Jay RPG Percival. He isn't weak exactly. He just is situational. If pulled in the beginning of the game, he will make it easier as heals his driver for killing an enemy and gets stronger each time an enemy is toppled
I personally love Kasandra. Kasandra has good abilities but her weapon being a shield hammer hinders her a bit due to the slow arts and auto attack. Her passive to constantly increase aggro does help combat that though, and there aren't that many dark elemental blades in the game. Also Kasandra probably has my favorite design out of all the rare blades. She is literally just Maya from the Ace Attorney series.
Jay RPG Kora is my number one blade on Rex. I use her even more than Pyra and Mythra. Her passive ability Walking Joh allows you to heal 6.8% every second while moving. That combined with her Potion Hoarder skill which makes potions last longer means I can wait until my team needs healing and then I can walk to the potions healing extra to do myself and as well as healing my team. She can drop tons of potions too of you level the ability for knuckles. That and her lv2 special also drops potions. She's helped me through so many high level bosses that were higher level than my team. You can also add a Garner or a Sapphire accessory and then you never stop healing whether attacking or moving. She might be less useful as an AI controlled team mate but using her as the player is undeniably amazing.
Adenine is my favorite non story-related blade. She was the second blade I got after Kora, and has never left Rex's party ever since then. I know there are more efficient blades out there but she keeps my team alive with the 60% double potion drops when I need them. The canceling from switching to her to connecting the three arts are also good for quick damage, and the wind element is something I make use of often. Her Japanese VA gives an independent vibe that isn't half as annoying as the others in battle.
Agreed, I love Adenine! Between her attitude, and making for a decent bit of back up healing when needed, she generally is on my team for major fights.
Before I got my own switch, my brother had one so I did my first play through on his and got Adenine as an early blade, second play through on my switch I got Adenine again, early in the game
Chaxune Adenine was the first rare I pulled....unfortunetly I had to waste an early game overdrive protocol to get her off of Rex but hey. I used her for a bit.
Being completely honest, I love having Kora on my main healer. During my playthrough I had terrible luck getting rare blades, by the time I recruited Zeke I had like... 6, total. Anyway, I had Kora (along with Dromarch and Boreas) on Nia for the majority of the game, and at the time she was the only *rare* I had that could actually launch enemies. Plus her level 3 special packed a mean punch and often fully healed my party in a similar way as Boreas (especially when getting lightning orbs. The impact when she lands her lvl 3 is just... Mmph, love it.)
Not gonna lie, I didn’t even realize Adenine was a healer. I just kinda assumed she was an attacker, since she plays pretty well as an attacker, and I got her with Zeke no less.
Adenine isnt a healer she is a offensive buff character with a broken buff ability. If you wanna do the most dmg in the game you need her on one of your party members.
Agreed, she has no place on a list of weakest/least useful blades. Sure she's not a great healer, but she's easily one of if not the best support blades in the game providing a massive team damage buff on top of the always useful treasure sensor. IMO she's easily more useful than other unmentioned healer blades like Vess and Nim who are rather mediocre
Nia has her and she is broken af when it comes to final combos , she never left nia 's team since the beginning and and her arts recharges very quickly somehow
I think they're all pretty decent, Vess provides pretty good utility in her level 1 special and her de-buffs and Nim buffs fusion combo damage to absurd levels.
Gotta agree, Adenine is a healer in name only, probably because they didn't want to make a fourth support class. Her party buff along with her ability to increase item drop rates makes her one of the best blades in the game, especially when you're farming for end game drops.
Actually I quite like Percival, using him on Morag, with ageaon and bridgid actually gives you not only a ton of i frames, but in fights with a lot of add ons you are damn near unkillable while having very high dps for a tank. You just have to build with his characteristics in mind
This is true. Those are my blades I have with Morag in she kinda became one of my strongest party members. She survived very well in my final boss fight. Additional 40% AGI to Morag is not bad at all.
You're wrong about it being +40% AGI. It's actually approx +45.5%, because the stat mods from each Blade are applied mulplicitativly. They also multiply with +% equipment, and all +constant stat boosts are applied BEFORE your stat mods, so those all get multiplied by the cumulative total stat mod. Hense how you can get any one stat on any one Driver up to 999 (except HP, which caps at 9999 instead, and on Tora would be able to reach twice the current cap if the cap was not in the way).
I just got kosmos on Zeke, and the game is kinda broken for me now. I set morag up with a super evasion build, so nothing hits me while zeke is dishing out tons of damage. But I like Perun alot still.
Adenine was the second rare I ever summoned on Rex, in chapter 2, and hasn't left my party since. I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all of what you said about her though, and luckily never had to deal with the pain of trying to heal with her.
Gorg suffers from an identity crisis like Precival and Adenine. He is an attacker that plays like a tank. He has a passive that increases his defense and another that reduces party damage up to 20% when at max affinity. Both passives are neat, though the rest are underwhelming like the damage boost when fighting aquatic enemies or the worthless affinity boost his LV1 gives. Since he barely has any damage increase modifiers, Gorg's damage input is rock bottom out of all the axe wielding blades.
He may have a niche on Tank Zeke, since it's so easy to draw aggro with Zeke when wielding an Axe. Why you would want Zeke to be a Tank is a good question though.
