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Fucking japs ripping off good western games again, lame asian DS ripoff

>>13844789

This bait has already been done, as an earlier OP no less.

Just uninstalled this shit after losing like 30k of those points you get after killing an enemy. How was I supposed to know you lose all of those when you die twice before getting that animal thing back? Why isn't the game telling you such an important thing? And don't give me "git gud" or "haha, you want handholding". The game is infested with tutorials for every shit, but not the most important thing.

And that it's a Souls clone doesn't matter. You can't just lazily stand on the shoulders of the ones that came before (or the ones you steal from) and even be so shameless and hope everyone is aware anyway.

Of course that the combat is fucking shit and there isn't even a parry mechanic (probably because I'm only five hours in, but whatever came next wouldn't make up for five boring hours), that you always fight the same enemy and that the Souls gameplay in general is just boring and repetitive as fuck doesn't really help.

>no explanation of what the stat icons mean

what were they thinking?

>>13844839

30k quickly becomes nothing as you progress through the game. Besides, the gear is much more important than the character levels.

>>13844845

>replying to pasta

>>13844845

I kept telling myself that to cope, but I believe it was even a bit more and it's still a lot in the beginning and just literally the only reward you have in this kind of shit games where you repetitively dodge and slash your way through boring levels. Let's not kid ourselves.

>>13844839

>five hours in

>there isn't even a parry mechanic

I didn't realize that video game journalists posted on this board.

>>13844865

>probably because I'm only five hours in

He knows there is so he even added this bit so he could save face.

"Haha, let us spit on your life time you spent on grinding this and the cumulative gratification you hoped for" is retarded game design in general. Why isn't it enough that we get killed and sometimes have to do half the level again? Why do this on top of it?

Why does Team Ninja even do this boring, shitty circle-strafing gameplay when they are used to making fucking Ninja Gaiden?

>>13844875

I'm not having any issues.

>>13844921

Herro, the port has some obvious issues sure, but those are easy to avoid for the average user

>no mouse

Would play it with a controller either way

>no ultrawide

I don't have an ulta wide monitor

>60 fps

I don't have a 120/144hz monitor

Other than that it's running great and you're trying too hard to sound smart by simply shitting on anything without knowledge.

>>13844921

Git gud.

>>13844839

>>13844859

>>13844874

git gud

>>13844944

>widely and heavily reported crashing.

First I've heard of it tbh. The fact I have to close steam in order to relaunch the game because it never closes properly is kind of a pain in the ass but I haven't heard anyone complain about crashing.

>>13844965

>>13844979

PC has a much lower price entry ceiling, since you can pirate games for free you get a bunch of 3rd-world shitskins and underage faggots on the platform where they wouldn't be able to afford a console and/or games.

It's the Manny Pardo of soulsclones

>>13844979

>implying those aren't valid complaints about Dark Souls 2

>>13845044

I've only ever seen PC-only gamers show competence at FPS and RTS. Everything else is a crapshoot.

>>13844886

>>13844902

Has no one bothered to make any article/faq about what the icons do?

The game has been out for half a year now.

>>13844781

>axe

>vampire actually required me to wake up out of auto-pilot to beat her, so her i guess. god damn was she fucking ugly though.

>tower of london

>>13844965

>>13844979

Better not shame them too much or the herd will return to consoles.

>>13844965

Lol capped

>>13845116

If an someone wanted to make a graph I'm sure a lot of anons here could help make it. I don't know all of them but I know a decent amount of the status effects from playing.

>>13844965

>things that totally happened

PS4 bros and PC users have been getting along fantastically in these threads and it saddens me so many fell for this outright lie.

>>13844965

>>13844979

>>13845100

>>13844988

>>13845044

>>13845134

>>13844789

>>13845149

Go back to halfchan you cuckstain

>>13845206

>Cuckchan crossposters

>Mattering

No

>>13845196

I keep on seeing people mention this, does it occur after the cutscene or once you enter the boss room? Has KT mentioned if they are trying to work on a patch? It sounds like the crash makes hundred eyes into the final boss he was supposed to be, because he is pretty much the easiest part of the mission normally.

>>13845230

I went at it four times, it crashes before and after entering the boss room, but always very quickly, like I don't have the time to get a hit in.

>>13845196

IMPORTANT REMINDER

You can go back and save after the 3 Kelleys before you move on to Hundred Eyes.

>>13845242

Do you have shadows set to high?

>>13845242

Is this the steam copy or a pirated one?

>>13845228

The girl who gives you the lightning sword is much more qt, as is the rude bunnygirl who just shows up and calls you a drunk and then peaces out.

>>13845250

Steam copy.

>>13845245

Yeah, first order of business after beating three kelleys for a second time was to travel talisman. But the crash is consistent.

>>13845272

In the last few threads someone reported that the game stopped crashing for them when they used the pirated version.

You could try that.

>>13845277

>>13845272

That might be the Steam overlay

Disable it

>>13845224

>This opinions I don't like are cuckchan

>>13845287

The screenshot is literally from cuckchan you mong

>>13845277

The thing is, I never had any problem with this boss on way of the samurai. It just suddenly decided to fuck my shit up on WotStrong. Graphics settings don't matter shit, too. So you're saying I have to wait to pirate it and transfer saves? This is bullshit.

>>13845291

Holy shit

>>13845295

>So you're saying I have to wait to pirate it and transfer saves

You could make a report on the steam forums and wait for a fix if its not already reported.

KT usually responds and patches their games accordingly but that will take time.

>>13845296

>the disfigured one-eyed blacksmith

But her head is half skull, anon. Are you a skeleton in disguise?

>Favorite weapon

Odachi, currently running a 1357 atk one, wish they had better skills though

>Favorite boss fight

Spider slut

>Favorite map

Bathhouse

On a side note I really wish the game would stop crashing. I want to play more but I'm getting burned out on having to replay the level 4+ times because it crashes so often.

>>13845333

>wish they had better skills though

No need for skills if the default moveset is that great

>>13845305

I'm wondering what would cause all these crashes on the steam version that doesn't happen on the PS4 or a pirated version.

>>13845317

>But her head is half skull

She just got a metal spark in her eye when she was younger. Who knows she might even have an amrita eye like Date does.

>>13845335

probably a combination of the online stuff and the DRM.

Just a reminder: To import your save from a pirate copy simply use a hex editor to replace the first 3 lines of code in the save with those same lines from a valid copy.

Also, if you are experiencing excessive crashes (such as on the mission "the queen's eyes", which is known for crashing frequently near the boss for some players), playing that mission in a pirate version of the game might get around the crashes.

>>13845224

not an argument

>>13845333

There's one Odachi that comes with a 'heal when amrita is absorbed' stat. That one is great.

>>13845230

The crash can occur on the stairs to the boss (before the cutscene), almost immediately when the fight starts, or even 30 seconds into the fight.

>>13845364

can you transfer your saves from the pirated copy to a real one?

>>13844781

>Favorite Weapon

The Gas Oven

>Favorite boss fight

The fucking price tag.

>Favorite map

NSDAP HQ.

>>13845386

Works both ways, just copy the first 3 lines from the save that works into the save that doesn't.

>>13845364

The fact that I only started getting regular crashes after I forced my way past Hundred Eyes leads me to believe that the game has somehow accumulated "junk" data from my original attempts.

It might not even be a pirate/steam issue. The reason importing the save works might simply be because the pirate copy is a "fresh" copy that hasn't yet had the chance to accumulate the same crap. I already tried reinstalling the game and disabling steam overlay, neither of which did anything at all to help my issue. If there is some kind of accumulation it's somewhere outside of the game folder and yet it's somewhere that isn't shared by a separate (coexisting) install of the game. Maybe in some kind of cache file?

>>13845402

>Maybe in some kind of cache file

That would be shared between the two copies

You could test it yourself if you want to.

>>13845402

I was going to say from the descriptions it sounded like maybe it was a memory leak or garbage collection issue.

Does it only happen if you fall to Kelleys or Hundred Eyes a few times? Does completely exiting and re doing the stage help?

