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Nioh 3 armor variety

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Love the gameplay and I'm okay with most of the changes from the previous games, so apologies that this is most likely going to sound super nitpicky. But is anyone else bothered by the gear variety in N3?

I have always loved Nioh's fashion, so I actually went and counted the armor sets because I thought it was just nostalgia speaking. But Nioh 3 actually has less total armor sets (discounting pre-orders from both games and including both ninja and samurai styles in 3) than Vanilla Nioh 2 and only about half the amount of completely new non-reskinned armors compared to that game.

Nioh 2 reused a lot of gear from Nioh 1 and Nioh 3 continues this, which I don't really mind (I still need my One-Eyed Dragon though). But vanilla Nioh 2 actually didn't recycle any old sets as new sets by just recoloring them and swapping a helmet or changing a crest. Nioh 3 has almost 20 such sets. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but as a heavy armor enjoyer I am a little disappointed to see only 4 actually completely new heavy armor sets in the entire game.

Hopefully the DLC alleviates this a little, since losing variety and flavor and going backwards in some areas as the series progresses in others is very unfortunate in my opinion.

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

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