100% agreed about chapter 4. It is exactly the point where I learned all about the combo system and such and began to do the side quests and explore the features of the game. Also, I got to know the world a lot more.

Looking forward to that patch tomorrow for map/UI improvements. Hopefully there will be a performance patch for handheld as well... and maybe fix the memory leak issue after doubling back to a town.

Just a tip for people to try out when in battle a good bit of tech to try out is the AA move cancel, when your auto attack connects lightly tap the analogue stick and your character will move just slightly this cancels the rest of the AA hit animation and you character will begin attacking again. When repeated your character can rapidly attack which also fills up your arts quicker.

Oh that's a good one. My #1 tip for today is only keep blades that match what you want your driver to do. Your healing driver should only have healing blades. Your attacking driver should only have attacking blades, etc. This is because when you send jobber blades on merc missions they often level up giving your driver "ideas". Ideas determine the likely hood of pulling different drivers. This helps avoid getting the wrong blades stuck on your drivers. You don't want to unlock a really good attacker blade for your healer driver. 

Also, in a barrel behind  the factory (the one where all the crates move in and out on a ski-lift) in Mordian there is an overdrive protocol. There's only 3 in the game and they are the only way to change blades to different drivers. 

Interesting thing you can actually farm overdrive protocols, they're drops from level 100 monsters in the late game.

OH DAMN!

Thank you!

Oh nice! I forgot to mention that I think you can also farm them from leveling up 4 star blades all the way. Whenever you complete an affinity chart on a blade you get a bonus. Those 1 star blades drop items that give you WP once you complete their affinity chart. It's worth about 2k - 3k WP. 

There is food which automatically refills your arts gauge automatically every second. Just give them to everyone in your party and you don't have to worry of waiting for an art to be ready. I used this and a healing Blade and spammed healing potions until I could beat them.  

Jeez, I really hated THAT mid-boss in chapter 7. I really didn't know about any trick to beat it, so I beat it by brute force in the end, but that was painful xD. I'm still loving the game though.

Aaaand, I've just in the beginning of chapter 8 and: "Holy shit, this scenario has really intrigued me" was my first reaction xD. I wasn't expecting that.

I mean, the Earth-like nature of this scenario behind the clouds. I was also really surprised when Mahlos pretty much has a Monado of his own. And I'm beginning to see why this is Xenoblade Chronicles 2 xD. Now I've just got to figure the puzzle in the next chapters.

Got 4 rare blades now plus the two rare blades you get from the story.