>>13845411

Exiting and redoing the stage was the only way that I was able to pass it in WotD. Clearing the stage without dying and without using any shrines seems to make it less likely to crash, though when I did that on WotW it did still crash. If the game crashes on Hundred Eyes and you return to the shrine to try again it will pretty much always crash from that point forward. If you die to hundred eyes (no crash) it seems very likely to crash the second attempt.

Backing up the save file before attempting Hundred Eyes does nothing. Even if it works the first time and you die instead of crashing, then you restore the pre-attempt save and try again, the game will always crash.

>>13845402

Also you'll be better off reporting your findings in a Steam forum thread if you bought the game. Might even help KT fix the port.

>>13845116

Call Golden Palace, they might know.

>>13845436

It's much more likely to get my steam account banned for mentioning piracy, and KT is unlikely to do anything at all regardless, but I have actually mentioned it in a couple of places.

So, going full screen bypassed the hundred eyes crash for me.I unlocked way of the demon even though I didn't complete every mission on WotStrong, can I strill forge items beyond 150 ?

>>13845483

I tried fullscreen myself, it didn't work. Most likely you just got lucky, did you start the stage over?

As for unlocking, forging level is based off the highest level mission you have completed. If you want to forge past 150 you should beat a mission in WotD. I like to start with The Red Oni of the Ii (1v1 fight against the spear guy in red demon armor). He's pretty easy to knockdown with Kusarigama Serpant Strike>Foot Sweep, so I could kill him with pretty much any gear level, and he's in the 3rd region, meaning he's one of the highest level missions available at the start of the difficulty.

About clearing difficulties: You only need to complete 17 missions + The Queen's Eyes to move on. You'll see the progress bar on the region select menu filling up each time you do a mission, each segment on the bar represents the next region unlock. Completing the ENTIRE progress bar will unlock all regions for the NEXT difficulty, so you would only need to complete Queen's Eyes and not any other missions if you did that.

>>13845287

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>>13845362

>>>/cuckchan/

>>13845505

Do dojo missions count toward progress, I can't remember?

>>13845571

They are region independent so probably not

>>13845571

Never tried, except for the 2 tutorial missions the unlock requirements for dojo missions are difficult

Are spears and axes fun? I've been doing great with odachis, but the moveset seems kinda simple.

>>13845624

Why don't you give them a try and find out?

>but the moveset seems kinda simple

oh boy you don't even know

If I complete a mission but missed one of those funny green gnomes, can I just hop back in and find him and then use the branch fragment to exit? Or do I have to re-complete the entire mission?

Also:

>accidentally get Mission Complete

>can still run around and find treasure

>can no longer summon and fight revenants

But whyyyyyyy?

>>13845624

I fucking love axes, and spears were my crutch when I was having trouble with draculette. For axes, treat them somewhat like GS in monhun if you've played that - time your heavy swings for where the enemy WILL be, not where it is.

If you don't already, unlock the passives that let you ki-pulse by dodging. It will save your fucking life.

>>13845655

>can I just hop back in and find him and then use the branch fragment to exit

yeah

>>13845624

I like axes because they have a mystic art that lets you do extra damage when you are standing in dark energy and because they have self buffs.

I like spears because they have that helicopter slam when you are in LW mode.

>>13845884

I think all mystic arts only apply to their own weapon. This isn't true of other passives unless it specifically states so.

I've heard conflicting things about the Iai buffs.

>>13845539

Not an argument.

>>13845884

Also the self buff skills apply across all weapons so you can keep an axe or a kama as you secondary weapon purely for access to a buff for you main weapon.

>>13846128

co-op summons an additional boss for that stage

>>13846170

Reported for ban evading and console war shittery

;)

>>13846276

The japs have always been fucking weird.

I liked this game for the most part but the story was kind of lame and the whole mission aspect made the game feel separated. Also the fact that you get so many items and can make the best materials early with the soul forging means that unless you limit yourself you're gonna be op really quickly. It's nice to see a better version of Ninja Gaiden though albeit with easier bosses, after how many years. The only problem is the PC version is a fucking shitty Xbox port and I had to use a controller.

>>13846495

Thank you absed anon

>>13846128

>>13846147

Worth noting, in the Abyss every stage gets an extra boss per coop partner. You can have 2 visitors at a time there, so that's 3 bosses per level. That also means 3x the drops for everyone, which is especially nice if you are trying to farm droplets of corruption to try and defile your gear.

Are there any more England boards in the game other than the tutorial in Tower of London? I want to farm that full plate helm from the tower guards.

>>13846742

Alright, works for me. I have a feeling I'll be doing a few runs through this game unless it just suddenly gets stale somewhere in the middle like Toukiden 2 did.

>>13846720

You can actually get smithing texts for both of the European armor sets by completing the first 6 regions in WotW and the weapon texts from the abyss from Hanzo.

>>13846790

>Do you need to complete all missions?

Yes. Just unlocking the next difficulty won't give it to you. In fact there's a reward for completing all of the first 6 missions for every difficulty level. I think the dojo missions are required too but I'm not certain.

>>13846812

Pretty sure you can only do dojo missions in Samurai.

>>13846821

You can do the dojo missions on any difficulty, you just need to finish all the missions in a region for it to unlock.

>>13844979

>just beat nobunaga and kelly

>there's still more

Is this DLC or is the game really this long? I'm at 55 hours already. Not complaining though.

>>13844965

>>13844979

(you)

>>13847047

You only just started the DLC. The DLC is actually kind of short. It's 3 regions and each one is a bit smaller than average except maybe the last. However, it's also hard as fuck.

>>13845505

Sorry for not answering earlier, went to sleep. No, I did not restart the mission. I put graphics on very low (didn't work) then tried fullscreen (it did). I had saved at a shrine.

>>13847255

I still think you just got lucky. I tried swapping to fullscreen and it did nothing for me

>>13847280

Well, I did get lucky in that it worked, but it wasn't an unrelated lucky accident because I actually kind of sucked at the fight. After it stopped crashing, I had to make four attempts and it didn't crash in any of these. I guess this crash has no consistent fix across machines. It's worth noting I have steam overlay disabled since it fixed an occasional crash on kill. I hope you can find the right cocktail of parameters to fix the crash on your rig.

>>13847391

>set bonus reqs down

>unlimited onmyo

JESUS

>>13845505

>>I like to start with The Red Oni of the Ii

>Follow your advice

>Get his armor smithing text for my troubles

Nice.

>>13847391

Your first one is always a wonderful occasion. It completely changes how you make builds.

>>13847461

I've been wondering, does the "set bonus requirement down by one" on other accessories stack with the one on the Yasakani? I'm guessing they don't because 2 Yasakani can't stack but still I'd like to know for sure.

>>13847508

Don't worry, sloth talisman becomes gradually weaker as you progress. Some enemies it's great against, some it's duration is less than its cast time.

>>13847513

Nope. I thought the same thing and tried it.

>>13847508

Only until NG+ and beyond. btw you can get that spear.

>>13847523

speaking of sloth

what Is better, extend duration or decrease cast time? I'm finding both to be about as good as each other in different situations

>>13847523

I hit someone for 9000+ in a single toss of storm shuriken. The sloth talisman only mean I didn't need to dodge the one attack he would get a chance to use.

>>13847533

If attack talismans are the only thing you are worried about I'd probably get the duration increase. If you use any buffs the cast time is WAY better. You should definitely be using buffs.

>>13847533

Duration increase is sadly fucking trash compared to the other one for two reasons.

>It doesn't affect debuffs

>The cast time decrease one is much better than the one given by equipment, buffs are instant and debuffs are much faster

>>13847533

I always go for decreased cast time but then again I play as an offensive mage.

Really the best way of keeping sloth on an opponent for an extended amount of time is makibishi.

>>13847560

>Also you can get duration increase on equipment too.

Now ninjutsu mystic arts are a different story. Either can be very useful depending on your setup and play style.

>>13847613

Don't makibishi inflict a weaker version of sloth though?

