I don’t know what the Xc2 community would do without you. Thank you so much for all the work you do to make this game easier and more enjoyable for all of us.
Thank you so much for this video. I just got the season pass and have been trying to finish shulk and fiora's affinity when I came to a hurdle regarding Carlos, Kurodil, and Rosa. Sad to say this showed me some mechanics I didn't fully understand or get at all but now I do (Fiora is ridiculously broken). Now to poppibuster's overkills.
Certain blade combos apply damage over time effects. That's essentially it lol. Volcano is the example I used in this video. it's DoT is 10% of the total damage dealt, and smashing can increase the effect and damage of the DoT
Devoted marigold nia is an aux core that you can exchange for nopon stones and changes nia's blade colors but can be equipped on any blade and has the exact same effevt as affinity max attack VI
I might switch to the full burst strategy. Going full DPS with no chain attacks is fun and all. But I like being able to see all of those special animations. Plus, challenge mode nerfed Sheba's damage output, by not letting any money drop, which I would not need to worry about with a Full Burst.
I thought challenge mode wasn’t going to be hard because I beat dino drama on my second attempt without new game plus but then I tried to do the others and I am this close to starting ng+ because of carlos and malos
Okay, I started playing this game a few months back in preparation for XC1DE coming out this weekend, and thanks to your tips, I was finally able to beat up Carlos and complete Fiora's chart. Such a relief... Now I don't need to bother with Carlos ever again.
@@pokedude720 good question. I haven't even started challenge mode yet, but I plan to go in with all blades, full affinity charts, best core chips, great aux cores, awesome pouch items, etc. I'm hoping that poppi qt pi, mythra, corvin, and kos-mos can carry me.
New comment on a 3 year old video, but when talking about blades for an Evasion team, you mention Praxis. Unless it's an added bonus she gets that isn't mentioned in game (nor your Praxis guide) she doesn't get any evasion buffs at max affinity. Other than active evasion arts on Patrika and Roc, I don't think there are any evasion focused Attack blades (unless you meant to mention Patroka rather than Praxis).
You can actually beat the Orion challenge pretty easy with a Burst symbol and Chain attack Build.You just need one orb, max affinity on your blades and max chain meter. It's really easy to get an Light or Dark orb really quickly with Mythra or T-ELOS for example.
You can do this on your first play though and with only 2 accessories. You can unlock Shulk and Fiora from doing a easy versions of the challenge missions. So you can enjoy these blades the entire time on your NG+ play though.
I don’t want to do NG+ until the new difficulty comes out and I don’t want to bar myself from challenge mode just because I don’t have 3 accessories. Just want to let people know that you can still enjoy the content and get all the reward without having to go through the game twice. Useful for people who pick up the game post-dlc.
Can confirm that it is possible to do it before New Game plus. Hell, I managed to do it on Normal but the Gogol mission took me 30+ minutes because I was doing it without provoking elemental awakening.
One thing I would like to know is what gear (accessories, aux, etc) for theses strategies. I may have missed it in the video though, is so could tell me where it's mentionned?
Really need to up the output volume of your videos. I had to triple my volume on my computer to hear you at all. D: But this was great content! I'll need to make some adjustments to my team. >:}
Do the accuracy and evasion buffs from Mythra and Shulk only apply when they are selected and in battle, or do they stack together as long as they are in your current three blade setup
Xirc I don't think you can kill it. What I did was use Mythra to get me specials up then switch to pyra to get a Fire orb. Fire orbs prevent self destruction so after I do that I just wait for the next wave. Once the next wave is up he'll self destruct but it won't kill you because you made a fire orb.
Challenge mode has been whipping my dick in a fucking circle mang. This sort of technical explanation really helps me out. I'm at the awkward point where I can kill all the normal raid bosses but can't DESTROY THEM. I guess its time to analyze this.
