I love that all your builds have a strong focus on “fun to play” instead of purely going for every last bit of min/max damage and spending all your time on tempering stats. You’re the clear winner in the builds game!👊🏻
Thank you! I use this build currently, but I optimized it too: - Tiger of Higo Spear and Sword as main weapon, in order to use every (light) Mataza armor pieces and keep A in Agility without upgrading stamina so much. Mataza set increases thrust potency, thus also many sword skills - Twisting Spear damage on every armor piece to get about +45%. You can easily oneshot Yoki, Rokurokubi and Namahage from behind - Lightning damage on every weapon, Tengen Kujaku + Ame no Mitori
Finally! I decided on spear main since the last demo and have been loving it through my playthrough, but every build vid I see ends up as Thunder Thicc Boi.
@@FightinCowboy Thrustmaster 69000! With the amount of pounding done with this build, it is basically porn. Question: how do you roll the Attack Bonus (Constitution) A+? Is it with divine umbracite?
These vids really show just how creative you can be in nioh. It truly is an amazing game. Though i like to come up with things for myself. I really injoy seeing these. I cant imagine the amount of time that goes into this.
Once u know the sets that will benefit ur weapon, its pretty easy. I can literally make +5 builds from the top of my head. The sets that go well with spears are: mataza, wote, red demon, japan’s bravest, moonlight prayer. Mix and match as u please. Considering u have a yasakani magatama, u can make 4 pcs wote and 4 pc mataza OR 5 pcs japan bravest with 3 pcs mataza, OR 4 pc wote and 3 pcs moonlight, OR 4 pcs mataza and 4 pcs moonlight, OR 4-5 pcs red demon and 2-3 pcs moonlight. The combinations are endless. And thats just using 5 sets
Thanks for all the videos you've been putting out. I started losing interest recently in nioh but trying all these different builds has made it fun again! Thanks!
cowboy ive been following you since your sekiro walkthrough your commentary is both professional and fun great detail explanation thank you for this build bro your awsome
You can actually inherit skill damage boost on all five piece of armor which can increase certain active skill dmg by 50%. I tried forge gauntlets chance seems close to 1/10000 for a desired skill.
This came out recently for free on PS5. Just recently started playing. Would love to see a updated version of this build that's a bit more detailed. Especially the skill trees
You know man, ive tried the other spear builds on youtube and none of them work as well as your build especially at low level(123). Im not surprised but cause your builds always wreck. Never forget how much fun your Abysal Sorcerer was in Dark souls 👌🏻
I've subscribed because I really enjoy watching these videos. I've not even finished chapter 4 on the first playthough yet but I'm so excited to get where you are!
If it works like Nioh, the smithing texts drop from all difficulties so you don’t need to farm on NG+. Way of the Samurai hopefully works to farm all the texts to speed up fights.
Currently playing a switchglaive combo master with barrier charm , and this looks just as fun ill have to make another character to play for a ninjustu character with spear
I try to use the High stance with spears but I really don't like it. So, what guardian spirit should use instead of Tengen Kujaku ? I play mainly in mid stance.
Hi cowboy hope you are well. Just a quick question im using a similar build as this but with a water spear and was wondering what you think the best 2nd Guardian Spirit would be best for water attacks? Love your videos mate and keep up the great work 🍻
Cant wait to farm this set. I have been stuck in underworld 20+ I was having just random spear build. my charging thrust does about 6k dmg and 10k from behind. I'm at lvl 540. If ur doing this kind of dmg at ur lvl and that low difficulty. I cant wait to see wat kind of dmg it does in Nioh difficulty.
...i actually got the triple threat skill from my first time fighting mataza through a story mission which is wild. i wonder if the spear can drop there as well?
@@nathansparks9814 that is correct yes, to make a +5 say you would need 4 +3 items. You combine the +3's into 2 +4's then you can combine those into a +5 and so on if you have more.
Strong attacks in both mid and heavy are thrusts, charge dash, triple threat, and your top stance finisher. You can of course use other moves but it'll boost those to be the strongest
Do you happen to know if Kasha’s soul core stacks with the sets movement speed, kinda wanna try a maximum SPEED build. Great content though man, really helpful.
