Lots and Lots of Pom

[Rumi]

So I had this happen to me earlier

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551439939

It was from encountering a monster on the 2nd floor of Esmelas Tower in the center room. Managed to clear almost all of them and gain a whole lot of levels.

Anyways, I re-entered the tower, went to the 2nd floor, saved behind the monster, and tried again. After 2 quick reloads I got another 6 pom fight.

Managed to encounter this several times with an average of 2-6 reloads. Thought it'd be worth sharing for anyone looking to grind out some poms on chapter 4!

[Letari]

Sounds like a great idea!... Untill you get ambushed and you just used your s-breaks to get out of a sticky situation one fight before that, then you see that you're already low on supplies... then they beat the crap out of you and flee before you get a chance to counterattack... not bitter at all, nope!

I'll get my revenge in new game+...someday. >:P

But seriously, shining poms are serious business in SC I've found...

[Nonexistinghero]

Yeah, this is already known. Some mobs in the game always come with 6 shining poms instead of the. I think there's at least 3 of them in the game.

By the way, experience in this game scales depending on your level. So it's best to try to figure out a tactic to kill as many as possible (or all) while keeping your level as low as possible.

For example:

Say you're barely level 50 with your party and need 1000 experience to level up for every character. You kill a shining pom and it gives 1200 experience, giving everyone a level. Then the next time you kill a shining pom, it will give 600 experience. And even less once you gain another level. After a few of them they will only give like 100 experience and you still need to kill 10 or so before you level up.

So to maximize:
- Get as close to leveling up as possible (so if your team only still needed 100 experience to level up, they would gain 2 levels if you killed a single shining pom instead of 1, while in the other situation you would probably have to kill 3).
- Kill as many in a battle as possible. If you kill all 6, you'd get 6 x 1200 = 7200 experience points. Everyone would gain like 7 levels that way, while it would otherwise become impractical to level using poms after gaining 3-5 levels.

Well, I guess this isn't really necessary on normal and hard. But I imagine it's very useful for Nightmare, since you could essentially be a few levels above the soft cap (there's no real cap, but experience diminishes so much that it's not practical to kill enemies anymore).

[nightscape128]

This happened to me in the Carnelia tower also. Got ambushed by a jellyfish monster, and it came with 6 poms (was able to kill 2 of them)

[Plerr]

Found a six shining pom battle in the prologue yesterday. I'm like... REALLY?! Why do you tease me so much? You know I have no way of dealing with all of these poms, game. They didn't even run for a while. They slapped me around a bit then ran around taunting me. In the end I couldn't kill a single one.

(For anyone that's curious this encounter happened from the rolling thorn dudes in the very first area of the forest.)