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>>15078291

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

Optimization.

>>15078320

Other than HDD space use, what's not optimized? I don't recall ever dropping under 60 (outside of the creator logos at the start, which are capped at 30)

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

Diablo gear removed.

>>15078335

Yeah, that's annoying. I mostly bypassed entirely by farming revnents, but I can understand it getting annoying really quick if you wanted something other than Warrior of the West's Honor (which virtually everyone drops) and an easily forged weapon.

>>15078335

The replayable nature of the missions means it has to be diablo gear. If they go for the regular souls model, you wouldn't ever really want to replay missions, which is what makes Nioh stand out.

>>15078328

>outside of the creator logos at the start

I replace those with a blank video whenever possible. I would have uploaded it, but 8chan doesn't support .bik extensions and I'm too retarded to convert it.

https://mega.nz/#!B74n3aIZ!UjWvfPOMQcIZAsLxdfnAwcLLnxM67KqFjK7HcU9gU1k

>>15078291

First play through so I'm doing a standard sword build with onmyo elements to counter enemies/bosses. If I play through it again I want to try using the kusarigama since it looks rather interesting.

>>15078335

Nioh 2 pls

>>15078379

Yeah people replaying Dark Souls for 20 times sure was carried by randomized loot.

>>15078416

That was mostly for different builds. Ni-Oh let you re-spec so easily that doesn't really hold much importance.

Complete removal of RNG

>>15078291

I heard once from these thread there was an axe ninja armor set/build but I can't really find information on it.

>>15078379

Getting amrita, finding things they may have missed, there are other things that could encourage exploration and replaying mission. I think they could also have some random drop items without it just being every single piece of equipment.

>>15078291

>What build you rolling?

Absolutely done, played the game twice on PS4 and PC and hoarded everything to Ethereal, leveled to max, got all reputations points, and did all achievements.

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

The setting is great, but mostly vertical combat, come on Team Ninja. And better story, just a shame that the Sengoku era with monsters which isn't original, but they had a lot of designs and settings that were cool. And balance the fuck out of the game so cheese builds aren't a thing.

Nioh is a shit game.

Nioh 2 will be pretty much the same thing.

Sekiro is the way to go.

Inb4 shill

>>15078328

It has a constant stutter.

>>15078533

Sekiro isn't even soulsborne

>>15078335

I too want the horrible souls itemization of "okay heres your gear you're done with any gear now, just make it +10 and you're done with character advancement through your gear"

on that note aside I want basically nothing changed. The game worked fantastic, and was the best of it's genre by a mile, It fixed the long waiting periods to do nothing and recover stamina from souls games, it fixed character advancement issues, NG+ added things and actually changed enemy attack patterns unlike souls games, The co-op was hands down the best co-op in recent years.

Only real thing I'd want is for weapons not to have such a strong set tier of Good/bad/nodon'tpicktonfa. Outside of that more enemy variety and more stupid sets like the one that gives stone damage +5000%

And for the love of god keep it stage based as opposed to open world.

>>15078291

I want no diablo loot, more enemy variety, open world and less padding, but more of the same would be be just fine.

>15078533

Secuckro: Players Cry Twice is activision shit for casuals that isn't even an ARPG.

>>15079272

>NG+ added things and actually changed enemy attack patterns unlike souls games

<what are black phantoms/dark spirits

<what are adds for boss fights

>>15078573

That's why it's better.

I played NG on Iga Ninja, I lucked out since out of the weapons I liked both swords and the kusa the most and I used a lot of ninjutsu anyway. Then after a while I switched to Hayabusa and I stuck with it until I got bored, I think I got to the second region of Way of the Nioh and then got completely burnt out.

When it comes to what I want for Nioh 2, the only things I really want is better enemy variety and more stages. Sub missions just being shorter main missions which even took place at the same fucking location was a bad move imo. People who don't want Diablo-style loot are just scrubs who can't even properly utilize smithing waifu.

>>15078350

The only people I even run into now run either Red Demon, Hayabusa or that Susanoo LW meme build. Warrior of the West becomes really rare from revenants once you get out of NG+, hell I remember getting the Iga stuff the most frequently while doing Way of the Demon.

>>15079450

/thread

>>15079444

>adds a normal enemy with no changes

>in any way comparable to changing attack patterns

Holy shit you're right we should completely remove any and all of what made this game unique and hopefully it can be as inspired as Dark Souls 4!

I loved Nioh about 2/3 through, but then the repetitive levels and enemies started getting to me. If I see that fucking Onryoki one more time…

A change to how late game's enemy stats scale. It's been a while since I've played it but humanoids in the lategame had assloads of toughness and ki and frankly ended up to annoying to fight to not want to cheese them with something like Iai or the spear dash to knock them down and get free hits in. On the flipside the demon enemies became stale but an absolute joke once you had 2 elements on deck.

The ailments are cool but lategame felt way too reliant on them.

>>15078335

I never had any issues with gear. The closest I got was farming for an hour to get Sarotubi's Gunsticks to transition into a tonfa build.

Nioh's item system is fine. The inventory management and gearing system seems intimidating at first but once you get the hang of it you realize it's really robust and you actually have a fantastic amount of control over your gear.

>>15080251

Obsidian Samurai is also an axe set.

>>15080387

I think smith texts should 100% drop if you beat a boss without getting hit.

.>>15080251

>light armor axe set

This must be it, thanks. Was looking for ninjutusu bonuses.

>>15080387

>oni

They're called Yoki shitlord use the proper term.

>>15080685

Kappa Hat, Materials drop rate up, Itokouri/Daiba Washi and any luck up shit; you can reliably get a smithing ext every 5-10 fights; the grind isn't that bad and the spec isn't too bad on builds either. The idea is good sure, but isn't as bad people make out.

>>15080079

this is exactly how i felt about it too. i loved the setting and combat, but got burnt out by the copy pasted enemies and how a lot of boss battles boiled down to "use this element and fucking wreck that boss, that or dodge and chip for ten minutes". i should still go back and finish it but man it got stale

>>15080639

As is the Kaido armor. Kojuro's is interesting though because it's the only light armor axe set.

>>15078291

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

The ability to slay the men of japan and claim the women for my own

>>15080823

Kappa hat?

>>15084436

Think he meant the Kodama Bowl

>>15079592

>Satsuma Rebellion

That makes for interesting gameplay mechanics as repeating firearms are a thing by that point. Nippon hadn't even developed embed related yet so most will still use muzzle loaders, but it would add revolvers. Making revolvers weakish but fast and usable point-blank (probably have them replace bows) could work. Weak but fast could be used for 1866 Winchester (44 Henry rimfire is effectively pistol caliber, though the longer barrel will add power).

I'm a little bummed its Japan again. Was hoping for a spiritual successor in some fantasy land that has both Jap weapons and armour as well as European stuff. More weapon variety would have been nice in that respect.

