>What should I do with the armor/weapons I don't want/use? Check if you can donate any at the hidden teahouse for daily/clan rewards. Otherwise preferably disassemble them. You can also sell them to Tome or donate to Danjo at the Teahouse if you need a bit of extra glory or cash. Later on you'll be keeping them for Soul Matching, but don't worry about that until you get to NG+.
>The blacksmith is expensive, should I be using it? You don't need to. Throughout WotSamurai and WotStrong you will constantly be finding better gear and builds don't matter so much. Soul Matching is expensive and intended for late game. If you do find a weapon you really like, try reforging it's effects using spirit iron, it's the cheapest and easiest way to improve a weapon.
>Why do people keep mentioning "smithing texts"? Bosses tend to drop pieces of their armor and weapons when you defeat them. Very rarely they will drop a smithing text which allows you to forge their armor/weapon.
>Which clan should I join? (clan unlocked through progression) Whichever one has a bonus that you think will benefit your build the most.
you do Abyss and WotN missions that are hard as balls. Also, with etherials you have more room for builds.
Hunter Robinson
bump the thread negros
Owen Russell
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John Fisher
Now do one for Tome.
Asher Williams
I want max familiarity on the weapon that I'm trying to give bonuses to via soul matching, correct?
Dominic Hernandez
both have to be max familiarity
Camden Perry
no, on the one you're feeding to your main weapon
Hunter Powell
no tome, but
Brandon Rodriguez
Lmao as if anyone will draw porn of such a shit girl
Henry Hughes
holy shit parrying with katana is so fun
James Sanders
oh, that's a bit annoying - i'm assuming the same goes for armor then?
Colton Foster
yeah ofc. Whetstones are pretty common so it's not a big deal, but with armor it's a little bit a pain in the ass, since glue is rare item
Ethan Foster
I forget where you get the text but glue is really easy to craft. It just takes one of the item dropped by the long neck dudes and those things seem to be a very common drop. You could farm that stuff up pretty fast if you wanted to. Only takes 7 to max out a full set of armor.
Samuel Jones
yeah, but it's still much more hassle than wetstones
Hunter Sanchez
I just died and got booted out for the first time in the Abyss on Level 151, god I fucking hate the poop map where the Big Axe Skelly is next to a Magatsu Warrior spawn
Carter Perry
you don't need to clear every level, just run in invis
Tyler Jones
Daily reminder to all the onmyo, ninjutsu and lw whore as well as Iai cheaters: This is what a quality non-cheese build looks like in Nioh.
Zachary Reed
Based
Nathaniel Martin
this is a Kato LW spamming build
Alexander Young
I guess so but you really don’t need as much glue anyway - or at least I don’t. Once I got the inheritables I wanted I have just been passing them around to my next set. I feel like there are fewer worth while armor inheritable effects in general.
Why do you keep posting this?
Carter Hill
>spamming lw with 20 spirit and almost 0 magic sure mate
Oliver Barnes
Not that guy but its not like you need much magic for a stack of buff talismans. Shit you can cover a good deal with hair stat points alone.
Nathan Martin
>tutorial cucks had the easiest bracket and got into semis basically for free how many cocks did klerny suck for this
Nolan Powell
some people want to actually play the game instead of relying on crutches like lw and it's perfectly possible to beat every enemy in the game with regular attacks while evading everything
Josiah Bell
idk man
Adam Hill
anyone else cheat with flowing shadow?
Aiden Fisher
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Noah Parker
Okay but that still doesn’t explain going out of your way to dump 4 points in magic. My guess is for a couple more points of jutsu capacity because you likely have more than enough skill points from hair.
And what the fuck is wrong with blocking?
Jackson Gonzalez
Why is literally everything other than plain attacking considered cheating in this game?
You're all a bunch of buttholes
Ian Hill
why do you think all this is serious
Easton Evans
I play a plain attacker with zero skills (Since they're cheating too) at level 1. I also purposefully kill myself every start because Guardian spirits are cheating too.
Everyone else is cheating.
Cameron Ward
>200 strength No, that's just shit.
Josiah Garcia
what is the best looking katana? I'm rocking Sozasa Monji
Nolan Wright
bastard sword.
Lincoln Edwards
you need 9 magic to wear certain accessories
Juan Bailey
this
Jack Reed
i'm still waiting for someone to do naked stone run
Isaac Rogers
ok i'm new to nioh, just got to the second area and did the poison mine
i've been told i should specialize in one weapon rather than keeping two. is that necessary? i really like the kurisigama but i've been swapping back and forth between a spear or odaichi for range / crowd control when necessary and i'd like to keep using one of them
i'm unlikely to do NG+ or anything. can i get by with a split build or am i gonna hamstring myself for the later levels / dlc?
Jonathan Hill
You're fine. Optimization is only an end game thing when you're in WoTN and 200+ Levels of the Abyss.
Daniel Howard
>tfw no Flying Bolt Transformation Missed opportunity 2bh
I did a Body/Strength split for 2kat and odachi. It seemed to work out okay for me, but odachi are pretty bad in general. If you use kusarigama long enough I doubt you'll use/need anything else less and less often.
If you're going to split into anything I suggest onmyo. It's practically a requisite for this game.
Luis Cox
what a dumb name
Ayden Barnes
For me, it's juzumaru
Lucas Smith
>Body/Strength split Spirit/Strength*
It pertains to a bolt of fabric. I imagine the Japanese name was too long. I would have preferred it either way though I'm sure
Tyler Turner
>i should specialize in one weapon rather than keeping two. is that necessary? No way
>i'm unlikely to do NG+ or anything Oh yes you will, the DLCs are NG+ content after all and continue the story, but going into them right after """finishing""" the game will be tricky
>can i get by with a split build Definitely. This isn't souls honestly, everything is useful at one point or another and I highly recommend you to test a lot of weapons and magic The only thing you need to pay attention is to not spend too much points on weapons you really don't think you're going to use much
Even if you fuck up your stats and skills you can just buy a respec book anyway In short have a nice time dude
Gavin Smith
Fun fact: the Flying Bolt in Nioh is actually based on a combination of two youkai
>If you use kusarigama long enough I doubt you'll use/need anything else less and less often.
