Good guide. You make it seem like you need to sequentially craft the gems in order, but at least up to rank 6 you don't (Skipped from rank 2 to 6). I have no idea if this applies to latter gems, if it does it means one can just ignore crafting the rank 8 and 9 gem and just focus on the rank 10 to save a lot of time. If you try to craft a gem you already have it tells you already have it, but if you have a stronger gem and want to craft a lower levelled one for some reason it tells you that you already have a more powerful gem.

Absolute bliss when I found out that I only needed to craft once and they're usable on all party members.

As everyone has mentioned so far, the fact that you only have to craft it once is such a blessing. Grateful that this grinding mechanic isn’t sooooo much worse than it could’ve been

The Gem Crafting in this Game is Universally better than XC1DE & XC2 when you can only own one type & equip it on all party members it's incredible.

God this game feels like the perfect xenoblade game so far. You get a ton of variety from classes, and how you line up your arts for fusions. It feels like they took the blade system of 2 and went even deeper with it.

I find the shorten auto attacks is actually very good when on keves classes. A lot of them have stupid long cooldowns, so you spend a large amount of your time just auto attacking. With that in mind, the faster auto attacks charge your master arts faster. So it results in a playstyle where you can spam low auto agnian arts while waiting for keves arts and by the time your keves are up, you can do a full round of fusion arts because you build your agnian arts quickly. All the while your auto attacks are actually useful when combined with certain skills and accessories resulting in everything being useful. You can legitimately use like 2-3 of the same agnian arts by the time a keves art comes up and still have another of that agnian art prepared for a fusion art. So while waiting for your keves, you used 3 agnian arts and then a fusion. Don't sleep on that gem, makes combat feel more fast paced.

The one thing I want to add to the farm section is that you can respawn the killed mobs by engaging another mob in the area and hold the - button to 'give up'. You will respawn at the last waypoint and the mobs will be respawned. No need for long load times while porting back and forth between regions to respawn them. Otherwise a great guide as always, thank you very much!

Something worth noting about steady striker and lifesaving expertise, they are worded slightly differently. Lifesaving expertise increases the RATE of revival, which is different from reducing the TIME it takes (Vice versa for steady striker) For lifesaving expertise, 45% rate increase (level 10) translates to about a 31% decrease in time taken to revive. For steady striker, a 40% decrease in attack interval means a 67% increase in attacks per second. This also means that the latter has INCREASING RETURNS (opposite of diminishing returns) the higher level it is. Not that it changes too much, but it’s a different angle

I'm happy gems are back. And while the effects are less varied than in 1, I deeply appreciate the simpler method and being able to use them across everyone

Dope guide ! I know I'm late but I have two things to add : 1 Manana's cooking is not the best item boost (35%) but li prison's cantine food (40%). Manana's cooking is always weaker than bought food, but it also has multiple bonuses where bought food only offers one. 2 If you are farming a specific monster type and need to reset the area, you have two ways of resetting : moving to another region and back, or dying. Dying is by far the fastest option when you consider this little trick : Start a fight with any ennemy (just unsheathe, you don't even need to start attacking), hold down the minus button, and give up the fight. That will effectively "kill" you and reset the whole area, respawning all ennemies and materials.

Soothing Breath is actually pretty great. I believe it stacks if multiple characters have it and participate in a revival, as I've seen tanks being revived at full HP a few times. It's especially useful if you run a party with only one tank, since healing that tank up normally would take ages.

I appreciate these guides a lot, man. I'm mostly amazed that you've gathered this much info. The game has been out for three days for crying out loud!

Gems are actually very cool features. Just wish we had more to choose from.

Not watching any of these since I only was able to get the game today and don't wanna look at anything till I've seen a good amount for myself, but have been liking all of them because they're always super useful resources for the community!

Thanks! Looking forward to that class tier-list and other videos!

I appreciate all your time and effort you are putting into these guides Enel.

I'm suprised you got through this game so quickly. I hope you didn't hinder your experience to get us these great guides so fast

I just completed the game... And oh my god i have never cried so hard. From happiness, to nostalgia, to realisation, to saddness. This game really does have it all...

Really love your guides and would LOVE to see a video soon of you going over your current class and accessoires setup

Just when i was looking online for gem guides you upload one l!! Thank you for your guides and keep up the good work enel!!

wake up babe, new enel vid dropped

Very informative as always. I’ll def be keeping up with the quality guides for this game in the future as some of the systems can be… robust.

