About Appendage Crusher: the game doesn't reveal what appendages that you need for augment crafting until you defeat an enemy with that appendage (it might not even say unless you get it as a drop), and at least one enemy that you have to fight only spawns in a secret cave in Sylvalum. These are the appendages that you will use your reward tickets on: 1 Emerald Horn, 1 Shed Germivore Scales, 1 Mortifole Pollen, (you also need 1 White Cometite) People really undersell how much information the game hides from the player. New players wouldn't know what to spend those 124 tickets on.
The game actually rewards you with the information by completing the quests which themselves force you to explore and give you access to all the secret areas. But the game doesn't tell you about the Overdrive mechanics enough for it to be useful. Granted, the superbosses are then a challenge, and giving out this mechanic removes all the fun of discovering it, but I think most people finished the main story without ever deeming Overdrive useful. And it's true the game is much more fun when you actually manage to do infinite overdrive. It happened to me once in a skell combat, it was amazing, I thought it was a bug.
I think you mean materials, in place of appendages in this instance. To further elaborate, players definitely won't get Appendage Crusher augments until breaching well into Sylvalum, since only Sylvalum Germivores drop Shed Germivore Scales, and the Emerald Horns come from Xiphias, specifically the pink variety which live exclusively in Behemoth's Shadows (Eastern Sylvalum).
@@SkilledYetTalentless The Emerald Horn is the appendage in this instance (and so, must be broken), but the rule follows for all materials you get from enemies, yes. You can get Germivore Scales in Noctilum as well.
@@shyrobot4643 You can get Flowering Germivore Scales from the varieties in Noctilum, but not the Shed kind. It's the variation material for Germivores and you can tell the difference by their abdomens. The Flowering kind have lilac posteriors, whereas the Shed kind have teal.
When I first tried Overdrive, I thought, "okay, activate it and spam arts." After watching this video, I now know, "okay, activate it and spam arts optimally."
Oh, never heard of xenoblade 2 and disgaea 6 I see🤣🤣🤣 Then again, in disgaea 6 you can still enjoy cheesing story mode without using half of the actual mechanics, but making xenoblade chronicles 2 enjoyable and efficient requires at least some degree of digging around here and there
@@Kyroro97 I hope you're joking stuff like this is the epitome of bad game design. These rules are much to complicated to figure out by experimenting and the fact that tp is used is a problem. tp is a limited resource so you're never going to waste it on experiments in the first place.
I'm not sure why this video popped up in my feed but it took me back to 2015. I had just started college the year before, and I had all the free time in the world to play Xenoblade X when it came out. If they ever rerelease the game I'll do whatever it takes to make time for it like that again
I refuse to give up hope on Xenoblade X: Remastered. It's either going to be announced with the "Switch Pro" or the "Switch 2". I have no idea what to expect out of a next gen switch, but the Switch Pro should run Xenoblade X like a champ. Of course, if you have a mid-tier graphics card (1080ti and up), you can emulate Xenoblade X with the graphics thru the roof, making it look like a PS4 title. The only other hope I have for that game is more content. I know its asking a lot... but I can hope, right?
@@richardsonrichly8456 blurrines yay. kinda get that, more colorful? nope.. nope nope, xenoblade X looks fantastic as it is, and making it "more vibrant" would ruin the astetics and the scenery
@@weberman173 I get what you're saying, and I don't want this game to look like XC2 or anything, but there are many colors that are clearly dulled to accommodate the power of the wii u.
I mean to be fair, no one really made any real accurate guides on X when the game first came out aside from some basics beginners guides and the money grinding trick.
You still need some reflect augments though on its own its not going to carry you with advanced bosses like the ones on time trials and end game bosses
@@krishhiranandani7875 I had the name before the profile picture The name did not come from persona I just chose black as a username but changed it into different languages so now its stored at noir.
Mastering overdrive is the key to truly enjoying this game. When I replayed the game last year, I took the time to master overdrive and boy oh boy was it a rush when you start challenging those high level tyrants. Playing around with different builds and abusing reflect arts and reflect augments makes you feel so overpowered it's ridiculous. Another reason why I think the gameplay for this game is amazing. XBX is so underrated
I miss playing Xenoblade X. I also miss my Ghost Factory-TP abusement build using my Saber and Dual Guns. Shoutout to the party member Yelv for Essence Exchange, making it possible.
Especially when I'm inside an enemy base mid-battle, and enemies OUTSIDE the building have spotted me, and I have to get out of the building to find them, and-
@@EnelXC we know that it's in the works and there's not much that can fit the condition of "largest undertaking in the channels history" that we know he's interested in... at least I hope it's Xenoblade Chronicles X
Here's a tip: Wanna quickly level up your class? Grab any reflect AOE build and fight Dadaan, the Strongest Prone and kill his cronies. You can max out every single class all at once within an hour.
another really good place would be in sand sprint cavity, you can slay all the mura's really easily with a lv30 shop phoenix and 4 slayer theiroid XX augments which are really easy to craft
@@duelversebeyond there's a number of arts in the game that can reflect a single damage type, like Raijin and Astrolibrium. There's also a number of augments that will make that art reflect additional damage types. For Dadaan, you need to be able to reflect physical and thermal. Alternatively, you can just get 100% resistance to those two damage types to get the same effect. Ghost Walker won't work because he calls several dozen grunts that each have multi-hit attacks that make decoy arts worthless. These grunts do loads of damage but can't take a whole lot themselves, so you can use any AOE TP art to instagib most of them. Rinse and repeat to get a ton of class XP. Also note that Dadaan destroys your skell in 10 seconds, so you can't rely on it to attack/tank. For me, personally, I used a photon saber build with Astrolibrium. If you kill Dadaan fast enough, he doesn't summon reinforcements, so I used that with a skell to get the Reflect:thermal and Reflect:physical augments, then used Galactic Cataclysm to farm Less than an hour later, I had every class maxed out
TheOPN OK so if I understand this right there’s an augment you can get that makes AstroLibrium (or Raijin) reflect the type of damage dadaan back at the enemies, So it can basically make you invincible. Then you use infinitely the responding ads of that fight to grind for class experience. And then you keep doing it until you max out every class. Correct me if I got anything wrong but that’s what it sounded like from your explanation. Also can you explain to me what damage type those enemies use as well as the augments I would need for this and how to get them?
