The Xenoblade Chronicles Series Thread: Definitive Edition (All Spoilers in Tags)

[Sunstrider]

irstupid said:

WHAT? I'm the one creating the floating orbs. Did not realize that.

Question about floating orbs. Say a fire orb is floating around an enemy and I enter Combo to break it. What's the best way to break it? Do I use fire attacks to break it? Any attack? What the enemy is weak to if he is? Is there an element triangle system like use Water attacks to break the fire orb the fastest?

And you say its better to build up orbs on an enemy so that when you do break them all it does massive damage huh? I guess high risk, high reward. Question in regard to multiple orbs though. Is there a way to target one or is it random. When I was doing a combo against an enemy that had 2 of them, I didn't manage to break either, cause the attacks sometimes hit one and sometimes the other.

Mar perfectly explained the answers to your questions .

Wyrdness said:

With the possibility of X being ported to Switch this thread is now open to the whole Xenoblade series for discussion with the title reflecting that, so feel free to discuss X and the original as well if you want.

Can I suggest a spoiler free one? When I do get the other Xenoblades I will try to post here about it as well thanks .

Mar1217 said:

1) No, you don't use a Combo to break it. You need to use the Chain Attack (push "+" when the gauge in the upper left is full)

2) To break an Elemental Orb with maximum output, you'll need to break it with an opposite element :

Fire - Water, Earth - Electric, Wind - Ice, Light - Dark

or strike it 3 times with random elements ( But don't try to do this if there's more than 1 elemental orb when you Chain Attack)

3) If you use an opposite element to one of the orbs in place, it will automatically targets the one opposite to it's element. (Ex ; A special Fire attack will always try to target an elemental orb of water type first, if there's none, then it targets a random orb)

 

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