Nioh 2 - Odachi Build - Obsidian Blade

[@FightinCowboy]

Mark in the comments pointed out that the Increase Attack (Moonlit Snow) actually conflicts with Rage, my testing afterwards confirmed this. The Ki Recovery Moonlit Snow also conflicts with the Ki recovery from Barrier talisman. Considering this I'd suggest either the Defense buff to make you tankier for trading hits or the Pleidas buff to charge your amrita gauge quicker.

[@Ashe448]

Ay thats me, I did a thing :D

[@FightinCowboy]

We don't have enough reliable self debuffs for moonprayer this time

[@danieldizon3052]

FightinCowboy hi bro ive been farming the final boss and im on my 49th attempt and still no smiting text.. are u kind enough to let me farm ur weapon..

[@YS-zk4wz]

Hello, can I start this build when I'm level100, if not, what would your mid level game build be? thank you

[@Keln02]

How do you get the second A scaling on the weapon? Damage bonuses can't go past A?

[@IVANGUARDI]

Perfect, was looking for the ultimate Odachi build to aim for. I'm only level 100ish but now know where to focus my stats. Thanks for all the hardwork behind those excellent informative videos.

[@Sen.StevenArmstrong]

Nanashi Ryuu what are your core stats if you don’t mind me asking? I’m currently running with a katana/odachi build and if I can build this with strength/heart instead of strength/stamina it would be great.

[@Sen.StevenArmstrong]

Nanashi Ryuu Nice! That gives me something to aim for then. So are you just switching the armor in the vid with kingos? Same weapon and skill set up?

[@FightinCowboy]

While I'm working on updates to a couple of the builds, this one was potent enough that I had to take a Walkthrough break to get it out. Freaking insane damage. Add in the Todo Clan buff and you can make it even MORE ridiculous.

[@nDVSTRY]

That dmg is crazy, BTW I was the one that dropped the odachi for ya 😁

[@FightinCowboy]

Hope I didn't butcher your name too badly

[@nDVSTRY]

@@FightinCowboy lmao yeah it was pretty bad, it's industry 😂

[@ymheil9897]

Plz make a better dual sword

[@sikevillain]

I was really hoping for another Odachi build video and of course you delivered cowboy🤠..Yu have the best Nioh 2 walk-throughs and build videos bro. Can't wait to see more

[@footthumb]

I love watching bosses getting killed in a few hits. Now they know how we feel.

[@MR.DRIPKNIGHT3335]

Yes

[@marciocouto3543]

I feel you bruh

[@feizelcrux]

This is why I subscribed to you. Im not even close to endgame but I still enjoy your videos and what you come up with. Keep it coming!

[@J-Dizzle95]

Your coverage of this game has been outstanding. I cannot wait to try all of these builds out!!! I am only level 50 right now lol :)

[@glaiveking2530]

Jared Lucus totally agree, Im at around level 160 and still nowhere close enough to even start on these builds. Just shows i will have endless hours on this game and i love it.

[@Me1onPan]

I’m lvl 142 just starting out, getting to know the build system

[@roxfury1872]

I’m level 255 and i started today with this build, it’s strong as fuck.

[@colonelnasty3600]

Need help?

[@The1TrueGOD]

I'm level 213 and 1 to 2 shotting bosses with arrowsbane and saika isanagi saturate build

[@Zenneth23]

Thank you for the build. I was looking for a good lightning sword to complete this set and MY GOSH that weapon OWNZ everything!!!

[@chrishastings7583]

Wasn't going to say anything but was actually hoping for an updated odachi build. You sir are a mind reader!

[@yvngscrvpe8580]

Bro iv been looking for a build this is awesome thanks CB!!!

[@duboi-]

🤯this build destroys everything. Thank you for the video!👍

[@MsM-kh9xg]

Well I was looking for a reason to start a new character as I wasn't enjoying my build. You've just given me one

[@DjSkogen]

Just use a book of reincarnation to reset your skills. You don't need to start over. Or is it what you meant?

