@@alphawolf32 Honestly I don't run the fire anymore. It's not worth it. I actually just made this ronin build video to show you what I run now: ruclips.net/video/1MCpNlvjvhI/видео.html
Subscribed! I was playing assassin because I love sneaking around and planning my strategy of stealth kills, but you’re making the samurai look real fun.
Completed my first nightmare survival nearly the same set up, albeit I went with increased parry at low health. Blessed strikes are a god send. Still grinding to unlock more stuff but modding samurai charm to get this was worth it.
@GaroShadowScale....I just wana give you a BIG thanks.Your samurai build has worked so well for me It would be foolish of me to change up anything and expect better results.Back then I could of never dream of playing solo on gold story or even nightmare story.Because of you,my samurai is so powerful I can now breeze through solo gold story with relative ease and it’s never been so satisfying than it is now lol lol...I love the samurai class,it was the first class I started playing with.I got so comfortable with playing with the samurai class I don’t even want to play with another class.i just can’t abandon the Samurai code,otherwise the shogunate will come after me lol lol lol lmao 😂....Please invite me when your playing survival nightmare I haven’t had the chance to enjoy it coz people keep quitting like 5 minutes into the start of the first wave.Thanks Again.
You're so welcome dude! I'm really really happy to hear that! That means a lot to me! Hah, alright! I won't be playing the game much more. I'm gonna make the hunter and assassin build vids then I think I'm done! But if you want to be a part of the survival nightmare test runs while I work on the vid, join my discord! We can chat about it there: discord.gg/garoshadowscale
@@GaroShadowscale I downloaded the Discord app and even register for the first time and accepted your invite however, you restricted me from joining the chat and using voice.
I run something similar but I use master katana with moon for aoe damage and since enemies can't stun you while doing it you become a spinning deity of destruction with explosive blade. I think a Ronin is best tank. Run healing gourd for 10% dmg reduction defense charm for another 10% dmg reduction with leeching parry or more health. Weaning burst for 25% more damage reduction. And the rest is up to you :). this means you get 45% innate damage reduction with a self heal. Maybe spirit kunai for cool down reduction or the charm that prevents you from dying or forbidden medicine for the legendary. Enjoy!
But then that explosive blade becomes a lengthy cooldown that you can't mitigate since you're using a legendary katana, unless you gave up the two extra ult strikes to make room for the kunai. That's a damage loss. Plus since this build uses the kunai, you want more cooldowns that will synergize with the kunai, hence way of the flame. Water stance with way of the flame on a manageable cooldown will make it so that you can take on any category of enemy in the game. Sure it's not as optimal as having all four stances, but keeping the four stances isn't worth what you have to give up to maintain access to them There's no need to build ronin so tanky. You can have strong survivability and support and still deal solid damage: ruclips.net/video/1MCpNlvjvhI/видео.html
@@GaroShadowscale hence why the Ronin is best tank :) not samurai I agree spirit kunai are good and so is this build, this is an alternative since if you mess up kunai (which does happen) then your out of options anyway
This build is amazing! Really appreciate the vid, I went ahead and built this for my samurai and absolutely love it. Are there any plans to make an assassin build video? I feel like a lot players don’t know how to fine tune that class, included myself 😅 Anyways, you got a subscriber for life keep up the great work/vids love the raptor 🙂
I run the perk that lets you have 2 legendaries equipped on my hunter just so i can run both stone skipper bow and spirit kunai, that 15 second cooldown reduction is so good, having exploding arrow available almost all the time just melts groups in survival. Will definitely try this build if RNG ever blesses my Samurai with a charm :(
I will definitely try and copy this build! Have you got any other builds for the other classes on the way too¿ This is some insightful content right here.
Thank you! This is my only up to date build video. I do have a ronin build video as well but it's slightly outdated. I aim to make build videos like this for all the other classes in the very near future
@@GaroShadowscale Fair enough man, I'll keep my eyes peeled out for them then especially the new ronin build 👀. Other than that keep you the great content!
You have another subscriber, thanks for this build and specially the one for the ronin... My samurai is built around ultimate resolve and dmg, but feel that this build is better for the raid and nightmare survival.
For my samurai build I use a similar build but the couple of things I use that are different are: instead of way of the flame I use water master which increases the damage with every flurry which takes one flurry to take a standard enemy down. I also use the 10% melee damage technique instead of the 25% health. So with everything stacked up it adds an extra 40% melee damage ( samurai charm, and kunai both also have melee damage as well as the water katana). I don’t have spirit kunai so I use the epic kunai and do the same build. And lastly I have the ledendary healing smoke bombs for my 2nd ghost weapon. Which that added with the blessed strikes it’s very rare if I go down, I probably go down only once or twice in a match if that (for survival). So In summary with 40% stacked melee damage combined with water master added flurry damage, you are an absolute unstoppable monster in any game format you choose whether it be raids or survival or missions. But I will say if I had the spirit kunai I would probably use that, but the legendary healing smoke is very clutch because it’s another healing option as well as an ability to build resolve fast with assassinations. If anyone wants to try this build I suggest it very highly. I average 240 kills per survival match and as stated I rarely go down it’s very fun.
If you feel that you don't need the extra 25 hp, then you can rock 10% extra melee damage for sure! I'm sticking with the 25 extra hp for nightmare/raid since it saves my life sometimes though As for Water Master, don't forget that way of the flame is also unblockable, so it helps a lot with spear enemies where your water stance is normally ineffective. But yes, water master will always be in effect while way of the flame will only be relevant while it's active. That being said, I didn't feel water master added that much more damage. Also remember that spirit kunai gets you all of your cooldowns back faster, including way of the flame and explosive blade and the kunai itself and caltrops! I'd recommend giving it a shot! The healing from legendary smoke is alright and it gives you temporary peace and quiet, but since you're not an assassin, your dps will go down while going through the slow animations of critical strikes and assassinations. With spirit kunai, you'll get your explosive blade back way more frequently which means much more uptime on blessed strikes Thank you for sharing and best of luck with your matches
@@GaroShadowscale Thank you so much for the tip of how to use the Kunai "properly". I have missed 50% or more... I almost stop using it! Can't get 15 seconds cool down hitting thin air...
Thank you! Happy to hear it! And honestly I don't really do the raid anymore. I didn't really enjoy Chapters 1 and 2, and I've already played the heck out of Chapter 3
Folks this vid is the real deal DON’T LOOK ANY FURTHER !! I was able to slice through the crow men like a hot knife through butter !!!...I use to fear the crow men on both story,survival,and nightmare story modes.Never again,in fact i take the fight to them with way of the flame + surging strikes combo.Before they can even spit their crows at me they are already dead.Because way of the flame is an unblock-able attack. And we all know the crow men are the toughest enemies in the game.And if you pop your ultimate ability and activate explosive blade at the same time,u would have already killed both of them in 2 strikes while the other 3 takes out any enemies nearest to you and your completely refilling your health all at the same time wow.Now that is bad ass.The samurai class is the most efficient,fast,and extremely powerful class of the 4.And best of all,your Samurai will no longer be dependent on Ronins for heal,no health drums either.Bottom line,you gain complete health while killing,you often will eliminate most of the enemies on screen,your kills streaks will be unmatched,you will be self dependent,but very valuable and reliable to your co-op teams,And you will look godly in style while dishing the pain with relative ease.Just choose an offensive strategy that works for you and stick to the formula.one strategy I like to use is to take out the archers especially the poison and fire arrows.They can cripple your kill strategy.so take them out first so u never have to be interrupted while reviving someone or trying to finish off an enemy that is if you don’t have your ultimate ability ready yet.You will love your Samurai....
@@aryanmada8474 Wow that's a great roll! As for the kunai, it can drop for any class. I've gotten it for multiple. I don't think different classes increase drop rate for the kunai. So just keep grinding and pray to the RNG gods. Best of luck
It wasn't 96.6% blade radius it was 98.8%. But that's huge its triple radius the blessed strikes lowered heal. Or do u have to get the charm to max level
I use the shogun charm that gives you immunity to poison and blind, now don’t need to worry to white sparking screen and green screen and can see the fight very well and not running and rolling blind. But I have one samurai charm I will switch to.
Yeah I highly encourage you to try blessed strikes on the samurai charm! You saw how much healing it got me in the vid. It's pretty awesome! That being said, I understand you 100% I freaking hate poison and blindness
Yes that sounds like a very nice charm to have but that’s pretty much all it’s useful for.But your right I do get annoyed by those poison arrows when they hit me and they often leave me open for attacks.
@@GaroShadowscale ...hey thanks for the guide.However they don’t mention the epic charms which some of them are exclusive to the epic class of charms.Like Ronin and samurai charms for example.I highly doubt there’s legendary samurai charm lol.And I hope there never won’t be because that means if I want to equip 2 legendary items I’ll have to sacrifice my ultimate ability from the cool & helpful 5 strikes down to only 3.And also I won’t be able to equip the legendary kunai.Now after watching your samurai build video I have an important question to ask.Why should I choose the epic water sword over the Yoshitsune’s hand ? I mean naturally by default, the Yoshitsune’s hand is already a water sword.Would it make any difference if I just add way of the flame to it ? That way I equip it as my legendary sword that already comes included with the 30% chance to stagger and if I add way of the flame I’ll be good right ? Thanks again GaroShadowScale...anyone who’s having doubts about the samurai class or have seen countless vids on ultimate samurai class don’t look any further coz GaroShadowScale’s ultimate samurai is the real deal folks.
Just for other people who are doing this sort of build. While it's really good, I would say having water stance isn't a prerequisite. I run a stone stance sword and I've found out a combo with extremely fast animations, even faster than surging strikes if you're able to execute it well. All you need to do is hit Square, then Triangle, then repeat it. Because the first animation for the fast and heavy strikes are always the fastest. This way if you're doing explosive blade with blessed strikes, you can heal more at a faster rate and tank enemies faster.
