Xenoblade Chronicles 2 The Weakest & Least Useful Rare Blades Tier List - The WORST Blades in XC2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In part 2 of the Tier List series we take a loot at the weakest & most underwhelming Rare Blades in Xenoblade Chronicles 2...
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*Which blades are you not ashamed to use? even if they're weak!*
Jay RPG Percival. He isn't weak exactly. He just is situational. If pulled in the beginning of the game, he will make it easier as heals his driver for killing an enemy and gets stronger each time an enemy is toppled
I personally love Kasandra. Kasandra has good abilities but her weapon being a shield hammer hinders her a bit due to the slow arts and auto attack. Her passive to constantly increase aggro does help combat that though, and there aren't that many dark elemental blades in the game. Also Kasandra probably has my favorite design out of all the rare blades. She is literally just Maya from the Ace Attorney series.
I call percival yoshimitsu 😂😂😂
Are Herald and Wulfric good by your standards? I use them on Rex along with Mythra and I do fine, but I'd love to hear your imput.
Jay RPG Kora is my number one blade on Rex. I use her even more than Pyra and Mythra. Her passive ability Walking Joh allows you to heal 6.8% every second while moving. That combined with her Potion Hoarder skill which makes potions last longer means I can wait until my team needs healing and then I can walk to the potions healing extra to do myself and as well as healing my team. She can drop tons of potions too of you level the ability for knuckles. That and her lv2 special also drops potions.
She's helped me through so many high level bosses that were higher level than my team. You can also add a Garner or a Sapphire accessory and then you never stop healing whether attacking or moving.
She might be less useful as an AI controlled team mate but using her as the player is undeniably amazing.
I just hate how some of the Rare Blades don't have their element mastery
Eddy and then there is Godfrey with no useful field skills.
Y’all gonna leave Godfrey alone lmao 😂
I agree, especially when they have another one that you hardly ever use
*SHEBA*
Pikgod the hentai lord
I never said she wasn't strong I just said she has bad field skills
Perun is my bae blade
let it rip
I love Perun too but I kinda realized she kinda sucked early. But I still use her.
Adenine is my favorite non story-related blade. She was the second blade I got after Kora, and has never left Rex's party ever since then. I know there are more efficient blades out there but she keeps my team alive with the 60% double potion drops when I need them. The canceling from switching to her to connecting the three arts are also good for quick damage, and the wind element is something I make use of often. Her Japanese VA gives an independent vibe that isn't half as annoying as the others in battle.
Agreed, I love Adenine! Between her attitude, and making for a decent bit of back up healing when needed, she generally is on my team for major fights.
7Seraphem7 that and her passive add up to massive bonus damage in fights and all the loot. I think Jay might have missed the point with her
mhm, it also helps that fist weapons are one of my favorite classes of weapons in the game.
Before I got my own switch, my brother had one so I did my first play through on his and got Adenine as an early blade, second play through on my switch I got Adenine again, early in the game
Chaxune Adenine was the first rare I pulled....unfortunetly I had to waste an early game overdrive protocol to get her off of Rex but hey. I used her for a bit.
Not gonna lie, I didn’t even realize Adenine was a healer. I just kinda assumed she was an attacker, since she plays pretty well as an attacker, and I got her with Zeke no less.
Same
Being completely honest, I love having Kora on my main healer.
During my playthrough I had terrible luck getting rare blades, by the time I recruited Zeke I had like... 6, total.
Anyway, I had Kora (along with Dromarch and Boreas) on Nia for the majority of the game, and at the time she was the only *rare* I had that could actually launch enemies. Plus her level 3 special packed a mean punch and often fully healed my party in a similar way as Boreas (especially when getting lightning orbs. The impact when she lands her lvl 3 is just... Mmph, love it.)
Perceval is actually pre op tho if u know how to use him.
Battle Wisdom is too good to make Adanine a bad blade. She makes other blades broken by just being in the same team as them.
Agreed. It hasn't even been an hour since I clocked off more than half of Ken's health bar with a full burst from her.
I agree
I think she's top 20 including DLC
Lmao, I used Adenine, Kora, Azami, and Perceval in my playthrough.
