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Oxygen Deficiency posted:Will Torna be post-game or self-contained? I'm still on Chapter 9 of my first playthrough and may not get around to finishing it by Friday but i'd like to give Torna a go. You know all the flashbacks to the Aegis War? That's what Torna's about.
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Is the physical version of Torna going to be cheaper than buying the season pass? I dont really care about the other stuff in the pass.
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Sep 11, 2018 14:49
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Argona posted:Is the physical version of Torna going to be cheaper than buying the season pass? I dont really care about the other stuff in the pass. Physical version is $40
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Sep 11, 2018 14:52
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Argona posted:Is the physical version of Torna going to be cheaper than buying the season pass? I dont really care about the other stuff in the pass. No.
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Sep 11, 2018 15:00
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It's actually kinda nice coming back to XB2 after a while, now that I don't have the story fresh in my mind. Makes going around just doing quests or whatever kind of relaxing.
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Sep 12, 2018 06:47
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:BoC and beyond has a massive nerf to healing which often means that Avant-Garde isn't sufficient enough to keep up against tough or enraged enemies. Keeping 1 or 2 panic healers around is a good idea, especially because they often still have pretty good utility or damage. Knuckles for example, even though their healing is generally pretty bad, also have launch and knockback (which can be used to interrupt powerful attacks if you know their tells). This is why I just control Nia. She's my favorite character and I like playing as her! Rex's rear end sits on the bench, for the record. I like using Knuckle Blades on her with the Avant Garde Medal and such. She has good survivability that way. I think my favorite Blade to use on her is the NG+ only Blade Obrona. Said Blade is an atk Blade but has a full party heal art. And also the Break art is spammable when you crit like Rex's Dual Spinning Edge. Slap a Beta Scope on Nia and never worry about Drive combos again!
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Sep 12, 2018 14:11
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Blades 30 - 21 in the community tier list video series (I dig the Azami build at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKjdTEPNVQ Blades 20 - 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4i5NW-dAA
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Sep 12, 2018 22:19
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I'm not following the blade tier list videos as closely but will they touch common blades with especially powerful skill combinations? I kinda feel like a good roll of skills could in theory be more powerful than any rare blade.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:27
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nerdz posted:I'm not following the blade tier list videos as closely but will they touch common blades with especially powerful skill combinations? I kinda feel like a good roll of skills could in theory be more powerful than any rare blade. I don't know, but that second part is definitely true, at least as far as a supporting role goes. Having a good 4* common blade with Orb Master and some other damage additive goes a long way toward boosting the damage output of the other Blades in your team.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:30
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I'm trying to find little things to do every day to keep myself on track to making progress. At some point I want to max the affinity of, at the very least, all of the fixed story Blades. Which leads me to my main question - is there an easy thing that Pyra can make to max out Cooking? Related question, is there an easy way to look up how to make the dishes that fill out Crosette's nodes?
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Sep 12, 2018 22:38
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Glitterbake, none of the ingredients are rare and I believe most/all of them can be harvested from the points in the Torigoth farm area. Equip Agronomy blades for more drops. Crossette nodes, go here, scroll down, click on the meal in question, then click through ingredients from there to find out where best to farm for them: http://xenoblade.wikia.com/wiki/Crossette
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Sep 12, 2018 22:41
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Pyra's now up from 2 cookings to 36, which I was surprised by. The ingredients for Glitterbake were both in Torigoth Farm and Argentum, so I have to go back and forth a bit, but it's better than anything else I could probably do. It's a very life-draining activity though so I can't really do it for too long. We'll see how the Crossette fillings go tomorrow, maybe.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:36
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Blades 10 - 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYc9_d661E
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Sep 13, 2018 22:23
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Per the Nintendo Direct, if you have the Expansion Pass you can download Torna TOMORROW  Otherwise you have to wait until the 21st.
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Sep 14, 2018 01:21
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Can I still buy the expansion pass or do they have a time limit on those things?
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Sep 14, 2018 01:32
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BIG BUFF MAN posted:Per the Nintendo Direct, if you have the Expansion Pass you can download Torna TOMORROW Nice. Work is closed because of the hurricane tomorrow and I live somewhere fairly well insulated against the storm soooooooo
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Sep 14, 2018 01:34
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Electric Phantasm posted:Can I still buy the expansion pass or do they have a time limit on those things? Yeah I doubt it will go away any time soon.
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Sep 14, 2018 02:00
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Out now here (Australia) Any down under goons downloaded it and had a play yet?
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Sep 14, 2018 07:33
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The update makes me want to try to get back in to xbc 2, but I remember getting frustrated because I want to approach the game's combat like an MMO's, but I'm unsure what the optimal way to cancel attacks to do high damage per second was. (Like, do I hold off on using arts in order to always cancel just the final auto-attack in the sequence? what if all my arts are getting filled, aren't I just wasting Art Juice?) That, and I was unable to determine how costly moving is in combat in order to go for position-bonuses. Can anyone help me out here with this info, pretty please? 
