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Nioh 2 |OT| Dark Soul Cores -- out now on PC, remaster available on PS5
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The game balance is about the same as Nioh 1 IMO, so it's sort of intended by the devs. I'm not a huge fan of how they do difficulty in Nioh, it gets too close to cheese for me - but the game does let you do your own cheese later on.
Yeah. I noticed as soon as the game updated that at least enemy and amrita was properly working with it, and it wasn't until just now that I was able to see if Kodama was also working (none of the side missions up to the final area mission had any left), and yay, now I don't need to have that shit on gear anymore.
Early on, probably cost reduction, even though it's not very large. Depends on just how badly you want to soul match prior to NG+, using gold only.
I want to have better Fuma Ninja armor pieces. What is the best way to farm pieces with actual stats. Or have I to forge them?
yeah, found this out with stuff like the cores having Kodama sensors on them
Nioh brand of difficulty is just put +frames, invuln frames, and 300% damage and HP on every enemy because the pool of enemy types are very low still. Starting to get fatigued from how long some of these boss fights can be.
If Boss fights take too long then you're doing something wrong. Try switching to High stance when bosses are vulnerable to build up damage.
Burst counters speed up their ki depletion faster
Absolutely demolished the first human boss. This game's difficulty is so weirdly tuned. The damage output of regular enemies (and the constant onslaught of gank squad encounters) really isn't doing it any favors.
Ive given up fighting "fair" when it looks like I'm about to walk into a gank.
Just summon back-up.
Yeah. I feel no shame in summoning at this point because the game is so fucking proud of itself for "surprise" gank encounters. Fight bullshit with bullshit.
to be fair, it's pretty easy to tell when the zone up ahead is covered with red graves and the room before it is covered with blue graves.
Oh wow, we got a patch already? Sweet, those annoying Gaki really needed that nerf.
Hope the Yoki/Enki nerf includes the grab attack, that's the only thing they're killing me with at this point.
Hope the Yoki/Enki nerf includes the grab attack, that's the only thing they're killing me with at this point.
Where are you reading about a nerf? All the patch note says is "bug fixes".
Edit: Ah nvm had to find the real notes on a 3rd party site, PSN notes only says bug fixes. :/
Oh really? I haven't checked PSN yet, just saw them here: https://twitter.com/TeamNINJAStudio/status/1240797845575405575
Wow, that owl boss was horrible. I beat it in 6 attempts but what a terrible headache it was.
Holy SHIT, the first pair of bosses in region 5 are a huge step up in difficulty. I just spent almost two hours grinding the last one, what a frustrating fight.
The online experience in Nioh 2 has been substantially better than in 1 I'm super enjoying doing submission through expeditions while I do the mainmissions solo
I mean I got F'd on a twilight mission before the update thinking I was at the proper level and got hosed. The level recs were not right
One thing I didn't realize, and may help others, is that if you find yourself in the middle of an attack and the enemy decides to cheese you with a grab or red move you can burst counter to cancel whatever you're doing
How many regions does this game have? Loving it but I have a strong anxiety about reaching ng+ cause that's where the build fun begins.
I just started and it was rough going at first, but I seem to have figured out my problem. What I needed to do sooner was switch to the sickle on a rope and just beat the shit out of everything.
Happy to see they added some levels (close to 20 lol) to some of the sub missions of the first zone, that was some grade 1 bullshit ah ah ah.
Just fought a Tengu in the first mission of the second zone, I can understand how he can be annoying, but was manageable nonetheless if you play "wait and see".
The Twilight version of the first zone wasn't so bad, but the rewards were a bit lackluster IMO.
Just fought a Tengu in the first mission of the second zone, I can understand how he can be annoying, but was manageable nonetheless if you play "wait and see".
The Twilight version of the first zone wasn't so bad, but the rewards were a bit lackluster IMO.
Flux is so good, they made a Flux II
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Check your listed effects screen. It's useful!
They corrected what it was previously showing, as the previous recommendations made absolutely no sense if you were simply progressing through the game without grinding. You would end a mission, have gained a few levels and then the first sub mission is for level 4, when you are 6-8, and the enemies hit like a truck?
I only hope this doesn't result in people think they actually have to grind levels. Cause that's what happened in Nioh 1 when people think they're falling behind by tens of level
After the update, I've always been "underleveled", but I'm not playing any differently than I did with my previous NG playthroughs, and I'm roughly 3-5 levels lower than what it suggests (previously it was the opposite by a larger degree), so still within the ballpark, and without any grinding aside from the extra experienced earned sometimes from a corpse run. I also don't continually fight revenants either, but some people might for better gear, or materials, and so they won't really need to worry about the recommended levels.
I didn't realize you could activate yokai shift next to an out of ki human and it goes straight into the finisher.
Yep, that's how I usually clean up the last couple. Also feels nice to help others find them with the whistle gesture.
So.. I want to make a Kusarigama and Odachi build.
What should be speccing into to make this viable and also op from the get go.
I've only done 2-3 missions so I'm happy to restart too.
What should be speccing into to make this viable and also op from the get go.
I've only done 2-3 missions so I'm happy to restart too.
It should tell you what weapons each stat affects on the level up screen. Kusarigama is dex and odachi is str iirc
Played around with the phantom burst counter and getting more and more used to it. The window is tighter than the other two but nothing too bad. Love its yokai final blow animation too. It's more versatile than brute counter as there are some burst attacks it simply can't deal with like if the burst attack comes from the air or is dash attack.
I think feral is overall the best out of three though. Can use the dash as an attack cancel quite easily and to quickly get out of the winded state if you run of ki.
I think feral is overall the best out of three though. Can use the dash as an attack cancel quite easily and to quickly get out of the winded state if you run of ki.
God I just had a 45 minute co op twilight mission because the two people with me would stop every ten seconds and change their gear and one guy would spend 5 minutes at every shrine even if we'd been there already doing I dunno what.
This + people going up ahead and then bringing like two+ enemies when we are already fighting some is annoying.
Yeah I wasn't really using the other stances but now I'm mixing things up to make use of Flux II.
I'm about to just start soloing everything 90% of the time it's fine but that 10% you get grouped with those people is so annoying.
Dex and str would be your mainstays for damage, stamina to wherever you need to wear the armor you want, life, heart, and courage as needed basically
In general, any mission where you're fighting lots of ninjas. I haven't gotten pass region 2 yet so I don't know anywhere that have lots of ninjas
Alternatively if you have the resources and money and the smithing texts you can just craft them and play the slot machine for the bonuses
But if you're still progressing through the game I would advise not to bother too much about getting the perfect gear because you'll be changing them quite often