Hmm, that's an interesting idea that I haven't tried. Thanks for the info! That being said, shield enemies will now be a problem in addition to spear enemies. Yes this build has 2 weapon buffs to help with them, but that's still 2 separate categories of enemies which might be too much to keep up with even with the 2 buffs and spirit kunai
Of course! Something that works for me might not work for someone else afterall, to compensate for that I end up having dirt throw with the weaken perk and I have a fuckton of CD that works else with it as well. It just works so well with explosive blade I needed to share it.
Hey thanks, that really means a lot to hear. I didn't think any of my Tsushima subs still remembered me or watched my vids. I'll be honest though, I haven't even played the new multiplayer content yet, and it might stay that way. I spent months figuring out what the majority of my subscriberbase wants, and I think my newest vids are on the right track. It took a lot of effort to make these guide vids, and I honestly didn't really feel that the viewership transferred to the rest of my vids or to my overall channel very well
Sweet vid good advice but how on earth do you get blessed strikes? What's the best possible way to try farm them and is there any criteria you need to meet for all the classes before it's possible to unlock ? Ta, some yorkshire man x
Just need to grind until you get a samurai charm then reforge until you hit desired level, reforge again until you get the desired 2 bonus properties and finally reroll the third property until you get blessed strikes. It does drain you resources though.
Sadly there's no way around that currently except praying to the RNG gods while you grind. Make sure you're playing as samurai though. The class-specific charms only drop while playing as that class. So you have to play as a ronin to have a chance of a ronin charm dropping. You have to play as a samurai to have a chance of the samurai charm dropping, etc. As for the perks (like blessed strikes), again, RNG gods. You'll have to reroll on that samurai charm till you get the stats you want. And honestly, if you're broke on resources, don't worry about the first 2 perks too much. Just focus on getting blessed strikes
Okay I have a question that might sound stupid the cool down decrease on kill does it affect everything and do you have to actually kill an enemy with that ghost weapon to activate the cooldown And does the cooldown stack so if you keep killing an enemy the cooldown would keep stacking?
It depends. Hold R2 when looking at the modifications for the item to check. I think the ghost weapon CD decrease on kill only affects both ghost weapons, and the kill does not have to be with the ghost weapon (because even smoke bombs can have it). And yes the cooldown reduction should keep stacking as you kill enemies (though tbh I haven't kept an eye on it. I assume it's not buggy.). However, if you get the CD reduction on kill modification for a charm, it might be a bit different. Just hold R2 to check for yourself. I don't remember the specifics
Super cool man. Quick question, if the Blessed Strikes perk currently has "???" when I tried to reroll my gear, I could not get it from reroll, right? I guess I have to farm for a charm that has Blessed Strikes first before I can reroll for that perk? Thank you so much!
Could I get a brief list or screenshot of the build summary? I hate to keep digging through the video to try and find what I need when I play my Samurai. Please and thank you!
Sorry man but I made this vid months ago. I haven't even launched the game in a while. I remember showing summaries in some of these build guide videos but I know I forgot to in one or more of them
Dude just do what I did…use your phone and snap photos of the build and keep your phone next to you when your equipping your gear…so you see exactly what you have and what your missing.
@@GaroShadowscale shadowscale,after a months of the initial game release I’m playing it again this time on the PlayStation 5 and your strategy still works just like it did a year ago.you are a true samurai god
@@GaroShadowscale hey Garo I know it’s almost a year since u made these legends videos…with the more DLC announcing soon would be doing another in depth video strategy ?
I dont like using the kunai but ill give this a shot. I'm just too impatient to wait and time my kunai throws. I just want to button mash and get kills lol. My current build revolves around me taking damage to build my resolve and I spam it.
It does result in a slight variation of pacing, yes, but not by much! It's worth it for the significant reduction in Cooldowns, and you get used to it. Use what you enjoy and what works for you though
You have super massive as the perk for the kunai but there is a perk that increases the thrown kunai to 5 i think that one might be a bit better as you have more kunai to gain more kills to get the cdr more
Not for nightmare/raid. The enemies are really tanky and you want to ensure that you can get at least one kill, so you want to maximize the damage per kunai. Maybe the 5 kunai would work better for the lower difficulties, but for the endgame, you want to make it as reliable as possible for you to secure at least one kill per kunai throw. If you run the 5 kunai modification, then you will have more difficulty even securing 1 kunai kill at nightmare/raid difficulty
So, water master's advantage is that it's always active. Way of the flame will only benefit you when you activate the ability. I would say that water master will do better when shredding tankier oni enemies that don't block anyway. However, way of the flame's advantage is that it's unblockable. Since water stance isn't effective against spear enemies, Way of the Flame gives you a way to shred them
Good question! I tried water master at one point. While it is true that if you're smacking oni constantly, you'll get more value out of water master since that buff is constant, Way of the Flame is solid burst damage that is UNBLOCKABLE. That means you can tear through any guard, including spear enemies, which is where water master will struggle. And thanks to spirit kunai, you can have solid uptime on way of the flame if you use the kunai properly. So yes I would absolutely use way of the flame over water master for this build. Without spirit kunai though, I'd be less sure.
Nice reply. I switched to way of the flame and its 10 times better. By far my favorite build. Farming the stupid blast radius perk on my charm but besides that, almost there!
EQUIP A LONG BOW. You can get the versatile perk on a long bow and equip it to samurai to have a decent ranged weapon. It’s still not great but it’s better then the half bow imo. Also I think smoke bomb is a better option then caltrops.
If you're focus is ranged damage, then by all means go ahead. However, this samurai build isn't about ranged damage so the bow is only used for resolve gain. The shortbow shoots faster and will get you resolve quicker, and since we can run helmet penetration (which versatile wouldn't allow), we'll always be able to headshot any enemy to get that extra resolve Also smoke bomb can be used if you really feel you need a defensive option, but you will lose out on melee stagger damage, ghost weapon damage, and the stagger damage caused by the caltrop AoE on the ground. I have never felt that I needed a smoke bomb while using this build, except in last week's nightmare story to revive my downed teammate since those rapid fire oni archers wouldn't let me, otherwise
Long bow is nice for sniping archers. I find the half bow damage is too low for archer sniping and that’s really the only time I ever use range on my samurai. Smoke bomb is pretty great imo. I’ll take the ability to neutralize an entire zone over a bit of ghost and stagger damage.
I have a similar build but i use master katana w moon master w blessed strike and Dirt throw w rancid. I find the spirit kunai is amazing only for large groups of small soldiers. I rather have the master katana to stagger the onis easily
@@weslee6637 the how the hell i always take dmg when using moon stance? I must be doing something wrong, the only thing i do right with moon stance are the kicks to the onis and those annoying teleport archers
@@Abbe10able Just need to be more perceptive of your opponents attacks. The heavy attacks do not interupt anything instantly, only regular brute oni. Any other weapon class oni/ purple onis are going to continue attacking you. So you need to be prepared to do one or two strikes, then cancel out and dodge, even if you're missing out on the damage of the third strike.
@@Abbe10able U have to make sure u have blessed strikes and have the life steal on if u want to just tank blows. If you can possible start the fight off with the dirt throw u can spin for free into them.
Well first I say I hope your using a samurai while trying to get it, but if you aren't, you can only get class specific charms by playing that specific class. But if you're doing it the right way i honestly think you should keep grinding for it, I have it myself and I can assure you it is worth it. If you're just doing story with no luck, try survival, I get tons of good loot there :)
@@tmntreaper2900 i was, i grinded with my samurai from rank 20 til 40, then i got bored and started getting other classes to 20. Now my ronin survived nightmare survival last night, and my samurai can only do nightmare story when lucky.
We're here before GaroShadowscale stops answering all comments since he'll hace too much afterwards XD. I'm waiting for your Assassin build. Do you have one? I run mine with Spirit Kunai also :). It's AMAZING, people sleep on that legendary man lol.
@@GaroShadowscale happy to say I got one if anyone is wondering a decent way to get one i ran severd hearts gold till I got one took a bit but worth it
I am definitely going for this build. However gears are RNG so how do I get legendary kunai or water katana epic at 105 ? I assume you reforge every 105 gear to 110?
I found as I died with 4 or 5 hits I got my super so quick then I add 50 health and killed with my super then use spirit pull and blazen strike to get health back full.sence the update finding it hard to get resources to roll on gear
@@GaroShadowscale honestly its the most op legendary. My friend and I were helping this dude grind on bronze and he would throw it and immediately get it back it was like unlimited
@@GaroShadowscale No no no i know how to do his ultimate. But i mean the attacks with your katana. You are doing it in every video and it seems effective. But thanks for responding.
@@mmatej_44 Oh! That's water stance. While in water stance with the katana, hold triangle for a second then release and immediately start mashing triangle after the release
Hmm, I remember not being impressed with moon stance and master last time I tried it, but it has been a while. I can't imagine it does well against shield or spear enemies though, plus you give up way of the flame, so that's one less cooldown you can use to cut through their guards. It's also one less cooldown that can benefit from spirit kunai's 15s reduction on kill
@@GaroShadowscale yeah it has it's niche uses, mainly just Survival even on Nightmare, and wouldn't pair well with your build. But thought I'd bring it up /shrug I didn't really think it was that great until I tried it and like I said very niche uses, mainly just Survival NM.
