Xenoblade 2 thoughts (no spoilers)

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

It takes more than one I do believe but elementally appropriate attacks do more.  So water will nearly break fire.  But any attack will do some kind of damage.  

Okay, so when I pick my attacks during a chain, do I need to be setting up elemental combo sequences, or just worrying about doing as much elemental damage opposite to the orbs as possible?

Focus on doing damage to the orbs imo.  For every orb destroyed, you get another turn in the chain, so long as all 3 members have charged specials remaining.  Plus breaking orbs ups the damage.  The longer the chain is kept going, the greater the damage each attack does.  That's why the orbs are important, to setup lengthy chains.