Anyway, what I personally want to see

>More weapon classes though I feel we've kind of seen everything Japan has to offer

>More weapon abilities and combos

>Perhaps dual wield of every weapon

>An unarmed class could be fun, doing sweet punches and kicks with shit like suplexes and slams for finishers, might not fit with the tone too much though

>More enemy variety, the game does well with what it has but because its such a big game it does get tiresome

>As we can transform into Yokai, I assume instead of spirit animals we're getting different Yokai forms each with different strengths and weaknesses, should be cool

>More levels again as Nioh is such a big game you will be seeing a lot of repetition

>Less grinding for the good stuff or at least make it easier to restart and get to where you need to go

>Less grinding for the blacksmith unlocks and bonuses, should be tied to quests and perhaps a few rare drops

>Keep the Diablo loot train but decrease drop rate massively, it seriously becomes annoying at how much shit you have to sift through

They did so much right with the first but can still do more.

>>15084773

THe custom character might be a optional/cosmetic thing like skins in Nioh 1. All they really had to do was make naked models for all the skins and let the equipped armors show; they could have done it for the Revenant skin and made people happy.

>>15085547

Or go with William Adams' historical halfu children, Joseph and Susanna, you can add in a choice and customization for both, but think Team Ninja is aiming for full customization from the get go..

>>15084773

>>15084510

That would be an interesting setting. I still have a feeling though that Nioh 2 is going to be set in an earlier era and focus on Shuten-douji because of those big giant oni in the trailer.

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>>15085684

Hell if Capcom and Koei did it with Onimusha Demon Siege and Warriors Orochi, Team Ninja can go for three time periods with the Heian, early Muromachi and Bakumatsu to Satsuma period, the start of the Samurai to its end, but that's wishful thinking.

>>15085680

they went full Attack on Titan with that one. I just started the game and I am so out of focus of the story. I can't even remember which character is which, it's hard to memorise Japanese names they all sound same here. So, assuming that guy from the Nioh 2 trailer is the main character, did he turn into Oni or something?

>>15086520

Yeah, in Nioh 2 you'll be able to turn into a yokai. I wonder how it'll work and if it'll replace the guardian spirit mechanic or just add to it. I think it'd be cool if you had multiple yokai forms, each with their strengths, weaknesses and moveset.

>>15078534

I wouldn't call them constant. I think that consistent is a word that suits them better.

I remember always having this 0.3s stutter whenever I walked past an specific line. It probably has to do with the fact that I don't have an ssd. Still the games fault, that stutter is a sign of lack of optimization. I also found what seems to be a bug, when you break something with dynamic reflections on it will sometimes give you like 3 seconds of 10 fps.

Other than these, the only other problem I had was the game close on me like 4 times in 110 hours of gameplay on all kinds of different places, from the map to a bossfight. Pretty weird.

Other than that, yeah, maybe it requires more than it should for the quality of its graphic display. But that has been the case for most games in the last few years. I'd say that Nioh is above average when you compare it to most recent games.

>>15078379

Kodamas, rare helmet drops, and amrita are pretty good reasons.

as a pleb still on his first playthrough with 1kat and odachi, what's a good medium/light armour set? i'm going with kingo/yagyu right now

I wanted one in Europe with Claymores, would be rad.

>>15089040

It's called Dark Souls.

>>15086530

>Yokai forms

>Doing what bloodborne didn't/couldn't

G*dspeed, Team Ninja.

>>15089080

Too bad the Dark Souls combat is shit.

>>15089080

>Not wanting more weapons and armour from Europe

>Not wanting European monsters

>All with the improved Nioh combat instead of Roll Souls

What's wrong with you?

>>15090727

I'm hoping for expanded move sets from your human abilities, like what we see from some of the bosses. Granted, if you can stack living weapon and youkai form, then you are just getting crazy. Depending on how that goes, it will either be good, but unnecessary to anyone but shitty players like myself, or just something extra to use. This was also an exceptionally bad idea when you combine that with the custom characters, because it would be easier to do multiple forms without having to worry about a transformation that is more than a hair color change.

I got this during the Steam sale because I was told it was anime Dark Souls. Do you actually get i-frames during dodges? Even on low stance I can't even seem to dodge through attacks. Is it more like a typical action game where you don't dodge through attacks (like Dark Souls), you actually dodge away?

>>15094480

What the fuck? This can't be real.

>>15102167

Blocking is the thinking man's dodging.

>>15094480

>>15102186

No, it is. In typical pokeRPG spinoff fashion, its more about battling trainers than catching pokemon.

>>15102167

You do but they're much tighter and you are expected to use block situationally. Typically, use the low stance for i-frame abuse dodging. High stance dodge will move you farther but the i-frames are timed differently; mid stance dodge is the worst of the three but it has the best blocking capabilities to make up for it. When you're stunlocked you're expected to block and then dodge instead of just roll out of it like you would in Dark souls. If blocking leaves you winded then you might want to wear heavier armor. Toughness is the stat that determines how much ki(stamina) loss is reduced when being attacked or blocking, and is typically higher on heavier armor. You want at least 40-50 toughness on any build and the soft cap is 200, with higher-end toughness focused builds getting around 400 and being nigh stagger/ki loss-immune.

>>15080633

>but once you get the hang of it you realize it's really robust and you actually have a fantastic amount of control over your gear.

Is there any way to sort by effects? I got a level 139 medicine case with Tenacity and will not replace it until I get something else with Tenacity. I'm sick of looking through every accessory I find on the chance I can finally replace my medicine case. That's fucking nothing though compared to searching for good inheritables. I'm on WotW so far and I haven't even touched looking for good inheritables since NG because of how much of a fucking slog it is.

>>15078412

>First play through so I'm doing a standard sword build with onmyo elements to counter enemies/bosses. If I play through it again I want to try using the kusarigama since it looks rather interesting.

There's NG+, ++, +++, and ++++ with easy respeccing, access to previous difficulties, and enough storage space for hundreds of equipment sets for different builds. There's essentially no reason to ever make a second character.

>>15079272

>the one that gives stone damage +5000%

Nani?

>>15079573

>People who don't want Diablo-style loot are just scrubs who can't even properly utilize smithing waifu.

You can't forge ethereals.

>>15081132

>"use this element and fucking wreck that boss, that or dodge and chip for ten minutes". i should still go back and finish it but man it got stale

<He doesn't inflict confusion

>>15084735

>>An unarmed class could be fun, doing sweet punches and kicks with shit like suplexes and slams for finishers, might not fit with the tone too much though

I'd say there's a fare possibility. There are already multiple ways to increase barehanded damage in Nioh.

>>15084735

>>Keep the Diablo loot train but decrease drop rate massively, it seriously becomes annoying at how much shit you have to sift through

<Wanting to farm for drops even more

>>15102167

>Do you actually get i-frames during dodges?

I'm a nigger who plays this shit like Bloodborne. I use dual katanas, put skill points into the dual katana skills Mind's Eye and Mind's Eye II, and almost always maintain low stance save for certain situations. Mind's Eye adds a shitload of i-frames to low stance dodging by making your character do a special sidestep if hit by an attack at the end of a low stance dodge. It effectively lets you easily dodge through most attacks. I combine this with whatever I can to lower dodge or low stance dodge ki usage.

>>15102400

fare fair*

>>15078291

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

If they have to stick with the diablo loot, improve the inventory system. Also give us the dualies the crow soldiers use.

>>15102420

>Grace set

Oh. I've only just barely started getting ethereals.

>Defiled Items A

What's that do?