>>13847613

That only slows movement, not action speed, it's a completely different debuff

>>13847626

it's worth mentioning that no matter what you do, debuffs become horrible later on in WOTN because of that defense buff it gives enemies

>>13847664

I just did WotN and never noticed any defense buff when I used any debuff talisman. They just had fuckloads of defense to begin with so I needed to use the defense reduction talisman just to do reasonable damage.

Does anyone have a list of starred equipment effects? I'd like to know what to look for forging

>>13847682

it's on twilight missions mainly, it makes you do less with a defense reduction than otherwise, it's pretty dumb

Do weapons that are in Slot 2 but not currently being used count towards Set Bonus?

>>13847696

Did both twilight missions on WotN today too. They were Umi-Bozu and Onryoki. I'm not entirely sure if Weakness Talsiman was helping on Umi-Bozu, but I know it helped on Onriyoki and sloth didn't hurt either.

>>13847697

yes

>>13847697

>>13847721

Weapons in slot 2 (both ranged and melee) grant no stat bonuses AFAIK, but they do still activate sets. They would have to, seeing as there are several 7-piece sets with 2 melee weapons.

>>13847718

I don't even think you can count onriyoki as a boss, that guy is just a normal enemy

>Second DLC puts you against Yukimura Sanada

>Never is it more apparent you're essentially fighting for the villains

I exaggerate, but I do appreciate Nioh portrays the different factions as being honorable in their own right.

>>13847748

You aren't fighting for the villains. Sanada is being used by the queen bitch. Honorable or not his side is clearly fucked, and that's before you consider the Amrita subplot that drives the main character. Besides, you end up teaming up with Sanada in the end against the bitch who apparently he's in love with or something while she just wants to watch the world burn.

>>13847748

It's really good at that, especially when it gives you flashbacks for all the characters, and that cutscene they gave mitsunari at the end.

>>13847748

William just doing whatever because he wants to suck Hanzos pecker

>>13847769

Yes, the blame is largely shifted to the foreigners, which is a good decision, honestly.

>>13847793

A big part of it in the DLC is on the spanish bitch, but I was actually referring to Yodogimi aka Chacha.

>>13847721

>>13847727

That's good news, thanks.

This game's gear didn't look that great for meaningful builds early on, but as the game opens up I keep seeing more and more potential for some really good times ahead.

>wandering around some kind of shipwreck shrine maze for a while

>have lit some fires but otherwise have no idea what i'm doing or where i'm even trying to go

>backtrack a bit randomly to find some treasures

>open a random door that looks like it might be a shrine shortcut

>boss is ocean welcome to boss

>shoots me with a beam that deals 4x my max hitpoints

That was all very unexpected. Right in a row, unexpected to the max.

What's the deal with this guy? From the two and a half seconds I got to look at him, I'm guessing the first two steps are Dont Get Hit and Hit It With Fire. Anything deeper than that going on?

>>13848240

>I'm guessing the first two steps are Dont Get Hit and Hit It With Fire.

No that's pretty much it. He starts far away but goes to the side, rather easy to dodge but he's tanky. His one-hit kill water beam attack leaves him vulnerable for a short while. At 33% health he comes into the arena and he's pretty aggressive then, make sure to living weapon while dodging his hits so it doesn't deplete right away. Hyottoko masks are extremely effective against him so they're a good last measure if you don't run out of them.

>>13848240

>I'm guessing the first two steps are Dont Get Hit and Hit It With Fire. Anything deeper than that going on?

thats about it really untill the second phase that is basically dont get hit and hit with fire

you can use the fires to light your weapon up but the fires also kill the blobs he spawns so I never bothered

I just used fire items and bombs on him and he dies easy as shit

>>13848254

>>13848267

Just gave it a second try, and you guys are right on the money. I made it to the phase where he enters the arena without getting hit, but then I fumbled around like an idiot trying to get to a better position and his little aoe water splash one-shotted me.

I should probably start putting points into body eventually.

>>13848350

Body is a trap. Don't fall for it. Only get enough to equip whatever armor increases your damage.

Is the enemy variety as bad as people say?

>>13848414

There is variety, the problem is more than all types of enemies are reused in all areas so it's all a blur.

>>13848254

>>13848267

>>13848403

You can either hit the glowing spots on the tentacles for damage, which is what the game seems to intend for you to do, or alternatively do what I found works also and hug the body and attack constantly. You do less damage, sure, but its a constant stream and he doesn't block or dodge so nothing gets in the way of your comboing except for the occasional, easily dodged projectile. Hugging the body also puts you in a good position to strike at the core when he does the water jet, you can hug the edges of the core and strike it for massive damage even when the jet comes out. I had more trouble with the second phase of the fight than I did with the first, probably because I tried the same strat and got baited into some nasty counterattacks.

>>13848414

>>13848425

its not that there isn't a variety of enemies to face, there is, you just will be facing yoki and skeletons more than anything else except for flavor-of-the-level mooks like lesser umi-bozu.

>>13848433

I just threw flame shurikens and iga bombs at it. It died before I hit zero ammo.

>>13848441

Ah, I see you're a man of exquisite taste as well.

>>13848450

Well I didn't put any points into being a pussy my first time around so I just manned up and hit it with my flaming sword until it died.

>>13848433

I hugged the body until it fired its waser, then used a guardian talisman to summon firedog. Did that three times and he jumped into the arena. Three hyottoko masks later and he was dead. It was more a battle of patience than anything else, like you and the other anons said.

>>13848240

This is more of a general hint, but if you ever see yokai develop a greyish haze around one of their body parts make sure you get ready to dodge as it is going to be using some kind of grapple or attack.

>>13844841

Dear god, there so many icons I don't understand. What do the red swords that appear on items with a number by them mean? I could swear those weren't there when I played this several months ago.

>>13845333 (checked)

>>Favorite boss fight

>Spider slut

She easy as fuck. Would cuddle.

>>13849172

I'm talking about usable items. They appear towards the top right, just below item count and limit. They have a number by them. No idea what it means.

>>13845046

What does this have to do with being casual?

>>13849190

If you want her to be more challenging then try fighting her without collecting hiragumo fragments.

>>13849197

The fragments only remove her leg armor. Its pointless if you're gonna attack her glowing yellow sack anyway

>>13849161

Someone with the PC version should take screenshots of all the icons with no explanation that exist.

>>13848441

>TFW about forty levels lower than the missions I'm doing

I was around lvl150 when I was doing lvl250-300 missions in NG+. The gap would just keep increasing if I could just fucking get past triple Kelley. I stopped playing for a several months after beating NG and now I can't get back into the rhythm. I don't know how I beat these fuckers in NG.

>>13849191

Oh, that's a similar marker. It is the amount of that item you can bring to a PvP match.

>>13849221

Took me many fucking tries and at the end I just alt F4'd with each defeat to save on summoner candles. But basically you want :

>A kusarigama with reaper

>A strong guardian spirit

>Kill the yoki premptively, break their containers and kill them, as long as you don't enter the greater room the kelleys won't spawn

>When you do, activate your LW right in front of the left tank and reaper the shit out of him. If he goes out of the tank, he'll fall down and waste precious reaper time

>If you kill the first one fast enough, you can get on the second one, probably shave half his health

At that point you want to focus on dodging, two kelleys are sorta manageable to dodge and punish. There's a safe spot of sorts left to the entrance, you can't hide forever but sometimes one of them will get stuck running against another tank. Gives just enough time to consume soulstones you have on shortcut to get another LW.

No matter what you do, DON'T go straight to Hundred eyes after this. Return to the shrine.

Quick question: what does it mean when yokai have a flashing red stamina bar?

I can't seem to perform any special finishing moves on them, especially the bosses. Do they just take extra damage or what?

>>13849273

Start hitting them with low stance and find out.

>>13849315

>>13849309

>>13849309

reduces their "poise" by a lot allowing you to stunlock them. One of the reasons why instant cast is better than longer duration. Ki depletion allows even the Odachi to inflict status effects.

>>13849309

To add on to what >>13849331 said, this is the time to go CURAZY and do endless combos with stance switch/weapon switch ki pulses because as long as you're fast enough they'll never recover.

