Nioh

Requests require patronage levels. Patronage is based on how much money you’ve spent at the blacksmith. The more you spend, the more “patronage levels” you earn. While at the blacksmith press (Dialogue) > I have a request for Tome. These requests include reduced prices (e.g. Sell Price Markup, Purchase Price Discount…). You need to exchange patronage levels for requests 60 times! The requests from master blacksmith Muramasa also count (after unlocking him in side mission “The Trail of the Master”).

Always sell the gear you don’t need (at the blacksmith). Do not throw it away and do not trade it for Amrita at shrines. Only disassemble what you must. Request the “Sell Price Markup” as soon as possible.

You need to spend a total of 20 million money!

Up until 30 requests, every 200,000 you spend gives 1 request point. After that it gradually takes more money per request point. Exhausting all dialogue options from Tome and Muramasa also sometimes gives points. For example, when talking to Muramasa he may ask you a question. Make your dialogue choice and check if you earned any request points from it. This doesn’t always happen. Just try it every now and then. If you only have a few requests left this can be a quick booster without having to farm money. Personally, I got 2 x 2 points by talking to Muramasa repeatedly.

It doesn’t matter on what you spend the money. You can straight up purchase expensive items such as The Book of Reincarnation or invest in forging / soul matching etc. All money spent at the blacksmith counts. It would make the most sense to buy expensive swords or armor and then sell it again to get some cash back. Forging equipment and selling it will also give you some cash back, but the forging price is higher than the selling price (and the item quality is randomized).

Please note: buying back equipment that you sold does not count as money spent, so you can’t trick the game by reselling and rebuying.

Meepy - has suggested a farming method that gives over 100,000 money every few minutes: in New Game+ (after beating all main missions) play the mission “Request for Ginchiyo”. Run past all the enemies and pick up the Old Charm. This only takes 1-2 minutes and you receive over 110k money every time. It’s still a long grind and will take a few hours. The Old Charm is always in a different box hidden around the map so you have to check all of them.

Another good strategy with similar earnings is to farm revenants in New Game+. The mission “The Battle of Ohashi Bridge” works best – it takes place on a bridge and people always die right at the start. They all have divine gear. Each piece of divine gear can be sold for over 10,000 money. Higher level revenants give up to 5 item drops, so 50k money for 10 seconds of work. They are very easy to kill with the spearfall skill (using the spear). It knocks them on the ground, now do one finisher and they are dead. To get the most earnings you should keep your character level low. The more levels the revenants are above you the more items they drop. Reset your skill points but don’t spend all of them. Only get to level 75 with the most crucial attributes for maximized weapon damage. The revenants in New Game+ are mostly level 100+. Now they are 25 levels above you and will always drop 4-5 gear pieces for super quick money. If you put 50 points in Body attribute and use the spear they die in 1 spearfall combo. You may want to back up your save game before resetting your level (PS4 Settings > Application Saved Data Management). Farm the bridge until your inventory is full and then sell it all at the blacksmith. You can press at the blacksmith to auto-sell all items at once.

Update: There seems to be an exploit (with patch 1.02) that allows you to get all request points by talking to Tome and Muramasa over and over again. Just spam on their dialogue. Even after exhausting all dialogue options it should give you another 2-4 points every 5-10 minutes (even when it shows the same dialogue every time). If talking to Tome doesn’t give new points, talk to Muramasa instead (and vice versa). If you don’t get any new points after 10 minutes, play one mission, buy and sell some stuff, repeat. This could very well get patched out in the future but it has worked for several people using patch 1.02. Using this trick you may not need to farm money at all.

PixelJared - has suggested to take all unwanted loot and disassemble them. The materials that you get out of this can be sold for more than double the money than if you sold the loot by itself. Thanks for pointing this out!