Job exp grind

[max e]

I'm trying to progress a few archetypes for all party members like Strohl Warrior and Commander lineage but i'm noticing that the A-Exp is hard to come by. I know there's items that give you exp but I haven't found an absolute ton of them. I'm getting through the game just fine but wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues grinding archetypes.

[Freya Crescent]

When you Master (level 20) an Archetype, it will continue to 'overlevel' with an XP bar of exactly 1,000. Filling that repeatable XP bar gives an item worth 1,000 XP. Thanks to this, no A-XP is ever wasted.

You can just take a team with your favorite Archetypes and grind normally, and use the item to max out the other ones as you please... just be mindful the max item stack is 99 so be sure to use them when it gets close to that.

[ez game ez life]

I know of one item from the arena in Brilehaven but it's only a minor boost of 50% more arc xp for the wearer.

When mobs don't give much arc xp it's time to move on and find some harder foes.

[Steve]

If you're grind inclined, like I, then one fun thing to do is pay attention to the exp and A-exp values you get from enemies and when you find a high one make a sort of farming route out of it. One that starts either at the dungeon's start safe area or inside Akademia via a cat point (as entering either of these things and then back into the dungeon respawns everything).

There were a few really good ones I enjoyed in my playthrough, made some clips of them on me PS5 but haven't uploaded them anywhere yet.

-Examples-
So the only one I can remember the exact specifics of off the top of me head is in the last 30 day deadline there's a disgraced ruins dungeon that, at the very end of, has two high level treasure demons that spawn literally in the room next door to a cat point, and these demons drop 0-2 Jewelled Roots each, which is the consumable item that gives the highest amount of A-exp (3000).
You can farm them at an average rate of like 10 Jewelleds every 2 minutes which is pretty addictive lol, but they don't give much Magla so you can quickly run out of that if you're trying to use them to max everyone's archetypes.

I don't remember the location names or specifics of the earlier ones I enjoyed but I remember one place (where you can get informant info on a ghost enemy) has two big ghost enemies near eachother which give out 300 A-exp each so I farmed those 2 for 600 per farm route run for a little while at one point earlier in my playthrough too.
Did the same with a bird spawning crystal later on in one of the towers.

Finding farm routes was quite fun in this game I must say!

[max e]

Originally posted by Steve:

If you're grind inclined, like I, then one fun thing to do is pay attention to the exp and A-exp values you get from enemies and when you find a high one make a sort of farming route out of it. One that starts either at the dungeon's start safe area or inside Akademia via a cat point (as entering either of these things and then back into the dungeon respawns everything).

There were a few really good ones I enjoyed in my playthrough, made some clips of them on me PS5 but haven't uploaded them anywhere yet.

-Examples-
So the only one I can remember the exact specifics of off the top of me head is in the last 30 day deadline there's a disgraced ruins dungeon that, at the very end of, has two high level treasure demons that spawn literally in the room next door to a cat point, and these demons drop 0-2 Jewelled Roots each, which is the consumable item that gives the highest amount of A-exp (3000).
You can farm them at an average rate of like 10 Jewelleds every 2 minutes which is pretty addictive lol, but they don't give much Magla so you can quickly run out of that if you're trying to use them to max everyone's archetypes.

I don't remember the location names or specifics of the earlier ones I enjoyed but I remember one place (where you can get informant info on a ghost enemy) has two big ghost enemies near eachother which give out 300 A-exp each so I farmed those 2 for 600 per farm route run for a little while at one point earlier in my playthrough too.
Did the same with a bird spawning crystal later on in one of the towers.

Finding farm routes was quite fun in this game I must say!

I actually started skipping the fake chests I didn't realize they gave that! If they pop up again i'll definitely start beating the ones I have MP for. Thanks for the suggestions!

[max e]

Originally posted by ez game ez life:

I know of one item from the arena in Brilehaven but it's only a minor boost of 50% more arc xp for the wearer.

When mobs don't give much arc xp it's time to move on and find some harder foes.

