Xenoblade 2 thoughts (no spoilers)

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

It is annoying but honestly very easily gotten past.  If you have a bunch.  Literally the only instance that took me any time to get past was Chapter 8.  Every other one was pretty simple stuff.  All the blades equipped to all party memebers count towards the totals needed afterall.

But yeah, I feel the field skills are a cool idea taken too far.  When they let you reach secret placed or get extra loot, they're cool.  But not when getting in the way of story.

I cannot for the life of me get Ancient Wisdom Level 3. The game has wasted the last two hours of my life with making me do stupid arbitrary tasks to unlock his other affinity points, like there was one for "use his favourite pouch item", I look it up and Google tells me its a tasty sausage, so I backtrack to bloody Gormott to buy one, only for nothing to happen when I use it. All I want to do is continue the goddamn story and I've spent more of the last 3 hours doing menial busywork than actual gameplay.

What chapter are you on?  You ought to have Aegaeon by now, no?  He has Ancient Wisdom.  Just equip him and up Ancient Wisdom on Dromarch.  Also, try opening some core crystals, some of the rares have it.   

For pouch items, just grab a whole bunch at all the vendors and try them.  You don't actually have to use their favorite, just something close to it, like favorite food group.  And just spam it, don't bother letting it do its cooldown thing.  It counts the moment you put the item in the pouch.  

Check and see how many of your blades have ancient wisdom.  If so, equip them to their driver.  Honestly, if you have Aegaeon by now, you shouldn't have an issue here I don't think.  

Oh and to make the whole ancient wisdom thing easier, I strongly advise breaking off from the main story at some point in chapter 8 or right before 9 to go get Poppi's third form.  She gets Ancient Wisdom and can be a serious boost for Tora.

Last edited by Nuvendil - on 08 January 2018