TP or Tension Points is a resource gained and spent during combat in Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition. Learn how to gain and spend TP, as well as how to increase Max TP.

How to Use TP

Use to Activate Specific Arts

Some Arts are marked with "TP" in their icons which indicates that they require 1000 TP to be activated. These Arts tend to be more powerful than ones that don't utilize TP.

List of Arts That Consume TP

Arts	Class	Effect
Recuperate	Drifter	Boosts Evasion, Heals HP over time
Ghost Factory	Full Metal Jaguar	Requires TP, Grants Decoy
Offensive Stance	Samurai Gunner	Requires TP, boosts Melee Accuracy, boosts Melee Attack, Increases Damage Taken
Burst Grenade	Samurai Gunner	Requires TP, deals Thermal Damage, Inflicts Blaze, +Damage to Toppled
Medic Free	Samurai Gunner	Requires TP, boosts Debuff Resist, Revives on Incapacitation
Incendiary Edge	Duelist	Requires TP, Deals Thermal Damage, Boosts Melee Combo damage
Gunforce	Duelist	Requires TP, boosts Ranged Attack, critical chance, reduces secondary cooldown
Samurai Soul	Duelist	Requires TP, adds AOE damage to melee auto attacks, increases auto-attack damage, reduces secondary cooldown.
Last Stand	Duelist	Requires TP, boosts Ally TP
Wild Down	Shield Trooper	Requires TP, deals weapon damage, Inflicts Topple
Iron Prison	Shield Trooper	Requires TP, Grants Physical Res Up, Enables Proximity Spike Damage
Hellfire	Bastion Warrior	Requires TP, deals weapon damage, with an aura: boosts damage
Enhanced Stand	Bastion Warrior	Requires TP, boosts auto-attack damage, continually restores HP
Thermal Payload	Bastion Warrior	Requires TP, deals Thermal Damage, Boosts Damage vs. Toppled
Supershield	Bastion Warrior	Requires TP, Reflects Physical Attacks, reduces damage taken, Nullifies Stun
Early Bird	Commando	Requires TP, Raises Critical Power tier, Boosts Crit chance, boosts evasion.
Stream Edge	Commando	Requires TP, Deals Weapon damage, boosts damage in ranged combos
Shadowrunner	Commando	Requires TP, Boosts potential, From Behind: Boosts damage and disables enemy detection
Thirsty Edge	Winged Viper	Requires TP, Restores HP when landing melee attacks
Killing Machine	Winged Viper	Requires TP, boosts Melee Accuracy, Boosts Melee Attack, Boosts Potential
Executioner	Full Metal Jaguar	Requires TP, Deals Weapon damage, boosts damage in ranged combos
Hundred Shells	Full Metal Jaguar	Requires TP, deals weapon damage, Boosts Damage from behind
Raijin	Partisan Eagle	Requires TP, Boosts critical chance, Restores HP when using Arts, Reflects electric attacks.
Speed Demon	Astral Crusader	Requires TP, reduces cooldown when sprinting, restores HP
Ghost Sniper	Astral Crusader	Requires TP, boosts crit chance, boost TP with criticals, boost ranged accuracy
Trident Buster	Astral Crusader	Requires TP, Deals electric damage, Inflicts Shock, Boosts damage in Ranged Combos
Full Specs	Enforcer	Requires TP, boosts potential, Boosts Ranged Attack, Boosts Ether Resistance
Ether Blast	Psycorruptor	Requires TP, Deals Ether Damage, With an Aura: Boosts Damage
Brainjack	Psycorruptor	Requires TP, Seizes control of target enemy and turns it friendly
Dispel	Mastermind	Requires TP, Deals Ether damage, randomly removes one buff from target
Energy Source	Mastermind	Requires TP, Boosts TP boosts potential
Geolibrium	Blast Fencer	Requires TP, Boosts Beam Resistance, Continually restores HP, Nullifies Terrain Effects
Astrolibrium	Blast Fencer	Requires TP, Reflects Beam Attacks, Boosts Beam damage
Astral Heal	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, Restores HP, Restores Appendage HP when in Skell
Astral Protection	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, Boosts all Attribute Resistance, Restores HP when using Arts
Novalibrium	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, Grants Supercharge on taking damage, enable counter spike damage
Starlight Kick	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, deals Gravity Damage, Inflicts Topple
Astral Horizon	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, Grants Astral Heal and Astral Purge to all Allies, Expands AOE radius
Galactic Cataclysm	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, deals Beam Damage, With Aura: Boosts Damage
Master Gunner	Blast Fencer	Boosts appendage damage, potential, ranged attack
Crisis Zone	Winged Viper	Reduces auto-attack cooldown, inflicts damage over time, damage scales with low HP
Blossom Dance	Duelist	Deals weapon damage, inflicts stagger, ignores enemy attribute resistances
Gravity Lunge	Winged Viper	Deals gravity damage, inflicts Topple, does more damage when triggering melee combo
Drum Roll	Shield Trooper	Deals weapon damage, inflicts Physical Res Down, does more damage when triggering melee combo
Afterburner	Partisan Eagle	Deals weapon damage, deals more damage when triggering ranged combo
Dual Dynamo	Shield Trooper	Boosts Melee and Ranged Attack and Potential
Secondary Speed	Psycorruptor	Reduces Secondary and Auto-Attack Cooldown
Flamehand	Shield Trooper	Boosts debuff resist, adds Ether counter range spike damage, immunity to terrain damage
Titan Recharge	Samurai Gunner	Negates enemy damage reflection, reduces secondary cooldown, recovers HP when expiring
Starlight Duster	Blast Fencer	Does weapon damage, inflicts Gravity Res Down, deals more damage when triggering melee combo
Maximum Voltage	Partisan Eagle	Requires TP, Deals weapon damage, Boosts damage after losing Skell
Overclock	Partisan Eagle	Requires TP, Restores HP when using Arts, boosts fuel recovery of parked skills
Sky Sunder	Galactic Knight	Requires TP, Deals Beam Damage, More Debuffs on Target Increases Damage
Hercules Blow	Duelist	Requires TP, Boosts melee attack, ranged attack and potential, Revives random incapacitated ally