A few things: 1. Gorg is incredibly effective for a single battle in chapter 10, one that is otherwise very hard because you only have access to Rex. 2. Gorg is perfect for a Royal Warrior build tank. He has high base durability, crit rates high enough for a critheal build (read: allows you to get away with not having a healer while having a tank that does not rely on pure evasion) and can build up his Driver's Special level quickly with the Greataxe's Critical Recharge Art. Oh, and his only possible competition for tanking within his element is both locked to a specific driver and offers both less damage and greater reliance on dodging over surviving.
I'm currently using Azami/Gorg/Pandoria on Zeke right now, and he can more or less do the Break-Topple-Launch thing completely on his own. You use Azami to inflict Break (Equipping Beta Scope makes this easier), then switch over to Gorg to get the topple with Spinning Elbow. From there, you can either get one free Topple-boosted Raging Charge with Gorg or switch to Pandoria to launch if you don't have anybody with Smash atm.
Floren is my best blade. With the Torigoth Snowpouch and Narcipear Jelly. Rex who is my party's healer has him, Pyra/Mythra (mostly Mythra), and Rex's Ch 7 Story blade can heal like a boss.
I actually got Adenine early in my game and I was still coming to grips with the combat, so I didn't really account for healer blades needing to... well... heal. Ironically, her scaling damage made her a staple part of my DPS setup. And then I found Nim who has all the DPS Adenine has, and a really good party heal in her level 1 special. Addy was quickly replaced. But I still use her regularly to farm Rare crystals. Gotta get KOS-MOS this decade. :P
This what I've come to really love about the game, how well balanced it is. Yeah, there are some blades that you can say are worse then others, that have flaws, but none that you screw yourself over by using. You can, for most of the game, just use the blades you like and have fun with. Both Adinine and Percival are two of my favorite blades to use, just because I love their whole design and aesthetics.
in my recent playthrough i gave Morag the megalance weapon class and Perun has actually been great with her as my main tank. she can swap into Perun do some decent damage and not drop like a fly the second she changes. i personally like ice's sealing effect so i always have at least one ice blade on my crew. i have Perceval on Morag as well, later i plan to make rex my main healer with Zeke as dps, and Morag as tank. i want to have a dps option on all my kits with Morag so maybe ill find use for him there. with Corvin on Zeke that should give some wiggle room for ascetics. Perceval is one of my favorites judging from design alone always wanted to find a spot for him.
i stopped having dedicated anything before unlocking poppi qtpi. i found that in most instances, it was helpful to have different types of blades on different people, and there are some blades that have enough secondary typing to validate it. everyone on this list was "he/she focus' on a different class than their weapon type", but those are exactly the instances im referring to. Another example is mythra. she is a dps character, but due to her abilities, she can also handle most of your healing requirements. Just build her driver to be relatively bulky, and put a true healer in one of your other active party member slots (it doesnt even have to be their main blade), and you can get away with the rest being attackers unless you are going up against bosses with abilities to punish dps, mainly spikes, which arnt nearly as common as in xc1, at least if the LP i watched is anything to go by. A full attack team tends to split agro decently, so you only need one or 2 healing options to counter it.
I’ve seen a lot of diss on my guy Dromarch. He might not be the most developed character of the main cast, but he is a memorable and enjoyable character to me as well. When hooked onto Nia, I think he makes for a great healer.
Oh boy almost a year late! Percival just makes my Morag even more of a God. From impossible to kill, to doing some of the highest damage when Level 3 finishers come around... Yeah getting into postgame grinding and optimizing changes that, but that's unfair to the Blade when a good only 25% of the game is post-game. When he's competing with your DPS who have tons of effort put into them all game and he comes in mid towards end-game... That's a pretty badass tank option
I actually centered my entire Rex build around Perun. The build was centered around healing damage whenever Rex landed a critical hit, and Perun would usually have a high critical spear equipped. This build works especially well when you consider that Perun's level 1 special hits a fuck ton of times, and also that Rex has an ability in his affinity chart that fills up the party gauge when he lands critical hits. There were some unique monsters that I was only able to defeat because Rex was healing on next to every attack. For his accessories, I gave him a modern medal that heals 10% of critical damage dealt, and Perun's Aux crystal boosted the power of her level one special. A bit of an unorthodox build, but it served me very well. Rex would always fill up the party gauge after one or two level one specials, allowing for many chain attacks in one battle as well as being able to revive party members very easily. He would also stay at a good amount of health, usually able to make it back to full health using Perun's level one special, at least in a chain attack, which has good synergy with one of Rex's Lance arts. This build worked especially well considering that Mythra also has some critical hit oriented abilities, and in the late game, I could literally just spam her level one special and the critical damage would recharge it instantly. Case in point, Rex does well with a critical hit oriented build, and critical hit builds are better in Xenoblade 2 than they were in Xenoblade 1 by far. And funnily enough, the other blade I had on Rex was Gorg. He was mostly just there to boost Rex's HP and inflict launch, sometimes he would get to use his boosted damage on toppled enemies first once Rex gained the ability to art cancel.
i LOVE Adenine, i used her right after i got her and for the rest of the game, which was about halfway (and still use her for everything post main game)
i actually find adinine useful on my rex as an emergency/secondary healer in a rex, nia, tora setup. have nia as my main healer, run tora as my tank, and use 2 attacking blades with rex (Pyra/Mythra and Zenobia) and Adinine as my last. does some good dps and helps build up to quick stage 3 elemental burst on my Zenobia.
