Best place to grind in "The Home Stretch"?

[otakon17]

No spoilers but I'm in the end game and around level 65, for anyone else that's in that area what's the best dungeon to grind out A-EXP and MAG? Something with lots of field enemies you can quickly sweep without heading into Squad Battles?

[Merkava]

The best spot to farm A-Exp is in the Disgraced Ruins (Bounty quest dungeon where you fight two bosses back to back on the final month). Right before the boss room there is a small side-room with two high level mimics, equip an archetype from the thief tree on the MC and make sure everyone has lucky find equipped. Go smack the two mobs as they have a high chance of dropping a 3,000 A-EXP item when stunned and killed.

If you aren't high enough to insta-kill them just enter combat with them when they are both stunned and immediately escape to reset their drops, just keep repeating until you have 99 of the item. If you one-shot them (think you need to be 68) then you can respawn them by going into Academia via the nearby cat.

This gives you insanely fast A-EXP, the issue being MAG for me. Where is the best spot to farm MAG in endgame? No idea, would be nice if someone posted this.

[N/A]

The floor below the boss in The Tower of blind faith is full of skeletons that will give you 400 A-Exp or 500 A-Exp in bad weather. There's also a mimic that has a chance to drop a gold leaf so if everyone has a maxed Archetype equipped then every two run throughs will give you a level so 7000 A-Exp + 1000 from the chest if you are lucky.

Just have the cat at the top of the stairs take you to Akedamia to reset. The cat moves to the very top once you beat the dragon or start the dragon quest though so be mindful of that.

[WarBaby2]

I've been grinding the Tower of Insulence for a time now, nearing LVL 70 and almost all my Archetypes are maxed out... should be enough for endgame.

[otakon17]

Postat inițial de WarBaby2:

I've been grinding the Tower of Insulence for a time now, nearing LVL 70 and almost all my Archetypes are maxed out... should be enough for endgame.

I think you're set, the Royal Archetypes are absolutely broken and OP, they shred.

[Klinestife]

Postat inițial de Merkava:

This gives you insanely fast A-EXP, the issue being MAG for me. Where is the best spot to farm MAG in endgame? No idea, would be nice if someone posted this.

by far the best mag spot is in the final, final dungeon right before the final boss. you need to be level 77 to fully take advantage of it, but there's really no contest anywhere else in the game. it's about 1k per kill, and there are two spawners constantly spitting out enemies.

for exp and a-exp, there's a spot a little further back that has two spawners that occasionally spawn level 88 tooths. if you go in with all maxed archetypes and get the unscathed bonus, you come out with about 50 leafs and 7k exp.

[ddubisoft]

The best way to get free MP is a bit grindy to use:

Setup for all characters
- equip the paladin's revitalize 3 to get mag every turn
- equip shield blessing from elite magician (gives MP every turn if the character has a buff on it
- equip items that give a buff at start of battle

Step 2:
- stun enemies before entering battle (attack from behind)
- don't attack, skip turns
- before the stun goes away, escape battle
- repeat...

[otakon17]

Postat inițial de ddubisoft:

The best way to get free MP is a bit grindy to use:

Setup for all characters
- equip the paladin's revitalize 3 to get mag every turn
- equip shield blessing from elite magician (gives MP every turn if the character has a buff on it
- equip items that give a buff at start of battle

Step 2:
- stun enemies before entering battle (attack from behind)
- don't attack, skip turns
- before the stun goes away, escape battle
- repeat...

MAG not MP; the currency for purchasing skills from Archetypes and unlocking them?

[Legacy]

Postat inițial de Merkava:

The best spot to farm A-Exp is in the Disgraced Ruins (Bounty quest dungeon where you fight two bosses back to back on the final month). Right before the boss room there is a small side-room with two high level mimics, equip an archetype from the thief tree on the MC and make sure everyone has lucky find equipped. Go smack the two mobs as they have a high chance of dropping a 3,000 A-EXP item when stunned and killed.

If you aren't high enough to insta-kill them just enter combat with them when they are both stunned and immediately escape to reset their drops, just keep repeating until you have 99 of the item. If you one-shot them (think you need to be 68) then you can respawn them by going into Academia via the nearby cat.

This gives you insanely fast A-EXP, the issue being MAG for me. Where is the best spot to farm MAG in endgame? No idea, would be nice if someone posted this.

Yeah this spot is the best to farm the 3k exp boosters, very quick run if you can one shot them.

Any of the dragon towers are great for farming MAG. Worked for me

[FeelsGouda]

Postat inițial de Merkava:

The best spot to farm A-Exp is in the Disgraced Ruins (Bounty quest dungeon where you fight two bosses back to back on the final month). Right before the boss room there is a small side-room with two high level mimics, equip an archetype from the thief tree on the MC and make sure everyone has lucky find equipped. Go smack the two mobs as they have a high chance of dropping a 3,000 A-EXP item when stunned and killed.

If you aren't high enough to insta-kill them just enter combat with them when they are both stunned and immediately escape to reset their drops, just keep repeating until you have 99 of the item. If you one-shot them (think you need to be 68) then you can respawn them by going into Academia via the nearby cat.

