Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is finally out and players have access to a variety of different weapons they can utilize. Each weapon has its own pros and cons – benefiting a particular playstyle. Currently, it seems like the Longsword is a popular choice among players just starting out with the game. But, it can be a bit confusing to figure out how to optimize your build – since there are so many skills, weapons, armors and other aspects to consider. In this guide, we’ll be showing you the best early and mid game Demon Samurai build utilizing the Longsword. Without further delay, let’s get into it!
Best Early & Mid Game Demon Samurai Build
The Longsword is a fairly beginner friendly weapon that offers everything in Wuchang Fallen Feathers. It offers good damage, solid stance breaking and great Skyborn Might generation – helping you spam your abilities and spells.
You can also incorporate weapon switching – allowing you to unleash powerful combos like fire tornadoes and much more. The Demon aspect of the build will also be used a lot to enhance the skills.
If you’re just starting out, you might want to check out our ultimate beginner’s guide as well. It explains many of the mechanics and systems we’ll be discussing for the build.
Skill Point Distribution
We’ll be going over a breakdown of all the skills we recommend spending your starting points on for the demon samurai build in Wuchang Fallen Feathers. Keep in mind that you will need to unlock all the skills up to the recommended skill to actually unlock them.
Don’t worry though as the extra skills you get in each branch will help. With that said, here are all the skills:
- Sword Saint (passive)
- Available from the start
- Allows you to generate one stack of Skyborn Might on your second light combo attack
- Enables you to use powerful abilities more often
- Sword Counter – Both Variants
- Alongside perfect dodges, you also have another avenue to interrupt enemy attacks via Deflects
- We recommend getting both variants immediately as well
- Variant I pushes the enemy back even further and enables extra vulnerability against them
- Variant II allows you to follow up with another attack that helps build extra stagger and deal more damage
- Skyborn Call I
- Increases the max stacks of Skyborn Might by two – bringing it to a total of 3
- Enables you to do more powerful abilities and spells
- Manna Potency & Manna Capacity
- Manna Potency increases the health you gain from one charge
- Manna Capacity increases the number of charges
- Your goal should be to upgrade these skills to the max
- Of course, this will depend on the number of Lost Remains and Forgotten Remembrances you find
- Sword Savant
- The third attack of a Longsword light attack combo gains Clash
- When you clash your weapon with the enemy, you will get massive damage mitigation
- Will help you with survivability
- Vitality & Endurance
- You’ll find different Vitality and Endurance nodes in different skill trees
- Helps increase maximum HP and improves stamina respectively
- Use these to improve survivability and overall experience
- Sword Master
- The fifth attack of a Longsword light attack combo grants two stacks of Skyborn Might if it strikes an enemy
- Allows you to deal special attacks and abilities even more often
- Conversion
- Helps boost weapon switching while taking advantage of the Demon aspect of the build
- Above 50% Madness, makes weapon switch attacks more potent
- This effect is further enhanced at above 90% Madness
- If you have enough Skyborn Might, you will instantly activate the skill of the newly equipped weapon
- Steel Resolve
- While above 50% Madness, you gain 1 stack of Skyborn Might upon Deflecting
- Rapid Temperance
- While above 50% Madness, Temperance accelerates its effects on your weapon, enhancing them faster than normal
- Bone Needle – all skill nodes
- Enables you access to all the other elements besides fire that you get from an early boss
- You can go for whichever one you need depending on the enemy’s weaknesses
- We recommend the Poise Break one as it synergizes best with the weapon we’ll be using
- Alteration & Temper
- Increase the number of Temperance charges so you can activate abilities more often
- At the early stage, +3 is more than enough
- Strong Blade
- Helps increase Longsword Master by +1
- Enables you to increase your weapon damage
- Windforce (passive)
- Consume 1 stack of Skyborn Might to quickly strike with charged heavy Longsword attacks
- Great to use on enemy and boss backs to stagger them opening up opportunities to Obliterate
These skill points should give you an idea of what to focus on with this build when you start progressing towards the late game.
Weapons Breakdown
There is a primary and an off hand weapon that you will be utilizing for this Demon Samurai build. So, weapon switch attacks will involve you going back and forth between them.
