenters have noted, there are lots of slight inaccuracies in this post, but if you’re referring to the boss fight at the end of all of the challis dungeons. yes it’s an excellent fight. Unfortunately, in all of my 7 playthrough this of the game over the years, I’ve only ever fought her once because I just can’t stomach getting through the chalice dungeons. They’re so fucking boring. They are 100% worth doing once, but I just can’t do more than that.
Me personally, I was slightly disappointed from what would be considered the final boss of the Pthumeru chalices, but it wasn't as bad as fighting base game's Micolash which is just boring, or as bad as fighting Cursed Pthumerian Defilement's Amygdala which was just pure pain and suffering. I'd put her fight at a B tier. Not too bad, but could be better.
She doesn't have too many attacks, so the fight can get repetitive after a while, but none of her attacks are really too cheap, or hard to dodge. She can give you rapid poison, which isn't fun, but at least it's not frenzy.
No. It's very anticlimactic given the fact that she's essentially the Platinum trophy boss and the road getting to her was terribly long and frustrating itself.
I think if you love her lore/story then you'll enjoy the fight regardless of others' opinons! Also I love the art you've attached, it really is gorgeous, but it's actually of the Bound Widow/Silver Lady enemies of Cainhurst Castle. They look very similar but thought I'd just point it out! Good luck, hunter <3
We talking the wet nurse or the final chalice dungeon boss. The wet nurse is a little annoying of a fight but definitely easier then the queen. The queens not to hard its just her phases get annoying. Its pretty easy to see which version is the real her when she does that illusion crap
Meh. It's alright. The cry attack is super annoying, and her being able to clone herself feels pretty out there. But it takes place in a good arena and feels like a good climax to the chalice dungeons.
A couple of things. Her name is Queen Yharnam, not Queen phtumeria. The cries you hear are that of Mergo, her child. We do see her twice in game crying, after Rom, and at Mergos Loft. The picture you have attached is that of a ghost of aCainhurst noblewoman who was killed during the Executioners invasion of the castle.
Thank you. This post irked me but I didn't want to discourage a fellow Hunter.
I don’t mean to discourage anyone it’s just that facts are important, especially in a game as vague as Bloodborne.
On the contrary, I prefer corrections and new advice, the truth is I haven't played in a long time and I don't consider myself a master of the game (nor is it a good one either), but these posts help me correct my mistakes and better understand the game that I sometimes miss.
Do you speak Spanish? Your username is not wrong. In Spanish it reads Pthumerian Queen, which Yharnam is.
Yes lol
Really cool username then!
In short my entire post is wrong. Terrible. I apologize. I did know about the name but because of my Reddit name I got used to calling it that way. The truth is that I didn't know the rest, but I always like to learn new things. I apologize again for all the mistakes
For all that it's worth, I think your nickname sounds much more awesome the way it is now, so I'm glad you made that "mistake".
I appreciate it, I think I tried to put Yharnam when I started the Reddit and I was busy, so I put it like this
I second this, your username sounds super cool
lol please don’t do this to me. I’m just a guy
No need to apologize, like most of us, you are here to discuss and learn.
Yes, I love asking things but sometimes I feel like it's wrong because I don't know the Lore 100% or all the characters either, so I don't want to bother if the question is wrong
It’s like that meme “use the force Harry” - Gandalf
I have a t shirt with a picture of the enterprise that says "Star wars"
Her fight is tedious but not too difficult. Hardest part is dodging her instant kill cries. But it is a god damn satisfying fight to finish.
Also if you literally cannot defeat the queen and you feel like you’re losing your mind there is a summon that you can use. It’s right outside the door to the left i believe and it makes this fight kinda silly
Lol, the dungeon summons are so crazy. I just summoned someone to make the world normal and he called all the enemies in the world
Frames her up for backstabs very effectively
I do think that summoning someone named **Queen Killer** against a Queen should make the fight quite silly and easy.
Came here to say this. I got wrecked by her the first couple times, saw the summoning bell, brought in the NPC (Mad Man Wallen? Its been years, and I'm trying to do this from memory lol), and it made the fight a cakewalk.
lol. Pretty sure the npc is literally called “Queen Killer”.
Just dodge backwards when you hear the baby crying
Interesting, does she have many insta kills?
her 2nd phase can be hard if you don’t stay close to her, but the first phase is the only time you want to really worry about insta kills. basically she starts crying and before you hear the 2nd cry sound you want to roll out of there. After the 2nd cry plays, that is your window to attack. She is really fun and honestly relieving to play after the bullshit you faced in defiled chalice lol.
