Nioh - The Final Perfect Build - Vampire Overlord 

I agree

Sadly they never came :(

I'm on wots

Same boat! This game is crazy.

@@rosegoid2307 It's easy when you know what your doing and how to play. You don't need builds no where near this to dominate Nioh, also it's very easy to cheese all bosses.

Yeah, this game is very rich and complicated. Thankfully, you only need to process every bit slowly over several playthroughs, although it may not happen if you are not trying enough. So just take your time and once you get access to everything at the very endgame, you should be ready for anything.

It works with all versions of the game. Both Carnage and Hermit do give you some specific separate Defense Debuff and those are indeed taken into consideration as Status Ailments for the effect that increases damage, but usually not by other similar effects.

Godofprophets Damage depending on status alignment like Kigetsu set i think that doesn’ t function. Increase attack from status alignment maybe. Thank tou for the reply.

@@mauroscimone8584 Kigetsu is the same as the one I use, so it works, but not most of the others that only detect stuff like Poison.

Godofprophets thanks. Anorher things, how dash-attack works ?? I cannot trigger them! I can use evasion- attack but cannot do dash-attack 😕. Ethereals bonus gives a lot of helps 😄😜

@@mauroscimone8584 No problem. Dash-Attack is just when you hold the dodge button to dash and press the attack button before letting go of the first button. You need some room to do it but not much.

Thanks! I l mostly focused on Abyss builds so I don't have many recommendations that wouldn't use end game full sets. Maybe a Ki Damage optimized build with Tonfa and Muddy Status and the firefox spirit for its GS Talisman summon that deals a lot of Ki Damage. Maybe also using the Cannon basic round with Shadowround for massive Ki Damage as well.

I just used everything I could forge that would get me early set bonuses, and would focus on unlocking our best Ninjutsu and Onmyo Magic before investing much in other stuff.

Hi! You can ask questions here or you can use Reddit. If you look at every detail in the video, you should still be able to find almost everything you might want to know, but don't hesitate if it's not clear or complete enough. The playstyle requires some getting used to, though, and most of the bonuses shown in the end are not optional to reach a high efficiency.

Hi i know its pretty late but can you tell me the other 8 quick slots you didnt show it in video

You use what is called Sheath Cancel. When the sheathing animation starts, you swiftly move your character a little bit, or use another action that will reset your position and you can then start charging the SotC/Iai sooner. It's useful once in a while. Also, I often use actions that put my Swords back off hand before attacking, like shooting Kunai or with a Cannon.

Thanks! Yeah, it's endgame last-difficulty stuff for the healing, but most of the rest is doable after the last DLC mission. You can incorporate things progressively, starting with Tokugawa Clan.

Godofprophets Oh ok. Thanks, guess I got to get the DLC & try it out!!

i wonder why you can carry way more Omnyo and Ninjutsu than me. I'm max level too and have the same stats as you in the video

@@calves84 Tokugawa's Clan Crest start at 30%, but it can reach at least 40% over time and by improving your Ranking to a certain point. You can also use Saoirse as secondary to get the missing 10% right away in the meantime. Hermit Talisman allows us to go through stuff without ever being interrupted. It lets us keep attacking and healing and then survive one more hit again, and force our way through any type of projectile and even close range attack, without even having to carry any No Guard Break perk on our equipment. Many a feat seen in the video wouldn't work without it, and no other build can make such an effective use of this spell. You have 51 Onmyo Capacity at 200 Magic and 40 Ninjutsu Capacity at 30+ Dexterity, everything should fit. Most spells need to be at 2 out of 3 stacks, but that's all you need for the Abyss. If you refer to the Onmyo and Ninjutsu Skill Points, then it's because I got all the Locks of Hair in the game, you can find good online guides about this.

@@godofprophets3054 First of all thank you for the awesome explaination. I really appreciate your input and that you took your time to give me a well understandable answer. What i mean is that you carry an astonishing amount of items in your 4 binding set-ups and i can hardly fit half of them.Since we both have the same amount of ninjutsu and omnyo capacity i'm clueless as to how i'm unable to carry the same amount of items which your video shows in 11:11 and 11:12. Is there a viable strat you did with this for marobashi? I go with random slicing but takes time.

@@calves84 Everyone has access to 16 shortcut slots and it's barely enough but it fits. Maybe you just try to equip 3 stacks of each item instead of 2 in some cases, like 3 stacks of Flame Dragon rather than 2, or 3 stacks of Hermit rather than 2. I would not use this build for Marobashi, you are supposed to take stuff that gives you extra Amrita, and use Mizuchi and knock them down with his GS Talisman to immediately finish them with a Final Blow.

It may trigger inadvertently while giving you very poor benefits. You want to be able to switch weapons possibly mid-combo without waiting. You stay vulnerable for a very long time overall while this build wants you to always avoid taking 2 hits on a row. It's better in my opinion to never have to learn how to play around it just to keep it.

@@godofprophets3054 got it

This build is more tailored towards being heavyweight, so you get only +9% damage from Agility Damage Bonus A+. If you don't want to bother putting High/Low Toughness instead and switching your active Ranged Weapon based on your current target, then you lose ~3.3% damage versus Humans and ~6% against Yokai. It's up to you if you think that's worth it or not. I think you can definitely live without it. Floor 999 is a bit rough, especially with the Debuffs ON, but you can whittle down their Ki with Kunai or even abuse the Cannon a little to get a good opening for a quick deadly combo. You may slow or even headshot Sanada just to get a bit of space while you're about to break Masamune's Ki. Still quite an hectic fight, like it's supposed to be.

