Is Xenoblade X the best open world game ever made?

I'd argue that Minecraft and Terraria are better.

better story

better graphics

better gameplay loop

more replayability

better music

Really, it's hard for any game to topple these titans.

I was speedreading pretty hard during chapter 13. Could I get some clarification?
Elma unknowingly dimension hopped to Earth's universe thinking it was just space travel?
Likewise, the white whale hopped to the Mira dimension and dragged in the Ganglion along with the Manon, Wrothians, Orpheans, and Zaruboggan they imprisoned?
So that leaves the Nopon, L and the Qlu as the only natives of the Mira dimension?

Not really. It does the generic "We have every type of zone!" thing. None really naturally connect together. The enemy placement is ball crushing. However it is fun as hell to explore with a skell. That however is also a slight negative because it shrinks the world by a lot. You can see pathways and things that could have been interesting vistas in say the cauldron but everyones going to have a skell by the time they want to go there so you'll never be walking along those pipes high in the air. Balancing issues with freedom and progression.

DO NOT REPLY TO THE TROLL
DO NOT.
Ignore the cock sucker.

I just realized, the Forging Blade short story is actually canon because the Miran Archives description of Mira references Mira Torres?

ask question

someone answers

get irrationally angry

???

They only want people to tell them they're right.

I just finished ch 11 and I'm grinding for Ares90, what Superweapons are worth to grind for? and were I can get good weapons dropped?

Sad, but expected for these pseudo-generals.

If you're getting the ares there's no point i getting super weapons as it will just melt everything with its own gear (which cannot be switched).

It's the first open world game where I opt to traverse the map instead of fast travel, so yes.

does anyone know what specific tyrants drop reflect augs?

mate if you can't tell who that's directed at you either need to lurk more, stop playing dumb, or cut the act.

Zenith Cannon has potential to be stronger than the Ares but requires more work.

Who is it directed at? Is it someone who didn't answer the OP?

What are the best places for knives and sniper rifles?

To farm?
Outside of very specific unique weapons, wpn drops are shared globally among all enemies, the quality of the weapon being tied to the level tier of the enemy in question
And weapons can't drop if the AM for it isn't unlocked yet(Like Nopon AM gives thermal shield/gatling guns)

what general area of primordia should I be lookin in?

That Tyrant does not have a map segment, but its in eastern primorida(she has a female name)

It's not even the best xenoblade game, anon.

Lugalbanda, Telethia, Pharsis, and Dadaan.

Not that anon, but it's the only open world xenoblade game. And it looks like OP is fixating on that aspect.

Are we not allowed to prefer other open world games? It sounds like he doesn't want a debate, he just wants to shitpost.

And weapons can't drop if the AM for it isn't unlocked yet(Like Nopon AM gives thermal shield/gatling guns)

Interesting to note...what about development weapons. can those drop without you making them first? Or is that irrelevant?
But yes to farm, I'm running knives + snipers so would like the best of those possible.

east primordia

That helps, ty.
I assume she is NOT in a cave or such right? just out in the field? Somehow I just completely missed her as she isn't even in my beastiary.

Yes
Where's the uncensored mod update though? The latest patch broke it.

The question was specifically if X was the best open world game or not.
If you disagree free to state what game you'd pick over this and why.

Anon I'mma suggest you lurk more if you can't notice one of Anon Babble's worst shit poster trolls most prominent tells.

bet she can dual wield those kids

Different anon, but with snipers and knives, what's your build based around anyway, Afterburner + sleep?

If you disagree free to state what game you'd pick over this and why.

Do you promise not to get angry? It's a choice that few other people agree with.

Information gap, presumably.
Al tells us the Ares filters through data to find your destination while traversing the space between worlds. Maybe because Mira is weird or because he didn't have a destination in mind at first, his return takes months.
Elma entered the Ares with an objective (find other Samaar descendents and warn them), which presumably the Ares interpreted as a destination and routed accordingly. From her perspective it may have just been a lightspeed warp.

I assume Elma unknowingly universehopped, yeah. See above.
Mira's dimension just consists of Mira as far as I can tell. Nopon mention places like Frontier Village, so they're presumably still from other universes. Neilnail mentions she hasn't been back to her home planet in ages, and Celica/Rock escaped from the Ganglion, so they're also presumably from other universes. L is, if not an actual native, the lifeform who was on Mira the earliest that we know of.

