Nioh - Sennin (Dual Sword WAY OF THE DEMON Survival Build)
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- Here's the dual sword build I carefully refined while playing Niohs' WAY OF THE DEMON. The build is designed to work with every mission by being super tanky for maximum survivability. It also works pretty well in Way of the Wise too. Enjoy!
Written summary of the build here:
fuzzybearbarian.com/post/16046... - Hry
Absolutely AMAZING! Very IMPRESSIVE build and work and effort! This is why I love this game SO much! SO many effective and vastly different builds for different play styles and small subtle differences that make HUGE overall differences. Your work is greatly appreciated and makes this game that much better and fun for the rest of us! Fuzzy, YOU are NIOH!
I actually learn a lot about the game mechanics from your videos. Other videos are just about how to cheese the game to have living weapon up the whole time. Great work!
That makes me pretty happy to hear, thanks man.
In all honesty I appreciate all the work that you put into your videos. You're content is exceptional and pertinent and it's genuinely enjoyable to watch. :) great build!
Thanks man, I really appreciate that.
Im currently at level 135(WOTS) and I tweaked my build to make an almost similar one to this build with the damage reduction and stuff,gotta hand it to ya,Its so damn nice and satisfying👌🏻A million thnx man🎉
Nice work and thanks. I find this build pretty satisfying to play too.
You are the only person so far that has a written guide for your build I like that thanks I just subscribed.
Thanks!
I have one question about it starting out what gear should I be looking for to get until I'm able to get the armor in the build and how should I spend my stat points early.
Your vids are the best Bro you have put so much research n testing into this. I just want to say thankyou because without your vids I wouldn't be farming on way of the wise. Again I am so thankful for your vids pls keep it up Bro,.
Thanks mate, really appreciate the comment.
Very impressed man. Not my play style but great build for anyone looking a damage reduction tank build.
Fuzzy, I just wanted to thank you for all the time you spent working on your builds and videos. please keep it up!
Thanks man, appreciate it.
question what do u think about everlasting ki?
I see most people hating on it, but I freakin love it. I've been running the last 2 days with a forged Tatenashi set and two sets of Everlasting Ki on it, totalling 66%, and I never have ki problems at all any more. It's so good I specifically remember the last time I ran out of ki and stopped, because I thought, "Oh, there it is, it didn't proc then." It was so rare that it didn't proc that it was noticeable! Yep, I'm a fan of it.
awesome I got it on legs and boots time to party!
Make sure you come back and post your feedback and how you like it. I want to see if you get a similar experience where after a while you just kind of forget ki management is a thing.
damn, fuzzy is at it again, thanks a lot and great work.
Haha yep, it seems I can't stop lol.
Man, thanks for this. I'm using a similar build and I'm finally having fun on way of the demon.
Great to hear man.
damn... THIS is a very well done build mate! good video as well... keep up the good work :)
Thanks man, appreciate it.
Excelent build! Thanks a lot for the useful information about the game mechanics on your videos. I was able to beat all the missions of Way of the Demon with it. The only missions I have trouble with were the 2 that you needed to fight Okatsu, specially "Iga Style" one.
Okatsu can be a pain, that's for sure. Though I did settle on this build once I was sure it was good for all missions, especially for keeping you alive during the double human boss missions. Most people cheese Iga Style, but even with a good non-cheese build you still need to know where the enemies spawn so you can deal with them fast.
Hey Fuzzy, This Build was super Fun-tastic! I was able to put some quality effort into this build last night. Although not perfect just yet, (I can't seem to roll Sign of the Cross on dual sword and Elemental Damage Reduction on my chest piece just yet) I'm extremely satisfied with this build. I was able to run through all missions in ng++ (Way Of The Demon) at a comfortable pace. Because this build is a tank, I didn't have to worry about random elemental attack damage or cannon fodder from pesky enemies. infact, I was in an uncontrollable state of laughter as the enemies swarmed me with unfriendly onslaught to no avail. My health meter stayed in the hi 75 percentile range. The one thing that I was yearning for was more damage output. If only I could allocate more points to skill damage tree ... this build would be the "Cat's meow"
Thank you for all the time and efforts you put into this super fun-tastic build and all the rest of the work you do for the Nioh community. You are the man Fuzzy. Keep up the great work. You had me worried there for a minute when I didn't see a new Nioh dual sword build video from you. It all makes sense now, you were working on your ultra tanky masterpiece 'Sennin'. Thank you good sir!
He's bacckkk! And still killing things quickly and with style. 😁👍
damn bro! subbed... good stuff and with written guide too... keep them builds coming
Thanks man!
U can get the tatenashi text from way of gourd even on way of the samurai. Got it without realising its that great considering I was rocking red demon set, fire build, at the time. Great vid, now I've gotta respec again, oh the dread!!👍
really looking forward to trying this build when I can.
Once you're lucky enough to get the gear, you'll like it, I'm sure. It's still may favorite WotD build as you can actually play without cheese.
Thank you for the great build. I was cruising through the game until WotD then it was like BAM brick wall lol. This set up was close enough to what I was doing whilst being way more effective so thanks \o/!
Glad to hear, thanks!
awesome work once again!
Thanks.
wow! probably the most technical and thought out build I've seen. it'd take a century to get all the right rolls though lol. also need about 40 more levels
It feels like it took a century alright lol.
Fuzzy Bearbarian it's right up my alley though seeing as how I'm getting my ass handed to me, so I will make the attempt. have also decided dual sword is officially my favorite weapon. it's the only one I feel doesn't have a real downside. (: thank you! keep the great builds coming! maybe try something with one eyed dragon set and guardian. been doing a wind elemental build with it (wind reduces damage) could see a cool dual tank build being made of it as well.
I enjoy all weapons, but dual swords are my favorite by far. I like their speed.
nice video fuzzy as always.
Appreciate the comment.
Thanks man, this works like a charm.
Yep, still my favorite build.
hi thanks for build.
its possible to reforge skill dmg "sign of the crows "? i need only this in dual sword.
Orange if i can't reforge it - what can i put there? thanks
WOW. Only took about 8800 reforges to get Increased ATK and DEF (Kato). Thanks for this build, man. Really fun being able go head to head with WOTD.
Only 8800? Sounds like you were very lucky based on my efforts to subsequently roll it again...
Did u roll it with iron chunks im trying to get it atm
Very impressive(Nioh clap of approval)
Thanks for the advice, Maria has been kicking my ass
I love that you’re still replying to these vids. I have a question, if possible; which build do you recommend: The sennin build or your older “best dual sword” build? I know they are both situational and I’m on WotD right now. I got there using the sennin build (many thanks to you btw) and was wondering if I should try out the other older build. I know that one is nearly max level, compared to the more easily achieved sennin build. Anyway, thanks in advance! Hope you put out some new vids once Nioh 2 comes along.
I would say the Sennin build if you're choosing as it's pretty great right up to Way of the Nioh, and even through half of the Abyss it's very solid. However, for really late game I personally prefer to wear the full Hayabusa armor set (Dragon Ninja) with the Dragon Sword katana. That's what I did in Way of the Nioh and the Abyss in (when I wasn't posting more Nioh videos). It's lightweight and although you're kind of a glass cannon, the damage output is phenomenal and you can spec for ninjutsu throwing items to make sure you have distance attacks covered. Throwing items give you extra damage with the set. It's great. Also easy to get and farm, as opposed to other builds that take a bit.