@@godofprophets3054 I love the idea behind the water you put into the build. Do you think it can fit more optimization in it to apply water faster and sacrifice something else which isn't so big deal? Thank you for your reply and merry Christmas:)

@@hotnspicy9808 If you can find some Accessories with Status Ailments Accumulation (Saturate) and the -1 Set Requirement and one with Damage (Status Ailments), it would be help, but that's very rare and you don't want to sacrifice other good effects. You may remove one slot on one weapon if you're not going to use it much, depending on your play-style, for more Accumulation for Saturate. Other than that, it's quite tough to try and fit in anything else without significant drawback, at that level of optimization. There is one alternative, though, you can put Lightning Talisman instead of Water Talisman and use Nurarihyon instead of Gyokuto. You lose a few perks, but you get the best possible way to inflict Saturate all day with its Guardian Spirit Talisman. It's a bit messy and I usually prefer slowing them down and having a fast-charging spirit as a priority, and just extend Confusion with Saturate to finish off Yokai. But that variant of the build is also very effective and boosts the Ki Damage from your Cannon. Definitely give it a try. Thanks! Merry Christmas!

@@godofprophets3054 yeah I get you I'm farming from yesterday since it came to my mind about those accesories knowing that they are rare and this is why I ask because they are rare, if there's a possible change. I believe the damage is gonna sky rocket faster using duals for fast attacks to apply water. That means 26% faster applying water and its overall!! Imagine that. I guess I'll stick to luck. Who knows maybe I'll find it. To be honest I have completed the abyss with other set which is pure tank and ez pz. But I would like to use yours since it's the most interesting build which i came across till now and love to use my brain a little bit instead of relaxing getting hit by everything and not feel a thing. So as I said its RNG time. I have a prayer beads with saturate but it doesnt have "received damage from fire arms" which is the last 8% I need to go 100% and that's a bummer. Thank you once again for the complete guide. Now I know for certain that I should choose anything because as you said its gonna have significant negative change. Accesories it is

Forgot to mention that it's amazing build also because you dont need to use living weapon and this is what I'm chasing for. A build without relying on lw!

You can use basic ones if you don't mind a very small power decrease, but if you want them the best way to try to get them I found is by an Abyss Plane from the Yellow Boat when there is fire on the floor and you put water on yourself to cross the fire. Each exact floor has one pre-determined destination among 3 possibilities, so just try Yellow boats on new floors until you get there above floor 30. Then, you can farm the Devs' Revenants: Genshin has the Kobizen and Sokichi has the Magoroku. Save before killing them and reload from Title Screen if you don't get a Divine Weapon with no inheritable, then you can add Izanagi's Grace and a CCD+20% inheritable to reach 7 slots.

The main reason for 99 Spirit is to get the maximum affinity with Guardian Spirits. There seems to be lower returns on investment, but this is not the case, you can re-enable your passive GS abilities A LOT faster after LW and you can Spirit Switch very effectively. That is not really doable without 99 Spirit and you also get a few other perks. You can't afford to lose Janomecho's passives, yet you want to switch as soon as you need it and get the benefits immediately. "Increase Movement Speed" buffs only affect walking/running/dashing animations and Random Slice speed/dps. "Running Speed" is only when you walk/run (not dash) and stacks with other buffs.

@@godofprophets3054 I see. You mean the cooldown between guardian switch and after Living Weapon is over? I also tested movement speed on my kusa's fast slicing move but it doesn't seem to go faster. Does it only work on animations that includes running?

@@Kuodo79 Yes, and yes, exactly, only Random Slice and the Spear-based equivalent as far as I know. But this game has so many hidden mechanics that you never know, there could be other similar exceptions.

@@godofprophets3054 any idea why some builds I saw uses 110 spirit if 99 is the cap? Does it continue to reduce the amount of amrita ki used when gs conversion during LW?

@@Kuodo79 There are some weapon scalings from Spirit that come from some Equipment but other than that you only get a bit more resistance to Yokai Realm, which isn't worth any investment. This build has a "CtA Spirit A" from Izanagi (5p) but it's still not better than simply adding more points in Strength. General CtA gives less than stats but apply to all weapons, I still prefer to put the few remaining available points into Strength.

In this game you end up with lots of points to spend on your skills. You can take all the ones you want (at least the ones you see and their requirements) when it comes to weapon skills, and spend the rest on Melee Mastery. For Onmyo and Ninjutsu, you get the staples and the ones you see in the menu at the end, and of course their requirements. You'll need the Locks of Hair to be sure you can afford everything. You should be able to find the list of all that you need online easily, the rest isn't really part of the build so it's your choice.

You don't really need to take those particular weapons to make the build work, that's just if you want the absolute best. Simply forging the best regular slot-less weapons available would only mean losing a little bit of your weapon stats. If you really want those best weapons, because they can't be forged, you need a lot of luck to drop them somewhere randomly, or you can try your luck at one spot where they can be farmed. It's an Abyss Plane from the Yellow Boat, each exact floor has one pre-determined destination among 3 possibilities, so just try Yellow boats on new floors until you get to the Planes where there is fire everywhere. Then, you can farm the Devs' Revenants: Genshin has the Kobizen and Sokichi has the Magoroku. Save before killing them and reload from Title Screen if you don't get a Divine Weapon with no inheritable, then you can add Izanagi's Grace and a CCD+20% inheritable to reach 7 slots. I hope you know how to Backup your save and reload it in order to be able to choose what Grace you end up having, or else you'd need a lot of those and a lot of luck.

