Any% casual guide

Here is link to the guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12LsEomW0ria2o1nElTjTV4y2N9Q7b7ZGzy5rej5JBEo/edit?usp=sharing

FC 100% [Casual] Notes *Updated*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gIFK5y80QGbhwqRfLnI4L9wUTuttYsTcX3J_Fdi_7bw/edit?usp=sharing

Rerouted the current guide here, clearing up the post REX+ portion of the run as it was unoptimized and very confusing.

Future Connected 100% Casual Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12bgpk-vYCHm2J0Eu4SP0CLOz4MUa2WgFWQa4C_m0LHM/edit?usp=sharing

Not a "definitive for sure!" version, but it'll do.

Future Connected Any% Casual Notes

XCDE: Future Connected
Casual Any% Notes
Info from the Xenoblade speedrunning community
Compiled by ClassicRagu
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qbxWReff9l4wriCc_8NeDhNB3TzO2A8ASbcxhn39xyI/edit?usp=sharing

Notes
The Google Doc will always be the newest version. Use that if possible.
Make sure to change text speed to fast. This can be done before starting a run and only has to be done once.


Full Route
Menu: SWITCH TO CASUAL DIFFICULTY IN THE + MENU UNDER OPTIONS (You can press X to
quickly leave the menu)
Fight the 3 Volff enemies: Do the following menu at the beginning of the fight
Menu:
Melia 
Arts
Replace Mind Blast with Burst End
Replace Hypnotise with Spear Break
Replace Healing Gift with Starlight Kick
Replace Summon Aqua with Summon Ice (you can keep aqua for safety)
Switch Kino for Nene
Switch Melia for Shulk
Get Companions Cape STL and progress story
ST to Junks
Walk to Cragmaw Caverns
Get your first Ponsepctor, Tentoo, for viewing a cutscene
Talk to ||Evelen|| (to your left after walking through the cave)
Fight 3 Sardi
Talk to ||Evelen||
Get Zephyr’s Counsel STL
Collect morrow cobs
Get your second Ponspector, ||Evelen||
Get Xen’s Thoroughfare STL (Walk north from Evelen until you see a giant stone gate)
Do Scapular Lance Skip: https://youtu.be/VTkyHt0sw_4 
Get Quarry Colonnade STL
ST to Zephyr’s Counsel
Get Barouh Plaza STL (Just walk east and you will reach it)
Get Pillar Knoll STL (Ignore Dekadeka and go up)
Get Soltnar Seal Island STL (Follow the bridges)
Take the transporter
Talk to Drydry
Gather the 5 feathers
If you keep going to the left after talking to Drydry you will find them
ST to Main Entrance
Get your third Ponspector, Drydry
Kill the Fog Beast
Don’t Union Strike, it loses time in this fight.
ST to Xen’s Thoroughfare
Get Skybridge STL (walk straight, you will find it)
Progress story
ST to Pillar Knoll
Get Thulles Way STL (Drop down and continue east)
Get Gran Dell Ramparts STL (Further east)
Progress Story
Get Gran Dell Approach STL
Progress Story
ST to Soltnar Seal Island
Fight the Krabble Ponio
Do not battle soul from this fight forward (you may regret if you do)
Do not union strike.
ST to Grand Arch
Fight the Armu
Do not union strike.
ST to Skybridge
Fight Gael’gar 
Union strike as soon as possible on Gael’gar
Don’t union strike more than once, it loses time
ST to Grand Dell Approach (This is faster)
Talk to Gran Dell Militia 
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Talk to Gran Dell Militia
ST to Gran Dell Approach
Walk to Heroes Rest to the south and talk to Sarja
Ignore Radzam, the flag for getting the ether is set by Sarja
ST to Quarry Colonnade
Run through Quarry, avoiding enemies, and get Marga’s Weeping STL at the back, die
Collect High Ether
ST to Grand Arch
Progress Story
Menu:
Shulk
Arts
Monado Armor: 7 (There is a proposal to make this optional)
Back Slash: 7
Slit Edge: 7
Optional due to disagreements:
Light Heal: 6 and Shadow Eye: 6
or
Stream Edge: 7
Melia
Arts
Summon Bolt: 7
Summon Flare: 7
Spear Break: 6
Starlight Kick: 7
Nene
Arts
Sword Drive: 7
Last Stand: 5 (REPLACE LARIAT)
Upgrade any other aggro/gauge boosting art
You will now do 3 fights in a row. As there is conflict on the best way to fight these enemies, there will be no set way to fight them but just general suggestions. There will be options laid out for you, the option you choose for the first fight applies to future fights in the sequence. IE: Option 1 can only do Option 1. 
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Fight #1
Option 1: Fight this enemy with only arts and save your union strike for the next fight. Use Monado Speed to counteract Weakening Howl.
Option 2: Union strike the moment you get it
ST to Companions Cape
Fight #2
Option 1: Immediately Union Strike, everything will die pretty much immediately with a perfect
Option 2: Union strike the moment you get it, focus on the big spider
Alternate Option 1: Fail union strike inputs, kill the small ants to rebuild gauge. If you are lucky you can build enough union strike gauge for the next fight. 
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Fight #3
Option 1 & 2: Fight the deinos till you get Union Strike. Union strike the deinos and use arts for the rest
Alternate Option 1: Union strike the moment you get it, focus on the saurus. Arts the remaining health away
Alternate Option 1&2: Shadow Eye then Stream Edge as many vangs as you possibly can. Once the vangs are broken use Monado Cyclone to topple them. Union strike the deinos the moment you can.
ST to Main Entrance (Alcamoth)
Walk to the final fight (save in front of teleporter if you want for safety, most don’t do this anymore)
New Options, same thing as before
Additional Fog King Notes:
Erasing Mist removes all your buffs (excluding Melia’s elements), including Monado arts such as armor
Mist Charge gives a 50% attack bonus to Fog King’s next attack. This can be negated by using Monado Eater.
Fog King PT1
“Safe” method: Fight knights for union strike. Union strike Fog King and arts the rest.
Less “Safe” method: Only attack Fog King, union strike Fog King and arts the rest
Risky method: Only attack Fog King, union strike Fog King as much as possible
Fog King PT2
“Safe” and less “safe” methods: Union strike once the knights come out. Union strike whenever possible. Bait mist press away from your allies if possible, stand around fog king’s arms when it does this attack so you get pushed back to your allies.
Risky method: You have no union strike at the beginning, good luck. Union strike whenever possible.
Monado Speed: This strat has not been heavily tested and is not suggested at this time. Union strike once the knights come out. Use Monado Speed on whatever character is about to be hit with mist press by Fog King. Union strike whenever possible.
Changes
6/12/2020
Added more options in the final 4 fights
Added optional note on Monado Armour
Added Monado Speed to Mammut fight
Added sources
Removed optional early Ramparts
Replace Barouh Plaza -> Thulles Way with Pillar Knoll -> Thulles Way
6/15/2020
Added note for text speed
Added note to ignore Radzam during the ether quest
6/17/2020
Add X to setting difficulty to casual

