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Nioh 3: Beginner's Guide to Magic Builds
This beginner's guide to Nioh 3 focuses on a magic build, covering stat distribution, weapon selection, skill points, elemental status effects, and spell management. The goal is to maximize damage through status ailments and strategic use of ninja and Onmyo skills.
1. 🧙♂️ Introduction to the magic build and the importance of stats
- ✅ The guide focuses on a magic build in Nioh 3, suitable for all players.
- ✅ The game expects players to use all available tools, including magic.
- ⚠️ The key to the build is stats, but most of the power comes from external sources.
00:00 - 00:15
1. 🧙♂️ Introduction to the magic build and the importance of stats
- ✅ The guide focuses on a magic build in Nioh 3, suitable for all players.
- ✅ The game expects players to use all available tools, including magic.
- ⚠️ The key to the build is stats, but most of the power comes from external sources.
00:16 - 01:30
2. ⚙️ Prioritizing stats: Constitution, Heart, and Stamina
- ❌ Constitution: Not as important as it seems at first, as health increases with levels.
- ❤️ Heart: Increasing to 20 provides 150 additional stamina, which is useful.
- 💪 Stamina: Initially, just a few points for equipment load. Later, prioritize for agility (staying in green).
01:31 - 03:14
3. 🧠 Skill, Intellect, and Magic: Key stats for a magic build
- 🗡️ Skill: Important for spells in the Ninjutsu tree.
- 🧠 Intellect: Extends the duration of status effects.
- ✨ Magic: Increases magic damage and is necessary to unlock soul core slots.
- 🎯 The main goal of the build is to inflict status ailments to maximize damage.
03:15 - 03:42
4. ⚔️ Weapon selection and remodeling
- ✅ Any weapon can be used.
- ✅ The Switchglaive is a good natural choice for magic casters due to its scaling with Skill, Intellect, and Magic.
- 🛠️ Weapons can be remodeled at the blacksmith to change their scaling.
03:43 - 04:12
5. 🛡️ Equipment tips and how to avoid getting stuck
- ✅ Use the highest level equipment available.
- ✅ Make sure you don't have a heavy load.
- ✅ Prioritize additional melee damage on Onmyo equipment.
- 🛠️ If you get stuck, use soul matching and soul extraction to improve equipment.
04:13 - 05:40
6. ⚔️ Skill points: Samurai
- ✅ In the Samurai skill tree, get all the Flux material on the right side, as well as the skills of the Frozen Moon.
- ✅ The Frozen Moon skills function as Ki pulses with additional attacks and parries.
- ✅ The Switchglaive is the main weapon for this build, combining stance switching with Flux movements.
05:41 - 06:32
7. 🥷 Skill points: Ninja
- ✅ In the Ninja skill tree, get additional spells on the left side.
- ✅ Ninja spells are useful for eliminating enemies at a distance or for filling states.
- ✅ Ninja has bonuses that increase magic damage.
- ✅ Ninja is used to cast spells and apply states, while Samurai is used to inflict damage.
06:33 - 07:03
8. ⚔️ Weapon recommendations for the magic build
- ✅ The Kusarigama (Kurugama) is a good option due to its mid-range damage.
- ❌ The Talons are not recommended.
- 🧙 In general, Ninja is used to cast spells, and Samurai is used for melee combat.
07:04 - 08:22
9. ✨ Onmyo skill selection
- ✅ Get the fastest magic skill in the common skills.
- ✅ In the Samurai skills, get Favorable Winds to do more damage when enemies are afflicted with status elements.
- ✅ Get Dragon Roar Deflect to deal increased damage to deflected enemies.
- ✅ The Frozen Moon skills allow you to perform an attack and a parry at the same time as a Ki pulse.
08:23 - 09:43
10. ⚔️ Frozen Moon mechanics and Switchglaive combos
- ✅ The Frozen Moon skills allow you to perform an attack and a parry at the same time as a Ki pulse.
- ✅ The Switchglaive can freely switch to different weapon stances to continue combos.
- ✅ This is very good during the living weapon state because it does not have a stamina bar.
09:44 - 10:26
11. 🥷 Key Ninja skills
- ✅ Get Dreadbrer to do more damage per negative effect on an enemy.
- ✅ Have a cheaper dodge.
- ✅ The ability to get rid of the Yo-kai realm while in ninja form.
- ✅ Get extra bonus damage using shadow arts on enemies that have a different status from the element being used.
10:27 - 11:49
12. 🔥 Elemental status effects
- 🔥 Burn: Damage over time (weak).
- 💧 Saturated: Increases damage by 20%.
- ⚡ Electricity: Slows down enemy attacks (similar to sloth).
- 💨 Wind Afflicted: Increases Ki consumption and Ki damage received (best against human enemies).
- 😵💫 Confused: Applied when two of these states are applied.
- ✅ Ideally, apply saturated and electrified to enemies to inflict unholy damage.
11:50 - 12:14
13. 🐌 The sloth status effect
- ✅ The sloth status effect comes from the Diodora soul core.
- ✅ It can be obtained in the first zone, in the Lake Hamana zone.
12:15 - 13:32
14. ✨ Equipping spells and soul cores
- ✅ Use soul cores to apply magic damage and states.
- ✅ Have an ODB soul core for the element you want to use.
- ✅ The ODB core makes a big explosion of the element it is linked to.
- ✅ Use the guardian spirit to apply the other state.
13:33 - 14:56
15. 🪄 Spell and element management
- ✅ As the magic stat is powered up, more slots are unlocked.
- ✅ Extend them through the equipment.
- ✅ Have sloth, thunder shot talisman, and lightning familiar.
- ✅ The lightning familiar should be a different element than the guardian spirit.
- ✅ Have another element on the weapon.
- ✅ When you hit an enemy that already has a state, hitting it again will refill it.
- ✅ Use ninja mode to refill the state at a distance.
14:57 - 16:14
16. ⚙️ Element management and shortcut design
- ✅ Ninja spells regenerate by attacking, while soul core spells are replenished by resting at the shrine.
- ✅ Have four tabs for the object shortcuts.
- ✅ Have two of them identical.
- ✅ Have healing at the bottom of all four.
- ✅ Have the Onmyo bee core and the Ki recovery increase on the third tab.
- ✅ This allows you to be a short distance from sloth or the lightning familiar.
- ✅ This allows you to revive the weapon with a single button.
16:15 - 17:11
17. 🏆 Titles and bonuses
- ✅ Make sure you have seen the titles and realize that as you play the game, as you grind enemies in the game, you can get miniature bonuses.
- ✅ Make sure you get all the bonuses, as this will accumulate over time.
- ✅ Getting everything to work together and overlap is what will allow you to have an easy time as you progress through Neo.