@@duelversebeyond Dadaan and his grunts use only physical and thermal attacks. Dadaan himself drops the reflect augments you need, so if you have a skell weapon that can kill him in one hit, that's a good way of getting them. Otherwise, just craft resist thermal and resist physical augments to tank him completely. The class EXP comes from using orange arts to kill his many underlings, which is why I used a photon saber for him. For this, you don't want to use your skell because you want to kill him slowly so he calls his reinforcements.
As someone who has a lot of time in this game, has done dozens of various challenge builds for the superbosses, and had to figure out how overdrive worked on my own without any real guides available, I have to say finally seeing a well made, comprehensive overdrive guide is great.
When i think of overdrive i think of the time i got stuck on the final story boss on that fateful friday night. All Skells dead, Party members equipped horribly and me not knowing how overdrive worked. So i changed up my party. And died. I turned every option available to achieve better results. Nothing helped. But when experimenting with that 15 seconds buff feature, i started noticing that particular equipment and skills did things with it (keep in mind i've used it probably two times since unlocking it) So at saturday 3.A.M, after vaguely figuring out how skill sequences affect it, i slapped on skills that i deemed useless. Quess what happened: Beat that final chapter into submission. That was probably the dumbest i've ever felt in a game, and at the same time having 'mastered' such a powerful mechanic - that was probably the first and up until now the only time i felt true satisfaction in a game.
I'm glad I looked at 2 combat guides before starting, otherwise I would be clueless as to how combat works. Its just convenient you made these X guides when I started the Xenoblade series
These XCX guides you recently released singlehandedly made my experience a million times more fun and engaging, learning infinite overdrive felt like learning how to ride a bike for the first time, pure excitement, I was giggling like a child after I killed my first high level tyrant. Although I've gotten to a point where I know overdrive well enough that Skells feel like a crutch now for people that didn't understand the combat (me in my first playthrough) so if you want could you make a Skell guide? You've already done enough and I don't expect you to do one, that won't stop me from figuring out Skells though, so the decision is all yours. Either way thank you for these guides. I can tell they're all full of effort, love and passion.
Wir Fliegen is the only Xenoblade X battle theme. Also, I had no idea about the green -> yellow/orange double bonus. There's so much to this game that you'd never find on a casual playthrough (even if you read the manual).
Probably the most broken mechanic in any of the games, but in a good way. Also, i like Wir Fliegen a lot but sometimes i wish it didn't play over Uncontrollable and the story fight songs every time you activate overdrive lol
After the new announcement, I booted up X again today and I never understood how overdrive worked. This actually made me use it correctly for the first time and I think it will be an addiction now.
I'm glad that you started making videos about XCX. I'm one of those weirdos in the fandom that actually likes it more than the other games in the series (though I still adore XC2 as well).
Another easy infinite overdrive build for the early/mid game is essence exchange + geolibrium for the blast fencer/galactic knight class. Just craft a couple Max TP up augments, use geolibrium to regen your HP, and then essence exchange every time you need more TP to reactivate overdrive; just make sure not to essence exchange with 0 TP. Also, since both arts are for photon saber, you can use the ranged weapon of your choice.
I can't even tell how much work you put in these guides, they're so well made! You just convinced me to start a new game, I had over 255 hours on my original save file and I never explored overdrive this deep, guess it's time for another 100+hours of fun easily!. Thanks Enel, have a good one bud!
The previous video was lacking Yoyyeno, so I'm glad to see The Man in action. Also, my favorite overdrive "build" to just do quests and stuff with is to have 5 "Overdrive: Gain TP" augments and the corresponding skill so that Overdrive doesn't cost anything to use. If you get an armor piece with any "Overdrive Count Up" trait on it, you can spam the overdrive button and give all your party members free TP while building your own count to max. Typically, I'll just stack a bunch of melee attack or something because potential is useless. (I feel like I need to make a disclaimer here that this is a joke because newer players might think potential might actually be useless... It's a super good stat, but you probably don't want to run potential AND melee or ranged attack as you're far better off choosing one of potential, ranged attack, or melee attack to focus on) Final Edit: I learned this strat from Rhuanjl (he made a bunch of X guides on youtube a while ago and on GameFAQs). His video outlining the strat in detail is in his video called "The Melee Build" or something along those lines.
One of the best pure melee builds is photon saber because essence exchange means you don't even need to worry about TP as long as you can keep your health up (astral heal helps!!).
@@black1blade74 Before I used the one I was previously talking about, I used photon saber with Essence Exchange and used Geolibrium for my Aura. It never would matter how much TP I had starting a fight because Geolibrium would full heal in like 4 seconds, so I could go from 1 TP to HP TP every 4 seconds. Also, there's the bonus effect of being able to sit in the middle of lava without any danger of dying due to Geolibrium nullifying terrain damage.
Man, I WISH I had known this stuff and the game had explained Overdrive (and the combat overall) better. I went down the Enforcer/Mastermind route when I started playing because it sounded like the play style I would prefer. I ended up feeling exceptionally underpowered pretty early and gave up because I felt so irreparably behind. These Xenoblade X videos make me want to get the game again and try once more knowing what I know now. Anyway, all that to say, thanks Enel!
@@videogamesarecool9280 not true, i ran my infinite overdrive build with only 2 green arts, ghost walker and primer, unlesss i needed to refresh the counter or the ghostwalker i was spamming my orange/yellow arts with purple in the middle. If you know what you are doing you can even run one with only 1 green art. The thing is taking the time to experiment and find what arts go well together. But that requires time.