'in a nesy by primal lakes quiet lady's ichor will slake thy lust'

She is close to some purple shit near the lake and keep in mind that she might take a few seconds to spawn because she has an entrance animation

I mean...I'm kinda just using what I can atm so open to tips/advice.
atm my arts are
Dispel, Black Bane, Black Butterfly, Smooth Recovery, Sharpnel, Intercept, Afterburner, Ghost Sniper.
In reality I'd like something that focuses on appendage breaking/crushing and just not dying. Chose knives + snipers due to it being my pick on Freedom wars so wanna try and carry the idea of just wrecking every cunt monster alive till its meat pulp.
So I'm open to whatever anons can suggest.

You like what you like anon, Idk as long as you are sincere and can give a brief reason for why.

a few seconds to spawn because she has an entrance animation

omfg.
Well that's probably fucking why I can't find the damn bitch. been flying around primordia in my skell, at low speeds mind you..but that'd still skip past her given such.
What a fucking pain.
TYVM.

Is that blue armor in the game?

You like what you like anon, Idk as long as you are sincere and can give a brief reason for why.

Then my choice is Terraria, and I'll explain why:

I think the story is more simplistic, so there's no room for filler or excess exposition. There's not 50 hours of talking, so you can get right to the game.

the open world is better because you can destroy and build anything you want, Xenoblade X's world is boring in comparison. Being able to go anywhere means nothing because there's nothing interesting to find. Enemies just aren't fun to fight because:

in my favorite game, combat actually requires you to move around. Xenoblade has a problem where combat is just you standing still and watching combat arts play out

I will never get behind a game that's real time combat, but you can just sit in one place and have the game basically play itself.

Yes

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I will never get behind a game that's real time combat, but you can just sit in one place and have the game basically play itself.

he says unironically

about a game whose combat is holding attack as the game just auto attacks for you killing everything

Mate.
How long do you think this shit will really trick people?
Now tell everyone how its bad you yourself can't kill civvies but NPCs can.

Consider Full Specs for your aura instead of Ghost Sniper.

which quest gives the amadusa lv60 bp?
I have a mighty need for Hellfire mechacow.

All I'm saying is Xenoblade's combat isn't exciting. Compare this:

youtube.com/watch?v=KtGOKsNeUCA

to this:

youtube.com/watch?v=RPAjv7FGhd8

One requires a bit more movement and you're not just standing in one place.

because potential boost to improve afterburner and dispel?
Or is there another reason? I'm fine with the idea, I'd just like to understand why to better grasp the mechanics at play.

Should run energy source too since the potential up from a green buff stacks with the potential up from full specs to pump up afterburner's numbers.

Once you get howling soul you can stack it too, for some real stupid damage. Dispel isn't great btw, Maybe you want it for the utility, but otherwise its damage is lackluster and TP is better spent elsewhere.

run energy source

boosts targets TP and potential

???
You can use this shit on yourself???
There's no way that's right.
That's turning a TP skill into its own TP generator. WTF.

I was just using dispel for simpliticies sake. I can junk it for howling soul.
I assume that's Al's move?

yes, you can use it on yourself. fully upgraded it costs 1k tp and then gives you 1k tp back. So it's a free potential boost.
yeah, it's Al's.

yes, you can use it on yourself. fully upgraded it costs 1k tp and then gives you 1k tp back. So it's a free potential boost.

that's fucking absurd.
How was this missed? Very wack. and fair...will be a bit till I nab HS but will be fun once so.

Xenoblade X is only the 7th-best open world Xenoblade.

Well they let give yourself and the whole team infinite TP for the price of 5 assignment slots so I don't think it was a concern for them.

whole team infinite TP for the price of 5 assignment slots

Not sure what you mean. Which skill or art?

Fuck the haremshit and cringe romance, when will we fight the space niggers?

He's talking about a free overdrive build. It's a pretty big sacrifice, but in many builds it's completely worth it. You stack overdrive gain TP XX augs in every single armor aug slot and then you sacrifice a skill slot to a full upgraded grand procession. Then as soon as you have 3k tp, you hit overdrive and it gives you 3k tp back so it's free. Then you can hit it again to start cranking up the count and max out overdrive. On top of that, each time you hit it, your party members get 500 tp for free as well.

Note that this is great for ranged and melee builds, but not so great for potential builds since sacrificing every armor aug slot makes it quite hard to get a decent amount of potential to work with.