So... I haven’t started NG+ yet as I was waiting for the hard mode to start it. Ive beaten all of them except Ken and The titan dude. Kens stupid reinforcements keep getting me and same goes for the titan. It’s hard with only 2 item slots cause I can’t crit heal + Extra crit damage + Burst Symbol. Also my poppi QT pie as I’ve hardly invested into her and I don’t have a master scope. Think I’ll either try the Fiora strat or the master orb strat
If your still struggeling with the titan, heres what I did to beat him pretty easily (when you have good RNG) in Ng on normal mode: The main thing I focused on was to get 4 orbs on him as soon as possible to enter full burst. I used: Rex - with an Orb master water blade, Fiora and Mythra Zeke - with KosMos, Herald and Pandoria Tora - Poppi α (earth), qt (fire) and qtπ (ice) (my Poppi builds were basicly the same as from Enels guide) The acessoires I used on all of them were Burst Symbol and AGM The Aux Cores I used were the standard attack ups So what you have to do is to build up max affinity with Mythra and Fiora in the first wave and right before you kill the last enemy switch to your Orb Master blade. Then when you Fight the Titan stack up 3 Orbs as soon as you can and go into Pneuma form imidietly afterwards to abuse the fact that Rex cant die to stack up a light orb with her and KosMos
CodeCraft 587 Alpha makes Tora almost immortal, so as long as he can do enough dps that he doesn't run done the clock it would be a pretty simple task.
I think I might have a Rarity 4 Common Fire Axe Blade with Orb Master, could I use that to spam the shoulder tackle or whatever's the crit recharge one to build up my specials and then just keep on doing Fire-Fire-Fire Elemental combos to get orbs? Is that how the skill works?
essentially using some blade combos like volcano apply a DoT effect (the orange number). You can increase this effect by smashing the enemy. The effect will last as long as you remain on the same level of the blade combo.
God screw this why do I have to grind all this stupid shit just to have a chance in these broken challenges? Just makes this game really tedious and shows how little Monolith actually cared about balancing this game.
So they didn't make a combat puzzle. They made "well i hope you can survive lol" because as long as you survive even auto attacks can kill Unless you have scopes God i love break topple You need to ask. What skill is monolith testing ? Reaction? Quick thinking? Or just "harfwork" aka how much boredom before you break yea ofc driver combo lock is a fav strat Its the only thing resembling any kind of active gameplay decisions
I can't even hear your voice because of the way the sound is mixed in this vid. It's like you are standing in the middle of the road, talking to us on the other side of the street, while traffic comes from all sides. Then, after 7 minutes of gameplay, instead of explaining it more in detail by SHOWING us (which you might think is the point in a vid) you skip around everything in 30 secs instead of doing a short summary. I get it that for you it is "nothing out of the ordinary", but as someone looking for decent builds, I would have prefered it being written down or highlightet with pro and cons, especially because of the lack of being able to hear you. Sadly, most of your other vids have sound probs as well. I don't expect you to get a 150$ mic, but at least do some audio processing so we can understand what you are actually trying to tell us.
I literally show exactly how to do s during the fiora part and have buildes for all of these at the end of each section, (except the pure tank one because I forgot so my apologies.) As far as audio, That's as loud as my mic will go. I already lower the game volume to compensate. The actual microphone is good, it's louder on my laptop and even sounds better. It's probably got something to do with the sound card for my CPU. The only alternative I can think of is exporting all my created video files there and commentating over it.
Having a summary screen for each build and a clear structure would help. I mean, showing how s work is all nice and good, but you should stop the playback of the Background at important scenes and maybe point at some specific areas on it to show it better. Also, s is more of a general strategy, which may be better off being put at the end of the vid instead of having it exactly in the middle of it. Sometimes showing a still image and writing and commenting over it is the best way to visualize things. And if this is the max your microphone can do, why did you not mute the gameplay vid? That would have helped in understanding you even with low volume.
Evasion Focus Team: 3:53
Pure Tank Team: 8:35
Driver Combo/DoT: 11:49
Constant Chain Attacks: 16:44
Full Burst/Orb Master: 21:00
I actually used the evasion strategy to beat ken, carlos and kurodiil though i did buff morag's agility to 592 and they all took about 40 minutes.
I don’t know what the Xc2 community would do without you. Thank you so much for all the work you do to make this game easier and more enjoyable for all of us.
Thank you :)
Enel
Yeah, thank you!
This is a huge piece of work man, you can be proud of it.