What is the best combination in terms of pure damage in your opinion? Warrior of the East's Honor 5p + Master of Spears 5p? I almost finished my build now with Warrior of the East's Honor 5p + Seven Misfortunes Eight Hardships 4p (farmed a lot of inheritables), but after watching your video I seriously thought about replacing Moonprayer with Master of Spears. Btw, great content, man. I really enjoyed watching all of your Nioh2 videos.
I was really close to combining the red demon set bonus along with mataza. But there isnt enough armour slots in this game to get each sets melee damage bonus which is very sad.
How should I do the Twirl? I tried it for half an hour on a human enemy without any success...😕 Block + triangle in the right moment, but what is the trick? When is the right moment? 🙂
hi there man!! I been having an issue with +weapons and is that I don t know of an ideal mission/place for getting +stuff for soul matching...do you a mission where I can farm?
Heyo, I just posted this on Cowboy's farming video, hopefully it can help you: I'm 99% sure I have all the smithing and skill texts in the game and my setup was simple enough. I started farming at the beginning of NG+ so all gear was base 150/160. I made it more efficient as I learned new things, below is the final setup. Clan: Gamo for luck bonus Tea utensils: Placed for most luck bonus Shrine: Hunters blessing for 25% item drop rate. Guardian spirit: Itokuri for luck bonus, secondary spirit doesn't matter. Yokai Core: Kodama core (shrine bonuses) is the main one, but if you have any additional cores that rolled luck or item drop stat you can use those too. Armor: Kodama bowl head (for additional shrine bonus), 2 piece Sohaya for item drop vs Yokai, Item drop chance rolled on armor + accessories, Luck stat rolls on head and accessories only. Weapons: only thing that helps here is a ranged weapon with item drop rate vs humans and item drop rate vs yokai. Items: Luckbringer talismen from Onmyo tree. As for actually farming, for longer stages, just blitz to the boss with running scroll and quit to menu if they don't drop anything/the thing you wanted. Shorter stages obviously you can just re-do from the map. Alot of the above is probably overkill but was my final setup. Clan, shrine, guardian spirit and kodama bowl head and kodama soul core give the most bonuses. But by the end of NG you should be able to roll luck and item drop on your gear so, it's up to you. I tore my hair out before the gear was finished, but after it was far more manageable. Good luck !
Hello I just started playing nioh 2. I'd say I'm about mid game and was wondering how to unlock merciless barrage?? I've tried to look but I can't find anything.
So is there any real point to using a second set of weapons when you have a build like this? Or is there some sort of synergy bonus you can get from equipping secondary weapons of a certain type?
If you're using switchglaive just go into high stance and beat it with triangle. Bait the move where it puts its hands into the ground and triangle hit its head and repeat. Easy af way to beat it your first try.
Good luck, I did it too, so you can do it. The next chapters will get a lot easier because you get very good gear. Even without PS+ you can try to summon the best acolyte you can find!
You need half those stats. When it says 10/35 heart/skill it means you need 25 more for a total of 35 points between heart Or skill. It could be 35 heart and no skill or all skill and no heart, etc.
This is all gud and dandy but my problem with the spear is what they did to the wild spear move by making it recover less than what it use to in the first game. That's a nerf, one move I know but a minor nerf nonetheless. So is everyone really happy for what they did to it? Every weapon in the game are still relatively the same so why nerf this? It's a crap move only meant for pressuring but I do miss the recovery that it had in the first.
The problem with this video is it's incomplete. We need your shifting and samurai trees please. **I'm sorry I don't mean to sound rude or pushy but this is my absolute favorite build**
Samurai trees are identical for every build, it's literally just passives. Shiftling trees are irrelevant since they're also passives that don't affect the build at all.