Ah, okay then. I did see a few anons discuss that awhile back.

I just hit level 50, should I get a new skell
I'm using the level 30 mastema stuffed to the gills with ranged and thermal damage gear from the shop to fuel my phoenix based war crimes
I'd basically do the same thing for the level 50 mastema but I'd also build the level 50 megaflame from the terminal

Buy the lv50 mastema. It'll carry you a good long time.
it's pretty pointless to make the lv50 megaflame given resource/ticket cost. just use phoenix till you get the lv60 bp. will just be less pain in the ass.
What gives lv60 mastema btw?

Good book. When's the next one?

Is there a quick way to make tons of money? Getting a 50 skell and treasure sensor gear for the party basically has me completely broke.

And what is the best thing to buy for miranium if youre about to cap with no current use for it? Same with online tickets.

Yes, you should.
It doesn't look like a big upgrade at first, but you will change your mind when you start getting the level 50 weapons of intergalactic rarity. Many of them have almost double the attack power of level 30 versions.

tickets would be any super weapons.
arts boost TP/GP XX augs. treasure sebnsor augs. ultrafauna killer. opening art XX for skells.
miranium would be opening slots on the lv60 hlvaegald and your best armor or weapons.

i have 180 hours and I'm just now getting flight because I deliberately get out to walk around and appreciate the on foot perspective
literally just restrain yourself and absorb the game and it becomes incredible

best thing to buy for miranium

Probably unlocking an augment on that treasure sensor gear little by little.

Same with online tickets

Materials for melee/ranged attack up, potential up, Overdrive:Gain TP and Overdrive: Count up augments are all safe bets.
Or materials for crafting the lewd armors.

phrog shoost a gas cloud making it crystalize

wow weird...like when I found watermelons are vegetables

wtf, why is he retarded?

Elma entered the Ares with an objective (find other Samaar descendents and warn them), which presumably the Ares interpreted as a destination and routed accordingly.

I like this explanation but the wording "The Ares and I were sent with a mission to Earth" implies she was following orders meaning they knew about the Earth already
Ma-non arrived separately, they're a third party from the humans and ganglion prisoners.

Mia was never quite the same after the probing incident...

I don't think Elma dimension hopped to reach Earth. They only specifically mention it happening after the White Whale escapes Earth due to the Ghost going too hard with demateralization and the Ares activating, and you see it happen going from Mira to the new universe later.

dimension hopped to reach Earth

She did as revealed in Al's recount of Void's memories. To paraphrase, Void appeared in the universe that held Elma's homeworld, destroying her planet AND her universe.

If they mention it, then I should rewatch that part cause I must've missed it. I guess there's ultimately not too much of a difference between hopping dimensions and just regular space travel within context, it's just the justification for why nobody could leave Mira by just flying away.

If I'm doing a knife/sniper build, should I go for potential or ranged attack focus? I just got howling soul and I've heard how OP this is.

Reminded me of another weird plot inconsistency. The White Whale was in Mira's dimension the entire time they were in flight for two years since Earth's dimension disappeared with Earth's destruction. But Goetia says in chapter 6 the space around the planet preventing them from leaving is small enough to make a round trip at light speed in three days.

White Whale was flying slowly in power-saving mode. :^)

Just finished this recently for the first time. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the best open world game ever made, but dear Lord isn't it a fascinating world. Mira feels so very soulful, the designs are so inspired. I have no idea how they went about even making this world, it's endlessly entrancing.

Not only was this my first time playing X, this was my first Xenoblade as a whole. I think the gameplay could use some work, and I'd love to know more about Mira and the mysterious that pepper the world, like the ring relics in Oblivia, the floating orbs in Sylvylum, the giant flower in Noctilum, etc.

I really hope there's an X 2 one day.

like the ring relics in Oblivia

You didn't recruit Niel?

I did. And I did her quests of course. But that only brought even more questions. What was this tech and what was it used for? Also, what the heck are the Qu? Why are their Skells so unique? And how come they are all gestated and birthed by artificial wombs?

So many questions. X really leaves you pining for more.

I think sci-fi is particularly well-suited to mentioning details without having to give detailed explanations. Even in the original Star Wars, the Clone Wars are something that's mentioned once and never elaborated on.

