Endgame Grinding

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500,000 emel is a ridiculous asking price. Is there any way of finding this amount quickly?

As well, Galbalan is hitting me for 247 damage per hit. Any ideas as to where to grind?

[GameGeeks]

Best place to farm is in limewater cave. In the room with the three platforms and the bats. Jump attack them and upgrade the blue sword first to speed things along.

[Jackie FroSTALKER]

What I did was go to the area after the middle save point in Kishgal and grinded the enemies between there and the door to the three chests. There's about 12 enemies in 3 groups between those places and since I went into the chest room to respawn them I'd kill 24 enemies in a round trip to and from the checkpoint. Rinse and repeat. It's nice cause you can easily herd the enemies and do a bunch of downstabs which is convenient casue that's the only attack that hurts most of them.

[GameGeeks]

That place isn't bad but the bats give more. About 2k per twenty second run.

[Helion-Senpai~]

You gonna need to find you 3 emel accessories + you only need to farm to upgrade your Fire sword at 500k. (Maybe an hour in the last zone)

[skooma]

Yeah, farmed this at Kishgal midpoint too. With lucky coin and hammer there is almost 100% drop chance. It took me about 45 minutes to get 500k.

[GameGeeks]

Originally posted by Helion-Senpai~:

You gonna need to find you 3 emel accessories + you only need to farm to upgrade your Fire sword at 500k. (Maybe an hour in the last zone)

I'd do Livart. I prefer the whirlwind over the fire's line attack. But it mainly comes down to which one you want to charge faster.

[iAmTurok]

What difficulty is this ? On normal you only need 100k for the last sword upgrade.

[GameGeeks]

It's nightmare.

[Mr. Manual]

Originally posted by GameGeeks:

It's nightmare.

Hence why it's ridiculous.

[GameGeeks]

Par for the course for a Ys game.

[GameGeeks]

Origin did have it that bad. SP in Origin was vastly reduced. Oath wasn't too bad. And Chronicles did have a bit of level grinding for the bosses. As for seven, that game was just easy. Can't comment on Celceta since I don't own a vita. Though I did hear the skills could be a bit grindy if you don't use them a lot.

[Erpy]

It's true that Origin gave you just about enough SP throughout the entire game on Nightmare mode to upgrade your final boots and armor and have like one upgrade on the side, but most of the upgrades you could buy with SP were merely "nice to have" like lower MP cost for skills or status ailments wearing off faster. Most of those didn't make a massive difference when it came to taking on the final boss(es). The final upgrades for the three emelas blades really do make a major difference, granting you both a power boost and a much shorter recharge rate for spells.

Also, I also vote for the mid-section of Kishgal. Especially color-coded enemies drop huge chunks of emels if you defeat them.

[Erpy]

Didn't know you were going for the pint-sized horror. Good luck. Hopefully that grinding gave you good stats too since that thing is horribly cheap.

[Jackie FroSTALKER]

Originally posted by Slur:

Well, I now have all 3 upgraded swords. Wish me luck on killing Majunun.

Be aware that apparently the achievement for killing it is bugged so you can't get it. If you don't care about the achievement then go ahead but you might want to save and come back for it when that's fixed if you do care.

[GameGeeks]

Should be easier to kill him on catastrophe all things considered since you can spend the gold you accumulate on boosting your stats even further.