For those asking about the 30% Skill damage, you need to join the Honda clan and donate to increase your rank to Elder. For those asking about inheritables, join the Nioh 2 Discord and find folks to trade with: discord.gg/EjQqYDh If the link expires in the future you could always just Google the server 🤷♂️
@@tavixxxx508 Go to his link in discord, windstorm is a common white inheritable on gloves that people will drop as revenants on various missions ( recently, dark omens ng+), you should try to duplicate with them.
Just finished the game and got my unlocked and I tried doing the dojo mission to get the divine gear for that set but it’s not there at all… it’s just 4 basic missions . How did you find it ?
Out of all the builds I've seen this looks like the most fun and sensible! Not having to rely on a single skill I feel makes the game still maintain it's fun because you have variety 👍
You could try spear too. The main dps skill is risky to use and has a lot of other situationally useful abilities like triple threat. Also has a lot of support from sets - at least 3 of them focus or at least specifically enhance spear gameplay.
Love the videos mate. Very informative. I’m very familiar since I played the first and had a pretty strong set but of random shit that’s strong or what I like. After watching this I learned how to properly create a death build. I LOVE dual swords so I will try this build but with some of my own changes but will pay more attention. This game is different in a lot of aspects from the first one so gotta be cognisant of all factors. Can’t wait!
Great build. I'm finally about to play this game as I finally have the time to and this is pretty much exactly what I wanted. Since this video is so old, I hope that this build was still OP in NG+ and in the DLC's.
Awesome guide, I'm enjoying your odachi build quite a lot but I will probably give this one a go as there is not much else to do until the DLC comes out. Thanks for sharing your great builds with us.
Finally a poison build I mesh with, no over use of buffs,decent damage, flashy! I was using my hatchet build but this might get me to move over to dual blades (and probably just reskin the swords to the bloody hatchet looking ones) but anyhow good build and as a poison connoissuer this has my blessing
@@FightinCowboy oh no for sure, I just feel like hatchets are more fun / gimmicky than effective, not saying they arent since i did my whole playthrough with em just feels like that got shafted with skills and moveset ya know?
This is essentially the inspiration for my dual swords + kusarigama build. I did coiled snake (heavy) + 3 tatenashi + 1 golden gourd (heavy), ogo dual sword, some kusarigama. I invested in strength and skill as they boost kusa and dual swords together.
Really liking this and am trying to follow previous version of this but would love to see video how to build dual swords in just NG, I believe lot of people would benefit from that rather then end game NG+
Not really, I aim to replace gear every 10 levels. If I get a nice corrupted weapon I may temper it since they're cheap to soul match with cores but otherwise the only time I'll temper is to get kodama sensor on helm.
@FightinCowboy Would replacing the coiled snake helm with one that can inherit Windstorm be a viable option? I know you would loose 15% of boost against poisoned enemies, but this way you gain an extra 10% windstorm all the time
Anyone else notice that cherry blossom (high stance combo ender) does a ridiculous amount of damage? It did almost as much as a windstorm. I wonder if it factors in a drop-attack multiplier because the character jumps up during the attack
Already kicking ass with your last build, so im gonna farm the snake coil helmet for this one. Also need the masters swordman smithing text. Thank god they increased the drop chance for those.
@manicniceguy Gonna Mod all these in when its out for PC, its too time consuming for me to max out different pieces just to inherit their bonuses to make the perfect build, hopefully we get mod support when it comes out.
I like this build since the "insert active skill" damage passive is just an extra and not the main way of attacking. Sure it's nice to have that on all your equipment, but trying to farm such a specific thing for every equipment really turn me off. But the way I see this build, even regular attacks can do so much once the poison kicks in
@@nayyarrashid4661 what you mean you didnt get? +8 CAN NOT be dropped by enemies at this point. You need to Soul Match till to get +5 and above. Hope that helps
Finally have this running. Only thing I am missing is orange inheritable Elemental Damage Taken (guarding). I farmed tons of revenants and never seen one. Checked official discords and haven't seen people talking and trading this one either...
It's insane and amazing but I can't help feeling disappointed watching all these builds shred through anything. Where did the finesse of the battles go? managing your ki, caring about dodging your opponents and carefully timing your attacks. I guess I just like that kind of theatricality and the exhilaration of beating the opponents with evades, blocks and overall weapon mechanics.
Master swordsman there are two sets, we want the power one. You can try farming Dojo mission Master of Two Blades but he isnt generous with divine gear and not even sure it drops smithing text. Its much easier to farm revenants having dual swords as weapon. The other lighter set (not the one in this video) can easily get the armor smithing text go to Dream of Samurai (not NG+) and do Dojo: The way of the Warrior. Adept.
