vol 2 how early can i fight doppelganger?

[ProxyJames]

so I was wondering if I could go kick his ♥♥♥♥ in right away or is he better left alone till level 100?

[Avarice]

You can fight him as soon as you have access to a non-story field area (so after you advance the plot to the point where you can log out then back in again), and can beat him with the typical shenanigans (Sleipnir), or just by using Beast Awakening. That being said, he is easiest to beat stat for stat either immediately at 50 (with all the best volume 1 gear) as health and damage (and his MP) don't scale at the same rates and he will hit you much harder at say 60 or 70 while you don't have that much more HP or at 100 since enemies can't scale over the volume level cap (so he will be level 100 with level 100 stats, rather than 8 levels higher than your current level).

Of course you can also consider that the Doppelganger weapons are fairly powerful (they're the best weapons in volume 2) and will make an already easy game even easier, so there is also that to consider. They're fun though, and honestly killing enemies in one hit isn't THAT much easier than killing them in two hits otherwise.

[Azure Zero]

Originally posted by Avarice:

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Of course you can also consider that the Doppelganger weapons are fairly powerful (they're the best weapons in volume 2) and will make an already easy game even easier, so there is also that to consider. They're fun though, and honestly killing enemies in one hit isn't THAT much easier than killing them in two hits otherwise.

Agreed, they F****d with the game balance.
The PS2 version was just right in difficulty and Exp gain, but Recode, just normal is a cake walk.