Oh, and yes, rest assured I'll do a bunch of Nioh 2 vids. I already made a few just on the demo, though I didn't get much time with it. I still managed to put up all the bosses and highlights from each map. Can't wait for the final release!
SoloVG Much appreciated for the quick reply! Funny enough, I was working on a Hayabusa build to change up the gameplay mechanics. I figure at that point you may as well be a glass cannon because pretty much everything 1-2 shots you that late into the game.
I suppose I was on the right track then. Anyway thanks again, I look forward to your Nioh 2 vids!
Another excellent video
Cheers!
You had me at no elemental damage ever!
what a great build. might use it for way of the demon :D
Thanks for all the hard work, greatly appreciated.
You mentioned at the end of the video a way of cutting the animation for SotC . Can you elaborate please, a vid/link will help?
Thanks again for all the hard work. Keep it up
Haven't made a vid on it. But basically when you hold down R1/O you can do two things. First, you can release the button combo earlier than the animation, and the move will still go ahead. Also, immediately upon finishing a sign of the cross, if you press R1/O as if you were pulsing, another sign of the cross will start, you then let go midway through and another one will fire off. After you do your first sign of the cross, you can basically chain them by letting go, R1/O'ing quickly, then letting go half way through the animation, etc. It's kind of pretty basic to explain it that way, but my suggestion is go stand somewhere safe and start trying to chain them like that.
Very good video and a great set! I'm so broke I'll have to add it to my todo list but well done!
Broke in terms of gold?
Yeah reforging and soul matching means I'll have to pace lol my upgrading!
Way to go man. Good video. That elemental damage thing is amazing. Ill have to steal that off you :p
Thanks man, and yep, changes the whole game big time.
Fuzzy Bearbarian Loved the intro of the top down view. I've been running as okatsu. Love the female reskins. I'm trying to figure out ways to optimize my build a bit more. Not interms of damage but of utility. Do you know the max % for everlasting ki?
I have two pieces of everlasting ki on my current build, totalling 67.1% (33.6 and 33.5% respectively). It think that's going to be close to max. With that, I see zero need for more. Without getting into math - because I suck at math haha - the times where your ki goes to zero are not often, but the odds when it does are higher than it won't matter than not. The result is you go long stretches without even thinking about ki with this perk. It's pretty great actually. With 100% I'm thinking the result wouldn't be too far different, and why I don't think I'd bother trying to max it beyond 2 pieces.
Fuzzy Bearbarian I don't think you can roll it on more than 2 pieces if I remember correctly. I'm about the same % you have I think.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it can drop as an inheritable yet. I haven't seen that yet, so you may be right.
Nice work! Lol - I just finished rolling a build based on your prev. video (master/kingo). Back to the reforge table :)
Such is the Nioh life :/
Yup. Good thing I enjoy min/max'ing.
Fuzzy bearbarian thanks for answering my question
No problem at all.
I'm rocking this build and it's fucking awesome...
Great to hear!
Keep up the good work.
Thanks man, will do.
Amazing build. I was able to roll a Melee Attack Damage (purple) I'll give it a try, if it's crap I'll go back to Running Speed.
I also managed to see a green purification (high damage peak) or something like that, I really hesitated and did not forge it, was it a mistake? Is it good
Hi Fuzzy, first off thank you so much for your hard work. I know the grinding, testing, reforging
and gold required to make these videos is extremely time consuming and tedious so
thanks. I was patiently waiting for your video to come out because you do a great
job on explaining your builds. What is the minimum level that this build would
be viable, I am currently level 230.
I think 250 is ideal, but 230 would be just workable if you can compensate for your defensive weaknesses by good gameplay. Just make sure you go all Stamina to get B agility, otherwise you'll be toast.
I have been playing the kusarigama since the game came out. I like it and my build puts out quite a bit of damage, but I get killed easily. At level 290 you think switching over to this build will work pretty well? I have managed to get all the armor, but haven't reforged any effects. Do you think 12M gold is enough to do the forging to get the build workable? And thx for your videos, do you have a paypal account?
Yeah, it'll work with a slight adjustment to your stats for whichever weapon I feel. 12M will be pushing it, but with some precise save scumming yeah, you can get set up with that probably. And on paypal, don't worry about it. I'm not soliciting money at all. But I do appreciate the sentiment, so thanks for that.
Hey Fuzzy! amazing content brother. i just got to way of the wise and am getting absolutely destoryed. im still using a build i learned from you earlier on. the master swordsman mixed with the kingo set. just wanted to ask you what set you'd recommend using at this point. I'm a dual wielded and level 430.
Thanks man. As far as what set to use, it really depends on your playstyle. I played through Way of the Wise with this Sennin build, but in WotN I switched to the Hayabsua set (katana rather than dual swords). This build has also been nerfed since I released it. Way of the Nioh is pretty brutal, so some people will absolutely need a tanky set (tatenashi/oyamatsumi based build) to even start it, while others will need a ones hot kills-all living weapon build, and others again want an agile high-damage build (like hayabasua). Personally I think a tatenashi/oyamatsumi build is the best if you find yourself dying a lot, plus it's the kind of set that will allow you to choose whatever weapon you prefer. But, to get all the Oyamatsumi graces on armor/weapon pieces that aren't Tatenashi, you really need a lot of luck or to have opened the first 24 levels of the Abyss (you can use level 21-24 to get the graces you need for the set). So yeah, basically hook yourself up with Tatenashi 4 pieces, and then fill the rest of your slots with Oyamtsumi. Infuse Reduced Firearms Damage onto all your gear and accessories (get it to 100%), and between those sets and that stat you'll be sweet.
This is really fucking awesome, man! Well done!
I am actually waiting for you to do another Dual Katana damage build, and I was wondering if you would anytime soon.
Also, what about a Wind Dual Katana build? Like using One Eyed Demon + Master Swordsman, having a Wind Dual Katana with maybe 45% Wind Elemental Damage on it and the 45% from the set at 0 Familiarity, wouldn't that be huge damage plus making enemies hit for way less damage when they get Wind effect on them?
Your input, of course, would be very highly appreciated.
Thanks man. I haven't had enough resources to level up and test other builds, and right now I need a breather from all the grind lol. I hope they relax the resources thing a bit. I'd love to do a lot of builds like you're suggesting.
I know, right? The gring is ridiculous, Good lord! Gives me PTSD from when I used to play World of WarCraft like an idiot and grind till I fell asleep! Hahaha!
Your videos really help the grind be more focused and give one a target to get to without confusion. Can't wait for your next video! For real man, great content!
Thanks man, appreciate it.
Hmmm. I have much farming and smithing to do for this build. Might have to use one of your previous builds, I haven't gotten through the DLC missions. I use your channel for builds. How you know so much is beyond me but I'm impressed
Lol. Call it spending way too much time hunched over my PS4.
Hello, I would like to know which mission is best for farming Amrita, so I can reach at same level as this video and build my skills. I’m currently level 135 on way of the strong.
Could this work with an odachi? And how can you reforge to make the stuff you want? It always makes the same things with me.
It's funny you should say that. I originally started with this build idea because I wanted an "all purpose" build that I could switch weapons with any time without having to respec. I kind of dumped that idea when Maria started tearing me apart. However, if you took this build and switched all the skill points into strength, and swapped your dual sword skills to odachi, then absolutely it would work. I don't know of any great Odachi skills - they're all pretty lacklustre if you ask me, but the weapon is very powerful so power moves like sign of the cross aren't really needed anyway. So in short, yes, this will work with Odachi just fine with only a slight modification.
