Allright… thanks to Cheating i managed to aquire 3 Katana’s with Iai Quick Draw on them… and now its off to the Abyss… sigh…
So here’s the game plan… the set I want is on Floor 37… so I’m going in on Floor 33 to Defile My ■■■■…
Now the floors have multiple sets on each of them so just because I have the right floor it doesn’t mean I’m going to get The Set I need… so to maximize my chances… I’m going to defile 5 of the same gear I want… so that’s: 5 Pants, 5 Jackets, 5 Guns, 5 Hino Enma Kabuto’s, 5 Onmyo Mage Hats and 5 Katana’s with Iai Quick Draw On Them… those last two are going to be a problem because I only have 3 of those… it literally took 2 Days just to get two of them… and thats with Cheats…
Now I’m not a moron (or maybe I am… afterall I’m still suffering in this game)… I’m not going to defile all 25 Of those pieces at the same time… thats just stupid… because what if I do actually convert something into Futsunushi ? Yay right ? Nope… I’l get one piece of what I want but I’l run out of resources and I wont be able to make more… so I’l have to make 5 Trips into The Abyss and I’l defile all 5 pieces of the same gear each time I go in…
Now with that sorted… that just leaves Save Scumming… I have two back ups… one I made just before defiling anything on floor 33 (this is for just in case the whole thing turns out to be a farce) another just before the Boss on Floor 37 after Defiling 5 items… so I’l have to do is murder The Boss and exit the abyss to check my conversions… if theres no Futsunushi then I’l restore the back up… rinse and repeat until Futsunushi Drops… then I have to create new back ups and start the whole process all over again with a new set of 5 Items. Do that 4 more times for a 5 Piece Futsunushi set.
Hopefully when thats all done I’l have the build complete:
• Helmet : Futsunushi Hino Enma/Onmyo Mage Kabuto
• Jacket : Futsunushi Jacket (doesn’t really matter what kind, infact I already have one)
• Gauntlets : Master Swordsman Gloves (Already Got These)
• Pants : Futsunushi Pants (doesn’t matter what kinda)
• Boots : Master Swordsman’s Boots (already got these)
• Katana : Futsunushi Katana with Iai Quick Draw Damage Bonus
• Dual Swords : Master Swordsman’s Dual Swords with Sign Of The Cross Damage (already got these)
• Hand Cannon : Futsunushi Tatsuke Style Hand Cannon (I already have this but i need to reconfigure this to do Ki Damage)
• Bow/Rifle : Futsunushi Bow/Rifle (doesn’t matter what kind)
The whole point of this build is to have the 4 Piece set Bonus from the master swordsman set which is 30% Damage when using Sign Of The Cross
And 5 Piece Futsunushi Set Bonus for 40% Damage when using Iai Quick Draw…
And thats it… those will literally be the only two moves I use for the as long as this build is viable… no parries… no grapples no Windstorm no Flowing Shadow…
Just Sign Of The Cross and Iai Quick Draw… now and forever until the end of time… I’l be using Paralysis to help me land this move… sigh… ■■■■ This Game…
Alright… lets get started on those pants…
Edit :
BOOM… Got me some sweet Futsunushi Pants… it only took two tries.
Okay… now for The Helmet… I’l start with Hino Enma’s Kabuto…
LoL… I forgot to Defile !!!
EDIT 2 :
BOOM… got Futsunushi Hino Enma’s Kabuto… on the first run no less.
And now for something really hard… The Katana… I only have three so I doubt is going to happen on the first try.
I’m tired… I’m going to bed… this game can continue to suck the life out of me tomorrow.
Edit 3 :
Couldn’t sleep… decided to Defile them Swords… I got lucky… I got a Futsunushi Katana on my first run despite only using 3 Katanas… not only that… out of all the three Katanas the one I really wanted had a fixed water bonus (it can’t be removed) and that’s the one that became Futsunushi. The other two had a fixed proficiency bonus and that trait is useless because I maxed out my proficiency way back on Way Of The Samurai…
Also the game just ■■■■■■ me over again… Remember those Futsunushi pants I just converted ? Yeah well it turns out I need a new pair because they have no free slots to add an inheritable bonus on to them… which means I can’t slap attack on those pants… which means I have to Defile a whole new set of pants…
Also I had the most amazing idea… and then I googled the idea to see who else had it… and found out that those people who acted on that idea were severly punished for it… I would like to send my heart felt appreciation for those who have suffered for me so that I didn’t have to… your sacrifice shall not be forgotten…
Okay… next up we have guns… specifically rifles… I wanted guns specifically because even though they have a slow aiming animation… the reloading animation can be dodge cancelled where else with the bow and cannon William first has to slide another cannon/arrow in the chamber before he can move again… Pretty ■■■■■■■ Stupid.
