You may be the greatest assassin or samurai in these lands, but in order to vanquish your enemies, you still need the right tools for the job.Assassin’s Creed Shadowsoffers you a variety of gear that, for the most part, isn’t super relevant. you may just upgrade the one you like the most, and it’ll be useful from level one to 60.
However, your weapons and armor may have engravings, and you may also add those to them. These engravings can make you hit harder, break armor, assassinate better, heal more, and other options, and unlike the base stats, these can change the game significantly. Thus, here are some recommendations for you.
7Assassination Engravings
Many Options Here
Enemies' health bars are divided into segments, and your assassination skills determine how many of these segments you can take away when assassinating someone. While you can upgrade how many segments you can take away by using your mastery points, you can stack a few extra health segments with engravings.
You have a generic engraving that takes an extra health segment with any type of assassination. Still, there are engravings for specific types of assassinations, such as double, air, assassinations while running, assassinations while on the ground, at night, hidden in the shadows, and even through your kunai. They can all stack with each other and with your mastery skills.
6Healing Engravings
Take Care Of Yourself
Rations are what you use to heal yourself. There’s one problem, though; their healing is weak, to the point where you may need to use a couple of rations after a single hit. So, an engraving that increases the healing you get from rations by 20 percent is a nice bonus.
There are other engravings that heal you in small percentages when specific actions are performed. You can get healing by hitting enemies, killing them, dodging attacks, landing critical hits, or parrying attacks as well. See which of these things you do more often and let them heal you in battle.
Healing engravings are a fun mix with a special engraving Yasuke has that increases his damage by 75 percent at the cost of making his maximum health ridiculously low.
5Armor Damage
Lots Of Folks Wear Armor These Days
To hit people’s health bar, you have to break their armor first. Similar to assassination engravings, you have a generic engraving that increases the damage you deal on armor by 20 percent, but there are other engravings that boost your damage under specific circumstances.
You have engravings that increase the damage based on consecutive hits, by hitting multiple people with the same attack (good for a kusarigama), or by how much adrenaline you have. If you stack some of these throughout your gear, you can easily break armor with one or two hits.
4Decrease Cooldown From Ally Abilities
Let Them Help You More Often
Speaking of allies,some of them have powerful abilities,from helping with your assassinations to joining in combat. However, there’s a nasty cooldown after summoning them, which is annoying, to say the least.
Luckily, there’s an engraving that decreases the cooldown by a third, which might not sound much, but it is the best you’ll get with engravings. Still, being able to summon them faster is worth an engraving.
3Parry Unblockable Attacks
A Yasuke Engraving
Yasuke is trained for combat,and to be fair, he’s a beast on the battlefield without any engravings already. But there’s nothing stopping you from making your enemies' lives worse, so why not give yourself the ability to parry every attack?
Thanks to this one, you don’t need to worry about avoiding attacks; instead, you’re able to plant yourself like a tree and prevent enemies from touching you. Add an engraving that damages enemies whenever you parry them, and they’ll stack up nicely, too.
2Naoe’s Weapons
Fight Like A Shinobi
There are many engravings available for the weapons in the game, so we’re going to focus on our main recommendations for each. Starting with the assassin Naoe, she has at her disposal a katana, a tanto, and a kusarigama.
Naoe also has a fun engraving where each attack has a three percent chance of taking a health segment. Three percent sounds like little, but because she causes little damage per hit, Naoe hits her enemies a lot of times, boosting the chance of triggering this engraving significantly.
1Yasuke’s Weapons
Fight Like A Samurai
Yasuke packs a bit more heat compared to Naoe: You can use katanas, naginatas, kanabos, teppos, or bows - though you can only carry two weapons at a time. Still, all of these can be significantly improved.
Don’t forget, each gear can only have two engravings at a time, so you’ll have to choose which best suit your playstyle.
