i'm on chapter 8. i know the spoiler with indol that happens in this chapter, but it hasn't happened yet.
i basically just got mythra back + rex's final outfit and now have a ton of new sidequests, so i'll probably spend another 30 hours before advancing the story again. love how rex can use any blade now. i'm still playing as him, using a mythra crit heal build. right now i'm using roc and agate a lot, but mostly because they have smash and launch. i definitely want to swap out agate for a dark or lightning type, probably kora.
i always use morag as my tank, with finch (dodgetank ftw) and kasandra, and usually brighid. i'm thinking i want to give her a healer instead of brighid though, so that i can use zeke as my third guy full time. right now i have to swap in nia for some fights. i'm just waiting until i build up more blades and get more overdrive protocols.
for zeke i'm using pandoria, kos-mos, and zenobia, but i'm debating using zenobia with rex. not sure yet..
i still have maybe 8 or so rare blades to unlock, too. think i already have most of the best ones though, luckily
lol you say that, but Poppi happens to be the most broken Blade in the entire game besides Mythra. Getting her final form is totally worth it for the long-run, although you do have to sit through a ton of Tiger! Tiger! As for her design? Well, you just have shit taste :P
I played through sotc again plus completed the time trials. Doing the time trials gets you some really cool weapons and abilities. The prize for completing all the time trials was bomb arrows. These bomb arrows make Zelda's bomb arrows look like bottle rockets. The explosions are super loud and powerful. You can fire them really far away and the game will adjust the sound accordingly, as far as making a small delay between seeing the explosion and hearing it (light travels faster than sound). They also put acoustics into the game, so the explosions echo off of the surrounding cliffs realistically. I was having a lot of fun playing with the echoes. I found a couple of spots that were surrounded by cliffs on three sides and it sounded incredible. There's a lot of little details in this game.