Tips for Boosting Your Skill Level in Nioh 3
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In Nioh 3, there are various ways to boost your power, from enhancing your stats to unlocking skills, acquiring new gear, and earning titles. One of the simplest methods is utilizing slottable skills found in chests or earned through different activities. However, keep in mind that you can only activate a limited number before hitting your skill capacity.
Skills are categorized into three types—general, samurai, and ninja—and each type can be leveled up independently. Fortunately, increasing your skill capacity isn’t overly complicated, though the enhancements are generally small and gradual.
You can boost your skill capacity in Nioh 3 by discovering texts or memorandums through trades with Sudama, achieving exploration milestones in each area, and receiving rewards from activities like valuable chests. Each text increases its corresponding skill capacity by one, while you’ll need four memorandums of the same type to gain an additional point.
Here are some universal, samurai, and ninja texts you can find early in the game:
|
Type |
Location |
|---|---|
|
Warrior’s Text |
In a small chest in the friendly camp just north of Hamamatsu Gate in the northwest of the Tenryu River. |
|
Warrior’s Text |
Inside the large chest in the locked house in the northeast of Hamamatsu, in the far north of Hamamatsu Town. |
|
Samurai’s Text |
In the Hamamatsu Castle Crucible, near a lava river. You’ll eventually walk out onto some rooftops, where you can see a one-legged cyclops with a hammer in the distance. Straight ahead, you can activate a ladder shortcut to an earlier area, but there’s also a broken roof acting as a ramp, with three red spirits that’ll drop the text when killed. |
|
Samurai’s Text |
In a red chest in the cave wall on your right on the way to the hot spring in the far south of Tokaido, by the Cape Cavern shrine. |
|
Samurai’s Text |
In a house on the hill leading east from the Silver Grass Meadow shrine in southern Futamata Road. |
|
Samurai’s Text |
In the first building on your right when you enter Futamata Castle during the Mirage Fortress mission. |
|
Ninja’s Text |
In a small chest near the pond in the centre of Tokaido (you’ll be led past this with the nearby Scampuss). |
|
Ninja’s Text |
In a large chest inside a locked room in a house near the Hamamatsu Castle Town Clan Estate shrine, accessed via the rooftops by the Rokurokubi miniboss. |
|
Ninja’s Text |
On a corpse at the top of the ravine you’ll enter not far into Futamata Castle, where a boulder will roll down at you. |
You can obtain universal, samurai, and ninja memorandums by reaching the final exploration milestone in each region. For instance, achieving exploration level 4/4 in the initial areas of Tenryu River, Tokaido, and Hamamatsu will reward you with a Ninja’s Memorandum, Samurai’s Memorandum, and Warrior’s Memorandum, respectively. To level up your exploration, complete side activities in these regions, such as Lesser Crucibles and Kodama.
Additionally, you can purchase four of each type of memorandum from Sudama merchants, like the one near the Hamamatsu Castle Crucible or the one located in the Eternal Rift. Each memorandum costs two Yokai Teardrops, which you can collect by defeating Kappa, the loot goblin-like enemies with glowing crystal shells on their backs.
