Bloodborne: How To Farm The Best Blood Gems Guide - Gameranx (2024)

Find out where to find the best Blood Gens in the game and what they do.

Bloodborne: How To Farm The Best Blood Gems Guide - Gameranx (1)

Blood Gems can be used in Bloodborne to upgrade weapons at the Workshop and can drop in Chalice Dungeons or be found in chests. Sometimes, they'll drop when you defeat enemies.

Over on Reddit, user nagamasaarai has put together the below guide on how to farm the game's best Blood Gems.

Introduction: After a lot of farming in depth five dungeons, I decided to make a list of where you can farm top tier gems. The following dungeons utilize first boss farming. To be considered a good farming spot, the boss needs to be fairly easy, give high tier gems and the lever to open the boss doors should most often be close to the lamp– Thus making it very ideal for farming. The gems are all cursed, and can have any of the following negative effects:

  • WPN Durability Down – between (-58.5-63)
  • ATK DOWN – between (8.2-8.8%)
  • Increases stamina costs between (2.8-3.5)
  • ATK vs Beasts Down between (-5.5-12%)
  • ATK vs the Kin Down -between (-5.5-12%)
  • HP continues to decrease -between (1-9)

I will only be posting gems that have dropped for me. If I dont list a tier 20 gem on a certain boss, then it doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't drop. In fact, it probably does, but at an extremely low rate. Also, I wont be posting the negative effects of each gem, since every cursed gem can have any of the above stated negative effects. Also, I will be updating along the way, as I find more (when I have time to farm).

FOR ARCANE UP+% AND TRIANGLE PHYSICAL GEMS

Check out this dungeon and farm first boss: 5pwujscd (By VictoolF91).

Location: Isz Root.

Rites: Cursed, Foetid, Rotten.

The first boss in this one are the Watchers. They are fairly easy. Just parry the first 2, and kill the 3rd one with charge attacks.

Cursed Arcane Damp Blood Gem (6) Stats: (These doesn't drop too often, but when they do, thank RNGjesus and equip them).

  • Rating 17: Arcane ATK up 25.3%
  • Rating 18: Arcane ATK up 26.3%
  • Rating 19: Arcane ATK up 27.2%

Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6) (Triangle) Stats:

  • Rating 17: Physical ATK up 25.3%
  • Rating 18: Physical ATK up 26.3%
  • Rating 19: Physical ATK up 27.2%

Cursed Fool's Damp Blood Gem (6) (Triangle) Stats:

  • Rating 19:
  • Main effect: ATK UP at full hp 29%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects : HP gradually depletes-9

Cursed Fire Damp Blood Gem (6) (Note: these gems are a rare drop from the Watchers. You are more likely to find them in lower loran root):

  • Rating 17: Fire ATK up 25.3%
  • Rating 18: Fire ATK up 26.3%
  • Rating 19: Fire ATK up 27.2%

Cursed Adept Damp Blood Gem (6)

  • Rating 19:
  • Main effect: Blunt ATK UP+32.6%

FOR RADIAL PHYSICAL ATK UP+% AND FIRE GEMS

Check out this dungeon and farm first boss: pwmf22gu (by Lionhard70).

Location: Great Phtumeru Ihyll Root.

Rites: Cursed, Foetid, Rotten.

The first boss are Watchers. Very easy boss, especially if you cheese it.

The following drops from this boss:

Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6) (Radial) Stats:

  • Rating 17: Physical ATK up 25.3%
  • Rating 18: Physical ATK up 26.3%
  • Rating 19: Physical ATK up 27.2%

These gems can also drop:

Cursed Fire Damp Blood Gem (6) (Note: these gems are a rare drop from the Watchers. You are more likely to find them in lower loran root):

  • Rating 17: Fire ATK up 25.3%
  • Rating 18: Fire ATK up 26.3%
  • Rating 19: Fire ATK up 27.2%

Cursed Poorman´s Damp Blood Gem (6) (Very rare drop from watchers)

  • Rating 19: Physical UP near death +36.3%

FOR FIRE AND BOLT ATK UP+% AND RAPID POISON GEMS WITH SECONDARY AND WANING PHYSICAL GEMS

Check out this dungeon and farm first boss: enjids45 (by in-KASUGA-po).

Location: Lower Loran Root.

Rites: Cursed, Foetid, Rotten.

The first boss is a Loran Silverbeast. Equip a couple Clawmark runes, and visceral attack him. You will one shot him, since he is weak to visceral attacks. Very weak. Extremely easy and useful to farm.