I love that all your builds have a strong focus on “fun to play” instead of purely going for every last bit of min/max damage and spending all your time on tempering stats. You’re the clear winner in the builds game!👊🏻
Thank you! I use this build currently, but I optimized it too:
- Tiger of Higo Spear and Sword as main weapon, in order to use every (light) Mataza armor pieces and keep A in Agility without upgrading stamina so much. Mataza set increases thrust potency, thus also many sword skills
- Twisting Spear damage on every armor piece to get about +45%. You can easily oneshot Yoki, Rokurokubi and Namahage from behind
- Lightning damage on every weapon, Tengen Kujaku + Ame no Mitori
This is what I want for a spear build!
Finally! I decided on spear main since the last demo and have been loving it through my playthrough, but every build vid I see ends up as Thunder Thicc Boi.
you are the master chief of youtube bro!!Aprecciate all you have been doing especially with all the depressing shit going on. Thank you cowboy
"God of thrust" sounds like a porno flick.. good stuff tho.
Better than the first name I came up with of "Thrust master"
@@FightinCowboy Thrustmaster 69000! With the amount of pounding done with this build, it is basically porn. Question: how do you roll the Attack Bonus (Constitution) A+? Is it with divine umbracite?
Divine or fabled usually
@@FightinCowboy thank you, that's a huge help!
Awesome stuff!!
That intro got the loudest IRL “Yes” i’ve ever given to a video.
These vids really show just how creative you can be in nioh. It truly is an amazing game. Though i like to come up with things for myself. I really injoy seeing these. I cant imagine the amount of time that goes into this.
Once u know the sets that will benefit ur weapon, its pretty easy. I can literally make +5 builds from the top of my head. The sets that go well with spears are: mataza, wote, red demon, japan’s bravest, moonlight prayer. Mix and match as u please. Considering u have a yasakani magatama, u can make 4 pcs wote and 4 pc mataza OR 5 pcs japan bravest with 3 pcs mataza, OR 4 pc wote and 3 pcs moonlight, OR 4 pcs mataza and 4 pcs moonlight, OR 4-5 pcs red demon and 2-3 pcs moonlight. The combinations are endless. And thats just using 5 sets
Finally a build for those who don't like light or heavy armor.
Thank you.
By far the best build in terms of flashyness. Absolutely loved this build. It has it all
Thanks for all the videos you've been putting out. I started losing interest recently in nioh but trying all these different builds has made it fun again! Thanks!
cowboy ive been following you since your sekiro walkthrough your commentary is both professional and fun great detail explanation thank you for this build bro your awsome
I wasn't going to do the spear build, but then I got toshiies abacus while trying to get a yasakani. Guess I'm doing the spear build now🤣
You can actually inherit skill damage boost on all five piece of armor which can increase certain active skill dmg by 50%. I tried forge gauntlets chance seems close to 1/10000 for a desired skill.
You can really tell that he enjoys what he does.
nice build FC was waiting for this along with the tonfa build, keep up the awesome work
This came out recently for free on PS5. Just recently started playing. Would love to see a updated version of this build that's a bit more detailed. Especially the skill trees
I’m in the same boat. Not sure if you ever got any help. There is a discord group for nioh with active helpful players.
@@Eurisk007 mind telling the discord?
I love how they didnt code the model/spear properly, so the red tails on the spear are just constantly clipping through your shoulder/body
"Working as intended"
You the OG of nioh bruh. Good stuff homie
You know man, ive tried the other spear builds on youtube and none of them work as well as your build especially at low level(123). Im not surprised but cause your builds always wreck. Never forget how much fun your Abysal Sorcerer was in Dark souls 👌🏻
I did a spear in nioh 1, am at the second region in nioh 2 with the axe. Its powerful but boring af. This just convinced me to go back to my baby!
@@nanashiryuu5630 that flourish sexy af
@@nanashiryuu5630 early on is very not this it is boring in comparison remember nioh was the same
@Diarmid O'Connor not really
Thank you so much i just love how you explain things.
Just patiently waiting for the switchglaive build....Said no one ever ! Great vid.
I've subscribed because I really enjoy watching these videos. I've not even finished chapter 4 on the first playthough yet but I'm so excited to get where you are!