This is a good video but there is a reason I stopped playing Samurai, that is because this build is extremely hard to play. The problem is that the healing completely depends on Explosive blades being active, and the issue you get is while it is active, killing an enemy will not take away from the cooldown since the cooldown hasn't yet began. You'll be left running around trying to judge when an enemy has low enough health to get the killing blow with the kunai but making sure explosive blades cooldown has started. It's why I switched to Hunter / Ronin. The samurai needs a huge buff
You're right about needing to make sure explosive blade is finished before throwing the kunai, but you can get the feel for that over time with practice! Oddly enough it seems like way of the flame does not have the same issue and can get the -15s CD reduction even while it's active. But yeah I do wish the CD for explosive blades would start right when popping the ability. While that is a headache though, Samurai is my favorite class and honestly I'm happy with it where it is. He has very strong self-sustain and solid damage. I do wish team comps weren't as dependent on Ronin though. Ronin are just so insanely strong, which is why I play it more than Samurai too. If they could somehow balance team comps so that Ronin was still strong but not as necessary in compositions, then that might indirectly buff other classes
@@GaroShadowscale I started as a Samurai but I changed realising he's too weak for me. Hunter damage from far is literally crazy with skipping stones and pin point. I watched your Ronin video too, I run the same build but with spirit dog with larger healing radius. Not only does that took attract aggro, additionally heals you, can't die while he's active, is active for longer than samurai class ability and his cooldown is affected the moment he's launched meaning you can start reducing his cooldown at any point without some huge gap. I feel it is way better than the samurai class ability.
@Gutts....I partially agree with you. No class is perfect and even the samurai class has its weaknesses.The samurai’s strengths far outweighs its weaknesses.You have to develop your attack plan and stick to it.GaroShadowScale’s take on the samurai build actually works and you can find tune it to your liking.Yes your right the healing process depends on the explosive blade but once that’s used up to heal you,you have your way of the flame at your disposal and if you water stance that you quickly can fill up your resolve to unleash a hatchiman’s fury.if that’s used up u can dish out your kunai and if it’s a group of enemies coming after you simply drop your caltrops to slow them down also disrupting them briefly from doing their attacks this is where you u go in and score some quick surging strikes with your water stance..
Heavenly strike sucks on nightmare survival . It Dosent deal much damage at all. I used masters katana with water master and it absolutely shreds. I finally did nm survival without loosing a defence area today. Thanks for the tips bro
Why water master over moon master on that sword? It is the one i use the most (specially water stance) but always choose moon master for the 3 spins (despite the fact most of the times i die is when doing the spins 😅)
Zieg30 I rarely use moon stance and I too die when I use it hahaa. I use mostly wind and water so I had to go with water master. Even moon master is great but I need to get used to that stance. I’m bad at it
Smoke is a defensive option if you want it, but you will lose a bit of kunai damage and melee stagger damage if you take it. I personally have been fine without it
I found that extra blades is more for hitting multiple enemies at once rather than maximizing damage on individual enemies. I even tried getting up close to "shotgun" someone with it, and I didn't find it very reliable. Super massive is much more consistent and ensures maximum damage per kunai
@Garoshadowscale....a random PSN player whom I met in Nightmare Survival referred me to you and told how amazing you are.In a samurai class at Rank 47 level 106.I’m only at level 106 instead of 110 only because I just can’t seem to find the perfect ultimate samurai of war.Now thanks to your legendary tips and secret I owe you a lot.if your going to Raid up or Survival nightmare please invite me. PSN Beioved_Samurai Thank you.We must always honor the code of the Samurai.
@@GaroShadowscale he was telling me to look up your name on RUclips from both our headsets so it just happens I had my phone right next to me then he saids it’s one of your videos that was recently uploaded on the samurai build that’s how was able to find you.Shadowscale, your a fast talker and I love that.Nobody explains the intricacies on how the class/perk system works in legends better than you.please tell me what’s the most efficient way to gain honor points because I need those to reforge and re-roll perks...sadly raid is not matchmaking so I don’t know anyone who will invite me.and people keeps quitting in nightmare survival like 5 minutes into the first wave I don’t know why.anyway please keep up the fine work.add me to your friends list...Beioved_Samurai.
@@Final_Fantasy_7 I appreciate that! Unfortunately I think efficient raid runs are the fastest way to get honor now. I'm not aware of any exploits atm. No way around the grind, I'm afraid 😓
@@GaroShadowscale what you mean with grind ? I mostly play with samurai ( except for ranking each class to 20 ) but I still not have it.I was wondering if there is a section where it drops like story,survival or fast play
@@AzumiNL I'm not aware if there's any difference in drop rate for it depending on whether you're playing story, survival, or even the raid. You should get it eventually as long as you're playing as samurai. Keep trying and pray to the RNG gods
I have a similar build I made a week ago but it does more damage and has more sustain. Just wanted to say masamunes edge is worth it with "Way of the flame". For sheildmen and swordsmen you can just counter or run at them and kill them stupid quick if you have the dmg and utility. AND YOU COMPLETELY COUNTER WIND ENEMIES. Which helps against ONI SPEARMEN and BRUTES with the WIND STANCE KICK.
But you lose water stance. You lose the fast combo and the versatility against other enemies. Wind stance has the slowest combos and they leave you wide open. Combine surging strikes from water stance with way of the flame and you tear through enemies. If you're stuck with wind stance, then either you're doing the slow wind stance attacks or hitting square for the basic attacks that slow down after a few hits. If the 20% chance to deal damage legendary bonus was on a water katana instead, I'd strongly consider it! But losing out on water stance just for that damage bonus isn't worth it
@@GaroShadowscale Well to counter the slow attacks just side dodge and continue. And I kill most enemies so fast from the dmg it tends to not matter if that last attack is slow as long as their guard is open. Surging strikes damage doesnt even do as much as the stone stance pierce attacks. If it was on water instead then those quick attacks X2 would not deal a lot of dmg. Sure its fast and a lot of attacks but your multiplying a lot of weak attacks that accumulate too be strong at the end. So I dont see how multiplying a small dmg number could be all that beneficial. To play wind you need skill. You have to be able to perfect parry and perfect dodge. But it's not all the time, especially when you have way of the flame and explosive strikes. Also Water Stance is trash against breaking Oni's guards who dont have shields. And even the Oni with the spear and shield still takes significant stamina dmg to their guard from wind. And the Oni brutes as well. I tested it to see how versatile it was and I found it to be the best stance in my opinion. A big part of it is taking spearmen out of the picture and being able to easily take out smaller enemies with the kick IF NEEDED and like I said the stam dmg and restarting the chain for fast attacks. WATER STANCE IS ONLY REALLY NEEDED FOR THOSE WHO CANT PERFECT PARRY OR FIND IT HARD TO FIGHT SHIELDMAN. Otherwise it's not needed. Especially when it's not good against Oni's
@@danielcolby7920 You can literally break the guard of a standard spear/shield oni with a single water stance combo with this exact build. And you're not just doing stamina damage, you're doing hp damage at the same time, all while rapidly applying whatever buff effect (explosive blade and/or way of the flame) and generating resolve extremely quickly while doing a rapid combo that's easy to cancel into a perfect parry or perfect dodge if needed. Unlike wind stance where you'd be locked in a long combo and unable to cancel at times to perfect parry or perfect dodge a separate enemy, you can heavily pressure a singular enemy and be ready at literally any moment to perfect parry/dodge another enemy. You do have to perfect dodge/parry on wind because you don't have a choice. It's too risky for you to be aggressive. That's not the case with water. I literally have zero problem with spearmen thanks to the low cooldown of these buffs with spirit kunai. So I fail to see how this build is for people who "can't perfect parry."
@@GaroShadowscale I never said the """"""""build"""""""" I said water stance is. Those problems you talk about with wind stance I have not encountered and of course wind stance is still going to be better at deleting wind enemies while your attacking. And I'm not sure if you realized but hitting triangle against spearmen counters them endlessly including Oni spearmen (at least half their Oni spearmen attacks) and your doing more dmg than water stance can against that type. But yeah Water Stance is for people who cant deal with shields very well (All you have to do is counter it doesnt take long either if you do a lot of dmg) because at high lvls of play like nightmare it's no good against the most prominent enemy, ONI. You dont always have to counter btw. You can run up and slash them down before their guard comes up lol. Although I will have to check out resolve gains and if it really helps apply status effects as much as you emphasized.
@@danielcolby7920 @Daniel Colby using wind stance only means you literally have to wait out and bait attacks which feeds into less overall dps and damage idk why you have this like elitist attitude towards ppl who use water stance, you can be amazing at the game and use water stance because it's the most logical stance to use since it stunlocks every enemy in the game shreds stamina bars and has highest dps it is literally meta lol like you cannot argue against it water stance has the highest dps and stagger potential against every enemy besides spear guys which at that point doesn't matter since you can easily do as you've been saying and that's perfect parrying them or dodging they attack quick enough compared to other enemies so u can break their guard with a parry much quicker or nearly at the same time as someone holding triangle to kick. Wind stance is cool and all but water stance trumps it in every situation it's just the better stance and has a higher chance at double damage. I personally use masamune with water stance and oni dmg and melee damage and it performs the same as this guy's build if not better because I can run smoke bombs and sticky bombs while keeping same @Daniel Colby using wind stance only means you literally have to wait out and bait attacks which feeds into less overall dps and damage idk why you have this like elitist attitude towards ppl who use water stance, you can be amazing at the game and use water stance because it's the most logical stance to use since it stunlocks every enemy in the game shreds stamina bars and has highest dps it is literally meta lol like you cannot argue against it water stance has the highest dps and stagger potential against every enemy besides spear guys which at that point doesn't matter since you can easily do as you've been saying and that's perfect parrying them or dodging they attack quick enough compared to other enemies so u can break their guard with a parry much quicker or nearly at the same time as someone holding triangle to kick. Wind stance is cool and all but water stance trumps it in every situation it's just the better stance and has a higher chance at double damage. I personally use masamune with water stance and oni dmg and melee damage and it performs the same as this guy's build if not better because I can run smoke bombs and sticky bombs while keeping same survivability. This game doesn't have a high skill ceiling either it's extremely casual so lose the "wind stance requires skill attitude" as it doesn't youre gimping yourself because of that superiority attitude
I feel like I'm the only person who can't stand Way of the Flame as well as Heavenly Strike because I accidentally activate them when dodging or using my heavy slash and trying to dodge. Happens more with HS than WotF but it still happens often enough that I don't like it.