The following Waning gems drops from this boss:

Cursed Fire Damp Blood Gem (6) Stats:

  • Rating 17:
  • Main effect: Fire ATK UP+22.3%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects : Add bolt ATK +13.5 / Add Fire ATK +13.5
  • Rating 18:
  • Main effect: Fire ATK UP+23.1%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects : Add bolt ATK +13.5-14 / Add fire ATK +13.5-14
  • Rating 19:
  • Main effect: Fire ATK UP+23.9%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects : Add bolt ATK +14 / Add fire ATK +14 / Add Rapid Poison Effect +3.3

Cursed Bolt Damp Blood Gem (6) Stats:

  • Rating 17:
  • Main effect: Bolt ATK UP+22.3%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects: Add bolt ATK +13.5 / Add fire ATK +13.5 / HP continues to recover +1
  • Rating 18:
  • Main effect: Bolt ATK UP+23.1%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects: Add bolt ATK +13.5-14 / Add fire ATK +13.5-14 / HP continues to recover +1-2
  • Rating 19:
  • Main effect: Bolt ATK UP+23.9%
  • 1 of these Secondary effects: Add bolt ATK +14 / Add fire ATK +14 / HP continues to recover +1-3

These gems can also drop, and are slightly more rare than bolt and fire:

Cursed Dirty Damp Blood Gem (6) Stats:

  • Rating 17:
  • Main effect: Add rapid poison effect+17.8 (or sometimes rarely: Add slow poison +14.8)
  • 1 of these secondary effects: Hp continues to recover +1 / boosts rally potential +2.9%
  • Rating 18:
  • Main effect: Add rapid poison effect +18.4 (or sometimes rarely: Add slow poison +15.4) 1 of these secondary effects: Hp continues to recover +1-2 / add slow poison effect +2.9 / ATK VS beasts up 5%
  • Rating 19: This hasn't dropped for me yet, but I guess you can infer the stats of what it will be, based on the other ones.

Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6) (Waning) Stats:

  • Rating 17:
  • Main effect: Physical ATK up 22.3%
  • 1 of these secondary effects: Add slow poison effect +2.7%
  • Rating 18:
  • Main effect: Physical ATK up 23.1&
  • 1 of these secondary effects: Add fire ATK +13.5-14
  • Rating 19: This hasn't dropped either.

FOR PHYSICAL UP+% GEMS WITH SECONDARY

Check out this dungeon and farm first boss: diryie74 (By Pontaro-_-).

Location: Great Phtumeru Ihyll Root.

Rites: Cursed, Foetid, Rotten.

The first boss in this one Phtumerian Elder. The guy is fairly easy to parry, and with Clawmark rune, you can do some pretty good dmg. Shouldn't have too much trouble with this guy.

The following drops from this boss:

Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6) Stats:

Rating 19:

Main effect: Physical atk up 21.8%

Secondary effect: Add Physical ATK +8.4

Cursed Tempering Abyssal Blood gem (6) (extremely rare) Stats:

Rating 20:

Main effect: Physical atk up 22.5%

Secondary effect: Atk vs open foes up 5.6%

Haven't farmed this one so much, but you get the idea of what sort of gems drop.

List is not finished, and if people want to contribute to this list, then I wouldn't mind editing this post. Need the following info on bosses to farm these types of gems (only high tier):

  • Circle gems
  • Droplet gems
  • Arcane add+ (as main stat)
  • Physical add+ (as main stat)
  • Arcane ATK UP+ and Physical add+ as secondary

These last 2 gem types are very useful for weapons that can scale off both elementals and physical (such as BoM or Burial Blade for instance). So if anyone got a consistent way of farming high tier versions of these gems from a boss, let me know. I haven't had too much time trying to farm all kinds of bosses to see what they drop, so I would appreciate some help from community to contribute.

Bloodborne: How To Farm The Best Blood Gems Guide - Gameranx (2024)

FAQs

How do you get rare blood gems in Bloodborne? ›

But if you're looking for these just keep playing the chalice dungeons get to layer 4 or 5 and you

Can you upgrade blood gems? ›

Them. Let's note that you can unlock every weapons gem slots at the same upgrade levels. The first

Where do I get waning blood gems? ›

Waning Blood Gems
Name & IconLocation/ Drop By
Fire Blood Gemstone Effect: Fire ATK UP +%Werewolves, Loran Silverbeast, Pthumerian Undead, Beast Patient, Cloaked Beast, Loran Cleric, Eye Collector, Beast-possessed Soul, Labyrinth Madmen
Bolt Blood Gemstone Effect: Bolt ATK UP +%Loran Silverbeast, Loran Darkbeast
20 more rows
3 Mar 2017

What does abyssal mean Bloodborne? ›

Abyssal blood gems are eldritch gems with a dim radiance that only grow deep inside the labyrinth. Most waning blood gems provide rare special effects such as fire, bolt, or healing. ADVERTIsem*nT. Nourishing Abyssal Blood Gem is a Waning type Blood Gem in Bloodborne.