I'd say most of these work great with the right party. Throwing Percy on my Morag passively boosts her agility, and gives me someone to switch to when I need to deal damage, and adds an extra evasion art to pull out real fast. Having Perun on Rex works great with the crit heal build I have on him, and with her auto attack damage, her main passive being so situational doesn't really matter. Though I honestly still think with the obvious HP potion setup, Kora is really useful, and can make a team with the HP potion life extender passive, but I agree there are better than all of them.
I did my playtrough really fast and didn't have many blades to choose from. When I got to Elysium I kept getting killed even before going after Malos. I beat everyone easily the moment I wsitched to Perun + an AGI tank (can't remember which) and wore items that increase AGI. The game just became so easy after that :) Malos didn't even get to touch me and I still did more than decent damage. Perun is a pretty bad attack blade but if you need some extra survivability, she is your lady ! And a plus is her nice personality: you have to help people in order to increase affinity with her.
Ive been using percival on rex hè was My first rare Blade and now I somtimes one shot enemy,s with a random attack and the word execution pops up Idk Why Can you explain Please beacuse Its been quite usefull
Godfrey was the first (and is still the only) rare Blade that I have managed to awaken. Used him once and thought he wasn't really all that good, so made Nia back into a dedicated healer.
I, personally, think that the only useful Blades are the ones with the Quicken Arts ability/Blade Art. I use them to fill up the guages, then use the other blade for compos. Which means that I would have one rare blade on each character, and the reast can be the weakest commons for all I care, if they have the elements I need...
Finch/Ibuki is my favorite Blade overall, and I use her on Nia. I haven’t beaten the game yet as I’m still on CH9, though. Victory Smoothie was made just for her.
I think it'd be cool to have a synergy build video. Say for those wanting to make use of some of the more obscure abilities like Agate or Dagas and their buff passives. It's a bit of a puzzle on how to make them REALLY good though. I'd especially like to see suggestions on whole party setup's for varied Elemental orb generation. Just a thought. Useful perspective in these sorts of videos though. Keep it up!
I use Rex: Pyra/Mythra, Scimitar, Roc Zeke: Godfrey, Pandoria, Dagas Morag: Brighid, Aegaeon, Adenine. As unconventional as it may seem, it works REALLY well. I killed gladiator orion relatively quickly with no deaths (not sure if that means its good or not, i just think its an accomplishment). I think any blade can be good if u use the right aux cores and core chips for the specific driver.
my second rare blade and first rare tank blade is Godfrey. I see him as husband material and love his design looks like a butterfly. he got stuck on Nia but will still use him :)
I actually used adenine til end game. I didn’t realize that she only had one healing move until I was playing on Bronger of Chaos mode and it actually mattered lol
aaaaaaah i picked up the game last week and im at chapter 4 now and just did a full team of 5star summons worth of common cores to fill in the gaps for nia and rex. lit all the blade i have on my team are on this list and the 2 spare that i got im using as merc fodder are also on this list. sad times oh well haha
This list isnt very good, most of these blades are pretty adequate. Nithing to write home about but leagues better than some others. Perceval especially can be great on rex.
Well I actually thought that perceval is op on morag as a dodge tank and Evan if you got hit you can heal back with diamond equip just doing auto attacks since I use perceval on morag she didn't fall in any battle
I saw in an another video, that Azami was one of the most powerful blade in the game , who I have to believe now ? XD Adenine is OP by the way not as an healer, but as offensive who can heal like pyra :D (with potion of course)
that feel when your A team is 5 from the shit list, 3 story blades and a lone Agate. rng really gave me the cream off the crop for my first playthrough it seems
I love how he just listed EVERY SINGLE Rare blade that I currently own right now 😂😂😂 the only ones I don’t have (yet) on this list are Perceval and Adenine. I’m barely on Chapter 3, and I thought I was proud of my rare blades so far.... lmaoooo 💀
The only 3 rare blades I have so far (aside from story ones) are all featured in this video... Adenine and Godfrey on Nia and Azami on Rex. Hopefully I'll get luckier with my other pulls.
he fails to mention adenine has amazing passives that will buff damage and loot. Adenine was my 2nd rare I pulled and has been in my party on nia since the beginning. If you have nia with dromarch, another great healer (bit ball) and adenine its a solid load out. gives nia 2 solid healers and a buffer to round out her support role.
I'm at the point where I'm just trying to increase character utility. I like trying to have straight characters. As in Full Attack. Full Healer etc. There are so many blades I'm trying to fit the right fits for them. Zeke pulled Kora when I was farming and it seems reasonable for him to use. Swift attacks etc. I'm honestly just winging it though. :/
Even though I prefer to have Rex’s story blade in the party, this particular blade is my favourite to use besides Adenine. Adenine may not be much of a healer, but man can she ever pump out heavy hits.