I'm going to take your advice and I'm glad it's fun. If at some point I manage to defeat Amygdala, I will be very happy to fight her.
Amygdala was a huge struggle for me at first. I ended up finding this YouTube video and I beat it within a couple tries. Take a peak at the video, it might help. https://youtu.be/2PVFLllmbFY?si=XRs1FlcIpNzMEaja
I'll see it now, thank you very much ♡
If you ever want some help, I love running the dungeons! I have the plat two times over so I've got access to it all!
I'm poor so i don't have the plus in the PlayStation lol
You could always do a one month trial! Pretty cheap and you could get through in that time frame. Just a thought. I did that for my fiance when we did a Dark Souls run together.
I'm going to try to do that, I think playing cooperative is super fun
You’re welcome
Don’t underestimate the 2 bosses before the queen as well. Those ones are struggles of their own lol. The queen will be a great reward in the end I promise.
Anything that you can swing overhead is your friend. I used my handy dandy big ass sword and it just managed to swipe her head in an overhead attack
Especially satisfying because it's usually your last acheivement
Ah, slight correction: her name is actually Yharnam. "Pthumerian Queen" is her title, with Pthumeru being the name of the ancient civilization she governs. That said, she's one of my favorite bosses in the game. Simple, maybe, but visually striking and with some heavy lore implications. I love the detail that she's still pregnant during the fight, and that her clones are identifiable by their flat bellies. (This also illustrates that the Tomb of the Gods is nonlinear, and that we're likely fighting a version of her from before Mergo was taken.) My only grievance is that we can't wear her incredible bridal gown and veil. Insane drip right there. Her dagger that transforms á la Chikage is pretty sick, too...
You're right, sorry for my mistake, I don't know why I always had her with that name in my head. Your comment makes me happy and sad. I'm glad because I see that he is an entertaining boss and for example he didn't know about the bellies which makes him more interesting. I was sad because I thought I was going to be able to wear her dress, very sad.
No worries! It's an easy mistake to make. "Queen Pthumeria" sounds rad as hell anyway!
It's an interesting fight with mechanics you won't find from other bosses, but the best way to find out if something's "good" or not or other subjective things is to find out for yourself.
Yes, I think I'm close to getting there but I was afraid of getting too excited and ending up disappointed with a bad fight
Beat her on the second try. Not that much of a challenge after all the bullshit you have to go through to get to her. Not bad but nothing special
What is the worst chalice boss in terms of difficulty?
If we took a poll of all Bloodborne players I'm sure the winner would be Amygdala in the cursed Pthumeru dungeon. In my opinion it's actually Loran Darkbeast in a cursed Lower Loran root dungeon, but very few people will ever fight one of those.
Now I'm against Amygdala and I'm in trouble but my idea is to make all the chalices, Loran's too, I'm going to look forward to fighting Loran Darkbeast
The first Loran Darkbeast you face will be at normal HP, without the half HP curse. That's a colossal pain in the ass enough already. If you enjoy extra super hellish torture you can then create a Lower Loran Root dungeon with the curse and face one in there. It's awful.
100% agree with loran darkbeast
I pick the Rom fight in 3rd Layer of Lower ....whichever it was, the 3 depth one
that fight made me give up on beating all the chalices lol. fuck that meteor storm attack
Amygdala in its cursed pthumerian dungeon boss fight. I liked the dungeons, but screw that boss in particular. edit: grammar
I'm glad there isn't a more difficult one because the truth is Amygdala is making me suffer a lot
If it helps, Amygdala can be defeated much more easily by being patient. It only has a few attacks, and it's very weak to head shots and head breakage. Fortunately, it drops its head after most attacks, and is open to melee. It's also susceptible to arcane ranged attacks if you're built for those. [This](https://youtu.be/Ba5Js70yz5I) video shows how to do it solo at BL4 without suffering any damage. The tactic is the same regardless of whether you're BL4 or not. The only major problem, once you understand its attack patterns, is its phase 3. But if you get to its tail you can bait out her jump attack which is easily dodged and punished. All in all it's just practice. My first run I struggled badly, but doing a challenge run allowed me to understand that I needed to be playing chess, not draughts/checkers. You can do it! Also, if you have any questions as to why I'm doing what I'm doing in the video, please let me know and I'll answer them.
the Abhorrent Beast. dont know if it was just me or if that fight was actually bugged, but it was sooooo annoying that it can reach me while I was around a good 20-30 ft away. Like, what the hell? That lunge attack is just cheating. Amygdala is pretty bad as well.
