tbh i'd rather just use qtpi, she's like way better also hey haha guys you know what enel said at the end of the video yeah check out his description the text guide is there it's uh it's pretty good i'd say your arts evaluation is pretty on point, just a few things - shutdown inflicts sleep always, if it's used against a mechon, it'll remove all their buffs and debuffs. to be honest its conditional ability is kinda garbage, since you're most likely going to be removing your own debuffs. but as an art it's not terrible, the sleep is actually pretty decent and the damage isn't _that_ bad, but i'd rather have her other red arts instead. double blade doesn't have great base damage, but like riki's sneaky, it'll do triple damage instead of back slash's double, so if you have another tank in the party to draw aggro it can actually be a pretty decent art. healing energy in general just isn't a great art. if i want regen, i'm usually gonna go with lock on for the extra crit rate for crit drain. the only issue with speed shift is its absurdly long cooldown, so you might want to use chain attacks to refresh its duration every once in a while. otherwise, you're gonna have almost a minute of downtime with no aura at all unless you invest another slot into lock on or guard shift. power drain is a good art, but unfortunately not amazing against superbosses since most of them are pretty much just immune to strength down. zero gravity also has another thing - it charges up her talent gauge by 25% one more issue with final cross other than the ones you mentioned is that since it's an ether attack and fiora doesn't have any star links, she can't link enlightenment from melia and get the buff to ether hit rate. that means against any significantly higher leveled enemies like superbosses, final cross has a good chance to be resisted if the enemy isn't toppled, and if its last hit is resisted, then it won't topple. that said, it's still a great art, so i'd recommend keeping it on. if you stack shoulder to shoulder and friendship heals on your entire party it'll heal you for 45% of your max hp after every chain attack. if you have a recovery up, it'll heal you for 66.7%. these slots are somewhat contested by some other good skills so you might just have like 35 or 40 instead, but it's still insanely good, especially later on when you can consistently get chain attacks every several seconds or so. fiora's talent arts are pretty interesting with how they ramp up per "level". for sword drones specifically, level 1 basically hits the enemy for an auto attack's worth of damage 10 times. level 2 will up each hit to 1.25x an auto attack, and level x, or sedna drones, will up it to 1.5x an autoattack for each hit. this is somewhat similar to cannon drones actually, which will do 10 auto attacks' worth of damage at level 1 in one big blast, and 15 auto attacks' worth of damage at level 2 (no other talent art has level x). on paper, this means cannon drones 1 will do the same as sword drones 1 and cannon drones 2 will do the same as sword drones x, but keep in mind that you most likely are going to have physical boosts rather than ether through stuff like slit edge, worldly slash, and peerless, which will make sword drones do significantly more. plus, 9 more hits means 9 more chances to crit. all in all it's up to you to choose if you want about 2.5 auto attacks' worth of damage per talent art or one more armor gem. conviction blades technically have the highest minimum attack out of any of fiora's weapons, but as far as max attack goes it's outclassed by both dystopia and war blades. if you want a little more consistency in damage at the cost of about 100 minimum attack, you might want to go with that - but like enel said, since the damage range glitch isn't a thing anymore, dystopia is quite a good weapon now. some gem setups other than max damage - hp steal, weapon power, recovery up. 75% to heal yourself for 200 hp for each attack, and since fiora does that a lot quickly, it adds up very fast. stack on top of chain heal and crit drain/combo for maximum self regen. talent boost, double attack, haste, back attack plus/topple up/attack plus. she'll get her talent art much quicker and you can spam the living hell out of it. and some others, but feel free to experiment and try stuff out for yourself. fiora as a character is probably the second most versatile character in the game under riki, and she can do a bunch of things depending on what you throw on her. and IM GETTING ON FIORA IM ALMOST DONE WITH RIKI I SWEAR OK ITLL BE DONE SOON I PROMISE
A suggestion if it wasn't already going to be in the guide - I'd like to see a breakdown of what each type of drone "does" and it's pros and cons. Everyone says Sword Drones are best, and you explain why a bit in the post above, but I'd like to understand the others and if they have any use just...like...to know? Like if one is good for area damage instead of DPS? Etc. Thanks as always!
@@skinnermclane4467 Cannon Drones is a big ether attack in a line in front of her, Gun Drones is an aoe ether attack around her if I remember correctly, and I have no idea what Shield Drones does
@@nyarlathotep5020 I think if you purposely lose those battles, you get to use Dickson and Alvis outside of the story sequences. Alvis at least, I saw some screenshots of him and Shulk in Satorl Marsh
@@Armagon1000 they're equipped with 100% unbeatable, so it's pretty much literally impossible to lose the fights that they appear in respectively. if someone uses them outside battles then they probably hacked them in
That is untill someone starts reading the comments for some reason and reads your comment. After reading the comment, it wouldn't be hard to put things together. You just had to be That Guy. Just in case, I'm joking. Just wanted to say your name lol.
