The announcement of the upcoming July release of Monolith Soft’s game last week allowed fans to experience various mechanics like, the‘interlink which allows you to merge a duo of characters in order to transform into Ouroboros or, the class system which will surely be important in this Xenoblade Chronicles 3. This is our topic of the day. We will come back to the class system with all the information we have at the moment as well as its presence in previous games.
The class system in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Let’s start by reviewing what we know about classes in Xenoblade Chroniles 3. First of all, there are three that are rather classic and we can define them using the following terms:
- Attacker (DPS)
- Defender (Tank)
- Healer
If you are accustomed to RPGs or MMOs, these kinds of classes are basic and these are very often the roles you will have to play during your journey in the virtual world. In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, it’s the same, each character will have their role to play. We can therefore define the duos of characters according to their class, which would give us the list below.
- Attacker: Noah and Sena
- Defender: Mio and Lanz
- Healer: Taion and Eunie
Also note that the line designating an enemy’s target changes color depending on the targeted class.
- Red for attackers and healers
- Blue for defenders
Once we have defined the roles of each character, let’s take a closer look at each of the classes with the latest information provided by the Official Twitter of the license.
- Healers will be there to heal or offer considerable support.
- LAttackers can inflict significant damage depending on their position. Some attacks will only be really effective if you perform them from the side or behind your target.
- The defenders will be there to take the hits on behalf of their allies and thus protect them. There are several tank styles. The first is classic and he will only block the blows. The second is different sinceit relies on dodging attacks, not guarding.
This system is rather close to those of previous games although we can see more similarities with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 with the division of protectors into two categories. Support-wise, we don’t have a whole lot of additional information about them, so we can imagine that each of them will have its strong point. For example, Taion might excel in support while Eunie might be more there as a care expert or vice versa. Regarding the attackers, we find the style that the series has implemented since the first game released on Wii with a importance of placements to trigger your Arts.
The importance of classes in the Xenoblade Chronicles license
Before concluding on our subject by answering our question, we will see the importance of classes (or roles) in the other games of the license since, as we said, they were also present. Indeed, in the first opus, you had Shulk, Dunban, Fina or Melia who were there to do damage, Sharla for healing and Reyn and Riki for tanking although the Nopon can also serve as a status setter. In the second opus, things are different since your characters do indeed have a primary role, but depending on the Blades you equip them with, they can change class. Let’s not forget either Xenoblade Chronicles X which has its own system which looks much more like that of an MMO in offering basic classes then evolutions thereafter with a choice of specialization which you can find here if you are curious.
Now, does it really matter to have classes in Xenoblade Chronicles? If you’ve ever played one of the games mentioned above, you know it’s important to have defined roles and this is often the case in RPGs. Indeed, it is not enough to rush into the heap to get out of it. Also, let’s not forget that in Xenoblade we have the possibility ofattract many enemies who join your fights and the advantage of having a tank in this case is to avoid certain death. Mostly in licensed games, vYou will compose your team in a balanced way to allow you to manage the fights and she will very often composed of a healer, a tank and a DPS in order to avoid any misunderstanding and therefore, yes, having characters specialized in one area is important to survive and defeat your most stubborn opponents.
Classes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, capital or not?
As we have seen, it is important to play with different classes in a Xenoblade license game and the third installment of the trilogy will surely not escape this rule, not to mention that the class system is quite simple for first approaches, but that does not tell us that it will be more complex than that. Also, since Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will offer us a rich world full of enemies that you will surely have to beat by applying a certain strategy in order not to die on it, it is a mechanic that you will have to master and therefore, it will be essential to allow you to move forward as well as possible. Then let’s not forget that you may play a member of each class for a while unless all the characters are together quickly enough in the game, but to find out, you will have to wait for its release. In the meantime, we will conclude by saying that the classes are likely to be essential to allow you to make the most of the mechanics that will be offered to you then as shown in the image, below from the official Twitter, the defender pulls the enemy in to allow the attacker to take them by surprise while the healer stays behind the tank to keep them in good shape.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was announced during the last Nintendo Direct and we were able to discover some characters that will be present. We therefore suggest that you come back to the protagonists as well as the other participants in the trailer through a news item dedicated to their story.