The BEST Way To Beat The Archsage's Gauntlet? - Xenoblade 3

hello today I will be talking about what I believe to be a contender for the best and easiest build that can complete the gauntlet on any difficulty so I just thought that I should say that this video contains spoilers for future deemed and the Mystery awards that you get for completing that and of course I'll be showing the spoiler Heroes for completing base Xenoblade 3. so this will be showing pretty much everything that can be considered spoilers so if you haven't been the game yet please do and now back to the video along with that build I will be covering the two other strategies that are less good but follow the same idea with that being Auto attacks now I know it sounds crazy that you're able to beat the gauntlet without even needing to use any Arch but that's what I plan to show off in this video after all three builds have been talked about I'll be showing the simplified build graphic that I've made to show them off easier so for most of the video it will just be footage of the gauntlet but before any of that I need to talk about what the heck The Gauntlet actually is the gauntlet is a roguelite game mode in Xenoblade 3 where you venture Into the Depths while acquiring emblems that give you stat boost and other fun effects such as when team includes three plus nakave Essie slash agnews boost their attack and party launch charge build effect increases per person okay well maybe not that one anyway outside of the gauntlet you can buy permanent emblem upgrades for blue nope on Stone which can be obtained from completing stages of The Gauntlet these upgrades are simple and bring the emblem up to level 3 when you first buy them instead of level 1. in this case level 3 is going to be emblem effect plus two because the first level just doesn't have a plus after the emblem name along with emblems in The Gauntlet shop you can also buy Heroes and heroes are the only form of party members in the gauntlet so no more or Boris Pals the Heroes that you find in the gauntlet get access to all of their Arts outside of chain attacks so it doesn't matter which art you give them but the accessories matter a lot and sometimes make or break a gauntlet run right now I'm going to cover the basics and hero accessories for the gauntlet and of course these aren't law and a lot of these accessories can be changed around for certain builds but for 90 of builds these are the types of accessories I would throw onto Heroes depending on their arts and role type for anyone with a break art I would equip a break brute onto them for the best use of combos break brooches can be gone from defeating or bursting blazing Carlos in the Syria hovering reefs for anyone with a topple or launch Arc you can give them a top loader launch duration boosting accessory and these accessories can be gone from buying a tyrant ring from the blue note on Page in the line of Challenge and for a platinum belt you just need to defeat Phantom strata in the Asia region and the map is right here a very good accessory for every single hero can be the shield belt The Shield belt lowers the damage received by 30 percent but also lowers the damage dealt by 50 percent since Heroes aren't going to be the main source of damage with of course a few exceptions this is an amazing accessory that will allow Your Heroes to live a lot longer The Shield belt can be bought from the blue nopon page in the line of challenge another fantastic accessory that you can put on almost any hero and have them succeed is going to be the Fraternal badge it will give that hero a 50 our recharge buff whenever Defender isn't being targeted and if you aren't playing a defender class you're going to be having a go most of the time so they get a free 50 R recharge buff the Fraternal badge can be bought from the blue nopon page in the land of challenge now for the role specific accessories for healers I recommend any type of healing percent buff so if the best Solace rings but most likely either the circle of all knowing or the circle it of Enlightenment the circlet of all knowing can be bought from the red nopon page in the land of challenge next for healers is the immaculate necklace which will boost the effectiveness of their healing by 22 percent which will give them a massive boost to their healing the immaculate necklace can be gone from defeating Taskmaster imperion right here the last accessory that you can use for healers that give them a direct buff is a Masha accessory which I know the scary monster which uses RNG named Masha is required for an accessory but if you do want to get this accessory it is only a 0.85 chance to get it from the color type accessories so I don't recommend you get this accessory and just settle with either using an HP percent accessory like the titanium Temple guard which can be bought in the land of Challenge from the red nopon page or the previously mentioned Shield belt now with Defender Heroes there isn't really anything special all there is to give them is The Shield belt and an HP percent accessory although the defender Heroes Have a reaction Arch so giving them the duration extender accessories is always a good call and you might be asking what about Monica is because she has smash which can't have its duration extended into that I say don't use Monica ever none of that's out of the way the attackers probably have the most leeway when it comes to choosing accessories because some of them will want Shield builds and others will want fraternal badges or you could just run both and call a day with some builds you will want to have some of your attackers run the memory locket accessory which allows them to revive allies as if they were healers you should only really use this one if you're planning on not running any healers only a single memory locket can be obtained each run of the game from the Cascade hook that can be found right here of course when running any attacker here you can give them an attack percent accessory which can be found in the land of Challenger from the red nopon page I do have Rex carrying a set of mercury Rings because of his insane crit rate but that's just an exception now that we're done with covering hero accessories let's talk