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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I was actually 78 in chapter 3. I always do all possible optional stuff before proceeding. If I'm going to be overleveled for any part of the game, I'd prefer it be the story even though it creates dissonance when I obliterate some moebeus in the gameplay in 20 seconds and then my party is getting it's ass kicked in the cutscene.

Fair. Even at-level, I've had quite a few boss fights where I've successfully killed the boss with a chain attack, but then the cutscene has shown me losing to them, so I suspect some of the scripted boss fight triggers may not be overriding chain attacks the way they should.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

This is so much less of an issue than people make it out to be. At worst you warp to a grinding spot and max out the new class in like 15 minutes. Way faster if you don't mind dropping the difficulty to easy for the grinding (which I do mind, will never drop it from hard).

Indeed. It means you actually have to deliberately grind classes, instead of getting a steady rotation of new playstyles organically as you play through the story (which I've been quite enjoying), but there's never really a shortage of at-level enemies if you go looking for them and grinding to 10 doesn't take all that long (and goes faster when enemy levels are higher anyway). Being able to de-level would be nice, but the issue is largely overstated.

That said, from what I've heard, the best CP grinding method becomes available at/near endgame, with regular enemies that give 4-500 CP each and can be burst down in seconds with the right setup, which is much faster than charging up and sitting through chain attacks. Given that getting classes to 20 is mostly a matter of increasing power and not so much a matter of trying out new gameplay (outside of a couple strategies that rely on other classes' talent arts, like putting the Troubadour one on Mio as a Signifer to enable a trick that makes the whole party invincible), that's really not bad.