XD
Actually I quite like Percival, using him on Morag, with ageaon and bridgid actually gives you not only a ton of i frames, but in fights with a lot of add ons you are damn near unkillable while having very high dps for a tank. You just have to build with his characteristics in mind
I'm finding Morag with Brigid/Percival/Theory quite interesting actually.
This is true. Those are my blades I have with Morag in she kinda became one of my strongest party members. She survived very well in my final boss fight. Additional 40% AGI to Morag is not bad at all.
You're wrong about it being +40% AGI. It's actually approx +45.5%, because the stat mods from each Blade are applied mulplicitativly. They also multiply with +% equipment, and all +constant stat boosts are applied BEFORE your stat mods, so those all get multiplied by the cumulative total stat mod. Hense how you can get any one stat on any one Driver up to 999 (except HP, which caps at 9999 instead, and on Tora would be able to reach twice the current cap if the cap was not in the way).
Get Vale on the team as well together with Dagas and you'll get absolutely sick DPS when you're fighting a horde of mobs in conjunction with a boss.
Pretty much what I'm running as well. Most there for the evasion boost, but it has been working so much I hardly see her heath drop.
Adenine was the second rare I ever summoned on Rex, in chapter 2, and hasn't left my party since. I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all of what you said about her though, and luckily never had to deal with the pain of trying to heal with her.
Adenine isnt a healer she is a offensive buff character with a broken buff ability. If you wanna do the most dmg in the game you need her on one of your party members.
Agreed, she has no place on a list of weakest/least useful blades. Sure she's not a great healer, but she's easily one of if not the best support blades in the game providing a massive team damage buff on top of the always useful treasure sensor. IMO she's easily more useful than other unmentioned healer blades like Vess and Nim who are rather mediocre
Nia has her and she is broken af when it comes to final combos , she never left nia 's team since the beginning and and her arts recharges very quickly somehow
I think they're all pretty decent, Vess provides pretty good utility in her level 1 special and her de-buffs and Nim buffs fusion combo damage to absurd levels.
Gotta agree, Adenine is a healer in name only, probably because they didn't want to make a fourth support class. Her party buff along with her ability to increase item drop rates makes her one of the best blades in the game, especially when you're farming for end game drops.
I have both Kora and Adenine on Nia lol. Are you greek, by the way?
I just got kosmos on Zeke, and the game is kinda broken for me now. I set morag up with a super evasion build, so nothing hits me while zeke is dishing out tons of damage. But I like Perun alot still.
Kora? Kora self heals while you move and keeps potions out longer. I always use her for survival when fighting big enemies
Perceval is really good in fights with multiple ennemies, on one target he is pretty useless, but a beast in group fights
Damn... 5 of my Favs are on this list... maybe I need to overthink my group xD
That’s funny. That’s all of my blades I have so far.
Gorg suffers from an identity crisis like Precival and Adenine. He is an attacker that plays like a tank. He has a passive that increases his defense and another that reduces party damage up to 20% when at max affinity.
Both passives are neat, though the rest are underwhelming like the damage boost when fighting aquatic enemies or the worthless affinity boost his LV1 gives. Since he barely has any damage increase modifiers, Gorg's damage input is rock bottom out of all the axe wielding blades.
He may have a niche on Tank Zeke, since it's so easy to draw aggro with Zeke when wielding an Axe.
Why you would want Zeke to be a Tank is a good question though.
Because of what happens in chapter 8:
Many people like to give Pandoria to Rex when he gains the ability to use all blades.
A few things: 1. Gorg is incredibly effective for a single battle in chapter 10, one that is otherwise very hard because you only have access to Rex.
2. Gorg is perfect for a Royal Warrior build tank. He has high base durability, crit rates high enough for a critheal build (read: allows you to get away with not having a healer while having a tank that does not rely on pure evasion) and can build up his Driver's Special level quickly with the Greataxe's Critical Recharge Art. Oh, and his only possible competition for tanking within his element is both locked to a specific driver and offers both less damage and greater reliance on dodging over surviving.
Even though Perun isn't the best, I still love her so much that I can't help but use her.
I'm currently using Azami/Gorg/Pandoria on Zeke right now, and he can more or less do the Break-Topple-Launch thing completely on his own. You use Azami to inflict Break (Equipping Beta Scope makes this easier), then switch over to Gorg to get the topple with Spinning Elbow. From there, you can either get one free Topple-boosted Raging Charge with Gorg or switch to Pandoria to launch if you don't have anybody with Smash atm.
