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

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RolStoppable said:

You really want to quit once you have Mythra on rank S? Don't you know that there's S+? It is that way because the same jackass who designed the Ursula sidequest in the main game thought that excessive grinding is a must, so you don't go from S to S+, no, you go from S to S1, then S2 all the way up to S9, and only then can you get S+. But fear not, you can buy lovely donuts on New Game+ with bonus EXP, so it's doable.

And yes, the main game has all the same ranks for blades. There are no lovely donuts though, but at least the expansion pass adds a sidequest with a renewable item that grants 3,000 affinity points per use for each of the three blades a character has equipped. Still, each rank up requires more than 3,000 affinity points and there are more than 50 rare blades now...

They really need to fire that jackass.

I got Mythra, Pyra, and Pandy to S rank in the base game, Pyra and Mythra were S5, Pandy was S2 or something I think. Will probably get Dromarch and Brighid there when I circle back to do the last few DLC quests and that Shulk mode, would do the same with the Poppis but I recall there's some annoying affinity quests for her that I didn't care enough to complete. I never bothered getting any non story-Blades that far, only used them enough to get their Blade quest. Oh, and I only ever used Blade Nia twice, so she's still E rank I'm sure. 

If I had to describe my RPG playing habits, I'd say I'm a Partial Completionist. I play enough to satisfy myself and give myself a sense of completion, but once I start to get bored I don't force it. So while I get that 100%-ing this game is probably a massive pain, it doesn't really affect my overall impression of it. In this case, getting my favorite characters to S-rank will satisfy me enough to shelf the game for a while, until I get the hankering for more. Don't really have good rationale I guess, I find some nerdy fun in filling out the affinity tables, while just grinding for trust/affinity is boring to me. As much as I love Mythra, anything after getting her to S-rank is just bragging rights.

For the record, I was an A- student in school.