What are Triangle blood gems for? ›

Triangle. Most triangular blood gems have effects that provide attribute bonuses and extra effects. As stated by the description, they boost mostly attribute. In Chalice Dungeons of Isz, all bosses will drop Triangle Gems.

How do I get +10 weapons in Bloodborne? ›

However, if players want to level their favorite Bloodborne weapon up to +10 they will need an upgrade material called a Blood Rock. And unlike the other upgrade materials, players only need one Blood Rock to level their weapon.

How many weapons can you fully upgrade in Bloodborne? ›

The Old Hunters DLC expansion alleviated this problem a little by adding a second Blood Rock to the campaign, allowing users to max out two weapons per playthrough.

How do you max out weapons in Bloodborne? ›

Workshop
  1. Once you have access to the Hunter's Dream, you can approach the Workbench in the Workshop and interact to upgrade your weapons. ...
  2. Weapons can be upgraded to a maximum of +10 using Blood Stone Shard (+1 through +3), Twin Blood Stone Shards (+4 through +6), Blood Stone Chunk (+7 through +9) and Blood Rock for +10.
27 Sept 2017

What does a tempering blood Gemstone do? ›

Tempering Blood Gemstone is a waning Blood Gem in Bloodborne. It can be slotted in to Blood Gem Imprint slots in weapons to add an effect to a weapon. Blood Gems require the Blood Gem Workshop Tool and can be slotted and unslotted at the Workshop.

What is blood gem fortification? ›

Blood Gem Fortification

The Blood Gem Workshop Tool is needed to infuse weapons with Blood Gems. Blood Gem Imprints will unlock as you upgrade the weapon. ( see Fortify above) Blood Gems also have to match the shape of the Imprint to be able to apply them. The Droplet variant, however, fits any shape.

What is the best Bloodborne weapon? ›

1/15 Ludwig's Holy Blade

It can tear enemies apart with no real effort. Its move set is also reliable--chaining into a hard to avoid combo. As such, Ludwig's Holy Blade is the best weapon in Bloodborne for most players.

How long is Bloodborne? ›

The main story of Bloodborne comes in at 35 hours, with an additional 10 hours to complete additional side quests and Chalice Dungeon bosses. This takes the total playthrough time for Bloodborne to 45 hours, putting it around about on par with Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3.

Are blood gems permanent? ›

(Firearms only have 1 or no socket). However, installation of a Blood Gem is not permanent: One can remove blood gems and reinstall new ones at the workshop table at any time without consequence or cost. Blood Gems' strengths vary greatly.

What do you use red jeweled brooch for? ›

Using the Red Jeweled Brooch will give the player a Red Blood Gem. The Red Jeweled Brooch can also be given to the Young Girl in Central Yharnam, as part of a quest.

What does HP continues to recover mean in Bloodborne? ›

Bloodtinge Gemstone Information

HP continues to recover. The recovery rate is 1 tick every 3 seconds. So if you have a +x gem, you will get x hp / 3 seconds. A fully hp regen slotted setup will regen 4 x 5 = 20 HP every 3 seconds, taking 2.5 minutes to heal 1000 HP.

Where can I buy a church pick? ›

The Church Pick is one of the coolest-looking weapons you can get in Bloodborne: The Old Hunters. It's found in one of the cells in the underground area after killing Ludwig. However, you'll need to acquire the Underground Cell Key in order to open the cell doors.

What is gehrman weak to? ›

A Man Of Many Weapons

The good news is that, during the whole fight, Gehrman is vulnerable to being parried. Players just need to learn the timing necessary to open him up for visceral attacks. One attack that's easy to punish is when he draws the scythe back and charges it up for a long swipe.

What is the fastest weapon in Bloodborne? ›

The Saw Cleaver and Saw Spear's charged R2s are the quickest of all weapons.

