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[Conegamer]

AndrewWK said:

ookaze said:

Conegamer said:

I disagree. Reyn is absolutely useless now you have the other party members. He has no defence, no speed, no strength (even Riki is stronger, and he has far superior Arts), his Arts are pathetic etc. ALL characters outclass him in every way. Believe me, you want him out. Dunban or Riki make far superior tanks, and Melia and Shulk are far superior damage dealers.

Also, Sharla can't chain well at all. She only has healing Arts, and her strength+ Defence are pathetic. Also, the cooldown is too long, and the AI may heal/protect you at the wrong time, so it's best if you play with her, but if you do, you deal little damage. She's a good healer, but I'd try with other characters. Riki and Shulk have good healing spells for emergenices, for example.

 

I'd recommend Riki/Dunban/Melia at this stage of the game. Best to control Melia, because Riki's and Dunban's AI are very good. Shulk isn't needed here. Use this time to experiment with other characters, and choose your favourite fighting style for the second, more difficult half of the game.

This is just plain false. Reyn sure enough is not a useless character.

You'd better say that you don't know how to use him, which would be more correct. For one, he has the best defence of all characters.

Each character can be maxed out and be a beast in various ways. Of course, when you get everything from every characters, there are powerful combinations. The key is to put the right gems on characters depending on the situation, or have a good default set.

With what they call Spikes in english version of the game, Reyn is just a killing machine on most enemy groups, and he doesn't even need to deal damage on its own. He can even get back life when he is dealt damage, and when an aura is active.

Every character is useful in Xenoblade, and depending on your style, you'll prefer use some combinations more.

What actually counts strategically in Xenoblade, and what define how you play them is :

- The 3 characters in your party

- The order they have in the party

- The gems they have

- The affinity between characters

- The skills they have

- The armors they have

- The weapon the have

 

You think only of damage dealing with your weapon, so you can't ever figure out how great Reyn is. He's not just a tank like in MMORPG.

All these DPS, Tanks and other Healer are meaningless in Xenoblade. There are gems that allow you to heal while dealing damage, get back HP while putting out auras, get back HP with chain Attack and so on. You can make nearly every character into anything, but of course some will be better in some areas.

The same is true with Sharla. Actually, you just show that you don't know how to control the characters, like most people that think they mastered the combat system but are far from it. I never had any problem with Sharla controlled by the computer, but I actually played with every character to max out the relationships, changed the Arts to suit my playstyle, and know when to go encourage my characters, when to tell them to go near me and stop attacking or go all out, when to prioritize maximizing aggro, when to prioritize tension, ... If you master all of that, you can beat any ennemy in the game with any combination of characters (yes, even the 120 level beast). If you don't, you'll be stuck with a few combinations that work better than others, and won't be able to do anything with the others.

But it doesn't mean the other characters are useless.

Reyne is maybe even the best Character in the game imo. Because of all the reasons you just gave us, and I have to say that I never had a problem with any opponent when I had Reyne in my Team, and he´s not just usefull i pulling attention but in chain attacks as well. When the opponent is knocked down he has this ver powerful atack I don´t know how it´s called on english I mean this red Sword icon, and he has a yellow attack as well. Reyne is like Grunt of Xenoblade I just feal safer with him in my team. The only really useless character is this new girl I tried to fight with her against some stronger enemies and failed.

As far as I'm aware, you're in the Bionis' Head, which isn't even half way through...

The game is easy up until now. Reyn's usefulness drastically decreases in the next few areas as the game throws more enemies of a higher level with spikes etc. dealing heavy damage. 

Melia, and I'm tired of saying this, but she is quite easily amongst the best characters in the game, if you play as her. She can damage Mechon without Shulk, she can deal all sorts of damage (Burn, poison, health-drain etc) to the enemy, and can assist your team (ether, strength up, health recovery, agility up etc.) greatly. In addition, her ether is by far the highest of any character in the game, her ether defence is also the best, her HP, strength and defence are all reasonable as well, and she can easily topple enemies with Starlight Kick, without having to break. She can also chain the easiest of any character, as her Talent Art can be used at almost any time. 

Basically, she's an all-rounder, but excels in Magic attacks. Up until this point, that's not been of much importance, but if you abandon her now you'll find your passage through the rest of the game is much more difficult. Reyn, as a physical attacker, is useless against Ether-based units, like the cloud-balls, for example, and enemies with insane defence come around soon. Guess who's the only real character for those instances?

As I said, all characters strengths and weaknesses etc.