As quickly as you unlock a category, use it

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 lessons are extremely customizable, as you may combine and match talents from different lessons into one synergized player-crafted construct. That stated, you want to unlock the flexibility to make use of a category with everybody in your celebration. Right here’s methods to make sense of the system.

[No major story spoilers will be discussed in this article.]

After assembly a brand new celebration member, you’ll inherently unlock a brand new class

So that is really vital to know. Usually, celebration members be a part of up as a part of the principle storyline, or via optionally available quests. To search out each potential celebration member (and thus, unlock all of the lessons), you’ll need to head towards ? icons on the map, which usually denote factors of curiosity like new quests: one thing meatier than a pickup or merchandise stash.

After ending their questline (which, for essentially the most half, have yellow quest markers in your quest menu to point out that they’re character associated), they’ll be a part of the celebration as a “hero,” and you’ll swap them in because the seventh member of your group. Right here’s the place it will get attention-grabbing.

New lessons can usually solely be utilized by one celebration member at first

When you unlock a brand new class, swap that particular core celebration member (one of many “fundamental six” that may’t be modified out) to that class immediately. What you’re doing right here is starting the method of “unlocking” the category for the remainder of the celebration.

Generally it will deliver you out of your consolation zone. In different phrases, a “profession healer” would possibly drastically shift over to a damage-dealer. That is OK! You solely have to maintain them in that position till you unlock that class for not less than one different individual, then they will swap again to their prior position or alter to one thing else.

The extra class factors [experience] you earn from utilizing that class, the quicker the category will unlock for everybody else. Sooner or later, you’ll earn sufficient for everybody on the workforce to make use of it, which opens up your choices of cross-synergy talents and extra construct choices.

To stage up lessons past the usual restrict of 10, you’ll want to complete a questline

These quests usually come later within the sport, typically all the best way within the again half. You’ll come throughout lots of them naturally, they usually’ll be labeled as character/hero quests (with the identical yellow quest marker in your quest menu). You’ve seen them earlier than within the JRPG enviornment: they cope with character-specific storylines and might shut out some arcs for visitor heroes.

You’ll even do a couple of of them as required by the principle story! Simply end them and you’ll stage up lessons to twenty, and unlock extra talents.

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