ELDEN RING

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John Bloodborne: A Guide To Mimicking Bloodborne Weapons in Elden Ring
By Scrubsberry Swirls
Bloodborne is probably not coming to PC anytime soon, so if you want to pretend to have the Bloodborne experience or want to make a cosplay build, here's some stuff I compiled to do that within the limitations of Elden Ring.
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Mimicking Weapons List
The following chart shows a list of every right-handed Bloodborne weapon and its generally similar Elden Ring counterparts in order to mimic how it looks and its transformation. The notes column details anything you might want to do to be more accurate or limitations. Some trick weapons have multiple potential weapons you could use, but it all comes down to your own preferance.

For most of the bloodtinge weapons, 99% of them can't be mimicked because there's no guns in Elden Ring, however, you can attempt to mimic them by putting glintstone pebble on them as an AoW

Similarity is on a 1-5 scale
1=Barely Any Similarity
2=Vague Similarity
3=Close Enough
4=Similar
5=Extremely Similar

BB WEAPON
WEAPON 1
WEAPON 2
SIMILARITY
NOTES
Amygdalan Arm
Curved Club
Ringed Finger
Mantis Blade
2
Beast Claw
Raptor Talons
Bloodhound Claws
3
Beasthunter Saif
Iron Cleaver
Omen Cleaver
Glaive
4
Beast Cutter
Great Omen Cleaver
Chainlink Flail
3
Blade of Mercy
Shamshir
Powerstanced Shamshir
4
Bloodletter
Mace
Great Stars
4.5
Sepekku sadly can't be placed
on maces
Boom Hammer
Hammer
Warpick
N/A
1
Use fire buffs/exploding pots
Burial Blade
Beastman's Curved Sword
Grave Scythe
4
Chikage
Katana
Nagakiba
Rivers of Blood
5
Use the Bloodblade AoW on the
1st weapon or one of the
bleed buffs to mimick the moveset
Church Pick
Regalia of Eochaid
Rotten/Crystal Sword
Iron Spear
Warpick
Halo Scythe
Lucerne
3
Holy Moonlight Sword
Claymore
Dark Moon Greatsword
5
Hunter Axe
Battle Axe
Stormhawk Axe
Garogoyle Axes
Crescent Moon Axe
Banish Knight's Halberd
Garogoyle's Halberd
3
Kirkhammer
Miquellan Knight's Sword
Lordsworn's Straight Sword
Brick Hammer
Battle Hammer
Giantcrusher
5
Kos Parasite
Nox Flowing Sword
Urumi/Urumi
4
Use Acid/Poison Perfumes
and Rock Blaster/Shatter Earth
to mimic moveset
Logarius' Wheel
N/A
N/A
0
No bonewheel shield :(
Ludwig's Holy Blade
Miquellan Knight's Sword
Lordsworn's Straight Sword
Banished Knight's Greatsword
Royal Greatsword
Watchdog's Greatsword
4
Rakuyo
Godskin Peller
Eleonora's Poleblade
Uchigatana/Wakizashi
Scimitar/Bloodstained Dagger
4
Reiterpallasch
Rapier
Noble's Estoc
N/A
1
Rifle Spear
Cleanrot Spear
Partisan
Spiked Spear
N/A
1
Saw Cleaver
Iron Cleaver
Vulgar Militia Saw
4
Saw Spear
Iron Cleaver
Glaive/Vulgar Militia Saw
3
Simon's Bowblade
Shamshir
Beastman's Curved Sword
Black Bow/Misericorde
Pulley Bow/Clinging Bone
2
Dagger used to mimic the arrow
in the W2.
Stake Driver
Katar
N/A
1
Threaded Cane
Cane Sword
Hoslow's Petal Whip/Thorned Whip
5
Tonitrus
Nox Flow Hammer
Morning Star
N/A
4
Use lightning buffs or Gravity
Stone Fan to mimic the W2 moves
Whirligig Saw
Hammer
Marika's Hammer
Mace
Ghiza's Wheel
5
Mimicking Offhand Weapons List
Since Elden Ring has no guns, this section will not include every offhand weapon. Most of these come down to crossbows or the jar cannon, with the shields being somewhat similar. When possible, always put no skill on your offhand weapon in order to use Bloodhound's Step or Quickstep with your main weapon.