about what heroes are good this isn't going to be a super comprehensive guide on the heroes but I like to look at this tier list when deciding what a Heroes to bring because you almost always want to play into your character's race and their class rule type because if you can stack both focus and Zeal emblems you will almost always do crazy damage I will go more in depth than just showing a tier list than not really going into it but don't worry later I will be saying what here is to use and why when we get into the actual build for starters I will be talking about the save version of a martial artist build the reason that this build is safe is because we bring along some healers and the kit itself is focused around itself and not the party I recommend building this on a cavesi character and specifically Noah because he has the best mix of stats but honestly it doesn't matter if you pick lonzer uni we don't care about art right now because we're going to just be Auto attacking so we can just skip those uh for master skills you need to have Critical Strike which will make your Critical Hits more effective and this master skill comes from the flash fencer class next is Ultimate Qigong and this will allow you to pierce defense which without going into too much detail will just allow you to hit a lot harder and this master skill comes from the thumb and church class lastly we have I for weak points which for every hit becomes a higher critical rate buff up to doubling our crit rate and since we're going to be Auto attacking non-stop this will add up quick this master scale is from the in cursor class moving on to gems and I feel like this part is pretty self-explanatory but I'll cover it anyway first we have analyzed weakness which similarly to Critical Strike will just make our crits hit harder next is steady Striker and this is very important to this build because it will allow us to Auto attack 40 faster at level 10 and lastly we have double strike which will give us a 40 chance to have our Auto attacks hit twice which is very nice now moving on to accessories we have saturnian rings which is pretty obvious for an attacking build because it boosts our attack stat by 40 percent it can be found right here in the cadencia region next we have the arcadeus letter fan which boosts our HP and attack stats by 30 so we hit even harder and live a bit longer this can be gone by getting an S rank on every single challenge the rxh has this can be done on any difficulty so even easy will work if you don't have this accessory then a warped white brooch will work to substitute for it until you get the flower fan lastly I have this amazing Masha accessory which boosts Auto attack damage by 125 and gives 11 flat crit rate this accessory had a 0.004736 chance being crafted though so if you don't want to try to go for it I understand and you can substitute for a violent Stone which is just a worse version of that accessory the balance Stone can be gone by defeating unobtrusive Iggy right here in the cadencia region all of these accessories can be replaced by a better version of a monster accessory but once again you have a higher chance to be struck by a lightning so if you just want to go with the legendary variant of those previously State items go for it so now that you have the build made we need to cover Heroes and in the order that I recommend prioritizing getting them but the order that you actually get them in doesn't really matter but if you have a choice between two you'll know which one to buy in the first two stages of The Gauntlet you'll always get Heroes for free and if you don't get the ones you want then you can hold the minus button and retry to get two Heroes you need for the starting two Heroes I recommend getting Mia and Masha because Mia has amazing healing capabilities along with her class skill abundant oceans reducing the damage you take thus letting you live longer Masha is for her class skilled beaming Edge which boosts critical damage by another 50 percentage points and boosts critical rate by 20 I feel like it's pretty easy to see why Masha is an amazing hero to pick for the gauntlet with her utility involving critical hits the next hero that I recommend getting would have to be Melia Melia has another party affecting skill in essence of ether essence of ether boosts damage dealt by the whole party by 30 and goes into the out of the pool which just means that it's not actually that crazy but an extra 30 is always good it also drops the enemy's block rate by 50 percent which can be pretty useful against certain enemies Melia also has a tough alert which will allow enemies to be combo locked which is always good so with Melia you'll be dealing more damage overall and she'll be contributing to focus attackers and capacity Zeal so she's really good for this build next up is rikun Manana but mainly Riku in The Gauntlet Recon banana have the unique trait of belonging to both cavesi and agne races this allows you to have them no matter what and have them contribute to Zeal Rika Manana also have a break guard which allows them to stop the enemy from getting Arts down might one shot although if I'm being honest dying isn't even an issue because with the rescue to attack emblem you then come back and hit harder than before you don't even need to wait for the martial artist Auto attack skill to come back because for some reason that skill doesn't get reset on deaths or through stages back to Riku and Manana though similarly to Melia they contribute to both focused attackers and cavesi Zeal which at Max is a massive damage buff the next hero is Ethel with Ethel cavesi Zeal will finally activate because she is the fourth kevis member Ethel is also capable of dealing massive damage and even utilizing smash which will allow combo to attack to become useful besides providing good damage along with being emblem fodder for both focused attackers and kevis Zeal but like the other Heroes she isn't anything special but that doesn't mean you don't eat her her damage cannot be understated but in the end we'll be doing most of the damage so we only really need her to fuel the big attack emblems lastly we have Rex Rex is probably the most utility in the game with having big damage