Nioh 2 | GIGA TIPS for both New & Endgame Players [Pre-DLC Guide] 

Where's Nioh 3?? :( ~Watch My NEW DLC Ready Build: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wx59oYtADoo.html After much procrastination, it's finally here 😫 Hope the tips help you guys out~ DLC can't come soon enough :V Timestamps~ 0:45 NEW PLAYERS Do Dojo before 1st mission 1:20 Step 1: Learning Ki pulsing and Stance Switch Ki pulsing 2:12 Step 2: Learning Burst Counters (Mechanics) 4:50 Don't Sleep on Ranged Weapons! 5:32 Skill UP 6:54 Recommended Skills 7:58 SET Mystic Arts! 8:24 BEST Method for raising Proficiency/Fam! 8:40 Custom Skills 9:18 How to farm Skills/Smithing Text (get LUCK/item drop rate also~) 10:27 Dissemble crap gear for Umbracite! 11:20 Best wpns early on 11:55 Recommended Armor stats 12:11 Hit weakpoints for easy ki dmg/dmg 12:45 Mimics 13:21 Gold Inheritables 14:24 Glue/Fam raising 15:08 Armor Inheritables 15:44 Revenant Trading 16:42 170 Gear 17:19 Soul Matching to +10 18:21 Yasakani (see endscreen video too!) 18:27 How to unlock/use Remodel feature 19:23 Farming Mortal Soul Cores 20:49 Ways to get Q/F Umbracite

combat isnt what makes nioh hard. your character not being able to swim is what makes it hard. water is the strongest boss.

Dude just the tip that told me you could press the left analog stick in the blacksmith store to buy for storage was worth the like. Thank you sir

For those who might want to farm proficiencies for the trophies: don't bother in NG, use the weapons you like. When you get to NG+ you get 4x amount of proficiency points. You can simply go to the first mission and farm Gozuki right after the first shrine. Also remember to throw every spell and ninjutsu at him to level those up as well

Great tips overall! To add some stuff: 1. If you want more Onmyo and Ninja skillpoints than the ones you get via proficiency, remember most main missions have a lock of hair for each of them. You can see how many there you got in each level, as well as dark realms and hot springs (if you are hunting the trophies for instance) if you press R1 when selecting the mission on the region map. 2. To add to mimics, Mujina (the chest mimic yokais) can be identified easily by the "strip" marks on the side of the chest. Regular chests have 2 strips, Mujina have 3. Once you identify a Mujina, use the Whistle gesture as you see in 13:12 to get it out of the chest without staggering you and damaging your ki.

Here's some "fixes" or extrapolations on these tips. 1) Flux is powerful, but may not be necessary or even hinder certain builds and weapon styles. Focus more on learning how to do full ki pulses mid-combat. 2) Phantom gets a bad rap, but it essentially lets you cancel a combo into a perfect guard as long as you have anima. It also stops elemental damage, and when paired with "Faster winded recovery" you can practically guard anything with no real repercussions. Feral combos are also extremely unrealistic for non-expediton situations. 3) Don't buy ammunition, the game throws so much at you that if you're legitimately using it so much that you need to buy more, then stop using it as a crutch. 4) Samurai skill points are determined by level and Shifting skill points are determined by soul core purification and resting rites. Weapon proficiency is only determined by damage, so the further you are in the game, the more points you get. Ninjutsu and Omnyo are also determined by damage numbers, but their buffs also seem to scale with duration and your current player level. Keep in mind, proficiency earned through buffs is massively inferior to those gotten via damage. 5) Flux is optional, focus on getting the base of these skills, as all upgrades have diminishing returns. The skill customizations are more important than you think and only become more valuable as you gain levels. The elemental strikes are especially useful against umi-bozo. 6) Barrier is insanely strong, prior to getting it I reccomend sacred water, which is super easy to come by. The Regeneration talisman is also good for when you use benevolent graves, as it heals a percentage of the target's max hp. 7) Pick everything up. Sell blues, yellows and whites, disassemble purples. You really only need the Umbracite, and gold is much harder to come by for most of the game. It's honestly a waste of time to disassemble anything below a purple, especially since forging isn't nearly as prevalent in the end-game compared to tempering. 8) Just trade for inheritables. It's good for the community and keeps people from burning out.

5:20 OMFG I SPENT SO LONG UPSET AT THE FACT I COULD ONLY BUY LIKE 16 ARROWS AT ONCE! THANK YOU!!!

Mimics will only pick from the 9 gestures that show up when you first bring up the menu.

This guide is amazing. Everyone playing the game needs to watch this first. I'm nearly done with new game plus and I still didn't know at least 3 or 4 things in this video which are really going to help!

Amazing video! It’s always awe inspiring to see the videos of people that have really mastered NIOH!

Awesome stuff, i've put in 100+ hours and i'm a good ways into NG+ but there was still quite a lot of new useful info for me in this vid. Thanks a ton!