Whats the best armor in Bloodborne? ›

The best armor set in Bloodborne is actually found in The Old Hunters DLC. Players find the Harrowed set in the Fishing Hamlet after defeating Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. The Harrowed set has the highest physical damage defense with 310.

Which is better saw cleaver or saw Spear? ›

The Saw Spear is considered by most players to be the superior version of the Saw Cleaver. It is made an even more tempting weapon since it can be acquired within the first half-hour of the game. The major differences between these two very similar weapons are: The Cleaver has slightly higher base damage.

Who is the first Bloodborne boss? ›

Father Gascoigne is the first real boss, as beating him will progress the story and open up new areas to explore.

How many times can you use the tiny music box? ›

You can use the Tiny Music Box approximately three times before Father Gascoigne transforms into a beast.

What is max level in Bloodborne? ›

Max level you can achieve is 544. When leveling up, you can choose which of your stats to increase. Each stat gives you different benefits and allows you to use different equipment more effectively. Your stats define what your character can or can't do.

Can armor be upgraded in Bloodborne? ›

You can't upgrade your armor with materials in Bloodborne. The upgrade path for weapons is incredibly straightforward and only requires one type of material. There is no "Boss Soul" equivalent in Bloodborne, and there are far fewer weapons and items available to the player.

What should I level up first in Bloodborne? ›

In the early game you should level up the following stats: Endurance. Vitality. Strength.

How do I farm ritual blood 4? ›

A good farming spot for Ritual Blood (4) is on layer 2 of Lower Pthumerian Labyrinth. After unlocking the gate that leads to the boss, go into the right side door in the hallway. Go forward and take the ladder up by the scorpion, To your left is a stairway with a Snatcher, and another one at the top of those stairs.

What is the best Bloodborne weapon? ›

1/15 Ludwig's Holy Blade

It can tear enemies apart with no real effort. Its move set is also reliable--chaining into a hard to avoid combo. As such, Ludwig's Holy Blade is the best weapon in Bloodborne for most players.

How do I get ritual blood 3? ›

Ritual Blood (3) can be farmed from snatchers in Central Pthumeru Layer 3, just outside of the lantern in the big, wide area. There's only one snatcher there, but if you trigger the pressure plate in the middle of that area you'll spawn two additional snatchers along with some red weak-sauce pthumerians.

Can you respec in Bloodborne? ›

You can't re-spec in Bloodborne. Hoping to switch from a skill build to a strength build? You'll have to start the game over. (Grinding levels is possible, but as the levels get higher, the soul requirements become astronomical.)

What is the easiest way to get ritual blood 5? ›

Easy farming spot: Glyph: cxsee9xf. From the Layer 1 lamp, take a right into the side room. There will be a chest directly to your left with 2x Ritual Blood (5). Run back to the lamp and remake for more.

How many Chalice Dungeons are there? ›

There are a total of thirty-five named Chalice Dungeons. Each dungeon consists of labyrinth-like "Layers," with a boss at the end of each layer. Chalice Dungeons other than Root are fixed – bosses for different layers and loot stay the same.

How many layers are in Pthumeru Chalice dungeon? ›

Each labyrinth is comprised of three layers, with the exception of the Lower Pthumeru Labyrinth, which has four layers.

Will there be a Bloodborne 2? ›

Bloodborne 2 is an upcoming video game, developed by FromSoftware.

Whats the best armor in Bloodborne? ›

The best armor set in Bloodborne is actually found in The Old Hunters DLC. Players find the Harrowed set in the Fishing Hamlet after defeating Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. The Harrowed set has the highest physical damage defense with 310.

Is the Saw Spear better than the cleaver? ›

The Saw Spear is considered by most players to be the superior version of the Saw Cleaver. It is made an even more tempting weapon since it can be acquired within the first half-hour of the game. The major differences between these two very similar weapons are: The Cleaver has slightly higher base damage.

Do you lose your chalices in NG+? ›

No, you bring your Chalice dungeons with you to NG+'s. So you don't have to be afraid of losing them when you beat the game and go to a higher difficulty.

How do you get to Yharnam queen? ›

How to unlock Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen. Yharnam, Blood Queen is a secret optional boss that can only be found by taking the arduous journey through a total of seven different Chalice Dungeons. Each dungeon is an enormous labyrinth with multiple floors (layers) and difficulties (depths).

What Chalice Dungeon is Queen Yharnam in? ›

Yharnam, Blood Queen of the Old Labyrinth is the end boss of the final Pthumeru Dungeons. You need to go through quite a lengthy process in order to get to her, as you need to complete all the Pthumeru Chalices in order.

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