XCX is my favorite Xeno game in terms of gameplay. Overdrive was useless and complicated when you first got it, but the most broken mechanic during endgame. When you first get it it lasts only 10 seconds. After endgame and equipping certain class arts, you could stay in it indefinitely and it maxed out at 100 hits. People could kill all of the super-bosses on foot with it. I made a weaker version just to have more fun with it since some fights would only last seconds with an optimized build.
Like most everyone I first started off with blossom dance. Once that got too basic I switched to a melee dual swords build which worked really well. It made the fights last longer but was still powerful.
You can make infinite overdrive pretty early if you've been working on a full metal jaguar build. Once you figure out what order you need to use the color arts and how to increase the counter, all you need is ghost walker and blood sacrifice.
@Midna78 I used gravity dual swords for mechanical enemies and thermal dual swords for regular fauna. Had no tp attacks or potential modifiers, only melee attacks and modifiers. Used Ghost Factory to decoy my party and their skells, so I had an actual reason to use other characters. With this build, I could beat Pharsis and Telethia Endbringer. Ghost Factory gives less decoy, but the animation is much faster than Ghost Walker and the teammates take aggro off you too. Seventh Edge was the damage dealer. TP was only used for Ghost Factory and Killing Spree aura. Not as powerful as EBD but more fun and challenging imo.
I think overdrive's biggest strength and use is some of the longer bringer of chaos missions. It's pretty optimal there with the chain attack nerfs and because you usually have time to use both it and Pneuma to make sure you have 100% party wide crit and massively reduces break resistance. It is really fun to use besides that though. Getting max count can give you some pretty crazy numbers.
Elma definitely brings the damage and she definitely looks to be on the very usable side especially for challenge mode. Also it's nice to see Elma again and sliding Slinger.
XCX Overdrive mechanic didnt seem that good at first, but as you keep growing you learn more things about it and then Ghost Walker, I LOVED GHOSTING check a video, its hilarious
I feel like you in particular would have a LOT of fun with Xenoblade Chronicles X. The sheer amount of customization and number of different builds sounds like something right up your alley. EDIT: And I don’t say that from only watching this one video; I’ve watched multiple of your XC2 vids as well as Octopath and some game before them, I can’t remember which.
There are 25 build based on the mix of melee and distance weapons but also there are like 2 exploitables sets of skill per weapon that makes almost 50 different builds
Very good guide, Elma is a cool blade and I hope we get more when Torna launches. Also, you're exactly correct on Morag's Swimsuit keeping you alive. Sometimes I find myself playing as her and it helps me stay alive even longer.
I have a question on noise dampener. The text says "canceling an auto-attack". So does that apply when you cancel one art into the next? Or do you have to auto attack, art, auto attack, art etc...
They’re in the same community doing the same type of work for the game. Just like how Enel and Luxin talk, he mentions at 5:22 that it’s most likely the same case
We talk to each other, or atleast we do now. I don't think it's inherently wrong to talk to others or watch other videos to learn more about the game. I've learned so much just watching other videos of Smalten, HyperT, Ziltama, and alot of other players. I don't consider anything plagiarism anyway as long as the knowledge of the community is growing.
Vesmir NG-3 no dude, definitely not, the way the map worked in X on the Wii U was amazing and passing to the Switch will be a sever downgrade in that regard
.. i had to use custom difficulty just so I could get elma early on in new game plus... and would do the same for shulk and fioria if I remembered what challenge you have to beat to get them... And I was using corvin
holy smokes where do you get those high damage chips i cannot find any good ones, my maximum one is on shulk only at 1050 damage, can you guys help me get some better ones please
What do you mean by "swimsuit keep me alive" ? :D I found them useless in battles, just looks nice, that's all (still I say that TORA SWIMSUIT IS BETTER :D). Thanks for vid :) and Enel kick butts too ;)
Yes. Other than them, only blades with Debuff Cancel can resist Doom or if you equip the Level 3 Fighter's Circlet, which is obtainable only in Challenge Mode.
Im just upset because before all this DLC came out, i beat XC2 and then chose to do a NG+...i stopped playing for a bit. All the new DLC came out and now i have to beat the story all over again just to access all the DLC aside from blades that come out of cores (not that i've gotten ANY of them after opening like 50 cores).
I like that they nerfed the system in XC2 otherwise why bother with XCX? I hoping for a switch port for 1 and X. Probably won’t happen, but I can dream!
Josiah Collins 100 hits to max counter in XCX -> 1000 hits to max counter in XC2. At max count, the resistance breaks, damage buffs and cooldowns are better in XCX. Combined with the fact that in XCX you can use up to 8 arts at a time, refilling overdrive was easier. None of this makes it necessarily bad in XC2, Monolith probably didn’t want Elma to be overcentralized. I think overall it was a nice shoutout to XCX fans such as myself.