[@MsM-kh9xg]

@@DjSkogen well I mean, i also really enjoyed the game so far so I wouldn't mind playing through what I've already done again lol

[@TheTraveler980]

@@MsM-kh9xg Replay the missions, then? *shrugs*

[@VGJunky]

I recommend running Tengen with this because of A) odachi synergy and B) it's like a 25% damage increase with the high stance buff

[@VGJunky]

Although I forget if it stacks with rage..

[@iamergoproxy3476]

I knew Cowboy wouldnt disappoint with an Odachi build as I get back into Nioh2

[@jekytck]

It makes me chuckle the beefy set up that lets you say "wanna see who's the real boss?"

[@mattin_together1889]

This is the build I’ve been looking for!!!! I’m using tatenashi (other heavy set) But I’ve got a lot of obsidian armor too that I think I’m gonna try to replicate this build. Thanks for the tank’s

[@Ashe448]

Not sure if you know this @FightinCowboy but the "increase attack (moonlit snow)" overwrites the rage buff so it might be better to put increase defence on maybe?

[@FightinCowboy]

Hadn't even noticed this, good catch.

[@MrTodo328]

Sorry for the possibly stupid question but you mean skill customisation? (Attack / def) in active skills? Or whick one. I am lvl 200 with odachi a trying to get this build. Thank you in advance

[@Ashe448]

@@MrTodo328 like in special effects on the odachi you can roll "increase attack (moonlit snow)" but its best to get either pleides or increased defence as the attack overwrites rage

[@MrTodo328]

@@Ashe448 thank you very much for your help

[@cultofpersonality1145]

Question. If I'm not using the Axe buff, does it matter if I use the katana rather than the axe to reach the neccessary pieces for the armor set bonus? Just didnt want two giant weapons hanging off my back if it wasnt required.

[@thesomeone96]

Legit surprised that this is close to what I was using except one thing, I was dumb enough to forget the axe. Thanks! now I can fine tune some stuff.

[@EnDegenerate]

Thanks for the guide! Timestamps for later use: Skills: 4:58

[@dcgamingstation]

Rage attack increase doesn’t stack with power up items like power pill, etc. 5 pcs Master archer set+2 pcs master swordsman(heavy) is a great lightening damage build for Odachi too(with Yasakani Magatama to have 6 and 3 set bonuses) Guardian Sprit I go with Ame-no-Mitori as primary spirit which increases lightening damage even further and Inosasao as secondary spirt which reduces damage taken when attack since Moonlit Snow is almost standing still. As of Atlas bear, well, it sure boots a little bit more damage but Ame-no-Mitori gives you more swiftness.

[@WarrenBerzerkerLee]

Made this build last night and it's really good, except I use tengen as primary and mitori as secondary and 2 pieces oni shibata set with onryoki, onyudo and oni bi soul cores and it's doing really well for me I usually main axe but got bored after finishing my build so enjoying odachi atm. Cheers dude 👍

[@paulsammut6176]

New to Nioh, and subscribed. Thanks

[@unstablehermit6369]

I'm new to the series so these videos help me out alot, thanks for taking the time to make a guide!

[@highpresurenerd7662]

It seems the lightning dmg is a waste cuz you dont do any lightning dmg tbh. You just want the shock proc with this built for the discount sloth effect.

[@Chaoxfan]

I'm thinking about the same thing, maybe lightning enchants will make a different, or just use the yokai skill of thunder onibi

[@SamuraiiLegend]

It makes a little bit more dmg. But so much lightning dmg bonuses seems not that got.

[@WarrenBerzerkerLee]

Tried it with 5 piece golden boy, 2 piece oni shibata, tengen as primary and ami mitori (sorry cnt think of the name) secondary for 10% lightning damage, use oni bi for elemental damage and onryoki for 10% damage reduction mid attack which synergises with oni shibata set, yasakani with life absorption and lightning damage and magatama with the same and its doing really well. I dnt like using rage all the time and when lightning procs you see the damage from golden boy set.

[@jtl031592]

You can farm Tunderstorm oni-bi soul core in mission Pervading Waters 3rd region. There is a lamp that keeps spawning them.

[@jayr5mitty351]

Good on you for putting that word out. Didn't even think about that

[@jayr5mitty351]

Any advice on where I could possibly grab a maelstrom?