I don’t what I’m gonna do about the Pants… I’l circle back to them when I’m done with the Jackets.
Edit 4:
Got me a Futsunushi Rifle… it converted the Tatsuke Style rather than the Inadome Style rifle so it won’t do as much headshot damage… still though… its something…
Okay… so that just leaves Jacket, pants and maybe the Hat… not too sure about the hat though…
Oh yeah and I have to Respec to get my dual swords damage up… and to dump all my spare points into Attack…
So it turns out I’m actually wearing one too many Futsunushi pieces… and because of that I’m getting the 7th and Final Set Bonus… 20% pierce guard (Close Combat)… now 20% is pretty big by itself but I reckon I can get it higher… with an extra 10% Pierce Guard on my swords and Bisha Centipede’s 25% Pierce Guard… and maybe even an accessory with Pierce Guard then I can deal 50% of my Damage through a human opponents guard…
Now who would this work best on ?.. I think ■■■■■■■■■ and Nagoyoshi since they guard more than anyone else… but they’re extremely vulnerable to Paralysis so I don’t need it for them… revenants also guard like its the god ■■■■ plague so maybe it will be good on them… they won’t be as easy to paralyse so yeah… sure…
I don’t know… maybe theres another two piece set I can use here…
Edit 5 :
Finally Got the Futsunushi Jacket… oh but guess what… Its Got No Inheritable just like my pants :(… you know what… ■■■■ it !!! I’m not going to try to defile these again… I’l just roll with what I have… at least until The Build starts struggling at which point I’l just try getting Futsunushi again…
Meanwhile in other news… I also Got me a Futsunushi Mages Hat with Onmyo Casting Speed On it… you know what’s silly ? I never even bothered to to compare the casting speeds to see if it was worth it… oh well…
As a bonus the game dropped a pre defiled Long Bow and it turned into Futsunushi along side my Hat… so that was a fun bonus… and I have plans for this bow… but before I explain what they are, I need to go over the issues I’ve been having with my 2nd Guardian spirit…
So Kato is obviously the best Guardian Spirit in the game and I have him as my primary… as does everyone else…
But Kato can’t do it all on his own… so to Further increase the damage I needed something stronger than Hi-Nezumi (10% Critical CCD) and Aya-Komori (9% Damage From behind)… so the top two are Kara-Jishi and Tengen Kujaku… but theres a catch… unlike the first two guardians, these guys don’t work passively, they need to be active to grant The Damage Buff…
So how do they do it ?
Well Kara Jishi grants an increase attack status enhancement when you successful hit an opponent with a skill… and Tengen Kujaku grants various enhancements for aborbing Amirita depending on which stance you’re in…
And both of them have execution issues…
Kara Jishi isn’t so bad but there have been instances where I accidentally switched spirits without realising it and that lead to alot of wastes damage. But the two worst aspects are He also has skill life drain and it doesn’t go away even when you switch, The Life drain screws with the guardian’s tenacity so it definitely is a problem. And you also don’t get The buff if you do a skill while Kara Jishi is in a coold down state… making him dead weight… also the enhancement fails off so ■■■■ quickly.
Tengen Kujaku grants The best Attack Enhancement but only for absorbing Amirita in High Stance… which means you either need to pop spirit stones or use Extraction Talismans… both of which are risky. The good news is Tengen Kujaku still gives you the Buff even while in cool down state… you won’t be able to sense anything as it cools down but the buff will still trigger… but I struggled weaving this into my gameplay.
And thats where the Futsunushi Bow comex in…
Now itz no secret… Bows are Hella week in this game… on way of the nioh they won’t kill anything… but they do grant amirita if you hit something in the head with one… so I configured this bow not to deal damage but instead to grant me amirita when it hits and to increase its reload and movement speed…
So the game plan is to run away… switch to Kujaku and fire an arrow to absorb amirita then switch back to Kato stack the damage…then land one big sign of the cross…
It works really well for stealth.
