Sticky Bomb second upgrade can destroy groups of 10-15 mongols easy

Personally I've found the sticky bombs super helpful in a sticky situation.

After unlocking all the ghost weapons the Kunai is one of the best, imo, a close second is the black powder bombs, I rarely find myself using the wind chimes, although they do have there pros in some cases.

I picked smoke bomb>sticky bomb>wind chime>black powder bomb

Sticky Bomb because i thought it would be a good combination of hilarious and useful. I was not disappointed

As someone who uses a lot of ghost weapons my favorite armor is the kensei. I finished the game and haven't fully upgraded the damage of the Kunai. Too OP to instantly kill. I just enjoy staggering and picking them off one by one

I like this Gosaku build:

• Charm of Shinatsuhiko (Melee Charm) – Staggering an enemy prevents interrupted melee attacks for six seconds
• Charm of Susanoo (Melee Charm) – Staggered enemies have a 30% chance to be knocked down
• Charm of Inari’s Might (Melee Charm) – Increases health and melee damage by a massive amount
• Charm of Resistance III (Defence Charm) – Reduces all damage by a major amount
• Charm of Broken Barriers (Defence Charm) – Breaking an enemy’s defence grants 15% Resolve
• Charm of Bludgeoning (Melee Charm) – Moderate increase to stagger damage

Sakai Clan armor was my favorite as you can kill up to 5 mongols in a stand off

Ghost armour max and offence charms and increased parry window charm.

My general purpose armor towards the end was Ghost with Inari Might, 1 ferocity, Silence, 2 fortune and increase Terrify major charm. Killing 1 enemy would usually send another dropping for an easy kill (or just let him flee). Most broken was probably infinite arrows with Tadayori or infinite resolve with Kensei.

Claymore thanks to its unique poke moveset (much like the zweihander) Piercing fang into R2 and R2 into piercing fang combos nicely, storm stomp into R2 makes NPC's very very easy.

Or the knights greatsword thanks to its unique R1 moveset and hit combos it can pull off.

Or zweihander with lightning slash for a devastating combo, full slash into R2.

All three are absolutely superb weapons that are really fun to get used to.

Claymore location

Claymore

Claymore

Technically speaking, the Iron Greatsword is the best Greatsword class weapon with most affinities. But there are slightly better Greatswords for specific builds.

What kind of stats are you looking to focus on?

IMO, the generally strongest build while leveling with a greatsword is a cold claymore or bastard sword, upgrading to a banished Knight Greatsword if one drops. Otherwise using the Gargoyle Greatsword once you're able to defeat the Valiant Gargoyles. And then eventually an iron Greatsword if you farm one in Leyndell or Haligtree.

This is mainly a STR build, but gains benefit from int and Dex to lesser degrees. The primary ash of war is Impaling Thrust due to having a fast combo alternating with R2.

From the way I play

Smoke Kunai Chime Blowgun Fire cracker Sticky fire Black fire bomb

IMO:

1. Kunai
2. Smoke Bomb
3. Firecracker
4. Hallucinogen Dart (It's a lot worse on Lethal though)
5. Wind Chime
6. Poison Dart
7. Sticky Bomb
8. Black Powder Bomb

The only reason the sticky bomb and black powder bomb are so low is because explosive arrows exist and do basically the exact same thing, but are easier to find ammo for. I don't think any of them are bad though, even the black powder bomb has its uses.

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Just use something you like for a while. You will eventually start finding weapons that are really interesting and unique that you will want to try. Uchi is great and could be used for the entire game. Pretty much anything can be used the entire game if you like it.

i love the greatsword movesets, i find them the most versatile

They're two completely different weapons, one is a DEX bleed sword the other is a STR colossal sword. If you're DEX go with Uchi, if STR go with Greatsword.

Use the bloodhounds fang and finesse through the whole game

You are comparing apples to oranges. Within their respective weapon classes, they are both among the best picks. But it's like asking which is best of a bike or a train when you need to travel somewhere.

I would do a little googling about weapon scaling and how stats affect your play style - it’ll help a lot in the long run!