Fuzzy bearbarian I have a question for you. When you go to the blacksmith to buy,forge weapons can you buy any weapon the blacksmith has
Yes, so long as you the resources.
I was watching as much of the 4 dual sword build videos and then this one today at work, is each just meant to be an improvement over the last, IE I should just go with this sennin one since its the most recent, or one of the 4 dual sword videos before?
The Chakku Norisu build is the most recent, but don't go with that as it has been nerfed into the ground. Sennin is still the best imo, though some of the others may be easier to set up. It really might depend on how your RNG goes which one to go with to begin with, but yep, aim for Sennin if you want max survivability.
This build is great thank you
Glad you like it and thanks for the comment.
Fuzzy Bearbarian cost me everything I had to make it. But it helped me finish way of the demon. Is there any way you could do an update of your best dual swords build? I tried your justice ministry build but it felt inferior to master swords kingo build I was running. Thanks for your reply.
Right now I'm not playing Nioh. But honestly, even if I were I still wouldn't update previously posted builds because the grind to do so is just too much. I actually started doing a new axe build recently then stopped because I couldn't face the grind anymore. I guess I'm burnt out on it. Plus, I'm deep into a couple of other games right now that I'm enjoying. Just haven't posted any videos on those ... yet.
Fuzzy Bearbarian I felt the same way going from my build to your, so I totally understand where your coming from
I just respec'd from the build I was making back to my Sennin build in prep for the DLC to drop. Fortunately that wasn't too hard. But despite knowing I'm getting the DLC, I'm kind of dreading the inevitable forging for a good set of Tonfa's!
hi
Windstorm is nerfed now. What should i reforge? Sign of the Cross is now more powerfull
Hey. I hear the nerf on windstorm isn't too bad, but I'm playing The Surge at the moment so I can't say from experience. In any case, this build was more a Sign of the Cross build than a windstorm build anyway, so if that's been buffed, then that's okay :)
hi bro. well done. buddy can u say where i can find ur revenant? ;) ur armor and weapon are too nice. ;)
Cheers man. It took a lot of time and effort!
Informative video and great looking build. This is just what I’m after for when I start Way Of The Demon. Would it be possible to get you to leave your revenant for me?
Almost a year ago yep, but I'm afraid I no longer have this build anymore.
Ahh that sucks then. Hopefully I can strike it lucky and find someone else with that gear. Thanks anyway.
You could farm the Bridge of Ohashi. These days lots of revenants are using Tatenashi gear because lots and lots of players use that gear all the way through to and Way of the Nioh and the Abyss. Master Swordsman gear you'll probably get along the way, though Marobashi farming is the easy way.
Sounds good. At the moment I’m just face-rolling my way through Way Of The Strong so I can get to WotD then I’ll look at farming what I need.
Just wondering how you get the special effects on your weapons and armour as high as they are. I forged the same dual swords but when given Skill Damage or Skill Ki Damage the % is much lower. Can they be increased if I Soul Match a higher level weapon? Also when forging do you know if starred effects can roll on all skills available for any given weapon. I’ve rolled SotC a few times but would prefer Wind Storm as I’ve found it much more useful.
Fuzzy, I made it through way of the wise with this build, and it was awesome! Now, on way of the Nioh, what do you recommend? Which grace and in what pieces? Where to put the new levels at? Heart?
Great to hear. Way of the Nioh steps it up a TON. Sennin will work in the first few areas, but later it won't help at all. For maximum survivability, I recommend: 4 Piece Tatenashi, 6 piece Oyamatsumi, use 2 x katana = Kiku-Ichimonji katana in both slots (2 of them, putting Flowing Shadow on one, Iai Quickdraw on the other. The one with Flowing Shadow spec out for skill damage, the one with Iai quickdraw speck out with close combat damage and final blow damage). Then switch between those two weapons depending on your circumstance for maximum damage. Grace of Oyamatsumi can be gotten very early in the abyss. I haven't played for a while, but from memory I think you go in at Floor 21, and leave after defeating boss on floor 24 to have a chance at your grace. Inherit Received firearms Damage on all armor pieces and on one accessory. Aim for received elemental attack damage on the other accessory and on chest. Go for Earth as you element as this works with Oyamatsumi, then look to get muddy augmentation wherever you can get it (accessories, grace/green starred 'lower enemy defense (muddied) on pants) etc. There's a few more specific stats I'd go with, but I can't remember them off hand right now. But I've given you a good start to aim for, so have fun with that! Stats wise, at 750 I have Heart 200, Stamina 200, Strength 101, Body 53, Skill 20, Dexterity 20, Magic 99, Spirit 99. Hope that helps.
Fuzzy Bearbarian great, thanks again! Any suggestions on where to put my points on? Skill, heart, stamina?
Yeah, I edited the comment with that info to help.
Fuzzy Bearbarian oh just saw it... Much aporeciated, man! You're the best!
No probs. I probably should do a detailed video on it at some point. Just gotta find time amongst all the new games out and coming out!
Great Video, keep up the good work. However i have a question on inheritable reforge (+40 attack). Was on Way of Strong and I never found any glove with +40 attack inheritable from any revenant. Do you know where can i farm for those?
I'll go drop my revenent for you if you like so you can get mine. Just tell me your preferred location and I'll go there.
Fuzzy Bearbarian I usually did my revenant trading at the start of shrine on the way of strong “The Disappearing of Ranjatai”. Many thanks!
I'll drop it for you now mate.
Fuzzy Bearbarian Great! I’m going to check for it now. Thanks!
is there a specific guide that tells me which skills to get, i just got the game about 3 days ago, so im brand new trying to follow along, on my playthrough with you guides/ builds but im lost on skills, especially the windstorm or Water sword skills, ive seen one vid where you used water sword, and ive seen others with windstorm so im kinda confused, can i use both at same time? or only one
You can answer your last question at any time for any skill by looking at the screen where you choose what skill to use for each type of button command. Many skills share the same button commands, so the simple way when deciding is to look at the command binding screen to determine which ones share the same command, and thus learn which ones can and can't be used together. If you're using dual swords, I recommend Sign of the Cross as your main skill as it is more damaging than the others. In the new meta water sword can be made to work but it is very situational. Windstorm used to be awesome but it got nerfed. It's still good but Sign of the Cross is the main one you want. Regarding other skills, there's a link in the description of this video to a text version where I spell out which skills are the ones to get.
Great build!
Question: Rather than use Tsuruga Masamune for Strategist 1% Damage reduction and Master Swordsman's: Do for the 2pc, Why not use Futatsu-mei Norimune for the Master Swordsman's bonus and the Greater Good: Do for the 2% damage reduction and +6 Ki? It's another heavy armour piece that gives a useful bonus.
Still desperately trying to farm up a couple of trinkets with Elemental resist on them - do you know if this modifier has been dropping post patch?
Using the Tsuruga with the Greater Good: Do would be an improvement, so I'd definitely go with that, it's a good idea. Re the elemental modifier, yep, I got my Yasakani with it post patch.
Nice one! I love this build and I'm using it for the basis of what I'm leveling right now. Haven't been able to roll Auto recovery on Amrita gain, But I'm using +Attack on Amrita Gain, seems pretty good, but definitely less tanky. Swapped out body for skill to keep my damage up - but I'm not at the end of Demon mode yet, so will see how I feel about damage received. When I get those resources....
Now just have to farm up some Yasakani's with ele resist :/
Ooh, you probably know this already, but for those looking to get 100% Elemental resist, Elemental reduction while guarding doesn't stack with elemental resist (or rather, they're different sources so they don't cap each other).
