What are some optimized, fun, or otherwise just really good lategame/endgame builds for this game? The amount of potential variety is kind of overwhelming. I'd rather just know what's working for you guys.
At least talk about best/worst party members/blades.
Crit-heal builds rule the end game. Pop Avant-Garde Medals on everyone.
Brandon Collins
Tora and Poppi Alpha/QTpi are almost inarguably the best party members but it takes obscene amounts of Tiger Tiger grinding, so FUCK.
Mythra is a strong candidate for best blade because her passive means you can spam arts forever and heal yourself the entire time, building up specials in no time flat.
Past that, I think the best blades are the ones that get ridiculous modifiers over time, like Brighid, Vale, and Sheba. That stacks with a World Tree Drop and they do absurd damage.
Special mention to KOS-MOS for having godly specials.
Aiden Cruz
Are there more stupid builds like this that actually work?
Jaxon Rodriguez
What does World Tree Drop do?
Gabriel Hernandez
it increases damage every time you switch blades
Logan Collins
That sounds incredibly stupid Where can I find those
Luke Gonzalez
I'm grinding to unlock Vess's forestry upgrade. I need it to do the stupid lesson on argentum for the poppi qtpie upgrade. Its a nightmare, but I refuse to continue the story without doing it.
Lucas Watson
Vess isn't the only one with forestry skills. Just give your party a ton of common core crystals and then put blades with forestry in your party.
David Russell
The legendary ones drop off the Lv 130 unique monster in Temperentia.
Xavier King
Forestry is incredibly rare. I bonded with 50 common and 10 rare core crystals. Not a single forestry skill on any blade
Cooper Collins
Efficient combat is about getting to a chain attack as quickly as possible. There's a set up with Poppi QT, Adenine, Dagas, that abuses the fact that any active projectiles from your team get the chain attack bonus (important to use Burst Symbol accessories) to burst things down with QT's scattershot art. Of course this involves doing a ton of Tiger Tiger to turn QT into a powerhouse, so I can understand if you don't want to do that.
Another thing you can do is check your common blades to see if they can get lvl 5 Orb Master passive. You probably have a couple of them lying around. The passive makes each step of a Blade combo after the common add an orb, so you can add 3 orbs with one combo assuming the common goes first If you have 2 commons with Orb Master in certain elemental combinations (see ugly attached image I whipped up real quick) you can add 6 orbs with 2 complete Blade combos. A 6 orb chain attack is really fucking strong. Mattering on what trust level your damage blades are at, it might be strong enough to take down absolutely everything, and it's fast to set up. You just set up your pouch to build special and build party gauge as fast as possible.
Alexander Cruz
Try Electra spike damage or Shebas money gathering boosts
Colton Martinez
I think you're just insanely unlucky.
Elijah Campbell
With Sheba, do you just do Smash driver combos to power up?
Matthew Kelly
You can, but one of her specials makes enemies drop money like they got smashed.
Hudson Walker
Tora Rex Zeke running QTpi lead Rex: Mythra Roc Pandoria Zeke: Wulfric kasandra Dagas
This comp can driver combo lick anything that isnt immune, and has easy 8 orb smash potential.There is nothing that has given me trouble since i started using this team comp. Even Orion just dies.
Bonus: Have the blade switch VI aux on Roc, so that tora can break, mythra can topple, tora can launch, then roc is ready to smash at the very start of battle.
Juan Collins
Try Vale snowball damage with special or just go full driver combos with Wulfric. If you like positional damage and want to rely on healing potions to heal just use Kora because the momentbyou start walking around the field you're immortal with her
Hudson Evans
Well I can't even hope to kill Relentless Arduran, how the hell am I supposed to kill that one
Colton Morris
Did they fix handheld mode yet?
Eli Peterson
>Rex with Pandoria You disgust me You disgust me even more because you don't even use her to Launch
Christopher Nguyen
Shit... I killed the baby ardun by accident, does he respawn?
Connor Jackson
He does launch with her though user. Dont blame me, zeke is a cuck and lets rex fuck his 10/10 blade.
Andrew Moore
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Blake Clark
You dun fucked up now.
Hunter Cox
Shit.... he did say he'd never forgive me and let me help out with his ardun ever again. I dun goofed
Lucas Long
I think you can get common variants from some enemy in the world tree.
Tyler Davis
But that's why you put Pandoria on Rex. His axe launch is ass.