Nioh | The BEST Build | 30k+ Finishing Blows | 18K+ Strong Attacks | "The Assassin"

There wasn't a build video as devastating as this on KZbin yet, so I decided to make one that doesn't rely on Living Weapon bugs or lv 320 bugs. I'm pretty confident it's the best build out there at the time of publication, and it has room to be optimized or be adapted to your preferred play-style. It offers flexibility, great survivability, and devastating strikes, without the hassle of having to use elements or de-buff everything that you come across.
Like I explain in the video, it isn't simply the best because it does the most damage out of anything I've seen so far (I expect, and hope, others will augment and optimize), but rather because it focuses on what I believe to be the most prevalent, scaling, devastating, and fun stats in the game--Damage From Behind and Finishing Blow Damage.
Enjoy "The Assassin", friends!
THE HINDSIGHT UPDATE:
-To further enhance your armor, you can take an inherit special effect (as signified by the side-ways triangle flanked by two vertical bars on a weapon) of +Attack on a glove and pass it along to your other pieces of Kingo's via soul-matching it. If people have a hard time understanding how, perhaps I'll make a quick video, but mainly note your "base" material has to have the +attack as an inherit special effect and be at max familiarity in order to pass it along. This will substantially rise your damage as each piece of armor can roughly raise your attack by 33 if its divine.
-Kingo's armor's stat requirement of 13 body and strength can be reduced if you craft them yourself. You can farm the centipede for the parts to craft it, or if you prefer you can fight revenants to attain the items (the higher the rev. lv, the more items drop from it; try fighting revenants on the bridge level), or even fight the frog on "The Giant Frog Brawl," as someone mentioned it drops a lot there.
-If you are lucky enough to get the yanasaki magatama (reduces set reqs by 1) with yokai damage or increased dmg to a poisoned or paralyzed enemy, you could try to get the bonuses from other sets, such as Warrior of the West's 4-piece bonus, or extra finishing blow damage with The Red of Devotion set (if it even exists).
-Some players are having difficulty reforging both FBD and DFB on their weapon. Obviously, both can be on at the same time, but it seems to be a problem of two things--bad RNG, in which case you just need to push through (you can upload your save data before a reforging session and redownload that data if you utterly fail and go bankrupt from trying to essentially try again without loss), or I've also heard from others--including a comment on this video--that there might be "pools" of special effects that rotate within their given pool, meaning that you might be trying to roll off a special effect that doesn't share a pool with FBD or DFB so it would be impossible to get it (think the prestige point pools that rotate as you pick an option). I don't have definitive details on this, but I thought it important to share.
-I'd like people to know, too, that footage of this video was a mixture of NG+ and normal mode, but also that this build tears through anything in NG+ that is susceptible to DFB, and by "tears through," I mean it just, just, well, hurts it a lot. Bosses and enemies will drop extremely fast in NG+. I saved some hodge-podge footage of me trudging through NG+ with this build, and not even with the set fully equipped as I was trying to gain familiarity with items to soul-match pass-on +Attack, and every level was a cake-walk. So, be not afraid, DFB and FBD scale extremely well into late game and probably just as well into any new DLC Team Ninja releases in the future.
Credits:
Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo for such a great game in Nioh.
"Cephalopod"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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