Great content dude! Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I only recently discovered that myself (after trying a different build and testing whether or not I could swap my perks by mixing those two together). Pity really. So far I'm starting to think this build is the most fun build I've made, as any variation I seem to make of it changes my game play a lot. I really like the options for doing different things this particular build gives you, so I think I'm going to stick with it for now. That said, I'm kind of not playing Nioh now. The Surge just came out so I'll be onto that in the next couple of days1
You can find the Blacksmith Text for Tatenashi from "The Return of the Gourd". Nobunaga drops it.
Really? I've beaten that mission a gazillion times for no Tatenashi smithing text. Did you get it, and if so, in which mode (NG, NG+, NG++, or all 3?) And damn you for telling me this, because now I'm compelled to keep trying to get it! If I could get that this build would be even better, and would work at much lower levels too.
Fuzzy Bearbarian smith text does drop from The Return of the Gourd NG
Took me around 50 tries - very low drop rate. Any mode will do but I found it on NG. I think it's worth noting that In those tries i've gotten 3 ranjatai fragments, so you will likely have a lot of amrita or money to spend at the end of it.
Good to know. Don't feel like slaving through the harder versions when I know its a terrible drop rate. Would prefer to equip drop rate gear instead of my best gear, so NG it is!
Thanks man. I'll take a shot at farming it later.
Does having the "Defense" attribute on armor pieces make that big of a difference in damage taken? I currently have a mad spinner build using the same basics as your build but I'm using a mix of Kaido, Master Swordsman and Genius Strategist armor. Also, how big is the defense buff when you get statused? I have "auto recovery" on being surrounded, amrita gain, and status effected, and it recovers about 450-500 hp/s when they all stack. Would it be better to have increased defense instead of auto recovery on all of these perks? The only bosses giving me trouble are Maria and Shigezane to a certain extent because they don't stagger. I'm not using devigorate talisman or weaken melee weapons tho, guess it would make a huge difference.
I think anything, like defense on armor, is expendable if you can work around it with good gameplay. Also, if you are C agility swapping defense for reduced weight perks to get to B agility would be more beneficial. So yeah, I guess it's kind of relative.
I personally feel auto recovery is better than increased defense on at least one item, as the health gain is pretty significant.
It's hard for me to say how big the defense buff is when you get statused because I have other defense buffs going too and I haven't tested any of them in isolation. This is one build where I gave up on numbers/math as I made it, and focused more on how it was performing in actual gameplay. So it's difficult to pinpoint things in isolation. In fact, I'm still working through doing some stuff like that now, though the grind today has been so tedious while doing it that Nier Automata is looking pretty good right now (it's been sitting there, waiting to be played for a while now ....). Plus, it's only 1 week until The Surge, so I need to play something else on my drive between now and then!
Alright thanks a lot for the input man, by the way that Yasakani Magatama roll is ridiculous I'm so envious!
Yeah, I've had a few lucky Yasakani drops.
Could you do a revenant in a mission so we cn get the build, please? That would be amazing, I am having the hardest time trying to farm equipment with those traits.
Great build.
May I ask one question: if i could bump up my receive elemental damage over 100% as yours, will those 2 status suffered bonuses (one to reduce damage and another for increasing attack) still matter? (as it seems that the enemies could no longer put these effects onto you now)
I kept it on because I noticed I was still getting status affected, including confusion. However, the frequency with which that occurs may not warrant the status ailment over a different, better perk. But that would take a lot more testing. For now, I kept it because I saw I was definitely still getting ailments on me, despite being immune to elemental damage. Poison and paralysis are two that I still get afflicted with too. But, I have also had the same thought and believe more time and testing is required to determine if the benefit is outweighed by a better stat.
Thx very much, subscribed.
Thanks man!
I've been monitoring this pretty closely today. I've had a ton of status ailments applied to me, including where I'm lit up and on fire and have the burning animation on me, yet lose no damage. But, because the ailment is on me, I'm getting the buff. So it definitely works well to have those special effects on.
Great video - attempting to do this build now. Did you get the dual swords with skill damage (SotC) from a drop or a forge?
Thanks. Yeah, definitely forge it. RNG for a drop will keep you on edge and grinding forever.
Fuzzy Bearbarian thanks man! Used my first book of reincarnation last night and it scared the hell out of me to start the switchover to this build. Looks like I gotta go get me some white tiger fur!
Hehe, it'll get easier. You in Way of the Demon?
Fuzzy Bearbarian yes sir! Only picked the game up a month ago cause I was feeling pretty nostalgic for some onimusha and I love it. That said most videos seem to be all pre-patches so I often wonder whether certain things aren’t attainable anymore.
Most pre-patch stuff that isn't living weapon related will work like it used to, at least, it will well enough until Way of the Wise late game or Way of the Nioh. The kind of builds you need in end game need to wait until Way of the Wise at the earliest, so right now you're good to go based off of most pre-patch builds. Once you open the Abyss for the ability to convert gear you craft into ethereal grace items, at that point you'll be wanting to do a new build and only the latest builds will work for that. Fortunately at that point it is still a grind but honestly doesn't take that long to craft a build once you know which one you want.
Does the enemies defeated dmg bonus from the secondary weapon actually carry over to your main weapon? Or does in fact any stat from the secondary weapon except of set bonuses carry over?
Secondary weapon stat doesn't affect anything. Personally I ended up carrying two of the same weapon - one with specific stats for certain skills and the other specific stats for other skills. For example, carry a dual sword spec'd for sign of the cross and one spec'd for final blow damage, or one spec'd for yokai damage and one spec'd for human damage, etc.
Hey Fuzzy B! Great video and interesting build. Got a question: I'm current in the Omi region in WotD, but I haven't been able to unlock any of the Patch 1.06 missions (I believe that's when they showed up), like Hyakko Yagyo, Tea-Time Entertainment, and such. How do I unlock them? Do I have to complete the whole game in WotD? Thanks and cheers mate!
I think so, though I can't say for sure. When I played through I completed each region in its entirety, one by one. Make sure you don't forget the dojo missions.
Good to know, thanks!
Yeah, I beat the The Demon King Revealed and all the missions opened up. Finally got my +20. Also, been rolling for weight reduction on my gear and it now only takes 32 Stamina to wear Japan's Bravest with WoW baseball cap. It was like 80 or something before. Shiranui is happy, sittin' at 2580 dmg stats, All thanks to you guys. And you are spot on about the reduce elemental dmg stuff. Totally changed the game. Found a Yasakani with 14.9% Yokai Killing and 15.9% elemental dmg reduction. It helps, a ton. Keep making vids Fuzzy. Cheers!
P.S. you should have Hans Zimmer score your videos. They might be that good.
Also, I found the Tatenashi smithing text somewhere, at some point. So it does exist. Don't know if it was after the DLC or not, but I can forge the armor. They don't require any special materials either. Question: can one get lvl 210 weapons? I've heard that you can, but that you can't forge them. Do you know what's going on here? Thanks and cheers!
can u tell where u find this dual sword with this skill damage sign of the crows?
I forged it. Otani Yoshitsugu in the Sekigahara region is the boss who drops the smithing text. The sword will also drop anywhere dual swords are a reward, but go for the smithing text as it's the only way you can forge and forge to get the one you want.
thank you. i use Futatsu Mei Norimune &Hone-bami Toshiro.
Fuzzy Bearbarian
but is possible this weapon with this skill sign the crows?
Should I get one of the body/heart/stamina to 99 first or keep them all even throughout the level up process?