@@unlimitedslash I've killed telly before, ik how OD works, that comment was the mentality I had when starting to learn OD, and its how you maintain OD when you have no idea how it works
kinda hoping for character guides like you did for Xenoblade...even though most story mission limit you to Lin and Elma...and sometimes fills the 4th slot
They would be more like build guides rather than character guides because cross can become a better version of each character. I would still be very interested in seeing all of them
Great tutorial. The game's way more fun playing this way and every battle felt like a major slog without it. One thing id like to contribute is that if you use blood sacrifice>return to mech>blood sacrifice you can quickly build your TP for a battle without waiting around for Blood Sacrifice's cooldown. I think a tutorial on how to battle with mechs in the game would be cool. I have no clue what I'm doing when I'm trying to pick parts for mine. So far all im doing is making sure my allies are in mechs when I charge in and pop out to infinite overdrive.
I just want you to know that in 2022 your expertise is still reaching and enhancing a player that thoroughly loves this game. I've had it since 2017 and I'm just now putting it back on my priority to at least finish.
Recently I went back to Xenoblade X, partially cause of this video. I had stuck with one line of classes but switched to enforcer so I'd be able to try out that mastermind build. And today at rank 6 enforcer, I truly experienced overdrive for the first time and damn it was fun- I got to 77 count and it only ended cause I won the fight. I'm thinking once I take down the game's strongest enemies with the mastermind build, I'll do a lot more of my own experimenting and I'm excited. When I originally played X, there was no overdrive guide like this or any guides as comprehensive as your general combat guide so Im able to learn the game so well now without just a bunch of trial and error and that's awesome This kinda turned into a ramble, but basically... thanks Enel, go treat yourself to some choccy milk cause your epic
Thanks for the video. Late to the party I know. But I couldn't make heads or tails of the Overdrive system at all until I came across your video. Thanks for the in-depth, but easy to understand explanation. You probably saved me hours of headbashing against the wall.
I accidentally blundered my way into a decent overdrive build with dual guns/swords and stuck with it for the rest of the game regardless of class changes. Improved it as I got better skills but I didn’t have the patience to experiment too much when what I had was working and deviations from it ended up with my team getting wiped.
Watching this makes me feel like I've been playing a completely different game the entire time. Like, most of my time was in the Skell with that killer Scythe
pretty much. He should probably make a video on skell combat too since its totally different to maximize it. The game has like 3 different combat systems lol
This was exactly what I needed! Thanks for the beginner-friendly guides and explaining the process! I’m glad I chose now of all times to replay this game!
I know this is incredibly informative but I realized when he was explaing TP recovery that I had zoned out and all I was hearing were WORDS. Like not sentences, just WORDS. God this series is crazy with its mechanics.
I've tried emulating over drive builds from other vids, but everything seemed so random with little explanation on how to keep it going. This has been the most useful video on the topic that I've ever watched. Thank you for your hard work.
I’m so glad you’re doing X content. I started my second playthrough a few weeks ago, got my skell license last week, and didn’t really know much about the combat other than TP and Soul Voices are good. Thank you.
Thank you so much for explaining this dude. I didn't really know what to do during Overdrive but now I know how it works and it's extremely fun to use!
After the announcement of Xenoblade 3 i decided to buy Xenoblade X and man is it fun. Your Xenoblade guides really helped me out with the two other games and im glad you did a guide for overdrive since it can be so broken 🙏 PRIMER !
I'll go Full Metal Jaguar on my second playthrough. It, uh... took me a while to figure this all out the first time. But this is my eternal overdrive build: Class: Bastion Warrior Weapons: Longsword, Gatling Gun Skills: Yamato Spirit, Grand Procession, Trauma Tension, Healing Aura Arts: Enhanced Stand, Bullet Twister, Tornado Blade, Cool Off, True Stream Edge, Magnum Edge, Bullet Storm, Ultraslash* I also have the following augments: "Cooldown Reducer X", "Overdrive: Recover HP XII", "Extend Overdrive XV", and "Resist Launch V". Although it takes a while to be able to make those augments, and I was getting eternal overdrives before crafting them, so I guess you need not worry about augments for a while. *Though based on this video (and the thumbnail, lol), it seems I should swap out Ultraslash for Blossom Dance, which I recently unlocked, and get TP up augments along with it? Thoughts?
Ah, 2015. Played 350+ hours. Achieve Infinite Overdrive was such a rewarding gameplay mechanic. What was really amazing about Xenoblade X for me, was that after 50-60+ hours you unlock Skells and Mira never looked more beautiful. Then, the Overdrive mechanic added more to the game and it's really such a great mechanic, so broken in a good way, such fun to use. 💖
Oh lord more ether longsword potential blossom dance meta, but man you are amazing at explaining this all, even the manual doesn’t help this much and a ton of it for me was self discovery, looking forward to seeing more Xenoblade X content Enel!
Man I remember the first time I played this game and just brute forced it with maxed out Defensive Stance and just outlasting everything, this... this changes everything
Currently playing this on CEMU at 60 fps and this guide helped me master Overdrive. I wish the entire screen didn't get blurred so much since I find that obnoxious but overdrive is super fun. Taking on an enemy 20+ levels higher than me is exhilarating. Thanks for this guide!
Overdrive is probably my favorite mechanic in any game. It just feels so, so sick. Taking on enemies like 20 levels higher than you, Wir Fliegen playing in the background while you run around tearing them apart is easily the peak of the game for me. Overdrive being so complex and Xenoblade X explaining so little just make you feel like even more of a genius when you finally figure it out and pull off an infinite Overdrive build. The amount of thought you need to put into your build as well as everything you need to keep in mind about Overdrive's mechanics in-battle make it so, so satisfying. Not to mention the fact that arts like Ghostwalker and Smooth Recovery, along with plenty of others, just have sick animations. Overdrive just makes me feel like a god every time and I love it.
When I played XCX for the first time back in 2015 I had absolutely no idea what I was doing or how the combat worked. I recently replayed the game a few months ago, and actually knowing how to use Overdrive made the whole game ten times more fun
Once I finish Xenosaga 3 I'm for sure returning to Mira with my newly acquired combat knowledge. Thank you for the guide and especially for the builds (I didn't understand Overdrive, so I was worried I would only be able to run cool Overdrive builds with Cross when I prefer being in control of Elma)!