a top alert and even a launch art while he doesn't boost kavesi Zeal it barely matters I've had some runs where he manages to out damage me and take ago and if he does take ago and die the rescue 2 attack emblem gets more use which is always a good thing Rex is pretty self-explanatory and why he's good is since he doesn't directly contribute to our damage as much as it get his attacker though he is last on the priority list now with hero is being covered I should say that the order you get them in doesn't really matter and as long as you get them you'll be fine in some of my runs I've been unable to get that is out years and had to make do with what I had an example of this is actually in the footage that's been in the background for most of this video so far I take Instagram Manana which did hurt my survivability but as you can see it didn't matter too much because I was able to work around it and since she was still a kevis attacker she still allowed me to Output good damage with focused attackers and cavesi zeal moving on from Heroes now for a bit we can talk about the emblems the emblems that you need are really simple to understand but let me break it down to an even easier level if you see one of these take them if you see one of these three take this one and here's my easy to follow tier list of what to take pretty much skip all of these ones and I recommend you buy all of these whenever they show up after stage 70 I recommend you start building a money bag Stacks because a Max Level and points it is just a six times damage boost to your damage and that's pretty nice if you're wondering on how to get a lot of points to buy things or contribute to money bags I always recommend using a launch charge when you're about to defeat any enemies with high values these enemies are lucky monsters such as pepitos or autos and also bosses every 10 stages there are bosses that give you a lot of points so doubling them is always nice if you use bonus time and defeat every boss with it you will be receiving up to 100 or even 2 000 extra points this is somewhat reliant on your no KO bonus and other score emblems but regardless if you ask me that is a lot of points other emblems that you need are obvious and if you don't have some of them unlocked from the blue note on page just try to get through Pro easy Gauntlet first the 50 health is really nice for first clear and also this will help you get used to the using the build as it is a bit funky to get used to with all the auto attacks and launch charge timings I have some small strategies that I've found in the gauntlet with emblems that may help you understand what emblems to use M5 but they're nothing super in depth but they should apply to almost all built in the gauntlet first we have the chain attack utility and pretty much we just buy refund chain along with the attack up after use emblem then just cancel the chain attack immediately this will give us the tag bonus from the attack up after use emblem but also give us a good chunk of our chain attack back in other builds you might want to actually use Arts but here it would actually hurt us if we did Arts because then our Auto Tech frequency would drop and so we hit enough again another small thing with emblems are the curses a lot of them will say things like lowers Max HP by X percent and those really don't matter once they drop util 100 less Max HP you will be at 1 HP assuming you haven't picked up a single other Max HP boosting emblem I always recommend buying the curse emblems as curse to attack and curse to recharge are amazing even if we aren't doing art there's only one curse I would recommend skipping out on this build just for safety reasons and that would have to be a focus roll Unity we really want to keep Nia's art recharge up so dropping it would not do us any favors I think that covers it for emblems with that build and I think that's all I have to cover for that build because it's so easy to use thankfully the next build is almost identical so let me go into that the ultra offensive high damage output Auto attack build that I personally find the most fun to use is almost the exact same build as a previously mentioned one but we swapped out the master skill I for weak points with beaming Edge which is a master skill from the lapidaris class while that may hurt your crit rate a little bit I do believe it's worth it considering we aren't bringing Masha along with us and you may be wondering who we're bringing it we aren't bringing Masha and to that I say canvas attackers plus one Eggman but don't don't worry about him I'm not going to lie the order does not matter here but I do recommend getting Melia in the first two stages and maybe Riku and Manana for breaking but it actually doesn't matter the heroes we are going to want are Melia Ethel Rico and Manana Triton sagiri and Rex the amount of dams we build up from these six Heroes will be insane and will allow anyone to clear the gauntlet on any difficulty almost everything still applies from the last build but now you can take Focus rule Unity if you want because that is a lot of recharge you're going to get for seven attacker classes the main thing with this build that is different from the last is that we definitely need absorb HP this one emblem will either be the reason your run lives or dies we are doing so much damage that we can pretty much out heal any healers even if we had any and we shouldn't die unless we get hit by 60 000 damage move from an enemy and if that does happen you may be wondering if we're just screwed because there aren't any healers to revive us but you simply equip Your Heroes with memory lockets and a shield belt so they shouldn't be dying and they can revive you there really isn't much else to say about this because I was going to cover it all here but the first build kind of covered it but now we're moving on to the final build and I promise it's not another martial artist build it's Zephyr surprisingly [Music] now you may be wondering how the heck does this ever have any auto attack potential and I know the title is a bit misleading now with this build but we have to use a stand search but the other two builds didn't use any art so I think it's fine Speed Demon is the single art