Point well taken, brother. But I don't think anyone would be wrong for suggesting that X could've lifted the veil just a tiny bit more. The Qu are a race with massive implications, it would've been really nice to learn more about them. But all is forgiven so long they deliver more in the sequel.

would it be fine to play this without having played any of the others in the series?
thinking of using one of those nintendo online vouchers on it when i get my switch 2

They do tell you the rings are terraformers in some compacity...once used to make oblivia lush, then later abused for war/fighting making it a desert.
Qu aere space elf cats.
As for sjkells, Wrothian ones are pretty different too...so cultural differences it'd seem.
To my knowledge the plant wombs aren't explained.

Yes, there are no story connections beyond a few references, mostly at the very end.

Gravity Lunge is really strong.
Does it count as a melee attack because of the orange colour or as a ranged attack because it is a psycho launder ary?

Take old final boss

Add electric guitar

Its simple but it works

As for sjkells, Wrothian ones are pretty different too...so cultural differences it'd seem.

Wrothian Skells are more advanced than humanity's. But the Qu's are in an entirely different level of technological (and aesthetic??) sophistication. Wrothian tech exudes a sort of warrior pragmatism, but Qu Skells almost have a sense of religiosity. It's so very mysterious. I really dig that. Albus and Furvus have a dualistic black & white motif, but their heads have this sort of abstracted contemporary Gothic style pointing upwards towards the heavens.

I'd love to know more about Neilnail. She's a very interesting character.

What's your best open world game then?

Gatling gun just breaks this game it's insane it's like the game wasn't designed to handle it. Also HB is the most overpowered NPC in this game bar none. The guy cannot die and taunts all day and night.

I mean..that was mostly my point.
Human skells are well...human-like. Cause we needed something quick, efficent and easy to build.
Wrothians are a proud warrior people so their skells are designed with that in mind.
The Qu are religo-nuts for the Sammarians in all things so their skells have a more refined elegant clerical aesthetic to them.
It is very cool to see that all.
And learning more about them all one day would be very nice indeed.

only one city

It's shit.

I'm afraid mine would be a very boring answer, anon. I like what the last two Zeldas did in terms of open world. It's not as rich a world as XCX's, that is sure, but mechanically it's such an incredible game that makes you really feel like you're braving the unknown. X unfortunately has this RPG abstraction that abstracts the true physicality of Mira, it sacrifices something more tactile for RPG spreadsheets. XCX is an excellent game despite it being a JRPG, not in spite of it. I understand that many people adore the gameplay because of how exploitable it is, much like I loved FFVIII for the same reasons back in the day, but I wanted Skells to feel like Zone of the Enders and less like a grindathon whose value is very difficult to communicate to people. Similarly, I would love if the ground combat something more simple and streamlined like direct combat instead of RPG menuing, it would make the world feel that much more real and physical.

I'm probably not explaining myself in the best way, and for that I apologise, brother. And I must reiterate, this was a fantastic gaming experience for me, I'm truly happy I got to discover X.

I wanted Skells to feel like Zone of the Enders

Not him but I wanted something like Robotrek from SNES except in 3D + massive world, but this is as good as it gets right now outta the madman Takahashi. I don't expect another Xenogears so I downgraded my expectations.

Question, I know that they increase the lv to 99, but does it actually give any boost? I ask this because it seems like the game want to you to use you armor and weapons (with augments) more than LVs especially since they never bother of given any higher lv gears. I know the original lv cap was 60, so does being lv 99 mean anything?

I feel similarly. I appreciate X's world for how intricately designed it is and how it works on three layers with on foot exploration in the first part, then grounded mechs and finally flying mechs. When I first played BotW however, it made X's world feel very static as opposed to Zelda's which is extremely reactive and tactile through its physics systems. TotK later expanded upon it with verticality and even more complex interactions. Playing X again with the DE, I still thought its world is amazing and works for the kind of game it is, so I don't think there's a huge gap or anything.

I know it's a very silly expectation on my part, and I understand the huge tech hurdles that needed be overcome in order to deliver something like Anubis: Zone of the Enders in such a large open world game with such a huge enemy variety. But that game has lived rent free inside my head for a couple of decades now.

Biggest thing is it prevents a lot more enemies from aggroing you once you're 10+ levels over them, which makes running though some places like Jair fortress a complete breeze
Besides that, your stats do increase a little bit with each level, but its pretty negligible outside of ranged/melee accuracy

Elma isn't from another universe, she's just from another planet.