>>15078291

Primarily a better translation and a more stable PC port. Several skill descriptions are incomplete or completely incorrect, for example the Ki Pulse buffs. Only the Ki Pulse: Heaven buff increases the damage of your next hit; the Man buff makes your next block not cost Ki and the Earth buff makes your next dodge not cost Ki. However, some lazy fuck just copy-pasted the Ki Pulse: Heaven description for all three skills. I've also had the game crash on me once every three hours or so, and the very final mission in particular has about a 50% chance of crashing after loading the final boss room every single time until you restart the mission entirely and try again. I'm really enjoying the game otherwise.

>>15102434

The text was scrolling at the wrong time, that's supposed to be Increase Luck (Defiled Items). It increases your luck when you've got defiled items in your inventory.

>>15102321

You can upgrade your accessories you want to keep with good enchantments if you defile them and bring them through the abyss. They keep all their enchantments, but their level rises depending on what floor you got before leaving the abyss. It's risky because if you die without your guardian spirit you lose all your defiled items in the abyss, but you can mitigate the risk completely by defiling your medicine case right before the last boss you want to kill.

>>15102400

>You can't forge ethereals.

Forge the shit you want, take it to the abyss level 20, defile it right before the boss, kill the boss, leave the abyss, your item gets ethereal'd. Is it really THAT difficult?

>>15102514

I've barely touched the abyss and wasn't aware that defiling > ethereal would be guaranteed after a certain floor.

>They keep all their enchantments

I thought shit would be rerolled for better shit.

>>15102525

It's not exactly guaranteed, but if you go for the low-risk option then level 20 is the best floor to start and then end with since it's the last floor you can go to after beating WotD which unlocks ethereals. If you want a guaranteed chance I think an item gets the best upgrades level and +value-wise if you take it through 4 floors, but it could've been through just 3 floors, I haven't played Nioh in quite a while.

>I thought shit would be rerolled for better shit.

Nope, you pretty much have to hope you get an accessory with overall good enchantments or at least enchantments that are useful to your build and playstyle, which is complete fucking bullshit. Finding good inheritables for weapons and armor is piss-easy compared to this shit. At least when you find the exact inheritables you want and then soul match them, you can start just selling off your shit and not giving a damn anymore, but I always have to sift through dozens of accessories to see if one has good enchantments overall, but they're usually all complete garbage. At least once you get an accessory with decent enchantments, you can upgrade its level in the abyss, but accessories are still complete bullshit because it actually is Diablo loot. Everything else is at least under your control when it comes to what enchantments they get.

I want the Bakumatsu, the ability to join the Shinsengumi and a town/city hub.

Any reason some revenant graves glow yellow like Amrita?

>>15104088

Were the odachi soldiers and tonfa ninjas in the game prior to the DLC? I've seen them in main missions, among other enemies, that are prior to the DLC. If they were there originally, that would mean those weapons were planned originally, because of how human enemies work.

>>15104088

Post more Fuku

>>15109179

The WE WUZ SAMURAIZ boss uses an odachi and used it prior to the first DLC that used them.

>>15109914

>>15109179

Odangos were DLC? I had no idea. I used them a lot when I pirated it. I'm not paying them if they bloat the size to 100GB and make it run like shit. The game must have felt much emptier with both odangos and tonfas missing.

>>15109975

It's a shame that the DLC weapons are arguably weaker and somewhere around axe-tier in usefulness, but I had a lot of fun playing around with an odachi myself. I liked the stance switching-based playstyle and the LW moveset is really good so I believe that it should be good for LW build.

>>15109914

>The WE WUZ SAMURAIZ boss uses an odachi

But he uses an axe?

>>15110703

He periodically switches weapons during the fight. He has an iai move when using the odachi which is particularly nasty.

>>15110703

Both the axe and the katana are part of his set bonus.

>>15110813

It's not an odachi it's just a regular katana: Hoshi-kiri tachi.

>>15110838

Nope. When you fight him it's clearly an odachi, I'm willing to at least concede that it's a large katana since it's considerably larger than every other katana and by the way, the version of it you get is a dinky little shit version which is around two times smaller than the one he has.

>>15110886

>which is around two times smaller than the one he has

LUL get used to it cracka. We stealin' yo white wimmen.

I'm sorry. That hurt to type

>>15111236

>I want souls-like invasions, they already have the revenants from dead players so it would be the easiest fucking thing to explain through a lore perspective why some asshat from a different dimension or whatever wants to come and murder you.

That would be OK but if N2 gets invasions I'd like ninja invasions instead.

>>15111247

You mean as flavour, that an enemy faction to the PC occasionally sends a "ninja" (i.e. enemy player) in an attempt to stop you from progressing your mission?

Yeah why not.

>>15111247

I think it would be also interesting if they also tied it with the whole faction battles thing so it isn't just you sitting and hoarding glory, but actually doing something.

>>15078291

My build at the end of Nioh was an Odachi LW build. Activate LW, mash light attack. When LW runs out use a spirit stone and then start it again. I managed to get enough damage buffs at one time to do over 80k damage in a single coup de grace on a boss in the abyss.

>>15078291

>Enemy variety and better level design is the big things the sequel needs.

Also dexterity not being fucking broken. With quick change and infinite ninjutsu and getting spells back when I use living weapon, I'm in literally no danger ever and the game turned into a snoozefest.

Removal of the retarded forced upgrading on the Diablo gear would be nice, too. I kept finding cool synergies and then only got to use them for one stage because the next stage had enemies dropping weapons 10 levels higher.

I've been playing recently and wondering what level you all were when going through Way of the Nioh?

>>15110886

>'m willing to at least concede that it's a large katana

So, not the odachi moveset. So the Odachi as all enemies use it and as the player does, did not exist in base NG.

>>15110030

I've been using Odachis almost exclusively, and while I am having a few issues, I am doing far better than I expected given my skill, the fact I am a good forty something levels lower than what the mission level is, and the fact I only have one divine level item on me, which is my odachi.

>>15078291

Lessening the differences between medium and light armour, at the latter will get you 1 - 2 shot later on in the game, and the set bonuses that they give are trumped by combining different sets from medium/heavy. That would be a good start over the other issues of this game.

Diablo loot needs to go. The only reasons why it had it I can think of is that they wanted to be more different from Souls, or to keep people grinding. The gear bonus lines can safely be discarded, or at least be something you add to gear at a smith without any RNG involved. Having to sort through hundreds of items every two levels was not fun. Diablo loot never improves games and just serves to lessen the excitement when you find a new weapon.

>>15078291

>What do you want in Nioh 2?

For them to not listen to anyone and just make the game they want, warts and all. If they listen to people like some of the anons ITT they would just want it to be Dark Souls: Nippon Edition.

I can't stop using odachis, send help.

>>15109914

>>15111434

>>15114187

Pretty sure Odachis were in the Nioh beta but they were just long katanas.

And just because an enemy human uses a weapon doesn't mean its coming in a DLC, though, since some humans have movesets that the player doesn't have access too, like the derpmode axe bandit swings that use all his ki.

I wouldn't mind if they made armor on skins DLC, as fun as playing as a zombie in a fundoshi as the Revenant really fucking needs armor that shows.