Wait. Is Adenine bad? I used her throughout the whole game with Rex and beat the game with her. It made me really like her and now is my favourite non-story blade
I find Adenine and Kora to be quite good so far! Sure, Adenine is a bad healer, but she can have some great attack. Also, If you have Kora, you will regenerate about 100 health per second while walking, so if you use kora with your main character and have a tank in your party, you cannot die.
Why this game isn't unbeatable by design: Your main character has a very versatile blade that is always equipped and the best character in the game is STILL really good out of the box without investment if you took the sidequest to get all 3 of his blades.
This hurt me cuz I use Godfrey and I love him so much. He was actually my first rare blade and I feel that shield hammer is a good weapon which makes him better at least on Rex cuz he was endurance as a skill and that healing move
Godfrey was the first rare Blade I ever pulled, too, but honestly he really is lacking. Shield hammer is a pretty bad weapon class already with low damage and terrible speed, and Godfrey doesn't even bring anything to the table to balance things out like, say, Kasandra is able to do.
If perceval is built for damage, then that means it's easier for him to obtain aggro. I always thought perceval was one of the best blades, and I have every single one (aside from ng+). Perceval is one of my best and favorite tanks. I love his design, combat abilities, and especially his voice
I think Perun gets a bad rap. Her attack modifier when attacking from the side is fantastic and lends itself to Rex's spear skills beautifully. Other than that I agree with the list. As much as I love Adenine (and continue using her despite this), I knew she'd be at the bottom tier for healers because, as you said, SHE BARELY HEALS. She has a ton of guard-annulling passives which are meh since they are situational.
That's why I stressed in the video that no blade is really bad, they all have uses, and you should have no trouble completing the game with any blades you want to use. The blades on this list just require different setups and less-than-obvious uses to be useful.
I feel so bad after watching this. I have just reached Mor Ardain in the story and the only rare blades I have are Adenine, Perceval, Azami, Roc and Wulfric.
Personally i found Perceval to be amazing if the fight have some adds.He's immensively powerful if you kill them (like you should) before the main boss. Azami if you have a dedicated build is stupidly strong.It takes time to get her right though :/ I startd the game recen,tly too anyway and i'm just farming/grinding exploring around (i'm at chap 6)
Early in the game I got some Blade called KOS-MOS, it was on the begining, so I guess is bad jk, btw, I use Adenine on Rex I like to have some healing with my character to not depend on the healer
*Which blades are you not ashamed to use? even if they're weak!*
Jay RPG Percival. He isn't weak exactly. He just is situational. If pulled in the beginning of the game, he will make it easier as heals his driver for killing an enemy and gets stronger each time an enemy is toppled
I personally love Kasandra. Kasandra has good abilities but her weapon being a shield hammer hinders her a bit due to the slow arts and auto attack. Her passive to constantly increase aggro does help combat that though, and there aren't that many dark elemental blades in the game. Also Kasandra probably has my favorite design out of all the rare blades. She is literally just Maya from the Ace Attorney series.
I call percival yoshimitsu 😂😂😂
Are Herald and Wulfric good by your standards? I use them on Rex along with Mythra and I do fine, but I'd love to hear your imput.
Jay RPG Kora is my number one blade on Rex. I use her even more than Pyra and Mythra. Her passive ability Walking Joh allows you to heal 6.8% every second while moving. That combined with her Potion Hoarder skill which makes potions last longer means I can wait until my team needs healing and then I can walk to the potions healing extra to do myself and as well as healing my team. She can drop tons of potions too of you level the ability for knuckles. That and her lv2 special also drops potions.
She's helped me through so many high level bosses that were higher level than my team. You can also add a Garner or a Sapphire accessory and then you never stop healing whether attacking or moving.
She might be less useful as an AI controlled team mate but using her as the player is undeniably amazing.
I just hate how some of the Rare Blades don't have their element mastery
Eddy and then there is Godfrey with no useful field skills.
Y’all gonna leave Godfrey alone lmao 😂
I agree, especially when they have another one that you hardly ever use
*SHEBA*
Pikgod the hentai lord
I never said she wasn't strong I just said she has bad field skills
I love Perun too but I kinda realized she kinda sucked early. But I still use her.
Perceval is actually pre op tho if u know how to use him.
Perun is my bae blade
let it rip
Adenine is my favorite non story-related blade. She was the second blade I got after Kora, and has never left Rex's party ever since then. I know there are more efficient blades out there but she keeps my team alive with the 60% double potion drops when I need them. The canceling from switching to her to connecting the three arts are also good for quick damage, and the wind element is something I make use of often. Her Japanese VA gives an independent vibe that isn't half as annoying as the others in battle.
Agreed, I love Adenine! Between her attitude, and making for a decent bit of back up healing when needed, she generally is on my team for major fights.
7Seraphem7 that and her passive add up to massive bonus damage in fights and all the loot. I think Jay might have missed the point with her
mhm, it also helps that fist weapons are one of my favorite classes of weapons in the game.
Before I got my own switch, my brother had one so I did my first play through on his and got Adenine as an early blade, second play through on my switch I got Adenine again, early in the game
Chaxune Adenine was the first rare I pulled....unfortunetly I had to waste an early game overdrive protocol to get her off of Rex but hey. I used her for a bit.
Being completely honest, I love having Kora on my main healer.
