The Sealed Dagger: A Ninja Guide

Don't tell me you're doing the Katana Langly :(

Gotta do science to see the tier(s) of regain!

Hey, I'll do a couple. :D But yes... katana first. It's always first. :D

Data dump on the gokotai

Engaged animation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WVkh-W_BFzo

No extra DW: 36 tp/tick regain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl0ZXmzlyxk

Dual wield equiped (not maxed by high)79 tp/tick
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkmDYJLmPc

Looks like 36/tick is the base.

Adding a Dual Wield +10 JSE mantle added 10 to the Regain.
Adding a Ryuo Somen for +8 added another 8 to the Regain.

Looks like 1 Dual Wield = 1 Regain.

That's actually really good and lends itself to some interesting idle sets if you can really jack up the Dual Wield value.

Let's see the pieces we can get.

Ryuo Somen +1 (9)
AF +3 Body (10)
AF +3 Legs (5)
Floral Gauntlets (5)
Reiki Yotai (7)
Suppanomini (5)
Hizamaru Sune-Ate (8)

That's 85/tick Regain.

Free 3000tp opener then swap to Bestu.

Relic+3 legs is 10 DW
Eabani +4

Eh, can't you just get 1k tp in under 5 seconds for a real ws compared to bothering with a trick for extra tp, and you still get the SC.
Is this weapon for low geared people to be able to SC solo?
If a 85 tick regain that's a rough 450tp by the 8s timer elapses for a SC, on high gear, and low gear is a extra 350 roughly on a non geared nin for extra tp, during that duration.
Seems this weapon is for low geared people to self solo SC.

That's a lot of regain and in today's content you spend considerable amounts of time idle. The Ku bonus seems large enough to make it competitive with other REMA WS.

I guess it could be good for like..Erinys? paired w/ tact roll but that's like all I can think of

Best katana when you get trolled by mobs that PD/invincible on you repeatedly heh
Also good if you get terror'd, or subjected to something that ruins your accuracy or ability to attack.
Utsu cast time/JA delay is small, but you get regain during that too with this i suppose.

Its better than my AG Nagi i bet!

I'd use this katana in a low buff/haste scenario. Heishi shines mostly with buffs, but having a regain piece for a dw set I'd already be using when not haste capped would be rather ideal. It's really just icing on the cake. KU bonus being extra. Or perhaps something that induces a slow aura or a fight that doesn't allow you to put up bubbles or rolls (looking at ambuscade from last month, frog etc). Or even if I die and lose buffs and have to wait on the Corsair or Bard to buff me back up again. Can mijin>use DW regain set to split the lost time difference while I'd otherwise be waiting on weakness timer or new buffs.

It's not going to compete with a rema in a high buff scenario but why would it? Just another tool in the tool box of ninja. And I'll gladly take it.

Ku is by no means a weak WS. The only reason we don't use it nowadays is because both Ten and Shun are better on their respective niches. That WSD +60% is massive for an already strong WS. It easily destroys Ten without Heishi (and theoretically even WITH Heishi, at lower TP values). It wouldn't surprise me if Gokotai Ku spam would come now as our best option in super-buffed scenarios.

At the very least, Gokutai-Ku is a pretty awesome mouthful. Competes heavily with Metsu is Bestu.

Yeah. It has potential. Hand waiving it this early is too hasty. The regain is one of those things that is going to be more useful than it seems, especially with content like dynamis divergeance where you're idling quite a bit.

you'll have over 2k tp by the time sneakattack comes off cooldown with /thf,
might try some ambu katana+tp bonus offhand sneakattack ws shenanigans

All these interesting mainhands to play with really makes offhand options feel a bit underwhelming. It would be nice to get some offhand only tanky/enmity/gimmic katanas

Does TP even modify damage on Ku? thought it was just accuracy.

I was thinking of something like blade:ten that scales

Don't bother. Ku's damage doesn't scale with TP and it's a 5-hit WS.

Edit: Beaten.

Ah my mistake. I always wanted to see the Heishi/TP Bonus numbers. I know taint mentioned it a while back, but seems it never gained traction. And Afaina brought up the sword savage blade spam build. I wonder how much of an acc loss NIN suffers from going off script like that for a little.

Anybody have an up-to-date Ku set?

ItemSet 365553
edit: on Belephor I was only getting 24k w/ bolster and XI crooked drk/fighter
metsu was doing 20-24k w/o bolster and w/ random rolls #s(neither lucky or unluckys) drk/fighters

Adhemar is all STR/DEX path, hands DEX/AGI path
Cape DEX30 att/acc DA

also ring1 is Epona's let me fix that ***

A 60% boost to Ku would move that 24k to nearly 40k. I'm not sure what a BiS set looks like for Ku.

MultiAttack/ACC/ATT/STR/DEX

That was w/ the katana. I'm about to do ginx2 and scoreboard metsu and ku and see how it goes

You can use the same set as Shun, with more focus in STR and attack.

I'm using basically my shun set for it, just not using byakko's 119 instead ken legs +1

Hopefully this works I've only ever posted like 2 pictures before.

But this is Gin, trusts were arciela I, amchuchu, and brygid. They all died except ofc brygid around 50% ish so I had to tank until end which slowed it down even more

When they were all alive was doing Fury/Frail entrust haste. When they were gone went to Haste/Torpor and just entrusting refreshing to myself.
Its not perfect ofc because I'm 3boxing and for w/e reason today sometimes when I hit my //send command all 3 instances would freeze
But Ku peaked for me around 11k, saw one 12k
It actually got so bad I couldnt even finish the fight I started taking so long