I don't know if it was just augments or if the level helped, but I was around 80 when I fought the Telethia for real after a couple scuffed attempts at 60-something and I wasn't missing any shot anymore.

They could always do another low budget fist of mars, that was my first game into the series. inb4 never heard of the gba game.

The Xenoblade series was design with a MMO style from the very beginning, which X does much better considering this one actually have multiplayer compared to the other entries. You're asking for the game to be something completely different.

see I guess maybe "the clash between the ganglion and ghosts" could refer to both the clashes on Elma's world AND Earth, though. I would definitely prefer it to be that.

What are the best places for knives and sniper rifles?

Nigga, all weapons drom from any enemy. And the best place to farm then is inside the giant floating sphere in Sylvalum. There's a bunch of lvl65+ gels you can oneshot with your skell (drones or X-Sniper are great for this), kill them all, dismount and return to skell to reload the room. Stay low and don't go flying in the sleeping tyrant's ass and you'll be fine.
Don't forget to set your class to the desired weapons and bring allies that carry the desired weapons (or none, if you have 100 sensor augments on yourself)

I just need a new game that lets me ZERO SHIFT in front of my enemies before grabbing them and Beyblade spin them to the other side of the solar system, before dumping an entire Itano circus on a robotic swarm of small fry enemies, as if I was playing some sort of Gundam musou. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK??

You're asking for the game to be something completely different.

Well, yeah, I know. But can't exactly control my imagination. The heart wants what the heart wants, and it's not like I'm blaming X for not being the game of my dreams. If anything, I commend it for stirring up these emotions in me.

Blueberry rock candy mommy tummy.

Really, it's hard for any game to topple these titans.

Just stagger them first

Orange means melee no matter from which weapon it comes from.
The only thing from your ranged weapon that would matter here is the element, but it doesn't for this specific art due to gravity lock.

You can't just give the badass savior of humanity full, juicy, kissable lips. How is anyone supposed to play the game when they're distracted by the protagonist's beauty?

game miraculously gets a rerelease after everyone thought it was going to be forgotten by the company

no resurgence of true elma porn

the existence of prone women 34 is questionable

I want to do the blue

I just defetead that chapter 10 big ship Za Phuck or something like that. It wasn't hard, but it took a long ass to go down. Guess I'll look for better Skell weapons for everyone.

Yesterday's 2 grind reminded me that trust ranks above S existed before the introduction of love source DLC quest.
Except the highest amount of trust you can gain in one go is 21, and the required trust for S+ 59000. How did they even expect you to reach such a crazy amount? Quick math says you would need to use a pouch item 2800+ times and this is genuinely the fastest way, what were they thinking?

X2 will have 2 Cross

updated
gbatemp.net/threads/xenoblade-x-de-retranslation-uncensor-patch.668924/

If you pat her head, you'll get fibre glass in your bloodstream and die.

how do you use the gatling gun without dying

Point it towards the enemy.

Can be paired with shield for topplelock or reflect builds.
If both fail on a specific enemy then stacking attribute res is universal.

Retard

nobody takes the shitposter’s bait and engages in his retarded “discussion”

he starts seething about Xenoblade X in other threads

no you don't understand I NEED Lin naked or this game is unplayable bro

Kill yourself schizo.

Tatsu for Smash

Meds

fixed weapons

no big dick damage weapon

every weapon has only two baked in effects

the effects are at VII instead of XII

three elements

fuel tank smaller than a light frame's

big draw is the jet mode in a game with fast travel

entering jet mode ups fuel consumption to heavy frame levels

Is this some elaborate fuck you? Did the players do something to upset the devs?

good lord can Rock's dick even fit in Celica???

It doesn't, Celica doesn't even know what's a sex

How do you get in to the squads doing nemesis runs? Every time I join a squad one no one hosts. Every time I host no one joins. Yet you always see the message that both bosses only have like 30% HP left so I know there's a player base somewhere.

No, that would be morrowind.

I would still put Elden Ring above it.

In X you go to a place and it's still just an art asset, maybe with a generic cave underneath. The only real dungeon is Orr Sim and it's like 3 hallways. In Elden Ring you go to the art asset and it's a huge intricate dungeon that links to other parts of the world. Elden Ring hides entire mechanics behind convoluted exploration.

That said X is comfortably number two thanks to it's great use of verticality

Celica doesn't even know what's a sex

Meanwhile, Neilnail is getting nailed in commercial district alleys in exchange for isekai manga.

