Anyone else skip breaking their pandora boxes on the first run up to the sixth floor or higher?

[THANKS OBAMA]

Since they scale I've been ignoring em since they still do give out good XP, but I don't want to level up fast anyways so the trash monsters stay considered at least very easy and give out more JP per kill. Same with Rumors that give XP, I'll just outright ignore 'em to get the most out of the weakling hunt.

Usually by the time I've decided whether to have a go at going as deep I can or focusing on trying to make items I'll go back and smash 'em for the JP and Gold boost and usually gain a level in the process.

Considering how much time I've been screwing around in the item world and the stuff I've made I probably could have finished a long while ago, but I'm just messing around at around the 10th-12th floor on average @_@

Ah well, I love upgrading gear in games like these and min maxing.

[AshaMarie]

In a way, I wish I ignored those boxes so the mobs don't get stronger. I may reconsider opening them in future since they just make us burn through health recovery food faster with the stronger mob spawns.

[errantstar]

i break the first 5 or so to get a nice boost in the earlygame and then stop doing it since permanently buffing the rest of the mobs is pretty scary

[THANKS OBAMA]

I usually end up breaking them all @_@'

Maybe that's why I keep having issues with trying to power level something like a Silver Bow to 3rd +. It's just all that delicious JP I need while job swapping to get every skill that would be remotely useful. On my current character I plan to use as an item farmer/customizer I've done Brigand, Budoka, Sword Dancer, Hunter and a Short stint into Spell Shaper to farm 1 point JP dropping mobs to learn Delayed Teleport before switching back to hunter to finalize all this.

[BCS]

There's an item world?

[TallTroll]

Yes, you have to clear Floor 6 before you find out about it. I haven't been in it yet though.

Do the Pandora boxes scale purely on you, or is it related to mobs left on the floor? I like the idea of clearing (or mostly clearing) a floor, then breaking the ones you want, seems like there might be a sweet spot in there somewhere

[THANKS OBAMA]

I think they scale solely off of what level you are when you break them, which is why I don't bother breaking them early on since the JP gains just aren't worth it, and the extra gold comes out as an added bonus.

Since you can just go back at any time and break the ones you left behind for a far boosted amount than what you'd have gotten at low level.