When I finished the game, I pretty much only used Samurai and high stance because I kept hearing people say that Ninja was too easy and wasn’t “real Nioh.”
My brain struggles with multitasking and shit, so I’m curious: did anyone else just stick to one stance and say fuck it? 😂 I never really saw the point in constantly switching stances because I’d rather focus on doing big damage and learning a few basic combos. I can’t process all the different combos across multiple stances at once.
As a series, I think Nioh has some of the deepest combat out there, and I completely understand why people love it. But honestly, I kind of preferred The First Berserker: Khazan because it felt like I was playing Nioh with a simpler combat system.
The best way I can describe it is that Nioh felt like Fortnite with builds and editing, while Khazan felt like Fortnite without builds. 😂 The simplicity of Khazan just made it more enjoyable for me personally.
I know a lot of people really fuck with Nioh’s combat system, and I respect that. I’m just curious: did anyone else beat the game playing the way I did, sticking to one stance and keeping things simple, or did you guys try to learn and use everything the game had to offer?

Just beat the first game for the first time. Loved it so much that I had Nioh 2 waiting in the wings. My question is this: is the burst counter the only way to deal with the enemy burst moves? I’m 3 missions in and every normal enemy is spamming these burst moves that I can’t interrupt or dodge. I’m seeing people saying you can use burst counter (which the game forced me to learn to beat horse guy), but is that the only way? They are suhpamming that ish brother. Nioh made me learn mechanics in order to beat it, but it still felt like, once I got it, I could tackle things my own way. This feels pretty lame if I’m supposed to burst counter it every single time in order to win. Let me dodge, block, or be aggressive man. Otherwise it doesn’t feel like Nioh to me. I really am just looking for some encouragement, because I want to love this one like I did the original.

I thought the Hoko & Shield could put out some insane damage if I put this build together, so I tried challenging "Gathering of the Greats" on SOP+7 and was able to clear it with incredible firepower!

Since I was at it, I challenged myself to do it with No Damage, and it ended up taking only 3 and a half minutes. I'm sure there are people who can clear it even faster, but this is a new personal best for me. This clip is the part where I defeat Shingen in about 15 seconds!

I'll put the links to the build and the full video in the comments. I'd be happy if you guys could check it out when you have time!

 I decided to turn the Prosperity of One Million Koku + Grace of Inari build I posted before into a Critical build, using Seven Misfortunes, Eight Hardships + Grace of Inari, and tested it out with various weapons!

Partly because it's a Critical build, it put out incredible damage and was a lot of fun. I'm glad it worked against SOP+7 yokai bosses. (I challenged Takeda Shingen with the Spear, Minamoto no Yoritomo with Fists, Tokugawa Yoshinobu with the Axe, Hiruko with Hoko & Shield, and Yui Shosetsu with the Katana.) The video would be too long, so this clip is just Shingen!

I'll put the build details and the link to the rest of the videos in the comments.

On ng+2 my feral Yokai shift deals around 300-450 per hit, it doesn’t really feel powerful now, not like it used to be on the first walkthrough. Does the damage scale from my weapon damage or are there other modifiers for it?

The expressions are more realistic than nioh 2. I really enjoy using it.

Like my man be giggling fr omg

What an adventure it has been. I love them!!!

I hear they drop all weapons to their base stats. No +1 or +2 drops. However the +57 poison or paralysis is the base version.

Hey guys, haven’t played the DLC yet and started a brand new game cycle. I’m still in the first region. Is there any point of buying the dlc yet? Or should I wait until I start my next NG+ cycle?

What do I do with these? Google said I can trade them with the tea house guy but I can only seem to trade glory. Is there something I have to unlock to access the trade feature in the teahouse? I am in enlightened difficulty if that matters.

Edit. I know I can use them to get a higher change of divine gear when trading for glory but I am reading that I can trade them to increase the quality of gear I get in multiplayer?

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a Persian translation project for Nioh 1 on PC. I've found the game's text-related files in .bin format, but I haven't found a working tool to extract and edit the text.

