Forgotten Battlefield level?

[midder]

I just started Act 2 and my characters are level 16s, and I'm getting my ass kicked, what's the recommended level for that zone? When I was entering it said "danger".

[Satsubuya]

I'm around level 28-30 there, have you been exploring the side areas?

[SOAP!!!]

Bro rushed through everything without exploring. Did you skip alot of enemies that were just roaming around?

[midder]

Originally posted by SOAP!!!:

Bro rushed through everything without exploring. Did you skip alot of enemies that were just roaming around?

I usually do that, but this time around, I’d say I didn’t. I basically killed every enemy I encountered, but I didn’t explore much. That might be a problem.

[Crimsomrider]

Currently LvL 30 (after exploring all the side areas) and pretty much insta-annihilating enemies before they even get a turn in the Forgotten Battlefield, so probably LvL 25 or slightly lower.

[midder]

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

Currently LvL 30 (after exploring all the side areas) and pretty much insta-annihilating enemies before they even get a turn in the Forgotten Battlefield, so probably LvL 25 or slightly lower.

oh fck.. that's something I did not wanted to hear. Well thank you.

[Ratsplat]

That does sound rather low. I haven't seen the need to grind at all anywhere in the game, though I think that if you ignore all side content you may end up underleveled. Did you go through the yellow harvest area? That was technically not meant to be done right away, but it definitely gave me a ton of experience when I did it.

[Roan]

Unsure if characters join scaled or not but Verso joined at level 22 I believe? So you're definitely under leveled.

Did you check out Yellow Harvest? That's an optional area you can complete early on that will help get ya a couple more levels.

[Charles912]

Originally posted by SOAP!!!:

Bro rushed through everything without exploring. Did you skip alot of enemies that were just roaming around?

Every side area I've found has either been a boss that one-shots me or a single area with no enemies in and a music disk on the ground. How am I supposed to level from this?

[Platapoop]

Originally posted by midder:

Originally posted by SOAP!!!:

Bro rushed through everything without exploring. Did you skip alot of enemies that were just roaming around?

I usually do that, but this time around, I’d say I didn’t. I basically killed every enemy I encountered, but I didn’t explore much. That might be a problem.

There's some bosses that gives tons of exp. There's like a pink boss in some random area that straight up leveled me from like 25 to 30. You must have also missed yellow harvest area, which well I won't spoil too much, but pretty sure I got like 10 levels there.

[Ratsplat]

Not only exp, but exploring everywhere (including areas where you shouldn't be just yet) is vital due to all the crazy Pictos you can find.

[marsHm311oW]

"Danger" means you are underleveled. But also tell you, you can farm a lot exp here. You just need to win one battle to get mutliple levels. I entered frozen heart at lv 30 and left it with lv 70 :)

[Songbird]

Exp isn't really a huge factor once you start to get a few good skills. Pictos give far more stats than your actual stat points, other than base damage, and they're often just lying around. You can get In Medias Res immediately as you start act 2 and either use its 1600+ defense or just have everyone fight on 1 HP for the insane pictos this triggers while getting three damage shields.

Verso very, very trivially 9999x3's any single enemy on turn 1 by just staying below 10% HP and using Berserk Slash with the two low HP pictos (+50% crit below 30% HP, +50% damage below 10% HP), for example. Setting up some first turn/first hit boosts or other conditional boosts for Lune and Sciel lets you have a turn 1 Wildfire into Searing Bond that will blow up the whole encounter.