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Nioh 3: Guide to the best samurai build to be immortal and deal insane damage
This guide presents a samurai build in Nioh 3 focused on high defense and dealing significant damage. The build prioritizes stamina, strength, and equipment weight to maximize damage bonuses and damage reduction. It also highlights the key skills, guardian spirits, and soul cores to optimize combat performance.
1. ⚔️ Key stat distribution for the samurai build
- ✅ Prioritize 60 points in stamina and 60 in strength to maximize defense and damage.
- ✅ Assign 10 points to intellect and 25 to magic for additional skills and buffs.
- ✅ Invest additional points in stamina as you level up to further improve survivability.
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1. ⚔️ Key stat distribution for the samurai build
- ✅ Prioritize 60 points in stamina and 60 in strength to maximize defense and damage.
- ✅ Assign 10 points to intellect and 25 to magic for additional skills and buffs.
- ✅ Invest additional points in stamina as you level up to further improve survivability.
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2. 🛡️ Equipment selection: Armor, weapons, and accessories
- ✅ Use two pieces of the Crimson Army Pride set (Odachi weapon and bow) to increase defense and take advantage of scaling with stamina.
- ✅ Choose a secondary melee weapon with an element (e.g., water) according to personal preference.
- ✅ Equip five pieces of the God of War Looks Down armor set to increase damage based on equipment weight and reduce damage taken.
- ✅ Use the Writing Set accessory to increase the duration of effects and two Blades to reduce melee attack consumption.
01:41 - 02:59
3. 👻 Soul core selection for defense and damage
- ✅ Yang Position: Use a soul core that reduces damage taken when attacking.
- ✅ Konaki: Increases damage dealt based on equipment weight.
- ✅ Yin Position: Use the Muja soul core to avoid instant death when health reaches zero.
- ✅ Nuribo: Combine with Urabaki to transfer defense reduction to the enemy, maintaining the damage increase.
- ✅ Konaki (another): Provides a shield that negates damage while active.
- ✅ Enki: Increases defense.
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4. 🦊 Guardian spirit: Kusanagi for damage bonus
- ✅ Use the Kusanagi version of the guardian spirit because it increases damage based on equipment weight.
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5. ⚔️ Recommended Odachi martial arts
- ✅ High stance: Moonlit Snow (charged) and Retrograde Flow (water).
- ✅ Mid stance: Cuckoo's Coal Fire and Earthquake (lightning).
- ✅ Low stance: Retrograde Flow (water) and Cascading Wave.
03:46 - 04:07
6. 🛠️ Weapon remodeling to scale with key stats
- ✅ Remodel weapons (in addition to the Odachi) to scale with stamina, strength, and magic.
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7. 📜 Key skills for the build
- ✅ Stance change skills: Vigorous Spirit, Touch Tracking, and Improved Stance Change.
- ✅ General skills: Awakening (to apply buffs quickly) and Amplification.
- ✅ Samurai skills: Flowing Water, Roar and Deflection, Tempest, Thrust Deflection, Unyielding, and Favorable Wind.
04:47 - 06:22
8. 🏆 Prestige titles: Prioritize Ki consumption in melee attacks and more
- ✅ Samurai: Ki consumption in melee attacks (main).
- ✅ Tactics: Ki recovery speed.
- ✅ Omnyo Magic Arts: Omnyo magic power.
- ✅ Subjugation: Elemental damage.
- ✅ Formidable Enemies: Melee Ki damage and melee damage against stunned enemies.
- ✅ Crucible: Weapon damage in the crucible.
- ✅ Exploration: Medicine efficiency.
- ✅ Facilities: Equipment drop rate.
- ✅ Collection: Damage bonus (scales with equipment weight).
06:23 - 07:31
9. 🛡️ Defense and immortality demonstration
- ✅ Demonstration of the build's high defense using the Crucible of Wrath.
- ✅ Confirmation of the build's ability to survive fatal damage thanks to the active talisman.
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10. ⚔️ Combat and damage demonstration
- ✅ Demonstration of the build's ability to deal significant damage in combat.