This reminds me. How vulnerable are bosses to paralysis?

when the fuck do you get a second spirit

>>13849376

Less than three hours in IIRC

are you just taking a long time doing missions?

>>13849376

Finish the main game, it unlocks in NG+.

>>13849383

when exactly in ng+? I beat the game the other night and am doing some of the side missions now. currently getting my ass kicked because of all the brutal 2v1's they're throwing at me.

>>13849429

Well, I thought it was right after unlocking NG+, since it comes with the ability to enhance your guardian spirit and it was definitely early on.

Or maybe it's by starting the DLC now that I think about it.

>>13849429

go to the abyss, should unlock there

>>13849197

>>13849216

I did not know they did anything at all. Removing her leg armor is pointless though as far as I can tell, it only deflects low stance attacks and it doesn't actually prevent the damage from going through.

>>13849221

>>13849293

I have a much better cheese strat for the 3 kellys. Kill the two Oni preemptively as normal, then try and kite the kellys one at a time into the corner between to the oni tanks and the closed gate. Kelly has a really stupid running animation that forces him to go in a straight line permanently until he reaches you, meaning it can get stuck on any kind of geometry. Going into this corner means the other two kellys are likely to get stuck on the way.

To kill the single kelly I just wail on him with my kusarigama low-stance quick attacks. I have "parry disabled" on my gama, so this just locks him into a blocking animation until I break his key, knock him down and final blow. Kelly has an extremely low parry value so breaking his ki only takes like 2 combos even on WotN

So I've been playing through this rather casually as a sword build and barely doing any ninja or mage stuff, except for the Way of the whatever Quests in the dojo.

Been having a hard time so far, and I'd like to git gud and crazy.

Are there any stats I should ignore, and what are good spells?

I've only ever used the fire weapon buff and fire shot, along with anti toxin and anti paralysis pills. Didn't see much use in the ninjastars shit.

When do I get mystic arts? I unlocked all other skills.

>>13850033

Mystic arts are unlocked after doing the last dojo missions. Each weapon type unlocks it when you hit 50 or 500K proficiency, not sure which. Onmyo and Ninjutsu unlock at 20 magic and dexterity respectively.

>>13850043

The mystic art missions unlock in I think the 5th region. You need to get that far first before you worry about the 20 stat/500k prof

>>13850108

There's always apotheon, but I can't in good conscience say it's like Nioh.

>>13849147

Oh shit, I never put that together. I've just been learning to identify their movements based on the first few startup frames of their attack animations.

Thanks, anon, this will definitely lower my tension levels, especially since I've been seeing more and more of those giant long-tongue guys lately. Getting hit is pretty much an insta-death in all situations with those guys. Only the first one I encountered actually managed to hit me and kill me, but their attacks come out so fast and they're so aggressive that I'm always white-knuckling every fight with them. Although I kind of love them because of how stressful they are for me.

>>13850613

yeah they were a bit hard for me until I realized that blocking the tongue costs almost no ki, so you don't have to dodge all the time

>>13850627

>blocking

Just like Living Weapon, I always forget that blocking exists. I've barely used either outside of the dojo tutorials. Are all weapons equally viable for blocking, or are there specific blocking weapons like maybe tonfa?

Also, when does Living Weapon become viable? Is there a particular Spirit Bond level I need to work towards? The few times I've tried it against some of the earlier bosses, I was lucky to get a single swing before it ended.

>>13850649

Higher Parry value, and more importantly higher toughness on armor affects your blocking.

Toughness serves two purposes, to reduce the ki you use while blocking and to prevent hits from stunning you (like Poise in dark souls). The poise cap is at 200 toughness, which you can see because the color of the number changes. I don't think the guard ki reduction has a cap at all.

>>13850649

Blocking is pretty useful no matter what weapon you're using. Don't block too much in high stance though, that will eat through your Ki.

>I was lucky to get a single swing before it ended.

Don't get hit when you're using it. While you are invincible when its happening, getting hit reduces the time on it by a lot.

>DLC introduces the arrowstop talisman

>It stops arrows

>Alright then, I'll pop one in the areas in DLC2 that constantly get pelted with arrows

<Woah woah man, are you crazy ? It stops arrows, not those arrows :^)

>>13850649

> The few times I've tried it against some of the earlier bosses, I was lucky to get a single swing before it ended.

That's because you got hit. Don't, it depletes the bar in a hurry. Living Weapon is always viable, you just have to understand it's an infinite combo+range+elemental buff, not god mode.

>>13850668

Ah, gotcha. I doubt it would work for the way I build, then. I go for the absolute minimum equipment weight and the only status I look for are Luck and Item Drop.

In all games with loot farming, I only build for looting until I get to end game where stable builds start to exist.

I've tried heavier builds with lots of toughness and defense, but I've never really felt it affect anything and I hated how slow I moved.

I've always been twitch-dodge focused in action games anyway, so maybe I'll be fine. If there are enemies down the line where dodging is absolutely not viable, I will buckle down and learn to block.

>>13850675

>>13850679

>getting hit reduces the time on it

>not god mode

Are you fucking kidding me? I bet the tutorial even said that and I just glossed over it. I thought the point of living weapon was so that you could just be invincible and face-mash on enemies without worry for ~10 seconds.

I will start to learn to use it properly now, rather than wasting it like a retard. Thanks anons.

>>13850699

Just run 200 toughness and enough stamina to get your Agility rating to B. A rating just isn't worth it.

>>13850699

Well, it reduces your worries certainly, but you still have to dodge the really nasty strikes. Although you haven't experienced true frustration until you pop living weapon only to get immediately grabbed.

>>13850699

Attacks you're supposed to block instead of dodge typically do little Ki damage so you won't have to build for it. If you want to be dodgeman I suggest getting bonuses on your weapon for low stance since that's dodge city.

>>13850699

I know WHY you like light armor. In most games, Heavy armor only helps you if you get hit. If you can block/dodge everything then armor doesn't matter at all. Here, Armor improves your ability to block things, which is a huge difference over most games

>>13850705

>>13850711

>>13850717

>>13850732

Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to start keeping an eye out for blocking stats on gear. I'll start with some parrying and try to ease myself into the habit of using the block button, too.

>>13850732

Also worth noting is that there's a clear delay between getting hit and being able to dodge, so dodging away from a chain of attacks is simply not viable sometimes. The game expects you to block, which sucks when you're accustomed to dork souls which has the opposite philosophy.

>>13850803

>The game expects you to block

Try blocking Nekomatas eye beams

>>13850815

Well, not everything obviously. I meant it more in the sense the combat is built around you using block rather than it being a crutch.

>>13850846

24% chance to proc. 76% of the time you'll go out of Ki.

>>13850846

There is a 24% chance of that effect proccing

>>13850815

Reduced element damage while guarding maybe?

>>13850849

>>13850850

Alright, that makes sense.

>>13850855

Its physical damage and it can't be blocked.

>>13851013

>Getting staggered is killer

you can cancel stagger into block and then cancel that into a dodge or attack

>>13851013

Defense matters if you stack it with high damage reduction.

>>13851017

But that does mean you can't just ignore the hit like you could with more toughness. It's the difference between finishing something off with a good combo, and having to run around because something was poking you in the side for piddly damage preventing you from getting your attacks off. It also affects your ability to block and how much ki damage you take from blocks. 200 toughness is still ideal.

Really though whether you want to go with A agility and 100+ toughness and B agility with 200+ is up to preference. I've been running around with option 1 a lot lately after running option 2 for a while, but I don't notice the difference in agility as much as the difference in toughness. There's definitely a difference though. I still stand by my "don't go below 100 toughness" claim; I'd probably just add "don't drop below B rank agility" as well.

>>13851084

As far as I cold tell, it's the damage reduction that counts and not the defensive multiplier. And even then, I said it only becomes relevant when you can stack it sky-high.

>>13851100

>but I don't notice the difference in agility as much as the difference in toughness

At agility A you have almost as many invincibility frames on low stance dodge as you have unsafe ones if not more and you can cancel some of those unsafe frames into another dodge.

