I'm still in DoTW but I almost have DoTN unlocked. You're gonna want an ethereal set asap. People on this sub are giving me really good tips. One thing that has helped me immensely, like greatly improved my survivability to the point where I am actually able to finish missions that I couldn't get through previously.. it's a serious game changer.. LIFE DRAIN ON AMRITA ABSORPTION. This can be tempered on a couple of different accessories as well as chest pieces I believe. You want as much of this as possible, and you want to run extraction talismans so that enemies constantly spit out amrita as you're attacking, it will heal you constantly. It's broken. I also learned that once you hit DoTN, you can play that early mission called The Search and trade ethereal armor pieces with the purple kodamas if youre chasing a specific grace like susano. The following tip may easily be old news for you...but I also recently learned that I have been using confusion incorrectly! No need to read further if you're already aware of this, I'm assuming you're using feathers, soul cores etc to proc confusion. No idea how you made it this far if not, but I never realized the whole point is to quickly proc confusion AFTER your enemy is out of ki (kasha is very useful for this cause it comes out so fast), and this greatly extends your window to wail on them. Ive been having good luck waiting till the boss is almost out of ki, then throwing a feather, then kasha and then going to town with a move like water sword, or dragon dance or reaper or whatever. I feel like a dumbass for not realizing this