What's going on here?

start the new chapter after the OG ending

the enemies from the intro are back?

a new doll appears that looks like ares?

vita is somehow back too?

looks like we are in for some kino revelations

cringe filler dialogue and a stupid running joke with Al and his greeting

some filler quests INSIDE the main quest about some old nopon hag who doesn't want to leave mira and some black dude who wants to preserve the genetic information of the wild life and plants

what the fuck were they thinking?
there was a giant new region in the sky that we could have been exploring RIGHT NOW and they waste time on this shit.
stopped playing after this. i had no patience for this shit anymore.

The "new story" is just setting up for le epic crossover with the characters from 1/2/3

quest about some old nopon hag who doesn't want to leave mira

Unironically the only interesting dialogue in the whole chapter. Everything else felt inorganic.

All these explanations to the lore but they wouldn’t tell us what L is? He’s so shady

Not even close. The game is terrible, even beyond the story just randomly ending. The biggest issue is both how easy 90% of skell combat is, and how long it takes to grind to beat the other 10%. Why in God's name do you need... 32? Rare drops from endgame enemies for one single fucking augment for a skell that needs a dozen of the same augments. It's the most asinine time sink I've ever seen.

Not with that combat.

i mean, i liked that part about him talking about his disappearance and what he witnessed in that dimension and what happened to Lao(even though i thought he would come back at first).
too bad it wastes your time after that with stupid filler quests that could have been some side quests, or something, instead

and what he witnessed in that dimension

"Here's a slideshow of random scenes from the other games, please clap"

Do cityfolk exist in the nexus?

He's a merchant. Pay attention.

Who cares?

i think X's combat is the best in the series

Will Yelv go to heaven when he dies?

Maybe. That means nothing though.

Especially with that combat, you mean.
The ground one, at least.

sex with Neilnail

Does anyone know what the "super-special" augment does, or what has it? It only seems to show up on the filter in the menus.

Sex with Neilnail would just be her yapping nonstop about alien ruins and shit while you tire out from fornicating with her.

I went for a non-jovian planetary naming scheme
It was kind of ironic when old mate showed up with the "Ares"

try making a reflect build

can't reflect enough things at once

try to make a sleep or tooplelock build

enemy just resists it

I WANT TO USE THE FUCKING GATLING HOW DO YOU MAKE THIS SHIT WORK
I DON'T WANT TO USE FAG WALKER

and celica

This is not your team. This is a fake team made for a photo. The planet's miranium reserves can't support four heavy machines at once.

it's just for the Reflect augments, presumably they're "super special" due to being superboss only drops

Is Xenoblade X the best open world game ever made?

Only if you have mental issues.
It's a meh jrpg at best.

As far as open world mainstream RPGs are concerned TES (Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind) and Elden Ring are far superior, but even the modern Zelda games are better.

Resistance reducer for toppling nigga
And full reflect isn't necessary most of the time, enemies use like 3 attributes at most, with generally only one actually doing huge damage.

Strongest knife attack is black black bane which is melee attack based and requires a debuff setup. Strong though. Strongest sniper attack is afterburner which requires a potential setup. They aren't compatible for what that's worth. You can go for a ranged slayonet setup instead if you want for less damage, but a ranged setup. The real weakspot here is a lack of ability to defend yourself. Your best bet is sleep from screamer, but even leaving aside some sleep immune things there's the more pressing issue of you and your teammates waking them. You can sacrifice 1-2 skill slots on yourself for this or roll weapons with soft touch (admittedly usually a very common trait). The more pressing issue is that you'll def want to roll soft touch weapons for your party if you want them around. And if you are doing a potential setup, you probably do since your own tp generation probably isn't so hot, so bringing along some tp batteries is probably a good idea. Potential setup would let you black butterfly (for an ether sniper rifle), full specs, energy source, howling soul, afterburner for stupid damage though. Make sure howling soul is right before afterburner for the ranged combo bonus.
For slayonet you still want full specs and howling soul, but replace energy source with eagle eye. Slayonet benefits from a melee combo instead so leave black butterfly for right before it.

how much resistance reducer

I’m getting filtered in the like level ~55-60 range is this when I need to start caring about augments and stuff? I can beat anything normal but the big guys are a coin flip at best

reminder that if you take the zu pharg down in less than 2 minutes you save the sylvalum land bridges.

Take longer and they're gone from your game permanently.