Its kind of absurd tbh.

>>13851110

Both matter. Defense is flat-ish reduction AFTER percent reduction, so they stack together exponentially. Body/health is also really good with high def/reduction.

Just picked this up for ps4 with the season pass, planning on starting it up over the weekend.

I'm a sucker for iaijutsu so I want to go single katana, but what would be a good side weapon? I was thinking spear for the sheer reach of it.

Also, any other tips for someone starting out fairly blind?

>>13851187

Odachi also has an Iai attack.

Before committing your samurai points to a weapon give all the weapons a try to see which moveset you like. Then take a look at the weapon's abilities to see if you want to use them or not.

it doesn't really matter as you can respec for 1 million dosh at most

>>13851013

I hear what you're saying. Right now, my problem is that almost everything bigger than trash either one-shots me or brings me to critical. That's not a problem for most things, since I just git gud and then they almost never hit me ever again.

My current struggle is in the second region where you have to fight some kind of bird man that stole a dude's sword or something. It's in the same arena where you fight the giant laser pudding.

That fucking bird hits so god damn hard, there's not a single attack I can withstand. Just gotta beat him without getting hit, and I've gotten close now on attempt 5 and then I dodged into the ocean like a fucking idiot

I don't really see any of the armor in my collection doing much to mitigate this kind of damage, and all of the dangerous attacks can't be blocked without destroying my ki (though I only have 130 toughness).

I'm not complaining though. This is kind of like fighting Tigrex for the first time all over again: wait for an opening, swing once, don't get greedy, dodge back out of range, wait for another opening, don't fuck up even once or it's game over.

My only minor gripe is that I wish I knew how to reliably stagger things in this game. I'm using an axe with +break and +(stance)break chance and most things just act like I swung a dry towel at them. Fushigi as fuck.

>>13851246

>and all of the dangerous attacks can't be blocked without destroying my ki

Are you blocking in mid stance?

The only attack of his you might need to block is the staff swipe.

If you have poison shurikens you can use those. A sloth talisman trivializes it just like anything else.

What weapon are you using?

>>13851230

Dual swords has an iai attack too, but single has 3 of them and more set bonuses for those skills

>>13851343

Don't forget that your living weapon exists for fights like that one.

>>13851395

I completely forgot that it existed at all, once again. I'm really making this much harder on myself than it needs to be.

>>13851246

If you get lucky the tengu will jump into the water all by himself.

Fucking finally killed that Minishigi cunt in the region 1 duel. It only took me being twice his level to manage it. The fucker cannot be staggered, his iai shit is instantaneous and cannot be reaction-dodged so you just have to memorize and count from when he starts it to when it will probably teleport and hope you time it right, and his faggot lightning dogs chain and just keep coming at you from behind and shit. My veins are filled with salt right now.

The winning strategy:

>start duel by firing a hand-cannon into his head before the duel begins

>run up to him and stab him before he can get up

>spam the green bird guardian tarot card thing to knock him down

>stab him again while he's down

>repeat until out of cards

>switch to low stance

>try to maneuver him into a corner while smoking elixers like a crack addict

>close eyes and mash quick attack and pray

I was actually keeping Living Weapon in mind this time, too, but there were no trash enemies to kill to charge it up sadly. As for blocking, the only thing that I'd want to block is that iai bullshit, but that does full damage through blocks AND reduces my ki to zero as a bonus.

>>13851462

I would probably have shit myself if that had happened.

>>13851507

Well, Muneshige is supposed to be one of the strongest warriors of Japan at that time, so yeah, he had to be hard. I find the best way to deal with him (as with any human boss) is to manage distance and bait attacks so you can deplete his ki and counter. Problem is he has mobility out the ass compared to the others but nothing compared to Masamune Date. Kusa high strong attack always helps. Onmyo magic, too. Its attack spells are mostly trash (a few guardian spirits excepted) but the supports are amazing.

Also you can charge LW by consuming spirit stones. Impractical against someone like Muneshige as you can imagine.

>>13851594

He doesn't have a LW so he's vulnerable to serpent strike>foot sweep. Harder than some because the fight is on a hill but perfectly doable

>>13851343

>>13851507

I'm in region 4 and I still have no idea how you're supposed to play this game exactly, because of stuff like this and much more. Enemies seem to randomly just do whatever they want, whether it is yokai breaking out of staggers mid combo or any enemy just blocking shit forever even when they don't even look like they have any ki left. And everything kills in 1-2 hits and will spam shit like crazy. The progression seems like shit too, since every mission shit just gets harder, making any new gear I find feel the same as the last shit I had.

The game still has some fun shit, and plenty of potential, but if things keep on like this I don't seem much fun or point in going on to higher difficulties besides gear with higher numbers on them.

>>13851507

>The fucker cannot be staggered

He absolutely can be. You can even chain crit him.

>his iai shit is instantaneous and cannot be reaction-dodged

It isn't. His Iai attacks have an extremely long telegraph where you can just switch to low stance and spam dodge to avoid it. If you have trouble with that due to low agility then you can just use the rocks in the corner to cheese him.

The only reason you had trouble with him is because you aren't used to how bullshit a fully unlocked sword tree is. Be glad he doesn't parry.

>>13851806

>just switch to low stance and spam dodge to avoid it

That's what I was doing, but it was still a roll of the dice if it would actually work. I just used knockdown cheese as well as an opening shot that blew away a quarter of his health, and that seemed to work just fine.

Cheese is always a viable and worthy strategy.

>>13851706

Two things you need to take into consideration.

1. Youkai and humans have different rules governing how they function and how you have to deal with them.

Regardless of what they look like physically you can always differentiate between them by their stamina bar. This may seem elementary but there are a few cases where it might become confusing.

2. Progression is more level based than gear based.

For you first play through the game your level should be approximately the same as the recommended mission level for each mission. Gear is there to assist your play style. Set bonuses basically.

>>13851507

Just run circles around the little rock and he should kill himself out of boredom next time.

>>13851876

>For you first play through the game your level should be approximately the same as the recommended mission level for each mission. Gear is there to assist your play style. Set bonuses basically.

Id say during the last few story missions I was around 40 behind in levels

as for gear just kill a few spirits every 5 or so levels

>>13851838

He cannot deal with the odachi high stance attacks at all either. Nothing fancy required, just equip an odachi and time your swings and rolls in a high stance while keeping your distance.

>>13851507

There's different ways to deal with him, if you want to be a faggot like I was when I first played you can just use the rock to block his spirit and his strikes. I beat him on way of the wise and way of the nioh on the plains with my tonfas by understanding his moveset and moving away from him when he does his iai strikes, he offers hit opportunities after his attacks and if you are a LW build there are amrita talismans from the omnyo school that allow you to accumulate amrita on hits or you can use spirit stones.

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyooooooooooooooooo THEM SOME FUCKING NINJA DOGS

>>13852678

also apprently THERE IS A FUCKING WAY TO SHOOT THOSE CANNONS

fucking hell I just ran past everything and died like 20 times trying to get all the green men

>>13853163

See >>13845194

>>13853169

>Double Oda

… but why?

Stil, I decided to stop that and go and get all the kodamas that I missed, since I didn't find anything with kodama sense until like the third region I think

>>13851902

>as for gear just kill a few spirits every 5 or so levels

Fighting spirits seems mostly useless. I've gotten 1-2 pieces of good gear from them in over 30 hours of play, and they just stand around guarding 90% of the time making the fights a chore.

>>13853192

> I've gotten 1-2 pieces of good gear from them in over 30 hours of play

Go to Kuroshima shore or the bridge gauntlet sub mission and keep farming revenants and refreshing them at the shrine when you run out.

>and they just stand around guarding 90% of the time making the fights a chore

Cheese them with the kusarigama.

>>13853163

I finished Way of the Strong before I even gave those double bosses the light of day. Ornstein and Smough was a mistake.

>>13853192

> I've gotten 1-2 pieces of good gear from them in over 30 hours of play, and they just stand around guarding 90% of the time making the fights a chore.

