

You can unlock this class by doing Zeon’s Hero Quest in Chapter 3.

Guardian Commander (Zeon): In terms of pure tanking, it’s hard to beat the Guardian Commander.You can solve this problem by equipping Brimming Spirit and Perilous Presence gems. The only downside to a Zephyr is that they may struggle to maintain Aggro. If you can boost your agility to levels where nothing can hit you, it’s pretty hard to die. Plus, you have this class by default via your six starting party members. Zephyr (Mio): This is one of the best defenders in the game, because it focuses on agility and evasion rather than tanking.Incursors are especially great with Chain Attacks, as landing critical hits with a boosted damage percentage late in a chain can wipe whole chunks off an enemy’s HP bar. We recommend you do this quest if you’re close to Level 40 though (explanation past the spoiler warnings). You can get this Class by completing Alexandria’s optional Hero Quest as early as Chapter 3 on the west side of the Fornis Region. Especially when it comes to taking down high-level enemies or Unique Monsters, this class can be very valuable even deep into the late game. Incursor (Alexandria): The Incursor is an Attacker class focused on landing critical hits.Once you level up the class later in the game, it can unlock a Master Skill that will have the Talent Gauge begin with a full-charge, with can pair up well with numerous other classes. The Flash Fencer is great for general use against regular enemy mobs, because the Flash Fencer has a Class Skill that boosts damage in the first 30 seconds of battle. It’s an all-around fantastic addition to any party line-up, and it has several skills for boosting damage done in various situations. Flash Fencer (Ethel): The Flash Fencer is the first class you’ll earn outside of your starting six you will get this in Chapter 3.While the default ones you have from the main 6 characters should suffice and fall back to (Swordfighter, Zephyr, Medic Gunner, Tactician, Heavy Guard, Ogre), here are some suggestions for the best ones to pivot to early and mid-game: Attacker You can mix and match depending on the extra hero you can recruit, but this would be the safest to use. Generally, you want 2 Attackers, 2 Defenders, and 2 Healers in your party. We have our picks in the paragraph below. You’d want to have both the hero and class inheritor in battle (as the hero class) to speed things up so that everyone can access the hero class.īasically, you want to unlock as many classes as quickly as possible, and then find your favourite. The more characters using that class in battle, the faster the affinity will grow. For example, Ethel’s Class Inheritor will be Noah.įor other characters, you’ll need them to build an affinity with the selected class just have them fight alongside other characters using the target class. This is the character that will immediately unlock the ability to use that hero’s class straight away, without any additional hoops to jump through. When you first recruit a hero to your cause, one of the main characters will be marked as their ‘Class Inheritor’. Each hero has a specific and unique class – and this can then be passed to your cast of playable protagonists. Heroes are entirely optional and must be recruited, however. However, you can have a seventh body on the battlefield, non-playable, by deploying a hero character to the fight. The core cast of Xenoblade 3 is just six characters, and each has a set class role that they fulfil that cannot be changed. Here’s a guide on the best classes and heroes you should recruit and acquire. That said, you will be overwhelmed by the majority of classes you get to use as well as the plethora of heroes you can recruit.

With a lush world to explore, a deep story to go through, and a pretty awesome combat and class-changing system to play around with, it’s a game that’s going to keep you busy for the rest of 2022. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is out for Nintendo Switch right now and it’s clearly 2022’s best de facto epic JRPG experience.