This gives you insanely fast A-EXP, the issue being MAG for me. Where is the best spot to farm MAG in endgame? No idea, would be nice if someone posted this.

By far the best tip I saw so far that does not include "the last dungeon" (which is after the point of no return, so really only good for NG+) and in case you already destroyed all of the red crystals in the tower(s). Thank you for that!

They also actually give quite good exp and axp, apart from dropping roots so you will get a few levels while doing that.

[otakon17]

Postat inițial de FeelsGouda:

Postat inițial de Merkava:

The best spot to farm A-Exp is in the Disgraced Ruins (Bounty quest dungeon where you fight two bosses back to back on the final month). Right before the boss room there is a small side-room with two high level mimics, equip an archetype from the thief tree on the MC and make sure everyone has lucky find equipped. Go smack the two mobs as they have a high chance of dropping a 3,000 A-EXP item when stunned and killed.

If you aren't high enough to insta-kill them just enter combat with them when they are both stunned and immediately escape to reset their drops, just keep repeating until you have 99 of the item. If you one-shot them (think you need to be 68) then you can respawn them by going into Academia via the nearby cat.

This gives you insanely fast A-EXP, the issue being MAG for me. Where is the best spot to farm MAG in endgame? No idea, would be nice if someone posted this.

By far the best tip I saw so far that does not include "the last dungeon" (which is after the point of no return, so really only good for NG+) and in case you already destroyed all of the red crystals in the tower(s). Thank you for that!

They also actually give quite good exp and axp, apart from dropping roots so you will get a few levels while doing that.

Yeah I found out I was *NOT* in "The Last Dungeon" like I thought, I'm in the final countdown now however with 8 days left before the point of no return.

[Legacy]

Postat inițial de otakon17:

Postat inițial de FeelsGouda:

By far the best tip I saw so far that does not include "the last dungeon" (which is after the point of no return, so really only good for NG+) and in case you already destroyed all of the red crystals in the tower(s). Thank you for that!

They also actually give quite good exp and axp, apart from dropping roots so you will get a few levels while doing that.

Yeah I found out I was *NOT* in "The Last Dungeon" like I thought, I'm in the final countdown now however with 8 days left before the point of no return.

There's a section in the final final dungeon where there are three respawners that only spawn humans. Depending on your level (you need to be able to kill them in world, rather than battle, for quicker results), every 2-3 kills will reward the 1k boost from levelling if the rest of your team are on maxxed out classes. You can just sit there and keep one-shotting the humans and making sure not to destroy the respawner buds. I levelled up three tier 3 classes this way, it was so easy. Mastered every remaining archetype I had by doing this and got the achievement.

[MelanPython]

Dunno if it's the best way, but one way i found to get some MAG is:
- Equip 3 characters with Merchant and all the MP per turn/kill equipment/inherits you can get.
- Equip the 4th character with something that can oneshot the enemies you're fighting. I used Strohl as Pugilist. Make sure he has the lowest agility so he goes 4th.
- Enter battle with some single scrub enemy.
- Use Debt collection with all 3 of your merchants, which will give 1700+ MAG each.
- Then kill the enemy with 4th person to get an unscathed victory = 7500 MAG

Only downside is that Debt collection costs 100 MP, but if you cycle through all your characters everytime you finish a dungeon, you will quickly get 100K MAG.

You can also just enter combat and keep passing turns to regen to full mana and repeat (Plunder Magic every turn can also help) or use the Mage archetype to regen mana in the overworld. For example near the top floor of Spire of Blind Faith there's 30+ skeletons that you can chainkill. Every 3 times you do this will let you cast Debt Collection once per character = 15K MAG.

[Rukawascsu]

The red dogs in Tower of Insulence on 1st and 2nd floor give about 2500 MAG per 5 dogs ( with nohit bonus). You can just trigger the fight and do the ice synthesis skill on Prince Archetype to one shot them. Then go out of the starting door to reset. Only downside is sometimes you get only 3 of them. But its really quick (about 3-5min per) and each run can net you easily 7.5k to 9k MAG

[Freya Crescent]

I'll add that the best way in the last month to get MP is the food item that restores 100 MP and cures Hex for the whole party. All of the ingredients can be bought in towns so you can make 99 of them if you have done some Merchant farming for gold.

Before last month, there's Magical Bread, too. It's much slower, granting 4 MP every 5 seconds for 1 minute or so, and can't be used together with Finishing Noodles or other field-foods but it's accessible much sooner.

Remember you can only cook them on the Runner when you go somewhere but you can make multiple at once, so buy in bulk to save on Time slots.

[dustin1280]

Postat inițial de Freya Crescent:

I'll add that the best way in the last month to get MP is the food item that restores 100 MP and cures Hex for the whole party. All of the ingredients can be bought in towns so you can make 99 of them if you have done some Merchant farming for gold.

Before last month, there's Magical Bread, too. It's much slower, granting 4 MP every 5 seconds for 1 minute or so, and can't be used together with Finishing Noodles or other field-foods but it's accessible much sooner.

Remember you can only cook them on the Runner when you go somewhere but you can make multiple at once, so buy in bulk to save on Time slots.

Where do you buy dreameater moths? those are needed for the 100 mp/hex item?
They aren't in the grand trad final water shop or meat shop