So let me see if I understand this... The use of overdrive is mostly based on which types of arts you're using. Usually you want to do a buff art before using either a melee, ranged, or debuff art since it doubles the counter gain they net you. Increasing counter is a big priority as it helps with basically everything in overdrive including increasing timer, which is done through aura and buff arts. Debuff arts also are major because they increase your TP based on the counter. If you're going to do any attack arts together (melee, ranged or debuff), it should never be a melee to a ranged or a ranged to a melee. And that's essentially the basics of overdrive?
@@EnelXC Thank you! Now I just need to get a new wii u since I sold it to get a switch and this is the game I miss the most :') Or wait for nintendo to hopefully port this game to switch one day
Just rewatched this video and the guide to combat video. I never really figured oht how to wprk the systems of X when i played it and kind of brute forced my way through the game. This is enough of a primer for me tk forget some of it and experiment throuvh the game as i play
Me, playing through a modded save, on my way to find the wrecked vita: oh yeah, pizelle is here, gonna overdrive it to death! Proceeds to sliding slinger off the cliff and run 15 minutes back to where I was
Thank-you Enel! Although I wish I had this video before I had finished my 100% run this year :( Guess this means that I can just further optimize my build further!
About Appendage Crusher: the game doesn't reveal what appendages that you need for augment crafting until you defeat an enemy with that appendage (it might not even say unless you get it as a drop), and at least one enemy that you have to fight only spawns in a secret cave in Sylvalum.
These are the appendages that you will use your reward tickets on: 1 Emerald Horn, 1 Shed Germivore Scales, 1 Mortifole Pollen, (you also need 1 White Cometite)
People really undersell how much information the game hides from the player. New players wouldn't know what to spend those 124 tickets on.
The game actually rewards you with the information by completing the quests which themselves force you to explore and give you access to all the secret areas.
But the game doesn't tell you about the Overdrive mechanics enough for it to be useful. Granted, the superbosses are then a challenge, and giving out this mechanic removes all the fun of discovering it, but I think most people finished the main story without ever deeming Overdrive useful.
And it's true the game is much more fun when you actually manage to do infinite overdrive. It happened to me once in a skell combat, it was amazing, I thought it was a bug.
I think you mean materials, in place of appendages in this instance.
To further elaborate, players definitely won't get Appendage Crusher augments until breaching well into Sylvalum, since only Sylvalum Germivores drop Shed Germivore Scales, and the Emerald Horns come from Xiphias, specifically the pink variety which live exclusively in Behemoth's Shadows (Eastern Sylvalum).
@@SkilledYetTalentless The Emerald Horn is the appendage in this instance (and so, must be broken), but the rule follows for all materials you get from enemies, yes. You can get Germivore Scales in Noctilum as well.
@@shyrobot4643 You can get Flowering Germivore Scales from the varieties in Noctilum, but not the Shed kind. It's the variation material for Germivores and you can tell the difference by their abdomens. The Flowering kind have lilac posteriors, whereas the Shed kind have teal.
thank you
just here to admire this thumbnail again and say this is gonna get so many more views in a few months
Imagine they nerf 😂
@@shatteredsentient5321i so hope they dont
When I first tried Overdrive, I thought, "okay, activate it and spam arts."
After watching this video, I now know, "okay, activate it and spam arts optimally."
Freddy Krueger:
Aaaahhhh What A Rushhhh 😎
This sounds like the devs just programmed a billion different secret rules hoping players will run into them
that's actually incredible game design when you think about it
Oh, never heard of xenoblade 2 and disgaea 6 I see🤣🤣🤣 Then again, in disgaea 6 you can still enjoy cheesing story mode without using half of the actual mechanics, but making xenoblade chronicles 2 enjoyable and efficient requires at least some degree of digging around here and there
@@Kyroro97 I hope you're joking stuff like this is the epitome of bad game design. These rules are much to complicated to figure out by experimenting and the fact that tp is used is a problem. tp is a limited resource so you're never going to waste it on experiments in the first place.
@@tmplOSsounds like a skill issue tbh
@@nb3439 knowledge issue. It does not take skill to google something.
still can't believe there's xenoblade x guides in 2020
edit: LETS GOOOOO
I play this game for the first time)
@@Maksuka1010 i’m replaying it as i could never beat it when i was younger
It's an amazing game for the wii u era.
It’ll be useful in March 2025
Im currently playing it for the first time so this is very useful to me
I'm not sure why this video popped up in my feed but it took me back to 2015. I had just started college the year before, and I had all the free time in the world to play Xenoblade X when it came out. If they ever rerelease the game I'll do whatever it takes to make time for it like that again
Dude, you are the LAST person I’d expect to see in the comment section. Cheers to you though, this game and your content are awesome.
Oh hey, I've seen your videos before.
That's crazy; I was in like the exact same situation. This game fucking slaps
D'Angelo??? I would've center expected you here!
I refuse to give up hope on Xenoblade X: Remastered. It's either going to be announced with the "Switch Pro" or the "Switch 2". I have no idea what to expect out of a next gen switch, but the Switch Pro should run Xenoblade X like a champ. Of course, if you have a mid-tier graphics card (1080ti and up), you can emulate Xenoblade X with the graphics thru the roof, making it look like a PS4 title.
The only other hope I have for that game is more content. I know its asking a lot... but I can hope, right?
If they ever re-release this game I really hope they reduce the blurriness of the vignette and the motion blur.
Make it more colorful to
@@richardsonrichly8456 blurrines yay. kinda get that, more colorful? nope.. nope nope, xenoblade X looks fantastic as it is, and making it "more vibrant" would ruin the astetics and the scenery
@@weberman173 XenoRave Partycles X
@@weberman173 I'm sorry but the ui is far from perfect
@@weberman173 I get what you're saying, and I don't want this game to look like XC2 or anything, but there are many colors that are clearly dulled to accommodate the power of the wii u.