@@godofprophets3054 I'm a min/max fan ^^ I ll try the yellow plane trick. Maybe if I choose equip drop rate on my stuff it will be more quicker, and the AA fam was rly lucky for u... BTW thx for your reply 👍

@@TakingBallZ I see, then I wish you good luck. As far as I know, you can't affect the drop rate of Revenants with your equipment. Supposedly being low level (or maybe low equipment level) should help but it didn't work well for me. Anyway, they tend to drop their weapon relatively often, but you got like 10% of it being without inheritable. Yeah, the perfect Kobizen with AA Fam was something I had to pause for 2 whole minutes looking at it wondering if it was real or not. I was farming accessories in spades, though, so that was still more likely than usual.

@@godofprophets3054 So I've messed around in Abyss a tad to do this farming method, but the area through the yellow boat that I found that has fire everywhere doesn't have dev revenants in it. Is this the wrong one?

@@TheRedRedKroovy That's really odd, I thought there were dev's revenants in every possible Plane. The right one is Immortal Flame, the one where Sataka Kintoki (axe dude) can be found sometimes. One of the dev is near a well in the first large room, and the other one in the last large room, just outside of some houses surrounded by fire.

Thank you! This is the most balanced build, between offense, defense and utility, so it's well rounded. But you can still die to attacks that do double hits and most throws, so you have to be careful when the opponent have Dual Swords and such. But in practice it's not difficult, you have enough Toughness to Block and enough mobility to avoid taking unnecessary risk. Also, you have to be careful right after LW and wait for 5s to get Janomecho's protection back. No other weakness I can think of.

@@godofprophets3054 Ahh yes those grab attacks are nasty :( Thanks for the reply! Also how important is your second accessory? Do you think I would lose too much damage without the "Damage (Status Ailments)" effect?

@@Koroar If you put another Accessory, it would probably have Yokai CCD on it, so it wouldn't be a big deal VS Yokai, but it's one of the best and only good ways to pump up the damage VS Humans for non-Kigetsu builds. And we already have the conditions to trigger it without the usual drawbacks. Against Human Bosses, you would start to need to activate Bonus after Evasion or Dash Attack before your combo to reach the same damage (or put Iai and Final Blow bonuses if you prefer those) but it's still easily playable. It's about +15.6% damage on all foes so I would highly recommend trying to get a good Ethereal Accessory with it, even possibly farming Accessories with specific builds.

@@godofprophets3054 Thanks so much for the detailed reply :) I'll keep an eye out for that accessory. But either way the build looks great and I'll give it a try, cheers!

@@godofprophets3054 Hmm, last question sorry, I think I can only reach 90% chance to prevent death while not critical. 60% from GS and 30% from clan, is this right?

I've just reached the second region I'm very early game

@@bennyworm4884 At that point what I did was choose the Tokugawa clan, which can already save you often and will improve your potions. You can't get Janomecho before beating the game, though, so I used Light Armor until I could afford Tatenashi and mostly used Kato. It's a very endgame build so you may rather want to play by whatever style lets you make the best of your character until you unlock the DLC regions.

Flame Dragon Scroll is a hidden Ninjutsu that you get from fighting Jin Hayabuza in The Master Ninja mission from the last DLC area. You have to remake a max level weapon as soon as possible, and if you use this build, defense won't matter.

@@godofprophets3054 i see thx :), im trying to create a good weapon but idk what stats to run, im currently running a katakana and terrible armour, Ill try my best to recreate your set up, thx :).

There could be many reasons why you get that impression, which is true. Outside of LW, Kato has a slightly better charging rate (Amrita Gauge Rate) at C+ while Janomecho is C-, but the actual amount you fill is higher with Janomecho because she has a Duration of 21s vs 17.4s for Kato, so the size of the gauge itself is bigger. Next, even though the Amrita Recovery is a bit higher again for Kato, this is more limited by the time spent in LW than by the rate, so it makes no significant difference. Then, it gets more complicated. Tenacity is almost negated in this build, because we start getting our life back very fast, even though it's hidden by the LW Gauge, we go back to max HP after barely a few combos in LW, so we can't really benefit from having high Tenacity. However, and even though Janomecho has relatively low Might, the bonus that usually saves our life (survive unless critical) does act as some kind of limiter of the total HP we may have lost if we were not under LW and limit the loss of LW Gauge when hit. And that's even more true if you don't get your HP back (by not attacking), your LW will last for a long time and be very tanky if you are using Janomecho, but it won't work well with Kato because you have only like 40% chance to get the effect. Add then the fact that Kato has a poor Action at B- while Janomecho is at A-, and you start to get why Kato seems to be gone much faster overall. This build is actually designed to make you fonction as if you were under LW while not being in LW, we can trade blows with super armor, we can attack and still not die in many situations, and we still get access to all our moves and we can block without wasting LW Gauge. At some point, I considered the Vampire Build and Anti-LW Build, where you actually never use it, that way you don't even have to be careful after LW while your "invincibility" is off for a few seconds.

@@godofprophets3054 thanks for explaining. I do not actively use LW. Only in tight situations when I wanted to get back my health fast. And those times I can't help but notice it lasted that long. Really loved this build. Been wanting to move on to tonfa but just can't get enough of random slice, god of wind, sotc, night rain and of course iai. I added Shockwave and Flash Attack to the mix and can combo more freely without being interrupted much. On times I do not want Flash Attack on, I just sheath before swapping to combo into quick draw instead. Just reached abyss 92. Long way to go before I can find my unlimited bow. Been trying to clear 100% on every difficulties.