Dude thank you so much. I have been trying to find a good guide for gems and I found yours and it helps me so much plus a bonus you do it without any spoilers! You have a new subscriber!

I had a heart attack when I found out about gems. Doing the grind in XC1 was painful, aux cores weren't as bad but I'm glad they streamlined the whole process this time

Thank you Enel. Another useful guide.

Well made thank you. Quick simple and to the point.

Absolutely killing it with these videos, thank you for these

For reference on critical damage, at least from my limited testing (only at chapter 4 so far, with most of the possible classes I believe unlocked), using flash fencer's side attack skill, you could pretty easily figure out the base critical damage bonus, since you can get a very consistent crit rate and such. I BELIEVE that the base multiplier is now 50%, but I could very well be wrong because fights can be a bit of a sensory overload.

No stream Tap to retry. My favorite Enel video.

Loving the guides! Good stuff sir

Another day another helpful video by Enel

Thanks for the guide. Gems sound pretty cool in this game.

All of the mechanics in this game feel so polished, you can really tell they put a lot of work into improving old systems and making them feel new! I'm pumped as hell to finally have a few days off work to really sink my teeth into all of it, I keep realizing how little I've done compared to how massive the game must be.

After I finished Chapter 2, I thought myself: "I wonder if Enel makes Guides for this Game now, because I dont know which gem I should use for the characters" and now I see that you make them xD

A fun fact that I learned is that if you set up a character to have any two subsequent action during a Burst/ Smash combo, they will both activate. However your main art has to be first in that line. I.E. Noah uses a break art and you as Taion have a topple art you can fuse with a daze art, if the fusion is use the enemy will be in the daze state. This however only work if the topple is apart of the main class arts so Seraph’s Crimson Lance with Medic Gunner’s Myopic Screen.

Best part about new XB is Enel. Brings.back memories of XB2 watching Enel trying to understand what the fuck I'm doing in combat

Yes finnaly i was having trouble with this thank you Enel!!

My collector's edition copy still hasn't arrived and im just listening to all my friends having a blast playing this game like arrrrrghhhh But you can bet once it finally does get here I'll be checking out your guides! They're always top quality ^_^

One small QoL improvememnt I've noticed about xc3 is inventory management. So much more simplified and streamlined

can't wait for more of your videos

thank you enel i’m stalking your channel for every single video

Thanks for the guide! An observation: I've used Soothing Breath early game and it seems to actually increase the revival HP by additive percentage points rather than a multiplicative percent. I have on a 22% effect and characters are reviving with about 40% of their health rather than the typical critical HP. Your point about reviving with no aggro though is well-taken. Could still be useful if a tank is carrying a Nopon Doll!

This is literally the baseline for how all JRPGs should approach their "equipment" upgrade system. The limiting factor that makes you think about what to use where is not the availability of the gems themselves persay, but rather the slots your characters have to equip them. You can have all 20 Gems at level 10, but you still have to carefully consider which ones you but on which characters based on their stats, and class. Fantastic system.

lmao looks like I succeeded in shielding myself from discussions and spoilers so well that I completely missed the early release announcement wtf? this is a treat, I'm going to go buy the game and come back here when I'm done/stuck

Something else that might be useful for burst farming(once you beat the game) is leveling yourself down, as this’ll let the enemies last longer so you can get more combos on them

I really prefer how the original game handled Gems a lot more. It was one of the most interesting parts of customising my characters but I do appreciate how you only need to craft each gem once. That's a great feature for this version of the system.

After 3 days I have 27 hours in this game and you’re already making guides, this is about what I expected.

Great work as always!

Gem Crafting Guide > Doesn't tell you where to get any materials, great guide!

Thanks again for the guide (side note my whole team is now strapped with dual guns)

That system is so satisfying, nice video

Keves arts really got the short end of it with cooldowns. Even accounting for their reliability in situations with evasive, blocking, and reaction-inflicting enemies, it just doesn't make up for all the ways you can make Agnus arts charge faster, and their effective cooldown times end up way longer on average.

