Vitality damage is inflicted by landing unguarded attacks, if an attack is guarded, then no vitality damage will be dealt. You start the game with a Vitality level of 10 which maxes out at level 20 and unlike Attack Power, you cannot level Vitality or Posture any higher even on multiple New Game+ playthroughs.

With each upgrade, both Vitality and Posture will increase by 25% of their base values to a maximum hard cap of 1120 for Vitality and 420 for Posture. You can increase your vitality and posture a maximum of 10 times, that’s 40 Prayer Beads in total or 10 Prayer Necklaces. To make a Prayer Necklace you need to obtain four Prayer Beads, which are generally acquired after defeating bosses, but some are also purchased from vendors or simply found in the environment through exploration.Ĭheck out this chart, the starting base value for Vitality is 320 and the starting value for Posture is 120. Your vitality gauge which is increased by donating Prayer Necklaces at any Sculptors Idol. PRAYER BEADS – IN RELATION TO VITALITY AND POSTURE Timestamps are included in the description of the video linked above, so you can link to topics that interest you the most. You can check out the video version of this guide here: VIDEO GUIDEĪmazon (USA) – Sekiro Official Guide Book – Īmazon (UK) – Sekiro Official Guide Book –

In this beginners guide for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, ill be teaching you everything you need to know to get the very best out of the game.

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