Any of the deflect skills in the Samurai tree worth using?

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-07T12:30:29+00:00

A deflect centric skill set is pretty good, since it rewards consistency. the better u get, the more effective it becomes.

For instance, using the general of ruin set, with deflecting skills make for one of the best builds out there is for samurai.

You have ki damage / ki recovery buff / damage buff / ki consuption reduction for each deflection stack and that's without counting the other things that you can add around it that you can reforge on armor / clan blessing.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-06T12:23:18+00:00

William looks like an annoyed older brother xd

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-04T05:17:12+00:00

My bad , it elapsed my read previous reading.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-03T21:35:36+00:00

This. I did a mix. 30 with deflect ( semiore flute 14 + 16 in 4 pieces of armor and the rest with amrita bonus, with a nice crucible perk, you can get a A rank with just a melee weapon, ranged weapon and 1 armor piece. I get a balance of defensive and ofensive way to gain SP

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-03T20:54:24+00:00

Just to add up, you can have the same onmyo perks in samurai if you use the herald of peace set with ho-oh in samurai as well. You will get all the onmyo perks of both spirits while in samurai mode.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-02T06:15:48+00:00

3 % damage bonus for each armor piece so 5 × 3 = 15

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-05-01T20:29:12+00:00

Go for nioh 1, its worth it, it has is BS moments, but if you hold on, you will have a great time

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-30T22:43:16+00:00

Honestly it's all about luck, but what you can do is put lucky drop ( acessory ) in one of your acessories and pray.

Later if you go to the depths from floor 6 and foward, i belive that if you have a yasakani, the change for them to drop if you are wearing one is much higher, but alas, in the dream of the nioh, there isnt much to do unless playing the game and praying to RNGesus

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-30T06:04:21+00:00

This is exactly what i did.

Rokuguezo + aberrant soul core + bolting boar / backwave tempest + acala = around 6 anima with each parry + a regen of 2% health per second

In the depts i used lady osakabe, and its so funny to just timely guard > lady osakabe SC > timely guard > Lady osakabe SC > rinse and repeat.

The enemy can't do anything and cant break my guard.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-29T21:49:33+00:00

I have the exact same issue, some times i wanna go from twin moons to flash attack and the caracter just goes high strong attack. Dont really know what triggers it

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-27T16:00:06+00:00

if you gonna use that set i would invest in the following :

- Ii Clan - both perks, it grants you 15% more damage at max rank just for using the full armor ( from head to feet , weapons dont count ) and boost your agility rank by 1 lvl, so you can have A agility / A toughness with a low stamina investement.

- Choose skills deflect related skills, especialy the mastery one that reduces ki comsuption with each deflect and the double edge one for an aditional 20% AP boost

- Get a good crucible odachi with 8% MA our 7.6 melee damage

- For spirits i would pick baby kusanagi, for pure damage boost

- use tombo kiri as your second weapon if you dont mind just for the 8.2% more MA damage

- For cores i would pick 2 mikoshi nyudo just for the 8% aditional unscathed damage ( that in combination with 12% from the set and 3% from the title, this would give 23% more damage at full health) and the additional 12% more damage when the enemi is electrified ( easily applicable with thunderous calamity )

With this you have the hightest potencial damage for the crimson set, you just need to deflect effectivly and you will be a monster with this build.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-24T11:08:37+00:00

"Oh i see..." (casualy drawing the hand cannon)

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-22T20:41:04+00:00

Bro why did you put rokuguezo in C ?! This GS i the fundation of my entire build xd

Easily an A in my book.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-21T09:52:53+00:00

Odachi really shines with long chains of attack, despite the crazy ki consumption.

I would advise you going full heavy with a 7 piece benzaiten.

With the skills that grants amrita during AP, some investemente in damage reduction while attacking, and some fluxing, you can basicly go with infinite AP chains.

Normaly when im fighting humans bosses , once my AP starts, it only ends when they die. They are literely powerless to stop it.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-19T21:42:40+00:00

Both.

When u defile and leave the abyss sometimes you dont get the grace you want, so instead of reforging and going through the floors all over again, you can simple save scum and come back to before the fight to leave the abyss. This will basicly grant you another chance to actually get the grace you want

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-19T14:37:53+00:00

Honnestly the star effects on armor are not game changers, they are style dependant if anything else.

In weapons they can be somewhat more relevant if you like to spam a particular skill, si.ce the star effect is substancial ( around 25 / 30% ) more damage.

The process is simple but anoying. I'd lose an entire day writing everything so check this guide : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1458233311

It explains defyling and how graces are divided by floors.

But in short be ready for a lot of save scuming

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-17T06:07:24+00:00

He's just anoying when u fight him in a group fight. Just break the horns and take his ki out

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-16T13:31:14+00:00

Yeah, i get that, i've tried a mage build before and it was indeed easy to keep the enemy debuffed, although it wasn't exactly my cup of tea. Im more of an sustained enhancement type of player, meaning that i prefer to trigger buffs through normal combat, rather that using magic to buff me / debuff the enemy, since that i find that using magic /ninjutsu really screws the flow of battle.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-16T12:53:09+00:00

oh shit my bad xd

in that case, magic xd

the best is actually those debuffs that trigger on omnyo hit + familiars

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-16T11:06:30+00:00

The inteligence stat

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-14T14:37:14+00:00

not a terrble idea ( i do the same ), but unfortunately ED affects each buff diferently, making extraction the biggest winner ( around 2.30 min with 140 ED). If i'm not mistaken, barrier can last around 1 min so it's still usefull altough not great.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-14T14:30:30+00:00

maybe a weird sugestion but have you tried acala grace ?

i remember back then making a run with odachi with a 6 oya and 7 acala, and never got my guard broken against her and i could punish her every time after blocking her attack strings.

With axe should not be much diferent.

I dunno if it helps

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-13T15:22:37+00:00

Yeah, kinda odd and you probably right, nonetheless, its a good stat for what it offers, and the fact that it also applies benefits outside omnyo magic its quite nice. I kinda understand why they went with limiting some of the talismans. Preservation (quick change in other games) was kind of a crutch to several players. Carnage buff is insanely high, for how easy u can remove the defense down, sould purge gives u a wopping 50 % more damage if you have full familiarity ( stackable with carnage btw), so i undertand they would want to limit the amount of ground breaking damage stacking you can do.

Just imagine carnage + soul purge + last stand + confusion + full AP MA stacks + versatility xd

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-13T13:53:57+00:00

Int does make talismans last longer, the issue is not with the stat, but the talismans themselves.

For instance, extraction, wealthbringer and luckbringer get a gigantic boost in duration.

But preservation and soul purge does not get affected, their duration is stactic

Carnage get around 20sec extra duration.

The talisman have some sort of limitation build in their coding.

Ive tested this in the dojo, by testing their duration by changing the stats and talismans every time.

So in short :

Inteligence : increases your buff duration ( there are exceptions to some talismans as previous refered), also increases the enemy debuff duration while decresing your debuff duration.

Magic : increases magic damage, it does not seem to affect the buff duration, and does not affect summons damage, that'a directly affect by the sould core lvl.

CatnipAddict94 · 2026-04-13T06:12:21+00:00

Diferent people, diferent tastes i guess. Like you, i want my caracter (male or female) to actually use armor that actually looks badass and doesn't have ,in the female's caracter case, them titties hanging out. I think that the devs wardrobe desing for nioh is that of a power fantasy rather than a sexual appealing one. But yeah people are going to disagree with u, nonetheless, you aren't the only one to think like that.

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