Nioh 2

[Silverfish]

Is this soulstard in the room with us now?

 

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Tonfas were easy to get into. Started using them when entered Underworld. Wanted to see which floor I can reach rushing with single kodama per room before things started getting hard. Floor 88 now and still mostly stomping things. High stance is so good on this weapon, that's pretty much all I am using. I can just keep doing strong attacks -> Heavenly Chain -> Demon Dash -> Pulverize combo over and over in most situations. Soon will be switching to Sword, I guess. One of the boss fights gave me Kurama Sword Dance yesterday, so that's nice.

 

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Ended up doing all 108 Underworld floors and then first 5 floors of Depths with Tonfas. Then switched to sword. First use was in the Damned Scroll from those first floors of Depths. Was doing ok with it, died only few times in the scroll. Then redid the scroll to see what tweaks can be made to it and off to Depths again. Floor 6 went ok but floor 7 boss Azai Nagamasa just makes me feel hopeless. Damaging him very slowly while he can delete me in couple hits. I cannot charge up my Anima bar anywhere near as easily as I could with Tonfas and Yokai Abilities were a huge part of my damage output when going through Underworld. And feathers on zero ki enemies, which was also much easier to achieve with Tonfas. Plus weapon damage is lower in general as I do not have any stats that sword scales with past 50 and with Tonfas there was Constitution which is the only stat I took past 100. I'm guessing I'm already at the point where damage scaling is actually needed. So I don't think I will be learning sword, or any yet unlearned weapons, on this run anymore. Maybe I should check if Fists still feel OP at this level, or even bring back good old Odachi.

 

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Grabbed my Tonfa again and went up to Depths floor 9 just now. Looks like this is where bosses stop being fun. Tate Eboshi in this floor one shots me with grab attack. Some other attacks also delete my health real fast, can kill me in less than a second. That's with over 10k HP. While I'm forced to kill it slowly. And this is with all 4 Kodama bonuses gathered. None of the floors in Underworld before Depths made me feel like I need more than 1 Kodama so I enjoyed that fast progression through floors. I guess this is the part of the game is where I'm actually supposed to grind for strongest equipment possible and I'm not into it. Not sure if I'm gonna bother going to higher floors. Depths are probably intended for ultimate tryhards and I ain't that. Oh well, had enough fun up to this point.

 

[Silverfish]

Tate Eboshi in this floor one shots me with grab attack. Some other attacks also delete my health real fast, can kill me in less than a second. That's with over 10k HP. While I'm forced to kill it slowly.

You have to admit that there's something funny about playing through so much of the game to ultimately end up in a similar position to a brand new character.

 

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You have to admit that there's something funny about playing through so much of the game to ultimately end up in a similar position to a brand new character.

I don't see how it's a similar position though. Balance is fun with a brand new character. It isn't in Depths, not past first 5 floors. And I've just found out that on higher floors you actually have to do more than one boss in a row. Fuck that. Some of the cursed enemies already felt almost like boss fights starting floor 7-8, but they were still enjoyable. Bosses, however, are buffed to retarded levels.

 

[Silverfish]

I don't see how it's a similar position though.

Getting 1-2 shot is a common occurrence and bosses have a ton of health, relative to yourself.

 

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Getting 1-2 shot is a common occurrence and bosses have a ton of health, relative to yourself.

Clearly you haven't played Depths. You wouldn't be doing something so retarded as comparing early game bosses to those in Depths otherwise.

 

[Silverfish]

"How's it different?"

"It just is."

Looks like we found something else you can't do.

 

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Came back after break and took a look at shit in my inventory. Certain grace caught my eye and it turned out I could already equip enough of it to get 5 piece bonus.

Grace of Oyamatsumi

I left depths and went to blacksmith for all the tempering and shit and then restarted from floor 6. That damage halved at full health was a major game changer as with my fast life recovery build I am at full health most of the time. Doing floors 6-10 was enough to get me full set. Stopped at floor 16 today. Boss balance is weird as some bosses don't seem that much buffed but others are really hard and take way too long to kill for my taste. But at least no more one shots from full health so far. Double boss fight at floor 14 was Enenra followed by Obsidian Samurai. Ended up dying 15+ times to Enenra because that bitch was dying super slowly, despite me keeping Confusion up, blasting it with water feathers on zero ki and throwing Kasha wheels at it almost non stop. But once I finally killed it Obsidian Samurai was just a helpless stunlocked bitch that went down fast. It feels like it's 50/50 chance whether I get an overbuffed boss. So I guess I will at least do 20 floors. Whether I am up for doing triple boss fights past that I am not sure, but I'm glad I at least pushed past 10.

 

[HumanTotemPole]

Finally got round to finishing my 1st NG run up to the DLCs. Feels like a solid enough place to leave it for now, nearly 100 hours already.

Combat loop remained tremendous the whole way through. Still not enamoured of the loot system, but at least it works. Hope to revisit it some day and do the DLCs.

Special mention to Nurikabe for being a great clutch boss smasher. So handy when a Ki or Health bar needs a little extra push at the end of a combo.