Battles are very positional based, taking control of your ground important. You can focus attacks on front, mid, back, but in a skell you can focus on front (high, mid, low), mid (high, mid, low) and back (high, mid, low). Some attacks get buffs depending on your position like increased damage, bleed or poison. There are no potions or healing items either, so monitoring your HP, calling out to friends and healing buffs are required.
Strategy and good perks are important to think about. It was similar in the first Xenoblade, but this one looks to improve on it in a lot of ways.
Also, adjust teams too, like who you want on agro, buffs, attacker, whatever.
I gotta understand why you're taking Ninjablade so seriously when all he's ever done is constantly try to talk bad about the game at nearly every turn. Not to mention he made a big fool of himself in the Fast Racing Neo thread about something he didn't seem to have a full grasp on, that several tech savvy people had to come in and even make a simple graph to give a basic understanding of the things going on in that game.