>>15114255

Yeah, but the odachi guys at Sekigahara had the same basic moveset that Willie has access to, unlike Obsidian Samurai's who swings the thing as if it's just a regular katana.

>>15114271

I'm pretty sure Obsidian uses a regular katana, just on the large side. He draws it from a sheathe on his hip. The common enemies definitely use the same stance system that William uses, though, as well as most of the basic moves.

>>15114992

Yeah I know, what I was asking is whether someone remembers if the odachi-wielding enemies in the base Nioh game even existed before the first DLC and if they did, did they use the same basic moveset that Willie gets? I got the game just as Dragon of the North came out so I have no idea myself. And it can't be what >>15114255 said since the only enemies who wielded an odachi in the Sekigahara mission were of the ronin/samurai variety who mirror Willie's moveset and not of the bandit/ashigaru variety who swing their weapons around like complete retards.

Can you get Soul Matching Cost Reduction through reforging or tempering? I've never seen it. If I can't get it through reforging/tempering then I'll mostly be sticking with whatever random shit I pick up that has it. At least it's more common on WotW.

>>15114255

>And just because an enemy human uses a weapon doesn't mean its coming in a DLC

Dual wielding repeating pistols never ever.

>>15115973

Don't forget the walls that respond to gestures.

>>15116532

Nope, I think it's treated as an inherent trait.

>If I can't get it through reforging/tempering then I'll mostly be sticking with whatever random shit I pick up that has it.

The soul match reduction trait ONLY works when you use it as the soul matching material (aka the item that gets consumed), not as the base. It's useless as an actual weapon since you lose a trait slot, you're meant to just use it to upgrade your shit way cheaper.

>>15116563

>The soul match reduction trait ONLY works when you use it as the soul matching material

You're thinking of Reset No. of Soul Matches, not Soul Matching Cost Reduction +X%. Soul Matching Cost Reduction +X% works whether it is on the base or the material and is compounded when when on both the base and material. You can get Reset No. of Soul Matches easily with umbracite on any piece of ethereal equipment.

You can move special properties from gear to other pieces of gear?

>>15116606

Both work only as materials, the reset no. resets the number of soul matches a weapon has had in order to bring costs down, while the soul matching cost reduction shaves off a percentage of what it would've cost if you didn't have it.

>>15116635

Yes, inheritable traits have an arrow before them. I don't remember if both items or just the material need to be at full familiarity. Also, you can't have a trait which doesn't match a particular piece of gear, for example you used to be able to put +attack on every armor piece, but now they patched it so that it only works on gauntlets as it was intended iirc. Also, you can't have two of the same kind of trait, so for example you can't put both change to attack (Heart) and change to attack (Strength) on the same weapon.

>>15116741

>tfw you realize thats not a tail but is actually his gigantic ballsack

>>15116648

>Both work only as materials,

Soul Matching Cost Reduction applies to both material and base. Since I've yet to see it as something you can reforge or temper into a weapon, it would practically useless if it only worked for materials except in very specific cases.

>>15116648

>I don't remember if both items or just the material need to be at full familiarity.

Just material.

>for example you used to be able to put +attack on every armor piece, but now they patched it so that it only works on gauntlets as it was intended iirc.

God dammit. When did they do that? I still haven't hit endgame so I never took advantage of it. It's not exactly easy to four gauntlets with Close Combat Damage +X% as an inheritable anyways.

>>15116759

>Think it's a Tanuki with bag of tricks for the entire game

>Finally start killing them in WotD instead of gesturing to them

>Enemy description says it's a badger and enemy model viewer shows a giant hairy nutsack.

>>15117348

I think they actually are badgers and not tanukis.

>>15117353

>I think they actually are badgers and not tanukis.

I just said that.

>>15117363

I thought you were implying the translation was fucked.

>>15117353

>>15117348

The word tanuki can be used to refer to both badgers and raccoon dogs.

>>15117343

Japanese Care Bears are fucking hardcore.

>>15117348

It was fixed about a year ago. There was another exploit which allowed you to get level 320 gear while you're still in Way of the Strong. That shit was fucking crazy,

>>15102186

In Japan, it's a Nobunaga's Ambition title with a Pocket Monsters tie-in

pretty good actually

>>15123194

How do I become death incarnate with an axe?

>>15123194

Eat your heart out, soulsfags

>>15123223

Stack a lot of CCA Ki reduction as well as CCA Ki Reduction (Critical) and get the Mad Spinner skill.

>>15123194

I've seen this dine with living weapon but how is this guy doing it?

>>15124240

Mad Spinner is an axe skill, that's how he's doing the spinning thing. Watch his Ki bar throughout the entire video; it's going down very slowly, but it is going down. He doesn't have infinite Ki. What he has is a high-level Kato guardian spirit, which reduces your Ki usage by 30% or more when you're in critical (red flashing) health, and probably Close Combat Attack Ki Reduction 25% on his weapon as well as other CCA Ki Reduction effects on his gear.

Less fucking one shot kill bullshittery by the bosses.

>>15124299

Dubs give the truth. One thing is that the game doesn't become one in which you can tank the entire game if you have shitloads of armor/life, button punish too much to fail to Dodge or block is too much

>>15124298

>Watch his Ki bar throughout the entire video; it's going down very slowly, but it is going down.

I only realized that after watching the video several times. I thought he had some how glitched his Ki at first.

Also, anyone mind helping me out on The Return of the Gourd on Way of the Samurai difficulty?

>>15124390

Yes, I mind.

Any recommendations on preperations before I do Demon King Revealed?

>>15124299

Even the oni sometimes one shot me randomly. I'm in level appropriate medium armor with decent HP stats and still get some one-shots.

>>15125511

Don't know what you'd have to do for preparations, only thing of note is that Demon King Revealed pits you up against 3 boss fights one after another, but if you die, you fight against the boss you died against so you don't have to beat them all in a row.

>>15125523

>Demon King Revealed pits you up against 3 boss fights one after another

Are you not counting the four boss fights before th elevator?

>>15125538

I'm not because for those it's obvious that if you die, you don't have to do them all over again since they're in different locations, after you get to the elevator you gotta fight the 3 last ones back to back.

>>15110030

>a shame that the DLC weapons are arguably weaker and somewhere around axe-tier in usefulness

So completely broken?

>>15125549

Right on.

>>15078335

The loot really fucked everything. It wouldn't even be a problem if they did GOOD diablo loot like the first two games, but they made it worse than even D3. It's just fucking linear statistical upgrades.

>>15129217

>I don't mind having 20 copies of generic swords. Having 20 copies of Raikiri triggers my autism.

Isn't Raikiri a guaranteed reward for a certain submission?

>>15130075

Yes, along with a few other weapons.

>>15130075

Yeah, but it's still a possible drop from enemies. I remember getting one at Hannoji.

>>15128926

They're fun, but the major issue is that their gimmick broken levels of Ki damage really doesn't apply to Yokai, and in PvP players will just dodge after your first combo chain to anticipate the Dragon Dance followup.

imo, they are much better if you proc Paralysis or Poison on them and use them that way. They have some really fucking nice synergy with Bishas Centipede; with the Guard penetrate and general buffs.

>>15130075

I've gotten about six of them, and I am still on the base difficulty. Most of them are from random drops.

