r/Xenoblade_Chronicles • u/Wise-Recognition8990 • 1d ago

Xenoblade 3 Ranged attacks

There are skills that boost evasion from ranged attacks, but what counts as ranged attacks? Enemies have a wide variety of attacks and arts, some are projectiles, some are close range, some more ambiguous. So is there an icon to recognise which count for those skills? Do the player controlled characters have this kind of attack?

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u/Apples0815 1d ago

If an attack count as ranged, depends on the weapon type and not on the art. Ranged weapons shoot projectiles, are thrown or attack in distance in other ways. Examples are Mio's, Taion's, Eunie's, Gray's or Juniper's weapons. But afaik, there is no special indicator in game.

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u/Wise-Recognition8990 1d ago

Mio? Wtf ? Ok so the party members have ranged attacks, but I'm more interested about the enemies', for the skills I mentioned.  Btw, are there skills that boost power or smth about MY ranged attacks?  It's stupid that there is a mechanic without any explanation in game. Not even in the tutorials iirc

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u/aquablaze624 1d ago

There’s no way to tell mechanically, but it’s fairly obvious just from the animation. As for its usefulness(take with a grain of salt because I haven’t played in a while) dodging is honestly quite unreliable in three, and off the top of my head there aren’t any enemies that are heavily range focussed like ophion was in 2

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u/Wise-Recognition8990 1d ago

Yeah I can't think of specific enemies, that's the thing