Does it matter which Way are you in if you are farming smithing texts?

[FTZ35]

I am trying to get the text for Warrior of the West bow.

[April O'Neil]

I think it doesnt matter..I was farming Hayabusa in way of samuray and still got what I needed.Also cracked ochoco cups you can farm in way of samuray Marabishi mission..dont need to go higher difficulty at all.

[NeEd4FeEd]

Some texts will be given only in WOTN missions as rewards remember also the Hayabusa fire balls automatically go in your NInja scrolls in Jutsu this stumped me at first lol and the Izuna Drop, equip it for sword in Skill.

Coincidentally I did have most of my drops at higher levels as much as 3 in a mission at times without farming builds in fact i have never run a farming build but when at lower levels i did have to grind a bit so much as 80 times without success dam that Red Demon armour!

If i would start fresh again i would not farm texts until Abyss is unlocked then farm the texts for a build style you want then turn ether and graces this would of saved me a lot of time and the Abyss does drop a lot of texts.

[Thoughtzilla]

Way doesn't matter, Luck does.

There are some items where this is NOT true, like the Dragon Sword for the Hayabusa set Text only drops in WOTS+ I believe.

[FlintX]

Hayabusa set and Dragon sword smithing texts only drops in the Way of the Nioh according to wikis pages. But everything else drops at any difficulty as far I'm concerned. However, the drop rates does scales with higher difficulties.

[FTZ35]

The Hayabusa text for the armor dropped for me in Way of the Samurai. (I can prove it with screenshots for now as I haven't done that mission in any higher Ways yet) I am not sure about the weapons though.

[FlintX]

Then it is just the sword text that is locked behind difficulty.