Where are you supposed to go in Act 3?

[Stübi Senpai]

So I just reached Act 3 and want to clear out side stuff before heading to what I assume is the finale, but I genuinely can't figure out what you're supposed to do, or more importantly, in what order.

My peeps are floating at just before level 50, and I swear every portal I have not visited still shows the red "danger" warning, and most of the optional big bosses on the map still oneshot me while not taking any notable health bar damage (Elemental Everesques or whatever they are called are a good example).

I managed to kill one of the presumably late game encounters by perfect parrying the encounter, but it unironically took like 15 minutes to kill the dude, and if thats every boss fight from now on, I'd probably rather just go kill the final boss and then call the game done.

[Bran]

i am kinda in same sytuation, soo i just go and explore every where even in danger zones i try to pick up picktos, upgrade them, find better waepons, put all lumens on my best char and i will start clean chromatic boss
if you wanna do the same i recomend start from flying manor, avoid fight just pick up staff, they is trader with few weapon lvl 28

[ZexxCrine]

any place too strong for you is gonna be a red portal that says danger. when the danger warning goes away you are expected to be able to handle it. or you could go to those places early if you wanted a challenge.

[Barbosa]

I noticed that some places with the "Danger" sign were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, they were no threat at all, while others would one tap my team if i missed one dodge or parry so i would'nt pay much attention to that sign, i would advice to spend some time in the Endless tower, its good to lvl up and to get some materials and gear, around level 60 most enemies in the overworld are doable, just stay away from the snake in the sky. Another thing that i noticed is that you cant decide if you are underleveled by how much damage is done to you but how much damage you do to them, right now, every fight i get into is one shot city, everything one shots everything, so go balls deep in damage and you will start being able to do all the content you find without having to follow a specific order.

[Brocknoth]

Speak to Maelle back at camp and trigger her side quest so you can gain access to The Reacher. The enemies there are easy to dodge/parry and give good exp. From there you should be able to get strong enough to handle stuff in the endless tower and the other areas.

[Fiboshi]

Go the camp get Esquie, Maelle and Lune to max and they will have request for you unlocking dungeons Sirene's dress and The Reacher, complete them then you should be looking at about 60 then go for act 3 and come back for the end game content, i would also tackle the first two stages of the endless dungeon

[marsHm311oW]

Do the camp quest for max affection, then you are free to go where you want.

[Kashra Fall]

Go fight the final boss and then go look around. The lumiere level has a lot of pictos that can help you wander around before NG+, plus, you get the fight the final boss at an appropriate strength, not OP.

[Troubled Lemon-Drop]

Talk to your party members. Do their quests. Tackle the big tower. Go find places that are not red. You can find some optional dungeons.

[goodbye_bonito]

Two directions.

One is party members quests.

Second is visiting all places which you now can reach with flying ability. There are lot of content, small and big locations to explore

[Shin Happens]

Max relationship levels at camp, this will give you a few relationship quests, some of which are pretty elaborate and long (Maelle's, for example).

You can gain a LOT of XP in the Endless Tower, which is basically a fighting arena with a total of 33 levels, which become increasingly harder.

You will also be able to find out more about the Dessendre family by exploring the optional locations and you will learn more about it all.

You can always enter the red danger zones, not all of them hide nasty bosses. I remember one red danger zone that even has a friendly nevron, whom you CAN fight if you want, and then it's pretty hard, but you need not fight him.

[Cool Boogie]

I would recommend finishing the main story or else you'll overlevel it way too fast. In my case by the time I went back to Lumiere I was able to kill the final boss before they got a single attack off.

[Shin Happens]

Originally posted by Cool Boogie:

I would recommend finishing the main story or else you'll overlevel it way too fast. In my case by the time I went back to Lumiere I was able to kill the final boss before they got a single attack off.

This is an issue, yes, but from a narrative pov it makes SO much more sense to explore the optional things before you tackle the final mission. Since some important story details and character bits are only found in those places that flesh out the story even more. It would feel odd to do these things after the main story, when you are basically sent back to the map before the final mission takes place.

Just don't equip certain pictos/luminas/skills if you feel the final mission in Lumiere is too easy after doing all the optional content. You can be as weak as you want to be in this game. You could also just use two characters, or play solo even and make it arbitrarily difficult really.

[Daucus Karota]

After completing the game and getting level 99 for almost all the characters, I can say that it's better to immediately go further along the plot, it should be just according to the level. If you deal with the whole map, there will be two points: 1) when you return to the plot, the opponents will have 1 mass skill. 2) It takes a very long time and the flow of the narrative is lost. And the battles are interesting and more emotionally intense when the opponents are close to your level.

[depl0rable]

i took out sprog at 53, i do not recommend doing that first in Act 3.... oh boy

[eskuriax]

I recommend finish the story first , and ago explore after . or wou will crush final boss in 1 shoot