Everything you need is shown but you can fit in more parries if you want. Duals are quite straightforward, you get all the skills except for Windstorm that's not compatible with Water Sword. Flowing Shadow is on Mid Stance, Sword Ki on Low Stance and Sword of Meditation on High Stance, but it's not really part of the build, so just put them where you like. Just avoid learning Flash Attack entirely unless you know how to play around it easily. I don't use Night Rain or Tiger Sprint or any parry except The Shrike, and I prefer Heaven Flash rather than Swift Step.

Nevermind I just got it😅

These guys are a pain. My strategy was to simply let them waste their LW by running and using some Kunai and when Sanada is out of Ki and Masamune still has a little left, you can rebuff and separate them and shoot one Cannon ball at Masamune's body and quickly combo him under Weakness Talisman, hoping Sanada won't interfere too much or disable your weapon. The difficulty is handling the camera, as you need to watch for Masamune's stinger while the real threat is the huge elemental attack from Yukimura. If you really can't dodge it, you must block it to avoid the status problems and then heal up. For regular double bosses, if the extra is human I try to land Tempest as soon as possible under Weakness and finish him right away. Or you can go into LW and Random Slice immediately to mince the Yokai Boss and get him fast. This build is more about taking the time to exploit the enemies weaknesses before going in and relentlessly attacking, though you have plenty of options to try out if you want to be even more aggressive, but this isn't the most stable tactic.

@@godofprophets3054 do you think having Gyokuto replaced by Daiba Washi a good way? You can knock them down the first hand and deal at least half of Masamune's health with 2 consecutive Iai quickdraw before switching back to Janomecho.

@@HaoNguyen-ut9pj I consider knock-down to be cheesing like paralysis, so I would normally not use it. A headshot with Arrows on Sanada then spamming your Cannon on Masamune can already be enough to make the fight go your way. If you want to use a GS instead with GS Talisman, I would recommend Fuse-ushi and trying to get both at the same time, though I think it may not cancel their LW. Daiba-washi may be better but I always found it risky and barely worth it. Also, you'd want to be immune to one-shots all the time, including when you do Iai and final blow, so I'd rather still use headshots. Masamune has less health than usual, so he should die easily as long as Yukimura isn't already fully spamming LW again.

@@godofprophets3054 Fuse-ushi is truly great. I can disable both of their LWs right from the beginning (using a second talisman if the first don't knock them, but most of the cases their LWs are just trivialized by the first one). After that, neutralizing Date Masamune is much easier. Since they two really like to spam GS, I can consider this a fair fight. If you don't want to cheese, just use Fuse-ushi as a way to destroy their ki faster and safer than cannon.

First, 30% is the base value that you get from Tokugawa, but it goes up over time and with a better Ranking, reaching 40% shouldn't be too tough though I don't remember how much. In the meantime, you have the option of using Saoirse as your secondary GS instead of Gyokuto if you want 100% immediately. Having 100% RFD (Received Firearm Damage) will protect you from projectiles even if they are elemental, but I do take damage from elements otherwise. I use Nullify Damage with Evasion-Attack on my Dual Swords, which can negate one next hit even if it's a physical close combat attack. I would advise you to pause the video and read the subtitles to get the information you need to understand what's happening on screen, and double check the build's details in the end. What result did you reach that happened differently than what is shown here?

This is the normal 792 points total. You start with 5 points for free on 8 stats (40) and you attribute your first 3 points when making your character (+3), then you go from level 1 to level 750 (+749) = 792

They have no Smithing Text but they are only slightly better than the best ones you can forge (that have all slots available). If you want those specific Weapons, you can get them in the Abyss Plane (Yellow Boat) where there are flames everywhere. Farm the Dev's Revenants, Genshin has the Kobizen and Sokichi has the Magoroku. Save before killing them and reload from Title Screen if you don't get a Divine Weapon with no inheritable. This shouldn't be too long.

Those effects can be rolled or obtained via forging and even the set bonus is variable. You can make divine equipment Ethereal and give them a grace of your choosing under certain conditions. There are plenty of guides online on the subject.

@@godofprophets3054 Oh, I see now, It's quite surprising that you can turn divine equipment into Ethereal, thank you very much for that. Can i ask where did you farm for the armor set ? i tried everywhere but can't find it, I'm at the end game of nioh dlc just not sure where i can farm for that set.

@@untiljapanchallenge I use the smithing texts for my gear in general. Look up what mission will reward it or what boss will give the one you want. Some double boss fight with Nobunaga can give you Tatenashi if I recall correctly.

@@godofprophets3054 appreciated

Your ninjutsu will not deal any significant damage anyway so don't boost it, you want the Kunai only for its Ki Damage actually, and mainly against LW Human Bosses like Masamune. So you only need Shuriken Shooter because it also fires Kunai faster which is very good. Other than that, you want all speed/dodge passives and Bow Master (normally your ammo is infinite if you have the right Bow). Round Carrier is also good to have more Cannon balls to avoid having to leave or try to reload. Round damage isn't worth boosting in this build in general. Of course, you would want Frugality, ideally paired with a random Yatagarasu build and the Yatagarasu GS to quickly refill your Normal Cannon Rounds (not the explosive ones) by doing headshots on regular enemies. It's used to deal massive Ki Damage, mostly to finish emptying the Ki Gauge of guys like Masamune again. You are supposed to collect every Lock of Hair at every difficulty to take everything you may want with only 30-33 Dexterity, so look up online for the list to gather the ones you are missing if you are too short. Only take poison and paralysis resistance if you have enough remaining points.

