aw thanks for the shoutout dude

You are a guide making machine. I'm so glad DE has given rise to the high quality guides for Xenoblade 1.

I feel like such an idiot. I've played this since the Wii version. I never once thought about using Sharla and Riki to purposefully suck at crafting so that they waste it all on gentle flames and then you can cylinder individual traits. That's SO SMART.

When I got my Switch three years back I watched a ton of your guides to understand Xenoblade 2 and it helped me enjoy the game even more. Three years later and your still doing the same with the original. The love you have for these games can be felt and makes me wanna play them even more. Have a good day Enel

14:15 just casually thanking an Outer God for teaching him Xenoblade strats. But very useful guide I'm looking forward to more. As someone who played Xenoblade 2 first it's nice to get some tips for this battle system

He's fighting level 98 monsters I just saw Immovable Gonzalez and RAN

Riki and reyn will make 325+ on heat gauge if you start around 110. Riki and melia can raise 4 gems to 300 on heat gauge if they all are around 185-199. Assuming max party affinity.

if anyone doesn't know, once you get past a certain part of the story (early in the game), you'll be able to make a portable gem crafting machine. Once you get to this point, just talk to the Gem Crafting Man in Colony 9 and you'll be able to start the quest to unlock it. It's better for those who don't want to keep skipping back to the Gem Stall in Colony 9 all the time.

"There we go!" "To me!"

Even though I'm familiar with most of this stuff already, you've got such a great way of communicating info that I'm enjoying watching these anyway!

I just have to say this: Riki is way better than Shulk as a shooter, he gives you double the effects of everything so using RikiReyn combo while crafting is way better, (generally gets you 300-500%) it also allows you to use less good crystals as materials (ive gotten mega heat from materials that started at 60%)

Shoutouts to Seven for being the best way to craft things, like she already was my favorite to play but this was just icing on the cake

Enel flexing his great knowledge on us so we can learn.

....why is Dunban wearing pants now that we have cosmetic slots?

Dang that’s actually helpful. When I played through the game on Wii I kind of just put on whatever gems I had and didn’t craft that much

Something i've found consistant after using sharla and riki to make cylinders is to use Riki and Reyn as the gem crafting process happens twice due to rikis ability.

My man knows his STUFF! Haven't really played too far into the game due to work being a pain recently, but I will be coming back to these awesome guides. Not gonna lie, your content makes me both enjoy and appreciate this franchise so much more.

7 and Shulk getting into a fever. Hoo boi

I don't have much trouble in battle since my characters are at level 87. My favorite gems are Quick Step because it takes SO LONG to run/swim around places. Especially when I'm trying to complete the map of Eryth Sea or going back and forth to Zazadan for his never-ending quests

I just got to Eryth Sea and have been neglecting my gems because I had no idea what I was doing. This helped a bunch! Keep up the great work!

When you’ve played the original game and didn’t know a lot of this lmao

Great video Enel. I have been waiting on this.

Great videos. Played the og a decade ago but never used Melia or crafted much as I was new to jrpgs and didn't want to be overwhelmed. I finished the game but wasn't satisfied I learned all I could. This time I shall.

Really usefull guide. I would love to have this the first time i played this game back on the wii. Time to make good use of cristals with the remake. It would be nice to have a guide about the best combat arts. Keep up mate u r making some really nice vids

Wow, your videos are top notch! I’m extremely impressed and grateful for your clear and concise communication, and the way you go into details not everyone brings up. I know I’ll be coming back to this video and watching others as I progress, just about to head into the prison. (I already intentionally spoiled myself on Seven, no worries)

That moment when you hit 400% but don't get 4 lvl 6 gems

These guides are amazing. Once I beat the game, I’m going to start a new game + and do this stuff myself to take on the superbosses

Enel helping us all to be great at this game! thanks for the guides they are super helpfull

I was just looking for a guide like this and there it is. Thanks!

Love these! I would also love to see character specific guides for newbies like me, like how the heck I'm supposed to spec Dunban, or how the heck to spec Melia/utilize Melia as a party member when I control Shulk.

