Xenoblade Chronicles X

Quick question: For the affinity shift at the cathedral, which woman was it who wanted to arrange a funeral?

Let me check the goddamn chart you asshole.

Pauline

Thank you. Figured it out anyway by checking the wiki.

Also, I have now planet every probe in Promordia, Oblivia, and Noctilum.

Sylvalum and Cauldros remain, but I want to level grind some more before working on planting all of those.

For a level 55 Tyrant, the Off the Record boss crumpled pretty quick. A G-buster, G2-Buster, M-Sniper and E-scythe will do that, I guess.

Faced off Telethia Plume for the first time. While getting its appendages yielded plenty in ticket rewards, I think I'll stick with farming squad missions. Right now, I'm hoping to get a Chimeroid Slayer XX for the final fight.

So, I finally have BLADE Level 10, I finally have completed the Collectopedia (sadly, there's not even an achievement for it), I got all of the Storage Probes setup so I can make the Ares 90 once I have the parts, and I'm steadily working on the Ether Blossom Dance builce.

Should I farm the enemies for the parts or just farm Squad Missions and use Reward Tickets to buy everything I need?

You know, when I first got a look at Sylvalum I was confused why everyone gushed about how pretty it was.

Then I took a flight above it at night with the Energy Mist.

The Seidr Control Mechanisms you should be able to get just fine, but the boss drops and Xe-Dom parts you'll probably need to ticket farm for.

Beat the game again. This time, I had more trouble with Luxaar than Chimera Lao. It helped that I built up an Overdrive for my Skell before the second phase of Chimera Lao's battle, then used a G-Buster and Bind combo repeatedly. Guess that Chimeroid Slayer XX wasn't needed after all.

Guess my next mission is to reclaim all the tickets I wasted.

So, can someone go over the best method to grind Support Tickets again? I spent a good chunk of the day doing all that I could and I'm almost not closer to the Ares 90 than I was before I started.

I don't know if it's the best way, but doing those Squad Tasks gives you quite a few tickets and sometimes medals, and then some of the Squad Missions they unlock give upwards of 200 tickets if you do them; you have to be quick, though, because someone else might do them first.

The Global Nemeses also dole out a ton of tickets, but it's tough without a powerful Skell and good appendage-crushing weapon.

I challenged the Telethia Plume and got no tickets out of it. Of course, I only managed to lower its RP by six since my Skell isn't really all that good.

Also, all the missions I kept getting would only give me about 25 at most.

Should I be joining Lifehold squads or Conquest squads?

When you fight Global Nemeses, focus on breaking all their appendages. Then after the fight, go to Global Nemesis Battle Spoils; you can exchange all the appendage fragments for Reward Tickets.

Made good progress today. Got Lao up to 4 and a bit affinity hearts. This was accomplished by getting 2 new races to move into NLA and doing a bunch of their quests. Hopefully mopping up the rest will get me 5 hearts. Then chapter 9 awaits.

On the squad select screen, where the globe used to be full of little widgets, now there's a chunk that isn't.

Does that just mean the World Boss health is low or something?

No, it means that the Yggdralith Zero cannot be fought. Once that gauge is full, you can fight it again.

Ah.

Thank you.

So I took on the Rexoskell. From all the stories I heard, I was expecting to get my ass kicked ten ways to Sunday (so... ten ways to today, I guess).

As per usual, I didn't have any trouble with it. The only troubling parts was the opening where it stagger locked me and drained my TP so my Overdrive went to waste and then, during Round II, where it just decided that no attacks were going to hit for a solid minute.

You must really have the lucky streak.

I wouldn't say that. I had two Mechanoid Slayer XX augs quipped alongside an Ultra Diamond Pride (Gravity) that naturally had Nul Gravity Reflect XV. I also had a maxed out Mechanoid Slayer Skill alongside a maxed out Secondary Speed, a maxed out Supreme Sword (I think), a Level 4 Yamato Spirit, and one other Skill I can't remember. My party members (Celica, Frye, and H.B.) also all had a Mechanoid Slayer XX aug. I also had a Max TP Up XX aug and started the battle with nearly 6,000 TP. As for Arts, I had Offensive Stance, Sliding Stinger, Primer, Ghostwalker, Tornado Blade, True Stream Edge, Rising Blade, and Blossom Dance.

For the second fight, I used my Skells and I had two Level 50s but, aside from that and a G Buster, I didn't have anything special since all of the Mechanoid Slayer XX augs I made for the Chapter 10 boss kinda disappeared on me.

I wouldn't say I was lucky, I would just say that I knew what I was getting into and prepared accordingly.

So I discovered that during the Cavern Clan quests, one decision can affect the outcome of the final mission in the quest chain. If you make one wrong choice during Slovity's Rampage, a Tree Clan member cannot be saved in the final mission. Guess that means I'll eventually have to play the whole story again.

I suck at ground combat yet I beat Rexoskell on the first try without any significant issue beyond it taking a while. I don't get all the horror stories surrounding it.

From my own experience tackling it the first time, it reaches a stage where if you don't kill it quickly enough it's evasion goes through the roof so none of my attacks would land.

That, or it topples your party constantly so you would have to either resort to topple resistance augments or interrupt its attacks with your own topplings.

My problem was that it consistently drained my whole party's TP. I'd go from 7000+ to 0 and be unable to revive or Overdrive and I'd die pretty quickly after that.

These Nopon Incarnates are kicking my ass. And it's weird because every other tough enemy in this game has some strategy to defeat it somewhere on the internet, but no one cares about these.

edited 14th Feb '16 3:14:10 PM by Mullon