Future Connected Ponspector% Casual Notes

XCDE: Future Connected
Casual Ponspector%
By ClassicRagu
Special Thanks to Vaxherd and Gren for help with various questions pertaining to the route
Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AHFgP_3A8SL-N_qJu2CoXE4u3VUfB288CDiUlunDLlc/edit?usp=sharing

Notes
The Google Doc will always be the newest version. Use that if possible.
Make sure to change text speed to fast. This can be done before starting a run and only has to be done once.

Junks→ Companions’ Cape
Menu: TURN ON CASUAL MODE!!!
Fight the 3 Volff enemies (do any team adjustments you want here)
Get Nawir Highland STL
Get Companions Cape STL and progress story

Companions’ Cape→ Soltnar Seal Island
ST to Junks
Walk to Cragmaw Caverns
Get your first Ponsepctor, Tentoo, for viewing a cutscene
Talk to Evelen (to your left after walking through the cave)
Fight 3 Sardi
Talk to Evelen
Collect morrow cobs as needed, you will not be back here
Get Zephyr’s Counsel STL
Get your second Ponspector, Evelen
Get Xen’s Thoroughfare STL
Do Scapular Lance Skip: https://youtu.be/VTkyHt0sw_4 
Talk to Nonona
Get Old Expedition HQ STL (walk past Nonona)
Get Quarry Colonnade STL
ST to Zephyr’s Counsel
Get Barouh Plaza STL (Just walk east and you will reach it)
Save Dekadeka and get your third Ponspector, Dekadeka (to the left as you enter the cave)
Get Pillar Knoll STL (Walk through the cave)
Get Thulles Way STL (Continue walking east after dropping down from Pillar Knoll)
Get Old King’s Testament STL (Turn left and hug the wall after reaching Thulles Way)
Talk to Setset
ST to Pillar Knoll
Fight the 3 quest Rhogul
Get Soltnar Seal Island STL
Take the transporter

Alcamoth -> Soltnar Seal Island
Talk to Drydry
Gather the 5 feathers
	If you keep going to the left after talking to Drydry you will find them
ST to Main Entrance
Get your fourth Ponspector, Drydry
Kill the Fog Beast