that you have to use if you want to make this build work you can fuse it with Shadow eyes so that you get an attack buff but it doesn't really matter we're going to be doing a very funny Invasion build and I know it may sound similar to another Vision build as commonly used in the element but I promise it's completely different because we're using an acne in class I know how crazy this build is completely built around the accessories as they Supply us with most of our evasion the way that evasion is counted is as a separate stat and Agility while agility is compared to the enemies dexterity to see if you will be hit the evasion stat is a completely different thing and if it says that you have a 10 chance to evade something like the tactician Master Shield inevitable evitability you have a flat 1 in 10 chance to not be hit which is incredibly broken the character that we are going to be using is Mio because of the weapon stat increase she gets from using Zephyr and the only art we care about is Speed Demon Nothing Else Matters the master skills that we want are after weak points Critical Strike and ultimate Qigong the exact same skills as the first safer martial artist build and for the same reasons crit damage and crit rate and then defense piercing it's pretty simple the gems are going to be analyze weakness double strike and steady Striker the exact same gems from the other two builds now we can finally move on to the different things accessories we are using the metal foot protector which gives us 22 percent evasion when Auto attacking so pretty much all the time the metal foot protector can be gone from defeating hornbo Dante who is right here in the Sierra hovering reefs the next accessory is a feather mizonga and will give us a 27 percent chance to evade and one under 30 health this accessory is really good because being a defender class we inherently have really good bulk and as ever especially has really good ether Bolt the feather mazanga can be gone from defeating gracious Titania who is right here in pentalis the next accessory is going to be a Masha Auto attack accessory or vinyl Stone if you don't have one so with those accessories alone we have a 49 chance to evade all attacks which is pretty good but we can do better with speed demon we go up to a 79 chance for fatal attacks which is amazing odds but we can get another 20 from Miyabi because of her party wide skill Swift song this skill will give the entire party 20 chance to evade and 20 chance to hit no matter what in this build and a lot of other builds Miyabi is amazing for her supportive capabilities with this skill alone so with all those Vision increases that leaves us at 97 evasion which isn't actually 99 of Asian but I couldn't find anywhere with the max of agent stat is so I'm just going to zoom it's like Xenoblade 2 where it's 97 percent or it could even be 90 because it's xenoblade3 but I don't know but what I do know is that this bill has cleared hard Pro and my knowledge is the only Defender to do so so it does work the Heroes that you want for this build are a bit strange but they work in order priority we need Miyabi Miyabi silk song allows us build to work so she's an absolute necessity in this build and you should always get her in the first two stages next is Nia and she provides two utilities first she's a neon so we get more anine's deal but she also helps us stay alive if we do get hit she's the best pure healer in the game and her being a mean really helps us out here after that the order doesn't matter because they all provide some sort of utility those four Heroes being Maja Rex Alexandria or Riku and Manana and shulk that's probably the order I would grab them in if you do come across too but it doesn't matter too much Masha is amazing for crit utility as previously stated Alexandria Enrique and Manana are interchangeable as they both count towards agnesia and both have a break art if I had to choose though I would probably choose Alexandria as she has higher damage output than Rico and Manana shulk is a bit of an oddball but without an actual agne defender in The Gauntlet we are stuck with him he has good utility with armor Veil and a break guard but I mostly chose him for the little increase of focused Defenders that we get because we need as much HP as we can get in case we do get hit Rex is easy to understand as he does good damage and is agnium thus he hears for this build and here are the emblems that are essential the other emblems are amazing besides these ones don't don't get those you can use the same strategies with the attack up after use as the other builds you use because it's just that good I recommend you get Focus attackers even though we aren't trying to attack your class just so that Rex can help output damage as this build can be a bit like clustered in the damage Department so something that I do need to mention though is how do you speed demon properly because the other two builds didn't use Arts but this one does so Speed Demon should only really be used on Boss stages or any stage after 100 and you use it immediately it might run out during a stage and if that's the case just use it after the enemy attacks and then spam R3 for a quick dash of the animation so that you can get back to Auto attacking these guides should be looked at as a stepping stone Into The Gauntlet it is a roguelike after all and the most fun you can have is finding out a way to beat it by yourself I simply put these builds out here because I had fun making them and Theory crafting them I do want to give a small shout out to someone that helped me Theory craft these builds and even help me test them and improve them so big Thanks goes out to just a moose I couldn't have done it without him and now that this video is pretty much over I implore you to subscribe if you like this video as this video took a while to make with finding all the accessory locations and doing the different Gauntlet runs leave any comments with suggestions if you want me to cover more things with the gauntlet as I have a lot of ways to clear the gauntlet and I have fun making these videos so thank you for watching until next time

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Published: Mon Aug 28 2023