Corruption or Purity?

[PossessingSpirit09]

I'm in the depths currently, and every visitor/co-op person that's joined my room is always corruption, it keeps cancelling out my purity - I'm getting pretty annoyed

But why all the corruption users? Are Corruption builds stronger? I really want to know, I'm using a Purity build currently, but if Corruption outputs much higher damage then I might just wanna switch

[Tiniturtle]

both 1 corruption weapon 1 purity weapon

[supabok]

Corruption all the way. Just cleared the Depths again with a different build, which happened to be corruption. Damage output is great once you get accessories with melee dmg vs corrupted enemies. The other bonus is the anima regen on awakened weapon which is great for spamming those yokai abilities.

I tried a purity build (izanagi + oyamatsumi) and found the damage output good but...
Was getting tired of having to apply purity to my weapon plus trying to stack cleansing prayer. With corruption, i'm ready to go from the start :)

[Tauriz]

Originally posted by supabok:

Corruption all the way. Just cleared the Depths again with a different build, which happened to be corruption. Damage output is great once you get accessories with melee dmg vs corrupted enemies. The other bonus is the anima regen on awakened weapon which is great for spamming those yokai abilities.

I tried a purity build (izanagi + oyamatsumi) and found the damage output good but...
Was getting tired of having to apply purity to my weapon plus trying to stack cleansing prayer. With corruption, i'm ready to go from the start :)

This, insane anima charge with Magatsuhi grace and even better dmg with Versatility from Susano (provided that you use all the skills at your disposal). I don't play coop tho, out of 300h of play maybe 20-30h of coop (and with ppl in discord, no randoms).

[Yanxi]

Completely isolating the effects of the melee damage bonuses from the optimal graces for both Purity and Corruption:

• Susano + Izanagi yields a total damage formula of:
  Base Damage × (1 + 0.30) × (1 + 0.60 + 0.30) = Base Damage × 2.47
  (Maximum Versatility stacks and maximum Cleansing Prayer stacks)
  
  
• Susano + Magatsuhi yields a total damage formula of:
  Base Damage × (1 + 0.20) × (1 + 0.60 + 0.30) = Base Damage × 2.28
  (Maximum Versatility stacks and Awakened Weapon)

Which means that Susano + Izanagi outputs slightly more total damage than Susano + Magatsuhi when its effects are fully active.

However, this doesn't account for your uptime on Cleansing Prayer or Awakened Weapon: the former would be higher if you are playing in single-player against Yokai, where you don't have anybody else to purify the Yokai pools; the latter would be higher if you are playing in multi-player and have stacked a lot of Sentience Charge. You should also decide whether you value the Anima Charge and Yokai Ability Damage bonuses of Magatsuhi or the HP and Ki Recovery bonuses of Izanagi more.

In the big picture, they're both excellent. Essentially, choosing between Purity and Corruption is akin to choosing between the Jedi or the Sith. You can't go wrong with either, but Purity has more quality-of-life benefits and requires less of an investment.

As for myself, I have always been on Team Purity for one reason: the ki pulse on guard.

If you are running into a lot of players online using Corruption and ruining your Purity builds, you can make a single-player build for Purity and a multi-player build for Corruption, and quickly switch between them using the Equipment Sets or the Hut Builds option when you want to play online.

Edit: Fixed Magatsuhi formula – 7-piece bonus and Awakened Weapon's natural 30% damage bonus are in different categories of the Total Damage Formula.

[Sir_Knight_Arthorias]

Insert El Dorado meme

Both? Both? Both, both. Both is good

[Mander]

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[Yanxi]

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[Mander]

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[Yanxi]

No problem, Mander. Could you delete your two most recent responses in this thread like I did, and then create a new thread with your original question?

I will post the exact same response about Soul Cores in that thread.

The reason for a new thread is so that we don't derail this thread, but the information is still available for the public.

[Mander]

Originally posted by Yanxi:

No problem, Mander. Could you delete your two most recent responses in this thread like I did, and then create a new thread with your original question?

I will post the exact same response about Soul Cores in that thread.

The reason for a new thread is so that we don't derail this thread, but the information is still available for the public.

Done and done: here the link to the new topic I've opened on the matter:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1325200/discussions/0/4819392984416715647/

[Oninomiru]

I run purity, because my gs is Ho-oh. And I dislike grape jelly effect of corrupted weapons.
But I also don't run expeditions at all.

[PuppYofDOOM]

Corruption has nightmare core.. Another +16% melle vs corrupted when leveled up. Basically a free confusion also on use.

I run maga 7 saru 6. Ippon shuten and nightmare. With baku main.

I have anima on amrita gain/anima on onmyo hit. I can pretty much spam forever.. As once i do shutens extraction buff. Amrita flys in giving me anima and the anima.moves give me amrita. Etc.

I dont use any extra awakening bonus outside of the set i pretty much live in purple glow.

[PuppYofDOOM]

Originally posted by Oninomiru:

I dislike grape jelly effect of corrupted weapons.

LMAO

[DragynDance]

I too also prefer purity, running a melee damage versus ki/versus 0 ki enemies that works pretty great. There is a small benefit to having one person using purity and one person using corruption though. When an enemy is confused, applying a new status effect that wasn't one of the ones that originally confused it extends the confusion. But because purifying removes corruption and corruption removes purification, you can actually keep a boss perpetually confused by coordinating taking turns building up purity, then having the corruption person remove the purty and build up corruption, then switch back to purity, etc and so on.

[Mander]

Originally posted by Squeak CheeseTaker:

I too also prefer purity, running a melee damage versus ki/versus 0 ki enemies that works pretty great. There is a small benefit to having one person using purity and one person using corruption though. When an enemy is confused, applying a new status effect that wasn't one of the ones that originally confused it extends the confusion. But because purifying removes corruption and corruption removes purification, you can actually keep a boss perpetually confused by coordinating taking turns building up purity, then having the corruption person remove the purty and build up corruption, then switch back to purity, etc and so on.

Good idea, but I'm afraid is non viable in random expeditions. And without a discord. :S