Because she had no flaws, which exactly the problem. Did anyone ever do anything other than worship her aside from the very end of the game (and that's brushed of by the characters quickly)? No she was a perfect, smart, brave, kind, powerful, understanding blah blah blah. Her lack of relatable flaws makes her boring and she doesn't have a character arc or any development, she doesn't learn anything or grow throughout the whole game, which would be fine if she wasn't the protagonist. Elma is the same person from the beginning of the game to the end. If she was just a mentor character to act as a goal for Cross it'd be fine but she's the worst possible choice as a protagonist. Also this is just me but I thought Caitlin Glass gave one if her worst performances, her deadpan voice just made Elma more boring.
@@maxg2335 First the only person who continues to dick suck elma after chapter 3 is Irina. Literally everyone else is like "Oh you're Elma? Cool" then moves on. Second Elma does have flaws. Elma almost killed Lao. If Lin hadn't stopped her Lao wouldn't of saved them in the final act. Also Elma suspects Lao is a traitor but she doesn't say anything because she didn't want to believe it. She feels deep remorse over her lost teammates. She isn't always right as shown with the lao situation. As for not changing well that's just the problem with every x character. My man it sounds like you just quit the game after chapter 4 and you're just throwing buzzwords to rationalize your irrational hate towards Elma.
I'm sorry I'm replying so late but I only just saw this reply. Anyway "Feels remorse over lost team mates" isn't a flaw, that's a positive trait. None of the flaws you mentioned are very good examples. Her not killing Lao didn't pay off until the final act (which is far too late) and because her "flaw" have minimal presence, she shows naivety at one point when it comes to Lao and never again, can you honestly call her a naive character? Anything she did wrong came way too late and hardly anyone called her out for it. It would have been much better if someone like Nagi was telling her that Lao seems off and he might be a traitor but she refuses to believe them which results in a tragedy that she's blamed for and gets the motivation to redeem herself, there you go flaw followed by criticism, then goal and new objective that's understandable and relatable. Also don't call me "my man" and accuse me of using "buzzwords" patronising people isn't how you counter argue, it just makes you look like a douche.
@@maxg2335 It truly doesn't matter if its late. As long as the story doesn't treat elma as right all the time it doesn't matter. You can say Elma is poorly developed but saying she's a mary sue is wrong.
XCX is my favorite Xeno game in terms of gameplay. Overdrive was useless and complicated when you first got it, but the most broken mechanic during endgame. When you first get it it lasts only 10 seconds. After endgame and equipping certain class arts, you could stay in it indefinitely and it maxed out at 100 hits. People could kill all of the super-bosses on foot with it. I made a weaker version just to have more fun with it since some fights would only last seconds with an optimized build.
Like most everyone I first started off with blossom dance. Once that got too basic I switched to a melee dual swords build which worked really well. It made the fights last longer but was still powerful.
jreddie92 *flashbacks to blossom dance*
You can make infinite overdrive pretty early if you've been working on a full metal jaguar build. Once you figure out what order you need to use the color arts and how to increase the counter, all you need is ghost walker and blood sacrifice.
I simply loved Ghosting
@Midna78 I used gravity dual swords for mechanical enemies and thermal dual swords for regular fauna. Had no tp attacks or potential modifiers, only melee attacks and modifiers. Used Ghost Factory to decoy my party and their skells, so I had an actual reason to use other characters. With this build, I could beat Pharsis and Telethia Endbringer. Ghost Factory gives less decoy, but the animation is much faster than Ghost Walker and the teammates take aggro off you too. Seventh Edge was the damage dealer. TP was only used for Ghost Factory and Killing Spree aura. Not as powerful as EBD but more fun and challenging imo.
I think overdrive's biggest strength and use is some of the longer bringer of chaos missions. It's pretty optimal there with the chain attack nerfs and because you usually have time to use both it and Pneuma to make sure you have 100% party wide crit and massively reduces break resistance. It is really fun to use besides that though. Getting max count can give you some pretty crazy numbers.
Enel lol am still stucked on normal Elma Redux
Ok but pyras still best girl
Oh yes,
Now no one will be able to stop me . . . .
Not when I shift into . . . Maximum Overdrive!!!!
The artistic interpretation and absolutely creative musical scheme create an instant classic song of the century
Can't wait for the Golden Country vids on Lora and Haze
JIN
*This swimsuit definitely keeps me alive.*
My favorite thing about the overdrive is that you can switch to another blade and still be able to refresh it.