Well Dunban mentioned in the heart to heart with Sharla that Shulk’s the guy to marry Fiora. Same with the heart to heart with both Shulk and Fiora in the beginning of the game
why not just have a single video for every character that is limited to a specific selection of battles (so Mumhkar, Dickson and Alvis (I think that's all of them... oh and possibly Monado weilding Dunban)) I wonder if they'll ever update Definitive Edition to let you keep those characters as full party members in New Game+ (like they did with Xenoblade 2's villains being kept as blades) I'd certainly be happy if we got some DLC stuff (either more characters or some more extra stories along the same lines as the Future Connected story. (even just letting you use Kino and Nene in the base game's New Game+ (as long as you finish Future Connected first) would be nice (I know that they borrow a lot of their arts from Sharla and Reyn but just being able to have a triple nopon party would be amazing)))
@@mellewindig4722 Dated reddit jokes aside, this advice isn't really needed. Because the game hammers it into your head to turn casual mode on every time you die more than once in a short time frame. Thus why returning players should turn off the on screen notifications if that kind of thing annoys you (and it certainly does for me)
she doesn't have access to star-shaped skill link slots because every skill that allows you to equip another kind of armor are that shape, and they didn't want you to be able to use light, medium, or heavy armor on her. Although this might have actually been an afterthought because honestly she would be so much better with access to even just the skills you mentioned, let alone the skills that give you more double attack rate, stat increases, etc.
Good things about fiora Crit Healing Haste Double attack Sword drone Spear blade Final cross Gun drones is hella fun Her as- Lock on Speed shift Explosion of energy Her as- Dammit what else.... Her as-
@@isakts8576 Yeah but she has some armors that do a great job of showing off her other assets. Not useful when playing as her but it works for cutscenes.
Looks beautiful, has a lovely personality, dual-wields, uses blade drones and laser drones, has the best looking armor set in the game (ahem), and has an adorable voice. If those aren't solid qualifications for Best Girl then I don't know what is!
When I got to that battle in DE I made sure I got a chain attack off. Was disappointed by his lack of fun arts but I was still satisfied that I got to control another character 😂
Same with Dickson in the fight after the Ether Mine. IIRC they both also have level VI gems on their equipment, though there's no way to get them for yourself.
For those wondering, probably the biggest reason that Fiora doesn't get any star affinity links is due to the fact that "Can equip medium/heavy armor" skills are in fact star-shaped skills, and they probably wanted to make sure that she would never be able to use non-mechon armor
You know that someone is really passionate about what he does when you see clever ways to warn about spoilers such as that, and also when you see such a deep understanding of the game.
Shutdown actually puts any enemy to sleep presuming it isn't immune, but removes buffs and debuffs if used on a Mechon. So I would actually argue it's better used on enemies that *aren't* Mechon so you don't remove all your debuffs.
I almost got murdered by a pretty bad spike against a Mechon because I didn't realize Shutdown scrubs debuffs as well. Took off my Purge and everyone nearly died
God damn, it was so wholesomely heartwarming to come across Seven in the community then when I finally got Seven in the game...made me really love the Internet instead of just hate it...and to see that legacy continue on even now...god damn, I love you guys!
I think the reason Fiora has no star-shaped skill links is to prevent her from being able to link the medium and heavy armour skills. Since she's supposed to only be able to equip the Mechon type armour.
Fiora is my favorite! Final Cross is a great move when I want to Topple enemies with some solid damage. I'm still learning the more advanced lessons about the optimal ways to arrange my party and their Arts, so this is great.
This is the fifth character guide I've watched and it just now clicked for me that ALL of the characters skill trees give that character the skill benefits and not just the one that you currently have highlighted!? (except the thing that says prioritizing this tree improves x thing) Great job as always on the guides!
A note about Shutdown: It has absurdly high knockback. If you're near a cliff, like everywhere in Mechonis Field, the first dungeon you use her in, it is VERY useful for skipping fights or quickly grinding if you're under leveled, since sparta kicking enemies off a cliff is still killing them as far as the game is concerned. Just hope you didn't want the loot.
The auto-attack strats with Fiora are so fun, my favourite set up on the game. Also it’s funny how small the health and damage numbers are compared to later games
Superb! This is actually my preferred setup from 9 years ago. This setup is the most fun to me. Except that I invert the last two party members. I was playing Seven exactly like that with nearly the same weapon, Talent arts, Arts and skill trees. It was so much fun already back in the day, the problem is that we could not lower the levels back in the day, so it wasn't really fun anymore as I was obliterating everything. I was using the weakest party possible and still could beat the most powerful monsters. Now with the Expert mode, it is really amazing.
