Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch)

[Tymon]

Spoilers for >Ch7, mostly just strategy advice. No boss spoilers or anything.

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Pretty much the only thing you should be focusing on with any of the final bosses or the superbosses is just getting 3+ orbs and SSJ Pyra. Even if the boss is at like 70% it will die unless you miss the QTEs. People dramatically underestimate just how much damage those do. I killed the final boss from 80% health with 3 orbs. There are videos of people killing superbosses from >90% health by Full Bursting them. It's stupid damage, and kind of trivializes the fights post-game. Not a lot of strategy to them aside from just staying alive so you build up the chain meter.

[Ratatapa]

Just finished the game

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kinda sad ending st some point

Loved the game but unless I missed it is there any link with XC?

I know malos had some monado moves and st some point we heard a « shulk » sentence about besting gods

[Katlan]

Not a fan of how some quests don't proc while your in chapter 7 and 8. I have been trying to finish up Agate's mining quest since Chapter 7 and I got to the place, and it won't pop up on any map. Same so far for Chapter 8 while I am climbing the thingy. Omitting names for spoilers.

[Katlan]

Is full bursting 3 or 4 orbs?

[Ratatapa]

4

[Tyrath]

Not a fan of how some quests don't proc while your in chapter 7 and 8. I have been trying to finish up Agate's mining quest since Chapter 7 and I got to the place, and it won't pop up on any map. Same so far for Chapter 8 while I am climbing the thingy. Omitting names for spoilers.

Do you have the quest selected and Agate engaged?

[Katlan]

Do you have the quest selected and Agate engaged?

Yep. They popped back up when I hit chapter 9.

[Scythiroth]

Just finished the game

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kinda sad ending st some point

Loved the game but unless I missed it is there any link with XC?

I know malos had some monado moves and st some point we heard a « shulk » sentence about besting gods

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As far as I know, no links to XCX. I've seen people speculating that the third Aegis is Alvis from Xenoblade 1 though.

[Madeline]

Just finished the game

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kinda sad ending st some point

Loved the game but unless I missed it is there any link with XC?

I know malos had some monado moves and st some point we heard a « shulk » sentence about besting gods

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Lots of links with XC. The scientist being smacked around by Klaus in the cutscenes is Lady Meyneth, aka Galea, soul of the Mechonis. Klaus' other half is Zanza. XC was ending during that dialogue with the architect. The world the majority of people ended up in was XC. Unbeknownst to both Meyneth and Zanza, their world still exists, the Land of Morytha. When Klaus created his universe he sacrificed the current one, or so he believed, to create the universe in XC wherein his other side and Galea were both reincarnated. The half of Klaus trapped in between would be the one to create Alrest and give mankind a chance in an attempt to redeem himself, eventually becoming known as the Architect. There are still a few ways to tie it into XCX since it's said that there are people completely lost to either realm and XCX could simply be those people. Makes sense with how XCX's story went?

Fun that we never knew Meyneth's true name until the end of this game. It's being speculated that ties with XCX lie in the Nopon homeworld Mira and the space station being a future version of Mira wherein the conduit kept mankind from going the way of the dinosaur. I didn't finish X to know sadly, but I think that they were simply lost between dimensions makes sense beyond how do you tie in the Nopon being in all 3 games?

I thought it fitting that Meyneth, who originally wanted Klaus to stop his universe creation experiment as seen in XC2's cutscenes, died with her final wishes for a world without gods in XC. It all ties together rather beautifully. Klaus' guilt is very real and very gutting once you know exactly what he caused. His atonement and recreation of the world during the final cutscenes is fitting and somewhat bittersweet since that type of thing is exactly why the world is the way it currently is. Never fuck with the universe.

What I want is ties to Saga. Don't give me Kos-Mos and leave me hanging. But if there are any I haven't noticed them beyond the design of the conduit.

[Kachiko]

Xenoblade X didn't have an ending that tied up their problems; it just added more questions onto wth was going on with the planet they landed on, and the last text we get is that "the story never truly ends."

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As for Xenosaga ties, I can't tell of any so far or that I've read about. That was a pretty self-contained repeating universe until the end of the third game; best you could do would be that the new earth, at the end of Xenosaga 3, is the eventual world XC takes place in, which would enable KOS-MOS design showing up in XC2.

