Collection points: collection points all have a type and drop chance that determines what drops. For some ungodly reason the player is unable to see what type it is. You figured out what ive found to be the best way to get a specific resource. On top of this strategy you can also equip blades that have skills such as forestry or mineralogy that buff the amount of resources you get.

Heart to Hearts in this game are a lot friendlier than in the first game, no affinity requirements at all just need to make sure you have the required party members

Xeno music is incredible, I'm always listening to the sound tracks.

Aux cores are essentially gems from the first game except you use collectables to refine them instead of crystals

Since you haven't upgraded your driver affinity chart yet I'll give you the advice to aim for the art cancel slot as soon as possible, it makes combat significantly more flexible as it allows you to cancel arts into other arts.

50:04 Riku just Riku, common variety Blade

You know you can actually select your characters levels when using Bonus EXP instead of upgrading one level after an over You can go to the right to select higher levels I'm enjoying the playthrough!

In the map screen using L and R you can select things to enable and disable on the map including connection points that are disabled by default. Every menu screen says what the buttons do on the bottom screen. But yeah sadly drops are random.

Don't feel pressured to push through the game fast. Not exploring and not unlocking those yellow and green nodes would eventually cause issues.

@SolitarySaturn

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Which nodes are you referring to? Sorry there are like a million mechanics so I get confused.

@gormottigrebel9978

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@@SolitarySaturn They are referring to the blade affinity charts, nothing too severe, and there are better ways to fill them out later anyway. I left a comment in your last video that explains all the parts that make up a blade. The red nodes being for specials, yellow for skills and green for field skills.

@andriystashko-ziabletsov7893

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@@SolitarySaturn yellow skills are blade's passives, and while some of them are meh others are very busted. These are things that make blades different from each other. Green nodes let you unlock chests, doors, and a multitude of other side content. While it's true that there would be an "easier" way to unlock them, it would not work for story blades like Pyra and Dromarch at least for most of the game. The issue is also that these things snowball: for story blades, kill n monsters unlock criterias roughly match where you are supposed to be in the story at that time, so if you skip them, you'll have to do backtracking eventually or ignore those systems alltogether.

You will unlock the third blade slot a little later on for now

When leveling up at the inn you can scroll to level up all at once. ______________________________ One of the quests in torigoth is actually a tutorial for side content that gives small upgrades. Specifically the quest "Paying it forward." (Edit: i see you finished that one at the end) ______________________________

@SolitarySaturn

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Ohhhhhhhhhh

Don't be frustrated, all Xenoblade have complex systems, sadly Xenoblade 2 is a lot more complex than Xenoblade 1 and has one of them worse tutorial systems. You can't revisit it, it is not always clear and it used to even have wrong information (I think it was fixed in a patch) Luckily the game isn't that hard you can force your way through the main story by only grinding levels. But the optional content is really on another level, I just read some FAQs to understand all the mechanics when I got to the end game. I recommend you to give a look into it. You probably already unlocked the elemental orbs, the basics is of combat is do especial combo attacks and put the most elemental orbs on the enemy as possible, then do chain attacks and use blades with opposite elements of the orbs to try to break at least one orb for chain attack turn, this will give you another turn, when you brake 5 (if I'm not mistaken) orbs it will end the chain attack starting a fullburst breaking all the remaining orbs, for each orb broken this way you will get a damage modifier. The total damage of a chain attack + full burst with damage bonuses from extra orbs can be devastated. There also equipment and aux cores that can work together to give you even more bonuses during chain attacks. Like better critical rate during chain attacks + better critical damage. I'm in the middle of Xenoblade 3, I'm liking it a lot, but my favorite battle system still is Xenoblade 2 / torna combat system.