A really good gem to use on fiora is electric plus. This effects zero gravity, mag storm, final cross, cannon drones, and gun drones. I personally love using this gem on her.
You are the fastest sonic speeding youtuber i have ever seen in my life. Big thanks for that fast uploads, you still DESERVE WAYYY MORE SUBS. And the spoiler you did it great. But THERE is ONE thing. You only explained one of the 3 talent arts. But accidents can hapen i make a exception for you.
Speed V Goggles are also great, since they come with Aggro Down VI (another gem that is normally weapon exclusive). Going full lightspeed blender on an enemy's ankles is going to generate a *lot* of aggro, and while Fiora is far from the most fragile character in the game, she's not exactly a tank either, so anything that reduces the aggro she is drawing is going to help (on this build, at least).
Not sure if anyone covered regarding the art Shutdown but it does inflict sleep on an enemy regardless whether they’re a mechon type or not. The added benefit of hitting a mechon is that it also removes the target’s buffs. Regardless I find it useful in situations if you’re getting mobbed by one too many powerful monsters.
Thank you for all these videos, I've watched them all and found them very very helpful. I also specifically loved how you always warned about potential spoilers so I only watched them when I was past that point you mentioned. Keep up the great work
The fact that you made a Fiora guide and not a nr.7 guide totally spoiled that for me. I had watched a few guides, while actually managing not to get spoiled, but then the rest of your guides popped into my reccommended, and there was no Nr.7 guide, only a fiora guide. At the time I noticed this I was at a point in the story after Zanza was freed, so I kinda figured we'd get her back anyway. I don't really blame you for the spoiler, as you tried to keep mostly spoiler free, and warned against spoilers, and I watched your guides anyway. However just the fact that you don't have a "nr.7 guide" spoils the twist for anyone else who happens to find your guides, even if they don't watch them.
I can't wait to use Fiora in my playthrough. I think I played as her once and didn't keep her in the party much on my only full playthrough of the game so far. She was the one party member I hadn't seen video footage or some kind of guide for so it's likely I was just too scared to try her out.
There is exactly one situation I can think of for running Mag Storm and it's with Demon Slayer Dunban and even then that strategy doesn't work for very long because you only get Demon Slayer around Late Agniritha so not a whole lot of time to mess with that strategy
I don't really understand, but Rashness tottaly carried my playthrough. I used seven from the moment I got her till the end of the game. Successfull B at the start of the battle < talent art + explosion if energy < final cross < speed shift < win
hey i just wanted to say that I like your videos a lot! you're super good at explaing this game, so i referenced my friend to your videos bc I've been trying to get him to play xenoblade since the wii, but i suck at explaining the combat to him, sigh. thank you for all the work you put in to your content, youre awesome! :)
I think the reason to why she can't use star symbol skill links is because all the armor weight type skills are those shape which would allow seven to equip regular armor
One thing to note, fiora can be ether too, all her ether skills are "electric", cannon drone II, final cross, mag storm all are "electric", that means is a pretty powerful attack with one electric plus gem. I use Max attack plus, electric plus, and lighting gem that adds 250 electric damage to each hit, and that doubles up to 500 dmg. Nice build. Another thing to note, sword drones II with an strengt gem is Just as powerful as no gem sword drones X, and strengt buffs all your other skils.
Great series, looking forward to to seeing Riki, his spike damage art, I think it's called Ricki is angry? seems to be quite strong, so it'll be interesting seeing how & or if it's still applicable later on
I said to do this character and he actually did it! The absolute madman! And honestly, you can only worry so much about spoiling this when there's stuff like pieces of promo material for Project X Zone 2 that just straight-up show her.
In regards to the reason Seven doesn't have any star skill links, I always thought it was relative to because medium/heavy equipment links are also on those and of course they're assumed to not be able to equip any different kind of armour. Loved the video, never used seven much in my playthrough but looking forward to it now!
I've always thought the reason Fiora doesn't get any star-shaped skill link slots is because the skills that let you equip medium and heavy armor are star-shaped, so rather than programming in special exceptions to prevent her from equipping normal armor the devs just prevented her from using skill links to get the required skills for medium and heavy armors. Of course her inability to equip light armor despite the fact that light armor isn't governed by a skill shows that they did put in special exceptions for her, so idk.
I’ve been running Seven with Melia and Riki cause she fixes the party gauge problem. Another is swapping Riki for Dunban and having basically two high damage dodge tanks maintain agro for you. Obviously a team that makes use of the 5th skill tree is better and maybe when I’m over playing as Melia I’ll be able to make use of that, but right now I’m fine being non-optimal.
