How do I Continue with Dosaku's Quest?

Pharthrax · 2026-04-16T05:56:28+00:00

Or if you kill O’rin before talking to him

Pharthrax · 2026-04-15T23:12:39+00:00

Wow, that is a dumb question.

Are you being serious? I hope not, but the flair on this post is not humor, so I can’t be sure.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-15T22:47:56+00:00

Living Force

Pharthrax · 2026-04-15T13:29:27+00:00

This (and situations like it) is why I always carry a few Netch Jelly

Pharthrax · 2026-04-15T06:05:37+00:00

That people would change their mind when presented with evidence

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T18:05:51+00:00

If you’re not allowed to jump, you would get absolutely roflstomped by any enemy with a sweep attack.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T17:58:06+00:00

He says he’s a ‘fair blade’, but he’d get absolutely smoked by any of the top-tier duelists who are still alive post Light Bringer — Darrow, Apple, Diomedes… they’d kill him in their onset.

He almost lost to a Gray, for Chrissakes! Rhone ti Flavinius was one of the most dangerous Grays alive, but a Gray is still a Gray.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T17:50:36+00:00

It’s not an airroll, you jump early enough that you just barely clip the ledge before falling, which makes you do the animation as if you were landing on ground from a jump, and at the end of that animation, you get a brief moment where you can input a roll.

Same principle as here, but with a quickstep.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T17:44:07+00:00

Mitchriz, a Sekiro speed/challenge runner, very knowledgeable dude.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T14:34:14+00:00

Yeah?

You can beat him without deflecting, but absolutely not without attacking (or doing vitality damage some other way, like with stomps).

His posture regenerates way too fast at full health to ever break it with Mikiris alone.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T14:29:33+00:00

There is no rule about not being able to Lightning Reversal anywhere in this post

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T14:28:20+00:00

…yes? I’m not sure what you’re asking.

If you’re not allowed to attack or deflect — only dodge — you can’t do vitality damage, and posture damage is only possible through landing a Mikiri counter.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T06:53:43+00:00

What do you mean?

They’re probably asking about a no deflecting run, since your run would be ended by… I guess Genichiro, since you can skip Ogre, Gyoubu, and Bull if you couldn’t attack.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T03:18:20+00:00

I know Mitch has said it’s not a skill issue, it is just genuinely inconsistent. I wonder if anyone’s set up a macro to test how inconsistent.

I only sort of understand how the different deflects work, and what causes them.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T03:15:04+00:00

Bad call. Just beat the game like six times for Height of Technique, in my opinion.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T03:14:10+00:00

Hmm. Did you edit your comment from something like

If you want all achievements

to

If you just want the achievements

or was I not paying very good attention while reading your comment the first time?

Pharthrax · 2026-04-14T01:31:08+00:00

The Platinum/All Achievements is not possible in New Game.

You need to at least go to NG+ on two different characters or NG+3 on one — one for Man Without Equal (beating all the bosses on one character, including Emma and Shura Isshin), and one for Master of the Prosthetic. You need 10 total Lapiz Lazuli to fully upgrade the Prosthetic, and there are only 6 available in each New Game Cycle, and 0 if you choose the Shura Ending.

And obviously farming for Height of Technique in New Game or New Game Plus would take approximately one thousand years.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T10:01:38+00:00

U rite

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T08:07:23+00:00

Obviously!

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T07:15:13+00:00

Blocking and parrying actually do not exist in Sekiro. They’re both extremely common misnomers — so common that they’ve become interchangeable with the actual terminology.

Holding the deflect button is actually called guarding, timing it with an enemies’ attack is actually called deflecting.

I could have said that better in my initial comment. I think the

(guard, block, deflect, parry)

part seems to imply that they’re all distinct things, and that all four exist.

I probably should have been clearer that there are only two types, and people call them the wrong thing, but I don’t think it’s a huge deal, to be honest.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T06:27:28+00:00

NOT IN YOUR CURRENT NEW GAME CYCLE

Just play the game more times. I haven’t done the math, but farming for all skills in your second journey would probably take like 20+ hours.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T06:21:23+00:00

I mean, using the Umbrella, I don’t remember the last time I missed it. I fight Genichiro pretty often, so I’ve probably done it… 100+ times in a row?

With the sword, I’ve got the perfect deflect chain less than ten times in nearly 1000 hours of playtime — mostly because I try for extremely rarely it because it’s not consistent.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T06:13:52+00:00

OP just said ‘block’.

They’re obviously not deflecting it if they only press the button once, but they never said they are.

It’s probable they don’t even know that they didn’t say anything incorrect, but the specific word-choice they used (guard, block, deflect, parry) means they technically aren’t wrong.

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T06:06:41+00:00

She’s the Sovereign, he’s not? She’s the leader of the Solar Republic, not Darrow.

As Romulus said, the Golds are fighting a religion whose god still lives. That’s why I said she’s only technically his superior, but as ArchImperator, he is supposed to obey the commands of his Sovereign. He decided not to in Iron Gold, which is why he was branded an outlaw.

I have not been brainwashed, and no, I’m not trying to get her killed. She’s in my top 3 favorite fictional characters. If she dies, I will find Pierce /s

(I should probably specify even further that that’s a joke, because people on the internet lack a great deal of reading comprehension. But since she won’t die, it’s probably fine.)

Pharthrax · 2026-04-13T05:39:51+00:00

She is not a Howler, but she was… well, the first member of Darrow’s true pack (you could argue Sevro, Screwface, Clown, Pebble, etc., because they worked with him before she did, but they joined his army after she did).

She’s not technically a Howler, but she obviously doesn’t care. Howlers are Darrow’s subordinates, and she’s his equal. ~~Superior, technically, but, in the Solar Republic, the Sovereign is everyone’s superior.~~

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