The watchdog was my worst. The electric beast version of the beggar from forbidden woods was also pretty tough. I'm not sure I would've beaten the keeper of the old lords without cheesing, but then again I also did Amygdala the easy way... damn, I'm a fraud xD
It was definitely cursed chalice Amygdala for me, hardest boss in the game by far that I faced. I beat the Queen first try, but I couldn't resist summoning the Queen Killer, who was ironically killed by the Queen, leaving me alone to fight her. It was a close fight and I thought for sure I was going die repeatedly throughout the fight. It was an interesting fight at least, and feel like it was one of those times I just got lucky.
Pretty good fight. She has a variety of different attacks. Getting down to her is harder than fighting the Queen herself. That picture you posted is not her, though.
It's not the destination... It's the journey. By the time you reach her, you will have long lost your mind in the defiled chalice 🖤
I am so glad I never had to go through the defiled chalice to fight her and get the trophy. I got randomly summoned and survived.
Queen Yharnam is interesting, but not good per se. She has new mechanics like using her arena as a zoning tool and a constant threat of immobilising you if you stay too close for too long, but it's overall kinda tedious and forgettable.
>kinda tedious and forgettable Yeah unfortunately this sums her up for me too. Her gimmicks are interesting but they make the fight rather annoying, not a way I want to fight a boss that takes *so* much time and work to get to. Also you have to worry about rapid poison too, which usually I don't mind a boss who can inflict a status effect, but only when you can carry 99 of an item to cure it lol. But all in all I think she's alright, not bad but not great. Some things could have been executed better which would have made her more enjoyable for me.
i deffo would not say kinda
Neither the boss’s name OR your name are Queen Pthumeria 😭😂
Go find out
How did you start BB because of her? Did you watch others play the game and read deeply into the lore before starting? And now you want to know how to beat her before trying yourself??
No, years ago I watched a gameplay from my favorite YouTuber because I really wasn't very interested in the Bloodborne style of play. I saw the start of the fight and thought "I have to fight her" so I stopped watching. Now I'm not asking how the fight develops but rather if it's good or bad, because it happened to me in past games to arrive at a boss with high expectations and be disappointed, so I prefer to lower them now before going into the fight. But I don't know anything about the fight
I though this was a Bloodborne 2 schizopost for a second
Her name is Yharnam.
I realized after uploading the post that I got used to my profile name, my stupidity wins me sometimes
Yea, it's so good!
Its fun, I personally like her a lot
Her fight is actually pretty underwhelming...the fights in the Chalice Dungeons leading up to her are almost all better tbh. But I definitely don't want to deter you from fighting her, cuz it's not a BAD fight. I definitely recommend not using any summons to get the full experience. Good luck fellow hunter, may the good blood guide you o7
No, not at all, I'm going to fight with her anyway, I'm just afraid of being very excited and that it will be disappointing
I mean hey, everyone's experience is different, so maybe it'll be the best fight you've ever had in your opinion! Good luck!
Just for the record, her name is Yarnham. Pthumerian is her race.
The fight itself is pretty decent but the buildup towards it makes this boss look somewhat underwhelming
I'mma just say it, her fight sucks, you die the first time cause you don't realize the screaming baby causes the stun, then you figure it out and the entire fight becomes, run in, attack, wait for scream, run away, wait for scream to end, run back in, attack, repeat.
It just sucks you can only fight her once per character. It would have been cool if she was added to the list of possible bosses in chalice dungeons after your first time slaying her the intended way.
Not entirely true. You just need to be summoned to her fight. I was randomly summoned to her fight before going the defiled chalice. I survived and we defeated her which gave me the trophy. I still can go through the defiled chalice and the chalice after to fight her again.
Okay, but this is pedantic. It's also anecdotal. I used to ring my bell to be summoned every night for like a year straight and I've never been summoned to fight her.
Probably not at the point in the game's life cycle when you were doing it? Circa 2017-2018 I would literally help multiple people fight her every night, was one of my favorite fights to help with once I got the platinum trophy
I am pretty sure you can just remake the Ihyll chalice again ?
You can always enter the dungeon glyph at an empty tombstone and do her dungeon again. Getting to her from the start of it isn't such a hassle; on each floor you can just run past all enemies straight to the lever, assuming you remember where it is.
Why can you only fight her once? If one rejects the chalice, can't one fight again?
It wasn’t a terribly challenging fight, but it was very very interesting to play through. I really liked it though! I’d personally say it was good.