Yeah I know what you mean. When you're focusing a target down with your katana, try to wait about a half second before throwing your kunai to finish them off. If you throw it right away, it'll go right through them for some reason
Just a heads up, some Resolve Gain perks are not functioning in case you are using them: www.reddit.com/r/ghostoftsushima/comments/jm6dge/range_resolve_gain_not_working_no_benefit/ I know some people run these builds to spam ultimates.
Wow... I guess I shouldn't assume that their perks function as intended. I was not aware of this; that's definitely a bug. Hopefully they'll patch it at least as fast as they patched the loot glitches. In the meantime it's probably better to run reload speed instead of ranged resolve gain, to maximize fire rate for the bow to indirectly maximize resolve gain. Honestly though, the bow is so rarely used for my Samurai that I probably won't bother rerolling it. Thanks for the heads up
I admittedly haven't dabbled much with poison. Afaik it's stagger damage over time. With water stance and either Way of the flame or/and Explosive blade active, I tear through health and stamina very quickly while doing surging strikes
@@GaroShadowscale I have to admit I don't play alot of nightmare I played it once this week. I use all tier 3 ability on samurai and siphon Master katana with poison (Because all stance) And the legendary kunai for more stagger and CD effect is nice Poison seems to proc once on literally everything I hit. The damage isn't let's say as fast as fire bomb ronin or explosive/headshot huntards but for a extremely tanky heavy surviabilty build it's really solid damage especially if you can parry, witch let's face it you really shouldn't be in nightmare playing samurai if you can't parry 😆
i dnno i was using explosive blade with the samurai as i misread it as i only thought blessed strike heals you when exploding blade is active but you can siphon 2 enemies health and attack an enemy while consistantly giving yourself health back and continously getting up and getting attacked while filling your resolve faster by being hit and dealing damage. i don't think explosive blade is that good. with the samurai you want his ult as fast as possible to deal with the spear demon oni's every other enemy is easy to deal with. i had 10 damage, 77 explosive impact and blessed strike but when you come up against 3 oni at once in the later rounds of survival you're kind of out of luck if u don't have his ult imo and even with all the high damage buffs which i had on my samurai it still takes forever to widdle down the spear onis health. But then again definately looks like there is a big difference between the 80% mark radius oppose to the 77% radius. I think the developers did a really amazing job creating the abilities, a lot of different ways to handle a scenario.
The double siphon definitely adds extra healing, but I don't see it as necessary. I prefer the damage and CC bonus from Explosive blade, and thanks to the radius, it can work in a decent sized AoE too. Surging strikes from water stance is a very fast combo that can get you resolve and healing quickly, especially while explosive blade is active. Yes those spear demon oni can be a pain but I don't think siphoning extra hp is the answer. If anything, applying more pressure with explosive blade should help and still get you more than enough healing But yes, very true! Many different ways to approach these situations
@@GaroShadowscale true. pretty interesting the difference between the 77 mark of the explosive blade and the 80 mark, very noticeable, their is not much aoe damage in the 77 mark when using the ability. i have to use the master katana and change the stances up otherwise i find it boring. god those oni spear demonds are ffing annoying. btw what diod u do to farm just play gold missions?
@@GaroShadowscale wondering what if you had 2 siphon health and had super armour so you consistantly get hit but are consistantly healing and consistantly in battle when vsing the onis and when you get hit it feels the resolve up quicker? i'm gonna try that.
@@jeremyp2164 Well, if you run super armor, you lose blessed strikes. I'm not sure the double siphon is enough to make up for that, depending on how much damage you're taking. Also I used a loot glitch that I made a video on. It's patched now though, sadly
Hyperarmor as in not getting staggered while attacking? This is for raid/nightmare difficulty, which means that enemies hit very hard. I wouldn't make a build that plans on taking damage since death will do more than just stagger you
@@GaroShadowscale You know how incredible the healing ability is. As long as you have explosive blade activated, it heals you to full HP in two spins because you can hit multiple enemies. The way of flame + explosive blade + blessed strike combo is pretty nice, but your flow can get stopped by enemies with hyper armor. The priority here should always be keeping your attacks going. At least for me the spinning master + blessed strike+ explosive blade served me better in nightmare survival.
@@ncgzeal Hmm, I get where you're coming from. I haven't tried it myself as I'm very attached to the versatility and speed of water stance. I'm a bit worried about the single target DPS capabilities of moon stance for non-brutes though. And while spirit kunai reduces cooldowns significantly, it doesn't completely eliminate them. Using that same strategy while explosive blade is on cooldown is dangerous It's an interesting concept though! And I'm glad it's working for you
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@@alphawolf32 Honestly I don't run the fire anymore. It's not worth it. I actually just made this ronin build video to show you what I run now: ruclips.net/video/1MCpNlvjvhI/видео.html
I've got to say, thos is probably one of the best builds I've seen for the samurai on RUclips, good job man👍🏼
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Why did i discovered this channel only the last week??? It's soooooo underrated... it's gonna hit hundred thousands of subs asap, it's too good
Thank you so much!! That really means a lot to hear
I gotta say hun that is actually some helpful info, put detail and took the time to explain everything. Thanks little drake
You're very welcome! I'm super happy to hear you found it helpful! I might make some for the other classes too
@@GaroShadowscale well i look forward to any and all of your videos keep it up hun, can't wait to see more!
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Subscribed! I was playing assassin because I love sneaking around and planning my strategy of stealth kills, but you’re making the samurai look real fun.
Thank you! And yeah, it's my favorite even if I play ronin the most since it's so op
This is the coolest build I’ve seen, super excited to try and replicate, thanks!
Thank you! And you're welcome! Best of luck
Hey man, you're gonna hit 100k subs pretty soon, I can feel it. You've got the "stuff" that the big streamers have :)
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Subscribed finally a build that I was looking for, and I had no idea about the legendary kunai great video and thanks.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful
this build actually sounds amazing, i will definitely give it a go
Thank you! Best of luck
Please use R2 to show all gear attributes at once. Makes copying the build much easier.
Ahhh, good suggestion! I'll remember that in the future, thanks
@@GaroShadowscale Would it be too much trouble to ask for a screenshot of the quick R2 summary? I'm collecting build formulas for quick reference. :)
@@RCDeschene I haven't even booted up the game in a couple months now, so sadly can't do that
Nice vid. I have a similar build with my samurai but u gave me some food for thought, good stuff
Happy to hear it! Best of luck
Excellent video! This build is sick dude
Thank you! Happy to hear it
Completed my first nightmare survival nearly the same set up, albeit I went with increased parry at low health. Blessed strikes are a god send. Still grinding to unlock more stuff but modding samurai charm to get this was worth it.
Happy to hear it! Keep it up
Really digging your videos! Your character is definitely a tank
Thank you! I appreciate it
Great video bud! Enjoyed it. Would like to see hunter and assassin!
Thank you! Working on it! I hope to have hunter out tonight! Make sure you sub and hit the noti bell so you don't miss it
@GaroShadowScale....I just wana give you a BIG thanks.Your samurai build has worked so well for me It would be foolish of me to change up anything and expect better results.Back then I could of never dream of playing solo on gold story or even nightmare story.Because of you,my samurai is so powerful I can now breeze through solo gold story with relative ease and it’s never been so satisfying than it is now lol lol...I love the samurai class,it was the first class I started playing with.I got so comfortable with playing with the samurai class I don’t even want to play with another class.i just can’t abandon the Samurai code,otherwise the shogunate will come after me lol lol lol lmao 😂....Please invite me when your playing survival nightmare I haven’t had the chance to enjoy it coz people keep quitting like 5 minutes into the start of the first wave.Thanks Again.
You're so welcome dude! I'm really really happy to hear that! That means a lot to me!
Hah, alright! I won't be playing the game much more. I'm gonna make the hunter and assassin build vids then I think I'm done! But if you want to be a part of the survival nightmare test runs while I work on the vid, join my discord! We can chat about it there: discord.gg/garoshadowscale
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Very helpful to know. Thanks for this bro!
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I run something similar but I use master katana with moon for aoe damage and since enemies can't stun you while doing it you become a spinning deity of destruction with explosive blade.
I think a Ronin is best tank. Run healing gourd for 10% dmg reduction defense charm for another 10% dmg reduction with leeching parry or more health. Weaning burst for 25% more damage reduction. And the rest is up to you :). this means you get 45% innate damage reduction with a self heal. Maybe spirit kunai for cool down reduction or the charm that prevents you from dying or forbidden medicine for the legendary. Enjoy!
But then that explosive blade becomes a lengthy cooldown that you can't mitigate since you're using a legendary katana, unless you gave up the two extra ult strikes to make room for the kunai. That's a damage loss. Plus since this build uses the kunai, you want more cooldowns that will synergize with the kunai, hence way of the flame. Water stance with way of the flame on a manageable cooldown will make it so that you can take on any category of enemy in the game. Sure it's not as optimal as having all four stances, but keeping the four stances isn't worth what you have to give up to maintain access to them
There's no need to build ronin so tanky. You can have strong survivability and support and still deal solid damage: ruclips.net/video/1MCpNlvjvhI/видео.html
@@GaroShadowscale hence why the Ronin is best tank :) not samurai
I agree spirit kunai are good and so is this build, this is an alternative since if you mess up kunai (which does happen) then your out of options anyway
This build is amazing! Really appreciate the vid, I went ahead and built this for my samurai and absolutely love it.
Are there any plans to make an assassin build video? I feel like a lot players don’t know how to fine tune that class, included myself 😅
Anyways, you got a subscriber for life keep up the great work/vids love the raptor 🙂
Thank you so much! And yes! I'm making a hunter build video next but after that will be Assassin
I run the perk that lets you have 2 legendaries equipped on my hunter just so i can run both stone skipper bow and spirit kunai, that 15 second cooldown reduction is so good, having exploding arrow available almost all the time just melts groups in survival. Will definitely try this build if RNG ever blesses my Samurai with a charm :(
The rng grind is bloody. But better than most games. And the best part is that Legends is free 😁
Makes sense! Spirit kunai is just that awesome! And best of luck with the drops
I will definitely try and copy this build! Have you got any other builds for the other classes on the way too¿ This is some insightful content right here.