[@davidfuller3630]

@@jayr5mitty351 Abduction sub mission. You can run to the left to start, and just let the lamp spawn heads. when it runs out go back to shrine and it'll refresh the lamp. Just don't destroy the lamp

[@jayr5mitty351]

@@davidfuller3630 oh man, thnx a bunch mate

[@katanamaru1]

Thanks. This is what I'm using for now. It's a lot of fun.

[@Asirpa_]

Is still good even on the last update? I really sick of ninja build and i want to try new things

[@katanamaru1]

@@Asirpa_ It's working just fine for me. I'm doing Dream of the Strong, 4th region and the second DLC on Samurai with no problems. I don't have the same odachi he has so I just made a divine one with a set bonus have lightning on it. I'm also not min maxed to the extreme. Haven't used any orange inheritables onto my gear. FYI you'll need 75 stamina to have B agility with Obsidian. A weapon with life on hit or kill, plus life back on two accessories makes this really tanky.

[@Asirpa_]

@@katanamaru1 thank you so much, i guess i'll try it on high level, i didn't finish the game yet so i guess I'll keep playing with my ninja build

[@katanamaru1]

@@Asirpa_ Yeah This requires a lot of stamina to be in B agility. I didn't get it till early 2nd game cycle. I played it a bit with C agility to enjoy the change when I finally got B.

[@Asirpa_]

@@katanamaru1 thank you for telling me

[@alexgoldbar]

Thank you for the build Cowboy! Would love to see an updated version of this with way of the wise gear.

[@OD91MJ]

Ludicrous damage!!! Great video.

[@conget]

Good guide, as always expected from you

[@Chilli_Tea]

Something oddly satisfying about cutting up yokai with an odachi

[@edt1201]

Oh my god... I had no idea you could temper accessories... and I'm done with Way of the Strong and farming smithing texts. Well, thanks for teaching me something great. I am an idiot lol

[@marvelouspatches8577]

Thank you so much CB.

[@1kurohitsugi]

You merely adopted the Moonlit Snow, i was born in it. All you casuals, don't get used to this play style. Face tanking moonlit snow spam on the higher difficulties will not work.

[@TheVatten]

It doesn't even work right now=D getting rekt 10 times and that one time they kill the boss goes online and people think that it works everytime=D Its good to try new stuff but yeah.

[@FightinCowboy]

It definitely works right now just fine. The video was all one cut, there was no cherry picked boss attempts lmao

[@Veon97]

Could you make a spear heavy armor build? Your last one was very interesting but I’d like to see something more tanky!

[@FightinCowboy]

Just use Warrior of the East or Japan's Bravest

[@MrTodo328]

Sorry for the possibly stupid question but you mean skill customisation? (Attack / def) luke in active skills? Or whick one. I am lvl 200 with odachi a trying to get this build. Thank you in advance

[@FightinCowboy]

Putting bonuses on your skills in the Skill Customization menu.

[@rakz4dayz857]

5:38 fightincowboy: swirling slu- snow me: whoa😏

[@blondinsentenza6862]

Hey Cowboy, great content as usual, thanks for sharing ! Any chance you could tell us where you farmed this Odachi off the revenant, please ? =)

[@davidfuller3630]

Seriously, just spent 3.5 hours farming Otake and managed to get 15 texts none of which was this. I managed to get the OTHER odachi text of course :/

[@blondinsentenza6862]

@@davidfuller3630 Dang man, that's terrrible bad luck ... : / At least patch 1.07 increased the odds on the drop rates, you may get better luck now ! :)

[@theryanjester7209]

I had a very similar build in Nioh 1 that I love; however, once I hit Way of the Demon/Wise I couldn't afford to trade hits anymore so I swapped to the faster sword. I maintained the same skill damage archetype but moved to sword with flowing shadow. Easily pumped out 15,000-30,000 per hit damage by the time Way of the Nioh was a thing

[@darrenireland5645]

Is swirling snow an active skill? maybe rolling active skill ki consumption on some pieces would be good.