Really? they pretty much were all my gear upgrades, hell still are in Wots besides a few things ive found while playing the DLC

also they are easy to trip up or just eat their ki so it takes like no effort to kill with grapples

>>13853192

>>13853352

Revenants are limited to only divine items (max) level 150+0. No matter what gear the player is wearing it will either be downgraded or sharded. Developer revenants (red names) might not be subject to the same rules.

>>13853352

>Really?

Yeah. It's usually not great stuff, or stuff I'm not gonna use like heavy armor. The pieces that drop being random doesn't help either. I did manage to get a nice sword and armor set yesterday though so that's cool. The ones online are better for sure. The offline ones may as well not exist since they always seemed to drop garbage.

So regarding guardian spirits, their stats aside, which of their summons do you find the most useful/powerful ?

Enko and Kara-jishi are pretty brutal but hard to aim with their significant delay. Kato, Atlas Bear and Nekomata seem to be among the most reliable. Tengen Kujaku is neat when in LW mode since he switches the element, but he doesn't seem to do shit as a simple summon.

>>13855422

Most offline revenants drop garbage. A few offline revenants have unique drops not available anywhere else in the game

>>13855453

I use aya komori or yatagarasu along with either saorsie or nekomata as secondaries. Komori gives 14%unlimited ninjutsu and yatagarasu 10%unlimited ammo and a stronger LW. I only use saorsie and nekokmata in secondary for the Amrita bonuses.

>>13855849

>Throwing away your hard earned glory for that bitch instead of waiting to get glorious Okatsu

>>13855873

>Wanting to be Ieyasu's bastard daughter instead of a woman so worthy she was named successor by her daimyo father

Okatsu isn't worth a revenant of her inflated 100k.

Why was Spider Nest Castle so fucking ___FUN?

>>13855873

>>13855902

>not fuku with the thigh cut-outs

plebs the both of you.

>>13855849

She's got a two part attack. Itokuri's direct contact acts like a sloth talisman but she also leaves behind webs on the ground like what Jorogumo does that further slows enemies. Also as a bonus you get paralysis status attack on melee weapons, not just when you are in LW mode either.

>>13855902

I honestly didn't realize she was anything but Muneshinge's wife, although you overstate her role as clan head. She inherited only because there was no one else, and she was only 6 years old so clearly she hadn't done anything of note.

>>13856050

I did exaggerate on purpose, the extent of my knowledge on Ginchiyo being that she was chosen as successor because there was no male heir and some accounts about her training in combat. Like all women of this era, information is sporadic at best.

Never saw anything about her being 6 years old at the time though. A daimyo naming his daughter as successor is crazy enough when political adoption for the sole purpose of naming an heir is commonplace in Japan. Why designate a kid ?

I read that this shit port doesn't even have m+kb controls. Doesn't sound worth a pirate if that's true.

>>13856199

What are you using to take screenshots?

>ice boss lady

>almost kill her on first attempt

>don't get as far on second attempt because she pulls out a new spell from her pretty snowbutt

>get killed even earlier on third attempt because she pulls out two new spells

>die almost immediately on fourth attempt because she chains her spells like the fucking flash in a way i've never seen before

>start leveling off and taking her to about 50% on every attempt since

>out of elixers so have to do each run with 4

Her pattern appears totally random, with her doing her long range attacks even if I'm right next to her and her close-range heel-stamp even if I'm across the arena from her, so I really just have to try to do this 100% on reflex I think. I only have four elixers, but honestly I shouldn't even need one so I'm not going to count that as a negative. I will not be using living weapon because she's holding my fire puppy hostage with 180,000 amrita.

Just for the sake of my sanity, how many attacks does she have? If she pulls out something new again I may have a stroke.

I've seen:

>three ice missiles that rapid-fire at your position

>three ice missiles that fire four times each in a 30 degree cone in your general direction

>twelve ice missiles that scattershot at your position and leave patches on the floor

>nine ice missiles that shoot the ground around her and leave patches

>sexy heel-stamp that makes ice explode around her

>horror-movie zoom-lunge across half the arena that never seems to actually connect but bless her heart she's trying

>standard three-swing combo that's just like whatever

Am I missing anything?

>>13856266

print screen

>>13856276

She has one where she throws her polearm at you.

>>13856290

Just in a straight line, I'm guessing? I'll try to be ready for it, thanks.

>>13856305

Yeah, just right at you. It doesn't go all the way though, it boomerangs back to her I think.

>>13856311

If it hits you it's like getting hit by a wheel skeleton, it just keeps spinning and fucking you up

>>13856276

run away from her circle-wise and shoot arrows at her at a safe distance.

>>13856414

What's your set up anon? I didn't find her too bad.

>>13856276

>I will not be using living weapon because she's holding my fire puppy hostage with 180,000 amrita.

just fucking summon it back and spend them.

>>13856276

>I only have four elixers

This is why I made sure to hunt down every single goddamned kodama. I experienced this shit in region one and never again could I allow my Elixirs to run low.

If you don't know, you get +1 starting free elixir per 5 kodamas you've found in a region, and also the healer blessing provides a MASSIVE boost to finding elixirs from drops if you need to stock up.

>>13856199

I think I'll try to put together a Sakuyahime stone throwing gear set next

>>13856622

excuse me, that's Sukunahikona

>>13856450

Melee-only, used to be axe and odachi, currently using 2kat and spear, but I switch up my weapons constantly and don't really have a main. I'm really hoping there's enough points to max every tree because I like them all for different circumstances and don't really want to choose.

>>13856485

I did not know that, and that is very good to know. I've now found all of the little gremlins in the ice level, so that should . now.

>>13856439

Would that even do enough damage to kill her? I don't even think I have my full compliment of arrows since I use them to snipe anything standing still with its dome exposed.

I could see an arrow to her head doing maybe 1200 damage to her, but she's incredibly tanky so I don't know.

>>13857154

>max out every tree

Not gonna happen. however you'll have enough to get the important stuff, and the ki pulse while dodging transfer to every weapon, so everything will be usable. I'd say use your 2kat and try to rush in and stay in low stance to rush back out when she stomps. Use some fire talismans if you have any, the disposable kind you don't get from onmyo.

>>13857174

You'll have plenty to max everything out in way of the nioh,

>>13856276

>horror-movie zoom-lunge across half the arena that never seems to actually connect but bless her heart she's trying

If she does it fucks you up bad. And she can immediately follow it up with another one if she wants or with any other attack.

>Her pattern appears totally random

Yeah she can be pretty rough because of her large retinue of attacks and she gets nastier and faster as her health gets lower. Even draining her ki doesn't make her safe for approach unlike most other bosses.

>she's holding my fire puppy hostage

Do you have a summoner's candle?

I miss the old generals with the samurai jack intro, please make a less shitty OP next time

>>13857327

Summoner's candle enables the "Call Back" button on the shrine screen, right? I thought that ate up all the amrita to use.

>>13857353

candle immediately calls the spirit back WITH the amrita

>>13857374

Well shit.

>>13857353

>enables the "Call Back" button on the shrine screen, right?

NO. DON'T USE CALL BACK. You can use a summoner's candle anytime you don't have to be at a shrine. Only use Call Back if you don't care about losing all the amrita that your spirit is guarding.

>>13857396

It's a rare item. Essentially it's equivalent to a ring of sacrifice from dark souls, except after the fact.

>>13857400

>It's a rare item.

You do eventually get a smithing text for candles though. Of course you have to forge them with ogress claws so…

>>13857416

I said rare, not limited. It's also possible to farm them on certain missions, they are a guaranteed fixed drop from certain loot and unlike hair they are repeatable.

Unfortunately a candle can't be used in the Abyss, you need a bell instead, which as an exceptionally rare random drop in the abyss.

>>13857428

Not worth it. You'll get way more amrita later on.

>>13857433

Amrita gains go up exponentially. In WotN you can easily get half a billion amrita from a single kill in some places.

>>13857449

Attack is the important stat. I'm not really sure the difference between multiplier and attack (at the top) but I only look at attack.

