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You can. Just make them the leader.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
No thanks, the highest level monsters wipe out your party in no time; solo is the only option here.
Smiles and Cries
Member
What are you guys running as far as weapon setup goes?
Knife/Sniper is good, damn near great at times, but I really feel like I'm straddling the fence on certain builds and skills. Knife is just so good at keeping everyone alive and everything under control.
Knife/Sniper is good, damn near great at times, but I really feel like I'm straddling the fence on certain builds and skills. Knife is just so good at keeping everyone alive and everything under control.
Longsword/sniper, I have TP for days and can spam my big moves easily. I still need to finish the build off with Blossom Dance though.
Wyndstryker
Member
lol
I officially have new respect for Murderess
She was the one who found and named the Rod of Brutality +10
Just started reading the collectopedia
She was the one who found and named the Rod of Brutality +10
Just started reading the collectopedia
Not really, aside from everyone adding each other on the friends list, and then joining the same squad when possible. Also joining the discord app server.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
A small thing that was in Xenoblade but was left out of Xenoblade X that makes me sad to see is gone is the ability to instantly move the battle "cursor" onto the centre (Monado/Overdrive) by pressing up. It was really handy for setting certain arts on either side of the centre so you could simply press up and then left or right to always land on them in a hurry. In Xenoblade X, pressing up on the D-Pad in battle does nothing. 
A small thing that was in Xenoblade but was left out of Xenoblade X that makes me sad to see is gone is the ability to instantly move the battle "cursor" onto the centre (Monado/Overdrive) by pressing up. It was really handy for setting certain arts on either side of the centre so you could simply press up and then left or right to always land on them in a hurry. In Xenoblade X, pressing up on the D-Pad in battle does nothing.
Though the D-pad at least gets some use with party member commands, it would have been nice if they'd included that. In any case, you can really see how constrained they were with the controller layout here compared to the first game's Wii Remote-centric design - such a shame they didn't have something like a touchscreen they could have used as an alternative method for selecting arts, commands and items.
I might try that... kinda shook to go full damage because keeping guys alive through fights just makes life easier imo
Sniper/Photon Saber
I've maxed out my Melee skills and Arts. I'm doing ~80% of the damage to any given monster lol. Leveling up the arts REALLY cuts down the cooldown, so I target appendages and use one art shortly after another. The Dismantler skill pretty much doubles your damage on appendages.
With all of this Starfall Rondo might be the best Melee art in the game - not counting Skell Arts of course. There's probably better guns to go with Photon Sabers, but I've only mastered the Jedi (Galactic Knight) class.
Got a WiiU during boxing sale and am finally playing this game. It is fucking GREAT. Gyving with the Xenogears/saga fan in me much more than the previous game did. Loving the scifi presented here.
Overwelming... so much to take in. But I feel I could be happy with this being the only game I own a WiiU to play... even though Im gaining burning interest in a few other games.
Overwelming... so much to take in. But I feel I could be happy with this being the only game I own a WiiU to play... even though Im gaining burning interest in a few other games.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
I've got all the classes mastered, but haven't really bothered with much ground game stuff. Some more engaging post game content that required it would be nice, because the Ares squadron is too real
The burst damage can be crazy, but that's because you don't have the tools to draw a fight out. You can do AOE or single target, but it really excels at breaking body parts fast.
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
Member
I'm feeling quite motivated now.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Do you have Mia?
Benzychenz
Member
The level 5 archeology quests sucks, gonna need a level 60 skell for this tyrant.
Are the mechanical/biological ones this shitty as well?
Are the mechanical/biological ones this shitty as well?
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Yep! Took awhile to find that room too lol
I am running Longsword/Sniper, I gain like 500 TP per autoatack with the Longsword, and the moment I can get into overdrive, as long as I don't mess up the chain, its very easy to keep.
Still building that set, doing a Potential Up XX augment, which should really help me rack up the damage. Got a couple of skills that raise TP per art used during overdrive, and a few that make Melee Arts stronger.
Benzychenz
Member
I don't even pay attention to what gun I have equipped because my whole art palette is longsword skills.
Is there anything super worthwhile I should have on there?
And what sort of skills or augments or whatever do you need to chain overdrive?
Is there anything super worthwhile I should have on there?
And what sort of skills or augments or whatever do you need to chain overdrive?
Haunted
Member
Mechanical lvl 5 has a level 55 tyrant that's absolutely doable with a team of lvl 30 skells, easily with a lvl 50 skell.
I did all the field skills before I got my Ares 90 (so mostly with a team of lvl 50 skells) and I'm hardly good at the game. You can do it!
Benzychenz
Member
Hmm I've only got the one level 50 skell for myself atm, I'll invest in some for my party members and see how I go.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
I killed it with two level 50 skells and two 30s. Down two skells by the end of the fight, but who cares.
The tyrant for the mechanical one is easier, but finding it is annoying because it moves and doesn't always spawn. It is on a set path, though.
ShironRedshift
Member
Nah, it was easy with 3 Level 50 Skells, and that was probably overkill--just craft some Insectoid Slayer XX augments for that particular Tyrant and it should go down pretty quickly. They make a huge difference for things like that.
Benzychenz
Member
How do augments work?
Can I whack that +40% to insects thing in every single slot on all my skell's weapons or what?