Also overdrive. The higher your OD count the easier it is to overcome any debuff resistance, including topple.

what 2 affinity mission arts would you add if you could

highway mirage, gatling gun aura, ranged damage up + pot up + gain decoy I when you trigger a ranged combo

branding iron, gatling gun thermal locked orange topple art + inflict blaze in a ranged combo

Size matters in the game. An XL size enemy of the same level as a S size enemy is many many times more powerful. It's why people pick on Joker despite his level and why people die so much to Siren early in the game.

Depends on the enemy and things like your level, but I remember you can topple Luciel(who has the highest Topple resistance that's not outright immunity) with a full stack of res reducer V augs + ez debuff probe + overdrive.
That's 90+30+100 for a combined 220 reduction, anything above that is absolutely overkill.

I'm assuming overdrive is being used already yeah, but some enemies have debuff res above 100.

Are you using potential or ranged attack builds? If you're going ranged attack you can try the instant max over drive build with 5 Overdrive: TP augments. Like the other anon said, at max over drive resistance is reduced by 100%.

Should I buy Xenoblade X? I absolutely loved Xenoblade 1 but I had to drop Xenoblade 2 after a field skills lock in the main quest added 7 hours of playtime for no reason. Is there similar bullshit in X or is it more like Xenoblade 1?

Skill checks exist but they serve an entirely different purpose, rarely come up and can be completely ignored.
There's nothing that really gates progress but your playtime can be pretty lengthy if you're easily distracted. And this game is only kino if you like being distracted.

i just want to hellfire things to death
i want to use the knife but keep dying

I had to drop Xenoblade 2 after a field skills lock in the main quest

It takes 5 minutes at worst to get the required nodes on story blades, or 10 seconds if you were lucky enough with the gacha.
t. beat story 4 times, and NG+ with post game stuff once

I'm in Chapter 11, how I do get Mia? None of the quests seem to indicate anything, just a bunch of continuations from earlier quests (Slovity, Ga Jiarg stuff, etc).

Explain how? Everywhere I looked indicated it would take hours

did you complete the entire definian shitshow quest chain
what's your cauldros survey %
sometimes a quest isn't marked with a quest marker lol

She's a pain in the ass because her entire quest line is one of the few where you have to stumble upon without a marker. When was the last time you saw her?

Did you do Definian Downfall? Did you survey 65% of Cauldros? Did you do all the other Mia missions? If so, go back in that base where you did Definian Downfall and enter that tiny cave where a treasure is hidden in a container with a locked door guarded by a single level 60+ Definian and some suids.

You aren't supposed to max out every chart or anything like that, just do reqs for field skill nodes as they become available on story blades and help yourself with commons(usually without levelling them at all). If you manage to roll useful rare blades then you might not even need that, because main story checks have low thresholds.
Also it's a good idea to do any node available on blades you are using anyway to make them stronger in combat.

Do you think Void's conduit experiments predate Klaus' experiment? Or is it, and all of X, far in the future from all that?

I don't think the temporal axis matters a whole lot on a multi-dimensional scale

Klaus's experiment is what released Void from his prison, so yes Void's experiment obviously predated Klaus

Klaus's experiment is what released Void from his prison

Huh?

Retard

Fuck me I was worried about levelling up the reqs on individual blades I didn't even realize you can stack lvl 1 skill gachashits in the party and do it

Was it ever stated how long it would take for the 2 planets to join after 3's ending? Just wonder if they decided to to do X2 would anyone be around to keep Elma company.

Nothing else come close to it no

Is there some secret to make shock/blaze do damage it doesn’t really seem like they do anything. I’m using conduction rise and shooting star

you've got 2 choices

quick cannon

hercules blow knock n shock memefishing

Rate my second playthough Cross.

al is already in the game

Brown Elma or Blue Elma?

Masterworks both. Can't go wrong.

Not with that combat system.

I've never played this game but looks interesting. What's the appeal of this one? Is gameplay/combat any good? Looks kinda like mmo slop

tell a Ma-non that I prefer not wearing underwear

Elma liked that

?

She's a CFNM enthusiast

i like xeno elma more

iirc you can topple Luciel with topple toppler and 3 resistance reducer augs.

Sure but I'd rather use the skill slot for something that boosts DPS or cooldowns

I'm in Chapter 11, how I do get Mia?

best phantasy star game after psp1
wish it had questmarkers and less focus on mechs but otherwise was a neat experience

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