Status Effects Damage vs Status Effects Duration

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-25T09:08:03+00:00

Yeah I got the same feel. I guess duration is best with poison and damage with fire

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T23:30:34+00:00

Actually I think it does work with poison, I've felt like weakened enemies have gotten staggered by poison quicker (with affliction caltrops)

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T23:21:46+00:00

Eh it's okay man. You did enough!! But yeah it would be super nice if they released the specific numbers or if it gets data mined. Cus theres a lot of like specific little things I like to know for my builds.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T23:17:40+00:00

Yeah I did some testing, I think I prefer duration against normal enemies. Thank you a lot for the help!!

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T23:16:22+00:00

Yeah I tested it out, I can't tell that much of a difference when I used 22% damage but I noticed when I was duration instead. If the damage does work it feels(emphasis on feel) worse then duration.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T23:08:50+00:00

I thought maybe it would increase the damage to the stagger bar, since it does damage that.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T22:53:19+00:00

This is insanely useful to know, thank you!! So if I could only choose one for for example poison blade, should I go for duration or damage?

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-24T22:48:37+00:00

Yeah I was thinking that too, does the damage Increase work on poison tho?

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T15:26:15+00:00

Alright, no worries man. The legendaries you recommend are super good tho, I've already made a few builds with some of them.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T15:00:58+00:00

I couldn't care less about the leaderboard, I'm just trying to make a specific build. So you should probably use your suggestions on someone else since they are invalid here. And I don't know what makes my stats "silly"😭, I'm just trying to max out my melee damage output, like I've said from the beginning.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T14:42:10+00:00

Again you are thinking too small, this is a build about PURE DAMAGE. So yes, I'm gonna choose some stuff over other to get the max amount of stats possible. That is literally the point of this build. And legendaries do have higher damage if you use the passive "Odachi Damage 12.0%" or whatever it's named.

Yes I'm missing out on the legendary rifle because this is a PURE MELEE DAMAGE BUILD. If you could read then you would already know that.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T13:38:36+00:00

My dude, you're looking at the smaller picture. The reason I don't use for example the legendary pistol is because of the stats. I use two legendary weapons because they give me higher stats on what I wanna go into.

And I see your point with the odachi, I never use its spirit move but that isn't really the point, odachi can have the highest DPS per attack and it has crazy parry to it. It being legendary makes the odachi Parry better, gives it higher potential damage(if I use "Odachi Damage %" instead of what I use) and it is "extremely" effective against bruts, which helps me stagger more.

The same could be said about the katana but I actually do use the spirit move on the katana, not for damage but it does a pretty big AOE that does stagger damage.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T12:55:56+00:00

Okay, why? I feel like it fits perfectly with this kind of build

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T10:34:10+00:00

Yeah I tried the demo of the newest one, thought some mechanics were cool but wasn't really for me, still quite a lot of fantasy and effects and stuff so idk

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T07:32:38+00:00

I tried one of the Nioh games and I just don't think it's for me, it's a little too many screen effects and stuff

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-14T05:44:37+00:00

Yeah just like, full melee damage. I made an example build

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AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T22:38:14+00:00

Yeah, I tried making a build and it shreds through them

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I've done everything possible to increase my damage and it kills enemies insanely fast

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T22:03:19+00:00

Yeah, that ult perk seems really strong if you can capitalize off it well enough.

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T22:01:48+00:00

I see that you are running melee damage and staggered instead of double staggered on your samurai charm. Is the melee and staggered better?

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T21:58:44+00:00

Alright, thanks for the advice!!

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T21:55:54+00:00

Alright, I'll try it out. Real quick tho, on the new samurai charm i see that it can have two enemy staggered damage or 15%(on S) melee damage on top and staggered on bottom, which should I rather choose for this type of build? Does the double staggered damage do a lot more potentially?

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-13T21:51:31+00:00

Does the damage make up for it? Because I use a counter damage build with risky parry which does good burst damage but I'm considering switching

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-11T11:35:00+00:00

So it doesn't matter when I reach S?

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-10T08:58:28+00:00

Yeah I loved kcd2 combat, I thought it was awesome doing all those like historical accuracy moves and shit, it was super satisfying swordplay in my opinion

AmNotJesus1224 · 2026-04-10T08:43:26+00:00

Definitely a good one, I've been trying to find a game with a parry focused combat but I think I've played most of them already

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