During my playthrough I had terrible luck getting rare blades, by the time I recruited Zeke I had like... 6, total.
Anyway, I had Kora (along with Dromarch and Boreas) on Nia for the majority of the game, and at the time she was the only *rare* I had that could actually launch enemies. Plus her level 3 special packed a mean punch and often fully healed my party in a similar way as Boreas (especially when getting lightning orbs. The impact when she lands her lvl 3 is just... Mmph, love it.)
Not gonna lie, I didn’t even realize Adenine was a healer. I just kinda assumed she was an attacker, since she plays pretty well as an attacker, and I got her with Zeke no less.
Same
Battle Wisdom is too good to make Adanine a bad blade. She makes other blades broken by just being in the same team as them.
Agreed. It hasn't even been an hour since I clocked off more than half of Ken's health bar with a full burst from her.
I agree
I think she's top 20 including DLC
Adenine isnt a healer she is a offensive buff character with a broken buff ability. If you wanna do the most dmg in the game you need her on one of your party members.
Agreed, she has no place on a list of weakest/least useful blades. Sure she's not a great healer, but she's easily one of if not the best support blades in the game providing a massive team damage buff on top of the always useful treasure sensor. IMO she's easily more useful than other unmentioned healer blades like Vess and Nim who are rather mediocre
Nia has her and she is broken af when it comes to final combos , she never left nia 's team since the beginning and and her arts recharges very quickly somehow
I think they're all pretty decent, Vess provides pretty good utility in her level 1 special and her de-buffs and Nim buffs fusion combo damage to absurd levels.
Gotta agree, Adenine is a healer in name only, probably because they didn't want to make a fourth support class. Her party buff along with her ability to increase item drop rates makes her one of the best blades in the game, especially when you're farming for end game drops.
I have both Kora and Adenine on Nia lol. Are you greek, by the way?
Actually I quite like Percival, using him on Morag, with ageaon and bridgid actually gives you not only a ton of i frames, but in fights with a lot of add ons you are damn near unkillable while having very high dps for a tank. You just have to build with his characteristics in mind
I'm finding Morag with Brigid/Percival/Theory quite interesting actually.
This is true. Those are my blades I have with Morag in she kinda became one of my strongest party members. She survived very well in my final boss fight. Additional 40% AGI to Morag is not bad at all.
You're wrong about it being +40% AGI. It's actually approx +45.5%, because the stat mods from each Blade are applied mulplicitativly. They also multiply with +% equipment, and all +constant stat boosts are applied BEFORE your stat mods, so those all get multiplied by the cumulative total stat mod. Hense how you can get any one stat on any one Driver up to 999 (except HP, which caps at 9999 instead, and on Tora would be able to reach twice the current cap if the cap was not in the way).
Get Vale on the team as well together with Dagas and you'll get absolutely sick DPS when you're fighting a horde of mobs in conjunction with a boss.
Pretty much what I'm running as well. Most there for the evasion boost, but it has been working so much I hardly see her heath drop.
I just got kosmos on Zeke, and the game is kinda broken for me now. I set morag up with a super evasion build, so nothing hits me while zeke is dishing out tons of damage. But I like Perun alot still.
Adenine was the second rare I ever summoned on Rex, in chapter 2, and hasn't left my party since. I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all of what you said about her though, and luckily never had to deal with the pain of trying to heal with her.
Lmao, I used Adenine, Kora, Azami, and Perceval in my playthrough.
XD
Kora? Kora self heals while you move and keeps potions out longer. I always use her for survival when fighting big enemies
Gorg suffers from an identity crisis like Precival and Adenine. He is an attacker that plays like a tank. He has a passive that increases his defense and another that reduces party damage up to 20% when at max affinity.
Both passives are neat, though the rest are underwhelming like the damage boost when fighting aquatic enemies or the worthless affinity boost his LV1 gives. Since he barely has any damage increase modifiers, Gorg's damage input is rock bottom out of all the axe wielding blades.
He may have a niche on Tank Zeke, since it's so easy to draw aggro with Zeke when wielding an Axe.
Why you would want Zeke to be a Tank is a good question though.
Because of what happens in chapter 8:
Many people like to give Pandoria to Rex when he gains the ability to use all blades.
A few things: 1. Gorg is incredibly effective for a single battle in chapter 10, one that is otherwise very hard because you only have access to Rex.
2. Gorg is perfect for a Royal Warrior build tank. He has high base durability, crit rates high enough for a critheal build (read: allows you to get away with not having a healer while having a tank that does not rely on pure evasion) and can build up his Driver's Special level quickly with the Greataxe's Critical Recharge Art. Oh, and his only possible competition for tanking within his element is both locked to a specific driver and offers both less damage and greater reliance on dodging over surviving.
Perceval is really good in fights with multiple ennemies, on one target he is pretty useless, but a beast in group fights
Perun's Cold Sever is amazing though
When I awakened Adenine I thought she was so cool, so I used her on Rex for my playthrough. Battle Wisdom did not disappoint me :)
I love Kora on Rex she was my first little blade and I’ve used her since the beginning
I'm currently using Azami/Gorg/Pandoria on Zeke right now, and he can more or less do the Break-Topple-Launch thing completely on his own. You use Azami to inflict Break (Equipping Beta Scope makes this easier), then switch over to Gorg to get the topple with Spinning Elbow. From there, you can either get one free Topple-boosted Raging Charge with Gorg or switch to Pandoria to launch if you don't have anybody with Smash atm.
