Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles X - OT

@Dezzy: I obviously wanna try to enjoy the game and last night I went back to Mira for some secondary missions. Here we go with the field music, than I accidentally pass over a very small enemy that wasn't there a frame before, here we go with the battle music; I watch my party killing that useless enemy, then there's the field music again. Have to fly to reach a certain area: here's the flying theme and when I land here's the field music again. Let's fight to finish the mission; battle music! Press A a dozen time. Field music again! I'd better fly to the new destination but that song just restart from the beginning once again... "Don't worry about the future it's alright" than I quit.

@andreoni79:

I can understand someone might feel a bit fed up with the game at that point - I'm probably at around the same place you are. The problem is it's such a grind.

At the moment, I'm training up some other characters - one annoying thing I find is that you have to use Elma and Lin for the main missions, and select members for affinity missions. It wouldn't be a problem if they were easier to swap in and out. As such, some members begin to lag behind, and you need to go through some grinding to get them up to an acceptable fighting/affinity level if you hope to do all of the affinity missions.

Besides, I hear that Chapter 10 is particularly tough, so I could probably do with getting to lvl.50 and gaining access to the next set of Skells, not to mention refining my gear and skills...

@Mineral: Btw there are ultra well hidden areas that have unique tyrants that don't even count towards the survey rate or for completing the Bestiary.

You're right, it went over in an eyeblink! Never thought it'll be that easy!

Now I'm finishing some missions and searching for that spirit wand in order to unlock another arms manufacturer to spend my Miranium on. so far not a single one found. Oh, and I tried one Nemesis Mission and got my Skell destroyed after finishing about three bars of health of the Telethia Man that thing was strong.

I'm sure I got most of them by getting all the holofigures. Like Zorn The Wanderer, who only appears when there's a rainbow in a cave in Cauldros. He was such a pain to get to spawn. Don't care about the Bestiary to be honest.

@Lycidas
Wait until you try Yggralith Zero. Ygg is even harder.

Ok so here's a question:
Who's the best 4th member for the party? I assume pretty much everyone has Elma and Lin because of how often they're needed for missions.
Who's the best 4th?

@Dezzy
There's no "best" party member. Once you hit post-game, you can use anyone you like. However, I'd say Nagi, or L.

You sure? There does seem to be a bit of a gap between some of them. Irina was utterly awful compared to Doug, for example (at the same level)

I keep meaning to properly invest in the game - I'm on chapter 4 with about 30 hours played and admittedly still don't really know what I'm doing. I guess I'm used to playing RPGs where it's usually obvious which weapon works best on certain creatures, but with XCX I seem to be judging all my battles on what level they are compared to me... which is wrong, right? It is possible to beat enemies higher than myself? If so, I've failed thus far.

Your warning about the later chapters has prompted me to properly look at the manual and try to understand the mechanics more, so thanks for the kick up the butt - otherwise, I doubt I'd get very far.

@ Dezzy: I used Gwin as my 4th, with defensive stance and another ability he has great survivability. I used Lao at first though.

@Dezzy
Yeah. There are definitely characters who are better than others, but there's no "best" character just like there's no "best" team. Use who you like or who fits your team.

I finally got to play again. Exploring Noctilum is so good, omg. Several points I've just like spun the camera around to look at the environment, it's breathtaking.

@Neko_Ichigofan
He's training you to fight Eastern style.

@Neko_Ichigofan: Use soul voice and keep them in a group, tell them to stay around u

Just bought this game for 50 bucks brand new! (And in Canadian money, so would be way less than that in U.S $)
Does anyone have any good guides I could read or videos to watch to get me introduced with the series because I've never played a xenoblade game before

@robbiemactavish:
Nintendo made a bunch of "survival guides". I didn't really watch them but I think that's what you're looking for.
Here's the link : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2JiZAV5BmDVQrkyFO7-6-...

Just done the mission where you need to find a sperical EM motor in Noctulum. God, it was frustrating. Id never have found it without looking online. First time the games really annoyed me.

@Leon_Kennedy:

I know what you mean - between the rare pickups and the specific drops from, sometimes specific mosters (which you can at least trade for with tickets), some of the quests are extremely grindy.
I finally found my first mystic(?) wand in Sylv' for a quest, but I felt I had to register it in my compendium, otherwise I might forget it. And of course, then I had to find another one for the quest...

I too had to do a google search, and it turns out, it reliably shows up in three different areas from 19:00 until morning, so I had to do a few passes until I finally got it.

As for other pickups, I was able to find what I needed in Primordia on the big bridge in the north - primarily, Drilling Squirrels, driftwood and these coils or rings (forgive me for not being able to recall exactly what everything is called in this game).