>>15123194

LET IT RIP!

>>15132146

>tfw you will never punch a Yokai to death

>tfw no flashy kicks

>tfw you will never German suplex one off of a castle

I'm very supportive of a goofy unarmed class.

>>15132941

Unarmed meme builds are a thing though, the passive that increases unarmed attacks along with proper omnyo and armor can let you pound yokai into submission.

Are living weapon builds really the only way to get far in the abyss?

>>15144004

More or less, on Way of the Wise a lot of revenants I came across were people who somehow managed to fail piloting a Susanoo lw build.

>>15144004

LW builds are still very strong but they're not the only strong build. A status-effect-suffered build is probably the strongest build right now. You get the Kigetsu's 4-piece bonus that boosts damage dealt and gives like 20% damage resist when suffering a status effect, join the clan that offers the same bonuses, get damage-resist when status effect suffered on your gear, and then use a bunch of Oynmo talismans that self-inflict status effects to shoot your damage resist and damage through the roof.

https://archive.is/KY9AH

team ninja is dead. so what i want in nioh 2 is for none of you to buy it because you'd be giving money to cuck sellout faggots.

>>15144026

I haven't even been getting into builds and forging since it seems like a slog to find accessories and get smithing texts. I've hit WotN Omi Region and I always just upgrade the best dual swords I have with lightning and the second best with water, as well as Familiarity Damage Bonus A, Change to Attack Skill A+, Status Ailment Augmentation Electrify/Saturate, and the final slot can be filled with either CCD +X% or Weaken Armor Torso. I get whatever lightest/strongest armor I find is and reroll effects with divine fragments. I've only recently started intentionally using sets since Takemizuchi can give Electrify Augmentation and Owatatsumi gives Water Augmentation. Finally, a Yakasani Magatama or Yata Mirror with Set Requirements Down and whatever the strongest accessory I have with Tenacity is. Do people really need to rely on builds before hitting the final difficulty? Most of the random shit I've found has been enough.

>>15144062

>join the clan that offers the same bonuses

I've always stuck with whatever it was that boosts elixers and gives me a chance to survive fatal attack with 1 health as long as I have greater than X% health.

>then use a bunch of Oynmo talismans that self-inflict status effects to shoot your damage resist and damage through the roof.

Wait, are you telling me Status Effect Suffered effects multiply if you inflict several different status effect on yourself?

>>15144073

That's Dead on Arrival team. Female characters were the most expensive transformations in Nioh. Nioh team knows what they're doing.

>>15144117

>Wait, are you telling me Status Effect Suffered effects multiply if you inflict several different status effect on yourself?

Yes.

>>15134904

With Yokai transformations being a thing in Nioh 2 I expect unarmed skills to become more important ,especially when you transform.

>>15125523

There's actually a shrine after Kelley.

>>15080251

Oh dammit, I'm downloading this now. If I'd known it had XBOX HUEG SUPER AUTISM SIZE weapons I wouldn't have bothered.

>>15146887

I'll take your word for it, for now. But If I see one telegraph pole sized sword I'll be bach here shitposting the heck out of every Nioh thread I see.

>>15146936

Well there are odachis, so you can just deal with that.

dont fist android girls

>>15147017

because they have autism and would rather have the d

>>15147048

Sounds like good women to me.

>>15146943

Well even though they're an idiotic Nipponese alternative to polearms they at least have a basis in reality.

>>15146936

Probably the most absurd looking sword is the bloodstained cleaver and it's expressly acquired from a youkai.

I'm finally doing a build but it requires some heavier armor and I really like staying at Agility A. I tempered equipment weight reduction onto my heaviest equipment and it had absolutely no effect on my wieght rating or agility. I can put points into stamina to get weight all the way down to 33% but I can't get it any lower. What the fuck is weight reduction even good for then?

>>15144164

You sure about that? I got the Kigetsu status ailment suffered A+ bonus and it doesn't seem to make a big difference. Did they nerf this too?

>>15150393

A+ is only like 16% or so, and stacking multiple letter-type bonuses has severe diminishing returns. Saying that your damage gets boosted through the roof was a misleading miswording and I apologize. Your damage resist, however, does get boosted very high.

>>15078533

have fun

i loved ds1

ds3 and bloodborne suck the ass

>>15149760

Its been brought up before here and anons have said it'd be too similar to spears since spears have slashing moves. I say Naginatas are more like halberds than spears and it wouldn't be hard to give it a unique moveset. I think its a natural inclusion into Nioh 2 though. I'm wanting to see the crossbow that europeans use, I feel cockblocked on that. On the oriental side, the Chinese had crossbows and if Nioh 2 goes into a previous era then the Chinese influences on Japan will be more prominent.

So with the whole DoA thing, what're the chances of Nioh 2 getting fucked?

>>15152535

Different teams, different audiences. They're pozzin' DoA up specifically so they can pander to American FGC niggers and "eSports" even though that'll go absolutely nowhere. Nioh doesn't have an eCucks scene and no furry niggers who complain about women not looking like trannies so we should be fine.

>>15152573

It also depends on the reception of DoA's bullcrap. If that flops as hard as SFV did? Expect more T&A.

>>15152573

And none of that shit has to do with dropping having a solid main character for character creation?

>>15152610

No. Though I'm bummed that Willie's gone

>>15152616

But he's immortal.

>>15152610

>solid main character

In concept sure, but William has like… 1 line per cutscene, and it's virtually always a pretty simple one.

>>15152630

I know, I mean gone as in non-playable.

>>15152610

It doesn't matter too much, plus you think people are going to complain about making waifus?

>>15152649

You'll probably get his skin, that counts right?

>>15152645

>William has like… 1 line per cutscene

Excuse me; I find his gasping, taking a step back, then taking a step forward with a frown on his face very emotive. Regardless, the game isn't about soley Wirriam. His subplot makes deft use of him where appropriate, but you shouldn't really expect to see Wirriam saying much at Sekigahara at the peak of Ieyasus arc etc

>>15152708

When you think about it, Willie just wants to get his spirit waifu back from some English goth kid.

>>15152724

Story of my life.

>>15152724

He has a few quirks. He has an accord with NinjaCat, Otakukatsu and da balck mann and he acts as a better PoV than just 'custom silent protag #5896782' since he does have tangible motivations and goals separate from everyone around him.

He gets quite a bit more development too with the DLCs, but the story getting better with DLC is kind of an industry standard at this point.

As I said, the story isn't actually about Wirriam; but Wirriams arc is executed well within the limitations they set themselves.

So familiarity damage bonus and agility damage bonus apply to melee attacks when on your active ranged weapons. Does this mean it's best to have one on your melee weapon and the other on your ranged weapon since A/B/C type damage bonuses have diminishing returns when stacked with themselves?

>>15154738

AFAIK familiarity damage bonus on a ranged weapon does not apply to melee damage, but agility damage bonus on a ranged weapon does. And yes, it's best to have familiarity damage boost on your melee weapon and agility damage boost on your ranged weapon.

>>15123194

anyone know what helmet that is?

>>15155661

I take it it's also PS4 only?

Is there an easy way to farm the offline revanants with unique headgear? I can't seem to get GITAROO-MAN to respawn short of exiting the mission.