@@godofprophets3054 alright. What about recurrent damage and resistance?

@@Kuodo79 It's probably not worth spending points in there, it's even less useful than ailment resistance.

@@godofprophets3054 I am doing low damage despite rolling mostly best stats on my gears and max level. Do you use God of Wind a lot? I seem to only be able to function well in WotW. Only differences was going Muddied because I don't have a good Saturation set, and weaken torso. Is weaken torso game changing or work against yokai? Because I rather have pierce to keep attacking while my 100 swords spell life drain.

@@Kuodo79 This build has lots of bonuses and buffs that get triggered under some circumstances, do you have all the boosts on your equipment (and the active buffs) seen in the video at the end? Weaken Torso is very good and works against Yokai unless they are kind of naked. Pierce isn't bad but its uses in the Abyss gets too limited to be worth it. I use God of Wind often but only on weaker enemies or to break guard, I use Random Slice though it needs some getting used to. Also, in many situations, it's better to simply use your Bow to fire a few quick shots before engaging. It's really a matter of using the right tools at the right moment, then you don't need that much damage, but you need to use the bonuses shown at the end for decent damage, even getting hit on purpose once in the while.

I can dash through anything as long as I don't die, thanks to Hermit Talisman, as explained in the video. I didn't see anything unusual for this build against Maria. Are you referring to passing through her projectile slash? I take 0 damage, reaching 100% Received Firearm Damage means zero damage from most ranged moves. I think Dash has a few I-frames near the start but I don't try to use that.

@@godofprophets3054 thanks for the reply I didn't know that the "projectile slash" counted as firearm damage

The synergy of the build is much lower with other weapon types. Only triple swords will allow you to have enough points to put into Magic to maximize your toolkit and still get decent enough damage to beat bosses after a single combo when you break their Ki bar. Kusarigama might be usable but you'd need to sacrifice Heart, and we actually need high Ki for trading and blocking, so I doubt it would be better overall, though you can try it. Spears seems like a bad idea, however, you can't try to face-tank stuff and stay in high stance and you would absolutely want the lowest possible Body and HP, or you won't be immortal nearly as often. This build isn't very offensive, so I can't really recommend weapons that may not allow you to capitalize on your tools and combos.

@godofprophets3054 Yeah just as I thought the damage would be very poor using any other weapon type considering the required stat investments that make the core of the build. Thanks for the answer, this build is by far the most creative one I found on yt, amazingly well done! Considering your creativity and editing skills I would love to see more content from you!

​@@godofprophets3054Another question if I may, in which scenarios is katana more useful over dual katana when running this build? Correct me if I'm wrong but, from what I've seen in the video, the build could solely run on just using dual katans and a random weapon to finish the grace set.

@@petarrakic5265 I use both and switch all the time. Single Sword has a much more damaging combo "Iai - Iai - Final Blow" (Sword of Execution Mystic Art boosts back and ground attacks) VS "SotC - SotC - Final Blow" and is way better suited for fighting Human Bosses unless they have some very specific traits. If you need to break their guard or if they have lower stance break duration, you have to use the Dual Swords. Against Yokai, it's pretty much always Duals. In the open field, I often use single Sword because Sword of Meditation and Sword Ki are extremely useful.

@@godofprophets3054 Ah makes sense, thanks!

They start dropping in the last difficulty levels, also you might want to actually keep some green ones as you can turn them into specific orange types later on. There are plenty of guides on the topic over the internet.

Also I can't roll the high/low toughness on ranged past C+ even by 3x rolling for some reason, my Sotc dmg is a joke to most bosses 😭

Thanks! You need to get used to the playstyle first. You must dodge every move that deals two hits at the same time or that would catch your character, you're pretty much invincible to the rest if you keep attacking to get your health back up above the 31% threshold. Can you go back to blue health from 1 HP by landing an single charged Iai Quickdraw or performing a full mid-stance combo? If not, you probably have too much total HP to run this setup optimally. It's also often safer to use the falling attack after you died and activated your Quick-change scroll, as you can immediately activate the next one in mid-air and it'll heal you when you hit them. So, use it unless they always dodge and bait you. You also need to be careful after using LW or switching GS, as you won't be immortal unless Janomecho's passives are currently being applied. But you have way many more openings to exploit, because Hermit's Talisman allows you to go through anything that doesn't kill you and keep attacking. Believe it or not, Random Slice is better than SotC (outside of combos) when using this build, even against Bosses. You must avoid getting hit if they can disable your Equipment though, as it would remove the healing, but it's still very doable. The main benefit of this whole setup is actually to have very high levels of Utility, so you got effective tools for every situation. If you do not use every single one of them, you end up in a much more difficult position for no reason. Example: against Masamune: you can whittle down his Ki using Kunai, which is easy if you are careful. When he has about 25% of his Ki, activate your Bonus after dash-attack and after evasion-attack, then you have 30 seconds to finish him off with a single combo. Use Weakness Talisman and then use your cannon NORMAL round targeting the middle of his body, and it'll break him, then you go Iai into Iai into Finish Blow and he's dead. That's a thousand times easier than to try land many SotC. About Yokai Bosses, you should always try to find the best Elements to cause Confusion to them, and then you simply slice them to pieces with Water Sword. I can give you more specific advice if you tell me about your exact issues, though the video gives you examples for each tool if you look closely and pause to check out the buffs and all.