Vs Element is usually a wasted stat, water especially. It's not terrible at slowing buildup of the elemental status but I'm not actually sure it blocks any of the damage at all. Rarely is it worth having, and even then only Wind, Lightning, and Paralysis are worth worrying about.

If you don't already know, Water reduces defense, Fire does (pathetic) damage over time, Wind massively reduces attack so you can barely hurt the enemies, Lightning reduces action speed (attack/dodge), and Earth reduces ki regeneration.

>>13857449

A C+ increased damage only gives you about 5% at most (that is, 0-5% depending on how many hits). A rank is 16% at max, no matter which kind

>>13857572

>>13857517

So I had it backwards, then. The big number is what matters and the rest are minimally effective at best?

>>13857517

so is the only worthwhile element is wind and lightning?

>>13857735

>Not lightning and water

>>13857735

>>13857755

The only elements worth worrying about are lightning and wind. Water is a very strong element for your own weapons, but what does it matter if the enemy lowers your defense compared to cutting your effective damage by 80%?

I think I've hit my limit with this ice cunt. Over 20 attempts now and no improvement.

She's hitting me with basically every single attack except for the ice missiles because I can't react fast enough to them. I just don't know how to identify what she's going to do before the attack comes out, and once it's out my reflexes can't match it.

I've tried listening for audio cues, but she has two "HYEEARRGH" yells and the attack she does after them is random. It's like she was designed specifically to troll people who look for logic in boss design.

Oh, and I tried the "just shoot her with arrows "strategy another anon suggested. All of my arrows do only 110 damage to her. I don't know if there's a way to build for bow damage, but I'm no built for it that's for sure. It would take about 2,000 arrows to take her down this way.

>>13857879

Time to cheese with a sloth talisman then.

>>13857895

I don't have any of those. Don't think I've ever even seen one.

>>13857905

It's an Onmyo magic jutsu

>>13857911

Oh, my magic level is 9 or 10, I think. I have just enough points to use guardian summons and some fire talismans. My ninjutsu stat is also only 9 or 10. I like to hit things with swords, not wiggle my fingers from behind trees, for the most part.

>>13857922

Sloth talisman cuts enemy speed by 50% or more. Basically it would leave the ice bitch unable to move or fight back, and it really wouldn't cost many points into magic to buy it.

>>13857879

Dodge to her side. Side steps should dodge most of her fastest attacks, and a stomp can easily be evaded by dodging sideways followed by another dodge away from her. Stay on low stance, you're not going to get a chance to combo so just do quick hit & run attacks

Also if you use a sword it's possible to dodge her heel stomp attack by using the enemy step into air slash technique, and it looks fucking sick

>>13857937

Looks like three points. I could probably get that with only one level, I think. It might be worth farming up the 65k amrita to get that level, I suppose.

>>13857946

Dodging the stomp is no problem, but I can't dodge the boomerang or her basic attack combo, or her lunge anymore (which used to never hit me) because I can't tell which attack she's doing until it's already hit me.

I think I have a brain problem today.

>>13857959

She does have kinda clear tells for each attack, I remember because it was also frustrating the fuck out of me until I could see it all of a sudden. I think it was by looking at her weapon most of the time.

When's a good time to activate Living Weapon? Or is there a fast way to activate it without all that animation that swoops the camera away from the enemy for 3 seconds?

I keep getting my shit destroyed while still locked in the "I'm so fucking cool with my fire dog" animation.

>>13857974

>looking at her weapon

I'll give that a try, thanks anon. I've always mostly been an audio-cues type, so she's been driving me bananas with her randomness.

>>13857983

You are literally invincible during that animation though

>>13857991

My living weapon lasted all of half of a second following it, because she had her boomerang spinning in my face as it ended.

Sometimes it doesn't do that animation, though, like just now, and I don't know what I'm doing differently to cause it to happen or not happen.

For some reason this time, though, my attacks with my living weapon were doing even less damage than my standard attacks with a fire talisman, and that makes no sense. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

>>13857959

Take a break and come back with a fresh mind anon. Quick Change scrolls (ninjutsu) are a good investment, basically an extra life. You can also add a touch-me-not scroll to that for a nice combo (die, body explodes, reappear). Don't forget about your living weapon either, anything with an A+ amrita gauge rate will make your life easier (don't have to farm amrita for as long).

Other than that the only advice I can offer you is to practice. (^:

>>13858008

I think the animation only plays the first time you use living weapon per life/stage. After that it uses the short version, just my guess

>>13858015

>add a touch-me-not scroll to that for a nice combo (die, body explodes, reappear)

Holy shit, that's what they're for? I thought they were for a "fuck you" if an enemy player kills you. I didn't know you could actually survive to see the result.

>Quick Change scrolls are basically an extra life

This should be the second tutorial message you see in the Tower of London. Are they automatic? Like every time you die you just respawn instantly with full health and shit, as long as you have one of those scrolls prepared? That's fucking amazing.

>Other than that the only advice I can offer you is to practice.

Amen, anon. I'm certainly trying. I'll give it a short break and then put the shoulder back to the grindstone.

>>13858039

That makes sense, I suppose.

Also, god damn that level was good, rooms flipping upside down, looking for walls that could rotate, dodging shit left and right

>>13858046

You have to use the scroll and have the buff up. The buff lasts about 3-5 minutes per scroll, so it's pretty much always up if you have more than one scroll.

FYI, the Iga ninja 2 piece set bonus "restores ninjutsu items after living weapon ends" will always restore at least one quick change scroll because it's rounded up

>>13858046

The quick change scrolls you activate and they last for maybe 5 minutes (I haven't tested it but they'll last you a while, enough that you don't need to be stingy with them). They'll revive you at max critical health (just low enough that it turns red). The caveat is that sometimes the enemy will attack as you respawn in mid air and fuck you. You can also do a falling attack as you respawn. The touch-me-not scrolls last a little bit longer and you get more, the good thing is that they'll stun certain enemies and stop them from attacking you as you respawn.

>>13858072

>>13858046

All buffs disappear as you die and are revived, I should add.

>>13858072

>>13858061

So what you're saying is that I need to grind up 7 ninjutsu points because that shit is fucking amazing.

I really didn't want to leave this ice level until I killed the ice queen because this level was so boring, but this is a really shitty place to farm amrita. I might just hop over to spider castle and do a few hours of grinding.

>>13858091

Don't grind for hours. If you really want the ninjutsu shit now just buy a book of reincarnation from the blacksmith and move your points around.

Also make sure you use any locks of hair you might have in your inventory.

>>13858091

>>13858096

And if you want ez mode you should really go for sloth talismans. They pretty much wreck everyone's shit in NG.

>>13858091

Yeah, this is Demon's Souls, only instead of second chance and cursed weapon, it's quickchange and sloth talisman.

>get summoned to samurai from Sawayama

>Summoner dies to the boulder on the spiral stairs

>Get summoned back

>Same guy

>Rush up the stairs to trigger it so he doesn't get killed

>Follows me just a few seconds too soon, gets crushed again

>>13858201

The armor is MUCH more reliable than Suzaku for the reason that one of the bonuses is "prevents amrita gauge reduction". In later difficulties enemies have the ability to reduce your gauge when they hit you, and if it's not full you can't use it as a second life.

>>13858201

>Enemy with a specific side you are supposed to attack

>Hits it from above

>When the damaging wheel is on top

He got what he deserved.

I think I might have figured out the solution to the crashing issue. I haven't actually tested if it works on Hundred Eyes, but I haven't had a single crash anywhere else since I tried this:

Clear out your temporary windows cache.

Not the internet cache, but the windows one. Seems there's some kind of garbage collection issue and whatever bad data ends up in the cache and stays there.

>>13858310

A. That is both really funny, and really infuriating because that's the kind of shit I'm in the middle of right now.

B. I need to start recording my shit, because I can actually see her tells now thanks to this video. Her weapon actually changes form. I never noticed that in all of my 20+ runs.

