Nioh 2 (PS4 (PC in November?))

White loot is barely worth anything to the shrine, so I just filter it out by the second mission. I'm sure before too long I'll be filtering yellow and then blue as well.

Sets are really good too, so after a while you won't care about much that isn't part of your main set.

Vorph said:

White loot is barely worth anything to the shrine, so I just filter it out by the second mission. I'm sure before too long I'll be filtering yellow and then blue as well.

Sets are really good too, so after a while you won't care about much that isn't part of your main set.

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Shouldn’t you can disassemble at black smith and turn low level materials into higher level. The ratio kind of sucks but everything helps.

That's what I'm sticking with too. I am not sure what you need to do to unlock more dojo missions (to unlock demon dance pulverizes) though. Ninjutsu unlocks more stuff at 30k points, so I guess it's probably the same for melee weapons. No idea how much astral wisdom I need to unlock to get the elemental addons either. Right now I use ninja skills to get out of trouble, but once I can have 2 elements on my tonfas at all times it should change everything.

Been flip-flopping between this and Ori, enjoying them both immensely, 20th rolls around though it's gonna be tough which game too play ...

Droigan said:

I am not very far

at this part



So not sure if I will see the rest of the game....

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Nioh loves to make the second boss nearly impossible. My main advice is play defensively, don’t even attack when it shifts. Get your swings in when it puts it snake arms in the ground, sprint towards it and try to hit both the arms and its head. Also make use of salt and any other consumables. Don’t bother with summoning anyone below level 50 as they get one shotted, last thing you can do is summon another human from the shrine.

Hatorade said:

Nioh loves to make the second boss nearly impossible. My main advice is play defensively, don’t even attack when it shifts. Get your swings in when it puts it snake arms in the ground, sprint towards it and try to hit both the arms and its head. Also make use of salt and any other consumables. Don’t bother with summoning anyone below level 50 as they get one shotted, last thing you can do is summon another human from the shrine.

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Yeah I had some trouble with him too. One strat that helped me was bringing both "snake arms" down to low health before killing one of them. He'll go into Dark zone immediately when one dies but having the other arm up at full strength is hard. The glowy thing on his head is a weakpoint if you can do an overhand attack. I also used Rifles on the "snake arms" and that seemed to do okay. I also found it impossible to Burst Counter his snake slide attack so I stopped trying. It was easier to just dodge. Kinda weird since otherwise I've had Burst Counters down pretty good.

I'm using the Glaive because it is cool even though the sane part of me recognizes that investing in a magic scaling weapon is retarded. I planned to use uchi and chains. Oh well.

Fun game but I'm generally not a fan of the whole Yokai Shift mechanic. I think I picked a shitty Guardian since it is often not really worth the bother and the Yokai attacks while in human form are mostly jkust kinda goofy.

I did get that Monster Wall That Falls On You power which is good for lulz but that's about it.

TJT said:

This was really helpful.

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One thing to note - block buffering only works in midstance.

Ok so almost every guardian spirit boss is fucking hard in this game, holy shit. Almost gave up tonight but powered through.
Also fuck Tengu...

Okay, so it looks like we're all going to have some time on our hands as the Coronavirus slowly turns the Earth into a zombie apocalypse, so i'm going to pick up this game to play. I heard it is punishingly difficult. Never playing the original, are there certain builds you need to make the game more enjoyable? I don't mind difficult, I just detest games that are almost unbeatable if you don't do the correct build.

etchazz said:

Okay, so it looks like we're all going to have some time on our hands as the Coronavirus slowly turns the Earth into a zombie apocalypse, so i'm going to pick up this game to play. I heard it is punishingly difficult. Never playing the original, are there certain builds you need to make the game more enjoyable? I don't mind difficult, I just detest games that are almost unbeatable if you don't do the correct build.

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Find a weapon you like and increase its main stat for a while then branch out as needed. You can respec for cash as well.

Pyros said:

I see there's a new instant dodge mechanic tied to the yokai you're using, does that mean they removed the R1 dodge at the end of combos to regenerate stamina and dispel yokai fields there was in the first game? These doubled as dodges for certain weapons once you unlocked the passives for them and some weapons had even better ones(tonfa for example).

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