Haha I’m still on the intro and this video is already amazing!

I started my 1st playthrough using the Brute Burst Counter. I absolutely LOVED it. Now using the Feral, and while I like it, still getting the timing down. Bit more of a learning curve than I expected.

Havnt even got 30 seconds into the video and I have never been so excited for a video!!!

is that handsome Squidward?

The system is kind of overwhelming at first but has amazing depth. I think experience in games like monster hunter may actually be more useful in nioh 2.

Love your videos !!!

I like checking out vids like this after ive beaten a game. The fun part of new games is going in blind. After lots of trial and error u feel so much satisfaction knowing that you overcame what was once impossible 👍.

My favorite tip: Gain equipment that regenerates health when you absorb amrita, and only use all the items that let you gain amrita when you need healing. It´s pretty much a permanent heal.

Awsome! Was waiting for this. TY and great video!

I think rocket science might be easier to comprehend

Best guide by far. Really wish i watched this before starting!

Really good info, you covered a lot of frequently asked questions so I'll be sure to link this to everyone who asks about this stuff lol

There was a personally embarrassing amount of useful info in this for me. Thanks, man.

As a brand new Nioh player, your channel is extremely proficient to my ventures, as well as an inspiration to my YT channel. Nice work man and much MUCH thanks!

After getting to Nioh and grinding for hours its always good to watch these beginner tips vids in case something is missed like farming that rev mini in Brothers Blades i didnt know i could get unlimited mortal cores from him! So whetstone, glue and now have mortal cores farming spots thanks !

The fact that your character looks like Raiden from Metal Gear Solid. 👍🏽 I never even knew that about the wall ememies. I just kept attacking them when they opened their eye's.

Tips when you farm fam, you can water sword the weak spot of the fingers boss (when you jump on the arms) even if you do no damage on your screen you still gain fam, you can do like 4 full ki bar of water sword with barrier talisman, i'm using ryomen sukuna soul core to destroy fingers asap, this way most of the time you are on the weak spot and the boss is not moving so it's way faster than doing just the fingers

Thanks bud, clear and easy to follow.

Amazing, hope you make more of these vids

I’ve played this game a lot and didn’t know half of what he mentioned in this video. It’s been a while but I’m going to replay it

Best video on the topic. Thank you!

You know what your doing sir. I clicked because of the thumbnail.

Best guide I’ve seen so far, thanks a lot!

Very nice summary, thanks I still didn't catch much though, so complicated.

Love your Nioh content

I did not understand a word he said, im still buying the game!!

Thank you for this absolutely great Video!👍

This really helped, new to the game and really enjoy it but much to learn, jeeze.

I love your content. Nothing new so far (only halfway through though) but I see this being helpful to any new or inexperienced player. Great stuff. Edit: Alright, the mortal soulcore thing is amazing, thanks for sharing.

Amazing and helpful video, Thank you.

preciate the informative video, it helps alot!

nice tips ! Thanks for the vid !

Thank you! Great tips.

New nioh 2 player here! My friend told me it was free for psplus in november this year so I got it! I just finished the NG story and it was SOOO GOOD!!! I was so confused on soul matching and inheritables so thank you!!!!

Hey you finally got it done. nice job

Oh man, First tip about the KI and i'm already lost hahaha.. And i already beat nioh 1 in the way of nioh hahaha this must be so damn hard for new players holy crap! But still it's worth it, such a great game!

Great video. 👏

I farmed dark omen for all the orange inheritables I needed, lots of great drops like attack and moonlit snow damage.

shiftling soul fragments increase with every soul core you get, and it doesn't matter how many burst counters you perform

Nice thanks helped with a few questions of mine btw what is Your pfp I’ve been wondering

I'm nearly through new game plus, and I've only just found out that the green skills are customisable

Never played this and waiting for pc version this week, alot of this sounded so foreign 😂hope I figure this all out

i never realized you had to SET the skills for mystic ones. was wondering why it never changed anything lol. thank you for this.

Excellent guide! Maybe you can also explain how to use the mechanic to save builds and equipments. Sorry for my english.

Nice one, dude.

Thanks for the tips Bro

Man this game is FReaking awesome

Nice. Def need dlc in my life. Bring on the ethereal gear and new weapon types!

I just got it on PC and I'm new to the Nioh franchise. It's a lot to take in but then I remembered it's as you said in the beginning, playing the game one step at a time will help. It's fun though, despite being a noob and being a little clueless to the meta. Kind of just here to kill or be killed right now. Usually the latter happens ;D

Great videos, thank you! You mentioned level sync at one point, but I still haven't understood how that works? You said it's important to get 170 but I would love to understand why!

Nice vid for beginners and others. Got platinum today.

You can only rise your shifting level by purifying soul cores and disassemble them. But purifying gives much more. And it gets progressively harder to rise.

If you see a breakable wall just use a yokai ability to break it. Sometimes a chest or a kodama there.

