Nioh 3

For the people who hate constantly sorting through a bunch of armor drops:


Little tip about tonfas being the ideal ninja weapon to use -- it's the only weapon type you can craft that's guaranteed to have an element imbued (water). The moveset is just as strong as it was in Nioh 2 as well. Just don't go too crazy at the forge or you will burn through all your gold and you're gonna need a ton of it later.

Vorph said:

For the people who hate constantly sorting through a bunch of armor drops:

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It's about a 60% damage increase overall. Obviously risky since most burst attacks and some other "you should probably dodge this" boss moves will one-shot you, but I've been playing that way for the last 4-5 hours with only a couple surprise deaths.

Edit: forgot to mention, the "Damage Bonus (Equipment Weight) - A" line comes from max rank of one of the Collection titles.

Little tip about tonfas being the ideal ninja weapon to use -- it's the only weapon type you can craft that's guaranteed to have an element imbued (water). The moveset is just as strong as it was in Nioh 2 as well. Just don't go too crazy at the forge or you will burn through all your gold and you're gonna need a ton of it later.

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Damage is insane with the low health damage boost magic as well.

Whelp demon of pride is my current road block, what an asshole.

Hatorade said:

Whelp demon of pride is my current road block, what an asshole.

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Took me five tries, he was a cunt. Kusarigama ftw!

vegetoeeVegetoee said:

Took me five tries, he was a cunt. Kusarigama ftw!

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I may have to switch weapons, all my
Blender moves aim at his ankles.

stupidmonkey said:

Can't believe you're having trouble. Seems super easy to me.

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LOL at his level, yeah I could come back but just got him at level 76. Got a bunch of level 90 loot from him so guessing you should be about that level when fighting him.

Ludo and muscle mommy down...1 more to go
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Rajaah said:

Nioh 3 has summons? Like Elden Ring ashes? Is that a thing in Nioh 2 as well, because Nioh 1 sure didn't, har.

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Soul cores and magic work different now. Soul cores have two abilities tied to them. One consumable (you get up to 6? of them you can equip as you level/defeat crucibles). That's how to get various things that were usually in the magic tree of Nioh 2 (like sloth talisman, the revive talisman and such). Then the other ability is to summon the mobs tied to the soul core similarly to Nioh 2 (where it does an attack).

Unlike the Ninja skills, when in that form, that replenish as you fight, the skills tied to soul cores only replenish when you rest at shrines like Nioh 2.

Hit 102 and third area, 35 hours in. Magic build is working well, I have a three charge massive AoE fire spell that allows me to just destroy packs of whatever. Sitting at 188 luck with lots of room for improvement.


They do like reusing while set pieces though.

Like we wouldn't notice.

playing ninja this round, starting out with tonfa and just cheesing with alot of arial attack but enemies are starting to catch on. am also not that great getting behind the enemy and still abit from getting yokai banisher to clear pools.

will be grateful for any other easy time ninja weaps recommendations

Envy demon was cake compared to the first one, levels make a huge difference. For those stuck just run some co-op missions for 4-10 levels and come back. Unless you looking for Sekiro level of challenge, can just throw stats at the problem.

Sadly I noticed when playing co-op my frames tanked, not sure I have a fix besides new computer/CPU. Game is suffering from what happened to wilds, expanded world at the cost of optimization. Janx said he played almost entire first area in co-op with no issues and no consumables required.

This could be the action co-op game everyone has been looking for. I have found multiple support spells as well if you want to help the group.

Certain fights are solo only though.

So what's everyone's take on what to do with excess items?

This is my current method, not sure if I'm missing out on anything though --

1. Disassemble everything that gives material essences in addition to basic mats. Especially Material Essence (Life Recovery) and (Item Drops) as they're the most important things in the game imo. You can put Life Recovery (Amrita Gained) on everything in Nioh 3, and also Gain Amrita (Strong Attack) on a few slots.

2. Soul Extraction on all items with a +1 or better. This seems to be the only way to gain Azure Soul Cores.

3. Then go to the clan battle guy and donate everything for item of the day/week. Both gold and rare materials are worth doing it for.

4. And now the annoying part. You're going to need both yellow soul cores and gold in the millions. I've been extracting samurai and selling ninja gear just to save at least some effort, but you could also just sell one entire batch and then extract the next.

Blueweed said:

will be grateful for any other easy time ninja weaps recommendations

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My tonfa setup:


The 'go to' for most things is just using triangle-square or triangle-triangle-square for Heavenly Chain spam. Mountain Breaker Lightning is extremely effective on anything that doesn't smack you out of the air every time you try to do it. Hold triangle in mid-air is still super effective against a lot of big and/or flying enemies. Shove does heavy ki damage. Storm of Strikes was good early but later on I feel like it gets punished a lot more. I will try using it again once I get the "Shadow" upgrade.

Pretty much everything else I ignore. It's all just added complexity to do what Heavenly Chain spam can easily handle with just two buttons and no special timing required.

am getting lots if samurai locks, far more than ninja which is what I need. any ideas? rng?