Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition has brought the Wii U original to a platform that is sure to bring new fans – if, admittedly, in large part because so few people ever owned a Wii U. The game’s a gem, albeit a highly complicated one, which means it’s grand that a new generation can experience it… and a very good idea for us to provide a primer on it, too.
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Support Missions For EXP
In Xenoblade Chronicles X, many missions have required levels. On top of that, there are recommended levels, which are often higher. You can’t even initiate them until you reach a certain degree of strength, and they’ll be made notably easier if you wait until that second-tier suggestion.
Leveling can be rather glacial if you stick to conventional means, with many objectives offering mere piecemeal helpings of EXP. One way to get around this is to complete EXP-offering Support Missions, which you can do as many times as you’d like.
These can be very swift sources of hundreds of EXP. One such example has you walking a short distance to a single enemy and killing it for 700 EXP. The enemy in question is not even particularly powerful!
Finish Chapter 3 ASAP
Xenoblade Chronicles X is an impressively nonlinear title, especially by the standards of its numbered brethren. This is very much its design philosophy, although if you don’t wait until you’ve cleared Chapter 3’s story quest, much of the game will not have opened up for you yet.
At this point, heaps of content becomes available, from Affinity Missions and a plethora of new Normal Missions to the Quick Cooldown gauge – which makes battling during regular encounters far less tedious.
You’ll have plenty of main story left afterward, as your journey will have only just begun. But you’ll also be far better equipped for the challenges ahead.
Think Things Through Before Accepting Affinity Missions
Affinity Missions are a huge part of the game, as they offer chunks of characterization, a fair degree of world building, and strong sources of powering up your team. You can essentially think of them as nearly as important as Main Missions.
The thing is, once you’ve accepted an Affinity Mission, you must complete it before you can accept another, or take on a Main Mission.
This is a bigger deal than it might sound like. Even the very earliest Affinity Missions can send you halfway across the globe, in multiple directions, to achieve several objectives that might prove challenging. Whenever you’re considering initiating one, know what you’re getting into.
A sterling example of just how surprisingly harsh this can be is found with ‘The Repair Job’, an Affinity Mission for Lin that can be started after Chapter 3’s Main Mission. As part of the first batch of Affinity Missions, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s quick and easy. It isn’t. Despite the level 13 suggestion, we advise you not to accept it until you’re in Chapter 5 or so.
Your Collectopedia unlocks toward the tail end of Chapter 3’s Main Mission, although we’re pretty sure we didn’t receive a notification once it did. Go ahead and dive in as soon as you notice it, as you’ll likely have plenty of Primordia collectibles to register.
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Talk To NPCs On A Routine Basis
Most NPCs in New Los Angeles have updated dialogue throughout the course of the game, though you wouldn’t know it without checking in, as there are no indicators that someone will have fresh dialogue.
It’s worth spending a moment to chat folks up again every few hours. You may receive valuable information in this manner, including Affinity Chart progression that would not have otherwise occurred.
Actually Read Those BLADE Reports
Xenoblade Chronicles X can be, to be blunt, rather overwhelming. Information comes at you hard and fast, and just when you think you’ve surely unlocked every feature, something new comes at you without so much as a hint of foreshadowing.
BLADE Reports, which will pop up on the lower-left side of the screen whenever you enter a segment in the overworld with an unfinished Segment Recon condition, aren’t just there to restate the obvious.
Don’t rely solely on FrontierNav to tell you that you’re searching for a Tyrant, or White Whale Debris, or what-have-you, because the text for BLADE Reports can often provide a useful clue as to the precise location of your search target. “North of the lake”, “To the southwest,” that sort of thing. It’s quite helpful!
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