My favorite thing (and im sure ive probably screwed myself in some way by spending some of them) is how you can bypass the item check with nopon coins. I don't mind grinding/searching for monster drops every now and then when there's a lull in the story, but I always hated grinding gem parts/aux core materials in the other 2 games when I just want to play the freaking game. Plus right now I have to be real careful looking up anything since there's already spoilers so I'm pretty much in the dark on certain item drops/locations and stuff. I still think that as of now i prefer xenoblade 2 across the board gameplay/character/storywise, but im also just starting chapter 4 so im hoping it all comes together. The only major thing i hate about this game is how restrictive it is with forcing you to go certain ways/do certain obvious tutorials instead of letting me explore and play, even going as far as disabling me from skip traveling for other stuff. The other 2 did it on occasion so it wasn't too awful, but it feels like I'm hitting invisible walls WAY too frequently in this game. I do think I like 3 over 1 though, combat feels a lot more advanced and fun. I'm just hoping I'll be able to cancel arts into arts soon since that was my favorite part of 2.

So I found out if you’re using vaidi in the chain attacks, and you’re versing a metal character he gets a 50 point bonus. So if you get a Oroborus ending he gets refreshed and he has like 140+50+99 with the Point limit+ The points that heal normally generate after doing the attack. What I just said was an example but I got a insane number of 387 tp….. @enel

Thanks for the video! Really helpful

I've been playing on Hard Mode, and running Valdi and 2 other healers with his class with Soothing Breath has saved my ass on many early boss fights. Soothing Breath at around level 2-4 stacks with the passive Rescue License skill, such that if you have 2 healers running that setup reviving anyone, they're basically guaranteed to get up at full health. When the boss kills your tanks and starts bopping your squishies in one hit with their basic attacks, this strategy makes it possible to recover the fight. 3 of those healers and 3 tanks makes a party that just won't stay dead. And you only need one attacker, especially if it's Eunie as a Full Metal Jaguar. Later on, when you get more classes for your healers, the opportunity cost of this strategy becomes too high to ignore, and you get other classes that can compete. But up until about level 35 or so, this ended up being my go-tto strategy for tough boss fights, when the low-rank classes I was levelling just weren't cutting it.

Can you tell us where can you find the break brooch? Thanks for these guides! I'm really looking forward to the video on useful accessories and their locations. Also does anyone know where you can find the gust bracelet? It lets your master arts start off already charged at 95%--I looked in my inventory and saw it but have no idea where I got it from. Thanks!

For Soothing Breath, it may have just been the classes I've used but so far I've noticed that it seems to be reviving with the percentage of max HP. The wording is a bit weird but I've slapped it on all my healers so far and they've consistently been reviving with around 30-40% HP so far (I have like level 4 gem for reference).

The Lifesaving Expertise gem is also really useful for early hardmode at least (where I am), since your party will die a lot earlygame and one of the healer role actions to fill up talent gauges is to revive allies. Since I found waiting for healers to refill talent gauge with just AOE effects and other role actions early to be kind of unreliable, combining the base Medic Gunner talent art and Lifesaving Expertise provided me with some much needed heals much faster in some earlier unique boss fights in hard mode.

Nice. Can't wait to get my copy soon. I know I'm going to cry a ton.

Very cool Enel!!

Was wondering how long it would take for a XC upload since the game dropped. Nice to see you didn't keep us waiting at all, with the great quality to boot as well.

For the Empowered Combo gem, do you equip that on characters you dont actively control? With so much happening on screen, I can't tell if non controlled characters attack cancel.

Is Empowered Combo (damage boost when cancelling) worth running on the AI-controlled characters? It's amazing for player-controlled, but I'm not sure if the bots are cancelling enough (or at all) for it to be worth it.

Hey Enel, I know a couple others have talked about Soothing Breath, but just wanted to share the exact mechanics since I took the time to test. By default, characters revived will have 15% HP. Soothing Breath increases thes amount additively, so e.g. at level 10 characters revive with 15+45, or 60% total health. What's more, this effect seems to be additive if you have multiple characters working on the same revive, so you can potentially revive someone at full HP if they both have Soothing Breath equipped (15+45+45). It's actually IMO one of the best gems to use as a crutch early on since combined with Livesaving Expertise you can very quickly res multiple characters to high health as long as you have healers available. I'm extrapolating from my own tests with the level 4 gem (I spent all my gold coins on Analyze Weakness so no lv 10) but that seems to be how it works.

Thank you for the guide!