When most of your favorite blades are on this list but you feel more proud they got you through the game, on hard custom mode.
Perun's Cold Sever is amazing though
Am I the only one who says "YOOOOOOOOOOOO" when Percival does his summoning pose
I love Kora on Rex she was my first little blade and I’ve used her since the beginning
This what I've come to really love about the game, how well balanced it is. Yeah, there are some blades that you can say are worse then others, that have flaws, but none that you screw yourself over by using. You can, for most of the game, just use the blades you like and have fun with.
Both Adinine and Percival are two of my favorite blades to use, just because I love their whole design and aesthetics.
I'm late to the party, but it's funny you highlighted 3 of the blades in my rotation xD
I'm only at chapter 5 though
Oh boy almost a year late!
Percival just makes my Morag even more of a God. From impossible to kill, to doing some of the highest damage when Level 3 finishers come around... Yeah getting into postgame grinding and optimizing changes that, but that's unfair to the Blade when a good only 25% of the game is post-game. When he's competing with your DPS who have tons of effort put into them all game and he comes in mid towards end-game... That's a pretty badass tank option
I literally only have the blades mentioned on this video, ah my fcking luck
Floren is my best blade. With the Torigoth Snowpouch and Narcipear Jelly. Rex who is my party's healer has him, Pyra/Mythra (mostly Mythra), and Rex's Ch 7 Story blade can heal like a boss.
I used to use Kora because she was hot and fist fighters are cool. As for Gorg he was the only one I could launch with for a while.
When I awakened Adenine I thought she was so cool, so I used her on Rex for my playthrough. Battle Wisdom did not disappoint me :)
Azami is my fav yandere gal~
Jacob Lock I'm always afraid she is going to rape her driver
in my recent playthrough i gave Morag the megalance weapon class and Perun has actually been great with her as my main tank. she can swap into Perun do some decent damage and not drop like a fly the second she changes. i personally like ice's sealing effect so i always have at least one ice blade on my crew. i have Perceval on Morag as well, later i plan to make rex my main healer with Zeke as dps, and Morag as tank. i want to have a dps option on all my kits with Morag so maybe ill find use for him there. with Corvin on Zeke that should give some wiggle room for ascetics. Perceval is one of my favorites judging from design alone always wanted to find a spot for him.
Perceval goes perfect on morag Brígid and looking for the perfect 3rd still but that combo has worked rly well for me
I love Kora and Gorg. Kora has awesome special arts and Gorg has and extremely high special attack.
I love how he just listed EVERY SINGLE Rare blade that I currently own right now 😂😂😂 the only ones I don’t have (yet) on this list are Perceval and Adenine. I’m barely on Chapter 3, and I thought I was proud of my rare blades so far.... lmaoooo 💀
Lol, u trying to end the game?
Perceval was my first rare blade and he honestly carried me throughout most of the game
I am prepared for the backlash, but i have to say it. Not mentioning the blades, but why include spoilers game play?
I actually got Adenine early in my game and I was still coming to grips with the combat, so I didn't really account for healer blades needing to... well... heal. Ironically, her scaling damage made her a staple part of my DPS setup.
And then I found Nim who has all the DPS Adenine has, and a really good party heal in her level 1 special. Addy was quickly replaced.
But I still use her regularly to farm Rare crystals. Gotta get KOS-MOS this decade. :P
I use
Rex: Pyra/Mythra, Scimitar, Roc
Zeke: Godfrey, Pandoria, Dagas
Morag: Brighid, Aegaeon, Adenine.
As unconventional as it may seem, it works REALLY well. I killed gladiator orion relatively quickly with no deaths (not sure if that means its good or not, i just think its an accomplishment). I think any blade can be good if u use the right aux cores and core chips for the specific driver.
i use most of these, i still rack up mad damage, mad healing and mad tanking... yup, balanced.
