Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Best Gems For Each Role

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There’s a lot of room for customisation in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Sure, your party members are more or less set in stone, but how you develop them, how they act in battle, and how you deck them out, is all on you. This gives Xenoblade Chronicles 3 a staggering amount of depth.

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This is enhanced even further with the inclusion of gems. Gems are introduced fairly early on, and allow you to exchange resources for powerful passive bonuses to various attributes. Not all roles are going to find use out of every gem, but there are certainly some standouts that absolutely should be given some consideration when building your ideal Attacker/Defender/Support.

There are a lot of classes in Xenoblade, and that number is almost always on the rise. They crop up mostly from quests, and despite the quantity, they all fall into three broad categories. They are Attackers, Defenders, and Supports.

The names are fairly self-explanatory, and whilst there is some wiggle-room based on the exact class in question, the general rule is that Attackers deal damage, Defenders protect your party, and Supports heal and apply buffs.

For Attackers, you want to focus on your damage output as your primary goal. An increase to your raw damage stats and crit chance is nearly always a good idea, but there is room to dabble elsewhere.

There are so many great gems for Attackers that it is hard to boil them down to the very best. We have focused purely on damage here, but there are “safer” picks, such as Disperse Bloodlust or Ironclad.

Firstly, Steelcleaver is just straight damage. There is nothing special here - you simply hit harder. It’s a great, and obvious pick. All