When I think of overdrive I will remember this thumbnail
I mean to be fair, no one really made any real accurate guides on X when the game first came out aside from some basics beginners guides and the money grinding trick.
Overdrive has been made even better with this thumbnail. "Going into overdrive! 😂👌"
You still need some reflect augments though on its own its not going to carry you with advanced bosses like the ones on time trials and end game bosses
I didn’t know that party wide buffs extended overdrive by that much
Xenoblade X moment
LMAO, same.
Unfortunately, when fighting late game Tyrants my party usually dies during the fight anyway, so I'll probably stick with single target buffs.
@@sdtrawick Eh you shouldnt be dying at all lol. (ive played this game for like 1000 hours ahahahha)
Cross: "Finish chapter 5"
All battle themes: Why i hear boss music?
Wir Fliegen: Is Overdrive time baby!
Tyrant: Wait where's my boss music?
Cross: Overdrive!
Tyrant: WHY DO I HEAR BOSS MUSIC?!
Enel is just monilith soft but won't tell us
You're kasumi not haru
@@krishhiranandani7875
I had the name before the profile picture
The name did not come from persona
I just chose black as a username but changed it into different languages so now its stored at noir.
@@noir-4092 ok
@@krishhiranandani7875 Noir is just black in french, it existed before p5
@@yun_0002 persona 5 invented french
This video is gonna be so relevant again
Mastering overdrive is the key to truly enjoying this game. When I replayed the game last year, I took the time to master overdrive and boy oh boy was it a rush when you start challenging those high level tyrants. Playing around with different builds and abusing reflect arts and reflect augments makes you feel so overpowered it's ridiculous. Another reason why I think the gameplay for this game is amazing. XBX is so underrated
Yeah sure sex is nice, but have you ever shredded the final boss with executioner?
@@theAmazingJunkman Lol, for real, executioner is a bit ridiculous
@@lightshiner3742 That's a weird way to spell 'Blossom Dance'
@@theAmazingJunkman GHOST WALKER!!
I'll never get "primer!" out of my head because of its many times where I spammed it
Everyone talks about the cursed thumbnail, not enough talking about the cursed Cross and cursed movement at 18:18
I never knew how to do those animations, I still don't now. But still, that's uncomfortable
@@noahcarruth7221 There's an icon on the GamePad that you can touch that'll take you to a list of emotes (I think it's on the very bottom right?).
tbh, this is the best thumbnail I've seen for any Xenoblade X video and it sums up overdrive perfectly
I miss playing Xenoblade X. I also miss my Ghost Factory-TP abusement build using my Saber and Dual Guns. Shoutout to the party member Yelv for Essence Exchange, making it possible.
Essence exchange is absolutely broken. Pair it with Geolibrium and you have infinite TP
DoggerX Alternatively; Grab Irina and pair her with HB.
Dig out your Wii U and play it then.
The one complaint I have about Overdrive is the blur effect it adds to the screen. It can get difficult to see what's going on sometimes.
Agreed, it's kind of a neat gimmick but I wish it only fuzzed at the edges and not the entire fricken screen lol
Especially when I'm inside an enemy base mid-battle, and enemies OUTSIDE the building have spotted me, and I have to get out of the building to find them, and-
Enel: Hmm I wonder how I can get people to watch a Xenoblade X guide in 2020
And thus this glorious thumbnail was born (in a world of strife).
This game withholds A LOT of information, the fact that it's a Xenoblade X guide is enough to get me to watch.
This will also come in handy when chuggaa lp's this game
You mean in like 2 months?
getting really hopeful here aren't we hahaha
@@EnelXC yep
@@EnelXC He did say its the largest project the channel has had or ever will have... i can't think of a better candidate
@@EnelXC we know that it's in the works and there's not much that can fit the condition of "largest undertaking in the channels history" that we know he's interested in... at least I hope it's Xenoblade Chronicles X
looking forward to a whole new generation ready to witness one of the best thumbnails in youtube history
When I played through Xenoblade X I didn't realize how busted Overdrive was until the very end of the game.
Here's a tip: Wanna quickly level up your class? Grab any reflect AOE build and fight Dadaan, the Strongest Prone and kill his cronies. You can max out every single class all at once within an hour.
another really good place would be in sand sprint cavity, you can slay all the mura's really easily with a lv30 shop phoenix and 4 slayer theiroid XX augments which are really easy to craft
What’s a reflect build?
@@duelversebeyond there's a number of arts in the game that can reflect a single damage type, like Raijin and Astrolibrium. There's also a number of augments that will make that art reflect additional damage types.
For Dadaan, you need to be able to reflect physical and thermal. Alternatively, you can just get 100% resistance to those two damage types to get the same effect. Ghost Walker won't work because he calls several dozen grunts that each have multi-hit attacks that make decoy arts worthless.
These grunts do loads of damage but can't take a whole lot themselves, so you can use any AOE TP art to instagib most of them. Rinse and repeat to get a ton of class XP.
Also note that Dadaan destroys your skell in 10 seconds, so you can't rely on it to attack/tank.
For me, personally, I used a photon saber build with Astrolibrium. If you kill Dadaan fast enough, he doesn't summon reinforcements, so I used that with a skell to get the Reflect:thermal and Reflect:physical augments, then used Galactic Cataclysm to farm
Less than an hour later, I had every class maxed out
TheOPN OK so if I understand this right there’s an augment you can get that makes AstroLibrium (or Raijin) reflect the type of damage dadaan back at the enemies, So it can basically make you invincible.
Then you use infinitely the responding ads of that fight to grind for class experience. And then you keep doing it until you max out every class.
Correct me if I got anything wrong but that’s what it sounded like from your explanation. Also can you explain to me what damage type those enemies use as well as the augments I would need for this and how to get them?
@@duelversebeyond Dadaan and his grunts use only physical and thermal attacks. Dadaan himself drops the reflect augments you need, so if you have a skell weapon that can kill him in one hit, that's a good way of getting them. Otherwise, just craft resist thermal and resist physical augments to tank him completely.