DBurner9 definitely you have no idea how good it feels to be playing as Rex backed up by shulk while refreshing elmas overdrive
Oh for sure.. thinking about stacking this with eye of shining justice.
Has someone actually stacked it with eye of shining justice yet? Also, Shulk-Elma-EoSJ Pandoria is a very scary thought
Elma definitely brings the damage and she definitely looks to be on the very usable side especially for challenge mode. Also it's nice to see Elma again and sliding Slinger.
XCX Overdrive mechanic didnt seem that good at first, but as you keep growing you learn more things about it and then Ghost Walker, I LOVED GHOSTING
check a video, its hilarious
Primer-Primer-Ghost Factory-Offensive Stance-True Stream Edge-Blossom Dance-Zero Zero-Primer-Primer-Ghost Factory-Primer-Primer-Offensive Stance...
You really should play the previous games boss. You won't regret it. Especially "X". So much fun. Skells are amazing.
It be so awesome to have xeno x and xeno on switch! Thanks for the tipss
1/2 now
I feel like you in particular would have a LOT of fun with Xenoblade Chronicles X. The sheer amount of customization and number of different builds sounds like something right up your alley.
EDIT: And I don’t say that from only watching this one video; I’ve watched multiple of your XC2 vids as well as Octopath and some game before them, I can’t remember which.
There are 25 build based on the mix of melee and distance weapons but also there are like 2 exploitables sets of skill per weapon that makes almost 50 different builds
Very good guide, Elma is a cool blade and I hope we get more when Torna launches.
Also, you're exactly correct on Morag's Swimsuit keeping you alive. Sometimes I find myself playing as her and it helps me stay alive even longer.
Did he just admit to being pervy towards Morag?
I think he admitted awhile ago in a video that his favorite girl and character was Morag.
This is cool and all, but nothing will beat the all mighty
blossom dance + ghost walker
I have a question on noise dampener. The text says "canceling an auto-attack". So does that apply when you cancel one art into the next? Or do you have to auto attack, art, auto attack, art etc...
2:45 Wait how did you know that.I thought that "I don't watch Enel because I don't want to plagiarise" because adamantly you repeated that.
mb they actually talk?
They’re in the same community doing the same type of work for the game. Just like how Enel and Luxin talk, he mentions at 5:22 that it’s most likely the same case
We talk to each other, or atleast we do now. I don't think it's inherently wrong to talk to others or watch other videos to learn more about the game. I've learned so much just watching other videos of Smalten, HyperT, Ziltama, and alot of other players. I don't consider anything plagiarism anyway as long as the knowledge of the community is growing.
@@EnelXC I was just curious because he he said that before.
I have a copy of x and a wii u to play it. do you recommend it or would you recommend one of the saga or gears games(I have a ps2 to play them on)
Don’t have a Wii U might as well wait for XCX on the switch
Vesmir NG-3 no dude, definitely not, the way the map worked in X on the Wii U was amazing and passing to the Switch will be a sever downgrade in that regard
Vesmir NG-3 that’s a different topic then, even so, it would still not work nearly as well on the Switch
9:29 bruh
I've been waiting for this!!!
I personally use elma on nia for the sake of heals.
.. i had to use custom difficulty just so I could get elma early on in new game plus... and would do the same for shulk and fioria if I remembered what challenge you have to beat to get them...
And I was using corvin
Beat Dino Drama to bring them to alrest.
Same
Kinda a noob question but how do we know what special level 4 traits are scince they are not on the actual chart or are they all just strait dmg?
Kiriu docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mKrSAAi_sj8xpt7t8s1JGMRUh4O-e7MxAb2P_g9AWOM/htmlview#
There’s a tab for blade specials
Can you chain attack and use overdrive at the same time?
Morag is my type
So can you easily get party gauge in BoC mode if u have an omega drive and use her specials?
On a completely different note, when should I go back and do New Game + ?
do a *SPOILER*
do a pneuma mini guide please?
Isnt Elma good on Zeke too?
Will you do video's on the blades and drivers from Torna the golden country? Same with one for Aegeon?
holy smokes where do you get those high damage chips i cannot find any good ones, my maximum one is on shulk only at 1050 damage, can you guys help me get some better ones please
Awwww, I wanted to explain overdrive
Lmao
What do you mean by "swimsuit keep me alive" ? :D I found them useless in battles, just looks nice, that's all (still I say that TORA SWIMSUIT IS BETTER :D). Thanks for vid :) and Enel kick butts too ;)
I'm pretty sure he was lying 😅
Well if you look at the effect on morag it is understandable why it keeps him alive
In bringer of chaos mode overdrive is a lot better than the nerfed to the ground chain attack.
