Huh, I put off doing Boreas's affinity chart all this time because I thought you had to do cooking for it but you just buy everything.
I feel like an idiot.
I feel like an idiot.
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Xenoblade 2 |OT2| THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME!? DON'T FORGET ME!
- Thread starter TheMoon
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Got PoppiQTPi, so at last everyone has three blades:
Rex: Pyra, Roc, Wulfric (alternate from chapter 7, Gorg)
Nia: Dromarch, Ursula, Vess (she also has Agate but i'm out of Overdrives to move her somewhere better)
Tora: the three Poppis
Morag: Brighid, Electra, Kasandra
Zeke: Pandoria, Kos-Mos, Perun
Rex: Pyra, Roc, Wulfric (alternate from chapter 7, Gorg)
Nia: Dromarch, Ursula, Vess (she also has Agate but i'm out of Overdrives to move her somewhere better)
Tora: the three Poppis
Morag: Brighid, Electra, Kasandra
Zeke: Pandoria, Kos-Mos, Perun
Sorry I saw this late. Luck mod blades are pretty random like any other blades. They can go to any weapon type, any gender type and any element type. Just check the blade stats to see which gives the luck mod. If you're lucky (pun intended) you can get luck blades that have 20% or more modifier.
Also, giving them Urelite chips adds another 50 points to driver's luck so that can help achieve the highest luck possible.
The chip depends on the weapon type. There are 3-4 different chips that give luck to different weapons. Based on the comments I've seen I think every standard weapon type has a chip to give a luck mod.
I haven't checked the others but I'm pretty sure you are correct. I just happened to remember that particular chip since it's the one I commonly use for boosting luck, and I farmed a lot of those.
So I know it's a bad idea to open a lot of cores on Rex because of reasons, but could someone please spoil me and tell me when storyline-wise that happens? Just something vague like "Chapter X, around the middle" would be rad. Using the dude with just Mythra/Wulfric/Roc is kinda boring.
Also is there a good time before post-game to farm for the gacha blades? I'm in early chapter 6 and I've been reading that a lot of those blades are a pain to max out late-game. I did some farming in Chapter 4 but I'm still missing about 10 gacha blades.
Also is there a good time before post-game to farm for the gacha blades? I'm in early chapter 6 and I've been reading that a lot of those blades are a pain to max out late-game. I did some farming in Chapter 4 but I'm still missing about 10 gacha blades.
At a certain point in the game he gains the ability to use every single blade regardless of who it's owned by. So if you have a blade on Nia you want to use on Rex, you can do so.
It's a pretty big spoiler FYI, but I didn't say when or why so it's not as big as it could be.
End of chapter 7.
It doesn't hurt putting a couple more rare blades on him though.
Starting in chapter 6 you can get overclock bangles. So with some fast blade switch aux cores you can start doing rapid driver combos and farming rare cores (and soon legendary) off UMs. Before that you can do it but your blade switches will be a little slow and limit your farming.
He wanted to know when, not why, lol.
I don't think depriving Rex of rare blades is a good idea. If he gets those, jut let it be for now. That's why overdrive protocol is there. At some point in the game anyway, you'll probably build a solid setup on your party members that you'll rarely swap blades unless you are forced to, like filling affinity charts.
Shoutout to the classic crew of Nia and Tora for helping me win in that hard boss fight in chapter 5.
Hah! Got 50,000 in Tiger! Tiger!
Then i stacked the Emergency Guard Poppi Swap mod onto Poppi Alpha, which should stack onto her emergency mode for an insane block rate. This combines with Tora's ability to survive with 1 HP once per battle to really help you get out of a sticky situation if he's in play and has Poppi Alpha deployed.
(the trick is to get through a stage without taking damage and without attacking any enemies. Just get a decent number of ether crystals to pad your score on the way down and you'll clear 50k easy).
I'm going to do as much as i can of everyone's affinity chart without having to do any more crazy quests (sorry Ursula!). Maxing Dromarch and Poppi Alpha is in sight. Perun's done surprisingly well given how crazy it was to get her to the second level of affinity.
Then i stacked the Emergency Guard Poppi Swap mod onto Poppi Alpha, which should stack onto her emergency mode for an insane block rate. This combines with Tora's ability to survive with 1 HP once per battle to really help you get out of a sticky situation if he's in play and has Poppi Alpha deployed.
(the trick is to get through a stage without taking damage and without attacking any enemies. Just get a decent number of ether crystals to pad your score on the way down and you'll clear 50k easy).
I'm going to do as much as i can of everyone's affinity chart without having to do any more crazy quests (sorry Ursula!). Maxing Dromarch and Poppi Alpha is in sight. Perun's done surprisingly well given how crazy it was to get her to the second level of affinity.
