Is the true dragon sword worth it?

[buttslushy]

I feel like it would be just for ninja gaiden lmao

[Deostades]

It is one of the biggest individual damage boosts in the game, I believe, but it comes at the downside of Light Armor.

Just make sure your Toughness is as high as possible (200 would be ideal, but I'm not sure you can reach that), and expect to die every time you misjudge a move by a quarter-inch.

[Witcher]

Yes, what Yogi said is true except the biggest damage and advantage of Dragon Sword is also Iai which I found difficult to time for good hits. You also become a glass cannon and need to learn to evade/dodge at the correct timing but different enemies have different speed and attack moves, hence it all got too difficult for me lol.

I don't think it's possible to reach 200 Toughness with 7 Dragon Ninja pieces. I had 7 plus one pair of Hiraishi boots and got to 150 only.

I gave it one last try last night and now switched back to tonfas with kusarigama.

[DooG Is Eternal]

You can nuke stuff with it once you pimp it up.

[Angela™]

Go 6 pieces and any heavy armor if that's a concern but light armor in nioh is possibly the best armor for a large number of reasons.

[Engels78]

I use Dragon Sword from time to time as I got about of them 10 from Revenants ;)
Damage and additional stats are nice! But... Range is terrible small... When there are two or more enemies to deal with, it is more difficult. And also it drains very small enemies KI, at least in mid stance, and have problems with breaking gard... So for me it is good with Yokai and poor with Humans...

I have over 100h and about 90% first walktrought.