@@Junkrodder I'm not sure I remember it right but you need a lot of luck to get the A version of High/Low Toughness Bonuses and it's not necessary to roll multiples. Also always try to roll them on the highest level of the Equipment. I don't get why you're using the Coiled Snake Kabuto or something else over Black Fox Mask? SotC alone like that has poor damage, but if you land the proper combo against guys like Tachibana, it's still empty their life bar like you see in the video. If you lack Status Ailments D- (indeed insanely rare, unfortunately), you can try to compensate by triggering some of the other optional bonuses like after dash-attack or the ones when you get hit more often.

Thanks! You should be able to find everything you need in the video if you pause once in a while, but feel free to ask whatever doesn't seem obvious to you.

Yes, everything should still work the same.

You need access to the last difficulty levels, so I would assume yes.

When you have LW active you can press L1+L2 to switch Guardian Spirits and makes a AoE attack of that spirits element. It's a useful way of activating confusion.

Not much farming is required, you need a bit of luck to be more optimal, though. Re-rolling and reloading is indeed going to take some time, but it's nothing extreme or endless, it's more of a matter of having so many damn things you can improve upon in this game.

Hi, no problem. Retrieve Ammo is just to avoid wasting your shots in case you miss the target entirely, it's not too important but may help to little if you are almost at 0. What matters is to use the Ninjutsu passive skill Frugality, and then headshots are going to drop the "Normal" ammo type of your current weapon, though you need to walk and go pick it up. It doesn't work 100% of the time, but like 50% IIRC. Yatagarasu GS and equipment + Shadowround make the whole process MUCH faster, that's all.

@@godofprophets3054 oh does Frugality work only after you kill? Or after a headshot? I don't see it drop. It will drop a loot on the floor, unlike 'the retrieve stray ammo' auto?

@@Kuodo79 Yes, it will drop a loot on the floor and it only works when killing the foe with the headshot, but you can easily chain kill a few weak enemies near a shrine to max out your ammo. You're not meant to try this unless you can one-shot them by surprise, unless you have practiced a lot with the Rifle.

@@godofprophets3054 heh. I had fun with your immortal build and now wanting to try a full gunman kunai build. Will need matchlock speed up and that 100% walk speed while aiming.

@@Kuodo79 You can also stunlock most targets with the Cannon if you keep Yatagarasu to maintain near infinite ammo, but it takes some practice to use it well.

It's a bit complicated but almost everything will trigger your bonuses, except that if you are at full HP, Life Drain won't work. Having stuff like "Life Recovery from Amrita Absorption" (on your armor) and Extraction Talisman or Rejuvenation Talisman make sure you're getting most effects from healing active basically all the time. About HP, it just so happens that if you are max level but still try to have your HP as low as possible, you will be able to go from 1 HP (after having survived with Janomecho + Tokugawa 100% survival unless critical) to over your critical threshold (31% of Max HP) a LOT easier. For example, a single fully charged Iai Quickdraw will immediately put you back above Critical Status and you'll be invincible to the next hit once again. A lot of other combos and moves tend to also reach that threshold easily if your HP is near its minimum value. Anyway, this build also uses Hermit Talisman and anything will put us as 1 HP, but we go back above critical so easily that it doesn't matter, once you get used to avoiding double hits. When you reach like floor 700 of the Abyss, most builds, including defensive ones, start getting one-shot when it wasn't the case before, and they can't do much about it. We just don't care how much damage we would have taken as long as we're not in Critical. Overall, this is much better than purely defensive builds in my opinion.

@@godofprophets3054 yes I can see the potential in this. I initially wanted to try a dual blade + kusa build with this. But since sword and dual both uses the same stats, I may end up using 3 swords like to this as well. But I am torn between hirashi or sword master armor pieces for the remaining 3. I kind of like having a little controlled dmg from range attacks for a stronger LW sometimes. As for mask, I ran a test earlier and omnyo damage bonus from black fox mask does not seem to affect my ccd melee. I may consider using white fox mask for more hp drain or stack poison helmet instead.

@@Kuodo79 Yes, the build is optimized for Triple Swords, or else your combos will be weaker and you may not be able to simply eat 100% of your target's HP after breaking their guard, depending on your target. Kusarigama tends to leave you vulnerable for too long and this build basically never needs LW given you already function with infinite super armor and little chance of being killed, while still maintaining full dodging and guarding ability and without wasting LW Gauge. Also, LW infinite Sword of Meditation or LW Random Slice are quite fun. Trying to finish bosses right away by running behind their back and hitting strong attack kusa LW won't work with this build, anyway. Hiraishi is objectively weaker than Tatenashi, and you need to be careful and put your weight at the right value and stack all the optimal bonuses for the best damage output. Master Swordsman is a different story, overall still not worth it, you really want 100% RFD for this build and you don't use Sign of the Cross all that often, I didn't even put it on my Weapon slots. Black Fox Mask does boost every damage source except for Guardian Spirit Talisman's pitiful damage, I tested this dozens of times with a bunch of quite exhaustive protocols, though the bonus is about 2-3% depending on the move.

@@godofprophets3054 thank you for the elaborate explanation. I guess I am too used to hayabusa set that I can't function well without Agility A. That is the reason why I feel iffy with tatenashi despite the additional weight bonus. I also like having no guard break on me, which hirashi has and saves a slot from my chest armor for something else. As for sword master, why don't you use Sotc that much? Does it not drain more hp based on damage? Or is it by hits? Either way, I appreciate your guide a lot. And you took the trouble to answer even though this is pretty old. When do you use single katana? Given that both weapon sets are similar and dual is definitely faster.

