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Actually Useful Ninja Blades
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Actually Useful Ninja Blades

Description
Ninja Blades are cool, but utterly useless, since they hit less than a wakizashi, bleed less than one, have only the attack bonus of one but the full defense penalty of a katana.

This little modification tries to make the blade a little more useful by:
- Raising its cutting damage just above wakizashi, but below katana and guardless katana
- Increasing the bleed multiplier to 1.20x
- Lowering the defense debuff to match the wakizashi (-2)
- And maintaining the lower penalty to armor (-20%) to give it an unique twist while keeping the topper as the superior all-around option for trained recruits
There's a full comparison sheet among the images in the mod page for the four weapons in Meitou grade, excluding the topper since it's an entirely different weapon.

For other so-so item tweaks, consider checking my modification on armored rags: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1689127930
14 Comments
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Nemús 21 Aug, 2024 @ 3:30pm 
Its posible to make the ninja-swords usefull for knock?
KommunistiHiiri 13 Aug, 2023 @ 12:44pm 
i wish there was a mod that gave ninja blades the strength of katanas, without the penalty. Love using them.
Pherros 20 Apr, 2022 @ 3:30am 
I've been using this mod since 2019, thanks again
syk 12 Aug, 2019 @ 12:34pm 
why ninja blade and longsvvord have dipherent stats¿¿ they lok the same, they both are straithg blade, single edge and i'm so mad about thahth aaaA
ty for the mod
Brennon  [author] 23 Jun, 2019 @ 8:02am 
@VICTOR
One thing I personally do is carry, for example, a katana and a topper in the primary weapon slot of some characters. That way if you face something you don't use the katana bonus against (like robots or wild animals) you can just switch the topper and katana around to swap your weapon. Looks cool and it's useful in a way
VICTOR 23 Jun, 2019 @ 6:11am 
I was wondering why there's no dual weapon in Kenshi?(why u carry two but use only one?) Anyway I like this mod, it does make ninja blade more useful.:steamhappy:
Brennon  [author] 2 Jun, 2019 @ 11:28am 
@supersepone
A pleasure to help! Small quality of life improvements is the one thing I aim for with these mods
Sepone 1 Jun, 2019 @ 6:58pm 
I like the stats you came up with, Tharkas!
Ninja Blades fit my faction called Nine Ninjas way better than Katanas do.
Subscribed & liked, thanks dude!
Skrymaster 5 Apr, 2019 @ 9:55am 
By design, many weapons, and even entire weapon classes in Kenshi are meant as early game stepping stones, completely irrelevant later in the game. Weapons like staves, clubs, horse choppers, ninja blades, etc. etc. are not gonna be relevant for the whole entirety of a playthrough, only the early bits, where better weapons are unavailable/unusable(looking at heavy weapons here).
The Katana weapon class as a whole is also useful mostly in the early game, as later on you'll be facing skeletons or heavily armored individuals, where other weapons like sabers would have bonuses for.
If there's a good thing about them, they're really good at killing cannibals or unarmored bandits, with high bleed of guardless katanas, those bastards just bleed to death.
Brennon  [author] 29 Mar, 2019 @ 3:47am 
It would be, or so I think. However, like I said in my previous comment, it would be a complicated modification to do when all I'm trying is to make the weapon usable without changing the vanilla experience too sharply. Attack and parry speeds are probably what make a particular weapon the strongest in Kenshi. Besides, all in all the Ninja Blade is about the same size and weight as a normal katana ingame