Ate like a KING

Colossals might be a nice change of pace. The Prelate Crozier is very fun. Twinblades too- the Godskin Peeler has unique heavies. Twin rapiers are also really strong and the moveset looks awesome. If you have the DLC, or a friend owns it, you can get the Backhand Blades or the Beast Claws by asking them to drop them for you. Messmer's spear is also great.

Sorry I know this is a bit old now, since this game is going to be so big as in open world I imagine there will be customization of some sort.

With ghost in the title maybe there will be some ninja or shinobi elements. My weapons wishlist if there's more than just swords.

1: Kama and or Kusarigama 2: Tekko Kagi / claws 3: Bow 4: Bombs

Katana

Ehrmmm katana?

Have multiple weapons been confirmed already?

I loved susano set, with a purity set up, and tonfa gun of course.

Tonfa flows so well its really easy to keep versatility and confusion up.

Late game having a constitution and courage scroll makes you feel unstoppable.

Don't fall into a noob trap of spamming pulverize. That skill is great as link between combos, but just ok at everything else.

Wild Lions has insane status buildup. Can put fire, water, lightning arcana in each stance (I'd just use oni bi soul core instead though).

Tiger Bite is the best tonfa skill. Staggers, ducks under horizontal swipes, gives you frame advantage.

Shove in high stance is very fast ki damage move.

High stance strong into heavenly chain has insane momentum and distance coverage.

Tonfa Gun makes Devastation into health bar destroyer. Crimson Lotus with tonfa gun can push you back enough to outspace enemy attacks.

Focused Strike is a great opener. Knocks humans on their ass too.

Mountain Breaker is not a true airborne move, can jump over only selected attacks.

Both parries suck. Thousand Tongues can be parried on successful parry. Dragonslayer leaves you open in the air for punish.

Double Kick for blocking humans, deals good break.

Sweep Kick deals a lot of ki damage, ducks under horizontal swings.

As a Tonfa main Let me recommend you a build, If you love playing aggresive with tonfa. Find and equip these;

-Tonfa (any you prefer),

-Conquerors set (from older Nobunaga),

-Hyobishin guardian spirit (from younger Nobunaga), equip; Kasha, Tate Eboshi or Shuten Doji soul core,

-join Toyotomi Clan,

-Equip Medicine case or Magatama types accessories (reroll through blacksmith until you get life recovery with amrita absorption).

The idea is to sustain aggression and generate amrita as much as possible, by spamming the heavy attack (HA) before transitioning to other techniques.

Conqueror set lets you extract amrita with heavy attacks and tonfa's HA can generate a lot of amrita per combo.

With enough "life recovery with amrita absorption" from reroll on the torso and accessories, you can sustain aggression with relative safety as you heal while attacking.

Next, Hyobishin give you 30% chance of dispelling most ailment (fire, water, lightning, corruption, purity, confusion, poison, paralytic build up, stench, Ki down) by hitting enemy with HA, since tonfa's mid stance HA hits multiple times per hit, it increases the chance of dispelling ailment as you attack.

Also, most buffs from accessories (DEF UP, KI REC UP, LIFE REGEN) and soul cores (like Shuten Doji's; DEF UP , Tate Eboshi's; ATK UP or Kasha's; MOVE SPEED UP) are activated by absorbing amrita, if you have those equip you can activate the buffs by simply hitting the enemy with HA.

So, with this build you can maintain aggression while buffing, healing and dilpelling most ailment. This build has carried me from NG all the way through the depths.

Furthermore, this build is also pretty flexible, it can fit other playstyle or weapons as you gain more experience, new equipments, new graces and face different challenges.

Hope this helps and Goodluck

I main tonfas as well, and I usually run a lighter armor set. Granted, the style I play the game relies more on dodging than blocking (unless I have no choice), kinda like hit fast and move out of the way before they have a chance to counter and it's worked out well for me so far.

P.s. not sure if it really matters in the end, but there is a skill unlock in the tonfa tree that increases your damage based on how light your gear is.

You can demon dance through grab attacks. If you really wanna play this game on the edge, that's how you do it... 

I'm going to state the obvious, Tonfas pairs extremely well with the Toyotomi clan and extraction talisman, it hits very frequently and the life recovery is georgeous

Lightsaber

stick

Shotgun

Seduction

No horse option? I'm gonna run over everyone I can.