Dang I've loved XC1 for a while but never knew this much about the gem crafting and other small hidden details about the stats. Thank you Enel for all these tips and guides!

Thank you for these, I've seriously been having trouble finding decent guides for this game. Any chances of character specific guides in the future? I know they're mentioned at the end of the video but knowing how to actually play some of the more complicated characters and gear choices would be great. Cheers!

Thanks for all these great guides!

Thanks for the explanation. I was confused as to how the gem crafting system worked but that makes perfect sense.

This is very helpful. Thank you for the guide.

Been waiting for the gem crafting one! Yay!

I feel like a total idiot. Of course THIS is the system I misunderstand about this game. This guide is so useful.

Thanks for this guide! I'd gotten a bit rusty after not playing XC1 for so long, def needed this for a refresher. I also noticed you mention certain gems as being really useful when I'd never really thought of them as being so. Got me wondering, might you be able to do a tier list of sorts on gem effects? I think it would be really useful for people who would otherwise overlook very useful gems!

Brilliant guide! One thing I want to mention is regarding crafting gems, get a good affinity between Reyn and Riki absolutely trivialises getting Mega Heat, Riki's Shooter ability basically makes the gem crafting process happen twice, so even if the affinity between the rest of your party isn't great, the sheer amount of turns crafting the gem is gonna get a high % anyways Never considered using Sharla for the crafting of cylinders, always used Seven due to starting with 3 free gauges, so thanks for that :)

I really like your content of Xenoblade, when I found you doing your xenoblade chronicles 2 i was immediately hooked and bought a nintento switch just to play #2. i still haven't beat it lol but I bought this definitive edition soon as it came out. I really appreciate your content keep it up. cheers. Can't wait for your world records xD

Thanks a lot for the guides Enel

I think something that's worth mentioning is that the glory gauntlets (and speed v frame for seven) give haste 45% which is just 5% below the max. It's really nice because haste is a weapon gem and having it on armor can be invaluable. If you plan to do an armor guide this is definitely worth mentioning. I also want to say that ether up gems can be really good on Melia/Riki because ether arts tend to scale better off ether than strength arts do for strength so if you have some extra space on your armor throw them on. Lastly there is a gem crafting method involving Dunban and Seven that can get mega heat if you only have one crystal with a certain trait. The method can be found here about 2/3rds down the page gamefaqs.gamespot.com/wii/960564-xenoblade-chronicles/faqs/65405 It does spoil Seven for those only reading the comments.

Just when I needed this!

I'll admit that the Sharla-Riki combo for crafting gems to have the required cylinders is pretty smart ! In my many playthrought of the original, i used to have one of my affinity link between two party members at lowest as possible so that they had the less moves possible to craft the correct cylinder, and it worked nicely but obviously i would miss out on an entire skill tree link between two party members so that wasn't such a great method overall ... But now thanks to this method i had never thought about it's so much more effective ! Thanks so much for sharing !

Xenoblade DE is missing one massive thing that they could have added from XB2 QoL improvements: Poppi

Great guides, trying to get the avalanche abaabsay to spawn thoun is a bit of nightmare, but hopefully now I'll be better equipped

Can I say you really save me playing the Xenoblade series? You literally help me with so much

Thanks for the spoilers about the seventh party member, I'll defiently watch this till I figure out who it is All my friends tell me it's going to be the craziest shit ever, but I think I already figured it out and I cant wait to meet him

12:33 you can also link Steel Protection from Dunban or Rejection of Evil from Melia's 5th skill branch for max reduction while only using one Spike Defence gem, they do cost quite a bit of Affinity Coins though, so IMO it's not worth it since Affinity coins are in high demand. It does makes Dunban even better for taking on Daedala and Belgazas.

Thanks for talking about the best gems. I had never thought about the attack plus gems. I thought it was only for auto attacks. I didn’t know every skill bases damage off of auto attack stat.

Excellent guide! That's about all I can say, lol. Seeing this in video form helps me understand it better, and I was worried when some people said that you need low affinity between Sharla and Riki to make it work.

This is the best gem video I've seen! Thank you

Really great guide. Thank you.

Great tutorial. Even someone like who played the original two versions of the game could learn some new things.