Brian Fenech yes, the dual sword heavy armour set from the master swordsman of the dual blades trial. I didn’t really wear anything special, just upped my luck a little bit and went for it. Think I got it in the 4-5 try.
On top of Rage from Axe and Tengen attack boost, you can use Carnage as well as Soul Purge + 80% melee on poison as they all stack up. Make sure to quit/complete mission before soul purge expires for not to lose familiarity.
A neat trick I found useful to braking weapons is if you find a weapon set item or any weapon with corruption is you can inherit the yokai orb 1> skills allowing you to temper all 7 stats instead of finding a good 1>1 stat
Instead of Axe for attack boost you can use a Kusarigama and use the Summer Twilight skill. You can temper on weapon Summer Twilight Duration and if you use Kawanami Kusarigama the two piece bonus is Efficient Yokai Abilities 22.3% which aint bad at all.
Wow i feel like Cowboy was reading my reddit posts before i made confusion build lol. Coincidence i think. I actually kept profilgate sinner set and i have 83.27% poison and 40% paralyze dmg vs enemies. Poison and paralyze stays on the enemy even if he is hit with 2 elements. Basically almost 11x damage increase. 2160 dmg x 10,5 = 22.680 dmg on the sign of the cross
@@jordansebert11 once enemy is confused (two elements put together) the enemy isnt saturated anymore. Thats why i dropped dmg vs saturated because you dont benefit from the status once enemy is confused.
Speaking of DLC do you think the release additional new weapons like they did with neo1 with the odachi and tonfa. Would like another heavy weapon. Or foot and hand claws.
@The Lord of Entropy literally. While the tonfas are amazing at staggering, they're tracking really sucks, same goes for the mid-stance swithglaive; hopefully we also get a whip/blade.
If you find an inheritable Anima (poisoned enemy) in a soul core you can put that on your weapon too. I found one, Soul Matched it into a corrupted weapon, maxed out fam and transferred it over. Works for any status, so keep an eye out for inheritable Anima (status) for the ailment you want, Fire, Water, whatever.
Hey cowboy I'm new to nioh, but thanks to you, and the developers I am in love with nioh 2. now i wanna master the game like you. how long does it usually take to get that strong with duel swords (asking for hours so I can scedual my weekends of solitude)
@@FightinCowboy I just finished the game and I have new game unlocked, I tried finding the dual swords divine gear in the dojo mission but I only have 4 missions …? Do I need to Do a certain mission to open it bc I have 300k proficiency
Hey guys. How die he get so much stats on the weapon? I have only 5 stats with an inhertiable. and also on the chest and so on so much stats. ^ From where did he get all? are this all orange inheritables ? Greez from Switzerland
Hey cowboy just wondering if you're making any kind of yokai shift build and if not would you consider making one but I would understand if you didn't because I know there's not a whole lot of options for yokai shift builds at the moment
I tried to make a variant on this build, but with the flying Kato set for more of a ninja build. Would I just be better off going with the Triumph of Tranquility set instead? I use single katana
Quick ? For anyone what item do you use to change all of your learned skills like to reset them? I know book of reicarnation respecs your skill points and zen manual respecs your prestige points, but what is needed to respec your learn skills?
Is it possible to do a build w both dual swords and tonfas? I started a new playthrough and I can't seem to help using both of them, but it requires leveling courage as well so I'm wondering if I'm making a bad decision. I just love switching between them.
@@austenadams8051 So it'll be hard to use both in the main playthrough without leveling both courage and skill until I reach the end when I can remodel?
@@Nox444 Not really, if you're using light armor with it, as that's only 3 stats to spread points between. a bit harder with medium, but still manageable.
Which is better? Straight up Attack on all armor or + attack with Dual Swords? Dunno if it follows the same principle as the Ninjutsu vs. Shuriken and Kunai damage thing. Love the content BTW.
The other thing is +Attack and Defense. Straight attack will be stronger, the other is a split on attack and defense. Ninjitsu is irrelevant since you'd want shurikan and kunai, ninjutsu power, and unlimited ninjitsu and can run all 3 with inheritables.
@@FightinCowboy so, is straight up Attack just better than Dual Sword specific bonus? I'm still very much confused about this. Thanks for the build idea tho.
You think you could do a build for using the Yokai forms more often? Activate Brute form and go to town for awhile? I always thought it sucked that they don't last very long.
Is the 6th Ki pulse bonus from the set important? I think you might be able to get a Cherry Blossom bonus from 'A Multitude of hope' set with the weapon+accessory, assuming that's worth it :3
hi cowboy just wondering if anyone else been picking up greyed out weapons , ,like the defiled stuff from the abyss , but it doesn't appear in ur inventory ?