Thank you! This is my only up to date build video. I do have a ronin build video as well but it's slightly outdated. I aim to make build videos like this for all the other classes in the very near future
@@GaroShadowscale Fair enough man, I'll keep my eyes peeled out for them then especially the new ronin build 👀. Other than that keep you the great content!
Thanks mate. Imma do it!🔥
You're welcome! Best of luck
You have another subscriber, thanks for this build and specially the one for the ronin... My samurai is built around ultimate resolve and dmg, but feel that this build is better for the raid and nightmare survival.
Thank you so much! And you're very welcome! I'm happy I could help
Thank you.
You're welcome! Best of luck 😃
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For my samurai build I use a similar build but the couple of things I use that are different are: instead of way of the flame I use water master which increases the damage with every flurry which takes one flurry to take a standard enemy down. I also use the 10% melee damage technique instead of the 25% health. So with everything stacked up it adds an extra 40% melee damage ( samurai charm, and kunai both also have melee damage as well as the water katana). I don’t have spirit kunai so I use the epic kunai and do the same build. And lastly I have the ledendary healing smoke bombs for my 2nd ghost weapon. Which that added with the blessed strikes it’s very rare if I go down, I probably go down only once or twice in a match if that (for survival). So In summary with 40% stacked melee damage combined with water master added flurry damage, you are an absolute unstoppable monster in any game format you choose whether it be raids or survival or missions. But I will say if I had the spirit kunai I would probably use that, but the legendary healing smoke is very clutch because it’s another healing option as well as an ability to build resolve fast with assassinations. If anyone wants to try this build I suggest it very highly. I average 240 kills per survival match and as stated I rarely go down it’s very fun.
If you feel that you don't need the extra 25 hp, then you can rock 10% extra melee damage for sure! I'm sticking with the 25 extra hp for nightmare/raid since it saves my life sometimes though
As for Water Master, don't forget that way of the flame is also unblockable, so it helps a lot with spear enemies where your water stance is normally ineffective. But yes, water master will always be in effect while way of the flame will only be relevant while it's active. That being said, I didn't feel water master added that much more damage.
Also remember that spirit kunai gets you all of your cooldowns back faster, including way of the flame and explosive blade and the kunai itself and caltrops! I'd recommend giving it a shot!
The healing from legendary smoke is alright and it gives you temporary peace and quiet, but since you're not an assassin, your dps will go down while going through the slow animations of critical strikes and assassinations. With spirit kunai, you'll get your explosive blade back way more frequently which means much more uptime on blessed strikes
Thank you for sharing and best of luck with your matches
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I’m sold on the Spirit Kunai! You should be sponsored by it lol
Bahaha thanks
@@GaroShadowscale Thank you so much for the tip of how to use the Kunai "properly". I have missed 50% or more... I almost stop using it! Can't get 15 seconds cool down hitting thin air...
@@keov7524 My pleasure! Happy to help
I gotta try this because I have definitely hit a wall when trying to do nightmare survival.
Sure thing! Best of luck
bro the dinosaur sold it for me man, i love this channel, down to run raids?
Thank you! Happy to hear it! And honestly I don't really do the raid anymore. I didn't really enjoy Chapters 1 and 2, and I've already played the heck out of Chapter 3
Folks this vid is the real deal DON’T LOOK ANY FURTHER !! I was able to slice through the crow men like a hot knife through butter !!!...I use to fear the crow men on both story,survival,and nightmare story modes.Never again,in fact i take the fight to them with way of the flame + surging strikes combo.Before they can even spit their crows at me they are already dead.Because way of the flame is an unblock-able attack. And we all know the crow men are the toughest enemies in the game.And if you pop your ultimate ability and activate explosive blade at the same time,u would have already killed both of them in 2 strikes while the other 3 takes out any enemies nearest to you and your completely refilling your health all at the same time wow.Now that is bad ass.The samurai class is the most efficient,fast,and extremely powerful class of the 4.And best of all,your Samurai will no longer be dependent on Ronins for heal,no health drums either.Bottom line,you gain complete health while killing,you often will eliminate most of the enemies on screen,your kills streaks will be unmatched,you will be self dependent,but very valuable and reliable to your co-op teams,And you will look godly in style while dishing the pain with relative ease.Just choose an offensive strategy that works for you and stick to the formula.one strategy I like to use is to take out the archers especially the poison and fire arrows.They can cripple your kill strategy.so take them out first so u never have to be interrupted while reviving someone or trying to finish off an enemy that is if you don’t have your ultimate ability ready yet.You will love your Samurai....
I'm really glad to hear the build is working so well for you! And thanks for the kind words
Nice guide but I was distracted by the taking dine all the time :D.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it
Time to begin my hunt Thank u I scribed(:
You're welcome! Good luck
I got the explosive blade radius on 96.6% but iam still hunting for the kunai what's the best way to get it?
@@aryanmada8474 Wow that's a great roll! As for the kunai, it can drop for any class. I've gotten it for multiple. I don't think different classes increase drop rate for the kunai. So just keep grinding and pray to the RNG gods. Best of luck
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It wasn't 96.6% blade radius it was 98.8%. But that's huge its triple radius the blessed strikes lowered heal. Or do u have to get the charm to max level
I use the shogun charm that gives you immunity to poison and blind, now don’t need to worry to white sparking screen and green screen and can see the fight very well and not running and rolling blind. But I have one samurai charm I will switch to.
Yeah I highly encourage you to try blessed strikes on the samurai charm! You saw how much healing it got me in the vid. It's pretty awesome! That being said, I understand you 100% I freaking hate poison and blindness
There’s a Shogun Charm ? Wow. I wonder how many epic and legendary charms are there.
@@Final_Fantasy_7 There are 5 legendary charms: gamertweak.com/ghost-of-tsushima-legends-all-legendary-item-guide/
Yes that sounds like a very nice charm to have but that’s pretty much all it’s useful for.But your right I do get annoyed by those poison arrows when they hit me and they often leave me open for attacks.
@@GaroShadowscale ...hey thanks for the guide.However they don’t mention the epic charms which some of them are exclusive to the epic class of charms.Like Ronin and samurai charms for example.I highly doubt there’s legendary samurai charm lol.And I hope there never won’t be because that means if I want to equip 2 legendary items I’ll have to sacrifice my ultimate ability from the cool & helpful 5 strikes down to only 3.And also I won’t be able to equip the legendary kunai.Now after watching your samurai build video I have an important question to ask.Why should I choose the epic water sword over the Yoshitsune’s hand ? I mean naturally by default, the Yoshitsune’s hand is already a water sword.Would it make any difference if I just add way of the flame to it ? That way I equip it as my legendary sword that already comes included with the 30% chance to stagger and if I add way of the flame I’ll be good right ? Thanks again GaroShadowScale...anyone who’s having doubts about the samurai class or have seen countless vids on ultimate samurai class don’t look any further coz GaroShadowScale’s ultimate samurai is the real deal folks.
Just for other people who are doing this sort of build. While it's really good, I would say having water stance isn't a prerequisite. I run a stone stance sword and I've found out a combo with extremely fast animations, even faster than surging strikes if you're able to execute it well. All you need to do is hit Square, then Triangle, then repeat it. Because the first animation for the fast and heavy strikes are always the fastest. This way if you're doing explosive blade with blessed strikes, you can heal more at a faster rate and tank enemies faster.
Hmm, that's an interesting idea that I haven't tried. Thanks for the info! That being said, shield enemies will now be a problem in addition to spear enemies. Yes this build has 2 weapon buffs to help with them, but that's still 2 separate categories of enemies which might be too much to keep up with even with the 2 buffs and spirit kunai
Of course! Something that works for me might not work for someone else afterall, to compensate for that I end up having dirt throw with the weaken perk and I have a fuckton of CD that works else with it as well. It just works so well with explosive blade I needed to share it.
Hey man have you played the new rivals yet waiting on a build from you for the Samurai :)
Hey thanks, that really means a lot to hear. I didn't think any of my Tsushima subs still remembered me or watched my vids. I'll be honest though, I haven't even played the new multiplayer content yet, and it might stay that way. I spent months figuring out what the majority of my subscriberbase wants, and I think my newest vids are on the right track. It took a lot of effort to make these guide vids, and I honestly didn't really feel that the viewership transferred to the rest of my vids or to my overall channel very well
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The legendary kunai perk affects the kunai itself too?
Ah yes! I showed it in clips but forgot to say that vocally. It effects every cooldown, including the kunai itself!
Sweet vid good advice but how on earth do you get blessed strikes? What's the best possible way to try farm them and is there any criteria you need to meet for all the classes before it's possible to unlock ? Ta, some yorkshire man x
Just need to grind until you get a samurai charm then reforge until you hit desired level, reforge again until you get the desired 2 bonus properties and finally reroll the third property until you get blessed strikes. It does drain you resources though.
Sadly there's no way around that currently except praying to the RNG gods while you grind. Make sure you're playing as samurai though. The class-specific charms only drop while playing as that class. So you have to play as a ronin to have a chance of a ronin charm dropping. You have to play as a samurai to have a chance of the samurai charm dropping, etc.
As for the perks (like blessed strikes), again, RNG gods. You'll have to reroll on that samurai charm till you get the stats you want. And honestly, if you're broke on resources, don't worry about the first 2 perks too much. Just focus on getting blessed strikes
Going to try it out,l ;)
Enjoy
Okay I have a question that might sound stupid the cool down decrease on kill does it affect everything and do you have to actually kill an enemy with that ghost weapon to activate the cooldown And does the cooldown stack so if you keep killing an enemy the cooldown would keep stacking?