Idr if that's from the coliseum or something but I've seen it mentioned in the game somehow.

[max e]

Originally posted by Freya Crescent:

When you Master (level 20) an Archetype, it will continue to 'overlevel' with an XP bar of exactly 1,000. Filling that repeatable XP bar gives an item worth 1,000 XP. Thanks to this, no A-XP is ever wasted.

You can just take a team with your favorite Archetypes and grind normally, and use the item to max out the other ones as you please... just be mindful the max item stack is 99 so be sure to use them when it gets close to that.

yeah I was aware of that I just didn't think it was that beneficial anyway because I'm still grinding out archetypes for all characters. Their second levels and a secondary archetype tree such as Strohl with Warrior lineage and Commander lineage. I'm getting through the game just fine atm so I guess it's just a matter of continuing to play the game

[Unforgiven]

I wouldn't suggest grinding at all before you have access to tyrants star if you value your time, 1 mob that you kill in overworld there gives you more exp than you make in 3 minutes on lvl 50, you can make like 15k exp per minute there and 20k mag

[Legacy]

Wait until the end game or some final optional dungeons (like the three dragon towers), grinding will be much more efficient and easier.

[Unforgiven]

On the last map you can farm the same 2 mobs over and over once per minute and they give 80x lvl up for your group (80x 1k exp item) because they each give you enough exp for 35 archetype lvls and 20k mag, thats the best you'll find in this game (for now)

[Rogue]

Originally posted by max e:

Originally posted by ez game ez life:

I know of one item from the arena in Brilehaven but it's only a minor boost of 50% more arc xp for the wearer.

When mobs don't give much arc xp it's time to move on and find some harder foes.

Idr if that's from the coliseum or something but I've seen it mentioned in the game somehow.

I believe there is an item from the coliseum that does that but there's also an item you can buy from the accessory merchant on one of the days of the week (arborsday...I think?) He sells the Archetypal Ring which grants the wearer 50% more AEXP for 40K gold.

[fR0z3n.s0u1]

The VERY final area allows for the infinite grind, and a quick one at that. 8 jewelled roots in several minutes, fully repeatable, not including 30-40 leaves from overleveling mastered archtypes. I have maxed out the protagonist in I think around 4 hours there.

[fR0z3n.s0u1]

Originally posted by Unforgiven:

On the last map you can farm the same 2 mobs over and over once per minute and they give 80x lvl up for your group (80x 1k exp item) because they each give you enough exp for 35 archetype lvls and 20k mag, thats the best you'll find in this game (for now)

There's a random chance of the duo appearing as far as I know. In several clears I haven't seen them at all, and in one clear I saw two duos at the same time.

[Klinestife]

as far as only a-exp, the best spot by far is in the spot steve mentioned. the dungeon is called disgraced ruin and you access it in the final month. it’s way better than the final dungeon because the two mobs in the final dungeon can take a few minutes to spawn if you’re unlucky and they give less a-exp the more you beat them on account of you leveling up.

you can optimize the disgraced ruin spot even more if you’re low level enough to not instakill the chests. swap mc to thief, swap your party to merchants for the item gain chance, then just attack the chests to break them. when they’re broken, they have a chance to give you a jewelled root. enter combat, flee, break them again.

you can get 99 jewelled roots in 10 minutes if the rng isn't too much of a ♥♥♥♥ to you.

you’ll quickly find yourself lacking in mag, though, at which point the final dungeon everybody talks about really is the only good grind spot.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by fR0z3n.s0u1:

Originally posted by Unforgiven:

On the last map you can farm the same 2 mobs over and over once per minute and they give 80x lvl up for your group (80x 1k exp item) because they each give you enough exp for 35 archetype lvls and 20k mag, thats the best you'll find in this game (for now)

There's a random chance of the duo appearing as far as I know. In several clears I haven't seen them at all, and in one clear I saw two duos at the same time.

I believe it's tied to killing the small ones, i've had them like 10 times in a row when i did it, always killing the small ones with mage aoe auto attack, then reset and kill again till they appear