Hey nice guides, would love some character build guides aswell!

Nice video guide. What is far more work, though, is unlocking the fourth and fifth skill tree branches of the seven main characters. Though that is not a key requirement for beating the main story or killing the superbosses.

The best way to safely split crystals into cylinders or refine cylinders to higher percentages is a minimum affinity Fiora/Riki pair. Low number of turns for an unwanted party bonus chain to spike your 32% desired trait to 114%, low strong and medium flame chances, high gentle flame odds, and a guaranteed cylinder gauge level 3 from the start. Refine your cylinders until the combined value is about 150% for your desired trait. Pick only the desired trait to refine into a gem, don't go for other gems in the same firing, and then refine it as Riki/Reyn. I have never once got less than 300% by doing this. 400+ is the usual result.

Enel’s videos giving me good luck, got my first 400% while watching!

I really enjoyed gaming this system back in the Wii days. I was able to use gem crafting to turn Seven into a full-blown auto-attack murder machine. With their haste buff on top, I had them doing nonstop autos and it was hilarious. :P

I always use Shulk and Reyn, but I would never have thought to use Riki. Didn't realize party affinity was so crutial to the process.

Wow, whenever you play a game, you seem to know all about it and you beat it in 1 day

Been waiting for this vid

I know all of these things but I juet love talking about Xenoblade and listening everything Xenoblade:)

Thank you so much for the spoiler warning in the beginning, haven't gotten that far yet so I guess I'll come back to this video once I get further into the story!

THERE WE GO! ALRIGHTY!

Was waiting for that lol

Great guide. Btw will you be doing any guides on Future connected as well?

The arrow is the right way this time lol, but great video

uber helpful! thanks !

Quite helpful. Whenever I make gems I tend to just mash A and hope for the best. Obviously that's not the best every time.

Thank you!

Please make an in depth guide on how to get all the extra skill trees for each character

AHHH thank you!!

Thank you!!! Please next make it a guide about characters

Great work as always How about a guide on rebuilding Colony 6 next? Items like Fossil Monkeys and Ice Cabbages don't seem to actually exist out in the field and it's super frustrating, it's quickly become my most hated quest in the game

One thing I did on my first run: It happened that my Affinity between Nr. 7 and Melia was pretty bad due to the fact I never really tried them in the same team. So what I did was to lower their affinity to red (which is below the starting point) with gifts they didn't like. They are a very good team to seperate crystals in their respective single buffs and also, if you change them around, to slightly raise the percentage close to 100%. After having two cylinders close to 100, I changed to Shulk & Reyn, who were indeed Max Affinity, and then I almost certainly had the 300%.

Enel gotta be the goat xenoblade player

headed to Bionis Interior the 2nd time so I stumbled across this at the perfect time

Ughh I can not describe the frustration of waiting to get the seventh party member so I can watch your guides

Didn't expect Attack Stability and Attack Plus to be that good. I mostly used Strength Up and Ether Up in the Wii version.

Quick step is such a good gem to have equipped.

also if you want faster movement speed in areas with very few skip points i.e. alcamoth then craft some quick step gems

Most fun I had in mid-game was Electro Up and maxing out ether on melia, linking Riki´s skill that you get reduced cooldown in daylight and sharlas ether boosting and watch melia 2-3 shot alot of enemies with Thunder Spam. Maybe you want to make a video about expert mode aswell, because it completly changed how I play through the game. Completing EVERY SIDEQUEST POSSIBLE before entering a new area just leaves me on the same level as most basic enemies and its AWESOME, forcing me to use a good party setup and properly using the mechanics and actually time my skills instead of mindlessly pressing all arts that are not on CD. Also it allowed me to max out abilities and Passiv trees, because the enemies reward you with more experience.

The best way to get individual cylinder that I found is to use Seven as the lead and Riki. Since they have horrible synergy with one another, you just pile in a lot of low% ether crystals and they will refine them to a higher percentage as well as let you actually keep them. This doesn't work quite as well if you have a 90+ % crystals but this has worked wonders for me.