[Ratatapa]

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Lots of links with XC. The scientist being smacked around by Klaus in the cutscenes is Lady Meyneth, aka Galea, soul of the Mechonis. Klaus' other half is Zanza. XC was ending during that dialogue with the architect. The world the majority of people ended up in was XC. Unbeknownst to both Meyneth and Zanza, their world still exists, the Land of Morytha. When Klaus created his universe he sacrificed the current one, or so he believed, to create the universe in XC wherein his other side and Galea were both reincarnated. The half of Klaus trapped in between would be the one to create Alrest and give mankind a chance in an attempt to redeem himself, eventually becoming known as the Architect. There are still a few ways to tie it into XCX since it's said that there are people completely lost to either realm and XCX could simply be those people. Makes sense with how XCX's story went?

Fun that we never knew Meyneth's true name until the end of this game. It's being speculated that ties with XCX lie in the Nopon homeworld Mira and the space station being a future version of Mira wherein the conduit kept mankind from going the way of the dinosaur. I didn't finish X to know sadly, but I think that they were simply lost between dimensions makes sense beyond how do you tie in the Nopon being in all 3 games?

I thought it fitting that Meyneth, who originally wanted Klaus to stop his universe creation experiment as seen in XC2's cutscenes, died with her final wishes for a world without gods in XC. It all ties together rather beautifully. Klaus' guilt is very real and very gutting once you know exactly what he caused. His atonement and recreation of the world during the final cutscenes is fitting and somewhat bittersweet since that type of thing is exactly why the world is the way it currently is. Never fuck with the universe.

What I want is ties to Saga. Don't give me Kos-Mos and leave me hanging. But if there are any I haven't noticed them beyond the design of the conduit.

Yeah

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completely forgot that zanza is Klaus

Kinda night that we see his «  evil side » on XC1 and « good side « in XC2

[Voyage1970]

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As for Xenosaga ties, I can't tell of any so far or that I've read about. That was a pretty self-contained repeating universe until the end of the third game; best you could do would be that the new earth, at the end of Xenosaga 3, is the eventual world XC takes place in, which would enable KOS-MOS design showing up in XC2.

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You could make an argument that everything is tied together simply because the Zohar/Conduit exists in all universes and pretty much has the same purpose, a repository for all information. Assuming you hand wave some excuse about it being transdimensional or some nonsense KOS-MOS existing in Xenoblade 2 makes sense considering the Zohar from Xenosaga would have data on her existence and the Blades were made with data from the Conduit which would have the same information as the Zohar from saga.

To be honest I kind of wish they had some callbacks to Xenogears but it's probably just a bit too obscure for most people playing these games now who probably started with Xenosaga and the only real connection to gears is the Zohar.

[Ratatapa]

When is the DLC that lets us Ditch Pyra/Dromarch/Brygid again?

Kinda stuck to learn skills on other blades when you are kinda stuck with 2 slots lol

[Krandor]

Just send em on Merc missions. Except for Blades with very specific perk requirements (Zenobia or ones flagged by quests), you can get a lot of mileage out of just sending them on the missions.

[Ratatapa]

Just send em on Merc missions. Except for Blades with very specific perk requirements (Zenobia or ones flagged by quests), you can get a lot of mileage out of just sending them on the missions.

I'm aware but i'm still limited to 18 blades on mission, and even tho it's weaker i like maxing Common blades for Weapon books

[Tyrath]

Since Rata didn't know this. You can ditch everyone but Pyra/Mythra once Rex gets all blades. Just have Rex equip the main blade of another person.

[Tyrath]

FINALLY GOT KOSMOS FOR FUCKS SAKE YAAAAY

[Moridam]

2 massive gripes with the salvaging system in this game:

1. indol - single point, tightrope location, only spawns monsters that spam blowdown. zero point to salvaging here i guess, the buy/sell trick is the only feasible option for raising dev level

2. mor ardain end area - randomly locks 1-2 characters out of battle and also occasionally crashes the game

hell yeah, salvaging is a very cool activity that isn't fuckin' terrible at all

[EternityEnd]

Never had any issues or crashes with salvaging lol, and I've done a ton of it.

Indol is indeed pointless to salvage in, though, for various reasons.

[Tyrath]

He meant crashes in Mor Ardain, not salvaging. I did crash there once too.