I wouldn't level them all up evenly. You really need at least one to hit 99 to benefit your change to attack. For me, Stamina was my main one to begin with. It gave me an extra 500 life, so that compensates for skimping on body (in my first 4 regions of Way of the Demon I had body at 45, to give you an idea). With stamina at 99 and weight reduction on two armor pieces avoiding damage is easier thanks to dodge rolling. At a heavier weight that's much harder and at times impossible to do. So with that in mind, then do heart, as it will not only improve your ki but also scale more attack onto your weapon. If you're struggling with that (your play style might be different to mine), then you might want to stack more body first to get more life while you're still leveling.
Heya FB? About what region in WotD where the 200 gear and +11 ++ levels start to drop ?
looks like a great build. i am struggling massively and recently got some tatenashi. would you recommend i get the abilities on the armor and then just soul match it with higher tatenashi later? i dont wanna invest a ton to set these up perfect, then ditch them later. also, when i get a chance to go over 99 points in each category, where would you suggest i invest as i work up to lvl seven fiddy?
It all depends on how much you need it. I made these videos as each "Way of" was released, but over time eventually Way of the Nioh was released and The Abyss was introduced. Now I would say get to Way of the Nioh however you can, then start the grind for the gear and the build you need. I actually tell a lot of people if it's easier to co-op all the way to Way of the Nioh then do that. There's a big grind from WoTN through The Abyss, and the best gear in the game is there. But if you need the gear now make the build now for sure, but don't soul match it later. It's too costly. You'll just have to upgrade it later with better gear. Re investing over 99, I don't think it really matters where you invest so long as you prioritize the areas that you feel weakest in. Level doesn't matter as much as gear in Nioh. Build is what matters most.
@@fuzzybearbarian thanks for the reply. i only plan on obtaining the platinum trophy and 100% completion of trophies, so way of the demon is all i need to do. so based on this, i don't really need to get anything over level 200 with + levels. do you think with that in mind, if i got a lvl 200 tatenashi gear, it'd be worth it upgrading one of my 150 + tatenashi gears ?
@@gnarleypunkroker5 Probably be faster to farm for the gear you need instead of upgrading, or crafting it if you have access to that. Save scum crafting even better, to guarantee you get the stats you want.
@@fuzzybearbarian save scumming is the only way to go xD i have the smithing text for the duel swords in the video and i save scumed for 3 hours until i got one with sign of the cross and a total of six effects (no inheritable) for me to soul match my sword with cta heart inheritable xD
@@gnarleypunkroker5 I have to admit, I'm dreading save scumming in NIoh 2 to get the perfect build. I spent too much of my life in Nioh 1 doing it. Let's hope the need will be less...
in your text guide you mention to not activate any mystic arts for swords, axe, etc. is it ok if i unlock them and just have them disabled via the moves menu or will that have an adverse affect on the build?
Yeah, that's fine, no adverse affect to worry about.
That Dual Sword perk Skill Damage Sign Of the Cross? What material are you using for Reforge? Divine material or that new material that starts with an A
Divine. I don't play PVP because of bad internet, and anima stone reforges tend to give PVP related perks more often than not.
Equipment Weight Damage Bonus is based on the nominal weight of your armor, not the percentage of Agility.
Anything 30.1 weight and higher achieves the maximum bonus.
Ah, yes, that's right, I remember now. I noticed I didn't get the full agility bonus I'd been expecting when I dipped to a B rating, and assumed it was because of a change to the proportion of my total weight (the way the tool tip on the equipment weight damage bonus suggests it works). It might have been a change to the innate damage bonus, or something else entirely. I don't know. Either way, my damage went up, not down, so at least my point about not worrying about losing damage if you go to a B rating remains true.
They nerfed the yellow bonuses like Agility and Familiarity. Used to be, an A- would become A+, but after 1.08 they only go to A instead (but now they can stack together).
But yes, 30.1 or more weight and B Agility will get you the most out of these two damage bonuses combined.
Yeah, I think everything can stack now. Though, I did have one situation where I couldn't inherit close combat damage onto a weapon and I couldn't work out why. I just gave up on it in the end.
You might be interested to know, that after all the changes came in I thought I'd do some number crunching on damage stats. I started doing tests and capturing videos of this and that and comparing them, the whole time with a view to posting comparison shots in my videos. But as the grind became way too much I realized I wasn't going to be doing lots of build videos anymore. After that, I thought rather than watch numbers I'd instead play the Dragon of the North DLC completely through with one build, then from the resources I got from that, make a change to my perks, then play through again to see how it felt. But in so many cases, even when I was doing fine on all other missions, Maria in the Spirit Stone Huntress kept handing me my ass. In the end this entire build became the product of me making changes to see how they affected that one specific battle in practice, rather than in numbers. Once I had a build that handled Maria with ease, I then went back and played the whole DLC through again to see if the same build held up better in all other situations too. When it did, I went back to all the double boss regions to see if it could handle those better too, like Way of the Demon Two Kings, Meeting on the Other Shore and what not. Once it could, that was when I settled on it as a good build. And I can honestly say by that point I have no idea about how all my little changes affected actual damage numbers, apart from for the better.
I guess you're going to keep crunching numbers? If so, I commend you mate. The work you do helping the Nioh community is amazing. But me, after all the changes, it has become way too much effort. I'm going to stick with this build as my Nioh build and call it a day.
There's a big secret in this game that the community hasn't caught onto yet, but you've touched on it: MAX DAMAGE is way overrated. There's a definite ceiling to the amount of damage you need vs sacrificing utility and defense for marginal increases in output that might actually be superfluous depending on the enemy.
I met this problem in every RPG game I've worked on, and Nioh is no different. We don't need CCD 20% and Familiarity A on every weapon. Actually, you're better off with a less common bonus like Mid Stance Damage than CCD which can't be gotten from an armor set, mathematically. I still think every min/max weapon should have a CTA of one of your 99 stats, Familiarity A, and maybe Stance/Skill damage. I think Weaken Weapons or Weaken Armor are quite good, and then there's the usual stuff like Guard and Attack Ki Reduction.
Even though technically we can have four, maybe five damage boosters on a weapon now, I don't think it's wise to ignore utility stuff. You're on the right track with yours. Same for armor, actually. I have never felt it necessary to inherit Attack onto every single piece, and now that there are triggered buffs for armor, I'm even less inclined. Even a 10% attack buff from one of these effects is worth a lot more than 40 attack by my estimation.
The only thing that irks me right now is how hard it is to get the right CTA on a fresh weapon, unless you had some saved up from farming revenants before the patch. I hope they come up with a solution for this that can please everyone, even if that solution is not the return of revenant farming as we knew it. There are just SO MANY bonuses to burn through to even get to a CTA, only for it to be the wrong stat or to be rank C of all things.
The little star icon apparently means the attribute cannot be found (or found in that magnitude) through reforging, it can only be gained on item generation such as dropping or crafting. That means the best magnitude of CTA isn't even something we can reforge or inherit. Interestingly, weapon creation is completely random so we can save-scum it.
I'm completely with you on all counts. I've always been less max-damage focused than most, which is why my earliest builds were always focused more on agility/light armor than actual damage. Though I always felt I was sacrificing game play to achieve faster play.
I personally think I nailed it with this build though, at least, to the point that the game allows without investing 100% of the rest of my life in forging/reforging. I tried A LOT of special effect combinations, even ignoring inheriting attack and damage bonuses completely at one point. My first run of this had more points in magic and spirit (as I tried it with all combinations of guardian spirits too) and none in weapon scaling effects at all.
