Any love for odachis?

[Rhawkas]

Just past Sekigahara in NG and have hardly seen any unique odachis (3, I think?) and I was just wondering if there are any odachi equipment sets. I've seen tons of sets that use swords (single and dual) and spears, but everything else seems pretty sparse.

Also, how does odachi fare late/end-game? All the threads I've seen that talk about builds all seem to be focused on skills, but most of the odachi skills are just for switching between stances. There's the charging thrust, the double slash after combos, the tackle while blocking, and the three chargeable attacks, but that seems to be it. What kind of builds do people use with odachis late game or should I just go back to using sword or something else?

[Deostades]

There are plenty, and they will become more plentiful in the DLC regions (the Odachi was added in DLC 1, and so none of the base game sets incorporate them).

I don't really use them, but from what I hear, they're pretty dope in the late game.

[Goilveig]

I definitely plan to try out the taro tachi if stupid Hanzo would drop the smithing text some year...

For late-game odachi, there is one that's part of a well-respected set (Seven Misfortunes, Eight Hardships) and the really good non-set odachi like the taro tachi can be defiled in the Abyss to make it part of a Grace set, which can be even more useful.

[puzzlefox]

One of the best sets in the game has an odachi, which is the 7 misfortunes set. Odachi has a lot of un-useful skills, but moonlit snow, imperative strike, devastating rush, and twin moons are very good. The first 3 skills I mentioned also get gear rolls for +dmg % for those specific skills, which is good cause some weapons dont get bonuses for their best skills (example: kusarigama does not get a blade spin bonus, and axe does not get a mad spinner bonus).

Unfortunately though, odachi doesn't get much love in terms of set bonuses specifically for the odachi or odachi skills. Like master swordsman 4 piece gives +30% dmg to the best dual sword skill, sign of the cross. It's not a deal breaker, but it would be nice.

Odachi scales best with strength but it's second best scaling stat is stamina, which is a shame cause if you plan on getting the most out of your odachi build, then maxing strength and stamina is how you do that, which that pretty much automatically signs you up for axe secondary if you want max usefulness. But on the flipside, A agility becomes possible with heavier gear.

Bear in mind, none of this is necessary. But players at endgane tend to want to maximize their character.

I dunno, I use an odachi secondary purely for the 7 misfortunes set bonus and I pull it out for its break sometimes. I have mine built for ki dmg cause it has no hope of getting as high of damage as my dual swords.