Cursed Charm is a type of cursed gear item in the multiplayer Ghost of Tsushima: Legends. It goes in the Charm gear slot of a player’s build in order to be purified.
How to Get Cursed Charms
Cursed Charms has a randomized chance of dropping with other gear items after finishing Ghost of Tsushima: Legends game modes. Players can increase their chances of getting Cursed Charms by playing higher-difficulty game modes.
Parts of a Cursed Charm
Cursed Charms can be easily spotted in your inventory from their red coloring. Both the icon and gear item description box are red.
Cursed Charms are similar to normal gear but with negative effects. Like normal Charms, they have 4 main components:
Ki Level
The Ki level of Cursed Charm will always be lower than 100 and sometimes even lower than 30.
Pay attention to your overall ki level when equipping Cursed Charms because it may prevent you from playing Nightmare or Legendary difficulty game modes.
Negative Properties
These can make your weapons weaker, make your Ghost have less health, and more.
Curses
Curses are negative perks for your Char and add an extra layer of making your Ghost weaker.
Curses and Purifications are paired meaning that a curse will always have the same Purification Ritual.
Cursed Charm Types
Class Specific
Like regular class-specific charms, these charms can only be equipped by the class in the charm’s name.
Cursed Assassin Charm – Assassin Only
Cursed Hunter Charm – Hunter Only
Cursed Samurai Charm – Samurai Only
Cursed Ronin Charm – Ronin Only
General Charms
Cursed Ranged Charm
Cursed Stealth Charm
Cursed Melee Charm
Cursed Defense Charm
Cursed Utility Charm
Purification Rituals
In order to purify Cursed Charm in Ghost of Tsushima, players must equip the item while completing specific objectives called purification rituals.
Equipping the Cursed Charm will
These objectives usually involve killing enemies under specific circumstances or healing players for a specified amount.
Once a cursed charm is purified, it will be banked as a purified charm for use toward Gear Item Mastery progress. These uses include:
- Bypassing mastery challenges
- Rerolling the 2nd perk of a 120 Ki charm
- Rerolling the previously locked 2 stats and 1st perk of a 120 Ki charm