You should put out a (very brief) guide telling people they don't need to master every class with every character. You don't ALWAYS need a character to be learning something new. .....why did I put my whole team into classes they have D affinity with? Why? It took so long to master them. They aren't even using any of those skills or artes in their current loadouts. Why?

I manged to find an item list on a site called unbuffed. No idea how complete or accurate it is, but it's had everything I've looked for so far in the first couple of regions.

Do the buff duration gems apply to field application skills?

There's definitely some good utility for the debuff strengthening gem over the debuff lengthening one. Give it to Taion or Eunie, and when you use their chain attack orders, the enemy defense or ether defense drops will be greater and give you some huge numbers.

Haste and Double Attack gems seem pretty broken for Agnus Arts which have Break and Topple, for example.

This was a really informative guide but which gems are the best/most impactful?

great video! your channel is on fire!! a bit bummed to see that most of the gems aren't really all that useful.

I have to ask a question I'm trying to find a quest location in Xenoblade 3 it's in the second area in a cave I'm trying to figure out how to get to that cave and I'm running in a circle I just can't find the passage into it

Hey early side of the game here would you recommend I use nopon or is it better to find the materials

So smash doesn't give more enemy drops now? Only burst? What's the benefit now of smash, aside from the launch prior effect making enemies take more dmg?

Great video. One question though, can your teammates AI use attack canceling at all? if not, gems benefiting from it would be useless for them (like the Empowered Combo).

Thnx Enel - quick question so the goal is just to get lvl 10 gem of each kind and you’re set to mix and match on any char? Love the video

Does the AI cancel autos/arts? Are they able to take advantage of empowered combo?

I'm pretty sure I crafted some gems to level 3, but in the Character screens I can only select level 2 gems. Are gems tied to character levels somehow??

I still haven’t bought it yet I need to but I might just wait until the collector edition gets another run keep up the videos enel

I don't think you mentioned this so imma ask it here, how does the arts cancel buff work with AI? Do the AI cancel their arts so all their arts get the arts cancel buff or no. I we dunno for sure yet, how'd it work for 2?

This game is so cracked as f Combat is so much fun, I can barely keep up with my party setup not in a bad way but because I want to try everything out. Cant wait to finish the story to dwell deep into all guides

Streamlined and effective. Also X required ludicrous amounts of materials because Augments went to level 20 not just level 10. Scale the materials required here to just get to 10 and raise that to 20 and I wonder how high it'd be lol. Ah well. Still anxiously waiting to dedicate the next month's of my life to this game lol

Thank you this was awesome!!

Ah yes, the KOS-MOS grind, good memories lmao

Quick question: Is there any good reason to save up on gold nopon coins rather than throwing them at max tier gems immediately?

Do ai art cancel enough to make use of the gem or is it only worth running on the character you plan on controlling

Does the AI cancel or should the art cancel gem just be used on the player controlled character?

Does the AI do arts cancel for the art cancel gem to be useful to AI controlled party members?

Where is that place in the erythia Sea with the level 95 enemies that shows at the end?

I was just checking for a video

I'm planning a New Game + playthrough and I wanna know if there's any way that you can level down the gems for extra difficulty since it doesn't appear that you can do it in the main game

Should I spend my gold nopon coins on getting high level gems early on? At the point I am in the game that is the only thing I can spend them on, but I'm guessing there will be something later on for them too and am wondering if it is worth saving them up.

Where can I find legendary Krabble Shield Pincer? I've been trying to farm it off Househunter Carly, but the drop rate is abysmally low

So you know how you can use nopon coins to make gems if you don’t have materials I have been hording my coins and I want to know if they cap at 99 also I hope the challenge mode in the upcoming dlc waves gives coins for rewards

There are accessories to start the fight with master arts ready. And I'm pretty sure taht high level enemies only drop very high tier materials. I spent ages farming Piranhax for a specific tier two item and only the mid tier level ones would drop the item. The early ones wouldn't and the endgame ones would only drop the most rare type of item. Basically it's a nightmare fo farm for material in this game :D Fun.

Is empowered combo recommended on the AI characters or just the characters we control? Does the AI cancel attacks?

So are gems worth using gold noon coins on? The trader doesn't really offer much for them and I'm not sure what else to use them for.

Do we know if the AI will cancel into arts? Is it worth putting Empowered Combo on someone I won't control?