29/08/2023

General Rules

• A hit is defined by a loss of health and/or stagger caused by an enemy.
• Hits from player triggered traps count.
• Environmental damage caused by static features as lava, water, swamp, spikes, campfires do not count as a hit.
• Fall damage does not count as a hit, but a death from falling does.
• Blocking an enemy counts as a hit, but a perfect parry does not.
• Major glitches are not allowed. You can find a list of all banned glitches for Bloodborne here.
• Minor glitches or sequence breaking events that are allowed for Bloodborne can be found here.
• Quitouts are not allowed, except when in the Hunter’s Dream or after killing Djura to get the Powder Keg Hunter Badge.
• Summon other players is forbidden, but NPC summons are allowed.
• Killing bosses/ads from outside of the arena is forbidden.

Specific Rules

• Initial ticks of damage from Frenzy build-up do not count as a hit. However, getting damaged by the full proc from Frenzy counts as a hit.
• Getting sent to Wet Nurse’s Nightmare phase does not count as a hit (even though it can be avoided). Any attack received within the Nightmare phase counts as normal.
• The moon presence 1HP attack is not considered a hit.

Specific Rules for non fresh start NG+ runs

• Max level before NG+: 80 (You can level up in the next NG+ cycles)
• Weapon +10 and base game gems (No chalice gems allowed)
• Base game runes.
• You can skip the BSB fight by buying the Hunter Chief Emblem if you want.
• No leftover echoes and coldbloods from previous run.
• Can level up the gun to max level.
• You can have badges from previous NG (Cosmic Eye Watcher, Spark Hunter…)