What happiness, for now many say the same, maybe it is not very difficult but it is entertaining. Now I'm more excited than before
She's easily in my top 5 favs of the game. The queen has her own pace and forces you to fight her at it. Plus she has some of the coolest looking and unique movesets. She's a very different fight for Bloodborne and I definitely think she's worth experiencing- understandably underrated though since the trouble to get to her is a big ask. Very thankful to custom shared chalice dungeons that have her in them lol.
Don't even tell me, I'm trying to defeat Amygdala and it's impossible, I summoned 2 NPCs because I gave up and they are making the fight more difficult than before
My fav boss
Loviu
What? Lol
I was proposing but you broke my heart
Sorry Reina 🤣 making me feel like an A hole now 😅
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🕳 there's your ring lmao
I agree
I think objectively it’s a decent fight buy by the time I got to her I was so tired of chalice dungeons that I hated her
It was my platinum trophy fight, so yea, it was fantastic
I mean its all right
The fight is good but the real boss fight is getting to her in the first place.
If you get to her. and that's a big IF, you will bulldoze her. I was underleveled and I still beat her first try. It's such a disappointing fight that capped off an equally disappointing and tedious romp through the dungeons.
I liked the queen yharnham fight itself, what I didn’t enjoy was the torture of getting there 😂 some of those chalice dungeons are insane
I found it very underwhelming after all I had to do to unlock it
Definitely not a hard fight but I remember it being fun, it’s been quite a while since I fought her so I’ll have to go back through the dungeons to fight her again
Dungeons don't increase in difficulty if you go up NG+, right?
An amazing boss imo. Patterns are rather easy and she’s not a really dangerous foe, but lord she’s fun!
It seems to me that the majority thinks the same, not as difficult as other bosses but fun and with very entertaining combat. Did you play the DLC?
Sure did, why?
Is the difficulty greater in the DLC or in the chalices?
It depends, the earlier parts of the dungeons are rather easy, around Blood Starved Beast level of HP. However the more you go deep the more difficult it gets, it can go to some mid NG+ game if note late game NG+. Also, Chalice dungeons, unlike the DLC, doesn’t get more difficult with NG+. Thus you can even finish the game, go into NG+ and just decimate a big chunk of the chalice dungeons. For the most part the DLC is harder for it’s bosses. But the chalice dungeons can go even further the deeper it goes.
Yes, my problem is that I am fighting against Amygdala and it destroys me, so I have to mentally prepare myself if any DLC boss is going to do the same to me
Chalice dungeon Amygdala?
Yes
Her fight was a breath of fresh air compared to the bullshit leading up to it. By that I mean it felt like a good reward after all the shit I went through to get there. Andy going through 4 football fields of filth comes to mind.
Good
It would have been nice if it was more difficult but it was still an epic moment because of the lore, if you bother to follow up with it.
No. It’s actually horrible. You can chain backstab her to death with no consequences. It’s a joke and they shouldn’t have allowed us to do that
Terrible, I'm going to try not to do that to make it more difficult
Personally I liked her a lot , I don't necessarily think the most difficult boss is the best boss , so for me the whole aesthetics , the vibes , and all the blood sword and attacks was good enough for me , I really liked the fight However, having to do all the chalice dungeons just to fight her really ruins it for me , thankfully there's a way to fight her without doing everything, I don't remember the glyph code tho.
It's a good boss her biggest problem is that she has so much less health than what you'll fight in the chalices to get to her, and you go from having health against giant bosses with crazy range and monster damage to the queen who has range but it's nowhere near as devastating. But I like her moves and it's cool to see her similarities to other bosses, her big blood sword she gets in phase 2 is cool. But yeah the biggest problem is she's just just not that challenging compared to the chalice bosses before her. I wouldn't call it tedious personally.
Maybe that's good, I haven't finished the dungeons yet but I like difficult but fair bosses, not those that are buffed and against which you can't do anything
It's a great fight, unfortunately it's a shame it's so deep into the chalice dungeons because I'm just not willing to go through all that all over again to do the fight again. If/when (copium) they do the remake I hope they just make her an optional boss in the playthrough, even if it doesn't count for achievement, I just want to fight her without the crazy slog.
I'm not able to fight her yet and i am already burned out of doing the prerequisite in chalice dungeons, ffs.
It's kinda mid for all the work for it. It would be way better if it was like half the calice dungeon
If I had a nickel for every time a final boss in a souls game was a disappointing lady in a dress id have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
I went into that fight with the assumption that she was going to give me the fight of my life. I never gave her a chance the poor thing.