@fightingcowboy, can you min/max the child of sun (unifier of japan set) dual sword build? It uses the same skill and heart stats, it wont take much time for you to min/max it. Maybe you can do some sort of confusion based bonus anima, spamming yokai abilities, with child of sun set as well? just putting out a suggestion!
it ALWAYS takes time to min-max, also I have no interest in child of the sun, it's a shit tier set. We want real damage bonuses and the only think it offers is damage based on luck.
Oh yeah!... was waiting for you to post this. I was wondering if you could do something similar with the switchglaive though. Not sure it would be quite as strong but with the skill Empty Retribution I think it could work.
@@FightinCowboy True but I would think they have to have a set coming in an upcoming DLC. I'm still building the windstorm build and will come back to this depending on what ethereal gear drops we get
FightinCowboy# I have a serious question.. what is the best attack stat to temper onto a weapon besides change to attack? Like for earlier on midgame? If Cowboy or Anyone has the numbers or percentages for each damage bonus or damage effect in general it would help the community out so much. Any data?
@@FightinCowboy you're going to want to read that :) ^ might give you an idea but I would like to chill with you man, you seem pretty down to earth. If you're busy we can just talk ideas or math in the game if you're not busy.
Just a question, how much dps would you lose if you used the snake spirit? Since that badboi gives your yokai abilities poison damage wouldn't it be solid for just beefy poison uptime?
Thats kinda what i wanted to do. Just with paralyse dmg and with focus on sign of the Cross. Might work because there is a set that gives you 40+% Dmg to paralysed enemys when you just wear 3 pieces. That combined with master swordsman might be one of the strongest oneshot builds just like in nioh 1 with futsunushi and hino enma helmet.
Does the attack bonus skill really make such a huge difference? I have this almost identically copied (minus the + numbers not exactly the same on pieces) and I at most do 400 damage with back stabs meanwhile your over here doing 600+ to the front and 1k+ from behind.
@FightinCowboy how do you get attack on all your armor in this new nioh 2?.. because in nioh 1 it was a lot easier they changed alot of stuff in nioh 2 and how do you trade with people?
Hey! Anyone have data on the best damage bonuses besides change to attack on weapons? And I'm up right now man, you wanna chill and talk math or talk nioh while we play? You can invite me to a party if you want buddy - Ronaldraygun94
Really like this build and your other Videos too. Is there a way to start with this build in normal and transition it into his final form at NG+? The Paralyze Build doesnt work for me that well.
Are you getting more damage with the poison in general or you have to apply the status on them. This is were I am confused at. And could you do this with water, fire, etc. or it has to be with poison?
The status must be imbued. The reason it is with poison, is due to the easy access to +damage to poisoned enemy. The only other status effect that shares this, is paralysis. Poison is more sensible than paralysis in this case as paralysis only lasts 1 hit. Perfect for Iai Quickdraw builds, not for much else. If the damage boosts were available for fire/water enhancements, they would be superior by far.
It's justice ministry, as long as you don't have justice ministry legs you get the black wrapping but not the coat that goes above it, applies to most chest pieces
Hey cowboy, I'm level 101 on the mission after you fight Tokichiro...for good weapons or armor, what mission do you suggest I farm or is it not necessary?
I run into some issues when tempering Armor --> you have elemental damage taken (guarding) this does not exist for me, I sis ton of rerolls and only Elemental damage taken exists and it is bit 1/3 of what you have % wise. Gloves --> You have Elemental Damage Taken (guarding) for me Elemental Damage Taken does not exist at all. with guarding or without. And main thing, what is best way to get Windstorm inheritable on gloves? did you spam craft some cheap gloves? do they have to be divine to inherit to divine?
@@FightinCowboy yeah I am trying on reddit and your discord but no luck. crafting ton of gloves. but I never seen SotC or Windstorm and not to mention it to be inherit one...
EMAD ALHARBI you can get 7 special effect it you have a weapon with orange inheritables, max familiarity with it and soul fusion it to your main weapon
@@indomiegrg878 I've got almost 200 hours in this game already and haven't seen one primary weapon with orange inheritable. Are these just that hard to come across?
A.S. Dal farm revenant in voice in the twilight (awakening) in NG+ it got alot from there. my revenant is also there with full orange inheritable gear from weapon and armor
What would be the next favorable weapon to use if I’m used to the Kusarigama? I’ve heard dual swords because they both scale in Skill. I just really want to get another powerful weapon outside of the Kusarigama. I’ve switched back and fourth between the Kusarigama and dual swords in the first Nioh but even after beating it I don’t feel like I ever really got OP with another weapon. Even when I reallocated the stats using a Book of Reincarnation 🧐🧐
Hey man I'm having trouble passing my attack inheritable from my gloves over to my helmet. Can you tell me what conflicts with attack when soul matching?
