Playing Xenoverse for the first time

The game is crazy balanced so you can run just about any team you want and still do fine. Except for letting Shulk and Mil being played by the AI. The AI just sucks at using those 2 but I've seen miracle happen.

The most important thing to know is that success in combat is very based on your level. You will literally miss all your attacks if you are 5 levels below the enemy.

IIrc, all timed sidequests in Alcamoth go away after the events of Mechonis Core, the timed quests in Refugee Camp go away when you start the reconstruction of Colony 6.
Exceptions are ones which are quests where you choose one or the other, like giving the love potion to the girl or the guy in Colony 9.

But like, aren't there some that go away before Mechonis Core?

I didn't fight the super boss but I sorta ignored the dragon before the final boss.

ignored the spike damage I mean

As far as I can remember there aren't. Maybe there are some outliers but like I said, they usually will only go after that event.

It's normal to start a new game + just so I can beat the really powerful enemies yeah? I was like only level 80 when I reached the end.

>use agility gems always to counter the shitty level scaling
>use arts haste and critical up gems to reach full the chain attack meter immediately
>keeping enemies in topple is all the battle system has to it so just apply topple arts in chain attack and keep doing the same thing over and over with Topple up gems
That's about as far as the games mediocre combat system goes

xenoblade's gameplay is fucking trash