List of All Arts and Effects

Use to Revive Teammates

You can revive a fallen ally by pressing A when you have 3000 TP. The prompt for "Get Up" will only appear when you have enough TP.

How to Revive Teammates

Use to Activate Overdrive

Accumulating 3000 TP will allow you to activate Overdrive. This is a timed state that provides a lot of bonuses including shortened cooldowns, tertiary cooldowns, increased damage dealt, and weakened enemy resistances.

Overdrive Guide

How to Increase Max TP

• Skills
• Armor
• Augments

Skills

Skill	Effect	Characters & Level	Class
Mindscape	Boosts Max TP	Celica (16) Cross (9)	Winged Viper

One way to boost your max TP is to equip and level up the Mindscape skill. It increases your max TP between 500-1500 depending on level.

List of All Skills

Armor

Some Armor pieces increase max TP when equipped due to their additional effect of Max TP Up.

List of All Armors

Augments

The values displayed in the table are only for the 1st five (5) levels of the augment.

Equipping Augments is another way to increase Max TP as some provide this exact effect. Augments can be crafted, looted from enemies and treasure boxes, or bought from shops.

At their max rank of 20, they can provide an additional 3000 Max TP.

List of All Augments

How to Gain TP

Accrued From Auto-Attacks

TP is gained during combat with normal attacks.

In addition, you start the next battle with the same amount of TP you ended the last one.

Succeed in Soul Challenges

TP can be gained if when succeeding in Soul Challenges and getting an either good or perfect rating.

Soul challenges are quick-time events that prompts when you trigger a Soul Voice. The bonus effect of the soul voice will apply if successful on the challenge.

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