I just got to chapter 4, and I gotta ask, am I insanely fucking lucky or is this the norm? I've popped two normal core crystals on Nia and got Boreas and Finch and out of four normal core crystals and one rare on Rex I got Floren and Gorg.
I'm asking this because, beyond field skills, is there ever a point to not using a special character blade? All I've done special before unlocking the core crystals was slapping on a Bunny choker with 21 luck.
I guess I don't understand if I've been extremely lucky or this is the status quo. Makes me kinda sad because there's absolutely no reason for me to use some no named blade. It's like, why did they even bother with it?
Other than that, I'm enjoying it a lot. I will say I'm a bit worried it's too easy. I definitely haven't grinded and I've only used bonus exp to level Rex and Nia once. That's it. Despite that, I'm having an easy time of it. The only hard fought I had was against some special bird that took forever to kill. Is this because I got OP blades? I already read that Boreas is pretty good on Nia so I lucked out there I guess.
[SPOILER] I did not see Vandaams death coming :( [\SPOILER]
The RNG is really favorable to you early on, because the game really wants Rex and Nia to have a full roster of Rares, but the least rare Blades you have left to roll, the least generous it'll become.
Also yes, you should always be using Rares (unless you're lacking ones needed to fullfill the class you're aiming for, like say you want Nia to be full healer, but you only have Boreas and Dromarch on her, you can switch Finch off for a common Healer).
Commons are mostly for field skills and merc missions. Completing their affinity grids before releasing them also puts them back into the pool with an additional star, and completing 4 stars commons' affinity grids before releasing them gives you an extra Overdrive Protocol.
The game's definitely not ball-busting hard, especially if you catch on how the battle system's layers work early on, but I still had some trouble with the chapter 4 final boss despite having a lot of good rares (I was lucky enough to roll Floren and Boreas directly on Nia, they're really good healers)
Also use ctrl+S for spoilers
Samuel Jackson
Ewwww stinky feet yucky
Kevin Williams
You're not lucky unless you get Vale/Kosmos/Zenobia or something equivalent to them early on.
Vale was my first blade. Zenobia was my 4th.
Oliver Gray
yes you are fuck you you can't remove special character's blade
Owen Walker
B
Jeremiah Parker
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Connor Walker
>last is Vale
how fucked am I? I already sacrificed 200 LCCs to her with no response. Before it is asked my luck is maxed using Rex (I have Overdrives) and Justice is Lv. 10.
Easton Gray
I believe it’s possible to make common blades better than some of the Rares but we’re talking about the real bottom of the barrel ones.
Xavier Parker
Use rare and common cores and pray to the god of nightstalkers and jiggle tits
Gavin Gray
Obrona noooooo
Gabriel Lopez
>It's like, why did they even bother with it? Was it a feature in the previous games?
Lucas Powell
>failed spoiler I knew he was going to leave the party since I couldn't bond any blades to him but it never occured to me he might die. Pretty metal way to go though.
Christian Martin
Commons have a real niche. The give better stat mods than rares (up to +25%) and they can have that orb adder passive that doesn't appear on any rares.
Personally I find a good standard set up to be two rares and 1 stats stick common, since I hardly ever use all three Blades in combat anyway.
Luis Powell
I didn't work out you could combine low levels in field skills into higher levels until ai got to uraya. That could have been explained better
Zachary Jenkins
>tfw 4 star commons are more rare than rare blades
Sebastian Perry
>Vandaam
Did they really think the fakeout with Gramps wasn't enough and still needed a father figure to die?
Blake Allen
damn i just got to chapter 4 too, just got fuckin (blade name spoilers) nim and kora for nia, have finch for rex as well as that gravity tnk assassin guy, feeling super lucky esp with my nia rares
Wyatt Cox
M A N K O A N K O
Nolan Barnes
Is Vale really that good? I got her for Rex before his MC powers happened, and sure her working really well with Mythra due to her Dark element and Break art was great, but I never thought of her as "you're lucky you rolled her first"
Julian Kelly
>doing KOS-MOS's sidequest >KOS-MOS continues to make little girls gay
Can she be stopped?
Angel Davis
hey is there a way to take like nice screenshots in this game? like without all the gross ui elements in it?
Jack Gutierrez
Good job with the spoiler you faggot.
Anyway it's not too rare to get a handful of rare blades and you really never have to use the common blades if you don't want to. That isn't to say the common blades are bad though, far from it.
What the fuck is up with this, seriously. I haven't gotten a single 4 crown common in a dozen legendary cores.
Isaiah Phillips
>Violence Machine: Increases damage dealt each time a special is used (max: 300%)
Yes, she's that good.