The class EXP comes from using orange arts to kill his many underlings, which is why I used a photon saber for him. For this, you don't want to use your skell because you want to kill him slowly so he calls his reinforcements.
As someone who has a lot of time in this game, has done dozens of various challenge builds for the superbosses, and had to figure out how overdrive worked on my own without any real guides available, I have to say finally seeing a well made, comprehensive overdrive guide is great.
Ya know I would like this video more if my Wii U would read the goddam XCX disk
Just buy another one 👌👌👌😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
Have you tried resurfacing it? I remember that it worked on my copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, so you should give it a shot.
When i think of overdrive i think of the time i got stuck on the final story boss on that fateful friday night. All Skells dead, Party members equipped horribly and me not knowing how overdrive worked. So i changed up my party. And died. I turned every option available to achieve better results. Nothing helped.
But when experimenting with that 15 seconds buff feature, i started noticing that particular equipment and skills did things with it (keep in mind i've used it probably two times since unlocking it)
So at saturday 3.A.M, after vaguely figuring out how skill sequences affect it, i slapped on skills that i deemed useless.
Quess what happened: Beat that final chapter into submission.
That was probably the dumbest i've ever felt in a game, and at the same time having 'mastered' such a powerful mechanic - that was probably the first and up until now the only time i felt true satisfaction in a game.
I feel you. I figured out overdrive before the final boss, but it still took me over 100 hours to do so.
I just did exactly this an hour ago 😂
I get satisfied when I learn a new monster in monster hunter and finally take it down with my own skill. Amazing series. Mh4u 👌
I'm glad I looked at 2 combat guides before starting, otherwise I would be clueless as to how combat works. Its just convenient you made these X guides when I started the Xenoblade series
These XCX guides you recently released singlehandedly made my experience a million times more fun and engaging, learning infinite overdrive felt like learning how to ride a bike for the first time, pure excitement, I was giggling like a child after I killed my first high level tyrant.
Although I've gotten to a point where I know overdrive well enough that Skells feel like a crutch now for people that didn't understand the combat (me in my first playthrough)
so if you want could you make a Skell guide?
You've already done enough and I don't expect you to do one, that won't stop me from figuring out Skells though, so the decision is all yours.
Either way thank you for these guides. I can tell they're all full of effort, love and passion.
Wir Fliegen is the only Xenoblade X battle theme.
Also, I had no idea about the green -> yellow/orange double bonus. There's so much to this game that you'd never find on a casual playthrough (even if you read the manual).
Probably the most broken mechanic in any of the games, but in a good way.
Also, i like Wir Fliegen a lot but sometimes i wish it didn't play over Uncontrollable and the story fight songs every time you activate overdrive lol
you couldnt beat end game enemies at lvl 40 without it lol
After the new announcement, I booted up X again today and I never understood how overdrive worked. This actually made me use it correctly for the first time and I think it will be an addiction now.
The only bad part of this game its is limited battle music selection, there is only this song called We Fly, I think, even the last boss has that song
PRIMER PRIMER SMOOTH RECOVER SMOOTH RECOVERY BLOSSOM DANCE ZERO ZERO
this man be putting enel's xenoblade skills to shame by tri-wielding weapons, also not enough primer
One of these things is not like the other
@@videogamesarecool9280 I was just saying arts that get repeated a lot not a specific build lol
@@Ash-cp3km I get that, but you need at least 10 more primers to make it accurate, prolly 20+ if we're being honest
@@videogamesarecool9280 lmao
I'm glad that you started making videos about XCX. I'm one of those weirdos in the fandom that actually likes it more than the other games in the series (though I still adore XC2 as well).
Another easy infinite overdrive build for the early/mid game is essence exchange + geolibrium for the blast fencer/galactic knight class. Just craft a couple Max TP up augments, use geolibrium to regen your HP, and then essence exchange every time you need more TP to reactivate overdrive; just make sure not to essence exchange with 0 TP. Also, since both arts are for photon saber, you can use the ranged weapon of your choice.
I wish Essence Exchange wasn't tied to an affinity mission. At least it's the first one you get from Yelv.
I can't even tell how much work you put in these guides, they're so well made! You just convinced me to start a new game, I had over 255 hours on my original save file and I never explored overdrive this deep, guess it's time for another 100+hours of fun easily!. Thanks Enel, have a good one bud!
The previous video was lacking Yoyyeno, so I'm glad to see The Man in action.
Also, my favorite overdrive "build" to just do quests and stuff with is to have 5 "Overdrive: Gain TP" augments and the corresponding skill so that Overdrive doesn't cost anything to use. If you get an armor piece with any "Overdrive Count Up" trait on it, you can spam the overdrive button and give all your party members free TP while building your own count to max. Typically, I'll just stack a bunch of melee attack or something because potential is useless.
(I feel like I need to make a disclaimer here that this is a joke because newer players might think potential might actually be useless... It's a super good stat, but you probably don't want to run potential AND melee or ranged attack as you're far better off choosing one of potential, ranged attack, or melee attack to focus on)
Final Edit: I learned this strat from Rhuanjl (he made a bunch of X guides on youtube a while ago and on GameFAQs). His video outlining the strat in detail is in his video called "The Melee Build" or something along those lines.
One of the best pure melee builds is photon saber because essence exchange means you don't even need to worry about TP as long as you can keep your health up (astral heal helps!!).
@@black1blade74 Before I used the one I was previously talking about, I used photon saber with Essence Exchange and used Geolibrium for my Aura. It never would matter how much TP I had starting a fight because Geolibrium would full heal in like 4 seconds, so I could go from 1 TP to HP TP every 4 seconds. Also, there's the bonus effect of being able to sit in the middle of lava without any danger of dying due to Geolibrium nullifying terrain damage.
I loved watching Rhuanjl back in the day. He was the man. All of his videos are still relevant today too.
Ok, now it's my time to finally play X. When I got it I wasn't really into Xenoblade, but now boy oh boy, I have hype for a 2015 game
The in-game manual is honestly amazing. It helped teach me the game.