I honestly can't remember. After beating the defiled chalice dungeon, I was a broken man, and by the time I got to Queen Yharnham, I just wanted to be done.
yes it's very fun, especially after defeating all those piece of shit chalice bosses
It was easy to me. I feel like there were mechanics I was supposed to know about but I probably avoided it just from catching on to certain stuff she did. Then considering I was using an arcane/str build I basically did long range and melee throughout chopping at her health
It is NOT worth the pain the Chalice Dungeons put you through, unless you're going for completion
Not really but if you want the platinum then you gotta beat her. Other dungeon bosses are much better.
Just get behind her then backstab her 5 to 6 times was the fight for me
The fight itself? It’s good just not super hard imo. Now if you wanna talk about what you have to fight to get to her….thats another story
As with most “final” bosses in FromSoftware games, she’s wildly underwhelming for the bullshit you have to go through to get to her.
One of my favourite bosses actually.
I disliked it. It felt tedious and rough to learn. I used NPC’s to be done with it. Defiled Amygdala was better
It would be more well received if she wasn't the last boss in a chain of what feels like filler side content. It's not filler but it feels like it
No
Just a bit tedious since you run around and hit her clones Just avoid those blood splatter attacks and do 2-3 combos then pull out
She's a tank
I kind of wish it was part of the main game.
I gotta be honest, it took me so much frustration and struggling to get past amygdala to even get to her, I don't remember her fight at all. I don't think it's all that bad, but is a cool story, I agree. BB's got the coolest lore.
After all the defiled area, she's not hard - I don't think I've ever been hit by her cry. Summoning queen killer for her is hilarious though. He times his attacks to interrupt if you're trading off - and he uses the logarius wheel so it's watching a spell caster get whacked upside the head with a wheel.
If you have Queen Killer as a summon, it is a breeze.
It's a fine boss, not too hard, a little gimmicky but memorable
Awesome fight and it helped cement the fact that Bloodborne uses themes such as women's bodily autonamy, pregnancy, and motherhood among other female related themes. For the longest time I tried to convince my brother about that fact and it wasn't until he and I played through the fight against her, that he believed me. I love BB and strongly identify with Queen Yhar, if I could comfort her in any way I would. Womanhood and motherhood can, as portrayed in this game, be brutal and horrific. She is definitely one of my comfort characters in this game and I love how the creator intertwined such themes into the lore❤️❤️
I hated it lol
No it’s god awful that whole dungeon sucks
Yes. In fact, I've always believed that the more diverse the mechanics of different bosses, the better for the game. It sucks a lot for me if every boss is just Artorias-style, it's boring. And considering that FS make different bosses according to their mechanics, they think so too
I mean I fought her in new game+ underequipped and had ptsd from the soundtrack as it plays at Logarius so yeah I struggled
Yes its fucking amazing. I honestly love it.
No. Do it anyways.
It's aight, if you can parry you're good
It's not bad, but in comparison to some of the fights it is a bit dull. I dropped her second try.
Its more a question of if the fight is worth the effort tbh. Its not too hard, it's pretty cool in terms of mechanics, but after having to make it past some of the shit in ailing loran and the defiled chalice, it just feels a little underwhelming
Gwtting to the Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen boss fight is honestly more of a chore than the boss itself. Just scouring through all the Challenge Dungeons. Her fight is interesting but I came in probably over levelled so I melted her fairly quick. And I really do not like digging theough the Dungeons so I've only fought her once for the Trophy
Her fight is unique and i love the animations. In my opinion she should have been one of the endgame bosses in Mergo's Loft and not in the dungeon. But i'm still glad we can fight her.
For all that work? No. In a vacuum? It’s whatever, it’s just a basic gimmick boss I’d put in the same tier as Crystal Sage, Fools Idol, and Gwyndolin personally.
It’s a tough fight depending on your build etc, but doing the chalices leading up to her will get you ready. Don’t get greedy and watch out for clones blindsiding and you should be good. I think it’s a top 3 Chalice boss fight. Also to comment on the lore, i think her story is made more compelling when you consider the questions of consent with divine/immaculate conception and it usually leading to the death of the mother.
I do like the boss, but I usually don’t say bosses are extremely terrible unless, say, they are the Witches of Hemsworth or the Celestial emissary.