The Omega Drive Fiora is honestly one of my favorite strategies, it helped me speed through Dagmara farming without having S+ trust blades
Love this game and all this extra content and thanks for this combo breakdown makes things much easier and enjoyable.
Thanks for the great help! Just got the challenge mode yesterday and it's great!
Thank you so much for this video. I just got the season pass and have been trying to finish shulk and fiora's affinity when I came to a hurdle regarding Carlos, Kurodil, and Rosa. Sad to say this showed me some mechanics I didn't fully understand or get at all but now I do (Fiora is ridiculously broken). Now to poppibuster's overkills.
Okay we get it, you're good...but can you solo CSKK's Revenge with Godfrey?
ego1014 he probably can😂
hes waiting for the hard mode update to do that.
Better yet, can he do it at max custom difficulty?
Damage over time?!? I’m nearly 200 hours into this game and I didn’t know this existed. What is it and how does it work?
Certain blade combos apply damage over time effects. That's essentially it lol. Volcano is the example I used in this video. it's DoT is 10% of the total damage dealt, and smashing can increase the effect and damage of the DoT
Enel oooooooohhhh ok. And the driver combos prolong the special. Thanks
I’ve gone through two full stacks of 999 Nopon stone and no affinity max attack VI...kill me
Oh wow.
Devoted marigold nia is an aux core that you can exchange for nopon stones and changes nia's blade colors but can be equipped on any blade and has the exact same effevt as affinity max attack VI
I might switch to the full burst strategy. Going full DPS with no chain attacks is fun and all. But I like being able to see all of those special animations. Plus, challenge mode nerfed Sheba's damage output, by not letting any money drop, which I would not need to worry about with a Full Burst.
I thought challenge mode wasn’t going to be hard because I beat dino drama on my second attempt without new game plus but then I tried to do the others and I am this close to starting ng+ because of carlos and malos
Mallos Jin mission cheesy as fk on boc but on normal the whole game is easy so shouldn't be much trouble if you have a decent set up
"you're better than AI.. i hope" LMAO nahh
I got Elma in Alrest before ng+ the fight took me 40 minutes because I had terrible damage output lol
Okay, I started playing this game a few months back in preparation for XC1DE coming out this weekend, and thanks to your tips, I was finally able to beat up Carlos and complete Fiora's chart. Such a relief... Now I don't need to bother with Carlos ever again.
Do you remember which strategy worked best for him (since that's the one I'm currently working on)?
@@pokedude720 good question. I haven't even started challenge mode yet, but I plan to go in with all blades, full affinity charts, best core chips, great aux cores, awesome pouch items, etc. I'm hoping that poppi qt pi, mythra, corvin, and kos-mos can carry me.
actually makes sense cause i always been wondering like what do you do without a hearler, simply just avoid being hit
New comment on a 3 year old video, but when talking about blades for an Evasion team, you mention Praxis. Unless it's an added bonus she gets that isn't mentioned in game (nor your Praxis guide) she doesn't get any evasion buffs at max affinity. Other than active evasion arts on Patrika and Roc, I don't think there are any evasion focused Attack blades (unless you meant to mention Patroka rather than Praxis).
Yeah likely misspoke. Praxis has no evasion but she does have accuracy.
Imagine if they added a Rare Blade with Orb Master
(And have it be a Sphere user because why not, there's not enough good Sphere users)
SamuFinland well there is a datamined fire bitball rare blade who's gonna come out soon so maybe they will get orb master
SamuFinland Bitballs suck ass no
You can actually beat the Orion challenge pretty easy with a Burst symbol and Chain attack Build.You just need one orb, max affinity on your blades and max chain meter. It's really easy to get an Light or Dark orb really quickly with Mythra or T-ELOS for example.
th-cam.com/video/vNtnnBhCrEg/w-d-xo.html
You don't say?
You can do this on your first play though and with only 2 accessories. You can unlock Shulk and Fiora from doing a easy versions of the challenge missions. So you can enjoy these blades the entire time on your NG+ play though.
