Break (gem)

Break is a gem effect in Xenoblade Chronicles. It grants a percentage chance that the user's auto-attack will inflict on the target for 10 seconds.

Overview
Not counting Turn Strike (or the Definitive Edition's master artbooks), the only way to get a break of 10 seconds from an art is a level 8+ Stream Edge. This alone makes Break an incredibly powerful gem, and it grants a chance to do so for free to any character. It cannot be overstated how useful this is; it allows for to break-topple-daze an enemy by himself, for  to remain able to topple foes by himself if he doesn't wish to combo with Electric Gutbuster, for party members with break to apply it for far longer than usual, and for any party member to break an enemy even if they otherwise could not. But as it only applies to auto-attacks, it can't be used in chain attacks, so it is not strictly better than arts against resistant foes.