>>13858338

I feel for you. She's easily one of the toughest bosses in the game. I took me 30+ tries to beat her. Then again for some ungodly reason I decided to fight her with mega horoku dama.

>>13858372

>She's easily one of the toughest bosses in the game. I took me 30+ tries to beat her.

I'll be topping that for sure. She has a personal grudge against me for some reason. She just finished me off with her lunge-stab when I'd almost taken her down, and I swear to fuck she didn't make a peep. No warcry, nothing, just silence into murder flash-step.

>>13858372

I actually ended up beating her the one time I decided to try out a mega horoku-dama. By some miracle she decided to do nothing while I slowly lobbed that shit at her. It didn't do that much but I laughed my ass off.

>>13858310

Tenkai being for harmony I can get, but it doesn't get more slut for Ieyasu's penis than Hanzo. And for all the fairness Nioh displays for the different factions, it does conveniently obfuscate the fact peace was already achieved under the Toyotomi - if Ieyasu actually wanted peace, all he had to do was fucking nothing. His actual motivations was a peaceful Japan under his rule and not the Toyotomi.

>>13858410

If you can chuck it right inside her hitbox at the right moment it does massive damage. Actually that's true of just about everyone.

I've wanted for awhile to try out an explosive only build but I'm a little burnt out at the moment after 600 something hours.

>>13858429

Well in William's defense he doesn't hold Ieyasu in high regard as a person and he certainly doesn't follow his orders like a loyal retainer. I don't know what the fuck Hanzo's problem is.

>>13858465

I certainly don't resent William for being on Ieyasu's side, mostly because he really isn't. He's just following the amrita and those who would abuse it. They just happen to be placed alongside the factions opposing the Tokugawa.

I just think the game should have addressed how this all started with Ieyasu making a coup against the Toyotomi, beyond Mitsunari's spirit flashback which is vague about it.

passing through 70% of a level with just a gun and bow is really fucking fun

>>13858551

>'nuthin personnel kid' teleport-behind-you edgemaster

what one, there are quite a few

>>13858682

The one who actually says it's nothing personal, or more specifically "I don't hate you but you have to die" or something like that

>>13858711

Ah, Magoichi. First time I've heard about a crash after him considering there's only a cutscene.

>>13858725

He's probably just getting random crashes.

>>13858551

Try clearing your windows temporary files, it seems to have fixed all the crashing for me

>>13855902

>>13855873

>>13855928

>not figuring out how to farm glory until you're almost at the DLC and waiting even longer to get not Lady Maria from Bloodborne

>>13858830

Just so you know, the further you are in the game the more glory you earn from coop, regardless of the level of the coop missions you do.

When you've finished WotN you can get 5-10k glory from NG level missions, just to reward you for your valuable time

>taking a break from Ice Bitch the Destroyer of Hope to level up a bit and maybe upgrade some gear

>dude with painted on moustache wants me to grab him a stick from a graveyard

>sounds easy enough

>spawn in

>starting shrine area is littered with revenant swords

What the fuck mission did I just enter? I was doing this to unwind a bit, and now I'm starting to feel regret. Admittedly I only realized that I had to manually log in recently so maybe this is normal for online revenant density, but 10 revenants within 10 meters of the starting shrine feels crazy to me.

At least there's no Boku no Biwa around.

>>13858977

You probably chose an arena mission, these are short but intense, it's waves of enemies basically,so if anyone dies at any point they'll fatally be in the same place.

I feel you on some side missions not being that relaxing though. Try to get some reforging done on your favorite iitems, get some really good attributes.

>>13856622

>>13856672

Finished putting it together. The good news is that it's relatively easy to make, though I think Sukunahikona might possibly be one of the rarest graces. The bad news is it kind of sucks, at least for WotN. I might use this set just to show off in Way of the Samurai coop, because the 30k hits at that difficulty make it look hilarious. in Way of the Nioh though it only does about 3k. You CAN kill things with it, but it takes more than a few stones.

>>13859051

He said it was a graveyard, I don't think there are any graveyard arena missions, at least not before endgame. The standard graveyard map is just a small map so the Revenants tend to collect in one area.

Basically the way revenant spawns work is that you download up to a maximum number from the server. That max number is the same regardless of how big the mission is, so smaller maps naturally have denser spawns. There are always enough people dying.

>>13858977

>>13859082

Hold on, is it "the disappearing ranjatai" ? Just checked it, right after the shrine there's a cloud Ryoki with three zombies lying in ambush. The revenants are just retards who can't listen to audio cues.

>>13859105

Yeah I bet that's the one with Benkei. Well, they don't directly mention his name, but it's pretty obvious who he is - a famous warrior monk from the heian period. He's an extremely tanky dude with an axe and some spawns thrown in, I did it yesterday on NG+ and it had a tengu, I bet it's way tamer on NG. He's definitely dangerous, but not too bad if you bait his attacks to deplete his ki, he's slow as shit.

>>13859114

He's human? I shouldn't have a problem, then. I use the roundhouse+followup combo with my 2kat against humans and it just destroys their ki to the point that I can chain grapples and finishers. I expected the tonfas to be the big ki-depleters, but these 2kat are doing work.

For now I think I'm just going to fight revenants and then branch out a couple of times. Just fought one dude that gave me 90k amrita for killing him, and I've never seen such an amount from a revenant before - usually I get about 20k for 10 combined.

>>13859114

Yeah, he looked scary but he was just a human. I tested out the sloth talisman on him and then kicked him into the river.

>>13859154

Lel, poor Benkei.

Anyway, now that you've tested the sloth talisman you should take on Yuki-onna again. Maybe throw in some weakness talisman and lightning weapon. Or take her out fairly, who knows.

>>13859175

Yup, that's the plan. Currently re-clearing the ice level and thinking murderous thoughts.

>read in the demon gallery that the door monsters get off on frustrating people

>for shits and giggles do the "disappointed" gesture in front of one

>it fucking does the japanese "sorry" gesture and vanishes

>it even leaves me some loot

Are you fucking kidding me with this shit right now. What other monsters can be fucked with like this?

>Hail of flaming death at the sound of a gong

>Get two cannonballs

>Get to cannon, use it

>It stops the arrows

>Figure it's best to rush to the next cannon and pick shit up later because of this

>Stop second set of archers

>Go back

>You can't go back

>Restart level just to get missing kodama

>Go through the first two cannons

>Get to third set of archers

>They're using a cannon now, so cover that isn't trenches is useless

>Can't tell for shit where the next trench is without playing chicken with death from above

>Make it to third cannon

>You have no cannonballs

>No idea where to get more

>Can't see any other safe trench paths except the way I came

Do I have to start over again and save one of my cannonballs for the third cannon? Is there going to be a fourth I have to save for?

>>13859322

I had no idea you got cannon balls at the start and suicide ran all the kodamas

shit was hectic but I did it

>>13859347

Guy weakly standing in the first trench gives you two.

>>13858046

You drop out of thesku withabout a quarter of your life and can plunge attack as you fall. Enemies with upwards arching attacks can kill you as you fall though so it isn't a guaranteed survival.

>>13859708

>out of the sky

>>13859223

The Nurikabe will open to 1 of the 3 different behaviors that gestures can be from. You just happened to make the right gesture catagory.

>>13859765

It's the category, not the gesture itself? Do you mean like Red/Yellow/Blue basically?

>>13859844

9/10 times this happens it's some ultra faggot who hasn't even tried the boss solo a few times yet, so they don't know shit about its moveset and die immediately.

>>13859768

>Do you mean like Red/Yellow/Blue basically?

Yeah, if the yokai wants a red gesture any red gesture will cause him to leave without conflict.

>>13859326

(^:

7:37 for boss fight.

I got to the second boss and die in two shots to the spin attack he always does for defence. Don't deal much damage and he has a whackton of hitpoints. After trying a few times and having the same result where I hit once and he does the spin I don't grasp how I can defeat this faggot.

>>13858771

>He's probably just getting random crashes.

This is my first crash ever.

>>13859223

Mimics

>>13860459

1) don't get hit

2) use a stronger weapon

3) level up attack