Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Utnayan said:

What chapter did you make it to? Also, are you upgrading your cores at the blacksmith at each new town? This speeds things up dramatically in a TTK perspective. Plus, you can also run away from a lot of fights if you get trapped. I just started Chapter 5 last night and the story has some other arcs popping up now. Accessory upgrades seem to be more situational then anything, but those cores are really needed.

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Yeah I’ve been upgrading cores and chips whenever I can, but either I don’t get good fires or they just don’t help kill shit faster. Think I’m in chapter 4, where you go down into the geothermal processor place (another side note, the map is useless. Took awhile to find the right way into that place). And I do just run through the garbage in open world for the most part. I’m around level 34, using Rex with 3 rare Atk blades and nia with 3 rare healing blades.

You don't need to kill every encounter you come across, that's tedious. Just run past them.

Especially if you are doing sidequests and resting in the inn, you'll be overleveled anyways.

Yeah I run past shit too. From sidequests/merc missions I could easily give my party another 10-12 levels, but I want to keep them were they are at now for story stuff.

Getting Mythra set up as a crit build helps alot. She and Rex have passives that boost the party gauge whenever you crit, lets you pull off the chain attacks multiple times in a fight if you wanted.

Good time to jump in, patch just hit that adds a couple QoL fixes to the game(namely the map).

Not much to say in the way of tips, the combat system will take some time getting used to but it starts to click a little while into the game. Nothing is really missable so I'd say just play the game and do your own thing.

If you have any questions though once you dig in feel free to ask.

If you move your cursor over the Xenoblade 2 icon and press + for options, there should be an update software option there.

when I "closed out" the game so that no user was logged in to it, it automatically downloaded and applied the update, but it wouldn't do it while you are basically "windowed out" of the game and someone is logged in.

Finally got around to finishing this. Really enjoyed it overall, much better than XCX. Last couple of chapters I just finished in one sitting, I couldn't stop heh. Only real issues I had were all UI related and a bit too many cutscenes toward the end but overall a really solid RPG.

Im just about done with everything, lvl 98 and got most of my "good" blades maxed. Finishing up a last few bit of quests, still missing a few blades and there are a few more monsters that I need to find and take down, pretty much all the lvl 100+ guys. If it takes a significant amount of tweaking / farming to get the last 3-4 guys I may not bother, I have a significant backlog of games that I want to get to. I haven't messed with TigerTiger much, i find it annoying and Tora is pretty annoying in combat (gotta mute the TV for him or my family walks around saying "meh meh meh" and "spinning cutter" all the time), so if any of the late stage super-bosses take the Poppi Army then they will probably remain unkilled.

outside of that it was a pretty good ride, the titties were incredible and the story was pretty good too.

Spoiler about the ending, Warning:

real close to wrapping things up, got everyone to 99 and most of the rare blades fleshed out (not gonna grind affinity on all of em if I'm not gonna use em). Found all the pouch expansions and maxed development with all the places plus got almost all the store deeds.

I beat the 104, 109 and 110 super boses, got the 117 to about 25% with a poor plan and less than ideal setup. Still need to try the 114, 120 and 130. I need a few more good aux cores and weapon chips to fully flesh out my main crew but its close. I'll prolly get it most of the way and save just a touch of it for the DLC thats supposed to come in a few months.

farmed up the 114 boss quite a few times, hes not too bad. smoked the 120 down the first time, hes super low health. Took a few runs to get the 100 down, hes a driver and considerably beefy and does a ton of damage..

I've still got the 117 and the 130 left to try out, going to see if I can take them down today. None of these guys seem as a few of the XC1 super bosses were (the dragon and the behemoth bosses were really rough) but seem more similar to the XCX super bosses where it was basically about bursting them down before they tore you to bits. A lot of the XCX boss prep was farming up augs / super weapons on your skell. XC1 seemed to be more about abilities / tactics once you had enough gear to fill out all the basics (anti-spike etc) and XC2 seems to be a decent mix of both.

I wish there was an eaiser way to farm up trust / affinity with blades, getting to 9800+ on a fresh blade takes forever. If anyone has found any good ways besides force-feeding them pouch items for 10-15 trust per item please share. It seems like a merc mission gives them about 5-10 loyalty so even chaining the Ursula missions is pointless for them.

I've still got a few more blades to get, but even with about 500 luck and using boosters my rate of acquiring the few left seems pretty low.

Once I get these last few things done I guess I'll wait for the DLC to see if that adds much for flavor. The boy got Fire Emblem Warriors for Xmas so I may continue with that before I go back to PS4 games. I hate getting used to a controller and then switching systems so I want to exhaust the Switch games before going back to PS4 if I can.

Level 75ish just starting the min/max grind to get ready for the superbosses and I'm regretting my early commitment to Tora as my designated tank. I just can't get the customization correct for him and if he switches to one particular blade in a tough fight he'll often lose agro or it becomes a struggle to outlast the bosses onslaught until he changes back to one of the others. Armored Brennan in Mor Ardain took me 3 hours in attempts and hes only a level 86 unique, although a really frustrating one.

Agro has a hard time keeping up in this game, the 3rd poppi is a dps and I havent done tiger tiger enough to see if you can convert her to a tank (im sure you can) but I preferred Morag to Tora because I could kit Morag out with 3 tank blades for the extra agro right from the get go. Even with that Rex does so much dps that he ends up with agro pretty quick anyway on a single target.

Armoured Brennan takes a long time, the mobs around him are numerous and he takes very little physical damage as he basically has a perma deflection up. I didnt find him till around 80 but I remember it being a long fight and he had a few moves that did a ton of damage. I remember him having a short topple window.

Territorial Rotbart (big ape) in Gormott drops a nice weapon chip, hes worth farming a bit before taking on the 85+ tyrants just to get your damage up. As you move up to the upper 80s and 90s guys you are going to want to have a decent set of aux cores for your main blades and some decent offensive accessories. The avant garde medal (% of crit is heal) is extremely potent on rex w / mythra and can really help when (not if) you pull agro

For those higher level tyrants if you arent going 4+ orbs deep in a chain attack (and full breaking them if you can) the fights can take forever, especially when they enrage