[@FightinCowboy]

You burn through double ki with rage active, the difference will be barely visible

[@Darealpokgai]

with altar bear bonus, lower ki get more attack power, so this is a build that u wanna spend ur ki fast. So even if agility is C, it will still be fine

[@Neonmirrorblack]

This is basically the build I've been running for the last week. It was irritating in the last Odachi video seeing that C Agility, while also the proclamation about how you needed Heart and Courage to "offset" the Ki issues, when all you really needed to do was make stamina the main stat. I had similar health and damage, but B Agility without any need to go beyond 10 in either Heart or Courage, which freed up a lot of points for other things, like at least hitting the capacity cap in Onmyo. Also, as good as the Obsidian set is (wore it until upgrading to Tatenashi), at 99 stamina you are at exactly 70% weight with the Tatenashi set, which offers a bit better damage reduction and only slightly less damage. It also allows you to use either Purity or Corruption based weapons without having to worry about the axe as much, although lightning is still good for either. You could always just wear four pieces of Tatenashi and one Obsidian for the Rage bonus. Edit: Holy crap. Level 260. I'm sure by that point I could have these stats too, but you're already way beyond the end of NG+. I just finished NG and am at level 115 with 99 stamina and 22 magic. This is all interesting, but what's the point? Just getting ready for the DLC or something? But anyway, good job raising that stamina. ;p Oh, and as amazing as Moonlit Snow is, I think you're sleeping on high stance and mashing triangle with the axe. It's mindless and breaks Yokai about as fast. Biggest difference is Ki use, which is a lot less using Moonlit Snow.

[@Vinniexxx4125]

do you know how he reach agility B with obsidian set?

[@Neonmirrorblack]

@@Vinniexxx4125 For the full set it requires 81 stamina. Slightly less if you are planning on raising strength to 99 anyway, but IMO, while you are leveling up it makes more sense to just focus on stamina. Get your magic and dex to 10 and just keep raising stamina every level.

[@Vinniexxx4125]

@@Neonmirrorblack thanks a bunch man! I was watching his walkthrough and was curious how he got agility b at lvl 75, turned out that he didnt use the full obsidian set....

[@fullsendcirca9255]

I tried his build out and I actually tempered my gear/weapons with all the best stats needed for build. At this point I just need higher +divine gear to really pump out numbers but Moon lit Snow does tremendous damage killing most enemies with one combo. Other bosses are still not a match if you know the mechanics and can read your enemy. with barrier and steel talisman you can take on anything. Plus I love seeing those big numbers coupled with the shock accumulation and pure lightning damage ⚡️and atlas bear counters are sexy like the Yokai shift

[@IKEEMBLEM]

I actually got a question for you. Do you happen to know the average % difference in damage between stances? For example does high stance lights do 10/15/20% more than mid or low? Not sure if you know but I figured you'd probably be the one to.

[@propheticrain-maker1486]

This is actually nuts

[@lurwas]

Running with two Master Archer Bows, would give you the 15 lightning set bonus of that set.

[@StationaryBeggar]

I don't think you can stack two of the same items.

[@WingZX1103]

Okay you formally sold me on odachi now

[@Raiden502]

I have the same thing but the weight is a problem to me

[@tervindar507]

Awesome video man! Just curious, how would you inherit attack on your other pieces?

[@doombringrrr283]

Great vid! Love odachi and im running a sta/str build with support from onmyo magic. I was wondering, how much stamina do u need to get to 55 equip load, to get B agility with heavy sets like obsidian samurai. Im currently at 40sta 40str with 48,4 max load.

[@FightinCowboy]

It's close to 99 in both str/stm to hit B agility. Obsidian is lighter for heavy armors so I think after 99 str it's like 80 Stam but there's some sets that even with 99 in both you're still in C

[@zikarisg9025]

Saw some videos of Level 1 characters beating up bosses bare handed. I wonder how far can you push bare handed damage, you could do a One-Punch-Man built!

[@TheArnoldification]

Aww, I thought I was clever with my stamina variation of the previous build :(

[@Milanv0908]

Can you make a switch glaive build? Focused on high speed big damage with buffs mostly with omnyo magic?

[@Darknorthxl]

Dam I’m happy that dropped for me from a revenant early on 👍🏼

[@MrTodo328]

@fightincowboy : could you please write down the recommended skill for moonlight snow after this new discovered thing?