Am I the only one who says "YOOOOOOOOOOOO" when Percival does his summoning pose
Damn... 5 of my Favs are on this list... maybe I need to overthink my group xD
Perceval goes perfect on morag Brígid and looking for the perfect 3rd still but that combo has worked rly well for me
Floren is my best blade. With the Torigoth Snowpouch and Narcipear Jelly. Rex who is my party's healer has him, Pyra/Mythra (mostly Mythra), and Rex's Ch 7 Story blade can heal like a boss.
When most of your favorite blades are on this list but you feel more proud they got you through the game, on hard custom mode.
That’s funny. That’s all of my blades I have so far.
I actually got Adenine early in my game and I was still coming to grips with the combat, so I didn't really account for healer blades needing to... well... heal. Ironically, her scaling damage made her a staple part of my DPS setup.
And then I found Nim who has all the DPS Adenine has, and a really good party heal in her level 1 special. Addy was quickly replaced.
But I still use her regularly to farm Rare crystals. Gotta get KOS-MOS this decade. :P
Even though Perun isn't the best, I still love her so much that I can't help but use her.
This what I've come to really love about the game, how well balanced it is. Yeah, there are some blades that you can say are worse then others, that have flaws, but none that you screw yourself over by using. You can, for most of the game, just use the blades you like and have fun with.
Both Adinine and Percival are two of my favorite blades to use, just because I love their whole design and aesthetics.
lol I used Adenine and Godfrey for the entire story and although I’m not done with the postgame content yet, both have been invaluable to my team
in my recent playthrough i gave Morag the megalance weapon class and Perun has actually been great with her as my main tank. she can swap into Perun do some decent damage and not drop like a fly the second she changes. i personally like ice's sealing effect so i always have at least one ice blade on my crew. i have Perceval on Morag as well, later i plan to make rex my main healer with Zeke as dps, and Morag as tank. i want to have a dps option on all my kits with Morag so maybe ill find use for him there. with Corvin on Zeke that should give some wiggle room for ascetics. Perceval is one of my favorites judging from design alone always wanted to find a spot for him.
Perceval was my first rare blade and he honestly carried me throughout most of the game
i stopped having dedicated anything before unlocking poppi qtpi. i found that in most instances, it was helpful to have different types of blades on different people, and there are some blades that have enough secondary typing to validate it. everyone on this list was "he/she focus' on a different class than their weapon type", but those are exactly the instances im referring to. Another example is mythra. she is a dps character, but due to her abilities, she can also handle most of your healing requirements. Just build her driver to be relatively bulky, and put a true healer in one of your other active party member slots (it doesnt even have to be their main blade), and you can get away with the rest being attackers unless you are going up against bosses with abilities to punish dps, mainly spikes, which arnt nearly as common as in xc1, at least if the LP i watched is anything to go by. A full attack team tends to split agro decently, so you only need one or 2 healing options to counter it.
I’ve seen a lot of diss on my guy Dromarch. He might not be the most developed character of the main cast, but he is a memorable and enjoyable character to me as well. When hooked onto Nia, I think he makes for a great healer.
Oh boy almost a year late!
Percival just makes my Morag even more of a God. From impossible to kill, to doing some of the highest damage when Level 3 finishers come around... Yeah getting into postgame grinding and optimizing changes that, but that's unfair to the Blade when a good only 25% of the game is post-game. When he's competing with your DPS who have tons of effort put into them all game and he comes in mid towards end-game... That's a pretty badass tank option
I actually centered my entire Rex build around Perun. The build was centered around healing damage whenever Rex landed a critical hit, and Perun would usually have a high critical spear equipped. This build works especially well when you consider that Perun's level 1 special hits a fuck ton of times, and also that Rex has an ability in his affinity chart that fills up the party gauge when he lands critical hits. There were some unique monsters that I was only able to defeat because Rex was healing on next to every attack. For his accessories, I gave him a modern medal that heals 10% of critical damage dealt, and Perun's Aux crystal boosted the power of her level one special. A bit of an unorthodox build, but it served me very well. Rex would always fill up the party gauge after one or two level one specials, allowing for many chain attacks in one battle as well as being able to revive party members very easily. He would also stay at a good amount of health, usually able to make it back to full health using Perun's level one special, at least in a chain attack, which has good synergy with one of Rex's Lance arts. This build worked especially well considering that Mythra also has some critical hit oriented abilities, and in the late game, I could literally just spam her level one special and the critical damage would recharge it instantly. Case in point, Rex does well with a critical hit oriented build, and critical hit builds are better in Xenoblade 2 than they were in Xenoblade 1 by far.
And funnily enough, the other blade I had on Rex was Gorg. He was mostly just there to boost Rex's HP and inflict launch, sometimes he would get to use his boosted damage on toppled enemies first once Rex gained the ability to art cancel.
I still need to get Asami though... I am stuck at a DLC sidequest that requires her field skill.
