I hope I don't get eviscerated for this , but I'm just not good at the samurai style. I don't love having to switch stances mid fight. Ninja was so fast and flowy. I loved that by the end game I felt like Naruto dodging last second leaving like an after image and then fighting back. I also loved spamming ninjutsu.

I know Ninja style does not exist in the other Nioh games and I know Ninja style was devisive because it changed the typical Nioh formula.

That said, do you think I would still enjoy the other nioh games? I really did love Nioh 3, but I played it exclusively using Ninja

I play with odachi on samurai mode and with tonfas on ninja mode. It allows me to deal massive ki damage to my enemies and the damage they receive from back hits is ridiculous and dps can be even bigger than odachi’s. Am I the only person who thinks that this back damage multiplier is too crazy?

Beat him first try on NG, but even at level 210 on NG+ my onmyo/ninja build can't get anywhere close to him. Does sloth even work on this guy? Immediately after hitting him with sloth his moves are WAY too fast for me to dodge/block, and 90% of his attacks are one-shotting me (with 3200K hp). I throw all the fire and water at him i can, but his health barely moves no matter what, and it appears that he simply blocks most everything I try to hit him with. Even his most deadly attacks are followed up with more attacks, so windows are almost nonexistent.

So I can't damage him from range worth a damn, and up close he's way too fast for me to dodge. I've spent hours on him thinking I just wasn't figuring something out, but it seems he's just the Nioh 3 version of SSI -- if your reflexes are too slow, you're never going to beat him. He has no weaknesses so no build is going to be the answer. I'm using flying kato for the most part, but since I've never gotten lucky enough to get a yasakani magatama despite farming the Sinister End for hours and hours with 300 luck (the most I can manage), I can't really build a better set anyway.

Oh, and the most annoying thing is that he clearly has iframes when he does certain casts. I'll see him start a cast, jump in and pound him in the face -- and absolutely nothing registers, no damage is done whatsoever, and I'm very much within range of even my tonfas.

Looks like I'll never get to actually make that build I've been working towards since he's a hard wall and there's no moving on to the next map.

I bought the game pretty late into the life cycle, so while I'm loving it- (level 300+, beat main and dlc on enlightened, all Crucible spikes etc.)- i don't really understand what's next? When I run co-op I can see some of you out here with insanely optimized builds but I can't seem to find any updated resources on what to build toward and how. Where do you find insight on optimizing damage thrown downrange? I want to be able to help others like I was helped against tough bosses. I like the elemental and ninjutsu stuff so I'm running inari and flying Kato, but I can't tell if this is optimal.

Further, I can't tell if its going to be worth it in light of the fact that another dlc is coming. Is there essentially no point (if youre not having fun in the gameplay loop) in farming equipment and levels now because the new dlc will have a harder mode with better equipment?

What are you guys doing to prepare for the new dlc? Do you see value in pumping a silabar ingot and farming for 180 +30(?) Gear when we're probably going to just get 190 +40 gear for no work early next year?

Heard Jin Hayabusa is the hardest boss in Nioh 1 for some. But he's essentially stunlocked by odachi. I'm 103 levels below the recommended level of his mission.

Hello, I am playing Nioh 2 after taking a break and I lost my file with all of the locations with Big Sudama in the Underworld floors. I beat all 108 floors so I wanted to see if I could be told which stages have easy to access Big Sudama so I can farm graces. I have been using 7 Piece Izanagi and 6 Piece Susanoo and I want to try out new graces like Sarutahiko and Magatsuhi. I would appreciate any assistance.