Here is a tip for mag storm: it can fill the party gauge from zero to full if you fight against seven or more enemys it crits against ( I wrote it like that to aboide spoilers.) If youll use it again in the chain attack, and again and again and again, that is pretty damn good.
tbh i'd rather just use qtpi, she's like way better
also hey haha guys you know what enel said at the end of the video yeah check out his description the text guide is there it's uh it's pretty good i'd say
your arts evaluation is pretty on point, just a few things -
shutdown inflicts sleep always, if it's used against a mechon, it'll remove all their buffs and debuffs. to be honest its conditional ability is kinda garbage, since you're most likely going to be removing your own debuffs. but as an art it's not terrible, the sleep is actually pretty decent and the damage isn't _that_ bad, but i'd rather have her other red arts instead.
double blade doesn't have great base damage, but like riki's sneaky, it'll do triple damage instead of back slash's double, so if you have another tank in the party to draw aggro it can actually be a pretty decent art.
healing energy in general just isn't a great art. if i want regen, i'm usually gonna go with lock on for the extra crit rate for crit drain.
the only issue with speed shift is its absurdly long cooldown, so you might want to use chain attacks to refresh its duration every once in a while. otherwise, you're gonna have almost a minute of downtime with no aura at all unless you invest another slot into lock on or guard shift.
power drain is a good art, but unfortunately not amazing against superbosses since most of them are pretty much just immune to strength down.
zero gravity also has another thing - it charges up her talent gauge by 25%
one more issue with final cross other than the ones you mentioned is that since it's an ether attack and fiora doesn't have any star links, she can't link enlightenment from melia and get the buff to ether hit rate. that means against any significantly higher leveled enemies like superbosses, final cross has a good chance to be resisted if the enemy isn't toppled, and if its last hit is resisted, then it won't topple. that said, it's still a great art, so i'd recommend keeping it on.
if you stack shoulder to shoulder and friendship heals on your entire party it'll heal you for 45% of your max hp after every chain attack. if you have a recovery up, it'll heal you for 66.7%. these slots are somewhat contested by some other good skills so you might just have like 35 or 40 instead, but it's still insanely good, especially later on when you can consistently get chain attacks every several seconds or so.
fiora's talent arts are pretty interesting with how they ramp up per "level". for sword drones specifically, level 1 basically hits the enemy for an auto attack's worth of damage 10 times. level 2 will up each hit to 1.25x an auto attack, and level x, or sedna drones, will up it to 1.5x an autoattack for each hit. this is somewhat similar to cannon drones actually, which will do 10 auto attacks' worth of damage at level 1 in one big blast, and 15 auto attacks' worth of damage at level 2 (no other talent art has level x). on paper, this means cannon drones 1 will do the same as sword drones 1 and cannon drones 2 will do the same as sword drones x, but keep in mind that you most likely are going to have physical boosts rather than ether through stuff like slit edge, worldly slash, and peerless, which will make sword drones do significantly more. plus, 9 more hits means 9 more chances to crit. all in all it's up to you to choose if you want about 2.5 auto attacks' worth of damage per talent art or one more armor gem.
conviction blades technically have the highest minimum attack out of any of fiora's weapons, but as far as max attack goes it's outclassed by both dystopia and war blades. if you want a little more consistency in damage at the cost of about 100 minimum attack, you might want to go with that - but like enel said, since the damage range glitch isn't a thing anymore, dystopia is quite a good weapon now.
some gem setups other than max damage -
hp steal, weapon power, recovery up. 75% to heal yourself for 200 hp for each attack, and since fiora does that a lot quickly, it adds up very fast. stack on top of chain heal and crit drain/combo for maximum self regen.
talent boost, double attack, haste, back attack plus/topple up/attack plus. she'll get her talent art much quicker and you can spam the living hell out of it.
and some others, but feel free to experiment and try stuff out for yourself. fiora as a character is probably the second most versatile character in the game under riki, and she can do a bunch of things depending on what you throw on her.
and IM GETTING ON FIORA IM ALMOST DONE WITH RIKI I SWEAR OK ITLL BE DONE SOON I PROMISE
I really appreciate your insights man and enjoyed reading the guide. Cheers!
A suggestion if it wasn't already going to be in the guide - I'd like to see a breakdown of what each type of drone "does" and it's pros and cons. Everyone says Sword Drones are best, and you explain why a bit in the post above, but I'd like to understand the others and if they have any use just...like...to know? Like if one is good for area damage instead of DPS? Etc.
Thanks as always!
@@skinnermclane4467 Cannon Drones is a big ether attack in a line in front of her, Gun Drones is an aoe ether attack around her if I remember correctly, and I have no idea what Shield Drones does
@@skinnermclane4467 Don't worry we're gonna cover them all.
