Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Get the +agi chips for , give her agi boosting gear and equip all her blades with +heal on driver art and +arts agro. Best tank by far imo, she tanked the end boss w/o getting hit once lol.

Tora is a better tank in the end, and his 3rd blade is the best damage. But it takes ALOT of grinding Tiger! Tiger!

The boss theme is so great.

took out the 117 on the first attempt this time after properly re-gearing for him. Tried the 130 and 1-shotted him as well, hes not the most difficult by far in my opinion. Wrapped up the rest of my quests so all that there is remaining to do is the weaving / baking / tigertiger / trust grind which I'm probably not gonna do.

I still need 3 blades, but spent a ton of crystals at 725+ luck and still need em, so they will have to wait.

was a good game, I ended up with about 180 hours into it, some of that was afk time waiting for merc missions, but pretty damn good value for the money

Never managed to pull KOS-MOS

I got lucky and got her pretty early on, seeing how rare she is I feel pretty fortunate to get her. Wish there was a better system for getting the rare blades

They hit the last chapter out of the park. Great ending.

Think it passed Persona 5 for most enjoyable JRPGs I played this year.

1. XB2
2. Persona 5
3. FF12 Zodiac Age
4. Nier

Finished this morning. What a great fucking game. Whatever I play next will surely be a disappointment.

Next game Monolithsoft is working on is a new IP supposedly, but now they have an easy sequel to XC2 or XBX lined up - or both.

Yeah there was a thread on ResetEra about this but I do think Xenoblade is probably my new favorite Nintendo franchise. XCX was a little disappointing to me but I'd be totally fine with a more story focused sequel.

I agree. I enjoy the combat systems and the "grind" in all 3 XC games. At this point they are must buy games for me. I bought a Switch in Nov to get used to it before XC2 came out.

I hope they keep going with the Xenoblade Universe, they have the framework setup to do it

There is a significant "let down" for me right now having finished it. I need something good to fill the void, may try Horizon on PS4, I've had it for the 9ish months but havent had the spare time to crack the plastic wrapper on it yet.

Probably going to start up Nier:Automata myself, just bought it off a sale.

favorite pouch items for the blades can be force-fed to raise affinity but its really slow as you only get 10-15 per item that is their favorite. I found that completing side quests with the blades you wanted to raise affinity with in the active slots (they didnt have to be the one visible but needed to be in the active group) helped out quite a bit. I don't have numbers off this but it seemed like the bigger the side quest the more affinity I got with them as I maxed out guys like Wulfric pretty easily by just having him active but not the main one I used in battle. Make sure the characters who are not in your party are also doing this because it seems like their active set of blades also gets the affinity for completed side quests too.

Food gives same affinity favorite or not. It's actually better to use pouch items that isn't a favorite of any blade equipped so you can spam it without anyone saying unskippable dialogue.

Do some googling but there are pouch items are give 18-21 affinity each.

So hit chapter 7. Is there anyway around the affinity requirements here to pass certain roadblocks or is this the “grind” portion of the game?

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What is blocking you exactly?

The end game depression for this is real.


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What a fantastic game with an incredible journey. This IP is my favorite at this point and I have a feeling it will probably be the most enjoyable thing I'll play on the Switch (not sure how this will be topped). It could have used a couple more months to iron the obvious things out and I'm still not sure how I feel overall about the "English" voice acting despite warming up to it, but this game is definitely a must have and pulls at your emotions.

Finished at 200 hours with nearly all rare blade affinity maxed out with just several rare blade side quests left to do and the superbosses that I have yet to attempt. Probably 50 hours of that is Merc quest afk time with 45 hours of that probably being Ursula. Used about 150+ common, 120ish rare, and 50ish legendary core crystals with 500 LCK at the end trying to get the final two RNG rare blades I'm missing (with Kos-Mos obviously being one of them) to no avail, so I'm bullshit over that still.

I abhor DLC and very rarely purchase it but I'm probably going to make an exception for this one.

Any collectible ore/minerals from collection points in the world will suffice. Just look for collection points next to walls or rocks.

Alternatively, just resonate with two fire blades and 2 wind blades and swap them into the party somewhere. Any equipped blade will work for field checks as long as the blade is actively equipped onto someone. That someone doesn't need to be in your direct active party, so you can use the characters you're not currently using as walking field checks if you want.