Then does it only effect the attack of the weapon it's equipped in or does it work for everything?
It really loses something without "bro". I'm not sure what would have been a better direction to go in for a female avatar - maybe rewriting the whole line into a "yaas queen" sort of thing?
Haunted
Member
Just the art of the weapon the augment is attached to.
I'm with him, I think "yaas queen" would have been the best option.
well it's never a bad option
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
Member
I can't help thinking people are talking about some fusion of the Yasminkov weapons and the Snow Queen whenever I see that :/
Hey I'm getting really bad framerate hits when spinning the camera whilst having Skells. Flying. Exploring. In new LA.
It's pretty much like the camera is in the barracks and doesn't seem to go away. I had the data packs on an external then redownloaded all 4 to internal storage/moved my save across and the issue persists.
Nobody I have spoken to have this issue. Anyone experienced this or heard about it? It's ruining the game for me. No skells its fine. Double checked and I have all 4 data packs.
About to purchase a new Wii U (mines a day 1 launch model; no issues with other games).
It's pretty much like the camera is in the barracks and doesn't seem to go away. I had the data packs on an external then redownloaded all 4 to internal storage/moved my save across and the issue persists.
Nobody I have spoken to have this issue. Anyone experienced this or heard about it? It's ruining the game for me. No skells its fine. Double checked and I have all 4 data packs.
About to purchase a new Wii U (mines a day 1 launch model; no issues with other games).
Benzychenz
Member
Laaaame.
I think I saw people talking about how +100% is the cap for stuff in here the other day?
So if I add slots and put 3 of them in I'll max out my damage?
Then is there a general agreed upon augment that's the best for just general use?
Then how do they work for ground gear? If I put them in my longsword it boosts all my longsword skills?
I've ignored them all the way up till postgame
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
How many Stem Cells did you guys get with your kills?
I got 96... I swear I can't use them faster than I can gain them. Gonna have to make bunny girl outfits for everyone at this rate.
theprodigy
Member
yay got my skell
though tbh I kind of want to rush through and get the flight pack
though tbh I kind of want to rush through and get the flight pack
Starwolf_UK
Member
Looks like I'll be going to every base camp at every time of day now. It is fine I need to kill time to build up Bonjelium.
That is the one (yeah supreme bunny ears). I was sure I had explored down there. I similarly got stuck on the patrol coptor north of FN 220 (it is high up, really high up like how can high can choppers fly high up...at least it makes more sense than that one in the middle of nowhere in the ocean to the left of where it says World).
This power. I need more. MORE.
This is why I have Elma and Lin as two of my Skell pilots. I just kick them from the party, go to the hanger menu and have the 3rd member with the skell armed with phoenix so I can allocate it to myself (if I wasn't using Ares 90 currently I could re-equip my skell and nu-register ownership of the 3rd members) and it isn't far to re-recruit elma and lin.
Thing is when it comes to busting appendages and exiting I'm not they really sure they save a lot of time compared with the time spent gather fuel.
They affect all weapons on the Skell. Telethia nemesis and an ares 90 is proof of this. I have neg.reflect.ether on one weapon and never kill myself from reflected ether damage.
Now this isn't true for the weapon mod augments that start with the word custom, those are that weapon only (if it did affect all weapons custom.wp.speed would be broken rather than broken if the weapon has it built in and upgraded along with the 3 augments you can equip).
Similarly having arts gain tp on a gun affects melee arts using the other weapon.
The game really needs to communicate all this better.
Haunted
Member
I totally didn't know this. Do the SLAYER augments have custom attached to them? Something to check next time.
Sorry for passing on false information! Though I agree that the game never communicates these sorts of behind the scenes details and it's a bit of a problem when that knowledge is kinda needed for these post-game level 94+ bosses.
DXLelouch153
Banned
dont rushyay got my skell
though tbh I kind of want to rush through and get the flight pack
reccomend atleast a three man skell team or ch 9 boss will wreck your shit
also guys anyone know a scout i can hire for treasure sensor so i can get homura and go to bed?
No. The only things that are Custom are the Weapon Mod Augments. You can equip cooldown reducing or fuel cost reducing (both are good for super weapons, though the both are pretty much rendered useless by Overdrive... unless you want to use them for farming or giving the AI super weapons) customs, for example, that only work for that weapon.
Also remember that any BOOST or %-modifiers are capped at 100%.
astrogamer
Member
Just got the Flight module and it's pretty amazing. I had a bit of trouble on the ground part of chapter 9, but that was due to everyone but me being kind of underleveled for trying to give affinity to everyone.
Conquer not with the sword, but a knife. Chopping vegetables and preparing glorious curry. This is what all warriors strive towards!
Starwolf_UK
Member
It might be more complicated than that as the ares 90 should have over 100% AttributeDmg.ETHER from its built-in augments yet adding AttributeDmg.ETHER XX to the frame does boost damage (one does at least). Searching around one theory is frame and weapon/armour are considered separate caps (source).
In terms of having varied builds though it is not unreasonable to work around the assumption of it being 100% plus IIRC you did see clear evidence of % caps when using the drive augments.
On another note that did make me look and notice how easy the PositionDmg. augments are to make and like slayer they seem very effective for how little they cost.