I might be missing something, but I swear I have this setup exact and have +14% active skill damage vs the +30% on your build, where is it all coming from? I am an Elder in the Honda clan too!
Just finished the build, but instead of the snake helm (Can't get skill damage on it), I replaced it with master swordsman and the hands were replaced by tosa for the life.
For those asking about the 30% Skill damage, you need to join the Honda clan and donate to increase your rank to Elder. For those asking about inheritables, join the Nioh 2 Discord and find folks to trade with: discord.gg/EjQqYDh
If the link expires in the future you could always just Google the server 🤷♂️
You can trade? :O
FightinCowboy where you find windstorm in your robe?
@@tavixxxx508 Go to his link in discord, windstorm is a common white inheritable on gloves that people will drop as revenants on various missions ( recently, dark omens ng+), you should try to duplicate with them.
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Hey fightincowboy do think a purity build for dual swords would be strong enough and what set would you suggest
You're my go to guy for end game builds, thank you for all the great content.
I've been using this for about a week now, It is perfect! Just saying thank you and keep up the good work
Just finished the game and got my unlocked and I tried doing the dojo mission to get the divine gear for that set but it’s not there at all… it’s just 4 basic missions . How did you find it ?
Out of all the builds I've seen this looks like the most fun and sensible! Not having to rely on a single skill I feel makes the game still maintain it's fun because you have variety 👍
You could try spear too. The main dps skill is risky to use and has a lot of other situationally useful abilities like triple threat. Also has a lot of support from sets - at least 3 of them focus or at least specifically enhance spear gameplay.
Love the videos mate. Very informative. I’m very familiar since I played the first and had a pretty strong set but of random shit that’s strong or what I like. After watching this I learned how to properly create a death build. I LOVE dual swords so I will try this build but with some of my own changes but will pay more attention. This game is different in a lot of aspects from the first one so gotta be cognisant of all factors. Can’t wait!
Great build. I'm finally about to play this game as I finally have the time to and this is pretty much exactly what I wanted. Since this video is so old, I hope that this build was still OP in NG+ and in the DLC's.
This build is op even in way of the demon which is ng++
@@deepak-ui5li Dope. That's awesome to know, thanks.
this looks like a fun build. I have been looking for a Dual swords build that has some variety in skills. Great guide as usual!
Awesome guide, I'm enjoying your odachi build quite a lot but I will probably give this one a go as there is not much else to do until the DLC comes out. Thanks for sharing your great builds with us.
Finally a poison build I mesh with, no over use of buffs,decent damage, flashy!
I was using my hatchet build but this might get me to move over to dual blades (and probably just reskin the swords to the bloody hatchet looking ones)
but anyhow good build and as a poison connoissuer this has my blessing
You could turn this into a hatchet build fairly easily, just sub in the shibata set and it'd prob work mostly the same
@@FightinCowboy oh no for sure, I just feel like hatchets are more fun / gimmicky than effective, not saying they arent since i did my whole playthrough with em just feels like that got shafted with skills and moveset ya know?
This is essentially the inspiration for my dual swords + kusarigama build. I did coiled snake (heavy) + 3 tatenashi + 1 golden gourd (heavy), ogo dual sword, some kusarigama. I invested in strength and skill as they boost kusa and dual swords together.
Smithing Text for Axe you get from Shadow Region, A Formal Match side quest
This is an insane build. Need to go farm the dual blades set now
Really liking this and am trying to follow previous version of this but would love to see video how to build dual swords in just NG, I believe lot of people would benefit from that rather then end game NG+
In NG just use whatever medium armor you find and call it a day.
did you temper with weapons and armor in NG? what stats would be useful if you did?
Not really, I aim to replace gear every 10 levels. If I get a nice corrupted weapon I may temper it since they're cheap to soul match with cores but otherwise the only time I'll temper is to get kodama sensor on helm.
This build is crazy thanks for sharing
@FightinCowboy Would replacing the coiled snake helm with one that can inherit Windstorm be a viable option? I know you would loose 15% of boost against poisoned enemies, but this way you gain an extra 10% windstorm all the time
Go for it
Anyone else notice that cherry blossom (high stance combo ender) does a ridiculous amount of damage? It did almost as much as a windstorm. I wonder if it factors in a drop-attack multiplier because the character jumps up during the attack
It does have the stamina bonus attached to it but cherry blossom is just considered super strong in general.
Already kicking ass with your last build, so im gonna farm the snake coil helmet for this one. Also need the masters swordman smithing text. Thank god they increased the drop chance for those.
@manicniceguy Gonna Mod all these in when its out for PC, its too time consuming for me to max out different pieces just to inherit their bonuses to make the perfect build, hopefully we get mod support when it comes out.