If it works like Nioh, the smithing texts drop from all difficulties so you don’t need to farm on NG+. Way of the Samurai hopefully works to farm all the texts to speed up fights.
Great build!! Keep the good job up!! By the way,how did you get the warrior of the west bow?
i think of red dragon armor tbh, best light armor with a spear in the set as well. sweet build nice video brotha
Yasakani Magatama...where are you? 😭😭😭 . Excellent build...👍🏻
Do you have any plans to do fun meme builds after all the weapons, like a scampass build or something?
Maybe, but I'd like to do one of every weapon first
That ki recovery is insane
Love the content, please cover Hatchets or Switch Glaive next
Wow this turned out great.
Thrust damage. High mobility. Ranged support.... No... Get my mind out of the gutter please
lol making Nioh 2 look easy, your calmness is impressive , I rage at every fight
I raged more on Nioh 1 than 2 lol.
Very nice arrangement man. Was wondering what you were going to put with it.
God of Thrust. Giggity all day.
Triple threat pretty much deletes revenants. They rarely block it.
Currently playing a switchglaive combo master with barrier charm , and this looks just as fun ill have to make another character to play for a ninjustu character with spear
I try to use the High stance with spears but I really don't like it. So, what guardian spirit should use instead of Tengen Kujaku ? I play mainly in mid stance.
The thats-what-she-said build
what are some suggestions for a build for someone who just played the demo ? i like the sword and spear
The title alone gets a like
Hi cowboy hope you are well. Just a quick question im using a similar build as this but with a water spear and was wondering what you think the best 2nd Guardian Spirit would be best for water attacks? Love your videos mate and keep up the great work 🍻
Can someone confirm that I can get the skill from the duel on the bridge. Been farming it for 50+ mil. Got everything else after 4 fights.
I had 200+ luck, 41% item find and mercenary strike on my finishing move. He has it but I'll be damned if it's not like a shiny legendary Pokemon
@@FightinCowboy Luck doesnt effect skill/text drops
Can we get the skills from the standard mission lvl 84 (i mean not in NG+)? Thanks for the build :)
@@riadb6947 i did.
After nearly two weeks straight farming
I did. Get all the smithing text in 6 turn when I'm not even trying to farm it
Cant wait to farm this set. I have been stuck in underworld 20+
I was having just random spear build. my charging thrust does about 6k dmg and 10k from behind. I'm at lvl 540.
If ur doing this kind of dmg at ur lvl and that low difficulty. I cant wait to see wat kind of dmg it does in Nioh difficulty.
...i actually got the triple threat skill from my first time fighting mataza through a story mission which is wild.
i wonder if the spear can drop there as well?
Do you like spear as much as Axe? I'm a big boy with a axe and LOVE smashing stuff but you make spear look fun. I'm just not sure i want to swap.
Took me ten days of farming just to get All of Mataza's texts. Hope it'll be worth it to finally play a light spear build:)
Stick em with the pointy end
What's the highest "+" level? Do we know? I cant get anything to drop over +4, and I dont think you can craft anything over +5
Nathan Sparks nioh 1 could go over +20. When the next difficulty level will be released +10 items will start dropping making the process easier.
@@StupidLemonFace thank you
You can soul match over +5 but you need to use the +3's etc that you get from the dream of the strong it will just take a lot of stuff.
@@TheRazer456 but you need a higher + level to soul match. A +3 needs a +4 to become a +4 I thought.
@@nathansparks9814 that is correct yes, to make a +5 say you would need 4 +3 items. You combine the +3's into 2 +4's then you can combine those into a +5 and so on if you have more.
The thrust attacks and movesets are a bit limited.
Only a charged version, and a 3 hit strong attack for midstance.
Strong attacks in both mid and heavy are thrusts, charge dash, triple threat, and your top stance finisher. You can of course use other moves but it'll boost those to be the strongest
Do you happen to know if Kasha’s soul core stacks with the sets movement speed, kinda wanna try a maximum SPEED build. Great content though man, really helpful.
What is the best combination in terms of pure damage in your opinion? Warrior of the East's Honor 5p + Master of Spears 5p?
