How to Farm Battle Points in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition

Battle Points (BP) are a type of experience in Xenoblade Chronicles X, but unlike regular XP, BP is used to level up your Arts and Skills. Depending on your assigned Class, you’ll have different types of Arts/Skills each with their own levels. BP can be trickier to farm than XP due to the lower payout from leveling, completing Squad Missions, etc. Regardless, you should at least be spending your character’s BP to level up your desired Class’ Arts/Skills before Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s postgame.

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Every Way to Farm BP in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition

How to Get Battle Points (BP)

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The most obvious way you’ll get BP is by leveling and leveling your Class Rank, so make sure you’re fighting monsters around your level. While you progress the story, you may struggle to level as quickly as you did at the start, so you’ll want more ways to farm your Battle Points for enhancing your Arts and Skills.

Here are all methods to farm BP:

Opening Treasure Boxes such as Skrell Wreckage.
Fill out items in the Collectepedia’s Lucky Panel. Completing entire collectible categories is another way to get BP (available after Chapter 4).
Discover Base Camps.
Complete Support Missions (available after Chapter 12).
Leveling.

Treasure Boxes appear on the minimap as a small, golden square. Be on the lookout for them while you’re exploring Mira and activating FN Sites.

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Understanding Art and Skill Upgrades

How Soon Should You Spend BP?

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition offers an array of Classes you can set to your main character. Each Class has their own Skills and Arts, meaning you’ll be going through a lot of BP if your goal is to upgrade as much as possible.

Your Arts are tied to weapon types. By fully mastering a Class Tree will enable you to use their respective weapons even if your current Class is of another Branch. This will allow you to use Arts you normally wouldn’t be able to based on your Class.

In addition to Arts, you have Skills. Different Classes have different Skill Slots (ex: some have three Skill Slots, some have two, etc.), so you’ll be limited to how many Skills you can equip. However, unlike Arts, Skills are added permanently once they are learned. Meaning if you wanted to add the Buff Heal Skill to your Commando Class, you can do so after you’ve unlocked said Skill through the Enforcer Class.

Determining Which Arts/Skills to Upgrade

You should create a build that fits your combat style or the Class you’ll be playing as the most. Generally, you’ll want to upgrade Arts that inflict stagger or topple, such as Blossom Dance (weapon: Longsword). You should also take an Art’s effects into consideration before dumping all your BP into upgrading it.

Given the variety of Classes and their respective Skills, you should only upgrade Skills that benefit your assigned/main Class. If you find yourself using weapons like the saber or using Arts primarily in healing, then you should upgrade Buff Heal.

It also won’t hurt you to upgrade an Art/Skill or two for whichever Class you’re trying to rank up.