Crafting and enhancing gear inLike A Dragon: Ishinis the best way to get your hands on some ofJapan’s most prized weapons. Aside from the inherently powerful Attack ratings that many weapons have, the best options use Seals, perks that enhance the abilities of a weapon or armor piece.
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Seals are rare items that are most often acquired by farming rare enemies, like Golden Sneaks. Alternatively, you’re able to hope to get lucky and randomly acquire Seals as drops from the packs of bandits that roam around the map.
10Kiwami Seals
Kiwami Seals function much likethe Kiwami Hammers used to craft the Best-quality gearin that they are extremely limited. You can receive a few of these Seals with a Digital Deluxe Edition, but once you run out of the limited number available to you, the only way to acquire them will be via microtransactions.
While these Seals are not required for leveling up your other Seals, they do guarantee that their potency will be increased by one tier. Each Seal has a bronze, silver, and gold tier with the latter offering the most powerful bonuses, butif you do not have a Kiwami Seal, you must use another copy of the same Seal you want to enhance in order to upgrade its tier.
9Sphere Seal: Fighting Spirit
If you are unsure of what Seals to use and simply want a generalist option, then the Fighting Spirit Seal should prove immensely valuable across a variety of builds. Fighting Spirit willrecharge your Heat by three, five, or seven percent depending on its upgrade tier.
Heat Actions are incredibly powerful special moves that allow you to deal high amounts of damage with the touch of a single button. These QuickTime events (QTEs) will give you the chance to increase the damage even further with a correct button press, so keep on your toes and enjoy this Seal’s versatility.
8Sphere Seal: Crush
The Crush Seal is an excellent option for late-game katana builds, especially if you like to chain your attacks together for more damage.Each of your attacks will have a ten, 12, or 14 percent chance to break your foe’s guard.
Guarding is an exceptionally valuable maneuver for your opponent as it prevents further damage and allows them an opportunity to block, parry, and counter-attack. With Crush, you’ll be able to break through these desperate attempts to stop the bleeding and instead continue to damage the foe’s HP bar.
7Sphere Seal: Fierce Attack
The older cousin of the general Attack Seal, this upgraded version is flatly better as its percentage boosts are higher.Fierce Attack gives your weapon an extra three, six, or nine percent, which is included directly in the Attack ratingnumber displayed on your weapon.
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This Seal will allow you to increase your overall Damage Per Second (DPS) without any stipulations or drawbacks. Despite its simplicity, there’s always a place in your arsenal for higher damage and this Seal will not disappoint.
If you need something to complete your build, then this is a fantastic catch-all option.
6Square Seal: Reversal
Like other Square Seals, Reversal is used exclusively for armor upgrades, rather than weapons. Reversal is the best armor enhancement Seal by far asit can reflect three, four, or five percent of all damage you receive back at the attacker.
Visually, this effect can be hard to spot as your enemy won’t be staggered or react to the damage much, but keep an eye out for small white numbers that pop up when you get hit, as these are the reflected damage values being displayed as they hurt your foe. While you certainly don’t want to run around getting hit, it’s good to know that your mistakes won’t be punished too harshly.
5Sphere Seal: Elements
Perhaps one of the best damage-increasing Seals available, the Elements Seal willincrease your elemental damage by 25, 50, or 75 percent. Elemental weapons like Okanehira and Thunderstop will see incredible returns from this Seal as it will almost double the damage from the given elements.
Using a second Elements Seal will allow you to stack your damage bonuses multiple times, allowing for some incredibly efficient damage-dealing potential. Some weapons like Blade Of The Shogun and Futsu-no-Mitama have the Elements Seal inherently on the katana, so you won’t even need to add one yourself.
However, if you want to lean into elemental damage, then don’t shy away from adding additional Elements Seals to your weapons.
4Gun Seal: Double Shot
When properly built, the Gunman style offers the most efficient DPS fortaking out the hardest bossesas you dish out dozens of bullets of damage at a time. The best way to increase this damage further is by adding theDouble Shot Seal, which gives a ten, 15, or 20 percent chance to fire an additional bullet with each trigger pull.
The incredibly high chance to double your damage with absolutely no change to your playstyle is exceedingly useful and will change the way you view this combat style. you’re able to opt to deal damage via elemental bullets, but that will require a great deal of crafting to maintain your ammo supplies.
Since regular shots don’t require ammo, firing repeatedly with your double bullets will be the most reliable method of attack.
3Sphere Seal: Bewitched
The Bewitched Seal is an incredibly powerful enhancement that provides an essential tool totake on the Arena. Each hit with your weapon will restore your HP based on the damage you inflict on your opponent.The Bewitched Seal can provide four, six, or eight percent HP with every hit.
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Since the effect scales as a portion of your damage, inflicting a ton of pain on your opponent will proportionally reward you with HP in return. This is incredibly valuable in the Arena as you will be forced to fight multiple opponents without any break or way to heal in between, and restoring health while attacking will be your sole means of survival.
2Sphere Seal: Pierce
The Pierce Seal barely misses the pinnacle of Seal supremacy, but still makes a legitimate argument for the most useful Seal in general play.Pierce will inflict increased damage against armored foes to the tune of ten, 15, or 20 percent more than usual.
Given how armor works, this effect essentially negates the challenge of an armored foe entirely. While the silver-colored HP bar on armored enemies was intended to double their effective health, this perk all but negates the effects of armor entirely, essentially making the mechanic irrelevant if you use a Pierce Seal.
However, one other effect provides even more value than this incredible enhancement.
1Sphere Seal: Greed
While every Seal effect can be used to some effect, the most important step in using these powerful Seals is first acquiring them. Seals are exceptionally rare drops, so it will take some time to find them all, not to mention needing to acquire duplicates in order to upgrade a Seal’s tier.
Greed helps with this, bestowing a one, two, or three percent increase in all enemies' item drop rate. While this number seems small, stacking Greed Seals can help make the drops more noticeable.
If you want to farm Golden Sneaks, then it’s highly recommended you defeat them using a weapon with Greed on it. Keep in mind: you must defeat the enemyusing the weapon with Greed on it.If you use Wild Dancer and have a katana with Greed, but not your pistol, then only katana kills will apply the Greed effect.