I suppose but it's just easier to tackle everything if you meet the requirements
I don’t want to do NG+ until the new difficulty comes out and I don’t want to bar myself from challenge mode just because I don’t have 3 accessories. Just want to let people know that you can still enjoy the content and get all the reward without having to go through the game twice. Useful for people who pick up the game post-dlc.
Can confirm that it is possible to do it before New Game plus. Hell, I managed to do it on Normal but the Gogol mission took me 30+ minutes because I was doing it without provoking elemental awakening.
I got this doing the normal version of thebchallenge before ng+
One thing I would like to know is what gear (accessories, aux, etc) for theses strategies. I may have missed it in the video though, is so could tell me where it's mentionned?
most of them you get from doing challenge mode itself but crimson headbands and noise dampeners are good standard ones.
Huh, I had no idea that Fusion Combos had such high DOT
Hey I know this video is old but why use T-elos on Morag instead of Rex? Doesn't Rex have higher base strength so he would be better?
With morag have good critical recharge too
Really need to up the output volume of your videos. I had to triple my volume on my computer to hear you at all. D: But this was great content! I'll need to make some adjustments to my team. >:}
yeah sorry about volume being kinda low, can't really make my mic louder so have to lower my game audio to compensate.
That's a shame. It's terrifying when I get an IM because the notification sound is SO loud. lol
James Marino just up the volume lmao
@@itsoracle If the volume is too low it means many people have already up the volume to the max only for it to still have a low volume...
Do the accuracy and evasion buffs from Mythra and Shulk only apply when they are selected and in battle, or do they stack together as long as they are in your current three blade setup
Can you explain why you bring two common blade on Zeke?
I guess Crystal Earrings are kinda useless considering the alternatives, huh? (At least when Fiora is with you.)
How about killing the lvl 200 ball in the MK challenge before it explodes ? Probably doesnt give anything but it would be cool to see
Yeah, it's slower than letting it die but easily doable with defense annul characters
Gotcha! Also does that Common Blade Master Orb strategy only work on Axe with Crit Recharge? I only have knuckles and hammer
Xirc I don't think you can kill it. What I did was use Mythra to get me specials up then switch to pyra to get a Fire orb. Fire orbs prevent self destruction so after I do that I just wait for the next wave. Once the next wave is up he'll self destruct but it won't kill you because you made a fire orb.
Oh yeah, i managed to beat that no problem my comment was directed as a challenge since he asked for ideas albeit it was a silly challenge =p
So from my understanding right off the bat. Start NG+ and get to level 99 before really bothering with challenge mode?
That’s right
@@EnelXC I'll be back then I'm sure! Going to beat the golden country then hop into ng+ !!
Challenge mode has been whipping my dick in a fucking circle mang. This sort of technical explanation really helps me out. I'm at the awkward point where I can kill all the normal raid bosses but can't DESTROY THEM. I guess its time to analyze this.
what was your Poppi A and QT setups? for the chain attack build
Probably not as important as they aren't that powerful.
So... I haven’t started NG+ yet as I was waiting for the hard mode to start it. Ive beaten all of them except Ken and The titan dude. Kens stupid reinforcements keep getting me and same goes for the titan. It’s hard with only 2 item slots cause I can’t crit heal + Extra crit damage + Burst Symbol. Also my poppi QT pie as I’ve hardly invested into her and I don’t have a master scope. Think I’ll either try the Fiora strat or the master orb strat
The Elephant One tip for Ken: Keep a dark orb on him. It seals reinforcements.
There is a hard mode, it's built into the game files.
Enel figured it out. Just used Fiora and spammed chain attack, had to use a night vision VI that was the secret. Ken took like 15 minutes tho
Midna78 there has been a confirmed hard mode under the title of "Bringer of Chaos"
If your still struggeling with the titan, heres what I did to beat him pretty easily (when you have good RNG) in Ng on normal mode: The main thing I focused on was to get 4 orbs on him as soon as possible to enter full burst.
I used:
Rex - with an Orb master water blade, Fiora and Mythra
Zeke - with KosMos, Herald and Pandoria
Tora - Poppi α (earth), qt (fire) and qtπ (ice) (my Poppi builds were basicly the same as from Enels guide)
The acessoires I used on all of them were Burst Symbol and AGM
The Aux Cores I used were the standard attack ups
So what you have to do is to build up max affinity with Mythra and Fiora in the first wave and right before you kill the last enemy switch to your Orb Master blade.
