Souls in Nioh 3 is essential for leveling and powering up the protagonist. Grinding souls in the early game can greatly decrease combat difficulty versus bosses, and improve your overall gameplay experience.
This guide for Nioh 3 is all about earning souls as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Repsawn Point Reset
The simplest method to amass souls is to simply farm enemies in the vicinity of any given Respawn point. Plot a route that takes you through as many enemies in the surrounding area as possible, in the shortest amount of time, and then fast travel right back to the Respawn point in order to respawn them and do it all over again.
Battle Scroll
Later in the game, certain side missions can be replayed ad nauseum using the Battle Scroll option. Boss completion is not necessary for farming the souls you are seeking, though it does provide a significant bonus if you can do it efficiently.
Instead, simply fast travel to the respawn point at the beginning of the Battle Scroll in order to reset and repeat the run. Sometimes the run can be as short as the nearest mid to high-level enemy you can encounter, rather than a full gauntlet of low-level enemies.
Equipment Bonuses
Be sure to hold on to any equipment that grants you bonuses to souls, so that you can then equip them specifically for souls farming runs. These particular Special Effects are listed as ‘souls Earned’ or ‘Gain souls’ alongside either a percentage or a flat bonus.
Trade
Trade in all of your excess equipment, and receive souls in return. You will be looting a great deal of weapons and armor, most of which will soon be made defunct by something better, so keep trading up and earning souls for your efforts.
Items with higher Familiarity will earn more souls as well.
Be sure to turn on Item Auto Pick-Up to avoid having to mash buttons in order to recover loot, saving both time and effort.
Skill Bonuses
Certain Skills such as ‘Vital Spirit’ confer passive bonuses of extra souls for defeating enemies. This secret skill in particular offers a 4% bonus and can be found inside a chest atop a wooden lookout platform on the edge of the Enemy Base. This base is situated north of the Prospect Hill respawn point. Once acquired, fast travel back to a respawn point to learn it via Skill Management.
Clan Pledge Bonuses
When you finally get the opportunity to make a pledge to a clan, the Toyotomi clan in particular offers a 5% bonus to all souls earned. This will add up massively when grinding specifically for souls on farming runs.
Do Not Hoard souls
Since respec is both free and easy via the Reset button on the Level Up screen, be sure to spend souls as often as possible, rather than hoarding it. This is to avoid losing large amounts of souls in the event of your death. While you can always recover lost souls, it does carry with it the potential risk of dying yet again to whatever killed you the first time.
Those are all the tips and tricks you can use to farm souls and level up quickly in Nioh 3.
