Overview
How to maximize the damage of burning oil jars, and have lots of fun in co-op.
Intro
Read Before Attempting
You will need to be in the dream of the wise or higher for this build to work. In addition, it will require a bit of farming.
Build Contents
This build centers around maximizing the damage of fire.
1. ARMOR/WEAPONS
Doesn’t matter, just get the 6 piece effect of the Grace of Kagutsuchi, which is a grace found only in way of the wise and higher. This will confer a bonus of fire damage +30%.
Note it is helpful to get as much +fire damage% on armor/weapons/accessories/ scrolls as possible, but the grace is required. A perfect situation would be armor with +fire damage%, as well as the grace, but that isn’t usually possible without hours of grinding.
You can also get another +15% fire damage from the brilliant stratagem’s set. It is possible to have the effects of this set, and the grace for a total of +45% fire damage. (Credit to MCX)
You will definitely need the yasakani magatama in order to get the effects of the grace, and the set bonus at the same time.
2. GUARDIAN SPIRIT
Next your guardian spirit will be nine tails for a sweet fire damage +15%
3. SOUL CORES
Your soul cores should include Koroka, for a variable +fire damage%. Use any other soul cores that give +fire damage%.
4. CLAN
Join the Takeda clan for another +10% fire damage. If you manage to become the warrior chief of this clan, that bonus will become a higher +19% fire damage.
5. SKILLS:
You need the onmyo skills, firestop talisman, as well as fire resistance (all three ranks). Simply put, without using this talisman, your own fire will kill you. Be sure NOT to get firebreak decree, as this will put the effects of the firestop talisman on teammates, which will ruin your damage.
The ninjutsu mystic art, concealment, may or may not affect the damage, but this will require more testing.
Additionally, there is a ninjutsu skill that increases recurrent damage dealt (the scorched effect caused by fire). This seems to apply to burning oil jars.
The ninjustsu skill levitation scroll may allow you to avoid the damage of your jars entirely. (Credit to MCX)
ITEMS
Your main arguably, only weapon will be a burning oil jar. They cost around 200 glory at the hidden teahouse. You can also use yokai water pots, and yokai incense, or even mud jars. But the only damage dealer here is burning oil jars.
Note the mud jar can inflict friendlies with the terrible stench debuff, which lowers the effect of elixirs, and makes you pause for 1-2 seconds upon an elixir being used.
Strategy
So you’ve made it this far. You likely have a 50%+ increase to your fire damage. What do you do with this kind of power? You kill hosts with it of course!
On dream of the samurai, especially in the beginning areas, I have found just one oil jar, even a glancing hit, will kill the host almost instantly.
On difficulties higher than dream of the strong, wait for the host to be low on health, or for them to be trapped into an animation. Opening doors traps you in an animation but burning oil jars inflict zero knockback. I don’t think you can cancel a door opening animation unless you receive knockback.
Another good time is upon spawning in, some gestures take longer than others before you can cancel them, use this opportunity to kill them.
Quick change scrolls are useless against this build. It will not save them from death. Unless the person has, “tenacity: damage over time” on their equipment, they will instantly die upon the quick-change scroll being triggered.
When I run this build, I always change my name, skin, and profile pic to Kashin Koji: [link]
You Pitiful Louse… Prepare for Death