Getting all the ether crystals give you a big bonus too. I don't remember what the score was when I got perfect+pacifist but it was well over 100k.
Thanks a lot. Went ahead and made the changes. I was talking about Nim. Fubbed that one up.
Mid-way through Chapter 6.
Rare blades pulled so far, excluding story and quest ones (I swear Nintendo could release a gacha on mobile based on the Blade Pull system and it would make them millions):
- Godfrey (Rex)
- Zenobia (Nia)
- Azami (Morag)
- Boreas (Zeke)
- Newt (Morag)
- Gorg (Nia)
- Agata (Zeke)
- Floren (Rex)
Rare blades pulled so far, excluding story and quest ones (I swear Nintendo could release a gacha on mobile based on the Blade Pull system and it would make them millions):
- Godfrey (Rex)
- Zenobia (Nia)
- Azami (Morag)
- Boreas (Zeke)
- Newt (Morag)
- Gorg (Nia)
- Agata (Zeke)
- Floren (Rex)
Why does leveling Ursula up means that I can barely use Ursula.
Who came up with this genius design.
Who came up with this genius design.
Ursula's quest is awful for Ursula for herself. But it's great for other blades because you can advance affinity charts so fast.
Getting to her third tier isn't that hard. It's anything beyond that that's a pain in the ass.
Huh, how does that work?
But anyway, got her third tier so I don't really care beyond that for now. Still at ch. 4 so I'm guessing I don't actually need to worry about it for now.
Ok where the fuck are the ether mines in Mor Adain?
Edit: Lol found it, just the big pit in the middle of the map. I feel dumb.
Edit: Lol found it, just the big pit in the middle of the map. I feel dumb.
Just beat the game. Is something else supposed to happen after the final chapter fades to black?
I thought I saw people say they were given an option to save the game?
My screen is just black. Pressing buttons does nothing, but I can still get to the switch menu...
What gives?
I thought I saw people say they were given an option to save the game?
My screen is just black. Pressing buttons does nothing, but I can still get to the switch menu...
What gives?
Xenoblade 2X will be a marriage between 2 story telling and X exploration making it the best JRPG created
You're supposed to get the option to save. A star will mark your save state to indicate that you beat the game.
I have bad news new, the game seems to "crash" if you dont touche the control while watching the last cut scene, the game goes in a kinda of "sleep mode" and the game glitches, at the end you will be stuck on that black screen, you will have to go menu, close the software, go back to the game and then Beat the last boss again. then just skip the movie and it will take you straight to the Save Screen for your medal
Managed to get all the rare blades.
Maybe I just got luckier than most, but I felt that the rare blade drop rate wasn't too bad. I spent one day grinding a few rare blades in the middle of the game (around chapter 5), but other than that, I never grinded, just opened the cores I happened to find as I was playing the game normally. The last two rare blades for me (Vale and Electra) took significantly longer to get than the others, though. I only now just got Electra as I'm finishing the final side quests, long after I've beaten the main story.
I wish I could give advice to those of you who are having trouble getting rare blades, but I don't even know. I feel that I'm still in the dark about what really affects your chances. I'll say one thing though: I used 5 boosters every single time I opened a rare or legendary core. I hear stories of people who use stacks of 99 rare/legendary cores with no results. I have to imagine those people are not using boosters. So maybe boosters have a bigger effect than people think? Idk for sure, but it seemed to help me.
Maybe I just got luckier than most, but I felt that the rare blade drop rate wasn't too bad. I spent one day grinding a few rare blades in the middle of the game (around chapter 5), but other than that, I never grinded, just opened the cores I happened to find as I was playing the game normally. The last two rare blades for me (Vale and Electra) took significantly longer to get than the others, though. I only now just got Electra as I'm finishing the final side quests, long after I've beaten the main story.
I wish I could give advice to those of you who are having trouble getting rare blades, but I don't even know. I feel that I'm still in the dark about what really affects your chances. I'll say one thing though: I used 5 boosters every single time I opened a rare or legendary core. I hear stories of people who use stacks of 99 rare/legendary cores with no results. I have to imagine those people are not using boosters. So maybe boosters have a bigger effect than people think? Idk for sure, but it seemed to help me.
I think Zenobia is a better blade for Zeke and Rex - maybe the latter if you don't want to use an overdrive.
What do you guys think is more important, team composition for bursts or break/topple/launch/smash?
Essentially, I've got Pyra/Mythra, Agate and Roc on Rex, which allows me to control the combo myself (just about).
But I reckon I could be getting a lot more damage out of a different setup, though I'd probably have to relinquish that control.
I know the former is probably better for farming but is it worth it otherwise? Agate and Roc are hardly powerhouses.