Then when you Fight the Titan stack up 3 Orbs as soon as you can and go into Pneuma form imidietly afterwards to abuse the fact that Rex cant die to stack up a light orb with her and KosMos
so what are the accecories again? ._.
you should do a speed run of the last challenge where you can only play as tora, but without using QTpi, only QT and alpha
CodeCraft 587 Alpha makes Tora almost immortal, so as long as he can do enough dps that he doesn't run done the clock it would be a pretty simple task.
Louie Satterwhite I don't doubt it could be done I could easily do it too, I just want to see how fast he can do it
Do you have a good none ng+ setup for the heropon challenge?
Pretty much any Qtpi setup you saw in the video will work well. She should destroy everything there.
I think I might have a Rarity 4 Common Fire Axe Blade with Orb Master, could I use that to spam the shoulder tackle or whatever's the crit recharge one to build up my specials and then just keep on doing Fire-Fire-Fire Elemental combos to get orbs? Is that how the skill works?
Each part of the combo needs to be a different element. Orb master just sets the orb from the element of the special used.
I want to do this, but I just don't have the time to beat the game second time. Shame there's no guide for non-NG+ runs.
Um, there is, by this same TH-camr.
Can you explain damage over time a bit more? Ive never even knew it existed.
essentially using some blade combos like volcano apply a DoT effect (the orange number). You can increase this effect by smashing the enemy. The effect will last as long as you remain on the same level of the blade combo.
Yo how are his damage numbers so big
So is it possible to use one of the strategys in any Challenge?
Chain atk build, need info on gear, skills, etc , chop chop .
I notice you didn't show us the accessories you using?
Where can I find the level 6 aux cores?
rewards for challenge mode
Too bad I'm not smart enough to make builds like those
Literally just wanna copy everything you have
God screw this why do I have to grind all this stupid shit just to have a chance in these broken challenges? Just makes this game really tedious and shows how little Monolith actually cared about balancing this game.
So they didn't make a combat puzzle.
They made "well i hope you can survive lol" because as long as you survive even auto attacks can kill
Unless you have scopes
God i love break topple
You need to ask. What skill is monolith testing ? Reaction? Quick thinking? Or just "harfwork" aka how much boredom before you break
yea ofc driver combo lock is a fav strat
Its the only thing resembling any kind of active gameplay decisions
Glad bringer of chaos gets rid of the obviously cheesy, pretty braindead strategies anybody can do
I can't even hear your voice because of the way the sound is mixed in this vid. It's like you are standing in the middle of the road, talking to us on the other side of the street, while traffic comes from all sides. Then, after 7 minutes of gameplay, instead of explaining it more in detail by SHOWING us (which you might think is the point in a vid) you skip around everything in 30 secs instead of doing a short summary. I get it that for you it is "nothing out of the ordinary", but as someone looking for decent builds, I would have prefered it being written down or highlightet with pro and cons, especially because of the lack of being able to hear you. Sadly, most of your other vids have sound probs as well. I don't expect you to get a 150$ mic, but at least do some audio processing so we can understand what you are actually trying to tell us.
I literally show exactly how to do s during the fiora part and have buildes for all of these at the end of each section, (except the pure tank one because I forgot so my apologies.)
As far as audio, That's as loud as my mic will go. I already lower the game volume to compensate. The actual microphone is good, it's louder on my laptop and even sounds better. It's probably got something to do with the sound card for my CPU. The only alternative I can think of is exporting all my created video files there and commentating over it.
Having a summary screen for each build and a clear structure would help. I mean, showing how s work is all nice and good, but you should stop the playback of the Background at important scenes and maybe point at some specific areas on it to show it better. Also, s is more of a general strategy, which may be better off being put at the end of the vid instead of having it exactly in the middle of it. Sometimes showing a still image and writing and commenting over it is the best way to visualize things.
And if this is the max your microphone can do, why did you not mute the gameplay vid? That would have helped in understanding you even with low volume.
Where i can find the master scope?