>>15155832

I'm honestly not sure.

>>15155837

Dev revenants won't respawn once defeated until you leave the level and return. Fortunately there is a here's an relatively easy if grindy way to speed up the process.

>find the revenant that drops the helmet

>save a the shrine nearest to the spawn, opening up any short cuts and defeating all non respawning youkai first

>now fight the revenant

>if it doesn't drop the helmet or doesn't drop it at a high enough rarity then quit to title and reload

>rinse and repeat until you get your headgear

If you are going for high level then I would suggest grind on WotD or above. Alternately you could use the abyss to defile and raise their rarity. There is also a few special head pieces that don't drop from revenants or as mission rewards. The only really hard to acquire ones are the two you get from kappa and the one you get from mimics.

>>15155875

I really only wanted to get them for refashion options instead of keeping them as actual headgear. None of them have unique properties right?

Just noticed something interesting in the Nioh 2 trailer description

>“戦国死にゲー” 『仁王２』始動！

It says "'Sengoku dying game' 'Nioh 2' start". Sengoku technically just means "civil war", but I've never seen it used for anything outside of the Sengoku era (indeed the Nipponese Wikipedia redirects 戦国 to 戦国時代). Guess it will still be in the Sengoku era. No idea how that's going to work.

>>15078291

Just started Way of the Wise with Iga Ninja build. Not going full thrown damage though as I still want my Kusa to do decent damage. The first 3 laps were pretty easy but Wise seems like where it actually starts to get a little difficult. Maybe I'm just not optimized enough. I almost want to just do the bare minimum and jump to WotN to unlock that 200 stat level cap as opposed to playing through everything 100% before advancing. It's nice to actually have enemies get new attack patterns now though instead of just being buffed.

what's ideal armor and crap on the sword itself for a good set up?

I'd post an image but Steam doesn't wanna work at the moment for me at least with screenshots

>>15156088

Just do the short missions in each region to expedite getting to WotN. Thrown weapons become less useful every cycle and become more of a assist to your main weapon.

>>15157106

>Just do the short missions in each region to expedite getting to WotN.

How do you unlock new difficulties beyond the first?

>>15157966

Beat the difficulty that you unlock, obviously. Though after you unlock all the regions I think you can unlock it right when beating Demon King Revealed.

>>15158012

That's what I expected. Why would you do short missions then?

>>15157966

>>15158193

You can easily skip and power-level from Way of the Samurai to Way of the Nioh. There's a short bar that fills up for each mission, you fill it up till you can unlock Queen's Eye mission, the easy to do this is to get Ninjetsu stealth spells to run through levels, the missions that are fetch quests are good to do this for.

>>15158193

I don't think you have to beat each difficulty to move on just get a percentage.

>>15158193

Because they're easier and if you want to speed through the NG+ playthroughs you need to unlock the other regions first, you do that by beating missions. It doesn't matter whether they're side or main missions, and I think you unlock every region after just 33% missions beaten.

>>15158252

Ignore the AMV-quality of editing, most video guides in youtube are like that. But basically Kato for main LW guardian spirit and too lazy to list all the damn talents and skills plus gear stats, but you can read it up in the video.

>>15158330

>Pleiades and extraction talismans and sake are needed as well as are a good supply of spirit stones.

Any advise to get them in quantity?

>>15158673

You can only get them through the onmyo magic tree iirc, you can't get them from somewhere else like you can with elemental talismans.

>>15158734

And about spirit stones?. I have been using them too, so I dont have many of them.

>>15158754

Go to any mission that has those spirit stone spikes and break them, you get some spirit stones out of that. I also remember there being a guaranteed soulstone drop in the flooded part of the cave during the mission where you hunt down a kappa, sorry I forgot what the mission is called and I can't go and check right now. The only thing I remember from that mission is that there's a guy with a spear helping you out.

>>15158734

>>15158770

Forgot to ask, but what stats should be omnyo magic, to get that, and be good?

>>15158790

30 magic should be enough.

>>15158839

I think you have a higher chance of getting the smithing texts for Iga shit if you do the submission where you fight both ninjathot and Hanzo, but getting smithing texts from submissions is still a chore. I remember I grinded the Dojo mission for 2 hours to get the smithing texts and then I just switched to Dragon Ninja when the DLC came out anyway (for which I grinded an additional two hours).

Do the mystic arts of each weapon can be universally shared if the description does not state that a weapon is required? I have been grinding max profiency for each weapon to squeeze out as many samurai points as possible on them which would naturally cause my character to unlock the mystic arts for each weapon.

Also, which is more broken: sloth talisman abuse, or confusion?

I also forgot to mention that you should allocate your prestige points toward guardian spirit affinity as well. And don't forget your GS talisman either. Using your spirit's summon attack with a talisman doesn't consume your LW meter unlike triangle + circle.

>>15158673

You'll have to put some levels into onmyo but that's something you should do anyway since there is a synergy between Spirit and Magic stats anyway.

>>15158754

The mission where you fight White Tiger is a good place to farm spirit stones. Shatter all of those big crystals and they'll drop stones. I think you can buy sake from the teahouse until you get the smithing text to make it yourself.

>>15158802

30 is the number to hit to max out your onmyo capacity. If you need more magic power or need to learn more spells you'll need to go higher.

>>15158912

I'm not saying you should transition to Dragon Ninja ya dunce, Dragon Ninja isn't really a ninjutsu build as it is a close combat melee build, the shuriken are literally only there to fuel the attack buff. Just saying that if you plan on switching that you'll waste a lot of time.

Iga should optimally only be used for the 2piece refill. I suggest you also check out Scion set. Now, before you ask why, the thrust damage bonus that you get on it actually also apply on kunai and shuriken.

>>15158955

I'm pretty regular passives apply to all weapons unless otherwise states, but mystics only apply their respective weapons.

>>15158955

>sloth talisman abuse, or confusion?

Confusion because sloth is useful only in WotSam and is a bad crutch anyway. If you need a sloth like effect use Itokuri.

>>15158994

You can also find sake from loot and youkai

>>15158839

You can pay with patronage if you got the perk. It is still a ridiculously high number though but if you aren't using it for anything else you might as well spend it on soul matching,

>>15160137

Pretty sure it just grabs whatever 2 people are trying to connect at that moment and sets them up. The levels/power are adjusted to that of the host I think. Not sure exactly how it works with the different NG+ modes but I assume it will only match you into a game in a difficulty you have unlocked or lower.

How exactly does evasion attack and the bonus you get from the weapon affix work? You evade, swing, then your next swing will have the bonus?

>>15160239

How is the multi player population these days?

Is poison even worth putting skill points into if dexterity is going to be low in a build? I have been struggling getting the galnut poison to be viable compared to omnyou talismans.

>>15165716

Poison is pretty good if especially if you can stack it with fire but you are probably better off forging poison onto your weapon or using one of the other ninjutsu methods to apply it. Or using the centipede spirit.

If you are going to make a build around poison then I'd suggest you get a Coiled Snake kabuto for the extra damage.

>>15165761

I might try out forging poison onto a weapon if my luck in reforging permits it. Not looking to use the other ninjutsu methods as I would prefer to keep myself as mobile as possible.

