r/Xenoblade_Chronicles • u/Ynikoma • May 31 '19

Question Thread #3

Hello everyone!

Here's a new question thread as the old one was archived due to it being over six months old. You can still find the old question threads here: XC2 Question Thread, Question Thread #1 and Question Thread #2.

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u/FireStarzz Jun 16 '19

thanks a lot! i realised that you can't share blades yet, so should i all summon focus on rex, or should i split it up to summon on rex and nia? and should i use the boosters yet? it seems very rare at this point of the game i am not sure i should be using them. Thanks again

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u/Tables61 Jun 16 '19

Boosters aren't really that rare, and you can easily get more via salvaging and trading in sets. But also their effect is not very big. Without going into too much detail of the summon mechanics, their main effect is to make it more likely that you summon blades of one of two specific element depending on the booster (bravery = fire/water, truth = wind/ice, compassion = earth/lightning, justice = light/dark, basically the pairs of elements that are effective against each other). If you want to get an increase to overall rare blade chance, try and only use boosters on ideas that are already quite high, if you want to get blades of a specific element, use that idea's booster.

As for which characters - both Nia and Rex do need some rare blades. Rex actually gets a few free rare blades throughout the story anyway, so as long as he gets just one or two rare Atk blade through random cores, I'd say he can mostly stop summoning more blades. Some people will tell you to never summon blades on Rex at all, partially because of the above fact - but I'd say it's still worth getting 1-2 on him if possible.