I like this build since the "insert active skill" damage passive is just an extra and not the main way of attacking. Sure it's nice to have that on all your equipment, but trying to farm such a specific thing for every equipment really turn me off. But the way I see this build, even regular attacks can do so much once the poison kicks in
Yeah your regular combos will shred.
Is it possible to roll the windstorm damage % without inheriting it?
@@felipealaor only on your weapon, at the cost of losing any other damage boost.
@Michael Harrington yes.
Felipe Souza yes I tempered it on my gloves
Damn bruh. This is ready for Way of the Nioh lmao
Pffffft it's not that crazy, we still need ethereal gear.
Exactly with the ethereal all can be rise igh
Divine is the final tier list for gear? I didn't get any 160(+8) gear and what does it mean? I don't even know how to use those...
@@nayyarrashid4661 what you mean you didnt get? +8 CAN NOT be dropped by enemies at this point. You need to Soul Match till to get +5 and above. Hope that helps
Anyone know if we just upgrade this exact same build with ethereal gear, we'll be good to go for way of the Nioh?
I naturally went for this kind of build, but with a tanky version with Tatenashi. Working like a charm.
Finally have this running. Only thing I am missing is orange inheritable Elemental Damage Taken (guarding). I farmed tons of revenants and never seen one. Checked official discords and haven't seen people talking and trading this one either...
Wonderful build. Really encouraging me to pick up some dual blades.
It's insane and amazing but I can't help feeling disappointed watching all these builds shred through anything. Where did the finesse of the battles go? managing your ki, caring about dodging your opponents and carefully timing your attacks. I guess I just like that kind of theatricality and the exhilaration of beating the opponents with evades, blocks and overall weapon mechanics.
All of that comes back with higher difficulties, which without builds like this you get your bum touched.
Master swordsman there are two sets, we want the power one. You can try farming Dojo mission Master of Two Blades but he isnt generous with divine gear and not even sure it drops smithing text. Its much easier to farm revenants having dual swords as weapon.
The other lighter set (not the one in this video) can easily get the armor smithing text go to Dream of Samurai (not NG+) and do Dojo: The way of the Warrior. Adept.
Brian Fenech got the dual swordsman armour smithing texts in NG a couple of days back. Only took a few attempts.
@@Jammil2477 Had no luck getting the Power one. The other one took me only a couple of tries. You got it from Master of Two Blades ?
Brian Fenech yes, the dual sword heavy armour set from the master swordsman of the dual blades trial. I didn’t really wear anything special, just upped my luck a little bit and went for it. Think I got it in the 4-5 try.
On top of Rage from Axe and Tengen attack boost, you can use Carnage as well as Soul Purge + 80% melee on poison as they all stack up. Make sure to quit/complete mission before soul purge expires for not to lose familiarity.
Carnage conflicts with Rage
Can you do a video maxing out the axe build? Or maybe one that make it more tanky?
A neat trick I found useful to braking weapons is if you find a weapon set item or any weapon with corruption is you can inherit the yokai orb 1> skills allowing you to temper all 7 stats instead of finding a good 1>1 stat
Instead of Axe for attack boost you can use a Kusarigama and use the Summer Twilight skill. You can temper on weapon Summer Twilight Duration and if you use Kawanami Kusarigama the two piece bonus is Efficient Yokai Abilities 22.3% which aint bad at all.
Wow i feel like Cowboy was reading my reddit posts before i made confusion build lol. Coincidence i think. I actually kept profilgate sinner set and i have 83.27% poison and 40% paralyze dmg vs enemies. Poison and paralyze stays on the enemy even if he is hit with 2 elements. Basically almost 11x damage increase. 2160 dmg x 10,5 = 22.680 dmg on the sign of the cross
Link to build?
Math is off I have the same build but with water poison and the 40% melee damage when paralyzed. Water with gyuki is 32% MORE damage
@@jordansebert11 once enemy is confused (two elements put together) the enemy isnt saturated anymore. Thats why i dropped dmg vs saturated because you dont benefit from the status once enemy is confused.
How did you inherit attack on all armor? Know howto do with the white arrows when there next to it but u have it at bottom of each bit?
Speaking of DLC do you think the release additional new weapons like they did with neo1 with the odachi and tonfa.
Would like another heavy weapon. Or foot and hand claws.
Claws!!!! I want Claws, maybe some type of gun/katana combo, and some more Onmyo-mage weapons.
@The Lord of Entropy literally. While the tonfas are amazing at staggering, they're tracking really sucks, same goes for the mid-stance swithglaive; hopefully we also get a whip/blade.
A three-sectioned staff would be awesome too. Just like with the used in the movie fearless.