I am from south america and it sux that I can´t access to the online nintendo shop.... service not available in my region....
Put you on Florida, search in google about it, I'm from South America too and i have the DLC ^^
Wait, dark blades are immune to doom?
Yes. Other than them, only blades with Debuff Cancel can resist Doom or if you equip the Level 3 Fighter's Circlet, which is obtainable only in Challenge Mode.
Quick question:
How do you unlock Elma or where do you find her?
The land of challenge after chapter 7 in the olethro playhouse in Uraya
I'm not using her because you need kosmos for her affinity chart
Im just upset because before all this DLC came out, i beat XC2 and then chose to do a NG+...i stopped playing for a bit. All the new DLC came out and now i have to beat the story all over again just to access all the DLC aside from blades that come out of cores (not that i've gotten ANY of them after opening like 50 cores).
Yeah, you should try out Xenoblade chronicles X. It has very good end game challenges that I'm sure you'll love. ^^
I like that they nerfed the system in XC2 otherwise why bother with XCX? I hoping for a switch port for 1 and X. Probably won’t happen, but I can dream!
X is honestly most likely to happen, seeing that the dev for X actually wants to port X once the development of XC2 ends
I want to know how it was nerfed. XD it looks just as powerful as it was in XCX just without the crazy builds like blossom dance
Josiah Collins 100 hits to max counter in XCX -> 1000 hits to max counter in XC2. At max count, the resistance breaks, damage buffs and cooldowns are better in XCX. Combined with the fact that in XCX you can use up to 8 arts at a time, refilling overdrive was easier. None of this makes it necessarily bad in XC2, Monolith probably didn’t want Elma to be overcentralized. I think overall it was a nice shoutout to XCX fans such as myself.
How do you refresh overdrive?
Once you have a full party gauge during overdrive, press "R" and "-" at the same time to add more time to your overdrive
I missed you 😢
Overdrive + eye of shining justice...
With Shulk, Elma, and KOS-MOS, all we need is Fei Fong Wong... which is likely since Square-Enix is in bed with Nintendo.
I second this, we need some more Fei love
Just gonna say I skipped XCX but Overdrive is a retarded amount of fun especially when you hit that MAX power
Lol well she IS a BLADE.
First
I think I’ll skip out on Elma, I thought she was a bad, Mary Sue character without a personality and I don’t want to see her again.
How?
Because she had no flaws, which exactly the problem. Did anyone ever do anything other than worship her aside from the very end of the game (and that's brushed of by the characters quickly)? No she was a perfect, smart, brave, kind, powerful, understanding blah blah blah. Her lack of relatable flaws makes her boring and she doesn't have a character arc or any development, she doesn't learn anything or grow throughout the whole game, which would be fine if she wasn't the protagonist. Elma is the same person from the beginning of the game to the end. If she was just a mentor character to act as a goal for Cross it'd be fine but she's the worst possible choice as a protagonist. Also this is just me but I thought Caitlin Glass gave one if her worst performances, her deadpan voice just made Elma more boring.
@@maxg2335 First the only person who continues to dick suck elma after chapter 3 is Irina. Literally everyone else is like "Oh you're Elma? Cool" then moves on.
Second Elma does have flaws. Elma almost killed Lao. If Lin hadn't stopped her Lao wouldn't of saved them in the final act. Also Elma suspects Lao is a traitor but she doesn't say anything because she didn't want to believe it. She feels deep remorse over her lost teammates. She isn't always right as shown with the lao situation. As for not changing well that's just the problem with every x character.
My man it sounds like you just quit the game after chapter 4 and you're just throwing buzzwords to rationalize your irrational hate towards Elma.
I'm sorry I'm replying so late but I only just saw this reply.
Anyway "Feels remorse over lost team mates" isn't a flaw, that's a positive trait. None of the flaws you mentioned are very good examples. Her not killing Lao didn't pay off until the final act (which is far too late) and because her "flaw" have minimal presence, she shows naivety at one point when it comes to Lao and never again, can you honestly call her a naive character? Anything she did wrong came way too late and hardly anyone called her out for it. It would have been much better if someone like Nagi was telling her that Lao seems off and he might be a traitor but she refuses to believe them which results in a tragedy that she's blamed for and gets the motivation to redeem herself, there you go flaw followed by criticism, then goal and new objective that's understandable and relatable.
Also don't call me "my man" and accuse me of using "buzzwords" patronising people isn't how you counter argue, it just makes you look like a douche.
@@maxg2335 It truly doesn't matter if its late. As long as the story doesn't treat elma as right all the time it doesn't matter. You can say Elma is poorly developed but saying she's a mary sue is wrong.