kodachi of trials - Blade: Ku

[NEVESBUS]

hello,

just looking for some direction on this ws quest. Who is the NPC to talk to for the quest and trial weapon, and what is the WSNM to fight to learn it? any help/tutorial would be much appreciated. thanks.

all i know so far is that i need to sc with the trial weapon until latent effect is gone, then go fight a nm to learn blade: ku.

i've searched the forum but no luck ; ;

[Grymbok]

Here's info on it, had this on my favorites, was posted by Stanislav

Ninja - Blade: Ku
Start NPC - Ryoma
NPC Location - Norg
NM Type - Crab
NM Location - Labryinth of Onzozo (I-6)

Crab NM is very very easy. I did it with my static PT and everyone laughed at how easy it was. Best way to get rid of the latent effect is just do a 60 lvl 3 darks *make sure you end em * and the effect should be gone. Take it back to Ryoma he says good job, now kill a crab and you can have this WS, beat it, go back and boom, Blade Ku

[Rekiem]

How good is the WS? I've seen alot of lv75 NIN using Blade: Jin instead of Ku for solo'ing purpose. I suppose its not has good?

[Kirk]

No its not that powerful. About the same as Blade: Ten or maybe a bit better. But Blade: Ku definately looks cool! ^^

Another tip. The Latent effect will not dissapear from the weapon itself. You have to watch your elemental defense stats to see if the plusses it adds are gone.

Also yes the crab is very easy, just a lotta hps. I did it with a 75 blm and 75 wtm helping at lvl 73. All you need is a healer really. But the fight will go much quicker with help.

Speaking of weapon skills has anyone seen a post of the weapon skill you get from the Dynamis Katana?

Its called Blade: Metsu or something like that. If you go on mystery tour you can follow the life draining quests it take to get it.

[Kiyosuki]

The final version of the Relic Blade is "Kikoku"
I have to add that its the ONLY Katana that breaks the DMG 40 limit that SE seems so timid on letting any Ninja weapon break.
Its Damage is 42, AND to boot its delay is a mere 210, which is pretty unbelievable for a Ninja weapon.. Combine Kikoku with Fudo or Shiranui, or Mamushito along with your DWIV and respective haste upgrades from spell or equip and you're pretty much a dual wielding nightmare right there.

On top of its insane stats, and giving you Blade Metsu, Kikoku also has Additional Effectaralyze.

I have a video on what Blade Metsu looks like. Think of a miniature version of Yuffie's "Death of the Living" Limit Break, and turned into a Sword skill and you have Metsu sort of. It basically looks like you slash the mob 4 times and a demi looking black sphere appears each time. Then you do the final 5 strike, and all 4 of the little dark sphere's on the mob explodes with a loud boom. Its pretty devastating looking. I hear its the most powerful Ninja WS currently available, but thats probably not saying much..

Its unfortunate you can only use it when equipping the Kikoku, at level 75.

But then thats probably why the WS is more powerful than the others.

God I want to use some of this equipment, but I guess I'll have to be happy with my puny Yoto's and Muketsu's for now. :sweat:

But the blade's more than enough to want to get just for those stats..

Yeah you get it at lvl 75, but surely there's more than just leveling for this thing to be used.

[Kirk]

So where is the video man??!?!? ><

[Kiyosuki]

http://cgi.f18.aaacafe.ne.jp/~ecco/ws2/syoujya.exe

Thats the direct Link to the Blade: Metsu WS. The link is kind of old so I'm not sure if it still works, I hope it does, give it a shot.

They seem like .exe files, but its actually some bizzare, rarely used form of zip file, it can be opened with WinRAR I think. When you do open it, you'll get a strange window with a big white screen full of jibberish (Depending on if your computer can read Japanese, but mine can and it still comes out like jibberish) a pull down menu (usually showing the file you downloaded the .exe to), a button next to that, and two buttons on the bottom, none of which are in intelligable language.

The button next to the pull down menu is I think a "Browse" button, to choose a file to open the zip to, I think. I just opened it to the default file it had, I didn't want to mess with it too much.

And of the two bottom buttons, the right one is "cancel", and the left one is to actually unzip the file to the folder shown.

I hope you can get it.

Edit: UHg, I just tested the link anyways (I have to leave soon you see) and it doesn't work, the guy's whole site's dissapeared.

These files were widely seen a few months back when Dynamis was first implemented. I have an unfortunatly slow connection at the moment but I guess I could try to upload it in the video's forum, but they've been posted there for some time I think. Check it out first, I'll come back by the end of the day and see if there's anything I can do.

[Cade]

http://home.comcast.net/~azuretwilight1/rws_kunai.avi

[Kirk]

Thanks Cade!

Hmmm for the amount of stuff you gotta do to get it I was expecting a bit more. Damage wise and appearance wise too. Kinda looks like he's popping baloons!

After Blade: Ku I guess I was expecting something a little more Samurai Showdown-ish

Cool but i dont know about spending a lifetime in dynamis to get it.

[Kiyosuki]

Great job Cade.

Its only ok looking, but so are most of the Dynamis WS's. They all could of been a whole lot better appearance wise, but I'm pretty sure XI isn't SE's biggest concern at the moment. :sweat:

Samurai Spirits esque huh? I'd love to see a Hanzo esque move where you do a tumble roll with your blade, ending with a gigantic Firaga sized explosion, with a big black Kanji symbol in the middle for a sec.

Or something similar to Blade:Ten, but you slip your blade under the enemy kind of like Shark Bite at first, but then you do a massive crescent shaped slash, but when you do an image stays behind in the same couching position as the other flips back, showing two for the moment. Then the first one that slashed fades and at the same time the other one does the same move, but does the exact same thing as before with a double, so it looks like clones are coming out of you slashing and fading, until you do the final one that has a big white cut scar like final cut style. The double thing would happen about 3 times, so it'd be a 4 hit. It'd go by very quick.

Yes, that'd be much nicer looking than Metsu.

Well..you never know, I mean, the level cap is probably going to be raised to 80 (As people have discovered hidden codes for equipment that hasn't been put in yet, because its all 75+) I'm not kidding, check Allakazham's weapon lists, like Muramasa in the GKT section.

I wonder if its true..

[Kirk]

LVL 80??? 0.O

I fear this. The game will go nuts I think!

[LionhartPLD]

there is nothing to indicate that the level cap will ever be raised to 80. the recent implementation of the merit point system is used to make characters stronger without raising the cap. a LV80 Cap would severely unbalance the game (sub RDM for convert..)

[NEVESBUS]

thanks for all the info guys, very helpful

Best way to get rid of the latent effect is just do a 60 lvl 3 darks *make sure you end em * and the effect should be gone.

so starting darkness sc's will not give me 5pts ? :mad:

[Kiyosuki]

Well I probably shouldn't jump to conclusions yet. The items may be appearing around, but it could mean a lot of things.

All I know, is if the game becomes 80/40, then the dev's are gonna have to give every job something new 60+ But thats all off topic.

[Madden]

Lots of weapons and armor was put in with wrong lvl on them just to be ready in game.