I almost finished my build now with Warrior of the East's Honor 5p + Seven Misfortunes Eight Hardships 4p (farmed a lot of inheritables), but after watching your video I seriously thought about replacing Moonprayer with Master of Spears.
Btw, great content, man. I really enjoyed watching all of your Nioh2 videos.
You need to go deep into master of Spears for it to be worthwhile, the big thrust boost is what makes it good
would really like to see a spear 2.0 build now
This is already top tier, only thing you need is stacked inheritable gear
I was really close to combining the red demon set bonus along with mataza. But there isnt enough armour slots in this game to get each sets melee damage bonus which is very sad.
You’re the best!
But what about when you fighting in tight corridors wouldn't the spear bounce of walls
How do the elemental weapon special effects work ? Does the actual element only show on the weapon depending on something?
You’re welcome for the tiger location ;)
Toshiies Abacus can I get that from dueling him as well? I keep doing the method you said with the Abduction mission but it’s not dropping for me
Any changes after update also I like using Sanada armor with naomasa armor it’s not as potent but it looks cool so
You make this game seem so easy
Hey cowboy after you reach max for dex what would you recommend for a 3rd dump stat
Check the weapon for scaling.
How should I do the Twirl? I tried it for half an hour on a human enemy without any success...😕 Block + triangle in the right moment, but what is the trick? When is the right moment? 🙂
It's a parry, you need to time it to catch the blade
I wanna do a build similar to this but without the Kunai and DEX. Any suggestions on a secondary? Thinking maybe magic?
hi there man!! I been having an issue with +weapons and is that I don t know of an ideal mission/place for getting +stuff for soul matching...do you a mission where I can farm?
What build were you using to farm smithing texts for these things? I'm constantly amazed at how many of those you have.
I'll prob make a video on it tomorrow
Heyo, I just posted this on Cowboy's farming video, hopefully it can help you:
I'm 99% sure I have all the smithing and skill texts in the game and my setup was simple enough. I started farming at the beginning of NG+ so all gear was base 150/160. I made it more efficient as I learned new things, below is the final setup.
Clan: Gamo for luck bonus
Tea utensils: Placed for most luck bonus
Shrine: Hunters blessing for 25% item drop rate.
Guardian spirit: Itokuri for luck bonus, secondary spirit doesn't matter.
Yokai Core: Kodama core (shrine bonuses) is the main one, but if you have any additional cores that rolled luck or item drop stat you can use those too.
Armor: Kodama bowl head (for additional shrine bonus), 2 piece Sohaya for item drop vs Yokai, Item drop chance rolled on armor + accessories, Luck stat rolls on head and accessories only.
Weapons: only thing that helps here is a ranged weapon with item drop rate vs humans and item drop rate vs yokai.
Items: Luckbringer talismen from Onmyo tree.
As for actually farming, for longer stages, just blitz to the boss with running scroll and quit to menu if they don't drop anything/the thing you wanted. Shorter stages obviously you can just re-do from the map.
Alot of the above is probably overkill but was my final setup. Clan, shrine, guardian spirit and kodama bowl head and kodama soul core give the most bonuses. But by the end of NG you should be able to roll luck and item drop on your gear so, it's up to you. I tore my hair out before the gear was finished, but after it was far more manageable. Good luck !
Jack M is there smithing text for sohaya gear? The mid armor not lite
@@chrishastings7583 Both medium and light should drop from any of the Sohaya Hunter enemies.
Hi.. not good in english but Can this build really help in abyss please..?
Hello I just started playing nioh 2. I'd say I'm about mid game and was wondering how to unlock merciless barrage?? I've tried to look but I can't find anything.
What is better? Mataza set or red demon?(for spear build)
Is the drop rate for triple threat like 0.000000000000000000001% or something?
Idk the drop rate but killed Mataza abou 47 times before he dropped it
Finally a spear build that can carry newbs like me
I may have missed it but where do you get the master's archer bow? I'm trying to put this set together but cant seem to find it
The dude with the elephant guardian spirit
Imagawa I think
So is there any real point to using a second set of weapons when you have a build like this?
