This new patch will sure come in handy when it finally comes to farming to the soul cores that I'm still missing. In 90 hours of play I'm yet to see a Lesser Umi-Bozo Soul Core drop.
Also it's great that they buffed the Onmyo mystic art. I'm assuming that it works like it did in Nioh 1 now? It was so fast the game would omit the animation. Your weapon would just change color on your back without even unsheathing it, ha.
Some other pertinent change that I noticed is the buff to the Switchglaive Mystic Art. While I love the damage increase from racking up the stance change combos, the final energy release at level 5 seemed very underwhelming. It had a very slow start up an hit like a wet fart. I'm looking forward to trying it out now.
I'm almost done with NG. It's probably taken me longer than anyone else in this thread but spent way to much time doing co-op and dying to bosses with my lvl. 50 character. Thankfully after the nightmare that was Ryomen Sukuna I haven't really struggled with any boss all that much (15 deaths at most).
Can't even get Magara to half his health, smh. Also it would be neat if any of the dropped weapons are actually for the classes that I use.
Have you tried farming revenants? They are a great source of gear early on. You can actually see the weapon each revenant uses before summoning them, and they have a chance of dropping them.
As for Magara, most of his attacks have a lot of recovery, so dodge through them and punish him after he whiffs. If you are using Ninjitsu, Caltrops are very useful at slowing him down, and poison will also soften him up. If you are using Onmyo, Devigorate talisman to take the edge of him will also be very helfpul. And purification talisman will just melt through his Ki.
