A few things I wish I knew before starting the game...
1. Ideas increase the odds of getting a certain element and rare blade. Bravery is Fire and Water elemental affinity.
Truth has a Wind and Ice affinity. Compassion is Electric affinity and Earth affinity. Justice features a Light elemental and Dark elemental affinity.
2. Some elements from ideas and boosters have better chances of unlocking certain classes of rare blades. This is because of the following list. *Minor Spoiler Warning* It's really just a name, class, and element list of all the rare blades. *Minor Spoiler Warning*
Finch Tank Shield Hammer Wind (Truth)
Godfrey Tank Shield Hammer Ice (Truth)
Newt Tank Chroma Katana Fire (Bravery)
Electra Tank Shield Hammer Electric (Compassion)
Perceval Tank Chroma Katana Dark (Justice)
Dagas Attacker Greataxe Fire (Bravery)
Gorg Attacker Greataxe Water (Bravery)
KOS-MOS Attacker Ether Cannon Light (Justice)
Azami Attacker Ether Cannon Dark (Justice)
Vale Attacker Megalance Dark (Justice)
Perun Attacker Megalance Ice (Truth)
Zenobia Attacker Greataxe Wind (Truth)
Agate Attacker Greataxe Earth (Compassion)
Floren Healer Bitball Earth (Compassion)
Nim Healer Knuckle Claws Earth (Compassion)
Kora Healer Knuckle Claws Electric (Compassion)
Adenine Healer Knuckle Claws Wind (Truth)
Boreas Healer Bitball Wind (Truth)
Dahlia Healer Bitball Ice (Truth)
If you look at the list you can figure out on your own which ideas, and boosters are most likely to net you a tank, or attacker too. As you can see from this list there are six random rare healers in the game. They have Earth, Electric, Wind, and Ice as elements. This means if you want a rare healer it's best to use Truth and Compassion boosters.
3. When opening new core crystals it's best to equip two Luck modifying Pit Ball Blades, and two luck modifying items. This pushes your luck over 900 and greatly increases the odds of getting a new blade.
4. You can farm unique bosses for rare core crystals. If you overkill them during a team attack they drop more loot, meaning more core crystals.
5. It's best to only keep common blades that have three field skills. This is because they are the best at completing merc missions quickly. It's a HUGE boost in timesaving when doing Ursala's quest.
6. Rex can use any blades belonging to other drivers once you beat chapter seven or eight. This means you don't have to waste overdrives on him.
7. When doing a chain attack your party member will prioitize the highlighted orbs. Attacking with an opposing element breaks the orb faster keeping your combo going.
8. If you can break six orbs in a single chain attack you get to do an insane amount of damage.
9. Overkilling an enemy during a chain attack, increases the XP, WP, and SP you get after winning. It's pretty easy to get 300% drop rates. If you work for it you can get 600% drop rates. OVERKILL EVERYTHING!
10. Never level up at an inn. The bonus XP you get at an inn makes you overleveled and once you are overleveled you get less WP, SP, and XP from enemies. The inn XP is meant for people that want to blow through the game without doing any sidequests, or killing any monsters.
11. Pouch items refill when their timer runs out. This means if you have 30 Nopon Cookies and you are using one, they will keep automatically refilling everytime the buff timer runs out. This helps a lot in increasing Blade affinity.
12. Doing a level 4 special attack GREATLY increases affinity.
13. Have you seen a list in blade affinity that says something like "Kill 10 creatures", "Farm 20 items", etc.? Those lists can be filled up by sending your blade on mercenary quests. This means you don't have to go hunting down random items or creatures just to get your affinity powers.
14. New quests show up depending on town affinity, and what chapter you are on. Whenever you unlock a new chapter or new town affinity it's a good idea to go running around looking for new quests.
15. You can level up town affinity easily by just buying and selling your cylinders over and over again. Gormott instantly goes to level 5 affinity if you buy the inherited core crystal for 500,000 gold.
Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 22 December 2017