Soltnar Seal Island -> Gran Dell
ST to Xen’s Thoroughfare
Talk to Fofora (Behind you to the left)
Fight the 3 Kromar on the path to the right after going through the gate
	Bait them back a bit to make the run to Skybridge faster
Get Skybridge STL (walk straight, you will find it)
Progress story
ST to Xen’s Thoroughfare
Talk to Fofora
ST to Xen’s Thoroughfare
Get your fifth Ponspector, Fofora (Go back the way the Kromars were blocking
Talk to Hekasa (Backtrack from Fofora until you can go up a slope, go up said slope)
Get Cloudtop Lookout STL
Get Abaasy’s Dorsum STL (turn around, drop down to the right and walk straight)
Talk to Faifa and turn in sky mole (come back later if you don’t have one)
Fight 1 Green Feris (Do later if no sky mole)
	To find one just drop down from the area Faifa is in to the lower area behind Faifa
ST to Abaasy’s Dorsum
Get your sixth Ponspector, Faifa (do later if no sky mole)
ST to Old King’s Testament
Get your seventh Ponspector, Setset
Get Gran Dell Ramparts STL (if you walk east enough you will find it)
IGNORE WUNWUN (you may want to talk to wunwun now but it will be a waste of time)
Get Gran Dell Approach STL

Gran Dell -> End
ST to Navvir Crossroads
Go to Hekasa’s Objective (across the bridge and to the left)
ST to Navvir Crossroads
Talk to Teitei
Get Nerthis Necropolis STL by following the western path
Collect Item for Teitei in the northern part of Nerthis Necropolis
ST to Cloudtop Lookout
Talk to Hekasa
ST to Nerthis Necropolis
Fight Ramrod Tirkin
	This Tirkin can be found directly past where the Gogols are
	Focus on only killing this Tirkin. Once it is dead, either die if you have no gauge or run away
ST to Navvir Crossroads
Get your eighth Ponspector, Teitei
ST to Cloudtop Lookout
Get your ninth Ponspector, Hekasa
ST to Soltnar Seal 
Progress Story
ST to Grand Arch
Fight 2 Armu
ST to Skybridge
Fight the evil man and his 2 robots
ST to Gran Dell Approach
Talk to Gran Dell Militia 
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Talk to Gran Dell Militia
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Get Prayer Rock STL
Collect Mirror
	This can be found on the eastern coast of the island in the center of the lake
	You do not need to fight the boss there to get it
Talk to Tutu, Tutu is further south on the shore
Get your tenth Ponspector, Tutu
Walk to Heroes Rest (Southern shore of the lake to the south of Gran Dell)
Talk to Sarja
ST to Quarry Colonnade
Get Marga’s Weeping STL (ignore all enemies, die once you reach it)
Collect High Ether
Lure and fight the two enemies in front of the UB
Lure and fight Thing-a-Majicker XIII to the left of the UB
ST to Old Expedition HQ
Get your eleventh Ponspector, Nonona
ST to Grand Approach
Talk to Wunwun twice
ST to Navvir Crossroads
Lure and Fight Cutpurse Igna
	Go up the path from Navvir Highland and drop down to the right. Keep going up until you find a bunch
	of Igna and walk behind the one on the rock. Go down to the path where there is red ether for mining
	and lure the Igna down
ST to Grand Approach
Get your Final Ponspector, Wunwun
ST to Grand Arch
Progress Story
Menu:
	Shulk
		Arts
			Monado Armor: 7
			Back Slash: 7
			Slit Edge: 7
			Light Heal: 7 
			Shadow Eye: 6
			Upgrade anything else that is the colour pink
	Melia
		Arts
			Summon Bolt: 7
			Summon Flare: 7
			Summon Ice: 7
			Spear Break: 7
			Starlight Kick: 7
	Nene
		Arts
			Sword Drive: 7
			Last Stand: 5 (REPLACE LARIAT)
			Upgrade any other aggro/gauge boosting art
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Fight #1
	Fight this enemy with only arts and save your union strike for the next fight
	Use Monado Speed when hit by Weakening Howl
ST to Companions Cape
Fight #2
	Immediately Union Strike, the main antol will die immediately no matter what.
ST to Gran Dell Ramparts
Fight #3
	Fight the Deinos till you get Union Strike. Union strike the Deinos and use arts for the rest
ST to Main Entrance (Alcamoth)
Progress to final story checkpoint, save if you want, it’s casual though so it doesn’t matter
Fog King PT1
	“Safe” method: Fight knights for union strike. Union strike Fog King and arts the rest.
	Less “Safe” method: Only attack Fog King, union strike Fog King and arts the rest
	Risky method: Only attack Fog King, union strike Fog King as much as possible
Fog King PT2
	“Safe” and less “safe” methods: Union strike once the knights come out. Union strike whenever possible. Bait mist press away from your allies if possible, stand around fog king’s arms when it does this attack so you get pushed back to your allies.
	Risky method: You have no union strike at the beginning, good luck. Union strike whenever possible.

Changes
6/18/2020
Move Fofora, Hekasa, and Faifa to after Alcamoth
Get Tutu before talking to Sarja

Name	Author
Any% casual guide	Deleted 1 year ago
FC 100% [Casual] Notes Updated	Orpheolus 3 years ago
Future Connected 100% Casual Notes	XenoPlayed 4 years ago
Future Connected Any% Casual Notes	ClassicRagu 4 years ago
Future Connected Ponspector% Casual Notes	ClassicRagu 4 years ago