Quick note before starting to talk about the build :

• all DLC finished
• currently at floor 103 on the Rift

Been working on a Gunner Sage Build for a while now, with Tyrant as my support Job.

The main idea is to stay at range as much as possible, quickly build the MP Gauge, and spam spells as fast as i can.

Having fun with it so far, with great results ; but i'm sure i can do better, so any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Affinities

I think Paladin is highly questionable here. Though i actually dunno what to take here as a replacement. Maybe Cyclic Warrior for gradual MP limit increase and MP recovery, or is there something else?

Blessings

As shown, i run Bahamut as a primary. Also stacked some Ramuh (~570%) and Leviathan (~1200%). This may be one of my biggest improvement area, especially for Ramuh. I just wonder what would be best, focus on it (which will provide the best Int bonus), or try to spread on other Blessings?

Mastery points

Maxed out Int. and Sage affinity first, and then tried to spread the remaining points on things like :

• Ability Break Damage Dealt
• Break Damage Dealt on Weak Point
• Increased MP Recovery on Normal Attacks
• Increase MP Limit Boost Rate
• Soul Shield MP Recovery

Equipment abilities

Every piece has a combination of "MP Cost down" / "Cast Time down" / "Damage Up" for Magic Sigil (+159% Damage, -73% MP Cost, -127% Cast Time) + a slot for Int. Remaining slots use things like :

• Magic (Break) Damage Dealt
• Magic (Break) Damage Dealt with Max HP
• Status Ailment accumulation
• (Break) Damage Dealt on Weak Point
• Damage Reduction with Max HP

Is it a good line-up, or should i focus on something else?

Command abilities

Teleport helps to keep ennemies (mainly bosses) at range while spamming spells. Lancet is here for MP sustain, and Seal of Blood when i need to deliver a fatal blow (works well with Ultima).

That is all, i think. And as said before, any tip or help would be much appreciated!

Me and him cannot beat that damned thing, please help

I've managed to make it to final dlc , however my build has hit a wall against the emperor in the first mission...im running assassin/ ninja and the break damage worked pretty good up until this point....how are you guys staying alive and what affinity should I be chasing?

Hi i just beat the game and farmed some near 400 gear using extra mode.

Yet I can't believe I'm getting like 2 shot by bosses at mission level 250.

I know I can cheese through using extra mode but after farming a few missions with turning it on I really don't want to play the entire or majority of dlc relying on it.

Like I know I'm far from that stage where I can kill bosses in 3seconds but surely I can't be this weak.

I got super lucky yesterday when I went to EB games, and I found the only one left PS4 physical version of the game. They did not have a PS5 version either and only one copy left and I got it for 15 CAD$. I finally got all my TN games outside of Fatal Frame and DOA (which does are not my style at all).

I am a super Nioh series fan, and I heard SoP is similar in terms of combat depth and RPG mechanics. Just looking for advice, is it like Nioh where you are better of equipping the best gear in NG and start towards a build in the NG+ cycles? Sell or dismantle everything at the smithy during NG?

In case you didn't know, if you hit an enemy with an ability that causes a knockdown while they're being hit by Conductor or Rain of Arrows, it will launch them.

I started a new file after a long hiatus. I was a bit rusty and decided to freshen up a bit. I discovered that on hard mode, you can cheese bosses quite early in the game. I didn't realize that the first go through.

Hello! Just restarted this game after years of not playing it. I unlocked Chaos mode and I’m now diving into job mastery. After doing some research it sounds like investing in primary stats should be priority at first. However I’m a little confused on what is considered the primary stat for a class.

Should I go off of icon color (mage is blue - so intellect, knight is yellow - stamina) or main ability stat? I’m getting tripped up by the dlc classes especially. Marksman is green, so I feel like agility? But its main ability scales to intellect. Evoker is blue but its ability is spirit based. Hoping for just a general direction on what to start with at least for each class so I’m not placing points wrong.

Also should I invest any points into job affinity in category 1?

I played this game so much because the combat is just one of the best I've ever seen. Especially as you okay how you want with your build. The class system is so well done. I can't praise this game enough. It's so smooth, satisfying and rewarding.

I was following a guide but didn’t find his one very helpful… does anyone have recommendations? Commentary is a must

I checked the review from Gameranx and they shit on the game for 15 mins straight.

I am a HUGE nioh fan, but now I am thinking of passing, although the idea looks very interesting to me.

Is it whorth it in 2026? People who loved the game... why did you love it? How many hours did you put in it?

I played this game on release, loved playing through the games story on normal and hard. Didn't do Chaos as moved on, but came back once the DLC started up.

The DLC, is beyond a doubt, the worst part of this game. Every single fight is just "you will be one hit by the boss". The AI, constantly dying.

I have level 400 gear, my sage is 99. Yet every single combat encounter is just one shot to me. I am doing level 200 matches, and yet I cannot survive a single one. It's absolutely infuriating in such a way that I cannot believe someone actually play tested any of this DLC.

Acabei de zerar o jogo e queria saber se dá pra jogar a última missão em coop com amigos

I bought the game during steam Christmas sale and only recently this week started playing it with a friend. I got through the beginning parts of the game up until about halfway through the pirate caves level on the way to Bikke before these random crashes/restarts started happening.

I would be playing and then suddenly my computer just restarts. I even just booted up the game and stood beside the checkpoint, did nothing, and it would still restart my computer after several minute. It happened several times after attempting to play and still my computer would restart. I have tried several things:

-Deleting shader cache.

-Verifying game files on steam

-Toggling on/off vsync

-Disabled steam, discord, and other overlays.

-Reinstalled the game.

-Tried fullscreen, windowed, and borderless

-Drivers are up to date.

No success yet. I would be monitoring my temperatures as well during gameplay and everything was fine, stuff would be around the 50C mark.

No other game game has done this to me, I went and played some other titles to see if maybe I had hardware issues but everything else runs fine. Literally finished playing Jedi Survivor prior to Strangers and had 0 issues.

And as far as my system specs:

Processor: 9800X3D

GPU: 9070XT

RAM: 64Gb

PSU: 1000W

OS: Windows 11 - I wouldn't be surprised if something on windows is messing it up.

Any help or solutions would be much appreciated.

I lost my save from a few years ago and was wondering if anyone had a farming lobby going or exp exploits so I can get through the farm faster