In fact, Mythra is so good, I rarely swap her out.
PS. I also think Pyra needs a buff. She's really good in her own right, but using her means you're losing out on probably the best blade in the game. Not really sure how they make her better without making her broken to catch up with Mythra though.
If you aim for high damage output, blade combo then bursts does that job pretty well. BTLS driver combo is a priority for farming. But it may or may not work on certain enemies, especially bosses. But of course doing both at the same time for joint combo deliver the most damage while leaving the target foe helpless.
Sometimes I leave the driver combo completion to my party members especially if I'm controlling Rex.
She was my first blade and I don't even use her after I got Mythra.
Just completed the game last night at level 70. 98 hours in total to complete. That cliche ending though....
Its the first JRPG i've enjoyed since FF12. Im leaving the game as is for now and will resume another play if NG+ is worthwhile. Is there any news on the release date for that or features? Is the post game content worth while?
For completion's sake of course. Besides, she's the only light blade out there that you can have on other party members not named Rex or Tora.
I found the drop rate for most of them to be decent, a bit on the low side, but after a few ones I got in the earliest parts of the game, I would get a rare in say 10 hours on average (meaning not 10 hours of opening cores heh, just playing the game), it's that last blade which required insane amounts of grinding.
And I tried with and without boosters. In the end I got her on an unboosted rare core. Actually I think I only got one blade from a legendary core (which was like the first legendary core I opened lol).
In the end I found it was quicker to not use boosters because when you're full (booster storage limit) releasing blades is quicker. And when you need to open 500 cores to get what you want, that means you need to release 500 trash blades.
From memory, you need to do the secret of the Nopon quest in Argentum. It will lead you to a place where the treasures are used.
I don't think it's an empty slot, but just empty space. Compare with other characters or the blade gallery.
I assume annul defence means ignoring the enemy's defence stat.
Ursula's side quest has to be on of the worst in game history, how did the developers think this would be ok? I'd maybe understand is she was an OP end-game blade or something but she's just a healer, albeit one of the best ones. I just don't understand, think I'm about half way through to 5000 fans though.
If only she was the only issue with the game ...
She's definitely a high point though.
Edit: Lemme clarify, she's a bandaid over a bandaid. The whole point of the Merc stuff is to allow you to raise affinity with so many blades. It serves little purpose from a narrative standpoint passed its introduction. It ultimately ends up as utterly irrelevant with regard to the main plot of the game.
And to help with that bandaiding, they developed this relatively easy to get blade that requires literally hundreds of missions to rank up so you can use these shorter missions of help in filling affinity charts for your dozens of blades.
I swear this game seems to have been constructed from bits and pieces to try to hold the mechanics together with little agency whatsoever.
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I made a party just for smashing . Rex (Dagas Mythra Roc!) Zeke and Tora
... I love this game
Got tons of gold chips some legendary cores.
I put treasure sensor in poppy, do I need it in all the poppys? Or the one that launches or smashes?
I still cant take lvl 99 Feeded Armu, so Ill have to lvl up ( im 88)
Now to get gold overclocking badge and beta scope.
rAndom
Chaosblade
Thanks for the help with the luck stat.
... I love this game
Got tons of gold chips some legendary cores.
I put treasure sensor in poppy, do I need it in all the poppys? Or the one that launches or smashes?
I still cant take lvl 99 Feeded Armu, so Ill have to lvl up ( im 88)
Now to get gold overclocking badge and beta scope.
rAndom
Chaosblade
Thanks for the help with the luck stat.
I'm at 35 tickets for all sides,how many of those do I need to unlock her 5th chart?
Ah finally geared up and built my blades to take out
and it feels so good doing a 9 million damage chain attack to a boss much higher level than you. Only thing is is took nearly 15 mins because I forgot how to do an ice combo and I also didn't put on annul reflect for the barrier that it puts up. Mistakes were made and next time I'll be full prepared for these bosses.
Also Ursula's blade quest is absolutely infuriating with how much menu hopping you have to do every 10 or 5 mins if you reduce the time for it.
Ophion
Also Ursula's blade quest is absolutely infuriating with how much menu hopping you have to do every 10 or 5 mins if you reduce the time for it.
Chapter 7 spoilers.
Unrelated but I just found out you can ....skip the blade intros on each crystal, lmao now I see how people burn common crystals.
this place is incredibly tough even with all my characters at least 3-4 levels above. I have Tora over Morag at the front to tank like the story recommends but I just got to the spider nest area and I want to nope out of here. I'm not sure, but many monsters are kicking my arse. I probably should level up some more... idk this place's story significance is great but I hate the dungeon. It's littered with insects!
Unrelated but I just found out you can ....skip the blade intros on each crystal, lmao now I see how people burn common crystals.