Ghost of Tsushima: Legends

In the various game modes (Story, Survival, Rivals, Trials, Raid) you will come across specific modifiers that alter the gameplay. These may augment enemy attacks, turn bodies into explosives, or make enemies immune to elements.

Below, you will see these Modifiers listed (alphabetically) and where they appear in various game modes.

MODIFIER	WHERE TO FIND	DESCRIPTION
Barbed Arrows	Survival	Ranged damage sources (arrows, bombs, darts) do +20% more damage – additive with other modifiers/gear – applicable to Ghosts, Enemies, Hwacha
Deadly Melee	Story	Melee damage sources (katana) do +20% more damage – additive with other modifiers/gear – applicable to Ghosts, Enemies
Dull Katanas	Story	Enemies can only be reduced to ‘near death’ with katana (require another damage source to be killed) Kills Assassinations (Critical/Stealth attacks), Bombs (Flash, BP, Concussion, Sticky), Arrows (Regular, Fire, Piercing), Blowdart (Poison, Weaken, Hallucination), Intimidating Counter AOE, Spirit Pull, Explosive Blade, Staggering Arrow, Explosive Arrow, Kunai, Dirt Throw, Caltrop, Burning Blade proc, WOTF, Does NOT kill Katana Strikes, Heavenly Strike (all), counter strike (after Perfect Parry), Hachiman’s Fury (Samurai Ult), Shadow Strike (Assassin Ult) no melee resolve gain on strike on reduced enemies
Eagle Shaman Chant	Survival, Rivals	Eagle Shaman chants and buffs other enemies Enemy Damage: +100% to regular damage Enemy HP: 50% reduced damage from incoming attacks Upgrades regular attacks to the next level (ie regular -> blue-glint, blue-glint->red-glint); can make some attacks tougher to dodge or parry, make enemies more unpredictable Other names: Chanter, Singer, Eagle Spearman
Empowered Foes	Survival	Empowered Foes do 13-16% more Damage Tengu Crows, Oni Archer arrows, etc seem to have a much smaller dmg increase per strike Charge attacks can one-shot due to the ability to get hit multiple times by the charge Enemy melee/ranged damage only (Hwacha/status damage seems to be the same)
Eruption	Survival, Raid	Bodies explode upon death, doing AOE damage – Body ‘explodes;: ~6.5s after ‘kill’ strike – Range of explosion: Smoke Bomb Radius – Damage per Explosion: 50 hp (2 explosions kill you with Base hp)
Fighting Blind	Survival, Rivals	NEEDS TESTING/INFO (how long, range of blinding, etc)
Gyozen’s Curse – Tethered	Story	Ghosts take HP damage when they are too far away from each other Indicated by White (normal distance), Yellow (getting far apart), and Red (taking damage) Can be ‘downed’ by the curse itself (ie other teammate takes damage, you go ‘down’) While tethered, one person may go through the Torii Gate while the other is ‘downed’ and it will auto-revive exception to auto-revive is 5s to die (likely due to how long it takes for the transition for Torii gate) Video proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vXV7IU-bq4
Gyozen’s Curse – Reduced HP	Story	NEEDS TESTING/INFO: Reduces HP by XXX
Immunity	Survival	Negates all Status Damage & Status Duration* *Staggering Arrow DOES work (staggers for 6s), benefits from Status Duration too Initial Damage of an attack still counts (ie Damage from a Bomb or Explosive Arrow impact), but there is no DoT Flash Bomb has no effect on enemies (no temp-stun); still builds resolve Nightshade no longer adds Damage to poison (darts, blade, etc) WOTF adds 0 extra dmg to melee (will still be able to attack through blocking/shielded enemies) Fire Arrows need to be used for the ‘killing blow’ in order to count for the “Kill with Fire” objective in Nightmare Survival Sarugami’s Glare does NOT blind enemies
Incapacitated	Survival, Rivals	Increases Class Ability Cooldown by +50% Explosive Arrow (55s Base CD) -> 82.5s CD EXAMPLE (with CD%s) 1. Hunter with Explosive Arrow (55s Base CD) 2. During Incapacitated Week (+50% longer CD) 3. Uses Hunter Unleashed Technique (-15% shorter CD) Final CD = 55s + [55s x (+50% – 15%)] Final CD = 55s + [55s x (+35%)] Final CD = 55s + [19.25s] Final CD = 74.25s
Reduced Healing	Survival, Rivals	Reduces healing from all sources by 50% – Combat Regen (All Classes), Blessed Strike (Samurai), Spirit Pull +1 (Samurai) are not affected as badly due to how they apply healing In-depth ‘Healing’ Data
Shared Wounds	Story, Rivals	When one player takes incoming damage, the other player also receives damage (equal damage)
Slowed Revives	Survival, Rivals	Increases Revive Time of a downed player by +50%
Tool Shortage	Survival, Rivals	Increases Ghost Weapon Cooldown by +50% Smoke bomb (120s Base CD) -> 180s CD EXAMPLE (with CD%s) 1. Ghost with Smoke Bomb (120s Base CD) 2. During Tool Shortage Week (+50% longer CD) 3. Smoke Bomb has 15% CD Reduction (-15% shorter CD) Final CD = 120s + [120s x (+50% – 15%)] Final CD = 120s + [120s x (+35%)] Final CD = 120s + [42s] Final CD = 162s
Toxic Clouds	Survival, Story	Bodies explode upon death, creating a Toxic Cloud AOE – Time from Enemy Death -> cloud: 6.5s – Range of Cloud: Smoke Bomb radius – Duration of Cloud: ?????? – Duration of Poison: 15s – poison dmg occurs at 6s & 14s – Poison Damage: 11hp/vomit (22hp total) – Impact to Run/Walk speed: ~50% reduced movement
Wildfire	Survival, Story	Bodies ignite upon death, doing Fire AOE damage – Time from Enemy Death -> Burn: 3s – Range of Fire: smaller than smoke bomb – Duration of Burn (if Ignited): 12s – Damage of Fire (Max Total): 50 hp – Dmg over time: 4.2 hp/s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmcmqpbn7_A *roll to remove fire from self (stop burn damage)