TIL Onmyo spell damage scales with soul core level.

This may not be news to a lot of you, but it sure was for me, so thought it was worth sharing.

I had kinda just assumed that, for soul cores in the yin position (talismans), the level of the soul core doesn’t factor in - you just get x number of talismans, they have a set effect or if it’s an onmyo talisman, it just scales with your character’s onmyo level. I mean, there are no numbers/stats listed on the yin menu like there are on the yang menu so I just assumed.

I got curious about it today but couldn’t find much info online so I ran a little test using Sudama soul cores at three different levels to see if higher level cores increased the damage output of the Thunderstorm Shot talisman. And sure enough, here’s what I got:

Lvl 12 = 874 dmg

Lvl 34 = 1070 dmg

Lvl 63 = 1413 dmg

That’s ~0.9–1% damage increase per soul core level, which is pretty crazy considering how high you can level them.

So, if you’re like me and have been using low level soul cores for spells cause you didn’t think it mattered, you’re leaving a TON of damage on the table.

Note: After doing the test, I did find in the encyclopedia entry for ‘Onmyo Box’, it says “damage dealt by Onmyo Magic items will increase based on their respective Soul Core’s level.” So the game *does* tell you this but it can be easy to miss and is otherwise not obvious, so figured it was worth sharing.