I hate this, was using 1kat primary and kusa secondary for my NG playthrough and have since switched almost exclusively to kusa because it feels like it does way more damage even though my current katana has 100 more damage than my current kusa and Heart is my highest stat
still, nothing feels better than pulling of Tempests and Hazes on humans
Benjamin Gutierrez
gay
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Levi Campbell
No one ever balances shit right. Faster will always be better. I've got a +5 2k and a +5 odachi, and they both have the same AR. It makes no sense.
Robert Morgan
I don't even need to cheat anymore.
Samuel Cox
oh god i hate that faggot
Jaxon Johnson
spear doesnt have burst damage, right?
Levi Nelson
LW strong attack
Oliver Thompson
I've often thought about trying to run a Twisting spear build and use it the same way Iai draw is. Might work.
Jaxon Gomez
Speaking of which, how would the burst damage moves be ranked? Is Sotc stronger than 1kat's iai just because there one more kat? What about Odachi?
Liam Ortiz
odachi iai analog is complete shit, don't even bother
Christian Garcia
Damn, really? Why
Jaxon Powell
slow, little damage, no sets that support it
Samuel Davis
It does more damage than my 2kat iai with similar stats
Ethan Stewart
nothing outside of LW hits as hard as 1kat iai kusari reaper has the highest DPS though I'm pretty sure
Jaxson Anderson
>all that focus level grind jesus crist
Jace Torres
3 TRILLION for a mere 100 attack why even bother
Nolan Ramirez
isn't luck better?
Lucas Torres
I imagine you'll get every grace set in the world long before getting to 3 trillion amirita
Matthew Gomez
i want to try different builds, also my accessories are shit
Aaron Cruz
who knows
Aaron Brooks
>get summoned >dude just activates kato and rapes everything
Lucas Collins
Well, I just fucking rushed WotStrong since there's no more mission rewarding hairs. Into Demon now
>nothing outside of LW hits as hard as 1kat iai God Fucking Dammit
Joseph Flores
what is the best place to farm revs? i don't like the bridge
Joseph Wood
>nothing outside of LW hits as hard as 1kat iai Well I think you just made me lose all interest in this game.
Carter Johnson
twilight missions are decent and give umbracite as well
Carter Gray
I just started the second region. Is it better to focus on Ninjitsu or Magic and when does either start getting OP damage
Logan Hernandez
a little bit of both. Grab the quick-change from ninjutsu and sloth from omnyo if you're struggling with bosses
Noah King
guys help, i'm getting addicted to katana
Jackson Moore
tier 0 LW tier 1 iai flowing shadow reaper blade spin tier 2 backwave/tempest spearfall the shrike sotc crashing waves literally nothing tonfa or axe can do
Hudson Baker
Post yfw odachi can change stance during LW
Juan Martinez
Nigga what
Blake Miller
how are you doing it? what skill?
Eli Morales
>complete mission achievement rate in WotStrong >nothing happens >look it up >apparently, it comes with DotN DLC Well this is quite disappointing please tell me it's not true, i started using onmyo and the game became fun again it CAN'T end like this
Adam Martinez
You've been rused. You can't do that with the Odachi's stance change skills.
Lucas Cruz
each dlc added a difficulty
Andrew Taylor
Mid stance skills are set to Waking Winds: Earth & Sunset Breeze: Heaven.
With LW active, you have to dash after a combo, then press either quick attack (switch to low stance) or heavy attack (for a switch to high stance). Gotta figure out it's limitations next...
Xavier Allen
FUCK at least i just need Samurai of Legend for the Platinum
Andrew Thomas
how come marobashi has two 1kat users and no odachi guy
Brody Price
wait for WotN
Bentley Smith
I stand corrected. Weird. Moonlit snow is still probably better damage than anything you could do in any other stance in LW.
Thomas Cox
it only adds Hanzo
Benjamin Green
first guy with odachi
Juan Fisher
>killing any rev with 1 parry
Eli Martin
isn't he still using that weird mace-like wooden kat?
Adrian Young
no
Jaxon Campbell
My quick attacks do about 5k per swing in LW. 8-12k if my first hit weakens armor 20k+ per hit if I use a weakness talisman or I render them confused. I hate the wind up for charging Moonlit snow, is it really that good?
Carter Gray
Anyone need help on any missions on PC? Trying to grind some glory and can't seem to match with anyone.
Connor Diaz
Is Iai even stronger than sword of meditation? I was curious if damage received while attacking would kick in for the whole duration and was thinking about building around it.
That mission with musashi is my go to.
Henry Lee
are you like leaving shooting guy and just farm revs or something?
Samuel Flores
Yeah it's really good if you can get in the right position to hit all of it.
Colton Ortiz
I've been summoning people for every single mission I'm going on in NG+ just to hook people up with glory, i'm up to Sekigahara region now
Noah Price
>everything in the beginning can 2 shot me >dodging isn't instant >blocking does fuck all what am i doing wrong
Zachary Evans
How in the fuck do I stop being one shotted so often? Why is my damage so shit? I'm in the 4th region and I still feel like I made no progress with my character. Jesus Christ the giant frog is tanking all my attacks
Jason Martin
if you want to dodge attack go into low/mid stance. Learn to flux to cancel attack animation and restore Ki
