There is spoiler for Chapter 7 and mid-Chapter 8.

As you progress quickly until early Chapter 8, you'll earn quite a lot gold coins, XP, etc. and that helps a lot. There are even more XP & faster to gain with mulitple-Merc. It's much easier to do missions/quests and also higher skill/field levels. I've hang around Chapter 8 for around 80 hours until I've forgotten that two dudes (Malos and Jin).

Recent blade bonding did not get anything after spent 10 legendary, 60+ rare, 100+ common core crystals.

I was done around 120 hours. Still some side quest left, and like 4 rare blades I didn't get. Kosmos is non-existence, like what most said.. But there is always that lucky bastard who got her early lol.

I'm just planning to continue the game later when the expansion pass is out fully. Can't wait for more new blades in general, and hopefully some additional stuff for the story.. Hoping for after ending story and mission. Extended ending is always nice

I actually got her on my second legendary core, but I got her on the 4th driver 😅😅
Still playing slowly, only about to enter chapter 7 and have only about 11 blades in total

i still havent get her.

currently at chapter 5.. what is the best way to farm rare cores? is salvaging the way to go?

move further into the Story first. Farming is easier late game.

i know it is easier to farm legendary cores postgame but what if i want to farm cores before postgame, which chapter should I be in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqfx_2E3e1o&t=

This post has been edited by danger46: Feb 2 2018, 11:41 AM

thanks...thats what i am currently doing... also tried to do some driver combo to smash some cores out of the crabs...

I suggest that you should finish the game first before farming.

fuuuu... merc missions and getting zenobia to power up (all that hunting)

fuuuuuuuuuuuuu

20 hours!




add on:

if i can verbally abuse the devs, I would.

The friggin' gacha system is just too fckin' bloody pissing me off.

70+ rare cores, only 1 rare blade.
99 common, and i'm not sure if i wanna open all.

This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Feb 4 2018, 09:24 PM

There really is a need for a fail safe mechanism so that players can get a rare blade after a certain amount of fail. But yeah the gatcha system is what it is, to make you grind more and more.

I think i'm somewhat lucky considering I never actually farmed for the cores and just do main quest, side quest and a little bit of salvaging from time to time. Only left 4 rare blades that hasn't been resonated.

Also I have terrible luck with the legendary cores. I only manage to get one rare blade from it lol. As for rare cores it seems to give me a little also. But damn common cores, I have a lot of luck from those. Most of my rare blades comes from common cores.

I just leave the last 4 rare blade for next time, when I pick up the dlc, no rush as more blades will be added, I kinda know to get the last 4 it will be frustrating for sure lol

This post has been edited by Rei7: Feb 5 2018, 04:59 AM

The really frustating part (i'm now still at chapter 5, about to leave for some place after meeting somebody very high up), (its generic, so not spoiler, I think?), and investing 60 over odd hours farming and whatnot, there doesn't seem to be a real mechanical rule.

E.G

Boosters are supposed to help you to get blades from a certain pool.
I'm going to have to use this pic (DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED) All discussion about the pool is marked in the spoiler.



seriously, the devs need to listen to players and stop making things DLC-based, especially now I've read up the furor with Xenoblade Chronicles X in Japan and English.

same somemore I open 6 Legendary and all got 2 star normal blade

I boost Justice on my 5th since he have the highest Justice. Still no luck for Kos-Mos.

At this point I can safely say that boosters do not do a damn thing in the game, most of the blades I pull are from not using a single boosters at all. The times I actually use boosters, it would give me blades that are waaaay off the elements I actually want.

Now I just sell the boosters off to shops to make space if and when I'm salvaging and turning them in the trade market thing.

Boosters seems to work for me from time to time, but most of the time doesn't. I only use boosters on rare or legendary. It's still RNG yes and I don't really follow what people say online. I just resonate whenever. For maximum placebo effect, resonate when you feel lucky. Also make sure to wear luck boost items before resonate for better luck as told by the in-game guide.

Last few sessions after I left like just 4 rare blades to resonate I tried like 3 sessions.. Around 50 cores per session, didn't get a single new blade, so yeah I just stopped then. I never really farmed for cores, but I was getting them while doing side quest and leveling up mostly or when I was salvaging.

My case at least doesn't sound as frustrating as you guys. Maybe just go finish the story first like I do, enjoy it. Then once done, only farm later. My game time was around 130 hours only. Saw some reached around 200 to 250 hours lol, they all must be farming core crystals as well.

This post has been edited by Rei7: Feb 5 2018, 12:56 PM

Okay, I released a lot of cores, but kept those darkness ones, and opened 30 rare crystals.
On char 5

I ended up getting Dagas and one more, but both are fire.

Boost element my arse this game.
Curse you, devs.

This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Feb 5 2018, 02:13 PM

Rare cores are easy, just follow main storyline until chapter 8 *spoiler alert*

then stop story line and start farming/grinding everything else. You can get Legendary Core from some level 60+ unique monsters easily. I always farm soul eater stanley.

LOL, I've burn 2x-3x your cores recently, did not get any rare, I'm still like 5-7 rares missing.
10+ legendaries, 100+ rare, 200+ commons, 150+ boosters

I'm done with maxing quite a few rares like Zenobia, Mythra (S7), Praxis, Aegeon, Roc, Godfrey, Agate, Ursula, Dagas, Boreas, Herald, Sheba (gold digger), and already open up level 5 affinity for like half of the rares.
Zenobia is fun, to search and fight the UM one by one.

Some really time grinding stuff are Ursula, Dagas, Vess, a few b!tch3s to prepare for the Girl Power Off (i'm still looking for Vale), spent a lot of money (like 2M+ coins so far) but sell to earn a lot (like 5M+ so far)
The rest are just normal grinding, I'll be upgrading Kassandra, Perun, Theory, and a few more.

240+ hours into grinding ... 2M+ coins excluding 25 legendary and 99 gold cylinders.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu


That's a long, long grind. Excluding story mode, now got around 6 more "bad ass looking blades" to grab. Now time out, grind the trust and affinity quests dulu, since got a few edi. Should be good for lots of hours.

Yes, quite boring to grind affinity. Normally I sit in front TV and just spam A button for the pouch.

Last night maxed Wulfric, Dahlia and Vess. Checked: Perun, Electra, Brighid, Dromach, Sheba and Adenine already maxed as well. A few are near-maxed as well, except storyline need Chap 9-10 or left Trust grinding only. Working on Kassandra. Need further grind on some maxed affinity 4: Finch, Theory, Azami, Floren, Nia as blade, Pandoria. I'm bad at Tiger Tiger, hence won't be able to max Poppi
With all those Ultimate/Intermediate Weaponry, I upgrade the WP to level 4-5 for all my five drivers main blades.

What I'm missing: Kos-Mos, Vale, Perceval, Nim, Newt

Need to grind crystal cores as well. So far, I sold like 120 common cores as 99/99 full sometimes. You can make a lot of money by selling low level unrefined cores, I only keep highest level IV or V only. Also sell all lower level driver accessories. Don't sell those collection point items, you may need it somewhere. The bulk of my money comes from here, I estimate I sold >2M+ worth in total already.

Latest 259 hours into the game.

The main story line, required Merc missions, quests, etc. are just like 40-50% of the game only. I revised down from earlier 60-70%, as the game opens up.