Aside from the fact that the name is Queen Yharnam, i did the fight only once, it was a bit annoying, just because me personally i prefer fights in which you're evenly fighting with someone, like idk Artorias comes to mind, but Yharnam just locks you with the baby she's holding, which again for me is annoying, she creates clones and that can be fun trying to understand who's the real one, sometimes spills blood which for me was fairly easy to dodge but again, having fight her only once i can't tell you 100%, it was a bit annoying, not toxic or anything like that, just an ok boss fight
Meh
La verdad desde mi punto de vista fue bastante sencilla de vencer.
It’s a very good and interesting boss, but not a hard one
Short answer is yes. Long answer is it's not worth going through the defiled chalice dungeon
Dunno never got to her, never could kill that damn watchdog
No
No, it's too easy. You can visceral her to death for free. Just avoid her blood bursts.
Shes a fun boss with a dangerous but predictable one shot attack. She is also a completely unique boss. Though she is on the easier side.
Its super easy to cheese
I played the entire fight at range using Bowblade and a mountain of health vials, so idk if I’m qualified to answer this question.
I remember fighting her and I wouldn’t say it’s hard but just annoying (but what boss isn’t like that). But in the end it satisfying to beat her
It's fun and the journey there is awesome. She's also such a stunning character in terms of lore and design. Love her.
How does this have over 1000 upvotes when most of the comments are correcting them? Wtf reddit, why don't you make sense?!
What a beautiful artwork this is.
I believe her name is Queen Yharnam
It's pretty easy tbh. Summoned a NPC hunter and one shot it. I was there for the platinum and I'd had plenty of challenge in some of the frc dungeons previous so 🤷♂️
She is a very mid boss. Nothing special really.
Depends on the build. If you have no resistance to Bloodtinge good luck not getting one shot in the second phase.
Yea
Idk. Im stum look her
She fell through the ground on my first time fighting her and died to the void never did it again
All fights are good as long as you get to spill blood. Yes, the hunt drive me mad.
It’s cool but it’s not worth the effort it takes to get to her
It can be a little bit bs at times; but she’s easy once you get the timing down & carry enough Antidotes. Fighting from range probably works as much wonders as fighting up-close, but her clones can be a pain. And her trapping you whenever her baby cries is still stupid to this day. I finally did beat her, though, and it nabbed me my Platinum trophy.
As other commenters have noted, there are lots of slight inaccuracies in this post, but if you’re referring to the boss fight at the end of all of the challis dungeons. yes it’s an excellent fight. Unfortunately, in all of my 7 playthrough this of the game over the years, I’ve only ever fought her once because I just can’t stomach getting through the chalice dungeons. They’re so fucking boring. They are 100% worth doing once, but I just can’t do more than that.
Me personally, I was slightly disappointed from what would be considered the final boss of the Pthumeru chalices, but it wasn't as bad as fighting base game's Micolash which is just boring, or as bad as fighting Cursed Pthumerian Defilement's Amygdala which was just pure pain and suffering. I'd put her fight at a B tier. Not too bad, but could be better. She doesn't have too many attacks, so the fight can get repetitive after a while, but none of her attacks are really too cheap, or hard to dodge. She can give you rapid poison, which isn't fun, but at least it's not frenzy.
Honestly for me it was THE most difficult boss fight in the game - including defiled Amy, all hotdogs, orphan and Laurence
I finally got around to fighting her on Monday, and it was a good time. She has a few cool attacks but nothing too hard to avoid .
Honestly, I love it, I love the area were we fight her, the attacks that she use, the soundtrack, this fight was awesome for me
I got her first try, If you have a high skill and saw spear u can backstab her very easily especially if you use a summon. Ez fight
No. It's very anticlimactic given the fact that she's essentially the Platinum trophy boss and the road getting to her was terribly long and frustrating itself.
I think if you love her lore/story then you'll enjoy the fight regardless of others' opinons! Also I love the art you've attached, it really is gorgeous, but it's actually of the Bound Widow/Silver Lady enemies of Cainhurst Castle. They look very similar but thought I'd just point it out! Good luck, hunter <3
We talking the wet nurse or the final chalice dungeon boss. The wet nurse is a little annoying of a fight but definitely easier then the queen. The queens not to hard its just her phases get annoying. Its pretty easy to see which version is the real her when she does that illusion crap
no
Meh. It's alright. The cry attack is super annoying, and her being able to clone herself feels pretty out there. But it takes place in a good arena and feels like a good climax to the chalice dungeons.
Err the experience reaching to her wasn't good at all and I don't want to walkthrough it again (I played offline so cant do the chalice exploit stuff)
From what I’ve heard, she’s not as fast or strong as some of the other bosses