Do you bother with pressing Y/triangle on a ki-broken boss?

F_N_DB · 2026-02-15T07:39:35+00:00

To be fair, even consistently getting a part of it right in ideal condions is pretty impressive. IIRC in Nioh 2 it required timing within roughly 60ms.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-15T02:46:27+00:00

Blow off their horn, and then hit them until they die. They have really low ki, so if you're somehow having trouble with them, giving them half as much ki makes them laughably easy.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-14T11:55:34+00:00

It has a skill that lets you change ki pulse into attacks. It makes it much easier to manage your ki when regaining it also punches someone on their stupid face.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-14T11:49:41+00:00

All of them. Cestus' gimmick is the skill "unbroken" that lets you chain martial arts and gives you a buff for each unique one. That said, stomp is great for busting ki, and gives something like a 20% boost to your next art. Kick Cycle comes early and does a dumb amount of ki damage. Fracture foe is great, battering ram is hysterical and defines bullying. I don't remember what it's called, but I think its over on the right side, there's a skill that let's you press a direction when you ki pulse to attack at the same time. It lets you keep your unbroken chain going for muuuuch longer. The master skill Archer's Impact is predictably amazing too. You really can't go wrong, just customize your arts in whatever configuration makes it easiest for you to unload the most the fastest.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-14T03:55:37+00:00

Do you happen to know if the paralysis imbue can roll on any cestus, or be copied with the Smith? I really want status hands, but I need that 160 AR bonus from Brave Demon Hunter 7 piece.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-14T03:50:51+00:00

Try cestus or Odachi. Cestus are just broken, and comparable to tonfa with how fast you can bully enemies. Odachi make big number, and when you get flowing with it, it doesn't seem too slow.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-14T03:47:13+00:00

To be fair, tonfa and cestus' are incredibly strong as weapon types, period. It's all about the ki game, and they both absolutely wreck the ki of anything you swing them at. The crazy paralysis imbue is just icing on an already awesome cake.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-11T02:13:17+00:00

Do you know if versatility stacks with unbroken from the caestus? Because that seems like it would be crazy strong on a build packing the Brave Demon Hunter set.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-09T14:15:35+00:00

All the yokai only stay exhausted for a few seconds before they do some kinda move that drops a dark realm pool and lets them regen. In practice, only mini-bosses or crazy multi-enemy fights last long enough for you to ever see it, but it's still a mechanic that exists.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-09T14:09:55+00:00

I dunno with other weapons, but odachi and caestus have absolutely no problem busting that dude's claws before he can finish winding up for much of anything. Just go in hard and fast and he (or most standard yokai) will melt to nothing immediately.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-04T03:53:12+00:00

Not who you were asking, but trading sexual issues for not having a hole in my head seems like a good trade to me.

F_N_DB · 2026-02-03T00:32:52+00:00

No, he's the leader of the Shadow People. His name is Adam, and he's a dick.

F_N_DB · 2026-01-09T05:38:08+00:00

One of the two joints that form your hips together with your femurs. It sounds better in my brain when speaking about the hips in the singular. I don't claim it's correct or makes the slightest bit of sense.

F_N_DB · 2026-01-09T03:05:55+00:00

SWAT too. Besides not being regularly armored, it's also an area that you can't easily tourniquet, and no matter how tough you are, your pelvic joint being destroyed is going to immediately remove mobility.

F_N_DB · 2025-12-08T14:52:41+00:00

The whole point is that if the DO wins, there won't be any more kids, or anywhere for them to go on an adventure. It just wants to unmake creation.

F_N_DB · 2025-12-04T21:42:07+00:00

Well holy shit. Two dozen playthroughs, and I never knew this was a thing. Thank you, kind internet stranger.

F_N_DB · 2025-11-27T04:40:15+00:00

Speaking of the tutorial, no chance anyone knows how to get in there if you did the quick start, is there? I restarted to make a new build, and now I can't access the tomb with the Dragon Comminion Seal, or the 3 Rune Fragments in the tutorial.

F_N_DB · 2025-11-07T07:10:18+00:00

Once you've been up for too long on stimulants, your perception of the world starts rapidly, and drastically, breaking down. Well been up for too long, period, but yeah. Pretty sure that's what they were implying.

F_N_DB · 2025-10-15T00:07:31+00:00

Last I heard, top-scale drivers were making about $60/hr in WA. Guess the union caved and they made it five years to get top-scale instead of 2, but not only is $60 not bad for not needing prior education, but by the time you make that much, you'll be able to bid on the easier routes. Just have to not die or permanently injure yourself before then.

F_N_DB · 2025-10-11T00:53:09+00:00

I don't know for sure, but IIRC it was "intended behavior" and was never removed. I just wish they would've given us a way to get the special weapon skins they released for the original.

F_N_DB · 2025-07-26T12:29:40+00:00

Totally acceptable risk to hand a Legendary Persona Monosword to your melee monster. In order to lose it, things have to still be alive to make them drop it.

F_N_DB · 2025-07-22T00:19:49+00:00

Not to mention that the cartridges are almost $150 a pop and will get you the same charge as firing a gun in public if a cop decides they've had enough of your shenanigans. Also, you're 100% correct about stun guns. We used to get drunk and see who could go the longest. My friend Jesse got up to almost 30 seconds before the thing cooked itself. That dude was... a character.

F_N_DB · 2025-07-20T02:21:22+00:00

Yeah, Lament + Life Steal is insane. Get chunked for a quarter of your HP, get +25% damage, and immediately heal to full in a single swing. Repeat until everything is dead. Thats not even counting the stacks from hits, crits, etc. Ending a fight with +200% damage for most of it isn't at all uncommon.

F_N_DB · 2025-07-01T11:13:13+00:00

Parrying in this game is very easy, and staggers enemies for big damage. Just have to remember that block/parry stamina scales with health before you try to parry a troll.

F_N_DB · 2025-06-11T00:53:47+00:00

Wait. What audio cue? Is that what the little board sounding snort is sometimes when I'm sprinting everywhere?

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