Been running this build with my own tweaks and it's stupid strong
If you find an inheritable Anima (poisoned enemy) in a soul core you can put that on your weapon too. I found one, Soul Matched it into a corrupted weapon, maxed out fam and transferred it over. Works for any status, so keep an eye out for inheritable Anima (status) for the ailment you want, Fire, Water, whatever.
Good stuff and still relevant! Got it free from plus and I'm thinking I may buy the dlc.
Hey cowboy I'm new to nioh, but thanks to you, and the developers I am in love with nioh 2. now i wanna master the game like you. how long does it usually take to get that strong with duel swords (asking for hours so I can scedual my weekends of solitude)
Not sure, I have around 170 hrs on this save but I also have made 10 or so different builds
@@FightinCowboy nice and did you ever find out where to farm for the flying Kato smithing text ?
Yeah from the dojo
@@FightinCowboy thank you
@@FightinCowboy I just finished the game and I have new game unlocked, I tried finding the dual swords divine gear in the dojo mission but I only have 4 missions …? Do I need to Do a certain mission to open it bc I have 300k proficiency
What is the refashioned set that is being used? Looks sharp.
Hey guys. How die he get so much stats on the weapon? I have only 5 stats with an inhertiable. and also on the chest and so on so much stats. ^
From where did he get all? are this all orange inheritables ?
Greez from Switzerland
Would love to know a new game version of this build for lvl 100-150
If you want to cheese newgame just make a ninjutsu character and run fuma early and flying kato later
do you have a good level farming spot for NG+?
Whats the equipment you used for the fashion here? I don't recognize the chest piece.
Edit: nvm, found it: Justice Ministry w/o coat.
@FightinCowboy is there a way to craft windstorm dmg?
Where can I farm for windstorm damage inherit please help:) the only thing I’m missing in the build
1st Region, Dark Omens Sub Mission, kill the revenants then pray, repeat
Cydrick Alexis Bauyon oh thank you I was farming revenant in the sub mission The Brothers’ Blades but no luck
Cydrick Alexis Bauyon I wanna says thank you again I just got my first windstorm damage inherit :)))
@@chakkapongpama7193 you're welcome sir
Hey cowboy just wondering if you're making any kind of yokai shift build and if not would you consider making one but I would understand if you didn't because I know there's not a whole lot of options for yokai shift builds at the moment
It's not viable
Crazy build!!! @fightincowboy will you be doing another single katana build any time soon?
Not for a while. Builds of this level take a lot of farming and up next I wanna re-work my tonfa build to be even deadlier.
Jesus Jamanba soul core gives a sick attack boost on skill usage. Someone mentioned its roughly a 40% attack boost.
I tried to make a variant on this build, but with the flying Kato set for more of a ninja build. Would I just be better off going with the Triumph of Tranquility set instead? I use single katana
Quick ? For anyone what item do you use to change all of your learned skills like to reset them? I know book of reicarnation respecs your skill points and zen manual respecs your prestige points, but what is needed to respec your learn skills?
Same area where list of available dojo missions are, press triangle in there.
@@diamondgrape543 thanks! Did not no that
Is it possible to do a build w both dual swords and tonfas? I started a new playthrough and I can't seem to help using both of them, but it requires leveling courage as well so I'm wondering if I'm making a bad decision. I just love switching between them.
Damien J you can, temper tonfa for attack skill and remodel to scale with skill
@@indomiegrg878 Right on. You can't do remodeling until late game though can you? I still haven't unlocked it on my main playthrough yet
@@Nox444 Almost at the end. Once you get a Metalworking Chisel and some + value gear.
@@austenadams8051 So it'll be hard to use both in the main playthrough without leveling both courage and skill until I reach the end when I can remodel?
@@Nox444 Not really, if you're using light armor with it, as that's only 3 stats to spread points between. a bit harder with medium, but still manageable.
Which is better? Straight up Attack on all armor or + attack with Dual Swords? Dunno if it follows the same principle as the Ninjutsu vs. Shuriken and Kunai damage thing. Love the content BTW.
The other thing is +Attack and Defense. Straight attack will be stronger, the other is a split on attack and defense.
Ninjitsu is irrelevant since you'd want shurikan and kunai, ninjutsu power, and unlimited ninjitsu and can run all 3 with inheritables.
@@FightinCowboy so, is straight up Attack just better than Dual Sword specific bonus? I'm still very much confused about this. Thanks for the build idea tho.
@@zackeryh250 oh. Alright. Cool cool. Time to re roll then. Thanks for the info
This is almost identical to my "Manslayer" Dual Sword build. It's pretty gross!
Can anyone tell me were i can get this windstorm damage inhert T_T i been trying to farm the revenants and still no drops
same lol
Lost canon map in dawn
You think you could do a build for using the Yokai forms more often? Activate Brute form and go to town for awhile? I always thought it sucked that they don't last very long.
