Kato vs other spirits

[󠀡]

Hey, I'm almost done with the last DLC and still only using kato+spider for luck as secondary spirit. What are some others that are good? Is it worth investing like 30 points into spirit?

I'm using an odachi only and melee only. I read that tengen kujaku should be good, how does the stance buffs from it work? Are they active all the time or do you have to activate them somehow?

[Fel]

For spirits it really depends on what you want from them.
Some are great as an onmyo for their talisman attacks (damage, applying elemental effects, knock down, area of effect, destroying non-human ki, the variety is there depending on what you want/need), some are great for their bonuses (if you like having all of the radar effects there is even a spirit that has 3 of them in a single slot), some empower a specific set...
If you frequently rely on living weapon, the charge rate and duration can vary greatly from one spirit to the next as well.

All I can say about the stance buff is that it activates/refreshes when you get amrita (just like other effects that activate on amrita absorption), which is why you would ideally want to couple it with a way to get a constant stream of amrita (extraction talisman and apparently the demon king set but I don't have that one and the wiki doesn't give its effects) in order to keep the buff active for the whole duration of a fight.

[󠀡]

Thanks for replying. Until now I've basically just using it for the passive bonus like dmg and ki recovery. I only activate the LW when I'm about to die, or to finish off a boss enemy.
I think I'll level up Spirit and give them all a try.

[J Jonoh Jamson]

I put the points into Spirit as I went, part of the fun for me was figuring out what different guardian spirits did as I went. Also put skill points into the guardian spirit talismen jutsu to play around with their activated abilities without going into living weapon and using up moment talismens.

Though some of the passives are pretty good too, like the water dragon for farming amrita to level up; the rat, bat, and rabbit for bonuses to ninja builds; and the tanuki's auto heal at low health goes well with the Tokugawa's clan ability leaves you with 1 health if you're going to die.

[Raviel]

Publicado originalmente por Fel:

For spirits it really depends on what you want from them.
Some are great as an onmyo for their talisman attacks (damage, applying elemental effects, knock down, area of effect, destroying non-human ki, the variety is there depending on what you want/need), some are great for their bonuses (if you like having all of the radar effects there is even a spirit that has 3 of them in a single slot), some empower a specific set...
If you frequently rely on living weapon, the charge rate and duration can vary greatly from one spirit to the next as well.

All I can say about the stance buff is that it activates/refreshes when you get amrita (just like other effects that activate on amrita absorption), which is why you would ideally want to couple it with a way to get a constant stream of amrita (extraction talisman and apparently the demon king set but I don't have that one and the wiki doesn't give its effects) in order to keep the buff active for the whole duration of a fight.

I have couple parts of that set.
When you have 5 parts it gives + X amarita on strong attack.

Can be interesting indeed in some builds..