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Technically Dickson was a playable character for a single battle in the story in colony 6 so I’d like to see a Dickson guide
Wat about alvis technicaly he's playable in the fight where shulk gets monado purge
@@christianmario9753 you cant play as him though so it's not as important
@@terraghost pretty sure you can't play as dickson either? at least it was like that in og
@@nyarlathotep5020 I think if you purposely lose those battles, you get to use Dickson and Alvis outside of the story sequences. Alvis at least, I saw some screenshots of him and Shulk in Satorl Marsh
@@Armagon1000 they're equipped with 100% unbeatable, so it's pretty much literally impossible to lose the fights that they appear in respectively. if someone uses them outside battles then they probably hacked them in
How to do you use Fiora?
“Immediately into the Video”: Fiora running around in swim suit.
Me: i have learned all i need.
I think you handled the spoiler perfectly, it was funny and wasn't too on the nose about the true nature of Seven.
Should have just said how to use Seven. And have a blacked out number seven in the thumbnail hehe
Count the dislikes on the video
That is untill someone starts reading the comments for some reason and reads your comment. After reading the comment, it wouldn't be hard to put things together. You just had to be That Guy.
Just in case, I'm joking. Just wanted to say your name lol.
and its not like you were spoiling it by stating Seven in a video involving Fiora.
@@drakath5727 No he wasn't? I don't get your point
[7:26] >an entire skill tree devoted to shulk
*JUST MARRY HIM ALREADY.* 🤣
I think it’s kinda cute
Also yes
Well Dunban mentioned in the heart to heart with Sharla that Shulk’s the guy to marry Fiora. Same with the heart to heart with both Shulk and Fiora in the beginning of the game
What fiora would be call if shulk married her:shulora XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Sigh...
I love Shulk and Fiora as a couple but man...
*Poor Melia*
Nah, they popped out a Nikol
Wow. You didn’t have to put two characters in one guide mate. A real heropon.
>"I think it's important to cover every character"
>fiora swimsuit intro
what did he mean by this
Tyler Davis
Yes😉
That’s cool, but where’s the Mumkhar guide?
you never get to control him
@@MakenaForest wooosh
ALVIS GUIDE
@@MakenaForest come on dude...
@@MakenaForest If fact, you do, do you even played the game? smh
Just to make everybody happy, Make Alvis, Dickson, and Mumkhar all at the same time
I'm gonna go all out
In a swimsuit
Yes
By the intro logic you need to cover Mumhkar and Dickson from the prologue fight now.
April fools?
Oh and dont forget alvis
why not just have a single video for every character that is limited to a specific selection of battles (so Mumhkar, Dickson and Alvis (I think that's all of them... oh and possibly Monado weilding Dunban))
I wonder if they'll ever update Definitive Edition to let you keep those characters as full party members in New Game+ (like they did with Xenoblade 2's villains being kept as blades) I'd certainly be happy if we got some DLC stuff (either more characters or some more extra stories along the same lines as the Future Connected story. (even just letting you use Kino and Nene in the base game's New Game+ (as long as you finish Future Connected first) would be nice (I know that they borrow a lot of their arts from Sharla and Reyn but just being able to have a triple nopon party would be amazing)))
No only Dickson because you can actually control him in a single fight after xord
Best gem builds and skill links of course
finally. i needed some advice for the first chapter
If the game is to hard in chapter one you can actually set it to casual mode
@@mellewindig4722 it was almost definitely a joke
Melle Windig wooioooooooosshshshshshhsshshshshhshshshshshshshhs
@@mellewindig4722
Dated reddit jokes aside, this advice isn't really needed. Because the game hammers it into your head to turn casual mode on every time you die more than once in a short time frame. Thus why returning players should turn off the on screen notifications if that kind of thing annoys you (and it certainly does for me)
@@sandwichwithnocheese5194 you are the woooshed one here... Bruh
she doesn't have access to star-shaped skill link slots because every skill that allows you to equip another kind of armor are that shape, and they didn't want you to be able to use light, medium, or heavy armor on her. Although this might have actually been an afterthought because honestly she would be so much better with access to even just the skills you mentioned, let alone the skills that give you more double attack rate, stat increases, etc.
Wish they'd just given armour skills their own shape
@@obamaorb7426 Ya, like a rectangle.
20 minutes of explanation for a character you use for 10 minutes?? You sure do want that ad revenue.
Ikr, he just has to *press on and on and on* with those midroll ads
i came here for the comments because of spoiler. i was dissapointed by his genius...
"And she has a talent art too"
Well, I mean... they... they all do.
Well... saying sharla has a talent art is a bit generous
@@yashkeshavpatnam1852 Dickson and Alvis don't have one do they?
pretty sure you need monado shield for dicksons boss battle so yes, he does
Good things about fiora
Crit
Healing
Haste
Double attack
Sword drone
Spear blade
Final cross
Gun drones is hella fun
Her as-
Lock on
Speed shift
Explosion of energy
Her as-
Dammit what else....
