Xenoblade 2 thoughts (no spoilers)

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Lonely_Dolphin said:
Ursula's quest (mandatory for her growth) is by far the worst thing ever in this game. I'm so glad to finally be almost done with it, but my god what the hell were the developers thinking. 20+ hours doing merc missons that you have to check in with every 5-10 minutes, that alone is insane, but it also means you can't use her in combat for all that time, I would only pull her out for tough boss fights. Atleast I can say it was worth it... lol no I can't. Really shoulda stopped after hitting Lv.4 affinity but she's the only unique apart from Gorg that fits into my team comp so I felt I had to.

Whenever you open a new blade, you only want to keep the ones that have 3 field skills. This really helps to shorten the amount of time that Ursala's quest takes. Also once you hit 75 keys you unlock missions that let you get 3 keys at once. Overall her quest shouldn't take anymore than 10 - 15 hours if you play right. 

But yeah, it can be really frustrating without the right blades. I didn't keep all my 3 field skill blades, and wound up spending 25 hours grinding for her. 

I did use the right blades, as how can you not, the suggested field skills aside from unique exclusives and expeditionist are element masterys. However, shaving of a mere 1-5 min hardly helps unless you're just sitting there staring at the merc screen, since otherwise you're doing something and wont always check in the second she's done. Even if you do just sit there, 10-15 hours is still outrageous and inexcusable.

Oh, and after she gets Lv.5 affinity, she needs 7k trust to actually complete the chart... just lol.