U r amazing , thanks alot

Nice job bro, even with +200 hours on Nioh and +70 hours on Nioh 2, I still didn't know a lot of these things!

Didnt know what i was getting into when i bought this game. Its very overwhelming

Thank you!

Thank you for the canceling tip. I have a crazy Omnyo set but the animation piss me off all the time. Subscribed.

My #1 beginner tip: don't worry about optimizing a build. If you utilize the game mechanics and do a little amirita farming in 'the refined man of the underworld', you already win.

Awesome info

the Rayden character at the end is awesome

I’ve noticed putting points in magic also raises ur defense which I didn’t know about before which would be good if your doing light armor magic build cause the defense you get from points in magic cause make you tanky with light armor.

LOTS of good tips in this video! Thanks for all the info! To farm weapon proficiency I just used the onmyo dojo mission "The Nine Symbols " which gives you a wooden weapon that increases weapon proficiency by about 40% . I find fighting daidara to be really annoying. Also why shouldn't you lvl up magic past lvl 30? What if you mainly use a switchglaive?

Here's a pro-tip : During a boss fight, when you manage to wind them and you have the opportunity to grapple, instead go into yokai shift do deal an instant yokai shift grapple, usually you'll win the fight within a few seconds after shifting anyway.

Can I just say that some builds really benefit from aggression which is what the soulsborne playstyle is for most people. I don’t wanna seem pedantic or anything but I just wanted to say that a soulsborne playstyle is not completely worthless.

Yo I didn't know you could change to 2 A scaling bonuses in remodeling lol thanks bro.

I had no idea you could buy more than 8 damn bullets at a time XD ty so much i feel so dumb

The burst counter animation cancels spell animations too? Daaamn that helps a lot!

Learn to love ippon (or gozuki) soul core. It stagger the enemy and regenerate most of your ki, allowing none stop attacks

13:10 You forgot to mention you can spot a mimic by the golden middle latches on the sides of the chest. 3 are a mimic and 2 are legit loot.

Great video, super informative. Big question though, what's the blue hair character code?

#PSA 12:47 From my experience this is the must important part of the video for every single person I've ever randomly co-oped in this video about walls & mimics.. I don't know how many times I've been with someone, they pick a fight with the mimic, then everyone gets slaughtered by said mimic.. its sad.

Took me a while to figure things out in the first one. Now all this shit damn! Great vid though

Bro, I just started playing this, and I was so overwhelmed at first with, now I feel 10X as overwhelmed. What in the actual fuck, I’ve never seen this many mechanics in a game

Hey new players! Loot can be offered at shrines for loads of Amrita, and you will receive gifts like tons of elixirs (so, you don't have to worry about running dry). Forging is everything! That’s how people get all that sick gear, by Forging. Don't wait for drops, just forge the purple stuff you like, then temper it for some sick stats like: 0.1% low attack damage or 0.5% Ki recovery when no one is watching, or even better 67.8% chance you might play Darksouls for an hour because you need a break from Nioh 2. Don’t worry if you didn't get a sick stat for your new gear and you ran out of materials. Go dominate some yokai, return to the blacksmith like a boss and disassemble/forge/temper again. PWAR is a godsend, so watch all his Nioh and Nioh 2 videos. You can learn a lot from just watching his play style. Don’t forget to have fun (’cause you will. Trust me)

I am halfway trough way of the strong and didnt know what active skill was lol. Thanks

Great video, just started playing since I got the PS5 version for free last month and I still am just as confused. Maybe one day I'll figure it out lol

If you block while activating demon form, You skip the cutscene and just do the transition animation Both take the same time, but while in the cutscene, you can't see the boss.

The game isn't terribly hard once you get used to it. But you're right, it seems to be made to punish souls players. ;D What killed me are the mechanics of gear crafting. This is the first time I see a concise explanation. Until now, I've just been smithing the sets I liked, changed their abilities with umbracite, and that was it.

you save my life !

you can double ki pulse for more ki gained. timing is pretty loose not too tight.

While Daidara is among the fastest ways to upgrade Weapon Proficiency, I actually don't suggest it if you're looking to get all the Titles in the game. Killing 500 human enemies with every weapon takes so long that you'll get all that proficiency doing that alone.

Thank you

Sekiro actually made this game easier for me to understand. This was really intimidating at first but it's actually not that bad since Sekiro puts a roof at your progression only being this strong at certain point of the game but in this game you can grind your way into beating bosses.

The ki pulse dodge also actually lets you play exactly like souls games. I found it way too weird to press R1 in the middle of hitting the enemy.

as a souls game player, i think the pre experience it does make the game a lot easier

So god damn hard for me to change my playstyle after coming from Sekiro.

This video was outstanding. I learned a lot and I have 250+ hours of nioh 2. Great job man 👍

Actually my souls experience helped me a lot. It's still hard but souls game taught me to keep trying. The only thing that i don't like about nioh is enemy variety.