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Revelation34 posted...

I should have been using Dunban from the start too.

Yeah, Dunban's pretty great. Reyn isn't bad, by any means, and he can actually do some of the best burst damage in the game if you set him up right and take control, but Dunban is easily one of the best party members.

Revelation34 posted...

Right now I have Fiora in to get some bonus affinity.

If you're looking to grind affinity, the best way to do it is to find the level ~88 unique in the Kromar Coast area of Eryth Sea (Stormy Belganon, iirc). He's got a sleep spike, so if you put 100% debuff resist on the character you're controlling and remove all arts from the other two, they'll fall asleep every time they autoattack and you can mash B to wake them up for an affinity boost. Run away before he dies (you can also respawn it, but running away is generally faster and doesn't require you to kill the adds again), repeat until maxed out. For most of the game, cycling party members in to gain affinity more naturally works pretty well, but once you get to the endgame stuff and you're just finishing off the last few affinities, specifically grinding it works a lot better.

*Xenoblade 3*
agesboy posted...

Yeah the ambiguity of it all left me in far more suspense than fiction usually accomplishes. I felt threatened by the prospect of a 2nd cycle the entire game honestly. and it was pretty cool that death for once wasn't the worst outcome. Usually I only like the beginning of stories because possibilities get minimized as time goes on, but that definitely wasn't the case here. I wasn't even sure if the split was actually going to happen at the very end.

Yeah, and then the ending remains just as ambiguous in the question of whether or not Origin merged the worlds or just recreated them and sent them on their way. I know there are a lot of people who want the story DLC to be an epilogue that confirms that Noah and Mio and everyone manage to reunite and live happily ever after, but I kind of like it being left open-ended. A more definite ending would fly in the face of the game's core message of "life's uncertain. Deal with it." The story being so ambiguous through the entire game kind of ties into that as well, which is really quite nifty.

hera posted...

so many redacted posts

Is good game. There be much to talk about, but nobody that deserves to live wants to spoil a highly-anticipated game that's only a month old, so much concealment.

Revelation34 posted...

Are they going to do a definitive edition for 2 too?

If they do, it won't be for a while. 1 really needed the definitive edition, given that that's the only proper release it's ever seen (the Wii version was hamstrung from the start by NoA not wanting to release it and the Gamestop exclusivity deal, the 3DS port was New 3DS exclusive and only like four people bought those, the WiiU VC release had absolutely no promotion around it) and it gave them the opportunity to make a couple tweaks to retcon it into being part of a series instead of completely standalone (not to mention substantial graphical improvements, because the original game pushed the Wii to its absolute breaking point). 2, however, was properly promoted and released on a system that was popular enough to not hinder sales (poor X), so it did quite well. It's already set up to be part of a series (it's the one that retconned 1), it doesn't leave a ton of room for extra story content that wouldn't be better presented as a prequel to 3 (which is likely what 3's story DLC will be), it's already had extra story content added by the DLC...

All I'd really expect them to do is make a few graphical and maybe QoL improvements and roll the Expansion Pass in. I expect they'll probably end up doing that on Nintendo's next system, but not before. If you're wondering whether you should buy it now or wait for a Definitive Edition, I'd say buy it now because you'll be waiting quite a while. If you're okay with a digital copy, the base game pretty routinely goes on sale anyway such that you can get the game and the DLC for close to the same price as the base game would normally be, which would be the main benefit of waiting for a remake.