​@@Kuodo79 The problem with Agility A is that your can't really have decent Toughness. This build needs to be able to block attacks when needed, possibly several attacks on a row, and having max Heart and nearly 300 Toughness is exactly what we need. Another point of high Toughness is Ki Damage from when you do actually get hit, we need to be able to tank through and still keep attacking until they fall. Below 200 Toughness, you can't even trade blows properly by default, which this build is designed for when you play around its strength. Believe me i tried a lightweight version of this build and overall, it's just a lot better as an Agility B version every time. You're talking about No Guard Break, originally I used plenty of those skills, but that was before adding Hermit Talisman to the build, that gives you perfect full-no guard break of every type, and then you can put other good effects on your armor. This build is probably the only one who can use Hermit Talisman to its full potential, because we don't care about the damage value we would have taken, and we have plenty of good options when trading blows or going through any type of projectile. SotC gives you like 800 HP while Iai gives you around 1200, above your 31% of max HP threshold. Life Drain always works by hit depending on the exact move you are using, and nothing else factors, except of course the base power of your total Life Drain. Overall, SotC isn't awesome for healing, and Random Slice is actually our best skill in many situations, you just need to be careful about double hits. I still use SotC against guys who recover faster from Guard Breaks, like Tachibana, to finish him in a single combo. It's just that it gets to be your go-to move a lot less often given how some of your other options become improved. And even Random Slice doesn't deserve its own star skill on the weapon because you just murder stuff fast enough and more hits equal to more healing, that's what my testing revealed but you can try variants of course. Single Sword have some ridiculously good perks, even though I almost always use Dual Swords against Yokai and against Human enemies that can be guard broken (the ones who block), Swords have the strongest regular combos. Iai -> Iai -> Final Blow (and maybe a follow up) will destroy anything once you get rid of their Ki. You can also abuse Sword of Meditation and immediately destroy the demons that pop out of the mist. You just have too many good moves to pass up and we have some Kunai to deal Ki Damage more safely than with weapons, so we can afford having only blades-weapons and shared stats for our weapons.

The head piece and boots are quite lightweight, so my modest investment in Stamina / Strength (less than 30 each) is enough to stay at B Agility.

Hi! That's the Cannon you get for beating Yamata-no-Orochi for the first time, alongside a unique Bow and Rifle with the same unique effect on them to "retrieve stray projectiles".

@@godofprophets3054 oh, i sold it(( thank you

Wtf , whoever liked this on a 2 year old video , on a small channel , only 2 hours after i posted this , I hope your grinding is fruitful

There is too much useless information on the status page, and nothing special to show. Only the usual stuff, regular passives, CCA Life Drain 200, RFD 100%... Most isn't even really part of the build, so there is nothing to worry about that isn't shown clearly somewhere else.

@@godofprophets3054 I was wondering about getting star Stat on legs (lower enemy defense saturated) instead of running speed. Would that increase dmg significantly?

@@twitchtherocket6192 From what I tested, this kind of effect doesn't give much of an increase, something like 8% for a short time, and that's only when no other Defense debuffs are applied. I used such a buff before and removed it because in practice, the enemy is always under Weaken Torso before they get Saturated (unless you start using Nurarihyon). Close Combat attacks just don't scale well with Defense Debuffs stacking, unlike Kunai. Against Human Bosses, I would use Weakness Talisman, so it would make even less of a difference. Whereas Running Speed is VERY beneficial, so I wouldn't recommend using any of the star effects you can find on Legs Armor, not even stuff like Increase Attack (after LW).

@@godofprophets3054 tyvm for your knowledge. Can't wait to test the build out¡

Replaced purification bonus on boots to extend evasion invulnerability. And trying out random slice star effect instead of nullify torso (even tho I know torso is like a 15%) and I'm also using star saturate bonus on legs... Haven't switched it yet but I'm loving it. :)

If so can you please tell me where i can find those. Thanks for the build btw it compliments my playstyle

You can use any boots as long as you are careful to be at least at 30.1Kg and still at B Agility class. Bandit armor is just good because you can forge it to be sure to get the star effect "Increase Attack (Critical)" which is very important for that build.

Godofprophets Thanks mate almost ready to use your build! The grinding was so annoying to get the smithing text but when i received i screamed like a girl totally worth it!!!

Godofprophets Can you please tell me how i can farm the first three weapons i'm kinda stuck on those three...

@@WhiteWolfFenrir You can take any good forgeable weapon for Melee, but if you want the best ones, you can find them from Devs' Revenants in the Abyss Plane where there is fire everywhere. Beat them and go back to Title Screen until you get a Divine one without an inheritable slot. For the Bow, that involves farming Marume on Floor 130, beat him with high Luck and a bit of Equipment Drop Rate and pray you get a good Ethereal Yoichi's Bow with 100% Unlimited Arrows and Izanagi (or Grace Inheritance for it). Use Earthfolding Talisman between tries and it takes less than 30s per run.

7 pieces of Izanagi's Grace (at level 320) + Close Combat Life Drain on both Melee Weapons (rolled perfect at level 320) to max it out. You end up with the maximum of CCA Life Drain of 200. Rejuvenation Talisman also helps, and there are a few additional details you can consult by the end of the video.

@@godofprophets3054 I used temper and got only 30 life drain. Will that number grow according to my weapon level(+value) later on?