[@RoguesAndRoses]

I know this is a very late game build, but I'm low level right now in NG building up, and I have my STR & STM both equally at 30, and my level is 59. Should I save upgrading stamina more for later and focus more on STR? Or keep doing them equal for now?

[@FightinCowboy]

Focus strength but keep enough Stam to be at a B in agility

[@RoguesAndRoses]

@@FightinCowboy Damn, thanks for replying so fast man! Appreciate it!

[@josippo]

Stupid question:. Why aktive skill stats instead of melee as melee is for all attacks? Or am I missing something?

[@hashenone]

So I built this, put lighting damage & shock accumulation on my accessories & Futsunomitama, and w the 6 piece bonus I do not see any life gain from lightning attacks at all. Like a full moonlit snow hitting for sometimes 4-5k, and not one tick of life regain? Am I missing something? Sorry if someone answered this already

[@Superdazzu2]

same

[@MDHCALISTHENICS]

You should run attack down,sloth,weakness tailismen,and defense up talisman to stay in on boss and never have to worry about it

[@Azarios]

Does difficulty affect the smithing text droprates and quality? :-)

[@saxon6749]

I like to look for life, defense and toughness on gear. Are those not stats that I should be looking for on top of those few covered in the video?

[@abagofchipzlol3667]

Does odachi scale good with dual swords??? They both have heart and strength

[@DjSkogen]

Cowboy, I mixed your Tonfas build with the Axe spin build. Axe build talismans loadout and Shuten Doji's club as secondary weapon. Club remodeled with Courage. Battle focused then switch to tonfas for humans and watch how long they can keep blocking! Yokai? Tengen Kujaku loadout and Yatagerasu.

[@eldin]

Having shin-roku as your main gives you a bigger lightning buff

[@DjSkogen]

Kico Juevos I was talking about a combo of his other builds. I use Imakomei with Tonfas and Axe (spear now). Using the Tonfas build with the justsu loadout from the Axe's build. Not using lightning, but fire.

[@lukesimmons3323]

If your weapon is already imbued with lightning, does the oni-bi weapon buff stack or conflict?

[@vladislavgilyov6626]

It's going on top of it, replacing the "imbue" efect

[@saiyanhub156]

How'd you get both empty slots on the odachi to fill them up? mine has 2 empty, you can put 2 inheritables on it?

[@SamuraiiLegend]

Yes

[@jackjohnson8305]

He inherited skills and put em on the weapon

[@Aidian1]

God I love nioh. Favorite game of this console generation.

[@polymathecian]

I challenge you to do a bare-handed build! >:-)

[@genki23]

Can you make a kusarigama build please

[@Darealpokgai]

this used to be my axe set in nioh 1, it goes very well with the axe mythic art "Intensity". And i did match it with odachi once the first DLC came out too during that time. And now in nioh 2, i actually have the whole set in green already, but i dont have YM yet :(

[@EduardoGarcia-ot4vp]

u just need to finish the last mission in NG mode man

[@davidfuller3630]

@FightinCowboy Instead of running for Lightning Damage, would Inosasao as secondary be good? It has Brute damage which is whatever, but it has -7.5% mid attack damage. Could definitely help you trade hits mid Moonlit Snow. You don't do much Lightning damage it seems comparatively; you're attacks hit for like 3k each and the lightning damage is hitting for double digits only. Unless increased Lightning Damage procs the Shock quicker?

[@joedison5006]

Thanks for the build but how can u have the five basic affixes on divine item instead of four please ?

[@Bane-sj5cm]

Dose the lighting life drain from the guarding spit not stack with the armor lighting life drain?

[@claytonisdead]

How are you getting 3 weakness and 5 barriers with 10 in magic it costs 16 for that same with 1 quick change and 2 tiger running costs 11

[@nottheducky]

Please,how do u have so much special effects on the weapons? I usualy have 6 right,but how do u get 7?

[@SamuraiiLegend]

Im asking me the same question. I was smithing the weapon 15 times and every time she had 5 bonuses....

[@jayjae6171]

White inheritable and orange inheritable.

[@nottheducky]

@@jayjae6171 and do i have to do with it?