But through play testing over days and days (and blowing through an entire library of books of reincarnation, not to mention thousands upon thousands of save scums) I slowly refined it until it felt like I had the perfect balance between offense and defense, with that "feel" being determined by how I perceived the most difficult missions were to survive and also complete in a timely fashion at the same time. It wasn't easy as to make sure I wasn't just seeing what I wanted to see, I had to continually repeat missions doing the exact same approach every time - and bosses/enemies don't always respond in the exact same way. When they didn't, I'd do it all over again. At one point I honestly almost gave up, thinking I was wasting my time in the search for the perfectly balanced build that would work in all missions no matter what.
I really wish I could convey/show just how many iterations I went through for this. I've even been dreaming about this stuff I've spent so much of my waking time on it.
I was pretty happy the first time WotD Maria felt easy. It was like, finally.
Oh, and I am dead tired of Restless Spirits. That was my go-to mission for gold when I needed it. I don't farm stuff usually, preferring to get what I get from just playing, but the game has forced gold farming onto us. That's something that irks me like the CTA thing irks you.
Oh, and yes, with all the new perks forging/reforgin for the right perks is harder than ever. Some of the extra variety is needless too. Things like more damage against X specific enemy are utterly needless . All they do is add time and tediousness to the whole process of customization. If you couldn't save scum I think it would be fair to say the game is broken (in which case, it's probably fair to say that anyway). I want to play the game for my stuff, not grind endlessly for stats. That's one of the reasons why I'm really looking forward to The Surge on May 16th. The developers of that game seem to have taken a "play well to get what you want" approach to min/maxing, and I'm keen as hell to test it out.
do you think this will still work in 1.21 update? I am just now getting to play this game since it has been released on PC and i am currently struggling in way of the demon. my Hyabusa set is not cutting it anymore.
Yes, it will work fine. The Hayabusa set is a good set if you don't get hit, but otherwise it's really a glass cannon. Sennin will treat you well all the way through Way of the Wise too.
Hi Fuzzy nice build i run it a little bit different with masterswordsmans blades and national unit armor
Hey man. Yeah, getting that extra sign of the cross damage is also fun.
Its good build from you
Cheers! Looking forward to Nioh 2 now...not long to go!
whats so good about the tatenashi set? I see everyone using it but the bonuses don't look that great to me. What am i missing? it can't just be for the damage reduction right?
Correct. In addition to its close combat damage of 7.6% it has an innate damage bonus not shown in its stats, which when added to its equipment weight damage bonus gets you approx 15% extra damage or thereabouts. On top of that, if you use weight reduction special effects on the armor set, you'll also get another 10% damage from agility damage bonus, effectively giving you damage bonuses for being heavy and for being light. So with more than 30% extra damage on top of massive damage reduction perks, it's a pretty damn great set to use, especially when enemies are up to 300 levels higher than you.
Hey great Video I have started playing on PC now we finally have it just reached WOTN can you recommend a good dual sword set up to help me thru pls
Sorry, but nope. I never played Way of the Nioh. After the massive grind that was introduced in Way of the Wise I lost the desire to play. So yeah, I never bought the Way of the Nioh DLC. Funnily enough, my decision to stop playing happened after grinding for 200 hours for an ethereal version of the master swordsman dual swords, which never dropped for me. After that I was out and haven't gone back.
OK thank you for your reply thou
No problem, have fun.
Yep. And one shotting is fun as hell too :)
Excellent - this build is essential. I was having no trouble in WOTD until Tohoku. Thanks for doing all the testing and hard work for us. Some thoughts:
A lot of this build is dependent on RNG. I've never once forged a dual sword with the [Skill Damage (Sign of the Cross)] and I've tried. I'm assuming you got it as a drop?
Also, you're accessories are basically god rolls for this build, and won't be easily replicated. Aside from yasakani, what else will do?
What's a good level to start using this build? Levels are scarce when you're 290+....
I forged the sword with sign of the cross. I save scummed to do it, but I was fortunate and got it after about 300-400 tries.
Re the Yasakani, you will need it. Without it you can't get the set perks. But, you can roll received element attack damage on chest pieces, as well as the same when guarding on head pieces (I've rolled 34% before on head). It is also inheritable. So, you can replace the two on the accessories with two on your armor pieces, and drop the inheritable attack on your armor pieces. It's a hit to attack, but if you can't get elemental damage reduction via accessories, then that would be definitely be preferable. All special effects are RNG, but I think getting elemental damage reduction or elemental damage reduction (guarding) isn't hard. Hasn't been for me at least when I've reforged/forged armor pieces.
Re levels. Yep, you're right, they're harder to level up now. But if you're 290 you're only 30 levels lower than when I started in Way of the Demon. You could easily start this build at that level. Just shave your points off body/heart/skill, picking whichever will impact your play style strengths the least.
Fuzzy Bearbarian thanks! You mentioned a way of using SotC at the end of the video. How do you do it?
Weight reduction would be better on chest, surely, if you got it to roll?
Yeah, I'd reckon. All comes down to how lucky you are to duplicate the right rolls in the right places, and what max weight reduction can work out to be - if it can go higher than 15% then maybe it could even free up a slot too. Don't know for sure yet. I pretty much just kept the lucky rolls I got in the position I got them, but if you're min/maxing, then yeah, that would be a better way to approach it.
EDIT: Can confirm wherever you put it is irrelevant. It doesn't affect individual armor pieces.
What are the priorities in the core stats, should I start with BODY or HEART or STAMINA
Depends on your preferred weapon. Initially, put priority stats into the stat that suits your preferred weapon damage. For example, Katana's (swords) scale on Heart then Strength then Skill, so you would prioritize those core stats. Heart gives more ki too so that's a win win if you go that path.
Do you think dual swords and odachi will be good together? I'm debating if I should respec similar to yours but more in strength and less in health.
Well, you have only so many samurai points to allocate, so you really want to pick where you put them based on the weapon you use most. I would say if Odachi is the one, go for strength. That said, I'm playing around with Odachi right now so I'll probably have more on that soonish/laterish.
I look forward to them!
Ive been trying to roll receive elemental damage but no luck sadly. What materials did you use?
I'm on my first play through of this game. When should I start worrying about builds/armour etc I'm lvl 100 and only just switched to duel swords (that chain weapon beforehand) I wanna respec but not sure if it's worth it?
You'll have to rebuild every new "Way of" but ultimately ethereal gear is where it's at, and for that you have to wait until Way of the Wise. I recommend getting to Way of the Nioh as fast as you can as that's where it really begins though, and if you can hold off on doing builds until then you'll be glad you did.
I just finished the game today and still cant beat some.of the sub duo bosses! Should I be jumping into the Abyss starting NG+ or heading over to the DLC? I'm going to try work towards this build
Let's say I have the master swords man/kingo, would it effect if I have all of the special effects that you have?
Hard to say. With all the new changes I've found slight changes to combinations can vastly change how effective this build is. With the new grind, I haven't been able to do the same kind of testing with other gear sets, and probably won't. It took a lot of hours and playing just to settle on this one. But my first thought is to say no, since a big factor here is survivability, and you won't get that kind of survivability from the master/kingo's combo.
Fair enough, currently working towards making this build
If you're anything like me, once you get it you'll heave a massive sigh of relief. I still haven't forgotten the first time I took this build into fight Maria, expecting the worst, only to find that she had nothing on me anymore. I'm pretty sure I deafened my girlfriend at that moment lol.
awesome build ! the skills damage is insane !
