Xenoblade Chronicles X The Repair Job Affinity quest guide
A few days back, we reported on The Repair Job, one of Xenoblade Chronicles X’s most egregious affinity quests. It’s particularly troublesome if you accept it as soon as it becomes available – at that point, you likely won’t have many probes placed around Mira. The first half of this quest is straightforward: talk to an NPC and then head to Starfall Basin to search the White Whale debris for specific parts. Once you return to the West Gate, you’ll be given the option to agree with Lin (the mechanical error should be fixed) or Tatsu (you want to stop working and get something to eat). The scene frames Lin as the one in the right, so we’d imagine many players chose to sympathize with her. And if you do, the quest becomes a bit more complicated.
After sympathizing with Lin, you’ll have to head to Oblivia to find four items – they’re marked as part of the quest, so finding them shouldn’t be a big issue. That said, if you accept this quest too soon you may not have even been to Oblivia yet. You also need 5 White Cometite, which is where this quest gets tricky. You can only get these from FN Sites 115 and 118 if a Mining Probe is installed, and even then it’s not instant. If you haven’t started this quest yet, we’d recommend putting Mining Probes at those locations and then doing a bunch of other quests in the meantime. Every so often, the probes will mine materials that will automatically pop into your inventory. With any luck, by the time you go to accept The Repair Job quest, you’ll already have mined the 5 White Cometite you need. But if you accept this quest too early, you’re stuck waiting around to randomly receive these 5 items and there’s no telling how long it would take to get them. That’s why we recommend doing other quests first and only taking on The Repair Job once you already have 5 White Cometite.
We have more guides coming up for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, so stay tuned for more. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the game, you can do so over at the official Nintendo eShop store page.