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Sep 14, 2018 08:38
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Out now here (Australia) Feels like I'm leveling up waaaayyyy faster than in the main game.
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Sep 14, 2018 09:17
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CuddlyZombie posted:The update makes me want to try to get back in to xbc 2, but I remember getting frustrated because I want to approach the game's combat like an MMO's, but I'm unsure what the optimal way to cancel attacks to do high damage per second was. (Like, do I hold off on using arts in order to always cancel just the final auto-attack in the sequence? what if all my arts are getting filled, aren't I just wasting Art Juice?) If you have a full art, use it. On Rex, for sword blades mostly, its optimal to stutter step after his initial swing to make him do his that swing again since its faster than the rest of his combo. In terms of positioning dont bother worrying about any move that requires that until you have tank characters and aggro reducers on your DPS characters as enemies spin freely and the amount of damage and time youll lose getting back into position isnt worth it. Rex will eventually become ridiculously boring as his optimal setup is tricking out one of his mandatory sword blades with critical chance boosting stuff so you can press the art button over and over and over again as it auto refills on a critical. There is a skill that lets you cancel arts into arts, you should beeline that.
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Sep 14, 2018 14:10
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I was in a hurry this morning and left my switch at home  Was gonna get some Torna in during my lunch today and won't be home until late today 
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Sep 14, 2018 15:47
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Are there any patch notes for the normal game in addition to Torna?
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Sep 14, 2018 15:48
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Played an hour or so of Torna. So far a 100% improvement over the base game.
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Sep 14, 2018 15:51
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Does it show up as another new game option from the title screen? Or does it download a new switch game icon?
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Sep 14, 2018 16:10
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it's here but... I have dragon quest.... gently caress
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Sep 14, 2018 16:13
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Chronojam posted:Does it show up as another new game option from the title screen? Or does it download a new switch game icon? On the main screen of Xenoblade 2 where it normally says new game continue options a new golden option will appear called Torna and you select that which takes you to a new title screen to start that game.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:13
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U-DO Burger posted:it's here but... I have dragon quest.... Spider Man for me  it's why I was bummed about forgetting my switch because it's basically gonna be a game I play on the go until I finish Spidey
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Sep 14, 2018 16:59
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Torna is good y'all The battle system is even more chaotic than before but I do like the design ideas more, too. And the reintroduction of talent arts is neat. I think having a set party will do wonders for the games' difficulty balance, to, although that still remains to be seen.
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Sep 14, 2018 18:08
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Barudak posted:If you have a full art, use it. On Rex, for sword blades mostly, its optimal to stutter step after his initial swing to make him do his that swing again since its faster than the rest of his combo. In terms of positioning dont bother worrying about any move that requires that until you have tank characters and aggro reducers on your DPS characters as enemies spin freely and the amount of damage and time youll lose getting back into position isnt worth it. Thank you!
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Sep 14, 2018 19:36
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Barudak posted:Played an hour or so of Torna. So far a 100% improvement over the base game. They even added autosave! Hidden under settings and turned off by default but hey baby steps. Haven’t played very much so far but the vanguard system is really really cool. My only complaint so far is that I couldn’t find an option to turn off the tutorials or at least limit them to new mechanics not in XB2 but I guess it wouldn’t be a Xenoblade title without ridiculous amounts of tutorial pop ups.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:37
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They are really getting mileage out of the sax from what I'm hearing of the soundtrack.
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Sep 14, 2018 20:18
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Autosave, they finally store tutorial messages in System, collection point items spawn out way faster and with less hassle, menus feel faster and look sharper. This is exceeding even Blood & Wine in terms of little improvements Game itself is rad. Opening cinematic was cool as hell and didn't waste time dropping lore bombs
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Sep 14, 2018 20:25
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Really enjoying the expansion pack, but i think new players would be lost and confused. Hell even I'm slightly confused as I try to remember stuff from the main game.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:09
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theblackw0lf posted:Really enjoying the expansion pack, but i think new players would be lost and confused. Slamming the skip cutscene button hasnt steered me wrong so far.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:53
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Barudak posted:Slamming the skip cutscene button hasnt steered me wrong so far. This hurts me to my core
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Sep 14, 2018 22:08
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Never skip cutscenes unless you have already seen them, no matter how bad.
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Sep 14, 2018 22:09
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Barudak posted:Slamming the skip cutscene button hasnt steered me wrong so far. Boooo! Really enjoying the expansion so far. This time through I'm actually focusing on unlocking affinity nodes as i travel and it makes fights a breeze.
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Sep 14, 2018 22:53
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After playing for a few hours, my initial impressions of Torna are that it's really really good. The expansion was absolutely worth it.
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Barudak posted:Slamming the skip cutscene button hasnt steered me wrong so far. Why would you even play this game if you're going to ignore half of it The gameplay isn't that good
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