Or is there some sort of synergy bonus you can get from equipping secondary weapons of a certain type?
Secondary weapons are almost always only to achieve a second set bonus, other stats on the weapon don't do anything for you.
@@FightinCowboy Ok thanks.
Hey new here. How do you "roll" for twisting spear damage
Do the texts for Mataza's armour and secret spear skills drop in NG or is it better to farm in DOTS?
NG+ has higher drop rate but its fine to do so in NG
I tried all sets and like Japans bravest the best
I’m doing a spear build but it has stopped giving me skill points on my spear any thoughts?
Switchglaive build.pleasee.i cant beat the 3rd boss Yatsu-no-Kami
If you have PS+ you can summon me and I can try to help you if you want. I was stuck there for a while as well.
If you're using switchglaive just go into high stance and beat it with triangle. Bait the move where it puts its hands into the ground and triangle hit its head and repeat. Easy af way to beat it your first try.
Thank you for the tip lachlan.I dont have ps+ but thank you van der donk
Good luck, I did it too, so you can do it. The next chapters will get a lot easier because you get very good gear. Even without PS+ you can try to summon the best acolyte you can find!
Big snek boi? He got me he beat my ass 30/1. The boss i was stuck on the longest by far
yes!
Cool cowboy, thank you
good stuff bro.
How long do all these builds take to make?
I’ve been playing a build similar to this with poison shurikin and damage against poisoned enemies rolled onto gear ... Melts them....
That's exactly what I've been doing lol.
I've been curious if I could blend fire/poison efficientoy and just absolutely melt everything
do you know which mission unlocks mystic arts ninja dojo? still don't have it after beating the game. thanks in advance sir
Thank you the crazy cool biuld
Does the Tiger guy in Cherry Blossom drop smithing text for spear or just sword and armor...I have farmed him for days now without seeing it
Anyone know...? Cowboy?
He drops em all, I would just use a 160 spear to complete the set bonus, doesn't have to be divine, it's not our primary weapon anyway.
trying to find a build that works i just started game and all your builds are new game plus
How is it possible for you to use Tengen Kujaku? THE stats you need är str 27, heart 35, dex 32 and skill 33.
Or im missing sometthing?
You need half those stats. When it says 10/35 heart/skill it means you need 25 more for a total of 35 points between heart Or skill. It could be 35 heart and no skill or all skill and no heart, etc.
Do you know if There is other hidden skill for the Spear?
No the spear only have 2 hidden skills both drop from the same guy. Dual wield has the most hidden skills at 4
"You don't wanna be a thic-boi! So here's a build focused on spamming the spear's heaviest, slowest, least mobile attack!"
It's none of those things lmao
@@FightinCowboy I mean it's a potent build, but the focus on piercing rain still makes it feel really "heavy" to me.
It has a focus on literally any ability with pierce. You could play the whole thing just abusing mid stance basic combos if you really wanted.
Does tiger set Only drop on new game Plus?
I don’t have any spell u have select
What’s the best naked build? Bare handed
God build, is it effective in low stand?
This is a high stance oriented build.
Beautiful.
What For a teahouse do u have?
This is all gud and dandy but my problem with the spear is what they did to the wild spear move by making it recover less than what it use to in the first game. That's a nerf, one move I know but a minor nerf nonetheless. So is everyone really happy for what they did to it? Every weapon in the game are still relatively the same so why nerf this? It's a crap move only meant for pressuring but I do miss the recovery that it had in the first.
The problem with this video is it's incomplete. We need your shifting and samurai trees please.
**I'm sorry I don't mean to sound rude or pushy but this is my absolute favorite build**
Samurai trees are identical for every build, it's literally just passives. Shiftling trees are irrelevant since they're also passives that don't affect the build at all.
@@FightinCowboy Oh awesome. I've never seen your other builds so haven't seen the samurai tree. Thanks.
Hey so in the beta there was a black version of the shinto priest hunting garb, did that make it into the game? I only ever see the white one
I think I have it