You got my sub

This might have been said but ironically the hardest gems to get mega heat are the rare mining crystals since they often have 3 or 4 traits and at max party affinity it is VERY rare to not overshoot the 100 purity rating and make a low-quality gem. The best solution is ironically to try and mega heat all of them at once with Melia (Shooter) and Fiora (Engineer) as this pair specializes in good Medium flames which raises all traits in the furnace. With party support and a half decent RNG roll you will get mega heat on at least 2 of the qualities in a single session and you don't have to savescum many times to get 3 or all 4 traits to mega.

One thing I found regarding medium flames. If you're okay with sacking less than necessary gems for more desirable ones like debuff resist, haste or stat boosting ones, medium flames may be helpful for separating the qualities from a set of several different types, and cooking it at the same time. Saves a bit of time when you cook the gem a bit afterwards to get close to 100%. I personally like using Melia as the engineer for this purpose, as she is good at creating medium flames.

Hey dude -- Just picked up XCDE for the first time and your guides have been super helpful. Going to play 2 and 3 right after so I'm sure I'll be watching plenty more of your vids. Thank you. Right now, my guess is that I'm about mid-game, just passed Prison Island and working through Valak Mountain. My question for you: 1. Considering most of the crystals I've gotten so far are level 3 or below, is it worth it to spend a ton of time gem crafting at this stage or should I just wait to get closer to late game when I have a collection of level 5s? 2. Is it worth it to craft new gems for the main party pretty much at each stage (When I get 4s, start crafting 5s, etc.) 3. Do you recommend completing the story before grinding affinity?

when playing the first i liked having my affinity low between 2 certain people so i could get the incremental gains and be very careful with having them close to 100%

Sweet thanks

I love the gem crafting guide. Will be useful for the superbosses for those who want to go up against them for the first time. I find it interesting that you max out Riki X Sharla affinity for grinding, as I like to keep them to a minimum to minimize party members interacting during the diffusion process. Cannot wait for the character guides, as my Dunban/Seven game are terrible.

Okay, let's see if I can get the following gems. Haste VI, Double Attack VI, Debuff Resist VI, Spike Defense VI, Topple Plus VI, Daze Plus VI, Unbeatable VI, Agility Up VI, Recovery Up VI, Revival HP Up VI, and Arts Heal VI.

I'm in the end game of the main story. I've been fine with the setup that I have currently, but I always end up overthinking what I should have for the setup for each character.

What I do is get multiple gems with stats that I want, example Double Attack, Haste, Poison Plus, Blaze Up, Chill up, Debuff Resist, Spike Resist, and put 1 of each of those gems. Then I use Seven and Melia together. Seven's affinity gives you 3 cylinders from the start, and Melia has good Medium flame. You can end up getting 5 high quality cyclinders in one go that you can then use with Shulk/Reyn to get perfect gems.

I actually prefer to use Riki and Reyn as a double boost from Riki on a Strong flame each time gives crazy boosts making it much easier to get mega heats.

I'm trying to use your Sharla/Riki strat, but the rest of the team are CONSTANTLY popping up and pushing my gems past 100%.

I prefer Riki + Reyn in DE because they fixed Riki's shooter ability so that he properly shoots twice per turn. While Shulk + Reyn technically can provide the highest % possible with lots of fevers, I found Riki + Reyn to be far more consistent.

idk if you know or not but you can get Gauntlets with a 45% Haste Gem and a weight of 1 called glory gauntlets. Really handy (pun not intended) since you can usually only equip Haste Gems on a weapon which keeps your valueable weapon slots free. Could be worth doing a video at some point on notable drops like that.

Debuff resist does not prevent topple. Also try using Rikki instead of Shulk when gem crafting. Overall very informative guide.

Nice guide. I specifically remember in the Wii version intentionally keeping Sharla and Riki's affinity in the toilet the entire game, just so I could make cylinders with minimal risk of accidentally succeeding in crafting a gem. You say to max everyone's affinity. Do you think the increased chance of them pitching in during the Shulk/Reyn gem crafting sessions is worth making it tougher to do the Sharla/Riki cylinder production sessions? I recall the latter actually being more difficult. Once I had two high % cylinders, the gem making was pretty reliable....