LogFAQs > #895291059

Cancel happens when the damage for that attack has finished, and you have before the animation completes and some few milliseconds after the damage is done to cancel it into another attack or action (movement attack cancelling has no bonus). So like if you did an auto attack, rather than waiting for the auto attack to finish, use an Arte, switch blade, literally do anything, and you see a faint circle indicating that an animation was cancelled. On top of cancelling the animation, it make the right arte gauge (the one with the roman numerals) fill up faster.

Poppi alpha wants block rate and aggro gain with a good heal based or affinity based lvl 1 special. If you don't fully get what that is, it's Poppi's I II III slot. Those enhance your lvl 1~3 specials. For the later forms, this is spoilers: Poppi QT can be flex to fit whatever role you need her to be. Her main role is to use her dodge move to dodge big enemy attacks. She has a quick blade switch cd passive to help her do this, and you can give her passives to make the blade switch cd even faster. QTpi is an endgame blade and is probably the 2nd best blade in the game. She's immensely strong and she's also somehow super tanky. She outdamage almost every blade that isn't purely built for attack, but she also does like a billion things more than that than the other more damage focused blade.

The thing is though... if you resorted to using Poppi cuz you don't get how blade switch works, the game rewards you for experimenting and knowing the ins and outs of the game. If you don't experiment and try all the mechanics, you'll run into a wall. I've heard a lot of horror stories of people who don't know how to progress cuz they don't get the step 1 of the mechanic. Lots of headaches of people trying to explain the battle mechanics inside out. Blade switching is brainless though. All you need to know is, it also cancels attacks, and it refreshes your driver art entirely, meaning there's very few reason not to switch to a new blade constantly, unless you're using the op ass Mythra, who far as I can tell don't even need the other two blades XP

For rare blades, you don't need to roll much lol. They give away enough free blades to completely outfit 3 of your party members to a post-game viable setup. If you haven't rolled a rare blade yet, the rate of rolling a rare one is like insanely high
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