[@jayjae6171]

If you saw this symbol " [] > " in your gear. It means you can pass or transfer the skill that you want to your gear. For example: I have " [] > Toughness " skill Gloves and i want to transfer that skill to my head gear. All you have to do is raise the gear that has toughness and max the familiarity to 999 so that you can inherit that skill by doing SOUL MATCH. Same goes with Orange inheritable. *Tip: To faster max familiarity to your gear. GO TO HIGH SPIRITED DEMON BOSS AND FARM HIM TO RAISE FAMILIARITY. DONT KILL HIM. Rinse and repeat.

[@nottheducky]

@@jayjae6171 oh okay,so i can have one white and one orange on 1 weapon at the same time?

[@cygnusx2112]

You can put Rage in say High Stance and the other R1 +O skills in mid and low stance and buff with all 3 with the axe and I believe they stack with the buffs from either Tengen or Power pill/steel/ barrier can’t remember which one

[@FightinCowboy]

Yeah but that's a lot of shit and they don't last that long. It works but it's not practical imo

[@cygnusx2112]

FightinCowboy yeah you’re right but just in case someone wants that little extra hopefully they know they can do that

[@T3Baconsofpower]

Just i want to know how come with 10 magic you can create 5 barrier and 3 weakness talismans?!

[@Masticatius]

I've beaten ng+ and forged alot of weapons but can't figure out how you got 7 stats on ur weapon?! I Beat most side missions

[@Masticatius]

Ok I found out there are white and orange inheritable skills. Seems the orange text can add skills to your equipment

[@cptbeesting]

Masticatius inheritable stats from other pieces of gear. You’ll see a small orange icon next to the stat, which means it can be passed on to another piece of gear once you have max familiarity with the gear or weapon you choose to sacrifice to pass on that stat. Then you can temper it into a new skill!

[@Masticatius]

@@cptbeesting thnx! You have been very helpful. Trying to find info on this stuffs not to easy

[@andreaambrosini3972]

But how to have double A in the weapon scaling plz? I don’t understand how and i have a bonus damage perk e the scale changed to strength A- at the blacksmith but there’s no double A

[@TheLightone0413]

Can someone tell me where to get moonlit snow mystic art?

[@SamuraiiLegend]

From the mission. The two brothers

[@TheLightone0413]

@@SamuraiiLegend so you get swirling snow and moonlit snow from the same mission?

[@TheLightone0413]

I know I'm slow

[@renwhitlock4812]

Is the 6 and 7 piece bonus for this set good, the damage buff A for stamina only gives around 200 extra damage and the life drain isn't that much. Is there any other armor sets that might be better to replace?

[@FightinCowboy]

An extra 200 damage per attack is huge

[@starponer77]

What if you run obsidian set build(axe/sword) lvl 120. What would be the stats to place points into? Also what are some of the perks to look for on our gear? I don’t really understand the perks and how they stack with everything else! Help

[@MD-tx7tg]

hi . thanks for the video man . I have only one question if I have an odachi level 160 +10 and I soul match it to a 170 am I gonna lose the +10 or it's ok I'm gonna get a 170 +10 odachi . please answer me . thanks

[@gamerrxevolution1752]

Hi cowboy I've been trying to get a yasakain matagma but I done the abduction mission 17 times but still don't have what am I doing wrong plus my luck is at 86

[@andrewmitchell1232]

Where do I get the smithing text for that sword from what boss do I need to farm

[@andrewmitchell1232]

holymoses431 he doesn’t say where to get it at I just hear him say a boss you need to farm which boss is it

[@davidfuller3630]

@@andrewmitchell1232 last boss in game, Otakemaru

[@jackjohnson8305]

final boss

[@darkshadowinferno4624]

Can some one let me no if u can get the empty retribution damage skill on my weapon or armour for the switchglaive it come up with the mortal an celestial retribution

[@hussamalgharbawi2610]

Dear Cowboy, how did you make yourself look as if you are not wearing any armour although you have it "worn" in the item box?

[@Clockwork-Heart]

Actually using this exact build other than primary guardian with dual blades and its absolute chaos. Replace STR with skill and dump on everything, and that's low stance duals, lol. The leech/ele damage in low stance+lightning just melts. BTW pretty sure zero ki enemy means zero ki. Not more damage as ki falls. When their bar is red is zero ki. Which don't last long enough to be worth it IMO. Prolly be more worth it to pop on a different element oni b for more ele damage/anima charge. I use all 3 and its pretty nuts.

