Often times you have to upgrade each item 40 or 50 times just to see if it's actually a upgrade to what you are using. You get a slight RANK icon D-S but that constantly changes too as you upgrade. Also upgrades past 30 cost so much gold you either have to grind non stop or save scum after you upgraded an item to max and compared it. This was the most tedious part of the game for me hands down....

Enemy scales to my level (sometimes higher) can i disable it? because grinding makes no sense this way, only farming items

Having finished Sapphire Wings I'm moving onto my first Sword City playthrough. I've got my primary crew of 6 with 10 Freeman hanging out generating cash. I'm only Level 8-9 so still early-game for sure. Just curious, should I be spending my cash on equipment gear upgrades for my front-liners, or just stockpiling it for class changes down the road? Mix and match? Particular items to target like EXP books? Just looking for a sense of direction on how to efficiently spend cash from veterans of the series. T...

I have a job and bills to pay, I really don't want to farm fermented soybean traps at CotD L3 for a week just so I can move onto the next game.

Playing SOSCR and I see these things in my inventory. I've tried half a dozen different ways to use them or apply them and nothing seems to work.