I have a question tho ; If I have Damage bonus consecutive attack A can I roll a Skill damage too on the same weapon or it fall into the same category ? Am I wasting trillions of gold right now ?
I don't think there's a conflict there, but I can't remember to be sure. Best suggestion is to get a weapon with skill damage as an inheritable on it and try to inherit it to see if will inherit, then you'll know for sure. Save your game, then forge away until you get inheritable skill damage. Then use a whetstone to upgrade it, then try to inherit it and see what happens. Once you know, then just re-load your saved game, and reforge away - or not, depending on what you learn.
Thanks a lot for the fast answer , that's a clever idea :) I just read that you can reload saved data and reforge again by changing the cycle by using a non divine fragment item... fml in my game record screen i'm at 150milion spend at blacksmith lmfao
I'm too scared to look at my gameplay record for blacksmith spent gold lol.
just to let you know I rolled the skill damage + 21.9% ! with consecutive attack A !
that sign of the cross is now boosted by 95% thanks alot again my friend
Nice. If you pair that with Master Swordsman's perk sign of the cross is devastating. Pity as a skill it is slow, otherwise you could just run around sign of the cross demolishing everything lol.
Fuzzy bearbarian can you buy any weapon the blacksmith has or does it depend on your level
you can skip a good chunk of the sheathing animation by quickly swapping weapons twice and then doing the draw attack (and then following it up with the even faster ki pulse ones)
so instead of holding R1 and quickly pressing and holding circle after it, you hold R1+left+left+hold circle
also! tatenashi's smithing text drops from oda in return of the gourd at teh very least.
also-also! if you get a star roll on a dropped/forged (NOT reforged) chestpiece, it can be as high as 300+ life
edit: 500 life as a star roll, with 550 at maximum familiarity.
Great Work, I imagine how much time did you take to roll that perks on the armor.
Please make a survival build for the way of wise. Im struggling getting a hit kill from almost every mob.
Sennin works okay on Way of the Wise. However, if you want to be REALLY tanky, I suggest this: 4 piece Tatenashi & 5 piece Oyamatsuni (get the Oyamatsuni set by crafting 5 pieces of gear and then going into Abyss level 29 and playing until level 30 then leaving, over and over, until you get the ethereal grace on all pieces. It's time consuming, but it will pay off). Make the Tatenashi pieces head, gloves, legs, feet. For chest, use an Unusual Armor (I think that's it) as it also has a base 7.8 or so damage (this will turn into an Oyamatsuni piece). Then put elemental damage on both accessories and roll it on head and arms. Inherit damage from firearms onto every armor piece instead of attack. Put elemental damage on your armor pieces too, as well as weight reduction on them all to get you into B agility. By this time the rest of the stats can more or less be up to you, but I recommend a mixture of attack buffs and defense buffs. This setup will have you cruise through both way of the wise and way of the nioh right up until probably level 40-50 in the Abyss, or thereabouts. After that unless you are good you'll probably want a one-shot living weapon build. Good luck!
Thank you SO much for all the tips. I made (create?)an amrita tank dual sword build for the beginning of WOTW(At the abyss I was blocked for the 20th-floor limit till WOTW finish.) and its working great, I managed to get till the queen's eyes, finally. After I beat I will do the first tanky build you suggest! My great problem was the damage dealing, I was taking too much and doing too low. With my new build I got some 4k-13k damage boosted by amrita effects through my armor(A mix of Tatenashi+Master Swordsman) and finally, finally got through it all. But is stiil weak for later floors of the abyss and WOTN so I will use one of your builds mixed with amirita boosted ideas. I liked a lot!
Cheers!
Damage dealing is a big problem in Way of the Nioh. If you spec for tankiness you'll always do a little less damage, unless you spec specifically for a strong LW build. I personally don't really like LW builds, but that said, later Abyss levels really need it if you don't want to spend a lot of time battling levels. It has taken me an hour to beat some levels which people beat in 10 seconds with LW builds. So yeah, it's a balancing act. I might even give in and go a living weapon build just to get to Abyss 999, but for now I'm still going through with a katana and the build I mentioned above, which keeps me alive (most of the time).
You absolutely right about the one-shot LW builds on the abyss. A friend of mine is just cruising on the abyss and he's already at 510th-floor. Just unbelievable how strong they are. Hitting everything about +200k. For sure its hard to not be tempted.
Sometimes makes me to think the game was made to be focused on LW builds in a way or another.
I've been going floor to floor and haven't used a living weapon once. It's kind of been a challenge of mine, but at the rate I'm progressing I'll need to find more hours in the rest of my life to complete it. A LW build might be necessary just for better time management in my life lol. But I'm also struggling with the idea of making yet another build. They take time and these days I'm busy as well as trying to find time for other games too. I still have The Evil Within 2 sitting on my PS4 that I can't wait to play but just don't seem to find time for. That and The Division is pretty good now so I've jumped back into that. Plus a floor or two of the abyss each day lol. So many games, so little time...
Hi Fuzzy
At the moment I'm trying to replicate your build (love the element invulnerability)
so far I'm progressing rather good, buti'm struggling with the accessories.
Do you have any tips where i could find the magatamas I need - getting tons of charms and beeds,
but nearly no magatamas (and even lesser amount of them devines) so far
does the kodama blessing also help finding those?
regards
Markus
I just grinded (speed run) missions that offered accessories as rewards pretty much. The shorter the mission the better. Trial of the Master is the best for the Yasakani Magatama run that everybody does (I have a vid on this), but you don't get anything else from it like materials/resources etc. For this reason I would do this a few times then run some actual missions too. Best missions are the short boss missions. But basically getting anything in this game is a major grind so yeah, it's grind and RNG and hope what you get most of the time.
Thanks for your Input !!
so i just have to keep grinding
like for the ravenwing rifle - that smithing text seems that it just won't drop for me :(
well - still got plenty to do
only finished the first 2 regions from WotD so far and only at level 253
- so still need to do some leveling for stamina and stuff to get the full benefit of the heavy armor
Smithing texts are item drops. So, it will drop for you if what you do is max yourself out for item drop rate and use the guardian spirit Itokuri that gives you item drop rate. Also, the Kodama blessing for material drop increase is your huckleberry (use with a kodama bowl for a little extra gain). I find I get smithing texts almost immediately when I max out item drop rate on all the gear I can.
Hi Fuzzy
Thanks a lot for your help
a few days ago i succeeded finishing the main part why i wanted to replicate your build - my received elemental damage is at 100% now and I LOVE IT
being at level 275 right now I needed to use a third weight reduction perk to get to B-agility at stamina of 80 to get my damage up a bit
it still is far away from what you put on the table damage wise but i enjoy it a lot
the rest of the stats will be filled when i reach the level where it will be doable without compromising on defence or other needed perks that i tweaked to fit my play style
I used the chest piece from the "He who never retreates" Set
(higher damage reduction Set-Bonus than the "Righous Stragegist" Set-Bonus and higher defence than master swordsman chest piece
but used the Master swordsman Swords to get the Skill Ki-reduction Perk
just to achieve that it is not a 1:1 copy of your hard work
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
That's great to hear man. It's pretty surprising how much the game changes when you get that sweet 100% elemental damage protection. In my view it makes it more fun as you can take a ton of risks and get away with it :)
Fuzzy, I respeced, put the weight reduction special effect on my head piece, but im still at 70.8%. Does the reduction increase with familiarity or Should I increase my strengh?