Yokai form can't compete to the regular stat boosts you have
GODDAMN!!!! THAT WRECKS!!!😱😱
Is the 6th Ki pulse bonus from the set important? I think you might be able to get a Cherry Blossom bonus from 'A Multitude of hope' set with the weapon+accessory, assuming that's worth it :3
10% cherry blossom isn't a big boost tbh
hi cowboy just wondering if anyone else been picking up greyed out weapons , ,like the defiled stuff from the abyss , but it doesn't appear in ur inventory ?
Those are tea sets my dude
@fightingcowboy, can you min/max the child of sun (unifier of japan set) dual sword build? It uses the same skill and heart stats, it wont take much time for you to min/max it. Maybe you can do some sort of confusion based bonus anima, spamming yokai abilities, with child of sun set as well? just putting out a suggestion!
it ALWAYS takes time to min-max, also I have no interest in child of the sun, it's a shit tier set. We want real damage bonuses and the only think it offers is damage based on luck.
@@FightinCowboy yeah tried everything with it but the damage is nowhere near the poison build :(, anyways thanks for the reply!
Oh yeah!... was waiting for you to post this.
I was wondering if you could do something similar with the switchglaive though. Not sure it would be quite as strong but with the skill Empty Retribution I think it could work.
Hmm I'm not sure what set you'd use for Switchglaive. Unfortunately there is no attack/defense Switchglaive set.
@@FightinCowboy True but I would think they have to have a set coming in an upcoming DLC. I'm still building the windstorm build and will come back to this depending on what ethereal gear drops we get
You can put Arcana of Water on your skills for the water proc or just use ninja feathers
FightinCowboy# I have a serious question.. what is the best attack stat to temper onto a weapon besides change to attack? Like for earlier on midgame? If Cowboy or Anyone has the numbers or percentages for each damage bonus or damage effect in general it would help the community out so much. Any data?
Largely depends on build, I usually go for healing, a status or element, and then ki or active skill boosts
@@FightinCowboy you're going to want to read that :) ^ might give you an idea but I would like to chill with you man, you seem pretty down to earth. If you're busy we can just talk ideas or math in the game if you're not busy.
Just a question, how much dps would you lose if you used the snake spirit? Since that badboi gives your yokai abilities poison damage wouldn't it be solid for just beefy poison uptime?
Thats kinda what i wanted to do. Just with paralyse dmg and with focus on sign of the Cross. Might work because there is a set that gives you 40+% Dmg to paralysed enemys when you just wear 3 pieces. That combined with master swordsman might be one of the strongest oneshot builds just like in nioh 1 with futsunushi and hino enma helmet.
Whats your most favorite weapon/build so far? Really enjoying dual swords but want to give tonfa a try, or perhaps iai quickdraw
Let us farm your revenant cowboy ? This wind damage inheritable is a ball ache not one drop in days .
Does the attack bonus skill really make such a huge difference? I have this almost identically copied (minus the + numbers not exactly the same on pieces) and I at most do 400 damage with back stabs meanwhile your over here doing 600+ to the front and 1k+ from behind.
@FightinCowboy how do you get attack on all your armor in this new nioh 2?.. because in nioh 1 it was a lot easier they changed alot of stuff in nioh 2 and how do you trade with people?
Find people to trade with on the Nioh discord
Hey cowboy where can I find the discord?
Nioh subreddit had a link
Hey! Anyone have data on the best damage bonuses besides change to attack on weapons? And I'm up right now man, you wanna chill and talk math or talk nioh while we play? You can invite me to a party if you want buddy - Ronaldraygun94
Nice Video, really liked the in depth explanation :)
Also can i start this build in the beginning of NG+?
I incorporated some poison stuff like this into the spear build you did and it claps
Really like this build and your other Videos too. Is there a way to start with this build in normal and transition it into his final form at NG+? The Paralyze Build doesnt work for me that well.
Yeah just get poison on your accessories and use ninja poison
@@FightinCowboy Thanks. I will try it.
Are you getting more damage with the poison in general or you have to apply the status on them. This is were I am confused at.
And could you do this with water, fire, etc. or it has to be with poison?
The status must be imbued. The reason it is with poison, is due to the easy access to +damage to poisoned enemy. The only other status effect that shares this, is paralysis. Poison is more sensible than paralysis in this case as paralysis only lasts 1 hit. Perfect for Iai Quickdraw builds, not for much else.
If the damage boosts were available for fire/water enhancements, they would be superior by far.
Does this build still work in the new difficulty?
How do you have 2 items equipped for a set but only have on equipped am I missing something?