Her as-
Yeah I get it....
BreadSquid yes precisely
But she's stuck in that body for the rest of the game though lol
Her assets!
@@isakts8576 Yeah but she has some armors that do a great job of showing off her other assets. Not useful when playing as her but it works for cutscenes.
Ive been watching so many xenoblade videos, and in all of them no one has said this, so I am going to.
Fiora is so hot, gawd damn.
Before or after colony 9 attack??👀👀
@@finnabus633 Yes.
No brog is hotter
Yet melia is better
Agreed Melia is better. Poor melia
Mad props to how you handled this vid to avoid spoiling people while still making a guide. Subbed
I was wondering how you weren't gonna spoil the 7th party member, Pretty big brain move
You spoiled it by saying that
Looks beautiful, has a lovely personality, dual-wields, uses blade drones and laser drones, has the best looking armor set in the game (ahem), and has an adorable voice. If those aren't solid qualifications for Best Girl then I don't know what is!
She is best girl
*Speed cowlings top tier*
Sharla has ravenhair, perfectly darkened skin, smoldering eyes, and much more ample curves, as well as having a lovely personality. Checkmate.
Fiora isn’t just best girl. Fiora isn’t even just best Xenoblade girl. Fiora is best fictional girl ever. Fiora reminds me of my wife.
@@skullkid-kazooie8277 I too, choose this man’s wife.
And here I was expecting a 20 minute homs Fiora guide.
lol
The anti spoiler intro to this video was actually next level. Masterful stuff right here.
Glad I'm not the only one who plays the game like this. Referring to the first few minutes if you know what I mean.
Technically you can use Alvis if you perform a chain attack in the battle where u get monado purge
When I got to that battle in DE I made sure I got a chain attack off. Was disappointed by his lack of fun arts but I was still satisfied that I got to control another character 😂
And Dickson as well. It was pretty fun to see.
@@bisalwayswright88 ye. He has like 2 physical arts
Same with Dickson in the fight after the Ether Mine.
IIRC they both also have level VI gems on their equipment, though there's no way to get them for yourself.
Handled the spoiler well, was looking forward to this with just how customisable she is
huh.... guess I was wrong, I was expecting this to be Riki's Hero Time
oh well.... I guess it'll be his turn next
You did it!... But you didn't spend much time on Fiora, instead focused on Seven. What a jip! I want my money back!
You thought this video would be about Fiora
But it was me: Seven!
For those wondering, probably the biggest reason that Fiora doesn't get any star affinity links is due to the fact that "Can equip medium/heavy armor" skills are in fact star-shaped skills, and they probably wanted to make sure that she would never be able to use non-mechon armor
could just made them pentagon since most of those skills aren't that great lol
Are you telling me most people don't run Heavy armor Sharla?
@@Laurmachi M8 do you even play the game? Sharla has a heavy armor skill already. /s
PumpkinFox sharla already has heavy armour skill boi
PumpkinFox i run medium armor Sharla if I use her because it’s hard to find slotted heavy armor
the way you covered up this video was pure genius, amazing job!
You know that someone is really passionate about what he does when you see clever ways to warn about spoilers such as that, and also when you see such a deep understanding of the game.
Yeap, swimsuit time.
Shutdown actually puts any enemy to sleep presuming it isn't immune, but removes buffs and debuffs if used on a Mechon. So I would actually argue it's better used on enemies that *aren't* Mechon so you don't remove all your debuffs.
yeah my apologies I just made an assumption on it since never used against non mechon
I almost got murdered by a pretty bad spike against a Mechon because I didn't realize Shutdown scrubs debuffs as well. Took off my Purge and everyone nearly died
@@conorb.1901 By chance was it the unique monster at mechonis field?
@@pesky2119 yeah it was in Mechonis Field
@@conorb.1901 LOL I can imagine your panic xD
Ayyy, perfect timing! I just got her in game and couldn’t remember which of her arts are best from my last playthrough.
THIS, is such Big Brain!
Enel is an absolute genius, such a perfect way to handle the spoiler
God damn, it was so wholesomely heartwarming to come across Seven in the community then when I finally got Seven in the game...made me really love the Internet instead of just hate it...and to see that legacy continue on even now...god damn, I love you guys!
I think the reason Fiora has no star-shaped skill links is to prevent her from being able to link the medium and heavy armour skills. Since she's supposed to only be able to equip the Mechon type armour.
That kinda dump reason honestly, there is a better way to do this without removing all of her star slots.
Love Fiora’s swimsuit!
Same
thank you, i appreciate you treading the spoiler land mine to get this video out.