It's from "Ending" in Nioh's OST

@@godofprophets3054 ty :)

If you complete all Titles, you can get everything in Ungyo except Damage from Fall a few % of Elixir recovery that you don't need to reach 100% thanks to Tokugawa Clan. For Agyo, you can get almost everything too but you want to absolutely avoid any HP increase and you should sacrifice Amrita Earned in the end as you'll only have a few points left to put in it.

Godofprophets ok thanks so much man

Godofprophets oh wait sorry what about the agyo points too

@@bluvenom7600 Already written above, maybe you need some other precision?

Godofprophets ohhh sorry man i got it mixed up ik what ur saying

Yes, you can use that build at a lower level but you either have to sacrifice some Onmyo Capacity and some tools or reduce your damage output. Maybe just drop Magic to 50 for now or drop Heart to 100 and Skill to 150.

@@godofprophets3054 thanks slot I appreciate it gonna try this 👍

I can play tommorow if you want I'll get you to endgame. My PSN is xXFaded_HyenaXx

@@nicholausstevens1262 ya I’m down

@@nicholausstevens1262 I’ll add u

@@nicholausstevens1262 I added u my name is makeoutthillVR

It's actually "Saoirse" from the game's OST, the very fist part is skipped, though.

@@godofprophets3054 omg I didn't know u would reply me, thank u so much! Btw amazing skill man! I don't think i can reach that level lol

@@yosvibimayu3201 You're welcome. This build doesn't require perfect play or anything like that, it makes the most of the player's knowledge of the enemy, though.

That's basically the point of the build, the fact that you have the freedom to make something like this and without removing all difficulty is amazing in itself :)

This is normal, the game gives you more build options over several ng+ modes. My first playthrough looked very different as well. Having a lot left to discover at that point in a good thing, especially with Abyss builds much later.

Everything tend to scale in the Abyss, so the numbers don't matter that much compared to how you optimized every single effect you have while using up-to-date +Values. Overall your damage increases less than their HP, but with this build it's still fine even at the very end if you tweak enough.

@@godofprophets3054 I'm on 108 boss room right now (the bird and kojiro) and I get 300+45 ish. (my dragon set is 308+47 ish so far). I'm more of a defense rpg player so I'm hoping for a good magatama / yasukuni with either onmyo reflect or shuriken reflect. Damage would be nice but I play well enough to afford staying in fights for longer time. It's just frustrating...

The contrast is meant to be good enough for 1080p regular screens, but it's tougher to read on phones and such. If you select the highest quality you can (ideally 4K setting even on 1080p, at least on desktop), it's easy to read everything and what you may miss isn't important information. I'd have to rework and re-encode and re-upload and more and I wouldn't be able to fit everything without eating the image. I hope you can find what you need with the current version, and I can answer whatever remaining question you may have. Thank you!

Edit: Apparently the message just meant "look at my video, this build isn't high damage", and yeah it's not a one-shot build, indeed. [Outdated] Please refrain from such hypothesis while giving no explanation. Several people have tested this build and didn't report any difficulty to reach the damage displayed when they actually made it. Please note that some specific sequences may have different buffs than others and Nioh only allows us to display limited information on them, but there is nothing that is "edited" and no particular preparation done in advance, either. Everything you need is shown, the same build was used throughout the video and it's indeed the one detailed at the end. If you have some questions, and I'll gladly answer them. I can't see any video in your channel that is related to this build, it seems I can access only 8 videos for some reason, while there should be at least 13. What am I supposed to look at and where are the details showing what you use? Thank you.

@@godofprophets3054 I don't know why you can't see the first videos that I uploaded from nioh but here I leave the link to what I mean is that you edit very well but do not cause massive damage I hope you can see my build and give me your opinion greetings

@@rex_foxjr79 Alright, thank you! Sorry, your English really meant something else to me. The Vampire Overlord Build is not a one-shot build, which means you actually play Nioh fully, and not just run behind somebody's back or set some trap and buffs and just tap a button to kill the target. Many players find those overpowered builds particularly boring, because the gameplay is reduced very close to zero and it's way too repetitive. That's why I focused on a build with the highest utility, capable of handling any situation very, with balanced focus between offense and defense. And it's indeed powerful enough to destroy enemies while using the right tools and mechanics of the game, with margin for creativity and for error, not a coin-flip like most cheese builds. Of course, it's absolutely not meant to deal very high damage, I also made a build that deals 999.999 damage with a Stone, so I know how to make high damage builds, and it's simple to do that with any weapon. I can see your two videos, no problems. I watched them and both builds are one-shot builds using Sakuyahime. It's hard for me to take such builds seriously, given that people keep pushing Sakuyahime without ever using it properly. You see, Shadowround Talisman allows you to triple the amount of Burning Oil Jar you can use, same for Yokai Water Pot and any other projectile, but in videos like yours and the ones from your sensei, Shadowround is nowhere to be found, and Sakuyahime 5p is also always left out. That means none of those builds are ever actually functional in the Abyss, because you would need to go out every few floors, which make the whole prospect a lot less interesting. At least with Shadowround and while knowing exactly where to get additional Burning Oil Jar in Planes, it would be possible to have almost a stable access to it, but only for Bosses. Other than that, what I see certainly seems on par with what your mentor would have produced, so I guess you reached your objective.

Rip

At least it involves actually fighting the bosses. Unlike all of these Living weapon or Kunai throw builds. Not all of us can be as hard-core as SacredForce.