That thumbnail is incredible
Enel is making X content as a subliminal message about the upcoming port. WE SEE THROUGH YOU
AINTNOWAY this popped into the feed after xenoblade chronicles x got announced
And I thought overdrive in Xc2 was confusing. This is waaaaaay more confusing. Lol.
Man, I WISH I had known this stuff and the game had explained Overdrive (and the combat overall) better. I went down the Enforcer/Mastermind route when I started playing because it sounded like the play style I would prefer. I ended up feeling exceptionally underpowered pretty early and gave up because I felt so irreparably behind. These Xenoblade X videos make me want to get the game again and try once more knowing what I know now. Anyway, all that to say, thanks Enel!
What!? So you don't just spam arts and hope for the best?
nah, you do, you just spam more green arts than anything else
@@videogamesarecool9280 not true, i ran my infinite overdrive build with only 2 green arts, ghost walker and primer, unlesss i needed to refresh the counter or the ghostwalker i was spamming my orange/yellow arts with purple in the middle.
If you know what you are doing you can even run one with only 1 green art.
The thing is taking the time to experiment and find what arts go well together.
But that requires time.
@@unlimitedslash I've killed telly before, ik how OD works, that comment was the mentality I had when starting to learn OD, and its how you maintain OD when you have no idea how it works
Me for the first 100 hours:
Overdrive in Xenoblade 2 be like
kinda hoping for character guides like you did for Xenoblade...even though most story mission limit you to Lin and Elma...and sometimes fills the 4th slot
They would be more like build guides rather than character guides because cross can become a better version of each character. I would still be very interested in seeing all of them
@@videogamesarecool9280 it would help knowing how the character interact with other party members though
@@Zezlemet your saying this like X isn't a solo game
10:12 That stutter felt like they forgot about the Clown Make-up.
Great tutorial. The game's way more fun playing this way and every battle felt like a major slog without it. One thing id like to contribute is that if you use blood sacrifice>return to mech>blood sacrifice you can quickly build your TP for a battle without waiting around for Blood Sacrifice's cooldown.
I think a tutorial on how to battle with mechs in the game would be cool. I have no clue what I'm doing when I'm trying to pick parts for mine.
So far all im doing is making sure my allies are in mechs when I charge in and pop out to infinite overdrive.
I just want you to know that in 2022 your expertise is still reaching and enhancing a player that thoroughly loves this game. I've had it since 2017 and I'm just now putting it back on my priority to at least finish.
I have been mashing throught combat, thanks for explaining.
Recently I went back to Xenoblade X, partially cause of this video. I had stuck with one line of classes but switched to enforcer so I'd be able to try out that mastermind build. And today at rank 6 enforcer, I truly experienced overdrive for the first time and damn it was fun- I got to 77 count and it only ended cause I won the fight. I'm thinking once I take down the game's strongest enemies with the mastermind build, I'll do a lot more of my own experimenting and I'm excited. When I originally played X, there was no overdrive guide like this or any guides as comprehensive as your general combat guide so Im able to learn the game so well now without just a bunch of trial and error and that's awesome
This kinda turned into a ramble, but basically... thanks Enel, go treat yourself to some choccy milk cause your epic
Overdrive seems so fun to utilize. I just wish I could read what the arts do so Im not just going off of color
Thanks for the video. Late to the party I know. But I couldn't make heads or tails of the Overdrive system at all until I came across your video. Thanks for the in-depth, but easy to understand explanation. You probably saved me hours of headbashing against the wall.
Teacher: Dont worry, this subject it's not rocket science
Me: oh, ok
Teacher: Its XBC overdrive science
Me: fffffffffff
I accidentally blundered my way into a decent overdrive build with dual guns/swords and stuck with it for the rest of the game regardless of class changes. Improved it as I got better skills but I didn’t have the patience to experiment too much when what I had was working and deviations from it ended up with my team getting wiped.
Also that’s a god tier thumbnail
Watching this makes me feel like I've been playing a completely different game the entire time.
Like, most of my time was in the Skell with that killer Scythe
pretty much. He should probably make a video on skell combat too since its totally different to maximize it. The game has like 3 different combat systems lol
This was exactly what I needed! Thanks for the beginner-friendly guides and explaining the process! I’m glad I chose now of all times to replay this game!
The thumbnail is perfect bro. Thanks for the tutorial. Maybe now I’ll go beat Gradivus once and for all.
I know this is incredibly informative but I realized when he was explaing TP recovery that I had zoned out and all I was hearing were WORDS. Like not sentences, just WORDS. God this series is crazy with its mechanics.
I've tried emulating over drive builds from other vids, but everything seemed so random with little explanation on how to keep it going. This has been the most useful video on the topic that I've ever watched. Thank you for your hard work.
Overdrive turns skell only bosses into mim only bosses once you understand it.
I’m so glad you’re doing X content. I started my second playthrough a few weeks ago, got my skell license last week, and didn’t really know much about the combat other than TP and Soul Voices are good. Thank you.
That's a lot of information, I may have to come back and take notes, specially the color combos
Will you do a guide for skells and their overdrive?
not in the near future, i don't like skell combat and it isn't nearly as useful anyway
Thank you so much for explaining this dude. I didn't really know what to do during Overdrive but now I know how it works and it's extremely fun to use!
After the announcement of Xenoblade 3 i decided to buy Xenoblade X and man is it fun. Your Xenoblade guides really helped me out with the two other games and im glad you did a guide for overdrive since it can be so broken 🙏
PRIMER !
Overdrive is my favorite part of Xcx aside from Elma.
How about using Overdrive as Elma?
Ah, so you’re an Elma person as well.