Fiora is my favorite! Final Cross is a great move when I want to Topple enemies with some solid damage. I'm still learning the more advanced lessons about the optimal ways to arrange my party and their Arts, so this is great.
Thank you for not being "That Guy."
Amazing guide. 👏👏👏
Brooo, you're a genius xD
Nice pfp
Is that carbon Mythra? She looks a lot like Camilla
This is exactly the content I desire. Funny how much damage she can do early game.
This is the fifth character guide I've watched and it just now clicked for me that ALL of the characters skill trees give that character the skill benefits and not just the one that you currently have highlighted!? (except the thing that says prioritizing this tree improves x thing)
Great job as always on the guides!
Enel, you never fail to impress me with your galaxy brain.
A note about Shutdown: It has absurdly high knockback. If you're near a cliff, like everywhere in Mechonis Field, the first dungeon you use her in, it is VERY useful for skipping fights or quickly grinding if you're under leveled, since sparta kicking enemies off a cliff is still killing them as far as the game is concerned. Just hope you didn't want the loot.
But does it work on a level 78 gogol
The auto-attack strats with Fiora are so fun, my favourite set up on the game. Also it’s funny how small the health and damage numbers are compared to later games
I know right? The only game where auto-attacks are actually useful and aggro isn't dictated by just pure damage.
Glad I asked about this video in the Reyn guide
That... Is an impressively clever solution
Superb! This is actually my preferred setup from 9 years ago. This setup is the most fun to me. Except that I invert the last two party members.
I was playing Seven exactly like that with nearly the same weapon, Talent arts, Arts and skill trees.
It was so much fun already back in the day, the problem is that we could not lower the levels back in the day, so it wasn't really fun anymore as I was obliterating everything.
I was using the weakest party possible and still could beat the most powerful monsters.
Now with the Expert mode, it is really amazing.
A really good gem to use on fiora is electric plus. This effects zero gravity, mag storm, final cross, cannon drones, and gun drones. I personally love using this gem on her.
This is the optimal timeline.
Number 1 reason to have Fiora in your party: *The view.* Just ask Shulk.
You are the fastest sonic speeding youtuber i have ever seen in my life. Big thanks for that fast uploads, you still DESERVE WAYYY MORE SUBS. And the spoiler you did it great. But THERE is ONE thing. You only explained one of the 3 talent arts. But accidents can hapen i make a exception for you.
Fiora/Seven actually have 4 talent arts. It all depends on the footgear she has.
Matsuna13 yeah iknow it now, i forgotted the Shield Drones. It would be cool if the 4 Arts would just like the monado arts worked.
Shield drones is good if you like her to be a defensive character especially with dangerous talent arts. I haven’t used it much.
Yeah thats right, a good combo with shield drones are the power V set
Speed V Goggles are also great, since they come with Aggro Down VI (another gem that is normally weapon exclusive). Going full lightspeed blender on an enemy's ankles is going to generate a *lot* of aggro, and while Fiora is far from the most fragile character in the game, she's not exactly a tank either, so anything that reduces the aggro she is drawing is going to help (on this build, at least).
Not sure if anyone covered regarding the art Shutdown but it does inflict sleep on an enemy regardless whether they’re a mechon type or not. The added benefit of hitting a mechon is that it also removes the target’s buffs. Regardless I find it useful in situations if you’re getting mobbed by one too many powerful monsters.
I really like the way you lead into 7, you did good!
Love all of your videos man.
Mad respect to you for the way handled this video man.
I enjoy watching your number of affinity coins go up every guide.
haha it hasn't gone up too much cause i've been lazy
Man, your content is amazing!
Something I like putting on them is these gems that give DoT effects by auto-attacks, basicaly doubles their damage output in long fights
Was wondering how you were going to deal with Fiora in the guide hahaha, great intro, can't wait for the guide on Alvis ;)
0:43 this is very painful to watch and very satisfying to watch simultaneously
I honestly really like how Fiora as a party member is designed.
This guy is the xenoblade king
Thank you for all these videos, I've watched them all and found them very very helpful. I also specifically loved how you always warned about potential spoilers so I only watched them when I was past that point you mentioned. Keep up the great work
Bloody hell mate this was supper helpful to Rotty😉 thank you❤️ she’s definitely my preferred to main for this game
Great Guide Enel.
These guides keep showing up on my recommendations
Excellent content yet again sir! Nothing but the best from you👍
Great way to handle the spoiler. Love your content.
This one should've been the seventh video, if you ask me. Still, good analysis as always.
The fact that you made a Fiora guide and not a nr.7 guide totally spoiled that for me. I had watched a few guides, while actually managing not to get spoiled, but then the rest of your guides popped into my reccommended, and there was no Nr.7 guide, only a fiora guide.