>>15165793

That's the thing, poison is hard to apply unless you use the other methods. Poison ground trap is basically guaranteed application unless they dodge through it or are immune. Afterwards, you keep poking them with weaker but mobile sources of poison to keep it refreshed. Possibly one of the poison spirits talisman attack would work too, I didn't bother with poison that much and instead focused on chaos or paralyze.

Does anyone know what the really weird looking Odachi is? I don't mean the Bloodstained Cleaver or the Mijinmaru.

>>15166112

Do you mean the Futsunomitama? Has a blue crystal looking sheath and the blade is always covered in lightning

>>15166127

>Has a blue crystal looking sheath and the blade is always covered in lightning

That's it. Thanks.

>>15166140

I started a new game recently, and seemingly every odachi wielding revenant is using it alongside wotw.

>>15166147

Blacksmithing Plans for that one is a reward in Way of the Nioh mission Everlasting Duty. If you're impatient, suggest you farm revenants for that one.

>>15166155

Oh, I meant that early game way of the samurai revenants are using the futsunomitama with warrior of the west armor.

>>15166220

People usually share gear that way, probably another guy helping a friend get some. Be on a look out for some good stuff there.

>>15166220

Warrior of the West is probably the most widespread armor during Way of the Samurai, especially very early on before Red Demon shows up, so I'm not surprised with that.

>>15166255

>>15168326

I love Raging bull, but its a bit heavy early on. Legendary Strategist has the opposite problem; its too light. In any case, i'm so sick of seeing Warrior of the West on every revenant since every guide recommends wearing the set for ezmode. Its either Raging Bull or random armor as I get it, forgoing set bonuses which aren't important until you start to min-max in preparation for the NG+ modes. I recommend bringing your own lube for those.

>>15169140

Have people stopped wearing Kingo's armor?

>>15160285

You attack while dodging to do an evasion-specific attack, and if that attack hits you get an attack boost for the next 15 or so seconds.

>>15169156

No. Kingo/WotW/Red Demon is like 90% of the shit you'll see up until Way of the Demon.

>>15169170

I'm doing the DLC and I'm a spirit based Raikiri build using Kato+Raiken. Should I upgrade from WotW?

>>15169319

WotW is a perfectly fine armor set. Lots of people use it because it's genuinely good. Unless you've got a specific idea of what you want to upgrade to, I'd keep using WotW.

>>15169319

>>15169388

>the WotW virgin

>>15169394

Would be more lore accurate to call it cuckold of the west

>>15169398

Wasn't HE the one sleeping around on Ginchiyo?

>>15169414

He got cucked so hard while he was away that it left Ginchiyo infertile. The concubine he has is purely there to produce an heir.

>>15169438

My interpretation was that her 17th century abortion left her infertile and dying

>>15169442

Fair enough, never thought about it like that

>>15169319

There's nothing wrong with the armor itself it just gets tiresome seeing the same 2 or 3 armor sets on every revenant you fight.

>>15169170

Oddly I rarely see Iga or Dragon ninja set on revenants. Presumably because ninja spend most of their time not dying and so don't leave bloody graves.

>>15169623

I remember starting to see more varied revenant drops after Way of the Strong, but I think that halfway through Way of the Wise it starts becoming more homogenized again due to most people going for builds optimized for a certain playstyle.

I just got an infinite windstop talisman as a drop from Hanzo in the abyss. I didn't even know there was such a thing.

>>15171061

Everyone just uses critical damage living weapon builds right? Sounds pretty easy to make but piss boring to play.

>>15171073

Those got nerfed, supposedly

>>15171087

Oh, thought it was just the infinite living weapon build that did.

>>15171087

>>15171090

All critical effects no longer activate when in living weapon mode.

>>15171114

so >>15123194 is no longer possible? Rip fun.

>>15171114

the fuck are you on, they still do. The nerf was to shit allowing you to chain living weapons together, in addition to changing how the Critical effects applied to your damage during it.

>>15171005

Yup, there's one for every element as you go further into the abyss. I think there's a cat helmet that's abyss-only as well.

>>15129217

That bugs me so much too. It's one thing if it's a unique helmet on a developer revenant that rarely drops but it's another when supposedly unique swords end up popping up constantly from drops.

>>15116691

there was a new odachi added in the last update with a guaranteed AA- to str on it, go for that unless you need a perk from one of the other odachis.

>>15171464

Of course that's still possible you mong, he never uses LW in that video.

What's a good way to get a bunch of cracked ochko cups?

>>15174038

Do all your daily twilight missions. You can get 8 cracked cups a day from those, as well as a bunch of umbracite. If that's not enough cups, they can drop when you're helping someone in co-op or from bosses in the Abyss.

>>15174056

>8 cracked cups a day from those

Are you sure?

>>15174372

Don't you get one from every twilight mission on Strong upwards? I could be wrong.

>>15174428

>>15174372

Looking it up, I'm wrong. You only get 2 per day no matter the difficulty you do it on.

>build

I hit stuff very hard with my axe. I took some weight based str enhancing clan buff and just loaded myself up in the heaviest armour set I could find. I either spin to win or charge up a big swing and blow the enemy away in one hit.

Do I need anything else?

>>15078291

>720p is default resolution

>You need special launcher to adjust basic options

>can't play without controller

>Onimusha graphics

I'd settle for it playing on PC.

>>15174540

If you're not using ninjutsu or oynmo, you should be. Stuff like Quick Change Scrolls, Power Pills, Kekkai Talismans, and Regeneration Talismans are useful for pretty much every build. If you haven't hit NG+ yet don't worry about it too much, but getting 30 Dex and 30 Mag will give you a lot of utility and buff options.

>>15172523

No that's not all of them you dumbass

>>15174038

Farm bosses with item droprate equipment, Restless Spirits mission is a good place to farm along with the gold and gear.

>>15175139

If you get a Ethereal with Tonfa Gun effect, it's damn well fun.

>>15175467

>The nerf was to shit allowing you to chain living weapons together

<All the really useful Crit effect no longer work, here's proof

>Nuh-uh, there's still like, two midly useful ones

Neck yourself. You say the nerf was just about chaining LW rather than crit effects, and I presented objective evidence that you're fucking retard.

>>15175494

>the two most important crit effects aside from damage still work

>somehow this means none of them work when you only need incredibly slight adjustments to make builds just as good

>>15175139

Is there a good way to set up tonfa to work well against youkai?

>>15087783

>I don't have an ssd

I have and it doesn't have an effect on that. But it doesn't matter too much, usually. But it showcase the game is made to render stuff in a retarded way.

That aside I couldn't get too much into the game. I completely every mission in the first two maps and got far on the first main mission on the third map, but stopped because I felt bored. The stances felt pointless, the enemy variety is very small and the level design is not much of anything. The gameplay is not per say but, but it just wasn't enough to keep my interest. When I looked up at how many missions the game has I just thought "so I will have to do the same sort of boring shit for many more hours to come."

I really wanted to enjoy the game, but I just couldn't.

>>15180450

What's worst is that you only get to kick her ass once. Probably every other time Willie shows up she knows she's gonna get her ass kicked again so she just skedaddles before he even gets a chance.

>>15180450

This used to scare the fuck out me when I was young.