BB WEAPON
WEAPON/SPELL
SIMILARITY
NOTES
All General Guns
Pulley Crossbow
Full Moon Crossbow
Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow
2
Offhand these with exploding bolts
Rifles
Ballista
3
Flamesprayer
Grafted Dragon
Surge, O Flame!
1
Hunter's Torch
Steel-Wire Torch
Beast-Repellant Torch
5
Give it a "No Skill" AoW and put
Bloodhound Step/Quickstep on
your main weapon for dashes
Fist of Gratia
Iron Ball
Star Fist
2
See Hunter's Torch Notes
Loch Shield
Ice Crest Shield
Silver Mirrorshield
Jellyfish Shield
3
See Hunter's Torch Notes
Wooden Shield
Pillory Shield
Marred Wooden Shield
3
See Hunter's Torch Notes
Rosmarinus
Night Maiden's Mist
1
Cannons
Jar Cannon
4
Use explosive arrows
Mimicking Hunter Tools List
For Hunter Tools, your best bet is to mimic the Executioner's Gloves as there's an item that's a downgrade of it, but most of the other hunter tools can be mimicked mechnically or visually to some degree.

BB TOOL
TOOL/SPELL
SIMILARITY
NOTES
Accursed Brew
Magic Pot
Rancor Pot
3
Beast Roar
Braggart's Roar
Troll's War
Barbaric Roar
Rejection
3
Blacksky Eye
Frenzied Burst
2
Empty Phantasm Shell
Magic Grease
1
Executioner's Gloves
Omen Bairn
Regal Omen Bairn
4
Old Hunter Bone
Bloodhound Step
Windy Crystal Tear
Crucible Feather Talisman
Baldachin's Blessing
3
Tiny Tonitrus
Gravity Stone Fan/Chunk
4
Choir Bell
Lord's Aid
Wraith Calling Bell(?)
1
You can pretend its a bell if you cast the
spell after using it
Augur of Ebrietas
Aspect of Crucible: Tail
1
Madaras Whistle
Dragonmaw
1
Messenger's Gift
Mimic Veil
Grace Mimic
1
A Call Beyond
Unendurable Frenzy
Pest Threads
3
Recommended Armors + Summary
For armors, there's plenty to pick and choose from, but some specific sets like the Confessor, Leather, Night's Cavalry, and Raptor's set are all good options to mix and match for fashion. Some notable hats are the Aristocrat Hat along with the Mushroom Crown, Black Dumpling, and Black Wolf Mask for the unique hat and transformations from Old Hunters.

In a nutshell, Elden Ring has plenty of ways to let you mimic a lot of Bloodborne weapons, but when it comes to guns and hunter's tools its obviously lacking because of the medieval setting. I hope this helps anyone planning their bloodborne cosplay character or build.
7 Comments
Coffee 23 Dec, 2023 @ 6:24am 
(Lordsworn's Greatsword has a typo, I know it's been a while since you posted this tho)
Blenderone 1 Dec, 2023 @ 6:27am 
thanks:reheart:
Doomernic 6 Jun, 2023 @ 8:14am 
For consumables, I'd like to use Fire and Oil pots against bigger enemies to complete my Bloodborne themed build, as well as Fire and Lightning greases. Very good guide, I keep coming back to it often!
AllenCecil 22 Dec, 2022 @ 4:42am 
Now this is a Smart Chart! :steamthumbsup:
Dev? 8 Dec, 2022 @ 4:52am 
YES! This was what I was looking for!
Abyssalserpent99 24 Apr, 2022 @ 11:02am 
finally i can play bloodborne on pc!!
Dehydrated Lettuce 31 Mar, 2022 @ 6:18am 
nice