It depends. Hold R2 when looking at the modifications for the item to check. I think the ghost weapon CD decrease on kill only affects both ghost weapons, and the kill does not have to be with the ghost weapon (because even smoke bombs can have it). And yes the cooldown reduction should keep stacking as you kill enemies (though tbh I haven't kept an eye on it. I assume it's not buggy.). However, if you get the CD reduction on kill modification for a charm, it might be a bit different. Just hold R2 to check for yourself. I don't remember the specifics
Super cool man. Quick question, if the Blessed Strikes perk currently has "???" when I tried to reroll my gear, I could not get it from reroll, right? I guess I have to farm for a charm that has Blessed Strikes first before I can reroll for that perk? Thank you so much!
I haven't played in a while but I'm pretty sure that's not the case. You can reroll to unlock a ??? perk
Have you tried yet? I had the same question too and don't know if it's possible.
@@nickywan123 I had already stopped playing the game at the time and that hasn't changed
I know this is old but just a heads up you want ranged damage on the bow cause it buffs the Kunai damage also.
Or maybe it doesn't? keep finding conflicting sources.
I haven't tested it myself, but I'm not aware of +ranged damage affecting the kunai
I liked this video : )
Thank you! I'm happy to hear it
Could I get a brief list or screenshot of the build summary? I hate to keep digging through the video to try and find what I need when I play my Samurai. Please and thank you!
Sorry man but I made this vid months ago. I haven't even launched the game in a while. I remember showing summaries in some of these build guide videos but I know I forgot to in one or more of them
Dude just do what I did…use your phone and snap photos of the build and keep your phone next to you when your equipping your gear…so you see exactly what you have and what your missing.
@@GaroShadowscale shadowscale,after a months of the initial game release I’m playing it again this time on the PlayStation 5 and your strategy still works just like it did a year ago.you are a true samurai god
@@Final_Fantasy_7 Happy to hear it
@@GaroShadowscale hey Garo I know it’s almost a year since u made these legends videos…with the more DLC announcing soon would be doing another in depth video strategy ?
I dont like using the kunai but ill give this a shot. I'm just too impatient to wait and time my kunai throws. I just want to button mash and get kills lol. My current build revolves around me taking damage to build my resolve and I spam it.
It does result in a slight variation of pacing, yes, but not by much! It's worth it for the significant reduction in Cooldowns, and you get used to it. Use what you enjoy and what works for you though
You have super massive as the perk for the kunai but there is a perk that increases the thrown kunai to 5 i think that one might be a bit better as you have more kunai to gain more kills to get the cdr more
Not for nightmare/raid. The enemies are really tanky and you want to ensure that you can get at least one kill, so you want to maximize the damage per kunai. Maybe the 5 kunai would work better for the lower difficulties, but for the endgame, you want to make it as reliable as possible for you to secure at least one kill per kunai throw. If you run the 5 kunai modification, then you will have more difficulty even securing 1 kunai kill at nightmare/raid difficulty
That healing is very strong
Yes it is! I love it
How useful is water master over way of the flame?
So, water master's advantage is that it's always active. Way of the flame will only benefit you when you activate the ability. I would say that water master will do better when shredding tankier oni enemies that don't block anyway. However, way of the flame's advantage is that it's unblockable. Since water stance isn't effective against spear enemies, Way of the Flame gives you a way to shred them
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So I have water master which gives you the extra damage for your surging strike ability. Would you still take way of the flame over that?
Good question! I tried water master at one point. While it is true that if you're smacking oni constantly, you'll get more value out of water master since that buff is constant, Way of the Flame is solid burst damage that is UNBLOCKABLE. That means you can tear through any guard, including spear enemies, which is where water master will struggle. And thanks to spirit kunai, you can have solid uptime on way of the flame if you use the kunai properly. So yes I would absolutely use way of the flame over water master for this build. Without spirit kunai though, I'd be less sure.
Nice reply. I switched to way of the flame and its 10 times better. By far my favorite build. Farming the stupid blast radius perk on my charm but besides that, almost there!
YOU ARE BY FAR THE MOST INFORMATIVE BUILD WALK THRU RUclipsR
@@TS-nf4sh Thank you so much! That means a lot to hear
@@TS-nf4sh Happy to hear it! Best of luck
Pawsies are master samurai :3
Yassssss
Your katana will be crazy
Yisssssss
Caltrops are awesome for bottlenecking mobs
Indeed they are
EQUIP A LONG BOW. You can get the versatile perk on a long bow and equip it to samurai to have a decent ranged weapon. It’s still not great but it’s better then the half bow imo. Also I think smoke bomb is a better option then caltrops.
If you're focus is ranged damage, then by all means go ahead. However, this samurai build isn't about ranged damage so the bow is only used for resolve gain. The shortbow shoots faster and will get you resolve quicker, and since we can run helmet penetration (which versatile wouldn't allow), we'll always be able to headshot any enemy to get that extra resolve
Also smoke bomb can be used if you really feel you need a defensive option, but you will lose out on melee stagger damage, ghost weapon damage, and the stagger damage caused by the caltrop AoE on the ground. I have never felt that I needed a smoke bomb while using this build, except in last week's nightmare story to revive my downed teammate since those rapid fire oni archers wouldn't let me, otherwise
Long bow is nice for sniping archers. I find the half bow damage is too low for archer sniping and that’s really the only time I ever use range on my samurai.
Smoke bomb is pretty great imo. I’ll take the ability to neutralize an entire zone over a bit of ghost and stagger damage.
I still 👍 the video tho 😁
@@jayswizzle57 That's fair! Thank you
I have a similar build but i use master katana w moon master w blessed strike and Dirt throw w rancid. I find the spirit kunai is amazing only for large groups of small soldiers. I rather have the master katana to stagger the onis easily
oh basically u can moon strike x 3 everyone without worrying about taking damage. it tanks thru everything and if u land the rancid its pretty op.
There are plenty of viable samurai builds! I'm glad you found one that works for you
@@weslee6637 the how the hell i always take dmg when using moon stance? I must be doing something wrong, the only thing i do right with moon stance are the kicks to the onis and those annoying teleport archers
@@Abbe10able Just need to be more perceptive of your opponents attacks. The heavy attacks do not interupt anything instantly, only regular brute oni. Any other weapon class oni/ purple onis are going to continue attacking you. So you need to be prepared to do one or two strikes, then cancel out and dodge, even if you're missing out on the damage of the third strike.
@@Abbe10able U have to make sure u have blessed strikes and have the life steal on if u want to just tank blows. If you can possible start the fight off with the dirt throw u can spin for free into them.
fire sword
Yeah it's awesome
Nice i use close to same build but i gotta use masamune edge cuz i run +40% ultimate damage plus the double damage makes me 1 hit onis with ultimate
Makes sense! A good RNG roll during your ult would hit hard for sure
Does it matter where i grind for samurai charms with blessed strikes?? I've been grinding for days with no luck.
I've got 1 from story missions on gold and 1 from gold survival so don't think it matters mate, just down to the RnG gods unfortunately lol
@@aka_senior_8427 i'm suppose to be samurai main, but i couldn't get the charm so now both my hunter and ronin are out performing my samurai.
Well first I say I hope your using a samurai while trying to get it, but if you aren't, you can only get class specific charms by playing that specific class. But if you're doing it the right way i honestly think you should keep grinding for it, I have it myself and I can assure you it is worth it. If you're just doing story with no luck, try survival, I get tons of good loot there :)
@@tmntreaper2900 i was, i grinded with my samurai from rank 20 til 40, then i got bored and started getting other classes to 20. Now my ronin survived nightmare survival last night, and my samurai can only do nightmare story when lucky.
I've been grinding for weeks, had two drop yesterday. Just keep at it. It will drop.
thats funny, i have this exact build and i just started the samurai like 2 days ago.
Then you're off to a great start! Keep it up
Do you use Samurai or Assassin more?
Samurai 100%. Though tbh I don't really play much anymore
We're here before GaroShadowscale stops answering all comments since he'll hace too much afterwards XD. I'm waiting for your Assassin build. Do you have one? I run mine with Spirit Kunai also :). It's AMAZING, people sleep on that legendary man lol.
Haven't had time to experiment yet, but I will soon! I should hopefully have a vid out within the next 3 days! I'm glad you're liking that legendary
is there any specific thing i should be farming to get a samurai charm
Nope! Just make sure you're playing as a samurai while you do farm. That's the only way it'll drop
@@GaroShadowscale happy to say I got one if anyone is wondering a decent way to get one i ran severd hearts gold till I got one took a bit but worth it
Hey Garo have you ever tried out the older monster hunter games I heard there worth it and I’ve been wanting to give it a try
The oldest one I played was Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
@@GaroShadowscale damn
I am definitely going for this build. However gears are RNG so how do I get legendary kunai or water katana epic at 105 ?
I assume you reforge every 105 gear to 110?
Reforge or the weekly reward is 110, I think
@@GaroShadowscale I can't get the spirit kunai legendary man.
@@nickywan123 Bad RNG sucks
Just wondering have you tried 50 % injury gain on any of your build to get very fast supers
I haven't. Making a build around intentionally taking damage sounds a bit strange to me, especially for nightmare/raid difficulty
I found as I died with 4 or 5 hits I got my super so quick then I add 50 health and killed with my super then use spirit pull and blazen strike to get health back full.sence the update finding it hard to get resources to roll on gear
Honestly really similar to my assassin build
Yeah man! Honestly everyone can use spirit kunai 😋
@@GaroShadowscale honestly its the most op legendary. My friend and I were helping this dude grind on bronze and he would throw it and immediately get it back it was like unlimited
how and where to get that samurai charm or legendary spirit kunai?
Samurai charm only drops for samurai. I'm pretty sure the kunai drops for everyone. Just keep playing gold/nightmare/raid
I go moon stance and blessed strikes. I simply do not die.