[@FightinCowboy]

It helps a lot on Yokai bosses.

[@Clockwork-Heart]

@@FightinCowboy Oh I'm sure, you can pump out a ton of damage on their break Windows. I was more pointing towards lesser yokai. They seem to pop puddles/dark realm rather quickly. Assuming they last long enough lol. Definitely gonna give this a shot though, it looks nice. I've tried all your builds so far. The spear one is my favorite, just wish ki wasn't such a problem with it.

[@Vidred007]

Hello, how did you end up with Strength A-and Stam A -, specialisation scaling while temperring ?. I don't understand.

[@stuntmansavage2382]

I just started new game plus, what should I take as first step into making this build?

[@cultofpersonality1145]

Question. Can I use the katana instead of the axe to reach the required pieces to get the set bonus? I'm not planning on using the axe buff.

[@FightinCowboy]

Yes, but you're really missing out not using Rage

[@cultofpersonality1145]

@@FightinCowboy I'll definitely try with the axe first then. And I'm seeing you say that rage conflicts with the moonlight damage+ stat? So you shouldn't have the stat if you are using rage correct? Sorry for the questions. Just trying to clarify.

[@FightinCowboy]

Yes, pick up the defensive boost on moonlight snow, out of the various attack increases Rage is the largest, something like 30%

[@kevincandelaria2095]

@FightinCowboy of all the builds you already tested. What is the most OP so far? Right now I’m doing the spin to win build for axe. Is this Odachi build better than your axe build? Thanks in advance. Have you already tried Kingo set on Odachi?

[@Superdazzu2]

What is that buff with a sword symbol that refreshes with the moonlit snow's last attack?

[@quantrellrogers6114]

Does each element appear off the blade without a buffing item ?

[@jaihanopol8876]

Cowboy, can you put familiarity damage + and Change to attack+ damage from behind in a weapon?

[@FightinCowboy]

Not anymore, they changed it in Nioh 2 to where you can't stack a ton of dmg affixes

[@chrissato8062]

Can the obsidian blade be used in ng because i want run this build on my alt character in the shadow region

[@SzymusARK]

Is this pre ng+? Btw awesome video!

[@reflex4516]

@FightinCowboy I made this build and switched my clan to Todo. So with some people talking about conflicting skills with barrier and rage confused me. So what should I be changing? Change the “increased attack (Moonlit snow)” on my sword to “increased defense (moonlit snow)” and nothing else?

[@FightinCowboy]

Yes

[@DelvonR_H]

Would I just keep following the build after dream of the demon or is there alterations to the build later?

[@yoeriklok7750]

can you make a kusarigama build next

[@flamingocontent7311]

How did you get 6 skills on the weapon??? and why not 2 yasakani don't they stak together????

[@BK-vz5ux]

if you didn't want to use a brute shift, what spirit guardian (with feral or phantom shift) would be best?

[@revengeofthelolin]

I thought that the purple attack bonus overwrites inherent attack bonus if the stat scaling for both is the same, Like attack bonus strength A+ would overwrite with your odachis attack bonus strength A-, and that it would be better to go for Attack bonus Magic or constitution A+

[@FightinCowboy]

Nope, they add

[@foxyboyish]

can you have attack bonus stam and strength on the same weapon just wondering try an axe varient of the build

[@FightinCowboy]

No

[@wacktastic1]

Oh cool I can kinda use this early game when I get the set from kintaro and find a lightning odachi

[@punani_slayer4209]

Good luck bro I'm in the 4th region and I haven't seen 1 lightning weapon yet. I've seen some water imbued and some fire ones but that's it

[@benjaminpatton4965]

I see you're showing this build at lvl 260. Im around lvl 25 running the odachi. If i want to work towards this build, where should I put my points when I lvl up? In my first play through I mean. Should I lvl things up evenly, or put most of it into strength or stamina? Build looks awesome!

[@FightinCowboy]

Armor requirements then all strength

[@benjaminpatton4965]

@@FightinCowboy oh ok, so stamina till I reach the armor requirements, then strength? Got it! Thanks!