Yeah, all special effects reduce when not at max familiarity. Use Nikawa Glue to increase armor familiarity instantly to see if that'll fix it. I can't answer if that'll get you to 70% or under while not seeing your stats, but if Stamina is at max then more Weight Reduction or Increased Strength will be what you need.
Fuzzy Bearbarian will do! Thanks!
I Just killed Maria on demon!!! You rock, man!!!!
Great build! I'm trying to build something similar if you don't mind could you drop your revenant, I'd really appreciate it thanks!
Normally it'd be no problem, but I won't be around for a while, so sorry man, I can't at the moment. Should be able to in a week or so though.
Fuzzy Bearbarian No problem bro completely understand thanks for another great build tho
I've just finished WotD, so here're my thoughts:
1) The build is indeed extremely tanky, you can trade hits with most enemies and bosses and forget about elemental damage. WotD walkthrough was a piece of cake.
2) I can't say I liked SoTC - the damage is great, but the charge is slow and it's hard to chain in the right direction. Also, I found out you can "chain-fall" humans and revenants if you hit them from behind while they lay on the ground. But it's not that easy with SoTC because it displaces you. So I was just spamming Windstorm most of the time, occasionally using SoTC against slow enemies.
3) Revenants can be a problem, some of them deal tons of damage. I used to parry them with katana but parrying with dual swords is much harder because it leaves you vulnerable if you fail. Masters in Marobashi can be a pain in the ass too because of the elemental ailments (luckily there's the sake that negates all ele dmg).
Anyway, thanks for the build. Do you have any tips for WotW? I was thinking about a Living Weapon build but i heard LW is weak in WotW/WotN.
My recommendation is to get the Dragon Ninja set. You are a bit of a glass cannon and no longer tanky, but the damage output is great. I took that set and that set alone right through WotN and through the Abyss. Kill Hayabusa over and over to get it is easy too. When you get to the Abyss if you want to be more tanky farm the Tatenashi and Oyamatsumi (this is so old I can't remember the name now) set and wear the full set of both to be a super tank.
@@fuzzybearbarian Hi again, I beat main missions in the Way of the Nioh with this build :) It wasn't that hard, the only problem was Shima Sakon, I could only beat him by constatnly switching to LW. I'd say this build is very viable even in WotN, the only change is you need to use evasion more. The build is still very tanky, I think I've never been oneshot in WotN.
I also reforged "Skill Ki Reduction" to "Familiarity Damage Bonus" because I never had issues with Ki.
And I learned something about SotC: as you know you first sheath your swords before charging so it's quite slow BUT if you tap aim button for ranged weapons (LT on the Xbox controller) before using the skill you instantly sheath your weapons and SotC is much faster this way. I don't know if I could finish WotN without this feature, it really changes your combat style.
@@slony792 That's interesting on SotC. I'll bet that works exactly the samee in Nioh 2. I'll give it a test, good stuff!
man you were right! change just a small thing could f*ck up the build.. I switched and out the chest as tatenasi and used masterswordsman on arms and I get hurt really bad like I'm not even wearing heavy at all..
Yeah man, it's so true. It took a long time to refine what I thought was a shitty build into this one. After I got this right, I actually went out and experimented with other changes too, and none were as good as this one. I'm still happy with this build as my preferred build.
U can get shallowing smithing from togi region on the way of the demon just to let you know
I don't have any idea what a "shallowing smithing" is.
nice build bro so i was wondering if you can help me in nioh on way of the demon
Sorry for the noob question but .When i forge my dual swords the result is always a sword with a empty special effect slot . Can u tell me why? Its driving me crazy
That's normal and exactly what you're aiming for. What you want is 6 slots without any of them being an inheritable. That's good because then you can inherit a 7th special effect into that blank 7th slot.
I have the tatenashi smithing text dunno where I got it tho but I craft all my tatenashi
Can anyone tell me how to get the debuff icons to show above a bosses health bar at the bottom of the screen?
There are multiple different icons, but basically the aim is to proc more than one status effect on them at the same time which will bring up the yin/yang symbol (the symbol of confusion), which makes them super vulnerable.
Is there a reason why I can't roll Change to Attack (Skill) A+ ? I keep rolling C which goes up to B- . Is it because I have 99 skill?
Just unlucky, maybe. Or, I have a sneaky feeling that what can be rolled changes day to day when Twilight Missions change. I could be wrong, but I'm starting to notice a trend of what shows up one day doesn't show up the next...
FB-more important is - if you're playing through WotD, and do forge on gear ? Will it have chances to RNG 200 gear with the +11 and over levels ?
I've never received anything other than a 200+1 via a forge, but I believe it can go as high as 210 if you're lucky. But I"m not really one to ask. I haven't forged a lot since the new stuff dropped. At most, I forged my sword and a Tatenashi set, and that's pretty much it.
About your Tatenashi forge? Why would you even desire to forge your own when you may need STR/STA that the set requires on drops anyways, I mean the weight of that set is still is regardless if you forge your own to save requirement points, just wonderin is all...
Forging knocks off 10 points from strength that can then be allocated to skill to increase damage. Weight reduction on gear gets you to B agility, so points in strength are not necessary if you can forge the gear. I've already done so, and my new version of this build already has more attack as a result without compromising on anything else.
Amazing!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!
Glad to help.
New player from PS+ here. I know this video is old. Just starting Way of the Strong currently with your Justice Ministry build. Now I'm torn because apparently from many video WotD enemy hit like a truck. Is light armor not viable in higher difficulty? Or player need godly reflex to dodge everthing?
It's a trade off. If you like to dodge and run, and enjoy fast gameplay, then it's great (I like that). But it's safe to say it's more of a glass cannon approach to the game.
My preferred build right through Nioh until I got to about level 100 of The Abyss was light-armor. However, the Justice Ministry light armor build was posted a long time ago. Since then the way more viable option of the Hayabusa light-armor set was introduced to the game. You'll need the katana with the set rather than dual swords to get all the perks, but it is by far the strongest light armor set in the game. I recommend going with that - that's what I ended up playing through to The Abyss with.
If you don't feel like being a fast player, then get to Way of the Demon and kit yourself out with something like Sennin survival build. That will carry you through as far as you like. Once you get to Way of the Nioh then you can really cut loose and use The Abyss to farm ethereal gear to create whatever build you like.
Thank you for the reply. It's really helpful. Even though you are playing new game such as Jedi Fallen Order, you still care reply from your old video.
@@omega8719 Thanks. I get a lot of comments and though sometimes it's a bit hard, I do try to answer/help out wherever I can.
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first build I like. I hate how people focus on cheesing everything with one blow. I'll have to work this into a sword build me gt back into this game.
Yeah man, this is still my favorite build, or at least it was when I quit the game months ago. There have been some changes since then that I don't know about, but I can't imagine this build still not doing well since it was all about survivability and not so much about dealing out 1 billion damage in less than 0.3 of a second :)
Hi loving the build im trying roll the attack defence (kato) on gloves .. did u do it with iron chunks or divine ? I just get repeats in reforge ?
From memory, divine. But my memory generally spans two weeks, not three years lol 😁
@@fuzzybearbarian ok thnx yeh luck seems be better with divine but damn used them all up for this perk only part i need for what u got and sign of cross on swords but i gave up grinding for them
I feel ya. Save scumming is the only way.
@@11hellsgate The grind does get to you. It got to me by the end.
@@fuzzybearbarian yep i hear ya starting to get to me now lol only on way of the demon plus not started noih 2 yet which im going to once i can try get all trophies for this game 😬😁