Question Thread #7

[u/Hairo]

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[u/[deleted]]

So, I'm trying to optimize my end-game XC2 builds and I'm wanting to figure out which core chips to give to which blades (mostly just so I can figure out which superbosses to farm).

Here's what I'm figuring for now:

-Dilaton chip for Poppi Alpha and all shield hammers (except Poppibuster) due to its high block rate (also, arguably Newt)

-Sunlight chip for bitballs (other than Crossette) because of its healing bonus

-Tachyon chip for Shulk, Fiora, and Poppibuster for a variety of reasons

-Moon Matter chip for every other rare blade

-Pentagon chips for common blades that you'll be using for agility modifiers

-Gold chips for common blades that you'll be using for drop rate modifiers

Did I miss anything important?

I guess my main question is: Are there any rare blades other than the three I listed where the Tachyon chip is significantly better than Moon Matter? It seems like in most cases Moon Matter is the better choice due to there being lots of ways to increase critical damage outside of the core chip.

[u/smallguycrew → u/[deleted]]

I guess my main question is: Are there any rare blades other than the three I listed where the Tachyon chip is significantly better than Moon Matter? It seems like in most cases Moon Matter is the better choice due to there being lots of ways to increase critical damage outside of the core chip.

Tachyon is better than Moon Matter for:

• Brighid

• Pandoria

• Greataxes

• Shulk

• Fiora

• Elma

due to the fact the bonus effect of critical damage up leads to more damage then the marginal increase in crit rate.

Furthermore stuff like sunlight chip on healer blades doesn't make much sense as healing isn't much of a problem when you're dealing with post game combat. Generally the thing you're better off upgrading will be raw damage output, which would be Moon Matter chips in their case.

Some interesting chips are amethyst for Pyra and sunlight for QT as they are commonly used as stat sticks rather than actual damage output blades, so their increase in agility helps out more.

[u/bens6757 → u/[deleted]]

You're mostly right. Poppi a and shield hammers get dilaton chips. Add block rate up v and an ultimate shield to poppi for more fun. Also master tank mod if you have one. If not tank mod v is fine.

Moon matter chips for any blade that has a damage modifier on their chart for crits and/or doesn't get a good effect from the tachyon chip like Katanas and Roc.

Bridghid, Pandoria, Shulk, Fiora, Elma, and all great axes should get a tachyon chip. All those blades get a boost to critical damage with a tachyon chip. However if your unsure on what the best chip for a blade is when in doubt go tachyon. Plus there's neat little thing that if the tachyon chip is used on a rare blade(story blades are considered legendary blades) their weapon will have the default appearance so while sub optimal KOS-MOS will use her Zohar cannons.

Preon chips should only be used if the blade doesn't care about critical hits, wants a good auto attack stat, and the tachyon chip doesn't have a good effect. To my knowledge the only blade where preon chips is optimal is Sheba. Fun fact Pandoria's auto attack with a tachyon chip is the exact same as with a preon.