Joshua Morgan
It just clicked for me that the little girl is supposed to resemble Shion.
Huh.
Grayson Myers
>Her sidequest ties up what happened with the Bladebots.
Why wasn't this done in the main game?
Easton Russell
I ended up with 5 or 6 of the 4 crowns out of roughly 200 common, 300 rare, and 200 legendary cores
Jaxson Watson
God damn. I'm never going to be able to unfuck the rare blade distribution in my party.
Leo Fisher
Having played chronicles 2 I kind of want to go back and play the older ones but I am not sure I want to deal with that gacha bullshit again.
Xavier Jones
buy the DLC goy
Ryder Torres
Is there some DLC supposed to be coming out this month?
Jaxson Miller
The previous games didn't have blades or gacha bullshit at all.
Landon Allen
Have you got the Overdrives from finishing all of the drivers' affinity charts? Those pretty much let me do what I wanted to do
Joshua Garcia
That’s only in 2
Christopher Green
You currently get "free" item packs for purchasing the season pass One of them is more Overdrives
William Brown
Not yet. I should probably figure out how many overdrive protocols I'll actually need for min-maxing stupdity.
Julian Ward
Should be 3 Put Zenobia on Zeke Put Vale on charcter of your choice Put KOS-MOS on character of your choice
Tank Blades are basically pointless to use Overdrives on because Tora's blades are set in stone, Hammers aren't good on anyone, and Morag gets enough sure thing Agi blades to fill her 3 spots. Unless you plan to Overdrive commons with higher agi mod than rares to Morag, but that seems like a waste when you could just open them.
And Healer role falls off in usefulness at the top level due to the strength of crit healing, but if you're going to have a dedicated one, then Rex with Nia and Ursula is probably the best, but it's Rex so you don't need Overdrives anyway.
Luke Sanchez
>KOS-MOS continues to make little girls gay And she's not the only one!
Samuel Moore
I was planning on giving Nia all of the Ether cannons. And putting Morag in a frilly dress and giving her sissy healer blades for bullying purposes because Tora seems to be a much better tank.
Although, if you control Morag and give her Overlcocking Bangle and three katana blades, can you just chain evasion arts - swap - evasion art infinitely to be invincible the whole time?
And does auto-attack damage matter on Morag or should I just stack AGI to the sky?
Jaxon Sanders
I only have 4 blades left to get
KOSMOS Newt Vale and that boy who looks like a girl
Ryder Adams
Did anyone save the edited hairy minge pics base on this from yesterday thread? Post them please. I can't find them anymore.
Matthew Young
Good riddance.
Jaxon Reyes
I literally only have bookgirl left to roll
Blake Collins
She was actually my first one
Jaxon Morales
Well, 2 out of three of the good Ether Canons, Sheba and Herald, are special cores. So you can guarantee them on Nia anyway.
Keep Brighid on Morag, it's better than a Katana for her just in general and the evasion art has a longer animation. Your constant evade idea works pretty well, but I don't know if it's 100% uptime Auto attack does matter on Morag, but really only with Brighid because she has a passive that gives up to +250% damage (+10% per successful "Evasion") so she actually can do damage while also doing her job.
Grayson Rodriguez
My first rare blade was Perceval which is cool. But then I had Newt, which is pretty much the same character, except fire, all on Rex.
What a waste.
Cameron Stewart
>But then I had Newt, which is pretty much the same character, except fire
They aren't the same at all Newt is WAY better Read their passive yellow nodes in the affinity chart
Juan Cox
Question for a mechanic I never really figured out, what determines whether or not you can use the same blade again in the next round of a chain attack? It feels totally random.
Lincoln Jackson
Then I hope gacha is deemed a failed experiment for the rest of the franchise.
Julian Cox
I think it's how well you succeed at their special's prompt + how quick you are on the "continue chain attack" prompt.
Jace Martin
Do you mean...... This one?
Benjamin Jackson
For the character you started the chain attack with, it's if you hit the prompt to continue the chain.
For other characters I'm not sure either, might be affinity related. Seems like you can always get two rounds, but sometimes you can get three+ rounds? Might be affinity or trust related.
For better and worse, every entry in the series has had some pretty radically different mechanics.
John Moore
Oh god it's starting again.
Caleb Adams
I can't wait 'til Xenoblade XXX where they start mixing game experiments with giant mechs locked behind gatcha.
Isaiah Diaz
This is the first Xenoblade I play and I'm really enjoying it. And reading all these posts saying that the 1st game is better just makes things more exciting. What's the best course of action I can take after finishing chapter II in terms of looting/leveling/progression? Also is 9 hours into the game to finish chapter II (sidequests included) a great pace?