You might want to get all these weapons upgraded to the max for maximum damage. In that case, check out our how to get max weapon upgrade guide.
Primary Weapon – Lashing Whip (Location)
The primary weapon you’ll be utilizing is the Lashing Whip longsword. It functions as both a sword and a whip – enabling it to extend much further than another melee weapon in Wuchang Fallen Feathers.
On top of that, it has very good scaling in Strength and Agility. Additionally, you get access to the Whip Dance skill that gives you extra AoE.
It has one of the best passives which makes the Poise Break temperance so much more effective. Unlike other status effects, you can use this against almost every enemy in the game.
This means you’ll be able to stagger enemies much easily.
To get your hands on the Lashing Whip, make your way to the Mercury Workshop shrine found at Worship’s Rise. It can be found right below the Shu Sanctum.
Once you defeat the priest in the area, you can reach this location and go down the circular path. Deal with the gnome enemies in the area and you’ll come across a wooden platform.
The Lashing Whip can be picked up from there.
Offhand Weapon – Steampowered Spear (Location)
For the offhand weapon, we’ll be going with the Steampowered Spear for the Demon Samurai build in Wuchang Fallen Feathers. This is an absolute powerhouse choice because of the Steam Chain skill – that allows you to unleash sweeping attacks.
However, if you have two points of Skyborn Might, you’ll be able to cast a much stronger version. This allows you to perform a spin damage attack, unleash a fire tornado and also heal your charcter significantly.
Additionally, if you have two stacks of Skyborn Might when using the switch attack, you can immediately deal a ton of extra damage once the spear is equipped. If you have two more, you can switch back to the Longsword and have an even more powerful combo.
You can find this weapon by purchasing it off the Panda vendor. He can be found in different locations throughout the game – including one near the Shu Sanctum where we found the previous weapon.
Once here, use Bamboo Shoots you have acquired to exchange them for the spear. It should be available early on to obtain.
Pendants & Spells
Here is a breakdown of all the pendants we recommend getting for the Demon Samurai build, to help plus up some holes:
- Twin Infact Pendant
- Increases stamina recovery speed
- Can be found on a corpse at the end of the bridge under the Shu Sanctum
- Lifesteal Pendant
- Recover health upon defeating enemies
- Defeat the Reborn Treant and bring the boss item back to Tao Qing to unlock it for purchase
Besides that, you can consider Pendants to increase Stab damage or boost defenses. But be sure to prioritize these pendants.
For spells, you can honestly go with whichever one you prefer. Just make sure to get Temperance, as it is the most important spell that our Demon Samurai build is built around.
It will allow you to Poise Break and also use elemental needles so you can exploit enemy weaknesses.
Some other spells we recommend considering are Divine Might and Divine Ward. They can be used to increase your damage or reduce the damage you receive respectably.
Armors & Socket Benediction
As for armor, you can choose one depending on what you need. If you’re fighting a tough enemy and you need physical damage, choose an armor that boosts it. For example, the Centipede and Ming armor set are really good options early.
Similarly, if you need status ailment resistance, you should go for the Maid or preorder bonus armors. You should be able to find a bunch of these at Merchants.
For Socket Benedictions that you want early on for this Demon Samurai build, here are the ones we suggest:
- Blocking Clash
- Increases the potency of blocks and clashes
- Can be found inside a chest in a shack near the shortcut to the Revenant Temple (close to Shu Sanctum)
- Skyborn Vigor
- Increases stamina recovery speed during Skyborn Might
- Purchase from Wu Gang
- Counter Force
- Increase the potency of counter moves
- Inside a chest in one of the houses near Shu Sanctum
Final Advice
Besides the Skyborn Might cost of Steam Chain, this build really doesn’t have any glaring downsides. And even that is easy to generate. Your goal should be to go into fights, perform a two hit combo to generate your Skyborn Might stack. At this point, go can perform a perfect dodge or block to get the second one. You can then go for a Switch Attack that automatically procs your Steam Chain skill while even triggering Temperance. In essence, Temperance and Poise Break are going to be the main ways of doing damage.
With that said, that’s all for the best early and mid game demon samurai build. Be sure to check it out as it should be able to suit most players, since its a safe option!