So that just leaves Respeccing and Reforging… I’m currently fresh out of Umbracite so no Reforging today…
Now I’m taking stats out of body… which means no 6000HP (it wasn’t helping anyway)
Edit 6:
LoL… Respecced everything… I’m only dealing a teeny tiny bit more damage… despite it cost 3000 Points to do so…
So yeah… I have to get those proper fustunushi pieces pronto !!!
I used the time travelling exploit to do tomorrow twilight missions now so I can get some god ■■■■ umbracite.
Edit 7 :
Finally got a respectable Futsunushi
Jacket that can show itself in public… that just leaves the pants…
I’m going to do a viability test run and record the results.
We’l start off with Giant Toad just to test the damage… then Munishige or Naomasa will be the general competency test… Marobashi to test The Break Power and Restless Spirits to test The Speed…
I also want to try a living weapon enemy just to see if I can smack’em out of it…
I think Maria will work best here but Date Is also a good adversary… although Yukmura is obviously The Ultimate but there’s no fast way to get to him.
This had better work, I literally poured all my resources into this build…
Edit 8 :
Whoops… I was wrong… It turns out you can’t actually get Tengen Kujaku’s Buff during cool down… I mean absorbing amirita while in cool down shortens the cool down duration and thats probably what triggered the buff… so while this works just fine at 99 Spirit… at 36 Spirit the extended cool down prevents me from getting the Buff… I’l be using Aya Komori until I get this mess sorted out.
Edit 9 :
Boom… finally got me some futsunushi pants.
And with that the build is more or less complete… I put attack on all the pieces to maximize damage … I may have to refine the stats becsuse this Spirit thing is killing me… but other than that, its done.
Edit 10:
And back into The Abyss I go… gonna push as far as I can and hopefully that will give me some good loot.
Edit 11:
Bloody hell The Abyss is brutal. I mean it was all going fine… I two shotted Mitsnuari and then One Shotted Nobonaga… next on the chopping block was Onmoraki… apparently Geralt of Rivia is getting sloppy because Onmoraki is clearly a ■■■■■■■■■■ that some managed to escape The Witcher 3 and embed itself into Nioh… meaning I had to clean up Geralt’s mess.
So I jump in… Land an Iai Quick Draw for about 40% Damage… so far so good… then he powers up and guard breaks me… to which my response was to Come out of the guard break with a sign of the cross for an extra 20% of his health bar… clearly I ■■■■■■ him off because he immediately took to the skies and rained fire and brimstone on me… I died while fumbling in the inventory menu trying to equip my Hand Cannon.
And thats where things went south…
Ayt so its like this… the first 5 Seconds of every abyss boss fight are the most important. They pretty much dictate whether you’l win or lose… so having to spend that first 5 seconds trying to grab my Pokemon essentially meant I was falling behind and the boss is already on top of me. So I said ■■■■ it !!! Let me Hit him first and then grab my pokemon. And so I did…
Now without Kato helping me, my fully charged Iai Quick Draw only hit him for 20% this time and then as I was running to grab Kato a shock wave one shotted me from behind… then as always the boss lined up its next attack to render quick change useless and killed me without my guardian spirit.
I lost my Defiled Dragon Sword and 4.4 Billion Amirita…
Temporarily…
Luckily I made a Back Up… and restored my ■■■■ back and tried again… and I died again but this time I was close… I just need a way to deal with the Shockwave…
Rather than trying to grab my spirit again I just restore tne same back since that already has the spirit on me… like I said… The 1st 5 Seconds make or break the fight…
This time I timed my buffs perfectly and Nailed him with a fully charged quick draw for 60% and then blocked the shock wave and Hit the remaining 40% of his health with a clean Sign Of The Cross right in the ■■■ !!!
Sigh…
Unfortunately that wasn’t it…
Next up was Naruto…
Dude… I can’t even describe how broken this boss is… so rage inducing.
The problem with this boss is it has no Punish windows… its always attacking… and then on top of that its the tankiest boss in the game… like literally a billion HP.
I did beat him eventually… very slowly…
To give you an idea of how tanky Naruto is… my fully buffed Iai Strike only hit it for 10%… 20 if I nail it from behind.
After that boss came Hino Enma and i one shotted her with a only a leeching buff from the front !!!
Thats how ■■■■■■■ Tanky Naruto is.
Sigh…
And now I’m back in the Abyss…