And Jay? Can the DLC blades be played in the beginning of the game?
I used to use Kora because she was hot and fist fighters are cool. As for Gorg he was the only one I could launch with for a while.
I love Kora and Gorg. Kora has awesome special arts and Gorg has and extremely high special attack.
I'm late to the party, but it's funny you highlighted 3 of the blades in my rotation xD
I'm only at chapter 5 though
i LOVE Adenine, i used her right after i got her and for the rest of the game, which was about halfway (and still use her for everything post main game)
i actually find adinine useful on my rex as an emergency/secondary healer in a rex, nia, tora setup. have nia as my main healer, run tora as my tank, and use 2 attacking blades with rex (Pyra/Mythra and Zenobia) and Adinine as my last. does some good dps and helps build up to quick stage 3 elemental burst on my Zenobia.
I'd say most of these work great with the right party. Throwing Percy on my Morag passively boosts her agility, and gives me someone to switch to when I need to deal damage, and adds an extra evasion art to pull out real fast. Having Perun on Rex works great with the crit heal build I have on him, and with her auto attack damage, her main passive being so situational doesn't really matter. Though I honestly still think with the obvious HP potion setup, Kora is really useful, and can make a team with the HP potion life extender passive, but I agree there are better than all of them.
I did my playtrough really fast and didn't have many blades to choose from. When I got to Elysium I kept getting killed even before going after Malos. I beat everyone easily the moment I wsitched to Perun + an AGI tank (can't remember which) and wore items that increase AGI. The game just became so easy after that :) Malos didn't even get to touch me and I still did more than decent damage. Perun is a pretty bad attack blade but if you need some extra survivability, she is your lady ! And a plus is her nice personality: you have to help people in order to increase affinity with her.
Ive been using percival on rex hè was My first rare Blade and now I somtimes one shot enemy,s with a random attack and the word execution pops up Idk Why Can you explain Please beacuse Its been quite usefull
Adenine was my first rate blade and I got her on nia. I replaced her with boreus when I got him but I still like using her from time to time
I literally only have the blades mentioned on this video, ah my fcking luck
I do in fact use the weak healer book girl for her elemental weakness DPS aspect.
Godfrey was the first (and is still the only) rare Blade that I have managed to awaken. Used him once and thought he wasn't really all that good, so made Nia back into a dedicated healer.
I, personally, think that the only useful Blades are the ones with the Quicken Arts ability/Blade Art. I use them to fill up the guages, then use the other blade for compos. Which means that I would have one rare blade on each character, and the reast can be the weakest commons for all I care, if they have the elements I need...
4 of the blades mentioned in the video (2 attacker and 2 tank) were the blades i have unlocked so far. Lol
Finch/Ibuki is my favorite Blade overall, and I use her on Nia. I haven’t beaten the game yet as I’m still on CH9, though. Victory Smoothie was made just for her.
I think it'd be cool to have a synergy build video. Say for those wanting to make use of some of the more obscure abilities like Agate or Dagas and their buff passives. It's a bit of a puzzle on how to make them REALLY good though. I'd especially like to see suggestions on whole party setup's for varied Elemental orb generation. Just a thought. Useful perspective in these sorts of videos though. Keep it up!
I use
Rex: Pyra/Mythra, Scimitar, Roc
Zeke: Godfrey, Pandoria, Dagas
Morag: Brighid, Aegaeon, Adenine.
As unconventional as it may seem, it works REALLY well. I killed gladiator orion relatively quickly with no deaths (not sure if that means its good or not, i just think its an accomplishment). I think any blade can be good if u use the right aux cores and core chips for the specific driver.
Love this list - and the fact the Godfrey and Perceval are my first 2 rare blades :$
my second rare blade and first rare tank blade is Godfrey. I see him as husband material and love his design looks like a butterfly. he got stuck on Nia but will still use him :)
I actually used adenine til end game. I didn’t realize that she only had one healing move until I was playing on Bronger of Chaos mode and it actually mattered lol
I had gotten kora for rex really early and used her from the beginning to the end.
Why does everyone get Kora on Zeke?
I did too but still
aaaaaaah i picked up the game last week and im at chapter 4 now and just did a full team of 5star summons worth of common cores to fill in the gaps for nia and rex. lit all the blade i have on my team are on this list and the 2 spare that i got im using as merc fodder are also on this list. sad times oh well haha
This list isnt very good, most of these blades are pretty adequate. Nithing to write home about but leagues better than some others. Perceval especially can be great on rex.
Well I actually thought that perceval is op on morag as a dodge tank and Evan if you got hit you can heal back with diamond equip just doing auto attacks since I use perceval on morag she didn't fall in any battle
I deadass got Godfrey and Gorg back to back, they were my second and third rare blade respectively...
i use most of these, i still rack up mad damage, mad healing and mad tanking... yup, balanced.