Keep it up! I love blessed strikes
How do you do this quick five attack combo? I really need to know how to do it. Please respond someone.
It's his ultimate. I forgot what they call it ingame, but you know how every class has an ultimate? That's the Samurai one
@@GaroShadowscale No no no i know how to do his ultimate. But i mean the attacks with your katana. You are doing it in every video and it seems effective. But thanks for responding.
@@mmatej_44 Oh! That's water stance. While in water stance with the katana, hold triangle for a second then release and immediately start mashing triangle after the release
@@GaroShadowscale Oh god thanks for responding! Btw will you stream today?
@@mmatej_44 Yup! Just finished! I stream every day from 12-4PM CDT at www.twitch.tv/garoshadowscale
Moon Stance Triangle combo is slightly better in Survival b/c 1) more dps 2)it cleaves/aoe = more damage and resolve faster
Hmm, I remember not being impressed with moon stance and master last time I tried it, but it has been a while. I can't imagine it does well against shield or spear enemies though, plus you give up way of the flame, so that's one less cooldown you can use to cut through their guards. It's also one less cooldown that can benefit from spirit kunai's 15s reduction on kill
@@GaroShadowscale yeah it has it's niche uses, mainly just Survival even on Nightmare, and wouldn't pair well with your build. But thought I'd bring it up /shrug I didn't really think it was that great until I tried it and like I said very niche uses, mainly just Survival NM.
@@Romoredux Sure thing. Thanks for the info! I might have to try it again sometime to see what it's like
Does it take a while to find Samurai Charms?
It's just RNG. Took me a while to get one, but as long as you're playing as Samurai, you'll get it eventually
Does the spirit kunai drop for every class?
I believe so! It's not a class-specific item. I actually got another one on my Hunter last night while making my most recent vid
Why not the sword that gives all stance ?
You don't need it. Water with Way of the Flame is good enough and gives you a strong buff that synergizes with spirit kunai
This is a good video but there is a reason I stopped playing Samurai, that is because this build is extremely hard to play. The problem is that the healing completely depends on Explosive blades being active, and the issue you get is while it is active, killing an enemy will not take away from the cooldown since the cooldown hasn't yet began.
You'll be left running around trying to judge when an enemy has low enough health to get the killing blow with the kunai but making sure explosive blades cooldown has started. It's why I switched to Hunter / Ronin. The samurai needs a huge buff
You're right about needing to make sure explosive blade is finished before throwing the kunai, but you can get the feel for that over time with practice! Oddly enough it seems like way of the flame does not have the same issue and can get the -15s CD reduction even while it's active. But yeah I do wish the CD for explosive blades would start right when popping the ability.
While that is a headache though, Samurai is my favorite class and honestly I'm happy with it where it is. He has very strong self-sustain and solid damage. I do wish team comps weren't as dependent on Ronin though. Ronin are just so insanely strong, which is why I play it more than Samurai too. If they could somehow balance team comps so that Ronin was still strong but not as necessary in compositions, then that might indirectly buff other classes
@@GaroShadowscale I started as a Samurai but I changed realising he's too weak for me. Hunter damage from far is literally crazy with skipping stones and pin point. I watched your Ronin video too, I run the same build but with spirit dog with larger healing radius. Not only does that took attract aggro, additionally heals you, can't die while he's active, is active for longer than samurai class ability and his cooldown is affected the moment he's launched meaning you can start reducing his cooldown at any point without some huge gap. I feel it is way better than the samurai class ability.
@Gutts....I partially agree with you. No class is perfect and even the samurai class has its weaknesses.The samurai’s strengths far outweighs its weaknesses.You have to develop your attack plan and stick to it.GaroShadowScale’s take on the samurai build actually works and you can find tune it to your liking.Yes your right the healing process depends on the explosive blade but once that’s used up to heal you,you have your way of the flame at your disposal and if you water stance that you quickly can fill up your resolve to unleash a hatchiman’s fury.if that’s used up u can dish out your kunai and if it’s a group of enemies coming after you simply drop your caltrops to slow them down also disrupting them briefly from doing their attacks this is where you u go in and score some quick surging strikes with your water stance..
Heavenly strike sucks on nightmare survival . It Dosent deal much damage at all. I used masters katana with water master and it absolutely shreds. I finally did nm survival without loosing a defence area today. Thanks for the tips bro
Happy to hear it! And you're welcome
Why water master over moon master on that sword? It is the one i use the most (specially water stance) but always choose moon master for the 3 spins (despite the fact most of the times i die is when doing the spins 😅)
Zieg30 I rarely use moon stance and I too die when I use it hahaa. I use mostly wind and water so I had to go with water master. Even moon master is great but I need to get used to that stance. I’m bad at it
Lol except for the caltrops it's the same exact build as mine!
Sweet! Best of luck with it
Blessed Strikes over Combat Regeneration?
YES! anytime. Combat Regen is extremely weak compared to blessed strikes. it litterally takes 2-3 hits to fill up to a 100%
Absolutely! It's an insane amount of healing as shown by clips in this vid. And thanks to the spirit kunai, you can have much higher uptime on it
Only thing I might change is smoke bomb for reviving downed teammates
Smoke is a defensive option if you want it, but you will lose a bit of kunai damage and melee stagger damage if you take it. I personally have been fine without it
How about extra blades instead of super massive
I found that extra blades is more for hitting multiple enemies at once rather than maximizing damage on individual enemies. I even tried getting up close to "shotgun" someone with it, and I didn't find it very reliable. Super massive is much more consistent and ensures maximum damage per kunai
Do you prefer samurai or assasin?
Samurai! It's not even close. Samurai is my favorite class
I think he likes the spirit kunai
You don't say
@Garoshadowscale....a random PSN player whom I met in Nightmare Survival referred me to you and told how amazing you are.In a samurai class at Rank 47 level 106.I’m only at level 106 instead of 110 only because I just can’t seem to find the perfect ultimate samurai of war.Now thanks to your legendary tips and secret I owe you a lot.if your going to Raid up or Survival nightmare please invite me. PSN Beioved_Samurai Thank you.We must always honor the code of the Samurai.
Yoooo, that means a lot to me! Thank you! I'm really glad I could help
And sure thing! I'll definitely remember that! Best of luck!
@@GaroShadowscale he was telling me to look up your name on RUclips from both our headsets so it just happens I had my phone right next to me then he saids it’s one of your videos that was recently uploaded on the samurai build that’s how was able to find you.Shadowscale, your a fast talker and I love that.Nobody explains the intricacies on how the class/perk system works in legends better than you.please tell me what’s the most efficient way to gain honor points because I need those to reforge and re-roll perks...sadly raid is not matchmaking so I don’t know anyone who will invite me.and people keeps quitting in nightmare survival like 5 minutes into the first wave I don’t know why.anyway please keep up the fine work.add me to your friends list...Beioved_Samurai.
@@Final_Fantasy_7 I appreciate that! Unfortunately I think efficient raid runs are the fastest way to get honor now. I'm not aware of any exploits atm. No way around the grind, I'm afraid 😓
Are you the bodybuilder guy that has another channel? Voice sounds very similar.
I have other channels but not in bodybuilding
How you got the samurai charm ?
Just gotta grind man. Make sure you're playing as samurai while you do it. Each class-specific charm only drops while you're playing as that class
@@GaroShadowscale what you mean with grind ? I mostly play with samurai ( except for ranking each class to 20 ) but I still not have it.I was wondering if there is a section where it drops like story,survival or fast play
@@AzumiNL I'm not aware if there's any difference in drop rate for it depending on whether you're playing story, survival, or even the raid. You should get it eventually as long as you're playing as samurai. Keep trying and pray to the RNG gods
@@GaroShadowscale i got it today in a nightmare survival
@@AzumiNL Grats!
I have a similar build I made a week ago but it does more damage and has more sustain. Just wanted to say masamunes edge is worth it with "Way of the flame". For sheildmen and swordsmen you can just counter or run at them and kill them stupid quick if you have the dmg and utility. AND YOU COMPLETELY COUNTER WIND ENEMIES. Which helps against ONI SPEARMEN and BRUTES with the WIND STANCE KICK.
But you lose water stance. You lose the fast combo and the versatility against other enemies. Wind stance has the slowest combos and they leave you wide open. Combine surging strikes from water stance with way of the flame and you tear through enemies. If you're stuck with wind stance, then either you're doing the slow wind stance attacks or hitting square for the basic attacks that slow down after a few hits. If the 20% chance to deal damage legendary bonus was on a water katana instead, I'd strongly consider it! But losing out on water stance just for that damage bonus isn't worth it
@@GaroShadowscale Well to counter the slow attacks just side dodge and continue. And I kill most enemies so fast from the dmg it tends to not matter if that last attack is slow as long as their guard is open. Surging strikes damage doesnt even do as much as the stone stance pierce attacks. If it was on water instead then those quick attacks X2 would not deal a lot of dmg. Sure its fast and a lot of attacks but your multiplying a lot of weak attacks that accumulate too be strong at the end. So I dont see how multiplying a small dmg number could be all that beneficial. To play wind you need skill. You have to be able to perfect parry and perfect dodge. But it's not all the time, especially when you have way of the flame and explosive strikes. Also Water Stance is trash against breaking Oni's guards who dont have shields. And even the Oni with the spear and shield still takes significant stamina dmg to their guard from wind. And the Oni brutes as well. I tested it to see how versatile it was and I found it to be the best stance in my opinion. A big part of it is taking spearmen out of the picture and being able to easily take out smaller enemies with the kick IF NEEDED and like I said the stam dmg and restarting the chain for fast attacks. WATER STANCE IS ONLY REALLY NEEDED FOR THOSE WHO CANT PERFECT PARRY OR FIND IT HARD TO FIGHT SHIELDMAN. Otherwise it's not needed. Especially when it's not good against Oni's
@@danielcolby7920 You can literally break the guard of a standard spear/shield oni with a single water stance combo with this exact build. And you're not just doing stamina damage, you're doing hp damage at the same time, all while rapidly applying whatever buff effect (explosive blade and/or way of the flame) and generating resolve extremely quickly while doing a rapid combo that's easy to cancel into a perfect parry or perfect dodge if needed. Unlike wind stance where you'd be locked in a long combo and unable to cancel at times to perfect parry or perfect dodge a separate enemy, you can heavily pressure a singular enemy and be ready at literally any moment to perfect parry/dodge another enemy. You do have to perfect dodge/parry on wind because you don't have a choice. It's too risky for you to be aggressive. That's not the case with water. I literally have zero problem with spearmen thanks to the low cooldown of these buffs with spirit kunai. So I fail to see how this build is for people who "can't perfect parry."