Love this list - and the fact the Godfrey and Perceval are my first 2 rare blades :$
lol I used Adenine and Godfrey for the entire story and although I’m not done with the postgame content yet, both have been invaluable to my team
I saw in an another video, that Azami was one of the most powerful blade in the game , who I have to believe now ? XD
Adenine is OP by the way not as an healer, but as offensive who can heal like pyra :D (with potion of course)
Dat jiggle tho 😂 1:36
I did my playtrough really fast and didn't have many blades to choose from. When I got to Elysium I kept getting killed even before going after Malos. I beat everyone easily the moment I wsitched to Perun + an AGI tank (can't remember which) and wore items that increase AGI. The game just became so easy after that :) Malos didn't even get to touch me and I still did more than decent damage. Perun is a pretty bad attack blade but if you need some extra survivability, she is your lady ! And a plus is her nice personality: you have to help people in order to increase affinity with her.
I do in fact use the weak healer book girl for her elemental weakness DPS aspect.
Why this game isn't unbeatable by design: Your main character has a very versatile blade that is always equipped and the best character in the game is STILL really good out of the box without investment if you took the sidequest to get all 3 of his blades.
I, personally, think that the only useful Blades are the ones with the Quicken Arts ability/Blade Art. I use them to fill up the guages, then use the other blade for compos. Which means that I would have one rare blade on each character, and the reast can be the weakest commons for all I care, if they have the elements I need...
Godfrey is easily the worst blade imo, then Dromarch, also sadly Id say that perdido kinda sucks but the thing is, if you build for auto attacks then his auto attacks are better than his arts and specials, so its like hes bad cause you cant gain specials and blade combo with him without losing dps
Wait. Is Adenine bad? I used her throughout the whole game with Rex and beat the game with her. It made me really like her and now is my favourite non-story blade
my second rare blade and first rare tank blade is Godfrey. I see him as husband material and love his design looks like a butterfly. he got stuck on Nia but will still use him :)
Great. I found 6 rares so far and 2 of them are on this list ._. I actually hate godfrey. Atleast I found 2 of the healers you featured in your best blades video. too bad both of them are bound to rex T_T
4 of the blades mentioned in the video (2 attacker and 2 tank) were the blades i have unlocked so far. Lol
we need a tank that is not tora so hammers can shine vandam would of been perfect but well you know
rick blue zeke is actually pretty good in any role
Why do I always get the worst blades. Literally every blade mentioned in this video I have in my collection.
that feel when your A team is 5 from the shit list, 3 story blades and a lone Agate. rng really gave me the cream off the crop for my first playthrough it seems
Tfw Kora was your 1st rare blade.
It’s funny that the first 2 you said were Gorg and Perun because those are the only 2 rare blades I can get on Zeke
I still need to get Asami though... I am stuck at a DLC sidequest that requires her field skill.
My luck sucks. Gorg was my first Rare Blade, and second was Perun.
TBH?
I LOVE Perceval. Love him love him love him.
I USE KORA naw she's an ok healer I only use her for making orbs
And Jay? Can the DLC blades be played in the beginning of the game?
I’ve seen a lot of diss on my guy Dromarch. He might not be the most developed character of the main cast, but he is a memorable and enjoyable character to me as well. When hooked onto Nia, I think he makes for a great healer.
5 of these were in my team because I didn’t know what I was doing
Perceval really should not be on this list though...
I got all bad blades but I got kos-mo at the beginning of the end xd
Azami, Kora, Godfrey, & Perceval are among my first few rare blades... xD
Gorg was nice for diving, but that was about it.
I use adenine on my healer nia all the time
I think the game is trolling me i got only weak blades
Gorg is easily not the worst. Perun is the worst.
Why does everyone get Kora on Zeke?
I did too but still
Azami just makes me uncomfortable
aaaaaaah i picked up the game last week and im at chapter 4 now and just did a full team of 5star summons worth of common cores to fill in the gaps for nia and rex. lit all the blade i have on my team are on this list and the 2 spare that i got im using as merc fodder are also on this list. sad times oh well haha
This list isnt very good, most of these blades are pretty adequate. Nithing to write home about but leagues better than some others. Perceval especially can be great on rex.
I feel so bad after watching this. I have just reached Mor Ardain in the story and the only rare blades I have are Adenine, Perceval, Azami, Roc and Wulfric.
Personally i found Perceval to be amazing if the fight have some adds.He's immensively powerful if you kill them (like you should) before the main boss.
