Where to go in Act 3?

[Knavery]

I just started Act 3 and watched what seemed like an hour of cutscenes. And boy, what a great story. With that said, where do I go now? I'm in the low 50s and most of the locations I can fly to now are way higher level than that.

Is there an area appropriate to farm when around level 53? Thanks!

[thorin.hannahs]

I am there as well. Endless Tower is available but I think I have to go to Lumiere to move the plot a bit so the game will tell me to go hunt the big Chroma to take on Renoir.

[Crimsomrider]

Frozen Hearts and Dark Shores upon entering ACT III will massively boost your levels.

[Knavery]

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

Frozen Hearts and Dark Shores upon entering ACT III will massively boost your levels.

These both say DANGER for me and I'm getting my ass handed to me in just about every place I can fly to.

[Ratsplat]

Also go after the Relationship ranks with everyone until they're 7. Reacher is essentially a dungeon.

[Pheral XIII]

Best thing to do is get the character quests from the camp; start with Maelle.

[Unrealtairo]

Originally posted by Knavery:

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

Frozen Hearts and Dark Shores upon entering ACT III will massively boost your levels.

These both say DANGER for me and I'm getting my ass handed to me in just about every place I can fly to.

Frozen hearts you just learn the very first dancer mobs you come up to and spam them for XP.

I went there at 42, in NG+ where its harder. You can absolutely do that. Forget parries and just dodge, because they have a gradient counter you can do with Maelle to speed their deaths up.

If she's kept in Virtuous stance itll be about 320k xp every few minutes lol. (Throw a few counter attack % + in your lumina points)

After you're 60-65 from doing that just hit up Char arcs to 7 then flying manor (or more pictos farming, I'd pictos farm, get cheater & glass cannon asap then the rest)

[Dwishy]

Pretty good video on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBtAo-xmXRo

One very important thing IMO is the mentioning of not overleveling before taking on the main story final encounter..

[Necrolite]

Had same problem, should be able finish the relationship levels at camp. Those will all end up with side missions. Some like Maelle's are extremely long. Think for most gotta be around level 70 or 80.
I ended put game on easy after beating it all on normal and went to the Dark Shores.
Can grind levels really fast and enemies always drop Grandiose Chroma Catalyst. So can upgrade all weapons to lvl 32. Then after building self up for a while can pretty much do anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GvoPdI1Eko

[Tempesta]

Frozen hearts is worth learning the attacks. It's decently telegraphed stuff that is mostly single target against you. Not that bad if your damage is OK. You'll get whooped for a bit though. As soon as a weapon drops there your damage will at least double.

[wildcardbitches]

I did relationship quests and then went straight to the end boss.

[Knavery]

Originally posted by Dwishy:

Pretty good video on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBtAo-xmXRo

One very important thing IMO is the mentioning of not overleveling before taking on the main story final encounter..

Thanks for this! It's EXACTLY what I was looking for.

[KombatKaine]

you can either start map completion, or finish the game and go to NG+. depends on what you want to do.

personally, i recommend going straight to NG+ and here's why:
-weapons become uncapped (theyre not technically capped, but you really wont be getting much in terms of upgrade mats for the higher levels in your first play through)
-full team and builds available from the start (other than the prologue)
-more challenging, if you go straight to it, instead of grinding, since you retain your levels. if you grind first before NG+, you will steam roll thru the entire thing. some people like this, i dont, i preferred the increased difficulty for this playthrough.
-picking up duplicate weapons/pictos upgrades them to the NG+ levels, saving you tons of upgrade mats/grinding.
-killing the final boss gives you the picto that allows your damage to exceed 9999.

what you do is all just personal preference. you can finish the game, but still roam around the continent grinding and collecting stuff. or you can do that b4 finishing the game. or you can go to NG+. its really up to what you personally want out of the game.