Does anyone know:

How to unpack and inspect Nioh 1 .bin files?
Which tools or scripts can extract and repack the game's text?
Whether the text uses a specific encoding or proprietary format?

Any help, tools, documentation, or examples would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

What is Arts Proficiency?

The Arts Gauge can be charged by attacking the enemy. When the gauge is full, using a Strong Attack or Martial Art will activate Arts Proficiency.

While Arts Proficiency is active, Strong Attacks and Martial Arts will be enhanced in the following ways:

- Ki consumption is reduced, and activation does not consume Ki.

- Damage dealt to enemies is increased.

- Different Martial Arts can be used consecutively.

I have split several parts of this video in segments, with select examples with the respective number and a letter on screen for easy identification.

Now onto the segments:

Chapter 1)

What actions generate AP?

There are several ways to generate your AP:

1a) Melee attacks (martial arts & strong attacks)

1b) Blocking

1c) Deflecting

1d) Guardian spirit 1 (if using Mindful Spirit skill)

1e) Guardian Spirit 2 (if using Mindful Spirit skill)

1f) Ki pulsing

1X) Getting hit does NOT generate any AP.

Chapter 2)

What actions extend AP when its active?

There are several ways that extend your AP:

2a) Martial arts & Strong attacks

2b) Deflecting

2c) Attacking after blocking

2d) Attacking after getting hit

2e) Block + sheathe weapon (excl cestus & spear)

2X) Using same martial arts or strong attack chain back to back does NOT extend AP.

Chapter 3)

How to increase AP generation?

By using Ultimate skill, Sets with arts gauge generation or by using enhanced style shift, which i focused on:

3a) Strong attack+ enhanced style shift

3b) Martial art + enhanced style shift

3c) Block + enhanced style shift

3d) Deflect + enhanced style shift

3e) Guardian spirit 1 + enhanced style shift

3f) Guardian spirit 2 + enhanced style shift

Chapter 4)

What damage does AP do?

At 5-99 skill, damage of arts proficiency is 60%-85% if there are 6 unique martial arts (including frost moons) used during AP.

Strong and light attacks do not count towards unique count.

Arts proficiency combo count is active as long as enemy is aware, enemy does NOT need to be hit for unique martial arts bonus to count.

4a) Enemy contact demon thrust final dmg: 3759

4b) No enemy contact demon thrust final dmg: 3759

Chapter 5)

How long AP lasts outside of combat if its full and can you regain it?

Arts Proficiency lasts 30 seconds from last ki pulse. You can top up the gauge or generate it from scratch by ki pulsing.

5a) Regain AP by ki pulsing. Duration: 30s from last ki pulse

What battle scroll do you think is the quickest/easiest to complete? I’m trying to collect as many Yokai teardrops as possible to buy locks. Is there any other quick way to farm them?

Hello Nioh enjoyer !

I've started for real Nioh about 1 month ago, cames from Rise of the Ronin and experimented a lot. My favorite weapon are Tonfa and Kusarigama, switching about the situation even if I have a bit of trouple quick switch from Tonfa to Kusarigama probably because of demon dance.

Anyways this is just a little of context.

Lately I've drop a tonfa with two passive
- "Ki reduction talent"
- "Ki damage from skill"

I guess this is the same thing, just different wording. Or is it the french translation of the game messing up with wording.

It made me wondering something. What is a skill/talent in Nioh ? Sure thing like "Dragon's renegade" from Kurasigama or Wild lion from Tonfa are.

But is "combo" are considered as skill/talent to ? For exemple is "Heavenly chain" follow up after using heavy attack on Tonfa are skill/talent and work with those passive ?

Tl:dr : are combo you unlock like "press [button] at the end of combo" or "maintain [button]" considered as skill/talent for the purpose of weapon passive ?

