Photon Sabers are melee weapons used by the Blast Fencer and Galactic Knight classes in Xenoblade Chronicles X. See the list of all Photon Sabers, Photon Sabers arts, and learn what Photon Sabers are.

List of All Photon Sabers

All Photon Sabers

List of All Weapons

Photon Sabers Arts

All Photon Sabers Arts and Effects

Art	Attr.	Description
Starfall Blade	None	Deals weapon damage, Boosts damage in melee combos
Geolibrium	None	Requires TP, Boosts Beam Resistance, Continually restores HP, Nullifies Terrain Effects
Starfall Rondo	None	Deals weapon damage, Boosts damage in melee combos
Astrolibrium	None	Requires TP, Reflects Beam Attacks, Boosts Beam damage
Astral Heal	None	Requires TP, Restores HP, Restores Appendage HP when in Skell
Starfall Blossom	None	Deals Weapon Damage, Boosts TP from Front
Astral Purge	None	Removes Debuffs
Novalibrium	None	Requires TP, Grants Supercharge on taking damage, enable counter spike damage
Astral Horizon	None	Requires TP, Grants Astral Heal and Astral Purge to all Allies, Expands AOE radius
Galactic Cataclysm	Beam	Requires TP, deals Beam Damage, With Aura: Boosts Damage
Essence Exchange	None	Swaps current HP and TP values
Phenomenon	Ether	Does Ether damage, inflicts Ether Res Down
Starlight Duster	None	Does weapon damage, inflicts Gravity Res Down, deals more damage when triggering melee combo
Sky Sunder	Beam	Requires TP, Deals Beam Damage, More Debuffs on Target Increases Damage

Photon Sabers has many arts that deal damage and/or inflict debuffs on the target, such as Starfall Blossom, Galactic Cataclysm, and Starlight Duster.

List of All Arts and Effects

What are Photon Sabers?

Melee Weapons with Medium Damage

Photon Sabers are melee weapons that deal medium damage to the target but have a low cooldown, meaning that even if it's damage isn't too high, it does make it up in how frequent the wielder can attack.

Standard Melee Weapons of Certain Classes

Classes Using Photon Sabers
Blast Fencer	Galactic Knight

Photon Sabers are the standard melee weapons of the Blast Fencer and Galactic Knight classes. Players can't change their weapon type once they've selected their class. The only way to do so is by changing classes.

List of All Classes

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Related Guides

List of All Weapons

Ranged Weapons

Ranged Weapon Types
Assault Rifles				Dual Guns				Gatling Guns
Multiguns			Psycho Launchers			Rayguns			Sniper Rifles

Melee Weapons

Melee Weapon Types
Dual Swords	Javelins	Knives
Longswords	Photon Sabers	Shields