best place to farm xp after beating the game ?

[Cloud]

can u reach level 70 before entering hard mode ?

[McGamer]

yes u can.. southern part of Gongaga is a good spot to farm AP and XP. I would max out a lot of the materia before entering hard mode it will help you out a lot because the build is always changing depending on the boss, or quest that you have to do.

[Damphair]

Just use the exp plus materia and go into the combat sim and do some lvl 70 fights, you'll hit lvl 70 in 10 min.

And yes you can hit lvl 70 before hard mode, but it will be a grind instead of 10 minutes. Exp rates are massively increased in hard mode.

[goodbye_bonito]

There is no need to grind xp before hard mode, better do it during hard mode

[Valdo82]

clean up the world (chad), vr battles this should bring you close to 70, the rest hard mode.

[BenWang]

With the +100%xp materia, Trash in chapter 1 in hard mode NG+ gives you like 5000exp per kill. I finished the game at level 50. No need to grind

[Taika]

I think the best farming was Fire + MP Absorb, Fire + HP Absorb, Fire + Magic Efficiency, Fire + Magic Damage (can't remember what it's called??) in Niebleheim area following Tifa's cat... there is an enemy that spawns endless fire-weak enemies like frogs or something, that you can waste in 1-2 hits with this materia combo, then it will spawn more, and so on. So this provides tons of both XP and AP. It's a limited encounter, but you can just keep restarting the chapter. I didn't discover this on my own but from a Youtube video... although I did had discovered a similar battle in the simulator that spawned enemies like that, so I was kinda 70% of the way there on my own.

Sorry I forgot some of the details... this was all on PS5 quite a few months ago, but hope it's enough to point in the right direction. Happy leveling!

[Giganx]

Best farming to level up is to use chapter select to go to chapter 12 hard, then go to Nibelheim and get the side quest where you have to find the cat. From there get to the part of the quest where you fight the queen bee and just keep killing the small bees she spawns without killing her. Gets your whole party from 40-70 in maybe 10 minutes.

[Fitzy]

Originally posted by Taika:

I think the best farming was Fire + MP Absorb, Fire + HP Absorb, Fire + Magic Efficiency, Fire + Magic Damage (can't remember what it's called??) in Niebleheim area following Tifa's cat... there is an enemy that spawns endless fire-weak enemies like frogs or something, that you can waste in 1-2 hits with this materia combo, then it will spawn more, and so on. So this provides tons of both XP and AP. It's a limited encounter, but you can just keep restarting the chapter. I didn't discover this on my own but from a Youtube video... although I did had discovered a similar battle in the simulator that spawned enemies like that, so I was kinda 70% of the way there on my own.

Sorry I forgot some of the details... this was all on PS5 quite a few months ago, but hope it's enough to point in the right direction. Happy leveling!

I was suggesting some combo's to try the other day and wasn't sure if they would work as I was saying, you've described some of the types of combo's I meant, ty I've not had a chance to test them yet.

[Swaggaccino]

You know you're on PC and can just use a trainer.

[Sevrojin]

hit hard mode at about 53ish
when i started playing it i was level 70 in less then 30 min

the exp is scaled to level 70 so...

[Taika]

Originally posted by Fitzy:

I was suggesting some combo's to try the other day and wasn't sure if they would work as I was saying, you've described some of the types of combo's I meant, ty I've not had a chance to test them yet.

Yeah! It never occurred to me that using the same materia multiple times and pairing with other supports would work... but it does, and some combos are almost OP. But that's very in keeping with the OG. Kudos for thinking of it on your own... I probably could've played through three times and still wouldn't have. lol

[Nauct]

I didn't get 70 until I was most of the way through hardmode. I'd probably find a good mission in the simulator with lots of fights so you get a lot of AP as well

[Fitzy]

Originally posted by Taika:

Originally posted by Fitzy:

I was suggesting some combo's to try the other day and wasn't sure if they would work as I was saying, you've described some of the types of combo's I meant, ty I've not had a chance to test them yet.

Yeah! It never occurred to me that using the same materia multiple times and pairing with other supports would work... but it does, and some combos are almost OP. But that's very in keeping with the OG. Kudos for thinking of it on your own... I probably could've played through three times and still wouldn't have. lol

In the OG you could have all sorts of links going on, Counter-cover, counter-deathblow and such, wasn't sure if multiple effects would stack in rebirth glad its the same, shame you can't have final attack-phoenix.

[Taika]

Originally posted by Fitzy:

In the OG you could have all sorts of links going on, Counter-cover, counter-deathblow and such, wasn't sure if multiple effects would stack in rebirth glad its the same, shame you can't have final attack-phoenix.

Maybe we'll get Final Attack in Part 3! :D