Connor Jones
>My first rare blade was Perceval which is cool. Same. Then I got the electric loli.
Asher Jones
I think it might have to do with whether or not they destroy an orb
Ethan Wood
Was it really necessary for Rex to have 2 waifus
Camden Evans
Funny enough, Raikko was my first rare blade and is maybe the only one I completed all her affinity chart.
Hunter Martin
No. "Great pace" is 7 hours to finish the whole game.
Kayden Brooks
that's it, thanks!
Sebastian Phillips
>out of character art Fucking drawfags, Pyra doesn't have a single ounce of shame in her entire body.
Isaiah Powell
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Isaac Cooper
At least this time the artist remembered to draw the fucking core crystal >All that Nia art with no core
Hunter Baker
Honestly he should've had three.
Nathaniel Diaz
Oh well, I guess if you've already found it then I guess I don't need to post it again.
YOU CAN'T STOP ME FROM THIS NOW, YOU FUCKING MONGOLOID
Alexander Perry
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Dylan Lopez
you'll do fine lad, though might have been better yo get finch on one of the two other characters you get later, boreas is GOAT healer
Grayson Diaz
B L O O D Y L O O D Y
Grayson Ross
One of her lines is she herself saying she is self concious. She says this hundreds of times throughout the game.
Jaxson Cruz
she is pure. Mythra is shit
Hudson Turner
*staring Zeke intensifies*
Zachary Harris
Here and /vg/, really dude?
Justin Parker
I saw it someone stole it
Luke Cook
What a shit meme, He's been pushing this meme so hard but nobody caught on to it yet, huh? Kinda sad really.
Nathaniel Cooper
Pyra the best
Xavier Long
Wait do you see zeke again after his first apperance?
Nathaniel Roberts
Zeke is a party member
Matthew Rivera
My dude did you see that drop he's fucking dead
William Perez
Literally the best girl. Both in the mind and the body.
Wyatt Brooks
Ravioli ravioli don't lewd the electric loli
Parker Price
>Ohey here's a quest where I have to kill some mobs surrounding these people, no big deal >Wait why is there suddenly a mob 4 levels higher than all these quest mobs here >Wait why is there an even higher level mob here all of a sudden >Why
Fucking
Brody Scott
Don't use many rares on Rex. Its becomes pointless later when he can use any blade from your other characters collection.
Julian Hughes
Where's your pic bro.
Joseph Russell
She's really good too. If only there was a reason to actually use Hammers.
I guess the solo Rex section in chapter 10?
Ayden Wright
depends on what you want your party makeup to be. personally since I rex - nia - tora i just use all my cores on rex and transfer to nia for actual use. i pop commons on other party members just for field skills.
Cameron Morgan
*pats head*
Adam Morris
This image isn't anywhere in the Xeno general, what are you on about?
Matthew Hughes
>filename TRY AND STOP ME.
Grayson Richardson
>Pyra is excited to visit Rex' village >The first thing Rex does when they arrive is go to his parents grave with her.
Kevin Martinez
Are her tits big enough to call her an oppai loli?
Nolan Peterson
It's right there with the exact same filename under a spoiler.
Austin Nguyen
What is so good about Kosmos? I found the cannons to be pretty shit with bathtub girl being least shit but still pretty shit.
Aiden Bailey
>Implying he won't be revived as a cyborg and become a real Zekenator
Christopher Cruz
canons are great on zeke/nia
Henry Stewart
YOU DON'T NEED THAT VOICELESS EMPTY LOLI, WE ALREADY HAVE THE BEST CAT IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING IN THE PARTY!
Isaiah Cooper
>Explore Leftheria's weak side cause I always go the strong side cause it's closer and I'm lazy >Find a random common blade being attacked by four monsters >Kill the monsters >Think "Wait why was the blade in trouble? Blades just regenerate from wounds, and her driver wasn't in trouble" >Blade thanks me, says her driver is an Ardanian kid and they came to Leftheria to train and get stronger, but the kid fell into the Cloudsea and is probably on an island below >Go find the kid, he's pissed off at his blade for taking him here on a training journey he doesn't want to do when he doesn't know how to fight or really even wants to know, and doesn't want to be a driver anymore and just wants to go home >Reunite driver and blade >Kid tells his blade what he told me, he doesn't want to do this, she basically plunged him into mortal peril when he doesn't know the first thing about fighting, and he's going home >Blade responds that learning how to fight is the entire point of this training quest, he needs to stop whining and actually wield her sword >Kid gets even madder and leaves >She thanks me and gives me a reward, then chases off after the kid >Mission complete screen says "their relationship was patched up" Success, I guess?