Azami if you have a dedicated build is stupidly strong.It takes time to get her right though :/
I startd the game recen,tly too anyway and i'm just farming/grinding exploring around (i'm at chap 6)
Well all my rare blades are trash, thank you bro
Perceval makes *spoiler* a super damage dealing tank!
omg. you just listed just about every blade that i'm currently using in my setup because RNG is a bitch
Damn I use both perun and Adrien 🤣🤣
BRUH I HAVE EVERY SINGLE ONE YOU MENTIONED
I had gotten kora for rex really early and used her from the beginning to the end.
This hurt me cuz I use Godfrey and I love him so much. He was actually my first rare blade and I feel that shield hammer is a good weapon which makes him better at least on Rex cuz he was endurance as a skill and that healing move
Godfrey was the first rare Blade I ever pulled, too, but honestly he really is lacking. Shield hammer is a pretty bad weapon class already with low damage and terrible speed, and Godfrey doesn't even bring anything to the table to balance things out like, say, Kasandra is able to do.
I used Perun throughout the whole game
Well damn, I used Adenine, Kora and Perun for most of the story and postgame.
Nice, my first rare blade is Gorg
I think Perun gets a bad rap. Her attack modifier when attacking from the side is fantastic and lends itself to Rex's spear skills beautifully. Other than that I agree with the list. As much as I love Adenine (and continue using her despite this), I knew she'd be at the bottom tier for healers because, as you said, SHE BARELY HEALS. She has a ton of guard-annulling passives which are meh since they are situational.
That's why I stressed in the video that no blade is really bad, they all have uses, and you should have no trouble completing the game with any blades you want to use.
The blades on this list just require different setups and less-than-obvious uses to be useful.
Oh of course! The video was excellent, don't get me wrong! I was just weighing in. :)
basically - all male blades are weak...
Calling Gorg anything negative is a mortal sin and we all know it.
I used perun on my entire game lol
Godfrey was the first (and is still the only) rare Blade that I have managed to awaken. Used him once and thought he wasn't really all that good, so made Nia back into a dedicated healer.
I actually centered my entire Rex build around Perun. The build was centered around healing damage whenever Rex landed a critical hit, and Perun would usually have a high critical spear equipped. This build works especially well when you consider that Perun's level 1 special hits a fuck ton of times, and also that Rex has an ability in his affinity chart that fills up the party gauge when he lands critical hits. There were some unique monsters that I was only able to defeat because Rex was healing on next to every attack. For his accessories, I gave him a modern medal that heals 10% of critical damage dealt, and Perun's Aux crystal boosted the power of her level one special. A bit of an unorthodox build, but it served me very well. Rex would always fill up the party gauge after one or two level one specials, allowing for many chain attacks in one battle as well as being able to revive party members very easily. He would also stay at a good amount of health, usually able to make it back to full health using Perun's level one special, at least in a chain attack, which has good synergy with one of Rex's Lance arts. This build worked especially well considering that Mythra also has some critical hit oriented abilities, and in the late game, I could literally just spam her level one special and the critical damage would recharge it instantly. Case in point, Rex does well with a critical hit oriented build, and critical hit builds are better in Xenoblade 2 than they were in Xenoblade 1 by far.
And funnily enough, the other blade I had on Rex was Gorg. He was mostly just there to boost Rex's HP and inflict launch, sometimes he would get to use his boosted damage on toppled enemies first once Rex gained the ability to art cancel.
Perun was my first rare blade
You basically just listed every rare blade I have
Ive been using percival on rex hè was My first rare Blade and now I somtimes one shot enemy,s with a random attack and the word execution pops up Idk Why Can you explain Please beacuse Its been quite usefull
I'm at the point where I'm just trying to increase character utility. I like trying to have straight characters. As in Full Attack. Full Healer etc. There are so many blades I'm trying to fit the right fits for them. Zeke pulled Kora when I was farming and it seems reasonable for him to use. Swift attacks etc.
I'm honestly just winging it though. :/
i actually find adinine useful on my rex as an emergency/secondary healer in a rex, nia, tora setup. have nia as my main healer, run tora as my tank, and use 2 attacking blades with rex (Pyra/Mythra and Zenobia) and Adinine as my last. does some good dps and helps build up to quick stage 3 elemental burst on my Zenobia.
Finch/Ibuki is my favorite Blade overall, and I use her on Nia. I haven’t beaten the game yet as I’m still on CH9, though. Victory Smoothie was made just for her.