How to increase your skill capacity in Nioh 3

Nioh 3 skill capacity: A close-up of Tokugawa Ieyasu looking directly ahead, with his Guardian Spirit of his left shoulder.

(Image credit: Team Ninja)

Nioh 3 has a lot of different levers you can use to increase your power, from raising your stats to spending locks on skills, getting new gear, and earning titles. One of the easiest methods is using slottable skills you'll find from chests or get by completing various activities. However, you can only activate so many before you run out of skill capacity.

There are three types of skills—general, samurai, and ninja—and each one is increased separately. Luckily, it's not all too tricky to increase your skill capacity, though the boosts are somewhat small and incremental.

How to increase your skill capacity in Nioh 3

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Nioh 3 skill capacity: A player looking at a Samurai's Text on the ground next to a pool of lava. — (Image credit: Team Ninja)

You can increase your skill capacity in Nioh 3 by finding texts or memorandums through trading with Sudama, reaching exploration milestones in each region, and as rewards for activities, such as valuable chests. Texts increase their respective skill capacity by one, while you'll need four memorandums of the same type before they'll add an extra point.

Here are a few universal, samurai, and ninja texts you can find early on:

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Text locations
Type	Location
Warrior's Text	In a small chest in the friendly camp just north of Hamamatsu Gate in the northwest of the Tenryu River.
Warrior's Text	Inside the large chest in the locked house in the northeast of Hamamatsu, in the far north of Hamamatsu Town.
Samurai's Text	In the Hamamatsu Castle Crucible, near a lava river. You'll eventually walk out onto some rooftops, where you can see a one-legged cyclops with a hammer in the distance. Straight ahead, you can activate a ladder shortcut to an earlier area, but there's also a broken roof acting as a ramp, with three red spirits that'll drop the text when killed.
Samurai's Text	In a red chest in the cave wall on your right on the way to the hot spring in the far south of Tokaido, by the Cape Cavern shrine.
Samurai's Text	In a house on the hill leading east from the Silver Grass Meadow shrine in southern Futamata Road.
Samurai's Text	In the first building on your right when you enter Futamata Castle during the Mirage Fortress mission.
Ninja's Text	In a small chest near the pond in the centre of Tokaido (you'll be led past this with the nearby Scampuss).
Ninja's Text	In a large chest inside a locked room in a house near the Hamamatsu Castle Town Clan Estate shrine, accessed via the rooftops by the Rokurokubi miniboss.
Ninja's Text	On a corpse at the top of the ravine you'll enter not far into Futamata Castle, where a boulder will roll down at you.

You can get universal, samurai, and ninja memorandums by reaching the final exploration milestone in each region. For example, reaching exploration level 4/4 in the three starting areas of Tenryu River, Tokaido, and Hamamatsu gives you a Ninja's Memorandum, Samurai's Memorandum, and Warrior's Memorandum, respectively. To increase your exploration level, just complete side activities in these regions, like Lesser Crucibles and Kodama.

You can also buy four of each type of memorandum from Sudama merchants, such as the one outside the Hamamatsu Castle Crucible, or the one that sets up shop in the Eternal Rift. These cost two Yokai Teardrops each, which you can get from killing Kappa, the loot goblin-type enemies with glowing crystal shells on their backs.

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