Final month, lost interest

[Intern Waffle]

I hate this so much, I got to the final month of the game...

I decided to grind...first place I tried to grind was too rough. Just annoying. Very long battles, not a lot of exp for the effort. I closed the game.

Reloaded a day later, tried somewhere else...too easy. Most battles weren't even starting if I attacked on the field and definitely weren't worth the exp. I got frustrated and closed the game.

Third day, i did afew days of activities, then went to do some quests to grind again. Once again...the place I chose was just too annoying. It felt way overleveled and I felt way underleveled and I got frustrated again.

Well, it's been a few days and I kind of just...don't want to play.

I think a final run towards the end where everything is freeform was a bad idea. The pacing was so good up to this point. ANd I fell into the EXACT same trap with Persona 3 ages and ages ago!

[Day]

I had finished everything and had 11 days to do nothing with. Got to the final boss and it's at the very least a 30 minute commit from last save and theres multiple fights that Im able to make but my build doesn't work for the very last one. What were they even thinking? The last month of this game is trash. The last optional quest was boring and gimmicky too.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Day:

I had finished everything and had 11 days to do nothing with. Got to the final boss and it's at the very least a 30 minute commit from last save and theres multiple fights that Im able to make but my build doesn't work for the very last one. What were they even thinking? The last month of this game is trash. The last optional quest was boring and gimmicky too.

I guess if you read slow yea 30 min. The fights didn't last more then 5 rounds. 3 to 5.

[Tiasmoon]

Keep in mind not everyone is as efficient with time and scheduling. If they hadnt done the final month like this then it would be much harder to complete content for the average player.

[rajgon]

Originally posted by lexia88:

What annoys me really hard rn is the weather situation we have in the last month. And don't talk about Edeni please, the dude doesn't help at all.

The "Dread" weather condition is normal weather, just with a red sky filter. There is no need to change that, as there are no real penalties during Dread. The "Blight" weather condition indicates bad weather. If you want to go to a dungeon that is in Blight weather, Edeni can change it to Dread for you. Only places where he can't change weather for are the four main towns. That only matters if you are trying to fight in the coliseum. They will shut down during Blight.

[rajgon]

The best place to grind is in the Dragon Temple during the fourth dragon quest. At this point the enemies in there can be killed in the field with one or two hits. There are a couple of places near save spots that keep spawning enemies until your break the read crystal. Keep the crystals intact and keep killing the mobs. You will barely need to heal, and enemies drop more than enough magla pills in case you take a few hits while fighting. I grinded there for a few hours and got all my royal archetypes unlocked and maxed out. Well worth it IMO. Before I was grinding Elegy of the Soul was impossible. After grinding he was easy.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by rajgon:

The best place to grind is in the Dragon Temple during the fourth dragon quest. At this point the enemies in there can be killed in the field with one or two hits. There are a couple of places near save spots that keep spawning enemies until your break the read crystal. Keep the crystals intact and keep killing the mobs. You will barely need to heal, and enemies drop more than enough magla pills in case you take a few hits while fighting. I grinded there for a few hours and got all my royal archetypes unlocked and maxed out. Well worth it IMO. Before I was grinding Elegy of the Soul was impossible. After grinding he was easy.

I disagree. The few places I did and will say best as well.

Early on 1st desert boss outside city. The worms are easy to kill, and you can max your unlocked jobs. Maybe kill the 2nd lvl 35 elite bird as well.

Then I did grind in the goblin dungeon. I dont neccesarily recommend it but because how easy it was to kill them on overworld vs an actual fight where they bomb you, it worked out and a few ogres here.

There was another dungeon day c3, many skeletons and ogres. This was a great spot. Lots ogres so 650 m attack plus mega gold on open world kills. Potentially 2nd best spot.

Day 4 c4. You have the same towers dragon, but before the chapter you get them. There is one full of skeletons at the end of one like 48, and you dont have to Clear all tower repeatedly, just1 floor.

But the place I got the most ecp/m attack was the tower dragon mentioned before, dragon. But when you unlock it first time. It has the blue heads and 4x more ogres, vs if you wait for dragon trial. This was the best camp imo to exp. 650 n attack an ogre, 2100 gold.

The very final spot before Louis was ok, as you can get roots easy, but you wont get exp in abundance like this tower.

I did have lvl 92 to 94 when I left that tower before final month.

[Sur_GalaHad]

the final month is literally on there to give you the time you need to max out bonds you may need and to do the 3 dragon shrines and fight the ultimate boss which all give you some of the best armor in the game and the MC best weapon. you can just go right to the final dungeon and finish the game if you want you dont have to wait the full time lol

[causality]

Grinding is pretty pointless and this is probably one of the easiest SMT games too. I recommend getting better at the game rather than leveraging that deficit with grinding.

[Stone]

Grind? Isn't this a single player game?

[Sur_GalaHad]

Originally posted by lexia88:

What annoys me really hard rn is the weather situation we have in the last month. And don't talk about Edeni please, the dude doesn't help at all.

I mean... I haven't even entered a dungeon yet, just traveling to one south of Altabury... but the freaking weather, not granting me any extra/press turns, is unfair and ruthless.

I just failed to kill 2 dark elementals attacking my runner on the way and rage quitted the game because of the insane lost mag.

Must be my mistake for wanting to play the characters who are several levels underleveled compared to Strohl, Hulky and Heismay. May as well bench the latter half of the group forever if the game insists I should do that... they are never able to close the exp gap anyway because the game doesn't provide a way to earn extra exp.

What were they thinking designing the last chapter like this? This isn't hard, this is just frustrating for no reason. Really bad game design in my opinion.

MC prince has an almighty skill that one shots them...

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Sur_GalaHad:

Originally posted by lexia88:

What annoys me really hard rn is the weather situation we have in the last month. And don't talk about Edeni please, the dude doesn't help at all.

I mean... I haven't even entered a dungeon yet, just traveling to one south of Altabury... but the freaking weather, not granting me any extra/press turns, is unfair and ruthless.

I just failed to kill 2 dark elementals attacking my runner on the way and rage quitted the game because of the insane lost mag.

Must be my mistake for wanting to play the characters who are several levels underleveled compared to Strohl, Hulky and Heismay. May as well bench the latter half of the group forever if the game insists I should do that... they are never able to close the exp gap anyway because the game doesn't provide a way to earn extra exp.

What were they thinking designing the last chapter like this? This isn't hard, this is just frustrating for no reason. Really bad game design in my opinion.

MC prince has an almighty skill that one shots them...

Weak man skill. Warlock c as n almighty them as well.

[wizard101]

When people don't realize that if a difficulty is too hard for them they can lower it. I'm playing on hard, about to fight Luis for the actual final time and up to this point only the gimmick for the elegy of souls fight has been unreasonable to me (no way to identify the 1HKO mechanic from in game knowledge as far as I could tell) - everything else is solved by simple planning and knowledge that the game provides. TL;DR skissue, lower the difficulty or plan/teamcraft/dungeon crawl better.