It’s funny that the first 2 you said were Gorg and Perun because those are the only 2 rare blades I can get on Zeke
I saw in an another video, that Azami was one of the most powerful blade in the game , who I have to believe now ? XD
Adenine is OP by the way not as an healer, but as offensive who can heal like pyra :D (with potion of course)
I like using Perun, though. Especially since I gave Wulfric to Morag, and don't have any other spear user on Rex.
that feel when your A team is 5 from the shit list, 3 story blades and a lone Agate. rng really gave me the cream off the crop for my first playthrough it seems
I love how he just listed EVERY SINGLE Rare blade that I currently own right now 😂😂😂 the only ones I don’t have (yet) on this list are Perceval and Adenine. I’m barely on Chapter 3, and I thought I was proud of my rare blades so far.... lmaoooo 💀
Lol, u trying to end the game?
The only 3 rare blades I have so far (aside from story ones) are all featured in this video... Adenine and Godfrey on Nia and Azami on Rex. Hopefully I'll get luckier with my other pulls.
he fails to mention adenine has amazing passives that will buff damage and loot. Adenine was my 2nd rare I pulled and has been in my party on nia since the beginning. If you have nia with dromarch, another great healer (bit ball) and adenine its a solid load out. gives nia 2 solid healers and a buffer to round out her support role.
I'm at the point where I'm just trying to increase character utility. I like trying to have straight characters. As in Full Attack. Full Healer etc. There are so many blades I'm trying to fit the right fits for them. Zeke pulled Kora when I was farming and it seems reasonable for him to use. Swift attacks etc.
I'm honestly just winging it though. :/
Even though I prefer to have Rex’s story blade in the party, this particular blade is my favourite to use besides Adenine. Adenine may not be much of a healer, but man can she ever pump out heavy hits.
Wait. Is Adenine bad? I used her throughout the whole game with Rex and beat the game with her. It made me really like her and now is my favourite non-story blade
Perceval is my favorite blade for crowd control because soul sucker is best used in the village guardian boss
I find Adenine and Kora to be quite good so far! Sure, Adenine is a bad healer, but she can have some great attack. Also, If you have Kora, you will regenerate about 100 health per second while walking, so if you use kora with your main character and have a tank in your party, you cannot die.
Azami is my fav yandere gal~
Jacob Lock I'm always afraid she is going to rape her driver
I am prepared for the backlash, but i have to say it. Not mentioning the blades, but why include spoilers game play?
Why this game isn't unbeatable by design: Your main character has a very versatile blade that is always equipped and the best character in the game is STILL really good out of the box without investment if you took the sidequest to get all 3 of his blades.
This hurt me cuz I use Godfrey and I love him so much. He was actually my first rare blade and I feel that shield hammer is a good weapon which makes him better at least on Rex cuz he was endurance as a skill and that healing move
Godfrey was the first rare Blade I ever pulled, too, but honestly he really is lacking. Shield hammer is a pretty bad weapon class already with low damage and terrible speed, and Godfrey doesn't even bring anything to the table to balance things out like, say, Kasandra is able to do.
Perceval was the blade that took down the final boss on my first run
If perceval is built for damage, then that means it's easier for him to obtain aggro. I always thought perceval was one of the best blades, and I have every single one (aside from ng+). Perceval is one of my best and favorite tanks. I love his design, combat abilities, and especially his voice
I didn't even realize Godfrey was bad. He's who killed the final boss in my first run.
I think Perun gets a bad rap. Her attack modifier when attacking from the side is fantastic and lends itself to Rex's spear skills beautifully. Other than that I agree with the list. As much as I love Adenine (and continue using her despite this), I knew she'd be at the bottom tier for healers because, as you said, SHE BARELY HEALS. She has a ton of guard-annulling passives which are meh since they are situational.
That's why I stressed in the video that no blade is really bad, they all have uses, and you should have no trouble completing the game with any blades you want to use.
The blades on this list just require different setups and less-than-obvious uses to be useful.
Oh of course! The video was excellent, don't get me wrong! I was just weighing in. :)
Azami, Kora, Godfrey, & Perceval are among my first few rare blades... xD
I use gorg, but just for the launch and blade combos.
I feel so bad after watching this. I have just reached Mor Ardain in the story and the only rare blades I have are Adenine, Perceval, Azami, Roc and Wulfric.
Personally i found Perceval to be amazing if the fight have some adds.He's immensively powerful if you kill them (like you should) before the main boss.
Azami if you have a dedicated build is stupidly strong.It takes time to get her right though :/
I startd the game recen,tly too anyway and i'm just farming/grinding exploring around (i'm at chap 6)
Are the build the same as the strong blades?
Well damn, I used Adenine, Kora and Perun for most of the story and postgame.
My luck sucks. Gorg was my first Rare Blade, and second was Perun.
Early in the game I got some Blade called KOS-MOS, it was on the begining, so I guess is bad
jk, btw, I use Adenine on Rex I like to have some healing with my character to not depend on the healer
Peurn looks awesome I'm trying to get her constantly and it just isn't happening
Neo Android Good luck!
Why do I always get the worst blades. Literally every blade mentioned in this video I have in my collection.
Look forward to the common blade video.
Ive been using adenine since ch.2 and she is awesome,one of my frontline blades of rex
Some one tell me a build for Rex and pyra some sux cores
Dat jiggle tho 😂 1:36
5 of these were in my team because I didn’t know what I was doing
we need a tank that is not tora so hammers can shine vandam would of been perfect but well you know
rick blue zeke is actually pretty good in any role
SMH my first 3 legendary blade pulls were on this list. Wish I could reroll.