How are you guys farming MAG?

[Shadowmail]

I have plenty of Archtype exp to continue unlocking the higher tiers, but I am gated by MAG (I have talked to the heads which gives a good chuck, supports are almost maxed), I imagine farming the elemental orb things would be good, but I have not found a way to make them consistently spawn.

I am trying "steal MAG" from merchant, but 100 MP to 1000 MAG is not that great, and a bit annoying to deal with.

[Sur_GalaHad]

we mod FTW if you dont want to put in the grind. but I usually just fight everything make sure you are getting the advantage battle and nuke everything so you get unscathed bonuses especially on red enemies since they give alot of mag. Anytime you see an element roaming around prioritize them they give 1500 mag per on unscathed. and they are easy to kill.

Be efficient with your mag. wait until you level up some social links before you invest in their archetypes to lower the mag costs.

make sure you visit the podium head thing every day it gives you free MAG

[otakon17]

Originally posted by Shadowmail:

I have plenty of Archtype exp to continue unlocking the higher tiers, but I am gated by MAG (I have talked to the heads which gives a good chuck, supports are almost maxed), I imagine farming the elemental orb things would be good, but I have not found a way to make them consistently spawn.

I am trying "steal MAG" from merchant, but 100 MP to 1000 MAG is not that great, and a bit annoying to deal with.

You can steal MAG from enemies *multiple times* actually but you have to win the battle. If you have a surplus of money, going after the Imitecs then finishing them off with Gold attacks is a doable thing. Otherwise, you can always swap the game to Easy difficulty and just run roughshod through the enemies in the Tower of Blind Faith(especially if it's on a Blight day). Just bash through the skeleton floor, visit Akademia at the top and reset them and do it again. You should be rolling in MAG after an hour or so.

[Kuruk]

Originally posted by Hippopothomas:

4 x Merchants
Use all your SP stealing Mag
Swap to mages get your SP back (or inherit the skill w/e idk if you can)
respawn monsters
repeat

infinite mag and a ton per fight.

yeah this is the best method. get a fight with like a single low level enemy like a goborn for example and just steal mag until you run out of sp and kill the enemy. you have to kill them to get the stolen mag

[jackcross3]

Also having an issue. I have been approaching the game like a Bravely Default or FFTA where I was expecting to mix and match and multiclass a lot, but both elite archetypes and the best passives are 8K+ Mag, so I genuinely think this just might not be the intended approach.

[maethlin]

Originally posted by Garfield:

ITT: a whole bunch of people who haven't reached end-game where every character needs multiple 27k+ archetypes in order to unlock yet another 30k archetype, trying to say they haven't had to farm for their 6k MAG archetypes.

Ya, no ♥♥♥♥. Amazing tips.

This. People are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ obnoxious lol

[Watermill]

There is no good MAG farm unfortunately until you reach the final dungeon and at that point you cant leave to go do non story battles. You just have to be wise about how you spend the MAG given to you throughout until then and not be willy nilly training archetypes you dont need or for characters you dont plan on using

[Bisquetz]

Originally posted by Spooky Watermill:

There is no good MAG farm unfortunately until you reach the final dungeon and at that point you cant leave to go do non story battles. You just have to be wise about how you spend the MAG given to you throughout until then and not be willy nilly training archetypes you dont need or for characters you dont plan on using

You don't have to go that far, tons of opportunities to farm early on lol, you can farm both MAG and Gold as early as you get Heismay because 4 party members = 4 Merchants.

And then level Warrior and Monk to Lv 3 for their damage and crit passive. This guarantees enough crit damage from Gold Attack to trivialize most encounters and you'll never run into the problem of being OOM.

You can now farm the Goblin's Nest dungeon (unlocks at 6/29)and get tons of MAG, Gold, and Hero's Leaf of Light(1000 A-Exp) from over-leveling 4 Merchants. At least until you reach high enough level that you get massive diminishing return from overworld kills.

But you can repeat this process later on other side dungeons where you can find enemies grouping up together.

This set up is also strong enough that it makes most dungeons and bosses almost redundant at least until Eht Ria , and even then this set-up is still pretty strong.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by maethlin:

Originally posted by Garfield:

ITT: a whole bunch of people who haven't reached end-game where every character needs multiple 27k+ archetypes in order to unlock yet another 30k archetype, trying to say they haven't had to farm for their 6k MAG archetypes.

Ya, no ♥♥♥♥. Amazing tips.

This. People are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ obnoxious lol

You can unlock 20k+ arch-types long before endgame.

Its possible to get bottlenecked on either Mag or arch-type exp. Depends a lot on what Arch-types you plan on leveling, and how many different ones. So you have some people (like myself) that had more of an issue with exp then Mag.

Personally by the time I reached endgame I had more then enough Mag to unlock the arch-types I still wanted to get. It would be different if I had decided to max MC or anyone else, but thats optional.

[hype moments and aura]

Originally posted by Klinestife:

near the top of the tower of insolence, theres a floor with a ton of weak skeletons. i approach it from the back and snipe the skele mage for about 1k. it’s not very efficient but i was stuck there so it’s what i ended up doing.

I accidentally farmed this way, was doing the 2nd quest at that tower and realized I was underleveled by like 15 so i just farmed the whole tower over and over

[Giganx]

Same. I'm unlocking everything to get ultimate weapons and MAG is what is CONSTANTLY gating me.

Basically just farm enemies at crystals to build MAG, but Archetype leveling will severely outpace your MAG farming. Wish the MAG exchange let you convert Money to MAG.