At the time I noticed this I was at a point in the story after Zanza was freed, so I kinda figured we'd get her back anyway.
I don't really blame you for the spoiler, as you tried to keep mostly spoiler free, and warned against spoilers, and I watched your guides anyway. However just the fact that you don't have a "nr.7 guide" spoils the twist for anyone else who happens to find your guides, even if they don't watch them.
I left a like just for how you handled the spoiler.
You're a king.
An extremely helpful video for a noob like me. You, sir, have earned yourself a sub.
If we got a guide for fiora and 7 since they're very similar I can't wait for the future connected character guides
I can't wait to use Fiora in my playthrough. I think I played as her once and didn't keep her in the party much on my only full playthrough of the game so far. She was the one party member I hadn't seen video footage or some kind of guide for so it's likely I was just too scared to try her out.
I like having her as an agility tank with her regen and just constant attacking
Good to see you using the correct fashion
There is exactly one situation I can think of for running Mag Storm and it's with Demon Slayer Dunban and even then that strategy doesn't work for very long because you only get Demon Slayer around Late Agniritha so not a whole lot of time to mess with that strategy
I don't really understand, but Rashness tottaly carried my playthrough. I used seven from the moment I got her till the end of the game. Successfull B at the start of the battle < talent art + explosion if energy < final cross < speed shift < win
Fiora + Speed Shift and Lora + Auto-Attack Cancel look at each other. They shake hands. They are similar.
I like this compensation a lot. thank you a ton!
OMG I was hoping you'd post a video on this today LOL
hey i just wanted to say that I like your videos a lot! you're super good at explaing this game, so i referenced my friend to your videos bc I've been trying to get him to play xenoblade since the wii, but i suck at explaining the combat to him, sigh. thank you for all the work you put in to your content, youre awesome! :)
I think the reason to why she can't use star symbol skill links is because all the armor weight type skills are those shape which would allow seven to equip regular armor
Thank you for telling me that Fiora had arts. I wasn’t quite sure.
One thing to note, fiora can be ether too, all her ether skills are "electric", cannon drone II, final cross, mag storm all are "electric", that means is a pretty powerful attack with one electric plus gem. I use Max attack plus, electric plus, and lighting gem that adds 250 electric damage to each hit, and that doubles up to 500 dmg. Nice build.
Another thing to note, sword drones II with an strengt gem is Just as powerful as no gem sword drones X, and strengt buffs all your other skils.
Enel:ok showing of a new charter and strategy
Super bosses: SHIT SHIT SHIT PLEASE NO THIS IS THE 7 TIME THIS WEEK PLEASE HAVE MERCY
Great series, looking forward to to seeing Riki, his spike damage art, I think it's called Ricki is angry? seems to be quite strong, so it'll be interesting seeing how & or if it's still applicable later on
I said to do this character and he actually did it! The absolute madman!
And honestly, you can only worry so much about spoiling this when there's stuff like pieces of promo material for Project X Zone 2 that just straight-up show her.
She's also on the artwork released on Monolithsoft's 20th anniversary in that form as well.
In regards to the reason Seven doesn't have any star skill links, I always thought it was relative to because medium/heavy equipment links are also on those and of course they're assumed to not be able to equip any different kind of armour. Loved the video, never used seven much in my playthrough but looking forward to it now!
I've always thought the reason Fiora doesn't get any star-shaped skill link slots is because the skills that let you equip medium and heavy armor are star-shaped, so rather than programming in special exceptions to prevent her from equipping normal armor the devs just prevented her from using skill links to get the required skills for medium and heavy armors. Of course her inability to equip light armor despite the fact that light armor isn't governed by a skill shows that they did put in special exceptions for her, so idk.
I’ve been running Seven with Melia and Riki cause she fixes the party gauge problem. Another is swapping Riki for Dunban and having basically two high damage dodge tanks maintain agro for you. Obviously a team that makes use of the 5th skill tree is better and maybe when I’m over playing as Melia I’ll be able to make use of that, but right now I’m fine being non-optimal.
Here is a tip for mag storm: it can fill the party gauge from zero to full if you fight against seven or more enemys it crits against ( I wrote it like that to aboide spoilers.) If youll use it again in the chain attack, and again and again and again, that is pretty damn good.
Best girl coming through!
Bro the Melia video came out yesterday...
@@ericspenceri9449 You should check your eyes because I was clearly talking about best girl here, and Melia is not it
I had the hunch I'd find you here. After all, you're the number 1 fiora fan.
@@DS_DoggerX Yessir! Also wasn't expecting someone to recognise me :o
@@ericspenceri9449 What do you mean, Reyn's video came out a while ago.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who often misses the first button prompt in the chain attack because it’s too slow...