ideal place to grind (pre Fortress of Fear)

[renik]

I've got everything needed to get into the fortress but my characters are roughly 40-43 at the moment.

Whats an ideal level to be at before I go take on the last dungeon, and where should I go to grind out some levels?

thanks!

[Retsuo]

I ground throughout the Battleground, as enemies gave decent XP and had a chance of a liquid metal slime spawn.

A good trick is to run with the luminary, sylvando, and jade. If all three are pepped up you can use the pep power "Electro-Light" when facing three or more monsters, which will spawn either three robotic enemies or, more likely, three metals. From there just use guaranteed critical hit skills on them, like critical claim from Erik or lightning spear/thunder thrust form jade, and rake in the XP.

As for ideal level, I think I finished around level 55-58? I used that trick throughout the dungeon though, and that coupled with the metal king slimes that naturally spawned in there meant I gained a ton of levels just going through the place normally.

[Etchasketch]

Inside the fortress is actually a good place to grind.

[renik]

cool, thanks for the tips folks!