@@GaroShadowscale I never said the """"""""build"""""""" I said water stance is. Those problems you talk about with wind stance I have not encountered and of course wind stance is still going to be better at deleting wind enemies while your attacking. And I'm not sure if you realized but hitting triangle against spearmen counters them endlessly including Oni spearmen (at least half their Oni spearmen attacks) and your doing more dmg than water stance can against that type. But yeah Water Stance is for people who cant deal with shields very well (All you have to do is counter it doesnt take long either if you do a lot of dmg) because at high lvls of play like nightmare it's no good against the most prominent enemy, ONI. You dont always have to counter btw. You can run up and slash them down before their guard comes up lol. Although I will have to check out resolve gains and if it really helps apply status effects as much as you emphasized.
@@danielcolby7920 @Daniel Colby using wind stance only means you literally have to wait out and bait attacks which feeds into less overall dps and damage idk why you have this like elitist attitude towards ppl who use water stance, you can be amazing at the game and use water stance because it's the most logical stance to use since it stunlocks every enemy in the game shreds stamina bars and has highest dps it is literally meta lol like you cannot argue against it water stance has the highest dps and stagger potential against every enemy besides spear guys which at that point doesn't matter since you can easily do as you've been saying and that's perfect parrying them or dodging they attack quick enough compared to other enemies so u can break their guard with a parry much quicker or nearly at the same time as someone holding triangle to kick. Wind stance is cool and all but water stance trumps it in every situation it's just the better stance and has a higher chance at double damage. I personally use masamune with water stance and oni dmg and melee damage and it performs the same as this guy's build if not better because I can run smoke bombs and sticky bombs while keeping same @Daniel Colby using wind stance only means you literally have to wait out and bait attacks which feeds into less overall dps and damage idk why you have this like elitist attitude towards ppl who use water stance, you can be amazing at the game and use water stance because it's the most logical stance to use since it stunlocks every enemy in the game shreds stamina bars and has highest dps it is literally meta lol like you cannot argue against it water stance has the highest dps and stagger potential against every enemy besides spear guys which at that point doesn't matter since you can easily do as you've been saying and that's perfect parrying them or dodging they attack quick enough compared to other enemies so u can break their guard with a parry much quicker or nearly at the same time as someone holding triangle to kick. Wind stance is cool and all but water stance trumps it in every situation it's just the better stance and has a higher chance at double damage. I personally use masamune with water stance and oni dmg and melee damage and it performs the same as this guy's build if not better because I can run smoke bombs and sticky bombs while keeping same survivability. This game doesn't have a high skill ceiling either it's extremely casual so lose the "wind stance requires skill attitude" as it doesn't youre gimping yourself because of that superiority attitude
You will still be nommed draggy >:3
I'M NOT NOMSIES!!!
do a ronin build please
Sure! I'll try to have one out within the next few days. Make sure you subscribe and hit the noti bell so you don't miss it
@@GaroShadowscale Thanks brother
I feel like I'm the only person who can't stand Way of the Flame as well as Heavenly Strike because I accidentally activate them when dodging or using my heavy slash and trying to dodge.
Happens more with HS than WotF but it still happens often enough that I don't like it.
Sometimes I'd pop it by accident but you get the hang of it
@@GaroShadowscale I decided I'd give it a shot and use a different weapon (Masamune's Edge) and discovered....I have the Wind Stance.
This raptor can speak
Indeed I can
I like this build. Im just so annoyed at times with the kunai, it's bugged or smt
Yeah I know what you mean. When you're focusing a target down with your katana, try to wait about a half second before throwing your kunai to finish them off. If you throw it right away, it'll go right through them for some reason
@@GaroShadowscale alright, thanks!
I’m honestly a big fan of holding 2 legendarys
That's fair! To each their own
@@GaroShadowscale good build though
@@siph8910 Thank you
Just a heads up, some Resolve Gain perks are not functioning in case you are using them: www.reddit.com/r/ghostoftsushima/comments/jm6dge/range_resolve_gain_not_working_no_benefit/
I know some people run these builds to spam ultimates.
Wow... I guess I shouldn't assume that their perks function as intended. I was not aware of this; that's definitely a bug. Hopefully they'll patch it at least as fast as they patched the loot glitches. In the meantime it's probably better to run reload speed instead of ranged resolve gain, to maximize fire rate for the bow to indirectly maximize resolve gain. Honestly though, the bow is so rarely used for my Samurai that I probably won't bother rerolling it. Thanks for the heads up
I've gone for heal stagger build with poison on master kitana..... rekts everything in nightmare
I admittedly haven't dabbled much with poison. Afaik it's stagger damage over time. With water stance and either Way of the flame or/and Explosive blade active, I tear through health and stamina very quickly while doing surging strikes
@@GaroShadowscale I have to admit I don't play alot of nightmare I played it once this week.
I use all tier 3 ability on samurai and siphon
Master katana with poison
(Because all stance)
And the legendary kunai for more stagger and CD effect is nice
Poison seems to proc once on literally everything I hit.
The damage isn't let's say as fast as fire bomb ronin or explosive/headshot huntards but for a extremely tanky heavy surviabilty build it's really solid damage especially if you can parry, witch let's face it you really shouldn't be in nightmare playing samurai if you can't parry 😆
Ben shapiro is gaming now, who knew lol
Nice video guide, but I’m sorry if you take this as an offense, you sound like a Salarian, or,lol, heck you sounds like Mordin Solus xD
I take that as a compliment! He was one of my favorite characters! Thank you
@@GaroShadowscale hahaha, I love him too , damn I miss Mass Effect, a little bit out of topic but N7 day is coming!!
i dnno i was using explosive blade with the samurai as i misread it as i only thought blessed strike heals you when exploding blade is active but you can siphon 2 enemies health and attack an enemy while consistantly giving yourself health back and continously getting up and getting attacked while filling your resolve faster by being hit and dealing damage. i don't think explosive blade is that good. with the samurai you want his ult as fast as possible to deal with the spear demon oni's every other enemy is easy to deal with. i had 10 damage, 77 explosive impact and blessed strike but when you come up against 3 oni at once in the later rounds of survival you're kind of out of luck if u don't have his ult imo and even with all the high damage buffs which i had on my samurai it still takes forever to widdle down the spear onis health. But then again definately looks like there is a big difference between the 80% mark radius oppose to the 77% radius. I think the developers did a really amazing job creating the abilities, a lot of different ways to handle a scenario.
The double siphon definitely adds extra healing, but I don't see it as necessary. I prefer the damage and CC bonus from Explosive blade, and thanks to the radius, it can work in a decent sized AoE too. Surging strikes from water stance is a very fast combo that can get you resolve and healing quickly, especially while explosive blade is active. Yes those spear demon oni can be a pain but I don't think siphoning extra hp is the answer. If anything, applying more pressure with explosive blade should help and still get you more than enough healing
But yes, very true! Many different ways to approach these situations
@@GaroShadowscale true. pretty interesting the difference between the 77 mark of the explosive blade and the 80 mark, very noticeable, their is not much aoe damage in the 77 mark when using the ability. i have to use the master katana and change the stances up otherwise i find it boring. god those oni spear demonds are ffing annoying. btw what diod u do to farm just play gold missions?
@@GaroShadowscale feels like those samurai charms never drop, i only have one.
@@GaroShadowscale wondering what if you had 2 siphon health and had super armour so you consistantly get hit but are consistantly healing and consistantly in battle when vsing the onis and when you get hit it feels the resolve up quicker? i'm gonna try that.
@@jeremyp2164 Well, if you run super armor, you lose blessed strikes. I'm not sure the double siphon is enough to make up for that, depending on how much damage you're taking. Also I used a loot glitch that I made a video on. It's patched now though, sadly
I would go with moon stance, for the hyperarmor.
Hyperarmor as in not getting staggered while attacking? This is for raid/nightmare difficulty, which means that enemies hit very hard. I wouldn't make a build that plans on taking damage since death will do more than just stagger you
@@GaroShadowscale You know how incredible the healing ability is. As long as you have explosive blade activated, it heals you to full HP in two spins because you can hit multiple enemies. The way of flame + explosive blade + blessed strike combo is pretty nice, but your flow can get stopped by enemies with hyper armor. The priority here should always be keeping your attacks going. At least for me the spinning master + blessed strike+ explosive blade served me better in nightmare survival.
@@ncgzeal Hmm, I get where you're coming from. I haven't tried it myself as I'm very attached to the versatility and speed of water stance. I'm a bit worried about the single target DPS capabilities of moon stance for non-brutes though. And while spirit kunai reduces cooldowns significantly, it doesn't completely eliminate them. Using that same strategy while explosive blade is on cooldown is dangerous
It's an interesting concept though! And I'm glad it's working for you
Must be nice having friends that play Ghost of tsushima i cant even play the Raids
join a discord you will have a list of people to play with in minutes.
Look around! There's definitely many others who are also struggling to find raid partners. I'm sure you can find a group
Wish I had a samurai charm😔
Yeah they're a pain to farm. Best of luck