Hey man does the elemental damage while guarding roll on temper? I cant seem to roll it on my chest. Or isit a pass over inheritable?
Can you have multiples builds on one character with different gear, stats etc.?
Do title points matter for these builds or what would you suggest for general
I normally go for ki ,life, anima related ones and gold or amrita earned
Is their a variation of we don't have the yasakani yet?
What's your fashion choices on your armor... I really like that look. I couldn't find that chest piece in my arsenal.
It's justice ministry, as long as you don't have justice ministry legs you get the black wrapping but not the coat that goes above it, applies to most chest pieces
@@FightinCowboy Thanks!
Hey cowboy, I'm level 101 on the mission after you fight Tokichiro...for good weapons or armor, what mission do you suggest I farm or is it not necessary?
Justin Belmont get to ng+ first
Good news: according to one website, either Tokichiro fight can drop the skills. Bad news, both are a pain to get to. Recommend the first one.
Only issue with toshiees abacus is speed buffs slow down double headed slice big time.
Ive got a bunch of Attack+ inheritables gloves but its not letting me put it on each piece of gear??m
You have to max out the familiarity of the armor for the inheritable to transfer
@@johnhuysentruyt8310 yep I sorted it out, thanks tho
Isn't 8 strengths enough when crafting the set yourself or do you need 15 for something else?
The Guardian spirit?
hey cowboy do you think when u get a chance you can leave link to the page where you can find the wind storm inhert. i cant find the thread on reddit?
Check the discord
Yo cowboy u got any tips for combos with dualswords?
cant wait for this game to be on pc
Will you update the switchblade build like this?
Nope, only going this in-depth into builds I plan on putting lots of time into. Tonfa is getting an update and eventually I may min/max the axe build.
@@FightinCowboy ahh that makes sense. I took notes off your switchblade build on how to set mine up
Can anybody tell me if this is still a viable/good build at this point?
How do you get inheritable that increase your damage of your active skills ? Is it just luck from farming ?
Can you please tell me whats the nioh subredit where I can find revenants to farm for inheritable gloves
Can you please tell me how did you get a plus 8 weapon? Are you using save wizard or something?
I run into some issues when tempering Armor --> you have elemental damage taken (guarding) this does not exist for me, I sis ton of rerolls and only Elemental damage taken exists and it is bit 1/3 of what you have % wise. Gloves --> You have Elemental Damage Taken (guarding) for me Elemental Damage Taken does not exist at all. with guarding or without. And main thing, what is best way to get Windstorm inheritable on gloves? did you spam craft some cheap gloves? do they have to be divine to inherit to divine?
You need to use inheritables, you need to find people to trade with.
@@FightinCowboy yeah I am trying on reddit and your discord but no luck. crafting ton of gloves. but I never seen SotC or Windstorm and not to mention it to be inherit one...
Use the Nioh discord, not my discord lmao
Might be a newb question. What does poison damage scale with?
How can i make my weapon (any weapons) have the full special effect I always missing one( meaning 5 effect only not 6)
I would like to know as well. Thought only yokai weapon could get all 7
EMAD ALHARBI you can get 7 special effect it you have a weapon with orange inheritables, max familiarity with it and soul fusion it to your main weapon
@@indomiegrg878 I've got almost 200 hours in this game already and haven't seen one primary weapon with orange inheritable. Are these just that hard to come across?
A.S. Dal farm revenant in voice in the twilight (awakening) in NG+ it got alot from there. my revenant is also there with full orange inheritable gear from weapon and armor
@@indomiegrg878 hey could you drop your revenant there again? Dont think it's there anymore and was sleeping.
See you in space, cowboy!
Is there a smithing text for this set bonus?
Cuz im trying to get gauntlets
I might try to do this kind of build with hatchets instead
What would be the next favorable weapon to use if I’m used to the Kusarigama? I’ve heard dual swords because they both scale in Skill. I just really want to get another powerful weapon outside of the Kusarigama. I’ve switched back and fourth between the Kusarigama and dual swords in the first Nioh but even after beating it I don’t feel like I ever really got OP with another weapon. Even when I reallocated the stats using a Book of Reincarnation 🧐🧐
Hey man I'm having trouble passing my attack inheritable from my gloves over to my helmet. Can you tell me what conflicts with attack when soul matching?
Attack/defense conflicts
How do you get windstorm on all the pieces of armor?
I might be missing something, but I swear I have this setup exact and have +14% active skill damage vs the +30% on your build, where is it all coming from? I am an Elder in the Honda clan too!
Honda, tengen, and poison all got nerfed
@@FightinCowboy man :( Thx for the reply!
Just finished the build, but instead of the snake helm (Can't get skill damage on it), I replaced it with master swordsman and the hands were replaced by tosa for the life.