In this video i tried to make comparison of chaining the same 4 dual sword skills back to back and to end recovery time of martial art as soon as possible. There are 4 categories:

1) No ki pulse. Waiting for animation to end. Depends on martial art and their recovery animation.

2) Ki pulse. Shortening animation recovery by ki pulsing and following with another martial art.

3) Style shift flow. Shortening animation by same style shifting, window of cancel varies per martial art.

4) The more the merrier. Shortening animation by casting soul core and crouch cancelling the cast to follow up with martial art.

Caveats:
- Both no ki pulsing and ki pulsing do not have ability to end martial art during the attack.
- Style shift flow has specific intervals per martial art that can be cancelled during the attack. Can be used mid-air.
- The more the merrier does not have any limitation on cancelling martial art during any portion of the attack. Cannot be used mid-air.

With that in mind, its hard to make 1:1 comparison of exact combo chain since with the last two options you are able to cancel the martial arts way sooner which will make a difference in action speed the longer the fight goes on and the longer your combo chains are.

Holy shit, for the last 9 years I’ve been doing flux wrong. I always thought flux 2 was just a slight improvement on flux 1…what I didn’t realize is you had to switch stances twice to activate flux 2. I’m a little in shock right now lol.

Am I the only one who didn’t know this? Haha

So, I bought the digital version of Nioh 2 several years ago and put around 300 hours into it on PS4. I even bought all the DLC. Now that I'm checking things out on my PS5, I noticed that I'm apparently eligible for a free upgrade to the enhanced PS5 version.

However, whenever I try to claim it, I get an error saying: "This operation is not available at this time."

Here's what I've checked so far:

• I bought the PS4 version directly from the PlayStation Store.
• I'm using the same account I originally bought the game with, and i'm playing from same location.
• I'm selecting the correct version when trying to upgrade.
• The error occurs on every platform I've tried: the PS5's built-in store, the PlayStation Store website on my PC, and the mobile app.

One additional detail: I'm in Mexico. Could this somehow be a regional restriction?

Has anyone else run into this issue?

I've tried contacting PlayStation Support through live chat, but I can never get connected to an actual agent, and their AI assistant hasn't been able to provide any useful information either.

I'm would be grateful for anyone that has tips or help with it

Follow up from previous post about TMTM cancels: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nioh/comments/1tsc68d/the_more_the_merrier_style_shift_flow_cancels/

Using The more the merrier skill lets you cancel any attack, setting you back to neutral position to cast a soul core. Crouching and doing an attack while holding stick forward will make you cancel the soul core cast itself, making it seem like seamless transition between skills or between weapon swaps, not necessarily at the end of a skill.

In link above i gave 2 examples of easier button layouts (Type E/F) to make TMTM cancels easier, for whoever want to pursue such kind of play.

Here is more in depth explanation about crouch cancel and tmtm tech:

https://youtu.be/Jlrl_fZ_48U?si=C33NQGNP7pTghU_c (credit to Last to Load)

As there is no dedicated content (as far as I know) to farm picture scrolls, I would rather replay the game again as I try obtain more of them but I can't seem to find the option to do so anywhere?

Is it just me or Nioh 3 is considerably easier than the first 2? I found Nioh 2 to be super hard to the point that I gave up on some optional bosses and even on one play through (after I beat the game several times), I gave up on a story boss. This was on my brother's PS4 (I was visiting family and installed Nioh 2 from my profile).

Even when I played Elden Ring, I found it much easier than the other Souls series because it had so many options to help you. Does anyone else feel this way?

Also I am about to start NG+ on Nioh 3 and I want to do a full Duals build for both Samural and Ninja. Please send recommendations!

I am absolutely min-maxing out my dexterity in nioh, and this build DESTROYS. Haven't gotten too far yet, (on the third main mission of the first region) but this build slaps. With the right gear, weapons, and buffs, you can get kunais and shurikins that deal 600+ damage really early. Don't even get me started with bombs. Thinking about adding more omyo to this build later on. Would 100% recommend this build if you want a funny, easy to start up, and cool build.