Just started on PC last week and I'm loving lantern plant fruit jutsu
Posted Feb 16, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC
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Consumables are meant to be consumed I guess, but I don't want to use a third quickslot page just for them 🤗 My ninja/onmyo locks are on auto consume, I use Amrita items on the map straight from inventory. When I need to open pathways on walls with bombs I can use those from the inventory, same with Clay bells or small spirit stones when I need to charge up my GS gauge.
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Wait what do you mean. Open pathways with bombs? Can you blow up walls with bombs?
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Yep, I think there are less than 5 in the game but they do exist and usually hide treasure!
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Hah I didn't realize there were so few. I was playing drunk last night and saw a wall with a bunch of cracks in it and thought "HmMm that looks like a Zelda wall, lemme throw a bomb at it..."
Jaw dropped when it broke. _
(Just started last week on PC)
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How can you tell its blow upable?
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Lots of cracks usually. There's one I know of in the level with Kasha, the fire cat lady.
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Are you telling me that you can have more than two pages of shortcuts? I could swear I remember doing that in the first game but couldn't find it in this one
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yes you can
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Bro how
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pause game or at load screen select System -> menu settings -> Number of item shortcut sets and change to 3 or 4. you should go through every setting in basic game and menu settings, lots of QOL stuff and cosmetics that are really nice to just know about, like i coudnt play without having the numbers next to my health, ki and anima that tells me what i have/max
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Wait can you have a third quickslot page??? im so dumb. how?
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You can have up to four of them, toggleable from the menu part of the options screen. I try to use only two as I don't want to shuffle between too many of them during hectic combat ☺️
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How do you access the other quickslots while playing? Using a PS4 controller.
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Hold R1 and use the dpad left/right
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From what i understand the lanterns are actually pretty damn hard, or at least time consuming, to farm. You cannot buy them either. Unless something has changed? I never use mine. Just high stance fists with that active skill that fills half your anima gauge with one hit.
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You get one from every Sudama trade. Always trade and you will have Lantern Plant Fruit aplenty.
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Ahh okay. I guess i didnt pay attention to that. I should have a little stack of them by now then.
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Is there any best item to give those guys?
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I don't think so, not in particular. They will often return big spirit stones for soul cores (as well as a chance at a Kodama soul core). Kodama soul cores can be useful to trade for if your primary guardian spirits don't have huge attunement caps. Kodamas attune for 3 slots, 2 if you get the attunement -1. (Scampuss can attune for 1 if you get the attunement stat.)
If you google "Sudama trades" or something like that, the Sudamas do return very specific items for certain consumables - i.e. a Sacred Brush always returns a Shinobi Box and vice versa, a Herbal Remedy always returns a Summoning Candle and vice versa, etc. I basically trade for whatever I need most at the time of trading. Every trade will also come with a lantern plant fruit, and, very often, a collection of smaller spirit stones.
If I am building a Grace set, I will always just trade random gear in hopes of getting that grace. This is really helpful with ethereals - just make sure you're trading the ethereal in Nioh difficulty or above! At lower difficulties, Sudamas will take your ethereal with a grace and return you one that literally doesn't have one. Cracked me up pretty good the first time I saw that.
Hope that helps!
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But there are builds specifically for anima regeneration that do allow you to constantly use yokai abilities, and you don't need to go through an uncommon resource to do it.
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only started myself last week and im overwhelmed by all the inventory items I pick up. Have not really even used any yet.
Yeah the game throws a ton of usable items at you. But these along with anti-paralysis and anti-poison items are definitely worth keeping on a shortcut.
I have never even noticed getting poisoned or paralyzed... does that happen in the first area? I am still only about lev 30 and am trying to finish all the missions in the first area.
Most of the paralysis in my experience IIRC comes from the gaki and nure-onna and is easy to avoid.
ur forgetting about my worst nightmare in the entire game. The umbrellas
oh I guess those snake chicks have paralyzed me temporarily.. I forgot about those. But yeah those are not too bad to avoid anyway.
You'll definitely notice paralysis if it happens. You'll definitely see it in the 3rd main mission.
you tend to burn through them on NG+ depending on your build. specially the refill jutsus ones.
Salt is amazing
The Ki damage is insane and the animation is so short... AND it applies purification. It's fucking amazing.
I just HATE how it doesn't refill when you visit a shrine - even if you have like 800 Salt in your Storehouse. I'd use it MUCH more if it refilled.
A good deal of them are definitely really useful Some are very situational and rarely used.
You're probably sitting on a bunch of stones you can use to pile up a bunch of xp, just use them for a free level up.
Sacred waters probably the most useful, speeds up ki recovery speed.
Lantern fruits give you anima so you can use your yokai abilities sooner. Salt is super useful to decimate yokai ki and open them up for grapple attacks.
Stuff like water/fire amulets buff your weapon with that element, even if you aren't doing a onmyo build with the switch weapons might as well use those up on bosses that are weak to that element.
Needles/bombs just ninja weapons.
Summoners candle is reeeeeally helpful in a pinch, gets you back your guardian and all your crap so you don't have to retrieve it.
Travel amulet is like homeward bone/bold hunters mark, it gets you back to the last shrine you used.
Shinobi box refills uses on ninja gear. Whetstone will let you build up familiarity on weapons way faster.
For online elements, Jasper plops down a summon sign for other players to use you as a support npc.
BIGGEST tip I can ever give a new player... Fight ALL the red phantoms you come across from other players. You farm ochoko cups so you can summon blue ones to help, but also can get you reeeeeally good purple gear a lot quicker than any other drop method. You'll be decked out in no time.
I have over 500 hours in the game and the only consumables I've used is an antidote and the elixirs. Onmyo spells do the same things.
I've beat all the difficulties so far and did all the side quests on a couple of them, and the only times I used the large majority of these items is when I was just trying them out. Only a few of them are very useful IMO. For most of them, I used them even less than I used the kodama bowl item.
Kodama bowl is MVP how dare u
I used salt for the last main story boss.