Can i learn moves for a style with a custom sword?

[Major]

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[matthew]

while I not crafted my own weapon yet, I done a bit of reading, each weapon part has skill points, some have more, while others have less. You use these skill points to assign to skills that you have mastered with another sword. so you can pick and choose what skills you want to use for crafted sword.

There are a few guides about, and what weapon parts are good to use, as the parts also can effect, damage, defence, and also the weight of the weapon, (more is bad)

I'm sure someone else might answer the question more fully.

[Glenarn]

Each part of the created weapon has skill points, you'll normally get at least 300 or more skill points, with these skill points you can pick out moveset which you like and then choose from any of the skills you've learned using that moveset, you can unlock more by getting more weapons with that moveset, normally the longer combos take up more skill points to use and the shorter weaker ones use less but you can have more skills in turn so you can pick and choose what you want.

If you're too lazy to go about learning all the skills for every weapon, you can grind some money and buy a bunch of basic and advanced scrolls so you don't have do go through the bother of constantly hitting people.

[Hansuki]

To build on that last point, days 5/10/15 etc, the one vendor in Posting Station will sell all of the scrolls for moves. If you buy a bunch, learn the skills for your equipped swords, then kill the vendor, you get your money back and keep the moves. Leave Amana, and repeat until you have all the moves for your favorite stance mastered. Then make a sword with a lot of skill points and assign your favorite OP skills.

Genjuro's upper stance special plus Shuzen's upper stance forward+Y on the same sword is very stronk.

[Major]

thanks for all the help will try that next time i boot up the game

[DeGorro82]

So, in conclude, making Custom Sword before unlocking the skill from NPC's sword are pointless, Is that so ?

[Blackwolfdave]

Originally posted by DeGorro82:

So, in conclude, making Custom Sword before unlocking the skill from NPC's sword are pointless, Is that so ?

yep when making a sword you'll only have access to the skills you've unlocked using some normie sword

[matthew]

this HMTL guide is really good,

http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/955514-way-of-the-samurai-3/faqs/58453?page=3#section224

lists I think all the swords in the game, and gives you tips on what combos are good.

I'm also going to do a custom sword, I not done that yet, I got a really good Kuro-tonbo (from Kirie, and ninja style (love that style and this sword) which I also reforged to get some nice balanced stats.

just completed hard with this sword, in all honeslty, I'm not really sure if there is a real need for crafting swords.

key points

weapon weight, 0 is fast, while if you aren't careful, you can have a weight of 8 (depending on the parts you use) which would make the sword really slow and open you up to attack

poor defence, but can be countered with high health

high attack VS high weapon skill points

this is the key, if you want a lot of skill, you want parts with poor attack, or if you want a high attack, you won't get that many skill points.

I would say, it depends what you want to use the sword for? I think a nice balanced sword is probably a good idea (especailly on hard) (but having high health does help a tonne) so depending if you want to put your favourive combo on your custom blade, you might not have many skill points for long chain combos.

what I plan on doing, is learning all the skill from all the ninja swords, and see if there are any good combos on them, the above guide says they are some decent ones. but it really depends if I have enough skill points to put some good ones on. If not, I plan on keeping "My Precious" and use that as my all purpose, then I plan on duel weild and use the custom sword as my second weapon. (and plan on focusing that for high damage.

Just my two cents.

[Hansuki]

Something to add, as a reason for crafing weapons, is that you can get some easy high damage out of dual style or dual ninja style, since the moveset is not tied to the skill points of the weapon, but rather, how many scrolls you buy. It costs about 14000 yen for all the dual skills, but you can craft swords with high stats and low skill points and basically walk through normal difficulty. Upgrade those already high stats and and hard is also easy. Dual stance has great combos and Back+Y is a counter which is amazing for heat mgmt (basically a free block that doesnt heat up your weapon).

Another good excuse for crafting a weapon with high stats is that its faster/less time consuming than crafting a high skill weapon and having to save scrub Dojima for +15/+15 upgrades.

On a related note - unarmed moveset is garbage since its damage never scales, never waste money on it. The one good move is a counter to break swords, but its not worth switching to mid combat

[matthew]

One last thing to add, I wouldn't bother with the DLC weapons, I brought the package and now regret it. as the weapons seem more of a joke then anything. If you want to make a good custom weapon, don't bother with the weapon DLC.