>>>15178649

I wish I got used to demon dance's I-frames, in theory a tonfa player could evade tons of attacks with proper timing.

>>15182301

>>15182322

Just make sure you don't bother with the pulverise skills that follow up demon dance, they'll cuck you out of being able to use tonfa gun as often as you'd like.

>>15182599

Devastation and Crimson Lotus skills. They thrust the tonfa and this will activate tonfa gun.

>>15185110

Make a completely new character with each weapon and play to mid-to-late game. By the time you're fighting Karasa Tengu with a new weapon and beating their cheating asses you can consider that weapon mastered.

>>15185110

>>15185875

Oh and after you master a weapon then you don't need to play that alt anymore and can just use the experience for a new build on your main so you don't have to do any grinds.

>Page 1

So Mark raised the bump limit to 400 for a short while, lowered it back down to normal, and has now raised it again? Is it 400 this time too? 350?

>>15194171

Early game matchlock build, not really good for anything end game, a lot of early sets are like that, the devs really didn't think through some of the itemization, hope they'll learn by the time Nioh 2 is ready.

>>15194283

We better fucking get those dual Saika pistols in Nioh 2

>>15194283

>>15196602

Remeber in the alpha demo release we had stuff like viable ranged combat that wasn't a situational gimmick and breaking weapons? Also I remember stuff from the second beta like ki-pulse on block and damaging yokai ki by purifying with them inside the purified defiled zone. Am I remembering things wrong?

>>15116606

Holy shit. I have been wasting so much gold on soul matching. Didn't know you could actually temper that Reset number onto ethereals fairly easily. This is gonna make everything so much easier.

>>15078291

I bought this on sale with all dlc and only got a few stages in before I was bored. I chose the Kusarigamma and the game was ridiculously easy. I got bored without ever beating it and never played it again. The aesthetic is shit to me (dont like anime) and gameplay is too simple and easy.

>>15197185

I know its hard for you to believe I don't have your exact taste but I really found it to be lame. Also a grown man shouldn't be posting anime. As far as bumping the thread, why sage? I consider the whole catalog to be shit topics ran by anime consumers, it makes no difference.

>>15197329

>>15196970

Your only valid criticism is

>The aesthetic is shit to me (dont like anime)

>only got a few stages in before I was bored

>too simple and easy

Put those together and consider that the game holds your hand while teaching you the basic mechanics. You unlock a whole lot of different moves and you'll learn how to (ab)use the different stances and their respective attacks in order to tackle the increasingly difficult bosses. If you don't, you'll run up against a wall.

But I do agree that the introduction missions don't need to be as soft-handed as they are, the first few bosses and missions could be amped up a bit. Something like Demon's Souls first boss in the tutorial is great fun to go up against as a beginner while the button masher that is in Nioh is a complete joke.

>>15197527

>Your only valid criticism is

>>The aesthetic is shit to me (dont like anime)

How is that valid? The game doesn't have an anime aesthetic. It's about as western looking as Dark Souls, just in an eastern setting.

>>15196639

I don't remember ki-pulse on block being a thing ever. Ranged weapon builds are still sort of viable but you need the yatagarasu set which is dumb, and even then they fall off hard past Demon

>>15197644

>How is that valid?

It isn't, both of them are retards or normalfags for equating anything asian to anime.

Got this a few days ago and its being fun, I'm going through the second dlc right now in wots.

Why are there so many revenants using WotW and red demon?

Should I just do the main scenarios and skip everything else for ng+?

>>15199486

>Why are there so many revenants using WotW and red demon?

They're some of the only decent armor sets you can get in the earlygame. WotW is genuinely good, Red Demon isn't great but the only other earlygame light armor set you can get is Iga Ninja which useless for non-ninjutsu builds.

>Should I just do the main scenarios and skip everything else for ng+?

What the the other guy said. The smithing texts aren't that important, but the Guardian Spirits are.

>>15199520

Practice. Get an active parry skill that only activates on a perfect block, like Haze or Impenetrability, then go through a level trying to use it as much as possible to learn the parry timing and what kinds of attacks you can parry. You can't parry yokai grapple attacks, just so you know.

>>15199442

Its SO EASY to fucking create an adaptation by just staying close to the source material, why do they always change SOMETHING to make it retarded and have it be guaranteed a flop or at least panned alot. Did you see that they're even changing the plot too? Sage for off topic.

>>15199682

I'm honestly not even sure which shitty anime adaptation that is, for the sake of my own health I try to stay as far away as possible from them.

>>15199801

Its an old manga, its really good.

>>15206652

The latter. Defilement keeps all the enchantments the item had before it got defiled.

>>15206670

How often do they appear when you're forging? I'd like to get a Night Rain boost on a katana. How many swords on average would I have to make?

>>15206695

I have no idea on the actual probabilities of getting a star enchantment, if you're min-maxing out the ass you're gonna need to sit your ass down and look at that forging screen for a long time though. It could come in less than 5 forgings, but it could also come on the 50th.

>>15206726

50 would be lucky. I think just getting ANY star attribute is something like 1 in 20, and then getting the one you want AND maximized you are looking at forging in the nature of 1000 swords, and you still might not get it.

>>15206828

Yeah sorry, I wasn't clear. Meant to say that it may take that long just to get any star attribute. Is 5% chance of getting a star attribute the actual chance? It would be extremely useful to know.

>>15206880

No I'm making shit up based on how it feels. I have no idea what the actual chance is.

>>15206897

I see. Kind of weird that nobody has datamined the game to find out shit like this, or if they have I haven't found out about it yet.

>>15207046

It really depends on how rare the materials you use to craft are. If it doesn't take any rare materials aside from like demon horns you should be able to get the skill you want fairly easily. The hard part is getting the skill you want with a good roll, plus not having an inheritable on it so you can put one on after to get 6 stats +set bonus/grace.

>>15207122

this is where savescumming is recommended

>>15206905

People still haven't figured out what the inhabited bowl does.

>>15209344

>People still haven't figured out what the inhabited bowl does.

Isn't it in the item description?

>>15209364

No. Which could mean that it's actually really just a joke item and we've all been played all along.

>>15209386

It's just a firework.

>>15209392

Yes, pretty much. Didn't stop people from finding out if it had any other hidden effects to this day.

>>15209386

I could have sworn Inhabited Kodama Bowl says in the item description that it summons a Kodama if there is one you haven't found in the level yet.

>>15209397

The item description is vague enough that you'd think it works that way, but actually it doesn't. I tried it in a mission where I knew where a kodama was, but didn't go and find it until I tried out the bowl, it didn't exactly work out as I hoped.

The item description is this

"A bowl possessed by a Kodama spirit. Toss it on the ground and wait; a Kodama will soon appear."

You mean to tell me this isn't an item for retards who can't find the Kodama in a level?

>>15209409

that was the original theory then some retard started spreading misinformation that it resets hot springs. It is just a visual thing like a firework or a spray tag in other games.

>>15209413

Yeah, resetting hot springs, finding kodama or boosting kodama blessings are the three hypotheses, but so far all of them were proven wrong. It just flat out does nothing tangible.

>>15155989

No comments on this?

>>15213847

It's a little to vague to say anything for sure.