I’d just 100% completed the Mira Survey for Xenoblade X. This was my first Xenoblade game. Thank you Overdrive 👏😋
I haven't played X in years so I'm very confused but also feel very smart for understanding the few things that I do
I'll go Full Metal Jaguar on my second playthrough. It, uh... took me a while to figure this all out the first time. But this is my eternal overdrive build:
Class: Bastion Warrior
Weapons: Longsword, Gatling Gun
Skills: Yamato Spirit, Grand Procession, Trauma Tension, Healing Aura
Arts: Enhanced Stand, Bullet Twister, Tornado Blade, Cool Off, True Stream Edge, Magnum Edge, Bullet Storm, Ultraslash*
I also have the following augments: "Cooldown Reducer X", "Overdrive: Recover HP XII", "Extend Overdrive XV", and "Resist Launch V". Although it takes a while to be able to make those augments, and I was getting eternal overdrives before crafting them, so I guess you need not worry about augments for a while.
*Though based on this video (and the thumbnail, lol), it seems I should swap out Ultraslash for Blossom Dance, which I recently unlocked, and get TP up augments along with it? Thoughts?
Ah, 2015. Played 350+ hours. Achieve Infinite Overdrive was such a rewarding gameplay mechanic. What was really amazing about Xenoblade X for me, was that after 50-60+ hours you unlock Skells and Mira never looked more beautiful. Then, the Overdrive mechanic added more to the game and it's really such a great mechanic, so broken in a good way, such fun to use.
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Even as a veteran to X, I'm still glad to see this video.
sometimes I think even the people who made this game don't know what's going on
Honest to god this changes my entire strategy for this game
Hadn't booted up my wii u in a while and needed a refresher, thanks!
Oh lord more ether longsword potential blossom dance meta, but man you are amazing at explaining this all, even the manual doesn’t help this much and a ton of it for me was self discovery, looking forward to seeing more Xenoblade X content Enel!
I just started playing X and was really confused on Overdrive but after watching this I was able to keep it going way better felt soo cool
Another informative guide man. That thumbnail is incredible.
I like how common ether cannons have a special called beam barrage as well. That was DEFINITELY intentional
Thanks Enel. That thumbnail is amazing.
Man I remember the first time I played this game and just brute forced it with maxed out Defensive Stance and just outlasting everything, this... this changes everything
Currently playing this on CEMU at 60 fps and this guide helped me master Overdrive. I wish the entire screen didn't get blurred so much since I find that obnoxious but overdrive is super fun. Taking on an enemy 20+ levels higher than me is exhilarating. Thanks for this guide!
I love over drive, using arts with immediate cool down 3 or 4 times in a roe is satisfying
Overdrive is probably my favorite mechanic in any game. It just feels so, so sick. Taking on enemies like 20 levels higher than you, Wir Fliegen playing in the background while you run around tearing them apart is easily the peak of the game for me. Overdrive being so complex and Xenoblade X explaining so little just make you feel like even more of a genius when you finally figure it out and pull off an infinite Overdrive build. The amount of thought you need to put into your build as well as everything you need to keep in mind about Overdrive's mechanics in-battle make it so, so satisfying. Not to mention the fact that arts like Ghostwalker and Smooth Recovery, along with plenty of others, just have sick animations.
Overdrive just makes me feel like a god every time and I love it.
I beat the game yesterday and did not know 1% of this 😮
Based for still beating this game after the switch announcement
I always used the photon saber/dual guns build for overdrive. Mostly cause it looked cool, but sabers have a killer combo that's very easy to use.
Essence exchange
Geolibrium
Ghost walker
Very excited to try one of these builds when I play through the game soon
This is going way over my head with so much to remember.
I really appreciate this type of videos even if I disagree with 95% of your opinions. Keep up the good work
Also thanks so much for explaining all of this
When I played XCX for the first time back in 2015 I had absolutely no idea what I was doing or how the combat worked. I recently replayed the game a few months ago, and actually knowing how to use Overdrive made the whole game ten times more fun
Great Job. Good Video.
the thing i forget the fastest is which color into which other colored art does what. thanks for the reminder.
I thought I needed a ton of new skell gear for the zu pharg fight but all I needed was to learn this
Ayooo I'm in the same boat. Gotta get some better skells
I guess both of you should have built the Ares90 until now
Once I finish Xenosaga 3 I'm for sure returning to Mira with my newly acquired combat knowledge. Thank you for the guide and especially for the builds (I didn't understand Overdrive, so I was worried I would only be able to run cool Overdrive builds with Cross when I prefer being in control of Elma)!
So let me see if I understand this...
The use of overdrive is mostly based on which types of arts you're using. Usually you want to do a buff art before using either a melee, ranged, or debuff art since it doubles the counter gain they net you. Increasing counter is a big priority as it helps with basically everything in overdrive including increasing timer, which is done through aura and buff arts. Debuff arts also are major because they increase your TP based on the counter. If you're going to do any attack arts together (melee, ranged or debuff), it should never be a melee to a ranged or a ranged to a melee. And that's essentially the basics of overdrive?
Yes
@@EnelXC Thank you! Now I just need to get a new wii u since I sold it to get a switch and this is the game I miss the most :')
Or wait for nintendo to hopefully port this game to switch one day
Update, I finally got it again and I'm glad I made this comment lmao
Next Video: Ether Blossom Dance isn’t the best build in the game
Ether Blossom dance is overrated, wish more people used builds that utilize Javelin or Photon Launchers.
Isn't it just popular because it's less farm intensive than other builds of similar power ?
@@holosimpleo1334 I use those online lmao (PROSPECTOR GANG)
With this newfound power....I can finally listen to Wir Fliegen for more than 16 seconds in-game!!
I usually just equip skills that increase damage for melee combos and reduce cooldowns and then just go ham with a photon saber, it works pretty well.
Just rewatched this video and the guide to combat video. I never really figured oht how to wprk the systems of X when i played it and kind of brute forced my way through the game. This is enough of a primer for me tk forget some of it and experiment throuvh the game as i play
I've spent over 8 hours grinding for an orphean L Arm with OD count and TP up, literally the last piece of the build I need and I'm at breaking point
Me, playing through a modded save, on my way to find the wrecked vita: oh yeah, pizelle is here, gonna overdrive it to death!
Proceeds to sliding slinger off the cliff and run 15 minutes back to where I was
Thank-you Enel!
Although I wish I had this video before I had finished my 100% run this year :(
Guess this means that I can just further optimize my build further!